This transcript was automatically generated and might contain errors.

[0:02] Tori Bullard: You're listening to Stage Door Podcast, the podcast celebrating theatre and creativity from on stage mishaps to career defining moments.

[0:12] Eliza Gunther: Hosted by Thespians, myself, Tori, and co-host Eliza.

[0:15] Tori Bullard: Fortnightly, we will bring you industry professional guests, deep dives and more.

[0:21] Eliza Gunther: Hello everyone, and welcome back to Stage Door Podcast.

[0:25] Tori Bullard: Today we are joined by the star of Big Yikes, Juliette Milne.

[0:29] Eliza Gunther: But before we get started, we would like to acknowledge the Warundri people of the Coolin Nation.

[0:33] Tori Bullard: We pay respects to the traditional custodians, past and present, and strive to continue in the tradition of Australia's first storytellers.

[0:41] Eliza Gunther: We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

[0:43] Tori Bullard: Always was, always will be.

[0:46] Eliza Gunther: Before we jump into today's introductions, I will let you know very sadly that Tori is unfortunately not feeling well and can't join us for today's episode.

[0:55] Tori Bullard: But nonetheless, today we're here to talk all things Big Yikes with the lead of the recent Brisbane season, Juliette.

[1:03] Eliza Gunther: Juliette pursued the spotlight from an early age where her passions drove her to complete a diploma of music theatre with Stage School Australia before undertaking the Bachelor of Musical Theatre at the Queensland Academy of Excellence and Musical Theatre.

[1:17] Tori Bullard: Her QAEMT credits include Lenora in Crybaby the Musical, Babe Williams in the Pajama Game, Mrs. Fleming in Heathers the Musical, and Ensemble in Greece.

[1:28] Eliza Gunther: Juliette is thrilled to be making her professional debut in Big Yikes.

[1:33] Tori Bullard: Please welcome to the mic, Juliette.

[1:35] Juliette Milne: Hello.

[1:37] Eliza Gunther: Thank you so much for having me.

[1:39] Juliette Milne: Thank you for being here. This is crazy.

[1:42] Eliza Gunther: This is a bit of a world colliding moment for us.

[1:45] Juliette Milne: You seem like really familiar. Have we been in all of your CV together?

[1:49] Eliza Gunther: I don't know. Did you do the Bachelor of Musical Theatre at the Queensland Academy of Excellence and Musical Theatre class of 2023?

[1:56] Juliette Milne: Of course, we didn't just go to the same university at all. You're a complete and total stranger.

[2:02] Eliza Gunther: It's very cool.

[2:03] Juliette Milne: Thank you so much for having me on.

[2:05] Eliza Gunther: Oh, thank you for being on. This is so exciting. You just made your professional debut.

[2:10] Juliette Milne: I know, I just finished on Saturday.

[2:14] Eliza Gunther: How are you feeling?

[2:15] Juliette Milne: Good. Yeah, not gonna lie, I thought that like definitely the post-show blues have hit me. And like the first day or so afterwards I was like looking through my camera roll at all the photos and being all like, oh it's over. But like, I don't know. Like I'm definitely very sad that it's over and I've had the best time, but I'm also really excited for what's coming next.

[2:39] Eliza Gunther: Um yeah, this show is definitely made me excited for more acting and more projects. So yeah, I'm keen for whatever happens. More to come, baby.

[2:50] Juliette Milne: Back on the like audition grind and having to get a job and all those fun things.

[2:56] Eliza Gunther: Yes, back to the muggle jobs.

[2:58] Juliette Milne: Oh yeah. Woo!

[3:00] Eliza Gunther: I guess for those kind of joining your journey for the first time, can you tell us a little bit about how you discovered your passion for performing?

[3:09] Juliette Milne: Yeah, for sure. So, um I did like dance classes as a little five-year-old, um, as I feel like a lot of people do, and I was like, this is fun, I really like being on the stage, but I wasn't like just dance is my thing. I was like, I want to try different types of performing. Um and so I joined a musical theatre group and started doing my school musicals when I was like eleven or twelve. Um and I was like, oh yeah, this is what I want to do. And I just kept doing it since then and you know, came time for me to work out what I was doing after high school and I just um I auditioned for musical theatre schools and got in so that's good because didn't you go you went to another place before so you finished high school and then you ended up going to what was it called again?

