Sofia Rosinsky | From “Death and Other Details” to Peacock’s “The Miniature Wife” | Living Truthfully

00:00 Sofia Rosinsky joins Story & Craft

00:00 Sofia Rosinsky: A lot of the scenes that we were filming in the woods, my hair would just turn, look like a huge piece of popcorn. And so they had to have a, a, a hair straightener with this long extension in the woods trying to flatten it down.

00:13 Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft. Now, here's your host, Marc Preston.

00:17 Marc Preston: Okay, here we go.

00:18 Marc Preston: Back again, another episode of Story and Craft. Doggone it, I'm glad you're back here for it. Welcome. Uh, if this is your first time stopping by to check out an episode, hey, welcome. Uh, you're gonna enjoy today. Got a great chat sitting down with the, uh, very talented young actor Sofia Rosinsky on the new show on Peacock called The Miniature Wife, also Hulu's Death and Other Details with the great Mandy Patinkin.

00:42 Marc Preston: Had a great conversation. Uh, she has an encyclopedic knowledge of film. It is truly impressive. I mean, for a 19-year-old. She, she's impressive all around. Uh, she's already producing projects. Great to sit down with someone who is, uh, talented and, uh, someone you just know you're gonna see a lot more of. Uh, we talked, uh, talked about a lot.

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01:24 Marc Preston: It's that simple. Past guests, past episodes, it's all right there. Okay, so let's jump right into it. Today is Sofia Rosinsky Day right here on Story and Craft. So where you at today?

01:40 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, I'm, I'm in California, the, the central coast of California.

01:43 Marc Preston: I was just looking up... I, I don't do a whole lot of research research, but I do, you know, just kind of find out little nuggets if I can here or there, and I saw you got a birthday coming up, and you're no longer gonna be a teenager here soon.

01:53 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, don't, don't remind me. No, that's

01:55 Marc Preston: a good thing. Yes. Now, you're almost exactly six months older than my youngest, and, uh, it's kind of weird. I used to say I got three teenagers. Now I can't say that anymore, so it's so weird.

02:05 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. My, my sister is 22, and our parents still call her a teenager.

02:10 Marc Preston: It's right about lunchtime for you, right?

02:12 Marc Preston: Did you do anything cool for lunch?

02:14 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. I was working on homework and just kind of gave it a pause, ate some leftovers from last night. My parents are both really great cooks, so we were eating everything that they had made yesterday.

02:24 Marc Preston: Really? No kidding. Now, I did see that you're part of my tribe, part of the, uh, uh, Ukrainian, uh, Jewish lineage.

02:32 Marc Preston: Oh. I have to ask, though, do you know where your family's from in the Ukraine?

02:36 Sofia Rosinsky: Yes. So my, my grandmother, uh, was from Zhytomyr, and then my grandfather's family was in Kyiv. So now- then when Operation Barbarossa happened, then they all moved to Russia, and then raised my father in Estonia. So kind of split between, uh, St.

02:57 Sofia Rosinsky: Petersburg, you know, Leningrad, and, and Estonia.

03:00 Marc Preston: Oh, so you're first generation here, so-

03:02 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, yeah. I'm the first Rosinsky born on American soil.

03:06 Marc Preston: Where's your, uh, mother's family from?

03:09 Sofia Rosinsky: They're from everywhere. Oh. All, all over. Um, uh, my great-grandma on my mom's side used to say, "We's a Heinz 57." Because they just, so much stuff going on.

03:18 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, my grandpa's side of the family had a lot of, um... There's- Spanish and Basque, and then my m- mom, my, my grandma was, um, she was French, Irish, Italian. Uh, there was Creole there all mixed in. Um, French Canadian. Her family was kicked out of, of France. Um-

03:38 Marc Preston: Yeah, I lived 20 years in New Orleans, and, uh, it, a lot of the folks, you know, g- they got booted out of Canada, so they came down to the, uh- Yeah, yeah,

03:47 Sofia Rosinsky: the Acadian deportation.

03:48 Sofia Rosinsky: Now, your family as well?

03:49 Marc Preston: No, no, no, no. I, I'm from Dallas originally, but, uh, I lived 20 years, and my ex-wife's from New Orleans, so that's where my kids grew up. Oh, okay. And no, actually, it's funny 'cause I did a 23andMe. I talked about this on a previous episode, so if you're listening and you're like, "Oh my God, I've heard this story already.

04:04 Marc Preston: Here we go again." But basically I found out that, you know, half the family's, uh, Jewish, you know, Israel and, and Ukraine. And the other part I found out I'm literally straight up and down one full quarter Scottish. Even can track my family back to having a, uh, castle and they were knighted and all that stuff.

04:21 Marc Preston: So I'm like, "Hey, I thought my family got here in 1907," and I found out actually on the other side they actually financed, one of the financiers of the Mayflower. So it's, it's kinda cool being a mutt, you know, I think. Having a lot of different things going on. You said you're, you're doing homework. Are you, uh, going to college right now or?

04:38 Balancing an acting career with an online education at Berklee College of Music

04:38 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, I'm a, I'm a student at Berklee College of Music online. Mm-hmm. Uh, so is my older sister, Alexis, so we're both at, we're both at Berklee, and yeah, we've been really enjoying it so far. It's nice how, uh, you know, that it's portable. We can do it remotely, so that's, that's been a great help.

04:55 Marc Preston: Well, there is a, there's a lady, young lady who went to school with my, uh, my oldest daughter who is, who did the same thing.

05:02 Marc Preston: She just graduated I think last year. Now she's kind of a music manager consultant person in New Orleans, so, uh, but apparently she- Oh, cute ... she loved the program and she thought it was really cool. I didn't know they, Berklee had that online, but, uh, but apparently it's a great program.

05:14 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, it's, it's nice because I mean, um- Again, yeah, you can do it from anywhere.

05:20 Sofia Rosinsky: Most of the time it's asynchronous. Um, and you, you can still attend, like, live classes, but just, you know, over Zoom. I'm sure the in-person experience is really different, but so far it's been, yeah, it has been good online. Yeah.

05:31 Marc Preston: Is this, like, a music theory thing you're into, or are you actually playing instruments right now?

05:35 Marc Preston: Are you, uh... Tell me a little bit about that.

05:37 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. I had a bigger focus on, um, guitar performance when I first, uh, entered the school. I was taking a lot of guitar classes and, and scales and everything, learning. Um, then as shooting and stuff started, I wasn't able to give it the same amount of, of time, so I kind of switched into some more purely online non-performance-based courses.

06:03 Sofia Rosinsky: So everything from, like, music video editing, just kind of brushing up on, on that. And some of it, yeah, a lot of... Some theory classes, several are required, and, um, right now I'm in a music marketing class.

06:16 Marc Preston: Do you find any kind of pull in one direction or the other? Like, are you looking at this and going, you know, music, it's, you know, it's your, your main jam, and then you...

