WEBVTT - One on One: Tricia O'Kelley 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:17.680 I am all in, kiss you, I am all in 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.440 with Scott Patterson and I Hurt Radio podcast. Hey everybody, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.400 Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast. I heard Radio 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.640 one eleven Productions. We have got very special guest. Tricia 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:35.440 O'Kelly played Nicole leahy Luke's sort of girlfriend season three. Um, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.680 and we're gonna be talking to her about all kinds 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:42.400 of things are experience on the show. Um. She's had 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.600 quite a career. Uh. She starting in Chicago. She appaired 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:54.840 newrous television commercials, McDonald's Budweiser series, Graduated You, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Um, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.279 she's done a ton of things in the business. Two 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.760 and a Half, Men's c S, I Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:07.039 recurrent spots, Secret Life, American Teenager, UM and Gilmore Girls, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.560 Malcolm in the Middle, all kinds of things. Let's bring 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.240 her in Tris Show, Kelly and my old friend Mr. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.680 She's terrific here she comes. Hi. How are you doing? 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.320 It's up sunshine? You remember me? How are you? I'm good. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.199 I'm good. I'm up in. Uh, I'm in Canada doing 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.399 a I'm doing a series up here. So I'm yeah, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.399 I'm up here. Well, and where are you? Are you 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:39.080 in California in Loca Lake, I'm like away from where 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.679 we met. Oh my goodness, you're right there by water 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:46.680 Brook here, I'm right here. Yeah. Oh man. So what's 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:51.520 the show Sullivan's Crossing. Yeah. They there's a woman named 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.880 Robin Carr who wrote a bunch of novels. She's been 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.280 writing best selling New York Times author since this eden, 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.280 and so Virgin River is based on her books, and 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.040 that's a big hit. So now they're doing Sullivan's Crossing 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:13.280 because those are very popular books in her in her library, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.360 and so now they're doing another show because they, you know, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:23.280 they love the success of Virgin Rivers's. Yeah. Yeah, I 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.640 mean it's it's it's hard being away from the family, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:33.200 but it's temporary and you knowstand yeah. You always good 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.160 to work, right, you know, the economy going in the dumper, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.000 it's always good to have a job. How old are 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.359 your kids, Well, I have I have a son who 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.520 just turned eight, so it's very yeah, I know, and 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.560 I want to be with him. And it's tough and 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.560 it's really hard. And I watched videos. I talked to 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.000 them three times a day. Thank God for that. You 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.400 you have kids, I do. I have two girls. Wo 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.280 and let's see, Avery is almost fourteen and Charlie is 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:11.840 almost welve. I'm divorced, so I only get them every 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.360 other week, and but I them all day every day 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.560 when they're with your dad, and you know, I missed them. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.360 It's horrible, even though they're breaking at the reed and 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.440 you know, mm hmmm mm hmmm. Yeah. Well let's talk 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:34.200 about um, your turn on this classic show and this 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.400 particular episode. I gotta tell you this, Uh, this episode fourteen, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.240 season three just slaved me. And this is where we 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.320 go out on our first date? Yes, I do remember that. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.640 Is it the episode that you asked me out on 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.520 the first date? It was that? No, this is where 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.400 we go out on the first date, says when we 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.600 go out on the first day. Yes, yes, I let 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.880 you use your cell phone and a diner and lorelizes 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:04.080 flipping out. That's all funny stuff. Um so what what? So? 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.040 I have a bunch of questions here that the fans 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.680 they want, they want to know stuff. They're very cuff. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.960 What do you remember about your first days on the 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:19.320 set filming these scenes? Yeah? Well I had just come 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.640 off a see it. Well. Now, my show series was 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.719 canceled one day, and then the next day was my 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.080 audition for Gilmo Girls, and I had to have red 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.760 hair for the series because the other leading female was 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.039 you know, blonde hair, saying length everything. So I did 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.440 dye my hair red and I hated it and then 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.240 didn't have time to like change it back audition for 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.720 Gilmore Girls with my red hair, and then got a 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.560 job and had had to keep the red hair for 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.479 like a year or however, right right, right, So my 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.600 first thought was that, you know, crap, I have the 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.320 red hair. But um, I just remember it being so 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.320 I thrilled to get the job. I remember feeling like 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.400 it's so up my alley because I was always getting 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.600 the note that I was talking too fast on previous 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.560 jobs that I've worked on. Remember, I remember specifically for 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.159 this audition, it's like super fast, fast paced, you know, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.760 you know, speed through it. I was like, oh, thank god. Yeah. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.760 So I remember feeling like I was very in my element. Um. