Esther Peralta on Shifting Career Paths
Nicholas and Derek delve into actress Esther Peralta's inspiring journey, from her Salvadoran heritage into acting in California.
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Speaker:Now, here are your anchors, Derek Johnson II and Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:Hey, and welcome to Film Center.
Speaker:My name is Derek Johnson II.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:And we're here with a very special guest.
Speaker:You mind introducing yourself?
Speaker:My name is Esther Peralta.
Speaker:How are you doing today, Esther?
Speaker:Oh, I'm doing well.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:As you guys know we take the show on the road.
Speaker:Today we're here at our office in Westlake.
Speaker:Yeah, Westlake Village.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Esther tell me a little about yourself.
Speaker:Where are you from originally?
Speaker:Oh interestingly enough, I didn't grow up far from here.
Speaker:Actually, I was born in Hollywood.
Speaker:Oh, nice!
Speaker:I was born, I was, I'm a true It was destiny.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's called destiny right there.
Speaker:My parents immigrated to California, to Los Angeles in the early 70s.
Speaker:Yeah, so From where?
Speaker:From El Salvador.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:El Salvador, yeah.
Speaker:And yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:They met each other and fell in love had two kids me and my brother and so what
Speaker:they both They made each other here.
Speaker:They made each other in El Salvador They met each other here,
Speaker:but they're from the same city.
Speaker:Like what?
Speaker:Two people are from Santa Clarita, but then they immigrated to
Speaker:France or something like that.
Speaker:Wow, that's a match made in heaven.
Speaker:I guess that's a very good point Big coincidence.
Speaker:Yeah, very.
Speaker:It was interesting if my dad knew a lot of my mom's cousins and family . What?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It wasn't like your dad was stalking your mom.
Speaker:. That's crazy.
Speaker:That's like saying oh, hey let me introduce your parents
Speaker:to your significant other.
Speaker:And they're like, oh, I know this guy.
Speaker:What's up?
Speaker:How you doing ? Yeah.
Speaker:It was really interesting.
Speaker:'cause everybody knows their last names.
Speaker:. So Bela, so oh, goes.
Speaker:So do you so then you grew up here?
Speaker:Yeah, I grew up here I lived in Santa Monica from 0 to 5 and then I
Speaker:moved to Agoura Hills First grade.
Speaker:Oh, so a true Cali native Definitely.
Speaker:Yeah, but yeah, my first language was Spanish though.
Speaker:My mom does not like to speak English?
Speaker:. Oh, but she know, she knows English.
Speaker:She does, but she doesn't like to speak it.
Speaker:Yeah, she, it's a native language.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So she came here when she was 22 yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, so I grew up speaking Spanish the first five years.
Speaker:. And I don't know how I learned English, but my mom says through.
Speaker:the television.
Speaker:Figuring it out.
Speaker:You learned english through tv?
Speaker:Yup.
Speaker:Is that is that what inspired you to become a certain acting?
Speaker:Oh, no.
Speaker:My career started as a dancer.
Speaker:I was a dance.
Speaker:Oh let's back up.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Wait a minute.
Speaker:Let's back it up then.
Speaker:So you.
Speaker:Originally went to college for dancing.
Speaker:Yes, which that was a dancer myself, which form of dancing were you style?
Speaker:It was it's it was called modern dance.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:I believe it's called lyrical.
Speaker:So it's Martha Graham Are I kid?
Speaker:I'll be honest.
Speaker:I am a little envious I can You guys are so smart and like interesting
Speaker:with those types of dances.
Speaker:I did I was a breakdancer.
Speaker:Oh Yeah for us.
Speaker:We're like, all right, is it fast and does it look cool?
Speaker:All right, that's it.
Speaker:That's all Yeah, so much thought and that goes into oh definitely Alvin
Speaker:Ailey's we all aspire out to be like Yeah, work for Alvin Ailey kind of thing.
Speaker:Yeah, so so what made you want to really go in for dancing?
Speaker:You've just been more dancing your life.
