02x06 - The Haart Sphere

[bunniefuu]

I make moves in a New York minute ♪

Ah, ooh ♪

I set my bar and it has no limit ♪

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[Batsheva] I like your outfit.

[Robert] Well, thank you.

It's very surface and basic of you.

You know.

[Robert] Should we fight?

-[Batsheva] No.

-No?

Sometimes I fight with Ra'ed for funsies.

That's so mean.

When I get into a phase where I'm fighting

for fun, he starts calling me petty fatty.

Petty fatty?

I'm a petty fatty. Even though I had most

of it sucked out, I'm a fatty at heart.

What makes you

It's a mindset. It's if you're not one,

you'll never know

because it's really an exclusive club.

-[chuckles]

-[Robert] People who love cheeses.

If you put me in front of a brie

-It's gone.

-you're gonna have a few bites

and be, like,

"Mm, that was nice. I'm moving on."

[laughs]

I'm gonna k*ll that brie, okay?

Okay, I feel you.

My interaction with that brie

will be the subject of

a late-night Netflix special

on how I m*rder*d.

-The brie?

-[Robert] In cold blood.

So don't f*ck with me. I'm a petty fatty.

[upbeat music playing]

[Jill] I wish I had

an extra freaking table.

I know, like a little

-My coffee table. I don't have one.

-Right.

It's coming.

All right, we'll just keep it here.

-[doorbell rings]

-[Julia] Hi!

[Jill] Surprise! [laughs]

Hi, gorgeous.

Jill is definitely the Jewish sister

I need right now.

The first time we met,

we're on the same plane flying to Miami.

And we spent four hours

talking to each other.

We walked off that plane, and we felt like

we'd known each other our entire lives.

And she's become a real close friend.

I f*cking love her.

Unbelievable, the two-and-a-half years

you've been through.

It's a short period of time.

So imagine in the next 12 months,

-how much great stuff is gonna happen.

-I hope so.

I gotta win this thing first.

Until I win this thing and clear my name,

-there's that lump in my chest.

-I know.

The last really traumatic thing

that happened to me is when I left,

and when I did that, I did it alone.

This time, I've got people.

People have stood by me, have defended me.

"Julia, we believe in you.

Julia, what can we do for you?"

Okay. Family, have you heard

from any of your family?

-No.

-Still nothing.

-Not even after all this trauma.

-Nothing.

-Nobody has reached out to you?

-Not one person has reached out to me.

-I'm sorry about that.

-It's okay.

-I'm used to it.

-Your sister, no?

-I thought maybe

-I thought maybe she would.

Maybe she would reach out knowing

you're going through a torturous time.

-She's scared to lose her other family.

-Mm-hmm.

You know, she's kind of in that

No, it's not the other family.

She's scared to lose her community.

But it's interesting,

because Eliza, Josef's wife,

who's known me for, like, a few months,

she got so much grief.

But she told everybody, "f*ck you.

This is my family."

"If you don't like it,

you're not my friend. Go away."

-And it all went away.

-Wow.

And my sister,

-who I have supported and helped

-No.

and done all these things for

when she got attacked by the community.

Instead of defending me,

she was like, goodbye.

She just didn't have your strength.

Can't hate her for that.

-I don't hate her. It just hurts.

-I know.

There's no hate.

She's my sister. I love her for life.

You know, I'm a forgive-and-forget person.

-It's gonna be hard.

-But you have to be really strong.

-It's not easy.

-A lot of people don't They're not you.

You know, it's interesting.

New friends that I've just gotten,

that I thought would run for the hill

at the very moment of trouble.

They're still here.

And then people that I've

helped, fought for,

loved, like my sister Hannah.

She was the only person

in my family who spoke to me.

You know that you're

super unusual and unique.

Well, I wish everyone was like that.

I say that all the time.

Everyone should be less judgmental.

[Julia] Through all this suffering

that I'm going through,

she hasn't reached out to me.

That is one thing

this whole situation has taught me.

I now know, without the shadow

of a doubt, who my real friends are.

-You think you've got problems.

-Yeah.

I've got a guy

who needs testosterone shots,

because we never have sex anymore.

-When was the last time?

-Men have menopause too.

It's a month ago

because I got him testosterone shots.

-It took me six months

-What does that mean?

