But yes, I can't remember notes that really like I know, you know, people talk about having those like aha moments and improv. And I think maybe once I remember having the moment, I don't remember what the note was right. I maybe I've just a really bad memory. I'm

so in the moment that like, how could I possibly remember it? It's just impossible. You know, that was James Dwyer. And now here's Nicole dress Bell. What are some of the best notes you remember getting? I

think this might be controversial. I think the best notes that you get you're not ready for and you don't realize what they meant until later. Yeah. Because it's a person who's diagnosing a thing that you're in the thick of. And maybe I'm it's just my own shortcomings, but I'm not I was really young when I started doing improv. That's not true. I was 22. It's not that young. But I was new to being a person when I started doing improv. And again, I was chasing approval and not necessarily chasing skill. But I think sometimes I'd get a note and then like six months back, I'd be like, I know what that note meant. Or much later I'd be like, oh, I know what they were trying to tell me with that. This is a weird

analogy, but it's a little bit like being told you're depressed. Sure. And you're like, no, I just I'm not I just like, I just cry a lot. And I've just been like listening to said, Oh, no. And then like later on, you realize like, okay, this is what that was. Yeah.

somebody telling you This is the forest that you're in when you're just focused on the tree that you're in front of you or whatever Yeah, someone naming the forest when you're in a tree. Yeah,

I'm not sure. Yeah,

I remember here's a good note And I didn't take it right away and I didn't understand it till later But Brandon Scott Joe at some point was like and it was very light and it was just in passing and he acted like it Was no big deal, but he was like, um Nicole in the scene, um, make a choice, make a fun, big choice. You can't play concerned. Don't worry about this note. And then I was like, Oh, bastard. All I'm doing is playing characters who are concerned about things and it's blocking fun choices. Concern is so fucking useless. It's so from a place of like as a person being concerned. It's from you as a person being concerned that you're going to be vulnerable or you're going to be exposed. So you play your character's concern. And there are ways that you could play it to an unusual degree, but if you're not, you're just blocking fun. And it was so on the money. And I wonder if it was just like really was as breezy as he acted like it was, or if he'd been like locked and loaded since early 2009. And it was just finally time when he could say it.

Right.

But that was like very very helpful. Very helpful. And it's also turned me on to something that I can now recognize in other players when they're blocking themselves. Sean Distin and I talk sometimes about how like you coach to the notes that you got. Mm-hmm. I don't know how true that is of me anymore because now I think I'm kind of a pretty selfish player. Well, I guess I am coaching people away from selfishness, but I wasn't getting that note early. I just over corrected. Anthony King in a 401 class, and I almost said Anthony King a few times during this line of questioning, but he just, he explained game and metaphors, and that is so how my brain works. And I found it so helpful that even if it's a little bit abstract, it just really helps it contextualizes things. It's not that it's necessarily like immediately practical advice, but it just like shines a light and directs your brain in a way that can understand what you're doing.