Lucy Liu

He did send me out on some interesting auditions, and they were real.

I ended up getting a commercial for school supplies back in the day.

But there were also kind of some sketchy auditions as well.

Like what?

I remember going into like an audition where the person seemed a little bit off.

And I mean, luckily, you have that kind of New York common sense wherewithal where I was like, I'm not comfortable being here.

And I left.

Yeah.

I think rejection was on my resume.

You know, it should have been like, rejection takes it pretty well.

I think that there was so few auditions that I really didn't know how to get better.

And so I think, you know, because when you audition, you really need to know how to understand the room.

You have to understand what you're doing.

You know, there's a certain way to, I guess, introduce yourself.

And because I kind of was very raw and...

unpolished, maybe that worked in my favor.

You know, I think the unknowing of it, the naivete and the, I mean, really the sincerity of going in and just like doing your best and not having any expectation was really a saving grace for me.

I guess I didn't even remember that I was shy until I found those report cards that my mother had saved for me.

She gave me this manila envelope.

I think it was during the pandemic.