[3:58] Eliza Gunther: I didn't get into any of the schools that I wanted straight out of high school so I went and did a diploma of musical theatre at um Stage School Australia in Melbourne. It's actually you know it's funny I think so many people think that it's so especially I know that when I was in high school I thought it was the straight and narrow like you finish high school you get into your musical theater degree it actually takes most people quite a few tries to get in.

[4:23] Juliette Milne: Yeah literally I like most people I've spoken to and the majority of our year level got in after several tries. I think there were only like what like three or four people in our whole year of 23 people who got in straight out of high school so yeah like oh my god it's so common and like I was waitlisted for uni and I like just got in second round so like dude if you don't get in first time you are so fine.

[4:50] Eliza Gunther: Yeah keep trying.

[4:51] Juliette Milne: Yeah for sure literally and I guess now you literally finished university and have now made your professional debut which I'm so proud of you by the way this is just wild.

[4:51] Eliza Gunther: It is a bit wild isn't it? I definitely like was not I don't want to say it wasn't like expected because like I was hoping for it but I was like oh yeah, it's gonna take me like a bit to like get there, but it happened very quickly, which is very cool. I'm very grateful for it.

[5:22] Juliette Milne: So yeah, it was awesome. I know it's so and I was talking about this the other day when we went out to dinner with a few friends from our year. And it's so interesting because people just have like an opportunity will just fall into your lap that you're perfect for, and you just don't know what your trajectory is. It could take you a year, it could take you six months, and you never know. And you've fallen on this incredible opportunity, which is Big Yikes.

[5:48] Juliette Milne: Yeah, I'm very lucky. Can you tell us a little bit about the show first so that the audience can kind of know more about the story?

[5:56] Juliette Milne: Yeah, for sure. So um Big Yikes is about this uh 18-year-old, freshly 18-year-old um Loxie, and she's just graduated high school, um, and she is navigating um post-high school relationships, um, and she's navigating work and moving out of home and figuring out what she wants to do for uni, and uh all over the course of the show it's her kind of um figuring out and coming to terms with the fact that she doesn't know what she wants to do yet, and uh that's okay and she'll figure it out in her own time.

[6:31] Eliza Gunther: It's so beautiful.

[6:32] Juliette Milne: It's a really gorgeous play. The response to the show has been amazing.

[6:39] Eliza Gunther: Oh my goodness.

[6:40] Juliette Milne: It's so cool. I know, and I've had like so many people like say to me that it's a really like it really resonated with them and that it was a really important thing to talk about, and I just I thought it was so beautiful that so many people were like feeling the feels, you know?

[6:57] Eliza Gunther: Yeah.

[6:58] Juliette Milne: It's awesome when you do like a piece of theatre that really makes an impact.

[7:01] Eliza Gunther: Literally on the audience.

[7:03] Juliette Milne: I know, and like I feel like I don't know, like I love I love MT shows with all my heart. But like some you just like in the last couple of musical theater shows I've done, I've just kind of played like the wacky side character that like comes on and like does a silly song and then leaves. So it's been very cool to do a show that like resonates so much with me and that like I get to show this beautiful character arc and yeah, it's very cool. Very, very cool.

[7:36] Eliza Gunther: Yeah. And I guess on that note, what we were talking about before about you know, finishing uni and then landing this role. What was the audition process like for Big Yikes? Because it was a little bit different for you in terms of getting the audition and then I guess what was it like getting the audition and then actually doing the auditions?

[7:57] Juliette Milne: Yeah, for sure. So um I just got an email one day from my uni email um saying, hey, uh the director of the show uh is interested in seeing you for an audition for this upcoming thing. Just like get back to us and we'll figure it out. Um I was like, okay, cool. Um, so I uh read through the material and came into the audition and I had a really wonderful experience um and did uh a couple of the scenes and yeah, it was a really great audition. Uh I didn't actually do a callback. They called me the next day and were literally like you've got it.

