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[0:15] Joe Rosko: Hey, what's going on? Welcome to Built for the Stage Podcast. This is Joe Rosko, founder and host of Built for the Stage, Broadway's number one fitness platform with clients in over 20 Broadway shows and other stages across the globe. We are your online fitness platform for all things theater and fitness. So actors are athletes, and you should be training like one. And if you're not, go to BuiltForTheStage.com, and we'd love to help you out using an interactive fitness app. Actors are athletes, train like one. All right, let's move on to our special guest. Special guest, as always. I was in London, uh, I think it's been a month ago now, and I was lucky enough to see & JULIET that also recently opened on Broadway just a couple of days ago, which is super exciting to have both of those worlds colliding from across the pond, as we say.

Um, where I believe they covered Catherine of Aragon. I'm pretty sure she can correct me on that if I'm incorrect. But during their time in both of those covers, they were just nominated for a Broadway World UK nomination for best performance by an understudy or cover, which is so cool. Got this star coming on the show. So enough rambling. Please welcome Collette Guitart.

[1:53] Collette Guitart: Hey, Joe. Yay! Thanks so much for joining me. Uh, happy Tuesday. It's, uh, what, three something over there?

[2:02] Joe Rosko: What time is it right now?

[2:03] Collette Guitart: Yeah, it's 13 minutes past three.

[2:06] Joe Rosko: Okay. And your day so far, what have you done? What's a day in the life? Give us a day in the life of Collette Guitart on a Tuesday.

[2:13] Collette Guitart: Well, I've got to say my day today has been quite not quite as normal as it would be. Um, I had to go to the bank and go to a phone shop and do all of these things because unfortunately my phone got stolen yesterday, but we move, it's fine. Um, so yeah, my day has been just organizing myself and getting my life back together.

[2:37] Joe Rosko: Yeah, again, I appreciate you taking the time. I can just imagine like your phone gets stolen, you're trying to do all this stuff, and then on top of it, you're like, uh, I gotta talk to this random guy in the United States for 20, 30 minutes. Of all the days I have to carve this out to talk to this guy, my phone gets stolen.

[3:03] Collette Guitart: Not at all. It's a wonderful distraction.

[3:05] Joe Rosko: There you go. I'm let's go on that. Let's go with that. A wonderful distraction. Uh, so speaking of things that are wonderful, the show is wonderful. Uh, so y'all just the cast is like jam-packed from top to uh from top to bottom. The pre-show alone, it's like, oh wow, I love this, and the show hasn't even started yet. And then once you all get going, you're just phenomenal up there. Uh, what's it been like? How long have you been with the cast?

[3:38] Collette Guitart: I joined the company in the cast change that happened in March.

[3:41] Joe Rosko: March, okay, March, March. Okay, so tell us about, uh, I don't know. Let's start with your cast. What's it been like being with your cast, uh, of talented, you a younger cast as well?

[3:54] Collette Guitart: Uh, yeah, tell us.

[3:56] Collette Guitart: Well, I've got to say this is the first time I've ever joined a company and not been the youngest person. So I feel like I'm having that realization that I'm slowly moving up the age scale.

[4:08] Joe Rosko: Um, yeah. Okay, what's that feel like?

[4:11] Collette Guitart: What's that feel like to be going up the age?

[4:15] Collette Guitart: Well, I don't know because I don't feel like an adult, but I'm in the mid-range of adults in this company, and I'm like, what? I haven't got my life together. What? Like I thought that's what adults are supposed to do. Um, but yeah, it's lovely, and I am constantly surrounded by, like, like you said, such talented people. So it's pretty inspiring to work with people who daily you can look around and be like, you guys are great.

[4:44] Joe Rosko: I mean, yeah. And last night you were on for Anne or recently, uh, yeah?

[4:50] Collette Guitart: Yeah, yeah. So it was last night. I've got three days on this week as Anne. It was last night, tonight, and tomorrow.

