00:00And maybe I somehow felt ashamed to take it seriously, the idea of being an artist.
00:05Should I call you Maria or La Calis?
00:07I think she's helped me to return to being an artist.
00:12I think I went quite a few years and almost shied away from being an artist,
00:18maybe because I grew up in Hollywood and I didn't really love the world of it.
00:23And maybe I somehow felt ashamed to take it seriously, the idea of being an artist.
00:28And I've kind of been away from certain work for a very long time and been mostly home.
00:33So it was kind of like a, she somehow, as he said, to respect her,
00:41to kind of take the work seriously and embrace it and embrace the process, made me love it again.
00:49I was terrified, as he knows, especially my first day singing on set, I was terrified.
00:53It was, it, I was extremely uncomfortable and extremely nervous.
00:57And, but, you know, I think this is life.
01:01I think we all want something in life that scares us.
01:05And we, we get to, even in, you know, been around a long time and to have a gift of
01:11a,
01:12of a role that would scare me and something I wasn't sure I could do and something to work towards.
01:18But the enormity of her, of her work and stepping into her shoes was, of course, daunting.
01:26So I'm glad I had at least seven months to prepare.
01:28Should I call you Maria or La Calis?
01:39Tell me how it felt to be on stage.
01:41An exaltation.
01:44An intoxication.
01:48I thought the stage itself would burn.
01:52Sometimes this thing happens.
01:55The thing that's happening right now.
01:57There's a point where self-confidence becomes a kind of insanity.
02:03How is life, reposition for the piano, madam?
02:06Hmm, it's not right.
02:08But I'm nice.
02:09It's only you.
02:11Perhaps we can speak of your life away from the stage.
02:15There is no life away from the stage.
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