문화 유산과 연기 경력 여정 수용하기

### 이중 문화 포용하기: 법학에서 연기로의 여정
* ✨ 화자는 새해를 주제로 한 이벤트에 반짝이는 의상을 입고 설레는 마음을 표현하며, **밤을 새워도 즐거운 분위기**를 강조합니다.
* 🛌 남편이 호주에서 돌아와 반려견이 응급실에 가야 했던 일을 언급하며 **시차 적응과 질병으로 가득했던 힘든 휴가철**을 이야기합니다.
* 👨 다문화 가정에서 자란 연사는 **페르시아인 아버지와 지중해 원주민 어머니** 사이에서 풍요롭지만 때로는 충돌하는 문화적 배경을 가진 성장 경험을 공유합니다.
* 🎬 이들은 자신의 어린 시절을 공부에 열중하고 내성적이었으며, **'반지의 제왕'을 외우고 또래 친구들과 어울기 힘들어하는 '슈퍼 괴짜'**였음을 털어놓습니다.
* 💪 연사는 자신의 진로에 대한 열망에 대한 아버지의 지원에 감사하며, 이를 통해 **로스쿨에 진학**하고 결국 **연기자로 전향**하여 수년간의 노력 끝에 성공을 거둘 수 있었다고 말합니다.
* 🎭 이들은 **'더 초즌'에 출연하게 된 것에 대한 설렘**과 적응을 더욱 원활하게 해준 환영하는 환경에 대해 이야기하며 감사의 마음을 전했습니다.
* 🤹 연사는 자신의 성격을 되돌아보며 **'큰 바보'가 되는 것**을 받아들이고, 연기의 무거운 역할과 재미있는 면의 균형을 맞추는 것이 중요하다고 강조합니다.
* 🌟 이들은 유머와 진지한 주제가 조화를 이루는 **쉬헐크와 같은 캐릭터**에서 영감을 받아 2023년에도 계속해서 **구피의 본성을 받아들이고 싶다**는 소망을 표현하며 글을 마무리합니다.

그녀의 독특한 문화적 배경은 그녀의 지지적이고 엉뚱한 성격을 형성했고 궁극적으로 성공적인 연기 경력을 쌓을 수 있는 원동력이 되었습니다.

love your uh your top. It's very like New Year's. That's why I wore it for this whole thing. I was like, I'm gonna get the sparkliest thing. We're gonna have fun sparkly earrings. I didn't even go out last night. I just went to bed. I was about to ask. Yeah, same. We got the kids to bed, and I think we were asleep by like 10:30. My husband came back from Australia. He was, you know, on the completely opposite time. We did a chosen press tour in Berlin and then Amsterdam, and it was amazing. But then I got back and was like totally jet lagged. But I also, I guess, caught the flu from someone over there and then gave it to the whole family. But that was my Christmas too. The day my husband left, my dog had to go to the ER, and we had this whole week of just horror. He's here, so you know, this is good. What kind of dog do you have? He's a Chihuahua. He's a little cheap. I have two.

You know, he might come up and talk to you. Let's see. Oh, oh, here he is. Oh, hello. So, yeah, childhood. What was, where'd you grow up? You know, what was, uh, what was childhood like for you? I mean, it was, um, I, so I have a Persian father and then, like, a Native American, uh, Mediterranean mom, so two different cultures. She's, like, more French than anything, and, you know, French versus Iranian women, you know, or Iranian cultures. So, that was always fun because I got to experience both cultures, but also they clashed a lot, um, in terms of, you know, uh, just growing up. But I had a twin brother, and he, he's my, my best friend, and then an older sister, um, who took care of me a lot. So, it was great. I had great siblings. My parents were wonderful. Um, you know, they, it was funny because when I was growing up, I was kind of like a super nerd. I was super studious. I didn't like, like, my twin brother at one point was the cool kid and didn't talk.

