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Sincerely Fortune

7 - Chasing Dreams (featuring Jillian Bell)

Sincerely Fortune

Fortune Feimster

Comedy

5.03K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Fortune sits down with her friend, Jillian Bell, who is a comedian/actress from "Workaholics," "22 Jump Street," and the recent Sundance favorite "Brittany Runs A Marathon." They discuss the ups and downs of chasing their dreams, and the journey to this point in their careers.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Catch me fortune fames are on tour. I'm coming to Tacoma, Washington, Palm Springs, California, Kansas City, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri,

0:09.4

Columbia, Missouri, and Houston, Texas.

0:19.4

Welcome to another episode of sincerely fortune.

0:24.0

It's me, you guys. It's fortune. And I cannot wait to tell you what is in store today. We have a very special guest.

0:33.2

Now this podcast is not interview based, but from time to time, wanted to invite special friends. Oh, oh, oh, I wanted to invite special friends to join us to talk about some cool topics.

0:44.5

And today is one of my great besties in the entire world who happens to also be one of the most amazing actresses.

0:52.9

Wow, at tours and comedians in the in the biz.

0:58.3

Jillian Bell. Oh, wow. What an intro, right? What an intro. What do I say after that? I don't know.

1:05.4

What just be present. Oh, I will. I will. Little known fact, Jillian, and I have been good friends for a long time. Yes.

1:16.1

And neighbors and neighbors, we won't tell even longer. No, if we want to tell them about. Yes, we won't tell you where we live, but somewhere in Long Beach, Egypt, Egypt.

1:26.7

We all know Jillian from a million things. Oh, workaholic idiot sitter rough night, 22 jump streets. Oh, you're making such good eye contact.

1:38.1

And I feel like you're pulling my credits out of my eyeballs right now. And beautiful. And Jillian's got a movie that's going to be coming out.

1:47.5

It's going to blow your mind. Brittany runs a marathon. It was the smash of Sundance. The smash. Yes.

1:54.8

The smash. I'm so proud of you. I'd like to think that when you say that you're not saying it was successful, but you're comparing it to the TV show smash.

2:03.8

She has a lot of singing and dancing in the credit. Okay, there's none of that. I wish there's none of that. But it's amazing. And you work so hard. Thanks, my friend. Jillian went through this journey of I don't want to give away what the movie's about.

2:20.2

Well, we can say that it's a woman who decides to change her life. And she sets a goal to run a marathon. And during that, I think you're probably talking about mentally and physically.

2:34.9

Yes. I went through a lot for this project. But I did physically lose 40 pounds because I was training very hard. And I wanted to go through the physical journey as because I had already been through sort of the emotional journey that my character goes through in this film.

2:49.2

And that's a lot of freaking work. There's a lot of work. It was a lot of training. It was a lot of eating very specific foods. And I like a good meal.

2:59.7

Listen, who doesn't? Who doesn't? Yeah, we went and got ice cream, but that has like no sugar, no calories.

3:06.9

Oh, yeah, we went to this frozen yogurt place inside a grocery store that's like, it's got no carbs. It's got no sugar. It's got nothing in it. I'm like, what is that?

3:16.9

It's like, it's like ice. It's like ice. It's wind, wind, it's on ice. They're like, it's just pure chemicals. I'm like, great. Give it to me.

3:25.6

Well, you had been so rigorous in your the plan to lose weight that anything like that was such a treat.

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