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.400 And but then also just that the text, like the 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.920 actual words on the page, it was like doing Shakespeare 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.640 because they were so perfectly written that you know, you 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.000 couldn't screw up you couldn't add lib but like A 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.520 and um or you know, you know whatever. It was 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.479 just so the words were so perfectly written when you 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.320 got the page that there was no room for any 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.440 sort of screw up or any sort of ad lib. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.560 And so I remember feeling a lot of pressure, um 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.040 and then feeling, you know, at the same time, thinking, well, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.880 these guys do monologues and monologues of that every single day. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.280 I've just got this little chunk. Surely I couldn't handle it. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.080 Um And I I just I remember being super nice 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:07.080 and then I had so much fun with you time. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.279 It was it was nice to have, you know, something, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.120 another actor to to bounce stuff off of. I mean, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.720 it's just not that it's it got tedious with anybody 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.599 else in the cast. It's just you know, when you know, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.480 a new energy comes in, it's always great. It's always great. Um. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.440 And I also remember, I think it was even that 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:34.520 episode the the first date, UM, I remember getting a 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.359 note that I was playing her too likable. And and 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.800 that's when I really knew that the audience was going 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.080 to hate me. And they're supposed to hate me, you know, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:50.800 because of you and Laura La and uh, you know 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.560 still to this day, I think I'm like the most 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.320 hated person in television history because of now I think 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:04.000 April is you think April? I have not really heard 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:09.279 anything bad about Nicole. Am I not paying attention? You're 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.640 not paying attention. I mean that was the whole point, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.360 the whole point. I was this bitch. She was getting 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.160 the way of getting together, you know. But I do 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.840 specifically remember sitting at the table at the dinner and 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.040 getting a note that whatever I don't remember the line 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.680 or whatever I was delivering, that I was playing it 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:34.120 too likable, so strange. Well, you know, they have their ways, right, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.000 get you, get you where they want you to pay. Yeah, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.200 I mean I was serving a purpose, you know, right right? 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.840 So what do you remember about getting the role? The 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.960 actual did you the auditioning process? Vaguely remember being in 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.080 the room. I remember thinking I was going to get it, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.760 like I remember, um, so it must have gone well, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.080 or maybe it was something that Amy said in the room. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.960 But I felt really good about it. Um. But but 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.200 again it was the It was really bummed that I 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.040 couldn't change my hair back to blond. I was really 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:15.040 really funned about my hair. And then uh uh yeah, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.400 and then just just the whole thing that, like, the 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.560 being able to speed through my lines was just such 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.840 a comfort and such a relief for me because I'm 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.040 such a fast talker. And but I wasn't thrilled. Were 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.600 you aware of the show? Before I was aware of 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.120 the show, I had only seen a few episodes. What's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.920 so funny is that, you know, now, I'm a single 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.880 mom of two girls, and and they're of the age 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.960 where a lot of their friends are starting to watch it, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.120 and so I'm getting a lot of you know, wait 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:42.800 where you want the borls like from a lot of 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.120 their friends school, and it is really the perfect thing 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.960 to watch with your daughter. And a lot of my 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.320 friends who have girls my age or my daughter's age 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.000 are watching it with their kids, and it's kind of 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.520 great to be a part of that, you know. Um, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.160 so I was aware of it, but I was an 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:08.600 avid watcher. Yeah. Did I hear correctly that you never 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.560 watched the show while it was on? That is correct? Yeah, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.600 that is crazy? Why, well you never ever watched the 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.240 shows that ever? Well? I I saw the pilot right okay, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.240 and I thought it was terrific, And then I never 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:29.719 watched the show at all because it's Yeah, I mean, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.280 I'm there so often. When I'm not there, I'm doing 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:38.760 a million other things you know that aren't related to acting. Um, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.280 and then I go back and I do my my job, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.080 and then I leave the set. Uh. You know, I 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.760 get I have my life, and that's the way I 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.200 like it. I didn't, you know, I didn't want to 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.360 really watch it because I don't know the old saying. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.160 You know, I made the sausage, I don't want to 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:01.880 eat it, right, So because I don't, I think I 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.040 don't like watching myself. And I thought it would disturb 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.480 what I was doing with the character if I didn't 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.600 like because I never like it. And I was afraid, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.160 you know, because I was getting good feedback and you know, like, hey, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.240 we like what you're doing. But if I but I 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.520 started watching it, then i'd probably try to change it 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:25.160 a little bit. Yeah, I get that. I don't know. Yeah, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:29.000 but it surprises me that for for years, as the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.640 showing on, you never thought the first time that's the 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.920 whole basis of the podcast. Yeah, and then I was, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.040 and then I and then I and then I want 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.040 you know, I went to the premiere obviously of the 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.600 reboot with Netflix, and I was forced. I tried to 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.880 leave the theater before they put it on. You know, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.040 it was Winter the Winter one, and my wife grabbed 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.120 my arm and said, sit down. This is looking bad. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.240 So now I'm just gonna go next door and have 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.120 a drink and I'll right. I don't want I just 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.240 did not want to say I don't like watching stuff 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.400 I'm in Okay, And I did, and I was really 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.960 quite charmed by it. You know, I really thought it 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.280 was terrific. Um. Yeah, but those are the only two 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.440 I saw. I haven't seen anything else. So yeah, I'm 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.120 I'm I'm getting my mind blur by this show. Yeah, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.720 shows messing with its messing. Today's shows messed with me, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:31.320 um so big time. Yeah. I mean it was like 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.120 the birth of you know, Sherry's baby and being in 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.520 a delivery room and you know, I'm missing my my 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.800 family so much now that I don't want to get 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.640 into it again. I just want to all this stuff. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.040 But it's just like it was a it was a 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.800 very powerful episode for me. Um. Um. So what did 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.880 you think of Nicole? What do you think of your character? Well, 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.600 I I like, I said, I I loved her character 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.640 she was. I thought she was funny and smart, and um, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.920 I like that she kind of saw through you right 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.240 from the very beginning. Um in a good way, you know. Um. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.640 But I but again like and then I quickly realized 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.280 that I'm not supposed to I don't want to like 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.160 her too much because the audience isn't supposed to like me. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.520 So I think, you know that I kind of became 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:23.560 more uh not madn't want to say, Betty, what's the word? Um? 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.559 I didn't love me so much as it went on, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.480 and I think I was. I took a ride with 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.920 my own character with the audience. You know, we're at 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.240 the end. I was like, oh God, just get the 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:37.960 out let Laurelia love get together. Um yeah, I didn't. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.520 I didn't love her. But you know, this is one 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.160 of my questions. Why, you know, your big city lawyer, right, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.440 gig city lawyer? Yeah? Were you doing mucking around with 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.760 some diner on our stars? Hollow? What? What was the 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.880 great question? Why? Why? Probably you were you were totally 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.720 different from every other man that I date. It probably 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.240 you know, I mean think about it. If I was 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.720 a big city lawyer, probably was you know, dating a 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.080 lot of suits? You know, um and you were the 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.400 complete opposite of that, and you know, I think that 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:18.120 probably really appealed to her. I am very interested in seeing, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.440 uh some dialogue scenes between you and I just just 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.800 to see, just to see what the conversation was, because 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.360 we're talking about somebody who's, you know, super educated versus 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:35.240 somebody who isn't. How is that working? How is that 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.200 coming together? So I'm interested to see these future episodes. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.040 But I don't Yeah, I don't think that if I 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.240 remember correctly, Again, it's twenty years ago. But I don't 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:48.199 think there was ever a time in their relationship where, uh, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.320 where their differences gotten the way, you know, where I 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.839 felt smarter than you or you weren't cultured enough, or 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.600 I don't think that that was the trajectory of our relationship. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.800 I think it's more you're sort of one ft out 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.320 the door. M hmmm. And I don't know if there 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.480 are other people I've seen names, there are other people 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.520 on the show, they're you know, listening in. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.720 but I think it was more your inability or unwillingness 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.360 to kind of fully commit, probably because your heart was 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.439 elsewhere and you just didn't want to admit that to yourself. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:24.840 I think you used me, Luke, That's what I've subconsciously. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.640 Perhaps you are sure, but then I remember when I well, 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:29.800 I'm not going to ruin it for you if you're 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.360 watching it for the first time, but I don't. Don't, 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:37.680 don't don't do that. I'm it's like, um, so you 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:43.080 mentioned previously that you've got some grief from fans. Can 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.880 you can you tell us a story of of an 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.280 encounter that you had with a Gilmore fan that was 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.800 either humorous or just so over the top hateful that 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.840 you had to you know what what? What's the what's 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:04.240 the one you remember the most? Okay, So interestingly enough, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.440 it was never in person because shortly after the show, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.920 after my time on the show ended, I got my 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.480 blonde hair back. So I don't think I was ever 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:18.320 really recognized on the street as Nicole Um. But I 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.640 made the big mistake of you know, finding my name, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.280 like reading comments and mentions and stuff like that. And 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:28.920 I remember once it was like, um, you know, worst characters. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.640 I think it was like something like worst characters in 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.520 Gilmore Girl history, and I was never one. So I've 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.680 seen I've seen it in print a lot. Um. You know, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.640 I hate her voice. Uh just people wanting me to 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.480 go away. And that was that was. It was a 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.800 really good lesson back in the day. Not too I 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.440 think at the time. Like on IMDb, you can comments 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.640 on somebody's IMDb page and I used to read mine, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.920 and that was when I realized, this is a bad idea. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.480 I'm not gonna be comments like that anymore. Um so, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.680 and so I stopped and then he stopped doing that too. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.360 But um but now luckily I just hear I'm just 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.040 hearing from like, you know, friends with my daughters who 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.200 loved me, but they're really cool that I was on. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.800 So it gets better, It gets better, much better. Yeah, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.120 I see. Now you're a legend. Now I'm the cool moment. Yeah, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:32.320 that's right, that's right. I'll tell you these Gilmore fans man, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.320 they're a tough crown. Yeah, well you're tough. You don't 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.280 get any bad comments. Everyone loves you. Well, I mean, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.560 you know the character, it's pretty favorable. Yeah, I have 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:50.040 to Yeah, that's pretty nice. Ye. Not that this is 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.280 uh me interviewing you, but did you know that you 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.040 were a part of a show that was going to 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.720 be like an iconic show that oh no, I never 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.360 thought it would get to this. I knew it was 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.359 a quality show. I knew the writing was quality. I 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.240 mean right right when you were, right when I got 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.840 the pilot of the pilot script to you know, to 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.360 audition from, I actually got to read. Did I get 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.960 to read the script for the pilot family? God, I 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:24.840 don't know. I think, yeah, I think I think I did. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.000 I think I got this whole script um, which is 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.800 kind of unusual. But uh, well, I don't know. Um, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.639 I knew I thought it would go five years. I 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:39.040 remember having this conversation outside of Amy's house. She always 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.720 Amy always had a big party for a Christmas party, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.119 big Christmas party. So we're out there in front of 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.119 her house, taking a little little cigarette break before we 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:53.000 both before I quit and I made her quit smoking. Um, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.600 oh yeah, I don't think you were smoking when I was. No, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.480 I'd quit, I'd quit. I quit the first episode of 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.080 Gilmore Girls. That's when I quit. I realized I was 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.960 going to need the wind. Yeah, for all the fast 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.760 got all the fast talk and got out of your way, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.240 and and and so anyway, I thought, I said to her, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.639 because she said, how long you think it's gonna go. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.680 I said, I think it's gonna go five years. Wow, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:24.040 at least five years, and I was wrong by two years. Uh. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.040 You know what, it could have gone twenty years. This 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.000 show could have just still been on it well, I 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.359 mean they had to reboot. I mean, like clearly there's 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:36.000 still interesting, yes, right, But I never thought that it 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:41.679 would reach I never anticipated that it would become so 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.680 woven into the the cultural fabric of the of the 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.600 of the nation. And you know, it's become like the 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.560 v show for moms to watch with their daughters when 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.000 they're daughter gets old enough, and you know, it's something 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.280 that they can both watch, they're both like, and both 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.800 both can relate to. And it's now, I mean, it's 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:07.280 it's it's always a strange experience when you leave Los Angeles. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.679 So you leave southern California to go other places to 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.000 work or go over the places to travel or visit whatever, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.920 and the reactions you get from people outside of that 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.360 bubble of l A where nobody cares because they just 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.040 don't care, or they pretend they don't care, or they're 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:28.240 just they're just too busy pursuing their own dreams to care. Um. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.880 But once you get out of that bubble. It's just 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:37.120 like an onslaught where it's just daily and any It's 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.800 like I never thought it would become that ever. I mean, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.000 people are so affected by this show in such a 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.880 positive way and they want to tell you about it. Right, Well, 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.359 it's like it's comfort It's like, um yeah, it sounds 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.879 like a bull of chicken suit. It is something really comforting. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.760 It's not just brilliantly written and brilliantly active, but just 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.200 something super comforting about Stars Hollow and just the stories 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:12.920 and everything. Alright, So getting back to fan questions, did 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.320 you have a favorite scene that you filmed? Yes, I 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.639 really liked our scene when you asked me out, so 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.879 not in the dinner, but when you chase me outside 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.040 try and you pay me back for a cup of 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.920 coffee or something like that. Right, I thought that was 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.840 a really cute scene. And again it was the back 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.640 stork that I loved. Uh yeah, that was great scene. Yeah. 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:38.639 So what do you think when they asked you to 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.480 come back for season four? We're happy? Oh my god, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:47.160 yeah yeah and surprised and I was like, okay, yeah 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.080 I can come back, but I'm blonde. Is that all right? 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:53.719 So Yeah, and that's putting that into I think they 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.600 gave you a line something where you had to acknowledge 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.560 that I, you know, changed my hair or something like that. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.159 I was thrilled, and it wasn't I don't think I 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.639 stayed for that long, but even just coming back for 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:14.280 one episode was thrilling. Yeah, A fun show to do. Yeah, 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.639 it was great. It was you know, you kind of 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.200 felt like you were I mean, it's unlike any show 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.560 I've ever worked on before, because you literally had your 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.840 whole town, you know, in the section of Warner Brothers 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.159 where I don't know how many fans know this or 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.560 have visited for Warner Brothers, but it's not a sound stage. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.119 It's literally like Star Hollow is there at Warner Brothers, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.159 the entire backlock. Yeah, and I've never worked on another 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.200 show like that where you felt like you were actually 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.639 in the town while you're shooting. But we did it. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.400 We had two or three sound stages plus the entire 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.400 back block. Yeah. Yeah, it was wild. It was amazing. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:52.919 It was wild to think that you're on something that 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.160 is like gone, where they've invested so much into that 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:02.760 show and then it's still there. Well yeah, I mean 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.360 stars hollow is not still there, but no, but it's 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.480 still I mean the the z bo is still there. Well, yeah, 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:12.720 they're not going to get rid of that. Oh no, no, 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.800 even that's cool. No, that would there would be protests 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:21.560 throughout the land. I agree. So what are you working 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.920 on now? Anything new? Um? Yeah, I'm doing a lot 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:30.439 of writing. Um, I'm still acting. Um I'm pitching a 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:35.600 show with my friend, uh right now. And UM, I 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:36.919 don't know if you knew this, and I think I 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.640 was doing it back then, but I was also always 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.640 into home organization. Did I tell you that at the time, 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:47.320 like a professional organizer when whenever I was not acting, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:51.040 I was organizing and vice versa and whatever. Jesus, what 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:53.879 do I need you? Do you really? I'll help you 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:59.840 seriously doing that years because I love it. And I'm 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:01.960 I actually just got a book deal, so I have 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.360 to write this, Yeah, this book in the next four 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:09.840 or five months about um, you know, single mom organizing 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.959 for the single mom. It's called I'm for Joy, all right. 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:17.080 So I'm gonna get in touch with you, okay, you're 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.439 you know, I'll get your contact information from me, and 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.199 you need to organize our house. I got I'd be 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.920 happy to. I love. Nothing makes me happier than being 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:29.320 up to my ear lobes and other people's stuff, like 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.560 for real, but we might sell it. But well but 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:37.800 that's the perfect time to do that. Yeah, exactly, exactly. 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:39.760 All right? You ready for rapid fire? I gotta ask 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.080 you these real? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's a 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.159 big deal. Ready, yeah? All right? How many coups of 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.560 coffees do you have? A day? Two? Are you seeing Logan, 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:54.320 Jess or Dean? Who's your favorite Gilmore girl's character? You? 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:59.720 What would you order? Luke Steiner? Yeah? What would you rather? 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.080 Who would you rather go on a road trip with? 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:10.040 Taylor or Michelle? Taylor? Finished? Where you lead? I will 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:15.720 follow um anywhere anywhere you tell me to something like that. 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.840 That's good, that's good. Anywhere you left out that, But 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:24.240 that's I'm gonna give you correct. Yeah, Jackson's vegetables are sup? 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.480 These baked goods? Would you rather listen to Drella's Harper 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:37.280 Troubador's cover songs? Pass? There's no passsing? Okay, Wait, ask 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:42.400 me a guess. Drello's Harper Troubador's cover songs? I don't 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.360