00:00What's going through your mind? Are there nerves? Is it excitement? A little bit of both?
00:03I honestly...
00:05Honestly, I feel a large sense of calm that I didn't expect to feel right now.
00:10I feel like we've worked so hard for so many months that now we just get to stand by each other's sides.
00:15Breathe it in and just soak it up, honestly.
00:19I'm so...
00:20I just feel like I can't stop smiling. I feel great.
00:23Well, you're playing...
00:25The young version of Winona Ryder's character in the show.
00:29How much...
00:30How much influence did you take from the show versus wanting to craft and create your own...
00:35I mean, endless. She created a...
00:38It feels like a dictionary.
00:40It's like the exact...
00:40It's the source material, right?
00:42It's exactly where you go to build.
00:45And create from the top, the universe.
00:46That said, I watched so...
00:48I mean, I've watched all of her.
00:50And I feel like even specifically watching her in Heather's felt like a big...
00:55in for me in terms of just energy of Joyce and being in high school and what that...
01:00So I looked at that movie as like my Bible in a way.
01:05And obviously it's a different time period and she's a bit older.
01:07But still, there's endless wealth.
01:10Of knowledge to gain from her massive career.
01:12But there's also so much freedom because...
01:15The show, I look at everything she's done and everything she's given all of us and kind of take the piece...
01:20Does that make sense for me in the show?
01:21And then open a new door to what's possible for her at 7...
01:25And there's so much that's incredible about this show.
01:30But I also wanted to ask, have you had any conversations with her or maybe anyone from the cast?
01:35Beforehand?
01:35I've yet...
01:36I hope it's a yet.
01:37I've yet to speak with her.
01:39But I was...
01:40I was hearing the other day that earlier on in the process when I was beginning to create this character, I would journal a lot.
01:45And kind of write down questions I have for her or like if I was to ask her these questions...
01:50What would she say?
01:51And I feel like maybe telepathy or something up there.
01:55Answered them and helped me feel closer to who she is.
01:59Yeah.
02:00So maybe we'll, fingers crossed, we'll have that chance eventually.
02:03Yes.
02:04This show is also...
02:05So the special effects are insane and there's so much technicality behind it.
02:09What would you say...
02:10What would you say was the most technically challenging scene for you to work through?
02:14You know, it's funny.
02:15Because with the massive amounts of technology, I feel like some of the hardest things to do.
02:20Were the numbers with all like 20 of us, 34 of us, like stage...
02:25So we're managing these large stage pictures.
02:26The first scene, Picture Day, with our revolving stage.
02:29While the...
02:30The tech isn't as heavy there and there's no jump scares there and stuff like that.
02:34Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin...
02:35Have directed that scene within every inch of its life.
02:38So much so that if you were to come back multiple times...
02:40You could focus on a different character and relive like a whole different story in this...
02:45Same stage picture.
02:46So I feel like moments like that, that scene took weeks, months.
02:50I mean for them years to build and they brought it to us from London and I actually worked on the work...
02:55workshop three years ago, so I've watched it evolve throughout the years and that's been, that's been the...
03:00The coolest thing in the world, but yeah.
03:01Also, such a physically demanding role too.
03:03You've got a lot of...
03:05Screams at certain points.
03:07I was very curious to know, how do you produce...
03:10The perfect and healthy stage scream?
03:13It's a great question.
03:14I feel like I'm still trying to...
03:15Find the answer, but our incredible vocal coach Liz Hayes has helped me so...
03:20ground myself in my voice, which has changed a lot of where it comes from and...
03:25And I think for me, with this role being so vocally athletic and demanding...
03:30It requires like a large sense of...
03:35So if my feet are not like on the ground and I don't feel stable, that...
03:40My voice cannot arise.
03:41So I feel like the more I am where my feet are, the voice kind of...
03:45Arises.
03:46Yeah.
03:47I love that you said...
03:48It's almost like vocal gymnastics.
03:49It feels like vocal gymnastics.
03:50It really...
03:50It really does.
03:51And you know, each day feels different depending on the level of tired you are,
03:54depending on what you've eaten, depending...
03:55Depending on your warm-ups.
03:56But I'm big on meditation and warming up and it takes a while.
04:00Yeah.
04:01Well, congratulations and break a leg tonight.
04:04Yeah.
04:05You
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