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"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes"

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The charm here is how aggressively unglamorous it is. Dhavernas is talking about the “pilot” - that sacred, high-stakes Hollywood audition episode - and what she lingers on isn’t career anxiety or artistic mission, but swag: a tiny souvenir and a few wardrobe pieces. It’s a sly demotion of the industry’s usual self-mythology. Instead of treating the pilot like a coronation, she frames it like a day trip with a gift shop at the end.

The specificity does the heavy lifting. “Three little moose in a boat, paddling” is so oddly detailed it feels like an unfiltered memory, not a polished anecdote. That kind of detail signals authenticity, but it also works as a pressure valve: it keeps the conversation safely human and faintly absurd, away from the typical actor interview terrain of craft-speak and gratitude theater. The repetition of “little” and “cute” leans into softness, a tonal refusal to perform importance.

There’s subtext about labor, too. Keeping “some of the clothes” isn’t just a perk; it’s a glimpse of the bargain actors often make with transient jobs. Pilots are famously precarious - weeks of intense work that might evaporate. The toy and the clothes become talismans of a production that may never exist again, proof that something happened, that it was real.

In a culture that wants actors to narrate their lives as destiny, Dhavernas opts for the minor key: a boat of moose, paddling earnestly, going nowhere in particular, and that’s the point.

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Dhavernas, Caroline. (n.d.). Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-during-the-pilot-they-gave-me-a-little-toy-41140/

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Dhavernas, Caroline. "Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-during-the-pilot-they-gave-me-a-little-toy-41140/.

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"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/yes-during-the-pilot-they-gave-me-a-little-toy-41140/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Caroline Dhavernas (born May 15, 1978) is a Actress from Canada.

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