Actress Lisa Cash on TV Sitcoms, Soap Operas, Her Breakthrough and 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'

[00:00:00] Next up is Matthew Perry, the lead actor with one half of one of the most beloved couples that sit on history. But in a new interview with TMZ, Perry's season five finale co-star, Lisa Kat, revealed her character almost to Rail Mon in Chandler's Luxury.

[00:00:30] Originally he goes upstairs to his room, he orders room service and I come in as a wait staffer and him as a serviceman. And then we had a top eating and he ends up cheating on her.

[00:00:40] This was like amazing and rehearsing with them was so wonderful and so easy and giving and he could have been this intimidating star but it was just a person who was really nice and he was giving it.

[00:00:54] And we rehearsed it and we blocked it and then I had come in the day before take day. I don't even remember who came over to me, it was probably the second he did and he said,

[00:01:04] I had come out in LA in 1993 and I was doing a lot of TV and I had heard, oh the TV show is going to hiatus around mid-April until mid-July but I guess I didn't really think, well that's that.

[00:01:19] I'm going to work still. I just didn't realize the industry pretty much shuts down and I was going to pay my bills and I was like, oh my gosh, there's no work until mid-July.

[00:01:33] And it's much different now with all the streaming services and everything like that but it's really neat. You weren't working unless you could find a bill for it.

[00:01:41] Shut down. Yeah, and so luckily my mom will be like, see I told you, I think at the end of the year you kind of evaluate what's going on in my cat pee and I've always said because when I first started my mom was like, how are you long going to do this?

[00:01:55] You have a tree in accounting and everything like that and you have to be happy about it but and I kept saying, I'm going to do it as long as I love it. That's my answer.

[00:02:04] Yeah, I'm not going to give myself so a time limit or whatever as long as I'm happy and I love it.

[00:02:10] Hey everyone, welcome, welcome, welcome back to create your new starting podcast. I am Ajay Tambay, the host and producer of this show and you all know this story is all about fiction stories, audio dramas and stories from all different genres where I invite all of the artists to be a guest storyteller on the show and then I interview them.

[00:02:29] But here's one more segment that has started where I interview artists just to know their journey and how can their journey help other upcoming artists.

[00:02:38] So today I have with me a very special guest and she is extremely talented and I got connected to her when the news of the friends broke out and it was completely bizarre news and it was like that news actually caught her into a different kind of limelight but she actually reveal something that really.

[00:02:58] That really made people, what this was the thing and that's really crazy and that's where I connected with her so before I talk more about her firstly I'll introduce welcome welcome to the show.

[00:03:11] Thank you, thank you so glad to be here great, great so i'm really happy that that particular conversation led us to the interview and you agreed.

[00:03:21] I guess we had a bit of a to one month two month gap are you completely busy in that whole press and all kind of things for friends so please tell me how this thing happened that friends thing that news that broke out that completely you know every fan even I was like what.

[00:03:41] I know it's a secret I kept for 24 years i mean i didn't you know think about telling it and then after Matthew Perry passed someone approached me and said did you know him and I told him a short little thing about what happened and he's like i think the world would really like to hear that i think it's beautiful tribute to him.

[00:04:03] And I said really and he goes would you be willing to talk to TMZ about that and I didn't think they'd be interested as like if you think so i don't know sure and then I kind of felt like awkward i was like i don't know if you're weird about it but.

[00:04:16] Yeah that being this beautiful gorgeous thing that fans are so excited to hear about and it keeps him you know in the memories of everyone so many things have done spin-offs about it like the top secrets of you know 10 shows and it's like number two or whatever you know it's like a big deal.

[00:04:32] And so i'm so you know happy that I could be a part of that and a part of you know being his you know tribute memory to everyone it was really neat.

[00:04:40] Thank you thank you so much for breaking back news I you have no idea how it made all the friends fan feel a different you know attachment to Matthew Perry and oh god this actor he did this i mean he know what kind of impact it could have been if it went the other way and that's that's really tricky and you know it could have been you know broken hearts.

[00:05:01] Like the way the Ross and Rachel thing did but yeah thank you so much and before now this is the one thing that's really training about you but before we talk all about your projects how you like how you started what's going on in your life I just want to switch back to you as a kid in your childhood days.

[00:05:19] So tell me about you very good work how your school phase was how you as a kid with your friends family how was it?

[00:05:27] Well back when I was growing up it was more unusual I was a single parent child like a lot of my friends all had the traditional families and everything.

[00:05:36] Yeah I was an only child there's a single parent child and my mom was really young when she had me she got pregnant 18 so we actually grew up together and we were more friends you know which brought us really close you know and gave us that different relationship then parent and child it was just best friends and almost sisters now you know we do have more of the parent child I think but

[00:05:56] I really think it was really it was really neat to plus my mom was that hot mom that all the guys fighting and everything.

[00:06:04] It looks like I'm chaperone's dances and they're like who's that that's my mom.

[00:06:09] So it was that you were like 68 year 10 year old and they were talking about your mom a lot of that that was a thing for you.

[00:06:18] And then we found the feather on the phone too so like when I started dating ages and my boyfriend's with collar she had people call like they think I was her whatever.

[00:06:27] I'm talking, I'm talking.

[00:06:30] Oh God this is really a different child you know you growing up with what we can say woman who is 26 when you're six year old when you're in first grade shows around 24 25.

[00:06:43] She's like growing up in her youth you were growing with and she was in 30s I guess that's where you actually went to your teenage phase.

[00:06:53] So how was that phase like was it more filled with you know judgments or people accepted it and how you grew up like you used to get like you told me it was kind of cool thing you know calling him but how you used to take it was it like people are

[00:07:09] judging me and this thing how how you prepared yourself like were you used to it got used to all.

[00:07:15] Yeah, I mean I was used to understanding that I was like not the norm when I was an elementary school in junior high but I think when you get to high school people's you know parents are starting to get a divorce and it started to kind of be normal

[00:07:28] and I still had the hot mom that everybody like but you know I have was that normal teenage angst where I was like hey you remember that you know we are

[00:07:39] doing everything and I found that I'm also terrible that my poor mom who put up with so much but it's just going through finding your own identity as a teenager and everything.

[00:07:48] And like I did leave at 18 I was like you know she said you know when she's 18 you're going to pay rent and I'm out of here so you don't move out everything but it's moved to college it wasn't a huge move you know I moved on campus and everything but they are dependent you know choosing everything and yeah but it brought us back together and everything to once you know go out into the world and see okay.

[00:08:11] Yeah, yeah.

[00:08:13] Yeah, grown up you it's not like that.

[00:08:16] Yeah, that was that you got mature you know like what it feels to be a woman in the free world and going out yourself and dealing with people by yourself that's where I guess you guys connected more.

[00:08:27] Yeah, it was kind of interesting though because you know in junior high is where I first found the bug for acting like I was always a singer I was a singer

[00:08:37] and elementary school and musicals and boys.

[00:08:40] You see I always want to be a singer so but I never of acting and in elementary school we had to take everything they said oh you're you have to take shop you have to

[00:08:51] take woodwork you have to take cooking and so which I think is wonderful because then you're like letting kids figure out what they like you know yeah and have a chance for it and so I had to take acting

[00:09:02] which was not my first choice but I ended up being the lead in my first two plays Mrs. Marshall was my teacher she was awesome and it was freeing it was so much fun although I love singing I didn't have the confidence I had when I was acting when I was acting it just felt easy it was awesome

[00:09:19] and so when I was going to college and I was like I'm going to major in music or acting my mom's like no you're not.

