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A Leap of Faith: Rachel Rose Oginsky's (Casting Associate 'Bold & The Beautiful') Casting Call from Michigan to Hollywood

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 New Episode: Behind the Casting Table with Rachel Rose Oginsky: Casting Associate of 'The Bold and The Beautiful'

In this inspiring episode, today we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Casting Director Rachel Rose Oginsky, whose story is as inspiring as it is informative. With over a decade in the industry, Rachel walks us through her incredible journey—from growing up in Michigan and following her faith, to taking a leap of faith and moving to California to pursue her dreams.


Rachel shares how she landed her very first job through Craigslist (yes, you read that right!) and how that hustle led her to working with top casting companies and shows like Suits and The Bold and the Beautiful—where I had the pleasure of working with her personally.


She breaks down the real casting process, gives insight into seasonal cycles, how talent is discovered, and what goes into building a show behind the scenes. Her passion, work ethic, and kindness truly shine through.

This is a must-listen for any aspiring actor or anyone curious about what really happens in casting. Thank you, Rachel, for keeping it real and giving our listeners a front-row seat into your world. 

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Brandon Rush:

And welcome back to the buckle up, podcast universe with Brandon Rush and Mama Rush. We are here today with Rachel Rose, who, I know from bold and beautiful. I've worked with her the last 10 years on the soap opera, bold and the beautiful. We have 11 million viewers and listeners in 28 countries and 268 cities around the world and on 6 continents. So we're very excited to have Rachel on here to come and tell us her story. She'll be here momentarily. and once again I am Brandon Rush. My mom, Carolyn or Mama Rush is about to be on the show as well. Alrighty. See here. do do do shit. I think I hit accept.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Sorry about that. There we go.

Brandon Rush:

Hey, Rachel, how are you doing.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Good. How are you doing, Brandon?

Brandon Rush:

I'm doing well. I'm doing well Rachel. My mom is on the line here, too, her name's Carolyn, but we call her mama rush so either or works.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Hey, mama! How's it going.

Mama Rush:

Fine fine. How you doing today.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Good, good, good to meet you.

Mama Rush:

That is great. I didn't feel like putting on any makeup. So I said, just throw my picture up there today.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

It's all good. It's all good.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely. Well, Rachel, welcome so much to the buckle up Podcast. Universe with Brandon Rush and Mama Rush. We are excited to have you here today, and it's all about you, Rachel. I've had the pleasure of working with you all now for 10 years, so I wanted you to come on here and tell us your story, what you know, what where you're from, how you got into the business, the industry that you're in now, and your love for it and passion. And yeah, just it's your story. So what ended up getting you into the business? I guess.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Well, yeah, I'll give you a little bit of background, and then we can kind of go from there if you if you've heard any of my or if you've ever taken any one of my classes, you get to hear one of these create this same goofy story. I was born and raised just north of Detroit. And I went to a really really awesome high school that had a radio program, a TV program and a theater Arts program. and in that time I was involved with all of that, I got my own radio show for 2 years my own TV show for a year, and I was in theater arts for 2 of those years.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, wow!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That I really loved entertainment really hated being on stage.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That was just not my thing. And at 1st I really wanted to go to Winston Salem, North Carolina, be a stage manager for Broadway and at that time it was like the early 2. It was just before the early 2 thousands.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Not telling you how old I am.

Brandon Rush:

No, you're.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And and it was there was. I applied to a bunch of different schools, mostly for their film department. and I didn't get into any I got into Usc, but not in the video and film department. But I ended up getting into the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, which is this little defunct vocational school, but I ended up getting a scholarship there with the exact same thing I sent to Nyu and Usc. And that was a little bit my 1st hint that everything's a little bit biased in this.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

So I went to school in Pittsburgh, got my degree, and, like every good Midwestern girl, moved back home and waited to get married and have kids.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, well, you do. And so I was at a home, and I ended up working at like doctor's offices. I worked at a dog food store, which, by the way, is like the best job ever people are really to hang out with dogs. Yeah.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely. I love dogs, too. I'm a big dog person. Me and my mom both are big dogs.

Mama Rush:

Yeah, I love dogs.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, nice, nice. Yeah. I grew up with dogs and cats, and so I have my own cat now he's.

Brandon Rush:

Okay, sleeping in the middle of my Queen size bed at the moment.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

What are you gonna do? yeah. So I ended up working at a doctor's office, and I was getting up. And and I was about 25 at the time, and I was getting up and going to work. and I looked in the mirror, and when I looked in the mirror. I had this like I remembered a dream I had from the night before, and the dream was I was living at home, getting ready to go work at a doctor's office. But I wasn't 25. I was 45.

Mama Rush:

Hmm.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And that was my little kick in the butt of you gotta do. You can't wait for life to happen to you.

Brandon Rush:

Amen to do something, so I prayed about it, saved up for a year, and moved out to Los Angeles. Oh, wow! For you.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I had some friends, a friend of mine, who lived in Hermosa Beach, and I stayed with her. I have some cousins who live out here in Irvine. They let me stay with them, just trying to figure out. You know, the lay of the land and stuff, and I always figure I can live anywhere in the world as long as I have 3 things. One is a roof over my head, one is a job, and one is a church.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah. Amen.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Those 3 things. I can go anywhere I need to and so I had researched some churches out here, and I was I came out here and I was going to mosaic for a while. But yeah, I came out here. Didn't really have a place to live, you know, figured Glendale was kind of like the safest area to be by yourself for the 1st time. Kind of reminded me of the suburbs of Michigan.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I was okay with that. And then, I got my 1st job on Craigslist. Wow, really. what the 1st job I got was I worked at a small company that developed film. And I had majored in film in college. So I knew a lot about, you know, the different types of film that you use, and the exposure and all that stuff.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

But then there was a talent agency that had a ad on Craigslist looking for a receptionist.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And so I was like, Well, I'll give it a shot. And when I was working at most, or when I was going to mosaic. They had their own kind of like film department and did their own stuff. And everybody's like, you're really organized. You'd be a really good agent.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, absolutely. So I got into this agency. And like, 6 months later, I was like, I do not want to be an agent.

Mama Rush:

Hey!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

This is glorified, retail.

