WEBVTT - 307: Everything's Coming Up Mellie w/ Bellamy Young 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.040 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:23.720 partnership with Higheartradiots Show. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.520 Yah and Katie. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:33.760 Sell me. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.199 We have been waiting, We have everyone's been waiting, The 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.680 Gladiator's been waiting, the listeners have been waiting. Garmon and 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.120 I have been waiting. Okay, we are in the midst 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.360 of season three, but I knew that it was going 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:47.839 to be for this. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.200 Oh yeah, We've been saving it for this, like this 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.960 is saving it for this episode. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.480 There's no rampump, there's no prep needed because there is 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:05.040 only one singular artist, actress, human being, animal saving vegan, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:11.840 beautiful Yes, booking and best kisses, best person on the 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.520 inside and outside in that entire planet, the one and 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.720 only Bellam you Yes, or our first Lady and President 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.560 of the United States, Melly. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.040 Graham Yeah or Smelly Melly is I like to call it. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.640 I still have a tank top that some wonderful gladiator 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.280 made me that has all the iterations of melee on it. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.040 I love that, I love that, love it. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.520 Let me just tell all the gladiators listening, We're gonna 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.960 just fill you guys in real quick. We're talking about 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.240 episode three oh seven, which is called Everything's Coming Up, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.680 Mel Melly. It aired on November fourteenth in twenty thirteen, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.840 so that is eleven years ago. Written by Peter Noak, 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:56.400 Oh my. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.320 God, and it was directed by Michael Cattleman. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.720 Peter no Walk created. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.520 How to Get Away with Murder. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.320 Yes, Storry Barry Bostwick is Jerry Graham, oh lot an asshole. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.680 And also yeah, and also I wanted to say Laurence 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.480 Stamel Stamile and she plays Carla, who's so amazing in 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:19.920 this episode. And also Candy Alexander is introduced in this episode. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:26.359 That's the laptop situation. She turns around and you're just like, yo, yeah. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.880 She's unbelievable. And she doesn't even I think she says 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.320 like a word or two and she is unbelievable. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.360 Yeah, a couple of words. She is the jam. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.800 The synopsis in Scandalpace is Melly is still trying to 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.760 recover from the public backlash of the last year, so 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.440 she decides to do a hard hitting news interview. Meanwhile, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.080 as Cyrus continues to plot against Sally Langston, we learned 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.160 how fits Melly and Cyrus became a team. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.520 Back at Opia. Huck continues to push Quinn way, but 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.280 Quinn's bloodlust could get her into some dangerous situations. Many 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:58.360 truths are revealed in a fifteen year flashback. The flashbacks 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.920 in this episode are epic. Just the facial hair and 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.000 wigs alone deserve a shout out. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.480 Let us begin there because saw Jeff Berry as Derek. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:15.360 Jack, I thought I was, let me tell you, as 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.680 as a character that had a beard glued on my face. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:23.040 Often for homeless huck or hagrid huck is something that 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.560 shit is not fun. At least his was shorter, but 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.200 mine was. I remember thinking, oh, damn, I'm in homeless Hucks. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.840 So I can't eat because you can't eat because all 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.320 the hair gets in your mouth when you're eating. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:35.400 Is this the worst? 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.320 It's terrible, terrible. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.160 Ton cryer, shout out to cry. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.320 We have worked on my flashback leg so hard and 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.560 we were both so excited for this flashback, and I 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.640 was like, Mellie's gonna be ten and she's gonna have 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.160 a bub and she lives in California, California, And we 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.560 were overdoing the scene when Cyrus is leaving and he's that, man, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:03:59.320 is your job right? 0:03:59.320 --> 0:03:59.760 I forget it? 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.240 And I'm like, come back, tomorrow he'll be ready to work. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.760 And but we're shooting that scene and I'm not sure 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.560 Cattleman had directed us before. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.360 I wouldn't being nervous. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.400 Because I didn't know him and they were sending he 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.120 turned out great, Michael Cattleman, where were you are? I 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.840 didn't know they were sending footage over so Tom Verica 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.520 could have eyeballs on it as we were going along, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.080 and they decided to do the flashbacks and like a 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.880 blue filter so it was different from present day. So 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.440 we're outside in that driveway of that house over not 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.040 far from the studio, and it's hot, and so all 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.159 the tape that's holding all of Jeff Perry's not on, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.960 but also his face back because they've got those frownies 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:43.320 on him. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.560 When I ever saw those, are those. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.640 Of you guys listening? Not only did he like that? 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.919 Don't know? It means they take these like strings with 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.839 tape and they basically give you a face, your excess 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.440 neck skin and your cheek skin so that it like 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.640 makes you go through like a wind tunnel to make 0:04:58.680 --> 0:04:59.360 you look younger. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.440 I don't have to have surgery, but for the ten 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.200 hours you're going to be filming, you look younger people. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:06.120 You should look into them. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.800 Everybody better or you cut yourself. Just give yourself a 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.840 little try it out. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.720 Drive it stop there. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.800 And things keep pop popping. We have to stop, and 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.360 then gluing back down and gluing back down. I see 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.640 Tom Berer, I see a car come up like it's 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:24.080 a cop show, and he pulls in and like parks 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:25.880 and falls out of the car and like leaves the 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:26.400 door open. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.440 Comes on set and I think it's not that bad. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:33.440 Don't make Jeff feel bad and goes inside and we 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:39.279 all stop and we're like, what should we are we? Honey, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.840 he's watched the video and I have tanned myself to 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.880 a point under a blue filter at which I look 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.599 like and I have the same skin. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.000 Oh my god, de remedy. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.839 The fact that they need to differentiate between me and Carer. