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In this week\u2019s episode of <\/b>The Envelope podcast<\/b><\/a>, Chase Infiniti discusses her meteroic rise, her Emmy nomination for <\/b>\u201cThe Testaments\u201d<\/b><\/a> and nurturing the ambition to become an actor since age 10.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kelvin Washington: <\/b>Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week\u2019s episode of The Envelope. You have myself, Kelvin Washington, alongside my usual suspects, Yvonne Villarreal, Mark Olsen as well. It\u2019s been a week, so I\u2019m trusting everybody\u2019s good. Yvonne, we\u2019re coming to you here because you\u2019re going to help us break this down. Don\u2019t bug the eyes. Yes, we\u2019re coming to you. The [TV] Academy, they\u2019re making some changes when it comes to the live broadcast, and it can be a little bit confusing. That\u2019s why we got you here. Tell us more.<\/p>\n

Yvonne Villarreal: <\/b>They announced that they will be moving five categories that are usually handed out during the ceremony, the Primetime [Emmys] ceremony, to a week prior and handing them out during the Creative Arts Emmys\u2019 weekend. They say the decision is sort of to make space to innovate the live show and incorporate new things. You know, viewership is always something that they\u2019re after. But it\u2019s causing a stir in Hollywood because we\u2019re losing some mainstays of the show, and that\u2019s writing for a variety series, but also taking a big hit is the limited series or movie categories. We\u2019re losing supporting actor, supporting actress, but also writing and directing. And people have a lot of thoughts. Mark, I want your thoughts. Kelvin, I want your thoughts.<\/p>\n

Mark Olsen: <\/b>I feel like there\u2019s a disconnect between the people who watch award shows and the people who make and produce award shows, where I feel like those of us who watch them, we just want more sort of genuine moments from the talent, from the nominees. I want more speeches! And so taking away five categories, there\u2019s going to be that much fewer speeches. I just can\u2019t help but think of like Linda Cardellini, who\u2019s one of the people nominated, she was on our roundtable earlier this year<\/a> and just like a great presence, a stalwart TV actor, and to have to take away that chance for her to potentially get up onstage be really genuine, why would you not want that as part of your show instead having these kind of like canned comedy bits or, you know, hacky reunions plus canned comedy bits that nobody particularly wants.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>It\u2019s an awards show.<\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>True, but maybe I\u2019m Nobody in this case. We were talking about this a little bit earlier, you guys were making fun of the 1990s reunions there. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed seeing, I think it was maybe two years ago, when they had \u201cMartin\u201d up there and they had never been invited; they were kind of joking, \u201cOh, we never got invited\u201d or \u201cWe never won an Emmy.\u201d And so I think it\u2019s been pretty cool. And I will say that this is the challenge for productions, when you\u2019re trying to appease everyone. Is it about the awards? It is about the length of time \u2014 just speed this thing up? Is it about having the magical moments? And then you see the Grammys try to get these things right as well. You\u2019re never gonna be able to please everyone. So I think it\u2019s always a difficult balance. So we\u2019ll see how it works out this year. But I\u2019m looking at you, Mark, some people might enjoy those. And you too, those nerdy little reunion shows.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>But in a time when it\u2019s already hard to get a show visibility in this marketplace, and so many people don\u2019t know what\u2019s nominated anymore, when you\u2019re taking away an access point for them to discover something or not tell them about a show, it\u2019s a short-sighted change I think.<\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>The only response I would add to that is that\u2019s kind of where we are. Even if you keep up with television, movies and music, it seems to be a lot more word of mouth than historically where things are plastered everywhere. And even if you didn\u2019t care about the particular thing, you saw it, you heard it. Now it\u2019s like word of a mouth and just watercooler or just the algorithm telling you what to like. <\/p>\n

