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In todays episode we introduce Sophia Galvis, someone of many talents! We talk about her early beginnings as an actor, how acting has impacted her life, her recent award of being Miss Teen Georgia, and much more!
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Sophia Galvis
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Speaker 2:Honestly, deviled eggs. I love a good deviled egg.
Speaker 1:Is that a Thanksgiving food?
Speaker 2:We're gonna say it is because I love them. Actually, I think it should be in every holiday food.
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Speaker 2:Everything holiday.
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Speaker 2:It's my favorite food. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well, about turkey and ham? Do you like ham or turkey?
Speaker 2:I'm not a huge meat person. Really? Honestly, I'm not like, Oh my gosh, I love meat. I'll eat it and it's good, but I don't go out of my way to eat it.
Speaker 1:Okay. But you're not a vegetarian?
Speaker 2:No, definitely not. I like pepperoni and Chick fil A. I love Chick fil A.
Speaker 1:I feel like working at Chick fil A has I like Chick fil A, but I feel like whenever I worked there, I was like, I don't like Chick fil A.
Speaker 2:I bet, yeah, because you just work there for likeand it's like food, and it's all you smell all day.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm going introduce the podcast then. Are you ready? Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome to the creator's table podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm your host, Tyler Watson, and we're here with Sophia Galvis. Come up with little, little round of applause guys. Not as big of a round of applause because everybody quit. Yeah, the whole team quit. It's been a real rough.
Speaker 1:It's been a whole, it was a rough week guys, right? Yeah. All the, the, the Americans are America's tired. Isn't that what you said? You don't I just remember you commented that in some way, I thought it was really funny.
Speaker 1:Anyways, so how are you doing today?
Speaker 2:I'm doing pretty good. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 1:It is a Saturday. Yeah. It's the weekend, and you're working, kind of. Is this work to you?
Speaker 2:I think it's more fun. I mean, it be called I mean, work can be fun, but acting
Speaker 1:is fun. Mean, I'm not paying you.
Speaker 2:That's true, so technically not work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so technically this is supposed to be fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is fun.
Speaker 1:It's good. Well, why don't you give us a little introduction on yourself and tell us about you, I guess.
Speaker 2:Okay, well I'm Sofia and I work in film and entertainment. So I do a lot of acting and modeling as well as pageants, it all comes together. I also advocate for my autoimmune disease.
Speaker 1:Did you want to tell us about that? Do you want to talk about that first, kind of get that out of the way? About lupus?
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah, so lupus is an autoimmune disease. It's where your immune system can't tell the difference between a virus because technically the immune system is supposed to fight off viruses, but it can't tell the difference between a virus and your own body. It just attacks everything. So in a similar way that the COVID-nineteen worked, that's how lupus works.
Speaker 2:It just goes and attacks everything. So it can cause organ failure and a lot of other terminal issues.
Speaker 1:And when did you discover that you had this?
Speaker 2:I was diagnosed actually on my twelfth birthday.
Speaker 1:Oh really?
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty young.
Speaker 1:On your twelfth birthday?
Speaker 2:Exactly on my They twelfth
Speaker 1:kind of planned the appointment like a couple days after?
Speaker 2:Well it wasn't an appointment, it was an ER visit because we just got back from a cruise the night before. My parents were like, Okay, need
Speaker 1:to take her to the ER.
Speaker 2:So we're waiting in the emergency room, they take some tests, then it's like one a. M. By the time they're like, Oh, yep, so we know you have lupus now.
Speaker 1:Wow. I know there's some significance in the age that you were diagnosed with it. It's usually diagnosed with people older or how does that work, I guess?
Speaker 2:Usually older people between their 30s and 50s. It's most common in older Black women. Obviously, I'm not an old Black woman, but I am half Hispanic, so it is also common in Hispanics as well. And Selena Gomez has lupus.
Speaker 1:So basically, you and Selena Gomez have something in common?
Speaker 2:We do. The acting, the lupus, both being Latina.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's a horrible way to put two things together. But if you met Selena Gomez today, do you think you would put these two things together and be like, Hey, we're we're the same?
