- 9 years ago
This week on L.A. Land, we document actress Kenesha Bolton's experience trying to make it in L.A. With no family or friends left, she packed her life up and moved to the west coast to pursue her dream. Watch this episode to see how Kenesha fares in the ruthless world of acting!
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00:00I got places to be. Hurry up and take off your pants.
00:04I normally like a lady to buy me a drink first.
00:07Yeah, I like auditioning because I think he helps me.
00:15Like, that's my time to like, rehearse and practice.
00:19Three, two, one, action.
00:23I thought you weren't helping.
00:26I got places to be. Hurry up and take off your pants.
00:29I normally like a lady to buy me a drink first.
00:35Jeans, da da da.
00:41That's it. So we'll do it one more time.
00:50I don't mind starting from the bottom. I'm always starting from the bottom.
00:53I definitely don't mind doing that.
00:55So they say, hey, we're going to do you like one line.
00:57I'll take you. And you know what? I will kill that line every time.
01:02You know, just to show that I'm here. I'm ready. Let's do it.
01:08You know the shows where they reenact somebody who got killed?
01:13So I did that. I did another one called Swamp Murder.
01:16It's another reenactment.
01:17I was standing on an HBO show, Insecure.
01:21Love that show.
01:22But I never seen it. I ain't got HBO, girl.
01:24It's wet. No, no, you're fine. You're going to take it off right here anyway.
01:26You're good. You're good. Come on.
01:28Yeah. You just take it off right there.
01:30Hello.
01:31What did you bring?
01:32Oh, just some tea and some snacks.
01:34He and his wife are having some drama, if you know what I mean.
01:38Needs me to cover for him. Between you and me, I'm pretty sure he's going to leave her.
01:43They never do, sweetie. They always want to have their cake and eat it too.
01:49Dinner clothes. Yeah.
01:52I'm pretty sure that he's getting tired of choking down that old dirty cake.
01:59Because I work at 11 at night, right? 11 to 6, I stop drinking anything like at 1.
02:06So I don't have to go to the bathroom when I go to work because I don't use public restrooms.
02:11Oh. Well, you haven't got to drink it, but...
02:14Yeah. Oh, no. I appreciate it, but...
02:16Are those your teacups?
02:17They are my teacups.
02:18No, these teacups.
02:19Oh, you brought those teacups from home?
02:21Yeah.
02:22Oh.
02:23All the way from home. Across the ocean, in fact.
02:27Um, why did you bring them here out of curiosity?
02:29To have my tea.
02:31Oh, so you have like a very specific way you have it?
02:33Yeah, it's nearly tea time, isn't it?
02:36I wouldn't know.
02:38How's your tea?
02:39It's delightful.
02:40Oh.
02:42Best part of my day.
02:44It is.
02:55I'm going to Long Beach to meet this guy who did my head shots.
03:00But this time he is going to do like models slash fashion type of photos.
03:10It's just for me to have like a, you know, just...
03:18I just wanted different pictures besides head shots.
03:21Mm-hmm.
03:24I'm out here for acting.
03:25But if I was not doing acting, I wouldn't be living in California.
03:28I'd be living down south.
03:34A lot of people do come to L.A. and, you know, it's sunshine, the beach, the palm trees.
03:41And they think that, oh, it's going to be just so easy, you know?
03:47That's what happens when you go on set.
03:50Sometimes the keyboard goes until you have to bring your own stuff.
03:55So you're trying to go for more model this time rather than commercial or commercial print kind of?
04:00It can be more like print maybe.
04:02Commercial print?
04:03Yeah.
04:03What's this?
04:04This is a shirt.
04:05And this is the top, right?
04:07Well, this is the top I can wear with the white shorts and wear.
04:10So what if you did something totally out of the box and you did like this with this chair?
04:15This jacket, right?
04:17It adds the pop and the color.
04:28I never acted when I was a kid.
04:30I wanted to, but I didn't have nobody.
04:33I've been in two foster homes.
04:35They suck.
04:37You know, as a kid, you have that parent or whoever in their life.
04:40I'd have that.
04:41So I had to wait until I was grown to figure out all of this.
04:46How to do all of these head shots and acting classes and auditions and stuff like that.
04:56At some point, you get used to being alone.
04:59So, yeah.
05:04Maybe Denzel Washington would call me one day.
05:07Come be in my movie.
05:09Save me.
05:11Yeah.
05:13Y'all want somebody to save you.
05:15Rescue you.
05:16Rescue you.
05:18From, you know, stuff.
05:21But, yeah.
05:23So, hopefully we want to have to work with them.
05:31It's really hard to try to kill my joy or my spirit.
05:36Like, you can't do that.
05:39Like, I don't give you that much power.
05:41Like, nobody has that power control over me.
05:54You don't understand.
05:57I need this.
05:58Okay?
05:59I need to stay in Los Angeles.
06:01And you don't have to stay here with me.
06:04It's okay.
06:05Okay?
06:06Go.
06:08All I hear is, no, no, no.
06:13And not because what I do is bad, but because of who I am and what I look like.
06:19My skin color.
06:20My hair.
06:21My accent.
06:22It doesn't work for them.
06:27So, you don't have to understand.
06:30Just know I'm staying right here.
06:35And when you leave me, I'm going to keep going even if it kills me.
06:43Because I love what I do.
06:50Can you say the same for yourself?
06:56Hey, everybody.
06:57Thank you so much for watching.
06:59My name is Nina Letty and I'm the director of LA Land.
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