Rita Wilson

Wait, so how did you end up in Lambda?

So more failure to come here, Elizabeth.

I was cast in a play, but it was in a very small theater, but it was all good people.

And the director of the play was also an actor.

And he said to me, you know, you seem to really like the stage.

Have you ever gotten any formal training?

And I said, no.

And he said, I said, what do you mean formal training?

Because, you know, I'd been working, I'd been doing a lot of television.

And he said, you know, like stage training, voice, movement, everything.

classical literature and plays.

And I was like, no, where do you go to get that?

And he said, well, there's places like RADA, there's places like Lambda, a place called Juilliard in New York.

And he put me together with a woman who had just come from Lambda.

And she told me about the program and I thought, this is incredible.

And at that point, I don't know if they still do it, but they had had a one year overseas program.

Usually their course was three years.

So I figure out how to apply, and I figure I might as well apply to all the drama schools that he mentioned.

So I apply to RADA, I apply to Juilliard, and I apply to Lambda, and they all come to the US to audition people.

So I did my auditions and then you wait and you wait and you wait to hear.