00:01So, I will put it on my forehead like so.
00:05What do you mean? What do you mean you don't like Bruce?
00:08Are you kidding me? And the minute I kind of feel it, or if the
00:11tape falls off itself, because I'm acting so much with my forehead,
00:16it's like a reminder to keep this still. Are you fucking kidding me?
00:19He is my most prized possession, and if you don't like Bruce, I swear to God, you're not allowed
00:23to come into this house ever. Stay the fuck away because I love Bruce, and if you don't like Bruce,
00:28we're not dating. Really, is that good? Joe.
00:31Joe. Joe.
00:41My name is Claire Glassford. I'm 26 years old. I'm from Nashville, Tennessee, and I am an actress.
00:47I was living in New York for six years, and then I moved out here a year ago.
00:52I currently live in Echo Park with my dog, Bruce.
00:56This is the house from Fast and the Furious, and I have not seen the movies, although, spoiler alert,
01:01I do believe it blows up.
01:04This is the Thriller house.
01:08This is on your guided tour.
01:10Do you ever wear the shirt up from here?
01:13They do.
01:17Yeah.
01:17Welcome to my apartment. This is my room. There's enough room for me and Bruce.
01:27I noticed that you had the poster for Collateral Beauty.
01:33Yeah.
01:34One of my favorite parts about my room is that I have a poster from Collateral Beauty, the movie I
01:40was in.
01:40I was on set with Kate Winslet, and Edward Norton, and Helen Maron was also cast in it, though I
01:50wasn't on set with her that day.
01:51I felt like I was waking up, like a fairy tale, a dream was coming true.
01:57A few months after Collateral Beauty came out, I was dropped by my agents.
02:06Well, let me fill this out, and then I'll check back in. Will I give you headshots?
02:10Um, you will hand those to identify your headshots.
02:14I have to look at all my character names. I have, like, four different sides with eight different characters.
02:19We got all of the, like, excerpts from the different scripts and pilots last night, like, at 4 o'clock.
02:28Great. You ready? Thanks.
02:40Wayne! I can drop the dog!
02:45Pokemon!
02:46The good thing about having me as a stepmom is that I remember all the shortcuts to Westlake Prep.
02:52Here we go. I didn't know you could rap.
02:55I didn't know you could be nice to me.
02:58I know. Shit.
03:02My parents are dead.
03:05Great. Good. Here we go.
03:08Thanks, Clay!
03:09Okay, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Great.
03:12It was fine, I think.
03:13I just didn't feel like I was able to tap into it right immediately at the top of the scene.
03:18You also, like, you try not to care or gauge the room.
03:21Right in the sense of, like, you have to just do what you do.
03:28I think that it, you would be crazy if you weren't like, what is this all for? Why? You know?
03:37Yeah, but it can be hard. It really can.
03:43We are headed to, my friend Nikki Davis is, um, she wrote a play.
03:49And I auditioned for, um, the role of Jenna.
03:53And we're going to our first, um, reading of the play.
03:57Did you hear back from that showcase?
03:59No, I haven't heard back. Um, no email yet.
04:05Well, hey! My theatre company, Red Stage, commissioned this play a little over a year ago.
04:11The next step is now putting a nice solid reading together to see where we are with this draft
04:17and to put it in front of a small invited audience after a couple days.
04:21Scene one.
04:23Sort of sinister lighting comes up on a long wedding reception table
04:26dressed with an elaborate floral arrangement.
04:28Look at me.
04:30Gray is wonderful.
04:31Yes.
04:32Isn't he?
04:32Gray is wonderful.
04:34See? Then how could this be a mistake?
04:36It isn't.
04:37Of course it isn't.
04:38Of course.
04:39So that's it.
04:39Yeah, I guess.
04:41You guess?
04:41No, no, you're right.
04:43Yes, I'm right.
04:45So, now that that's out of the way.
04:50I just got out of that a little bit early so that I can make work from 4.30 to
04:5510-ish.
05:06When I was at work, I heard back from the Tisch audition and I did not get it.
05:14I was not asked to be a part of the ensemble for the other showcase.
05:20I try to remind myself that I love other things too.
05:24I love, I love where I live.
05:26I love that I get to walk to work.
05:27Although I wish I walked to work and it was a film set.
05:30But, that's okay.
05:32Yeah.
05:53Okay, so imagine if I had a crystal ball, okay, and I saw everything in it and that was 100
05:59%
06:00your future.
06:01Five years from now, you had nothing.
06:03You never made it.
06:04Mm-hmm.
06:05You have less then than you do now.
06:07Would you still do it?
06:11Yeah.
06:13Fuck yeah.
06:14Yeah.
06:14I just have to keep moving, moving and maybe it will all end in like, it not working and
06:21I'm alone and, but, I don't care.
06:26I'll keep doing it.
06:33I get these chills all over my body.
06:36It makes sense.
06:38Like, like it's, I'm doing the thing and it's working and I know what I'm doing and I feel
06:44confident in this environment.
06:46Gray?
06:48It's wonderful.
06:49Yes.
06:50Isn't it?
06:50Gray is wonderful.
06:53See?
06:53So then how can this be a mistake?
06:56It isn't.
06:57Of course it isn't.
07:07You don't understand.
07:08I need this.
07:10I need to be here in Los Angeles.
07:12I do.
07:14Yes.
07:15At times acting can be excruciating.
07:17All I hear are no's.
07:20I sometimes drive all the way to Santa Monica in rush hour traffic just so that I can hear
07:25and know and, and that can be really, really hard.
07:31Um, and it's not because, it's not because of who I am or what I, it is, ah, let's go
07:39back.
07:53Just get ready.
07:53See you soon, you know.
07:53Cheers.
07:53Cheers, Val.
07:53Cheers.
07:53Cheers.
