00:05So I wanted to ask you, your character in this movie, you did an amazing job.
00:09She's arguably one of the least likable characters I've seen in a while.
00:12What made you want to tackle that?
00:14You know, I think there's a lot to be learned sometimes by looking at some of the ugly in ourselves
00:18and the things that we're not our proudest about, you know?
00:23And, you know, I have to say there's things about when I've not taken responsibility for myself
00:28or I've put it on other people or I've just been boo-hoo and poor me and, like, just not
00:32really stepped up.
00:33And that's very much who June has been for so much of her life.
00:36And so it was hard even to kind of look at that part of myself and have to admit that,
00:41you know,
00:41it doesn't take very much to get to that level of where she is, you know,
00:44where if you can really kind of continue to feel alone and continue to use that as an excuse to
00:49really misbehave,
00:50how dark it can actually be.
00:52So it was painful and it was hard, but I think it actually really helps to understand a lot more
00:57of where Apple's coming from.
00:58You know, had June had a place, a shelter like this to go to, what would her life have been
01:04like?
01:04You know what I mean?
01:04And having played someone like Mimi who was an addict and all of that,
01:08but look at the community she had that saved her and helped her.
01:10What if that didn't exist?
01:12You know, that's really, I kept seeing June as Mimi growing up without that support, you know?
01:17What was the process of becoming her, like, everyday, like sitting in the makeup chair?
01:20What did they have to do to you to, like...
01:23It was intense.
01:24I have to say it was intense.
01:25We literally used an enamel, like a nail polish enamel on my teeth, so it made it really hard.
01:30You couldn't really, like, eat.
01:31I'd have to scrub it all off to have lunch and come back.
01:33So it just, like, it really felt like it was hard talking and being around, you know?
01:37So it just made it, you kind of felt really cut off from everybody, actually, too.
01:41You know, you couldn't just kind of, like, hang around and have, like, a snack in between takes,
01:44you know what I mean?
01:44And you just looked horrible.
01:45Like, people were, like...
01:46I remember I went back home afterwards and I didn't want to take any of the makeup off.
01:50And I remember my brother was, like, he had a really hard time looking at me.
01:54And I was really happy about that.
01:55But he was, you know, because he was just, like...
01:57No one was into it.
01:58Like, my family, my parents, none of them.
02:00Nobody was, like, oh, my God, that's so funny.
02:01Look at you.
02:01They were all, like, take that off.
02:03Like, oh, this is depressing me.
02:05It really was sad, you know?
02:06So it was interesting.
02:07But, like, I just love the fact that, like, driving from New Jersey to New York,
02:10you're passing by all these people, my face sticking out in the van,
02:13just waiting to see, like, a New York response.
02:15No one, like, batted an eye.
02:16It's New York.
02:17Like, people are, like, seeing it.
02:19And they're done that.
02:20I hope it is.
02:20I wanted to ask you, too, you kind of have this, like, great career
02:23that young actresses can look up to you for.
02:25You know, you have this political activism, all this stuff.
02:27Who do you look up to?
02:28And, like, who do you kind of admire?
02:30Oh, my whole life.
02:31I mean, like, Jane Fonda and, like, other people like that
02:34have always been just, like, really incredible and giving back.
02:37You know, I think it's really amazing that you can kind of have it all.
02:42You can have a great career.
02:43You can travel.
02:44You can have those moments.
02:45You can be a parent.
02:46You can be a wife.
02:47You can be a mother.
02:48You can be all these different things.
02:49But, you know, there's this great organization, Waves for Water,
02:53and their whole theme is, you know, like, do what you love
02:55and help along the way, you know?
02:57And so I feel like I've been able to do that a lot in my life of, like,
02:59I get to do what I love.
03:01And so it just fills me up, and I get to give back,
03:03and it's, like, incredible, you know?
03:04And I started off as a young actor in this industry,
03:06and it wasn't, you didn't have as many roles or any of that kind of space.
03:10So it was, like, it wasn't a kid industry so much then when I first started.
03:13I was 15 when I started acting 20 years ago, you know?
03:16So it was, like, so it's so exciting for me now to see so many young people
03:20being able to have really big, great careers at such a young age
03:23and be able to have the chance to give back.
03:25So you're watching all of these people starting their own organizations
03:28or helping out or doing these different things,
03:30and it was really, like, when I was doing philanthropy and acting,
03:33I had to keep them separate, you know?
03:35It was not, like, as it is now.
03:37But with technology and everything today, it's just,
03:39it just is actually part of it.
03:41People reject, actually, if you don't have a sort of social conscious
03:44in the work that you do, and that just makes me feel really great.