With that being said, somebody who\u2019s having a great run right now, Chase Infiniti. I know you had a chance to speak with her. Of course, \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d did so well. Then there\u2019s the spinoff, \u201cThe Testaments.\u201d Tell me a little bit more about your chat with her.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Talk about, like, a breakout nomination this year. Chase has really been a star on the rise. She made her debut in Apple TV\u2019s adaptation of the legal thriller, \u201cPresumed Innocent\u201d playing Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019s daughter. And in recent projects, she\u2019s played this young revolutionary, both in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d<\/a> and now in \u201cThe Testaments,\u201d which takes place after the events of \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale.\u201d She\u2019s the daughter of a high-ranking commander, but she\u2019s also the biological daughter of June, who\u2019s Elisabeth Moss\u2019 character. And this show is really about seeing the rebellion of young teenage girls and how they are sort of key to the inside resistance of toppling this regime. And so we talked a little bit about that.<\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>All right, well, you got me a little nervous. You\u2019re talking about the rebellion of teenage girls. You know, I\u2019ve got a 9, a 7, and a 5-year-old, so that could be my future. <\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Let\u2019s hope it is. They\u2019re the future. <\/p>\n

Washington: <\/b>You\u2019re right, you\u2019re right. Yvonne and Chase, here they are now.<\/p>\n

\"Chase <\/p>\n

Chase Infiniti, photographed in late March ahead of \u201cThe Testaments\u201d premiere. <\/p>\n

(Jason Armond \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Yvonne Villarreal: <\/b>Chase, thanks so much for being here. Congratulations on your Emmy nomination. What do you want to remember about this moment, this feeling?<\/p>\n

Chase Infiniti: <\/b>Oh. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m trying to take little pictures in my brain of everything and remember all of the influx of emotions that I felt that entire time, but also throughout the whole journey of making Season 1 of \u201cThe Testaments.\u201d There\u2019s so many things about it that I\u2019m like \u2014 I just never want to lose that feeling. There\u2019s a lot of [memorable] moments I had on set and also during the press tour and then even finding out about the Emmy nomination, which feels very crazy to say. But even finding out about that, there\u2019s so many little things that I\u2019m like, \u201cI never want to lose that feeling. I want to keep it in my brain forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> Is it as thrilling as what you remember feeling when you booked that first role in a local production of \u201cHairspray,\u201d when you were 10? <\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> It definitely does. I also feel very grateful that with my job and with everything I get to do, I really try to keep intact how much I love the work and how much I love creating. That\u2019s what helps it keep that same energy as me finding out I\u2019m playing Crystal in \u201cHairspray\u201d versus me finding out that I have an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> Were you on Cloud 9 getting the news of Crystal?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>Oh, yeah. I was so happy because I was it was the first time I ever had a name in a musical. And I remember when I was a kid, I watched the movie version of it every night for six months. Not a lie. Me and my sister would turn it on religiously after school and we would start singing \u201cGood Morning, Baltimore.\u201d It got to the point where we knew almost every line in the movie.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> I feel old asking which version of \u201cHairspray\u201d… Zac Efron? What was it about it?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> It\u2019s just catchy \u2014 everything about it. It just makes me happy, When I hear \u201cRun and Tell That,\u201d I just want to do twirls in my room. I love musicals so much and they make me so happy. If I\u2019m ever down or need a little pick-me-up, I\u2019ll literally just blast that soundtrack. I blast the soundtrack to \u201cPippin\u201d or … \u201cShrek: The Musical.\u201d I remember being in the production and it kind of brings me back to those happy memories I had ,or productions that I saw that I was like, \u201cOh, my gosh, this really makes me want to work towards being in something like that.\u201d I love musicals.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> It was just two years ago where the general public was starting to learn your name with your debut in Apple TV\u2019s \u201cPresumed Innocent.\u201d Since then, you\u2019ve navigated the film award season with \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d and now the TV awards season with \u201cThe Testaments.\u201d How do you make sense of what this moment is? Are there still things you\u2019re getting used to? What have you enjoyed about this part of the job?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> There\u2019s a lot of things I\u2019m still getting used to. Especially with \u201cOne Battle,\u201d I think the biggest adjustment I had was people knowing me before I walked up to them \u2014 people that I\u2019m massive fans of. I met Angela Bassett at something, and she came up to me and said my name, and I was like, \u201cYou\u2019re Angela Bassett, and you know who I am?\u201d That was like an \u201cOh, my gosh\u201d [moment]. I\u2019m still really adjusting to that. I feel like there\u2019s a disconnect in my brain between like what I think people know of me versus what reality actually is. And my friends bring it up all the time and they\u2019re like, \u201cChase, these people know who you are.\u201d But I can\u2019t wrap my head around that. It\u2019s very strange, especially going from like a 0 to 100 situation. That\u2019s something that I\u2019m still trying to find an adjustment on in my brain. <\/p>\n