Speaker 2:Oh, I already have. Like, when when I when I graduated, I wrote her, like, a whole letter. And, like, I love Selena. She is definitely an inspiration. Oh, really?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Because she's been in the public eye going through all of her lupus stuff and going through all of her kidney failure. She's had to do that publicly. Well, I got to do it privately, luckily.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess dealing with that publicly. But now you're kind of going a little bit more you want to kind of be public about it, I think now.
Speaker 2:Right, but during while I was on chemo and while I was in recovery, was private. During her intense medical problems, she was in public eye and she got a lot of hate for that.
Speaker 1:Hate for it, really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because she had a lot of body changes. It does mess up your body. You know when people get sick, they just start looking different.
Speaker 1:That's sad. That's a really unfortunate side of media that comes out. I think you also have to realize that probably 1% are actual haters. Ninety nine percent of people probably still realize Selena Gomez is freaking awesome
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, but it's a loud minority.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a loud minority. That's kind of how social media is nowadays. It's really unfortunate how you'll go on social media, see some person getting all this hate, and then they're like, Oh, people hate all the stuff that I post. Then it's like, No, that's three people who just don't have anything better
Speaker 2:to do. Exactly, but that hurts the most.
Speaker 1:Exactly. That's the That's why I always tell people, I like social media. I like learning about social media, but also it's horrible for me. It's terrible. Do you like social media?
Speaker 2:I do like social media. I don't think social media is the problem. I think it's the people that
Speaker 1:use it. Well, is very true. It's honestly just a weaponized platform.
Speaker 2:Right, because it can be such a great thing. It's used to bring awareness to illnesses, to lupus, breast cancer awareness. It's used to communicate and help people, and it can be used for so many good things.
Speaker 1:That's a really good thing to point out, because I think everybody always says, Oh, social media is bad for you, but it's just the people who are on it who make it bad to be on, It's I like if we said cars were a bad thing to drive because everybody were bad drivers. But no, cars are great. I love cars. I love driving. You want to tell us about your acting career a little bit?
Speaker 1:You want to dive into that now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I started acting around the pandemic time, and that's because I decided, I mean, was really sick. I wasn't sure how long I would live or if I would be able to live a long life. I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna go follow my dreams, gonna do it now. There's no point in waiting, so might as well.
Speaker 2:So during the pandemic, I did start acting, I got into film. I have been acting since I was nine, it's always been a dream, but that's when I was doing theater, I was more plays, it was more like a oh, that's in the future type thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. You're doing it more for Even though you're still doing it for fun, I hope you still enjoy it, but at that point it's more of just like, Oh, I just enjoy this as more of a hobby, and now it seems like it's more of an active pursuit in a career. It
Speaker 2:is a career. I have made it into a career. I'm taking all online classes, so I can act and go to set anytime during the week I need to and then work on school.
Speaker 1:And how does that work? Are you on sets around the clock? Are you doing this one week where you're just on set all the time? How does that work for you?
Speaker 2:It's on and off. It's not every week, but usually when I do get called to set, it's more consistently during that one week. A couple weeks ago, was filming nonstop and that was really intense. Now I've kind of had a break, but I'm sure in a week or so it'll pick back up. But that's the thing, because I can get an email saying, hey, I need you on set tomorrow at 5AM.
Speaker 2:That's great. Yeah. Need be
Speaker 1:there a favorite set that you've worked with so far that you want to share, how that went, stuff like that?
Speaker 2:I would say the most recent one I did was probably I really, really enjoyed that one. We wrapped on it two months ago, and I was filming for that six weeks. Yeah, it took about six weeks to film. And it was such a good cast and my co stars were very fun to be really just hung out all the time. It was a whole bunch of like, I can't say too much, but it was a whole bunch of people around my age.
Speaker 2:We just got to hang out between scenes and in the trailer it's just between filming.
Speaker 1:I kind of talked about this with the last guy because he a director as well. I guess I'm wondering, do you ever feel like I think the word would be impostor syndrome. You kind of feel like you're in a situation where you don't necessarily belong, but because there's all these people who you think are like, Oh, this person's so experienced and been doing this a long time. Do you ever go into those environments and be like, Oh crap, these people are so frail?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, all the time. All the time, I'm on set, I'm just like, Am I supposed to be here?