Brandon Rush:

Wanna do come on.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And so I but I kept working there. It was a really great place to start. I learned a lot about the industry, but all my friends, everybody I talked to on the phone every day was on casting, because that's what you do at a talent agency. You're always talking to casting, finding out appointments, submitting clients, you know, locking in people, and, you know, giving out details, all that fun stuff. So you're trying to. So you always have these connections. And finally, I just got bold. And I just started asking people, Hey, does anybody know of any positions in casting.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And a friend of mine did, and so she reached out to her bosses and they said, Yeah, we'll meet you. And they hired me, and I started working at Zane, Pillsbury.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, no. Zee yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And my very 1st well, I worked on a I got hired for a specific show on U.S.A. With them, and then 2 weeks later we got suits as my very 1st pilot.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, wow! Which is a huge hit, clearly.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah. Yeah. So I worked on that for the 1st 4 seasons, which is really interesting, because even when it 1st came out like, it kind of flew under the radar. Like it, you know. I think I believe that it was one of the 1st shows that was nominated for in the, you know for an Emmy that wasn't online. And I don't know if it was the the show itself, or if there was, if it was an actor on the show that got nominated for it. So it was just a very interesting, like a little bit more groundbreaking. U.S.A. Was trying to do some different things at that point.

Mama Rush:

And but then, you know, during the pandemic, when Netflix got it it, we had a whole new resurgence, and I was like, Oh, Lord!

Brandon Rush:

Exactly.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, so yeah, I worked there for several years, worked on different primetime things, half hour comedies, dramedies, you know, different things like that. I just wanted to do something a little different. So I ended up moving. I went to work with Richard Hicks on the Pilot for scream queens.

Brandon Rush:

Okay, yeah. That was a big hit, too, for a bit.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah. Yeah. And then I worked with Jamie Radowski and Risa Bram Garcia on season. 3 of masters of sex.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, wow!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah. And then, you know, about that time I got to be like in my mid thirties. And I was like, I need something. A little more stable, and a friend of mine reached out to me and said, Hey, there's this job that they work Monday through Friday 9 to 5, and and you know you get vacation time, and I'm like, and you work all year long. And I'm like that's not terrible. I have no idea talking about, and you know, but in in this industry the but you know. But it's a soap opera.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I say that because there's there's a lot of stigmatism which is very interesting to me, because I had it. For sure I didn't know anything about soaps before I got into them. You know, we only see the the finished product. Yeah, we. But the the workings of everything that get, you know that happens is so intriguing and so crazy and fast paced. I'm sure.

Brandon Rush:

It really is.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

So, yeah, so I started working in soaps. It'll be August 1st is 9 years.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, congratulations! I mean it! It seemed to be the right thing.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, yeah. So doing that right now, and just trying to see I'm I'm looking for. I'm being open to other opportunities, cause I am on set, and that close to things I would love to learn, you know, stage managing love to learn different things, you know, maybe producing different things like that cause.

Brandon Rush:

Round, up.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Do that. Yeah, yeah. So we'll see. So that's kind of my story. Being in Los Angeles, you know you, I'm sure if you're not from here. You get here, and you kind of figure out all the neighborhoods. The one thing nobody tells you on TV is that Los Angeles is very, very big. It's very spread out, even though we have high rises. And there's not much, you know. There's a lot of traffic, and there's not much, you know, spaces to live. It's really strange, but.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You have this huge area, and it's like the West Side is fun. And I do like going out there, not my vibe. And you know, like I lived. I lived, I said. I lived in Glendale. Then I moved to Westwood with a friend of mine.

Brandon Rush:

All of the Westwood, too.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, nice! Nice and.

Mama Rush:

And.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And then me and another roommate moved to Hollywood, and then I moved to East Hollywood, and each time I was moving, even when I lived in Westwood I would come downtown 3, 4 nights a week.

Brandon Rush:

Really I love downtown. Oh, oh, my gosh! I try to stay out of downtown as much as possible. Everybody says that everybody said, well, it's even funny, because when I grew up in, you know, I grew up in Warren, which is, if you're familiar with Detroit, there's the whole thing about 8 mile, 8 miles, the line for the city of where the city of Detroit ends, and then, where the suburbs.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I grew up at 13 Mile.

Mama Rush:

Oh, really.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And so I was always in downtown Detroit church art music, whatever it was, and I mean, I even dated a guy who was like a country guy. And my mom was like, oh, that was never gonna last.

Brandon Rush:

Like he would be like.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Like, let's go camping.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And she's like, you're great like 10 min that no, that is not you. So yeah. So I just kept coming downtown, you know. And finally about was just after I got into casting. So almost 15 years ago, I just was like. I just need to live there. Really. Yeah. So I moved down here. I've been in the middle of downtown, for it'll be, I think it's 14 years.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Mama Rush:

Oh, yeah, that's.

Brandon Rush:

Good amount of time. How's that? Drive up to where the studio's at in Cbs.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Well, here's the thing.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Because my commute is so regular and my building itself doesn't have parking. I got rid of my car.

Brandon Rush:

Especially just uber or something, I would assume.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I just I take the bus.

Brandon Rush:

Okay, wow, it takes a train. Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know, I timed it out, and when you're in the middle of rush hour traffic, it's 5 min more. Maybe.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, that's okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

So it's still, if it's taking me 45 min versus 55 min. But in that 55 min, you know, half my job is on my phone, are people. To set on time what's happening. If there's some a fire I need to put out, and I don't have to pay attention to the road or the people around me that makes my life easier.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah. And, as you know, in la, like my whole like, the rage is gone.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, yeah. gosh, it's a lot. Yeah, it's definitely a lot. I commend you for taking a butt. Look at you, Rachel, doing all kinds of stuff I never would have. I've had to ride the bus a couple of times, and then you're talking about the fact that things happening, my Cadillac. Last time I worked in. Bold and beautiful, my Cadillac converter got stolen out of my car. Someone. Yeah. Wait when you were at the show. Oh, no! So.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

No, it was before that.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah. So I was going. I was about to hit the set. And then I'm like, Wait, why does my car sound like this? And they cut out my Cadillac converter.

Mama Rush:

Go ahead!