06:24 Marc Preston: Or do you kind of go back and forth between this and acting and producing and whatnot?

06:27 Sofia Rosinsky: For me, it's like, um, all day, every day for us. Uh, my, my sister and I, we have a production company together, so all day, every day, it's, it's movies, movies, scripts, scripts, writing, all of these, you know, in the film industry.

06:42 Sofia Rosinsky: So kind of with, I think if I- Thought that music might be kind of like a nice thing to add in for a little bit of balance.

06:49 Marc Preston: Mm-hmm.

06:50 Sofia Rosinsky: And it really connects with everything that we're, we're writing and stuff. So yeah, I've always had an interest, and ever since I was little I was playing strings. My dad was a professional musician, and so yeah, it just kind of felt like a natural, um, step to take, but without having to make it maybe a, my profession.

07:09 Marc Preston: You know, what kind of stuff does your... Did, did your dad do like, uh, performance or was he like a studio musician, or did he tour? What was his background, or is his background?

07:17 Growing up with a studio musician father who played on legendary film scores

07:17 Sofia Rosinsky: He was a s- yeah, he, he, he's retired now, but um, he was a studio musician. He played in orchestras, first chair violin. It w- yeah, violinist.

07:26 Sofia Rosinsky: Sorry, forgot to mention. Um, he played a lot for films like, um, Harry Potter he did, uh, The Simpsons, um, Pirates, Pirates of the... I never know if it's Caribbean or Caribbean, so I always avoid

07:42 Marc Preston: it . I think it's, it's really whatever you wanna call it, Caribbean, Car- Caribbean. Okay. You know. Whatever feels good for you.

07:47 Sofia Rosinsky: Okay. Great. Well, Caribbean then we'll say. Um, yeah, so he played a lot for film and also, um, concerts and stuff like, um, Barbra Streisand, and a lot of film scores and, and concerts. So he just kind of had a long, long career ever since he was a little kid in the Soviet Union.

08:04 Marc Preston: I got a question. Like, you said your parents cook, and one of the things that when my family, uh...

08:09 Marc Preston: You know, my grandmother, it's kind of funny, she was a wonderful cook, but she talked about back in the '40s when she married my grandfather, she didn't really know how to cook. And so her cooking kind of emanated from the Ukrainian side, which was my great grandparents. Um, but the only dish that seems to have come down the line, there's no recipes at all except for spinach borscht.

08:31 Marc Preston: That's literally the only thing I ever had growing up. Uh, but what, what... I, I... 'Cause I always talk food on my show at least once, and I gotta know what it is that your, that your dad makes that's Russian that y- that you're like, it's your jam. What would that be?

08:45 Sofia Rosinsky: You know what the funny thing is, is that he does not make any Eastern European dishes at all.

08:51 Sofia Rosinsky: He cooks all kinds of things. His, his salmon is kind of his signature dish. But he, he really doesn't cook any Eastern European food. Um, and neither does my grandmother, his, his mom. She doesn't cook at all. Really? But she does bring things. She'll bring like, um, pelmeni and, and varenyky, and things like that that we'll, we'll eat.

09:10 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, it's mainly my mom who tries to make some yeah, some dishes that maybe remind them of when they were younger, um, back, back over there. But yeah, so I can't say I, I grew up eating a whole lot, at least that they were preparing.

09:25 Marc Preston: Mm-hmm. Um,

09:26 Sofia Rosinsky: and so who were from Eastern Europe, Europe, they would, they would cook, we would eat all that.

09:31 Sofia Rosinsky: But, um,

09:32 Marc Preston: Well, I gotta ask though- Oh, it's- ... as a kid with a Jewish lineage though, what is your favorite, uh, like what, what is kind of your Jewish food jam? I, I can actually, by the way, make my own from scratch lox, you know, so that's kind of a, you know-

09:44 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, no way.

09:45 Marc Preston: Oh, it's, it's-

09:46 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah ...

09:46 Marc Preston: it's frighteningly easy to make, and it's so much better than the stuff that you get at the store, you know.

09:52 Sofia Rosinsky: Interesting. That would be interesting to try out. I never thought about doing that. Um-

09:57 Marc Preston: Oh, it's super simple. If you- Yeah ... if you like lox, bagel, cream cheese, the whole, the whole shebang, I c- I can get you- Yeah ... the recipe. It's super, it's super easy. Even my- Cool. Excellent ... my, my oldest daughter is the one who actually makes it now, so she's got the recipe.

10:08 Marc Preston: So whenever we start doing it, she just kinda... I start it, but she takes over, so I get to sit back and just... It's nice when you have your kids cooking for you. But, uh, what, what is it, what's the stuff that you enjoy?

10:17 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, I love matzo ball soup. Love it. Love it. Um, blintzes are a weak- that's, that's a big weakness for me.

10:25 Sofia Rosinsky: Um-

10:25 Marc Preston: But I gotta know what you put on it though ... yeah, you know- What do you put on your blintzes though? That, that's, that's the key. Sour

10:30 Sofia Rosinsky: cream.

10:30 Marc Preston: Okay. See, I- I put sour

10:31 Sofia Rosinsky: cream on it ...

10:32 Marc Preston: did you absorb the same cooking genes? Are you into that as well?

10:36 Sofia Rosinsky: So my, my mom can take anything in the house and suddenly there's a full meal prepared.

10:42 Sofia Rosinsky: I'm not exactly that way, but I, I want to be. Um, I, you know, I can make pasta. I can, I can bake a lot of things, like- Really? Okay ... you know, bread Yeah, I, I can, I can bake plenty, but, um, with cooking, I, I don't know. She has a, a magic touch. I try to follow along, but, um, I usually just help, like, cut things or whatever.

11:04 Sofia Rosinsky: But my- You're the sous chef ... my sister has... Yeah. Yeah. There you have it. I, I help clean up maybe a little and, um, my sister is, is pretty skilled. She's, she's getting better and better. When we were in Toronto filming the show, The Miniature Wife, she was just at home constantly ma- it was so cold, so she was trying to make soups all the time.

11:24 Sofia Rosinsky: One of them that she made was disastrous. That was the first one. I don't know how... We were scratching our heads up. We were like, "I don't know how somebody could have made a soup this horrible." Everybody tasted it Well, h- here's

11:35 Marc Preston: the thing and it was not good You know when somebody loves you when they're really honest, like, "This just didn't work," 'cause they know y- you know?

11:41 Marc Preston: Yeah It's, it's, it's colla- I think cooking's collaborative. Sometimes you just... I think it was, I was watching Alton Brown on Food Network once. He said, uh, one out of... Oh, no, no, I was actually talking to him. It was years ago. Uh, and we- he'd just come out with a book, and we said, you know, one out of every 10 times he makes rice, he completely botches it, you know?

11:58 Marc Preston: So it's okay. I think that's kind of like life. You make a... You experiment. You try it out. It doesn't work, you know? Uh, but you mentioned- Yeah ... your sister. Now how much older is your sister than... She's an older sister, right?

