Speaker 1: I am all in again.
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Speaker 1: I Smell pop Culture with Eastern Allen and I Heart
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Speaker 3: Hey everybody, Easton Allen. I am all in podcasts. iHeart radio,
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Speaker 3: the I Smell pop Culture Podcast. That's right, I Smell
Speaker 3: pop Culture. I take a big whiff. It goes in
Speaker 3: through my nose, It hits these parts of my brain,
Speaker 3: it releases chemicals, and then out of my mouth comes
Speaker 3: the scent of pop culture. Sorry that the visuals gross,
Speaker 3: but we're having a lot of fun over here. We're
Speaker 3: exploring and dissecting all the different pop culture references in
Speaker 3: Gilmore Girls that we love that we love the show
Speaker 3: four and this week is no different. We're talking to
Speaker 3: someone very, very exciting. There's a little movie you may
Speaker 3: have heard of. It's from the nineteen eighties. It's called
Speaker 3: The Karate Kid Ralph Macchio Pat Marita. It's a story
Speaker 3: that made the world fall in love with martial arts.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: It's incredible, and we're going to talk to one of
Speaker 3: the stars of The Karate Kid Part three. And the
Speaker 3: reason we're doing that, though, is that Karate Kid was
Speaker 3: mentioned in season three, episode three, application Anxiety. I'm going
Speaker 3: to set the stage for you here, okay, theater of
Speaker 3: the mind. Visualize with me if you will come on
Speaker 3: a journey. Rory and Laura I are hanging out at
Speaker 3: home and Lane needs help editing and condensing her ad
Speaker 3: seeking a drummer for her band. Laine is explaining she's
Speaker 3: listening like her musical influences and she's going into too
Speaker 3: much detail here.
Speaker 1: The ad can't be this long.
Speaker 3: She's going to spend a fortune per letter per word here,
Speaker 3: so they're trying to help her edit it down. She's
Speaker 3: explaining her thoughts on Jackson Brown and says, see cool.
Speaker 3: People will know that he's more than a melow hippie,
Speaker 3: dippy folky. He actually wrote some of Nico's best songs
Speaker 3: and was in fact her lover before he bored us
Speaker 3: with Doctor my Eyes. They'll separate the posers from the
Speaker 3: non posers, and Rory replies with wax on wax off
Speaker 3: and wax on wax off, of course, is the mantra
Speaker 3: that we learned from mister Miyaki in the Karate Kid.
Speaker 3: And before we dive deeper into Karate Kid, I just
Speaker 3: want to say I love Doctor My Eyes. How dare
Speaker 3: Lane say he bored us with Doctor My Eyes? I
Speaker 3: love that song. I love Jackson Brown and especially that song.
Speaker 3: But a Karate Kid nineteen eighty four a classic movie,
Speaker 3: just one of those movies ever. I dare you walk
Speaker 3: down the street, you it'll be a long time before
Speaker 3: you find someone that has not seen Karate Kid. It
Speaker 3: is so good And we're going to join the Karate
Speaker 3: Kid verse with Robin Lively. Robin Lively joined the franchise
Speaker 3: in Karate Kid Part three, one of the underrated parts
Speaker 3: of the Karate Kid franchise, Friday Kid Universe. She played
Speaker 3: Jessica Andrews in Kardi Kid three. She ran a ceramics
Speaker 3: shop and she was also she was a mountain climber,
Speaker 3: a mountain climbing fan, the mountain climb in the movie.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun. Let me tell you something about
Speaker 3: Robin Lively. She's one of the best people out there.
Speaker 3: We're such big fans of hers, and she's done so
Speaker 3: many incredible roles she's had. She's just one of those
Speaker 3: actors that does so much cool stuff. I mean, X Files,
Speaker 3: twin Peaks, a punky brewster, night writer, I mean, Come
Speaker 3: On teen, which she was seeing, which she's done so
Speaker 3: much cool stuff, and we're going to hang out with her,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna find out what pop culture smells like
Speaker 3: with Robin Lively. We're gonna wax on, wax off. It's
Speaker 3: the I am all in podcasts and I smell pop culture.
Speaker 3: Stick around. Robin's coming up, Robin Lively is here with us.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for doing this. We're so excited
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 2: My gosh, I'm so excited. Thank you so much for
Speaker 2: having me.
Speaker 3: We have so much your resume. I was thinking about
Speaker 3: this the other day. There's some people in Hollywood that
Speaker 3: have just cool resumes. Like you look at like your
Speaker 3: list of credits and it's just like everything you've done.
Speaker 1: Is just cool.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's it's it's so great and there's so much
Speaker 3: to get into. Uh, we're gonna talk Karate Kid, We're
Speaker 3: gonna talk about it all. But first I want to
Speaker 3: I love going back to the beginning. You got started
Speaker 3: so early. What six years old was your first role?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Oh? You know? Actually by six I had already been
Speaker 4: working for three years. I started three if you can
Speaker 4: believe it, Wow.
Speaker 1: Right, it's what was the what was that first role
Speaker 1: at three years old? What were you doing?
Speaker 4: Okay, so it was a it was a national network commercial.