[00:09:25] I was like yeah and like from my you know cash women we all went to college this was not a choice you're going to college you know but yeah the major she's like no you're going to major

[00:09:39] in something that you could fall back on so I did have to find something else that I loved and I loved numbers so I majored in accounting which helped me now with contracts

[00:09:47] and helps me help my friends and everything but yeah so that was like no you're not majoring in acting or music that's why I would take the after I got my degree so I did that on my own

[00:09:59] but like during teenage years too I would do modeling classes in San Francisco and again whether I mean I think it was a good thing my mom said if you want to do these classes

[00:10:08] you're going to pay for them and you're going to find your way there at 15 years old and so going into the city in San Francisco was kind of scary you know I'm amicato

[00:10:16] but I would find my way there and I pay for them and I feel like that makes you value it more and you can help more your time and effort and I really enjoyed it you know during the classes and getting you know the different views and everything I mean I did runway which is unheard of now because I'm five two but I've done some runway which was fun

[00:10:36] you know and a lot of I became someone who would help others take pictures like I'd help them pose and choose out their wardrobe and you know stuff like that so it was a good you know

[00:10:46] foundation so before I even went to the CT so and then ACT was just even better you know so great great so what I get from you is high school I guess in high school you started singing so you gave up on singing are you still singing songs how the

[00:11:03] addition was singing yeah I actually started singing in elementary school and I was in so who taught you how hard is it just yeah

[00:11:10] what you're like getting about it like why how this happened I don't know why I started singing because I was so young when I started singing I loved like just you know

[00:11:21] performing and everything you know and I would dream of like yeah I'm in a rock fan all the boys I liked are playing guitar and drums and I'm the singer

[00:11:32] oh that's so cool I guess it was just like you know you're feeling the safe thing that that's what you are that's what the energy where you are wiping on that particular

[00:11:42] and I yes that's exactly yeah and if I was like feeling down or anything singing would just touch my heart and make me feel better or release any emotions I needed to release

[00:11:53] and yeah so but I didn't just I didn't really have the confidence even though I had a lot of you know personal instructors

[00:12:00] and then I did a lot of musical theater I just didn't have the confidence in my singing and so like I said I found that in my acting surprisingly

[00:12:08] I was just like wow I'm the lead at my first two plays like I was just crazy you know yeah but it was actually funny

[00:12:14] I did have nerves my the day of my first play where performance was supposed to have for the whole theater or the whole you know a class in eighth grade

[00:12:23] and my mom said you don't feel good and I said no I'm not going to go she goes so you're not going to be in the play you're going to let your understudy do it

[00:12:30] and I was like yeah and she goes you sure about that yeah so she kind of helped me give me give me that push to like go do it

[00:12:40] and I was just remember your lines or whatever and it was fun so yeah it was great

[00:12:48] so when it stopped like the love for music or you know I want to be a musician or music artist when it stopped

[00:12:56] well I think actually when I moved to LA and I was doing acting yeah I was kind of I was trying to do some music then too

[00:13:05] but people were trying to form me into people I wasn't like I don't mind singing country I like country but I'm more of like a country rock or pop

[00:13:13] and I had producers trying to give me like the fringe of the country and the hat and then I had another producer trying to get me to rap

[00:13:20] they're like oh no one would expect you to rap you know and I'm like this isn't me and then I had people friends in the music industry

[00:13:26] look at contracts that I was given and they're like no this is like really bad so I just I feel like I fell into acting because it was easier

[00:13:36] and it just it didn't seem the things that I connected a lot yeah yeah it didn't seem as corrupt too

[00:13:44] I mean just all the contracts for music seemed to have these secret little things that unless you had a lawyer

[00:13:49] it is yeah a lot of shady deeds right yeah exactly I did although I came out with a sample album it had five songs on it

[00:13:58] and that was just awesome because I ended up I was dating someone who was this incredible musician that wrote songs he played guitar

[00:14:06] he played drums he played like tons of instruments and so we collaborated and he gave me that confidence

[00:14:11] and we went to studio and we put down those five tracks and a lot of the songs were about us and everything so that was fetching experience

[00:14:17] and we had it on iTunes for a long time and that was really cool and then we ended up writing some more

[00:14:22] we wrote a vampire song for one of the movies I did and you know I would kind of co-collaborate like he would really write

[00:14:28] but I would help was like what about this word you know what about this good and that was just such an amazing experience

[00:14:36] I mean I would love to get back in the studio at some point but at least I found that you know and like the cover was gorgeous

[00:14:42] like this guitar you know so sexy and so good you go you go awesome awesome awesome so what I get from now here is

[00:14:51] the acting feels very natural or very relatable was it the roles that you got or was it nothing related to roles just the energy

[00:15:01] and you were good with whatever was coming to you or was it the role that you know you just connected with that girl or that woman that you played

[00:15:09] what was it that made it really in the initials

[00:15:11] yeah and I think also when I was younger I was always playing this teen angst with crying or like the peppy cheerleader

[00:15:18] so I feel like a lot of it was me and I know people have a lot of different ways that they get into acting but I tried to bring a piece of me

[00:15:25] I try to base it upon something that I have in my past that gives me that emotion that she's feeling now

[00:15:31] and so I feel like that's how it was relatable and I feel like in my own life it was very kind of closed off emotionally

[00:15:40] I didn't like just people to see me cry I was you know really tough and independent but in my acting I could let it go

[00:15:48] and let it go love it and that's what they like is when I was crying or angry or sad or you know all these emotions

[00:15:54] I could release them and acting and get paid for it and get accoladed for it everyone's like oh my god that's amazing

[00:16:00] but I just let it go there so because I held on so tightly in my real life to keep on this face you know

[00:16:07] yeah the tough face exactly yeah yeah

[00:16:11] this is really hard you know impossible kind of ways because you know through when advocating through the world

[00:16:20] we actually tend to make yourself very firm okay I can't lose myself for this particular guy or this particular emotion

[00:16:27] or this particular fight I have to be strong and that whole thing that grows inside you and you became a firm human

[00:16:33] and that's where you know you are not allowed to express yourself and that becomes a part of your body

[00:16:38] and the behavior that you have which is really not easy to you know undo it the whole thing in on the stage where you are just crying all of

[00:16:47] you are just expressing yourself and that that's really how did you like oh you took this as an opportunity to

[00:16:54] you know a lot yourself on love all those emotions there how you did that like was it intentionally okay I can't cry here

[00:17:01] out what was it it was intentional like I would see what was needed in the scene with the character needed to feel

[00:17:08] and I would go back to something in my life that would make me feel that way so that would bring out that emotion

[00:17:13] yeah yeah so it's kind of like method acting I think they call it yeah yeah yeah it's following a limisano technique or some kind of techniques

[00:17:21] that you have you know at the same time I've seen a lot of actors you know they are struggling because the journey of an actor is not what you see on the screen

[00:17:28] you know that it's a lot of fighting through life then finding out time to doing it and then you know realizing that part

[00:17:34] there's been a lot of actors who are whatever they are in their real life they're not easy to break down those emotional parts

[00:17:40] because they're fighting a lot in their personal lives so they're it's not easy for them to break that rigidness inside them

[00:17:46] and to express so that's really a great part I learned from you it's it's it's a good idea

[00:17:51] well it was fun too because as an actress I got to play things I've never played I've never been a cheerleader

[00:17:56] I've always wanted to be a cheerleader but I got to play one on TV multiple times head cheerleader even

[00:18:01] and I got to play valedictorian on the TV I was never valedictorian you know so all the I get to redo my prom

