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Meet Susie Abromeit of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones”!

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ABOUT SUSIE

You used to be a pro tennis player and you love to surf. Why the switch from athletics to the arts professionally?

I was always an artistic kid who played sports. I was the kid in art class that would do elaborate paintings. I would write 60-page stories when I was 9-years-old. This is something that I think ultimately that I knew I was going to do. But at the time, tennis was more important. My energy shifted when I got older. I was pulled in both directions constantly and it wasn’t until college that I realized that I could make it my career. It wasn’t just some Hollywood dream. Going to Duke opened up my eyes. One of the kids [in my program] is one of the writers on “Drunk History”, one’s a writer for “Broad City.” A friend of mine who is dating my roommate is one of the producers of “The Hunger Games.”

Did anything from your training or lifestyle as an athlete translate over to your acting lifestyle? Your dedication? How you move on stage?

Absolutely. The discipline, the focus, the way I approach things is probably very different than most people. I know what it takes to be the best at something.

[Walking on stage], I can feel my athletic walk. I was watching a playback of me walking in heels and I looked like Bambi. It’s slightly embarrassing but I need to embrace my femininity more. I learned that about myself. I took a pole dancing class and that really helped. I wasn’t so wobbly [afterwards]. It was a really beautiful way to reconnect with that part of myself [and] it was great for me not to be in my own head and not feel ashamed of my own sexuality. There’s so much repression in America. You go to Europe and everyone takes their top off at the beach. Here, everyone says no but watches porn. We want to repress it instead of accepting it.

As someone who’s used to wearing little to no makeup, has it been a hard transition to working primarily in the arts, always having on a lot of makeup? Or do you feel like it’s fun to also get to be that side of you?

For me, I really think it’s being true to who you are and not going against that. I think that everyone’s own femininity is different, how they define it. One woman will say I feel more beautiful without makeup, others say I don’t leave home without it. For them, it’s a really interesting conversation. For me, it doesn’t matter if I’m wearing makeup or not. It gives me that extra umph and I feel kinda pretty. You feel that you have that extra little pop to your eye so it’s more eye-catching but I understand both schools of thought. I know a lot of men prefer their women without makeup, but it’s whatever makes you feel more beautiful about your feminine power. For me, I think it’s about being true to who I am, allowing all of those parts to be seen, all of my darkness and light, not shying away from it and not apologizing for it, letting that go to be free in a healthy sense.

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