Speaker 4: It was a bank commercial. I can't remember the It
Speaker 4: was on my demo reel and I remember it. I
Speaker 4: could even quote the commercial for you because my mom
Speaker 4: had written it and it was a monologue. And when
Speaker 4: I went to the auto and I did this monologue,
Speaker 4: they loved it so much. They're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: we're doing this. We're just going to incorporate the bank
Speaker 4: name in it. And that's how and that's how I did.
Speaker 2: It was three years old. It's career. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: so much fun.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: I mean so like as far back as you can remember,
Speaker 3: you've been acting basically, Yeah, Like do you remember like
Speaker 3: just being a kid and loving it? Like how did
Speaker 3: you as you started doing it more and more? How
Speaker 3: did you kind of like did it become a job
Speaker 3: pretty quickly?
Speaker 1: I'm interested in.
Speaker 2: That part, you know.
Speaker 4: Honestly, this is I feel like I have such I
Speaker 4: think it's so amazing that I've been able to do
Speaker 4: this as long as I have been, and to.
Speaker 2: Have started when I was a child.
Speaker 4: It just felt like this was just normal life for me,
Speaker 4: like I didn't know, I didn't know any different. My
Speaker 4: mom was a model. She was of course to stay
Speaker 4: at my home mom forever and ever. And then she
Speaker 4: would started doing some print work and brought us with her,
Speaker 4: the three three of us, the younger kids, and so
Speaker 4: she would bring us all the time to her print
Speaker 4: jobs and her shoots, and they were like, kids are
Speaker 4: so cute, we should use them in this ad. And
Speaker 4: so then from that we got you know, commercial agents,
Speaker 4: and started doing commercials. And then when I was five,
Speaker 4: I ended up doing do you remember, Oh my gosh, well,
Speaker 4: Christy McNichol so phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that movie? Why am I blanking on it?
Speaker 4: Oh? It was such a great movie, Little darlings.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, oh.
Speaker 4: My tatum'neill and Christy McNichol. This is a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, little dart. Yeah, So I'm.
Speaker 4: Just mentioning yes because I love that movie so much.
Speaker 4: But Christy mcnicholl played my sister, my older sister, in
Speaker 4: a movie when I was five, and that was like
Speaker 4: my first kind of big, you know, opportunity was that
Speaker 4: it was a movie of the week. They used to
Speaker 4: have these things called Movies of the Week and yeah.
Speaker 1: So which which movie was that?
Speaker 4: It was called Smer of My German Soldier.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you?
Speaker 3: I mean so you were on some like again heavy
Speaker 3: Hitter shows and Punky Brewster Night Writer twenty one jub
Speaker 3: Street has heeks. I mean like, yes, how did it
Speaker 3: feel too, like you get a role on Night Writer?
Speaker 3: How did it feel like step onto these sets of
Speaker 3: these just like iconic TV shows?
Speaker 1: What was that like?
Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting because we're all human, right, Like, we're
Speaker 4: all I feel like even the biggest celebrities geek out
Speaker 4: over other celebrities because we're all fans of each other.
Speaker 4: You know. So growing up I loved Night Writer.
Speaker 2: So at twelve years.
Speaker 4: Old, I was like, I can't believe I'm on set.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Michael Knight. I'm like, my match, this
Speaker 4: is insane.
Speaker 2: I wanted to like sit in the car hit all
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 4: And I look back now and I and I saw
Speaker 4: a scene. I was like, that seemed like it was
Speaker 4: one million years ago. No, do you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 4: do remember things like you watch Vacation with Chevy ch
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, get my kids. I'm like you guys,
Speaker 4: you've got to see this movie is so great and
Speaker 4: I'm watching, Oh what does this feel like it was
Speaker 4: one hundred years ago? That's what That's what night Rider
Speaker 4: felt like when I was watching the scene. But anyway,
Speaker 4: I digress. The it was it's so great, Like I
Speaker 4: loved being a part of it, but I was just
Speaker 4: a kid. I was like geeking out on being there
Speaker 4: and being on set because I love the show.
Speaker 3: Was there like a role or an experience from that
Speaker 3: early stage of your career that really stands out to
Speaker 3: you that you like think back often and fondly on, Oh.
Speaker 4: Well, if we're going to go there, it's obviously it's
Speaker 4: teen Witch.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: Like it takes the cake because it was so like
Speaker 4: this unsuspecting, like massive cult.
Speaker 5: Classic, what was what happened?
Speaker 2: Like how did this happen? But it genuinely is.
Speaker 4: I mean I love every project I do for you know,
Speaker 4: a myriad of reasons, but teen it is it for me,
Speaker 4: like it holds a really special place in my heart.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's one of those movies that people like,
Speaker 3: everyone's rewatching it, especially around Halloween. It has such a
Speaker 3: cult falling. Like you said, I mean, like, you got
Speaker 3: to work with Darren from Bewitch to that movie that's incredible.
Speaker 4: Like insane, It wasn't incredible, Yeah, and it was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Magic Witches. What of course it's Darren. Of course it's Derwood.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, making how did that? How did teen
Speaker 3: Witch come together? I'm curious about that, Like, how'd you
Speaker 3: get involved with that project?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: You know, it was just an audition, just an a
Speaker 2: for a film went in.