[00:18:07] my prom in high school for real was not so awesome

[00:18:10] it was magical so it was just amazing you don't need to live those moments yeah yeah I got to do new memories for them you know

[00:18:18] you you you lived that anyhow like but now here's the thing you told me more about how you started

[00:18:25] what kind of place you did musical part musical theater now tell me about your first breakthrough

[00:18:30] what was it how old were you like what was going on in your life and how that breakthrough happened

[00:18:36] I was I think 23 yeah and I was in LA and I had been cast as a featured role which means you don't like say anything

[00:18:47] but so I was cast as a feature role as the babysitter of Alicia Silverstone and Jared Leto

[00:18:53] and I was just gonna be their babysitter and it was so amazing because while they were setting up the lights

[00:18:59] and getting ready I ended up talking with the director Ralph Bakshi I'm really my angel I love him

[00:19:04] and I didn't know him at the time I was just you know he's like what are you doing there taking classes

[00:19:09] and he was really genuinely interested in me and I'm a talker so yeah I was like

[00:19:14] filling everything and then he said do you think the babysitter we're talking this scene and I'm like yeah

[00:19:20] oh you want to say something you go ahead and grow and whatever you want

[00:19:24] I didn't want to be rude to my fellow actor and like surprise them so I told him I was like hey Ralph said to throw in a line he goes

[00:19:31] great okay we'll just improv like whatever you want so we luckily we didn't have a rehearsal which is really unusual

[00:19:38] you don't usually go straight to tape so they said rolling and they taped and Jared and I are like improving a scene talking

[00:19:46] and as soon as they turned the camera off they cut all this commotion behind the you know camera

[00:19:51] and I was like oh my gosh I knew they were pissed I knew it

[00:19:54] and so then someone yells I think I was the first to do but someone yells

[00:19:57] let's do another one without the babysitter talking

[00:20:00] and so they said rolling and right then Ralph again yelled baby sit or say your lines

[00:20:05] and so we can do it again and they recorded it again so that was it that was like how I broke into sag with you know

[00:20:12] speaking role and I mean my first scene is with Jared leto I mean it's just a baby

[00:20:18] yeah so I'm so grateful for Ralph actually for seeing something in me and taking a chance on me

[00:20:23] and I don't even know if you're a member but he is amazing

[00:20:27] it's kind of impromptu you know it's just like a regular day for a director he's looking for some creativity

[00:20:33] then you take a break and then hey something's not energy there's no energy I am feeling in this particular scene

[00:20:39] and he says hey what if babysitter talks and that's where you connect because the way I'm seeing your energy

[00:20:44] yeah it totally matches what he's seeing you he saw in you and yeah it kind of clicked

[00:20:50] and then also after taking a take someone said not to do it and then again the director say hey go with that

[00:20:56] that completely wow this is cool this is cool

[00:20:59] it was funny too it's called the cool and the crazy I don't know if I mentioned that

[00:21:04] but I was supposed to be holding the baby and the baby kept crying the whole time

[00:21:09] so the only way the baby wouldn't cry is if I was like you know jumping it up and down and kissing it

[00:21:14] so I look like some stalker babysitter like what?

[00:21:17] what?

[00:21:18] yes what?

[00:21:19] what?

[00:21:20] kissing the baby

[00:21:21] wow that's good

[00:21:25] this is this is guy you still remember this

[00:21:29] oh I knew yeah I mean because it's my first you know role my first speaking role

[00:21:34] you know I hadn't had so many parts before but they were featured things or you

[00:21:38] know they were background or whatever preparing me and so yeah Ralph just gave me my chance

[00:21:42] you know it was really cool

[00:21:44] yeah got it yeah

[00:21:45] and I didn't know what the time I knew Alicia still was on at the time

[00:21:48] but I didn't know Jared said oh and now I'm like oh my god

[00:21:51] great great so how you moved on after that particular thing

[00:21:57] how how things started changing for you were you going out from auditions

[00:22:02] how things to learn after that that particular role or thing when you thought like

[00:22:06] hey you got a good character what was that year?

[00:22:09] well I think that really gave me confidence afterwards and it gave me like yeah

[00:22:13] I'm union now so then I could start going out for the union roles and everything

[00:22:17] and it was pretty quick that I got union once they came out here I wasn't on

[00:22:20] union for too long but again the things I was doing out for

[00:22:24] or the bubbly teenager or the crying angsty teenagers so it just was really easy

[00:22:30] I did have a fun role in the Nutty Professor I was flying back and forth to see my mom

[00:22:36] and I was at I had auditions in LA for the role of the Nutty Professor

[00:22:42] I was a teenager well I was on all the hamsters were going crazy

[00:22:46] and I'm on the hill and the guy is trying to talk me into going to party with him

[00:22:50] I'm not interested until the hamster calls up his leg and creates this big bulge

[00:22:54] but you know we think it's something else and then I'm like oh my okay yes

[00:22:58] um and I auditioned for it and they took a long time to cast it so I went

[00:23:02] to go see my mom San Francisco and then they called me and they're like hey you

[00:23:05] booked it and you come back and my mom was like tell them you need a plane ticket

[00:23:10] and I'm like you don't say that she goes you're in San Francisco you need a plane

[00:23:14] ticket to LA you need to tell him that and you know parents don't know and everything

[00:23:18] but I was like um I'm in San Francisco I need a flight to LA

[00:23:22] and I just heard silence on the phone and then we oh my god I grew into it

[00:23:26] my mom's ruined it for me and they just said we'll call you back

[00:23:29] and I was like mom that's not oh my god and then they call me back

[00:23:32] and she says you're the only one that director wanted will fly you into LA

[00:23:36] so I mean parents can be bold because they're not gonna get this made like yeah yeah people

[00:23:41] but it worked out actually oh great great great

[00:23:45] so now here's the thing you work in very popular sitcoms one of them is friends

[00:23:50] NBC's hit show the global hit show friends also at the same time you work

[00:23:54] in general hospital and in burn Melanie male melons Melanie melons in burn

[00:24:01] you played a character of the sexy Melanie melons in burns

[00:24:04] also daytime TV's general hospital and back time it was NBC's hit show friends

[00:24:10] for you appeared in very popular TV sitcoms how was it when now I'd like to know

[00:24:17] specifically about friends how was that experience of you that episode not getting aired

[00:24:23] but you rehearsing throughout that part and overall tell me about your journey on the sets of friends

[00:24:29] um it was really amazing I mean being able to audition for guessing sorry roll on friends is huge anyway

[00:24:37] but then it's a pivotal role because macapery Chandler was gonna cheat on me or cheat with me you know

[00:24:44] on season can you can you help me with the season is sure it was season five

[00:24:49] uh it was the finale and basically uh Chandler and Monica were in Vegas and they were arguing Monica

[00:24:55] and then Monica was really getting into crafts and to gambling in Vegas

[00:25:03] and so Chandler wanted to talk about it and she said no you know she was at the table

[00:25:08] so he drips off and originally he goes upstairs to his room he orders room service

[00:25:13] and I come in as a wait staffer him and he ends up cheating on her

[00:25:20] and I mean this was like amazing and rehearsing with him was so wonderful

[00:25:24] and so easy and giving and like he could have been this you know intimidating star

[00:25:30] but he was just a person he was just really nice and he was giving and it was easy and comfortable

[00:25:35] um and we rehearsed it and we blocked it and then I had come in the day before tape day

[00:25:41] um and a lot of commotion going on I wasn't sure what was going on

[00:25:45] and then I don't even remember who came over to me it was probably the second e-day