12:08 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, she's my older sister. She's three years older than me, but we're actually three years, three days, and three hours apart.

12:15 Marc Preston: Really? Well, I have to ask, backing up, did, did y'all always get along? I'm assuming you have a production business together. Y'all have to have a great relationship. W- has it always been like that, or did you, when you were much younger, were, was there friction?

12:26 Sofia Rosinsky: There... When I was really little, I mean, I was kind of a pugilistic little kid, and so I-

12:33 Sofia Rosinsky: I can see why- That's a

12:33 Marc Preston: diplomatic way to say. You were a pugilistic little kid. So was that try- is that a- Yeah ... n- nice way of saying you were a little bully?

12:40 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, I was kind of a little rat, and so- ... I, uh, we didn't get along super well when we were, when I was really little, that is. Um, but pretty soon we realized it's, you know, we're more powerful if we join forces.

12:55 Sofia Rosinsky: So kind of, uh, that sort of fell away pretty quickly. Um- Also, she's bigger than me, and I, uh- Oh ... I was getting my, my rump handed to me. So yeah, we, we joined forces at a, when we were probably around, I'm guessing I was somewhere around five or something, five or six. And-

13:13 Marc Preston: And so is it only the two of y'all siblings-wise?

13:15 Marc Preston: And so your parents just had two girls?

13:17 Sofia Rosinsky: As far as we know.

13:19 Marc Preston: Whenever you were growing up, was there this theatrical kind of creative thing? I know your dad was, you know, creative. Uh, did, was this for both of y'all a track? Or did one of y'all kind of get into it and the other kind of was like, "Oh, that's kind of cool"?

13:31 Marc Preston: How, how did the both of y'all sort of land on the same path?

13:33 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, so our, our mom was... Actually, she was an independent filmmaker. She was a writer, actor, director, editor, producer, kind of she sort of did it all. Um, and when we were growing up, we were kept pretty separate from that, um, on both sides of our, our parents' business.

13:53 Sofia Rosinsky: We were kind of kept, kept out of it. Um, neither one of them wanted my sister and I to go into the film industry, just 'cause they had both been in different parts and saw how rough it can be, so. Um, but they did show us movies constantly. There were movies w- that my dad had gr- grown up watching, that my mom did.

14:14 Sofia Rosinsky: They, the whole family are kind of, um, cinephiles, so we grew up watching movies all day.

14:22 Marc Preston: And- Well, what's one of the more memorable ones that when you were younger that you saw that maybe kind of kicked off a, like that vibe of like, "Oh, this is, this is something cool"?

14:30 How a terrifying performance by Alec Guinness sparked her initial acting inspiration

14:30 Sofia Rosinsky: You know, one of my biggest, one of my favorite actors ever is, is Alec Guinness.

14:35 Sofia Rosinsky: And when he played, my, my grandfather used to put on, um, Scrooge, Albert Finney's version.

14:41 Announcer: Mm-hmm.

14:42 Sofia Rosinsky: And when Alec Guinness comes in as Jacob Marley, that was just kind of, it used to terrify me, and I think that that was sort of one of the first moments when I thought, "Hey, maybe there's something, something to this."

14:54 Sofia Rosinsky: But my sister fell in love with acting from, at a really young age, and then I would see her do it and inspired me. So it was just kind of wanting to be like her, and yeah, so then just had, fell in love with it.

15:08 Marc Preston: Well, you said you had a thing, you know, when you saw Alec Guinness. Did Obi-Wan Kenobi, you know, was that, was Star Wars a thing when you were a kid?

15:14 Sofia Rosinsky: You know what? Actually not, not as much. I, I still, you know what? I admit I have not seen all of the movies. I've seen big chunks of them-

15:24 Marc Preston: Mm-hmm ...

15:24 Sofia Rosinsky: but not all of them. I've, I've got to get around to that. But, um, actually, The, The Ladykillers is my favorite film that he's in.

15:31 Marc Preston: Is the one that, uh, Tom Hanks did, is that a remake of the, an original or...?

15:35 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, the original one is Alexander Mackendrick, and it's from 1955, and it stars Alec Guinness in the character that Tom Hanks played, uh, Professor Marcus, and then Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker. A young Peter Sellers is in it, which is funny because he and Herbert Lom, it was their first time working together before The Pink Panther.

15:54 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, yeah, it's just a s- An incredible cast. One of my favorite movies ever.

16:00 Marc Preston: So when you started having this affinity to this, what was your on-ramp? Did you just kind of jump into it? Because your mother being a producer, and, and it's wonderful. One of the ways people just get in there is start creating their own stuff, and it sounds like you, you did that.

16:13 Marc Preston: Did you just start making things, or did you start getting training? What was kind of the, uh, impetus originally?

16:18 The innocent summer camp that accidentally launched her straight to casting directors

16:18 Sofia Rosinsky: I think my... So my parents saw that we were constantly spinning stories with each other and, you know, playing, playing together like this. And so they thought, "Well, you know, let's, let's send them to this little..."

16:30 Sofia Rosinsky: It was just a little acting camp. We, you know, roast some marshmallows, get some fresh air, and do a skit or two. Oh, so it's like a legitimate

16:37 Marc Preston: camp camp.

16:37 Sofia Rosinsky: You know, they were- Okay. Yeah. Exactly. Over, actually at El Capitan Canyon. So it's like, yeah, it's nice. Nice environment and they could- Oh, so it wasn't a day

16:44 Marc Preston: camp or something you went to every day at, you know, like some-

16:47 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh

16:47 Sofia Rosinsky: community

16:48 Marc Preston: center or something. But, but this is le- legitimately you're going sleep away, doing the thing. Okay,

16:52 Sofia Rosinsky: cool. Oh, yeah. So they sent us to that and, um, that, man, that bit them. That bit them on the rump because they didn't realize that there were actual casting directors there. And once we got on a stage, then we were like, "You're gonna have to drag us off of it."

17:08 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, so then they realized that this is, we really wanted to do it, and we're not gonna shut up about it. We had just actually moved out of LA, so perfect timing. Now we're three hours away from where we need to be to do all this. But, um, so they let us do it and, and they supported us. Yeah.

17:27 Marc Preston: How old were you when y'all moved away from LA?

17:29 Sofia Rosinsky: So we were originally from Venice Beach, and we moved back, what, like in maybe 2011, 2012. But our lives were still in LA, so we were kind of back and forth between the Central Coast, Northern California, which is where my mom's side of the family lived, so we would see our grandparents, and then back down to LA where my dad's dad lived.

17:52 Sofia Rosinsky: So we were constantly back and forth, up and down the state. And then since COVID, we've kind of settled in more here in the Central Coast.

18:01 Marc Preston: So were you going to norm- like regular school school, or were you doing, uh... 'Cause I know my kids are like COVID kids. So during COVID, it's kind of like everyone in your age range is kind of, you know, the online thing.

