This is a bonus episode featuring an excerpt from an upcoming trap set focusing on actors who drum.

Here, Ezra Miller, perhaps best known for playing the Flash in Justice League,

talks about the nervous energy that precipitates performances. As a child, Ezra performed with

the Metropolitan Opera in New York for the debut of Philip Glass's White Raven.

Miller's band,

Sons of an Illustria's father,

released their debut album earlier this month.

Anxiety is a very important part of art making and performance.

How do you deal with that anxiety?

And try to treat it like fuel.

Have you developed strategies to channel it into fuel over the years?

Is it any easier now?

I mean, it's the strategies I've developed to manage my life in general, you know,

like, you know, breathing, moving, different practices that involve those two things have really

served me to, like, study and adopt them and to keep some version of a daily practice of those things and to do those things before a show.

Also, the love part is really important specifically with the band.

You know what I mean?

It's like it's very important that we like hold each other before we play uh and let that anxiety be and we feel it you know we feel

it in our own bodies we feel in in the bodies of our two bandmates as we're holding each other

and it's a part of what's there and to accept it. To be with it.

To be with something comfortably that is innately uncomfortable,

seems like one of the great,

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