Mandy Moore: Actress and Singer-Songwriter

Second Life

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There are two ways to tell Mandy Moore’s career story. While we’re familiar with the highlight reel—Moore was a breakout singer at just 15 and is a Golden Globe nominee—the real story is far more complex. In episode 14 of Second Life, Moore opens up about self-doubt and setbacks and how they helped shape the woman and actor she is today.

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0:00.0	From mydomain.com, this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:11.8	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:20.1	Today, I am so excited to have
0:22.2	one of the most delightful humans I know on the show, the one and only Mandy Moore.
0:28.2	So Mandy is currently starring on the monster hit show This Is Us, which I'm sure you're all
0:32.6	watching because everyone in the world is, but she's also been acting for the majority of her
0:36.6	adult life in movies like The Princess Diaries, a Walk's also been acting for the majority of her adult life in movies
0:37.5	like The Princess Diaries, a Walk to Remember, and as the voice of Rapunzel and the Disney
0:42.7	film Tangled. But, as I'm sure you remember, before she started focusing on her career as an actress,
0:50.1	Mandy was a singer and a pop star and signed a record deal when she was a freshman in high school.
0:55.7	In the late 90s, she toured with InSink and the Backstreet Boys, promoting her debut hit single Candy and working on her first album, which sold over a million copies.
1:06.5	Since then, she's been steadily acting in film and TV and has released six albums.
1:11.8	What I find particularly interesting is the way she's been able to successfully move back and forth between the music and acting industries, which certainly wasn't a common phenomenon when she first started out.
1:22.5	With no further ado, this is Mandy Moore on Second Life.
1:27.4	You multi-hyphenate singer, songwriter, actress,
1:31.8	thank you for coming on. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited for you to be here.
1:36.1	You know that. Okay, so on this podcast, as in life, we like to start in the beginning. So let's talk
1:42.3	about your origins story, which is your singing
1:45.9	career. Yes. Okay, so you were really aggressively young when you started aggressively.
1:52.9	How did you know you wanted to be in the music world? I didn't per se. I didn't. I was like,
1:59.4	I grew up. Because you were a child. I was a kid. Being forced
2:03.2	against my own well. I wanted to, I was a big theater kid. I grew up outside of Orlando,
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