[4:55] Joe Rosko: Yeah, so tell us about being in such like a unique role that you know, the whole musical is unique in the way that it's turned the story upside down. Uh, how fun has that been to kind of press against the common mold of what we know these characters to be as you yourself as Anne is kind of rewriting all of that?

[5:17] Collette Guitart: I mean, it is just so much fun. Like, you've seen the show, and if you haven't seen the show, it's going worldwide. So make sure you get a chance to go see it. But it's um, it's just so much fun. And like, whenever you think of William Shakespeare, I didn't even know his wife was called Anne Hathaway. Like, I knew nothing. Um, because you only speak of him, and it's lovely to shine a little bit of light on the wife, on the woman in his life. Um, and yeah, it's just ridiculous, and I don't know how they've managed to merge the pop songs in the way that the clear, like the genius way that they have, but it's like one of the highlights for me is getting to sing these pop classics and it makes sense within a story.

[6:02] Joe Rosko: What's your favorite one to sing?

[6:05] Collette Guitart: Well, I mean, as Anne, I love singing "That's the Way It Is" because that's like her moment. Um, but I think, oh, do you know what? I think in the ensemble, it's probably um, "Everybody."

[6:23] Joe Rosko: Right, right, right. The thing I talked with Carl recently, and what I didn't realize was that I just thought that the writers of the show pieced all of these together at random as far as which popular songs they're gonna choose. And I was like, there wasn't enough *NSYNC in the show, and then he enlightened me to let me know that all of the songs were written by the same person, which, yeah, you know, as an ignorant spectator out there, I had no idea.

[6:59] Collette Guitart: I mean, he's still going, he's just released a song with Pink, which is another banger. Yeah, um, but yeah, his songs are so good, and I didn't realize how many of them I didn't know were written by him.

[7:13] Joe Rosko: Right.

[7:13] Collette Guitart: And produced by him, and I was like, oh wow, he's like mega.

[7:19] Joe Rosko: Yeah. You know?

[7:20] Collette Guitart: Yeah.

[7:20] Joe Rosko: It's crazy. Okay. So let's go back to my intro when I said that you were nominated for these awards for best performance by an understudy or cover. You what? You wake up one day, you're brushing your teeth, and you check your phone, and people are saying, "Hey, did you see that you got?" Like how did you find out that you were nominated?

[7:39] Collette Guitart: It is literally that. Um, it was so odd. I wasn't even at work the day before, which is I think where a lot of people found out um about the nominations, but because I was out of the loop and I wasn't at work that day, I took a holiday day. Um, I woke up the following morning with people tagging me and stuff, and I was like, what is this? Um, and yeah, it was really cool. Obviously, the first thing I did was send it to my mom and my dad and was like, go vote. This is pretty cool. And they were like, oh, just so you know, there's two in there, which one would you like? And I was like, what?

[8:13] Joe Rosko: Yeah.

[8:21] Collette Guitart: Uh, what is my life moment.

[8:23] Joe Rosko: Right, right, right. You have double the chances of hopefully winning. Um, how long do you know when they're like when they're closing the voting?

[8:33] Collette Guitart: I don't know. I believe it's still open now, um, but I don't know at which date they'll stop.

[8:38] Joe Rosko: Okay. I'll share that on our stories immediately. Or I'll put it on our timeline as well, so that people hurry up and go vote.

[8:48] Collette Guitart: Oh, bless you, thank you.

[8:50] Joe Rosko: Yeah, yeah. Congratulations. Um, rewinding to something else that was cool, just as I was doing a little research for the interview. You when you were with Six, you performed "Heart of Stone" at this thing called Show Must Go On, and the performance just looked epic. And the like amount of views on the YouTube and the channel, like that looked pretty epic. Tell us just a little bit about that and other experiences you had with your time at Six.

