I was in this acting class that I would recommend it to. You guys are doing awesome. It was Tom Cruise. This is crazy. And the thing I felt from him was absolute kindness. He was so kind to everybody. He was dressed like the way I am right now, a flannel shirt, jeans, nothing fancy or whatever about him. And he was just so kind to everybody. I want to be an honest and authentic person in L. Charan: And I remember one of the girls that we were doing this acting exercise outside of class.
Other people are like trying to and trying to hustle and stuff. Charan: Somehow you figured out a way to make it a positive experience. Chelsie: Oh gosh. Hang on, give me five more hours on this one. Like a small story? Charan: It could be small, it could be big. Chelsie: Okay, well, hang on. Let me just think about this for a second. Charan: Because the thing is I do feel like [crosstalk ]. Chelsie: No, yeah, I put him in the doghouse and it never ended up good, though.
So it was just like lemons. Charan: Yeah, , it was just a lemons-to-lemons story. Chelsie: Just straight lemons to lemons. I will say that week, so that was a hard week, Michael Bolton, Michael had bronchitis.
And him and I had gotten along really well up until this week. So the first week, he did really good, for Michael. He just wanted to win the show. The silver lining in that is that I had my brother out in L. Chelsie: And so there was a silver lining in that where yeah, but I would say on a grander scale, my L. And it was like I said, the whole gamut of emotions. And the way when I left L. And so many … Okay, how do I put this? Chelsie: And so that was hard. And I would say the lemons that, so that was the lemon.
Chelsie: And so it really helped me to see all that really, really clearly and set out to … Yeah, just help young dancers to not feel that way that I felt. Chelsie: A byproduct of things not going the way that I wanted them to go. And if I kept going down that path, it was just going to get me further and further from what I was meant to do. And it kept eating at me. And I remember getting auditions from my agent, and I would dread them.
Charan: So I started thinking, Well, why did I even want to get into the business to begin with? Charan: So none of the actual goals, the things that I really wanted was actually being fulfilled in that way.
And so I started thinking, Well, if I came back to Utah and creating my own stuff, what would that look like? And so I started exploring a little bit. So I kept at it. Chelsie: Thank you.
I want to talk to both sides of the spectrum because A, yeah, there are certain things that just need to be talked about more than I want to talk about. Chelsie: I really knew that I was talented, but that I know who I was outside of that.
And also even just experiencing that on the show in L. But just felt like I was mistreated by certain people out there, certain people who ran the show. As an actor, I was working on this movie years ago and we were working so many hours a day, 16, 17 hours a day, non-stop, just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Chelsie: Yeah, yeah. Probably the same level of acting. Charan: No, it was crazy, because there was a point when I hated it. I hated every bit of it, I did not want to go say another line.
Charan: And the problem is we sometimes allocate outside external things or creations and stuff as the source of our life and it never will be. Charan: But, I remember at that moment, and we were talking a little bit about meditation and what not, but there was this moment where we had a bit of a free day.
And that one particular day, I went into a closet, and I shut the door, it was totally dark and I just fell on my knees and I prayed. And when I started getting life back in me because of my relationship, with higher power or God, whatever you want to call it, it was as if this energy, this source of endless energy suddenly entered me again.
And I was so relaxed and happy again. Charan: Unfortunately, a lot of times, that source of life gets misplaced. And we see it a lot of times in performers. Chelsie: How am I doing it or what is the messaging? Chelsie: I like that analogy or what you were saying though just to touch on that really fast.
I remember being nervous about my own vulnerability of stressing and anxiety and my vulnerability to doubting myself ,because I knew that that would take me out of alignment with my priorities. Chelsie: And then I just remember just being so tired of trying so hard.
And I think it was also the point … It was that summer that I had been nominated for an Emmy and these amazing things that happened. Yeah, that was it. And I was just thinking about this the other day, because I hit that point and I remember just thinking, I have the rest of my life now in front of me. What the heck am I going to do with the rest of my life?
And I think just those things lost their purpose to me. And loving the process, loving that process. Chelsie: And at the end of the day, I had to decide what was going to make me satisfied.
And I was still worthy. I remember feeling like I had to be good to be cool, to be in with the cool kids. I had to be good and I had to be talented.
I just want to obliterate that. I listened that night as she talked about realizing that she couldn't handle the demands of her career on her own and how she came to understand that the Savior's "yoke is easy" and his "burden is light," as it says in Matthew Hightower's dance career began when she was 9 and her family moved into the boundaries of the only elementary school in the United States with a ballroom dance program.
The teacher assigned Hightower to be partners with her son, and two years later, the pair won a national title. Doors continued to open for Hightower. When she was 12, she auditioned on a whim for Studio 1 Dance Center, a jazz, ballet and hip-hop studio in Orem. Hightower made the studio's top dance team, and for the next two years, she put everything she had into these new styles of dance. She felt she was done with ballroom. Still, her mother made sure she continued to hone her ballroom skills with Brigham Young University's Youth Dancesport program, and when a high-profile Utah attorney called BYU looking for a ballroom partner for his nephew, Hightower was recommended.
She and Bradley Gregory competed together for two years and were trained by some of the best coaches in the world, something her family could not have afforded otherwise. Her purpose became clearer. Still, as a teenager, she wrestled with whether she wanted to make dance a career.
She felt prepared, but having previously struggled with anxiety before competitions, she knew she needed extra help. She made it on the show and found success. With the transition to Los Angeles and the pressure of the show, she found herself having anxiety and panic attacks, but she poured herself into dance. See full bio ». Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos.
Hollywood Icons, Then and Now. Share this page:. The Rise of Will Smith. Around The Web Provided by Taboola. Create a list ». Most Attractive Blonde Females. Women of Television Horror. See all related lists ». Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDb page.
Find out more at IMDbPro ». How Much Have You Seen? That same year she had the opportunity to be one of the two couples to represent the United States at the Worlds for the Standard style of ballroom held in Lavita. She spent the summer of , teaching in North Carolina to pay for her training in New York on the weekends. She has been teaching at Center Stage in Utah, and has also taught abroad helping many students win national titles.
0コメント