Just B Rant: Caught on Film

Published Mar 6, 2024, 5:00 AM

Someone talked Bethenny into doing something she’s never done before. Does she regret it? Also, Bethenny has made a life changing discovery that could benefit you as well!

I guess I've entered my actress era. This manager called me. He had asked my publicist who represents me, and she said, she doesn't really have an active agent. She's never really had an agent. She has different agencies that she has good relationships with that will send her opportunities and that make her money, and she makes them money, but she doesn't have an agent. And he said, well, let's not get sticky about it, but would you let me call her and possibly represent her? And Jill said sure, so we spoke on the phone. He was like, we don't need to have a contract, we need to get entangled with anything. Just let me, you know, work with you. I said sure, And the following week he called me and said, I have this acting opportunity. It's a movie for two weeks in Vancouver, and I was like, what the hell? And I said what my rate is, which was way less than what I get paid for other things. But I did a much lower rate because it was something new, and it was still at least double to triple with the trappings what they're used to paying. And I wasn't going to do it if I wasn't going to get paid because I don't like to resent anything. I don't like to get anything in life for less than what the value is, because then I'm going to be negative. Like if you hire, if you get paid less than what you deserve, you're going to resent the person taking that service from you. And you just got to set up the dynamics right. So anyway, I got paid what I deserve, but a lot less than what I normally would get paid. And everyone was slightly uncomfortable but also very happy, which is how every business deal should be done. And I happily went to Vancouver for two weeks, which I never do. I never leave for two weeks to go anywhere. I'm not going to Australia for two weeks, and I don't ever leave my doll. So I left for two weeks, left my daughter, left my comfort zone, went to do a movie Love Vancouver, Love Canada, have loved Canada in the past, Love Montreal, Love Vancouver. Love the outlier areas of Vancouver. The people said I wouldn't like because I think they thought it was like it's sort of near farmland, but there's also a lot of commerce and like malls and strip malls and food and things like that. And I don't think people really know me. I think everyone thinks I need to like be in Sant Tropez by air mez in my life, and it's the opposite of the case. So I decided to do a movie. And I kept laughing at myself, like what are we talking about? What am I doing a movie? Like I'm not an actress and I'm going to Vancouver to do a movie. And I say it every five minutes because I can't believe it's true. Like I'm laughing and I'm looking at the director and the producers and saying, like, what the hell were you guys thinking? Because it wasn't like I went to go do a movie and I have two lines. I'm like one of the stars of the movie, like full on, massive amounts of dialogue, pages and pages, and like emotion and like emotion. I don't want to tell you what it's about because I'll get in trouble, but like full fledged emotion, full fledged bulky dialogue and scenes and interaction. Oh my god. The memorization, the memorization of being an actress is not discussed nearly enough. In order to be a good actress, you must be a great memorizer and everybody has different ways that they do it. Someone and makeup told me that they know an actress or an actor that like remembers the first letter of each word of a scene. Other people know the whole thing and read it a million times and study it, and then they show up and they don't look at it again. If they look at it right before, they'll get messed up. I am the opposite. I need exactly only my scenes the day before, like the day before the big scene or the multiple scenes I need. It's how I write a book, I do it in little pieces, or how I learned to snowboard years ago. I don't get overwhelmed. I take on what I can. So, like if I have a scene tomorrow, I ask them if they can just deliver my pages only, like stapled, separately highlighted, so I know exactly my scene only. So let's say it's called scene one oh four. I tonight will read it three four times. The tomorrow morning, I'll get serious. Then in makeup, I'll get really serious. Then in the trailer before the scene, I'll get really serious. Like that's when you're just pacing and memorizing. And then on set, because it's a lot of hurry up and wait when you're waiting for them to light things. Then I've got the piece of paper in my pocket and I'm like pacing and really memorizing, and then bam, you get there and you know it cold and you can be emotional about it because you know it so and then I come back in the trailer and repeat the process all day. But it's so unweldy and so much dialogue and it's overwhelming, Like you're like, I have homework. It's full homework. So props to people that are actors because it takes so much memorization. But then it's so much waiting around. Like you'll leave your house at seven o'clock in the morning, you'll go to a trailer and it's a lot of interacting and transacting. Knock on the door, yes, can we come, have wardrobe come in? Knock on the door. Did you know what you want for lunch? Knock on the door. You're gonna be ready to go here, knock on the door. Like so I was like, can you guys just text me, cause it just felt like every second I was like yelling out yes, they couldn't hear me. You're outside a trailer. Door side notes, someone needs to invent a process for trailers where there's like an intercom or something