Brandon Rush:

I called in. I was like, Hey, like, Look, I'm going to be a little bit late because I had to take an uber now, because my Cadillac converter got stolen.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Crazy.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, it really is. But Rachel, it's you've done. It seems like you already have the producer qualities in you having the background 1st from Michigan and doing it your own TV show, your own radio show. And then you said one other thing, too. Oh.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Theater, Theater.

Brandon Rush:

You already have that background.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, yeah.

Brandon Rush:

So I if you ever decide to do that, or if there's a project, someone needs that you're there to be able to do that.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Exactly exactly. That's kind of, you know, like I always, you know, especially I don't want to say, especially in the Midwest, but like I feel like with women, you know, Mama Rush, I'm you grew up in a different generation, and I I get it like there's different opportunities that you didn't have that I get to have. That's correct. That's correct. So interesting for me talking to like my mom or to my, you know.

Mama Rush:

Internal.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Figures in my life, where. You know, to them it's like, Oh, you're not married. You're not seeing somebody, and I'm like, I don't have to.

Mama Rush:

Correct.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

We're at.

Mama Rush:

You have.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know, my mom got married in 1972. She couldn't get an apartment or a credit card without a husband or a father signing for that. And so I'm in a totally different path of life. Instead of needing to have a spouse so that I can move forward with what I need to. I can want a spouse, and if it happens, it happens, you know I can.

Mama Rush:

The day.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I get to step forward. And yeah, I can. I can be at Bnb as long as I want to. I could step into a different project if I want to. I can do different things on the side I can. If I want to change it up and move to Atlanta. I could do that.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

The only person I have to consult is myself.

Brandon Rush:

Amen!

Mama Rush:

That is correct, and talk to you up in the mirror.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Exactly exactly. And that's it's so interesting where sometimes I you know I go to, you know, especially growing up in the church. You have. Moms and dads, too. And I go to them like, Okay, what would you do if you're in my situation, and what I get from the women is. I've never been in that situation.

Brandon Rush:

Really, wow have that opportunity. Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah stick with the job that I had. I had.

Brandon Rush:

With the moment that I had.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Because there was no other opportunities for me to step into, and I was like.

Mama Rush:

Rachel. I just love hearing that, because you've had the opportunity to just learn. People learn where you feel happy. If you're not happy somewhere. You just pick up and go someplace. Even when where you're living, you move from one place to another, and that is so great I think everyone should have that opportunity, especially young people enjoy this life. But what I want to ask you in that casting business is always so interesting to me. Your profession since Covid time. And before Covid, do you like doing in-person interviews or more the type like Zoom? Where do you get a a better feel of someone going out for a role.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Well, it's interesting, because when before Covid happened number one, most of us in the casting world didn't even know we could do casting from home.

Brandon Rush:

Really.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, yeah, we we did have some people self tape, but it's mostly because they couldn't show up to a certain edition. But or they were in a different country, or something like that, you know. But it was never the the how do I say? The the basic or the standard having that, whereas now it kind of is, and then seeing people in person is a different thing, I think, with different shows. It matters greatly, you know, even like when I worked on suits, it shot in Toronto. Okay. So not everybody was here in Los Angeles, you know. So we did have some people self tape, and if their self tape was good, you know we would send that forward, but we always like to have people come in the room so we could read. and then as well. So, and you know, we put everybody on tape because our producers were constantly going back and forth. Our producers and directors were after the pilot was done. Very rarely did we have them in the room. Okay, sessions. So it was. So it just depends on the the type that you're doing what's interesting about daytime. And it's kind of a quote. I came up with, and I think that daytime is live theater on steroids.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Mama Rush:

It is.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Is, you have a 3 quarter stage setup. You have a choreography of where you need to be, where you need to go. What the director is looking for who's going to be focusing on what? And you get one or 2 takes and you move on. There's no in between. There's no? Well, maybe, or I almost no, no. We got to keep going. We got we have 40 more pages to do today.

Mama Rush:

Hmm.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

So there's there's a lot of things that are happening at the same time. So what's great is seeing people in person, especially for us. We may do something preliminary to have people read on tape.

Mama Rush:

Hello!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know, we have people from Number One, not even all over the Us. But like all over the world that show so a lot.

Mama Rush:

I mean.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Like to do it, but having people in the room. So we want to see people where they're at, and you know that they can have a scene. If anybody's out there. If you get a scene for a soap opera, I'm going to guarantee you right now. 98% of it is fake. There is no character with that name. If there is a character with that name that seems already been done a few years back. Because the storyline everybody wants to know. Everybody wants to, you know. Hear what's next on the show also happens is we want to see how you can, what you create with that scene. So when we go. Oh, hey! That's a good thing, and they've got the right look. Oh! And their their height, which matters, especially in theater or in something like, you know, like that we do for staging. Well, their height would be good, too. We'll so we'll do callbacks for me and my boss in our office. We call it our live session. Bring them in and work with people, redirect them. See how they can handle some changes right there in the in the minute, because sometimes.

Mama Rush:

Oh, okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And I'm sure you know this. You're on set.

Mama Rush:

Firsthand.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And okay, so that line didn't really work.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

This one. But you're gonna say it over here now, and you're like, where where is this? What's happening?

Brandon Rush:

You're absolutely.

Mama Rush:

Well, how long does it take to put an episode together like a show for 30 min? I think the bowl and beautiful is now 1 h.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

No, but we're a half hour. We're a half hour.

Mama Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

We're.

Mama Rush:

So behind the scenes. It takes about how long to get that half an hour done.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know. again, soap operas work on a very different playing field. We do a new episode every single day of the week. So on most TV shows, even with suits. I think we for the 1st season, there's 10 episodes, maybe 13, like we're, you know, pushing it, we do 260.

Brandon Rush:

Holy smoke!

Mama Rush:

Oh, wow!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

So we and and our writers I love about our show. They love to keep up to date with the headlines, with news with what's going on in society? What.

Mama Rush:

The emotions are and everything. And what we're feeling as a as a world.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

We usually at the most have our like episodes about 6 weeks in advance, if that makes sense. So what we're shooting right now probably won't air for either. About 2 months, 6 weeks, maybe a month. They try to keep very fluid. And keep it going, because we just never know. You know, things may change in the middle of doing it, you know. So they like to at least be aware of the current events that are happening in the world as well. So, yeah, yeah. Or sensitive to that, with different people in society and stuff.

