Behind The Scenes With Catherine Bell

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Okay, hi everyone, It's Nat
Mundell, the founder of Voyage. I

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am super excited and honored and thrilled
to be connecting with Catherine Bell, acclaimed

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actor. She's recently performed in our
very normni series Red Meat Village. You

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probably know Catherine from her roles in
Jag and more recently The Good Witch,

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which is having a really great run
among a bunch of other things. And

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Catherine, I'm just so excited to
meet you and con back with you,

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and thank you so much for joining
us my pleasure. Thank you so much

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for having me. I really had
a blast doing this with you guys.

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It's been it's been really fun.
Is it your first podcast? Have you

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done an audio drama before? I've
never done one before, and I was

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so excited when this came up.
I've always wanted to and it was just

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so much fun to just sit and
like just let your voice do all the

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work, you know, I mean
it's very similar, you still do the

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same work as an actor, but
um, it was just it was just

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different and fun. Me in a
dark room with a cool microphone, noir

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vibe. Yeah, that's awesome.
And so the prep work was similar and

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the experience was similar or what?
Did you find some pretty significant differences in

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doing just an audio only performance?
You know? Interesting? The prep work

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was the same, you know,
you still want to work on the character

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the same and kind of break down
the scenes and what's going on and what

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you know, what am I trying
to do or say? There's like always

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the underlying meaning beyond just the words, of course, so that part was

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the same. But then I found, um, you know, because I

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wasn't reading it with the other you
know, the other actors, so you

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kind of just skip their parts and
then you say your own. So I

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had to actually read it to myself, read their lines and then do the

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read liric. And that's kind of
actually how I That's how I rehearse,

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That's how I work on a project. Got it, And kind of yeah,

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I've learned a new technique that's kind
of really fun. You just you

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say their lines and what does that
mean? Oh why did you say that?

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Oh wow? And then you say
your line and you know there's all

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these different exercises you can do.
So it's kind of like doing that right

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on, right on now? Now, why Red Meat Village. Are you

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a Noir fan or just you oh
my god, so much. I'm such

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a noir fan. I think one
of my first really fun like you know,

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sink my teeth into kind of roles
in my acting class that started everything

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ages ago that then led to JAG
was there were some noir scenes that I

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did, just some cool like fatwel
just you know that whole And I love

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the genre, the era to where
where it all start at the forties and

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um, so yeah, it was
absolutely right at my alley. I love

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yeah, and it's it's fun to
take that era but bring it into a

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contemporary setting right exactly and tell us
about your character, like, um,

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you know, she takes quite a
turn in the show. Were you surprised

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by that turn? Definitely? I
loved reading the first time I read through

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the script, I was like,
it's going to happen because you could tell

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she has secrets and you could tell
that she was not being totally straightforward and

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who is she? Is she good? Is she bad? Where? You

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know, what is her motivation?
And in trying to find her sister and

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you know, the whole thing was
just so intriguing and a total page turner

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for sure. Right on. Yeah, and do you when you prep for

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that knowing that there's a big turn, do you have to sort of throttle

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performance, you know, when you're
in the earlier phases to knowing that that

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turn is coming, is there?
What do you do for that? Yeah?

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I think, I mean that's that's
the stuff that's the most fun to

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play because there's there's such a great
arc in the story, and any great

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story always has that. So where
does this person start and where do they

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go? What's the climax and where
do they end up? And um,

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you know again, as an actor, you kind of map all that out

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before you start recording or filming or
whatever. So that was that was really

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fun because she starts a certain way, like, you know, for me,

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help me, and then you're like, wait a minute, what's what's

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going on under that? And then
how much do you play? How much

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you hide? How much do you
showed? And again harder with voice only,

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right, I can't do a little
look that shows that you're you've got

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a secret. You have to deal
with your voice. So that was a

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bit more challenge in a good way. Wow, very cool. Now inquiring

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minds want to know you have had
such a range of characters and genres that

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you played in over the years.
Personally, do you have a preference for

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the lighter or the darker? Oh, the darker, no question. I

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mean good which is a blast to
play. And she's this, you know,

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amazing character that has just you know, made a lot of people very

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happy, including myself, my family, whatever. But like, to me,

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it's just so much more fun as
an actor to just sink your teeth

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in and be be bad or maybe
be bad or I love the action stuff

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too. That's like I'm such a
tomboy that I love playing that stuff.

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Yeah, I you right there with
you in terms of preferences of what I

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what I watch. Well, what's
next for you? What do you want

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your fans and our listeners to know, What's what's what's coming down the pike.

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Oh my goodness. I have a
few things that are that are brewing

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for this year. At the end
of last year, I did a lifetime

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movie that the name is going to
change. It hasn't been totally announced yet,

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but I'm super excited about because it's
based on a true story and I

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get to play a character very different
than anything I've ever played before. So

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that's going to be exciting. And
yeah, we'll see what else is on

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the horizon. We're wonderful. Well, we can't wait. And and thanks

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so much for sharing your perspective and
some of your inner working with our listeners.

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I think they find it fascinating and
from you guys out there. Red

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Meat Village is available. Will be
available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere

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you listen to podcasts. And Catherine, thank you so much again for joining

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us my pleasure, thanks for having
me absolutely. This is Nat Mundell signing off everyone