Reply #2: it's such a big deal for her!!

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She's a single mother actor, director, fight choreographer, many auditions, few parts. You have to be able to take rejection in this business. Toronto has a Hollywood film business but it's feast or famine, and for a long time here after the Canadian dollar increased in value it was all famine. A lot of actors here spend much time in the low pay high cool independent theater and film scene. It's a tough life but she is very frugal and very resourceful and a great mom, so I'm very happy that she got a proper scale paycheck plus a chance to spend a month in Hawaii with her four year old.