Mama Rush:

I bet.

Brandon Rush:

Rachel. I had to say that soap operas. I started off in Young and the Restless before going over.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Good night.

Brandon Rush:

But soap operas have prepared me so much for, because I do a lot of primetime TV that I like, where, as you said, dialogue changing on the on the spot. I mean dropped. Whatever it is, I'm always ready. The only difference is we do more takes. But I am so ready that obviously every time I shoot something on prime time I'm always ready, like I'm on bold and beautiful, or when I was on young, and arrest or days of our lives. It was the fact that, like I'm ready for it to be, that's going to be the final take if it ends up being that because we don't, you have to get it right on that time. So I make sure that I'm always on point. That's what I'm grateful for soap operas, because it is that theater training like it's you have to be on your a game because you might just get that one take. So that's that's helped me out tremendously.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Exactly, you know. That's that, you know. We'll say, you know. Please be off book, please be ready, and I always tell people you know in most shows that is a it's a big suggestion, you know, like what? Even in prime time, if you're lucky, you do 10 pages a day.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Something like that.

Brandon Rush:

Stretch, but.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Right right? And so for us, you know, we're doing 10 pages, even like well, before lunch. We're so there's there's. you know. And and again, it's within being. In that moment, I think sometimes you know people, they they need to be built up into that moment. And for acting, you kind of need to wear your heart on your sleeve a little bit and bring us into that because you don't know where you are in the story, either. If you're coming in as a guest star, if you're coming in as a co-star. we might be rehashing a story that's been happening for the last few months. But there's more information that's being told. There's something deep. There's more of an emotional connection that's happening. And so we need whatever your guest star is, gonna bring to that to help bring that out in the storyline. Or there's new information. And there's things that we're pushing the store story forward with. And so we need you to be as clear as concise with that. And like I was saying that our show not only is it big in the United States. It's also very big, internationally.

Mama Rush:

It's.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Translated.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, I didn't know that part.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Several different languages. So there's a lot of people, too, that may not. If it doesn't get translated like with voice actors, it'll get translated, like, I think, with subtitles. So a lot of people that I have met have said I've learned English from watching the show with my grandmother.

Brandon Rush:

Ow.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And Italy.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And you know, in Belgium, wherever it may be. And you're like, oh, I didn't even know we aired there, you know, whatever you know it's all over the place, and so people learn English. And so we try to make it as clear as can and concise speaking.

Mama Rush:

Well, I have a question relative to your casting again when you choose someone for that role. and is your decision the final decision, or has to go to the producer, the director, or whatever or what, when it comes to soaps, is it different.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And soaps is a little bit different. Because, again, of the amount of episodes that we do we have a lot of people that are recurring. So we have a lot of people that are, you know, somebody's aunt or sister, or cousin, and.

Mama Rush:

You know.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Show up, or the same. You know, bartender, that may be there type of a thing. So those people are just we're we every week or finding out if they're available, and they can come back in and.

Mama Rush:

Work with that.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

But when we have new characters on the show, it's and this is the thing. I always think it's interesting in casting. A lot of people will ask like, Oh, so you make all the big decisions.

Mama Rush:

No, we actually don't make most of the big decisions up. No.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Any of the big decisions. There's some smaller decisions that sometimes they'll be like, go ahead and make that. But for the most part, when we see people we will get, you know, even if even if it's a under 5 or a principal that only has one episode, we'll put people on tape and still send them to our producers, because we're usually shooting during that time, so they can take a look and check it out. But even our. You know, our contract people who are bringing in new people? We have sessions with all of our producers, and our head writer and creator, and all that, and All we do is we bring the best choices like that's the one it's I learned that early on, in casting, all you can do is bring the best choices, and you would be happy with any of them.

Mama Rush:

Oh, okay, what's.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Interesting is, then the producers and the writers and the directors have to determine. Which way do I want the story to go. because each person brings their own. You know their own personality, their own style, to that character. What's what's interesting about daytime is you have these families that have been around for a million years. Actors that have been on contract for several years, and you know they, the contract ends. The story ends, whatever it may be off. And then a year or 2 later, the writer goes, oh, we should bring him back, and sometimes they do bring the the previous actor back for that. Sometimes they're like. want to go in a little bit of a different direction. And it's just in the style of where they're wanting to show what's. No, so you just never know some. It's. It's also very different, too, because most primetime shows when they sit down at the beginning of their season. They cap for the entire year. They know where you know how the rookie is gonna end this season. They know Guy, and who's not, or what new characters are coming on. For the most part they have that all planned out. Yeah. With oops we have. I'm trying to think I have an I have outlines about a.

Brandon Rush:

I think just a week, maybe a week and a half.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

For when I because we're on, I'm on break right now. But for when we get back.

Mama Rush:

That's just okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That's that's all we have in advance.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, wow! That's that's that's kinda yeah. That's that's that's fast moving. Almost. I would say.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That's why that's why Brandon. Sometimes I know I'll reach out to your people and be like, Hey, is he available.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, yeah, I appreciate the call.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

No. And it's like Tuesday. I'm like, yeah, like, not tomorrow, Tuesday, but like next week, Tuesday, we're gonna be all day. It might be a few episodes, you know, and they're like what. And it's like, we just found out that there's a whole thing that's gonna be happening. And we're wondering if he's available, you know. That's all good. That's good.

Brandon Rush:

Sorry. Mom.