Speaker 1:I'm a child.
Speaker 2:Working with adults and being directed by adults, the director is the man, the president.
Speaker 1:That'd be very stressful, I feel like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is, especially as a 15 year old working on a set, just trying to take instructions from all these different people. The director's telling you one thing and then the camera will be like, Okay, but I need you to stand here. And so you're trying to take instructions from all these different people. And then you have the makeup and hair people always picking and pulling at your face and your hair while you're trying to take these instructions.
Speaker 1:And you're like, What is going on? Do you get these scripts ahead of I assume you get a script, right? Yeah. Do they give this to you beforehand for you to prepare or
Speaker 2:They do usually mean, depends. Sometimes they'll give you the full script, but that's not always the case because they'll want to keep it under wraps. Sometimes usually at least debrief the scene, and you'll get the pages of several different scenes for future filming dates.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. I mean, because I feel like I would be like if I had a bunch of lines to prepare for and they're just like, okay, look at this for ten seconds and then do it.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing. It's so repetitive, and you go over scenes five or six different times at least where you just read the line before and just go. Unless you're trying to monologue a scene, you definitely have to. If you have a monologue, you'll want to memorize that before you
Speaker 1:You said before we started recording something about practicing monologues. I believe you said something like that.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's what I was doing last night. Was up late working on monologues and just working on some different reels for ages.
Speaker 1:Do you have a roommate?
Speaker 2:I do.
Speaker 1:Did your roommate have to endure just going through it like 15 times?
Speaker 2:Thankfully, she sleeps like a rock, but sometimes she'll wake up the next morning and she'll be like, Safiya, I heard you say that line like four different times. You could have done better. I'm
Speaker 1:like, Dang.
Speaker 2:She's kidding. She's kidding, of course. But she's just acknowledging that she did hear me yelling at 4AM in my monologue.
Speaker 1:I think monologues are one of the for actors to actually do. Even when I record myself, whether it be for an ad or something for the podcast, I'm always messing up. I get annoyed at myself because I keep messing it up, and I have what I need to read here, and I keep slipping on my words, stuff like that, stuttering. Think it just really takes a lot of skill to be able to prepare for a monologue and then execute it, Especially with how long it is. Do you know how long some of these monologues are?
Speaker 2:They can be anywhere from thirty seconds to five minutes. It just depends.
Speaker 1:How long is the one you were working on?
Speaker 2:The one I was working on, that was two minutes. It wasn't bad.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's bad. Feel like do you have to do it word for word or do you have room to like paraphrase?
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely paraphrase as long as you're into character. Mean, obviously it's up to like the director and like whoever is in charge. Like they'll be like, oh, well, you need to stick to the script line by line. But then other times it'll be like creative freedom. You're the actor, you're bringing the character to life, you have room to grow them and to grow also with the character.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it would be important to be able to take the creative liberty with it, I guess. But I guess also, yeah, sometimes if it's key to the movie, to the plot, then you actually have to not paraphrase it too much.
Speaker 2:Right, because obviously sometimes they're like, You need to get the point across. Sometimes there may be keywords in a line that you need to include, but during monologues, typically there's a little more freedom.
Speaker 1:Now, are you mainly doing films or are you kind of doing something Do you ever do shows?
Speaker 2:Oh, well, mean, guess, yeah, I do do movies. I wrapped on that show two months ago, but I have done several movies before
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:When I was 15, 16. I've done a couple horror films, so that was fun.
Speaker 1:You give us some examples of ones you've done in the past that you can share?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, of course. There's this film Through the Veil. That one was a lot of fun to film. See, I don't really like horror movies, but I've been in several, so that's kind of funny. But I was the younger version of the main character, And the first day on set, I I show up to set, and I'm like, I don't like dolls.
Speaker 2:I don't like ghosts. I don't like any of that. So I show up first day on set. Immediately, they hand me a doll, and they say, this is your new best friend. Like, great.
Speaker 2:And then they proceed to tell me the backstory of how this doll is haunted. So Yeah. That just adds to the entire effect of how this is a creepy doll.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's just like I I do think that's kind of cool to, like, be scared live while doing the recording, but I wouldn't like that. I'd be like, No. I'm already probably so stressed out as it is because I'm on a film set, and now you're going to actually scare me.