[9:18] Collette Guitart: I mean, I had such a wonderful time doing that concert. It was incredible. And I again I was surrounded by people that I was I have looked up to for so long, and now we're about to go and sing on the same stage. Like, what the what? Um, yeah, it was again another moment that I was like, what is my life? Like, this is wonderful. Um, but at the same time it was so manic. So during that particular weekend, as well as performing at the Show Must Go On, um, I was also performing back at Six. So I would do a show at Six. I can't remember who I was, but let's say Catherine Howard, run to the Show Must Go On, perform "Heart of Stone," and then run back to Six the Musical and perform as someone else.

It was a bit like, um, and actually, my fellow offstage Queen Hannah, we basically split that week between us because there were shows from Tuesday to Sunday that week. And she took Tuesday to Thursday, and I took Friday to Sunday. So we both had that crazy running back and forth from theaters, and luckily they were on the same, uh, like street, they were down Shaftesbury Avenue. So it was fine, but not ideal. Um, but yeah, I'm so grateful that I had the opportunity to do that on behalf of Six the Musical because it was just like it was dreamy, and it was so lovely to see all the other performances as well.

[10:55] Joe Rosko: Yeah, you crushed it. We'll have the link to that in the description of this episode. So if you want to hear Collette just knock the socks off people, go ahead and click that link there in the description of the episode.

[11:07] Joe Rosko: Uh last random question before we rewind and get to know a little bit more about you.

[11:13] Joe Rosko: Another not video but photo.

[11:15] Joe Rosko: These photos from this tell us, tell me about this.

[11:20] Joe Rosko: Like I looked at it and I was like, this is uh this is the most wonderful photo I've ever seen, right?

[11:27] Joe Rosko: How be how beautiful did those come out?

[11:29] Collette Guitart: Yeah, I mean, right.

[11:31] Collette Guitart: So that was a really exciting day.

[11:33] Collette Guitart: Um, my friend Tom, who is in the photo uh above me in the blue boiler suit, who we're I'm currently working with, and he plays Romeo in the show.

[11:43] Collette Guitart: Um sent me a message about this new college opening called Cast, and said they're looking for a team of people to be icons around the college, which is just industry professionals who are going to help mold uh this college and come in and teach workshops that they wish they maybe had in their training.

[12:04] Collette Guitart: Um, and I mean that I that that photo is the people that could make it that day.

[12:10] Collette Guitart: But let me tell you, the amount of incredible people that are in the lineup of like icons, a part of that college is ridiculous.

[12:18] Collette Guitart: Like again, another how am I a part of this lineup that like a yeah.

[12:24] Collette Guitart: Um, but yes, it's run by Ruthie, and she is just, I mean, before that day, obviously I knew of her because she's like a legend, but I'd never met her, and she was just the warmest, most lovely woman ever.

[12:39] Collette Guitart: Um, and it was so chilled out, and it was such a lovely day, and yeah, there's just so much more, there's so much more exciting stuff to come of that.

[12:48] Collette Guitart: It's very exciting.

[12:49] Joe Rosko: Yeah, I love that concept bringing the industry professionals almost as a as a part of the team in university.

[12:57] Joe Rosko: Uh it's a good selling point for the younger kids.

[13:01] Joe Rosko: It's a it's definitely I love that.

[13:02] Joe Rosko: I love that.

[13:03] Joe Rosko: Um, okay, let's rewind to when you were a kid and when you were thinking about, oh, I want to be up on this stage someday.

[13:12] Joe Rosko: When did this happen?

[13:13] Joe Rosko: Was it from the very beginning, or or when did you stumble up into performing?

[13:19] Collette Guitart: Um, I mean, to be honest, there wasn't even really a turning point for me.

[13:24] Collette Guitart: I think it's been like forever and always, uh, fresh out of the womb.

[13:28] Collette Guitart: But um, so both of my parents were performers.

[13:34] Collette Guitart: Um specifically dancers, they like work mainly in dance, and my dad actually still teaches dance now, and my mum was a beautiful dancer, but's moved more into um like Pilates yoga and fitness, and because obviously, you know, once you're flexible, you might as well teach other people how to be flexible and strong.

