In a recent interview with Collider Ladies Night, Sheila Carrasco, a series regular on the television series Ghosts, shares how she learned key aspects of working as a professional actor from her work standing in for actor D’Arcy Carden on one episode of The Good Place.

Sheila took the opportunity to work as a stand-in to watch the actors work. Sheila got to be Carden’s “scene partner” in her stand-in work on The Good Place. She also got to understand the kind of show on which she would like to work in her own career as an actor.

Have a watch and listen to the interview from the Collider Ladies Night YouTube channel. The mention of stand-in work begins around 25:59:

 

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