Speaker 2:Right. I was like, what am I supposed to do with this? I was like, No. Because we got the role. That's great.
Speaker 2:We're very happy we got the role. So first thing on set, we have to be compliant to holding the creepy doll for a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the guy we had who was the director, he was telling us about how he got advice to never let your arms sag and to always be like this when you're on set. Always cross your arms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as the director. That's probably why they always look so bossy. They always look like they know what they're doing.
Speaker 1:They're like, You have no chill, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, they look, they're scary. The director, crew members, they're scary sometimes.
Speaker 1:Be like, always, because obviously we do the podcast here and everybody we have on the team is by no means a professional. But everybody is doing a great job, Okay. You're all so good, but we're not professionals. We're a bunch of college students. I wonder if we're doing this right.
Speaker 1:It's cool to go into a situation where everybody is so professional, they've worked on sets a ton, and then you're getting to experience that. Now have you been the head role for any of these?
Speaker 2:No. It's due. Coming. It's Right? You have to work up to the top.
Speaker 2:I have not been like a lead lead. The one that horror film I did, I was the main character, but the younger version of So I wasn't like kind of. But especially some of the bigger stuff I've done, definitely not. Like the Netflix show, I didn't have a name, but I was technically a mean girl.
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Speaker 1:Who is your favorite actor you've worked with? Or maybe if there's one that's, I guess, whether it be the person who was the most well known that you worked with or
Speaker 2:I have been with Millie Bobby Brown on set before.
Speaker 1:Oh really? How was it meeting Millie Bobby Brown? What was that like?
Speaker 2:Let me tell you, I cannot figure out her accent. And I think she's from The UK. Is that where she's from?
Speaker 1:Yeah, think she's from The UK.
Speaker 2:But I think she's been working on Stranger Things here as Eleven for so long. It's just kind of a mix between a British accent and American accent. It's really pretty.
Speaker 1:Well, guess because they were all so young when they started, they're probably still developing somewhat of an accent, I guess. And maybe she's just been mixing it up. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't It's definitely interesting. I have American friends who went over to England, and they're kind of like, yeah, mean, I kind of start talking like a British accent sometimes. I'm like, oh, that's so interesting.
Speaker 1:I don't think, only British the I'm not going to do it with my accent right now because I would feel embarrassed. But the only British accent I know is very it's a very comical accent, I guess. I don't know how to do it where it actually just sounds like a good British accent. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:No, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Do you ever have to do accents?
Speaker 2:Not for films. I do for fun, but I haven't had to do Do an accent
Speaker 1:for a show you think you'll be able to do that well? You think you can do a British accent?
Speaker 2:I can do a British accent pretty well. I can do other accents, but the British accent is probably the easiest to do.
Speaker 1:Are you from Georgia?
Speaker 2:I was born in Georgia.
Speaker 1:Oh, well there you go. Speaking of Georgia, I kind of want to bring one other thing up. So you were Teen Miss Georgia?
Speaker 2:Currently for twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1:yes. I'm going be honest. Don't hate me for this. I had not heard of that before. So what is that like?
Speaker 1:How did you win? How does that work?
Speaker 2:Pageantry is another industry in itself. It could be considered film and entertainment, but it's a sport in a way. It's very competitive. And obviously you have the bigger pageants like the Miss America, Miss USA, but then there's also other pageants that do get a lot of publicity that are secondary, but they're just not filmed as much. They're just not as much on social media.
Speaker 2:This is the Miss American Royalty Pageant. And I've only been doing pageants for like a year.
Speaker 1:And you already won Miss Steen Georgia.
Speaker 2:I've done two pageants. So I got a letter to do National American Miss, which is a pretty big pageant for Georgia. I placed top 10 in state, so that was cool. I got to was a lot It of was a lot. It was at least 100 finalists.
Speaker 1:Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I felt like top 10 was pretty good for that.
Speaker 1:Oh, of course it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And then I got scouted for this other one then. What is it? Miss American Royalty Pageant. I got scouted for that one and then trained and then competed in that one and then won state.
