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" \nOn Underemployed, Sarah Habel&amp;#039;s character Daphne dreams of being a bad-ass ad executive, but in reality she&amp;#039;s living at home with her dad and begging her hot internship boss to put her on the payroll. The Michigan State alum\u2014who moved to LA to pursue her acting dreams\u2014called us from the film set of her next project (sci-fi thriller Deep Burial) to talk about bad jobs, great roommates, and other secrets for 20-something survival. Q: Underemployed is about five college grads who can&amp;#039;t wait to take &amp;quot;the real world&amp;quot; by storm\u2014only to realize that in this economy, the real world kind of blows. Been there? A:Absolutely. After you graduate college, there&amp;#039;s no structure. You step into the world without anyone telling you what to do, and it&amp;#039;s a huge shock. But that&amp;#039;s the whole point of it: You realize you can step forward and take control of your life. As an actor, there&amp;#039;s a lot of time I&amp;#039;m just hoping for the next job to come\u2014I&amp;#039;m in a constant state of underemployment. Q: We heard that when you first moved to LA and worked as a waitress, a woman changed her baby at the table and plopped the dirty diaper in your hand. How did you get through days that were literally, um, crappy? A:You can&amp;#039;t let other people get you down. When you get through each day with your dignity intact, it&amp;#039;s kind of a personal triumph. But waitressing was one of the best things I ever did. I was really, really shy, but you just have to ask people if they want fries or salad. I learned how to deal with people on that level and how to earn their respect. I grew up a lot in those days. Q: What else has being in your twenties taught you? A:I&amp;#039;ve always been a paycheck-to-paycheck girl, but now I take some and put it aside. Especially in a field like acting, there&amp;#039;s going to be a time when you are not working and it can get scary, really down to the wire. So that&amp;#039;s something I&amp;#039;ve learned that I will continue to do. I just opened a savings account last week! Q: Rumor has it that you decided to room with your co-stars, Michelle Ang and Inbar Lavi, when you filmed the first season of the show in Chicago. What was that like? A:It was great to be with the girls! We all wear the same size shoe [so] when we&amp;#039;d go out for a night\u2014living it up in Chicago\u2014and someone wore the wrong shoes, there would be a relief person who would be like, &amp;#039;Take mine, I&amp;#039;ll wear yours...my feet don&amp;#039;t hurt.&amp;#039; Team effort! Q: We are majorly style-crushing on Daphne&amp;#039;s super-chic, professional outfits. Is her style similar to your own? A:I&amp;#039;m a lot more casual\u2014a jeans and sweater kind of girl. But I&amp;#039;m also 5&amp;#039;2&amp;quot;\u2014a shrimpie. So if I&amp;#039;m comfortable in every other way and wearing six-inch platform booties, then that&amp;#039;s how I like it! Q: Since this is Cosmo, we obviously have to ask you a sex question. Your character has a very racy hookup with her boss in the first episode. Give us the behind-the-scenes dish! A: There was very little kissing involved, just a lot of faces pushed up against each other and arms flailing. It&amp;#039;s probably the most un-sexy scene I have ever shot. Sorry, guys! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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