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- Hi, I'm Alicia Frame and I play Tara Rose.
Hi, I'm Tara.
Tara is your...
typical good girl?
This is such a cute outfit.
- [Man] Thank you so much.
- I love this.
She's got the biggest heart in the world,
she wants everyone to be her friend,
she wants everyone to be happy
and everyone to have a good time.
- My name is Will Goodman, in the web series,
Living in the Moment, I play TJ.
He is a lost boy from Ohio
and he loves music.
He loves to rock out on the guitar and collect records.
I have like, close to 400 records back home.
- Hi, I'm Myriam Raymond and I play Molly
on Living in the Moment.
Molly is a small town girl, she has small town dreams,
she wants to get married, she wants to start a family.
We're supposed to move in together, what do you mean?
And she's very sweet but she's
been hurt once too many times.
Molly's a fighter and she's very independent.
I think the women characters in this series are very
different than the ones you usually see.
Even though there may be the underlying subtext of a man,
who's kind of, they're revolving around,
I think the girls themselves, they're powerful,
they're strong, they're intelligent.
And they know exactly what they need to do
to make things right in their lives.
- I just got here. - What are you talking about?
You need to go home.
Her best friend Nico is an extreme extrovert.
He is unapologetic when it comes to who he is as a person,
who he is sexually, who he is in all aspects
of his life and I think Tara admires that,
but at the same time she envies it.
- I think Nico is just sort of bizarre to TJ at first.
He's like who is this guy, what's he doing here,
what's his whole thing, does he like me,
I don't think he does.
- You don't even know us, dude.
- Wow. - You don't even
*** know us.
- Really? - Yeah.
- TJ is unacquainted with homosexuality,
with gay, with LGBT community, with that kind of openness.
And Tyle's character Sean comes in
and they have an exchange, they have some words.
- Get the *** away from me dude.
I told you I'm not gay.
- What the ***?
- Situation really speaks to Tara because she sees TJ
trying to shut down someone who's just being themselves.
- I'm playing a character who just has never
been in contact with gay people basically ever in his life,
and he reacts so aggressively
and I think that's what's cool about this web series
is that it shows a character evolve
and change in their point of view.
So I think to be able to see someone evolve naturally
into a place of understanding and acceptance,
that's what this series is all about.
I was kind of wrong about you.
Like I totally judged you at first and.
- We actually, I feel like we portray the vast
majority of modern relationships.
More recently, we've become a culture of ghosting.
We've become a culture of what's next out there for me,
or there's probably something better out there for me
when things are perfectly fine.
- Modern day dating, ha, is
phenomenal all in itself.
But in this series I think it really encompasses a lot of
different avenues that modern dating comes across.
Different characters enterwined,
how their relationships blossomed,
or how they even met, little like just all sorts of things
in order to figure out who was who
and what was what, kind of deal.
- Working on Living in the Moment
with this casting crew was so fun
because we felt like a big, happy family by the end.
We'd been working so much together every week
that by the end we were like,
so gelled together, with the crew,
they were so stellar in getting everything
that needed to be done.
And to see everyone evolve
through the process was very rewarding.
- And I love that Eddie had such a great vision for this.
He gave us a lot of creative freedom
to build our own characters while giving us guidelines.
In rehearsals, we just kind of unleashed
what we thought our characters would be
and it bounced off so well, it was so natural.
It made the series more real
because the words we were saying
weren't really what mattered,
and it was the emotions that were coming through.
- Virtual reality was insane.
Doing the bar scene was when we did the VR for that,
is you not only saw the scene that was happening,
but you saw the little scene that was happening over here,
you saw Nico meeting Sean,
you saw Will playing the guitar,
you saw our friends in the back playing,
like you saw every little thing
that was happening in that bar.
You didn't just have to focus on one scene,
you can notice all the other stuff and that was awesome.
The coolest part was living in the actual moment,
so you're in it, and you're able to express
to other people how living in the moment is
because you see everything, just like in real life
when you're walking down the street.
You don't see just this one path, you see everything.
It was great.
- So, living in the moment means taking things
as they come and reacting to them.
We get dealt so many crazy cards in life,
and we can't plan for everything and that's exactly what
Living in the Moment is but captured behind the camera.
We have a group of millennials who are trying to figure out
where to grow career-wise, where to grow emotionally,
where to grow within their relationships
and their friendships and just expand their horizons
and they're taking it in as it comes
and reacting honestly and truthfully.
Unfortunately not everything happens in life
the way you want it to, and Living in the Moment
is just about rolling with it and just going with it.
- Living in the moment to me means seeing
what's going on around you and not being afraid.
Not letting fear of judgment,
fear of possible negative outcomes
decide what you're gonna do.
I think it means living to the best of your ability
and making the most of every opportunity
that is presented to you.
- I want people to take away from the series
that we need to be supportive for one another
and we need to just love each other as much as we can.
My advice is to just embrace what the world is,
embrace what's happening around you.
- You just gotta be yourself unabashedly,
and you gotta respect people for doing their thing.
- See the world as it is, to understand that,
yeah, everyone's different but that's okay.
Like, you're supposed to be!
No one's supposed to be the same, it's boring!
Be who you want to be.