[8:32] Eliza Gunther: I was like, oh damn, that was fast!

[8:34] Juliette Milne: I mean, I'll take it. I didn't know that.

[8:36] Eliza Gunther: I don't think I told you that. It was very fast.

[8:39] Juliette Milne: No, it was insane. They just knew, they knew. So apparently, so um, for those of you who don't know, our uni put out like a yearbook at the end of the year with all the graduating students that has like our bio and like links to our showreels and things. And they apparently they went through the yearbook and was just like looking for someone to like match the vibe of their show, and they told me they knew it was me because in my show reel I roll a skate onto the first scene of the showreel is me roller skating on, and then they saw that and they were like, that's the one.

[9:17] Eliza Gunther: They were like, Yeah.

[9:20] Juliette Milne: That is actually amazing.

[9:22] Eliza Gunther: I know and like it's so random, but like just from roller skating. They were like, hmm.

[9:27] Juliette Milne: Yeah, well, that was like the first thing in my show. I like roller skate on, and then I'm like, This is my showreel. And then they were like, Yeah. But then I think they watched the rest and were like hopefully liked my stuff.

[9:39] Eliza Gunther: I mean, it's really different to it's very exciting to not only get a leading role in a play, but also in a new play. So what was it like doing the rehearsal process and also creating a brand new character, considering it's also your professional debut at the same time?

[9:58] Juliette Milne: Yeah. Ooh, what to unpack there. Yeah. Um, I'll try and remember all the points. It was very cool. Like doing musical theatre, like a lot of I mean, basically all the time, unless you're lucky enough to do a new Australian musical, which are like few and far between.

[10:16] Juliette Milne: A lot of the time you're not getting to originate roles, and you do kind of have to follow the blueprint of what someone's done before you, especially if it's a commercial show and it literally has to be like you stand here, you walk to there. Like, so it was very cool, and I found that I had, you know, like virtually like unlimited creative freedom to create the character, which was incredible. Um and yeah, I found the process was a little bit different than I think what I'd done before in musical theatre. Um a lot of the time I'd like sit down and have a brainstorm about, you know, like how my character would talk and walk and yada yada. But I feel like because this character is quite similar to me in a lot of ways, and a lot of it came from a lot of it I think was quite instinctual. So I kind of just looked at the script and was just like, well, how would I respond to this if I was in these given circumstances? And just kind of went from there. So yeah, it was very cool.

[11:17] Tori Bullard: That's quite different for you too. Because your process is usually like very um character-y.

[11:23] Juliette Milne: Yeah, in your very detail-oriented in terms of you really go through and you would have with this, but you really have those specific characterizations. It's weird because I was thinking that and I was like worried that that would mean that it wasn't as fully fleshed out a character or something, but I found that like throughout the rehearsal process it all just kind of like dropped into place and like I felt at least that there was a lovely meeting of myself and the character and they blended really well. I hope. Um, but yeah, that was very fun. And it was really cool, um, because I got to like put little pieces of myself in the character because like I rocked up to the audition with um like butterfly clips in to keep my fringe out of the way.

And then they were like, we like that, we're putting that in. And then another day I rocked up with like my docks and my glasses on because I was like trying to save my contact lenses for the show, because I was like running out. Um, and then they were like, Oh, yeah, can you wear your glasses for the show and your docs? I was like, Yeah, I can do that. So it's just so fun. Like those things are like in the show, because they're me things, which I think is really, really cool.

[12:30] Tori Bullard: And also because you got it filmed too, so it's almost like it lives on, like Loxy lives on, and your portrayal is the first one that people then associate with the script.

[12:40] Juliette Milne: You actually have a checklist, which you wouldn't try to get me to do, and now I feel like I really want to do one. Can you explain it?

