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BuzzWorthy Radio: Jasika Nicole!

Jasika Nicole, who plays Astrid Farnsworth on the hit FOX series, "FRINGE," will be appearing on BuzzWorthy Radio!

Continuing our CAST of FRINGE series on the show, Nicole will be discussing her role as the federal agent and assistant to Anna Torv's character. Nicole has also continued her passion for drawing and sketching. She displayed her work on her website, and has acquired an enthusiastic fan base. Most of her illustrations have already been commissioned and sold worldwide. Her work also involves creating a line of eco-friendly tote bags that will showcase her drawings.

To see some of her drawings/illustrations, visit http://www.jasikanicole.com

Duration:: 29m
Broadcast on:: 28 Apr 2009
Audio Format:: other

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She plays a string Barnsworth on the hit Fox series Fringe, which can be seen tonight and every Tuesday night at 9PM Eastern on Fox. Check your local listings for time and channels in your area. For those of you who did miss the show earlier today, we had John Brotherton on the show. Many of you know him as playing the role of Jared Banks on the series of One Life to Live on ABC Daytime. If you guys can't see One Life to Live during the day, you can always watch it at night on something else. You've got the DVR as well. There's playaways for you to check out One Life to Live. Also, there's many ways for you to check out the shows you've missed. If you missed his show as well as others that you would like to check out, you can always download the archives on our Blog Talk Radio website at blogtalkradio.com/buzzworthyradio or on our website, our official website, at buzzworthyradio.net. So you can pretty much have your pick of the letter there show that you didn't want to download. So there you have it. Now for those of you also, let's give you some some little tidbits here for our regular soap fan listeners. Rock the soap too has announced their lineup or starting to announce their lineup for the new for the new year for April 9th, 2010. And we'll rock the soap too, make the second voyage. So we have some returnees as well as some new faces. The new faces that have been announced so far are Billy Miller, who plays Billy Abbott on the Unknown Restless. Rick Hurst, who plays the role of Rick Lansing on General Hospital, as well as his co-star Tyler Christopher, who plays Nicholas Catherine. More attendees will be announced within the next several days, if not several weeks. So keep checking our show, Stardish Radio, as well as rockthesof.com for more information on who's coming and ways for you to start signing up, registering, and also making your payments for this trip. It's going to be set and sale on the Carnival Paradise Cruise Line, and it's going to be taking place outside of California into Ensignada, Mexico. So I think it's going to be a wild ride. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be fantastic. I went on the maiden voyage. So it was definitely amazing. I loved it. I know a lot of you fans are going to love it to Joanne, who hosts Stardish Radio as well. She absolutely loves it. And send us your emails so you can be a part of getting the new letters. You can send it to me at navley@buzzlerdradio.net. You can send an email out on our official website just by using the contact form, or you can send emails to Joanne@letstishbaby@gmail.com. So just stay connected with us so you can find out exactly what's going on. It's going to be absolutely fantastic. Some of the same faces, plus many more people, will join the next voyage. So I think it's going to be great. So you guys, just send us your emails. Register when the time, when the time comes out to register, it's going to be a blast. So I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of you guys next year. So we're looking forward to it. So some little news tidbits as well that I didn't get to mention and as well as some that I have just found out about. For those of you who did not know this, it was, I believe, broken yesterday from the Save Our Light, MySpace page. And it apparently looks like Martha Byrne is going to be heading to Port Charles. That's where she's taken on the role of Mayor Floyd's wife who is played by John Volger on General Hospital. So she has a nice little role there. I don't know how long it's going to be. I assume it's a recurring role and not long term, but I don't know any other information but besides that. That's all I hear. And SoapNet also is heading to news as well. So hopefully we'll soon find out exactly how long of her stay on General Hospital will be as well as the fact that she's still going to be writing for the Bolden Beautiful, which is on CBS Daytime. So as of late, I don't know anything else more than that. So that's about it. As soon as we know more, we'll definitely let you know. Paul Anthony Stewart and Nancy State Albin are going to be returning to God in Light as Danny and Michelle Bauer Santos. They, I believe, are going to be making the first air, I believe they're making the first airgate next month. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it's next month. I don't remember recalling seeing specific air dates that they're going to be on and when they're going to start appearing on the show. So it'll be, it'll be interesting to see them back because of the months that we have left with the show. I guess they're going to back as high up as ends. And I think for me, honestly, even though I don't want it to go off the air, but for me, I think they could have had a lot of better returns to the show than just damn, but I think Michelle isn't needed. But I think they could bring on some more people than had anticipated. Hopefully we'll have a, have more of an array of, of characters reappearing on the show. I think it's necessary. So we'll see, we'll see what happens as far as that goes. Also, Beth Ann Bonner, many fans loved her Eftalia on "One Night to Live." She is going to be ongoing as well. And short-term role, which is, is very disclosed at the moment. So we have no idea who she's going to be playing as of yet, but she will be appearing on the show very, very soon. And we'll soon find out exactly what role she will be playing. So stay tuned for that. I did mention that Nicholas Galbraith has been, let go from the show as well as the girl who plays Zoe. He plays Zach on "As the World Turns." They're both going to be off the canvas very soon. And also it looks like Paulos and Gandhi will be having a new being lady. And that new leading lady will be no other than Meg Snyder played by Marie Wilson. Damage hour anyone? Hmm? Hmm? Well, we'll see about that. I love Marie Wilson to that. Don't get me wrong, I really do. But I honestly don't think we need to have any more of the Paul and Meg hour. I mean, this is really not, this is not what "As the World Turns" should be. This should not be just focused on these two characters and characters around them. I think that it's completely utterly offline and unnecessary. There are so many other people that can have the center of that attention. I pretty much named them. Bob, Tom, Lisa, Margot, Kim, Nancy could do something here, you know. And it's just they're not getting their opportunity. Barbara is now a wallflower, not even a wallflower. She's wall paper. Hogan Shefher was there at the show. She had so much to do, the character of Barbara Ryan. And now she doesn't have that stuff to do right now. It's absolutely amazing that they're not giving her this stuff. So it's pretty scary of what these writers and producers are not doing at the show that so many other fans can do for the show. It's absolutely crazy. It's really crazy. So, I guess we'll see what happens in regards to the storyline. Honestly, I don't expect it to be the best thing since Black Spread. But I don't know. We'll see what happens. But there's that news. Why not? Why not? I know that they're going to have the wedding between Kane and Lily coming out and also with Kane and Murphy. I don't really have anything else that's going on with Bonnie and I are nothing major, major, except that it seems that Adam may be gaslighting Ashley into making her feel crazy that she is seeing the ghost of Sabrina and many are hinting that this may be the cause of her losing her baby that she's having with Victor. It's pretty interesting. I think that'll be a very interesting story. The character of Ray is a gay character on the show and they're also speculating that he and Adam have a past. It might be a little bit fun to see that and how they work with that. If not had a relationship with Heather played by Dale Bloom on the show. I think Y&R is doing a very good job right now. I know a lot of people have been saying that they have kind of been wishy-washy with a lot of it because of what they were doing with the Katherine storyline for a while there and how they were wrapping it up. But I think they now managed to get it back on track. So I'm looking forward to what Y&R has in store. All my children we dealt with the stuff on there. I want to actually let's bring this up right now on the show. Let's bring this up here. For those of you who do not know who Matt Borlingi is or do not remember him, let's refresh your memory. For those of you who have watched all my children in the early 90s, he played the role of Brian Bodine. He first made his appearance on the show in 1991. He was in the love story with Hayley at the time and he then was involved with a who killed Will Storyline. He covered it up to get Hayley off the hook and they had this nice little love story going on here and a lot of fans took to the storyline with these two characters. He then made a return to the show in 1996 and it really didn't work out too well because Hayley was already with Mateo so it really didn't pan out as well as we kind of would have thought it would have. But Matt Borlingi would like