news station at the University of Delaware, but she had no real formal training… until now. “It’s almost as if they were paying me to go to school,” said Sepulveres, who is originally from Northvale and a graduate of Old Tappan High School. What she found herself doing now—almost by accident—was completely different from her days as a headhunter, which she had done for five years after college before working for the publishing company. But she was good at it. Actually, really good. “I realized how much I had liked that in college and then I thought, ‘Why didn’t I just pursue this after school? Where did I diverge and go into finance, and sales, and what happened?’” she said. Sepulveres started to love going to work every day, which gave her a special behind-the-scenes look into the minds of Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey. Sepulveres would take away bits and pieces from every long shoot in Long Island City. Take Tina Fey, for example. “She could just be drinking a cup of coffee, and you could look at her and be like ‘Oh my God, she probably has like the next two episodes just turning in there,’” said Sepulveres. Alec Baldwin, believe it or not, was incredibly supportive of all the crewmembers, extras and minor actors. Baldwin, Sepulveres said, would offer his expert advice, and was always curious as to what they had going on outside of 30 Rock. “He’s not just asking questions for the sake of it. The next time you see him, he’ll actually say ‘How was that show?’ How did your show go?’ How’s that book that you’re writing?’” In Sepulveres’ case, the book was going well, thank you very much. Continued on pg. 30
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