Sarah Snook
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137 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 22 Feb
Sarah Snook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know if it's – but I'm seeing a rapid push in developmental readiness as it relates to my daughter.
Well, that was the period of time in my life when there were sort of multiple people going in and out of that house. Like I referenced my friend Daphne. We shared a bedroom and a closet and a bathroom. And then Jeremy was there. My sister was there. We had a name. I think maybe Jeremy came up with it. And he called it Fort Awesome.
And it was like Pippi Longstocking or something, something what you imagine as a child, you know, you imagine this place where you could go and you could make some of the rules and you would be together and there would be, it would be full of fun and play and ideas and personalities and acceptance and love and
He had sort of imagined this place as a child that he, his child mind, would call Fort Awesome. And he said, I think that was kind of like what that time was. It was like Fort Awesome.
Exactly. Um, that was, that's my friend. That's who I've known for a long time. That's who I know now and raise my children with great proximity to his children. But that at the heart of what he does and who he is, that maybe you don't get to witness if you don't know him in the way that I do, is this delight in play. So he would be engaged for as long as Matilda was.
Want it to be on fairy princesses or tea parties or dress up.
Well, something that happened to me when I was making that show is that I met Mary Beth Peel, who played my Grams. And Mary Beth Peel is an esteemed, beloved New York stage actress. And she showed me plays. And then I started going up to New York City. I would get in my car in North Carolina, and I would drive 12 hours for the weekend. By yourself? By myself.
I would go see a movie and a play and walk this little stretch of 6th Avenue, and then I would get in my car and drive 12 hours home. And what I started seeing when I got to New York City were ideas of things that I would like to be a part of. And then I had this woman, Mary Beth, who was encouraging me and saying that I should try and that she thought that I could.
And that was at a time when nobody had ever said anything like that to me before, that I could be in movies or I could be in plays or I could make things that mattered to me happen. I had come from a very different environment. I'd been working on and off as an actor in Los Angeles. I'd been working since I was 12.
I was emancipated at 15 and living on my own for about, I don't know, half a year or something before I got Dawson's Creek. And so I was coming from Los Angeles and this sort of idea of, you know, if you can get a national commercial, it'll last you a year. And that's what I wanted for myself. If you could get on a TV show, you could support yourself. And that's what I wanted for myself.
And then I went to New York City and I thought I was introduced to this whole other expression of the medium that I'd never been exposed to, I think, before. And growing up, I'd just seen The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins and things like that. I didn't really know what was possible. And then I started to make New York City home. I did my first play there when I was 18.
And it became the place that I would spend the summers and the weekends and just kind of a place that I thought, oh, I could make a life for myself here.
I am constantly confronted by the things that I don't know and real gaps where information should be. Geography. Geography. Okay, yeah. I could go on and on. But I think maybe that's why work has become, you know, that's my conduit to the world. That's my, this is the thing that I've spent the most time trying to gain an understanding of and why it was so important to me because
Without it, I really had nothing to show for myself. I had no institution behind me that said, I accredit you in this particular way. And so then where do you get a good feeling about yourself? So my work has meant so much to me because it's been, it was where I got to know myself.
And I thought, well, maybe if I could get a little bit good at this thing, I could get a little bit of that self-esteem back.
I see this as an acknowledgment of what is possible when a woman is trusted to discern her own needs, feels safe enough to voice them, and respected enough that they'll be heard. When I asked for more dance classes, I heard yes. More voice lessons, yes. A different wig, a pair of fake teeth not made out of rubber, yes.
And all of these things, they require effort and they cost more money, but my bosses never presumed to know better than I did about what I needed in order to do my job and honor Gwen Verdon. And so I want to say thank you so much to FX and to Fox 21 Studios for supporting me completely and for paying me equally because they understood...
Because they understood that when you put value into a person, it empowers that person to get in touch with their own inherent value. And then where do they put that value? They put it into their work. And so the next time a woman, and especially a woman of color, because she stands to make 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart...
tells you what she needs in order to do her job, listen to her, believe her, because one day she might stand in front of you and say thank you for allowing her to succeed because of her workplace environment and not in spite of it. Thank you. Thank you.
LESLIE KENDRICK My hands are like this. My heart is like this. And I was pregnant at the time. And so, you know, also experiencing that. But I felt so connected in that moment to have had these experiences that allowed me to be the conduit for the message.
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