I finished my school at NYU and I said to my Mum you know I’m going to the bartending school. I was in the Columbia bartending School. And I was drunk every night laughs … and I remember I had my boy friend at the time who was telling me babe I don’t think this is gonna work. I did finish that school but I never bar tended , and then I told my mother I want to act so I went to school for another 3 years and my mum said you simply don’t want a job. But I was working, I worked as a dental clinic assistant during the summer which I think is illegal without training … Laughs… then I was a professor as well. I did different jobs and I think I auditioned for 2 years before getting a role. And my mother was like oh baby you have a call back. I was so used at not getting any role that I was not so excited.
That was NYPD Blue or New York Undercover?
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NYPD Blue actually My mother has always been so proud so supportive of me. To respond to your question, I will say there were no social media back then there was no comparison to be done. You just did what you had to do following your own journey. I was auditioning and studying at the same time you know you always have to learn; and auditioning was a way to check on my progress. And I’m still learning working with directors and costars. Now that with have so much information people don’t take time learn deeply, they prefer to watch superficially. Yet like I said earlier it’s important to listen carefully.
Regina Hall thanks, for being with us today
Thank you, Seattle.
Interview hosted by Jacqueline Coley
Transcription, translation and recording
Hubert Marlin.
Biography Sources: SIFF
left to right Beth Barrett SIFF artistic director Regina Hall and Amy Fulford interim Executive Director