It just doesn't go [clicks tongue]

Yeah, well, you don't wake up with one

because when men get older

-Okay.

-So Silvio did?

No, Silvio had such a soggy d*ck.

It's menopause.

-You don't know that.

-Serious soggy d*ck.

-How old is he?

-Sixty-two.

Gary, you here?

Hey, Gary.

[Julia] So he hasn't had a shot.

[Jill] When was the last time

you had a shot of testosterone?

Was someone calling me?

Yeah. When was the last time

you had a testosterone shot?

Don't worry about me.

-[Jill] When was

-I'm fully loaded.

-[Jill] You are not fully loaded.

-The plunger's pulled back.

[laughs] Gary's such a liar.

He's such a liar.

You're a liar.

[upbeat music playing]

[Batsheva] These are my favorite cookies.

[Shlomo] That does have a strong

Ooh, those look good.

[Batsheva] I know,

see the sprinkles are everything.

What a nice day of baking with sibs.

-[Miriam laughs]

-Put a little frosting.

We need to do the last one.

[doorbell rings]

-Oh, it's probably Aron.

-[Batsheva] I can get it.

That's so nice of you. [chuckles]

I need my steps.

My relationship with Aron

is really special

'cause I definitely spent a lot of time

with him when he was growing up.

-You wanna come? We're making cookies.

-So much fun.

I was, like, a maternal figure to him,

and I took care of him for years.

and now he's becoming a teenager,

and he's in this very in-between

teenager stage, figuring himself out.

[Nathalie] Hey, Aronski.

-[Miriam] Aronski!

-[Shlomo] Hey.

He's figuring out what kind of person

he is. And we've all experienced that.

[Batsheva] Cookie decorating times.

[squeals]

Kosher?

They are kosher.

-[Batsheva] They are kosher, yeah.

-[Miriam] Everything's kosher.

Kosher oven.

-When I taste

-Wait, uh, question.

Did you microwave the butter?

[Batsheva] Um

Not kosher. [chuckles]

-Oh, no!

-[Aron groans]

[Batsheva] You can take a cookie

from the cabinet that's kosher

and put some Funfetti frosting on it.

-I want cookies, so yeah.

-[Batsheva] Or tea biscuits.

[Aron] Maybe tea biscuits.

[Batsheva] Perfect.

I'm sorry, Aron. That's my bad.

-[Batsheva] Good?

-Mm-hmm.

-[Batsheva] How was your day at school?

-I'm good.

But, I mean,

I wanna go to yeshiva next year.

[Batsheva] You're gonna switch to yeshiva?

You wanna do that? You wanna leave

your school, incredible school now?

[Aron] My Judaism is what makes me happy.

Learning the Torah,

that's what I enjoy doing.

You're gonna go where it's super intense.

You're not gonna be able to be a child.

I mean, there's other children there

I know. And they have no life besides

sitting there and learning all day long.

[Miriam] Shlomo can tell you.

He would come home at 10:00 p.m. at night

and leave at 6:00 a.m. in the morning.

I just didn't see him those years.

I'm definitely concerned about Aron

wanting to attend yeshiva because,

although he's very religious and intense

now, he still goes to secular school.

He's still exposed to so many different

ideas whether he realizes it or not.

By him going to yeshiva, it completely

cuts him off from everything.

And so that scares me.

That just limits his mind,

and I don't want him to experience that.

I wanna become a rebbe, so I don't think

my chemistry is gonna be helping me.

-You wanna become a rebbe?

-Yeah, I wanna be an educator.

-Oh my Lord.

-I am.

But then you don't get an education.

I had a little bit. It wasn't good,

but I did have some secular studies.

I was in full yeshiva.

I know the messaging. I know the feeling.

I lived it. Aron's really young.

Even though he's now veering towards

the ideology of the yeshiva system,

once he's in it, maybe he won't like it.

The main focus of yeshiva

is to give you a religious education.

There is very little secular studies.

There's no clubs, no sports team.

There is no social life

outside of yeshiva.

There's no time for other things.

It's a very different life.

Completely different

than what he's experienced.

You know what you wanna do?

[Batsheva] No, he wanted to do

something else three months ago.

-[Miriam] He wanted to be a film director.

-Don't you wanna be a child?

-To get in

-I wanna enjoy my life. I wanna be happy.