18:11 Marc Preston: Is that what you did?

18:12 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, I mean, for me, yeah, it was online. I was actually already semi online when COVID hit, so I was already pretty used to online learning environments. I mean, with being on, on sets where you're away from school, I was already f- for years before COVID pretty well, pretty comfortable with learning online.

18:36 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, but now obviously it's just, it's everything is online for me.

18:40 Marc Preston: Didn't Paper Girls come out right about COVID or a little, like... It was kind of in that zone, wasn't it?

18:46 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, we- Yes.

18:50 Marc Preston: Yeah.

18:50 Sofia Rosinsky: Yes. It, uh- Oh,

18:52 Marc Preston: we didn't tell you there was gonna be a quiz. No, I'm just gonna, I mean I'm the

18:54 Sofia Rosinsky: absolute worst with, with dates and years.

18:58 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, shoot. It was in '22, but when we were filming, we still had, you know, the masks and the visors and everything, so it was still... I got actually my, my vaccination when we were in Chicago, 'cause it wasn't available for my age group until we were already there getting ready to film

19:22 Marc Preston: How did Paper Girls come to you? 'Cause that was a, that was a little, it was a little different of a vibe of a show. It didn't go the direction I thought it o- originally was. I was like, "Okay, this is gonna be a, a story about young girls who deliver newspapers and the mischief they get into," but like, you know, it went a whole other direction.

19:36 Marc Preston: But how- Oh, yeah ... it was pretty cool. How did that come to you?

19:39 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, I, um, my, my rep sent me out to audition for it. Um, I was at my grandpa's house at the time, and when, uh... My, my... He was a very straight-laced, you know, no bad language, very, you know. And when I got the audition, I'm looking at him across the r- from the room, I'm like, "This house is so tiny, and the words that I have to say-"

20:01 Marc Preston: Oh, yeah.

20:02 Marc Preston: You were- "... there's no-" You were... You had chutzpah. I, I know you have, you know, longer, naturally curly or wavy hair, but did they have you, did they have you- Oh ... cut your hair for that role to... Is-

20:11 The physical hair transformation for her role in Prime Video's “Paper Girls”

20:11 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, yes. Yeah. It, it got cut, and then, um, thinned out. So they made razor lines and stuff so that it would, it would hang flat instead of keep puffing up like a, a puffball.

20:21 Sofia Rosinsky: Mm-hmm. And then they were straightening it every day, and w- with the... They were battling the Chicago humidity, too. So I remember there was a lot of the scenes that we were filming in the woods, my hair would just pff, turn, look like a huge piece of popcorn. And so they had- ... to have a, a hair, a, a hair straightener with this long extension in the woods trying to flatten it down.

20:43 Marc Preston: I got two daughters. They're always straightening it. Mm-hmm. But we live on the beach, so it's kind of like you're never gonna win that battle with humidity.

20:49 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, exactly. And if you're planning on swimming or anything, it's just... no.

20:53 Marc Preston: Did you know what Paper Girls ultimately was gonna be? Or I didn't know it was going the sci-fi direction, you know.

20:58 Marc Preston: Did you know where the show was gonna go, or were they kinda holding back a little bit until you got a little further into the, uh, audition process?

21:05 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. I, I, I knew from... If memory serves, I knew from the summary, uh, that they would end up time traveling, and it would get timey whimey with all of that. And then, and then I figured out pretty soon, oh, it was based on this brilliant graphic novel series, um, about these paper girls who, who travel through time.

21:25 Sofia Rosinsky: They, they go- Way farther in the past and way so, and into the future and everything. So I was like, "Oh man, this is, this is very cool." It wasn't until though a couple of rounds later that I actually was able to sit down with the book and kind of get a feel of what happens, at least in the first one.

21:45 Marc Preston: But Death and Other Details, I was curious.

21:47 Marc Preston: That's on my list of stuff to watch. But Mandy Patinkin, you know, great dude.

21:51 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh,

21:51 Marc Preston: yes. Uh, did you have a chance to work with him in that show?

21:54 The surreal experience of sharing the screen with the legendary Mandy Patinkin

21:54 Sofia Rosinsky: Yes, I did. Um, actually one of, uh, the, the first scene that I shot for the show, I, it was a scene with Mandy Patinkin and Violet Bean, who's also incredible, and yeah, it was, it was it was nerve-wracking because I've been a huge fan ever since I was really little.

22:11 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, and yeah, I mean, it was very surreal. Very surreal.

22:18 Marc Preston: What was your first introduction to Mandy Patinkin? I'm kinda, kinda curious.

22:22 Sofia Rosinsky: My first one was from The Princess Bride. Yeah. That's what- Um, my sister and I, you know, we did fencing, and so we just thought Inigo Montoya is, he's the coolest, you know? And then my mom and sister are huge fans, they're huge musical fans, so they'd, they'd known his work long before I ever saw that.

22:41 Sofia Rosinsky: But, um, when we were little, we grew up with that film.

22:44 Marc Preston: Do you find, I mean, you're obviously very professional. Uh, but do you find that you ever have a case of nerves, like, "Ooh, I'm gonna be, I'm on the call sheet with this person this day." Has that happened to you?

22:53 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, all the time. Yeah. Plenty on this last one, this show that I was just on, and it definitely happened, um, on Death and Other Details.

23:02 Sofia Rosinsky: I was, I was so, so crazily nervous. We were actually, um... I, I talked to him bef- before, or, like in between one of the two takes. I can't remember when, but, um, I had seen him also perform locally. He was, he had a concert here, and so I was like, "Oh, maybe if, you know, I can try to talk about that and everything."

23:23 Sofia Rosinsky: But even just speaking to him behind the scenes was, was so scary.

23:28 Marc Preston: He seems like a mensch. He seems like a good, good guy. Uh, you know, um- Oh,

23:32 Sofia Rosinsky: very, very kind. Um, and we, my sister actually knitted him a scarf that we gave to, one for him and one for his wife, wife, who's also, she's hilarious. But, um, yeah, he was, he was wonderful.

23:44 Marc Preston: Since you are young, uh, you know, but you have a lot of experience. You know, what's the experience like when you are with, you know, being young with a cast of, you know, very accomplished actors?

23:53 Sofia Rosinsky: For me, I know, um, at least when I'm, like you know when I'm in a scene, especially with, with actors who are so talented and experienced and s- and strong, the best thing that I can do is, is just listen and react to everything that they're doing.

24:11 Sofia Rosinsky: 'Cause, um, I know with, with that one, I was very nervous on the first few takes, and then, uh, when it kind of got the ball rolling, I remember I, I just- Uh, I asked the director if I could try it one l- slightly different way, and I did. And I remember, boom, just locking in, seeing his, his eyes and just reacting to everything that he was, he was doing.