Speaker:Yeah, it's something that I've always been a performer since I was a little
Speaker:girl So yeah, I just never my parents didn't know anything about the acting
Speaker:or theater world I think if they had or if I had known I probably would
Speaker:have gotten involved a little bit more but No, it was much more dance.
Speaker:It was And your parents were very supportive of your dancing?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:What did they, what do they want you?
Speaker:They wanted me to be a nurse or a doctor.
Speaker:We always, we we have an interesting track record on the show, which
Speaker:we get a lot when people say, Oh, their parents don't want them to do
Speaker:exactly what they ended up doing.
Speaker:What for you was like, Oh when did you tell them like,
Speaker:okay, I'm going for dancing?
Speaker:What was the conversation like telling your parents?
Speaker:Hey, I'm not going to do what you want.
Speaker:I'm going to do what I want.
Speaker:I ended up doing what they wanted.
Speaker:Oh, really?
Speaker:I did because my dad's you're a dime in a bucket.
Speaker:Your feet are going to turn all ugly.
Speaker:He goes, What are your ambitions?
Speaker:Esther?
Speaker:He goes, do you want to own a ballet studio?
Speaker:So I ended up switching my major in the middle of college.
Speaker:Oh, but you originally went for dancing, you switched.
Speaker:Yeah, I switched.
Speaker:But I still, I loved it.
Speaker:Something's still so much part of me.
Speaker:So I ended up getting, becoming a Spanish major out of all things.
Speaker:And then I got my teaching credential.
Speaker:So awesome because when you're that's you're like your native language, man
Speaker:College and you became a Spanish teacher.
Speaker:Is that what you're saying?
Speaker:No, I actually in those days We had bilingual education here in the state
Speaker:of California They were handing keys to people yeah, if you could speak English
Speaker:and Spanish you're like, oh great.
Speaker:Yeah, nice.
Speaker:Yeah So I was going to, I was going to night school to get my credential.
Speaker:And I was teaching third grade in Spanish, hearing third grade in Spanish.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:We used to live in Canoga park.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's what that's actually me and Nicholas were roommates first in Canoga
Speaker:park before we moved to where we live now.
Speaker:And speaking of Canoga park real quick, this is not a plug.
Speaker:We are not affiliated with these people, but I got to shout them out.
Speaker:You ever been a bowl and burger over there?
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Absolutely incredible.
Speaker:My goodness.
Speaker:Bowl and burger, I'm just saying it makes me hungry.
Speaker:It's this like fusion between Asian food and Hispanic food.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:And they actually do it right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's crazy.
Speaker:They have these teriyaki burritos.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Teriyaki burritos.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:That's good.
Speaker:Yeah!
Speaker:It's great.
Speaker:And then, so you graduated college.
Speaker:Where did you go to college?
Speaker:UCLA.
Speaker:UCLA.
Speaker:UCLA.
Speaker:So you graduated from UCLA, and where did you go from there?
Speaker:Then I went, I literally graduated in June.
Speaker:I got married in August.
Speaker:Where did you meet your husband?
Speaker:At a church picnic.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:That is awesome.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:That's like very that's like humble, very humble beginnings.
Speaker:How long did you, let me ask you something.
Speaker:Did he pick up most of the chairs by himself?
Speaker:Is that what all the chairs, he got eight of them.
Speaker:Volleyball against each other.
Speaker:He had just immigrated to this country.
Speaker:Cause he's from Argentina.
Speaker:Oh, also a Spanish speaker.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, he was born and raised there.
Speaker:So he came here At that time in life.
Speaker:Oh, awesome.
Speaker:Awesome So then where did you pick up the acting bug then did
Speaker:it come from your love of dancing?
Speaker:Okay, so then we have to fast forward.
Speaker:Oh now we're fast forwarding have to fast forward.
Speaker:Okay, how many years?
Speaker:Just let's just say enough just enough.
Speaker:Yeah, I had three children we were so it all started with It's tough because
Speaker:you get married, you have, I worked a little bit as a teacher and then I had
Speaker:three boys literally two years apart.
Speaker:And but like anything, if you are, I'm just a creative person I have always been,
Speaker:since I was a little girl, just put on the shelf to put on a role of, being a mom.
