 It's December 20th and it's time to do my self-tape practice. I really, like, I feel that I am going to finish doing self-tape practice every day until Christmas and this has been such a fun practice. Like, it's not necessarily the best acting I've ever done, but it's nice too. It's like when you are consistent at the gym, you're like, okay, this is nice. Like, I'm actually doing this exercise every day and I'm starting to enjoy it more and more. For some reason, I forgot to pull out day 20 out of my advent calendar. So I just chose a scene from the holiday fix-up on Hulu and it's a classic scene of like these two people that used to like each other and then she moved out to the big city and he stayed in the small town. So I am going to be playing, let me pull up the script. The premise of the film is that this designer, fixer-upper type of TV personality lady goes back to her hometown and is fixing an inn that got partially destroyed by a tree or something. Because the scene between Sam and Coop, Coop is the guy who is in the small town of their having to like renovate this inn together and I'm sure they're going to fall in love by the end of the movie. So I'm going to put my 15-minute timer and then do some takes. I'm looking at the script right now and because of the premise of the story, they are going to eventually end up together, I'm assuming. I haven't watched the entire movie. There's a couple of ways that I see that I can play this. One is like, I'm pretty annoyed that I have to work with him and he just gets on my nerves so bad. We broke up and maybe it was a bad breakup. So I'm just like, how did I get stuck having to work with him? This is already stressful enough and I know what I'm doing and he's just undermining how much I can do. And then the other one can be a bit flirty or nostalgic of like, it's like old times because it sounded like they did used to do this kind of stuff together. So one takes Stern bossy and then I'm going to play around with it the other way where this is like a very familiar territory and maybe a little bit flirty and just like old times. I'm going to try not to mix them in because now that I'm saying it out loud, it does sound like very similar. Let me play around with it. I know. I know. So in these people are coming here for Christmas. I think I'm ready to do a few takes of this and for the most part, I think for the rest of my self-tape practice, I might just do recordings of the actual thing because we're getting so close to Christmas that I don't want to bother a lot of people. But at the same time, I'm trying to spend as much time as possible with my family. So I'm just doing these in little pockets of time throughout the day so that I just don't have to be like, oh, I need to go, you know, I'm just anyways. So I recorded the lines for this one of the actual film and luckily there's no overlap on this one. So let's do a few takes. The first one I'm going to do of like, I'm here to get this job done. Super bossy, annoyed, like faster pace. My objective for this is to make sure that he knows it's like over between us just because we're working on this thing during the holidays, during like our favorite time of the year doesn't mean we're going to get back together. Like I am really here just to fix that in. Nothing else is going to happen. Like stay away from me. We definitely need new furniture and I forgot how stubborn you are. I think I have that version down. Now we're going to do a little bit sweeter, like maybe something will happen and we'll fall back in love. More caring and my objective of this is to just make sure that above all this in becomes something that Rita would be proud of. Rita is somebody who already passed away who designed this originally. So I'm going to try and keep her in mind and be like sweeter and just like trying to make this work. Okay. So we definitely, I think I got it. I think I have one good take of each version. So I'm going to show you the best take of each one and I'll see you tomorrow. Okay. So we definitely need new furniture in here. I can get us a deal through the home store if I give them some plugs. I know. I remember. But the big box stores are a great place to start. The stuff looks great. And remember, people are coming here for Christmas. So we need to make sure it looks professionally made. I designed 40 houses a year. I think I know how to make a house feel like a home. What? Oh, and I forgot how stubborn you are. Okay, let's see. We definitely need new furniture in here and I can get us a deal through the home store if I give them some plugs. I know. I remember. But the big box stores are a great place to start. It looks nice. And remember, people are coming here for Christmas. So we need to make sure it looks professionally done. I designed 40 houses a year. I think I know how to make a house feel like a home. What? I forgot how opinionated you are. And I forgot how stubborn you are.