24:37 Marc Preston: As far as the training, you know, going back real quick, you went to the summer camp. But after that, what was... You know, did you kind of dive deeper? Did you do acting classes? You know, uh, what was, what was the training aspect for you?

24:49 Learning the Meisner technique from her mother, who studied directly under Sanford Meisner

24:49 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, I'm very lucky that, so my mom, who had been in the film industry, she actually, she studied with Sanford Meisner.

24:58 Sofia Rosinsky: So she- What,

24:58 Marc Preston: your, your mother

24:59 Sofia Rosinsky: did? Yeah, my mother did. Wow.

25:00 Marc Preston: Very cool.

25:01 Sofia Rosinsky: He was terrifying. But he liked her. So she raised us in the, in, in the Meisner technique, which is pretty much just liv- as he said, living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. So it's just all about, um, being truthful, organic, just listening and reacting pretty much.

25:21 Sofia Rosinsky: And so that, that's how my sister and I were raised, and then just we learned so much from, from the greats, just watching films.

25:30 Marc Preston: As you were moving forward, you're learning more, you're watching movies, and, uh, it sounds like you have a wonderful encyclopedic, uh, list of movies you like. Where were you wanting to go?

25:40 Marc Preston: Like, were you thinking, "Okay, comedies or drama or..." Any specific genre was at, on your list?

25:47 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, my sister and I, everything, everything that we write ends up being a dark comedy. Uh, so yeah, definitely, definitely comedy. We, we also love, um, we love thrillers and yeah, I, I've just... My, my goal is to be a chameleon.

26:04 Sofia Rosinsky: I just wanna be able to blend in with any role that I'm playing. Um, just character acting. And so that, that's what I love at least. Um, and so just kind of continuing in that direction, just playing the, the characters that excite me, you know?

26:20 Marc Preston: Like I go back to the Paper Girls, that was such, it seems like an intense r- y- I'm taking it you like to put on different, uh, figuratively wardrobes and try different people out, you know?

26:29 Marc Preston: Is that, is that the case?

26:30 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, definitely. Yeah. I love disappearing in, into the characters and yeah, I mean, it's... Mac was great because she was, she was so bold and, and a very strong character. Obviously, there was the comic book version. My- I wasn't even gonna try to, um, attempt to be the, the version that was in the, the graphic novel series just because it was, it was so perfect, I didn't wanna touch it.

26:55 Sofia Rosinsky: Mm-hmm. So it kind of came out a little differently. But, um, yeah, I mean, I, I just, I like getting to, to explore different people.

27:04 Marc Preston: How did The Miniature Wife come to you? That's one I have not had an opportunity to watch yet. You know, Elizabeth Banks I think is great in everything she does, so definitely it's on the list 'cause there's some actors, you know, whatever they're in I gotta see it.

27:14 Marc Preston: How did that come to you and kind of where do you, without giving anything away, how do you plug into the, uh, i- into The Miniature Wife?

27:22 Booking “The Miniature Wife” and working alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks

27:22 Sofia Rosinsky: Sure. So I received the audition to, um, again, just like with Paper Girls, I was at my grandpa's house. Um, this one did not have any bad language in it , so I was relieved to see that.

27:34 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, and it was for the, my, you know, I saw all the names on it and my s- eyebrows shot up 'cause I had been a huge fan of Matthew's work, Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks and pretty much every single buddy, every single person on there. Um, so I taped it at my grandpa's house. There was a couple of, uh, callback sessions with the casting director, Jeannie Bacharach, who was incredibly kind.

27:59 Sofia Rosinsky: And then the final round was a chemistry read with Elizabeth herself And then, uh, about like maybe a week later or something I got the news that I, I booked it. But, um, I play Elizabeth and Matthew's daughter, uh, Lulu. And pretty much the show is about this couple whose egos have been bumping up against each other for years.

28:24 Sofia Rosinsky: Uh, the husband is a scientist. The wife is a writer. And it seems as just she's about to leave him, he shrinks her down to six inches. Then from there it's just total warfare. But, um, it was based on a short story by Manuel Gonzales, also called The Miniature Wife. Very dark, disturbing, very funny s- story.

28:46 Marc Preston: The first season's wrapped, like all the episodes are out. Am I correct?

28:49 Sofia Rosinsky: Yes. All episodes are streaming on Peacock.

28:52 Marc Preston: Uh, I don't mean to keep talking about, you know, you're young or whatever. You've been doing it for a while, but I, I put myself in your shoes. I think when you're on set with people who've been doing it, who, you know, have a body of work, what do you do to kind of quench the nerves, or to d- to dispose of the, the nerves you might have?

29:08 Marc Preston: Like, how do you get into the flow? You know, because I'm putting myself in your shoes. What's it like for me, uh, to be, you know, in a room, uh, you know, with people who have a, you know, that you're very aware of? How do you, how d- how do you do

29:21 Sofia Rosinsky: that? I'm still figuring that out. Um, I know that I think the biggest thing is just when the cameras are rolling, just dropping everything, leaving it all at the door, and just really listening and reacting to them in the scene.

29:38 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, behind the scenes then I'm, I'm back to ooh. But, um, yeah, I, thankfully the nice thing was that, um, in all of the experiences that I've had I've, I've been really lucky that everybody was very, very generous and, and kind and open. So I didn't feel, um... They kind of put your nerves at ease. I still have to figure out what to...

30:03 Sofia Rosinsky: I know, I know that for me being on set is actually a lot easier than kind of like, um, the preliminary stuff, like the table reads.

30:10 Marc Preston: Yeah, I've heard that before. You know, I don't know, do you, are you a big rehearsal fan or do you kind of like to, you know, know the lines and get in there and just go?

30:19 Sofia Rosinsky: I, you know, I, I do like table reads.

30:22 Sofia Rosinsky: I, I think it's fun 'cause you can just kind of throw anything at the wall and see what, what sticks and, you know, it's, it's low stakes. But at least on, on The Miniature Wife it was, I I was really, really n- I was just a ball of nerves from... At least mainly the ones at the beginning before I kind of got to know everyone.

30:42 Sofia Rosinsky: Mm-hmm. But yeah, the, the first couple of ones are, um, those were, were nerve-wracking for me. But, um, also equally e- exciting because you get to kind of... You have front row seats to see some of your favorite actors performing-

30:56 Marc Preston: Yeah ...

30:56 Sofia Rosinsky: with each other. Um,

30:58 Marc Preston: so if- Well, like Elizabeth Banks, though. I mean, w- for her you're a creator.

31:01 Marc Preston: You're, you're, you know, you, in production and whatnot, and Elizabeth Banks has got a fair amount of, like, directing under her belt. Did she give you any, uh, advice or did you have a chance to powwow with her about the creation of stuff behind the camera?

31:14 Sofia Rosinsky: You know, I actually didn't get to have a whole lot of scenes physically with Elizabeth because she was filming on her own sound stage all of, like, the miniature stuff.