[What have I] enjoyed about it? I\u2019ve gotten to meet all of my superheroes, in a way. All the people that I\u2019ve grown up watching on the screen and on the stage, [I\u2019ve encountered at] all of these different events and in passing, and everyone could not be kinder and just getting to meet them and just pour into them how much they\u2019ve shaped my life and shaped the creative work I want to do. Another adjustment thing is hearing them pour back into me too. That\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been getting used to. But meeting the superheroes of it all in my brain has been something I\u2019ve really loved. Also getting to meet people who\u2019ve watched \u201cThe Testaments\u201d; like younger girls who\u2019ve watched it and then really found a connection point with it, and it\u2019s had an impact on them and their friends. That\u2019s something I really cherish about getting to do what I get to do. I had it with \u201cOne Battle.\u201d It\u2019s really cool to see it happening again with \u201cThe Testaments.\u201d That\u2019s a very wonderful gift.<\/p>\n

VIllarreal: <\/b>Before we delve further into \u201cThe Testaments,\u201d I do want point out this moment onstage at the Academy Awards. When \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d won best picture, Paul Thomas Anderson singled you out, calling you \u201cMy American girl\u201d and the \u201cheart of this movie.\u201d Place me in that moment as Chase.<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>Well, I didn\u2019t hear him. I just heard him say my name. I remember he was going down the list and saying names of different people, and I thought that it was something like that. I was touched that he even mentioned me onstage. Obviously, that movie has quite literally changed my life and that entire cast. And I love Paul so much. So I didn\u2019t hear him onstage, and it wasn\u2019t until afterwards that my parents had sent me a screenshot of the [closed] captions from that night. They were like, \u201cThis is what Paul said about you.\u201d I just remember feeling so honored that I got to be a part of something that changed my life, but [it was a film that] also really, I think, changed a lot of people\u2019s lives as well; they connected with it. I can distinctively remember every single day on that job. I just remember feeling such a rush of emotions after reading [what he said] because I love that movie and I love Paul so much. I could not be more grateful for that opportunity and for the opportunity to play Willa, let alone get to be a part of the crazy world that is a Paul Thomas Anderson set. But I learned so much. There\u2019s so much I could say about it.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> How did playing Willa inform how you thought about Agnes, who\u2019s also this young revolutionary in the making, as you were putting yourself on tape for \u201cThe Testaments\u201d?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>I signed on to it with one script in mind. Obviously, I had read the book beforehand, so I had an idea of what she was going to go through, but I didn\u2019t necessarily know how it was going pan out onscreen. The biggest help Willa [provided] beforehand going into that is, I feel like I, by nature, have a little bit of a rebellious spirit, but I really had to turn it up with Willa. I think that being able to access that through Willa and then shape it differently for Agnes, given the circumstances of where she is, was the biggest key between the two. They do share the strong sense of rebellion. Granted, Agnes doesn\u2019t know where it comes from. She doesn\u2019t really know how to handle it, necessarily. But I think that that was a nice way into Agnes and creating her world mentally of where she is and also the inner turmoil of, \u201cI know that there\u2019s this thing happening inside me, but I don\u2019t really understand it.\u201d I think [that] was the biggest cheat code from Willa to Agnes.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>What was it about \u201cThe Testaments\u201d that spoke to you and made you want to tackle the material?