Sarah Shahi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I didn't know what to do.
And they were like, how long have you been acting?
And I'd be like,
I don't know, like since Tuesday.
And they're like, how did you come to act?
And I'm like, do you know Robert Altman?
And their jaws would hit the ground, right?
Yeah.
And then so little by little, the casting directors would tell me to get my education on him.
They're like, go watch this movie.
Go watch that movie.
Learn about who he is.
Like, you can't name drop Robert Altman and not know who he is.
I'm like, okay.
So I started watching his stuff.
And then this is the sad part.
About four months later, we would, you know, again, we were playing phone tag prior to that.
The next month that he called me back, and it was always his assistant being like, Sarah, we've got Bobby for you.
You know, please call us at your earliest convenience.
I was too scared to call him back because I was so intimidated.