Welcome to Part 2 of Walking the Dog with the wonderful Bridget Christie. Do go back and listen to Part 1 if you haven't already.

And by the way, if you want to catch Bridget on tour next year in her show, Jacket Potato Pizza, you can book your tickets now at bridgetchristy.co.

Really hope you enjoy part two of my chat with Bridget and do give us a like and a follow

so you can catch us every week. Here's Bridget and Ray Ray. Because you ended up going into stand-up.

Am I right in thinking partly because you weren't getting acting work? Yeah. And of course you've

got more control over stand-up haven't you you can do it when

you want it's you don't have to be asked to do oh everything that's happened to me has been

absolutely correct and right and I I couldn't be happier um about the position that I

now find myself in because I remember actually being in a bed sit that I lived in when I was trying to get acting work and I was temping that's how I ended up at the mail I was only supposed to be there for like five days or something and then I remember thinking I actually can't live with,

I can't live like this.

I don't have the,

I actually don't have the confidence to be,

to go through years of being rejected.

Yeah.

And because I can't,

it's just a really negative, like a blocking process.

Like you're constantly blocked.

Like there's no creative process with just being an actor until you get the job.

So until you get the, if you're an actor, until you get that job, you're

impotent because you're not, you're not working or you're not thinking about anything,

you're not creating anything. And I found that quite a damaging way to live actually. And then also

because I always needed to pay my rent I did think that it was something

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