[13:53] Collette Guitart: Um, yeah, so I think from them not being able to find someone for childcare and just taking me along to the classes that they taught, um, because they also have their own part-time dance school, which is amazing.

[14:09] Collette Guitart: It's called the Guitart School of Performing Arts.

[14:12] Collette Guitart: Um, yeah, that's sort of where I found my love for it, and it's just been like snowballing since then.

[14:21] Collette Guitart: It's just got better, and um I don't know if you would have heard of it, but we have this thing here in the UK called Move It.

[14:29] Collette Guitart: It's like a big dance convention, and as soon as that started coming about, like every now and then my dad would have a college perform there, so we'd go and watch that, and I would just look up at the big stage, like wow.

[14:41] Collette Guitart: Um, so yeah, and and I think from like a really young age, I thought it was just gonna be dance.

[14:48] Collette Guitart: I really thought I'm gonna be a dancer, and that is it.

[14:51] Collette Guitart: Like it was really exciting thought for me.

[14:55] Collette Guitart: Um, but yeah, I never considered that I would try and balance out all of the skills to make yeah, like where I'm at today.

[15:03] Joe Rosko: All right.

[15:04] Joe Rosko: So when did that happen?

[15:05] Joe Rosko: It was just dance, and then when when what there's maybe like a school musical or something that you wanted to partake in, or or when was your first experience with the singing and acting?

[15:15] Collette Guitart: Well, listen, I've always loved singing, whether I've been good at it or not, is another classic part.

[15:21] Collette Guitart: Um, yeah, my brother actually like I would always sing in the car and he'd be like, shut up, because it was not good.

[15:30] Collette Guitart: And that's fine because it's better now, and people pay for it now, so it's fine, it's fine.

[15:35] Collette Guitart: Um but um I actually started singing because I liked it and then like let it go because I was like, Well, I'm gonna focus on dance.

[15:44] Collette Guitart: But then when I actually started like really, really like I was like, I need to be able to sing, was um, a couple of years before auditioning for a performing arts college.

[15:54] Collette Guitart: So I must have been about 13, and that's when I started taking private lessons, like not in a group situation, like I wanted like one-to-one feedback.

[16:05] Collette Guitart: Um, and that was with one of my dad's friends who is a very talented man called Nick, and he had this little hut in the back of his garden that had like a recording studio in it.

[16:15] Collette Guitart: And I was like, what?

[16:16] Collette Guitart: This is crazy.

[16:17] Collette Guitart: Like I feel like a pop star.

[16:19] Collette Guitart: It was a singing lesson.

[16:21] Collette Guitart: Um, but yeah, so he really helped me develop like what I needed to get into a college.

[16:25] Collette Guitart: And then when I was at my performing arts college, um, yeah, like a few singing teachers was like, You you can sing, you should sing more.

[16:36] Collette Guitart: And I was like, Okay, what should I sing?

[16:41] Collette Guitart: Um, so yeah, like along the way, like a few people were really giving me the confidence to actually give it a good go.

[16:48] Collette Guitart: And yeah.

[16:50] Joe Rosko: So once you got started in your young career, you said a few times, like uh with the show must go on concert or this photo shoot with these other um people that are involved in it.

[17:01] Joe Rosko: You kept saying, like, how did I end up here?

[17:03] Joe Rosko: You know, with all these talented, amazing people uh in your young career, who was like one or or two of them that kind of helped mold you or that you tried to maybe learn from or craft your your skill uh after.

[17:20] Collette Guitart: I've got to say, like, I I love musical theater now, but it's taken me like a few years of seeing shows and stuff to like have musical theater people to be my icons, like from the beginning of time, it has been Beyoncé.

[17:37] Joe Rosko: Okay, cool.

[17:38] Joe Rosko: Let's yeah, let's get into it.

[17:39] Joe Rosko: Let's get into it.

[17:40] Collette Guitart: Yeah, cool.

[17:41] Collette Guitart: Okay, so be Beyonce, tell us more.

[17:43] Collette Guitart: Yeah, Beyoncé.