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't really like put much pressure on
Speaker 4: myself because I had been doing this for so long,
Speaker 4: but there's always an element of like walking into a
Speaker 4: room and performing in front of strangers, that you never
Speaker 4: get fully comfortable with that. Let me just state that clearly.
Speaker 4: But it was just, yeah, it's just not just and
Speaker 4: I thought it was a really cute movie, and I
Speaker 4: just was living in the moment, you know, got the movie,
Speaker 4: became really good friends with everyon on set. We were
Speaker 4: such we were so close and it was such a
Speaker 4: wonderful and innocent time in life, and like it was
Speaker 4: just a different era and I loved it so much.
Speaker 2: And you can tell, you.
Speaker 4: Can tell that we loved each other and we genuinely
Speaker 4: got along so well, and I think that is part
Speaker 4: of the magic of the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it looks like you guys are all having
Speaker 3: a blast in that movie and it really does come through.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. And we were just reunited recently, basically all
Speaker 4: of us for a convention and it was self great.
Speaker 4: It was just like no time had passed. I just
Speaker 4: love them so much.
Speaker 3: That makes me so happy that I love hearing that.
Speaker 3: You were saying, like you never get used to auditioning,
Speaker 3: and I'm as I have never auditioned, I likely will
Speaker 3: never audition I'm so curious about Like that's kind of
Speaker 3: surprised me because I was wondering, like if you you know,
Speaker 3: if you do it enough times, does it just become
Speaker 3: a thing.
Speaker 1: A little bit. It's so it's it also seems so
Speaker 1: uncomfortable to do and so weird and like so the
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, I'm just curious, like how
Speaker 1: like auditioning relates to like the rest of acting as
Speaker 1: a whole, because it's like so different than what you're
Speaker 1: actually doing, but it's a necessary part of it.
Speaker 4: It is so different and it's so necessary and a
Speaker 4: lot of times. Well, now since COVID, you're doing everything remotely.
Speaker 4: You know, you're putting, you're doing self tapes, and there
Speaker 4: are advantages and disadvantages to that. But you know a
Speaker 4: lot of times people would get jobs because they were
Speaker 4: really good in the room, like they just auditioned well,
Speaker 4: you know, you had to audition well, you had to
Speaker 4: like come across like you were so unfazed and just
Speaker 4: like even though your insides are like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: I'm dying. But yeah, I mean, after so many years
Speaker 4: of doing it, there is an element of you get
Speaker 4: comfortable doing it. However, there is a job at stake.
Speaker 4: They are total strangers, like sitting there staring at you,
Speaker 4: judging you. You know, you have to, you know, do
Speaker 4: your best under those kind of situations, and it can
Speaker 4: be incredibly intimidating. So yeah, I mean I kind of
Speaker 4: miss it because I liked it. I liked it, you know,
Speaker 4: I got to they got to see me as a
Speaker 4: person and get to know, you know, like got a
Speaker 4: sense of who I was on tape. You like, you
Speaker 4: really don't know, and but on tape you get the
Speaker 4: advantage of putting your very best take on You have
Speaker 4: no nerves. You know, you can do a great job.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you can memorize everything. Has there been a
Speaker 3: time where you went in to do an audition and
Speaker 3: like they threw something just out of left field issue
Speaker 3: that you were not prepared for.
Speaker 4: Always they would do things like that, yeah, or they
Speaker 4: want you. They want to see like how well you
Speaker 4: take direction and who knows what they would throw at you.
Speaker 4: And also too you you would have the intimidation of
Speaker 4: walking and like sizing up your competition. You know, you
Speaker 4: could hear them and the other you could hear how
Speaker 4: they're doing their audition. Sometimes you'd feel like, oh, I
Speaker 4: can do better than that, or.
Speaker 2: Or you're like, oh my gosh, they.
Speaker 4: Are really good. You know. So it could work for
Speaker 4: against you, but good times.
Speaker 3: It's so fascinating to me. Okay, Twin Peaks, I want
Speaker 3: to talk about Twin Peaks a bit. Atlanta budding Milford
Speaker 3: hopeful for Miss Twin Peaks. I mean such if you
Speaker 3: could be a part of like any show, I mean,
Speaker 3: incredible to have that on your on your credit list.
Speaker 1: Did you work with David Lynch much?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately I didn't.
Speaker 4: I was that show at the time, was probably the
Speaker 4: biggest show on television, and I just remember, Oh, it
Speaker 4: was a time where you know, you you sat down
Speaker 4: at whatever time and you all watched it with everyone
Speaker 4: else that was watching me at eight o'clock at that
Speaker 4: same time. Everyone was talking about it and it was
Speaker 4: such an It was just groundbreaking the show. No one
Speaker 4: had ever seen anything like it. So season two, when
Speaker 4: I got the audition, I was so excited. Again here
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 2: I'm just a human.
Speaker 4: I love the show. I'm a huge fan of the show.
Speaker 4: I'm desperate to be on it. And the audition was like, oh,
Speaker 4: the description for Lana was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's just so beautiful, like.
