Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque
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172 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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No, I mean, I had that experience, but I don't want to shit on L.A. because sometimes I feel like I shit on it. And I'm like, L.A. was my home, and it's the place where I know the streets the best. I could pick you up from the airport, and I wouldn't need to use the navigation. I could be like, this is my city for a long time.
But I just think that I had been so far away from my family on the East Coast. I had all these emotional landmines scattered throughout Los Angeles County of different relationships that I had been in, different – labels and different musical moments that hurt me or that, um, just had some type of effect on me of like disappointment or confusion or whatever.
And I just wanted to, if I could, I wanted to step away from it. Yeah. So I had an opportunity to, um, to be in Moulin Rouge on Broadway. And when I auditioned for it, I prepared for the audition for a really long time because I wanted to feel good about myself whether I got it or not. I wanted to feel like it was so fun to just go in there. I wanted to go in and be like,
Just like I just had a good time. Yeah. And I knew I listened to the soundtrack. I learned every single song off of it. I hired my choreographer to just teach me different styles of dance. We did like dances from the musical Chicago. And we did like I was like, can I learn some Fosse stuff? And that was cool. I just wanted to. And then we did some burlesque stuff.
And I just went in there and I was like, whether they think I'm right for it or not, I feel good about the preparation. And I enjoyed the process. So then the fact that I got to do it was just, again, icing on the cake because the process was something that I fell in love with. And I knew that it was going to be – for some reason I innately knew, to use your word. I love that word, innate.
I innately knew that that experience was going to be connected to something in my next chapter. And so, yeah, I – now the bug has bit me. I love being a part of this community and I love living in New York. I'm a new person. To call myself a New Yorker is way too soon. But I live here. I'm based here now. I'm a Boston girly. And it's just really, it feels very comforting to be closer to my family.
I get to see them more than I ever have. They're like, are you coming home for the holidays? You know, I normally come home for the holidays. But now it's like. It's different. It's different. Yeah. It's different. It feels good to be around the seasons. And L.A., I do think that there's an air of people will do anything. And they'll lie, backstab, cheat, steal, blah, blah, blah.
And I think that it rubbed off on me in a sense where I felt like a little bit of that desperation. And I'm not a desperate person. Guilty by association? I think it was just proximity to it. Yeah. So it's not L.A. I think it's an industry where it's like there's a new crop of talented people who –
will come in at any time and yeah it's um nobody's fault la is its own beast i think and it you know it serves i think its purpose for the people who need it in for that time but and i might live there again maybe yeah words i i there's a lot of great neighborhoods there and places that are far enough outside of hollywood yeah yeah
How did they go? So great. It was great. I always feel a sense of home when I touch down in L.A. because it's my city for such a long time. So I did it at the Grove, at the Barnes & Noble at the Grove.
Yep. I know exactly. Do you know the one? Yep.
That was awesome. And my friend Allison Stoner moderated that, and they have a book coming out too, which I'm so excited. I believe it's called My Semi-Well-Adjusted Life Despite – Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Absolutely Everything. Something like that is the title. So it was really cool because we were supporting each other through the writing of our book.
We were both writing at the same time, and we'd be like – I was a little bit farther than they were in the process. And it was just really unique to have that experience of we both started on the industry so young. And we were both this age writing our memoirs. Really weird.
Or is your experience still?
It sucks. Sometimes you got to get off of Instagram.
Got to mute people. You have to. It's like you're thriving and I'm so happy for you. And it hurts a little bit. And I shouldn't know all of these things. Like, I'm so happy for you. But it's kind of getting in the way of me.
honing in for sure because it exists here and it's like sometimes you really need to quiet the noise even if it's wonderful noise yeah and you and i'm genuinely excited for people absolutely i'm actually celebrating others is something that brings me it it fills me up it fills my cup immensely yeah but it can be a bit much instagram is weird
So I was like, hold on. Yeah, no, that totally makes sense. And I mean, I definitely take periods of like, just needing to throw my phone in the next room. But yeah, over the influence is more like I was under the influence of everybody else's opinion, but my own.
It's not about fame. Fame is fleeting. Fame is what You cannot base your self-worth on fame because you will be on a never-ending roller coaster of trying to maintain. And then what will you do for it? And then are you going to start doing these things? And then what does it really mean? I would say if you want to live – this would be my – who the fuck am I to give advice?
Like everybody's path is so unique and I really, really believe that.
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