I can tell you that the state

I'm in right now is solely

because it's what I wanna do.

It makes me happy.

-[Shlomo] He's got the hands even.

-[chuckles]

[all chuckling]

The only reason we're talking to you

is because we love and care about you.

It's not about asking you

or trying to influence you

to leave or to be anything less

but to just be

a little open-minded and not

I'm open-minded.

I'm hanging out with you guys.

[Batsheva] I'm definitely concerned

with how strong-minded he is

in this new stand on a religion.

I've never heard him

talk like this before,

and it makes me sad as his older sister

to see him closing himself off.

Actually, to jump

in a little bit for Aron's side,

he's not living his childhood

the way you think that childhood

should be, but if you're religious,

the main purpose in life is,

"Are you being good in the eyes of God?"

-You should do what you feel is right.

-Thank you, Shlomo.

[Shlomo] So.

I love you. I know for myself

if I ever wanted to change even slightly,

even when I was still living in Monsey,

it felt like you couldn't change

your mindset. If you at any point,

do differ your mind, then you shouldn't

feel the pressure because you felt like,

I told everyone I'm being like this,

so I can't do anything different.

It is your life to live.

-It is your future.

-[Aron] I agree.

-You should be able to be a little

-I agree 100%.

-100% agree.

-Yeah.

-Okay.

-No matter your choices we'll love you.

We always wanna have a relationship

with you, regardless of your

-Obviously.

-beliefs

Love you.

[Miriam] I'm getting in there.

Group hug.

Group hug!

The longest arms are going last.

[all chuckling]

[upbeat music playing]

You're so tall. I don't even know

if you can walk around in my house.

-It's so small. Like a little shoebox.

-[Miriam chuckles]

[Ra'ed] Oh my God. You're moving out,

so not a big deal.

[Nathalie] True.

You're living the high life, honey.

In the high life!

I'm probably, like, doing the most

from the bottom to the top in one move.

Mm. I like those two words.

[chuckles]

Today's the day we are moving my stuff

from my place in Queens to the penthouse.

The penthouse.

I think this is a huge step

in our relationship. I mean, like,

-we're moving in together.

-Yeah.

-It's official.

-It's official.

That's actually a blessing to be

in that apartment, that penthouse.

I mean, come on.

-That penthouse is just

-The best place.

Yeah. Me, Nathalie, and my mama.

[chuckles]

Yeah.

There have been no nights when we've

been apart from each other since we dated,

and here's this opportunity for her

to move in and make things convenient,

all thanks to my mother.

Thanks for letting Nathalie low-key move

into this apartment. I never asked.

I don't care. You know that.

-The more the merrier.

-I know. It's still sweet though.

I'm very happy.

[Nathalie] No, don't click

the middle button.

Now you locked us out.

-You have to wait 30 seconds.

-Oh. [giggles]

I can't believe you don't have a doorman.

-I'm kidding!

-What is this?

-[Nathalie] Yeah!

-[cheering]

-[Ra'ed] Cute!

-[Nathalie] Came to life.

[giggling]

-[Miriam] I forgot about this.

-You don't have to be

I'm not doing that.

I'll bring the door frame down.

So I'm gonna start shoving things in here.

-We're gonna take, like, the jackets.

-[Ra'ed] Okay.

[Nathalie] We're gonna take stuff here.

I'm gonna throw that out. Don't worry.

[Ra'ed] Anything in this drawer you want?

-Millennials on holiday.

-Nathalie built everything in here.

I bought it and then

-You went to h*m* Depot?

-[Miriam] She bought this, curtain

I went to Ikea, obviously,

'cause it's Swedish.

[Miriam] Obviously.

[playful music plays]

[Nathalie] But I don't wanna

dump the stuff I don't wanna use.

I thought you were moving everything out.

Why are we moving half of the things?

[Nathalie] You know, I'm gonna keep

this place because, you never know,

just in case.

Not like that, but it's, like

[laughs]

[Nathalie] As an international

in this country, I also feel like I need

to have a place of my own that, like

I don't know. I can go to

or if something happens, like

-What do you think's gonna happen?

-I don't know.

But I feel like I always need

to have a backup

because I'm in a foreign country.

I don't have my friends.

I don't have a family here.

