00:00I would say the gift, my personal gift coming on to the other side is I think I started the film
00:06already from a place of acceptance, appreciation, and love of self. But I think at the end of the
00:16movie, by really being willing to go to such a vulnerable, raw place to really show and share
00:24of myself emotionally, physically, things that don't necessarily want everyone to see,
00:31the fear of being judged. I think on the other end of that, I too gained a sense of liberation
00:37and an even greater sense of acceptance of this is who I am as I am right now.
00:46It's just, and so there, and as always, I think there's things you get to take away,
00:51but that for me was, I think, a big gift in this. I think they haven't done anything to me
01:00more than what I've done to myself. The harshness that I've had against myself,
01:05but surprisingly, much more from when I was younger. I can really look back in my 20s, 30s,
01:14and it really bordered on cruel, the harshness, which I think is what's so relatable in the movie,
01:25that idea of compare and despair. Comparing, I'm not this, I'm not that. I think the beauty
01:33and the message in this movie is there is no better you than you as you are. That's what
01:38makes you interesting. It's what makes us being like everybody else. It's where there is less
01:49richness and nuance and joy. It's like the differences are what bring us together. It's
01:55like what makes the better soup.
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