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From Texas To LA With Actress Melissa Diaz

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Two creatives from the border trace how training, grit, and timing turn stage nerves into screen credits. We unpack Melissa’s path from Juarez theater to LA sets, the rise of self-tapes, and how social media now shapes casting and representation.

• early curiosity and El Paso roots
• Juarez musical theater as core training
• Televisa CEA intensity and learning to play
• first SAG film with Kristen Davis
• SWAT booking and building momentum
• Ruthless direct offer and relationships
• Spanish-language feature and GIF premiere
• the Southwest film boom and local pride
• moving to LA, getting repped via Instagram
• shift from in-person auditions to self-tapes
• social media strategy for creatives
• staying resilient through quiet seasons

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Meet Melissa: From El Paso To LA

SPEAKER_01

Hi, and welcome back to another episode of That's the V where we talk about fashion, fashion people, and creatives in the industry. Today I have a really special guest from El Paso, Texas, but that now lives in LA, which is super exciting and I love it. Uh Melissa. So I'm gonna let you introduce yourself and tell us about how it all you made it happen in the industry you work in. And yeah, just let us know.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me here, for thinking of me. Um, my name's Melissa, I'm an actress from El Paso, and uh I now live here in LA. I moved here to pursue acting. I've been acting for I want to say um maybe like 10 years. Oh my gosh. That's weird. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

No, it goes so by so fast because even like modeling when I started, I was like 13. Yeah, so now it's like it's more than yeah, like I like yeah it's been more than 10 years and it's insane. Wow, oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02

Well, look at us. I know. Yes, well, okay, so my career, um, I guess I started taking classes and having an interest for acting uh when I was living in El Paso and I would just, you know, watch movies and would always watch behind the scenes of movies. It was like that's so fun. Like I want to do that.

SPEAKER_01

Like, how did it come to life?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm like, how are they doing this? This is like, you know, such a cool job. So I wanted to I want I wanted to do the same thing. So I would research. I, you know, I knew you had to move to LA and be in Hollywood horse.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

First Steps: Classes And Theater

SPEAKER_02

Um, but you know, I was only maybe like 13, 14 at the time. So I started taking acting classes, which is kind of like the only thing, yeah, at least that I found in El Paso. So I started taking acting classes, then I did musical theater in Juarez. Okay, yes. Um, and that really got me in vested, and I got training, and I was like, like once I did that, I was like, this is what I want to do. Okay, forever. You experience it and you felt it. I loved it so much, and it was you know, we did theater for normal. So it was this huge theater, and we would do like a beautiful you know, it's not like you're doing a little play, a little filet. No, it's like it was an actual deal. Yes, it was an actual production. We had like thousands of thousands of people show up, so you know, that was kind of like my first entry.

SPEAKER_01

And the fact that you are doing like theater, like live acting, I think that's so hard. Like, I feel like at least behind the camera, like people can edit it and like you can like read it exactly and hear your you're literally like interacting with people. I I like I don't know how you can do that.

SPEAKER_02

I know, but the fact that you love it so much. To be honest, like theater is the best training for actors because of that, you know, because I mean you do it a lot and during rehearsal, so when you're in front of a live audience, you can you know deliver. So it's great uh training. So that's a good one to do theater. That's a good one. I mean, you want to do act starting doing acting, yes. Okay, um, so yeah, so uh um I did that for I think two, three years. I was in high school, and then I applied to Il Seate Lovisa in Mexico City. Yeah, I was able to get in. I moved to Mexico City, I was 17, 18. So again, like super young.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I remember seeing you though. I remember like seeing like I'm Louisa moved to Mexico City and it's now like gonna be part of you. What's happening?

SPEAKER_02

I know. I'm like, I'm just so eating. Yeah, no, but you you've seen it all because we've known each other for a very long time.

SPEAKER_01

So it's really cool. It is insane to to see like I feel people that are part in the creative industry see where we were then and see where we're here like now. Wow, and the growth. And that's why I really wanted to do this podcast because I felt like I've met so many amazing people throughout my path of life where creatively um it's not easy, I feel, to like get to these places, yeah, these positions. And I think it's important to talk about how we did it, like how it's you made it happen.