[17:45] Collette Guitart: Every album, every everything, like I've always wanted to be able to sing like her.

[17:50] Collette Guitart: Then she started acting, and I was like, Oh my gosh, she can act.

[17:53] Collette Guitart: And every live performance she does, she does like killer dance breaks in songs that you didn't realize she was gonna do a dance break in.

[18:00] Collette Guitart: And I'm like, that's what I need to be.

[18:03] Collette Guitart: And I was like, okay, but the thing is, she can do all three, so I need to be able to do all three.

[18:10] Collette Guitart: Um, yeah, that was that was quite the motivation.

[18:13] Collette Guitart: I also love Jennifer Lopez.

[18:16] Collette Guitart: Um, yeah, great.

[18:18] Collette Guitart: Every more so as an actress, like I love every movie that she's been in.

[18:24] Collette Guitart: She's fantastic, like she's really, really fantastic.

[18:27] Collette Guitart: Um, and she's like, oh, she's just so like I I could I could be like, yeah, I'll be J Lo, that's fine.

[18:34] Joe Rosko: Yeah, you if you were like Uju would be, I'd be like, Yeah, I'll be J Lo.

[18:38] Joe Rosko: Did you did you watch the documentary around her like Super Bowl performance?

[18:43] Collette Guitart: Did you see that?

[18:44] Collette Guitart: Yes, yes, I did.

[18:45] Collette Guitart: Um, one of my partner, oh well, my partner is also a dancer, and he um had a couple of friends that were her dancers, so I like watched it to try and spot them as well.

[18:55] Collette Guitart: Um, but it was yeah, she's just like a freaking star, isn't she?

[19:00] Collette Guitart: She knows what she wants, and but I think that's the they're both um like business women, right?

[19:07] Joe Rosko: I was gonna say they're both bosses, they're a boss, yeah, for sure.

[19:12] Collette Guitart: And very strategic in what they do and what time in their life they're gonna do it, and blah blah blah.

[19:16] Collette Guitart: It's very like, I mean, how could you not be inspired?

[19:20] Collette Guitart: Do you know what I mean?

[19:21] Joe Rosko: Okay, so if these were two women that you were looking up to, were you not always thinking you would be in musical theater?

[19:30] Joe Rosko: Did you think that like popular music would have been the path?

[19:35] Joe Rosko: Or maybe maybe that's still on your radar.

[19:37] Collette Guitart: I don't know.

[19:38] Collette Guitart: I mean, listen, I don't even know what's on my radar.

[19:41] Collette Guitart: I just take it day day by day and just see what happens.

[19:44] Collette Guitart: But yeah, like I um I didn't really know whether I was even right for musical theater.

[19:50] Collette Guitart: Like going through college, I um I knew I could sing pop music, but my like more legit and classical tone wasn't wasn't as good.

[20:03] Collette Guitart: And I still worked on it because there's no point in just being like, I'm not good at that.

[20:07] Collette Guitart: I still worked on it and tried to like level them out, but the pop singing is still here compared to like my legit musical theatre.

[20:15] Collette Guitart: Um yeah, and I definitely thought, I mean, I can give it a go, I can give musical theater a go, but I don't know how many shows I'm right for.

[20:22] Collette Guitart: And then lucky for me, musical theater is sort of moving into that more like contemporary musical theater sound where like everyone loves a belt, which is great because I'm freaking loud.

[20:34] Collette Guitart: Um, and just yeah, like it's it's a sound that uh musical theater has become a lot more open to and like my look.

[20:43] Collette Guitart: I'm not really um I'm not like a girly girl, I'm sort of whatever I want to wear, whatever I want to be, who I'm what I'm feeling on a day, I just stress like that.

[20:55] Collette Guitart: Yeah, and yeah, I didn't know like if I fit into a mold, but actually musical theater is not a mold anymore.

[21:01] Collette Guitart: It's becoming like just wider and wider, which is a really wonderful thing to see.

