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Lisa Thayer – Milena’s Boutique: Manager
Watch Lisa recall when she saw Richard Pryor before his return to the stage:
Age: “Ageless and Evergreen”
Lisa is originally from Minnesota, but has lived in Los Angeles “long enough to know that nothing happens overnight.” Lisa has worked at Milena’s Boutique for 1 year.
FAVORITE CELEBRITY SIGHTING AT WORK: Maria Shriver
MOVED TO LA BECAUSE: “I was a theater junkie. I came out here to do theater.”
BEST MOMENT IN LA: “Surviving colon cancer.”
WORST MOMENT IN LA: “The earthquake.”
BEST AUDITION STORY: “Lee Strasberg accepting me on my first audition when I was 22 years old.”
WORST AUDITION STORY: “Meeting Robert Dinero and Cis Corman for Raging Bull and being told I looked too young to play a girl carding people in Jake LaMotta’s bar…that was a bummer.”
YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HER IN: Deep Cover, “E! Mysteries & Scandals” playing Lana Turner, a Peugeot commercial, Tanzi
UPCOMING: Baby O
THIS JOB HELPS ME AS AN ACTOR: “It helps me be centered and focused. It doesn’t take as much from me as other jobs have.”
DREAM ROLE: “Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
ADVICE FOR ANYONE MOVING TO LA TO BE AN ACTOR: “Make sure it’s something you desperately want to do, not because of fame. Make sure you have a passion for it. Acting is a craft, take it seriously and train for it. Expect to pay your dues, and have a lot of rejection. Actors are a dime a dozen out here…there is a lot of disappointment and heartache.”
