- When you go to Tokyo, there's, you know,
whole places where you can go and just completely eat alone.
Like you go to a ramen spot and you sit there and you order
in front of you and it's about eating alone and being alone.
And I think being comfortable with being alone,
I think one thing about Western culture,
which doesn't really talk about it very often is the fact
that, you know, oh, we always have to be together.
We always have to eat, you know,
with a partner or something like that.
But it's super important to be able to cherish
something on your own
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Easy.
Good boy.
I always tell him to ease up on the lead
and to heel on my left-hand side.
It's a casual heel cause he's on lead.
So he's not off leash right now, so he can do what he wants.
I've only had Salem since February.
So, it's been a newer relationship together.
He has almost the same birthday as me.
He's three days after me.
So we're Aquarius.
Aquarius family.
Come here,
posing boy
aint that right.
With his little petronel bandana. He dressed up today.
I love you.
I lost my father in March and you know,
it's not something that I talk about very often.
And um you know, I keep a lot of my private life,
very private, but I think it's important to talk about
the things that we all went through during this pandemic
and the difference in not being able to express those
emotions through our creative outlets
and not being able to go out into the world
and do what we do when we're grieving and move forward.
And instead, you know, we had to sit in it and to figure
that out. And it was a beautiful and difficult time.
I think our family was able to be there for each other in
ways that we might end up in there before even.
And there was a lot of healing
and there's more of an acceptance and a beauty in life
and a joy of the life that was led and therapy
and lots and lots and lots. I love my therapist a lot.
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What I fear the most is becoming stagnant, you know,
and allowing your brain to become stagnant
and stuck in its way.
And I think it's really smart to get yourself into positions
where you might feel uncomfortable
and shut up, you know,
just to shut up and listen to other people.
- Why'd, you can. Why Why why.
And make a fist.
The biggest things is about protecting your knuckles
and you wrists. and then making sure it's like
solid exactly where to go.
- I don't go breaking my own bones,
just breaking your bones.
- Just breaking whatever you need to. Make a fist.
- Push up position, put your leg outside. Go down.
- I really started training my body at a young age,
especially when I did kick ass.
It kind of opened me up to the world of movement.
And one thing that I found really empowering was, you know,
fight training and boxing and kickboxing.
And it allowed me to find not just, you know,
strength and rhythm,
but also allow me to find kind of a gravity within myself,
no matter how crazy my world gets or my day gets, or,
you know, my hour gets
it's an amount of time that I can kind of take to myself
and feel what it feels like to,
to connect with my body and my soul and get my center.
I think at a young age,
I kind of realized exactly what I wanted to stand for and
who I wanted to stand for and not just speak for myself,
but to, you know, use my platform as a
microphone and a spotlight for those
that might not have the ability or the
opportunity to have that.
When I turned 18,
I realized a lot about myself that I hadn't worked through
and I jumped into therapy twice a week and I stopped acting
for a year. And I got back into working out.
I stopped training for like two years before that.
And I think I really lost my, my balance.
You know, my footing when I came out,
the other side of that, you know, about 20 years old,
I felt that I not only was able to speak my truth,
but I was able to stand up for what I really believe in on a
daily basis.
- Hey hey knock them out.
- Over the last year, I've gone through a lot,
being in a mother role, I enjoyed and was something that
I needed that outlet I craved to be back on set.
I craved to be back into a character shoes.
Our director and writer,
Mattson Tomlin wrote this about his family, you know, and,
and his parents who went through the Romanian Revolution in
the eighties. And he was given up for adoption.
This baby belly that I wore was 21 pounds.
I had never experienced that before. And then, you know,
doing these scenes and I would just look over at Matt and
see him there. And you know,
he's a standing representation of this whole thing.
And it was one of the most incredible experiences in my
career. Like it changed me as a person in a lot of ways.
So we are about to go into brothers sushi with my friend
Mark, who is the head chef and owner of this place
and yeah, eat the best sushi in Los Angeles, in my opinion,
which is a pretty, it's a pretty high bar. So.
[Laughing]
Let's see.
Hello.
- Hi
- This is Mark.
- Hello Hello Hi
- Should I come around
- Sure, please?
- They are one of the first places I went when I was
12 or maybe 13 years old for kick ass press was to Japan,
to Tokyo. And I had such a fun time eating so much sushi
and being a part of that and learning more about it
and the traditions behind it. When I came back to LA,
I always love to find little sushi holes in places that are
kind of special and singular. And I met mark at Austin Avo
and then we would just have conversations and
talk about food and life. And we became friends.
- Yes What was your whole MECASA let me trust me and
ill make some stuff. So I like to use a cedar pine
- This is kind meta right.
- Kind meta yes.
Yeah. You can graze some yuzu.
- Oh. Like that. And then. brush
- Yeah, brush.
There you go. Nice touch.
- Yeah. Should I do it.
- Yes.
- Should I eat it?
- Cheers.
- Cheers
- Hmm Oh my God.
Whoa that is so good.
- The Santa Barbara abalone Santa Barbara urchin
your favorite.
- I enjoy within roles. Being able to scare myself a little
bit. Trying to figure out, you know,
did I bite off more than I can chew?
Can I actually achieve this role? You know,
am I the best person for this role?
And then proving it to yourself, you know,
against all odds and working your way through those emotions
on your own and working through your own psyche, you know,
in your own mind telling you maybe that you can't do it.
I'm trying not to make decisions, you know,
months in advance even just trying and, and,
and take it day by day.
And that way, what projects come may come and,
and um meet them where I am that day. You know.
- So this is another girl, Japanese sea perch,
my favorite white fish with a Japanese citrus paste. On top
- That is so good.
- Cheers.
- Cheers