Speaker:A wife and raising my three boys.
Speaker:And so they all play soccer.
Speaker:So we're huge soccer.
Speaker:Who's your team?
Speaker:For what?
Speaker:For futbol.
Speaker:Oh, futbol.
Speaker:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker:Argentina, por supuesto, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You can't get away from that, from Messi, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:My husband is Rosarito.
Speaker:He's from Rosario.
Speaker:Oh, Messi's so good.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And they were born in the same hospital.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:Yes, Messi and my husband.
Speaker:That's so cool.
Speaker:Yeah, I always ask, are you related to him?
Speaker:He goes, no, not really.
Speaker:He just got paid like a billion dollars by Saudi to They want him
Speaker:over in Saudi or something like that.
Speaker:Whether he does it or not is Oh, he hasn't decided?
Speaker:No, he's at Miami.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's under Beckham.
Speaker:David Beckham.
Speaker:Did you ever think that because he have you been to Argentina?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So you went with like your husband and your boys to visit?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We went when we first got married many years ago, and then we just
Speaker:went in 2019 right before COVID.
Speaker:Lucky break guys.
Speaker:2020.
Speaker:Lucky break.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Hindsight.
Speaker:I hate even saying this hindsight is 2020.
Speaker:It was like, that's the year.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:At the same time, did you Because your family's also from South America.
Speaker:Did you spend that time also going over there possibly?
Speaker:They're from El Salvador.
Speaker:Oh, they're from El Salvador.
Speaker:They're Central America.
Speaker:Growing up I did go, but once the Civil War happened, we stopped going.
Speaker:Oh, so because the Civil War really took a toll on El Salvador.
Speaker:But it's changed now and I do want to go because we have a new
Speaker:president and they, he's cracking down on those people down there.
Speaker:Yeah, I saw that in the news.
Speaker:He's his approval rating is like.
Speaker:Yeah, Bukele, yeah.
Speaker:Bukele, yeah.
Speaker:And then the venture into acting.
Speaker:Oh yeah, so we have to go back.
Speaker:Sorry, we go on tangency.
Speaker:We talked about Messi, we're like, let's talk about Messi.
Speaker:No, so we played soccer and there was there was one of the parents
Speaker:on the team is Nolan North.
Speaker:And I remember he he would always make these crazy like voices.
Speaker:And then I found out he's a very well known voiceover actor Yeah, and very
Speaker:well known and his son and my son Lucas played together And so anyways, we just
Speaker:started talking and then I'm like, wow, you know They'll be really interesting.
Speaker:I just thought myself.
Speaker:Maybe I should do voiceover work like do audiobooks, right?
Speaker:So I ended up going I asked him for a reference to take a class I went to
Speaker:a class a voiceover class and then lo and behold I took the voiceover class
Speaker:and I figured out The ones that were doing well were act, were actors.
Speaker:They were trained actors.
Speaker:So it led to one thing.
Speaker:I'm like, Oh, I told my husband, you know what, I really should
Speaker:take acting classes if I really want to get better at voiceovers.
Speaker:And that's how I started.
Speaker:How did your husband feel about you becoming an actor?
Speaker:He thought I was having some crisis.
Speaker:At least at first he thought it was just something, Did think it
Speaker:came outta the blue or something.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He, even to this day a lot of things have been coming into play.
Speaker:. But just 'cause I've been doing it for nine years now.
Speaker:Nine years consistently, nine years like, like doing the work.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:Like training and a lot of people, a lot of people don't realize how much
Speaker:time and effort it takes to really bring out a really great performance.
Speaker:Oh, definitely.
Speaker:Like all good acting teachers, you're an instrument.
Speaker:And if you, one of the acting teachers, he says, you cannot just say, Oh,
Speaker:I want to be a concerto pianist.
Speaker:That doesn't happen overnight.
Speaker:You need to train.
Speaker:You need to do You might be one of those lucky people.
Speaker:You might be one of those lucky people that, you know, whatever, but Ninety 99.
Speaker:9 percent of us.
Speaker:Oh, 99.
