Milana Vayntrub | Playing is Good For The Brain
On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down for a chat with actor, Milana Vayntrub, whom you may recognize as Lily from the AT&T commercials. We talked about her career, which dates back to when she was just five years old, and what it's like to be an actor in the industry. Listen in as we discuss the importance of standing out in the industry, and how there can only be one Lily.
Milana shared her unique background, having been born in Uzbekistan and moving to Los Angeles when she was around three years old. We discussed the influence of her immigrant community on her life and how L.A. is a great place to settle for people from all backgrounds. We explored Milana's involvement in the entertainment industry, which was sparked by her mother's own acting background and her own energetic personality.
We also touched upon Milana's experiences as a child actor, her transition from commercials to TV and film, and how she discovered the benefits of collaboration and creativity through theater and improv. We wrapped up our conversation discussing her favorite comfort food, influential people in her life, and her first celebrity crush (and former co-star), George Clooney. Be sure to tune in for this engaging and insightful discussion with the one and only Milana Vayntrub!
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
0:02:58 - Behind the Scenes of Production
0:05:53 - Family Careers and Immigration
0:12:09 - Child Acting and Behind the Scenes
0:16:00 - Using Art to Fight Depression
0:17:29 - The Benefits of Play and Improv
0:25:30 - Self-Made Hollywood Success
0:28:04 - Challenges of Recognizability in Acting
0:36:08 - Love vs. Oppression
0:42:18 - Passions and Potential Professions
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Milana Vayntrub:
I guess I had a little bit of a crush on
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Milana Vayntrub: George Clooney when I knew him, but only
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Milana Vayntrub: because he's really really magnetic.
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Milana Vayntrub: But I was also a child and he was in his
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Milana Vayntrub: 30s, you know.
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Milana Vayntrub: So I really just wanted him to like be a
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Milana Vayntrub: friend.
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Milana Vayntrub: I wanted him to like come over.
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Announcer: Welcome to story in craft.
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Announcer: now There's your host, Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: Well, hello, how are you?
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Marc Preston: I am Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: Yes, back for another episode of story in
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Marc Preston: craft and Certainly again appreciate the
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Marc Preston: reached out asking what's up, dude, where
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Marc Preston: Well, i'm here.
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Marc Preston: Milana vine Trubb You probably know her as
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Marc Preston: Lily on the AT&T commercials.
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Marc Preston: But she's had a really great career on
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Marc Preston: camera film TV, stretching all the way back
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Marc Preston: to when she was a little girl, i think five
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Marc Preston: or something like that, when she was doing
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Marc Preston: She was on ER back when she was, i think,
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Marc Preston: But she's got a great career, a great
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Marc Preston: Really cool to have her stop by and just
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Marc Preston: Of course, this episode, we're gonna
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Marc Preston: dedicate it to my good buddy buddy.
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Marc Preston: We're yet today, like you're in LA, correct.
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Milana Vayntrub: I am.
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Milana Vayntrub: I'm in a barren dressing room, i'm in a sad
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Milana Vayntrub: empty space with nothing but a router, but,
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Milana Vayntrub: but, but.
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Milana Vayntrub: The Wi-Fi connection is strong, and that's
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Milana Vayntrub: all that matters.
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Marc Preston: Exactly.
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Marc Preston: yeah, you know, it's so funny that people
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Marc Preston: think that things are, you know, on a set
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Marc Preston: a lot of times It's just the most random
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Marc Preston: corner They may stick in.
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, you get a little bit of both.
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Milana Vayntrub: Sometimes you don't even get your own room.
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Marc Preston: Sometimes you get a room share with a bunch
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Marc Preston: of people now I do appreciate you taking
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Marc Preston: You're obviously staying pretty busy.
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Marc Preston: And, by the way, i have to kind of get out
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Marc Preston: of the way.
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Marc Preston: My oldest daughter's name is Lily and so I
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Marc Preston: have to go the total dad joke thing.
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Marc Preston: Every time your spot comes on the AT&T
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Marc Preston: spots I'm like, hey, lily, it's Lily, it's
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Marc Preston: been that she's almost 20 now, so it's kind
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Marc Preston: So she's like, okay, i get it.
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Marc Preston: So she just tolerates my weird sense of
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Marc Preston: But you're the only Lily, that's that.
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Milana Vayntrub: Where there can only be one.
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Milana Vayntrub: You know, that is true.
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Marc Preston: Yeah it's kind of like a professional
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Marc Preston: You know when that series of commercials
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Marc Preston: one day ends, they're gonna like retire
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Marc Preston: your number.
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Marc Preston: There can no longer be another Lily, you
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Marc Preston: know.
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Marc Preston: So it'll be.
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Milana Vayntrub: You know, the only one not ever, not on TV
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Milana Vayntrub: at least, but we will allow your daughter
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Milana Vayntrub: to continue using the name.
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Marc Preston: Well, you know, i well you.
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Marc Preston: It's spelled the same way I I'll I'll.
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Marc Preston: Why you know.
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Marc Preston: So, now you, you live in LA.
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Marc Preston: Now, are you from LA originally?
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Milana Vayntrub: I grew up in LA.
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Milana Vayntrub: I grew up in West Hollywood.
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Milana Vayntrub: There's a very dense immigrant community
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Milana Vayntrub: where I was raised and So I had a lot of
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Milana Vayntrub: that influence in my life.
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Milana Vayntrub: But I'm originally from Uzbekistan and my
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Milana Vayntrub: family immigrated when I was I Don't know
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Milana Vayntrub: the number keeps changing, the date is very
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Milana Vayntrub: fluid but I was about two and a half three
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Milana Vayntrub: years old when we got to LA and, yeah, we
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Milana Vayntrub: Made it our home and we stayed and I'm very
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Milana Vayntrub: grateful that, of all the places to land,
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Milana Vayntrub: we landed in LA.
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Marc Preston: Well, i mean, la has such a good, no matter
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Marc Preston: where you come from, you're going to find
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Marc Preston: part of your tribe there, you know which is
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Marc Preston: nice.
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Milana Vayntrub: I've spent something kind of similar about
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Milana Vayntrub: LA that there really is something there for
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Milana Vayntrub: everybody.
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Marc Preston: You Well being a member of our respective
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Marc Preston: tribe.
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Marc Preston: I apologize.
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Milana Vayntrub: The entertainment industry could be a tribe.
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Marc Preston: Oh yeah, i'm sometimes more on the
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Marc Preston: They let me come to some meetings
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Marc Preston: occasionally, but no, being from Dallas,
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Marc Preston: There was massive influx And my family is
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Marc Preston: motivation for leaving probably was very
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Marc Preston: similar.
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Marc Preston: I'm sure.
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Marc Preston: What do your folks do?
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Marc Preston: What was the?
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Milana Vayntrub: My mom now works in healthcare and like
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Milana Vayntrub: home health and hospice And my dad has a
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Milana Vayntrub: little restaurant.
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Milana Vayntrub: But growing up they had all sorts of
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Milana Vayntrub: My mom has kind of been a nurse for most of
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Milana Vayntrub: my childhood There was a little stint of
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Milana Vayntrub: her having a flower shop And my dad has had
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Milana Vayntrub: literally every job that an immigrant can
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Milana Vayntrub: have for being somebody who refuses to
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Milana Vayntrub: So he was like a plumber and he delivered
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Milana Vayntrub: doughnuts And he was a handyman And now
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Milana Vayntrub: he's kind of found his thing.
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Marc Preston: You know it's funny.
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Marc Preston: I was my first experience meeting somebody
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Marc Preston: Was God when was this?
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Marc Preston: Roughly 1993, 1994.
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Marc Preston: I remember them, i was for a press junket.