At this time,

when I'm coming close to graduating

and, like, this whole roller coaster

of trying to stay

in the country is beginning,

I'm just getting freaked out.

Like, every person that has had to leave

has told me

the best way is to get married.

So, I mean, it's becoming a little more

real to me that we might use plan G.

-How does that make you feel?

-Plan G in works.

For me to stay, we'd have to do it,

but I'm doing it because I love you.

-You know.

-Mm-hmm.

-I need to

-We're family!

I mean, I have a family but not, you know?

[Miriam and Ra'ed, whimpering]

We're family.

-[Miriam] I'm not wearing my platforms.

-Where are you, Miriam? Are you here?

I'm not wearing my platforms.

[pop music playing]

Look at you cutie in glasses.

-Blue ray. That's what you have too.

-I love, yeah.

-It makes my eyes feel good.

-You look so smart.

Thank you. It's the glasses.

Joy, come here.

-Such a cutie.

-What a coo-coo.

[Miriam] You're so cute!

[Robert] The cutest.

-Oh my gosh.

-Let's not have a dog on the table.

-Guys, let's not teach Joy

-She's a coo-coo.

[Julia] All right, Joy.

No bad habits

because you're such a good girl.

Any updates?

[sighs] So even though

Silvio signed the papers,

it was never filed in Delaware.

-What wasn't filed?

-The papers, the restructuring papers.

-That's what their argument is?

-Their whole argument is, "We signed it."

But it doesn't matter

because it was never filed in Delaware.

So, you know,

it's one thing to spread lies

in the court of public opinion.

That's easy.

In a court, it's contracts,

facts,

truth.

So I have confidence

that the truth will come out.

Justice may move slowly,

but I do believe in justice.

None of the contracts we signed are filed?

It doesn't make sense to me.

It's not every contract,

but when it has to do

with corporate governance

and, like, shares and ownership,

it's filed within the state

where the business is registered.

-It was never filed.

-If a business is registered in Delaware

We should have filed it

with the Department in Delaware.

Am I going to lose everything

because of a technicality?

I was like, what the f*ck

is he trying to do?

How is he gonna pretend

that we're not co-owners?

There's legal documents

with his signature on it.

That's how he's trying to do it.

He's claiming he never filed

those papers properly,

so he's trying to destroy me

on a technicality.

-A contract is a contract.

-[Julia] I would think so.

[tense rock music playing]

-Gentlemen, are you ready for the food?

-Yes, please.

What would you like?

I'll just do the Greek salad.

I'm trying to keep it healthy today.

[Ra'ed] I got a job

as a tech company manager.

Of course, on the day that I get my, like,

thank-you-but-no-thank-you letter,

you get your

congratulations-you're-hired letter,

and obviously this has

been a freaking godsend.

If we were both unemployed

and had no income coming into the house,

I would be so much more worried.

I am so excited to finally buy new pants

and wear them in this relationship. Ooh!

Oh, girl.

-I'm gonna wear those pants.

-Are they gonna be tight?

And you need to start calling me

Zaddy from now on.

-Because I'm bringing in the money now.

-Yeah.

You've been supporting me

for a long time. It's my turn.

I can't wait. Every day

I'm gonna have a $40 lunch.

You don't understand.

Rules are coming into this house.

b*tch, please.

It feels so good to actually

show you

how much I love you.

How much I wanna care for you,

and take care of you.

-I'm gonna be a kept woman.

-I would love that.

I mean, it's very comforting

that, like, I can really take time

and make the best next step and not be

totally based on [inhales] money.

Yeah.

And I was thinking

is there any possible way

for me to parlay this stuff

into kind of a Broadway opportunity?

You've always wanted to sing.

You're an incredible singer.

It's, like, saying

I wanna climb Mount Everest.

We watch Broadway, you are better.

-Sorry. Maybe biased 'cause I love you.

-You're a little biased.

You're better than everyone

on that stage minus Patti LuPone.

Obviously minus Patti LuPone.

Like, shut your mouth.

When I left college,

I made the decision

that singing was not an option.

That was the path I chose.

Since then, it's been on the back burner.

But now I have this moment

where there's nothing ahead of me,

and all of a sudden, I'm feeling

this urge to explore my creativity.

I definitely feel

myself making progress

to being more confident in my body.

I can definitely see a world

where I start enjoying myself

to the degree that you enjoy yourself.

