Full Transcript for S4 Ep37: Voice Actress – Cricket Leigh

comments. 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:51.680 I'm on the floor of the company. 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:52.879 Oh, I love that. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:55.040 So I I do lots of stocking. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:56.560 They're like all over my walls. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:58.720 My malls are like covered in autographs. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:00.000 Um, I love it. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:00.560 Yeah. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.199 So one thing I will confess is I actually don't watch anime. 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:06.399 That's okay. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:07.519 It's okay. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:09.439 I always tell people that's okay. 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.480 But in my stocking, I I like it pops everywhere. 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:14.879 Um, people hate me for it, but that's okay. 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:21.680 Um, but in my stocking, I found out that you're not just um a voice actress. 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.160 Oh no, I'm not. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:27.680 I'm a I mean I'm a regular actress, if that's what you're referring to. 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:30.560 So, yes, I'm a I'm a I'm a stage actress. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.759 You are first, first and last, right? 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.240 So, meaning that's me forever. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.279 That's my bones. 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:42.000 That's that's what I trained to do, that's what I will do forever. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.439 Uh, it's my first love, my my first passion. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:52.959 And whenever people young people say, you know, oh, what's the best thing to to to do to go into being a voice actor? 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:59.600 You know, we always say, just go be a regular actor, go just because that's what you need to do when you're in the booth. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.680 You they don't want to hear a cool sound. 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.759 That's not what's gonna get you the job. 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.240 It's just responding to a circumstance. 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:11.839 And if you happen to have a cool sound, that I guess that's cool, but that's not why I was hired. 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:29.439 Uh they they happened to hire me maybe because I had that sound, but it was because I was responding to some given circumstances in a way that they liked, and that's just plain acting, and it's not film acting per se, it's stage acting, it's it's being trained, and so yeah, that's that's what you found out then. 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:30.319 You were right. 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:41.519 And I like actually I admire stage actors because you can't just say cut and retake when it comes to stage acting because you're there, there is no cut and retake. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:43.920 You you you just gotta keep rolling with it. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.800 Yeah, it's true, and that's my favorite thing about it. 00:06:46.879 --> 00:07:00.560 Like when you're in a play, the best part is when the audience is coming in and you're like getting ready and you're getting

nervous, and you're like, I get to take them on a ride for an hour or two, and I'm so excited. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.160 I'm so excited to take you on the ride, and nobody's gonna stop me. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:05.519 There's no director to stop me. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.079 There's no light, there's no lighting designer to be like, wait, let's fix this. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:10.800 No, bro. 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:12.160 No, you don't get to do that. 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:17.040 No, there's nobody, the set person, there's no person powdering my nose. 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:18.639 No, it's mine. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:22.480 No, there's a director who's already done his work and left. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:29.600 The only thing is between you and the audience now, and it's my favorite part of a play because it's just you and them. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:33.120 It's like a dance, and so yeah, film is totally different. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:39.040 It's not an actor's medium, it's this, it's the director and all the technical people's medium. 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:41.920 And so I love stage acting for that reason. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:51.439 It's it's just like you get to say these words that are hopefully beautiful and hopefully interesting, and you get to share them with the audience and they get to see your spit on the floor. 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.800 I mean, it's just like the it's the greatest thing there is, yeah. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:02.079 It's it I did drama for seven years, so it's like, yeah, so yeah, it's like you have, yeah, and that's what I'm saying. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.319 It's like there's there's no retake. 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:05.759 It's it that's it. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:20.079 If you forget, you're like, oh god, oh and thankfully you have a exactly you have a crew with you, and they can usually cover up, or you can usually do it, but they just roll with it, and so thankfully there's improv in there too. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.160 Sometimes I'm like, oh, I left out an entire chunk of act three. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:29.600 Oops, like, and they're like, Oh, well, you know, it's that was a terrible idea, you know. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:34.399 But yeah, it just happens, it happens, but there's nothing better than that ensemble, too. 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:35.440 So I think thank you. 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.279 I'm glad you that you like that. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:39.840 No, I picked up on that pretty quick. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:41.360 I'm like, oh, that's cool. 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:42.000 I like that. 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:43.919 Yeah, I mean, my first love. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.200 I mean, I love Shakespeare, I love the classics, you know. 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:48.960 When I was young, I loved Shakespeare. 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:57.360 I had an affinity for that kind of language, which is really weird because I grew up in like a tiny little town, but I in the middle of nowhere,