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Marc Preston: I remember I stayed the four seasons
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Marc Preston: And I find out that he's actually was a
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Marc Preston: So in the interim he was driving a cab.
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Milana Vayntrub: It's a very common story.
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Marc Preston: Really.
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, i see it so often with people who
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Milana Vayntrub: were professors back in Egypt and here are
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Milana Vayntrub: driving Ubers And yeah, it is bizarre that
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Milana Vayntrub: a lot of the skills don't transfer because
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Milana Vayntrub: of logistics.
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Milana Vayntrub: Like you know, you can understand medicine
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Milana Vayntrub: in, you know in Ukrainian, but you don't
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Milana Vayntrub: understand medicine Because the body is
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Milana Vayntrub: different, because the Ukrainian body and
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Milana Vayntrub: an American body are so different.
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Milana Vayntrub: But it is you know.
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Milana Vayntrub: And then you really have to think about
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, i just was a really talkative
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Marc Preston: So you're the kid who is very.
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Marc Preston: What's the phrase that they would use these
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Marc Preston: No, no, no, no, That would be a very
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Marc Preston: No, it's whenever they try to talk about a
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Marc Preston: But I literally just turned 50 yesterday.
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Marc Preston: So I think that short term memory thing is
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Marc Preston: Happy birthday.
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Marc Preston: Well, thank you.
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Marc Preston: Thank you, I mean, it's like I'm feeling
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Milana Vayntrub: How did you celebrate your birthday?
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Marc Preston: How to celebrate.
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Marc Preston: You know, my two oldest are at you're in
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Marc Preston: But the precocious that's the word I'm
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, I was really curious and talkative
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Marc Preston: But isn't that a great?
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Marc Preston: I was more interested in the stuff behind
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Marc Preston: So what was it like, as when you were young,
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Milana Vayntrub: film and I did a lot of commercials And it
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Milana Vayntrub: Well, now makeup feels like a thing you
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Marc Preston: When was the transition when you kind of
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Milana Vayntrub: And then I just did college theater, which
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Milana Vayntrub: I just started doing theater in college to
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Milana Vayntrub: program And I went to UC San Diego, which I
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Milana Vayntrub: Well, because of the La Jolla Playhouse and
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Marc Preston: Well, you brought up something I thought is
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Milana Vayntrub: I think there's two separate bits.
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Milana Vayntrub: rehearsal and then everyone goes and grabs
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Milana Vayntrub: bites together.
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Milana Vayntrub: So it's where I made a lot of my closest
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Milana Vayntrub: friends And I needed more of that social
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Milana Vayntrub: And I needed a creative outlet.
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Milana Vayntrub: I knew that I needed to be doing something
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Milana Vayntrub: other than studying and working.
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Milana Vayntrub: So play, theater and acting and directing
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Milana Vayntrub: it all feels like a form of play which is
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Milana Vayntrub: really really healthy And one of the
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Milana Vayntrub: scientific proof.
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Milana Vayntrub: There's scientific proof around the benefit
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Milana Vayntrub: of improv, where it's this time for a
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Milana Vayntrub: person to turn off their frontal cortex or
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Milana Vayntrub: maybe turn it down, where the part of our
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Milana Vayntrub: brain that we use to apologize and analyze
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Milana Vayntrub: ourselves and watch ourselves actually
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Milana Vayntrub: becomes a lot less useful during improv and
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Milana Vayntrub: during play.
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Milana Vayntrub: And so I needed less like doing theater in
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Milana Vayntrub: a way actually made me less self-conscious.
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Milana Vayntrub: So there's that side, there's the science
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Milana Vayntrub: and the social, and then also there is, i
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Milana Vayntrub: think, that that science is the thing that
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Milana Vayntrub: happens for me when I'm directing And I
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Milana Vayntrub: think also when I'm improvising.
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Milana Vayntrub: But there's like a problem solving.
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Milana Vayntrub: You kind of have to be present, because you
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Milana Vayntrub: are just actively listening and problem
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Milana Vayntrub: solving, you're just putting together a
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Milana Vayntrub: puzzle.
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Milana Vayntrub: So that feeling and that task feels really
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Milana Vayntrub: nurturing for my head.
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Marc Preston: Oh, I love that, I really do.
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Marc Preston: I mean, I've been coaching voiceover for 20,
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Marc Preston: just over 20 years And one of the things
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Marc Preston: some students are a little bit more
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Marc Preston: difficult than others to kind of get the
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Marc Preston: idea across, but the idea that words are
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Marc Preston: powered by emotion And you kind of have to
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Marc Preston: get your I call it your thinky side out of
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Marc Preston: the way.
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Marc Preston: You know, and maybe you're much more in a
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Marc Preston: more eloquent scientific way, kind of
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Marc Preston: elaborated and like I'm very intrigued now
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Marc Preston: by that.
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Marc Preston: But yeah, I think it's, you can whatever's
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Marc Preston: going on in your life, can't you also just
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Marc Preston: kind of tune it out while you're playing
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Marc Preston: with other people?
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Marc Preston: So, no matter what's going on externally,
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Marc Preston: you can kind of at least depart for a
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Marc Preston: moment.
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Marc Preston: So I kind of found that to be somewhat
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Marc Preston: therapeutic over the years at times.
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Marc Preston: But you mentioned directing.
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Marc Preston: Was that like stage stuff or were you
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Marc Preston: directing like the 48 hour film festival
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Marc Preston: type of things?
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Marc Preston: What kind of projects were you putting
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Marc Preston: together?
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Milana Vayntrub: Student plays at first, which was amazing
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Milana Vayntrub: and so fun and good for me.
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Milana Vayntrub: And then I got to assist a few of the
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Milana Vayntrub: bigger directors that came into town And
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Milana Vayntrub: one of them took me to New York with him to
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Milana Vayntrub: assist And I really got a sense of what
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Milana Vayntrub: theater is like in the big Apple.
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Milana Vayntrub: And but really I think the biggest takeaway
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Milana Vayntrub: is that theater, especially in college, is
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Milana Vayntrub: just like all hands on deck Everybody's
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Milana Vayntrub: doing everything and you learn so much and
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Milana Vayntrub: you everyone benefits from a group dynamic
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Milana Vayntrub: and from creating.
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Milana Vayntrub: So when I graduated and I decided to act
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Milana Vayntrub: and I wanted to act right and direct I
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Milana Vayntrub: realized that a lot of it requires begging
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Milana Vayntrub: people for opportunities And I hadn't been
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Milana Vayntrub: doing that in college because I was just
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Milana Vayntrub: always able to make.
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Milana Vayntrub: So I started to just make things out in the
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Milana Vayntrub: world.
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Milana Vayntrub: That was the.
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Milana Vayntrub: That was the biggest skill that college
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Milana Vayntrub: gave me wasn't necessarily any class, it
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Milana Vayntrub: was the ability to generate.
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Marc Preston: Now were you a good student, though, or I
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Marc Preston: mean outside of theater.
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Marc Preston: we know you're a good theater student, so
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Marc Preston: you're just.
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Milana Vayntrub: No, i wasn't.
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Milana Vayntrub: I wasn't even a good theater student.
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Milana Vayntrub: I was.
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Milana Vayntrub: I was a good performer.
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Milana Vayntrub: I was like I was.
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Milana Vayntrub: I learned my lines and I showed up on time
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Milana Vayntrub: and I did the work.
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Milana Vayntrub: But I was never a good student in anything
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Milana Vayntrub: really Maybe in math.
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Milana Vayntrub: I was like I had a period where I was a
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Milana Vayntrub: good math student, but that didn't last
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Milana Vayntrub: very long.
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Marc Preston: Oh, for me, no, neither My.
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Marc Preston: My kids talk about pre-calculus and You
552
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Marc Preston: know it's really sobering when your kids
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Marc Preston: surpass a time like where you like I got
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Marc Preston: nothing for you.