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> Just from that one script alone that I read before I signed on, it was hidden that it was \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d but you can get a sense of what the world is based off of that initial script. I just fell in love with how detailed it was. It didn\u2019t feel like there were any question marks in the world, and I think that diving into something [like] that felt very interesting because it\u2019s not otherworldly but it feels otherworldy in the sense of the way that they speak and the way Gilead itself looks on paper versus on the screen. That was something that I found to be very interesting. But I think with Agnes specifically, I really love the amount of love that she has for her friends, because that\u2019s something that I feel very strongly about. My friends and my family, but especially my friends, are the people I cherish most in my life. My loved ones are near and dear to my heart, and I will do anything for them. That\u2019s something that I really loved about Agnes. That makes me very happy to see, that even in a world that\u2019s so dark and so dim \u2014 even if she doesn\u2019t view it as that, it is dark and it is dim for a young girl in Gilead \u2014she still has so much love and so much hope for her friends. And I found that to be very inspiring.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Did you have any hesitation about the heaviness of this fictional world?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> I don\u2019t think that that necessarily terrified me, because I think that I have this very privileged ability to step into this world that seems like it\u2019s so far outside of what we are, I guess, used to \u2014 but it\u2019s really not. Nothing that Margaret Atwood writes is fiction. It is all based off of history or things that are happening at the time that she\u2019s written it. I knew that it was going to be very relevant. I\u2019m in this very privileged position where this isn\u2019t my reality, but this is the reality of so many women around the world. And I thought when I read this script that this was a way for people to not, I guess, become desensitized to seeing these things, because I think that we\u2019re in a world where it\u2019s so easy to just turn off your phone, scroll past something, and just ignore what\u2019s actually really happening. With \u201cThe Testaments\u201d and with the things that these girls go through, I truly feel heartbroken. But if this in any way can wake people up, can help people continue to ask questions and really question their own environments, that was something that I wasn\u2019t scared of. And I really felt empowered to join something that was doing that. And I am also grateful that on that set, it never felt like the material was too heavy for a day because our entire cast and our entire crew kept the energy on set very light. And if there was ever a point where a day was extra heavy, I knew that I could turn to Lucy [Halliday, who plays Daisy] and she would always be there for me. I know that I can turn to one of the directors and they would always be there, or even one of the [production assistants]. Everybody on set was very forthcoming with kindness and always very open. That was something that helped to keep the heaviness of the subject matter [from] going home with us.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Agnes has only known obedience and repression. She\u2019s very controlled with her emotions. As somebody with roots in musical theater, did you have to curtail some of those instincts that you might\u2019ve had to be a little more expressive? How was it settling into Agnes?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>It was honestly pretty easy because you get into the space, you get into the world, and you instantly are transported and you get little context clues based off of the things that you see in Agnes\u2019 room versus the things that you\u2019ve seen in the school \u2014 or the absence of things. The absence of things really helped to start to put me in a box in a way \u2014 not the negative connotation of that \u2014 like putting the costume on. It really helped for me to feel the restriction of the world to understand what Agnes\u2019 mind is, and getting to see that from the outside and then getting to step into it. It wasn\u2019t that hard to shut off that part of my musical theater brain, but I think part of that is also I\u2019ve learned how to maneuver through that just based off of \u201cPresumed Innocent\u201d and \u201cOne Battle,\u201d because both of those parts are also very, very much so not musical theater-y at all. So I think that was also something that I had the privilege of learning on both of those sets.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> Something that stands out with Agnes is we\u2019re witnessing her awakening. Gilead is all she\u2019s ever known. And she\u2019s very dutiful to the practices of that society. But she\u2019s grappling with coming into her identity and feeling this gap of her internal thoughts and feelings and what society tells her to be. What was important to you in having those two realities live side by side? <\/p>\n

