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Every actor remembers the job that made it official. In this video, stars like Sheryl Lee Ralph and Matty Matheson share the stories behind earning their SAG cards, featuring everything from ‘The Bear’ to a classic KFC commercial.

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00:00Ah! Ah! Give me more drugs! Give me more drugs! That was the line.
00:04It was actually a show I made with my friends. I made an animated show because
00:08I did a sketch comedy show that was like not completely union but then I made an
00:12animated series called The Jellies for Adult Swim and when I was doing voices
00:15on it I had to get like the sad card. So it was like cool it was my own project
00:20that got me the last sad card.
00:21It might have been a commercial but what I remember most is a film called A Piece
00:27of the Action under the direction of the great Sidney Poitier. I was nineteen
00:32years old. Wow that means I think I celebrate fifty years in the industry
00:38this year.
00:39The bear. I never acted before.
00:41An episode of Law and Order. Yeah which is the only other thing that I've done
00:45other than the pit and so that was it. I'm glad I got it.
00:47It was Blue Bloods. It was a co-star. I remember I had two scenes and then before
00:54getting on set one of the scenes got cut and then my lines got cut from the other
00:59scene but I still got my card.
01:01I think it might have been like a SAG commercial or something like that. I think it was like
01:07something where I got to like slide in under the wire.
01:10I had a little bit of a, I was a bike messenger on Third Watch. I was playing a bike
01:18messenger
01:18that got hit by a car. Bobby Cannavale was one of the leads who picks me up as an ambulance
01:24tech
01:24and my lines were, ah, ah, give me more drugs, give me more drugs. That was the line.
01:30I did a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago and having a SAG card had always been
01:35one of my goals. Like it just meant a lot to me to be a part of the union.
01:39I had this little role on the reboot of Minority Report. I think they tried to make a show off
01:46of the original movie and yeah, I think I was like 11.
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