[00:25:49] and he said maybe it was I can't remember who came over to me but anyway they said yeah so

[00:25:55] I'm not going to do that Matthew Perry said the audience will never forgive him for cheating on Monica

[00:25:59] which is true but I was so worried

[00:26:03] oh wow

[00:26:05] please

[00:26:07] and then I thought I'd be cut because normally you're just cut if you're rolling

[00:26:10] yeah yeah yeah yeah they were so sweet and the producers and writers said

[00:26:14] you know but we're gonna give you this other role with Jennifer Anderson and David Schwimmer and this other scene

[00:26:19] um and but it was kind of funny because I was a flight attendant and at the time I was pretty young

[00:26:23] and they're like but you don't look old enough to be a flight attendant so we're gonna make your hair really

[00:26:26] basically like teased it out or everything like that

[00:26:29] well tell about that scene that they give we can patch it up we can you know mention the season

[00:26:34] oh yeah it was really as a funny scene actually on the airplane

[00:26:38] uh Ross and Rachel are kind of fighting with each other uh Rachel was like I don't get embarrassed

[00:26:44] I just don't get embarrassed

[00:26:46] oh really

[00:26:48] he's like embarrassing around the plane

[00:26:50] you know I'm like oh that's not like I'm kind of a bad throw but she's like oh my god

[00:26:55] so then she's giving it back to him and uh she pours water on his pants

[00:26:59] as she does the call up and then I come over and may help you

[00:27:02] it looks like it's like I'm sorry my you know for an accident and also like that

[00:27:06] so it was fun um and then as they're coming off the plane I'm like I hope you enjoyed your flight

[00:27:10] and David Schwimmer's like it was the best and then Jennifer too the things too

[00:27:14] so it was really nice it was so comfortable they just made me feel welcome

[00:27:17] and it's just like a family on that set you know everyone

[00:27:20] it's just really happy it's a friendly set um and they knew what they're doing five seasons

[00:27:26] and then you know even more after that of just this is how we do it

[00:27:29] now at that time it was before they were making a million an episode

[00:27:33] but the time I did season five we would tape in front of a live audience at 5pm

[00:27:37] and then we would go and tell the show ended and they would do the different you know takes

[00:27:41] and different lines and stuff not from my scene but other scenes if like laughs weren't working in front of the live audience

[00:27:46] um then we would change it right then

[00:27:48] and that was really cool too working in front of the live audience

[00:27:51] and then we went and just supporting yeah yeah

[00:27:55] yeah you went here and I'm so so long so my friends that were like in the audience waiting for my scenes

[00:28:00] up there are like sleeping they're like okay I'm up I'm up and you know

[00:28:04] we can't do the bow the curtain bow afterwards and everything

[00:28:06] but it was so late which is so different and working on general hospital

[00:28:10] working on a soap opera it's very quick very quick very quick you know

[00:28:13] you do one or two days there's no live audience and you're done

[00:28:16] yeah yeah those are very quick days and yeah it's very very different shooting a soap

[00:28:21] then it is the sitcom plus you have the five cameras on a sitcom

[00:28:24] and everything like that is so beautiful

[00:28:26] it's kind of different set when it's a soap opera and when it's a sitcom right

[00:28:30] so soap opera using general hospital was a soap opera

[00:28:33] yeah you just have very limited time and you have booked the slot

[00:28:36] I guess there's a lot of commercial thing happening at the same time

[00:28:39] no audience and how how different was soap opera

[00:28:44] you know general hospital basically how was that experience

[00:28:48] I guess it was very rush rich

[00:28:50] it was very rush you have one or two takes I didn't really you know

[00:28:53] meet the cast I didn't have a whole day with them like on friends

[00:28:57] you have multiple days during the week you know we came in on like a Monday

[00:29:00] and then we didn't take out Friday and you have lunches and time

[00:29:03] and everything like that but yeah general hospital like I think I was told on Friday

[00:29:07] you're shooting Monday and so I came in and I think I was out in two hours

[00:29:12] because you go into hair and makeup as soon as you get there you sign contracts

[00:29:15] you get down to the set they're like okay you stand over here and nothing that

[00:29:18] it was very quick direction to you better like pay attention

[00:29:21] you know like don't be talking to me just want to get it

[00:29:24] or want her to take their so used to this they feel like you know

[00:29:27] five days week and so many years and they've got it down so you know

[00:29:31] yeah you better remember your mind not be the one that you're telling me

[00:29:35] so this is kind of cool you know friends kind of sitcoms

[00:29:39] is usually one thing that you know you get to live at the same time

[00:29:43] you what we are feeling you are feeling the same for that particular moment

[00:29:47] because you're getting a live audience at the same time and you're getting

[00:29:50] quick responses also what we felt you also felt

[00:29:54] whereas you know working on soap opera it's what we felt was because of that particular

[00:30:00] emotion and that background noise background effect that it gave the whole scene

[00:30:04] different curve and you just delivered a lines where you had no idea

[00:30:07] you're just looking to that person or the camera or the angle

[00:30:10] and that's where you thought okay I delivered the lines

[00:30:12] it's two hours and I now having my mother I don't know what I did

[00:30:15] but I just delivered what my job is and you just it just gets out of your mind

[00:30:20] within like one month or two whereas friends you know you still remember

[00:30:24] what happened like six days seven days that you did still remembers

[00:30:28] and that's like an iconic show you know global hit

[00:30:30] that's where that's real difference between a sitcom and a soap opera

[00:30:34] and thank you for sharing that also about you playing

[00:30:40] burn so what sitcom or what soap opera was it like what TV show was it

[00:30:46] for you and it was based in a gym so Melanie well

[00:30:52] Collins was a porn star that was working out

[00:30:55] and so she had double these so I had this like big cast of double

[00:30:59] these and it was funny too because when I first showed up to set

[00:31:03] I had them on and like the crew and other cast members didn't know

[00:31:07] that they were fake and they're like oh my gosh

[00:31:09] I got to like oh yeah look at the as thing huge amounts of boobs

[00:31:12] that aren't mine

[00:31:14] oh it was really funny

[00:31:16] Marshall I can imagine now I can imagine okay wow

[00:31:20] yeah that's different kind of sitcom it was for adults I guess 18 plus 80 90

[00:31:25] but it used to be yeah yeah it was really fun that Marshall Hillier was a friend of mine

[00:31:29] and he actually brought me onto that project and I'm just it was so much fun

[00:31:33] playing her and just the cast was amazing and I love being in a gym anyway

[00:31:37] I'm a gym rather work out all the time so it was relatable to me it was really cool

[00:31:42] great okay okay so this was kind of sitcom where you also like this was

[00:31:48] completely different from what you were and it still got some kind of resemblance

[00:31:54] with your own character but you really enjoyed being in that zone and you know

[00:31:58] just messing around with people with what role you were

[00:32:02] yeah okay I'm just looking at now as the host of Fred Kappett talk

[00:32:10] and splash talks what have been some of your most memorable moments

[00:32:14] from hosting this shows like you are TV host now this completely changes the whole

[00:32:19] dynamics of presenting yourself on television because you're now presenting

[00:32:24] yourself as Lisa Cash you know now your president your self so how was that

[00:32:29] that whole thing and what was a memorable experience yeah hosting is really fun

[00:32:34] I love hosting and you're breaking that wall because now you're looking into the

[00:32:37] camera whereas you know when you do sitcoms that we don't have in the camera that would be bad

