Comedy Wellness: A Better Tomorrow & Funnier Today — Hanala Sagal [FULL INTERVIEW]
Film Courage: Why do you love being in front of the camera?
Writer/Producer/Vlogger/Actress/Author Hanala Sagal: I think I became an actress and vlogger because I’m getting the attention I didn’t get when I was a kid and I knew I deserved it. I knew I had a lot to say and I could say it in a really cute way. I knew right away that I was different…first of all because that’s what they told me. My mother said…in Yiddish…meshuga which means You’re going to die alone. No one will ever think you’re normal…like she’d say You’re not normal. I’m not? Not normal people don’t have friends, they have cats, I mean lots of them. Not that I’m against cats, I love cats, dogs, everything but I want to be friends with humans. I want to be able to work and have a job so I have to prove that I’m not crazy, I’m normal. I saw what my mother and father paid attention to — the television! So as a kid I knew…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Hanala Sagal is a screenwriter and co-exec producer of “Elvis & Nixon”, the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Centerpiece. The award-winning writer is a…