SPEAKER_02

So you were in Mexico City, yeah, and I want to kind of piggyback on that. I feel like there's so many people from El Paso that are in the industry, like people I met in El Paso or people that I've met here in LA and that are from El Paso, you know.

SPEAKER_01

So I'm like, wow, same people don't know like how much talent there is in El Paso, yeah, Texas, and then how it's grown and how it's like spread out in different cities, yes, because even in New York I ran into people and like, oh, like El Paso.

Training In Mexico City

SPEAKER_02

I'm like, how did I not know that you were from also El Paso has grown so much, like unless you're in LA, it's gonna be my fifth year here in LA, which is also crazy to see this. So fast. Like I'm telling you all these years, I'm like, whoa, like how did that happen? So fast. Um, every time I go back, I'm like, wow, it has just grown so much as a city. Yeah. Um, the people. So anyway, I was in Mexico City, I did El CEA for two years, and that's just like very intense training. You're there from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oh my gosh, taking classes, like dance, singing, um acting on camera, um, movements, everything. Everything. Okay. So it's really good training. I honestly think I learned, I mean, most of my acting foundation there. Yeah, I would say. Like I learned how to cry there. I do yes.

SPEAKER_01

It's very well from what I've heard with the SEA, um, they also like bring in actors in the industry that are experienced or yes. I mean, um that like would work with you or well, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, it was a very cool experience because um from like day one, you see working actors that are in telenovelas and the soap operas. Yeah, sometimes they go and brush up their skills. So sometimes they would like take a dance class, like jump in class with you and be like a classmate. Or you would be walking in Televisa and like bump into other like famous actors you grew up watching on TV. So, you know, it just felt like, oh, like I'm part of this. Like I they're like, you know, eating rice in there. Yeah. We're in the same room now. Yes, yes. So, um, but as far as teaching, they wouldn't really teach, though they're there's really good teachers, also working actors, or they've been in the industry for a very long time. So it was an amazing school, and I I I really miss it. It was it was you know, uh, now that I think about it, I'm like, oh my gosh, it was so much fun. It's just you know, acting is playing. So when you just play, like you would go to school to play.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I didn't I didn't even take a notebook that and I love every time I feel like I admire the like acting industry so much because it's what we all like feel like when we when we take a break from something, we just want to watch like benchmark, bench watch some show, like a movie, and to be able to have the talent to just interpret those emotions on a screen on a stage. I think it's just like so admirable. Yeah. Like I I feel like I wanted to do acting at some point, and I've done like little classes here and there, but I get so nervous. Yeah, like how do you even get through the like nervous?

SPEAKER_02

Oh my gosh, I feel very nervous when I like walk down a runway when I'm like bottling and like, oh my gosh, you know, okay, I I feel like it's the same nerves. Yeah. Yes. Well, I feel like you know, acting, um sometimes like I feel very comfortable acting because I just know what I'm gonna well, not exactly what I'm gonna do, but what I'm gonna like what's gonna happen. Okay, you know, if it's if I was like doing a stand-up comedy or something, that would be the like improv or something. Yes. Okay. Improv is you know, I've done improv training because it's a very good skill to have for acting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, but yes, I you know, you know, you just prepared mentally that you know what's coming to each of you and how you need to react.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. Okay, yes. You know, you're going through like a roller coaster, but you kind of like know what's what's coming, going to happen.

SPEAKER_01

Like all the like nervousness in there, I feel like you're still mentally prepared for it.

Live Stage Nerves And Breakthrough

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Okay, I will tell you, I had a very crazy experience. I was living in Mexico City, and I got hired to um like present to be an actor. I was doing like a segment in El Auditorio Nacional, which is you know, like the biggest auditorium in Mexico, like 10,000 people fit there. Yeah, and um, I got hired and they knew I had like background in theater, okay, and I had rehearsed and you know, like when nobody's there, and it was like great. And then once it was the day off and you could feel like the energy and just like the sound of the crowd, like I I went to the bathroom. I'm like, oh I don't know. I like I'm like, oh my gosh. I I can't tell anyone, yeah. Yeah, like anyone. And I was just like, it was almost my time to go on the stage. And I had this this, I wish I had more footage on this. Okay, because I feel like this was like 2016 when like Instagram wasn't that popular. Yeah, it was fairly um, yeah, yeah, yeah. So so it was just like me alone on the stage talking. That's so nervous, yes, yeah. I had to memorize, but I had to like walk and do this whole thing, and I'm talking to the audience.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's not like you're on stage and just focus with one person. It's like exactly.