[12:46] Juliette Milne: I have, yeah. I have like a bucket list of like theatre things I want to accomplish, and some of them are really stupid, but like what was on here that I ticked off getting to originate a character. Well, I mean, being in a professional show is the obvious one. Getting to originate a character, and then there are like some really like arbitrary silly ones that I got to tick off as well, like having a tearaway costume and having a mic in my hair. I just thought they were fun, but yeah, I got to take those off my theater bucket list, which is I mean, who doesn't feel like a badass when you've got one of those mics? You're like, I'm a real pro now. I was like, So this is what it's like at the top huh.

[13:26] Tori Bullard: I think that is too good.

[13:32] Juliette Milne: Thank you. And wearing a tearaway costume, I think that's the highlight of my life today.

[13:37] Tori Bullard: It was what did it tear away into?

[13:40] Juliette Milne: So it was in the first scene. We started the show with like a little montage of Loxy like going through all these rites of passage, like turning 18, having a birthday cake, doing a shot, graduating high school, blah blah blah. Um, and I start the show in like just like a school uniform, and then when I graduate, it gets torn off me, and then I'm just in my like regular costume, and it's so cool. I'm a bit obsessed with that.

[14:01] Tori Bullard: This was your Heather Juke moment.

[14:03] Juliette Milne: It was my Heather Juke moment. Yeah, I know Miss Fleming didn't get to have a fun costume change. She wore the same thing the whole show, so this is the making up for it.

[14:12] Tori Bullard: Well, on that lovely note, we're actually gonna move into a little bit of a game.

[14:17] Juliette Milne: Okay.

[14:18] Tori Bullard: So I was racking my brain about what game we could do for two. So we're actually just gonna do a rapid fire question round.

[14:25] Juliette Milne: Oh, okay.

[14:25] Tori Bullard: So, first question. Movie you like to quote the most.

[14:30] Juliette Milne: Easy A. I watched it the other night. I uh it's an underrated teen movie. It's fantastic. Is there an olive here? I've got a whole jar of them in the fridge. Like it's such a good movie, and the parents are so funny. Everyone is so quotable. It yeah, it's a it's a 10 out of 10 teen movie. I love it.

[14:48] Tori Bullard: Biggest celebrity crush.

[14:50] Juliette Milne: You know, I was gonna say Renee Rap because I'm obsessed with that woman. I'm obsessed, but I have a new one as of like a few days ago. I actually you will see when you look on Instagram next. I just posted about it on my private story.

[15:06] Tori Bullard: Okay.

[15:07] Juliette Milne: I would literally die for Chapel Rowan. I love her. She's so cool. Have you heard of her?

[15:13] Tori Bullard: No.

[15:15] Juliette Milne: You need to check her out. She's a pop star that um my one of my castmates from Big Yikes um introduced me to. Shout out to Billy, hey. Um, but she is just makes the most like gorgeous, like sparkly campy, queer pop, and it's amazing, and she is a goddess, and I'm obsessed with her.

[15:33] Tori Bullard: I love this. Okay. You're gonna have to check it out.

[15:36] Juliette Milne: Best role you've played.

[15:38] Juliette Milne: I don't know. I feel like oh, maybe this is just because I just did it and the memories are real fresh. But I really, I really did love playing Loxy in Big Yikes. I think that probably tied with Lenora in Crybaby. Because I had so much fun doing it. It was just, it was batshit crazy, and I was here for it. It was so good. It was so funny. Yeah, cooked. And I got to do it with one of my dear friends from uni, Sof Gullic. Um, and yeah, we just had the best time. It was so fun.

[16:08] Tori Bullard: Favorite hobby.

[16:10] Juliette Milne: Ooh, I'm gonna go with a classic and say reading. I do love reading. I um I the other day it was like I also posted about this on my private story. I'll I can't have a thought to myself. Apparently have to share it with the entire internet. But I was like reading and it was like rainy outside, and I was like, ugh, tucked up in bed, and yeah, it was just sensational.

[16:33] Tori Bullard: So what are you reading?

