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Was there a bedrock truth in your life that you found out wasn't true?

Yes. Okay. It's going to sound a little bit superficial.

I'll take it.

Growing up in the acting, you know, in the theater world with actors, you know,

I used to think actors are the most intelligent people in the planet.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard.

The game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them. I realized it was just, yeah, it was a complete

facade, don't it? My guest this week is actor Gael Garcia Bernal. The job of being an actor is

talking about what you don't know with absolute certainty.

I've had a lot of jobs in my life.

I was a typist at an insurance company, an English teacher in Japan.

I drove a bar cart around a golf course.

I've worked at a whitewater rafting company and an art gallery.

What I'm saying is it took me more than a minute to figure out what my thing was, you know? I'm frankly still figuring this out to some degree, and I am a grown-ass

woman. Other people get this gift early in their lives. A door opens, they go through it, and that's

it. They found their place, their purpose, their thing. I'm pretty sure

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