Coming from the theater I love the adrenalin rush from working on NCIS. You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked. It's such a masochistic thing. In one episode we were shooting boxed in a container from 7 in the morning to 12 at night. There's gunfire in the container. We had to pretend the truck was moving so we had to keep ourselves moving the whole time. I remember my knees were all bruised up because I had to fall so many times. That was taxing on the body.
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I actually never thought I'd be an actress. I always thought I was gonna be a singer because it was always what I did. I was a very quiet, shy kid and I was always making observations and I was always sort of hiding behind my grandmother's skirt. I was watching things from afar. It wasn't until I came to this country that I had to sort of crack the shell and develop a voice so that people didn't walk all over me. And so I started expressing myself in many different ways and that's how I landed on a stage in theater class in middle-school and that's the beginning.
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I auditioned and within two weeks I was on a plane and moving to Los Angeles. I had one little bag and moved into a one-bedroom apartment and my life became NCIS.
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I feel like I'm Chilean and I'm American. I don't feel I'm just one thing. I live in no mans land in many ways because I'm not Chilean and I'm not American… I relate to her more because I am a foreigner more than I would playing just an American person. It was very easy for me to identify with somebody who's a foreigner, who doesn't understand everything.
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I want to get more into martial arts, and I'm taking the Israeli answer to Chinese Kung Fu. There's no fighting there. It's just a matter of breaking down the enemy in three seconds. It's really violent, but I'm doing it more for getting into shape and just to be stronger. I've always been fit, but I want to feel strength coming from the center of my body, which has nothing to do with being mean or anything. It just has to do with doing the right core work.
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I'm not much a party animal anyway. I lay low. I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.
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