31:23 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh,

31:24 Marc Preston: that's right.

31:24 Sofia Rosinsky: So I was mainly, uh, on set with, you know, Matthew or O- OT. But, um, yeah, what, from what I did see of, um, getting to work with Elizabeth, I... We didn't get to talk a whole lot, but I did get to see her kind of at work both behind the camera and in front of it, that she would just walk in. She knows the technical side of things so well, and also acting of course, but just seeing her discussing camera angles and what lens to use and everything.

31:54 Sofia Rosinsky: That was, that was really cool to get to see her. Yeah.

31:57 Marc Preston: Directing, is that something on your list or you, you just kind of like the production side of things?

32:02 Sofia Rosinsky: For me, I'd say that I'm mainly, I haven't I don't gravitate towards directing quite as much as, you know, producing or, um, writing. But my sister, on the other hand, Alexis, she, she writes like crazy.

32:17 Expanding her horizons by producing and writing an anthology feature with her sister

32:17 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, but she's, um, she's a director as well, and she's actually directing right now our first feature that we're in production on.

32:25 Marc Preston: Very- well, congratulations. Are you, I'm assuming you're acting in it, right?

32:28 Sofia Rosinsky: You know what? We'll, we'll see about that. I think that we might have just... It's a, it's an anthology feature, so there's three vignettes.

32:35 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, okay. And I'm, I might just have to jump in for one. Well,

32:40 Marc Preston: that'd be fun, like, be directed by your sister. Now, I gotta know, though, outside of making the films, shows, producing, uh, what do you do outside of this, you know? You're still young and can you, you know, I'm sure you want to do other things besides just working.

32:54 Marc Preston: So what are you up to usually?

32:55 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, well, that's where you're wrong, Marc. Uh-oh.

32:58 Marc Preston: No,

32:59 Sofia Rosinsky: I- ... mainly, I don't know how healthy it is, but we kind of, this is sort of what we do all day, every day. Uh, even if we're, we're out doing something else, just our mind is still, is still very much in it, which that's, yeah, that's probably not a great thing, but-

33:17 Marc Preston: See, that's what I'm like, and I'm kind of like, "Okay, let me live vicariously through you, what kind of other fun stuff you do," because I'm very kind of mindful of the creative and I, you know, there are other things I do, but it's, it's all work basically.

33:29 Marc Preston: And I'm like, "I need to be more chill doing things." Yeah. But, uh, but no, I mean- Yeah ... when you, when you do find yourself not, uh, in front of or behind the camera, what, what things bring you joy?

33:40 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, I mean, watching, watching movies and, and shows. That's, that's a huge one. We, I think we watch way too much, um, television and, and films.

33:50 Sofia Rosinsky: We, we just, we love that. But, um, other than that, I really love, uh, the ocean. We're really fortunate to live very close to it. And so my sister surfs. I'm a horrible surfer, so I don't really do that as much. But I do kayak and, um, I go to a kickboxing gym, and I, I love doing that. But, um-

34:12 Marc Preston: Keeping up with the pugilist side.

34:14 Marc Preston: Yeah, those are-

34:14 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. I have to, I have to train to keep myself, you know, if my sister ever comes for me, you know? So.

34:23 Marc Preston: Yeah. If, you know, past is prelude, you know, you're ready now, you know? Um- Yes ... but I don't think surfing's about being good or bad. It's just do you enjoy it or not? Do you enjoy when you're out there doing it?

34:34 Sofia Rosinsky: I have to say I'm too... I, I can't really stand up very well on it, and then I'm stressed out. I'm, I'm crazy stressed when I'm doing it. Um, my sister, she's like, she's like a goat. She'll just jump up onto it, totally stable. For me, it's just, I feel like Gumby, just like that.

34:54 Marc Preston: You just named your production company, Gumby and the Goat.

34:58 Sofia Rosinsky: Perfect.

35:05 The Seven Questions

35:05 Marc Preston: Now, one of the things I like to do, uh, I always as part of chat is something I call my seven questions. Uh, it's a little extra fun, and we talked food already, uh, but I gotta ask you, what is y- your favorite comfort food? Great day, it adds to it, bad day, makes you feel better kind of thing.

35:24 Sofia Rosinsky: Hmm. Pasta

35:26 Marc Preston: I- is there a specific kind of pasta or a certain preparation that's, that's good for you?

35:31 Sofia Rosinsky: I would say probably if, if... A- as a comfort food, I would probably just pick some pasta with marinara sauce and just keep it, keep it simple.

35:41 Marc Preston: There's, there's zen in simplicity. I like that. Now, let's say you're gonna sit down with three people. Y- ne- next question. You're gonna have an afternoon having coffee.

35:49 Marc Preston: I don't know, do you like coffee? Are you a coffee or tea person, or...?

35:52 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. Big hot chocolate fan, too, but-

35:54 Marc Preston: Well, there you- ...

35:55 Sofia Rosinsky: coffee is nice. And, and tea now.

35:58 Marc Preston: Well, uh, let's say you're gonna enjoy some hot chocolate. You're gonna be sitting down, uh, all afternoon with three people, living or not. Who would those three people be you would love to sit down

36:07 Sofia Rosinsky: with?

36:08 Sofia Rosinsky: Okay. I'm gonna say Olivia de Havilland and Jack Warner. I just wanna see them going at it.

36:17 Marc Preston: Now, who would the third person be? There'd be four of y'all total at the table.

36:21 Sofia Rosinsky: Let's bring in Jimmy Stewart to try to mediate.

36:23 Marc Preston: Very good. See? That's, that's I think the zen of, of a great conversation, is not just having a conversation with them, but you get to observe the interaction.

36:31 Marc Preston: Uh, now, I, I, I have to say, I w- as far as the old... Let's, we'll call them the black and white actors. I was a big Cary Grant and, uh, Audrey Hepburn fan. Oh. They're, they're, they're my- Yes ... two icons of the era, if you will. So are you a big fan of Hollywood history? Is that kind of, is that something that you enjoy as well?

36:47 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, got a lot of that from, like, my, my mom's side of the family especially. My grandfather was... He, he would have never called it himself one, but he, he was really a cinephile. He always had a bunch of movies recorded every time we would come to visit, and he would just show us a, his whole catalog.

37:07 Sofia Rosinsky: Really? And we grew up, yeah, watching all the movies that he loved.

37:10 Marc Preston: Well, one of the things kind of going forward I wanted to ask you is, is, uh, not part of the seven questions, but what are you watching now? You say that you, you know, that's... You spend a lot of time watching film, TV. What is it now that you're like, "Oh, that's my jam right now.

37:22 Marc Preston: It's my thing"?

37:24 Sofia Rosinsky: Well, as far as TV, we've been watching a lot of Psych lately. That's like the... We all go in, it's like, "Oh, it's Psych time," at the end of the day, so we all sit and watch Psych. Um, but films-wise, my sister and I, the whole... And my mom and dad were huge Lena Wertmüller fans. And the other day, so they just...

