Lyric Ross and Us | Deja Pearson
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Why did Lyric Ross move back to Los Angeles and what does she hope to find there?
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a wonderful guest today on that was us. You know her as the character of Deja, starting in season two and coming with us throughout the rest of the journey. Like she was there from the beginning. It's how seamlessly she fit in. Yes. She was a beautiful young actor. She was a young lady. Now she's grown. She grown. She's gonna be 23. Met her when she was 14 when she started the show. Ladies and gentlemen, one of my favorite TV daughters ever. The wonderful, the incomparable lyric Nicole Ross.
Yeah. Thank you for joining us in the flash.
Yeah, thank you. I'm glad to be in a room this time. Yeah, because different from Zoom. You just
moved back to LA?
I
did. For what what for?
Um
To come do the podcast.
Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, just about it. You did have to move. You could have just flown in for the game. I think that was the better idea. Yeah. Yeah.
So
for context, El Bug lives in Chicago. Was living in Chicago when you wound up booking the show as well. It's where you began your acting career, right, at age five.
Pretty much. Well d
what's the first thing you ever did when you were five? Was it a commercial? Was it a TV? What
Um, what was it? I think it was like A a jet magazine ad? Oh. Jet. Yeah. They
don't even make jet anymore, dude.
Yeah. It was great.
Yeah. Okay. What was the first on camera job you got? How old were you when you got it?
Was I like nine, I think? What was it? It was it was some commercial for like the future woman president that they had done, you know, on the news. Nice. Oh.
Were you the gonna be the president? Were you
I was one of 'em, yeah. It was four of us, I think. Oh
yeah. What gave you, what were you inspired by as a young person that made you want to become an actor, a performer, or be in the business at all? You're so. Lovely and like you have such a gentleness to you that like too lovely for this industry. Too lovely for this industry, you know. Um, I'm just so curious.
Honestly, I've been wanting to do this since I can remember.
Yeah.
Um This story that my mom keeps telling about when I was like two years old and the Incredibles came out and I just got really obsessed with Frozone and this one monologue that he had and I started like trying to Memorize it. Yeah. Yeah. Um so it's like, okay, whatever this is, I wanna do it. Whatever it's called, acting, um, theatrical, whatever, like I'm going for it. Just memorizing it. Yes, it's been like that since. So cute. Yeah.
Me too. Honey, where's my super soup? Thank you. Thank you very much. Locked into the pro zone. So there okay, going back to Chris's question then, starting off in Chicago, going back to Chicago after the show was over, right? What ultimately brought you out here to LA right now?
Um, I can't say that I just I was so eager to make this move. Sure. Um It was a lot of prayer that went into it.
Mm-hmm.
I
really wanted to make sure I was doing the best thing for me. And I think at the time that I moved back to Chicago, that was the best thing to just be close to the family and You know, just have some time to discover what is going on in here.
Yeah.
Um And that season just kinda came to a close and I was like, Okay, let's let's see what the next step is and I kept feeling that it was to come back here, but in Uh different way. I don't know what that means just yet, but I'ma find out. Still processing. I'm sure
you're it is interest like I will say this before we go any further. Like LA sometimes you guys let me know how you feel. Mandy you've been famous your whole life, so I'm but here's the qu here's the thing. Be quiet. It is true. It is true. Here's the thing. There's this feeling that like Well, New York, LA, you've done Chicago as well, so you get you can speak to that. When you're not working in one of those like mainly theatrical communities, you still feel very much connected to that community. And like even though you s like there's a reading somewhere or there's a play that you go see and there's still f a feeling of like sometimes when you're not working in LA, it just feels kind of lonely.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Lyric Ross move back to Los Angeles and what does she hope to find there?
0:01–6:44
2
How did Lyric first get into acting and what sparked her love for performing?
6:44–13:57
3
What was the audition experience like for the role of Deja at age 13?
13:57–21:11
4
How did cutting her hair for Deja affect Lyric’s sense of beauty and identity?
21:11–27:57
5
In what ways did faith help Lyric move from low self‑esteem to confidence?
27:57–35:46
6
What was it like working with Joy Brunson and Asante Black on Deja’s most emotional scenes?
35:46–42:25
7
How is Lyric navigating the transition from child actor to adult roles and what challenges does she face?
42:25–48:33
8
What new projects (like Ironheart) is Lyric pursuing beyond This Is Us?
48:33–54:49