Being an actor is a great blessing because you get to step into a character, usually at the most pivotal points in their life—you learn their biggest lessons, integrate them into your own understanding, and, if you’re lucky, move on to another character in another transformative moment. This means you, as the actor, get to evolve through the characters if you let them teach you. It was as if these women, these powerful characters, were each trying to teach me something. They were like waking dreams coming through my subconscious. And because I struggled with fully understanding myself, my
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