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Marc Preston: I can't help you, you know so it's like a
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Marc Preston: big joke.
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Marc Preston: My daughter will tell me what she's working
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Marc Preston: on at college.
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Marc Preston: I'm like you need any help on that, cause
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Marc Preston: she knows I'm of no use whatsoever, you
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Marc Preston: know.
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, well, i think what's interesting
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Milana Vayntrub: about that?
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Milana Vayntrub: I mean, i have a kid now too and I've been
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Milana Vayntrub: thinking a lot about his education and what
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Milana Vayntrub: kind of experiences I want to impart.
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Milana Vayntrub: And I am, and my husband and I differ here
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Milana Vayntrub: because he has his masters and I never got
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Milana Vayntrub: good grades in anything, so I'm like I
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Milana Vayntrub: don't really care if he goes to college.
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Milana Vayntrub: Why would he ever need to know pre-calculus,
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Milana Vayntrub: unless he's really excited about you know,
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Milana Vayntrub: unless he wants to be a physicist?
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: I'm the exact same way.
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Marc Preston: I think it's so ridiculous that you force
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Marc Preston: kids and it's really advanced math Now if
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Marc Preston: they have an aptitude for it or a desire or
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Marc Preston: career they want to do or go into, that
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Marc Preston: needs, that Yeah.
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Marc Preston: But it's like I feel like all I did is push
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Marc Preston: my GPA down.
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Marc Preston: I mean I could have stopped at algebra and
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Marc Preston: been good.
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Marc Preston: I don't even know if I've used algebra in
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Marc Preston: the last 30 years, so but that's.
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Milana Vayntrub: It's not applicable.
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Milana Vayntrub: I find it to be not applicable And I find
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Milana Vayntrub: the regurgitation to be useless as well,
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Milana Vayntrub: when they could be spending their time
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Milana Vayntrub: learning something that would benefit them
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Milana Vayntrub: or that just or just would make them more
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Milana Vayntrub: interesting.
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Milana Vayntrub: Like it doesn't have to be.
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Milana Vayntrub: You don't have to spend that time learning
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Milana Vayntrub: how to file your taxes, which would be a
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Milana Vayntrub: very useful skill, But it could just be
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Milana Vayntrub: like astrology, It could just be whatever
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Milana Vayntrub: it is you're weirdly interested in.
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Milana Vayntrub: Spend that time.
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Milana Vayntrub: Invest your life in the things that are
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Milana Vayntrub: interesting to you is my TED talk.
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Marc Preston: I think we're moving in that direction a
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Marc Preston: little bit.
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Marc Preston: I mean, when you look at how much college
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Marc Preston: is costing and how little return on
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Marc Preston: investment people are ultimately getting
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Marc Preston: from it, And like my kids, I'm glad because
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Marc Preston: they're getting actual professors.
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Marc Preston: But when I was in college I remember
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Marc Preston: teaching assistants were teaching a lot of
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Marc Preston: the classes.
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Marc Preston: I'm like I kind of felt like, well, I'm
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Marc Preston: paying for a professor, Why shouldn't I?
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Announcer: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: What was your favorite part about living in
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Marc Preston: San Diego?
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Marc Preston: I'm just kind of curious.
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Marc Preston: Somebody used to live there.
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Marc Preston: Where did you like to hang out out there?
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Milana Vayntrub: Um, I think it's just the beach.
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Milana Vayntrub: I lived at Wendon Sea for a second.
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Marc Preston: Oh, okay, Well, that's up and like that's
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Marc Preston: up in the North County right.
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, And I spent.
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Milana Vayntrub: It's close to Encinitas And I spent.
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Milana Vayntrub: You know, my rent was $450.
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Milana Vayntrub: I had a boyfriend at the time and we shared
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Milana Vayntrub: a room and, um, and we had another roommate
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Milana Vayntrub: and my rent was so cheap and I lived at the
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Milana Vayntrub: beach, I could make a cup of coffee and
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Milana Vayntrub: take it with me on the beach and it would
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Milana Vayntrub: still be hot.
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Marc Preston: My, i had a dog and we did the exact same
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Marc Preston: thing, man, and we did something about,
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Marc Preston: like, i love the San Diego beaches, you
637
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Marc Preston: know.
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Milana Vayntrub: But Oh, and the dog beaches are hilarious.
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Milana Vayntrub: I didn't have a dog, but I would go and
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Milana Vayntrub: just watch the dogs play because they were
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Milana Vayntrub: living their best lives.
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Marc Preston: Oh, i still remember there's a place called
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Marc Preston: surf dogs Java hut, right across from
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Marc Preston: Hanson surf shop, right on the 101.
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Marc Preston: And I'd always go in there and get my
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Marc Preston: coffee and go, you know, hang out on the
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Marc Preston: beach.
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Marc Preston: And uh, that a lot of people had the bond,
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Marc Preston: not bonfires but campfires, they had the
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Marc Preston: little setup.
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Marc Preston: You know it's like how cool is that hanging
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Marc Preston: out?
653
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Marc Preston: Like if you're in high school, you know,
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Marc Preston: you go out with your friends hang out at
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Marc Preston: the beach, you know.
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Marc Preston: But so, progression wise, you're out of
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Marc Preston: college.
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Marc Preston: Are you working a civilian job or are you
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Marc Preston: just putting yourself in every situation
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Marc Preston: you can, to, to, to, to act?
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Milana Vayntrub: Both.
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Milana Vayntrub: I got a job as a, i was a hostess and a
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Milana Vayntrub: waitress and I worked at a smoothie bar and
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Milana Vayntrub: I was a nanny.
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Milana Vayntrub: and some jobs lasted longer than others,
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Milana Vayntrub: but that was my gig while I was going on
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Milana Vayntrub: auditions here and there, booking a few
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Milana Vayntrub: commercials, a few web series, like little
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Milana Vayntrub: things, here and there.
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Marc Preston: Were you back in Los Angeles at this point
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Marc Preston: in time?
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Milana Vayntrub: Yes, I came back to Los Angeles after doing
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Milana Vayntrub: a play in New York and came back to LA and
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Milana Vayntrub: just figuring out how to stay above water
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Milana Vayntrub: and pay my rent And then I realized that
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Milana Vayntrub: the only way I was going to have any kind
677
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Milana Vayntrub: of success in my life is if I made my own
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Milana Vayntrub: anything.
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Milana Vayntrub: And this was around the time where YouTube
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Milana Vayntrub: was really becoming a thing.
681
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Milana Vayntrub: And I had a few friends from UCB, the
682
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Milana Vayntrub: Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, who I
683
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Milana Vayntrub: credit with my success and I still think is
684
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Milana Vayntrub: I mean UCB theater.
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Marc Preston: Oh, you studied at UCB.
686
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Milana Vayntrub: I did yeah.
687
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Marc Preston: Oh, okay.
688
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, when I came back to LA, i had a
689
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Milana Vayntrub: friend take me there and I thought it was
690
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,344
Milana Vayntrub: absolutely magic and I signed up for
691
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Milana Vayntrub: classes and I've done their whole program
692
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Milana Vayntrub: and I would do it again and I love
693
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Milana Vayntrub: performing there.
694
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Milana Vayntrub: I really think it's.
695
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Milana Vayntrub: It's the only piece of advice I would give
696
00:26:33,953 --> 00:26:41,508
Milana Vayntrub: every actor is to study improv And so, yes,
697
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Milana Vayntrub: so I lived next to UCB theater.
698
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Milana Vayntrub: I worked there, i worked near it, i
699
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Milana Vayntrub: performed there and I realized, well, i
700
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Milana Vayntrub: started to see a lot of the people around
701
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Milana Vayntrub: me make their own videos and I was like I
702
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Milana Vayntrub: could do that.