Speaker 4: All the men are just falling at her feet and
Speaker 4: all this stuff. And I saw the show. I saw
Speaker 4: how beautiful these women were, the cast, the regulars, they
Speaker 4: were on the cover Rolling Stone. They were the most
Speaker 4: exquisitely beautiful women ever. And I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 4: have to figure out something that's gonna, you know, make
Speaker 4: me stand out a little bit. I need to do
Speaker 4: something different. And so I read the material and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna make her southern.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give her like this super southern drawl and
Speaker 4: being from Georgia, super easy for me to do that,
Speaker 4: and so I thought, you know, like this is gonna
Speaker 4: work or it's not gonna work, but I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: my chance. I'm gona do it. And I got it.
Speaker 5: I couldn't believe that, and I was like, yes, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, this show is this is a hit show.
Speaker 4: I have Oh I have just made it. And then
Speaker 4: it was canceled. Why I can't even I can't. I
Speaker 4: don't understand it.
Speaker 3: And the great mysteries of television history. Why that show
Speaker 3: got canceled.
Speaker 2: It's two seasons, that's it.
Speaker 4: Really, Yes, unbelievable, but hey I got to be a
Speaker 4: part of it, and it was you know, it was
Speaker 4: an absolute career highlight for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean absolutely.
Speaker 3: And then really quick, I just really want to point
Speaker 3: out a fuzz Bucket is one of the best movies
Speaker 3: of all time. If you haven't seen fuzz Bucket, please
Speaker 3: get fuzz Bucket.
Speaker 1: Do you get Do you have people coming up to you,
Speaker 1: like conventions and stuff saying how many fuzzy.
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, You're probably no person. But it was on
Speaker 4: a podcast they were like, we love fuzz Bucket. I
Speaker 4: have to rewatch it.
Speaker 2: But that was really fun though. That was a fun show.
Speaker 3: It's a delightful show, you know, it's fantastic and Disney
Speaker 3: Movie of the Week. So Robin Lively here hanging out
Speaker 3: with us. We have so much more to get into.
Speaker 3: We're going to wax on, wax off here in a second,
Speaker 3: talk about the Karate Kid. This is the ice Smell
Speaker 3: pop culture podcast. Everybody stick around. It's the Icemell pop
Speaker 3: culture podcast on I Am all in. We're hanging out
Speaker 3: with Robin Lively, the Great Robin Lovely. We're having so
Speaker 3: much fun here.
Speaker 1: Oh, the Karate Kid.
Speaker 3: You are part of the Karate Kid verse Jessica Andrews
Speaker 3: and Karate Kid Part three.
Speaker 1: Yes, and tell us, how did you how.
Speaker 3: Did you become involved with that movie in the third installment?
Speaker 1: How'd that happen?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this movie. You know, I keep reminding
Speaker 4: you of like how just you know, I'm just a
Speaker 4: human girl fan the entire time. You know, then it
Speaker 4: was like nowadays, you you know so many the industry
Speaker 4: has changed so much. It was so much simpler then.
Speaker 4: You would just go on auditions and it wasn't like,
Speaker 4: oh this is an this is not to have an
Speaker 4: offer oute to like this a list celebrity. I got opportunities.
Speaker 4: I was virtually a nobody. I mean I had worked
Speaker 4: my whole life, but I wasn't like this name actress.
Speaker 2: And that was the beauty of it back then.
Speaker 4: And I got the audition I read for the director.
Speaker 4: I had no idea that John Avildson was this icon.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness, I didn't know. I just was so naive.
Speaker 4: I did not know Rocky. I didn't. I wish I'd
Speaker 4: known these things, but I just got the audition. I
Speaker 4: remember seeing years later, like my mom had written it
Speaker 4: on a little notepad, my callback for John Avildson. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I just read for him. I remember it vividly. I
Speaker 4: remember behind the desk I did the audition. I got
Speaker 4: a callback next to you know, I'm testing for the movie.
Speaker 4: And it was between me and Heather Graham. And I've
Speaker 4: told her a few times and Heather ended up on
Speaker 4: Twin Peaks with me. So I go again. I was
Speaker 4: telling you about sizing up my competition. I get to
Speaker 4: the screen test and we go through hair and makeup,
Speaker 4: which is what you do at a screen test. Then
Speaker 4: and they have the whole set. It was the scene
Speaker 4: with the cast role. You know that was a scene
Speaker 4: doing it. Maybe we did a couple, but I know
Speaker 4: we did that one and they film it with actual
Speaker 4: film and it was like legit. And I saw Heather
Speaker 4: Graham and I was like, oh my, suddenly all of
Speaker 4: my confidence just went out the door. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: she looks like like a doll, like a living doll.
Speaker 2: Like she is so stunning.
Speaker 4: Oh oh well, okay, well at least you know what
Speaker 4: I get to I get to do a scene with
Speaker 4: Ralph Machio, with Daniel LaRusso. So I did the screen
Speaker 4: test and then, as you know how it worked out,
Speaker 4: I got it, which I could not believe. I don't
Speaker 4: think there was a moment in that film that I
Speaker 4: in my mind. I wasn't like having these external moments
Speaker 4: where I was like, you're doing a scene with Daniel Larisso,
Speaker 4: you're doing a scene with mister Biagi. I still do
Speaker 4: that to this day, like on Lioness when I'm working
Speaker 4: with Nicole Kidman, I'm like, oh, you're doing the scene
Speaker 4: with Stine.
