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How 'I Feel Bad' Star Sarayu Blue Got Her Start
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Sarayu Blue, star of the new NBC show "I Feel Bad," used to have a job selling Axe body spray.
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Blue doesn't let other people's expectations define her. Success means she gets to feel proud of her work. In her 20's, Blue looked for external validation and "wanted proof" of her success. Now, the 43-year-old has learned to trust her gut.
"I'm at a point in my life where I know if I feel good," she says.
As long as she's doing her best, she tries not to care too much about what's happening around her. "The hardest lesson I've had to learn is how little control I have," Blue says. "I always say, 'All you can do is be a good person and do your job well and the rest is out of your hands.' And I think, when I came to that realization, it was really liberating."
Blue is able to carry this lesson over to her "I Feel Bad" character, Emet, as well. In the show, Emet struggles to balance the pressures of her job with the everyday needs of her husband, kids and live-in parents. The show plays on the idea of trying to "have it all." Blue says she relates.
"For me particularly, and when I'm looking at my friends and all of us are just flailing, I think really it's just letting yourself take breaks," she says. "Not having to have it all. Do what feels good for you and know that that's enough."
Blue chooses to focus on her own efforts and how good she feels about herself. "Sometimes I'm not going to nail it, and there's really not much I can do about that," she says. "But I can be as prepared as possible and set myself up to succeed."
"I Feel Bad" premiered on NBC on October 4th.
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