[00:32:41] hosting it's like you're talking to the audience you're in the camera

[00:32:46] um and to work with dogs I love dogs and so it was really cool because I remember

[00:32:51] showing up to set there's just a line of dogs and owners ready for this

[00:32:56] dog's dog diving and it was really cool I'm playing with all the dogs like okay

[00:33:01] Lisa come on come on you know and I didn't even know like that was a sport this

[00:33:06] whole dive is a dog's do yeah my dog to do that too but it was really

[00:33:12] me and John Zander was my friend that brought me onto that he produced that

[00:33:16] and I'm just so grateful for that because I just love working with animals

[00:33:19] that was only time I've actually been able to work with animals except for

[00:33:22] my dog does work actually she works on pet co commercial it's on the cover dog food

[00:33:27] bags it's just it's just a yeah commercial commercial last year and so

[00:33:32] like that so anyway but but yeah I don't usually get to work with animals so

[00:33:36] it was really and then red dog I was you know just the it was like an audio

[00:33:41] thing so I would just talk more like yeah on the phone and they would be

[00:33:45] corroded and stuff like that so that was different too just like voiceover type of

[00:33:50] you know but I did get to interview on you know some some celebrities mostly

[00:33:55] musicians specific names right now was a wild back but but it was really neat too

[00:34:00] yeah great right most of them you you love to work with animals and I guess

[00:34:05] that show fulfilled your dream of working with animals and that to get on TV

[00:34:09] then yeah that's good now here's the thing you also were you told me before

[00:34:16] you were doing modeling also you're taking training and all that kind of thing

[00:34:20] in your high school journey I guess teenage phase and then twenties

[00:34:25] you also appeared in like a Maxim's sent Paddy Degel sent Paddy's Degel

[00:34:32] also on international billboards for new balance and then pages and cow

[00:34:36] Maxine such as LA Express oxygen fitness Peme battles and 944 so how did

[00:34:44] you manage this particular like this is completely professional field you know

[00:34:49] and it's not just like these are not just normal Maxine that I just pronounced

[00:34:53] they're properly professional Maxine's where you are doing an acting job

[00:34:57] where your body is completely you know good burns out or you know there's

[00:35:01] a lot of other things happening to your body when you would day shift night shift

[00:35:04] well as 30 hours of shift and then you go back now after doing this how you

[00:35:09] managed doing the modeling part and then to appear on the top pages of feature

[00:35:13] in the pages of these magazines also on the billboards how was your health

[00:35:18] related thing going on when you're doing this well I was mostly a fitness model

[00:35:23] so I was very athletic I was in the kickboxing for a long time both with personal

[00:35:28] trainers and classes and typo belly blanks who I love so I love working out

[00:35:34] I love being paid to work out I actually did a commercial for ax body spray

[00:35:38] we had to run on the beach and it was like for three days and it was like my best

[00:35:43] you know thing I loved it I'm getting paid to work out awesome and everyone else is

[00:35:48] complaining and so I'm like best ever but anyway so yeah I did a lot of fitness

[00:35:53] modeling and more you know the abs and sculpted and everything like that

[00:35:58] and I love modeling and I think it's harder than people think and they're like oh

[00:36:03] yeah whatever but there's so much that goes into it yeah position whatever is going

[00:36:08] on in your mind is coming out of your eyes you're co-creating with the photographer

[00:36:12] and then there's the makeup and hair you know wardrobe and everything and I remember

[00:36:17] in maximum we were shooting in an Irish pub in New York which was so cool

[00:36:23] as I was saying paddy's day girl with the red hair and everything and they're like okay

[00:36:27] so you're gonna hold a guitar okay great but you're gonna hold it with your

[00:36:32] arms crossed and then you're gonna slip your hair over and you're gonna like

[00:36:38] do all this unnatural stuff and uncomfortable and awkward and it was like

[00:36:45] felt so hard but then you see the image and it looks flawless and effortless

[00:36:49] and it's so beautiful and had the stained glass you know windows behind me

[00:36:53] and the lighting is just so I just love it so much

[00:36:57] you can send me the picture you know I will yeah you can send me like you know

[00:37:00] and so I can you know attached on this clip when this clip comes out

[00:37:03] and happy to do that okay wow this is great so how do you used to you know

[00:37:08] you told me your fitness freak now completely working out on your body

[00:37:12] and always they're like I guess 90% of your time goes on the fitness what I see

[00:37:17] is you must be like with the food and all and that and sleep and all

[00:37:20] how do you use to manage the work like balance in those speed it or where you

[00:37:24] you know you're getting good amount of work and lot of works at that particular

[00:37:29] work you know how do you use to do that and how do you do it now like the work

[00:37:32] like balance may be something you know anything well I think it's important

[00:37:36] have a work like balance you know you want to be well-rounded and everything

[00:37:40] and you have to take that time out for yourself you know I like to write

[00:37:45] everything down like I have so much going on I don't want to just put it on my

[00:37:48] phone I'm old school I like to write it out and see it because once I put it on

[00:37:52] pen and paper it gets out of my mind and then I could be focused in president

[00:37:55] and I'm like okay these are the chunks of time this is what I have and also if I

[00:37:58] put in this is the time I'm taking a workout class or a dance class or you

[00:38:03] know going to work out then that's what I do I have my schedule and so for me I

[00:38:07] find schedule really helpful yeah and then I've been a vegan well I started as a

[00:38:14] vegetarian 30 years ago and then transition to a vegan and so help wise I mean I

[00:38:19] do it for the animals but the added benefit is the health of that sleep too and

[00:38:23] actually it's like opened my eyes and taste buds to all these other things so

[00:38:28] that's been a journey too I'm like oh wow there's so many foods out there I didn't

[00:38:32] even realize because I was eating just these you know things but yeah I definitely

[00:38:36] and then I meditate too I find meditation like in 2023 you do yeah

[00:38:43] Ponna Keeling is the meditation with MasterCope and he has like group

[00:38:47] meditations or meditations that you can like more pre-recorded and everything

[00:38:51] I like a guided meditation but just to sit with your own you know self and be quiet

[00:38:57] or out in nature that's like amazing I'll just like sit on the ground and you

[00:39:02] know ground with like the moss underneath me or a tree nice to me and like I live

[00:39:06] on a lake and it's just amazing and I love it out here like the geese will be

[00:39:10] flying by in a formation here's why he buy it's just incredible and I feel like

[00:39:15] you know if we just like sit and just be quiet in nature then like we can

[00:39:20] kind of remember who we are you know it's so important to find that balance

[00:39:24] because career yes you know work on your career and do all your networking

[00:39:28] workshops social media and everything but it can't be your only thing you

[00:39:32] know there have to be a balance yeah.

[00:39:34] One thing I got you like guided meditation where you need a voice to guide

[00:39:39] you to go through all those experiences that's the one thing that you like great

[00:39:44] to hear about your work life balance and your take on work life balance just

[00:39:48] you know now he has a thing can you recall in the initial phase your first set

[00:39:54] back where you know you felt like okay this is the end I guess this is I

[00:39:59] don't know what's going to happen maybe in the music maybe enacting but something

[00:40:03] that really scared you apart and then you describe a new version of yourself.