[16:35] Juliette Milne: I'm reading the Percy Jackson books right now. Um, which one of my best friends convinced me to um start after we watched the TV show together? So I am I'm loving them. And then my last one, which is kind of cute. What is your biggest big yikes moment?

[16:51] Juliette Milne: Let me pull it up out of my notes app. Do you have a full list? I love this. I have a list. Okay, getting run over by my roommate's car. Getting scammed out of $2,000, when I accidentally went viral on TikTok without realizing it because some random man filmed me on the beach asking me out, and I was like, no, mate, I'm gay, I'm not into you. And then I didn't think anything of it. And then six months later, it comes up on my TikTok with like 50,000 likes. And I'm like, what is this? So yeah, that definitely qualifies for a big yikes.

[17:26] Tori Bullard: Oh my god. Well, that concludes our Rapid Fire questions. That was brilliant. Thank you.

[17:32] Tori Bullard: And thank you, Jules. You kind of uh I guess flipping back into things a little bit. You have mostly done musical theatre your whole career so far, and now you've started your career doing a play, which is very different. And although we kind of do it at uni, we didn't really do a lot of that at university. So what have you found the differences between acting, straight acting and musical theater?

[17:59] Juliette Milne: So straight acting I found to be a little bit less structured than musical theatre in a way. Because with musical theatre, you have to like there's a lot more moving parts with like choreography, and there's often like a lot more people on stage, and you have to follow um what you've been told by like the musical director and everything. So like there's a little bit more freedom, I'd find in acting. I mean, obviously you can't like go off the rails and do something completely different, but I found that like if you keep like your blocking, obviously, and your internal monologue and your intentions the same, if things like manifest slightly differently from performance to performance, you can kind of do that a little bit more with acting, and you know it's it doesn't have to be so much of like a well-oiled machine that MT is. Does that make sense?

[18:52] Tori Bullard: Yeah, I understand that I get what you mean. And it's a little bit more I think sometimes with musical theatre you have to stick to so much like structure in terms of music, like music really dictates, and then they try and fit a lot into a lot a little bit of dialogue because they have to put so much story into a shorter time frame.

[19:13] Juliette Milne: Yeah.

[19:13] Tori Bullard: So the director usually has like a lot of input, I guess, into how that goes.

[19:19] Juliette Milne: But then sometimes not, it depends.

[19:21] Tori Bullard: Yes, yeah, it does. But yeah, literally, when we did musicals at uni, like we'd get really, really specific notes, and we'd have to be like exactly the same every single time, you know. But this is different because it's brand new.

[19:34] Juliette Milne: Yeah. So you really get to play even more.

[19:38] Tori Bullard: Yeah, which is so cool. I mean, they definitely like we still did the same thing that we've done, like in the first day of rehearsals, we sit down and have like a meeting and they go, This is what the vision is, this is what the stage is gonna look like, yada yada yada. Yeah, it definitely we had a lot more freedom, and there are so many things that things that have changed so much throughout the rehearsal process. Like we were like changing the scripts like every other day, we were like, let's change that line. Yeah, so that was really cool. And you know, if something because I feel like maybe if something isn't working in a script that you obviously can't change, well, like you can't do anything about it, you just have to like make it work or like shoehorn things in. But like with this, you're like, oh, I think this line would work better. Let's just do that. So that was really cool.

[20:26] Juliette Milne: That is actually so true because most of the time you're just then trying to interpret the line differently because you can't change the script.

[20:34] Juliette Milne: Yeah. This you can actually change it. Yeah, literally. It was very cool. Like, I re I don't know about you, but I feel like I've had some scripts in musical theater before where I've read it and I've gone, that makes no sense. I have no idea how to like make that make sense, but you just have to just like do the best you can. And I guess like this show has been a really monumental moment, I guess, in your development as a person and a creative. What have you learnt the most about yourself as a performer and person after doing the show?

