Nicole Alyse Nelson: The Interview - From Unpaid Intern to Oscar Nominee. Emma Thompson, Rose Byrne, Emma Stone. 43 Nickelodeon Episodes—and She Gets PENNIES.

Academy Award nominee Nicole Alyse Nelson joins us in the Pol' Atteu Beverly Hills West Hollywood studio—and she brings her parents all the way from Texas! From the minute she sits down, this interview goes everywhere: Hollywood dreams, Nickelodeon fame, Oscar night secrets, Emma Thompson, painful Cinderella shoes, an escape-room disaster and, naturally, a bat flying through our bedroom. Nicole takes us back to Galveston, Texas, and the summer she came to Los Angeles at just 19 for an unpaid internship—and simply never went home. After answering phones, reading scripts and working unpaid production jobs, she realized she was far more fascinated by the actors than anything happening behind the camera. Barely a year later, she landed her first major role on Nickelodeon’s I Am Frankie, filming 43 episodes over two seasons and gaining a global fan base. She also gets candid about the less glamorous side of early success—including the contract that means those reruns aren't exactly delivering glamorous residual checks. We follow Nicole from I Am Frankie to GLOW and then into the project that changed everything: the Oscar-nominated short Jane Austen’s Period Drama, where she hilariously plays a character named Vagina Talbot. Nicole reveals how Emma Thompson became involved after falling in love with the film—and why the legendary actress refused a producer credit, instead creating the unforgettable title “Menstrual Executive Advisor.” Then we go inside Nicole’s surreal road to the Academy Awards: making the long list, cutting down to the final five nominees, attending the Oscars alongside her equally nominated boyfriend Jonah Lees, and wearing a custom Pol’ Atteu gown that had strangers stopping her for photographs. Nicole dishes on what the Oscar red carpet actually feels like, Hollywood Boulevard lurking underneath all that glamour, her size 4½ “Cinderella feet,” and the last-minute cobbler rescue that saved her Oscar shoes. Upstairs at the Oscars, Nicole and Jonah escape the crowds and unexpectedly run into Bobby Cannavale and Rose Byrne. Nicole also reveals the star she wished she'd had more time with: Emma Stone. And after the winner is announced, we learn a fascinating Oscar-night secret involving ties and alphabetical order that none of us knew. We also get personal about Nicole and Jonah’s six-and-a-half-year relationship, working and writing together, and what’s next. Nicole is now developing her own movie and says she’s ready to make the leap from actor to writer-producer and watch something she created come off the page and onto the screen. And while Pol’ flips Nicole’s Armenian coffee cup in preparation for her upcoming reading, we close Part 1 with career dreams, audition secrets, Pol’ volunteering himself for Nicole’s next movie, and the reminder that sometimes the biggest career move begins with trusting yourself enough not to go home. From Nickelodeon to Oscar nominee, Nicole Alyse Nelson’s Hollywood story is funny, unexpected and only getting started. Subscribe to our audio: linktr.ee/undressedpod Follow Pol Atteu:  Instagram: @polatteu  Tiktok: @polatteu  Twitter: @polatteu  www.polatteu.com Follow Patrik Simpson:  Instagram: @patriksimpson  Tiktok: @patriksimpson www.patriksimpson.com Follow SnowWhite90210: Instagram: @snowwhite90210 Twitter: @SnowWhite9010 www.snowwhite90210.com Watch Gown and Out In Beverly Hills on Prime Video.  www.gownandoutinbeverlyhills.com #UndressedPodcast  Armenian Coffee Reading https://polatteu.com/armenian-coffee-cup-read SnowWhite90210 SnowBubu is a Perfect gift! https://polatteu.com/shop/ols/products/snowbubu90210 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices