Elizabeth rehearses a story about meeting a Mexican actor on a plane while her speaking coach gives feedback on pacing, pauses, and stage movement. The coach breaks down specific vocal and physical techniques to strengthen her delivery and hold an audience.
You missed me smoking my cigarette. All right, so we're on the plane and there's a famous Mexican actor. My dad gets to sit next to him and my dad's just ecstatic. Ends up being really, really amazing because when we land, my dad's always been great at just connecting with everyone, and so he starts conversating the whole plane ride And we get there and this actor invites us to go back to his villa in León, Guanajuato, which was not the city we were staying in, but we were going to use that as our connecting place. And so—
okay, now did she do the pauses to start with?
Yeah.
And then did she forget? Yeah. Right. So I just want you to see what it looks like. So, and we got on the plane and this like famous actor from Mexico was on the plane, and that was really cool because it meant that we could talk with him. And then he invited us, we got to go to the mansion, and then I forgot to breathe and I kept talking. So I want you to practice— yeah, but also when you pause, don't— like, I know it's new, so it'll be uncomfortable, but when you pause for a minute, there's lots of things you can do with a pause. You're really just like leaving the end of the sentence and then taking a breath. You might like move to a different spot on the stage. You might do any number of things, but you want to make the pause seem like natural. The first pause you did, it was a bit like this. And there was this like incredibly famous actor
