00:00I mean, I landed in LA, got a job, you know, and I was like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get
00:03a job.
00:04I'm not gonna be a struggling actor. I'm gonna figure this out. I went to a temp agency to get
00:10a temp job. I was like, I don't want, I'm gonna need to be available for auditions or whatever.
00:14They ended up hiring me. And then he kept saying, he kept going, why would you want to be an
00:19actress?
00:20You're so good at business. It's one in a million chance you're going to be successful at acting.
00:26And I said, I know. And I'm the one in a million. Like they're waiting. Like I have to go
00:32do this.
00:33So then I get Young and the Restless because I was still auditioning and a headhunter. And I wouldn't
00:37tell my clients I was an actress because in LA, it was kind of like, oh, a dumb actress. And
00:43I wanted
00:43them to take me seriously as a, as a business person that's managing their account. Then I
00:47got a role in Young and the Restless and it paid me like $900 a week before taxes. And it
00:52was like,
00:52I can't live on this. I was making so much more than that as a headhunter. So I kept my
00:57headhunting
00:57job while I did Young and the Restless. In my dressing room, I was doing the headhunting and
01:03I was like negotiating 401ks and salaries and interviewing and reading resumes and placing
01:09people. And then they would be like, Eva, ready on set. And I'm like, okay, I gotta go.
01:13I would just hang up. And then I would go to set and act. And then I'd come out. And
01:17I did that for
01:18two years. And one day a client goes, are you Isabella Brana on Young and the Restless? I was
01:24like, oh my God, no, no, no, no. That's not me. That's not me. And I was like always denying
01:27that
01:28that was me because I didn't want to take it seriously. So I couldn't quit until my third year
01:33on Young and the Restless when I was finally bumped up in salary and I could make enough.
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