Inifiniti:<\/b> The one thing I never wanted her to lose was her sense of love. She is a character who that is at the root of most of her decisions, especially when it comes to the final episodes with Becka [played by Mattea Conforti]. I think the love that Agnes has in this world is something baseline I never want to lose. I really tried to maintain that throughout. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much that you keep to yourself \u2014 your inner thoughts, your inner personality in a way \u2014 versus what you outwardly show the world. I just had to turn up the extremes when it came to Agnes, and really make sure to keep those things that she keeps close to her heart guarded. And put on this almost armor in a sense of what she views to be the most perfect version of herself for the outside world. And then watching that kind of crumble, those layers are peeled apart based off of what happens to her and what she sees happen to her friends. But also, there\u2019s a point in everyone\u2019s life where they realize, \u201cOh, what I had been raised under the belief of is actually not the reality. Whether it be something like that or whether it be an idea or an ideal that you have about the world or about yourself or your morals, just based off of what you\u2019ve been raised with. I think that everybody has a point in their life where they have to face a version of reality that they\u2019ve been told versus what actually is reality. There\u2019s things that I\u2019m still learning, and there\u2019s still things that I\u2019m questioning just based off of what I see in my personal life, and then also with my friends or what my family goes through.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> A key character in the show is menarche and the menstrual cycle. We see how it\u2019s weaponized, but we also see how it gives these young girls their power. What was it like to explore that?<\/p>\n

Infinti: <\/b>The thing I honestly really enjoyed about it is the openness of it. Like, you know when you go to the bathroom \u2014 and this is perfect podcast talk \u2014 and you\u2019re taking your pad or your tampon to go change, but you\u2019re hiding it because you\u2019re like, \u201cI don\u2019t know if I want anybody to see it\u201d [or hear] the crinkling of everything. But I think that the openness of everything in the show \u2014 granted, circumstances are completely different \u2014 but the openness that they have with it, I found to be very freeing and refreshing in a way. That was something, especially when we started shooting, that we all talked about, because we were like, \u201cWe\u2019ve never been in a place where it didn\u2019t feel like there was a stigma against it.\u201d It felt like we were almost encouraged to talk about it. Getting to put this show out into the world and letting girls see that there isn\u2019t something that they should be afraid of, but also letting them see that this is normal. This is not something that we should be scared of, let alone try to hide, because it\u2019s a part of womanhood. It\u2019s also a part of girlhood and a point of connection between younger girls. Getting to see it on the screen and see the way that these girls talk about it, ignoring the society of Gilead and the amount of pressure that the men put on them in this society, that connection that they have with those few things that span across culture, that is something that we were all very happy to kind of have that openness with something that we\u2019ve felt so scared to talk about, especially at like 14 and 15.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Scared to experience too.<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> I remember when I got my period for the first time I was like, \u201cWhat is happening? I don\u2019t know what is going on.\u201d The first person that you call, if it\u2019s not your mom or another maternal figure in your life, is your friends. Because they\u2019re normally the person closest to you in proximity if you\u2019re at school or if you were at an after-school activity or something like that. Getting to have that openness felt very refreshing to have on set.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>There was so much openness that there was a menarche playlist curated by director Mike Barker. Tell me the backstory on this. <\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> We did. I\u2019m trying to remember how we found out about this playlist. We were doing a camera test for the costumes, and I remember Mike just putting on this playlist and he\u2019s like, \u201cI like putting up these songs for everyone to listen to\u201d because there was no dialogue in this little camera test between me, Mattea, Rowan [Blanchard], Lucy, Brad [Alexander], Amy [Seimetz] and Mabel [Li] \u2014 I can\u2019t remember if I might be forgetting somebody else, and I\u2019m so sorry if I am. But it was a bunch of the cast and then there was also some pinks in there just to see how everything looks on camera. And we were hearing all these different songs playing. We\u2019re like, \u201cWow, this is great. Thanks for putting together a playlist, Mike.\u201d At some point, Lucy went to grab his phone to look at what the song was and his playlist was open, and she\u2019s like, \u201cWhy is the playlist called \u2018The Menarche Playlist\u2019? And after that, it just became us trying to get him to approve a song that we would suggest.<\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> I remember you telling me Britney Spears\u2019 \u201d… Baby One More Time\u201d was on it. But I had wondered who else made the cut. <\/p>\n