SPEAKER_02

I was talking to the fourth wall. Oh, and and I was, you know, like doing breathing exercises.

SPEAKER_01

People were like, you're just telling me this right now.

SPEAKER_02

And people were like coming up and like, are you ready? And I'm like, you know, on the um in Las Piernes, like ready to enter this the lights, the stage. Yes. I was so nervous. I'm like, oh my, I'm like, I don't know what's gonna happen. Yeah, and as soon as like I went to the stage and like the lights hit me, I just felt relaxed. Okay, yeah, like all the nerves like went away.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh. Like in you were just in yourself.

SPEAKER_02

I just powered through. I don't know what happened. Amazing.

SPEAKER_01

I feel like that's definitely like you have to have that gift, like you have to love it and have that passion. Yeah. Because I feel like I would freeze. Like I would be out there and be like, it's like, no, I'll just run wig walk. Someone needs to do the speech because I'm not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, no, it's it's I think it's definitely um a skill, uh, a gift. But I think just because, you know, I don't know, I I love it, and I'm sure you feel the same way with modeling.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's definitely if it like the energy you get from it, I feel for me. It's yeah, like the energy I get from meeting the people and like doing a runaway and just connecting with designers and makeup and everyone. For me, that like feeds my soul. So I'm thinking for you it's the same with the energy of like the public. Yeah. And and I feel like just being like a character. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Even with modeling, I feel like I do have to portray like, oh, this is like edgy and dark, and like you're not like dark, like all like edgy and stuff. Like, I I love being edgy, but I feel like I'm more curly than course. Uh but it's like, okay, no, like I want to be this like edgy person and like get that vibe across like the stage and all the things. So I I understand that feeling, but when you put me into talking, that's when I'm like, what? Like I have to memorize what.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Early Screen Credits And Momentum

SPEAKER_01

It's it's hard. So I admire that when it comes to like reading scripts and learning a script and interacting with another actor or actress. Yes. Um, I want to talk about like the experiences you've had that have like really highlighted your career. I know you um have done a few films and series, and I know I saw you like in Ruthless. Yeah. That was exciting. I was like, oh my gosh, I know her. Thank you. Uh so what's been like a favorite like experience so far, or something that you thought like, wow, when you got the notification that you were gonna be part of something more exciting or bigger than you thought?

SPEAKER_02

What what wasn't that? Yeah, um I feel like I've gotten, I mean, very excited with every project that I get into because they have been getting I don't want to say like bigger, but you know, like more special. Um, you know, the first um film I booked, um I was able to act with Kristen Davis from Sex in the City. And that was like wow, very exciting type. I think I went straight to callback for some reason. Okay, okay. I think I got kind of lucky. Yeah, um, they booked me. It was the first thing I ever booked that was also SAG, which is part of the actors union, so it's like a legit project, you know? Yeah, that's super exciting. Yeah, so that was very exciting. Then second thing I booked was SWAT, which was here in LA, you know, which was also very exciting, like SWAT or TV show, like people who like talking about this and know it and like that. Yeah, yes. Then I got you know uh a bigger role on a movie. So I said, yes, I have like three scenes, you know, not just one. I'm gonna like change outfits and then a little. Yeah, so it's it's been um it's been kind of like a growing um thing. And the last project, or actually it's not the last project I did, but one of my most um biggest movies I have out there would be Ruthless, okay. Uh, which I got here when I was in LA. Yeah, it was a direct offer. I had worked with the producers, I know, which is wow very awesome because truly only like Leonardo DiCaprio, yeah, like the straight offer.

SPEAKER_01

The fact that you have these connections already, yeah, that's exciting. And then that says a lot about you. I feel like as a professional and as a person, yeah. Like ever since I know you, you're just like really easy to connect, and and like your energy is great. So I feel like they would see that.