[21:05] Juliette Milne: Uh I had a little bit of a moment after I graduated uni at the end of last year where I was just feeling like really exhausted and really burnt out, and I was like, I love performing so much, um, but I'm so tired. And yeah, doing this show and being lucky enough to be in it has definitely like reignited and reminded me of how much I love performing and like reignited the joy and the passion I have for it, which is so so cool, and it's gotten me excited. So it's definitely yeah, changed me as a person because it it's made me more optimistic and excited about you know my future as an actor. Um yeah, it's definitely proven to me that I'm capable of more than I thought I was, because if you don't know anything about the show, um it's uh it's uh 90 minutes and my character is on the whole time.

So like I don't get to leave the stage, which is a lot. So I was like literally, well, yeah, in the first week of rehearsals that the director told me that, and I was like, Oh, I'm like not gonna be able to do this. Like I am gonna fail so miserably, and then getting into a place where I felt really confident in it and going, I w why did I sell myself short? You know, like I'm capable of so much more than I thought I was, which is very cool.

[22:27] Eliza Gunther: It's uh it's actually really interesting because I think I think it's safe to say that a lot of people after we graduated felt that way.

[22:35] Juliette Milne: Yeah.

[22:36] Eliza Gunther: I know I did.

[22:37] Juliette Milne: Yeah. I felt that way. I talked to quite a few people who felt the same way because there's so much build-up to finishing your degree, and so much build up to starting your career. There's a lot of pressure to hit the ground running, and when it doesn't happen necessarily immediately, you beat yourself up really, really bad over it. And you feel like you're behind or you're not doing enough, or because you go from nine to five every day to then a completely different life where you're working or you're waiting, and those feelings become a lot bigger because before you didn't have to worry about them, and now it becomes so much more.

[23:17] Eliza Gunther: So it is so true because I think you do forget sometimes when you first finish. I feel like a lot of people forgot how good they were and how much and how capable they were truly doing things.

[23:30] Juliette Milne: I know, and I see like all of these super talented people beating themselves up about it. Because I feel like a lot of the time you finish drama school and you go, well, if I don't immediately make it, whatever making it is, because that's completely arbitrary and it depends on the person, then you think that you're a failure, and that's absolutely not the truth at all. Like there are people who've graduated in year levels before us who it's taken them a few years to book their first show, and like it's okay to to take a break or to take a step back and regroup and then go back into it, you know. I had a little moment after I finished uni where I was like, I don't even want to like think about it.

I need to like take a sec for myself and then step back into it, and thank God I did that because I feel like it's so easy to get so burnt out and so disheartened. And yeah, you're just you gotta remember that you're going at your own pace and you're not competing with anybody, and you're not you're not behind, you know, you're doing okay.

[24:36] Juliette Milne: And also that the opportunities lie in so many different places.

[24:41] Eliza Gunther: Yeah.

[24:41] Juliette Milne: Because I don't think you could have said that you were gonna, you know, be in a play.

[24:45] Eliza Gunther: No, it literally came like way out of left field. I didn't think like I have no idea what my trajectory would be out of uni, but like this is so much cooler than what I thought it would be. Like, and I'm so glad that I have gotten this opportunity to do such a a cool and unique thing. You can't possibly predict what will happen, but that is so exciting, and it means that there are gonna be so many amazing things that you would never have dreamed of that you're gonna be able to get to do, which is very cool.

[25:16] Juliette Milne: I couldn't agree more.

[25:17] Eliza Gunther: Facts.

[25:19] Juliette Milne: Facts, facts, facts, facts.

[25:22] Eliza Gunther: If anyone needed to hear that.

[25:24] Juliette Milne: Um we're all in the same boat.

[25:26] Eliza Gunther: We're all together.

[25:27] Juliette Milne: Yeah, baby. Now, I feel like I'm asking this because I know that we had some deep chats about this, and I just found it thought it was really profound because I was sitting flabbergasted at how you felt this way about the next question. Oh because I know you to be just so fabulous, but in terms of I know you were feeling the imposter syndrome a lot when you first started this show. Do you have any advice for performers who are feeling that sense of imposter syndrome when starting something new and something so different and outside their comfort zone?