Infinti:<\/b> \u201c… Baby One More Time\u201d was on it. I think that was the first song on it, but there would be points in lunch \u2014 we\u2019d all eat lunch together \u2014 and we\u2019d be like \u201cOK, Mike, what about this one for the menarche playlist, or what about about this one?\u201d We would all secretly hope that they would get added to the show. <\/p>\n

Villarreal:<\/b> Did one of your suggestions get added?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> There are songs on there that I don\u2019t even remember. So one of them probably did get added. I just don\u2019t remember what it was.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Agnes is somebody that doesn\u2019t really experience culture. We don\u2019t know what kind of music she likes, what kind of TV or film she likes. And you\u2019re someone that\u2019s very much into culture, at least from what I\u2019ve seen. Were you thinking about what she might like? How did you think about her backstory with that kind of absence?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>I was really just relying on what you saw of her in \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d and that was the extent of what I would let a part of her backstory be because she doesn\u2019t remember much about her childhood. Once she becomes conscious, in a way, in Gilead, all I did was rely on the things that I knew that she liked and really try to remind myself, \u201cShe doesn\u2019t know what a movie is. She knows what \u2018Jaws\u2019 is, but she doesn\u2019t really have an understanding of what watching a movie is like. She doesn\u2019t know what YouTube is, she doesn\u2019t know what a phone is.\u201d I had to keep reminding myself, especially at the beginning, to not put those things in the forefront of our minds, unless, of course, like you\u2019re a Pearl girl who has prior knowledge of everything. A lot of it was just reminding myself, \u201cYou don\u2019t know what this is, she doesn\u2019t know what this is.\u201d If I were to meet Agnes right now, she would probably think I was crazy because she just doesn\u2019t understand a lot the things I\u2019ve seen, and the things that we use in our day-to-day life, and I really tried to make sure to keep that intact, but also relying on the bits of information that I had from \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d going back to the show. And also, of course, we had Bruce Miller, so I could ask him anything.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>What would you, Chase, expose her to? If she were to come to you, what she should be listening to or watching, what\u2019s the guide you\u2019d give her?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>The crash course to being 14? I would show her One Direction. I\u2019m sorry. That is something that is so quintessential to being a 14-year-old, especially me being 14. I would be like, \u201cAgnes, I see the things that you love and you\u2019re obsessed with. I\u2019m going to show you the thing that I was in love and obsessed with when I was your age.\u201d I would be very curious to see how she would react to hearing One Direction for the first time; hearing \u201cWhat Makes You Beautiful,\u201d that would be interesting to see. I would show her something that is representative of me being her age. I still am a fan. I\u2019ve always been a fan my whole life, but especially One Direction, that\u2019s probably something I would show her.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Who was Chase at 14? You talked earlier about having a little bit of that rebellion in you. And after playing these two characters back to back, what have you sort of learned yourself, about your power or finding your voice, especially in an industry like Hollywood?<\/p>\n

