Sarah Shahi

I think you have what it takes.

I'm going to give you my office number and my cell number.

And I want you to give me a call if you ever move out to LA.

I think you have something.

So I went home that night.

I Googled him again.

I'm like, I don't know who this guy is.

And I saw all the movies he had directed.

And I remember I, like, yelled to my mom in the kitchen.

I was like, Ma!

The guy who directed Popeye is telling me I got a shot.

So that was it.

I packed up my cherry red pickup truck, moved out to L.A., and never looked back.

So what's interesting is he was actually still in Texas filming.

So we were playing phone tag for about three months where we could not actually connect.

But within my first two, three days here, I found an acting class.

I enrolled in the acting class because again, I had never acted a day in my life.

I did not go to school for it.

I was an English major at SMU, English and journalism.

And I, so I got into this acting class and the teacher of the class was like, I want to set you up with a manager.