703
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Milana Vayntrub: Like I directed theater, i could direct a
704
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Milana Vayntrub: web series, i could figure this out And I
705
00:27:01,626 --> 00:27:04,653
Milana Vayntrub: had some friends teach me how to edit and
706
00:27:06,137 --> 00:27:09,344
Milana Vayntrub: that web series ended up getting me my reps
707
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Milana Vayntrub: and my.
708
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Milana Vayntrub: I ended up selling that web series as a TV
709
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Milana Vayntrub: show to the.
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Milana Vayntrub: MTV pilot.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, back when MTV was a big factor, i was
712
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Marc Preston: like trying to explain to my kids okay,
713
00:27:25,873 --> 00:27:28,010
Marc Preston: used to be, mtv was the tastemaker for
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Marc Preston: everything that ever happened.
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Milana Vayntrub: Oh, this was way after that, this was way
716
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Milana Vayntrub: after that.
717
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Milana Vayntrub: It was already not a tastemaker, oh, it was
718
00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:39,053
Milana Vayntrub: already kind of like mostly reality at that
719
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Milana Vayntrub: time, which and?
720
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Milana Vayntrub: they were doing some comedy, but it was
721
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Milana Vayntrub: mostly.
722
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Milana Vayntrub: I mean, they didn't pick up the show
723
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Milana Vayntrub: because it honestly didn't really align
724
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Milana Vayntrub: with their content.
725
00:27:50,923 --> 00:27:52,326
Milana Vayntrub: But but it was a good.
726
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Milana Vayntrub: It was a really good step for me to make
727
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Milana Vayntrub: something and to sell it and to feel that
728
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Milana Vayntrub: kind of confidence and, i don't know,
729
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Milana Vayntrub: velocity in my career.
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Marc Preston: Now, you know, going forward now, i loved
731
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Marc Preston: and wished you would show up more and the
732
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Marc Preston: TV show love Anything Judd Apatow touches,
733
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Marc Preston: i'm like all about it.
734
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Marc Preston: you know, how did you end up on that show?
735
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Marc Preston: I know it was only a couple episodes, but
736
00:28:19,026 --> 00:28:20,490
Marc Preston: how did that come together for you.
737
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Milana Vayntrub: A little fashion audition.
738
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Marc Preston: Did I see something somewhere that you
739
00:28:24,426 --> 00:28:26,435
Marc Preston: would acted on ER at one point in time?
740
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Marc Preston: I think?
741
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Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, when I was a kid.
742
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Marc Preston: Was it, oh, is it an Instagram post?
743
00:28:30,864 --> 00:28:32,642
Marc Preston: I'd seen that you trade You and George
744
00:28:32,682 --> 00:28:35,970
Marc Preston: Clooney next to your trailer, i think, and
745
00:28:35,990 --> 00:28:36,431
Marc Preston: I think it's.
746
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Marc Preston: the post is something like all the guys in
747
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Marc Preston: my past or something like that.
748
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Marc Preston: You know, moving forward, how do you, in
749
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Marc Preston: parallel with having a very recognizable I
750
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Marc Preston: mean, which is, i mean to be a very, to
751
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Marc Preston: have a character which is you know what it
752
00:28:54,661 --> 00:28:58,689
Marc Preston: is, in a commercial, on par with flow from
753
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Marc Preston: progressive or who people just will know
754
00:29:01,301 --> 00:29:03,568
Marc Preston: the name and know the person, is it at all
755
00:29:03,664 --> 00:29:06,083
Marc Preston: a challenge to establish an acting career
756
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Marc Preston: and, parallel to that, when you're so
757
00:29:07,946 --> 00:29:10,841
Marc Preston: recognizable as being Lily, is that
758
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Marc Preston: difficult at all?
759
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Milana Vayntrub: I don't know what kind of conversations
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Milana Vayntrub: people have when they decide to put me in
761
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Milana Vayntrub: their project or not.
762
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Milana Vayntrub: So I don't, I haven't.
763
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Milana Vayntrub: No one would tell me to my face that
764
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Milana Vayntrub: they're not going to hire me because of
765
00:29:24,983 --> 00:29:25,645
Milana Vayntrub: that reason.
766
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Milana Vayntrub: But I've been able to continue working a
767
00:29:29,965 --> 00:29:32,570
Milana Vayntrub: nice, modest actor's life.
768
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Milana Vayntrub: So I can't, I can't say yet that it's hurt
769
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Milana Vayntrub: me, but let me get back to you in a few
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Milana Vayntrub: years.
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Marc Preston: Well, no, not as much as like.
772
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Marc Preston: As far as getting cast more like internally
773
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Marc Preston: for you, are you, is there a line of
774
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Marc Preston: delineation that you have to create like,
775
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Marc Preston: okay, this is a thing, that's, that's,
776
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Marc Preston: that's rolling.
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Marc Preston: I mean, a lot of people would give a lot
778
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Marc Preston: just to have, you know, a couple of
779
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Marc Preston: national spots.
780
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Marc Preston: And here you are, this is, this is a really
781
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Marc Preston: cool thing.
782
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Marc Preston: You know, i think anybody would think that
783
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Marc Preston: was pretty badass, but with that is it is
784
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Marc Preston: it.
785
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Marc Preston: Is it something for you, where you're, as
786
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Marc Preston: you're charting your career, if you're
787
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Marc Preston: going to do some heavier stuff, do you see
788
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Marc Preston: yourself doing more heavier, dramatic
789
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Marc Preston: things that maybe are not what we come to
790
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Marc Preston: expect from your?
791
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Marc Preston: you know both commercial or THE TV projects
792
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Marc Preston: you've been doing.
793
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Marc Preston: Are you wanting to do something more
794
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Marc Preston: dramatic?
795
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Milana Vayntrub: I Could, I suppose.
796
00:30:28,349 --> 00:30:31,678
Milana Vayntrub: But it is what comedy is so fun.
797
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Milana Vayntrub: Comedy is such a joy and and it allows me
798
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Milana Vayntrub: to play and be silly.
799
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Milana Vayntrub: So I like staying in that space, but I'm
800
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Milana Vayntrub: open.
801
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Milana Vayntrub: I mean, that's the right thing you know.
802
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Marc Preston: Well, for a lot of people comedy is very
803
00:30:47,691 --> 00:30:49,456
Marc Preston: difficult, you know, because that's.
804
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Milana Vayntrub: It feels at home for me.
805
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Marc Preston: So that's that kind of goes back to your
806
00:30:55,435 --> 00:30:57,725
Marc Preston: being the, the precocious little kid.
807
00:30:57,886 --> 00:30:59,455
Marc Preston: It just kind of like you know you're just a
808
00:30:59,475 --> 00:31:00,944
Marc Preston: little older, but still the same kid, you
809
00:31:00,965 --> 00:31:01,045
Marc Preston: know.
810
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Marc Preston: So it's easy, you know, for you to get
811
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Marc Preston: together with adults and play.
812
00:31:04,272 --> 00:31:06,717
Marc Preston: But now going back, you mentioned you have
813
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Marc Preston: a.
814
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Marc Preston: How old's your son?
815
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Milana Vayntrub: He's almost two.
816
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Marc Preston: So is he very verbal yet Is he?
817
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Marc Preston: is he gotten to the point of being
818
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Marc Preston: talkative?
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Milana Vayntrub: Oh, Yeah, he's so, so, so funny.
820
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Milana Vayntrub: He's like the most funny.
821
00:31:21,346 --> 00:31:24,456
Milana Vayntrub: He's like really cute and silly and
822
00:31:26,465 --> 00:31:30,313
Milana Vayntrub: Interested and curious and he's my favorite
823
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Milana Vayntrub: guy.
