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Isabella Gomez was just 17 years old when she and her parents moved to L.A.

so that she could pursue acting.

Six months, hundreds of auditions later, and she'd received zero callbacks.

She adjusted her approach, she started having fun, and two months later, she booked her breakout role on one day at a time. We talk about getting the show, losing the show, getting it back,

and what it's like to be a public person when you're still figuring out who you are.

Thanks for doing this.

Of course. I'm so excited to do it.

From quarantine.

From quarantine.

Take me back to your audition for one day at a time.

Yes.

So my first audition for one day at a time came actually after there was an article out that Norman Lear was redoing one of his shows.

And I was at the time testing for another show. So I just kind of didn't think anything of it. My acting coach had sentenced to me and was like, you'd be perfect for

the daughter. And I was like, I'm doing this other thing. And obviously, that show didn't go my way.

And I got an audition for an Elena Alvarez. And as I was reading the audition,

I was like, this sounds so familiar. And I realized it was the same article that my acting coach

had sent me. So I went in. It was at Sony Studios. And it's always so exciting for an actor

to get to go into a studio to do an audition. I go in, it's a sitcom,

it's a comedy. And at this point in my life, I thought I was exclusively a dramatic actor.

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