Speaker:9 percent of them.
Speaker:We have to work.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We have to prepare.
Speaker:The leap from royal paint is, was in the same situation.
Speaker:So it was like a stay at home dad.
Speaker:And he was like, yeah, let me try it.
Speaker:Let me act and let me do this.
Speaker:And yeah I don't know the complete story, but that's, it was similar to your
Speaker:situation where he was like, Doing the family thing and then Lo and behold, he
Speaker:was one of the lucky ones to yeah, it was interesting I was when I got when I went
Speaker:to start when I started acting school.
Speaker:I thought this is so Different and But I loved it.
Speaker:I love that creative process that just attracted me.
Speaker:I mean I couldn't go back to dancing, you know after 25 your body's done.
Speaker:You can't do it You just can't do that, yeah, I, it's funny, I tell you what, I
Speaker:went to, I used to be a pro breakdancer.
Speaker:Then I was like, oh, cool, show me something.
Speaker:I'm like, I'm not that young.
Speaker:Are you insane?
Speaker:Also, no I, my knees don't work like they used to.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:My elbows don't work like they used to, exactly, yeah, I used to do split leaps
Speaker:across the room and fly across the room.
Speaker:I'm like, you can do that when you're young, not, yeah, I remember
Speaker:when I was talking to my dad.
Speaker:Young person?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, I was talking to my dad when I was a pro break dancer and he was like
Speaker:it's good because I was Like 19 I was like 18 19 so he was like it's good
Speaker:that you're doing this now because once you hit like your mid 20s like that's
Speaker:it and I was like What do you mean?
Speaker:That's it?
Speaker:You're like, oh your knees will just decide hey, you know what?
Speaker:It's time and It's funny because I actually fractured my wrist
Speaker:a whole bunch doing hand hops like whatever breakdancing.
Speaker:You're gonna break something Oh, I know, but I mean I have a really
Speaker:good friend and she's 31 and she's you know She's in the show in Vegas
Speaker:and she still can move and dance.
Speaker:I know Some people can push it.
Speaker:That's just training.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, they can push their body that way but She parries dearly
Speaker:for us sometimes, it takes training to do all that kind of thing.
Speaker:So just like you said then with acting, it takes then training to put in those hours.
Speaker:Oh, yes.
Speaker:Put in that work.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Especially when it comes to bringing different characters to life.
Speaker:Do you ever find yourself taking a character home with you?
Speaker:That is something that I did a couple years ago, and I think
Speaker:lately I'm like, Learning how to turn it on and off like a faucet.
Speaker:And how did you find out how to do that?
Speaker:It takes time and a little bit of knowing yourself and being generous with it.
Speaker:But being able, it's like anything, it's you have to put a gear on.
Speaker:You put gloves on, you're ready to go do whatever it is that you need to do.
Speaker:And then you take them off.
Speaker:And you reset, because I think you have to be, it just,
Speaker:everybody has a different process.
Speaker:I I can't because I've seen it seep through and then it just switches and the
Speaker:boys were like, what is up with you mom?
Speaker:I was just about to.
Speaker:That happened to me like I was working on like a play and stuff and she's more
Speaker:like, Came from a drug background and things like that So just I was very edgy
Speaker:and it seeped through when I was with my boys and like you have to And then
Speaker:my even my husband's okay, that's acting that's not you Esther and I go yeah, I
Speaker:got it Go back and just really, but it does take, it's a muscle because it's
Speaker:also when we were more demanded to do very difficult things like high stake
Speaker:things where it's emotionally charged or something beyond any kind of circumstance
Speaker:that I would ever be in real life.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:It does permeate through the day.
Speaker:Like physically my body's like exhausted.
Speaker:It's almost like you were dancing.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Emotionally.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Emotionally exhausting.
Speaker:Like it just, it's exhausting.
Speaker:It's exhausting.
Speaker:It's it's like anything, if you've ever had anything traumatic happen
Speaker:in your life and you cry and you cry for half an hour, there's remnants of
Speaker:that after you done your weeping and your anguish and your screaming or
Speaker:whatever, there's remnants of that.