Speaker 1:And you got scouted for it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Does I So like sports. When you're scouting, I'm like, like a football player? Like you've got a crazy vertical? How were you scouted for it? Were you seen in one of your films or something like that?
Speaker 2:No, I was seen competing for the previous pageant that I did.
Speaker 1:Oh, so okay.
Speaker 2:That's how I got scattered for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Because I just like after that, I was like, no. No more pageants. I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2:Was just like, because, you know, I'm a I'm a try everything once type of person. That's why I was like
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'll do the first one. Was
Speaker 1:You're trying to be a multi tool of modeling and acting.
Speaker 2:All the things.
Speaker 1:How was it like winning Miss Teen Georgia?
Speaker 2:It was crazy. Honestly, it was not expected. But it was also like, wow, my hard work and effort was appreciated because up to the point of the pageant, I was listening to podcasts and vigorously training every day. I listened to pageant podcasts. I had a coach and I was trained very intently on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's really, I've never been, I've never really seen a lot from pageants. So this is something I'm gonna have to look into more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of people don't.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna need to like, see how, Do film the competition, I guess, for when you won?
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of times the competitions are filmed. Pretty much everything is filmed. It's not publicized as much as the other ones, but yeah, it's filmed.
Speaker 1:Maybe we need to put that link in the description so
Speaker 2:you check
Speaker 1:it out. We have royalty in the room. That's how I see it. There's no royalty in Georgia, but there technically is now.
Speaker 2:Well, there's so many other pageants that have queens and others. It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 1:Okay. Did you do this through your high school or is private, I guess?
Speaker 2:No. It was kind of private. I didn't really do it through my high school. It was just like, Oh, I got a letter in the mail saying, Oh, you're invited to compete in this pageant.
Speaker 1:If I got a letter like that, I'd be like, Dang. I'd be very wondering how they found me and why the heck they picked me, but I'd be like, Okay, this is kind
Speaker 2:of You're recommended by people. That's what the letters are.
Speaker 1:It's kind of like networking then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, networking.
Speaker 1:Would you ever go on one of those talent shows or whatever, like America's Got Talent or anything like that?
Speaker 2:I don't know what my talent would be if I did that.
Speaker 1:Just pick something, honestly. Be there. Yeah. Do yo yo stuff or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Do some fun stuff out of it. I don't know. I only point that out because the people who go on these shows, these competitive shows, even if they don't even win the first round, it's still really good for their brand. They still get publicized a lot.
Speaker 2:Right. It's a lot of publicity, but you just have to know what you're doing. You have to be able to get on the talent show
Speaker 1:and go for a first round of auditions and everything. Maybe I'll just interview somebody. Maybe I'll just be like, I'm going to interview somebody, and then they're going to give me the gold buzzer after an hour of interviewing somebody.
Speaker 2:I'm to go on America's Got Talent with the whole interview table and just sit there and interview somebody.
Speaker 1:Know, I'm going be honest.
Speaker 2:Just interview one of the judges. Think I would like that.
Speaker 1:Is Howie still on America's Got Talent?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah. Last time I checked.
Speaker 1:He's the one of those judges I actually like because Dealer No Deal was in a fantastic show. Is this still going on? I don't know. That's besides the point because we're not talking about Deal or No Deal, we're talking about you. So, if you had a dream role in a movie, what would your dream role be?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I started acting because I love that in film and in like stories, can literally make stories come to life. Like, you can do the impossible in film and in theater. And that's just what I love about it. Let your imagination run wild. In that, I would love to be in an action space movie.
Speaker 2:I want to be the Tom Cruise of the world. Know I'm That'd be sick. In a Marvel movie. Stark would be a dream role as Tony Stark's daughter. Oh, I feel like that would be such a cool role.
Speaker 1:Somebody's going have to bring something up to you later because I can already see she's so excited. That would be super cool. You know how some of these action movies have these really intense workout routines to get super toned and stuff like that? Right. I totally could.
Speaker 2:I work out. I do cardio a lot, I go to the gym pretty much every day, run between six to eight miles. I'm trying to raise it to train for a half marathon.
Speaker 1:You've got this master sheet of stuff you haven't done yet, and you're like, Oh, check that.
