She sits on a stool with her long legs curled underneath her, clad in sweats, her face perfectly made-up. As she waits for her scene, she either runs her fingers through her hair or tucks her fingers into fuzzy, leather-and-fringe boots that look like moccasins crossed with Uggs -- hand-made mukluks from an Inuit tribe in Canada's Northwest Territories.
She's got a new movie coming out soon from stalwart Digital Playground director Robby D.: Sophia Santi: Surface. While waiting to work with petite blonde Angie Savage, Santi spoke with XFANZ about how her combination of religious beliefs and scientific curiosity inform her love of performing.
"Particle physics proves the existence of god," she said. "You need observation to collapse possibilities. Before the big bang, you needed a consciousness to collapse everything into one thing."
In case that went over your head, Santi's referring to the idea that all possible states exist simultaneously until a conscious entity observes them. The observation then causes all the possibilities to collapse into one actuality.
A Day At A Monastery
Santi carries a purple elephant on her keychain -- a good-luck emblem from Hindi tradition. Santi said that although she doesn't align with any one belief system, she believes that eastern philosophies get closer to god and godliness than their western religious counterparts.
"Eastern philosophies are just more up on it when it comes to finding god. There are many paths, and no one path is right," she said. "Praying in western traditions is a start, but it lacks the structure of eastern meditation."
Given a day to herself, Santi said she would travel to the Himalayas and spend the time at a Buddhist monastery, but short of that, Santi still makes the time to meditate, even if it means driving thousands of miles. Three times a year she drives up the coast to Canada to get away from the city, relax and meditate on the beach.
"I can't meditate in the city," she said. "There are too many distractions."
Focusing Your Energy
Santi said she likes to make vision boards -- visual representations of her goals -- as inspiration. She also stresses the importance of focusing on what you want.
"Whatever you focus your energy on, that's what you're drawing toward you," she said. "So, even if you're thinking, 'I don't want a parking ticket, I don't want a parking ticket,' you're still directing energy at parking tickets, and you wind up getting one."
Directing, Theater
Santi has an extensive background in musical theater, and she hopes to get back onstage whenever she can.
"I wish I had the time to do some real theater," she said. "Hollywood is so much about film and television -- sometimes they forget where it all came from."
As for directing movies for Digital Playground or anyone else, Santi said that she has lots of ideas, but that she's "really enjoying traveling right now."
Bad Fans
"I once met a fan, and after he spoke with me for awhile and found out I was really intelligent, he said, 'Wow, that totally killed the fantasy for me.'"
Unfortunately for that fan, he'll now miss out on moments before a shoot like when Santi shifted gears from talking about particle physics and spoke with costar Angie Savage about their upcoming scene.
"We're going to amp it up today," Santi told Savage. "We're going to be dirty little whores." They both laughed.
Smart. Sexy. A little dirty. All states exist simultaneously. Nothing collapses.
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