824
00:31:31,075 --> 00:31:32,578
Marc Preston: So when is he's mommy on TV?
825
00:31:32,678 --> 00:31:33,159
Marc Preston: How does he?
826
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Milana Vayntrub: Oh, he hasn't made me, he doesn't care.
827
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Milana Vayntrub: No We watch all that.
828
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Milana Vayntrub: We watch home videos all the time.
829
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Milana Vayntrub: So, and also I don't Watch a lot of my own
830
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Milana Vayntrub: commercials, so he doesn't care and he
831
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Milana Vayntrub: doesn't get it yet Maybe when he, maybe
832
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Milana Vayntrub: when he's older, he'll care.
833
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Marc Preston: You know, going forward, if you had to kind
834
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Marc Preston: of like, if you can kind of map out the
835
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Marc Preston: next few of you like that five-year thing,
836
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Marc Preston: what kind of things would you like to be
837
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Marc Preston: working on?
838
00:31:59,966 --> 00:32:01,732
Marc Preston: Do you have anything that you haven't done,
839
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Marc Preston: or things you have done you want to keep on
840
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Marc Preston: doing or do again?
841
00:32:04,441 --> 00:32:04,461
Marc Preston: I?
842
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Milana Vayntrub: I'd really like to Run a show with my
843
00:32:10,932 --> 00:32:14,749
Milana Vayntrub: writing partner That's based on some
844
00:32:14,809 --> 00:32:15,793
Milana Vayntrub: original ideas.
845
00:32:16,937 --> 00:32:20,812
Milana Vayntrub: I Would love to create things that other
846
00:32:21,613 --> 00:32:25,468
Milana Vayntrub: people get to use as their showcase, and
847
00:32:25,508 --> 00:32:28,779
Milana Vayntrub: then, yeah, showing up to just act in other
848
00:32:28,859 --> 00:32:33,010
Milana Vayntrub: things is also a joy, and so doing
849
00:32:33,030 --> 00:32:36,317
Milana Vayntrub: meaningful films that are funny would be
850
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Milana Vayntrub: the dream job, and Also, i'd like to keep
851
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Milana Vayntrub: directing.
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00:32:44,807 --> 00:32:49,609
Marc Preston: Now I did see one show That I did down, if
853
00:32:49,649 --> 00:32:51,272
Marc Preston: you wrote it or if this is your creation,
854
00:32:51,353 --> 00:32:53,356
Marc Preston: but I've got to see it the Shabasco I.
855
00:32:54,078 --> 00:32:57,053
Marc Preston: Was that your Creation, or oh okay?
856
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Milana Vayntrub: No, that was created by a writer, director,
857
00:33:00,086 --> 00:33:02,050
Milana Vayntrub: composer at Talia Olstein.
858
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Milana Vayntrub: It's very funny.
859
00:33:03,554 --> 00:33:04,716
Milana Vayntrub: It's definitely worth checking out.
860
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Milana Vayntrub: I think it's great.
861
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Marc Preston: Okay, guys, we sort of wrap up here.
862
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Marc Preston: I want to.
863
00:33:15,667 --> 00:33:17,672
Marc Preston: I always have my seven, my seven questions.
864
00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:19,617
Marc Preston: Just a little fun extra, get to know you.
865
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Marc Preston: But I am curious.
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Marc Preston: First question What is your favorite
867
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Marc Preston: comfort food?
868
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Milana Vayntrub: I love Mac and cheese.
869
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Milana Vayntrub: I love cheese period.
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Milana Vayntrub: So cheese pizza sounds really good.
871
00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:34,338
Milana Vayntrub: But Mac and cheese right now, in this
872
00:33:34,418 --> 00:33:36,412
Milana Vayntrub: moment, that's like a little crunchy at the
873
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Milana Vayntrub: top.
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Marc Preston: That's my really another cheese fan.
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Marc Preston: I like that.
876
00:33:40,148 --> 00:33:40,710
Marc Preston: I got it Well.
877
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Marc Preston: One kind of side question on that What is?
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Marc Preston: I don't know if it's a comfort food, but
879
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Marc Preston: something that you register as being a
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00:33:47,886 --> 00:33:50,461
Marc Preston: Really great Russian dish that your folks
881
00:33:50,541 --> 00:33:51,185
Marc Preston: make you know.
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00:33:52,047 --> 00:33:54,371
Milana Vayntrub: Um everything, everything that my.
883
00:33:55,152 --> 00:33:57,437
Milana Vayntrub: so we're not, we're not Russian, we're
884
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Milana Vayntrub: Uzbek.
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Marc Preston: Oh, I'm sorry and We.
886
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Milana Vayntrub: My grandma makes pluff, which is this a
887
00:34:05,075 --> 00:34:12,487
Milana Vayntrub: traditional Uzbek rice with, with Carrots
888
00:34:12,607 --> 00:34:15,958
Milana Vayntrub: and beef and some people look our bonzo
889
00:34:15,978 --> 00:34:19,550
Milana Vayntrub: beans and cardamom and it is just the
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Milana Vayntrub: yummiest, looks like the fattiest rice you
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Milana Vayntrub: can eat and it's my favorite.
892
00:34:26,543 --> 00:34:27,165
Milana Vayntrub: I could eat that all day.
893
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Milana Vayntrub: Also, my grandma makes a borsch that's like
894
00:34:29,212 --> 00:34:32,808
Milana Vayntrub: out of this world, bleachy, which are just
895
00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:34,973
Milana Vayntrub: crepes, but they're like better than any
896
00:34:35,013 --> 00:34:36,557
Milana Vayntrub: crepe I've ever had, even in Paris.
897
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Milana Vayntrub: So Can't I can't pick favorite grandma's
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Milana Vayntrub: dish, you know.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm so sorry to me say Russian I'm is
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Marc Preston: because of course you expect something in
901
00:34:44,961 --> 00:34:46,247
Marc Preston: Soviet Union nuts That's.
902
00:34:46,308 --> 00:34:47,475
Marc Preston: it was part of the Soviet Union.
903
00:34:47,495 --> 00:34:49,185
Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, so part of the Soviet Union, for sure.
904
00:34:49,386 --> 00:34:49,608
Marc Preston: Always.
905
00:34:49,628 --> 00:34:50,896
Marc Preston: That's one of things I've always wanted to
906
00:34:50,916 --> 00:34:52,185
Marc Preston: know a little bit more about that cuisine.
907
00:34:52,546 --> 00:34:52,747
Marc Preston: I was.
908
00:34:52,787 --> 00:34:53,529
Marc Preston: It was a banyas.
909
00:34:53,590 --> 00:34:54,714
Marc Preston: Is that the thing that people go to?
910
00:34:54,734 --> 00:34:55,235
Marc Preston: they have a.
911
00:34:56,127 --> 00:34:57,813
Marc Preston: It's like a spa slash eating.
912
00:34:57,854 --> 00:34:58,356
Marc Preston: I've always wanted.
913
00:34:58,376 --> 00:35:00,545
Marc Preston: I think LA has got a at least couple of
914
00:35:00,565 --> 00:35:00,645
Marc Preston: them.
915
00:35:00,645 --> 00:35:00,906
Marc Preston: I want to.
916
00:35:00,926 --> 00:35:02,052
Marc Preston: I've always wanted to check that out.
917
00:35:02,795 --> 00:35:04,363
Marc Preston: Now, if you're gonna sit down, like with
918
00:35:04,383 --> 00:35:05,869
Marc Preston: three people, you're gonna have coffee or
919
00:35:06,170 --> 00:35:10,509
Marc Preston: lunch or whatever Living, living or not Who
920
00:35:10,529 --> 00:35:12,423
Marc Preston: would it, who would you like to sit down
921
00:35:12,483 --> 00:35:15,292
Marc Preston: and talk, just kind of talk story with and
922
00:35:15,332 --> 00:35:16,696
Marc Preston: have a cup of coffee with you know, you and
923
00:35:16,736 --> 00:35:17,237
Marc Preston: three people?