Ruthless, Direct Offers, And Recognition

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. Thank you, thank you so much. Yes, I mean, I think it's the biggest compliment when somebody you've worked with before calls you again. Um, so yeah, that's that's what happened with Ruthless. Yeah, um, and it was such an amazing experience. I, you know, it was my biggest script. I'm almost like in every scene. Um, yeah, I think it's the most viewed movie that I've been in. And my latest movie, uh, which I actually went back to Juarez to film.

SPEAKER_01

I know that's it. I haven't seen it, but I've seen so much about it. Yes. Like everyone's like sharing, and especially because being from El Paso, Juarez, I think what we have is that it's so like passionate and everyone's like so proud of everybody and it's such a cool feeling. So I've definitely have seen so much noise around your movies. And I know there was like the premiere, and I knew you contacted me to to do like oh my god, you sang that's so right. Yeah, so I I wish I could have been there. I know it was like September's always so crazy because of fashion weeks and the things in New York. Of course. Um, but I've been, I mean, like following and everything. But so how can people watch it now that I know it's not like yes, well, it's not out yet, but it will be in a couple months.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Um, in a secret streaming platform. I don't know what okay so we the cast doesn't know, but we will in uh a couple months, I guess.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, okay. Well, as soon as we know, we'll we'll share it and we'll like keep everyone updated.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, so everyone can watch it. But that was an awesome experience too. It was my first uh feature film in Spanish. You know, it was all filmed in Juarez and it's a very uh beautiful story. So I'm yeah, and we we um premiered at uh GIF, which is uh Guanajuato's international film festival. Very big film festival in Mexico. So it was it was like a dream.

SPEAKER_01

I love that it's like coming from Juarez and then just broadcasting and like around Mexico and even like the US because of El Paso, and yeah, I mean I feel like there's just all this like little or not even little, but movement in general in the film industry with in the southwest right now. I feel like Albuquerque, um, I mean even Leonardo filming in El Paso. I know that was like, well, wait, what? Like he's right here. He was running on the El Paso, yes, Laporest. Yes, everything grew up. I was like, I know, like we were we were watching it, my boyfriend and I, and uh I mean he's not from El Paso, so he's not like fully aware of the um sentiment. Yeah, I feel like we would get like watching these places being on the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio. Like um, yeah, it was like such an experience, and I feel like El Paso definitely deserves more.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, and hopefully more movies are coming in.

SPEAKER_01

That would be definitely growing, so it's exciting. Next, uh, I want to talk about anything that you're really excited about, either in the industry in your life. Um, any like project you wanna put out there?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I I told you this off screen, but people need to hear it. Yeah, um, I'm very excited about Project Wedding. Yes, I love I love Project Wedding.

New Spanish Feature And Festival Run

SPEAKER_01

Yes, but that's so exciting. So in LA, like that's such a cool feeling, I feel.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, truly it's so awesome and truly like I didn't want like wedding planning to consume me, but it is.

SPEAKER_01

So that's kind of like what I'm focusing on. Inevitable. Like it really, my little sister's getting married next year in in March. I mean, that's not where we're going for, but I'm helping her, so it's also like it's consuming both of us. Yeah, I get it.

SPEAKER_02

It's so awesome. I was like, oh, you know, just like something, but once you get into it, I'm like, the details, you know, and it's like you're that visited, and so I mean, it's your wedding.

SPEAKER_01

I feel like you have to be like fully like onset in your mode and everything.

SPEAKER_02

It's fun, it's fun. Uh, but other than my wedding, I'm of course looking forward to uh Lipes coming out on streaming um in the coming months. We don't know where, but um, it'll be on my social media never whenever I know. Yeah. Um, and yes, but still auditioning. I mean, auditioning is something that I do, I mean, that I'll be doing for um, I guess, the rest of my life. You're like until I can. So yeah, yeah, yeah. Until they just offer me roles, maybe. Um, so yeah, just auditioning and hopefully um getting more projects before the wedding.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I mean, balancing wedding and acting projects. I feel like it would be a lot to do. Yeah. Um, but uh, I feel like we didn't really talk about like how did you decide to make the move to come to LA and like how how was that process to move to LA?