It has to be balanced.

Right now, it's not balanced at all.

You're totally out.

-Yeah.

-I'm not doing anything.

So I feel like

I need to go on a date or something.

-I need to

-Go on a date?

Yeah.

Going on a date is a little bit

weird for me, honestly.

Why is a date different than you

going over and having sex with someone?

Because for me, it's animalistic.

It's totally, like, a massage almost.

I think the way you're feeling

about what I said

is very similar to how

I feel about what you wanna do.

What you're doing.

I feel like

I'm making progress, but I don't feel like

you're making any progress.

-Excuse me?

-Sorry.

You're just, like, one note.

"I want this-this-this-this."

What are you doing to change?

I think I'm addicted to sex,

but not in the medical term.

I was addicted to sex.

I mean, I have to make up for lost time.

My childhood has been hiding

and acting straight and acting macho

and making sure nobody gets a hint.

And I feel like as an adult now,

I've exploded into this person

who's making up

for my childhood in the Middle East.

-I think, you understand that your libido

-I mean, I

-Yeah.

-and your sex drive is in the South Pole.

Mine is in the North Pole,

very North up North

-Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Uranus.

-All the way to Uranus.

Miriam was saying maybe

we should go see a sex therapist.

What do you think?

Yeah.

That's a big step for a sl*t like me.

[pop music playing]

[line calling]

Hello.

-Hey babe, wanna hear the latest drama?

Yeah. Tell me what's going on.

So Silvio filed some emergency order

in divorce court

saying he wants to move back in

because PH2, our upstairs where we have

dinner every night and sit around talking,

is a business part of the house.

And he should be able

to come in and out as he pleases.

This is just him tormenting me.

Silvio files an injunction because

he needs to move back into this house

to use the upstairs for business meetings.

But it's so outrageous.

I haven't slept an iota.

That's really I am totally shocked

he wants to move back into the house.

He wants to use the house

whenever he wants.

Oh my gosh.

He's unhinged.

[upbeat music playing]

[sighs] I don't have that long

to get a job. I have, like, three months

to get something papered, almost.

It just is so much right now.

I have been applying for jobs.

They ask you in the application if you're

here on a student visa that's ending.

I mean, I'm not gonna lie,

so I'm checking that box,

then I get a rejection email, like

I mean, very short thereafter.

Don't worry, there's metaverse, baby.

Figure out what you can do

to help with the metaverse.

I would love to build something.

-Create something.

-We're about to create something.

[Miriam] Because I'm CTO at Haart Sphere,

Nathalie now has

an opportunity to get a job,

which would completely solve

her problem with visas.

But we both don't think

I should bring it up to my mom.

We think it'd be the best thing for her

to bring it up since it shows initiative.

-But obviously it is a little stressful.

-Yeah.

-I'm really gonna stress myself out.

-Don't stress yourself out.

-But it's your mom.

-I know.

I don't get nervous easily

but going to talk to Julia

I mean, I don't know

if it's because it's Miriam's mom,

or I'm asking for a job,

or because she's such a boss.

I don't know why, but I don't see

that I have any other choice.

-We still have plan G, and

-Yeah.

we won't tell my mom

until we freaking have to tell her.

Yeah.

[tense music playing]

-Hey.

-Hey.

How'd it go? You look smiley.

It's incredibly anti-climactic.

-It lasted around a minute and a half

-Whoa.

because apparently,

the judge and Silvio's lawyer

are best friends, and she's known

Silvio's lawyer for 20 years,

so she had to recuse herself.

Ooh.

Now we have to go

through this all over again.

-Was Silvio also present? How was that?

-I couldn't look at his face.

I just looked at the judge

and did not even look in his direction.

I can't stand the sight of him.

I'm already down to zero pounds.

If I had to look at his face,

I won't survive it.

[Julia] This man

has caused me real damage.

When I have a place of despair,

I can't eat.

I lost an inordinate amount of weight,

and it scared the sh*t out of me.

I went back to the weight

I had when I left the community.

I I couldn't eat.

And this is the most traumatic experience

that I've been through since back then.

My health is important to me,

and I know it worries my children.

I have to be careful

because I know my kids need me.

I need sleep desperately,

and I need to eat more food

because I'm not doing great.

[line calling]

Hello.

Hey there, quick question for you.

