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Consistent, showing up on time, knowing your words, which I still don't know. And I think just being like having a goal in what you want to come across in your performances and with not just the performances but with your audiences and also the people that you're working with. Yeah. Common decency. Yeah. Was theater your first love? Yes, actually. It's sort of

Got embedded thanks to my mom. My mom's Italian, so hence the name. She loved musicals and stuff like that, but she was at that time when I was born, she was in Zimbabwe and she didn't speak much English. She'd come straight from Italy to Zimbabwe, had four children, one after another, and then separated from my father and needed to get work. So she had to learn English and she would watch the sound.

Of music, Mary Poppins, she adores Julie Andrews and learned to speak really from watching those kinds of movies: Oklahoma, what's the other one? Carousel, those kind of musical movies is how she learned to speak English. And so we were dragged to watch these movies. I mean, silent music I'd seen six times by the age of five. So I sort of knew it backwards. And she'd make us sing the songs as well. Yeah. Yeah. So it really.

Came from her. Yeah, I can just see you there. Doe, Eddie. When she gave us cod liver oil and stuff like that, and what's that chalk stuff? Milk of magnesia. And she'd line us up and we'd have to sing, just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But it didn't. I need our listeners to watch on our YouTube channel. There's this expression that you have with your face. You speak with your face.