Speaker 2:Just check it. I mean, why not? Try everything. I want to go skydiving, paragliding.
Speaker 1:You want to go skydiving?
Speaker 2:All the things.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay. I don't know if I'd go skydiving. I would love to watch you from the ground.
Speaker 2:From the ground.
Speaker 1:I'm already afraid of heights, I
Speaker 2:am, too. I have anxiety. But you know what? You're afraid
Speaker 1:of heights, but you don't want to Okay, that's crazy. Okay, you know what? I saw a video of a guy jump out of a plane with no parachute. There was a net, though.
Speaker 2:See, that's a one time thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is a one time thing. He might have done it twice because he did survive.
Speaker 2:Oh, so there was a net? Okay. Because you can do that. You can jump out of an airplane without a parachute, it's only a one time thing.
Speaker 1:We put a disclaimer on the bottom where it's like, we do not recommend jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. We have to say that, you know, that's just how it goes. So acting is your favorite, though, out of all of these creative endeavors.
Speaker 2:That's what started all
Speaker 1:of this was acting, and the rest kind of comes with it. Well, they're all kind of related, too. I mean, it's
Speaker 2:like Film and entertainment.
Speaker 1:If you do pageantry, you have to work on yourself a lot. If you want to do a half marathon, you have to work on yourself a lot. Acting is a skill of itself, but it's also looking like an actor.
Speaker 2:Right. That's why I started working out because I'm up to be in films and I'm filmed a lot.
Speaker 1:Have you been recognized yet in public? Somebody would be like, I remember you from this.
Speaker 2:I actually have. I have had several people come up to me. They're like, Do I know you? I'm like, What do you mean? They're like, You look so familiar.
Speaker 2:I'm like, Well, act in some films and stuff, maybe that's why. They're like, That's why I watched this movie. I was like, Really? Kind of cool. It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:I feel like if maybe you're one of those I know some actors get really annoyed when they get pointed out. I guess it's because they get pointed out so much. I guess if I were a Will Smith of the world, I would probably get pretty tired of it. I feel like those first few times you were getting recognized, that would be so humbling. That would be like, Oh wow,
Speaker 2:actually No, so surprised to be. Genuinely surprised me that I'm like, Wait, what do you mean you've seen it? Kind of crazy. Can we
Speaker 1:be friends now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would love to be friends. We just hang out.
Speaker 1:Well, now I wish I would have watched. Now I've got to watch something that you've been in so I can secondhand recognize
Speaker 2:you Oh, it's for so embarrassing, because then my friends are like, What have you been in? What have you been in? We want to know, because they want to watch stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So you probably don't Do you share a ton of the stuff you've been in or in your close environment do you kind of not talk
Speaker 2:I try to keep it separate because I know it's like a big thing to do, to act and do all of that. And it can be taken the wrong way,
Speaker 1:I feel like, if you just talk about
Speaker 2:it too much. It's just honestly, I'm just I'm just a nerdy theater kid. Like, I love theater. I'm obsessed with Hamilton and That's just the career path I chose, but I feel like it can be taken out of context if you're just always talking about it. I try to keep it separate.
Speaker 1:I get that. I talk about this podcast with people very much.
Speaker 2:You'd be just like, Oh, I have a podcast just casually.
Speaker 1:Honestly. I don't even bring it out to people. I kind of avoid it, I guess, which was bad for marketing, but I'm kind of like, I don't. Cause then I don't want the questions of people being like, you interview people? Like, what's that like?
Speaker 1:And I'm like, well, just enjoy it. It's just, it's just fun.
Speaker 2:It's just fun. You just like doing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. It's just what I do. It doesn't have to be anything. People get, I think people actually react more when I tell them I work in an ice cream shop than I do for the podcast. Really?
Speaker 1:People go crazy when I tell them I work in an ice cream shop.
Speaker 2:People go crazy over ice cream in general.
Speaker 1:Ice cream, you scream, we all scream ice cream. Nobody's ever said that to me at my work. So we have this sign at my job. Sorry, I'm going talk about myself.
Speaker 2:No, I to hear about the ice cream shop.
