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118: Seeing Mistakes in a New Light w/ Keiko Agena

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Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Gilmore Girls actress Keiko Agena joins Rachael to chat about her new book "No Mistakes: A Perfect Workbook for Imperfect Artists." The book is based on the principles of "no mistakes" in Improv and applies to life in general. What if we learned to view our mistakes as opportunities to grow and change? This book is a must read for all creatives and people looking to think outside the box and improve their life.  Keiko Agena is best known for the TV show, GILMORE GIRLS, where she played Lane Kim for seven seasons and reprised the role in 2016. As a guest star she has appeared on such shows as BAJILLION DOLLAR PROPERTIE$, SHAMELESS, SCANDAL, TWISTED, HOUSE, ER and WITHOUT A TRACE. Recently she has been recurring on SWEET/VICIOUS, COLONY and the new Netflix release of 13 REASONS WHY as Mrs. Bradley. She will also be appearing in the upcoming series DIRTY JOHN which is based on the popular podcast and true crime story.

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0:00.0

Thank you. Hello guys what's going on how's your week how was your weekend mine was

0:22.3

really fun on on Sunday weekend. with Brittany and Jacks and Lowe and and Stossie and Bo and Kristen and Katie and Carter and

0:36.8

Schwartz and probably leaving someone out.

0:40.3

Oh, alright and Tom, everyone was there.

0:42.2

It was so fun and I think we were having the most

0:46.1

fun of anyone there and which is surprising because it was a room full of well I

0:49.9

guess comedy executives and comedians but they ended up opening up this like

0:54.8

side room that we just basically turned into our own dance party and you know I

1:01.2

think we were the life at the party if I was to give a review I would say that I would say that we were

1:08.2

Yeah, a lot of cool lot of cool people there. We yeah just saw a lot of like comedians I know, David Spade was there.

1:16.2

Adam from the comedy store was there.

1:19.4

Fahim, just a bunch of cool people having fun. I had a blast. I haven't really gone out, gone out, and had that kind of fun in a while. So I very much enjoyed it.

1:32.6

Oh, but there was a little bit of a crisis situation beforehand.

1:38.0

So I went to Dry Bar, which Dry Bar is great,

1:42.0

but sometimes my hair turns out super corny or it just goes

1:47.6

flat and so the party wasn't until 930 but I got a blowout at 4 o'clock because I wanted to go to an open mic at

1:55.9

5.30 in between and just work out some jokes.

2:00.4

And so I went early and I told the told the girl I was like hey my hair tends to go flat

2:08.7

So maybe we could just you know like blow dry it with like a little bit more body, and then maybe we can keep it in pin curls.

2:15.2

So you know what, I shot myself in the foot?

2:17.4

It was my suggestion, essentially, to ruin my life. That's an exaggeration obviously. But I, yeah, so I kept it in pin curls until about 7 PM.m so from like 4.30 to 7 p.m. it was in pin curls. I'd already

2:38.9

had my makeup done I was ready to put my dress on low was coming over,

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