Infiniti:<\/b> Something that I realized when I was probably about 13 or 14 is, I used to be very upset when people would underestimate me. I found a way to, I guess, not make it my superpower … but use it as opposed to [letting it be] something that would defeat me. [I would] use it as something to continue to motivate me to work towards the goal that I already had because there\u2019s always gonna be people that underestimate you. There\u2019s always going to be people in the world that want to pour negativity into you when you\u2019re truly just living your life, working towards the things that you want. That was something that I realized pretty young because I knew at 10 that I wanted to be an actor. And so at that point, I kind of made a shift in my mind where I was like, \u201cOK, I need to start working towards the thing that I want to do.\u201d At 13, people were like, \u201cWhy are you so motivated to do this? It\u2019s a bit embarrassing that you want to be an actor. What makes you think you can do that?\u201d And I was like, \u201cBecause I want to do it.\u201d I never had a doubt in my mind that this would be the thing that I would get to do because that was something that my parents always told me. They were like, \u201cDream big because the dreams that you\u2019re imagining can be your reality, especially if you work hard enough towards it.\u201d And I feel very lucky that I get to do the thing I\u2019ve always dreamed of doing.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>How does that live side by side with also learning how to deal with rejection so young?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>It\u2019s a lot of tears, a lot of sad days, sad weeks, conversations with my friends, conversations with parents. But from being underestimated, I remember my dad being like, \u201cYou have to get comfortable with \u2018no.\u2019 And it\u2019s not going to be fun. It\u2019s not gonna be something that you\u2019re excited to hear, because no one\u2019s excited to hear that they didn\u2019t get something that they really wanted.\u201d Now I\u2019m at a point where I\u2019ve really learned how to process it and not let a no or a rejection affect my view of myself or affect my view of a performance or my abilities to do anything. It took a long time to learn, and I\u2019m still nowhere near perfect, but I\u2019m definitely at a place that\u2019s better than when I was 13 because it is hard for somebody that young to get that amount of rejection. It\u2019s also hard for somebody at my age to handle that level of rejection, especially when you get so close to something. I have to give that credit to processing those things to my parents because that is all them. I had many tear-filled nights when I was a kid because I was so sad that I didn\u2019t get a solo in something, and they\u2019re like, this doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re not talented. I\u2019m also somebody who believes the right things will find you. And they\u2019re [my parents] also the people that kind of instilled that in me too.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Does that reframing of no also give you the confidence to approach Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro and say, \u201cWill you make a TikTok with me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>It honestly was like a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I was very specific. I did lots of research because I also was like, \u201cI want it to be something that they can look at and also laugh at.\u201d They can enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Do you think you\u2019ll get there with Ann Dowd? A TikTok?<\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>I would love to. I don\u2019t know what it would be, but I would love to make a TikTok with Ann Dowd one day. If it could be like all the girls on set making a TikTok, I would be very happy. I do have some planned. So, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>Margaret Atwood makes a cameo in the finale of Season 1. How do you even talk to Margaret Atwood when you meet her? What was that experience like for you? <\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>The person who was probably the most shocked was Lucy because Lucy Halliday is the biggest Margaret Atwood fan I think I\u2019ve ever met. I had the gift of getting to witness Lucy meeting Margaret for the first time. But meeting her \u2014 she\u2019s so kind. [Producer] Warren Littlefield says this all the time where he\u2019s like, \u201cYou can\u2019t talk to Margaret Atwood and not learn something with every conversation.\u201d I just remember being very quiet and listening to her talk and listening to her ask questions of me, ask questions of Lucy, but we would just pour into her and be like, \u201cThank you so much for your work because you truly have touched millions.\u201d She\u2019s also so funny and so witty and very charismatic. I remember being very nervous beforehand, but she made it very easy for our nerves to go away. The highlight was getting to see Lucy meet Margaret.<\/p>\n

Villarreal: <\/b>You\u2019re about to head out to Canada to start production on Season 2. You\u2019ve seen two scripts. What do you hope to see for Agnes in Season 2? <\/p>\n

Infiniti: <\/b>I hope Agnes is happy, and I hope that she can continue to push and find her happiness. I hope that she doesn\u2019t lose her spark, and I hope that\u2019s something that she continues to explore and understand why she is the way that she is. Those are two hopes that I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s episode of The Envelope podcast, Chase Infiniti discusses her meteroic rise, her Emmy nomination for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":997965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[201904,131495,3603,122787,171,399830,87348,140544,3196,975,399829,3546,296672,67,132,68,2058,2452,1628,399828],"class_list":["post-997964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-award-show","tag-chase-infiniti","tag-daughter","tag-emmy-nomination","tag-entertainment","tag-genuine-moment","tag-live-show","tag-mark-olsen","tag-movie","tag-music","tag-new-thing","tag-people","tag-testaments","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington","tag-week","tag-year","tag-yvonne-villarreal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117087814924193243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}