Thanks to Jane Moffat, I discovered a wonderful show last year called Backstage TV, and from the moment I watched it, I was hooked. As I began to examine the people involved with the show, I discovered a wealth of talent of which I was previously unaware, and one of those people happens to be Kate Hewlett. This is a woman who has truly "done it all," or practically has, and I was thrilled when she took some time recently to answer a few questions about her career within the entertainment universe. RH: What inspired you to become an actress? What kind of training have you had? KH: My brother David {Hewlett} inspired me to become an actress, despite repeatedly telling me "Do not become an actress!" Seeing the career that he had and the …show more content…
I have never felt so welcome as I did on that set, mostly because of Eric Johnson and Julia Taylor Ross. I also got to work with Jordan Pettle on a script written by his brother Adam Pettle, both of whom I adore. Pretending to give birth to a baby for twelve hours could have been a huge nightmare (not as much as actually giving birth for twelve hours, obviously...), but this crew and cast made the whole thing a total pleasure. And I had broken up with my fiance two days before, so I was pretty raw! I had a recurring role on Remedy, so I'm not sure if that counts, but the episode of Remedy where my character had her own storyline was another favorite experience. The writing on that show was so strong -- it was like being in a play again. And I love the way Greg Spottiswood runs a show. He treats television like theatre -- gives it the same respect, values rehearsal, gives honest feedback. It was both terrifying and fun. What is the first thing you wrote for TV/film? How was that experience and how was it received? My short film She Said Lenny was my first foray into film/TV writing. It was loosely based on my stage play Humans Anonymous, and it gave me he opportunity to act with my BFF (do people still say that?) Michelle Giroux , who I've known since I was four. We won a big award! It was thrilling! And it inspired me to apply to the CFC for TV writing, which totally changed my
Has anyone ever inspired you if so who? Michael Crichton was a book writer who went to Harvard medical school and began working as a postdoctoral fellow at salk institute for biological studies.chris was raised in a family where his father acted like he was god and he relied on his sister than his parents. Michael Crichton influenced mcCandless to follow your goals and dreams and McCandless followed his dreams and all the way to Alaska.
Someone really inspiring to me taught me to always give 100% and always get back up no matter how many times you fall. When Life gets tough I think of this lesson and push through whatever dilema I’m in. When I think of this career I know there will never be a time when I don’t wake up excited to go to work.
I think this was your first time to work with Andie MacDowell. What was it like working with her? Any behind-the-scenes stories?
Has anyone ever been influential to your life? Has it pushed you to pursue for your dreams? In Homer H. Hickam Jr.’s Rocket Boys, Sonny was inspired from his dad and Wernher von Braun to pursue his dreams and follow it to build rockets.
Yeah, I directed an episode of Haven in its last season. And that was something I had always been working toward even before I worked on Haven. I've shadowed directors as much as I could and as long as I could in the hopes of one day getting to direct myself. And that actually came to pass, and the experience was beyond my wildest dreams. It was just incredible. I loved it. I was terrified and just completely overwhelmed the whole time with a combination of sheer terror and pure joy. It was amazing.
Along with my role as an Executive Producer, I was heavily involved in the theater department at my high school. When most people
I was also on Saving Hope. I did a little guest star role on that show. It was fun, but it was also very tiring because I had to pretend to be having seizures. They had a special person on set to coach you how it's supposed to look, but when you do it, it starts to cramp up your muscles like, "This really hurts!" But everything else was really fun, and everyone was super nice. The guy who directed my episode was the same guy who plays Charlie on the show. Since he was directing, I got to meet him, and we wouldn't have gotten to meet if he hadn't been
My aspiration to become a sports medicine doctor was influenced by my mother. She was number one in her class, and incessantly tells me, “Nneoma if it wasn’t because my parents didn’t have money I would be a doctor right now”. Five others quite below her in her class continued on to become doctors, but she could not achieve the same feat. This has impacted me because as a person in my position who has the resources and ability I am compelled to achieve success to show gratitude for her.
Through the years I’ve done theatre as an extracurricular activity. I started when I was in 1st grade and I show no signs of stopping. Theatre has helped me grow in so many ways; I owe my
DC: I was fortunate to film my first project when I was eight, and I certainly wasn't chasing after this career. It just so happened that after I filmed my first film, Little Secrets, I was completely in love with everything about the process. So after getting my first taste, what inspired me to continue on was the love I developed during that shoot. What was your first professional job and what are your memories of it? Little Secrets was my first film.
Nonetheless, excellent performances ensued, naturally (shout-out to Dominic Zamprogna, A.K.A. Dante). My personal favorites were from West and Wright. Ava 's tortured breakdown on 10/11 after hearing Morgan died was the stuff of soap dreams and West 's innate passion was the perfect ingredient for it. Mascara covered tears fell down her face, as guilt-ridden flashes of her removing the pills seesawed with memories of their tawdry love affair, causing her to obliviously drop her martini glass. She sobs while picking up the shards, realizing she 's involved in killing the only man she 's loved since being in PC. Overtaken, she flings the pieces and screams, "What have I done?!!" She bumps into Bobbie the next day, who asks if she ever truly loved Morgan. Ava replies "Yeah, I loved him...very much. There was a time when he was the only one who saw good in me at all. Now I suppose anyone who ever did (veiled reference to Nikolas?) is gone," and dashes off to crumble on the elevator. Carly 's bouts of rage were everything (I can 't come up with a suitable adjective, so we 'll go with "everything"). On 10/12, Sonny got it about Julian 's hit. Before smashing a childhood photo of Morgan, she fumed, "...A bomb blew him up. You couldn 't help yourself could you? You had to be the one to finish Julian. And now...our beautiful little boy is dead, and you killed him!!" An Emmy reel
I have since attained my Bachelor's degree kept my fingers typing on the screen. I went on to attain an MA Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, take a venture in to the world of stand-up comedy, write a comedy sketch show, both perform and script-edit for two young emerging film production houses, write my first children’s novella and write 6 feature length films which are all in different stages of development. The most impactful experience was the production of a full comedy sketch show series entitled Small World: Big Circus. In this,
One person I personally know that inspires me a lot is my father. My father has always been very involved in my life and had a very positive impact on who I have become. He came to the United States when he was eleven years old with nothing. The English language was foreign to him and everything was being risked. The comfort of being in a place you have been all your life and having friends and family surrounding you was gone. Yet his parents knew this was what was best for him, so they brought him over. Things were not easy for my father and some of my family members either. They all lived crammed up in a one bedroom apartment. However, they were not discouraged. My father fought and fought for what he wanted to achieve. I admire him greatly because of how hard working he is. Everything he has accomplished today was thanks to his amazing work ethic. This is what really makes me want to be like him. If I am able to strive and fight like he did, especially with my studies, I have faith I will achieve all I want.
The person that was the source of my inspiration was Dr. Wayne Dyer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and received his Ed.D degree in counseling from Wayne State University. In his early career begins he started as a professor of counselor education at St. John´s University; he focused primarily in motivational speaking techniques. After a few years he started then writing books about his theories becoming really famous, and then building a successful career with lecture books, series of audiotapes and PBS programs.
first tragedy and started my life. When I was about 26, I finished my first play and did my first