[26:06] Juliette Milne: Yeah, for sure. I feel like in a weird way imposter syndrome is it's a good sign because it means that you're doing new and challenging and scary things, you know. If you were completely sure that you could nail it every single time, that means that what you're doing isn't challenging enough and isn't you can do more. Does that make sense?

[26:27] Eliza Gunther: I agree, I agree.

[26:29] Juliette Milne: I don't know, stepping into something new and scary, you do feel like an imposter. You're like, oh, do I belong here? Especially I know, like, because you were stepping in such a different world as well.

[26:40] Eliza Gunther: Oh dude. Was that kind of really scary for you jumping into that whole new space that you've never even you didn't really train for that in a way.

[26:49] Juliette Milne: I was terrified. Like I was shitting myself. I the the entire first week of rehearsals, I thought I was gonna be fired. Um because here I am with like seriously, I'm not even kidding! But like here I was with all of these other actors who've done three year like straight acting courses, and here I was from like my musical theater course where we did like two hours of acting classes a week, and I was like, I'm not prepared for this. So yeah, I was so scared, but you know, as as I started to get more into rehearsals and and keep doing it, I was like, oh okay, like I actually can do this. It wasn't just like a fluke that I got it, like I'm here for a reason, you know.

[27:34] Eliza Gunther: Completely you I felt like you you really warmed into it as you went. Like you really um it was so nice to hear your little updates of how you were going throughout the start of the process because it's I think it's normal to feel that way, and I think that's more what we're getting at is that it's normal to feel that sense of imposter syndrome, but you ca you don't have to stay there, like it doesn't stay for very long.

[28:03] Juliette Milne: No, yeah, literally, and like I also heard someone else say this thing. I don't know if people would find this helpful, but like even if you are a quote, like a quote unquote imposter and you've like faked your way in, that means that you're good enough to fake it. So you're fine, either way. You're golden. Don't stress. If you're good enough to fake it, you're good enough to do it.

[28:28] Eliza Gunther: Exactly.

[28:29] Juliette Milne: Fake it till you make it.

[28:30] Eliza Gunther: Literally, literally, yeah. I know. I walked in on like the first day of rehearsals, and here is everyone doing their like professional actor warm-ups.

[28:40] Juliette Milne: Like, you just like get into it. That was unfortunately our last question for today. But before we go, uh, we do have a segment called bedtime stories where we talk about stage mishaps. So, have you got a bedtime story for us today?

[28:56] Juliette Milne: I don't have anything that's like super duper wild. I've I feel like we've all had the classic like costume coming undone on stage and then having to like alter the choreography to stop it from falling off. Because that's definitely happened to me. In like an end of year gala, I was wearing this like god of the end this blazer, it's disgusting. Um, like pins with safety pins, and I was doing like big star choreography, and then it like popped open, and so I had to like hold like hold and like stop my boobs from showing with one hand, like do the choreography with the other hand. So that's that's a bedtime story for you.

[29:37] Eliza Gunther: You know what? Nip slips are the worst, they're the worst. Thank you so much for that bedtime story. That was absolutely amazing. For those listening, can you give yourself and Big Yikes a bit of a plug? Where can we find more about both yourself and Big Yikes?

[29:53] Juliette Milne: Yeah, so um big yikes, unfortunately, the season has ended. However, you can still purchase the play if you just I'm pretty sure just search up Play Lab Big Yikes and then it'll take you to that. And it may or may not, it has been recorded, but I'm not sure if it's gonna be released. But if it is, I will probably post something about it. Let you know.

[30:13] Juliette Milne: Yeah. But you can find me on Instagram at Juliette underscore Milne. And like I've been saying for ages that I'm gonna have a website that hasn't happened yet. So Instagram it is.

[30:24] Eliza Gunther: Beautiful. Well, thank you so much for joining me. It's been an absolute pleasure.

[30:27] Juliette Milne: Thank you for having me on. I really appreciate it, and I had the best time.

[30:33] Eliza Gunther: Lots of love. But until next time, guys, stay happy, healthy, and safe, and we'll see you then.

[30:39] Juliette Milne: Bye.