to me in seventh grade because that was like not okay, which is totally fine when you're growing up through beauty. It's like um, but yeah, like I like woke up every morning and watched Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings, knowing it by I full like I can quote the whole movie still um, every morning before like sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, and woke up three and a half hours early just to watch the movie. I taught myself quinine and Sindarin, like was totally like oh yeah I was a unibrow, it was very cute my cute days, and then um, and so that was like you know I was very introverted at that point because I wanted friends and I wanted to be like my twin brother, but I like people didn't really like me especially since I did so well. I was a very big teacher's pet and I wanted the top of the class and all the teachers love me, so it was hard especially when you have a cool brother and a cool sister, and then in ninth grade I like

blossomed suddenly, and I didn't know what to do with that. Um, so that was also hard because I kind of went through um my high school years not really knowing and getting a little taken advantage of in certain situations. And so, but again, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Having you know different cultures on either side of the family, were there any like aspects of either of those cultures that either you like really appreciated and embraced uh growing up or or on the flip side, was there anything about either of those that like you um you know tried to distance yourself from or that that you weren't as fond of? Yeah, I think for me, it's funny because my dad was so supportive in me getting a career and being a career woman, whereas people usually see the Persian or Iranian culture, especially with what's going on nowadays um and identify it as you know keeping women closeted or keeping women in the kitchen or you know very restrictive on their freedoms. So, I appreciate having a father who was super supportive and you

can do anything you want. I mean, he, you know, he was Middle Eastern, where he was like, You can do anything you want in the world, Bubba, as long as you're a doctor or lawyer, you know, yeah, um. So, that's actually what inspired me to go to law school in California. I got a full scholarship, and I did a program um in entertainment law so that I could do auditions during the day and be at law school at night. Got my degree, became a lawyer, and started doing litigation, which is like an actor in court basically because you're just theatrically performing for everyone in the room. And then, that's when I started booking, so I got to quit being a lawyer. But I don't think I would have done that without that kind of pressure, and I'm really glad I did because it made me realize, you know, like a Gal Gadot or a Rebel Wilson, like their lawyers, they can have their own production companies, finance their own pictures, star in them, sign the contracts, and know what the

contracts are saying and rule the world, so that's my plan. But yeah, so I appreciated that difference in culture. Um, but I also loved, you know, Persian culture is so fascinating. You know, whether it's the dancing. You know, we would grow up going to New Year's. Persian New Year's is more of like an April-May thing, and it's called Nowruz. And we would do like the Persian dancing. And there's just something seeing that, being able to see that. And when I was growing up in Arizona, so you didn't really have a strong Middle Eastern, um, you know, Society. It was very, very white growing up. And I think we had like one African-American, um, in our school and one Asian American. And I was friends with both of them because I was like the Persian girl. Um, but, and also with the Native American side, you know, we didn't see any of that either. I wish I had more of that culture. I wish I was submersed in it. A lot of my family was in Oklahoma, which is, it's the

Choctaw ban um, and I wish I had more experiences out there, just like I wish I had more Persian experiences. But um, I really think I, in my adult life, I started to research and investigate and kind of make sure that that was prominent in my life. Not that I have children to teach it to, I have a fur baby, but he has worn some cute things that are both Middle Eastern and Native American. Going back to my journey, when I was at my like end of the rope of like I can't do this anymore until my husband, I can't, I can't practice law anymore. I booked my first co-star, and I had been out here trying, and like for some reason Hollywood didn't want to give me any auditions. Like I, we tried everything and headshots, new reels, you know, I'm very proactive in my work. So I would, you know, try and be in a play. I would change up my reel. I would pay for everything. Um, thank God that I was a lawyer because I could afford it because being an actor

is very expensive, yeah, um, and it shouldn't be, but that's the nature of the business. And I booked my first Royal, the Dropout on Hulu, and I quit the day I got the offer, um, and ever since then, I booked literally, it's been 10 projects in a year, um, thank God. So, I think that was kind of what I needed to just put my trust in God and just say, like, let's do this, um, Universe, here we go, and it all happened. So, I'm very grateful for that. And I did, I'm very grateful for my father for having me do that because I, you know, am able to support myself now with my acting career, but also in the beginning, you know, it was a big risk because it was like, I don't have a paycheck coming in anymore. Like you said, I'm very proactive in my own career as well, and I think it's because of all of the, you know, failures earlier on or the opportunities that just, like, slipped by or that were really close and