[21:05] Joe Rosko: Yeah, I mean, uh of all the shows probably playing right now, I would say yours represents that uh the most out of any of them, as far as that message.

[21:15] Collette Guitart: Yeah, for sure.

[21:16] Collette Guitart: It's it's such a wonderful thing to be a part of, and um I think it's really sad that it's actually le so we close in March, like fully.

[21:24] Collette Guitart: Um, and there is talks of it going on a UK tour, which is fantastic, so it's not gonna leave the country.

[21:30] Collette Guitart: Um, but I do think it's a shame that it doesn't have a home in London anymore because for the diversity and like the beautiful people that we have in our company, it's yeah, it's a shame that that's not gonna be accessible every day of the week in London.

[21:47] Joe Rosko: Okay, well then fingers crossed for the tour coming up.

[21:50] Joe Rosko: Yes, uh, let's uh take a turn and put you on the BFTS hot seat.

[21:56] Joe Rosko: Now don't be nervous, but you're on the hot seat, and we're gonna play some hot seat music here.

[22:02] Joe Rosko: Let's see, can we get something going?

[22:04] Joe Rosko: All right, here we go.

[22:05] Collette Guitart: Oh my god!

[22:08] Joe Rosko: All right.

[22:10] Joe Rosko: Question number one. You walk into a room and the TV's playing, and there's a movie on the TV, and you've seen this movie a hundred times, but no matter how many times you see this movie, you have to stop and watch it. What is this movie?

[22:24] Collette Guitart: Oh my god. Uh that's so difficult.

[22:34] Joe Rosko: You could give a top three if you have a few in mind.

[22:38] Collette Guitart: Yeah, I might have to. Uh I think it might be one of the Hunger Games films.

[22:44] Joe Rosko: Okay, there you go.

[22:46] Collette Guitart: Only because I watched it recently. Oh my god, Coco.

[22:49] Joe Rosko: Okay, Coco.

[22:51] Collette Guitart: Let's go. Very, very contrasting so far. And um Stepbrothers.

[22:58] Joe Rosko: Okay, okay, love it.

[23:00] Joe Rosko: All right. You are commuting to the theater or you're going on errands or whatever, and you just need a pick me up. Like you're just not feeling it. So you put on your music. What song is gonna give you that pick me up?

[23:15] Collette Guitart: Oh, okay. So genre is gospel.

[23:20] Joe Rosko: Okay.

[23:21] Collette Guitart: But song. Um I'm actually just gonna go on.

[23:27] Joe Rosko: Yeah, look it up.

[23:27] Collette Guitart: Go ahead, look it up. Let's see.

[23:31] Collette Guitart: Uh that's so hard. You could do you could do another top three if you need to.

[23:42] Collette Guitart: No, do you know what? I'm going saved by grace, Israel Hodson.

[23:43] Joe Rosko: By Grace?

[23:43] Collette Guitart: Saved by Grace.

[23:43] Joe Rosko: Saved by Grace, Israel Hudson.

[23:50] Collette Guitart: Okay, there you go.

[23:51] Joe Rosko: All right. You're reincarnated on this earth as an animal. Which animal are you going to be and why?

[23:58] Collette Guitart: I mean, it has to be a dog because I love dogs.

[24:04] Joe Rosko: Any breeds in particular, dogs that you like?

[24:07] Collette Guitart: Yeah, I think I actually look like my dog. So I think I would be a chocolate cock spaniel.

[24:13] Joe Rosko: Okay, amazing. What's your dog's name?

[24:15] Collette Guitart: His name's Leo.

[24:16] Joe Rosko: Oh, Leo.

[24:17] Collette Guitart: Leo is Leo.

[24:19] Joe Rosko: Leo needs more uh love on your Instagram. I don't know if I see Leo enough on your on your IG, if at all.

[24:26] Collette Guitart: Poor Leo.

[24:27] Joe Rosko: Is Leo like your family dog, or do you have Leo?

