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So, um, would you mind if we interview you a bit?

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Are you videoing or photoing?

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Oh, okay, because I was like, well, I like long walks in the park.

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Okay.

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So, as a comedy actress, where is it easier for you to act, in Spain or Canada?

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And which audience is better, the Canadian or Spanish?

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Okay, so in fact, when I lived in Canada, I wasn't acting and I wasn't a comedian,

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so I just do it here.

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and a lot of the comedy that I do on the weekends and stuff has a big expat community.

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So there's, I like a bit of both.

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I like to have a mix because what's nice about having Spanish people there

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is they get to experience English in a different way.

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And then if I have expats there, they can understand all the jokes

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because we, sometimes the jokes have to do with pop culture

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or things that you know from your age that you were born

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or the movies that you watched.

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So I like to have a mix of both.

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And who were you supported by to be an actress?

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And what did he or she say to support you?

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I suppose my really close friends have always been really supportive.

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And the high school that I used to work in,

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I worked in a high school for three years in Mostolas.

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And they were always very supportive.

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My colleagues and my sisters definitely have always been on my team.

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And they basically just keep me going.

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Okay, so with being an actress, your initial vocation or maybe a second option that you ended up choosing based on how life turned out to be?

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Exactly, that's exactly what happened.

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So I liked entertainment, but I wasn't really good at public speaking.

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so I went into teaching and through teaching I became confident because we're always in front

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of groups and we're always having to adapt to different people and situations so I actually

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got my confidence through teaching and then it kind of just I turned into an actor I liked using

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comedy in the classroom and all the classes started becoming like drama you know so I was

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like why why don't I just do shows so I started teaching through shows yeah well

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so I was going to ask you are you a shy person or is it really difficult for you

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to take a script seriously sometimes okay so I'm not a shy person and I don't

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have any verguenza which is good and bad right I mean would be good to have a

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little bit of I do have a little bit I feel silly sometimes and you know but

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for the most part I feel quite confident and what was the second part of the question? Is it really

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difficult for you to take tasks seriously? Okay so I was telling students this earlier is that I write

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my own scripts and there's actually no scripts so this shows and there's nothing in writing

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it's just in my mind and so sometimes every show is different it depends how much the audience is

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interacting with me but yeah I generally don't follow a script I have I know what I want to

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talk about, but it's not stripped. What advice would you give to those who don't dare to go

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chase their dreams? I think that slow and steady wins the race. So if there's something that you

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want, just take it step by step. I know you say that a lot in Spain, poco a poco or whatnot, but

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try not to look at the big picture and don't be attached to an end result. Just take it day by day

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and also be willing to listen to what's happening around you too

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because sometimes there's things that we want

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so we're so focused on it

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that we might not see other things that are equally good

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so I would say take it day by day

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try to be in the moment

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and don't be attached to a specific outcome

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Would you like to perform any plays in Spanish?

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You know what, I have a play right now that's bilingual

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in Lava Pies, in La Escalera de Jacobo.

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It's the part two to the box,

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and it's called Knock, Knock, Soy Yo.

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So it's half Spanish, half English,

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and it's to show people that

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you don't have to speak perfect to be understood,

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because I think it's really important

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for everyone to just speak,

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even if we're not speaking perfect.

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Is there any play that you would like to perform in particular?

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um here's the thing i've never been in someone else's play i've only ever written them myself

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so i don't always see myself as uh uh an actress i feel like an entertainer comedian i tend to play

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myself but just in like exaggerated ways so i don't know about playing someone else's plays

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i would definitely love to do like saturday night live do you know what that is it's like short

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sketch shows i would love to be involved in something like that did you prefer acting alone

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or with more people um both the thing about being by yourself it's easy because then you just work

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around your own schedule but when you work with someone else there's a lot more room to play

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and then it's a lot more uh of a feels more like a show and less of a presentation so i have a show

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that I do right now for for children with another actor and it's fun because then you get a commute together and

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So it's nice to have both

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Thank you guys, thank you so much for coming. Have a wonderful day