Actress & Director Leslie Zemeckis On the Five Things You Need To Shine In The Entertainment Industry

Do everything, be interested in everything. Don’t wait for someone to hire you. Go create your own destiny. Don’t listen to “no.” Don’t only go the “accepted” route waiting for a representative to make a connection or get a job. Do it yourself.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Award-wining director, best-selling author and actress Leslie Zemeckis. Leslie is launched her award-winning documentary “Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer” with Cinema Libre Studios, to coincide with Women’s History Month. The film reveals the empowering story of Mabel Stark, the world’s first female tiger trainer who was rejected by her family, escaped poverty and abuse in rural Kentucky, and ultimately found her true passion in the eyes of a tiger.

Thank you so much for doing this interview with us! Before we dive in, our readers would love to get to know you a bit. Can you share your “backstory” that brought you to this career?

I am a working actress, who fell in love with telling stories through documentaries and books. With no prior knowledge except my belief I knew how to convey a good…