Today’s show we have actor Laila Robins. She talks about meeting Uta & Hebert for the first time in there apt in NYC. 

They changed the trajectory of my career. I got a lot of validation because of working with Uta & Herbert. “Working with them, is like studying with them.”

I felt very drawn to Uta. She had immigrant parents, I had immigrant parents. I went to school in Wisconsin. She was from Wisconsin. I could see my future in her. 

There was a person that I recognized in her. 

Laila dives into the time they were performing at the Drew Theatre in the Hamptons Laila your doing the lines the same every time. If we listen, we react.

One time I called Uta, from the Guthrie Theatre, in Minneapolis. I was playing Hedda Gabler & I was struggling. Uta was always encouraging. She gave you something to strive for. She was my artist mother. 

She really taught us how to keep it alive. Listen to the fine details that Uta shared with Laila on acting.