Lights, Camera, Courage: A Latina actor's journey to finding home bölümünün tam dökümü

WEBVTT 00:00:02.605 --> 00:00:04.290 Welcome to Outlaw Wisdom. 00:00:04.290 --> 00:00:14.026 Outlaw Wisdom Alienaya Escudero comes to Outlaw Wisdom to share her story as a Latina actor in Hollywood, alone, scared and with big dreams. 00:00:14.026 --> 00:00:24.489 She has only one thing to say to listeners Never let your light fade, keep fighting, keep believing in yourself and you can never fail, never fail, never fail. 00:00:24.489 --> 00:00:25.946 This is Outlaw Wisdom. 00:00:25.946 --> 00:00:28.504 Let's begin, shall we? 00:00:31.829 --> 00:00:32.149 Okay. 00:00:32.149 --> 00:00:35.395 So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Ellie to Outlaw Wisdom. 00:00:35.395 --> 00:00:36.664 Ellie, how you doing today? 00:00:36.965 --> 00:00:38.030 Thank you for having me. 00:00:38.030 --> 00:00:38.652 How are you? 00:00:39.034 --> 00:00:40.680 Pronounce your name for me correctly one time. 00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:41.503 How do you say your name? 00:00:41.923 --> 00:00:43.468 Ellie and Escudero. 00:00:43.868 --> 00:00:49.451 Okay, and we both know I'll never know how to say that correctly we're just going to call you Ellie from this point forward. 00:00:49.451 --> 00:00:53.399 Tell our listeners a little bit about yourself who you are, where you come from and what you're doing. 00:00:53.780 --> 00:01:00.374 Coming from Mexico City, I came to study here acting, and right now I'm in college. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:02.143 Can you tell us what college you're in? 00:01:02.603 --> 00:01:04.067 I'm in Santa Monica College. 00:01:04.067 --> 00:01:06.802 First I wanted to do law school. 00:01:06.802 --> 00:01:13.322 It was a tough decision for me and for my dad as well, because we are really close, we have a really good relationship. 00:01:13.322 --> 00:01:20.903 But after like three months, four months, of getting my visa and everything, I came here by myself. 00:01:20.903 --> 00:01:22.427 I didn't know anyone. 00:01:22.427 --> 00:01:27.174 Once I was in the academy, I found my friends. 00:01:27.174 --> 00:01:29.947 I found my friend Elisa in this case. 00:01:29.947 --> 00:01:31.965 I discovered a lot of my acting. 00:01:32.025 --> 00:01:40.760 I like dramatic, I like to tell a story every time, stories that are focused on my community, the Latino community, people that are dealing with trauma. 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:50.727 I like to have, I like to interpret those stories and hopefully send a message to people that are that have the same struggles. 00:01:50.727 --> 00:01:52.433 I used to live with my father only. 00:01:52.433 --> 00:01:57.349 So there was a lot of resistance, but also a lot of support. 00:01:57.549 --> 00:02:04.530 I can say that it's like if you tell somebody that you want to act, they feel like you're just wasting your time. 00:02:04.530 --> 00:02:09.246 So I could feel that resistance, the resistance with my dad. 00:02:09.246 --> 00:02:12.894 It was like he didn't want me to leave by myself. 00:02:12.894 --> 00:02:15.247 You know scared, and he was. 00:02:15.247 --> 00:02:18.236 He was overprotective, because he's really overprotective. 00:02:18.236 --> 00:02:23.826 We talked over the phone every day, but he's always like, hey, like have you thought about coming back? 00:02:23.826 --> 00:02:30.436 And I feel always sad of telling him I don't want to because I found my home here. 00:02:30.436 --> 00:02:38.074 So I'm like I just want to do something that I love and that hopefully I can make a living out of it. 00:02:38.074 --> 00:02:39.463 Right now is really hard. 00:02:39.463 --> 00:02:41.129 I feel like it's not even possible. 00:02:41.129 --> 00:02:47.439 If you have big dreams, you have to have big sacrifices, but at the end of the day it will be worth it.