Speaker 2: You are working Nicole.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? The novelty never wears off,
Speaker 4: and I know I never walk onto his head and
Speaker 4: don't just have immense gratitude to still be here and
Speaker 4: still be doing what I love so much.
Speaker 1: I love to hear that. That makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: That's That's exactly what I was like hoping for.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously everybody's a fan of the original Karate Kid,
Speaker 3: but I was like, I'm curious joining a movie in
Speaker 3: its third, you know, installment. Yeah, how did it feel like?
Speaker 3: There's so much of the same cast and crew were
Speaker 3: around for all three. How did it feel like coming
Speaker 3: in at the third movie? Was everyone welcoming to you?
Speaker 1: Did it feels kind of weird?
Speaker 4: Oh? No, everyone was wonderful. But I mean there are
Speaker 4: rumors out there about the third one. What I remember
Speaker 4: about it was I know that they were writing the
Speaker 4: script as we were filming, so a lot of changes
Speaker 4: were happening on the spot.
Speaker 2: So that kind of lent.
Speaker 4: Itself to a little bit of like frustration. I sensed
Speaker 4: a bit of frustration, you know, on set, and I
Speaker 4: wasn't only privy to everything that was going on, and
Speaker 4: you know, they changed it from us being love interest
Speaker 4: to just being friends because the age difference. And then
Speaker 4: at one point, this is really cool, this is really cool.
Speaker 4: We so the dance when we went to the to
Speaker 4: the club and we were dancing that was supposed to
Speaker 4: be choreographed. And so we were at Warner Brothers and
Speaker 4: met with the infamous Paula Abdul.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yes, Ralph and I wondered this soundstage and Ralph and
Speaker 4: I go in there and we meet.
Speaker 2: But she was so lovely, she was so.
Speaker 4: Wonderful, and Ralph was like, you know what this just feels.
Speaker 4: I just like, I don't, this doesn't whatever he said.
Speaker 4: I won't quote him. All I know is we walked
Speaker 4: out about ten minutes later and decided it was not
Speaker 4: going to be a choreographed dance.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to meet Paula Abdul, So that right? Cool? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Straight up?
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Uh that's I'm a defender of third movies in like
Speaker 3: in series. I'm a big fan of Back to the
Speaker 3: Future three. I love Return of the Jedi and Kardi
Speaker 3: Kit three is no different. I think it's a very
Speaker 3: special movie and I think it's an integral.
Speaker 1: Part of the series.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, like, so, Ralph Machio, he was like,
Speaker 3: had you met him at all before you started filming
Speaker 3: that movie?
Speaker 4: Wow? I had never met He was about as big
Speaker 4: as a got you know, for me anyway.
Speaker 2: I was so karate Kid took everyone.
Speaker 4: I mean, that film was everything. I mean, I can
Speaker 4: speak for myself.
Speaker 2: I was obsessed with that movie.
Speaker 4: I was obsessed with him. Oh it was just the greatest.
Speaker 4: So to be a part of it in any form,
Speaker 4: even if it wasn't the greatest of all of them,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, it was so it was iconic for me.
Speaker 4: It was a dream come true. Talk about a career highlight.
Speaker 4: Like I genuinely like I could not get past the
Speaker 4: fact that I was I was incredika. Even today, I
Speaker 4: showed my daughter we were watching it, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I can't believe that's my name up there with this
Speaker 4: Rolf Machio, pat and Merita Robin Lively, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: That's crazy?
Speaker 1: So awesome, It's the best.
Speaker 4: And Ralph was wonderful, so professional and kind and like
Speaker 4: he was terrific to work with. Everyone was so it
Speaker 4: was overall, it was a really, really incredible experience.
Speaker 3: So when we first see you in the movie, you're
Speaker 3: on the pottery wheel, you're throwing a vase. Did you
Speaker 3: have much ceramics experience before you did that scene?
Speaker 1: Had you ever been on a wheel before.
Speaker 4: No, But they gave me some classes and I made
Speaker 4: some bowls. Oh yeah, I made bowls. I made cups.
Speaker 4: I wish I still had them. So I did do
Speaker 4: some classes with a private you know, private lessons, and
Speaker 4: also repelling. I learned how to repel for real.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was my next question because, like you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of people are if you're in a Karate
Speaker 3: Kid movie, everyone's like, oh, are you going to learn martial arts?
Speaker 3: Robin Lively got to repel down a cliff.
Speaker 1: That was real.
Speaker 4: That was very real. I got to do all of that,
Speaker 4: Like I genuinely learned how to do all of it.
Speaker 4: It was so cool.
Speaker 1: That's oh my god, that's incredib wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: So when you're filming, you know, I understand like some
Speaker 3: of that was on location in Marin, is that right?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, and then some of it on a stage I imagine.
Speaker 3: I mean in any way, it must have been terrifying,
Speaker 3: right to be in the harness and everything.
Speaker 4: How did well, not so much. Now, it was a
Speaker 4: lot of it was like you know, some of a
Speaker 4: lot of it was a green screen.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you can tell.