didn't happen right um and I got so tired of relying on others and waiting around for like auditions and all of that. So, I started a few years before The Chosen. Um, I just started every single day emailing like casting directors and producers, and I have like a template. Um, and it's like just people or directors of like some indie that did well at South by Southwest. Um, and I'll just email them and be like, Hey, I really love your work. I'd love an opportunity to audition for you one day. Um, and I love that, especially for people, right? I wanted to ask, so when you got The Chosen one, ha, like did you already know about it at all? And two, um, just like what was your experience like? I know that coming into a new show or coming into a show as a new character, that's, you know, the show's already been established. People have relationships. It can, I've, I've done that in the past and felt um, like I wasn't part of the group. You

know like you're like the new kid, yeah um so what was your experience coming into this show um well I knew about the show um I was really excited. It's actually like my mother's favorite show and when I booked it she started buying like the car decals and like all the merch and I was like let me get you the discount code discount code um and so I was really excited and the character specifically I was very excited about um just because of the amount of you know you'll see the struggle and all of that jazz yeah which when we do this follow-up podcast we will talk more in depth about because I think there's a lot to talk about in terms of struggling and relating to the struggles that she had um in different ways but um I the first day was like okay here we go like flew in to this you know remote area and everybody was there because we shot the scene where everybody was there and I was like oh I hope they like me because you know um and it was this big moment too uh so

It was like there was a lot of pressure, but I'm such a goofball, which is why I love being who I was growing up and not being like the popular girl or whatever, because I think, unfortunately, that can add a lot of, it depends like how your personality can adapt to getting attention, yeah, where I wanted attention, like I was like, I'm an actor, let me show you, let me dance, let me do things for you, right, and no one would give it, so if anything, it's allowed me to become this big goofball, and I just loved everybody. I remember talking to like all of you guys when we were sitting in a tent and being like blah blah blah blah blah, like you know, it was just, you know, relating to my husband being a WWE wrestler, like somebody knew like him and what that was, and they're both Australian, and um, I was gonna say George, I knew what you were talking about before you even said someone new because you said WWE and I

was like, Oh yeah, it's got to be George that knows. Yeah, yeah, he's Australian, so it's so funny. And like, just everybody. And then we all became friends on Instagram and, uh, it like instantly so. And it was like they didn't know. I think a lot of people didn't know, um, how much, how big my character was in the script. So, you know, know like you said sometimes when you go onto a set and you're a small fry, you know, you might not be given that much love. But for the chosen, I didn't have to, I didn't feel like that at all. We didn't, our characters didn't have any direct interactions with each other, but, uh, we were in some group scenes together, um, that you got to do a lot. And without giving anything away, uh, we were all blown away by your performances and, um, we're just so excited like you came in without like any hesitation and just jumped right into some, you know, difficult scenes that are really big and

uh, important for the whole season and show, uh, and it was just so impressive. And I, I am glad that you never felt um, you know, out outside of the group or anything because all of us, you know, there, there was a few of us that were here at the beginning and then every season we've added like more and more characters um, and that's one thing I'm most proud of when it comes to the chosen is how welcoming everyone is and how instantly as soon as there's a new cast member that's added they're like part of the family and it's uh, even like day players like there's day players that we worked with in season one that we all still keep in touch with and now I love that it's a really cool group and I think a big reason is you know we've both talked about having uh, you know, like a long journey to get to where we are now and so much rejection and it's like everyone in the cast was kind of in the same boat whenever we, we got the chosen we were

all like at the end of our rope, and some people were about to quit acting, and yeah, then we got the show, and we're all kind of on this journey together, and we're all, you know, experiencing so many of these things for the first time together, and uh, you know, like the premiere, for instance, that was most of our, like, first time at a red carpet premiere. Um, so fun. I was like, it was amazing. I wish it had been in Los Angeles. I know, right? But uh, before I let you go, I want to ask. I end all of my podcasts uh, with this question uh, and that is, what do you love most about yourself? Um, I don't know. That's probably what I need to figure out for 2023. Probably just that I'm a big goofball, that like, you know, I could break out in song and dance in the kitchen at any random moment or on set or um, that as much as, you know, kind of growing up as a people pleaser can take a lot of a toll on you, I think that it's

