Andrea West, Actor: And what about Jenny, the cheerleader? Can you just forget about her?
Bedjou Jean, Actor: Oh, Jenny? Well you know Jenny’s special, even if I never see her again, she’s still special.
Brian Cutler of Brian Cutler On Camera Actors Studio [Burbank, CA]: Let’s do Andrea and Bedjou! What did Yoda say? There’s no try, there is do and not do and anybody that doesn’t cold read aloud 30 minutes every day gets doo-doo.
Bedjou: That’s how I read novels because I can never read anything.
Brian: Right.
Bedjou: I started reading 1984, it’s actually really good. I’m cold reading that now.
Brian: George Orwell.
Bedjou: Like why haven’t I read that before? It’s a great book, it’s really good.
Brian: Remember guys, Readers aren’t leaders but leaders are readers – Harry Truman. You want to be a leader in any field, you’ve got to be a reader.
Bedjou: I mean it’s so good that the 30 minutes of…my bell rings and I’m like really what?
Brian: Good, you time your reading, that’s good. How are we in the booth?
Jill Morehouse, Actor/Teacher at Brian Cutler On Camera Actors Studio: Good to start.
Bedjou: Oh, I start, yeah of course.
Jill: We’re rolling, we have speed.
Bedjou: You know what I admire most about you?
Andrea: I don’t know? Is it my brilliant mind or my gorgeous, insatiable…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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