Alex Borstein was part of the group of actors who joined The Creative Coalition on Capitol Hill to advocate for funding the National Endowment for the Arts on Right to Bear Arts Day. She told THR she was "very nervous" and "very scared" going into today's meetings but left with "a modicum of hope."
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00:00So you met with congressional staffers today to advocate for funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
00:05How do you feel like those meetings went?
00:07You know what I have to say? Going into this, I was very nervous. I was very scared.
00:12Not about my performance or how we would do in the room, but about the state of things in general.
00:17And I left with a modicum of hope.
00:20These meetings are just, they're very old school.
00:22You sit in a room, face to face with other human beings.
00:26And you explain your cause. You talk about what you need.
00:30And there's communication. There's questions. You answer those questions.
00:34You ask them questions. They answer you.
00:37And there's a lot of honesty.
00:39You know, in Hollywood, when you're trying to sell a show or sell a script,
00:43everyone in the room is like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, okay, thank you. We'll let you know.
00:47Here, there's a very clear message of, well, here's why we don't agree.
00:51Here's what we, historically, why we haven't been on board.
00:55So I was, I was very hopeful by the ability to sit down and actually communicate.
01:00You also got to go to the White House. What was that meeting like?
01:04That one was, that was similar. It was very, there were two representatives sitting across from us
01:09who were eager to take in the information that we had to offer.
01:14That's, that was their job.
01:15Their, their imperative for the day was to hear us.
01:18And anytime you'd see them scribble a note down, you're like, yes, okay, I got,
01:22we made an interesting point.
01:24They're taking something into consideration and this is good.
01:27This is a good thing.
01:28So, but it was beautiful.
01:29The, the, the room that we were in was absolutely gorgeous.
01:34Um, and you just kind of felt the years of history walking down the halls.
01:37It was beautiful.