Mama Rush:

Go ahead. You asked your question.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, Rachel, I had to make you laugh. To be honest, I can't tell you how much that's happened to me in prime time, where I've literally got the call. I had to turn down one show that I really wanted to do for Netflix. It would have been a bunch of episodes, but I couldn't do it, because they literally called the day before. They're like. And that's happened a few times with a few different things. But they're like, Hey, is Brandon available? Can you be here tomorrow? And I was in Los Angeles. It was filming in New York, and I was like, Oh, my gosh! I was like, I can't leave right now, because even having to figure out the flight, I could pay for that. But will I land in time, because by the time I'd be landing it'd be around like 6 in the morning sets, probably already starting by that time. So it would be, and I don't want to be late, so I've had. I've had that thing several times. When I did scorpion for Cbs. I found out at 4 pm. He has Brandon possibly available tomorrow to book this? And they're like, we'll let you know pretty soon here at 5 o'clock. They're like, Hey, can you come down to Manhattan Beach studios to get your wards opening because I booked it. And then they're like, Hey, you're actually going to be on set at 4 Am. Tomorrow night, like in the morning. 4 Am. In the morning. So I've had it happen it it happens a prime time.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, okay, that's good to know that I always feel so bad, cause I'm like, so what are you doing.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, it's all. It's all good, like I feel bad when I cause I I love working. I love. Oh, yeah. because I love everything about it. So I hate when I not able to do projects, because I just might be in a different part of the world, or working on something already, so I hate that I have to turn things down. But.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

TV. I call the, you know, if you want to go back to the sex and the city adage, TV is the land of Mr. Right? Now.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Mama Rush:

Oh!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Who's available right now. Features are more of the land of Mr. Wright. They can wait. They can move things around. They can do what they need to so.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely, Rachel. What was one of the things when you were? I guess I was switches more. I wouldn't go so much with daytime, but when you were casting in prime time, when you were reading over those scripts when you were calling, what was it like for you to do that process of looking at those scripts for this episode, let's say, Oh, you know, who am I going to call in? What kind of made your decision, or what was your thought process behind? Because, you know, it's just words on the paper, obviously for the listeners out there. But I'm going to go with. I'm gonna call these 5 actors in, because I think these 5 actors might have something, including looking at their reels, or if they didn't have a reel, what was in their picture that got you to call them in.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know it. you know. Again, I always say this casting is very subjective, so it all just very greatly depends one of the biggest things that you know. I think that people miss in casting is that we have to pay attention to not only where our writers and producers and directors are going. But where our studio and network are, yeah. And so there's sometimes there's certain people that the studio network just don't love.

Mama Rush:

Oh, really.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And so we're paying attention to that as and we might love them. So we really want them to get hired. And they're.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know, and it's again, it's personal preference. So it's not like, Oh, this person's a terrible person. Well, believe me, there are some terrible people. But but you know, there's there's this, we're not ever gonna hire them. It's just I don't. I don't really feel it. So, being able to navigate, and to hear all the opinions of everybody around you, and making sure that everybody's happy. A very huge skill in itself. So it's it depends on the show.

Mama Rush:

Yeah, okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Pretty much depends on the show there's. And it's what you find is like, certain writers and producers love. Certain TV shows themselves. So you kind of look at those shows that they liked. And who else could we, you know? Oh, that's right. this and, you know, play around with some different ideas. And it's it's I call it, appeasing the casting gods.

Mama Rush:

Understandable.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You find somebody that they may find more favorable because the thing in casting, and I'm sure you'll get this Brandon with everything going on. We want you to get the job because it makes life so much easier. We want to bring in a few people that we know are right, get it done. We're great. We're in a good space. Let's move on to the next role. We've got so many more roles we have to do. You know.

Brandon Rush:

Rachel. I tried to tell. Oh, sorry, mom.

Mama Rush:

No, you go ahead.

Brandon Rush:

Rachel, I try to tell my actor, for I've been very blessed. I love the casting community, I love you, I love the whole entire the casting community. I would not be where I am today, had I not? I went directly because I didn't have an agent at first, st so I went directly with casting classes, and I did casting classes, performances in Los Angeles and New York. That's really where I got my start, because I was able to learn and be seen from there in those classes I've learned from so many. Because you guys are each. Actually, I tell everybody it's not audition. You are actually learning from these sessions and about what I love about that was, I learned from an early start back in 20. I started doing them seriously in 2,012 was the fact that you guys want us to win you. I try to tell actors they're like, don't realize that, you guys, there's a lot of that. You guys don't have control over meaning the fact that yes, you do want the actors that you call in to be successful. You guys aren't the enemy. Furthermore, you aren't making the final decisions. You have the at least in prime time. Since I do a lot of prime time you have the I said, the writers, the directors, the producers. Then you have the studio. Then you have the network. The casting is literally you're they're trying their best they can for you, but your hands are tied to a certain extent as well with.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Frankly.

Brandon Rush:

Because these other people are going to make their things decisions on who they're going to cast. And when I knew that from the beginning from doing those classes that made everything easy for me. It was just about trying to explain to other actor friends like, Hey, like, Don't get on the casting director. It's not, or casting associate or assistant. It's not their fault. It's it's they're trying their best. They called you in. Be thankful for that.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I know that's I. I've had that question before in class where people are like well, casting office keeps bringing me in. But I'm not getting hired.

Brandon Rush:

That's a good thing.

Mama Rush:

And my response was, shut up and keep going.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That means they like you. That means they're fighting for you. That means they want you in that moment. So shut up. Oh, yeah.

Brandon Rush:

People.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Right arm to show up in that world. So come on, yeah.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely sorry, Rachel. One last thing that.

Mama Rush:

No, don't not last, and keep on.

Brandon Rush:

I was blessed to play Officer Denoon on blue bloods in New York City. For 5 years I went. I was flying to every audition. So I was flying from La to every audition, or my mom, and when my dad was alive, too, they would take me sometimes 2, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning to the airport to go fly for that audition. I flew to Los Angeles, New York, a total of like a hundred times for auditions. But, hey! I believed in myself. but on my final time I had 9 callbacks for blue bloods, and I had the Siobhan. O'connor is one of the executive producers and writers on that show. On my 9th time I decided I wasn't going back anymore. I'm like, Look, because I was thinking, flying from Los Angeles to New York's a lot. So I went in there and I did the part. But I was like I was just frustrated. I was like, I've never come back in, and I ended up booking it. They're like, Wow, if you aren't a New York cop. And I finally told Siobhan that story, and she laughed. She said, Brandon, the thing about our show was booking. A New York cop is the hardest thing we had the thing trouble, because not everybody can play it because of the accent. Not everyone can have the demeanor and mannerisms of a New York cop, and you had it like you were doing it. We were trying to find the right thing for you. So that's why it took a little bit longer to get you cast on finally get cast on, and I ended up being on for 5 years. So it worked out. But that was one of those things.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And I'll tell you why you're booked it. You stop giving yourself the pressure. Oh, yeah, it's it's 1 of those things where? The best way I can describe it. Mama is when you are out, and you go to a bar, and a gentleman starts hitting on you, and you're like. Oh, this man is desperate.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You can just tell. And it's the same thing in everyday life. It's the same thing in casting people are. So they want it so bad that they're letting that want and that desire get in front of the character and who they are. Sometimes you just need to let it go that way. When I worked at the Talent Agency, we would always say, Book a vacation. You cannot get refunded, and you will get a role because you go in. And you're like, Oh, I can't work those days, anyways, I'm just gonna whatever and the best, because all the pressure that you've been giving yourself is.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Mama Rush:

It's so true.

