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Hello friends, welcome back to The Hamilkast. I'm Jillian, and this week we're back for part 2 of

a special roundtable with Hamilton Cast members past and present. Aaron J. Albano, Sasha Hajings,

and Carla Puno Garcia. They're talking about the new documentary film called Ensemble,

and you can see that right now on Broadway On Demand. If you missed part 1, please, please, please,

go back and listen to that. Seriously, you're going to learn so much. You'll hear all about life

as an ensembleist before and after COVID, what's changed, what's working, what's not,

and the journey ahead to create a better Broadway. If you're all caught up, here's part 2 of my round

table chat about ensemble. Sasha, you said something which maybe I think is the

quote of the whole documentary you were talking about. I think in this year, like I've been thinking

a lot about like being able to step away from the industry, like who cares, it's not happening,

so what am I doing? And being like looking at my existence, like I'm a straight,

light-skinned black woman from the South, like how many generations out, like I'm just literally

looking at the structures of my family and like what I come out of, and where I am, the industry,

in which I like is there a place for me in this industry? What you said about like I'm a song

and dance man, but I look like like just where do I fit? And really having to come to terms with

like there might actually not be a place for me here. What does it mean to exist in a system that

was not set up for you, you literally your body or your person or how you present or who you are

to succeed in whatever way that is, like when you run up against those walls, like as a mother,

like you're like literally like can I work or have a child? Like I those are my two options,

like I don't have my this country doesn't understand what it means for me to step away into

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