Speaker 4: We were peled a little bit down a mountain. It
Speaker 4: was not It wasn't dangerous or scary at all.
Speaker 3: No, oh my god, you making it look so easy.
Speaker 3: Even with like the green screens where they're like a
Speaker 3: couple of feet off the ground, it's still like it
Speaker 3: still freaks me out, like that would freak me out anyway,
Speaker 3: not at all.
Speaker 4: The most notable thing that happened was the the sorry hang.
Speaker 4: The most notable thing that happened though, was the ropes.
Speaker 4: While we were in Marin County, they were dragged through
Speaker 4: poison oak poison ivy and so when yeah, so when
Speaker 4: we got back to La when we were filming on stage,
Speaker 4: Ralph was grabbing the ropes and got the worst case
Speaker 4: of poison oak I think I've ever seen ever, Like
Speaker 4: we're swollen. Oh, it was so intense, it was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, that's again.
Speaker 3: You think you're gonna when you're did in a movie
Speaker 3: like that, You're like, oh, I might like maybe I'll
Speaker 3: break a bone or something like that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, covered and poison ivy oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now who would have imagined a millionaires that would happen.
Speaker 4: But yes, that was one of the big notable things
Speaker 4: we had to shut down production. It was so bad.
Speaker 3: Whoa had to take an oatmeal bath or whatever. I
Speaker 3: do know how you fixed those things.
Speaker 4: But exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, and I want to talk about Cobra Kai. So
Speaker 3: exciting you came back for season five of Cobra Kai. Yes,
Speaker 3: that I mean I rewatched that episode earlier today. It's
Speaker 3: so exciting to see your return.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Was that a fun experience for you?
Speaker 4: Oh? It was incredible. I was just waiting for that
Speaker 4: phone to ring. I'm like, okay, guys, I'm ready, let's
Speaker 4: like come on now. So when it finally happened, I
Speaker 4: was so curious to see how they were going to
Speaker 4: integrate me into the story. And I thought it was
Speaker 4: so g Yes, I thought it was so fun.
Speaker 2: And then I got to.
Speaker 4: Do like this badass brawl in a bar, like I
Speaker 4: don't get roles like that. I'm not fighting in bars.
Speaker 4: It was so much fun. The cast was amazing, the crew,
Speaker 4: the producers, creators, they were all so incredible. And they
Speaker 4: I'm sure you know, they are such huge, huge fans
Speaker 4: of Karate Kid, the whole franchise. So when I was
Speaker 4: on set, it was like they were all geeking out,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is so cool.
Speaker 4: It was one of those jobs where you're like and
Speaker 4: then I'm reunited with with Ralph and with Billy who
Speaker 4: have been friends with forever, and.
Speaker 2: You know, so many people.
Speaker 4: It just like I almost felt guilty, like getting paid
Speaker 4: for the job. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: That's great. I love it. Yeah, that seeing when you
Speaker 1: first entered the bar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you point out that there's like an
Speaker 3: arcade machine and you're like, A, that's no remake, that's
Speaker 3: the original.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was such a cool lie.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, it is so good.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed, like since being on Cobra Kai people,
Speaker 3: I like to think that people are going back and
Speaker 3: rewatching Karate Kid three, like seeing you as inspired them
Speaker 3: to go back.
Speaker 4: Have you been.
Speaker 3: Have you heard from fans that are like, oh I'm
Speaker 3: watching it again, or like, has there been a resurg
Speaker 3: in some popularity?
Speaker 4: No, I would imagine so they haven't said as much,
Speaker 4: but I would imagine that they have. And I love that.
Speaker 4: You know, I know that there were mixed reviews on
Speaker 4: the third one, but there is a you know, people
Speaker 4: do love it, they really do, and I just I like,
Speaker 4: I tell even when we did the Red carpet premiere
Speaker 4: for the season finale. We did this huge group photo and.
Speaker 2: All of us there and I'm looking around.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I keep telling you this is the same thing,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, I can't believe that I'm here with
Speaker 4: these are all the karate Kid people.
Speaker 2: I feel like an impostor.
Speaker 4: It's so cool.
Speaker 1: It's so cool, and you know, and listening.
Speaker 3: If you have not seen Karate Kid three, I watched
Speaker 3: part of it on Netflix this morning and I got
Speaker 3: the little notifications leaving Netflix soon, which.
Speaker 1: Reakes my heart.
Speaker 4: So well, are you serious?
Speaker 3: Yes, all three of them, So yeah, get on get
Speaker 3: on Netflix and watch karate Kid one, two, and three
Speaker 3: while you can. Robin Lovely's hanging out with us. You're
Speaker 3: working on some really cool stuff right now that I
Speaker 3: want to talk about, and we're going to do that
Speaker 3: in just a second, but first we got play some
Speaker 3: really fun and entertaining commercials. We'll be right back, everybody, Yay.
Speaker 1: Robin Lively's hanging out with us.
Speaker 3: It's the Ice Smell Pop Culture podcast on I Am
Speaker 3: All in, and we're just having so much fun. I
Speaker 3: love talking to these huge stars like yourself and then
Speaker 3: finding out like you're I love how much of a
Speaker 3: fan girl you are.