because people can't hear each other. I've seen this a million times, and people are screaming at all times, so or it's someone knocking, and then the person has to come every time and get up and open the door. So that's a that's some inside actor content. And then you'll maybe be shooting that scene that you got there for seven o'clock at seven o'clock am, and you'll go do makeup at eight o'clock to nine o'clock, and then you may shoot that scene at two o'clock. So you've got to be bringing a book, reading, entertaining yourself. You're gonna get bored, you're gonna feel gross, you're gonna need like, you know, a change of clothes, like you're just gonna feel stale, and then you're gonna go out and you're gonna do a scene. It's gonna be cold, and you're gonna be waiting around. They set, they reset like you know a lot of repeat tedious. This thing that I'll tell you about later. I've loved I've loved the crew. They move fast. I did Royal pains years ago, and like that is a different way of shooting, Like we shoot this side, we shoot the other, shot side, we shoot the sideways, we shoot this person, that person. It's like, very tedious, this is what I'm doing. Which most times that I've been in a situation like this, it has not been like that. It's been like they just get it done. It's amazing. So I love the crew, I love the director. I didn't realize that this company had been trying to work with me for a long time, or wanted to work with me for a long time. But this agent that I mentioned or this manager just happened to call them or respond to them, because I don't know exactly how it went down, but that just shows you too, like you have to be teed up for success. I have never said, like for years, I haven't said I want to be an actress. I used to want to be an actress so badly, and so like, if you want something, you need to set yourself up for it. But the reason I decided to do it also, and I was a little nervous in the beginning, just for the experience, just going to a different country two weeks. It was weird. It was like eerie for me. Another reason I decided to do it was I didn't want to I don't like to look fate and look chance and look at gift Horse. When I was little, I wanted to be an actress so badly, and I'd know one in my house that would help me or take me to auditions or like nurture that whatsoever. So I just dreamed about it. I thought about it. I would look in the phone book and be like, how do I be an actress? Or were auditions? And I just felt exasperated. It was like this inside club that no one could get access to. And when I was older and I moved to LA and I graduated without my diploma, I just I just didn't even walk with the class. I just wanted to get to LA and be an actress. I didn't know how to do it, and I was sort of embarrassed, and like I didn't know how to say, like, I'm a hostess at La Scala, but I'm also an actress, and so like I was just wandering around and like there used to be these books where you'd try to find agents. You'd send them headshots. No one would call you back. Literally zero point zero people would call you back. You would go spend two hundred dollars get headshots. You couldn't afford it. They would look great. They would be like one was you holding a tennis racket or one's in a ponytail. I still have mine. I got a show them to you one time, and like you'd send them out, like it's almost like cold calling, and literally no one would call you back. You just it's so hard to even be an actor. But it's so hard to get out there and like get in the room to even try to act. And I wasn't even any good, I'm sure, and I knew the producers that say by the bell, and I got an audition to go in and read for the new show, the California episodes, but I sucked and I just like had no helper. I said to myself when thinking about this, don't be spoiled, like for years you wanted this and now you're older and it just walked in the door, and you're so grateful and you earned it because of the way you meaning Beth anding me. I've put myself out there and I'm on social media, and I've been on television and I've proven myself in many ways. And and yes, if they had sent an audition slides, I'm sure I would have or sides, I'm sure I would have audition for it. Auditioning is frightening, and it's insecure, makes you insecure, like it's just it's bulky and it's tedious, and it's never like the way it's going to really go the way that you're gonna do it that day, and it's just like strange. And now they all do self tape, so you was like putting a phone somewhere and following their instructions of what to wear and do you put makeup on? And are you supposed to look like natural you? And like you get in your head and it's just a nightmare and it's scary. So I didn't have to do that. I'm super grateful this company, you know, knows that I can do it. I cannot believe that they cast me in this without knowing if I could do it with all these lines. But that's show business, baby, and they just believed in the power and the magic. And I'm sure they believe that I'll bring viewers in which I hope many of you will watch to see this because I'm shook that it's like so legitimate and so like long of a role. I called actresses I knew. They were like, you've got to do this. So here I am, and I'm doing it and I'm excited and I think it's good and it's fun and it's exciting and it's a new chapter. So lo and behold. I'm in my trailer yesterday and some assistant whose name I didn't know, was like, Hey, we have this role in this massive movie with this massive producer and director that you've heard of and that you know of and that you would die to have on this podcast that you've pitched to be on this podcast. But this is such a