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Welcome to My Brain. I'm Ilse, and every Wednesday I sit down with actors, filmmakers, comedians, and storycreators to talk about the stuff that doesn't make the press kit. How they actually got here, the project that almost didn't happen, the festival story they can't believe they're telling me, and whatever weird detour we end up on. Haunted sets, folklore they secretly believe in, the best taco in town. It's part industry real talk, part group chat, and I promise I'm more curious than qualified.
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- 2 days ago33 min
Emma Jo Boyden: Find the reps who see the whole you
I sat down with my friend Emma Jo Boyden, a Chicago actor, stunt performer, and Call of Duty motion capture performer. We start with me staging a full hoarding intervention (she says she’s a maximalist, I say look at the wall). From there we get into her stunt doubling for a nun while hauling a 50 pound coffin on a kids’ bike, and yes, I had to bring up my own nun era in The Exorcist. She did dance recitals in a Reno casino next to the fight ring girls. An LA manager once told her she’d be a ...
- 1 weeks ago30 min
Wendy Medina Herrera: How to find your creative community in LA
I sat down with Wendy Medina Herrera, a writer, director, and the president of Paella Club, the monthly hang for Latino creatives in LA. She’s quiet, she’s sweet, and she has done a ridiculous amount for someone who calls herself unassuming. Check out Wendy’s brand new website: Here. And if you’re in LA, find Paella Club on Instagram @paellaclubla and get yourself invited. We go from her middle school news class in San Diego (she hung around as a sixth grader until the older kids let her be a...
- 2 weeks ago34 min
Michele Stine: What the Edinburgh Fringe really costs
Catch Michele’s show: Always, Sometimes, Maybe has two final performances at Red Twist Theater in Edgewater, Chicago: Wednesday, October 28 and Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 PM. Go! I sat down with Michele Stine, the puppeteer and clown who literally played my son in Anna Karenina eight years ago. As a puppet. We catch up, get real about the cost of chasing your art, and somewhere in there I get full body chills. Michele takes me from a tiny Illinois town shaped like a pimple (her words) to a...
- 3 weeks ago29 min
Jake Myers: How my short film became a feature
Oh, what an incredible time with Jake Myers! He’s doing the thing that all of us Chicago folks in the film industry want to do: he created a proof of concept that led to a feature film that’s now streaming. Incredible. Watch Kombucha now, streaming free on Tubi. We get into his film Kombucha and all the things that led up to it: some issues with the monster, his pinky problems and privileges, and a whole bunch of other fun stuff. I had no idea we were going to go down that rabbit hole, but I’...
- Oct 14, 202636 min
Barbara Howlin: Can you Reiki a ghost?
Barbara Howlin is on the pod, and I completely lost track of time. We cover everything from The NeverEnding Story (which I had somehow never seen) to luck dragons to whether you can Reiki a ghost, with real tears of laughter along the way. Barbara’s new book, Can It Be That Easy?, is on the way. Sign up at thehowlinghive.org/book for book news and giveaways. Barbara is an actor, writer, director, producer, Reiki Master, Human Design specialist, and the founder of The Howling Hive. She tells m...
- Oct 7, 202636 min
Sean Slimak: Don't get trigger happy with festival submissions
Sean's one-take horror short Intruder premieres on The Longest Take YouTube channel this Halloween! Filmmaker and fellow podcast host Sean Slimak joins me to talk about his love of one-take films, making six shorts while working a full-time day job, and why joy is his secret weapon. Sean grew up in Lombard, Illinois, making movies on an Intel Play movie maker. He skipped film school, went into factory work, and is now an environmental health and safety specialist at a chemical facility, all w...
- Sep 30, 202633 min
Tommy Martin: He's harmless, we talk to him all the time
Tommy Martin is a Chicago based actor, filmmaker, and musician who has basically worked every job on a set at some point, and honestly it kind of exhausted me just hearing about it. We start with an unreasonable amount of hair talk (his, not mine) before getting into how a random DIY filmmaker workshop years ago quietly kicked off both our careers, his very unexpected path from a music business degree to Second City to booking his first web series, and what it's like acting in a scene while a...
- Sep 8, 202634 min
John David Wolfe: The Hansel and Gretel origin of Candy House
This week, Ilse sits down with John David Wolfe, a DGA member and Chicago based producer whose two decade career as a location scout and manager put him behind the scenes on Spider-Man 2, High Fidelity, Proof, and Rhythm + Flow before he made the leap to producing his own work. John talks through his path from West Des Moines, Iowa to Chicago, landing High Fidelity as his very first studio credit, and what he'd tell someone trying to break into the industry today. The conversation gets deligh...
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About Ilse Will Say
Welcome to My Brain. I'm Ilse, and every Wednesday I sit down with actors, filmmakers, comedians, and storycreators to talk about the stuff that doesn't make the press kit. How they actually got here, the project that almost didn't happen, the festival story they can't believe they're telling me, and whatever weird detour we end up on. Haunted sets, folklore they secretly believe in, the best taco in town. It's part industry real talk, part group chat, and I promise I'm more curious than qualified.
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