but I was like, this is cool. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:58.559 It's like it rhymes. 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.679 I loved Midsummer, I wanted to play Hermia. 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.840 I was like, she's short, I can play that. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:04.879 I'm a short girl. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.679 Like I was like, I want to play Hermia, you know. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.080 Uh, I never wanted to play the lead beautiful girl. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:22.080 I wanted to play the weird girl, the ugly girl, the short, the the the just the weird, the weirdo, which I do still and still feel like, you know, I always wanted to play the off character. 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.559 Um, I think those are more fun though, honestly. 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:25.600 Like 100%. 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:32.879 Really good, like uh Beatrix from um Shakespeare's um Much New About Nothing, right? 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.480 And Benedict, yes, those are like some of my favorite characters in that one. 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:41.600 They're not like the the love interest or the main star necessarily, but they're such fun characters. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:42.639 Yeah, I totally get that. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:44.080 And Romeo and Juliet, right? 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:44.639 Like the nurse. 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:56.240 I'm like, I want the nurse, I want to play the nurse, and they're like, You're not gonna I'm like, I I I I I can play her when I'm older, like even now, like I think you know, 55 to 60, like what can I be doing, right? 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.799 Like what that the nurse, like these are the parts I'm like picturing, you know. 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:06.080 So there's longevity um with stage plays, you know, and voiceovers too. 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:11.039 Well, and if you can make that character shine, that's the beauty of it. 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:25.200 So, did that help you when you went into voice acting and how I think so, because you like you said, you you're sort of um you're used to improving because you're like, Well, if I forget a line or whatever, like I'll roll with it. 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:30.080 Like you said, I love how you put that, you just roll with it, and uh, you're not a scaredy cat. 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:31.600 You're like, well, I'll just figure it out. 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.360 I'll the show must go on. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:46.960 And so I think when you're auditioning, um, you're not a nervous wreck because you're just like, Well, I've done plays for 20 years, like how hard can reading off a paper be like it was just like the easiest thing ever. 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:53.039 And and you've and you've got a picture of the person, usually you're like, Oh, she looks like a gargoyle, she sounds like a witch. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.679 Okay, they've have so they've probably seen 20 witches. 00:10:55.759 --> 00:10:57.759 So, how can my witch be a little different? 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:03.519 Well, I sound low, so

my witch so maybe my witch is British, you know, you just like goof off. 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:04.799 I mean, you're just a goof. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:11.919 Like, so I'm just gonna be a goof right now, and and be like, Maybe she's a really weird cookie witch. 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:20.240 And you just act like a freaking weirdo for five seconds, and you're like, Oh, I'm gonna go get some jack in the box to eat and go home. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:21.519 Like, that's the life. 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:22.639 I mean, that's your life. 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.000 You don't give it a t a ton of thought, you don't take yourself too seriously. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.840 At least I didn't, that's how I lived. 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:36.879 And you're not like, oh, why didn't I get it's like because your witch just didn't wasn't witching, you know, you just weren't the way that you are the witching. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.759 Can I say you just weren't it, man? 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.679 And it had nothing to do with you or who you are as a human or it just it just wasn't it. 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:49.519 And next day you might be it, and then maybe not for 10 years. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.440 I mean, and I just really lived by that. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:58.080 I was like, I'm not gonna say this has anything to do with my soul or who I am as a human or a woman. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.200 I didn't let it define my personality at all. 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:06.559 I was like, because then you really get into some series, scary, troubled spots, right? 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:08.480 Like your self-esteem gets wrapped up in that. 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:10.720 And I was like, no way, I'm not doing that. 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:12.879 That's going into crazy territory. 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:17.600 So I was like, if this is just a gift I have, then I'm just gonna play with the gift. 