megastar, like major, major, major, famous person in filmmaking and TV making and in humor wants you to read for a role. So you have to do a self tape and here are all the instructions. This is what you are supposed to be like, sound like, look like maybe where the background you're supposed to have? This is all the dialogue. It's five pages of dialogue. So now I'm studying my dialogue for my movie that I'm in, But now I'm auditioning for another movie. What the fuck. I call the manager. I was like, what is going on? Because now I'm on his radar, and so if you do want to do something, make sure you're on the radar. Like it's those people were never thinking of me. They're just moving papers through a desk. We got a fucking we're casting. We need whoever's teed up and ready to go, not like weirdo former reality star you know TikTok Instagram, famous people now that are in their fifties that might want to act in a movie. Like there have been millions of roles I've missed over the years because I didn't put myself in that arena. But it was not meant to be, and it's meant to be now. And so like, yes, I'm auditioning for another MO while I'm here, So I might just ask the other actors or the director to help me, like help me scotch tape this thing together in my trailer. Yes, I have a major trailer. It has a bathroom, it has a microwave, it has couches, Like they really like they spent the ranch on me to do it, but I'm giving them everything, like I'm I'm invested. I think they would say, I'm easy to work with, Like my rider, What did I want? I asked for braw potatoes probably twenty nine cents apiece, and kambucha and like ice coffee and creamer and some cashews. That's my whole entire rider. But my trailer is amazing, and like now my rider just got bigger. I'm gonna ask I need the director and the extras and the lighting crew and the producer to take, you know, to give the crew a hiatus day, because we have to practice for this other massive, massive movie, this blockbuster hit. Literally that I'm auditioning for. What the actual fuck. It's so confusing, it makes no sense. But I'm loving the adventure. And that's the thing too. I am the adventure. I am the place of yes. And while I can be bitchy and in a bad mood and no, I don't want to do that, and no, I'm not accepting that and know and no and no, my place of yes is Yes. I'm getting out a plane, I'm going to Vancouver. I'm starring in a movie for two weeks with tons of dialogue. And I'm leaving my daughter, which I never do. Yes, there's a script for a feature film that will be like in I pick like theaters with like ten dollars buckets of popcorn to buy and like snow caps. Am I auditioning for that? Absolutely? Am? I gonna fucking figure it out while I'm here and try to ask this director and anybody who will listen and help me. Go to the fucking lobby of the hotel that I'm also staying in because they're actors everywhere. Yes, I'm gonna ask them to help me to get this role, because that's what life is about. Who gives a shit how you get it, Just fucking get it. I'll deal with it on the day that I get there being great at I'll be great at it. If I get it, I'll be great at it. But guess what, I gotta get myself in there, so you know what, I'm gonna scotch tape together the audition tape and sends it in and set myself up for success. Don't half ascid, don't hodgepodge it, don't bullshit it like this is Hollywood, baby, fake it till you make it. I guess. Martha Stewart said, no. We at Martha Stewart living on nimdia. She told me on The Apprentice. We do not fake it till you make it. Well, fucking guess what As an actress, Bethany Frankel in Vancouver is faking it till she makes it. Not when I'm standing there doing the scene. That was all real, but my memorization process, my needing a potato, and the trailer, my memorizing multiple scripts at the same time, my being in Vancouver in the lobby with people asking me, oh, are you an actress? Of fucking course I am. Got through to customs in Vancouver, Hi, I need a workers permit. They said it was one hundred and fifty dollars. What the fuck are you an actress? Uh? I guess I am doing a movie for two weeks. Yes, I am a studying for a role. Bet your fucking titties. I am so now I I'm entering my actress era twenty twenty three, was entering my social media influencer era twenty twenty four. Bethany Frankel, at fifty three years old, is entering her actress era. What the actual fuck? Go with God and come from a place of yes, I am officially over the flexing and posing of luxury handbags more than anything else, because we watch reality TV and my best friend was saying to me that she was watching the Housewives and that the purses are placed on a pedestal like that it's like as important as the person, meaning you're just showing the flex and in some cases they give a underneath of how much the bag is and the luxury brands are winning. And I've been thinking about this for a really long time. Now. Please understand that I am a contradiction in terms because I have an outrageous handbag collection and I've always loved handbags, but that kind of makes me an expert, Like since I was thirteen years old, I've loved handbags, and there is a collectibility to certain ones. But anyone who says that their an investment is lying to themselves and to their husbands or wives or friends. Because if you buy a very expensive bag, and let's say it increases in value, if you had to sell it, it would have to be new inbox or excellent perfect condition, basically never worn or never taken out of your house, and then you'd have to use somebody or you'd have to use a resale site, and they're going to take like thirty percent so that bag would have to have increased in value thirty five percent, which