Speaker 1:We have this sign. It's a little sign, and it says, Teach your kids' taxes. Eat 50% of their ice cream or something. And I hate it. I hate it so much because it's supposed to be this funny joke, but people come in, parents will come in and read it and laugh and like, look to me, Oh, the amount of times that I've had people come up to me, and it's just so annoying because they're like, Oh, isn't that hilarious?
Speaker 1:And I'm like, Oh, it's so funny.
Speaker 2:But you hear it every time. You see it whenever you go
Speaker 1:into it. Yeah, it's like a joke that is so old, you're so tired of hearing it.
Speaker 2:You're done just pretending to find it hilarious.
Speaker 1:It wasn't funny at the beginning and it's not funny now.
Speaker 2:That's funny.
Speaker 1:And then people are going look at me and be like, Tyler, you're just such a Debbie Downer. I'm like, I know. That's just me, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hope your boss is listening to this. He's going to take a note.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. One of my bosses is my boss does just throw it away now after this. Well, what was it like? Now when you get let me know if you can talk about this. Okay.
Speaker 1:Because I'm always weird asking this question, but I feel like it's a cool question. Like, for work in acting, is it a do you get paid hourly or do you get paid by, like, the gig, I guess?
Speaker 2:I actually, so far, I've gotten paid hourly. And I know for a lot of bigger Netflix show, they do contracts with actors and for the cast, but I haven't been a huge role on a film And like that's the difference between SAG AFTRA and non union. So SAG is you know what that is, right?
Speaker 1:I don't and the listener might not.
Speaker 2:Okay. Sorry about My fault. Fault. No. You're It's basically like the union of actors.
Speaker 2:It protects actors in their own right. It gives them certain rights and makes sure they get paid properly. They get certain rules if you're part of the union. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah. It's of the basic form of a union of trying to better the work environment for actors, I
Speaker 2:Basically. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So you can be part of that union, and typically it does come with more pay, but you can't work for non union jobs if you're part of the union.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. So there's only certain ones that are like, We only approve these
Speaker 2:Right. It's typically bigger shows and stuff. Okay. But that's how you get paid, more like contract signed.
Speaker 1:And are you in SAG?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no. I feel like I would want to be definitely if I am bigger one day, but for now I just want to be nonunion. So I can do all of the things. I can do non union projects and just be when and where because it's also you have to be more careful. You have to follow certain rules and not ready to be in that yet.
Speaker 1:Have you done any student films?
Speaker 2:I have done several, yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you do any here with the film group?
Speaker 2:I haven't done any with KSU, no.
Speaker 1:Would Not you?
Speaker 2:I would definitely.
Speaker 1:You have the time for it?
Speaker 2:Definitely. I love acting. Anytime I can act in a film.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's no shortage of experience. Why limit yourself? You know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, mean, really, I just want to act like you can a lot of people like I'm trying to think. No, you're fine. Take your Okay, I had it in my head. So you can't act because you wanna be famous. You have to act because you love acting.
Speaker 2:If you're going in for the money and for the fame, it's not gonna work out for you. That's not what it's for. You have to do it because you love acting. Ultimately, you're not going be famous. It's like winning the lottery.
Speaker 2:You know what? That's okay. You just have to love acting. That's what the game is.
Speaker 1:I feel like you also have to be a likable person. If you're just be like, I just want money and fame, nobody's really going to
Speaker 2:Everybody's going hate you and nobody's going want to hire you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then nobody's going to want to work with you because all your acting buddies are going to be like, Nah, this person's just super egotistical. We don't need them.
Speaker 2:Right. Word gets around in the industry, so they'll know.
Speaker 1:I definitely feel like that would be an interesting industry where you really, really have to network.
Speaker 2:Right. When you're on set, you always need to be talking to crew, you need to be networking with makeup artists, anybody you can talk to, you need to be networking with them
Speaker 1:to climb. For sure. Let's see. And you're only 18. You've done all this stuff and you're only 18.
Speaker 1:You're just now getting into your adult career, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I've given my mom a lot of gray hairs.
Speaker 1:Oh, dang.
Speaker 2:Of all the stuff I've done. Are your parents? See, I stress her out.
Speaker 1:Are your parents very supportive?