[00:40:10] Okay well the first financial setback I had come out in LA in 1993 and I was

[00:40:17] doing a lot of TV and I had heard oh the TV shows go on hiatus around mid-April

[00:40:24] until mid-July but I guess I didn't really think well that's them like I'm

[00:40:29] gonna work still you know I just didn't realize no the industry pretty much

[00:40:34] shuts down and I was going to pay my bills and I was like oh my gosh like

[00:40:40] there's no work until mid-July and it's much different now with all the

[00:40:45] services and everything like that but you weren't working you know unless you

[00:40:50] could find a bill shut down yeah and so luckily my mom will be like see I told you I

[00:40:56] did have my degree in accounting and so I went 10 or 20 months and stuff like that

[00:41:01] and it all picked up again and people promised me hold a pick up again July 15th

[00:41:04] around there and stuff and it did and then I knew okay so that's what happens

[00:41:08] and that's like the season you know their seasons of it not like that much

[00:41:12] much anymore with all the streaming and everything but but yeah so that was a

[00:41:16] shock yeah and then there's been like I think at the end of the year you kind

[00:41:23] of evaluate you know what's going on my Kathy and I've always said because when I

[00:41:28] first started my mom's like how long are you gonna do this you have a degree in accounting

[00:41:31] and everything I got and you have to about it but and I kept saying I'm gonna

[00:41:36] do it as long as I love it that's my answer yeah that's that's an artist yeah

[00:41:41] I'm not gonna give myself so a time limit or whatever as long as I'm happy and I love it

[00:41:45] so there did there was a time I forget the year but around Christmas time I

[00:41:51] hadn't booked a lot and I was like is this like am I gonna keep pushing how long

[00:41:56] am I gonna keep pushing on are there any anything else that I would like to do

[00:42:00] and I think actually it was kind of during the pandemic you know more than

[00:42:05] evaluating things and yeah that was complete yeah and what else would make

[00:42:10] me happy you know and there are other things you know fighting for animal rights

[00:42:14] I thought you know maybe I'll get like a law degree so you know I can help with

[00:42:18] their better treatment and activists yeah and everything like that and that was

[00:42:22] a passion to me and I really actually had to work with like a coach like to

[00:42:28] talk it out and figure out you know well what should I do and actually in doing

[00:42:32] that that's what brought me to Atlanta because I was in a way for so long and my

[00:42:38] friend wanted to buy a house in Atlanta and he worked in the industry but he

[00:42:42] also works on cruise ships and those magic and said well I'm going to Atlanta I'm like

[00:42:46] well I don't I've never been there and he's like oh you come with me and just see what I do for a

[00:42:50] visit you know oh yeah and then I was talking to my coach and she's like well how will

[00:42:55] you know if this is the right thing and I'm like I don't know I feel like I'm

[00:42:58] just gonna know and I didn't think she'd accept that answer but she goes all about that

[00:43:02] and I was like really okay and I'm telling you we touched down in the airport as

[00:43:07] Atlanta and got the rental car and just driving right from the airport literally being here

[00:43:12] an hour I told my friend I'm moving here whether you are

[00:43:16] and oh really I just felt it it was so crazy and then it just became even better

[00:43:23] being here for five days at the time and like a really quick thunderstorm and rain

[00:43:27] and how much space everybody has and how green it was and wildlife and nature

[00:43:32] and so that to me was like fulfilling my spirit you know the industry part came

[00:43:39] later when I actually got here and I really did see wow this is really cool there's a lot of

[00:43:44] things filming here and there's more things that are coming out so it gave me

[00:43:48] this new spark and I was like okay this is what I want to do this and I'm in the right place

[00:43:54] doing it I think I was getting a little burnt out in LA I was getting with them and not me

[00:43:59] with like this is the same thing and this is like so it just created a new spark and passion

[00:44:05] in my career and in my life and in my spirit so I'm so happy

[00:44:09] great great great to hear that yes I think was it difficult for you in the 90s

[00:44:14] to find out work and how is it good for you is it easy now in 2023 you know

[00:44:20] when you have to only rely on the people you know right now in 2023 how can

[00:44:26] you you know calculate that difference well it's okay it was definitely a different

[00:44:32] main in the 90s I mean there was hard copy pictures you had to keep stacks of head

[00:44:38] shots and you know you had to invest in that it was expensive and there was no

[00:44:42] online casting like there is now it was all you had to have a top agent that was

[00:44:46] the only way that you were going to get out and I was really blessed that way in

[00:44:50] having a lot of top agents that would get me out constantly I was with

[00:44:54] T.D. I said oh my gosh you got you get out and you book that he's more than our

[00:44:58] heavy hitters like more than the star names that they had but and so that

[00:45:02] and again though I was 18 to let the young girls playing teenager I find those

[00:45:06] very easy I would like roll my eyes like that kids

[00:45:11] oh brother you know and then though now there's so much online casting

[00:45:19] and so so many more people have opportunities which is great but that means

[00:45:23] there's so much more competition I mean I hear casting directors say sometimes

[00:45:27] they get 2500 submissions for one role especially

[00:45:31] yeah or even more like on stranger things that everyone wants to be on

[00:45:35] I would love to be on that and everybody wants to hear then get like 5000

[00:45:39] submissions for one line you know it's like so much so you have really yeah

[00:45:45] yeah so and so now your headshot really needs to stand out because they're

[00:45:49] looking at like a little thumbnail when your submissions come in and they're going no

[00:45:53] no no no no no no no you know kind of like whatever swipe right or left or

[00:45:56] whatever I'm not on my Navy but all that stuff

[00:45:59] and so you've got to stand out you know you you have to and then

[00:46:03] I heard a casting director just say you know well it's in the eyes you know but I think it's also

[00:46:07] the whole thing it's you know the colors of the backdrop it's the color of you and the

[00:46:11] emotions it's everything that picture is your calling card that will get that

[00:46:15] stop and then they'll look at your resume or your you know real and then they'll go okay

[00:46:19] yeah bring in them in you know so in some ways it's easier in some ways

[00:46:23] it's harder there's more competition there's more opportunities so it's definitely

[00:46:27] more production happening yeah yeah I mean in some ways I miss the old

[00:46:31] ways also because when I first started the 90s everybody had black and white

[00:46:35] headshot it's separate heads because you know

[00:46:39] it has

[00:46:41] so I really stood out yeah that's that's whole different game for you

[00:46:47] that was your key card then having red hair

[00:46:51] yeah I used to go to playboy mansion parties a lot I had a lot of playmates

[00:46:57] his friends and it's a sea of blondes and then it's me you know

[00:47:03] I can always find you you know yeah that's

[00:47:07] unique I had a red car I love the color red I like standing out

[00:47:13] that's you you know throughout your career it has been you

[00:47:17] you love to stand out and you love to move the work hard and then you know

[00:47:21] you get what are you looking for that's the thing okay

[00:47:25] now here I'm coming on your first your up your currently

[00:47:29] series that's streaming on prime video Amazon Prime

[00:47:33] which is by name frontman and it does us about your character and what attracted you

[00:47:37] to this particular project sure yeah frontman on prime video I'm senator

[00:47:41] Bateman and senator Bateman is just interested in winning

[00:47:45] she doesn't care what she has to say or do or

[00:47:49] you know anything like that so she's just like how do I win how do I win

[00:47:53] Neil Demonte as a friend of mine we had done a couple movies together and it was his

[00:47:56] debut director directing this so he said I want you to read the script I think

[00:48:01] he'd be good for the senator which at that time I was like okay well I've never

[00:48:04] played a senator that's good I'm getting into the older roles now

[00:48:07] and that's good for me to do like a politician um and he said yeah but um

[00:48:12] I need you to go get out and I was like I won't make

[00:48:17] I do that I don't understand what that means and he goes just read it

[00:48:21] and so I read it and so someone swindles her and says oh you have to get down

[00:48:26] with the people and go get oh you know you got to relate to them and stuff