turned me into the woman I am today, which is more of a strong but still goofball. Like, I think that's what I like being, just me. I, you know, having no pretension or, um, hopefully that's a good thing. Yeah, I think it's a great thing. Um, and it's good because, like you said, a lot of the roles you play are a little heavier, so I'm glad that you have that balance, that you're able to, you know, have that fun, goofy side and then go to work and, you know, cry your eyes out. Um, so yeah, finding horrible things. I'm hoping I can be a goofball in 2023. I will put that out there. Like, I totally related to She-Hulk, which I wanted to play my whole life, but Tatiana Maslany is a genius. Um, and it was great to see her in that role because she was like a lawyer, but she was also a super goofball. And like, that's my personality totally, like the

writers on that show. If you've seen She-Hulk, yes, yes, of course, yeah, incredible. Like the writing, the directing, the acting, everything in it was just um. I just love that show, yeah. And that's kind of like who I am, so it's nice to be able to see, you know, you don't have to play the lawyer that's like the whole time. Like there is an opportunity to kind of get that, you know, smooshy realness into it, so yeah. [Music]

Zhaleh Vossough HIGHLIGHTS - What's Your Limp?

What's Your Limp?

연사는 전날 밤 외출을 하지 않았음에도 불구하고 반짝이는 상의와 귀걸이를 착용하여 즐거운 새해 분위기를 연출했습니다.

이들은 시차 적응, 독감, 반려견의 응급실 방문 등 힘든 연말연시를 보냈습니다.

페르시아인 아버지와 지중해 원주민 어머니 사이에서 자라면서 다양한 문화를 경험하고, 쌍둥이 형제와 누나를 둔 단란한 가족을 이루었으며, "반지의 제왕"을 좋아하는 공부적이고 내성적인 아이였습니다.

문화적 다양성과 개인적 성장의 포용

연사는 고등학교 시절 자신의 정체성에 대해 고민하고 이용당하는 느낌을 받았지만 다양한 문화적 배경에서 힘을 얻었습니다.

이들은 자신의 진로에 대한 열망을 지지해준 아버지의 역할에 감사하며 로스쿨에 진학하고 궁극적으로 배우로 전향하게 되었습니다.

연사의 독특한 성장 배경과 다양한 문화에 대한 노출은 엔터테인먼트 업계에서 자신과 다른 사람들의 역량을 강화하려는 목표를 형성했습니다.

연기를 향한 여정: 법학에서 할리우드까지

법학을 전공한 이 연사는 연기에 입문하기 위해 고군분투했지만 결국 Hulu의 '더 드롭아웃'에서 조연으로 출연하게 되었고, 10개의 프로젝트에 출연하며 성공적인 한 해를 보냈습니다.

이들은 자신의 경력을 주도적으로 관리하기 위해 캐스팅 디렉터와 프로듀서에게 이메일을 보내적극적으로 기회를 모색했습니다.

연사는 또한 '더 초즌'과 같은 유명 프로그램에 합류할 때의 어려움과 그룹의 일원으로 느껴지기 위한 투쟁에 대해 이야기합니다.

출연진에 합류하기: 신규 사용자의 경험

어머니가 좋아하는 쇼에 출연하게 되어 신이 난 두 사람은 상품 구매가 쇄도했습니다.

촬영 첫날은 긴장되었지만 그들의 엉뚱한 성격 덕분에 출연진들과 친해지고 즉각적인 우정을 쌓을 수 있었습니다.

다른 캐릭터들과 직접적인 상호작용을 하지 않았음에도 불구하고 이 신인 배우가 환영받는다고 느꼈고 모든 배우의 연기에 감명을 받았습니다.

선택된 출연진의 환영하는 분위기

더 초즌은 새로운 출연자를 즉시 가족으로 맞이하는 등 강한 공동체 의식을 가지고 있습니다.

출연진들은 거절과 고난의 여정을 공유하면서 끈끈한 유대감을 형성했습니다.

많은 출연진이 계속 연락을 주고받고 있으며, 쇼는 첫 레드카펫 시사회에 함께 참석하는 등 특별한 경험을 선사했습니다.

화자는 자신의 진정한 자아를 높이 평가하며 강인하면서도 멍청한 개인으로 자신을 동일시합니다.

변호사와 바보의 균형을 유지하는 쉬 헐크의 캐릭터에 공감하며, 드라마의 대본과 연기에 감탄합니다.

이 연사는 2023년에도 계속해서 재미있는 모습을 보여주면서 더 무거운 역할에도 도전하고 싶다고 합니다.