Ep. 9 Talking Books with Vella Lovell
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Actress Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, The Big Sick) joins us this week to nerd out on books. Vella talks about reading as an actor, examining scripts for clues to her character's inner workings, and being a good scene partner. Vella also talks about trusting Oprah's Book Club recommendations and her love of self help books, especially as a spiritual guide for working actors. We also talk about why it doesn't matter how you read, it just matters that you pick up a book and get started.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, y'all, we are back with the stacks. |
| 0:04.4 | All right, y'all, we are back with the Stacks. |
| 0:10.8 | My name is Tracy Thomas, and I am your host here at this bookish |
| 0:13.8 | podcast. This week I have actress Vela Lavell who you may know from crazy ex |
| 0:19.1 | girlfriend and the movie The Big Sick. Before I dive into my interview with Bella, I just wanted to do a little |
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| 0:50.3 | So if you have things that you hear this week and you're like no I got to chime in please |
| 0:54.5 | chime in. Okay this week I'm joined by Vela L'Evel we discuss reading from an |
| 1:01.1 | actor's point of view good books books for the soul, and why it |
| 1:04.4 | doesn't matter so much how you read, it just matters that you do read. |
| 1:07.8 | I hope you guys will enjoy this episode. Here's Vela. Vela. Okay, y'all, we're here. We're back at the stacks. Today my guest is Vela Lavell, actress, extraordinary. |
| 1:24.4 | You may know her, or if you do know her, |
| 1:26.7 | you know her from Crazy Ex Girlfriend on the CW |
| 1:29.4 | or from Academy Award Nominated Film, I said that Academy Award nominated film, The Big Sick. |
| 1:35.0 | Vela, welcome to the Stacks. |
| 1:38.9 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm very excited that Vela is here. She and I go way back to |
| 1:44.4 | college days. We were big Shakespeare loser nerds together in college and |
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