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44 // CELEBRITY MAGAZINE // O CTOBER 2015www.agnesolech.comhanks to her background and a traditional household growing up, Agnes speaks fluent Polish and basic, conversational German. %u201cWhen we came home from school, mom would make us speak Polish. She was very strict about it.%u201d In terms of learning English, Agnes says it happens naturally when you are young, through TV, radio, and being in school and hearing it all around. Asked how she got into acting, Agnes told us that she always had a crazy imagination growing up. In high school drama class she fell in love with the feeling of making people laugh, and realized that she really wanted to act. When senior year of high school came around and most were making plans for college, Agnes told her parents she wanted to go to LA to pursue acting. %u201cIt must have been super scary for my parents, for their young daughter to move out to this crazy city of LA.%u201d Parents want to see their children go to college, and there weren%u2019t any performers in Agnes%u2019 family. Realizing a parallel, Agnes supposes that, %u201cMaybe my parents immigrating was a model for me venturing out. They were so used to going country to country, and I thought, hey I%u2019m young, I can do it.%u201d Agnes did make the move obviously, and ended up working really hard the first few years. %u201cI was really on my own and doing what I could to survive. I did commercials and a bunch of indie films but nothing on the big scale. As anyone knows in this business, unless you have an %u2018in%u2019, know someone, or have a family member, you have to work extra hard. But once you get your first TV credit, the auditions happen more and people trust that you can do it and you get bigger roles and bigger credits.%u201d This is why when asked if %u201ckiller confidence%u201d is enough for a woman to succeed in Hollywood, Agnes replies that it%u2019s a big part of it, but you have to have talent to back it up and the ability to portray a role. %u201cIt%u2019s one thing to be confident in life, and another thing when there are fifty people around you and you have to do twenty takes, but at the end of the day you have to have talent and I think that comes from working and training. We are always our own worst critic they say.%u201d TThat is most certainly the truth, and Agnes got deeper telling us her philosophy to live by. %u201cLife is too short to hold on to negative thinking. It weighs you down, and you don%u2019t need the baggage. Plus you learn more when you%u2019re open, and that%u2019s hard to do because I think naturally as humans we kind of right away form an opinion, and if you don%u2019t do that, life is so much easier. Sometimes I%u2019m too harsh about everything. I have learned not to be so critical of myself, others, and situations.%u201dIn a world often about looks and comparison to others and competition, it%u2019s refreshing to find someone who works at keeping a positive attitude and not judging others or holding on to grudges. Those must be just a few of the qualities that her new fianc%u00e9, Luke Albright loves about her. Describing their relationship, Agnes says he is her rock and best friend, and that he just gets her. %u201cHe%u2019s my partner in crime. He%u2019s my bestie; we do everything together, we%u2019re weird, silly, annoy each other, and really know each other.%u201d They just got engaged two weeks ago, when he proposed while on vacation in Puerto Rico, on the tiny island of Vieques. However, there was just one tiny problem, or rather a too tiny band problem. Agnes was so excited and overwhelmed, with the adrenaline of the moment that she pushed the ring onto her finger, even though it was a whole size too small! %u201cI got the ring stuck on my finger! He had walked me to the edge of this cliff, and I was in flip flops, and the waves were crashing. I kind of knew something was going to happen since it was our anniversary, but I didn%u2019t think he was going to propose right at that moment because he didn%u2019t have a box.%u201d Turns out he had a tiny pocket in his swim trunks that she didn%u2019t know about! She says she remembered thinking if it doesn%u2019t go on, it%u2019s bad luck, so she just shoved it on. %u201cWe tried everything to getit off, from butter, olive oil, coconut oil, icing my hand, and some things required a couple shots of tequila, but nothing worked! The worst case scenario was to have it cut off, but I am superstitious and thought that would be bad luck.%u201d After watching YouTube videos demonstrating how, they managed to finally get it off with dental floss. Agnes said it was one of the worst pains she%u2019d ever had, %u201cI laugh about it now, but I was literally in tears, I can%u2019t believe this is happening. It was all because I had to get it on at that moment. I had to!%u201d