Actors Parvesh Cheena (Crazy Ex Girlfriends) and Christopher Schellenger (America's Next Top Model)
October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min
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Two working actors get candid about Hollywood diversity, drag, coming out, and life on stage.
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In this episode
- What it actually looks like to build a career as a working actor
- Honest talk about diversity and representation in Hollywood today
- Personal stories about coming out and finding identity through performance
- Behind-the-scenes reality of theatre roles from drag queens to poodles
About this episode
On this episode of On the Rocks, we are all about the actors with stage and screen's Parvesh Cheena from Crazy Ex Girlfriends, Transformers Rescue Bots, and Barbershop, and from America’s Next Top Model to playing a drag queen in Hacks, Christopher Schellenger! We talk about their love of acting, diversity in Hollywood, the realities of being a working actor, their love of theatre, coming out, drag, Tyra Banks, and Parvesh’s run in WIVES at East West Players, and Christopher’s time as a poodle in Woof at the Odyssey Theatre. Raise a glass; it's On the Rocks with your sassy host with the sassy most, Alexander Rodriguez, with model and musician, Steven Dehler!
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