Speaker:And people will say, are you okay?
Speaker:And you're like, yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:What do your kids think about you acting?
Speaker:Oh, it's so funny.
Speaker:My my, one of my older son, he, I remember we, with my manager, Carla Alexander,
Speaker:who's, kudos to her she signed me first.
Speaker:She signed me first, and it was, that's another story how I found her, but the
Speaker:point being I remember Niko goes, yeah, I asked Carla whether you were good or not.
Speaker:Did your son Niko?
Speaker:Yeah, my son, he's is she any good or, and it was just one of those things
Speaker:like, I love how it's I saw, I see her growth, it's but yeah they love it.
Speaker:They love seeing me on TV now.
Speaker:Like I think it's hysterical and they That is pretty cool.
Speaker:I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker:If I saw my seeing your mom on tv.
Speaker:On tv, you'd be like, cool.
Speaker:Yeah, that's my mom.
Speaker:She's on tv.
Speaker:. Yeah.
Speaker:If it's like a show that's really like big and stuff, they're
Speaker:like, oh, there's, there she is.
Speaker:Do you have any specific instances where that was the case where they were like, oh
Speaker:mom, I didn't know you were on that show.
Speaker:Oh, because I'm sure they don't even know, like they're sure
Speaker:they don't know everything.
Speaker:You auditioned for.
Speaker:. They don't.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:'cause as an addition for a lot of things.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I, yeah.
Speaker:After, yeah, before the pandemic.
Speaker:A lot happened then every, not the pandemic, the strikes, and
Speaker:then boom, everything shut down.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it's revamping all up again.
Speaker:Thank God you woo.
Speaker:Those strikes last year were Yeah.
Speaker:Pretty intense.
Speaker:It was intense.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:It was pretty rough.
Speaker:We were out there picketing, yeah.
Speaker:In front of a, we in front a Disney.
Speaker:Disney.
Speaker:We were sitting there you know all up in the car's faces
Speaker:while they were pulling out.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:Let me ask esther here if this is because you're an actress so imagine that you
Speaker:just leave The year on set the strike is going on And you know with the way
Speaker:especially when it first started was just a wga before sag joined in right?
Speaker:and So if there's a show currently happening, you just have to
Speaker:finish out the show on contract and then you just leave right?
Speaker:If you're an actor before SAG joined.
Speaker:It was just WGA at first.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So imagine you're leaving, you are like, this strike is going
Speaker:on, but I'm supporting the strike.
Speaker:Da.
Speaker:And then some guy with the picket signs.
Speaker:Like I remember going ah, that's this guy . The thing was, he scared,
Speaker:like dirty people was so funny.
Speaker:I was really, I was like upset because when we got there.
Speaker:Everybody was just standing around just talking to each other.
Speaker:They were actually earning the awning in like their chairs.
Speaker:And I was like I thought we were supporting the writers,
Speaker:I thought we were striking.
Speaker:I thought we were striking.
Speaker:And they were all just chilling around, just hanging out.
Speaker:Just oh look, there's a car right there.
Speaker:And I was like, I thought we were like, I thought we were upset.
Speaker:So Nicholas and us, Nicholas and me, we're from the South.
Speaker:Which people can be very emotional.
Speaker:You sent them something and they'd be like, Ahh!
Speaker:Don't you think that would scare you though.
Speaker:You're supposed to come up to the car, you're supposed to
Speaker:just watch them on the side.
Speaker:And I was just like, Hey, what's up?
Speaker:And I was like, wearing a Yeah, imagine you're leaving the set and
Speaker:some guy just comes to your window.
Speaker:You can be like, hey, what's wrong with you?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But this is how upset we were, right?
Speaker:We're upset, right?
Speaker:What are we doing just being like, Oh, yeah.
Speaker:There's that person right there.
Speaker:There was someone in a rocking chair.
Speaker:And I was like, and he was like, my age.
Speaker:He was like, I didn't know he was younger than me.
Speaker:He was like early 20s.
Speaker:I was like, bro, at least save it for someone who like, needs it.