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:19.759 It's like singing, which I love to do. 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.559 Like, yeah, I'm not a soprano, so why would I go up? 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:24.000 Why do I think I can do opera? 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.159 Like that, like that's common sense, you know. 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:33.200 So I'm gonna do my flavor, my flavor of ice cream when I go in the room, and there's a hundred million flavors, and they might pick a different one. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.679 And that just means they don't want my flavor that day. 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:42.720 And and maybe for years, which is painful because you're like, okay, dude, mint chip is good. 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:43.919 Like, what are they thinking? 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:45.679 Why don't they want that? 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.039 And so what do you do in the meantime, right? 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:59.120 I started writing, I started playwriting, I start like you start to just be like, what can I do to not be go crazy, you know, or or take it personally. 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.000

Um, so yeah, I think it does help. 00:13:02.159 --> 00:13:06.879 I think that training look, I couldn't have pivoted and started writing plays. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.200 I would have just been like, uh, what do I do? 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:20.480 If all I had was that, if all I had known was voiceover and I didn't really have anything else and didn't have that training, I might have just been like, I guess I'll go back to school and be a banker, which is by the way, awesome. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.080 Because I would have had great health insurance, I would have been rich right now. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:26.080 My life would have been really awesome. 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.799 I'm just gonna wave my little wand because that would have been really great too. 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:39.919 Okay, I'm just saying that wasn't my um that wasn't my future, but I love all the people that said I don't want to do this anymore. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.639 I'm like, good for you, because that's awesome too. 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:47.840 That is not giving up, it's giving over and like saying, Okay, what else? 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.200 And you can always come back. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:52.559 You can be 60 and be like, I think I want to try voiceovers again. 00:13:52.720 --> 00:14:00.559 Like, cool, you know, but yeah, so I do think having that background in theater, that training was so rigid. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.919 I mean, you were like a soldier, you didn't mess up. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:08.159 Like, if people were like, hit your spot, hit your mark, what are you doing? 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:08.799 Why weren't you? 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:10.080 Why were you late on your queue? 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:30.000 You know, they were rough when you're you know, and you couldn't like mess up because the theater was it's a business, and I think that trains you too to not just be a jerk off when you're in a job, yeah, or and give it yeah, give it everything, yeah, and and be humble, be your witchiest witch. 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.720 Be witching, exactly. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:34.639 You get a thick skin too. 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:45.919 I mean you do, and I came from like workers, you know, very blue-collar family, and so they didn't think it was weird that I wanted to be an actor, they were just like, Oh, cool. 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:52.639 Because they were like, Well, it's either that or like secretary, or like you know, nobody had gone to college. 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:57.440 There wasn't that that was right, that wasn't an expectation. 00:14:57.600 --> 00:14:59.360 They were like secretary. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:11.519 I mean, god, real estate sounded like very fancy, like that would have been like way over at this point, it would, but at the time it would have been like, Whoa, that's fancy, you know. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.480 So growing up, it was like women were secretary. 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:19.679 It was like nine to

five, the movie, like that's what it looked like in my that's how I felt growing up. 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:23.519 I I understand that because like it was like, well, be like, Well, what can I do when I grow up? 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:29.360 And they're like, Oh, you could be a nurse, a secretary, you can work for any company like as a receptionist, yeah. 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.720 I was like, ugh, I hate around kids. 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.519 I was like, I don't want to teach horrible, yeah. 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:44.080 Yeah, I'm trying to imagine my girls up here as secretaries, and I'm not seeing any of us as a secretary. 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:46.879 I was I know, oh my gosh, and I was too. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:58.080 I mean, I was I've got it, but it yeah, but I can't I was a secretary at one point, but before that, I worked in construction on cylindrical. 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.600 I mean, I could see I could see us all temporarily. 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:03.120 We had to get the biggest deal. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:05.519 I don't know any of us doing it for forty. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:06.720 See, that's really cool. 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.759 I'm not cool enough to have been in construction. 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:12.000 No, I didn't think I was cool enough to. 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.720 I got in with a friend, and and so it was her fault. 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.519 And I was like, Yeah, you could make so much money doing that. 