37:43 Sofia Rosinsky: Kino Lorber just, um, released, uh, The Se- Seduction of Mimi, a re-release.

37:49 Announcer: Mm-hmm.

37:50 Sofia Rosinsky: Uh, because they restored it. And so I saw that it was playing in, in Santa Barbara, and so we drove out and we grabbed our friend who we've been forcing him to watch all of her stuff, and we got to see it on the big screen- Oh, isn't that great?

38:03 Sofia Rosinsky: which was so magical.

38:04 Marc Preston: You know, one of the things, and I now have a 75-inch TV, and I'm like, I, I'm going back and re-watching things that I only remember watching on a regular square tube TV so I can see it more cinematically, which is kind of... That's kind of fun. Um-

38:16 Sofia Rosinsky: We watched, um- Noir. Like, uh, Double Indemnity we got to see on, on a big screen in, at a local theater and, and it's so...

38:24 Sofia Rosinsky: You know, with the small TV, it's amazing how many little facial expressions and everything that you miss that's so subtle- Mm-hmm ... it's, you know, meant for that. And it's, A Touch of Evil, all of these ones, it's just, it's, it's really cool to get to see it, you know, big faces.

38:39 Marc Preston: I, I, I think seeing stuff in a theater, I think that's a wonderful idea for a theater, just showing stuff that's hadn't been r- you know, you haven't been able to see, you know, in that format.

38:49 Marc Preston: Um, now the next question I got for you is, uh, when you were younger, who was your very first celebrity crush?

38:55 Sofia Rosinsky: Uh-oh. Um, well, you know, when I was... Sheesh. You know, when I was, when I was really little I saw, um, David Krumholtz, i- Oh ... as, um, Bernard the and also Joel Glicker in The Addams Family. So when I was, when I was really little, it was, it was him.

39:16 Sofia Rosinsky: And then, uh, I kind of didn't have a whole lot growing up, but then at one point it became Chris Kattan. I saw him at Night at the Roxbury, so it's, like, really waiting for

39:28 Marc Preston: Chris Kattan.

39:28 Sofia Rosinsky: Wait, wait, wait, wait.

39:29 Marc Preston: You... Now that's a first. Night at the Roxbury, I've never had anybody say that. First of all, Chris Kattan, funny guy.

39:34 Marc Preston: I remember, remember him on SNL, but that's the very first, uh, Night at the Roxbury reference I've ever had on my show, so

39:43 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, yay. Oh. Now

39:43 Marc Preston: I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head the whole day, you know? You know, What Is Love by- Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh. Uh, but- ... there you go. Now, i- if you were to be forced to live on a, not forced, but you're gonna be living on an island, exotic island, beautiful, uh, modern amenities, no worries, but you don't have streaming.

39:59 Marc Preston: So you're gonna be there a whole year, and to listen to music you gotta bring one CD you can listen to over and over and over again, or it can be a box set, and one DVD that has just one movie on it you can watch over and over. What would that CD and what would that DVD be?

40:13 Sofia Rosinsky: Man, I wanna bring a, a s- a CD I'm not gonna get tired of.

40:18 Sofia Rosinsky: So I would probably get... I would probably bring anything of Khachaturian, because that's hard to... That for me, I, I don't get tired of hearing that, and I think-

40:28 Marc Preston: And w- what is that again? W- what would you bring?

40:31 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, like, you know, Sabre Dance, like, uh, Khachaturian, just because with... I think I would not tire as quickly with classical.

40:40 Marc Preston: Okay.

40:41 Sofia Rosinsky: Just because they're so- Yeah. I wouldn't wanna ruin a song from, you know. And then movie-wise, I would probably bring I'd probably just bring Bowfinger.

40:52 Marc Preston: I was, I was waiting for something film noir or, you know. Yeah. Yeah, that's... Okay. Hey, Steve Martin, you can never go wrong. That, that was, that was a really good movie, though.

41:03 Marc Preston: That was... It was Steve Martin and, uh, Eddie Murphy, right?

41:06 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, yeah.

41:06 Marc Preston: Yeah. Bowfinger. It's a great movie. I was so prepping for a name of a movie I didn't know yet, and I was like, "Oh, okay. There you go." See, there, see, there you go. Um, now if you were to say from the time you get up to the time you go to bed, if you were to say the ingredients, the component parts of a perfect day for you, what would those parts be to say, "At the end of the day, that was a perfect day for

41:27 Sofia Rosinsky: me"?

41:27 Sofia Rosinsky: Hmm. Well, in the morning my, my dad is... He has this, um, this coffee machine that he's had since the '90s, and he makes, he makes everybody cappuccino- Mm-hmm ... you know, in the, in the mornings. So that's kind of our, our ritual. So probably drinking some of that, waking up. I, I wake up really, really late in the day, but I don't like to because I feel like I've missed a lot of it.

41:53 Sofia Rosinsky: So ideally rising early without much of a problem with getting up. So get up early-ish, get the cappuccino. Um, perfect day. Maybe- Maybe go out, get some, get my kickboxing done with my sister or play tennis or something. Um, midday, you know, have a, a nice big lunch, maybe Mexican food, maybe go kayaking, then hit up a movie on the way back home, get back to the house, eat some of my mom's homemade ice cream, watch Psych, and then go to bed at 8:00.

42:37 Marc Preston: Wow, you're al- already like a little old lady. Go to bed at 8:00, having dinner at 6:00, you know? And the older I get- Yeah, yeah ... I find that it's like it kind of sort of makes sense, but it's just I don't like having a heavy dinner right before I go to bed. But, you know, it's a different story. Never. But I'm more of a n- I'm more of a night owl.

42:51 Marc Preston: That's kind of my jam. But, uh, very good. I like that. Now, the last couple questions. If, if this was an option, was not an option for you, and somebody said, "You know, Sophia, acting, producing, this kind of creative thing is just not available to you anymore for whatever reason," what would be a number two vocation that would bring you joy, you think?

43:12 Sofia Rosinsky: So, and, and nothing i-in the film industry, right?

43:14 Marc Preston: Uh, no, nothing, nothing in the film industry. Let's say that was just not available to

43:19 Sofia Rosinsky: you. Ooh. Oh, shoot. You know what? I, I don't have a plan B.

43:27 Marc Preston: Um. You know, that's... I think, honestly, I think that's kind of a good thing. Of all the people I've spoken with, and my grandfather, rest his soul, the wink in his eye, he always used to say, uh, "Marc, you're the most hardheaded person I've ever met."

43:40 Marc Preston: But knowing I'm tenacious, like if I decide that's the thing I'm gonna do, not quite sure how, but there's no real fall- Having a fallback is sort of a, I don't know. It, it makes common sense, but it's sort of like, well, it's that kind of doing it with no net, I think, kind of makes you better. But I don't know.

