Memory Bank: Drew and Valerie Bertinelli Reflect on How Acting so Young Affected Their Adulthood

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Memory Bank: Drew & Valerie Bertinelli Reflect on How Acting So Young Affected Their Adulthood

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Drew: It’s me and none other than, Annette Funicello, you might remember Annette Funicello. She was a digital Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, she was a child actor. And I think all the time about Shirley Temple and Annette Funicello, Sally Field, you, me, these people who have kind of never stopped we barely ever even started it's like we've been kids who are working and we're adults that are working and we just we kind of got on this treadmill, this beautiful blessed, fortunate treadmill but I think of Simone Biles too. I think of all these times where I'm looking at people who have just never stopped and I wonder like when do you ever stop?

Valerie: You don’t when you're dead. And I think what's so interesting about having started this so young and I think you might feel this way too, is that you become a grown up so quickly and then when you actually become a grown up, like we are now, we are now children again. And we and we embrace the child in us and enjoy the childlike wonder that we see through our eyes now, at least for me, and I see that in you every day, you know? Now we can embrace our child that we weren't allowed to embrace a long time ago.

Ross: Drew can I ask you why is that resonating? Like I see you processing.

Drew: I think a lot of the times in life we don't. I don’t know I think I'm starting to finally get to a place where I can look back more. Since I was a kid I've just been running and I never stopped running and we're all go go go. We're all working so hard to figure things out, grow, live life. I think a lot of us feel so much inertia and purpose and energy and we got to work on ourselves and we got to get that thing done and we got to return that call and you know sometimes the permission just the word permission to slow down is something since childhood I have not really understood. It's so funny to me how important that is and how valuable it's becoming to me.

Valerie: I think what you're learning to do is what from where I can watch you is you are learning to not run away anymore but walk away and reflect. And I think that's a really important thing for all of us to be able to do not only run stop running away from things and not necessarily running towards something, but just being able to walk away and reflect and appreciate and hold with that all the trauma or whatever that holds that is painful and also hold with it all the joy that comes with it as well or next to it. And instead of trying to purge trauma from our system, maybe just sit next to it where it's not an enemy any longer and you can reflect and say this is helped make me made me who I am today.