Kyla Pratt & Julian Gant: Call Me Kat, Grieving Leslie Jordan, & Exploring Empathic Energy

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Kyla Pratt (The Proud Family, One on One) & Julian Gant (As They Made Us, Oddballs) join us in the studio to discuss working with Mayim on Call Me Kat, their shared grief journeys after losing their friend and co-star Leslie Jordan, and not conforming to society & the entertainment industry. Julian opens up about losing jobs in Hollywood because of his refusal to cut his hair and his alarming racially motivated police interactions. He compares his skills as a professional fighter with performing, shares the piece of acting advice Dustin Hoffman gave him, and strategies he uses to cope with anxiety tied to his dyslexia. Kyla reveals her struggles as an empath and picking up other people’s negative energies, her grounding techniques, and how her food sensitivities affect her mental and physical health. She gives us a show-and-tell about her crystals, explains the practice of learning when to ask for help, and ways she stays in tune with her body. Mayim, Kyla, and Julian consider how their real personas inform their Call Me Kat characters, the importance of sharing different opinions, and dealing with rejections during auditions.

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0:00.0	We obviously were part of a very public loss, you know, that kind of the whole country,
0:07.5	the whole world, the whole industry, like one of the things that I remember most prominently
0:12.0	about when Leslie died was how much I had to see that I'm not in control of the way
0:20.5	other people feel, react, or cope.
0:24.7	I really had this incredible experience of like seeing like, you got to make room for everybody.
0:31.5	And everybody's process.
0:33.7	I was happy that the group was there because I had people to lean on.
0:41.3	You don't know, there's moments when it hits you, like I didn't, you know, know that it
0:47.4	would hit me in certain ways that it hit me and then I would be exposed because as
0:55.2	I'm someone who doesn't like to necessarily show my emotions.
0:59.1	And when they do come out, it's pretty strong.
1:03.9	And I don't like people see me that way.
1:06.7	I was like, you know, these ideas of what's that person are you?
1:09.7	And I'm like, oh, I'm not there.
1:10.9	I'm not crazy.
1:11.9	I'm not there.
1:12.9	It was just emotional.
1:13.9	You know, you such a bright life and somebody who you cared about you and you cared about
1:22.8	him and he would tell you like it is.
1:25.1	He was honest and he was loving and he was all these things.
1:29.6	And you don't expect it.
1:30.9	It was just so unexpected.
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