to put this out there and Joanne has started it and I think I would like to see what fans' reactions to this. How would you guys like to feel about Matt Borlingi coming back to all my children as Brian Bodine. You can come back as working at the television station. Now that you have Liza back in the forefront and Brian was that seen as a producer on the show, it definitely would be feasible to have him come back on the show and to work that angle he could have some sexual attraction with Liza. I think it would be great. I think it would be great to see him back in the show. I think it would be wonderful. And if the fans take to it, I think they should just run with it. I think he should run with it. And that's really what I want to pose to you guys. Do you think that that would be a great storyline to have on the show? And if so, we're going to have him run with that. Let's have him run with that idea of him going right up to his agent so that they can make a deal with the producers and go that this is a great idea. That this is something that they can do. Go for it. Send your responses. Send your responses to Natalie@buzzworthyradio.net. If not already, send them to letstishbaby@gmail.com to Joann. I'm sure she's very interested in hearing some responses about Melingy. That's really what we want to see happen. He wants to see a lot of, hopefully a lot of fans will take him back onto the show. That's really what this is all about. Will they be willing to have him back? That's really the question that wants to get answered. Do you want to see Ryan go dean back in the show? I think it would be good. For me, I like it back in the show, but I really want Hannah to go back too. With that, she may not be away from Matteo, but it'll be interesting if Haley was brought back on the show and it could see something with that kind of romance blossoming. We'll see what happens there. Just send us your opinions. Send us your opinions on the website. Contact us for Natalie@buzzworthyradio.net. We'll see what happens here. It looks like she can hold and I'll be here with us after noon. I'm sorry about that, but hopefully we will be able to get her back on the show. We will definitely reschedule her to come back onto the show. If you want to find out more information about Jessica Nicole, you can visit her official website at justseaconnicole.com. That's J-A-S-I-K-A-Nicole.com. Make sure you can catch her as well as the rest of the Fringe cast on the show Fringe, which airs tonight and every Tuesday night. At 9 p.m. Eastern time, on thoughts, you have counting this one three episodes until the season finale, which is on Tuesday, May 12. The season finale will take place on May 12, and let's just say if I know what the last episode of the season is going to consist of, and I will say that it's going to be a very interesting hour. You're going to have to tune in to find out exactly what's happening. I can't give it away. I don't think I'm able to give it away, so you're going to have to watch it for yourself. So May 12 is the season finale of Fringe, so make sure you guys check it out. From all of us here at Buzzworthy Radio, I'm going to be able to be signing off, making sure you guys get the latest Buzzworthy Radio. We'll see you guys next time. You guys take care, okay? [silence] Hi. Hi, Navell. How are you? Good. How are you? I just got your email. I was just typing back that we got a little behind, but I have just secret for you if we can still do it. All right, cool. Are you cool? I am. All right. Awesome. I'm handing her over. Hold on. All right. Hello, Navell. How are you? I'm well. How are you? I'm good. I'm very good. Thanks for coming on. Great. It is my pleasure. Thank you for having me. So you play this role of Astrid Barnsworth on Fringe. You want to tell us a little bit about your character? Yes. Astrid Barnsworth III is a third. Yes, a third. She's really important. She comes in the long line of Barnsworth. She is a junior special agent with the FBI. Her task has been to help aid Dr. Bishop in the experience and scientific information gathering that is necessary for them to help solve the really crazy bizarre things that are happening in this world that are most usually in effect of what is called a pattern. So Astrid is very, very smart. She has a science background, but she's not a doctor or lab assistant by choice necessarily. She's kind of been stuck with these people to help gather information for her boss, which is Olivia Dunham. But I think what has happened during this process is that she's come to really fall in love with Dr. Bishop and with his son, and she's really learning a lot, and she's found that she's been able to really help and influence what's going on. She's been a part of this team that's helping to save lives and stop catastrophes from happening. So yeah, that's basically her background. She's really, really smart. She's kind of quiet. She was in the background a lot in the beginning. And I think that that might have even been on purpose as she started getting used to these people and getting comfortable with where she was. And now she's right in the forefront with everybody else, throwing out ideas, trying to fight crime and stop the bad guys. Nice. Yeah. How did this role come about? How was this role presented to you? In the form of a phone call from a manager saying you have an audition. Oh, so it wasn't something that you looked for. There's something that came to you. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. They, you know, they were only seeing certain people for this role. And I'm not sure if they knew exactly what they were looking for. But it was, you know, like any other thing that you auditioned for, and I auditioned for it many, many times, and then I got callbacks, and then I had the screen test for it. And at no part of this audition process, had I ever read the script, had I ever met, you know, JJ, had I ever talked with anybody at length about this series because they were keeping it so secret. You know, I was like, I think I got my script a day before I flew out to Toronto to shoot the pilot. So I had no idea what it was about. I just knew that it was supposed to be a sci-fi show and that JJ Abrams was doing it. And basically, that's all you need to know to say, yes, you know, I didn't really need any convincing after that. So I was really fortunate to be able to get the role. And then I don't, I don't think I had any idea that it was going to be as good and as successful as it turned out to be, you know, I was just happy that I got cast and that they liked me and that I was going to learn from this experience. But you could not have told me a year and a half ago that this is where I would be right now. It's pretty exciting. I'm getting that a lot. I mean, he had John Noble on before and he liked the exact same thing. He was like, you didn't expect this to be like a huge success with him. Not even this short of in the first season of the show. And I'm like, absolutely, I said the same thing. It's an absolutely fantastic show with what has been going on so far. So, you know, just to even just to even remotely understand how you feel, it's got to be fantastic for you. There were definitely times when it was overwhelming. And you know, there haven't been any other times in my life when I would walk down the street and somebody could, you know, would come up to me and say, hey, I like the work that you do. You know, what a huge compliment that is for somebody that you're able to say. I appreciate the talent and that you're able to put into this and the talent of everybody that you work with. And it's so nice that you're a part of this thing that I like, you know, because I see people like that all the time and I think, wow, they're so fantastic. It's so cool that they're a part of that. And it's crazy to be on the other side of that right now. Yeah, exactly. Don't you just love it? I do. I do love it. It's still overwhelming at times, but I definitely love it. I wouldn't want to be any other place. Now, one of the things I actually got to see on your website was the drawings and illustrations that you have. Yeah. And they are very, very, very beautiful. Thank you. I love them. And how did you involve them in that? I have been drawing since I was very, very little. And at one point in college, I thought that I wanted to get into fashion illustration. So I thought, well, you know, I'm going to move to New York because I majored in musical theater. So I said, I'm going to go to New York and I'm going to do this, but I'm going to also, you know, try and shop my artwork around and see if I can learn some more, you know, maybe take some classes or something and see what will end up happening with that. I wanted to be in a place where I didn't have a set idea of what I wanted to happen. I just wanted to happen the way that happened. And so it's actually been a really, really nice thing because I've been able to continue acting. And, you know, I started out in musical theater here in the city. So I've been able to do shows and then I started doing TV and commercials and then film and stuff. But the whole time I was able to continue doing my artwork because the good thing about art is that you don't have to be in one place or one city to do it. You know, you can do it in back of a car. You can do it while you're at work. You can do it at night before you go to bed. You can do it anywhere at any time. And I think that that was what kind of saved me, you know, when there were times where I wasn't really working as far as, you know, booking a lot of shows or anything. And so I would just draw more, you know, it was a simple hat. So I was always able to do, so I was always had a creative outlet, no matter what else was going on in my life. And I think that that kind of helped keep me afloat a lot of times because sometimes when you're not working, you think, what am I struggling for? You know, why haven't