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:18.080 It's true. 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.320 I was just like, I guess I'll be a temp. 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.519 Like, I remember temping after college, being like, Is this my life? 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:27.840 Like, just gonna temp job, like temping, and like that was it. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:35.120 I was like, This is terrible, but yeah, so I think they thought being an actor was like a step up in a way, and so I had zero expectations. 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.559 Whereas a lot of my friends were like, Oh my god, my parents aren't proud of me. 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:39.600 And I'm like, What? 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.159 Like, oh, they didn't understand. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:44.559 They were like, Oh, they think I should go to business school. 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:45.600 I'm like, for what? 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.000 Like, I really didn't even have a concept. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:52.240 I I just thought what I was doing was like the coolest thing ever, you know. 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.480 Okay, off topic question. 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.120 I um wildest job you've ever had. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:59.120 Like, I was the catastrophe adjuster. 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.440 Juju, you said you were what what wildest. 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.400 The tile sealer, the wildest job. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.240 Like, I was a catastrophe adjuster, which meant like I climbed the roofs and everything. 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:11.839 You said you were a tile sealer. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:17.440 Uh, so the wildest job, I believe, would have to be working in construction. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:28.559 I started out as the demolition cleanup, and they really liked my work because I did it really, and I was always fascinated with those stilts, and I wanted to know what they were doing up there with the ceiling grid and tile, and so they showed me. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:34.160 They even got me my own little head uh hard hat that said little bit on it, and they painted it. 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:36.240 Was it pink? 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:37.920 They painted it pink. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:41.200 Okay, oh my goodness, obsessed with this right now. 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:43.680 Okay, so I knew what was yours. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:49.599 My my most unusual one for me, uh, I was a lactation consultant at the WIC office for a while. 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:50.799 Awesome. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:52.240 Okay, cricket vouchers. 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.160 I mean, the one I have right now is pretty great. 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:04.880 And I work at a metal hospital I work in a psych hospital for women between 18 and 80, and they're amazing. 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:06.480 And it's I mean, it's wild. 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:07.039 Thank you. 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.359 I mean, the the people are they're amazing. 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:13.119 Like a woman said to me this week. 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:15.920 She's like, you're you're pretty ugly. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.880 And I said, Well, I said, I that's okay. 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:19.680 This is great. 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:20.799 This is what I love about them. 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.079 And the next day she'll play me like the piano, be like, You're the best. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.759 Like this is what I love. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.799 Like they they're not in control all the time of their own minds, and I just love it. 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:38.240 I love, I love how off they are, some of them, and how some of them are amazing and healed and ready to leave. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.640 And like, I just love the the difference. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:42.880 Every day is a completely different day. 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:44.079 It's wild. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:51.279 Um, and then the other wild job I had was I worked as a temp and it was before I don't know, it was way before computers. 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.119 So, like Montgomery Ward. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:54.079 Do you remember that store? 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:59.519 Montgomery Ward wanted this is so scary. 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:07.680 They wanted someone to have like color samples to show like I don't know who people in their whoever they were selling stuff to. 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:22.880 So me and another girl would spin yarn, yarn, like at a spinning thing, and we would put them in these little like little bundles, and we'd we'd put tape on them, and then we'd do like

