Lucy Russell: How To Embrace The Highs And Lows Of Being An Artist

<p>Was there a role that you really wanted but didn't get? How did you feel about that experience?</p> <p> <span style="font-size: 14px;">It's ok to have a good cry about it! Actor/Coach/Creative Lucy Russell enlightens us in this week's episode that when we lose a role that we really want, it's the same as losing a person; </span><span style= "font-size: 14px;">our hearts do not know the difference. Let's be kinder to ourselves and allow these feelings to come up in a wave and get them out of our body.  You are not alone in going through these seasons of rejection; what's meant for you will come to you.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In this episode:</p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;">Lucy's journey in being her own compassionate critic when watching her performance.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">The biggest and most beautiful thing about films is that any story can touch people in really unexpected ways.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">How the uncertainty brought by the pandemic lead us to crave for stories with predictable endings.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Lucy's plan of developing the incredible stories created by actors who didn't think they could write.</li> </ul> <p>Share This Episode >>  <a href= "http://www.thisischelseajohnson.com/224">www.thisischelseajohnson.com/224</a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">A little about Lucy:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Lucy Russell started acting in her late twenties, having tried too many other jobs to count and having got a degree in Italian and Business at UCL in London. Her first feature was also Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas's first film, Following. After a couple of years of drama school, she played the title role in Eric Rohmer's French language film The Lady and the Duke, (which had the most insanely beautiful hand-sewn costumes designed by Pierre-Jean Larroque).</p> <p>She played Missy LeHand in CineNord's Atlantic Crossing, which won the 2021 International Emmy for TV Movie/Miniseries and Steph in To