[24:31] Collette Guitart: Yeah, so he, I mean, oh, make me look like the worst mom in the world. But I got him when I lived at home with my parents, and then I started to live in London about a year later, and whilst renting and all of that, none of the places I could have a pet.

[24:48] Joe Rosko: Right.

[24:49] Collette Guitart: So we now share custody.

[24:51] Joe Rosko: Hey, I'm with you. My dogs are with me right now, but when I travel for work a lot, they go on uh Nona and Papa vacation uh out in the country with my mom and dad.

[25:03] Collette Guitart: So all good.

[25:04] Joe Rosko: All right. So hello, Leo from afar.

[25:08] Joe Rosko: Um okay. The hot seat. Nope. You're trying to distract me from these high pressured uh questions.

[25:14] Joe Rosko: All right, back to the hot seat. Last question. You're not a singer, you're not a performer, you're not on stage. What are you doing? What's your ideal job or life? What are you doing?

[25:26] Collette Guitart: Um okay. That's a really good question. Well, when I was younger, I would have said a vet.

[25:34] Joe Rosko: Okay.

[25:34] Collette Guitart: But I think because you also have to deal with the death of animals, I can't do that.

[25:39] Collette Guitart: So I'm gonna take that out. But that would have been my younger self decision.

[25:44] Collette Guitart: Um, oh, I don't know, something to do with like a barista, a uh a dog walker.

[25:59] Joe Rosko: What if you were a dog walker instead of?

[26:01] Collette Guitart: Yeah, absolutely. I'd be a dog walker, or hang on, I feel like I was just on the cusp of something just before you said barista.

[26:08] Collette Guitart: Um yeah, a dog walker or um um or I would own like a big old lovely commune.

[26:21] Joe Rosko: Oh wait, a what?

[26:23] Collette Guitart: A like a commune with people who and we just forage what's like on the land and it's lovely and great.

[26:30] Joe Rosko: I leaned up in my chair and it creaked the second you said uh your answer, so I didn't hear it.

[26:36] Joe Rosko: All right, I want to do one more because then we're having so much fun. One more. You're you have you have a time machine, and you can go to any place and any time, future or past. Where are you gonna go and at what time period?

[26:50] Collette Guitart: I'm just gonna move because I'm slowly losing daylight.

[26:52] Collette Guitart: Okay, where am I gonna go? Um I don't think I would go to the future because I'm gonna go there anyway.

[27:01] Joe Rosko: Okay, right, that's right.

[27:04] Collette Guitart: Um but that was such a that was such a profound answer.

[27:10] Joe Rosko: Wow.

[27:13] Collette Guitart: Put that on a t shirt or something. What a quote.

[27:16] Joe Rosko: Yeah, someone someone write that down because I've already forgotten what I said.

[27:20] Collette Guitart: You said I wouldn't go to the future because I'm going to go there anyways.

[27:25] Joe Rosko: Oh yeah, yeah. I understand me.

[27:28] Collette Guitart: Do you know what I mean?

[27:29] Joe Rosko: Yeah, that makes sense to me. Would I go in the past though? What would I want to what would I want to see?

[27:35] Collette Guitart: Um, do I have to be, do I have to transform back into me, or can I be this version of me going back?

[27:41] Joe Rosko: Yeah.

[27:42] Collette Guitart: You can be version of yeah, and you can go back before you were alive.

[27:47] Collette Guitart: You could go to the 40s or 20s or uh I would love to see the 70s, but actually, I'd actually really love to have seen my parents' wedding day.

[28:01] Joe Rosko: That's a great answer.

[28:03] Collette Guitart: So, yeah, I vote I vote my parents' wedding day.

[28:06] Joe Rosko: Wow. Okay, that's a great answer.

[28:08] Joe Rosko: All right, you're off the hot seat, congratulations.

[28:11] Collette Guitart: Well, thank God. That was um, even though I didn't answer very quickly, it was quite stressful.

[28:17] Joe Rosko: No, it was fabulous.

[28:19] Collette Guitart: It was fabulous.