thousands of them every day for eight hours, and I was like, I am gonna kill myself. 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:35.279 Like, and we'd spin yarn for Montgomery Wards, and and after like a week, I was like, I I told my mom, I'm like, I know I'm supposed to pay rent with this, but like I will do any almost anything else. 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:36.559 We'd start to feel like a world. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:39.680 Montgomery wards. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.400 Now I have such a sick feeling when I think about Montgomery Wards. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:43.440 Anyway, that was my words. 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:44.319 That's off topic. 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:45.920 I just thought it was a wild I love it. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:46.880 I love the pink. 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:51.920 I mean, that's the best one, but catastrophic one, yes, catastrophe adjuster. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:59.920 Yeah, basically, when the regular staff adjusters get overloaded from like the hurricanes or tornadoes, they called us in as backups. 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:01.599 Thank you for doing that. 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.640 Yeah, so like we climbed the roofs and stuff. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.400 What you do it makes sense that she became an author after that, though. 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:13.519 For some reason, it's like that would inspire stories to a degree of like it's true. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:36.799 So, like when, like, for example, when Katrina hit down Louisiana, they would come, we would go in and take over and stuff like that because there's not enough adjusters to adjust and get everybody up to it's not that we would get everybody up to where they were, but we would be the first line to come in and potentially get people as close as we possibly can to where they need to be. 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.759 But we were the first ones to come in to start that help. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:40.880 And that's how it works. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:42.799 Wow, that's incredible. 00:20:42.960 --> 00:20:53.759 I actually I gotta I gotta say, Cricket, that I think it is amazing actually thinking of you having been May's character and brought that character to life the way she is, and now doing the job you do. 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:55.039 I actually find that amazing. 00:20:56.079 --> 00:21:00.480 The first thing I told my husband when I got home was actually that because I was like, you won't believe what her day job is. 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:01.519 I know it's great. 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:02.240 It is great. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:06.400 Like sometimes I'm like, sometimes I'm like, I can't believe this is my life right now. 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:09.839 Like, I could be in LA and like getting a facial. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.640 Instead, I'm in a psych hospital, but I love it. 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.079 Like, I I think it's brilliant. 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:23.519 I think I'm giving, I am giving away, I'm giving so much, I am receiving so much, and all of my acting goes

into this job. 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:29.519 All of my training, all of my humanity, I mean, all of my humor, all of my improv. 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.720 I just you have to be on your toes. 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:38.319 I mean, they are just like not only, but they just ask you stuff and and they get deep. 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:46.079 I mean, they could in one minute be like laughing and then tell you a trauma that you're like, how do I okay, how do I process this and how do I help you process this? 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.599 And how do I keep it light? 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:50.319 Because I don't want to leave you in a dark place, right? 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:51.680 I have a question for you. 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.839 Um in your new job that you are doing, have you had any patients recognize you? 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:02.640 No, that would be so crazy. 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:03.759 Uh, thank God. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.480 Because vocally, there'd be no way. 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:07.519 I mean, just no way. 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:09.599 And physically, they don't know me. 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:16.799 And even the people that are really well in general that might be in there for a short time are not well while they're there. 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:17.359 Right. 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:21.039 So they might have like, for instance, like it could happen to me. 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:38.000 It could happen to any of us if we suddenly had some medication disaster where we like had some kind of manic episode or something that put us in a way that we were like, whoa, and we couldn't get a hold of ourselves, and or whatever, we went there for a month or whatever. 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.599 It also could happen to someone like Lindsay Clancy, right? 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:43.599 Where you have postpartum, right? 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:48.640 So it that that's terrifying, but could happen to any human on the earth. 00:22:48.880 --> 00:23:01.359 It could also happen that you um um are using some drugs and maybe that wasn't a great choice, and then you get into a psychosis, and so a lot of things can happen, and it could happen to any person. 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:06.640 You can also just have like a breakdown of some sort and end up there and just be like, whoa, where am I? 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:08.000 This is not where I need to be. 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:13.759 And then we need to have just to get you regulated and back, and then back with your family, etc. 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:29.039 So there is it does take some time, but just thinking that it's like sometimes I often think like this could be me, this could be my sister, this could be my mother, and I need to treat these people like they are my family because I pray somebody cool would be there if that was me. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.079 Yeah, all right. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:31.119 That's really cool though. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:31.599 I like that. 00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:33.279 I love that okay. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:35.680 I want to delve a little bit more into your voice acting. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:41.200 Uh I know we've been chatting for a bit, but um, so Maya's my favorite, obviously. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.559 But for that, play for that, yes. 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:49.200 But uh, you've done a lot of other characters like uh some video game characters and stuff as well. