Ego Was Here

Actress Charlotte Stoiber says filming *Downfall* as a child was the experience that made acting feel like a real future, not just something fun. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/Vut0OgG3dq8 #Acting #Film #Creativity #Purpose #Storytelling

What happens when your first role is in an Oscar-nominated film? Actress Charlotte Stoiber started her journey in Downfall as a child. But getting cast did not make the rest of the journey easier. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/Vut0OgG3dq8 #Acting #FilmIndustry

People thought Anthony Kavana was just going too far. But from the inside, the craving felt impossible to simply switch off. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE #LifeLessons #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth #RealStories

Amy Winehouse came to see Anthony Kavana perform in Cinderella, and the show took an unexpected turn. It was her first time watching a panto, and what followed was completely unexpected. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE #AmyWinehouse #Music #PopCulture

British pop star and author Anthony Kavana remembers the nightclub conversation that changed his life. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE #90sMusic #Fame #PopCulture #BritishMusic

British pop star and author Anthony Kavana reached a point where everything had become too much to carry alone. Help was not easy to reach, but a place in a funded recovery program gave him a way forward when he needed it most. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE

Finding out Amy Winehouse had passed away was already painful. The way Anthony Kavana heard the news made it impossible to forget. Looking back, he sometimes wonders if it was Amy’s way of telling him to wake up and get help. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE

Sudden fame changed Anthony Kavana’s life quickly. He went from having very little to travelling the world and meeting famous people. Behind the success, he felt lonely. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE #Fame #Loneliness #LifeLessons #SelfDiscovery

Anthony Kavanagh, known to many as Kavana, opens up about fame, identity, creativity, recovery, and the story behind his memoir Pop Scars. Some stories are about becoming famous. Others are about becoming yourself. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/O_ga5TteLnE #90sMusic

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers met a fan from Australia at a Las Vegas lowrider car show who came dressed as Magic from Blood In Blood Out. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Movies #Storytelling #Culture

While filming Blood In Blood Out inside San Quentin, Victor Rivas Rivers had conversations that changed how he saw behavior. The same pattern kept showing up: many men had grown up around family violence. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #LifeLessons #Family

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers remembers the first day filming Blood In Blood Out at San Quentin, when Danny Trejo stepped off the bus and heard people calling his name. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers says the first San Quentin scene in Blood In Blood Out gave the cast no time to ease in. They began with the cafeteria scene, surrounded by around a thousand people. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers compares the cost of Harvard with the cost of prison and asks why society often pays more to contain people later than to invest in young people before they run out of options. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #Education

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers says Danny Trejo had one rule for playing bad guys: the ending had to show that choices come with consequences. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies #Cinema

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers says Blood In Blood Out did not feel like a typical Hollywood production. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers says part of what made Blood In Blood Out feel so real was the cast spending time in Boyle Heights before filming began. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies

Actor Victor Rivas Rivers says filming Blood In Blood Out inside San Quentin felt intensely real because the actors were never separated from the people around them. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies

Victor Rivas Rivers says playing Magic in Blood In Blood Out became more than a performance. One unexpected situation showed how deeply the role had shaped his instincts. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #Film #Acting #Storytelling #Movies

Victor Rivas Rivers says playing Magic did not stop between takes. Inside the prison yard, no one knew him as Victor. They knew him as Magic. 🎧 Watch the full episode: youtu.be/_K_2CCku7oY #BloodInBloodOut #film #VatosLocos