- I have this vague memory in my mind
of when I was like seven
going through YouTube and watching old All That clips.
I don't know, ever since I was little
I just have been wanting to act
and that same passion that I had back then
is still what I feel every week at All That.
(light jazz music)
Ever since I was little
I always just was performing
in front of my family in the car,
I was always singing,
I was always pretending like I was a weird character.
I was a weird character when I was little,
I was insane.
And I'd be filming fake videos on my phone
and pretending I had a YouTube channel.
Hi guys, it's me, Bree.
So, I did softball when I was little
and I absolutely hated softball.
I cried on the pitcher's mound every single game.
And them so my mom was like
well, I heard they're doing a community theater show,
do you wanna try it?
And I was like yeah sure,
it's in the air conditioning, whatever, I'll do it.
And so I signed up to audition.
The show was Beauty and the Beast.
All the little kids were like utensils (laughs)
like forks and knives and plates.
So I wore a cardboard fork on my back like a backpack
and it was tall.
I had my little cardboard fork and I was ready to rumble.
And so after I did Beauty and the Beast,
I did like every single show known to mankind
at that theater.
(audience cheers)
So we go over to LA and I do another theater there.
I did Shrek, I played teen Fiona, and that was really cool,
I met a lot of cool people.
And then I just
auditioned, auditioned, auditioned, auditioned,
I don't even know, probably like thousands of auditions.
I mean, it was tough.
You go on a ton of auditions and you get a lot of "no"s,
a lot of rejection.
To deal with all the "no"s, my dad and I made this no jar
and it was literally like this big
and every single audition I went on that I didn't get
we would write and put in there
and then if I got something like a commercial,
then we'd Sharpie a line on it and be like
it took this many nos to get this commercial.
I looked at it in a positive way like
look how much I've done to get where I am right now
and look at everything I've been through,
like every audition I've gone on,
every line I've memorized,
every script I've read
got me to where I am right now.
But I think each audition
I got more comfortable with being in front of people,
more comfortable with being in front of casting directors
and then, All That came along (laughs).
(hip hop music)
I auditioned for All That I think in the beginning of 2019.
I did four characters, it was like a spy, a golf person,
a sports lady, and a grandma?
I'm Grandma Betsy,
I like long wheelchair rolls on the beach,
going to Applebee's at 4pm is my jam!
It's lit!
I love making cookies for my grandchildren,
dab on the haters!
And then I did a test
and a test sounds very scary and it was very scary.
But I did my characters in front of like
all of the big important crazy cool people.
I was just like so worried that like
all of this hard work that I built up for this audition
was just gonna (sighs) go away if I didn't get the job.
And so I got home from school,
I was pretty tired,
my mom said someone needs to talk to you
and I was like okay, who?
I don't wanna talk to grandma right now.
- [Woman] The good news is you
booked the series,
(dramatic music)
this covers all episodes produced in our new series.
(cries)
- It's an out of body experience just to hear those words
like if you've been working so hard,
it was wild!
(uplifting music)
The most fun parts about doing a show
is just doing it with all my close friends.
We do a lot of crazy stuff on the show
like we get hit in the face with food,
there's stunt doubles,
things are flying through walls,
every week is like comedy bootcamp for ten hours a day
we're working, we're learning, we're laughing at each other
and that's the fun part.
(explosion) (audience laughs)
I think the biggest piece of advice I can give is just
work hard and do your best.
Because if you genuinely love to act
or if you genuinely love to do sports,
whatever you genuinely love to do,
if you work hard enough at it,
and you practice enough at it,
and you just stay in it,
eventually, you will get the outcome you want.
No matter how long it takes, just keep working hard.
If you love to do it and it's what you actually passion,
you have a big passion for it, it will come eventually.
So I guess the last piece of advice I have
is to get a "no" jar
because like Pinocchio, we can grow from our "no"s!
(interviewer laughs)
(laughs)