Speaker:We're just chillin over here.
Speaker:Cause I went up to somebody, I was like, hey, are you upset?
Speaker:I'm so upset, man.
Speaker:You know where the water and the food is around here?
Speaker:I was like, yeah.
Speaker:We're not here for water and food, man.
Speaker:The snooby doo treats were dope.
Speaker:The snooby doo snacks were definitely on point.
Speaker:My husband was laughing when I he's that's your strike, Esther?
Speaker:Cause, because of all the goodies.
Speaker:I'm like, no, these, okay, the goodies come from people who are supporting us.
Speaker:They're like donating it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He goes, this is, cause he comes from a country where so much has
Speaker:happened and strikes have happened.
Speaker:Cause this is red carpet y.
Speaker:It's the same way I feel about tailgating.
Speaker:When you go tailgating out here for college football and you're like,
Speaker:this is what you guys call tailgating?
Speaker:It's like a religion down south.
Speaker:They're like, we're not going to get into that.
Speaker:Oh, I knew.
Speaker:My cousin lives in North Carolina and she married.
Speaker:Oh, it's very uncanny.
Speaker:Yeah, how I see it's a lifestyle.
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker:That's what it is If you want to be friends in the south you have to watch
Speaker:college football Not only that but my dad was like just get a pickup truck
Speaker:and go to one football game You don't need to go to a whole bunch of them.
Speaker:You go to, you have a pickup truck, you go to one football game where they can
Speaker:put the cooler or the grill in the back of your truck, you drive over there.
Speaker:You're the hero for the next 10 years.
Speaker:They're like, Oh, you do remember that one time you had a pickup truck?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So go hop from tailgate to tailgate.
Speaker:Make all friends.
Speaker:So since you grew up here in California, like in the Hollywood
Speaker:area and stuff like that.
Speaker:And then I think it's interesting that your husband's Oh, You want to act?
Speaker:That's weird.
Speaker:It's Oh, I thought a lot of people who come on the show they have
Speaker:quote unquote, always wanted to do those same type of things.
Speaker:But then you're similar towards actually, I guess someone like myself
Speaker:where I was like, Oh, this wasn't what I originally thought I would be doing,
Speaker:and so now that you're on this path, do you possibly see yourself encouraging
Speaker:some of your family to do it too?
Speaker:Or what is, what are your other types of things?
Speaker:No, they're all STEM majors.
Speaker:They're all, yeah, they're, my husband's an engineer, the other
Speaker:one's a computer science engineer.
Speaker:The other two are biotech, bioengineering.
Speaker:Yeah, but at least you get to flex.
Speaker:You're like, yeah, I'm an actress.
Speaker:It was a thing for me.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:It's something that's always been in me, but it's somehow been maybe suppressed.
Speaker:Like dormant or something?
Speaker:No, suppressed.
Speaker:Suppressed.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Suppressed.
Speaker:Not because it's, not because I put it dormant, because my life
Speaker:or my outside circumstances.
Speaker:Oh, required for it to be.
Speaker:Required to put it, not, this is not something, even to
Speaker:the point, not something that you should even think about.
Speaker:or do.
Speaker:So it was beautiful to have my husband like support me.
Speaker:And then it comes to a point, I think with any relationship, it's like,
Speaker:how long is this going to go for?
Speaker:Are you doing it for real?
Speaker:Or is it for play?
Speaker:But he, the other day there was something like look at mommy.
Speaker:Do you see how she, she goes a hundred percent with all those
Speaker:no's, but she's still doing it.
Speaker:It's a point of inspiration.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then when you book something big, it just or something
Speaker:happens, you're like, Oh, okay.
Speaker:Just valid.
Speaker:Like I'm still on the path.
Speaker:It's like trying to climb Mount Everest.
Speaker:How do you keep that motivation going?
Speaker:Because I love the craft.
Speaker:True love of the craft.
Speaker:I love the craft.
Speaker:I just love the craft.
Speaker:And I love learning more about myself through this thing.
Speaker:They say that the more actors play other people, the more they learn
Speaker:about themselves, which is true.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, I think you have to face some things that you don't want to, or, and then you
Speaker:have to bring them out in a performance.
