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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Part 2 with the incredible Mira Sorvino friends.

You know, while I wait for her to get here, I'm a little early shocker to no one who knows me.

I really was thinking after the beginning portion of our conversation hearing her story,

how cool it is that so many of us who wind up doing

this crazy job being performers in the circuits, if you will, wind up finding our way to telling

other people's stories by experiencing people's lives, you know, by being impacted by a historical event or a place,

you know, where you get to know a whole new reality like she did studying in China.

I think about how following my passion for history and world events led me into doing the play that changed my life as a

senior in high school denial, a play centering on rights of people's free speech and some of the

historical atrocities from World War II and the modern day ACLU and

all of these things that kind of came to a head in such a complicated fashion and made every

character in the play have to examine what they believe and why and who they were going to stand up for.

And it's crazy to think about this as an adult who spends so much of my time in advocacy

because I realize how early in my exploration of what I wanted my career to be,

the advocacy and the storytelling were so intertwined.

And to hear that from her in her own way, I don't know.

It gives me some sort of a kismet or a shared something even deeper than, well, we both tell stories.

Oh, we're both actors.

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