924
00:35:21,346 --> 00:35:24,897
Milana Vayntrub: I'll pick Steven Spielberg.
925
00:35:30,166 --> 00:35:33,876
Milana Vayntrub: This is hard, this is really hard bell
926
00:35:33,916 --> 00:35:38,372
Milana Vayntrub: hooks and I think I'd want my husband to be
927
00:35:38,412 --> 00:35:41,172
Milana Vayntrub: there, just so that afterwards we could
928
00:35:41,232 --> 00:35:42,175
Milana Vayntrub: like recap.
929
00:35:42,436 --> 00:35:44,248
Milana Vayntrub: You know, just so that after, so that I
930
00:35:44,269 --> 00:35:46,734
Milana Vayntrub: could the conversation could live on every
931
00:35:46,775 --> 00:35:48,178
Milana Vayntrub: moment that we're together afterwards.
932
00:35:49,647 --> 00:35:50,208
Marc Preston: Isn't that a now?
933
00:35:50,228 --> 00:35:51,693
Marc Preston: That's a really wonderful idea.
934
00:35:51,994 --> 00:35:53,399
Marc Preston: I love that being able to have somebody
935
00:35:53,439 --> 00:35:54,964
Marc Preston: with you and keep it's like on a vacation
936
00:35:54,984 --> 00:35:55,125
Marc Preston: with.
937
00:35:55,526 --> 00:35:56,270
Marc Preston: That's why I love it.
938
00:35:57,153 --> 00:35:59,041
Marc Preston: I don't like taking vacations Just like me
939
00:35:59,121 --> 00:35:59,965
Marc Preston: or like another adults.
940
00:35:59,965 --> 00:36:01,758
Marc Preston: I want to be with my kids because it'll be
941
00:36:01,821 --> 00:36:02,184
Marc Preston: a story.
942
00:36:02,248 --> 00:36:03,874
Marc Preston: We always get to kind of rehash it.
943
00:36:03,938 --> 00:36:04,423
Marc Preston: That's wonderful.
944
00:36:04,423 --> 00:36:05,408
Marc Preston: I've never had somebody mentioned their
945
00:36:05,448 --> 00:36:06,152
Marc Preston: spouse before.
946
00:36:06,192 --> 00:36:06,997
Marc Preston: That that's great.
947
00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:09,127
Marc Preston: Now, now, bell hooks, bell hooks.
948
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:10,611
Marc Preston: Why am I drawing a blank bell hooks.
949
00:36:11,032 --> 00:36:14,749
Milana Vayntrub: Bell hooks wrote all about love and many,
950
00:36:14,809 --> 00:36:22,129
Milana Vayntrub: many other books on The systems, the
951
00:36:22,189 --> 00:36:25,195
Milana Vayntrub: systems of oppression, the system, the
952
00:36:25,235 --> 00:36:26,978
Milana Vayntrub: structures of love, the structures of
953
00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:34,724
Milana Vayntrub: patriarchy, and How they honestly hurt us
954
00:36:34,804 --> 00:36:34,865
Milana Vayntrub: all.
955
00:36:36,649 --> 00:36:38,253
Milana Vayntrub: That's maybe just one of her many, many,
956
00:36:38,314 --> 00:36:39,938
Milana Vayntrub: many incredible points.
957
00:36:41,026 --> 00:36:44,393
Milana Vayntrub: Love as the antidote to a lot of the broken
958
00:36:44,453 --> 00:36:46,858
Milana Vayntrub: systems, the care that we have for each
959
00:36:46,938 --> 00:36:50,252
Milana Vayntrub: other and For the earth, for animals, i
960
00:36:50,332 --> 00:36:55,232
Milana Vayntrub: mean mostly people Is the antidote to so
961
00:36:55,292 --> 00:36:59,590
Milana Vayntrub: much of the greed and fear Which is, which
962
00:36:59,872 --> 00:37:02,526
Milana Vayntrub: is, which is the sickness that that
963
00:37:03,108 --> 00:37:07,530
Milana Vayntrub: manifests as racism and prejudice and
964
00:37:07,691 --> 00:37:08,133
Milana Vayntrub: misogyny.
965
00:37:09,466 --> 00:37:11,955
Milana Vayntrub: But I first discovered her work in in
966
00:37:12,015 --> 00:37:14,764
Milana Vayntrub: college and then just kept digging in as an
967
00:37:14,824 --> 00:37:16,809
Milana Vayntrub: adult And it keeps, honestly, it keeps
968
00:37:16,870 --> 00:37:18,333
Milana Vayntrub: mattering and almost becoming more and more
969
00:37:18,373 --> 00:37:21,648
Milana Vayntrub: relevant as our world becomes more fucked
970
00:37:21,749 --> 00:37:21,829
Milana Vayntrub: up.
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00:37:23,586 --> 00:37:25,612
Marc Preston: Now, now, the next question I got for you
972
00:37:25,652 --> 00:37:27,597
Marc Preston: was who's your who when you were a kid?
973
00:37:27,646 --> 00:37:29,105
Marc Preston: Who is your first celebrity crush?
974
00:37:29,949 --> 00:37:32,001
Milana Vayntrub: I wasn't one of those kids who had slept,
975
00:37:32,162 --> 00:37:35,510
Milana Vayntrub: who, like I, had crushes on like boys in my
976
00:37:35,570 --> 00:37:38,496
Milana Vayntrub: class and those felt huge, like like
977
00:37:38,817 --> 00:37:39,318
Milana Vayntrub: crippling.
978
00:37:41,346 --> 00:37:43,473
Milana Vayntrub: But you know, i knew people who like put up
979
00:37:43,533 --> 00:37:47,132
Milana Vayntrub: posters of Jonathan Taylor Thomas and it
980
00:37:47,152 --> 00:37:48,656
Milana Vayntrub: just never made sense to me.
981
00:37:48,745 --> 00:37:49,487
Milana Vayntrub: I didn't, wasn't really.
982
00:37:49,828 --> 00:37:51,553
Milana Vayntrub: I guess I had a little bit of a crush on
983
00:37:51,593 --> 00:37:53,267
Milana Vayntrub: George Clooney when I knew him, but only
984
00:37:53,327 --> 00:37:55,334
Milana Vayntrub: because he's really really magnetic.
985
00:37:56,829 --> 00:37:58,855
Milana Vayntrub: But I was also a child and he was in his
986
00:37:58,875 --> 00:37:59,457
Milana Vayntrub: 30s, you know.
987
00:37:59,497 --> 00:38:01,483
Milana Vayntrub: So I always I really just wanted him to
988
00:38:01,543 --> 00:38:02,285
Milana Vayntrub: like be a friend.
989
00:38:02,445 --> 00:38:05,848
Marc Preston: I wanted him to like come over You sound a
990
00:38:05,888 --> 00:38:07,292
Marc Preston: lot like I was when I was younger.
991
00:38:07,553 --> 00:38:09,399
Marc Preston: I felt very comfortable with adults.
992
00:38:09,525 --> 00:38:12,091
Marc Preston: I had no like I could eat, had a lot of
993
00:38:12,172 --> 00:38:12,312
Marc Preston: ease.
994
00:38:12,332 --> 00:38:13,655
Marc Preston: Was that same thing with you when you were
995
00:38:13,675 --> 00:38:13,936
Marc Preston: younger?
996
00:38:14,196 --> 00:38:14,838
Milana Vayntrub: I think so.