[28:19] Joe Rosko: Uh, all right, we'll we'll take a turn as we wrap up uh the conversation. Last one, just for some insight, some inspiration uh for our listeners or our viewers. Um, besides talent, what's been some pillars in your life uh or career that has paved this way of uh a consistent career so far for you of booking work and having these great accomplishments?

[28:49] Collette Guitart: So, besides talent, what is it that you try to practice on a regular basis?

[28:56] Collette Guitart: Um I think I've just realized my partner's getting changed in the background. I can see you walking around in your pants.

[29:06] Joe Rosko: Move right, I'll stand here.

[29:10] Collette Guitart: Um I think I think I actually owe a lot to my friends and family.

[29:18] Collette Guitart: Um, because in this industry as a whole, like you do have to learn how to be your own cheerleader, but it's also great on those days where you can't be to have the support of your loved ones.

[29:33] Collette Guitart: Um gratitude has come into my life not since I graduated, I would say probably in like the last three or two years, and uh that is something I like to practice.

[29:50] Collette Guitart: I try daily, but if not daily, like as much as I can, where I try and um write a list of everything that I'm grateful for, and like genuinely, I I do believe that what you give out, you get back.

[30:02] Collette Guitart: So if I'm grateful, like amazing and great opportunities will come back to me.

[30:06] Collette Guitart: And but I'm gonna focus mainly on the support thing because like it's really it's tough some days and without without your loved ones being there and being your cheerleaders as well as you.

[30:20] Joe Rosko: I think that's great and something that uh is extremely important, but people might overlook or view it as something cliche.

[30:28] Joe Rosko: But when it comes down to it, if you're gonna choose this career that's so hard and so difficult and so many ups and downs, you definitely need a tight, strong circle to support you because sometimes when you have to keep going or keep moving forward, you you sometimes just can't do it on your own.

[30:47] Collette Guitart: So the circle is definitely important.

[30:49] Joe Rosko: Yeah, for sure.

[30:50] Joe Rosko: And it's like the same for yourself as a as a PT in this industry. Like I'm sure people lean on you like quite a lot for advice and stuff like that, and you are professionally people's cheerleader.

[31:03] Collette Guitart: So you come within that circle of pe people that uh oh wait, what am I trying to say?

[31:09] Collette Guitart: You you come in that circle of people that I am grateful for, in that people are so grateful for you and like everything that you do as well.

[31:16] Joe Rosko: I like that.

[31:17] Joe Rosko: I I knew that, but you just kind of expanded my mind a bit of like it's like you have your tool belt, you have like your voice teacher, your dance instructor, your best friend, uh, your mentor, and then I'm the trainer.

[31:35] Collette Guitart: I'm I'm that piece of the tool belt.

[31:37] Joe Rosko: Thanks so much.

[31:39] Collette Guitart: You're the host of this show today, Collette. You're the host.

[31:41] Joe Rosko: Thanks so much.

[31:44] Joe Rosko: Thanks so much so much for your time, Collette. That's uh that's it for today. I'm gonna let you go live your life, enjoy your Tuesday, and I don't know, track down that person that took your phone and and I don't know, shake their hand, something like that.

[31:59] Collette Guitart: But uh we're gonna we can leave that in yesterday's story and today's new day.

[32:05] Collette Guitart: But yeah, thank you so much for having me. It's been such a treat.

[32:08] Joe Rosko: Yeah, my pleasure.

[32:09] Joe Rosko: Have a great day, and uh hope to chat again soon.

[32:12] Joe Rosko: Collette Guitart, everyone.

[32:14] Joe Rosko: Thanks, thanks, Collette.

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[32:22] Joe Rosko: That's gonna be in the description of this episode.

[32:25] Joe Rosko: Uh super grounded person right there. Felt just like you're smooth sailing with Collette.

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[32:41] Joe Rosko: All right, I'm Joe Rosko with Built for the Stage. Actors are athletes, train like one.

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[32:49] Joe Rosko: Later.