Hi everyone, it's Kate Snow. For this episode of The Drink, I recently caught up with actor Melissa Fumero, famous for her role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. We met up at The Pig and Whistle. It's a restaurant right by Rockefeller Plaza. If you're new to the drink, it's always about how people got to the top of their field. For this conversation, we chatted over two oat milk lattes. She adds cinnamon.

Melissa was candid about how her parents drained their savings so she could go to college,

and how some career struggles almost made her quit completely before she landed that dream role as

Detective Amy Santiago on Brooklyn 9-9. I hope you enjoy the episode,

and as always, you can catch all my conversations with top artists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries

at NBCNews.com slash the drink. You're like taking your last college exam and you have a job.

I was on the New Jersey Transit bus back home when they called me and they had just done

where you can't talk on your phone on the buses.

So, but I knew it was my agent, so I was like ducking behind a seat and I was like, hello.

And then they told me and I was like, oh my god, oh my god, I'm so excited.

This is amazing.

And like crying and trying to like whisper it all.

And yeah.

Melissa Fumero, actor, director.

We are in the pig and whistle.

What is your drink? My drink is a latte with an extra shot of espresso.

Okay.

And some cinnamon.

Oh yeah.

Very nice.

And the cinnamon is a nice touch.

It's a little...

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