997
00:38:17,289 --> 00:38:17,936
Milana Vayntrub: We just didn't I.
998
00:38:19,607 --> 00:38:22,212
Milana Vayntrub: I think so, i think I was just honest, and
999
00:38:22,653 --> 00:38:24,537
Milana Vayntrub: so when people would ask me things, i would
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00:38:24,618 --> 00:38:28,913
Milana Vayntrub: reply Genuinely so George Clooney on set
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00:38:29,053 --> 00:38:29,915
Milana Vayntrub: with, was that he?
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00:38:29,996 --> 00:38:32,201
Marc Preston: was he easy going with with kids or like?
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00:38:32,262 --> 00:38:33,485
Marc Preston: I mean you may have been the only kid on
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00:38:33,585 --> 00:38:33,886
Marc Preston: The set.
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00:38:33,906 --> 00:38:34,729
Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, he was the best.
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00:38:35,351 --> 00:38:36,335
Milana Vayntrub: He was absolutely the best.
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00:38:38,667 --> 00:38:40,616
Marc Preston: I think it's hard to dislike George Clooney.
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00:38:40,676 --> 00:38:42,082
Marc Preston: He's just one of those guys like this, kind
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00:38:42,102 --> 00:38:42,765
Marc Preston: of like Tom Hanks.
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00:38:42,946 --> 00:38:43,872
Marc Preston: You just can't not.
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00:38:43,912 --> 00:38:45,845
Marc Preston: You know you can't not like him, you know.
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00:38:47,710 --> 00:38:49,796
Marc Preston: Now, if you were next question, if you were
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00:38:51,126 --> 00:38:52,590
Marc Preston: Going to be living on an exotic island,
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00:38:52,650 --> 00:38:53,894
Marc Preston: somewhere you actually want to be, you're
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00:38:53,914 --> 00:38:55,146
Marc Preston: gonna be there for a year, but you don't
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00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:56,731
Marc Preston: have any Wi-Fi, you don't have any means of
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00:38:56,771 --> 00:38:58,296
Marc Preston: streaming, watching whatever you got to
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00:38:58,316 --> 00:38:58,556
Marc Preston: bring.
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00:38:59,347 --> 00:39:00,331
Marc Preston: If you want to watch a movie, you got to
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00:39:00,371 --> 00:39:02,459
Marc Preston: bring one DVD with you and maybe you also
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00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:06,352
Marc Preston: bring an album And so that's, you know, or
Speaker:
00:39:06,413 --> 00:39:08,890
Marc Preston: CD, or, but nothing streaming.
Speaker:
00:39:08,930 --> 00:39:09,914
Marc Preston: You just got to have one.
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00:39:09,954 --> 00:39:11,240
Marc Preston: You're gonna listen to it for the entire
Speaker:
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:12,545
Marc Preston: year you, your husband, your son.
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00:39:12,786 --> 00:39:14,757
Marc Preston: It's gonna be a wonderful getaway.
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00:39:15,782 --> 00:39:16,344
Marc Preston: What would you bring?
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00:39:18,381 --> 00:39:21,047
Milana Vayntrub: I think for the album I would just bring
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00:39:21,789 --> 00:39:23,773
Milana Vayntrub: the Beatles one album which is like their
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00:39:23,793 --> 00:39:33,623
Milana Vayntrub: best of, and Then for a movie, fire Island.
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00:39:33,783 --> 00:39:38,783
Milana Vayntrub: No, um, i don't, i don't know, i Can't.
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00:39:38,883 --> 00:39:41,984
Milana Vayntrub: I can't think of anything serious, i Can
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00:39:42,025 --> 00:39:43,611
Milana Vayntrub: only think of bad and can't say that, while
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00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:45,036
Milana Vayntrub: I'm drinking coffee, fire island.
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00:39:45,096 --> 00:39:46,181
Marc Preston: I'm like that's like, okay, that's
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00:39:46,269 --> 00:39:46,690
Marc Preston: interesting.
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00:39:46,778 --> 00:39:48,711
Marc Preston: Like are you, are you a reader?
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00:39:48,799 --> 00:39:50,438
Marc Preston: Is there a book you'd bring with you?
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00:39:50,526 --> 00:39:51,333
Milana Vayntrub: I'm not a reader.
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00:39:51,373 --> 00:39:52,034
Milana Vayntrub: I have a baby.
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00:39:52,334 --> 00:39:53,555
Marc Preston: Yeah, every time I read, I don't know about
Speaker:
00:39:53,595 --> 00:39:54,897
Marc Preston: you, but I start falling asleep.
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00:39:55,341 --> 00:39:56,544
Marc Preston: So now I got to do audiobook.
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00:39:56,584 --> 00:39:57,687
Marc Preston: If I want to check out a book, it's got to
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00:39:57,707 --> 00:39:58,429
Marc Preston: be the audiobook.
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00:39:58,790 --> 00:39:59,792
Milana Vayntrub: I do love an audiobook.
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00:40:00,394 --> 00:40:05,349
Milana Vayntrub: I Right now I'm listening to a book on the
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00:40:05,450 --> 00:40:08,995
Milana Vayntrub: Enneagram, which is a fun, silly thing I'm
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00:40:09,015 --> 00:40:09,740
Milana Vayntrub: not sure if you know about.
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00:40:10,482 --> 00:40:11,966
Marc Preston: No, what do you call Enneagram?
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00:40:12,588 --> 00:40:13,510
Milana Vayntrub: It's an Enneagram?
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00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:17,485
Milana Vayntrub: Yeah, it's, it's a personality type, but
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00:40:17,505 --> 00:40:20,071
Milana Vayntrub: they use it a lot in like leadership,
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00:40:20,111 --> 00:40:24,843
Milana Vayntrub: coaching and Basically figuring out how you
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00:40:24,883 --> 00:40:28,266
Milana Vayntrub: think, and There are nine different kinds
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00:40:28,346 --> 00:40:31,197
Milana Vayntrub: and it's a very interesting and very
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00:40:31,358 --> 00:40:34,505
Milana Vayntrub: weirdly Informative and accurate.
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00:40:34,725 --> 00:40:36,729
Marc Preston: so well, you know that's gonna help you as
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00:40:36,769 --> 00:40:38,573
Marc Preston: a director, i'm sure, dealing with people.
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00:40:38,994 --> 00:40:42,405
Marc Preston: You know Now, if you're just defined.
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00:40:42,446 --> 00:40:44,372
Marc Preston: Next question what for a perfect day?
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00:40:44,493 --> 00:40:46,299
Marc Preston: from time you get up till time you lay down
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00:40:46,339 --> 00:40:49,942
Marc Preston: in bed, what would be the optimal Perfect
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00:40:49,962 --> 00:40:50,484
Marc Preston: day for you?
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00:40:50,705 --> 00:40:51,949
Marc Preston: the component parts of that day.
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00:40:53,301 --> 00:40:56,130
Milana Vayntrub: Well, my son would sleep until like 7, 30,
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00:40:57,242 --> 00:40:58,872
Milana Vayntrub: which would be a dream, dear Lord.
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00:40:58,972 --> 00:40:59,133
Milana Vayntrub: How?
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00:40:59,395 --> 00:41:00,200
Marc Preston: early does he wake up?
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00:41:01,142 --> 00:41:02,365
Milana Vayntrub: Usually like 6 15.