Speaker 1: That makes me feel it's so cool. It makes me
Speaker 1: so happy.
Speaker 4: I feel like everyone is. They just there's just other
Speaker 4: levels of like coolness, Like they're going to pretend like
Speaker 4: they're not quite as geeked out as others. But I
Speaker 4: promise you there are people that they're geeking out over.
Speaker 2: I promise.
Speaker 3: That's the biggest secret in Hollywood. And I myself am
Speaker 3: a major fangirl for Taylor Sheridan. And it's so exciting
Speaker 3: You're in not one, but two shows in the Sheridan verse.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Landman on Paramount Plus it
Speaker 3: tell us how you what was it like getting into
Speaker 3: the world of land Man. It's the new Billy Bob
Speaker 3: Thornton show again.
Speaker 4: Pinch me, you know, Like, Hi, I am so excited
Speaker 4: to be a part of these shows. I cannot even
Speaker 4: begin to tell you. It is so thrilling and so cool.
Speaker 4: Oh so. The the little bit of a cool backstory
Speaker 4: is that Taylor Sheridan was a actor and was in
Speaker 4: my dad's acting class for a long time, yes years,
Speaker 4: I mean decades ago with my husband, my husband, this
Speaker 4: was before we were dating. I barely even noticed my
Speaker 4: husband at the time, but he was he was in
Speaker 4: my dad's acting class.
Speaker 1: He was in the class. Bart Johnson was in the
Speaker 1: class too.
Speaker 4: Wow, Yes, he sure was because he did a movie
Speaker 4: with his my husband. So Bart's first movie was Me Familia,
Speaker 4: and my dad was in that. So from that, my
Speaker 4: dad just kind of took him under his wedding.
Speaker 2: And he like absolutely loved and brought him home to
Speaker 2: my mom.
Speaker 4: He was over our house all the time, but I
Speaker 4: was not living at home, but he was just kind
Speaker 4: of a fixture around the family all the time, and
Speaker 4: so he ended up like helping my dad teach like
Speaker 4: the younger kids classes. Anyway, So Taylor was Taylor was
Speaker 4: in my dad's So many people were in my dad's
Speaker 4: acting class. But so Bart and Taylor know each other.
Speaker 4: I didn't ever know Taylor because I wasn't in my
Speaker 4: acting class. I would just kind of like breathing and out.
Speaker 4: But I was busy, I was working, you know, so
Speaker 4: I didn't know him personally. So then his career just explodes,
Speaker 4: and I remember Bart being.
Speaker 5: Like, oh, I can't believe this is insane. This is incredible.
Speaker 5: Taylor Sheridan, what.
Speaker 4: My mind is blown? Right, And so now we're years later,
Speaker 4: we get an audition, both of us for you know,
Speaker 4: roles that have nothing to do with each other, and
Speaker 4: so we often put each other on tape. So he
Speaker 4: does my tape, I do his tape, and that's it.
Speaker 4: And then we hear, oh, you're both pinned for the show,
Speaker 4: and we're like, what this is incredible? Could you imagine?
Speaker 4: We are such huge Billy Bob Thornton fans from sling
Speaker 4: Blade and just everything. The guy is a genius. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I thought, what is the probability we really think
Speaker 4: we're both gonna get this? I doubt it, but this
Speaker 4: is exciting. Let's hope one of us gets it, and
Speaker 4: then we both get it. So we were both in
Speaker 4: the pilot, which was so cool, and Taylor is the
Speaker 4: guy is like how do you know what? I mean? Like,
Speaker 4: how how does he do it all?
Speaker 3: And now it's it's it's wild, Like you know, I
Speaker 3: started seeing his movies and I was just so I
Speaker 3: love It's exactly the type of story I love to watch.
Speaker 1: He's like rural, no wires kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And then he started the TV shows and it's like
Speaker 3: I cannot believe the output of this man.
Speaker 1: It's it's wild.
Speaker 4: And he is he's doing it all himself, like he
Speaker 4: doesn't have a writing staff. I don't know how he's like,
Speaker 4: is the guy human? He's just an absolute powerhouse and
Speaker 4: he's so cool.
Speaker 2: What a genius this.
Speaker 4: Guy is, right, So it was really fantastic too, so
Speaker 4: great to be a part of the show. And then
Speaker 4: and then I get an audition for Lioness again, same
Speaker 4: kind of thing, do a self tape, and I didn't
Speaker 4: at all think I was going to get it, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you, so when.
Speaker 2: I did, I was through the roof.
Speaker 4: And also to.
Speaker 2: Get to play such completely.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've had a chance to watch
Speaker 4: the shows, but my character is so vastly different Lioness
Speaker 4: to Landman.
Speaker 2: So to say that I am.
Speaker 4: Pinging myself is the understatement of the century. I feel
Speaker 4: so excited and honored to be on these shows. And
Speaker 4: Jill Wagner is so cool. I think I could be wrong,
Speaker 4: but when I met her on Lionis, she was like, oh, Robin,
Speaker 4: it's so cool to have you here, and I'm such
Speaker 4: a fan of your work.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, this is insane.
Speaker 4: I think she's a teen witch fan. I could be wrong,
Speaker 4: but I think she is. But anyway, it's incredible. Wait,
Speaker 4: I got to tell you on more thing then. Ruth McGill.