43:55 Marc Preston: So, so no plan B. And yet

43:57 Sofia Rosinsky: I, I should have one. I really should have one. Um- Well,

44:00 Marc Preston: let's say, okay- I should- ... let's say something else in the film industry. What, what else in the film industry if producing or, uh, acting wasn't available?

44:07 Sofia Rosinsky: If I couldn't produce, write, or act, I would probably, um, I would probably go into, you know, gaffing I'm, I'm interested in.

44:19 Sofia Rosinsky: You know, that, that would be definitely something that I would, I want, would wanna take another look at. And-

44:23 Marc Preston: So you, you like working with your hands kind of a thing and crafting and whatnot.

44:28 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah. I would say, yeah, probably, uh, either, either that or, um, maybe something else on kind of the, uh... Oof. I would probably also try to...

44:40 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, that's difficult. Yeah, maybe, maybe gaffing. Something that I could, I could still kind of be on my feet. Um, yeah.

44:47 Marc Preston: So a 9:00 to 5:00 in a cubicle would be death for you? That would just not work ever.

44:51 Sofia Rosinsky: For me m- it's, I don't think it's the thing. I can, I can sit and work on a computer for hours and hours and hours getting a, a, a project or something done, but I don't th- it's not really something that I would, I would choose, I think.

45:06 Marc Preston: Well, tell you what, got one last question. That is, if you were... I, I usually say, you know, you, you have the, the DeLorean. You can go back in time, and I usually say to a time when you're 16 years old, but that wasn't that long ago for you. Let's say you go back to when you're 12, and you get a piece of advice to make that part of your life maybe a little bit better or put yourself on a little different trajectory.

45:27 Marc Preston: What would... If, if you had a few minutes with 12-year-old Sophia, what would be your piece of advice that you would offer in that moment?

45:34 Sofia Rosinsky: Hmm. Whew. Take better care of your knees, man.

45:39 Marc Preston: Were you too pugilistic or-

45:42 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, I was, I roughhoused a lot, and I was pretty rough and tumble, and my knees are not great.

45:49 Sofia Rosinsky: And so I would probably say maybe calm down a little bit.

45:52 Marc Preston: I'm wondering now, like, how crazy were you with your knees? 'Cause I know mine, my, I was 15 I think the first time I did something to my knee. I'm like... The doctor said, "We can do a small surgery, and then you'll be totally fine, get back to playing football."

46:02 Marc Preston: I'm like, "I'm not that good." So I just never got the surgery. I was like, "I'm not that good of an athlete," you know. But were you, was this, were these athletic type things that caused the knee issues, or was it just-

46:12 Sofia Rosinsky: I, uh, my mom has bad knees, so I think I've always had... That was always gonna be in the cards for me, that my knees weren't gonna be great.

46:20 Sofia Rosinsky: But yeah, I mean, just with, like, running around and, and jumping and all, just kind of crazy stuff, and it's... I, I should've been more, uh, aware and maybe wearing better shoes that were a little bit more supportive.

46:35 Marc Preston: But you're young enough. I mean, technology being what it is, they'll have a way to make your knees better here sooner than later I'm sure, you know.

46:40 Marc Preston: You know, I, I'm curious what you got coming up. Anything, um, you know, of, of note that... I know you said you're working on, now you've wrapped The Miniature Wife and whatnot, you're working on something with your sister, but anything else that's scheduled for rele- release any time soon that you can talk about?

46:54 Sofia Rosinsky: Um, nothing at the moment, no. I am, I'm available for hire. Um, but yeah, right now it's just all these projects that we're writing, and, uh, we're in production on one right now, so it's just kind of continuing with that. We're filming the final vignette in this anthology feature. And so yeah, just kind of now starting to...

47:18 Sofia Rosinsky: We're still in the thick of that, but also continuing on the other projects that we have and trying to get those up and running.

47:24 Marc Preston: I gotta know, one last question. What are your birthday plans?

47:27 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, I don't know. You know, ideally we'll be in Estonia visiting our grandma. She goes back every summer, and so we're still trying to figure out dates.

47:36 Sofia Rosinsky: But ideally the birthday plans, you know, my sister and I, our birthdays are really close, but it would be kind of hopefully an Estonia trip, is that.

47:45 Marc Preston: Uh, y'all, y'all are three months apart, right?

47:47 Sofia Rosinsky: Oh, uh, three days, but three years apart. Oh,

47:50 Marc Preston: three, oh, three years, three days, three hours. That's what it was, okay.

47:53 Sofia Rosinsky: Yes.

47:54 Marc Preston: Well, Sophia, this has been more than a pleasure. You are so fun to watch. I mean, uh, seriously, I, I remember watching The Paper Girls with my kids thinking, "Who is this exactly? She's, she's got something going on." But, uh, I'm looking forward to checking out The Miniature Wife and, uh, and all the other great stuff you have coming up.

48:09 Marc Preston: So, uh, hopefully I'll have an opportunity to, uh, catch up down the line.

48:13 Sofia Rosinsky: Yeah, definitely. Thank you, Marc, for having me.

48:17 Marc Preston: Well, there you go, Sophia Rosinsky. That was a fun chat. A lot of energy. Part of young Hollywood, but part of that young Hollywood you know is going to be around for a long time. Uh, I, her, her knowledge of movies and, uh, old Hollywood, we're talking black and white times, uh, very very impressive.

48:34 Marc Preston: She, she probably knows a whole lot more than I do. So little intimidating to be talking to a movie encyclopedia. But, uh, she was a lot of fun, and the new show, again, is The Miniature Wife. It is on Peacock. I'm just getting into Death and Other Details, uh, right now on Hulu. Big fan of Mandy Patinkin and, uh, really enjoying that as well.

48:54 Marc Preston: And we talked about Paper Girls. It is on Prime Video. Go check it out. Just a very talented actor, and I'm looking forward to, uh, seeing what she has coming up down the line. Hey, uh, do me a favor if you would. Jump onto your podcast app and follow Story and Craft. Get notified every time a new episode comes out, but make sure to like the show, leave a comment.

49:13 Marc Preston: Helps people to find it. And everything you could possibly wanna know about the show, past guests, past episodes, sign up for the newsletter. It is all at storyandcraftpod.com. Okay, so I'm gonna get on out of here. Uh, more great episodes coming up, and I'm looking forward to, uh, a couple of the actors in the, uh, new Dutton Ranch.

49:34 Marc Preston: Uh, of course, big fan of, uh, Taylor Sheridan's universe and, uh, kind of getting into this one. Really enjoy it. So couple of, uh, talented actors gonna be on the show, uh, here very shortly. So if you're a big fan of all things Taylor Sheridan, strap in. They're coming up. Okay, so you go have a great rest of your day, and as I always say, thank you very much for making what I've got going on here part of whatever you've got going on.

49:57 Marc Preston: It does mean a lot to me, and I do look forward to seeing you next time right here on Story and Craft.

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