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- You know, I have to draw
inspiration from my life.

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I just, I don't know if I'm
not good enough of an actor

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to sort of draw inspiration
from people on screen.

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I can't do it.

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I feel like I'll
intellectualize it and mimic it.

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And so I kind of draw
from what is close to me,

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or people that I see.

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And I think in this one specifically

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it was very much my grandmother.

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I think my grandmother was a vicious,

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beautiful powerhouse of a woman.

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And she crossed the
border and started working

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in New York at a toy store,

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like building toys for kids while her kids

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were being tended by someone else.

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And that's Bix.

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That's something Bix would do,

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and that's what she does with Cassie.

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And she's like, you know what,

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and all of this was to pay a
debt that wasn't even hers.

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Right?

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So she didn't even do it
for her, for her family.

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She did it for her cousin who was in debt.

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And that's Bix to me.

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That's something that
goes, "oh, Bix does that

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in the first episode."

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You know, it's at her own detriment,

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but she goes "I'm gonna do it.

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'Cause I'm brave and I can do it."

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And she was also a great bargainer.

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I'm like, I would never wanna be

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on the other side of my
grandmother bargaining.

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I'm like, "you're stealing."

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She's like, "no, I just pay my own price."

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I'm like, "oh good God."

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And then I would go and
hand the vendor more money.

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And also Bix, that was so her.

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So I drew a little bit from her

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and things that I remembered about her.

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