Brandon Rush:

I always book when I'm on vacation, always.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yep, yep, change your dates a little bit.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

It's, yeah, yeah.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely. Rachel. Go ahead, mom. It's all you.

Mama Rush:

Rachel, I want to ask in that casting bit again, if have you ever had a character, that well, it was written that that character would die out on this particular show at this particular time. So that happens. And then, all of a sudden, I guess people started writing and talking. What happened? Why did you kill her? Have you ever brought someone back from the dead.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know. I I don't know that I have brought anybody back from the dead. That's a whole thing. But I know that there's been different people that have been either. There, you know, the the role is done. They didn't see it going anywhere. It kind of disappeared. And when they finally got the feedback from network and studio. They were like, Oh, wow! We really have to figure out something to bring this person in. you know. So yeah, yeah, it does happen, I mean, and that's it's there's a great Ted talk about soaps. And in that.

Mama Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

The girl. She does this great talk about how like, there's 3 life lessons you can get from soaps, and one of them is that you can always come back from the dead. And she and it's such a great metaphor, because you're for sure, and that's the one thing that they'll do a lot in soaps and even a lot on TV.

Mama Rush:

I know.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Somebody might disappear, or they might get shot, or they might, you know, go over that cliff, but we don't see the end. We don't see the final. We don't actually dead. Or in the you know, mortuary I mean, they could also have a crazy cousin or a twin somewhere. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong, but but having that, they always leave this option of maybe.

Mama Rush:

That's that's what I did. I was telling Brandon about that, because he was on a show where they shot him. Yeah. And.

Brandon Rush:

Doing really well.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

How was it?

Brandon Rush:

Completely dead.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, I did see that I did see that that was such a crazy episode. I was like, what.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah, they never said.

Mama Rush:

Oh, he did!

Brandon Rush:

So so there's yeah, there's there's a chance.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You could be. I mean, there's always that you could be the mastermind behind something else that's going on that.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely, mom. I forgot to tell you, Rachel Brad, I said, Brad, be on it.

Mama Rush:

Say Rachel.

Brandon Rush:

So that Rachel's my, my mom's another room. That's what he told me. Oh, yeah, okay.

Mama Rush:

Yeah.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah. Mom. Rachel saw that episode of FBI.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, yeah, he told me it was on. So I watched it. And I like yelled at the TV. It was like Brandon.

Mama Rush:

That's what I always say when I see him. I appreciate so much you've done for Brandon in helping him and casting him. He loves his role on that bowl and beautiful, and you have made sure that he comes back every time, and I appreciate that so much for him.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Go ahead! Go ahead!

Mama Rush:

No, you can go ahead.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, I was just gonna say, I think. okay, we can do that. Go ahead.

Mama Rush:

Okay, we we do the same. Go ahead. I'm gonna wait for you because you're the guest.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh. no. I always say to actors when they're like, you know, yeah, I wouldn't have had this opportunity. I wouldn't have gotten there, and I always say I put you in that room, or I was able to help get you in that room. You showed up.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I didn't have anything to do with that. You're the one who stuck that landing and who got this so.

Mama Rush:

Hello!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I'm just happy that I got to know you to open that door and help.

Brandon Rush:

I appreciate you. I know I appreciate you tremendously.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, my, that's the one biggest thing, too. You'll find in casting in every office, especially. My boss is such a huge advocate for actors on the show and getting the right people in the right space. And we're always, you know, painting a picture that's kind of my favorite way to describe casting especially on a soap. You're painting a picture with the people we have in the scene the people that else need to be in the scene, and if there's extras, and if there's you know something else, I'm helping paint a picture of what Los Angeles looks like.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely. No, you're good, mom.

Mama Rush:

You go ahead, Brad.

Brandon Rush:

Go ahead. I've written out.

Mama Rush:

So you said, you're on vacation right now, are you on vacation? So how long do you get for vacation or in your business, how long? How many days.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know it depends. Every soap is different. Our show we do get every, although most in the industry everybody has the time after at Christmas time, usually when it is for Christmas and New Year's and then for the show for the bold and beautiful. Right now we get a few a week or 2 off around Spring Break, and then in July, around summer break, we get a few in here as well. I think when it started the bold and beautiful. Everybody was kind of like young families, and so they wanted to make sure that families had the time to have off while their kids were on break, too, where they could go on vacation and not, you know, have an entire set empty, you know. So so that's what they've been working on, and I know it's been different. We don't. We haven't always shot 2 episodes a day. But sometime, but at 1 point they they had only done that, and then they start changing it around and trying to make it more conducive to having different types of breaks and space, so that people have times for their families and whatnot.

Mama Rush:

That is great. Well, I wanted to know. Has there ever been someone that you can remember? Not in the acting world right now I'm talking about a mentor that really shaped your life and and made you that complete person that you continue to carry that mentor in your mind and think about what he or she said or did.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know, I actually had the opportunity this Christmas, to meet up with one of those people in my life.

Mama Rush:

It was my.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

My. She was my 1st grade teacher. And she was also my 6th and 7th grade teacher. I went to a very small Christian private school, and her name was Carol Veal, and she when she was my 1st grade teacher. You know, when you're a kid you kind of have your idea of like what your parents do like. They never existed until you existed. It's, you know, you have no idea, really. And I remember one time, like everybody was supposed to be taking a nap. I did not like naps, so I was walking around, and she was drawing. and I was like, Oh, is this something for class? Not thinking that a teacher had a life outside of anything? And she goes no, I just I just like to draw. And I was like Oh! And there were different things like I felt comfortable in able to go to her about and talk to her about life and everything, and just connect with her. She always treated me like a human being, or like a you know, not.