Speaker 4: He's in Lioness and he and I worked together when
Speaker 4: I was thirteen in Wildcats. If you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that crazy?
Speaker 1: It's so crazy at these things come around.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you right, thirteen to now that was a
Speaker 4: few years ago. Well that's so fine, but it was
Speaker 4: a while ago.
Speaker 3: Does that happen when you're like, I mean, it must
Speaker 3: happen all the time where you're working on something, and
Speaker 3: then like when your co stars or someone comes up
Speaker 3: and goes, hey, by the way, I love Teen Witch.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah. Oh well, when I did thirty Rock, I
Speaker 4: was like, that was one of the biggest shows on
Speaker 4: television when I did that, and I was like, how
Speaker 4: am I on this show? You've got Jennifer Anniston on
Speaker 4: the week before, Oprah's on the week after and me
Speaker 4: and I literally I said, I guarantee you someone here
Speaker 4: is a Teen Witch fan. And I was right. It
Speaker 4: was Matt Hubbard. He's a producer of the show. And
Speaker 4: Tina was like, oh, Robin, she was so cool. They
Speaker 4: were amazing. She was like, oh, I had to sit.
Speaker 4: I had to sit through watch all the teen Witch scenes,
Speaker 4: and I like boys wet locker room. I just adored her.
Speaker 4: She was so great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is so awesome. Oh so Landman and Lioness.
Speaker 3: You can scale them out and over Paramount Plus and
Speaker 3: check those both out and see Robin and I'm sure
Speaker 3: incredible performances in both. So we were talking before we
Speaker 3: started here. This is a Goilmore Girls podcast, and you
Speaker 3: know karate Kid was mentioned in Gomore Girls a couple
Speaker 3: of times, which is yes, which led to this fun
Speaker 3: chat we're having. What do you love about Gilmore Girls?
Speaker 3: What stands out to the show?
Speaker 4: I love Gilmore Girls, And in fact, I rewatched several
Speaker 4: episodes of My Daughter and We're more obsessed. I loved
Speaker 4: their relationship. I think that was the first time I
Speaker 4: you know, like when shows were out at that time,
Speaker 4: and the relationship between the two was unlike any you
Speaker 4: had ever seen between a mother and daughter. And Lauren Graham,
Speaker 4: they Alexis blowed out, they were so just you just
Speaker 4: adored them. You loved their relationship. You wanted your relationship
Speaker 4: to be like that with your mom. I want that
Speaker 4: relationship with my daughter, you know, like it was.
Speaker 2: Just the best. I wish I could have been on
Speaker 2: that show.
Speaker 4: I loved it.
Speaker 3: If you could live in stars Hollow, what would like?
Speaker 3: What would you like? What kind of job would you
Speaker 3: want to have? What would you want to be doing
Speaker 3: in stars Hollow?
Speaker 2: Ash that's a good gouestion.
Speaker 4: We would have to think about that one. I oh, well,
Speaker 4: we already have that little coffee shop. What would I
Speaker 4: want to do? M I don't have to think about it.
Speaker 4: That's you caught me off guard with that one.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's that's what we do here on diam On podcast.
Speaker 3: We ask the hard hitting questions like that.
Speaker 4: That is a really tough one. Well, I know if
Speaker 4: you know what I would do? Okay, know what I do.
Speaker 4: I would want to run like a beauty shop and
Speaker 4: like do the hair. Because to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: this is even You'll give you a little secret. All
Speaker 4: of the makeup artists they know all the dirt. They
Speaker 4: know all the dirt, all the dirt because the actors
Speaker 4: you sit in those chairs and for whatever reason, it's
Speaker 4: like you get a truth serum and you just want
Speaker 4: to tell everything. So that's what I would do. I
Speaker 4: would like on a salon, so I could hear all
Speaker 4: the dirt that was going on, all the gossip in
Speaker 4: the town.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I love it.
Speaker 3: We need we need a keeper of secrets like that
Speaker 3: in a in start as hollow, Robin Lightly, this has
Speaker 3: been so much fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate hearing all the memories and the stories. This
Speaker 3: is just the best. Again, karate Kid three. Make sure
Speaker 3: you check out Landman and Lioness both on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 3: Yes and anything Robin Lightly does, as I said before,
Speaker 3: is cool and good. That's yes, everything the best. So
Speaker 3: if she's in it, you know it's gonna be a
Speaker 3: good time. Thank you again, Robin.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Right, I have one question for you.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, what does pop culture smell like?
Speaker 2: I'm just curious.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna stump you now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I announced that I smell it
Speaker 3: every week, and yet I've never been asked what that
Speaker 3: smell is, So thank.
Speaker 4: You, Rob.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna have to think about that.
Speaker 3: You know this, it smells like something different every week
Speaker 3: because we're always cooking something up differently.
Speaker 4: But this is nostalgic. We know that it's a nostalgic smell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to say this week, pop culture smells
Speaker 3: like it smells like dirt and poison ivy, that's what
Speaker 3: it smells.
Speaker 4: Okay, I love it. Let's go with that.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, thank you so much, no.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me. This has been
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 1: So fun.
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