Speaker 2:Oh, they're very supportive. They're all in. Actually, they push me more than I push myself. Honestly, they're like, Sofia, you socialize a lot. You need to focus on acting.
Speaker 2:You want to act, right? So you need to lock in.
Speaker 1:No friends, only act.
Speaker 2:Well, I move into the dorm, right? And so it's been so exciting and so fun making new friends. I've been socializing and talking a lot. Like, Sofia, you need to lock in.
Speaker 1:You need to lock in.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You can't just move into a dorm and just drop everything. I'm like, Yes, good still do some friends, though. Yeah. No, see, that's great.
Speaker 2:And I've made friends.
Speaker 1:And you know what? My social battery has kind
Speaker 2:of run low a bit because living in a dorm I've realized there's minimal alone time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're just with people 20 fourseven. That's the one thing about dorm life. If I was in a dorm, I feel like I be so dead all the time. I'm like, Oh, there's so much. Gotta talk with people all the time.
Speaker 2:Right, like you can literally go across the hall and knock on your friend's door. There's so much you could do. That's why I'm struggling with staying in the dorm and not having to be with people all the time. Now I'm trying to do that. I can just be in the dorm and do school and not have to socialize.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I really fear for college students who are that's the one thing. When I go to school, I'm like, alright, isolation mode. Really? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Like, put me in a dark room with no light. Not actually. That'd be kind of cool, though. I've got my little black You're in the zone. Yeah, I'm in the zone.
Speaker 1:But some people will just be doing schoolwork in the commons or something. Like, how?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't. I couldn't be able to focus. I would be listening to five different conversations and just not be able to.
Speaker 1:So you've been on multiple other podcasts before this, which is new because I usually don't interview people who've been on podcasts. How did we do?
Speaker 2:You guys did really good. From what I've seen, very professional.
Speaker 1:Are the other podcasts?
Speaker 2:I did one that was virtual and then the other ones were kind of in person, very similar setup. Obviously they had more intense cameras and mics headphones. Wait, what were
Speaker 1:the names? I feel like I remember you from one.
Speaker 2:Really?
Speaker 1:Do you know what your morning drive is? You ever heard
Speaker 2:of that? I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1:Oh, nevermind. Okay. No? I interviewed a guyhe might be listening to thisbut he does a podcast, and I interviewed him because he had been doing a podcast for years and has a studio and stuff like that. When I interviewed him, I was super stressed out because I was like, What if I interview him and he's like, This is a horrible setup.
Speaker 1:After we got done with the interview, he was like, This is exactly what I do. It's really scary. This is literally what I do.
Speaker 2:No, because this is a really good setup. This is very professional.
Speaker 1:You'll have to take a photo with him later. You see, if you look behind you, there's that guy.
Speaker 2:Oh, who's that?
Speaker 1:That's Young Thug. Oh. I don't know why. Maybe someday I'll share the story of why that's in here.
Speaker 2:I would really like to know because now I'm curious.
Speaker 1:This special feature will be forfollow our Patreonno, we don't have a Patreon. We have no way of making money yet, but it's okay.
Speaker 2:Yet. Keyword is yet.
Speaker 1:Patreon would be cool, and then I can share the story and you pay for it of how we got young thug. So I don't know. Well, is there any, my last and final question is as an actor, as a model, what is your advice to people going through that? Also, just somebody with lupus, what is your advice to people and what's your inspirational message to those people, people in your similar situation?
Speaker 2:Just do what you love. The only limits are what you put your mind to, genuinely. You may think these things are impossible, but they're not. They're only impossible because you make them impossible. Those are the limits you give yourself, and you have to keep pushing.
Speaker 2:You have to work for it. You have to make it come true.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Set a goal as high as you can, and if you don't reach it,
Speaker 2:It's not a dream, it's a goal.
Speaker 1:That's what it has to be. Well, everybody, thank you so much for listening. If you're looking to find any links for Sofia, they'll be down in the description. Maybe even the link to the pageantry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll see if I can find that.
Speaker 1:That may be. Editor, say if it's there. Actually, you won't even know. Never mind. Don't do that.
Speaker 1:Anyways, have a great day. Thank you for listening. Bye!