You think you can make hamburgers?

-Hamburgers?

-Can you make, like, super thin patties?

I mean, I love all the toppings. Cheese,

onion, lettuce, tomatoes, bacon for me.

-[Chris] All right.

-Thank you.

[upbeat music playing]

[Robert] Hey!

-[Zaffiris] Hey there!

-Robert!

-Long time, no see.

-Absolutely.

It's nice to see you.

-[Julia] I know.

-It's been hectic but good.

-It's been a ride.

-[Robert] Just chillin'.

It's been a ride, but here we are.

I'm excited, because now

we get to talk about the future.

Can't deal with the past.

Gotta talk about the future.

-[Zaffiris] Absolutely.

-Call us to order.

[chuckles]

-Order.

-Hear, hear.

You know, when I took over in EWG,

one of the first things that I did in 2019

was to get involved in the metaverse and

avatars because I saw that was the future.

Until Meta announced it was meta, everyone

thought I was doing something crazy

and stupid. "Don't mention it.

No one knows what you're talking about."

Of course, the minute Meta announced,

everyone's, like, "Julia's a genius."

One day, women will be taken as seriously

as men, but clearly still not yet.

Our metaverse, it's friendly to those

who don't understand blockchain,

Bitcoin, who you don't understand

how avatars are made.

It is the world's greatest democratization

of creativity, and it's really exciting.

The beauty of online shopping

is the expedience of it. It's very easy.

You can do it in your pajamas

in your bedroom, right?

But the problem with online shopping

is that it's not experiential.

It's not enjoyable.

You walk into a store,

someone offers you a drink,

they tell you you look beautiful,

they ooh and ah over what you try on.

-It's an experience.

-Not when I got to the store.

[all laughing]

So this is, like,

the hyper of experiential

because it makes shopping

playful and interesting.

So we're gonna build our own technology,

and the IP of it all we'll patent.

We have the concept very clear.

Now all we need to do

is build a business plan.

Figure out timing. Figure out next steps.

Figure out how long everything

is gonna take, how much it's gonna cost.

Yeah, if you have some very specific

ownable, patentable piece of technology.

-If we have patentable technology

-That's something to go to VC with.

I think we need one engineer

to really crack it.

This will probably be one of

the hardest things I'll be doing in life.

The technology that

we want to exist in Haart Sphere

doesn't exist anywhere.

So we would have to literally patent

all these new ideas,

and that is going to require

a lot of work on my end.

[Julia] You know, people love a new tech.

People love investing in tech,

talking about tech.

-People get excited about tech.

-Mm-hmm.

[Julia] I think

we can build a lot of buzz.

What I'd like to do is

this right here is the core partnership.

-Are any of the other kids involved?

-No.

Just Miriam. This is the core partnership.

So I'm CEO.

She's the chief technology officer.

You're the chief of operations.

You're the CFO.

That's our whole C-suite.

I do think that Miriam's age and her lack

of corporate experience could be an issue,

but she is a go-getter,

and she's ambitious.

And so I wanna give her the chance.

We're all owners of the company.

We have to figure out

who gets what percentage.

Mm-hmm.

It just depends on

how much money I have to invest.

[upbeat music playing]

[phone ringing]

[Robert] Today, I have a meeting

with the Daniel Hoff Agency.

-Hey, good morning.

-Good morning, how are you?

Good. I'm Robert, and I'm here

meeting Mark and Dustin.

Perfect, we have you

set up right behind us.

Okay, just head in?

[Robert] Mark and Dustin

are gonna tell me whether or not

I have even the remotest chance

of doing anything on Broadway.

Let's be clear. They don't take meetings

with ding dongs who walk off the street.

I had to scam every one of my friends

into sending emails on my behalf

and getting all of the stars to align

to just have this one in-person meeting.

Are they gonna like me

or think I'm terrible?

It's a lot of nerves

and a lot of opportunity riding on

basically how they perceive me

as an individual.

Robert.

-Hey!

-Hey, I'm Mark.

-Mark.

-Nice to meet you.

-Robert.

-Dustin.

Dustin, nice to meet you.

-Thank you, guys, for seeing me.

-Absolutely.

Thanks for coming in.

Of course, I'm happy that Diane

was able to connect us.

Can you tell us a bit about your voice?

What type of singing do you do?