Mama Rush:

I'm just.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

As a kid, not just as a student. I mean, there's so many people in my life, including my parents, who have just been wonderful and supportive of me. And and there's even, you know I'm I'm kind of one of those people that will also do things out of spite. Okay. I've had several people tell me. Oh, you'll never be able.

Brandon Rush:

Wow!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

To get to where you're at. Oh, you'll never be an associate. You'll never be any of these, and I'm like. I'm sorry I'm not familiar with that word never. And so so, even going back to Brandon, what you were saying earlier about, you know. Well, you know you could do so many things I can. It's amazing. I'm so excited I have so many options and choices right now. I don't know what the future is going to bring. Let's let's check it out. Let's see what we can do.

Brandon Rush:

Oh, my God. Rachel, I love that, and I love that. You said that people tell I have that too, especially in our business, or just, not even in our business people that might be friends or people that know us that have said, Hey, you can't do this. That's I love my grandma to death. God bless her soul! I grew up in a Christian family, too. I went to Catholic school. I had my Catholic school teacher on here actually. 8th grade. Yeah, she was great. But while my grandmother had told me like that, I said, Grandma, I used to when I was in college at University of South Carolina. I used to eat dinner with my grandparents every Wednesday. My grandfather would be at the church because he was Bishop Smith, and then I'd go pick up my grandma, Edna Smith, and wait for them. I'd wait for my grandfather to get home from church, but or I'd take her to where we were going. and she told me one time, she's like I said, Grandma, I want to be that thing on TV in South Carolina. She's like. What's that? I said. I want to be an actor, and she said, You can't be no actor, and I got so upset and like I went outside. I called my mom, and I said, Mom, grandma said, I can't be an actor. And my mom said, Baby, you can be anything you want to be in this lifetime. And so at that point I stopped studying for the Gmat. And I started looking for acting schools. One was in New York, the other was in Los Angeles. I end up getting to the acting school, and went out to Los Angeles to pursue that my dream of being an actor. But I've had so many people just like you over a lifetime, and I try to tell, encourage people this way, too. that you will have people that tell you that you can't do something, and that's because they are insecure with either themselves or they have their own fears that they're putting upon you. Sometimes it could be that way, too, when it comes to family. So I appreciate you so much for even for the naysayers, the haters you going out and being excellent. That's why I was so glad. Thank you, said you want to come that you came on the show today. But for you to go and actually say those terms. Any person that hears this even actors. You have been told that you can't do something, but yet you're still doing it every day. You're still showing up. You're living by faith that you have, and you're blessed to have the support of a family like I have my dad and my mom, my mom's still alive, thank God! But my dad was like they showed me that support the whole time. Hey, baby, you can go do this. You can do it. You got us at least talk to her shoulder to cry on, and many nights I was calling, crying But that you could do that. So? I'm so glad that you've said that because that's a testament to you and everything you are doing to push your own families forward.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

No. and I know that a lot of people don't have families close like we do, and even for me, like my parents, still live in the Detroit area, so I don't get to see them all the time. And my biggest thing is, find your family, and you know some of my family is with church, some of my family. This is funny, and go with me. There's a bar across the street from me.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And it is usually at any given time of the day 30 50% of the people there are all my neighbors I know. We know all the bartenders, everybody who works there, and some days I'm just like I just need a friend. And it's so great, and it's I have this wonderful Christian therapist I was like, why do I like going to a bar, you know, like I used to.

Mama Rush:

I'm doing.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Sometimes I don't. It doesn't really matter. And he nobody judges you.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Nobody. They just accept you, and oh, no. I can. I can reach out to the hey guys I'm sitting down at. You know Bealman's. You want to come over and some people do. Some people don't. If they don't, I meet people there all the time, so it's just it's a find your place. You're safe.

Mama Rush:

Hello!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

That you can be you and connect there.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely, Rachel, a question for you, because you've done so. I'm an East Coast kid. You're a Midwest midwest woman. What would you tell your 18 year old self? Now.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Would tell my 18 year old self. None of it's gonna work out the way you planned. None of it's gonna be the way you thought. and you're going to think you've made all the wrong choices.

Mama Rush:

Oh!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

But you're gonna wake up one day and go. I chose everything in this moment.

Mama Rush:

And I'm here, and I'm living it.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And no one else can do that for me.

Mama Rush:

Wow!

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely love that that's that powerful, too.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

And that's that's I had a I had a friend. Remind me of that one time they're like, even if you are in a space where you think that you're not doing your biggest potential, your biggest moment. You're living your life the way that you choose, and no one else can do that.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

If things need to be done. people will be found. If God has a plan, and and you decide to say no and not do that plan, God will figure out that plan. What if in that moment. It's you that makes the story move forward. It's you that steps into that space. And helps. We've got a plan.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely.

Mama Rush:

That's I'm so glad. How many viewers we have now in.

Brandon Rush:

We have. We have 11 million viewers in 28 countries around 6 continents and 268 states, 268 cities.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh no!

Mama Rush:

Well, the reason I said that because I'm so glad, Rachel, that you're speaking your information. I call it your truth. You are speaking everything that we want our listeners to hear because of the age range that that we are actually impacting. And what you're saying is going to make a difference in a lot of young people, old people, too, oldest older people. But I'm so glad you're saying that, and they're understanding that they can do something. They can figure it out, too, and you're always figuring it out every day. But I love that. I've been blessed to be able to change careers as often as I have with children, with children.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Amazing yeah.

Mama Rush:

And so, but my parents supported me. As I can see, your parents supported you, and I helped to make people laugh. I said if I wanted to be an astronaut. I'm a scientist, though, I said, if I wanted to be an astronaut, my mother would say, Okay, Carolyn, when is the spaceship taken off, and she will. she would know that that's something I wanted to do. And so both my parents never discouraged us in fulfilling our dreams. and I appreciate that about them, and I guess I'm so outgoing as that's why I love your personality. I can kind of see it, feel it through this I can feel that personality type similar to mine. But I love that you are telling this audience. We have everything that I think, Brandon, that we want this show to hear. And so casting Brandon has fallen in love with all.

Brandon Rush:

Okay.

Mama Rush:

Asking people in California, I can.

Brandon Rush:

And New York and Atlanta. They have been, he said.

