Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Cat Del Re. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Cat, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Can you tell us about a time that your work has been misunderstood? Why do you think it happened and did any interesting insights emerge from the experience?

I feel this question on a core level, as my social handle literally is _royalmisfit_ .

I was a super creative kid that only enhanced the years I was sick – home from school, trying not to die, no really. I spent my days watching films and the BTS dvds, nick @ nite repeating I Love Lucy, Bewitched and The Golden Girls, sopping up the cartoon network, ransacking the R VHS tapes which were predominantly war movies and reading fiction and non-fiction by the greats and off beats, all on a dizzying spiral. I had a lot of time to imagine worlds, listen to scores and even took a dive into writing my first play and cut moody movie trailers with my brother headlining sound design on the weekends. By the time I hit high-school and my sicknesses subsided, I entered the landscape with a different lens, what seemed monumental in social circles seemed dull and childish. I found myself drawn to the upper classes and obscurely off center in my own. This outside-ness only gripped harder when a spout of illness from my prior sickness plagued me junior year causing a ripple effect of me progressing into the advanced stage & vocal classes amongst other creative courses. It wasn’t until a decade later, I was informed it wasn’t because of lack of skill but sickness that hindered my admittance. At the time, it wasn’t laid out and I didn’t understand – I was after-all only sick two months not the full two years my kid brain felt banished, like I was entirely odd and it was something that painted a different hue if what I wanted in my life and took awhile to hone in the good beginning of my career. It wasn’t until I learned how to use my pain and past, accept it, and spin it into my own creativity while surrounding myself with likeminded misfits that I started to shake off the walls. Luckily for me, being in the entertainment world it didn’t take long and didn’t have to seek it out too far. We are masters of filtering our pain, outsider, loner, perspectives through a lens of empathy to create art that can touch even the most cynical of hearts. Being mischaracterized, or misunderstood is a superpower and it aids in marking your unique path and expression in the world or at least that’s how I’ve come to feel.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am a filmmaker, multi-hyphante storyteller in Los Angeles, CA. I co-own a production company We’re There Films with my bestie Jessy Greer to produce one of a kind stories, and co-produce + develop others stories we are equally passionate about. I write screenplays, act, audition my bootie off, and pose like a top model then turn around to photo snap your fabulous self.

I am proud of allowing all of myself a seat at the table, in my creative life. When I was coming up in the industry it was a thing to pick one road and to focus on that, so I did- and I discovered I was suffocating the other parts of me that needed autonomy. The beauty of allowing your full self to be seen is you learn how to become unapologetically you and bonus have the courage to create a life you truly desire or have always seen for yourself. It’s not all rainbows and gumdrops but it certainly has been worth the view while looking back at my journey.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Growth, sustainability – lasting presence- community, innovation, inclusion, creative ambition into actualization, leadership, love of self & others, storytelling to create more space in minds, hearts and laughter.

I’ve always been a big thinker, I see my life more vividly in the broad stokes, epic stories, adventures and relish in those moments of where I want to end up, create, give, whatever have you. What I’ve had to learn along my journey is to lean into those more micro steps, the day to day that brings you more epically into those crescendo moments.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Everyone is unique. Me? I’m just a little bit off in a-lot of ways and that’s my perspective. It’s given me my sauce and finding that and harnessing it has made my soul grow in ways I could of never predicted.

Contact Info:

• Website: royalmisfit.me
• Instagram: @_royalmisfit_
• Linkedin: linkedin.com/catdelre
• Other: Weretherefilms.com

Image Credits
Violetta_pic Brooke Olsen Cat Del Re