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:53.359 Would you kind of give us like a quick rundown of some of your favorites for that or some of the bigger ones? 00:23:54.000 --> 00:24:01.839 I started so when I first started doing voiceovers, it was in New York City because I had just people were telling me I should be doing them, and I was like, What? 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.200 I don't really know what that means. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.960 I'm not sure how I'm supposed to just do them. 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:06.160 Like I didn't understand. 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:07.519 Yeah, I was like, okay. 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.720 Yeah, like you should just go be a ballerina. 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:12.000 It's like that's funny. 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:13.519 Okay, what? 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.960 Like, you're weird. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.000 Okay, no. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:21.119 Uh, or people that are like, you know, you see a pretty girl, you're like, you should be a model, but it's like, that's so ignorant. 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.960 How's that person supposed to go just go to that? 00:24:23.599 --> 00:24:23.839 Right. 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:27.119 So that's what people would say to me, and I was like, okay, weird. 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:31.839 So then finally, one day I'm like, to the guy that said it, he's an age or he's a casting person. 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:36.000 I'm like, you've said this now a lot, and I I don't want me to be rude, but what? 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:37.599 How am I supposed to do this? 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:40.640 And then he's like, Oh, go see this person, go take this class. 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:41.680 And I was like, Thank you. 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:46.559 So I did all the things he told me to do, and I and I was remember those cassette tapes. 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:48.720 Oh boy, right? 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.279 I had that, and I put a little cricket on it. 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:52.720 I'm like, this will be cute. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.480 I'll I'll really market the hell out of this thing. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:04.079 And I sent it out and I got answers, and I was like, people are listening to this stupid thing. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:09.920 Oh my god, this is like I've sent hundreds of headshots, I've never got an answer ever, you know. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.680 And I'm like, this dumb tape. 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:14.480 And people said they called me in, they wanted to meet with me. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:15.200 I got an agent. 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:17.440 I was like, this stupid tape.

00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.119 That guy knew what he was talking about. 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:20.319 This is the greatest thing ever. 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:20.960 What a sham. 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:24.960 They're gonna know I'm faking, they're gonna know I'm just a total fake, but I don't care. 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:25.680 I don't care, right? 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.759 It works, it works, it works. 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.759 I'm gonna witch, I'm witching. 00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:32.000 I got it, I got it. 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:32.880 I'm witching. 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.920 So, so then I started doing, and it was all commercials there. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.200 And I loved that because you can make quite a bit of money on commercials. 00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:42.960 And I had a Johnson and Johnson commercial, it was so good that was running. 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:45.119 I made great money, did a beer commercial. 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:53.039 Then when I did decide a few years later to move to LA, they did warn me, hey, LA is not where commercials are, you will lose on some income. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:54.079 And I was like, I don't care. 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:55.440 New York is making me crazy. 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.799 I'm an anxious person, I'm medicated for it. 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.559 I need to be somewhere a little more relaxed. 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:06.400 And they were like, Okay, well, go there, it's gonna be more animation. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.319 And I was like, I don't really know what that is. 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:15.039 Again, I don't watch, I'm not, yeah, I'm watching Dateline NBC, like that's what I watch. 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:18.880 So I was like, Oh, okay, well, I'll just go and see what it's like. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:25.119 And so they would send me on these things, like, you know, this is a teddy bear, and he's got wings. 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:27.839 And I'm like, Okay, like really weird stuff. 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:51.279 And I'm like, Oh, a flying teddy bear, hmm, okay, you know, and I would just act weird, and but I didn't book anything, and then they'd be like, Okay, can you come in and read this five-year-old boy who's you know, just really goofy stuff, but it was fun, and then I got an audition for this girl, you know, this girl, um, this goth girl, and I just forgot all about it. 00:26:51.359 --> 00:26:54.000 And then a bunch of video games started coming in. 00:26:54.319 --> 00:27:00.000 So, video games were fun because they were short and they were all the same type of character that they wanted me for. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:05.119 They were like, get down, you're gonna die, and you know, things like that. 