you been here? Where are you supposed to do? Exactly, exactly. So it's been, it's been a bit of my saving grace, I think. Yeah. Now, where can, where can people see somebody rock where they promote your website? Where can they find your stuff? All right. Well, in the next month, I would say by the end of May, I will have a completely new website. That website is very old and outdated and it's served as purpose while I needed it, but it's getting a much needed makeover right now. So there will be a link where you can buy some of the bags that I had been working on for the past year or so. I have a line of eco-friendly handbags that have my artwork on them. They're all made of organic cotton and water-based thighs and they're really beautiful bags because of different sizes. So all that information will be on my website so that people can click a link and purchase them if they want to. And then I will also have more of my comic online too and I will be updating it more frequently because I have an autobiographical comic that I've been writing for about a year or so. It's very slow to come. You know, I don't post up a page every week like I wish that I could. But it's been really cool to have it up there and have people read it and relate to it if they can or just appreciate it in whatever way that they can. So yeah, that's pretty much what I have going on right now. And let's see if you can toy a little bit. I know what's going to happen on within the next several episodes of the show, but can you toy a little bit of what to come on the show? You want to give a little tease, huh? Yes, yes. Well, you find out some much-needed, very dynamic and fascinating information about Peter in the finale. And it is, first of all, the finale. I can't say it's my favorite because I haven't seen the actual episode yet. But as far as the premise of the show, it is my favorite episode written that we have done. It is so creepy and so fantastic and it opens up doors to like, you know, a million other different ideas. And you get to find out some information about Peter. Something crazy happens with Nina Sharp. Astrid and Nina and Broiels are in the same room for the first time ever in the entire season. So that's really exciting. That's what I have. Oh, I'm going to have to watch, I'm going to have to watch. That's what I do. That's it. That's so, that's so cool. I'm looking forward to it. Like I said, I knew it was coming, but most of them don't. So I'm just telling you right now that you've got to watch, you've got to watch it. I hope you like it. I think you'll really enjoy it. It's a really fantastic one. I think I want to enjoy it too. I've been a huge fan of J.J. Abrams for a while. So to first hear that he was going to have a show on Fox, I was immediately drawn into it because a couple of my friends and I are a huge fan of his and we just talk about it all the time. So it was very, very interesting to see what was going to happen and he did not at the point. So that was pretty cool. And thank you so much for stopping by on the show. Oh my god, it was absolutely my pleasure. Thanks for having me. And before you go, I would love for you to do a promo for the show. Say something on the lines of this is, she can call, you're listening to Buzzworthy Radio. You can improvise that in any way, shape, form, but the floor is yours. Okay, I got it. All right, you ready? Yes. Okay. Hello, this is Jessica Nicole. I play asterisk barnsworth on fringe and you are listening to Buzzworthy. Please stay tuned. Love it. Thank you again. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to talk to you now. Pleasure of all mine. Thank you so much again. Take care now. Have a good one. Bye bye. Bye bye. All right, guys, I am going to enjoy the heat wave that we got going on over here in the east coast right now. And I am going to take a nice cold shower and then go outside and mess around in the warm weather. But we're going to be back on again probably very soon. So make sure you guys stay tuned with the upcoming schedule. I'll have it updated as soon as possible. And I am listening in my headset with the British woman saying 90 seconds. That's all you hear on the other side of the host on the host on the host side is that this woman is telling you how much time you have before you go off the air. So that's a little insight to what I have to go. But make sure you guys check the upcoming schedule on our blog talk radio page as well as buzzworthyradio.net. We'll keep you updated and informed on what's coming out and what I'm going to be doing. So check it out. But from all of us here at BWR, I'm the Zell daily. I am signing off right now making sure you guys get the latest buzz with buzzworthy radio. We'll see you guys next time. Take care. Can't get enough of a buzzworthy radio. Knock on down to www.buzzworthyradio.net. To get the latest news on upcoming guests, past shows and videos of all your favorite stars, keep getting the latest buzz with buzzworthy.