Mama Rush:

You all have really been the glue for him. You have held him there, and and every day he thinks about, he said, mama, the best people I've ever met in my career. And so that really says a lot for you and the profession you are in.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yeah, yeah, no, thank you. I think it's you know, in casting again, like I said, we're not the people that want to be on stage. But and I discovered this earlier in life. I love helping people get to their full potential. Not saying that I don't potential to get to. But I if I can be a part of that somehow.

Mama Rush:

I don't.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Need the statues. I don't need the awards. I don't need any of that. I need to turn on FBI and see you on there. I need to have TV on commercial and go. Oh, my gosh! I remember that person, you know, they took a class of mine, or they auditioned for us, or, Oh, my gosh! And now they're doing this big, huge thing that's so amazing to me. That's more reaffirming than any type of award I could ever get.

Mama Rush:

So you're a teacher as well. You teach classes.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

I do. I do. Yeah, especially just the idea of prime time into daytime. And how different that is, and what it looks like. You know, for an actor so.

Mama Rush:

Oh, okay, okay, that's great, do you all? Well, how long do the classes last? And how often do you give classes? I just want to get some feedback from from you for the audience.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

There's a few. If you go online, I'm sure there's a few different places that will let you know when I appear. Every every few months I get a few places that reach out and say, Hey, we want you to do a you know, a guest spot here or there. So I don't really do. I don't hold it myself. I don't do it myself. I appear as a special guest.

Mama Rush:

Oh, oh, great! And do you do that type of training or class through zoom, or it's in a classroom.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Either. Which way in the classroom is a little weird now, because we haven't done it in a million years. But I didn't. One of those I did do one of those recently. But yeah, a lot of times. Now, it's just on on zoom. Okay, okay, yeah.

Brandon Rush:

Well, Rachel, I want to say thank you so much for coming on. I thank you for all the opportunities you've given me, I said, like one of the things I want to do with this show was, as I said, my whole entire career. My whole career is because, casting directors, casting associates and casting assistants gave me the opportunity, especially in Los Angeles and New York. Without you guys I would be nowhere, because, as I said, I didn't have an agent. Agents gave me every excuse under the sun. Why, they wouldn't represent me, but it was casting associates, assistants, and directors like you know what we'll call you. You did a great job in this class, like, you know. It's weeks down the road, months down the road like, hey? This saw this part. Would you mind coming and reading for it? I get an email. And so it's because of you all. That's why you guys always have a platform on here. every show that I go on. I always say that I'm a representative of every single person, the cast and community that called me in.

Mama Rush:

You know they have to be hiring me, but called me in because I'm representing them, and as the Lord continues to bless my career. I hope to hire you guys in positions.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Amen!

Mama Rush:

Well, I appreciate that. Well, I think I've said everything I.

Brandon Rush:

We love it.

Mama Rush:

Oh, I didn't ask you. Do you miss your parents a lot where you are, or do they come out to see you? And how does that go? Because I know you're tell me how that works out for you.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

If my parents they usually come out every other year, and then on the opposite years, I go back to Michigan to visit I talk to my dad once a week. I talk to my mom almost every day. just keeping in touch and just know what's going on I do have an older brother and me and him try and keep in touch, too, and you know both of our lives are pretty busy, but we try our best. So you know, the biggest thing was is just making it a point to have that connection, that communication constantly and also to, you know, as you know, growing up, you sometimes need to set some boundaries and step back for a little bit and live your own life and do your thing, and none of that is bad, and none of that is wrong. But no, but being able to still have that communication. Yeah, no, I still keep in touch with them. I still keep in touch with people back in Michigan.

Mama Rush:

That's great!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know I know where I came from.

Mama Rush:

Oh, that's great! I've been to your hometown, Detroit. When I was a little girl my daddy took us up because he finished Wayne State University.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Nice.

Mama Rush:

Engineering. His master's there, and I'll never forget. We went into the automobile factory where they built Ford. I think Ford has a big plant there, and I'm just a little girl walking around, and Daddy took us all over the place, and I just really enjoyed it. It was just so much fun to be in Detroit. I'm glad it wasn't cold. very cool. I know you don't miss the snow.

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely.

Mama Rush:

All weather.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

It's also.

Mama Rush:

Detroit is a beautiful place.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

It is, it is. It's very, very green. I forget that being out here. But also there's so many lakes around that when the cold.

Mama Rush:

Better home.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

It's.

Brandon Rush:

It's a lot of.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Know a lot of craziness, a lot of humidity. Yeah, yeah, that's I. I have to do my hair different being out here than so it's nice. It's nicer. But yeah, it's very different. Just even in the pace of things. You know, I loved Michigan growing up there getting my foundation as to who I was. But the best thing to me about being in Los Angeles is just the amount of opportunities that are here.

Brandon Rush:

There are a lot.

Mama Rush:

Oh! That!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

You know there's it's, you know, in most cities are very much geared towards an industry. Anyway. Michigan, they have the car industry, you know health mostly in every city as well. Those different things. But yeah, yeah, it's it's still fun to go back and visit and everything and see what's going on there.

Mama Rush:

Oh!

Brandon Rush:

Absolutely.

Mama Rush:

Nope, or when you have been a delight.

Brandon Rush:

Yeah.

Mama Rush:

Yeah.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Like. We always give everybody a round of applause, and then, Rachel, just send me what photo you want to use for your we are 20, we have 20 podcast stations. So I.

Brandon Rush:

Send me that photo. I'll put that on there, and I'll send that. I'll have all this done to you by tonight.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Oh, perfect. Yeah, yeah. I'll send you a picture. Thank you.

Mama Rush:

So much for your time. It's been a pleasure. Yeah, good for you.

Brandon Rush:

You.

Mama Rush:

And may God bless you always, and keep your keep you out there, making all of the difference that you can make in this world. Thank you.

Brandon Rush:

Give everyone a round of applause.

Mama Rush:

Thank you.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Appreciate you both. Thank you both.

Brandon Rush:

Thank you so much for coming on.

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Yes.

Brandon Rush:

Ha-ha! All right, you take care!

Rachel Rose Oginsky:

Okay, you, too, take care. Bye-bye.

Brandon Rush:

She was absolutely wonderful. Yes, ma'am.

Mama Rush:

Oh, outstanding.

Brandon Rush:

Let's see here, I gotta figure out how to. I think if I hit this button I'll stop recording. Yeah.