Speaker:The saying goes that actors ask questions that nobody wants to know the answers to.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Do you think in your experience in acting has made you become a better person?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:A better person?
Speaker:I have, I've always had empathy and generosity and compassion
Speaker:towards people, of course, yeah.
Speaker:That's just me kind of thing.
Speaker:I guess what I meant to say was, do you understand yourself more
Speaker:now with acting than before?
Speaker:Yeah, I, these, yeah, the, yeah.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Are there any specific instances where you're like, wow, this,
Speaker:you had like breakthroughs?
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:For example, that, that privacy, something that is where that having
Speaker:your own privacy become public, and that's showing vulnerability and we
Speaker:put on a facade so much and it's.
Speaker:And it's those kind of moments when that, that somehow seeps through the
Speaker:character and it's just, it's there.
Speaker:It's almost like when you do that, it's not, it's like a, it's,
Speaker:you're not just saying the lines, you're having an experience.
Speaker:So for other people who might want to change and getting to acting,
Speaker:what do you have any advice for those people where they, they don't
Speaker:know how to get started or training?
Speaker:Like for me personally, when people ask me about.
Speaker:Cause I do a lot of writing, right?
Speaker:But I use an Excel sheet to study scripts and other people don't do that.
Speaker:But that's your science y brain that works.
Speaker:I'm always like, okay, how many people are in this scene?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:How many lines do they have?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Then it's then what is their emotional change?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:How does that affect the rest of the script?
Speaker:I have a pluses and minuses and stuff like that.
Speaker:That's fascinating.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So when cause that's a visual thing.
Speaker:Yeah, I have to see the numbers for me personally to get it.
Speaker:Yeah, you can even graph that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Graph it.
Speaker:That's very fascinating.
Speaker:Yeah, so when it comes to acting, do you have any advice on training?
Speaker:Oh train.
Speaker:And is it just train by doing?
Speaker:No it's like going to the gym.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Don't go to the gym to watch people work out, go to the gym and work out.
Speaker:It's, and you ha I think there's so many schools and different kinds of things.
Speaker:And I think you just have to find the right fit.
Speaker:Just like you have to find the right coach.
Speaker:If you were, a pro athlete, find somebody that works for you.
Speaker:Pushes you but works with you, but is encouraging and hard at the same
Speaker:time, you know there's no right way.
Speaker:But yeah, I would encourage anybody to begin At a school wherever that may be
Speaker:and if you don't then do theater Right now there's so many zoom online classes
Speaker:beautiful wonderful online classes.
Speaker:You can start acting the world's has changed I'm like when I even nine years
Speaker:ago when I started I'm like There's no such thing as taking acting class via
Speaker:zoom, I would have never thought of that.
Speaker:Like for real.
Speaker:I only didn't know what zoom was until 2020.
Speaker:I knew skype.
Speaker:Everyone knew skype.
Speaker:And I was like, Skype didn't go away?
Speaker:Was Skype eaten by Zoom?
Speaker:Yeah, I don't know what happened, why Skype didn't become
Speaker:the dominant thing in Zoom.
Speaker:Anyway, the only thing I have in my mind, I'm like, it's probably because Zoom
Speaker:probably pitched to the education center.
Speaker:Schools and stuff like that.
Speaker:And then, what's people doing in schools?
Speaker:You just gotta go everywhere.
Speaker:But it's been such great having you on the show.
Speaker:It's been really great.
Speaker:Oh, thank you.
Speaker:Yeah is there anywhere people can follow you?
Speaker:Oh, yeah, on my Instagram page.
Speaker:Yeah, my Instagram, it's at the E T Y P I D A L, at, I don't know, it's, yeah,
Speaker:my handle, it's at E T Y P I D A L, yeah.
Speaker:Dope.
Speaker:It's great having you on the show.
Speaker:Guys, this has been Film Center News.
Speaker:My name is Derek Johnson II.
Speaker:I'm Nicholas Killian.
Speaker:And we're here with the great Esther Pidal.
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