Well, I was trained as an opera singer.

I guess I'm a high tenor, so like,

Amazing grace

How sweet the sound ♪

You know, like that.

-A high tenor.

-[Mark] A booming high tenor.

Yeah, I was a heldentenor in college

so, like, it's a heavy bottom but

[laughing]

[Mark] Good to know, Robert.

Heavy bottom. I've always been

a heavy bottom, my whole life.

Do you know what your top note is?

I'll give it. Let's do an E.

[sings high note]

-Okay.

-All right.

-Yeah. So you can sing.

-I'll actually sing something.

-And you can match pitch.

-Exactly.

-Yeah. Well, check, check.

-Check, check.

Like, do you have a résumé?

Do you have headshots?

Singing clips of you?

Actor's access accounts? All of those

are necessary to begin this process.

Heart palpitations.

I have absolutely f*cking nothing.

I am starting from zero.

One of the things we're passionate

about is developmental work.

If you're incredible,

a blank résumé means nothing.

The most exciting thing for us to do

is to say there's someone fantastic

you've never met.

-If you don't meet him, somebody will.

-So I need to record

Yeah. Sing, and sing your face off,

and show us what you do.

And then we can actually use that tape

to pitch to casting to get appointments.

Okay, got it.

So if miracle of miracles,

I book something.

What does that look like timewise?

So you would probably go into

about five to six weeks of rehearsal.

And then you would do

eight shows a week: two on Wednesday.

-Two on Sunday for the most part.

-sh*t.

Have one day off Monday.

It's gonna depend on the project.

But the one thing we as agents

need to make sure is that that's

a commitment you are ready to take on

before you audition.

The worst thing we can do is say,

"Robert can only do it for two weeks."

They'll laugh at us and hang up the phone.

-Or get pissed.

-And get pissed.

Okay.

Guys, thank you.

I'm excited to get you what you need.

-Please do. It was a pleasure meeting you.

-Thank you.

For sure.

I'm bringing it back to me ♪

Bringing it back

Bring it right back ♪

Bringing it back to me ♪

Bringing it back

Bring it right back ♪

Bringing it back ♪

[Miriam] Do you want me to

-Are you taking it and putting

-The screen?

Yeah.

Haart Sphere. Okay.

I was able to do everything that I could

based off of what we talked about.

But, in terms of the tech part,

where you want me to elaborate,

since it's now gonna be

a tech product presentation.

That's where I wanna talk to you,

so I'll quickly show you what we have.

-Let's do that.

-Okay, but it's very small. I'm old.

Of course.

[Julia] A start-up is tough.

It's a lot of work.

Time-wise,

first is the CFO Roberts Zaffiris.

He's got to create the business plan.

Once that's done, it's my job

to come up with the financing.

All these things require a lot of money.

That's why we're creating

this amazing presentation

to help us get funding.

Once that's done, it's CTO time,

and that is gonna happen,

I would say, in the next six months.

So Miriam's got to be ready.

We need to figure out

which people among the group of hires

that you put would be

working on that specific tech.

Option one is hire a person, one game dev.

Do contract work with them.

No, that's you need to have

a kind of concept of cost.

-Robert and Robert will research costs.

-Okay.

We need to tell them what we need.

-They're gonna do the finances.

-Okay.

It's really a leap of faith for me

to entrust her with such a monumental job

and not to place her

as a subordinate to a more senior person,

who has their PhD,

who has worked in, let's say,

gaming companies before.

She's my daughter. I think she's a genius.

She is the person

I trust most in the world.

I think she would be perfect.

So we understand it's not only

the science of it, it's the art of it.

Right? The world is complex,

but to jump into it, to drop in.

So you want me to

what do you want me to do?

I want you to

add a page about that

because that's what makes it so unique.

You, as a consumer, you go like this,

and you're in that world.

That's a very unique feature.

Yeah. Okay.

So that's a page we're missing.

-That's it?

-That's it.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

I can do this today.

Excellent. We're very close

to products, metaverse, avatars. Right.

[Nathalie] So I'm waiting

in the kitchen, super nervous.

My palms are getting sweaty already,

because I'm about to go and talk to Julia

about me getting a job at her new startup.

[Miriam] Build the entire world

on a blockchain.

I don't know why

this freaks me out so much.

