BA #061: Milana Vayntrub

January 25, 2015

 

On the sixty-first Box Angeles actor Milana Vayntrub (House of Lies, Silicon Valley) stops by Studio 309. She discusses playing in the streets of WeHo as a child, dropping out of Beverly Hills High School, how producing her own content in Live Prude Girls was crucial to her success, and more!

 

 

the BA #061 breakdown —
– Box rants the hurriedness to get on airplanes.
– Drinking and vices and rituals and procrastination.
– Growing up in West Hollywood and being born in Uzbekistan.
– Divorced parents, a younger sister and playing in the streets as a child.
– Being a talker and getting into Barbie commercials when she was five.
– Getting turned off by acting in teens and dropping out of Beverly Hills high school at 16.
– Attending UC San Diego and getting back into theatre.
– Briefly moving to NYC for a job and re-starting in the biz in LA.
– Odd jobs like juice bars, hostess-ing, and PA-ing.
– How a hike got her inspired to make her own content and starting Live Prude Girls.
– Finding her comedy chops working as a waitress in college at East Village Tavern & Bowl.
– Landing the AT&T Lily Adams gig and selling Live Prude Girls to MTV.

For more Milana, follow her on Twitter @mintmilana.

 

Guest Beer — Saint Archer, Blonde Ale