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every day we knew exactly what needed to be done. To get it all shot within 17 days we had to be really organized. I don’t think I thought too much about it. We just did what we had to do. That said, as actor I’ve always felt incredibly insecure as a person. When I transitioned into filmmaking I began to feel a lot more confident in what I have to do and what I have to give.
OCT 19-25, 2016
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I think there are so many great roles now, partially because there’s so much great television now, and so many channels. Back in the day you had movie stars, but today there isn’t much difference. There’s certainly no difference anymore in the caliber of acting between movies and TV. I’m just the type of person who doesn’t look at what the obstacles are. I don’t think that way. I just do what I want to do and what my heart wants to do, and I get really scrappy about it! (laughs) Some things did change for the better when I moved my life to Canada. I didn’t have to worry about turning 35! I got out of LA and was able to grow old gracefully. In LA there is so much pressure for women to alter their appearance to appear unnaturally younger.
That said, you haven’t run away from your past as the Pink Power Ranger. In the mid ‘90s, there were a few years there when I wasn’t so much denying I was ever on the show, but I was not really wanting to talk about it either. After moving to Canada and doing Flashpoint, somewhere along the way I said, “This is my path. This is where I came from.” The big change came when I embraced social media, and starting doing Indiegogo to raise funding for movie projects. I realized all the support I had through people who knew the Power Rangers over the last 20 years before that. In embracing them, I’ve met so many wonderful people I wouldn’t have met otherwise. And now there’s going to be a big new Power Rangers movie next year, so the whole thing’s cool again! (laughs) Your music career is sort of on hiatus? Yeah it is. I’m getting focused on this second feature. I’ve not sat down at piano or picked up a guitar in a while. My last album was in 2013, and I did that knowing it would be a while before I did another album. I wanted to do that one album before I really ventured into filmmaking. The Space Between screens Mon. Oct. 24 at 11:30 a.m. and Oct. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Trustees Theatre. Amy Jo Johnson will attend the Monday screening for a Q&A.