is very very rare, like doesn't happen in order for you to get that money back. So while they'll say on social media that Chanel purses are thirty percent higher now than they were so many years ago, you would have to find a way to sell it, and you could sell it on eBay or something, but it's not as easy as it sounds, and it takes a really long time. So invest in real estate and the stock market. But I'm becoming really irritated with the flex, Like I see these big luxury brands and people going into the stores and flying across the country and opening up the boxes and I've done it myself and talking about it, and it's just kind of a vile flex. And I was recently in Canada and I went to this version of like a TJ. Marshall's, and I was looking at these bags that were so soft in leather and you know, very modern and like black on black hardware, and like I said, like leather and some of them looking just like the high end brands and almost knocking them off, and then some of them just having their own original, beautiful design, and I found myself saying, why do I keep these bags that have these like you know, they're heavy, they're uncomfortable, and I keep them in my closet almost as like a status symbol because I did buy them, and I think like I have to wear them now because I bought them, And it becomes this weird responsibility and you're not like treating them like just knock around, and then you're like a you know, a prisoner to these luxury items and it becomes really stupid. So in twenty twenty four, I'm entering my reduction I'm gonna say reduction of luxury handbags era. And I've always been that way with clothes and even shoes. I don't buy shoes. I have really nice shoes for years that I just keep, and I buy classic colors, like I think they're Sergio Rossi or there are other brands where I just buy every color. So I have a dress, I'd match it. But I'm not like tricked out with most shoes if there's an event. Sometimes, yeah, boots I really love and I have a weakness for, but by the same token, I have the same boots from years ago, and many of them most of them I've gotten on sale, so I do wear them forever and I do buy well, so there's got to be like a dance between it. But the sort of blatant flexing of luxury bags is making me sick. And you could almost have a home for what several of them costs. So I am rethinking the insecurity of having to flex the logo. There's a psychology to knowing that someone else has told you a logo or a label is okay. And there's definitely a show off And like I said, flex a superficial flex when someone's wearing like a giant brand name across their chest. And I'll always look at Pa and say, like, I wonder who makes that shirt, Like it's a Ballman or Balenciaga or Gucci, gigantic letters. And like I said to Luan years ago when she was wearing an Arimez belt and made fun of me for driving a skinny girl car, I said, well, you're wearing an Airmez belt and she said, yeah, well they're not paying me. It's like exactly, they're not paying you, So why are you in a billboard for a brand with the logo? And so I guess I'm just realizing. Also, I bought a bag at this store that had soft butter leather and it looked exactly like a Chanel bag with the weight of the chain and quilted, and it was thirty nine dollars and it was excellent quality. In fact, I've had Chanel bags that are not good quality. And what it told me was, that's how much they're ripping us off, because it costs the same to make this bag as it does a Chanel bag. A thirty nine dollars is being charged as a six to nine thousand dollars bag, not even exaggeration. The markup is assounding. They would die if we found out. And that's why they can make these knockoff bags for like forty dollars, because that's how much they actually cost to make. And Chanelle's doing massive volumes, so they get a volume discount, and that's how they have the flagship stores, and that's how they're a multi billion dollar company. So I don't know that I want to be fully part of that anymore. I don't want to pay their rent. I want to have a nice, functional, good looking piece, but not feel like a fucking schmuck, which is kind of where I've gotten with it. So more on this and I hope I really stick to it or really can show how amazing I can look without spending money. I did a review on a Bataga bag last year that was went viral, and it was a six thousand dollars bag that they were saying was the new IT bag, and Kylie Jenner said it was the new it bag, and it felt like people were being paid to say it was the new IT bag. And I bought it and it felt like a cheap, leather nothing bag. It wasn't substantial, it didn't feel soft. I was I went crazy. I was so frustrated by it was trash. And I found something at Winners in Canada, which is like their TJ Max, that was forty nine dollars that was better quality. And I know I will not tell you the amount of money I have in bags, or that I've spent on bags that has been gifted to me in bags by people I've been in relationships with. I won't even because it would be disgusting, But I will tell you that because of that, I know I intimately know the makings of a Chanel bag. Airmez does make elite bags there made very well, but Arimez will charge fifty thousand dollars for a bag, or twenty thousand or fifteen thousand dollars for a bag, so like it better fucking be nice. I mean, let's just say that'll last you for the rest of your life. But there are bags that you would get from TJ Max, Coach, Tory Birch or on the street that would last you for the rest of your life too, so that's a bit of a scam too. So anyway, let's talk more about this because I think it's an interesting discussion.

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