[00:48:29] and I was like okay and he said I need you to record something so the

[00:48:33] producers can see that you could go get it we know you could be a senator

[00:48:36] and some like that I was like okay so I called my friend to do this self-tape

[00:48:39] that that wasn't even a big thing in LA apparently in Atlanta they've been doing

[00:48:43] some 2012 but so I was like okay you're gonna record this I'm not telling you

[00:48:47] what it is you're not gonna laugh because we're doing one take

[00:48:50] and he's like okay and so we did I was like go go go what do you look at everything

[00:48:55] I have my hat on everything backwards and then we cut and he started fusting a

[00:49:00] clapping he's like oh my god and so I was not sending it that's it one take they get

[00:49:07] and so then they loved it and when I finally really got to work on the

[00:49:10] character and do it on set and when I finished the scene like the crew was

[00:49:15] clapping and I thought this is a new character that I love this is what they said

[00:49:21] like now they made some changes to the characters because of you right yeah yeah

[00:49:26] and also she's really occurring now because originally I was just

[00:49:29] supposed to be in the one episode but I ended up being in two episodes and I

[00:49:32] gonna be in the next episode so yeah so now she's really occurring oh well

[00:49:36] that's cool that's yeah that's that's your your skills came into action you

[00:49:41] that's where you know just give a little bit of a tweak of you being in that

[00:49:45] character and that's where you locked yourself two more episodes

[00:49:49] yeah that's the beauty that's the beauty okay now here's something related to your

[00:49:54] personal abilities you know how do you handle the pressures and uncertainties

[00:49:58] that come within a career in the spotlight and what lessons have what lessons

[00:50:02] have you learned along the way what I mean by this is like how because this is like

[00:50:07] today there's the phase where you have a good amount of trouble like where you're you're complaining

[00:50:12] I have god I have good amount of work or I have a lot of work to finish I don't find myself

[00:50:17] to relax and breathe and there's a phase where completely you're free and you have what the hell am I

[00:50:22] doing I have no work I'm just sitting and breathing so this is complete different phases you know

[00:50:27] every artist go through yeah do you deal with that particular phase and how do you you know

[00:50:34] just what what kind of lessons that you learn from dealing with this uncertainty is in this industry

[00:50:40] after being you know popular star like you someone like you how can you you know tell us more about

[00:50:46] this yeah it was definitely a learning lesson especially in the beginning when I was younger I

[00:50:52] was very like okay I'm gonna work full time and go to school full time and I'm gonna get to my

[00:50:56] degree and like I filled that time with learning and you know growing as you do you know and you

[00:51:01] know you're teenage years and early 20s and everything like that and then when I came out and

[00:51:06] I was like okay yeah I'll work work work and then there's a hiatus or the Christmas or whatever

[00:51:11] and I really had to learn to settle into that and trust that it's gonna pick up again you know

[00:51:17] because it can be very scary like oh my god is this it what's happening so I need to do something

[00:51:21] else was that you know we had to learn to calm down and enjoy the anxiety is a lot

[00:51:28] is that you know the down time and trust that you know next is coming because yeah I was just a few

[00:51:35] weeks ago so busy with like three auditions and all this stuff coming on and everything and then

[00:51:40] like last week it was Christmas so you know like not Christmas yet but you know preparing for Christmas

[00:51:46] head friends in town and everything like that so it was busy in that sense but then there

[00:51:49] was no auditions but no thing with that because yeah I know like the second week of January probably

[00:51:55] there'll be auditions and stuff but to find that like trust and comfort in okay let's enjoy the

[00:52:01] downtime and just be there and be present and be focused for the busy time and yeah it's interesting

[00:52:09] which it's really a good game you know it's kind of game if we see in that way because there's a part

[00:52:15] where you are having good amount of time and then there's a part where you need to play patience

[00:52:20] just be patient in the whole that that's really a big taste taste test of you know you as an artist

[00:52:26] anyone has an after that the patience is the biggest in this way where you have to just be patient

[00:52:30] and work on your craft and wait for the opportunity to land in and then you show all this thing

[00:52:35] that you know grab in this particular phase and then pull out in that one particular audition or whatever

[00:52:41] you do yeah I used to the key thing of continued to work on your career because you know we also had

[00:52:47] a long strike that we just came about and during the strike I was working on myself tape skills

[00:52:54] on you know classes on myself on my body you know you can't just relax during those times and

[00:53:00] think oh well I don't know when we're working or whatever you have to you know keep yeah doing

[00:53:05] everything in each year career and everything like that. Work on your craft that's one thing

[00:53:09] that even you're working on you have to do a lot of things you are also working on your body so

[00:53:14] that's the fitness fitness freak that you have that that really helps you know sometimes you're

[00:53:18] just you know lazy and tired but you're fitness freak now that's a whole different game for you

[00:53:22] you are always rushing up with some kind of energy throughout today so yeah great great to get

[00:53:28] back to be good with your money because it does come in falls and then it's really linear so

[00:53:33] you have to be smart about your money it doesn't mean that I don't like you know treat myself or

[00:53:38] whatever but you know we wise how I spend my money and and I'm not someone who's like designer labels

[00:53:45] very much or whatever but you know my thing is more this or you know whatever but you just have to

[00:53:49] be smart about it you know you have to realize okay I got this windfall but hold on it might have

[00:53:54] to last me you know maybe it doesn't I don't know but you know probably we'll have to laugh.

[00:53:59] You need to calculate that okay is this going to happen to me for next few months or just

[00:54:04] for this week and then there's nothing coming for next few weeks yeah I just have to be very

[00:54:08] calculated. Yeah and that's something people really need to think of too because my cousin who

[00:54:14] makes a lot of money as a private pilot he's like I could never do what you do because of the uncertainty

[00:54:19] of finances you know and he's like it would stress me out so much so you have to be that type of

[00:54:23] person too who is okay with that you know and okay with no people eat mac and cheese for a while

[00:54:29] and you don't do those. Yeah okay yeah I mean it takes different kind of love for art

[00:54:41] and for particular this fee for an acting so and that's why you know there's this answer because

[00:54:46] that's where people choose and then they really stick to it because then they figure out. So

[00:54:50] there's jobs so for example anyone is having a job what advice you'd like to you know what's

[00:54:55] your take on having a job and doing a job a part-time job what's your take on that for a new

[00:55:00] beginner or anyone who's writing what's your take on having a job. Well you mean having like a

[00:55:06] second job during the time at the same time yeah when they're just auditioning for a role what's

[00:55:11] your take on it? I think it's easier now having a part-time job because before you had the well

[00:55:16] in an L.A. still a lot there's in-person auditions and you forget a last minute audition and you

[00:55:21] just have to be there so it was much harder to have a part-time job and leave the job or not show

[00:55:26] up or you have to choose like oh should I go with the audition I'm here for acting I don't know

[00:55:31] you know but I think it's a lot easier now with this self-keeping thing yeah because usually I

[00:55:36] think they'll give you a few hours to do the self-take or a few days. I know union rules now

[00:55:40] they give us a few days so you can be at your work and go oh I got an audition but it's not due

[00:55:45] to tell Monday or something like that so then you go home and pay for it or whatever so it is

[00:55:49] much easier now if you want to have a part-time job but just be careful to not let that job

[00:55:55] take away the time that you would spend on your craft and your career and your auditions don't be

[00:55:59] like okay well I'm just gonna spend five minutes on this audition because I gotta go to work or whatever

[00:56:03] still invest if you're gonna do that you know still keep the investment in both you know places so

