Anzzia: What has acting and the involvement of your self in this Entertainment industry as a whole. What has it taught you about yourself?
Cha Cha: For someone who grew up with not a lot of confidence, I think it has given me more confidence in myself. It's helped me to become more outgoing. It's helped me to explore, maybe like, issues from my childhood and stuff like that. Because acting, your tapping into emotions and feelings and stuff like that. You're kind of exposing your self. Only thing is people don't know what you're exposing. They know the character your playing. But, they don't really know what you're exposing to play that character. I've always been told that I'm emotional and that like, you know I'm sensitive or that I can be dramatic at times and I can agree with that. I think though that those are all things that make me also a good artist. Because I think most people like to hide their feelings and where it's easier for most people to express anger rather than anything else. I think I am good at understanding feelings and emotions and expressing them. As I've gotten older, gotten more mature, I've learned better ways to express my feelings and emotions and I would say, being an actor has helped me with that. Because you have to understand motive and emotions when you're trying to play a character. Okay, say your character has killed someone. You can't just act like your killing someone, you have to think about "Why do I want to kill this person?", "What am I feeling?", "How do I justify this?". You've got to think about all of these different things. I think that it's definitely helped me to be more comfortable with my feelings and my emotions. It's like, this is all human stuff. It's weird to be sad, it's weird to be, you know? It's so cool right now to act like we don't care about anything. It's so cool right now to have this like, nonchalant kind of attitude towards everything. But, then we see in the news the rise in the suicide rates.
Anzzia: Yes, yes we do.
Cha Cha: Nationally the suicide rate has increased by something like, thirty percent since the 90's. I mean, just two weeks ago we had two high profile people kill themselves in the same week.
Anzzia: Yes, days apart. I think it was the next day or so.
Cha Cha: All of this trying so hard, especially with social media. That's why I'm taking a bit of a social media break. I think everyone should do that every once in a while. To really get into real life and really connect with people, really talk to people. Instead of you being heartbroken and then on social media you try to fake like you don't care. Like, let yourself feel that emotion and connect with your friends and talk about it. Go through the human stuff instead of trying so hard to show this image of having it all together. Because nobody has it all together. Like, nobody.
Anzzia: Exactly, that part though. So, would you classify yourself as an introvert or an extrovert?
Cha Cha: Definitely an introvert. I definitely need my time alone. To just kind of chill by myself. /laughs
Anzzia: To recharge.
Cha Cha: Yeah, just kind of to recharge, just chill. Definitely introverted.
Anzzia: Do you have any advice for someone who is looking to get into the Entertainment business or advice for any artists who are in the Entertainment business or just need something? Do you have any advice for them?
Cha Cha: I would say, to just be yourself. Because nine times out of ten people don't know they like something until someone else tells them that it's cool. It's just the way that society and trends and stuff work. Now, you have all of these different kind size models. You've got models with all of these different kinds of looks. Models with vitiligo. You have people just coming out and being themselves and saying, "Here I am!'. What we're finding, this is why social media is good and it's bad. Bad for the mental health sometimes. But, it's also good because now we don't have to rely on agents and even though I'm going to find an agent, what I am saying is there's more opportunity if you put yourself out there. You have more control over your own image and your own brand and you can put that out there to present it to a bigger audience, you know? I would