I mean, I wanna get hired on my own merit,

and me asking Julia this,

it's, like, putting my future in the US

in her hands,

which is a very scary thing for me.

I don't like relying on people.

I just like having control,

and I feel like

I don't have control in this situation.

So I'm gonna have to really push myself

and make sure that I'm earning this job.

I don't just wanna get it

because I'm Miriam's girlfriend.

-And the next step is

-[Nathalie] Hello.

-[Julia] Hey, babe.

-Hello.

And the next step

is the hyperrealistic creators, right?

[Nathalie] How's it going?

One second. I need to

I just wanna write some notes.

That's it.

Well, I wanted to talk to you

about my whole, um, work situation

What's your work situation?

I have to have a job and start mid-July.

-Oh my gosh.

-Yeah.

Right, so to do that,

it would have to be being part of the

Of the start-up.

I mean, to me, it's very simple.

You'd be an intern.

I can't be an intern.

-Why can't you be an intern?

-I need a full-time job.

I've had a lot of experience. I've worked

every single summer since I was 16.

Okay.

-Um

-[Julia] Where?

At a bank.

-Oh!

-I've been working at a bank in Sweden.

Have you ever done business finance?

Corporate finance?

I know business management.

Good, I like it.

She'll be working under Robert Z.

I mean, he has to be okay with it.

You have to go through his approval

'cause he's the CFO.

Yeah. The only thing though, which

kind of could be a problem I guess is,

I want that company that I start at to

also be able to sponsor me the next year,

because this year

is just an add year of my school.

After school you get a year working.

Nowadays is way harder than before,

and it's a lottery.

There's only X amount of internationals

that can even be sponsored.

If you choose to sponsor me,

it's 30% chance that I get in as of now.

-Yikes.

-Yeah, we're in an unknown area.

-[Julia] It's an unknown.

-Yeah.

I'll be happy to get you a visa.

It's something I'm adept at doing.

Half of our models are foreigners.

Let's speak to lawyers and get a real

understanding of what is required.

-Yeah

-It's a very common practice for us.

Found out, which I didn't know,

is there's some kind of lottery.

Even if she gets a job,

and someone does do all the paperwork

to get her her work visa,

there is no guarantee

that she will stay in this country.

It is a terrible, horrible quandary.

But worst-case scenario.

We're thinking of, maybe

I don't even wanna hear the word.

[Julia] No, there's

no worst-case scenario.

Throw it away.

It's not an option.

I do not want you

to get married at a young age.

You are the first daughter

in now three generations to not

be a teenager when you're married.

I want you to have a life.

Of course, no one likes

to be the bearer of reality, right?

I wanna say, "Yes, it'll be fine.

It'll be fantastic. No problem."

"I can wave my little magic wand,

and you'll be here."

But that's not reality, so.

You got to tell kids like it is.

I have never lied to my children,

and Nathalie's kind of like my kid because

Miriam loves her. I love her.

I do not want you

to have that on your head at 23.

I'm very good at solving problems

and finding options.

That is not an option.

[melancholy music playing]

[exhaling]

-[Nathalie] Future creeps me out.

-[Miriam] Why?

Because everything for me is so uncertain.

It's, like, you can do whatever you want.

You know?

I'm just here on, like,

time until I figure out my next steps.

-We're gonna figure it out.

-It freaks me out.

I love it here,

and it's, like, so uncertain.

We're talking, like, "Oh yeah,

I'm entering a lottery there

because maybe I'll get that."

[Nathalie sighs]

Us internationals come

to America for four years,

and if we wanna stay, we have to go

through the worst process ever. [sniffles]

I hope you do it because

I don't want you going anywhere.

[exhaling]

I'm not the kind of person

to go against my mother's wishes,

and her asking me not to marry Nathalie,

even if I really have to, is a big ask.

[sniffles]

[Miriam] If I'm going to marry Nathalie,

then I'm going to marry Nathalie.

And right now

I do see myself doing it anyway.

[sniffles]

[Miriam] Baby, no matter what

you're gonna be around.

[Nathalie sighs]

Keep your eyes on me ♪

Oh, la la la ♪

You can do anything ♪

La ♪

They told me it's impossible ♪

Said I was outta my mind ♪

Come on now, don't be scared ♪

Oh la la la ♪

We're almost there ♪