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00:41:02,405 --> 00:41:04,911
Milana Vayntrub: Today was like 6 5, with maybe a wake up or
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00:41:04,931 --> 00:41:07,783
Milana Vayntrub: two in the night, so He was sleeping till
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00:41:07,803 --> 00:41:13,105
Milana Vayntrub: like 7 30 and then we would Walk somewhere
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00:41:13,125 --> 00:41:16,844
Milana Vayntrub: beautiful to get food And I honestly this
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00:41:16,924 --> 00:41:19,589
Milana Vayntrub: is cheesy, but I really just love when my
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00:41:19,629 --> 00:41:21,833
Milana Vayntrub: husband and I can go together with him to
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00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:24,537
Milana Vayntrub: the park So we would just go and run around
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00:41:24,618 --> 00:41:26,724
Milana Vayntrub: somewhere, maybe go on a hike, see some
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00:41:26,784 --> 00:41:27,546
Milana Vayntrub: waterfalls.
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00:41:27,686 --> 00:41:28,468
Milana Vayntrub: that would be perfect.
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00:41:28,548 --> 00:41:30,453
Milana Vayntrub: Actually, i would love to go see waterfalls
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00:41:31,716 --> 00:41:39,643
Milana Vayntrub: and And then take a nap After, like like
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00:41:39,663 --> 00:41:41,208
Milana Vayntrub: going along, hike, see some waterfalls,
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00:41:41,248 --> 00:41:44,659
Milana Vayntrub: take a nap and then have somebody come and
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00:41:45,501 --> 00:41:48,759
Milana Vayntrub: Bring us meals and then clean up and take
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00:41:48,779 --> 00:41:48,920
Milana Vayntrub: it away.
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00:41:51,006 --> 00:41:52,349
Marc Preston: You almost were excited about the cleaning
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00:41:52,389 --> 00:41:52,750
Marc Preston: up part.
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00:41:52,851 --> 00:41:53,633
Marc Preston: You know, yeah.
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00:41:55,220 --> 00:41:58,006
Marc Preston: Physical labor ever a bless your heart.
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00:41:58,046 --> 00:41:59,349
Marc Preston: You do have a two-year-old, don't you?
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00:41:59,609 --> 00:42:00,150
Marc Preston: okay, so?
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00:42:00,251 --> 00:42:00,611
Milana Vayntrub: I do, i do.
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00:42:02,222 --> 00:42:03,828
Milana Vayntrub: It's a lot of chores.
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00:42:05,361 --> 00:42:07,746
Milana Vayntrub: So, yeah, it's really just like resting,
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00:42:07,846 --> 00:42:10,092
Milana Vayntrub: being in nature and eating good food with
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00:42:10,112 --> 00:42:10,833
Milana Vayntrub: the people I love.
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00:42:11,801 --> 00:42:12,583
Milana Vayntrub: And then maybe, yeah, maybe.
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00:42:12,603 --> 00:42:13,866
Milana Vayntrub: At the end of the night There's a big
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00:42:13,966 --> 00:42:16,952
Milana Vayntrub: dinner party with my closest friends and
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00:42:16,993 --> 00:42:17,253
Milana Vayntrub: family.
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00:42:17,922 --> 00:42:19,367
Marc Preston: I'm very good Now is your family still live
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00:42:19,387 --> 00:42:19,709
Marc Preston: in LA a?
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00:42:21,121 --> 00:42:23,107
Marc Preston: Lot of my family still lives in LA so,
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00:42:23,167 --> 00:42:24,772
Marc Preston: every so, a lot of your family came over
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00:42:24,832 --> 00:42:26,878
Marc Preston: and landed in, out and the art found
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00:42:26,898 --> 00:42:27,540
Marc Preston: themselves in LA.
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00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,845
Marc Preston: That's nice, that's very nice.
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00:42:30,341 --> 00:42:32,267
Marc Preston: Now, if you were not doing what you were
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00:42:32,287 --> 00:42:35,163
Marc Preston: doing now, if you were doing commercials,
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00:42:35,243 --> 00:42:38,585
Marc Preston: tv film, what would you be doing?
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00:42:39,881 --> 00:42:44,833
Milana Vayntrub: Um, trying to be doing commercials.
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00:42:48,321 --> 00:42:49,685
Marc Preston: So you're not like that I'd be a teacher,
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00:42:49,725 --> 00:42:50,567
Marc Preston: i'd be an astronaut.
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00:42:50,688 --> 00:42:51,971
Marc Preston: No, there's no that.
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00:42:51,991 --> 00:42:54,017
Marc Preston: This is just it's hardwired new DNA.
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00:42:54,281 --> 00:42:56,754
Marc Preston: This is kind of your happy place and
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00:42:57,056 --> 00:42:57,559
Marc Preston: vocation.
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00:42:57,579 --> 00:43:01,808
Milana Vayntrub: I think, if this weren't an option for me,
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Milana Vayntrub: i would be doing something around healing,
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Milana Vayntrub: like You know, honestly, like physical
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Milana Vayntrub: therapy or masseuse or Body work or
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Milana Vayntrub: something like that.
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Milana Vayntrub: I, i would like to be a.
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Milana Vayntrub: I'd be working with people physically and
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Milana Vayntrub: Helping them feel less pain.
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Marc Preston: It's very nice.
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Marc Preston: I like that.
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Marc Preston: And now the last question I've got for you
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Marc Preston: if, if you were to jump into a DeLorean and
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Marc Preston: go back in time, you're gonna be talking to
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Marc Preston: 16 year old Milana.
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Marc Preston: You're gonna go back in time.
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Marc Preston: What's that?
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Marc Preston: one piece of advice you tell yourself
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Marc Preston: either to make your life at that moment
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Marc Preston: better, or to set yourself on a track For
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Marc Preston: even more success, or to do what you want
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Marc Preston: to do.
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Marc Preston: What's a piece of advice to 16 year old you?
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Milana Vayntrub: Listen more, talk less.
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Marc Preston: That can be hard.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that could be very hard really hard
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Marc Preston: for somebody like me.
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Milana Vayntrub: But I think I, i Think I had a lot to learn
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Milana Vayntrub: and I was very cocky a lot of the time, or
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Milana Vayntrub: I needed to show myself I've.
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Milana Vayntrub: You know, like I said, i loved being the
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Milana Vayntrub: center of attention.
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Milana Vayntrub: So I think I really, you know, would maybe
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Milana Vayntrub: make things about me that weren't about me,
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Milana Vayntrub: or Would just Be less considerate.
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Milana Vayntrub: I wouldn't.
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Milana Vayntrub: I could be more considerate about the space
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Milana Vayntrub: I was taking up.
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Milana Vayntrub: You know what I mean.
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Marc Preston: What you're talking about sounds a lot like
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Marc Preston: It's kind of You have to to be able to
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Marc Preston: thrive and doing the thing you're doing.
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Marc Preston: It sounds like to me that you do have to.
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Marc Preston: Not be self-centered is not the word but
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Marc Preston: But sometimes that could be taken, as you
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Marc Preston: You know, that's really wonderful.
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Marc Preston: Now.
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Marc Preston: I really do appreciate you taking time out
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Marc Preston: to chat.
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Marc Preston: You've been very generous and it's it's.
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Marc Preston: I can't wait to tell my daughter, lily I
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Marc Preston: I talked to you today.
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Marc Preston: Thank you so much, be well and hopefully
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Marc Preston: we'll catch up down the line.
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Milana Vayntrub: Okay, thanks, Marc, i appreciate your time.
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Marc Preston: Well, there you go, milana Vine Trubb.
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Marc Preston: It was a fun conversation.
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Marc Preston: Certainly appreciate her taking time out to
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Milana Vayntrub
Actor
Milana Vayntrub is an Uzbekistan-born American actress, writer and stand-up comedian. She began her career making YouTube videos amounting over 11 million views, then turned her web content into an MTV pilot. In 2016 she was recognized by Adweek on the cover of their Creative 100 issue for her activism, documentary work, and her role as Lily Adams in AT&T commercials. She is most recognized as an actress for her role as Sloane on the NBC dramatic series and as a writer for Adult Swim's Robot Chicken.
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