SPEAKER_02

Oh my goodness. Well, I decided to move here to LA because when I was in El Paso, um weirdly enough, um, a manager from LA contacted me through Instagram.

SPEAKER_01

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_02

And this was like 2018, 2019. Like again, like Instagram wasn't what it is, you know, what it is right now. Um, and you know, I would post things about ads things, so he's like, hey, like, are you are you repped here in LA? So I wasn't, and he signed me, uh, he helped me get an agency, so I had a manager and an agent. Well, and together they were sending me to a lot of auditions. Yeah, this was um before COVID.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so like right before.

Southwest Film Boom And Local Pride

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, right before. So um, that's when auditions were still in person. So I would fly to LA pretty regularly for these in-person auditions, which was awesome. I really miss it because not all auditions are in person now. You just have to do it from yeah, from your own home, or unless you know, you go somewhere else to film. Um, but you miss that, you know, going in person to like the studios to audition, and you know, it was it was an experience, it was so exciting. Yeah, um, so I was coming pretty frequently and I said, you know, I need to, I need I need it just makes sense. It just makes sense. I'm here. Yeah, I moved 2019, COVID happened. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01

I mean we're like stuck.

SPEAKER_02

I went back to I went back to El Paso, um auditioned self self-tapes started becoming a thing. Yeah while I was in El Paso, I booked SWAT, I kept working until I was, you know, until um they started lifting um the restriction the restriction and life started kind of happening. Yeah, so I was like, you know what? I need to I need to come back. And I was staying there. Yes, and I was coming uh to a to like a family trip to Disneyland, yeah. And I booked a big commercial, a McDonald's commercial here in LA. So I was like, you know what? I feel like this is a sign. Yeah. So I stay here.

SPEAKER_01

And I think like being here is what like allows you to book things like that, even if they're not, you know, these huge productions, but even having like commercial work that just can like you can go show up, be there the next day if you need to. Yeah, I get that. I feel like that's when well, when I'm in New York, it's so much easier to we're missing a model or we're missing photography or whatever, and it's like, okay, can you be here in two days? And yeah, when I'm there, it's great because it's like okay, things are happening, but like making the commute El Paso, New York is such a long view. So I get that, yeah. So I mean, I think it's very encouraging and like uh courageous to decide to make that move to come here and because I you came by yourself, yeah. By myself, so that I feel like that's like the toughest part, like deciding like I'm gonna move away from my hometown, from my family, and then do what I love. Yeah, like I feel like for me that's New York, but it's still like making it work where okay, like I'll stay there a month and then come back and then see when we can make that work. Yeah, but and you know what?

SPEAKER_02

Um I feel like today with social media and um kind of like the entertainment industry changing, I feel like people can now live wherever they want, even if that's you know, El Paso or any other city and still um have opportunities online and you know you can travel, but you can truly live anywhere. You know, I feel like maybe five, six years ago, you had to be here.

Wedding Plans And Career Balance

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, no, it's completely true. And I feel like social media is changing the game, yeah. Completely even um, like for the whole entertainment industry, I feel like having a following is such a big thing now. Yeah, having like this certain content, like some people will get booked only because of that. So it's just like mixing like talent, but also your personal like content, which is it's a lot. I feel like you yourself become like this like product.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I know. Yeah, no, social media is so important. Um, I would just say I kind of stayed away from it for a very long time. And I mean like TikTok and like the video forms. I think last year it clicked that I'm like, okay, I need to like make videos. Do something always, you know, love photos and photography, and you know, that's what Instagram first was. Yeah. And then the videos, I mean, I I'm kind of like jumping into the train like very late in the game. No, I I get that. But you know, it's like, oh, since when like are videos more important than like photos, yeah, right?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's it is it's has been like such an insane transition, especially because I do social media marketing for brands, uh-huh, and even like just um also like hospitality businesses, hotels, and how much they are like, no, like thank you for your photos, and like I know I how to do photography, but it's like we want more video than anything. Yeah, it's been like such a switch. It's even like the algorithm. Yes, like I still can get into TikTok. Like, I know it's like almost like mandatory now because they'll apply for your TikTok handle, and it's like, no, you don't want that. Like there's nothing interesting happening there. I know we we really need to push ourselves. Yeah, it's it's so insane. Like it's insane. It's like a mixed for me, it's like mixed feelings. Yeah, because I feel like I I like respect the art of things, and like I want things like well done, but then there's all like all these random things that just go viral, and I'm like, what like what do you do? Like, do I like stay like aesthetic and like very produced, or do I just like post a random video and see what happens? I know, even for like castings and things like that, like for like people or casting directors look into your page and like yeah, see who you are, get the sense of your work.