[00:56:08] yeah good to you. I see a lot of people have like normal jobs because of the

[00:56:14] off-taping and stuff and that's great you know if you have a flexible crop or you know you're

[00:56:18] able to do that time wise then that's good. And that also helps a lot of you know just to maintain

[00:56:24] your financials you know good cash flow coming in when there is no work or you can maintain that

[00:56:29] particular time period where you can do the online job and then you can maintain your offline

[00:56:34] where you need to visit the studios or the casting offices where you can you know particularly

[00:56:38] give that particular audition and then go back and switch back to the online job yeah I guess

[00:56:42] yeah that's how I need to invest in classes and coaching the things that you need to do so

[00:56:48] that's what I'm saying. Yeah, lighting that's okay you know. The little buying the light on Amazon

[00:56:54] yeah and that's that's one thing so it's good to know all the things that you did till the state

[00:57:02] and the way that you roll you got to put them out of energy. I guess the one thing that I see from

[00:57:07] you is you're talking you're expressing yourself and this is just one percent of you what I'm seeing

[00:57:11] at this moment you're much more in what a in person you'd be much more energetic and I guess from

[00:57:17] the day you started till this now that's how the music came inside you and that's how the musical

[00:57:23] drama of thing happened for you because this energy that was required you know to do this all

[00:57:28] kind of activities that you did and you told me about how you grew up your mom being a big part

[00:57:34] of yourself single parenting for you then you chasing all the musical drama musical theater music

[00:57:41] then acting happened and then you thought okay acting is really working good you went out for it

[00:57:46] you fought for it and then all kind of roles were just like dream roles that you wanted that to

[00:57:51] happen in your real life you were getting all those roles and you're playing it with all of your

[00:57:57] energy you are really energetic also your fitness peak now till this whole of 20 I guess 20 plus

[00:58:04] years of journey I can say 30 years and you got a lot of experience met a lot of people

[00:58:12] you're seeing the phases changes you know the decades where there's a shift in the industry

[00:58:18] you know every five years you're seeing all those ships from friends till now stranger things

[00:58:22] you're seeing all the shift with the castings where people meeting directors producers

[00:58:27] the change in the medium now ODD streaming platforms so for example you've seen those now people

[00:58:34] who are just starting out and not seeing these changes you know you're the one who's seen

[00:58:38] generations change you know in that particular media from you know big screen to now mobile and

[00:58:43] SPD then castings have changed so for example with all this experience that you've gained throughout

[00:58:50] these soul changes throughout these 30 years if there's an artist if there's a girl who's just like

[00:58:55] you you know single parent or normal just normal parenting but is the girl was looking out to be

[00:59:02] something in this industry in LA in UK what advice you'd like to pass on from yourself as

[00:59:09] advice to every artist every single artist that will help them guide them to be a better one

[00:59:16] in next few years well for one thing you have to be ready for rejection and criticism

[00:59:25] and that can be really tough and so but I just want you to be aware of that because some people

[00:59:32] think oh it's just gonna happen and oh booking a commercial is so easy or whatever

[00:59:37] but you have to put in the work it takes work it's it's not a sprint it's a marathon you know

[00:59:42] so it's very rare that someone's in overnight success so give it time and but make sure you're ready

[00:59:50] because if it happens tomorrow then you need to be ready you know you not to be like oh wait

[00:59:55] I gotta take this class or I need to lose 10 pounds or whatever you have to always be ready even

[01:00:00] if it is the holidays or even if it is during a strike or whatever you always need to be ready

[01:00:05] and um not that you need a thick skin for the criticism and rejection but just be prepared for it

[01:00:10] and know it is nothing about you like don't take it personally it's just they wanted this way

[01:00:16] or whatever it doesn't reflect on you so don't take it inside and I feel like be well-rounded too

[01:00:23] yes I want you know focus on your career and yourself and be ready but have other hobbies

[01:00:28] have other interests because not only does that make you more well-rounded like people who are in

[01:00:33] the industry and they're asking about you they don't want to hear about acting you know unless

[01:00:38] they're really saying like oh what did you want kind of class and are you yeah they want to know

[01:00:42] you and what you know makes you happy and and besides acting what is that you know um so the hobbies

[01:00:49] will make you more well-rounded give you something to talk about and they give you also just

[01:00:55] life and you know I'm being well-rounded in life makes you more happy anyway you know

[01:00:59] yeah fine what centers you find what gives you peace and hopefully you have a support system

[01:01:06] that's positive it's hard when the friends or family are either jealous or like well how long

[01:01:12] are you gonna give this you know like how long you try to do whatever so that happens um and

[01:01:17] and if it's family you know then that's okay just be like um well you know I got this it's okay

[01:01:24] you know and don't try to bring in their input you know like try to get the support group from

[01:01:29] friends that will lift you up whether it's in your files or other hobbies that are like oh my god

[01:01:34] that's so cool like I have friends that aren't in the industry and they're like what that's crazy

[01:01:38] cool you know sometimes if you have friends you know it's harder sometimes they could be jealous

[01:01:43] or whatever but hopefully you find a good support system because it's so important we're not in this

[01:01:48] alone you know it all helps to support each other and just be this well-rounded person so

[01:01:55] great thank you thank you so much for this advice I know this is going to help a lot of you know

[01:01:59] young girls and young boys who are entering in this industry uh the couple of 18-year-olds you know

[01:02:05] 19-year-olds who just started because they loved a film and then they thought hey I'm going to join

[01:02:10] and I'm going to be an actor and then they just jump in and there's a what the hell is this uh

[01:02:15] this is uh this was a lot of patience and a lot of hard work and then you have to be ready whenever

[01:02:20] the call comes in it's not like hey I was ready this time now I'm not ready you have to be there

[01:02:25] that's one thing I got from you it's like every single time and most of all because you are model

[01:02:30] and you were doing modeling for pig magazines you need you know that uh have good control over your

[01:02:36] body over your body is really important what you eat is really important and then to maintain that

[01:02:41] for good amount of period is really uh what do we say you know a challenging job uh in this field

[01:02:47] so thank you so much Lisa thank you for being on the show thank you for sharing all this

[01:02:52] wonderful memories and the events that you had in last couple of months also the big break out was

[01:02:57] the friends thing thank you for sharing that particular thing with me you know uh everyone is

[01:03:01] going to enjoy this uh this was really wonderful knowing you I never thought you'd be this energetic

[01:03:06] uh never had I never had any I saw your interviews you know I never thought you'd be this

[01:03:11] energetic in this interview uh you'd be you know just you know talking to me very professionally

[01:03:16] which you were like going all those things when you were telling about it that really

[01:03:20] jailed me up and that really you know how she's cool you know she she really enjoys what she does

[01:03:25] and and still she you know she's enjoying this particular session also so uh that that was cool

[01:03:32] and I really loved uh this and I'm really grateful that you said yes to be on the show thank you

[01:03:38] thank you so much yeah I enjoyed it too it was so much fun and you're easy to talk to

[01:03:44] thank you thank you so much I was preparing I was very excited for this interview but

[01:03:48] I thought like December it really worked uh most of the time we schedule things and it doesn't

[01:03:53] because it's holiday for you you know it's holiday season and that's really tricky time you know

[01:03:58] you may re-schedule this because it's a Christmas but yeah it worked and I'm happy that it worked

[01:04:04] Merry Christmas to you too thank you to you too okay okay great great thank you thank you so much

[01:04:10] and hey everyone I am Ajay Tambay the host and producer of great your use Jordan Parkhouse

[01:04:15] and now I'm signing off