I think I did four 'Law & Order' episodes. I did two 'Criminal Intent,' one mothership, and one 'SVU.'
I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.
I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.
I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph it so when I would take an eight-count to back up to the back of the stage while the other dancers covered me up because my body was totally... I was always in newborn-deer mode.
There's nothing fake about flipping over and landing on your back.
Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.
I have learned so much personally from wrestling, and it has really bled into my daily life.
If I'm brought the wrong order at a restaurant, I don't send it back, because I don't want the waiter to get mad at me.
I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!
I fill my business emails with smiley faces and question marks so that I don't sound too severe.
I went to the Women's March in D.C. on January 21, and I, looking around, was thinking, Wow, something that bonds all of us is that we've been silent-screaming in our bathrooms, alone, in between sarcastic lunches.
With theater, the time commitment and the demands on your body, your personal life, and your wallet are crazy. It's four months of feeling like you're running a marathon and getting paid in hugs.
I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.
Sometimes, daily life doesn't match the high stakes that you feel! And I feel like that is wrestling. Wrestling actually makes sense to me.
The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.
I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.
'GLOW' is the first time I feel like I've been able to have a theatrical experience on the small screen: to really be able to marry the two. And I love it.
Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.
When we did 'Endgame,' we were all hunched over and making the craziest sounds. Then I graduated and went right into auditioning for 'Gossip Girl' and things like that, where, as an actress, you're required to act from the neck up and, from the neck down. It's a presentation of your birthday-suit self.
