Morning!! A spring flavored cotton candy delivery arrived at Oscar’s house for you!!!
Last night I was able to experience one of the most inspiring things on so many personal levels. I’ve watched the Oscars with my friends and parents since I was a kid and now I got to see it live. (Looove a live show heh) I have so much respect for every person in that room last night. There’s so much joy watching people receive awards recognizing their hard earned work, especially during one of the hardest years in film. Mostly, I’m so proud that I was there to represent Elemental with the Pixar team for Best Animated Feature. I hope every person who worked so hard behind the screen on this film is feeling the electricity and internal bliss of how special this is for Elemental. The message of this film and the whole team are so absolutely deserving of this nomination. 🩷
By the way, someone please bury me in this dress and so I’ll sprout up as a cherry blossom
#Oscars2024
“Ceilings” by Lizzy McAlpine
I have loved this song since the moment I’ve heard it and yes you know we’ve all cried to this song even if our life was perfectly fine 🫶🏽🥲
Inside Out 2 Premiere last night. Dippin dots to dynamite lmao before crying my face off to this film with @lukebaines my dearest friend. What a special night. This film was just as heartbreakingly emotional as the first film, yet even more clever and I was so happy to finally see it 💜
First slide current - consistency, variety, balance, encouragingly kind dialogue
Second slide 2 months ago - consistency, little balance, weird inner dialogue
Third slide January 2024 - losing so much weight to food poisoning and feeling so frail, weak, embarassed. Very bad story dialogue here🙃
The body fluctuates and so do we. I’ve really come to enjoy taking care of my body, changing up the stories I tell her, and sussing out what is needed for the given period of time. If you key in a little more, listen to how you speak to or encourage your body. I’ve been so locked into working out a certain way and sometimes when I can’t make the cut, it’s so easy to get hard on myself. Our “best” looks different each day, each year, and theres no better best then where you’re at presently with the state you’re working with. There needs to be a deeper why and a major gentleness added. I love moving and it gets me rooted in my body and in my bones. Indoor, outdoor, some more powerful than others, some more peaceful. There are literally so many ways to explore what that looks like and how it feels at different times for you. What keeps it joyful are the options we can take. Anything that gives you that centered dilation. Consistency is important for me with training, but resting for me requires consistence as well. It’s just as important. What we need, what we go through, how much time we can give, it’s always changing. But at anytime you can expand, try new things, or return to old ones. Just keep comin back 🧘🏻♀️🌸
Went sun-chasing this last weekend. (And the weekend before that & so on) The pleasure of doing this will continue to be the rebirth of me or the absolute death of me, but it is so worth the internal reset every time 🔆🏜️❤️
Goldhouse Gala 2024 baby!!!! ✨
Thank you so much @bingchen , @goldhouseco , @genesis_usa , @prabalgurung , and @padmalakshmi for hosting such a beautiful coming together of communities. There’s such a mix of insane pride, respect, and unconditional support everybody shares just getting to celebrate each others wins and seeing how far this community has come in the ability to do that now on such a larger scale. I got to see some of my favorite friends shining their bums off, meet new peeps, and thank some people I’ve admired for years. This year, I also am so honored to be a part of the A100 for “Elemental” directed by by @petesohn18 and written by @bhsueh . Thank you for this special night 🌟
Style: @anatanaka
Makeup: @linamourey
Hair: @rachellitahair
Thank you for making me look like one of my favorite dolls my mother brought back from China when I was younger 🥹
Matlock airing this fall on @cbstv ❤️
6 years ago, I was a part of a diversity showcase for CBS. At the time, I was open to everything and all things, but this space just felt significantly different than some before. I remember taking the metro to rehearsals everyday for two months feeling like a spring chicken playing among really experienced stallions. Nothing is promised in this life, but I remember assuring myself, “Just being here feels electric and I know this is a sign I’m on my right road.”
I was learning so much, I was so uncomfortable, and having so much fun in that. (Hell, I’m still pushing through so much discomfort, learning so much and having all the fun. Party don’t stop)
With investments of my time, big and small, I will always encourage myself and others to keep expanding on that idea of what is possible for you and how important it is to support and believe in others along the way. It’s that belief in yourself and others, that takes us all to places that feel downright insane, but then having the courage to fight for it anyway. Every person you get to know, every experience, every dream met with effort, is all valuable. All of it contributes to the outcomes that life surprises us with and if you carefully look, the tree is always producing fruit, both big and small.
6 years later, I had a beautiful pinch me moment the other night on the Paramount lot celebrating the 2024 Upfronts. I stood next to people I respect greatly, people that were also from that showcase, and ones from other walks of life along the way. This job of creativity can be really hard to pursue and I get really emotionally knowing everybody puts their 150 % into what they do because they believe in it so much and love it that dearly. I hope that when Matlock comes out, you feel the effort and the passion poured into this show. It really does come from the top down and I am lucky to be smushed somewhere in between.
Aaaaand finally - I present to you the cast of our new show Matlock airing on CBS this fall. Im so grateful to clock in every morning and end my nights with these people and the crew members of the show. One thing I’ll say, as mysterious and dramatic as this show can be, there’s always room left for cackling like chickens. It’s tender, it’s raw, and it’s damn fun. From top to bottom, every person a part of this show cares so deeeeply. That has been the backbone of this show. Clockin into that biiig love. See you this fall ❤️
There are times you get away to enhance solitude, but then things around you show off to the point where you can’t ignore that you’re never truly alone. All the kids were out to play at sunrise. Light rain, sun peaking, moon setting, rainbow hanging. And me, watching the show in stupid freezing water. We all play a part here 🌸
