From the outside, Anna Vila Fania had the meteoric rise that so many dream of.

She won critical acclaim bringing Gloria Estefan to life in the Broadway smash on your feet.

But behind the scenes, Anna was feeling lost and depressed.

Now as her run as Roxy Heart on Broadway's Chicago comes to a close,

we talk about how she learned to listen to herself,

even when surrounded by a chorus of loud voices,

Big Miss, that ended up being a blessing in disguise, and how she's learning to have a speed

that is set somewhere between zero and 100.

Anna, this always happens where I remember, I don't know if I was at LaGuardia or JFK and just

seeing your face splashed everywhere. And it was so cool and it felt so meaningful and so big.

What was happening behind the scenes was, of course, much more complicated. You recently said that you felt

completely lost and depressed. I was really young, wanted to please everybody, and thought I had to be

superhuman at all times. I was constantly self-medicating and self-sabotaging. Can you give me a sense of

what that looked like? So moving to New York and not knowing anybody

and being thrown into the spotlight at that level

where like it's such a niche world, Broadway, in and of itself.

Anna, they called you a supernova.

They called you a supernova.

It was a lot for me to handle.

And I was definitely not in a place where I had like the foundations to handle it as gracefully as I maybe could have. So I was really scared. It's such a massive responsibility to play someone like her who means so much to so many people

and to me not because of her fame, not because of anything other than what my family went

through to get to this country and what she represents in terms of like the cultural success

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