Moving To LA And Getting Repped

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, I mean I'm I'm on the same boat to be honest. I feel like when it started, like what 2019, I think 2020, you know, when everyone it was pandemic and everyone was influenced in social media, yeah. You were just uh like what do you do? Yeah, you know, so and I kind of stayed away from it because I feel like TikTok was like the dances, but you know, whatever. It was like too too much, like I don't know. It's like I'm just gonna stay away from that. That seems like very like younger generation, and now it has grown so much, and I think it's been changing entertainment because come on, you're like watching a movie, you know, you don't even finish it. It's like two hours, you pick up your phone, you start scrolling. Yeah, it's like come on, you're really using social media and like scrolling to like entertain yourself. Yeah, it's so good now. We'll see what how much happens and like with AI and everything.

SPEAKER_01

Oh gosh, that's like that's gonna be like a whole other episode. But yeah, um, do you well lastly, do you have like any advice for anyone that wants to get into the acting industry or just the entertainment industry in general?

SPEAKER_02

I guess going back to social media, like use social media to you know make your own projects, maybe like get discovered. Like for me, I don't want to say I got discovered, you know, I still have a long way to go, but I did get representation because of my social media. Yeah, so I think that's like a very big um you know platform um to just have there and active. Yeah, yeah, and I feel like a lot of good things come from it. So if you don't know where to start, um you can start there on social media and just do, you know, a lot of research, I guess, you know, get representation, you get, you know, treat it as a career, so you know, you can start getting opportunities.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that attention on on what you want to do. Yeah. I feel like uh the cool thing about social media is being an artist and being able to like put your work out there as well. So no matter what it is uh like musically or even uh like artwork, you never know who's watching, who's gonna share it and who's gonna pay attention, which is like insane. I feel like I've heard these stories where people's lives change from one day to another just because like Will Khalid also wrote like in Al Paza, like uh one of the Kardashians listened to his song and it was Ellen, and then that's how he like got Oh, I didn't know that story. Yeah, what? Yeah, so it was like he I think it was Kylie Probably, yeah. But she was like, Yes, yes, she was like uh listening to one of his songs and her videos, like they were out on a trip, and then they were like, Who like what's the song? Who is it? And he just like blew up, yeah. They're like it's like I mean there's probably more to it, but that's like also one of the parts that I've heard, and and that's insane to me. Like yeah, you never know where you're being viewed or being heard, or like who's who's watching, yeah, which is a little bit crazy, but it's also I feel like can benefit you. That's awesome.

From In‑Person Auditions To Self‑Tapes

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, and sorry, just what one more thing. Yeah, and I do feel like if you want to do this for like you know, the rest of your life, it's just also learning how to navigate the moments where like not a lot is like happening and just like treat it as a lifelong um journey.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, you know especially creatively. I think it's it's gonna be it's gonna keep changing. Yeah. And I feel like it's being able to get on the train and like how to grow with it and not just get like mentally stuck in in like older ways or whatnot, because I know everything's evolving and yeah, I feel like it's evolving faster than it used to. But but we're we're still here and we're making it happen and it's yeah, we're making it work. Yes. Uh but I think that's all the time we have. And uh I just wanna thank you for meeting me in LA and just having this conversation, sharing your experience. I'm excited to uh see the premiere for Lepis and all your projects coming up. So I'll be linking all your stuff and sharing it out there, and we'll we'll see where we are in a year or whatnot. Let's see like what movies are you part of.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, thank you so much. This was so nice, so special, of course. Yeah, no, the two girls from Alpha.

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I know, baking it in bigger cities. Yes, yes. I love it.

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