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:19.519 So, all the video games I did, like um Lost Planet, I did, and these were like years and years ago, but Lost Planet was big, um Extreme Condition, I did Red Faction, like people love these old games. 00:27:19.599 --> 00:27:22.079 I did cars too, I did a cockney car. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:23.359 She was the girlfriend. 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:25.119 She was like, mate, I love you. 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:27.119 Hurry up, big, get on the way. 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:33.279 Like it was cute, and then I booked May from Avatar the Last Airbender, who sounds nothing like me. 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.400 She's like, I love Zuko more than I fear you. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:39.680 Like, that's her whole voice for the whole two seasons. 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.880 I was like, This is the most boring character I'll ever play. 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:48.160 She's but because she's so not like me, but that's the fun, right? 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:54.000 And when you hear her amongst the whole cacophony of other characters, she's great. 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:57.680 But alone, I was like, This girl's a pill. 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.759 I'm gonna tell you something blow your mind. 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:05.279 When I hear your voice now, because I'm like Momby, like a super fan of May. 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:11.200 When I hear your voice now, I get to experience May as like animated, and it's awesome. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:11.839 Right? 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.440 That's the same for you, Mombi. 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.119 She'd be like, What's up, girls? 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:18.319 Let's go to Gucci. 00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:22.160 Like, she'd be fun, like you know, if May was fun, you know. 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.599 But yeah, so I did lots of video games, I've loved it. 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:27.440 Um, I'm still auditioning now. 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:29.279 I've got a couple video games coming out. 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.519 I can't talk about, but I'm psyched. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.279 I have a new play. 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.920 My play, my world premiere, my new one woman show is opening in October. 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.119 Very exciting. 00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:41.759 Yeah, that's called 1225 Shelby Road. 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:49.119 It's about a school shooting and the aftermath in the community, and I'm playing all the parts, so that should be wild and fabulous. 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:53.759 And I'm gonna look to get it into solo festivals all over so I might be able to see you guys in person. 00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.359 Wasn't it playing? 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.920 It's called 1225 Shelby Road. 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.000 It's all over my social media. 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:05.039 But if I could get it into a spot, like into a solo fest near you guys, I would love that. 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.400 Awesome. 00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:07.920 Well, thank you so much, Cricut. 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:08.799 You've been a treat. 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:10.720 We really appreciate your flexibility too. 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.319 Thank you. 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:19.519 So uh, really quick, um, to learn more about Cricut and everything she's got going on, you can check her out at cricketlead.com. 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:24.880 That's C-R-I-C-K-E-T L-E-I-G-H dot com. 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:28.319 Um, so cricket, thank you so much for joining us today. 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.680 We really appreciate it. 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:31.119 My pleasure. 00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:32.720 Love you, ladies. 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.200 Um, in the meantime, next week, we actually had to rearrange our schedule. 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.680 So next week will be our one-hour special. 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:55.200 You get us for an entire hour where we're going to be talking about pineapwizs.com for just a little bit, and then for the Comic-Con I went to, but then we're going to be heading into your Comic-Con style because we realize that all of our Comic-Con styles are just a wee bit different. 00:29:55.359 --> 00:30:00.079 Um, so we're going to check them out and we're going to give you guys some tips and tricks as Halloween season's coming up. 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:10.000 And also as the Comic-Con break is coming up, you know, you can get your Comic-Cons all ready for the upcoming cosplay season that's going to be coming up after the break. 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.519 So, in the meantime, get your wands ready, guys. 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:16.640 I need a cosplay May one day. 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:20.799 Everybody, get your wands ready because I'm just gonna be taking us out. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:23.039 All right, guys, make sure to smash that thumbs up real quick. 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:26.240 Sorry we had to pre-record this one, but we're so glad to have Cricket with us. 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:28.079 So make sure to drop some love in the comments. 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:37.359 Share this out and check out our website as well as make sure you're following CJ Pearson, Mombi Rella, and Juju the cosplayer, and of course, Magic Making Mischief for all the fun. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.119 And we will see you for the party next week. 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:43.839 So get your popcorn ready then, and till then, Mischief Manage. 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:45.119 Bye.