Hannah Pilkes

I think when something's tangible in that way, it doesn't.

As a kid, I had the, first of all, very supportive parents that were like, you can do whatever you want, which I don't think is always the case with artists.

But I also think knowing that it had happened for people and they were right in front of me was encouraging and perhaps led to a lifetime of delusion.

But I do think you have to be so delusional to stick around doing this.

Yeah.

Eating, you know, making a can of garbanzo beans stretch when you don't have rent and you're 24.

But your nourishment is improv.

So I referenced the movie because I was a child actor and that was a heavy drama with Kevin Bacon.

And that was my like introduction to acting.

And it was great.

But I think what I realized was drama is hard to live in all the time.

And all of my muses and inspirations were comedic.

So I moved out here at like 19 and started doing Second City and UCLA Extension for writing and kind of made my way through all the schools from really young.

Yeah, I was like the youngest kid.

improviser in my class which didn't doesn't mean much now but back then it was like the coolest thing ever and actually i just had a memory that the first like boyfriend i had was some guy from second city and he broke up with me because he met someone at burning man to bring it all back around i knew it i knew they're all shitheads i said it oh that's what i'm saying

Yes, yeah.

I mean, I didn't get a degree because I was so afraid of debt, and I just like – I didn't know if it was balance a checkbook or bounce a checkbook.

If you don't know the difference, you know.

So I yeah.

And will be ever.