you do Bollywood dancing, yeah, former, but you know, might bring it back, like, like, could you do, you have, like, any seat, you know, all the dances now, which is all moving your hands, it's like Tick Tock, yeah, like Bollywood. I mean, the typical one is like the light bulb, and then you just like pump your shoulders up, yeah, yeah, and so, yeah, yeah, you're doing a great job, maybe just like our, yeah, there you go, and yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all energy. I just wanted a Bollywood, I just wanted to try it. I'll teach, I'll tell you something after that, you got to use your leg, it would be fun, yeah. I mean, obviously, you get called in for a part, you think that she could play one of the most integral roles in the most well-known, most circulated book in history. You know what's funny? I didn't think, I just, I just believed in myself. I believed in the fact that I could do justice to this role, and the character was presented so interesting to me.

for being on the Spectrum and just having that kind of fit into what we know about him in the gospels and just being detail-oriented was kind of cool. I just wanted to play with that. I'd actually auditioned for a show where the main character was also autistic earlier, so I kind of make notes on characters that are interesting to me, and so I remember it because it's a lot of research. So, I kind of used that, and then with Dallas's collaboration, and it's just kind of we just kind of hit the money, I guess, or like the secrets. Yeah, The Sweet Spot. Yeah, because I was, I've watched the first season in its entirety, and I just, it was very easy to watch, and I just thought, wow, I was like, I bet you there's a lot of people watching the show who can relate to your part, who just feel like outsiders, who feel like they don't fit in with their people, and they don't fit in with anybody else, and who are they going to

belong to where's their tribe until being called on by this great leader. So do you have people actually tell you that? Do you get feedback from viewers all the time? And you know, I love that because it not only encourages me, but it makes me want to go deeper and grow with the character, you know? So just trying to keep him more layered and more, um, just showing the acceptance that he presents and having people relate to him is what's important. I think that's why the show is doing so well because people can identify with Mary, Matthew, all the rest of the disciples. Yeah, it was just so humanized, and it's a gift. I just don't know how to explain it. It just feels so good to get a response like that globally, globally. I mean really world-renowned. I thought it was fascinating that Dallas and the team decided to really tell the story of a woman right out the gate. I mean, was that important to you, Liz? Oh yeah, I remember seeing the audition and seeing

that it was based on the gospels, and I was like, oh please, like don't be cheesy and don't be so focused on that. Like, I was really thrilled when I saw how in-depth her character was, and she has a very realistic background and history, and something that I was relating to, and I know a lot of other women have related to. So, it was a relief to see just some screen time of a realistic storyline for a woman. What I, uh, when I booked it, I was in a state of depression, and um, I sort of didn't know what to do with my life, and I was broke, I was living with my mom, I was trying to quit acting because it wasn't working, and um, because I wasn't working, and uh, I was depressed, and um, and so when I read the scenes for the sadder parts of Mary, I just, I was like, this is me right now, and this is what I need too right now, um, and to see what happens to her at the

end of that first episode. I'm like, That's what I made. And so, it was just sort of like an interesting sync-up of just as a gift. Did it bring you out of your depression? Did the part just playing this? Because, you know, Mary, we can say it famously was demon-possessed in a prostitute, and you portray this possession, but today we would call it mental illness or depression or all kinds of trauma. Did playing this part and her deliverance bring you, Euro? Um, that's a beautiful question. I think that the way what deliverance looks like to me is something a little more complex and takes time. I think depression itself is something that I think people or may have to struggle with their entire lives, but to find light and to find hope and love and a community of really loving people helps with that. It helps remind you that there's so much good in the world, there's so much love in the world, and when you're stuck in this depression and

you don't have that. It's just dark, but that's... I mean, the show is showing where to find the light, how to create love and joy in this world. And so, over the course of these years, yes, I have been changed by the experience of playing this and just by being influenced by it. How has your life changed? I mean, paint a picture. You showed me what it was like before you got the part. Now you're known all over the world. Yeah, um, I think for... in terms of the internal change, I've opened up my heart and been open to accepting love. I got married to a wonderful man. I thank you. I have a whole group of amazing friends that just shower me with love constantly. A lot of it is accepting it. A lot of it is not turning it away. And so, I think that internal change has just, like a snowball effect, has just created so many wonderful experiences and opportunities. And, um, and because of that, you know, you start making different decisions and

healthier decisions and um and life can change. It takes a little bit of time, but I think it's love that changes us and prayers. I'll have you answered this. Love is synonymous with Faith and Hope. Love is synonymous with a lot of things. I think with love, like it's, I don't know, it sounds so cheesy, but it makes the world go around, right? Like it gives you, like I said, hope. It gives you goals. It gives you a lot, you know. I think also with Matthew's Journey, it gives you acceptance. So when you see one of the most historical figures give you identity, see something in you, that's love. Are you feeling the love now? I'm feeling the love from the world. I'll take all the love I can get. You know, as an actor, it's kind of hard to find your work sometimes, and then when you feel it from something like this and across the world, it's an impactful thing. This Sunday, watch The

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