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.640 Shut the hell up. I am wait, And had you 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.240 had already shot a bunch of stuff. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.520 We had the first third of the day. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.360 They were like, stop, we need to adjust the lighting. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:11.719 Are we going to keep the blue filter? 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.760 What are we gonna do? Can we take her makeup down? 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:14.760 Ducks? 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.040 See he didn't like it either. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.919 I love the idea behind it. And it looked whatever 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.520 everybody did, whether they adjusted the lighting or took down 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:28.320 the tan for the California beach. Babe, you look exquisite, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.760 not rely that, but so much of your acting. And 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.400 we always have a carry Washington School of Acting moment 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.359 in this show, which definitely goes to Melle. Oh my god, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.520 like yes, but my I just like between the flashback 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.600 makeup and also like Melle not being the Melly we 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.240 know yet you're doing all these scenes where you're not 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.200 as good at giving a speech or you're not as 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.039 sure of yourself, You're not as. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.279 Amazing like twelve times my amazing husband, and you're just 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.200 amazing to be here and we're gonna be an amazing team. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.760 Yeah, that Melo version of Melly was so much closer 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.560 to you, right, obviously. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:05.440 That's cool. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:12.400 Does everyone listening Gladiators know that Melly was not going 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.600 to be Melly? Like you tell us how you book 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.200 this job and like it wasn't supposed to it was 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.120 because you made such an impression. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.280 I don't know about that. So here's okay. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.880 Oh the backstory being wonderful Linda Lowie that now everybody 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.400 can love and appreciate because you guys spent such a. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.080 Wonderful hour with her. You guys, I love that episode. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.200 So's she's the best. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.080 She saved all of our lives, our lives, so many lives. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.600 I'd just gone into audition for her for five hundred 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.960 different things and not booked four hundred and ninety nine 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.960 of them. I like she said on like when she 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.280 was talking to you know, I don't know why you're 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.480 in the room. Do your best work, leave your heart 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.960 in the room and going about your life. Everything is 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.520 in higher hands. So I've done that a lot, so 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.560 I'll had all that taste of rejection. And I never 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.360 really got to do Grays because I did the private 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.600 practice that was embedded in Grays, the like embryonic private practice. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.640 So I was in that part and that's the only 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:13.000 Shondaland job I had. But they, you guys, were filming 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.800 the pilot the next day. They needed someone to stand 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.560 beside Fitzgerald Grant and wave a little and be the 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.480 wife and Linda fucking Lowe, may we all bow down, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.720 called five of us in same five that have been 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.920 there every other time. When you're like side eyeing each 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.920 other and trying to but like thinking about Wow, she's 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.920 We had two lines and one of them was live 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.360 like it was a whole line, but they were all 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:44.800 in there. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.880 I tried to think Tony. It just directed me in 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.520 a dirty, sexy money. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.760 And so I went out to get the audition at 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.280 five o'clock. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.439 You had to be there the next morning. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.800 But I went out the night before and bought some 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.800 clothes I thought would be appropriate, which I know, I 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.079 hate to shop more than I hate to go to 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:02.600 the dentist. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.079 But I have pearl ear rings. Little store. Bought pearl 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.120 earrings and a blue. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.679 First Not everyone's got first lady like a tire. I 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:13.360 definitely don't. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.520 So I was just thinking, because there wasn't a lot 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.080 of texts, I was like, who's the person standing next 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.760 to Tony Cold? That's what I was trying to That's 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.839 how I approached it. And I got that going and 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.040 put my hair up when I set my two lines, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.000 and they gave me some adjustment and I said them again, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.040 and was it for Shanda, Anna and Betsy were in there. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:32.959 We're all in there. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 Huh yep, everybody's in that little tiny room and then 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.640 you leave and the but then they called, and then 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.600 I got the part I got the part. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.440 But didn't she tell you they there was like gonna 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.280 be like three episodes, and like a hurt. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.560 I said my two lines and was nobody talked to 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.640 me at the pilot. 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.520 That I was just like glad to be there. I 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:54.959 was literally just glad to be there. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.640 They did some step faking stepping off air Force one 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.120 or I don't know what, were just like fake and Griffin. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.400 You were like coming out of the airplane. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And then it was over and nobody says, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.200 booty you when you're a guest actor. And got picked 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.600 up and I can't invite it to the table read 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.839 for this episode, and I was like, oh, yeah, there 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.240 comes and I like wore my best dress and I 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.719 got all southerned up and showed up and was just. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.400 I remember I remember that day. I remember you at 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.120 the table read. Oh, and I remember you being so 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.480 sweet and so kind, and I remember thinking, no, Shade, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.320 I was like, why is friendly and kind and happy? 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.560 She's just got a tiny roll. And I was like, damn, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.000 she real happy for this small ass roll. Yes, you 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.600 could tell I'm in the room. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.920 Yes, So we did the read. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.200 Of course, it's a wonderful and I'm just like, I'm 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.280 a part of something great. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.240 Did you have a part? What do you do in 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:53.839 the second episode? 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.920 I don't remember it anyway, and everybody sits still. I'm 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.880 going to come around the room and I'm going to 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.520 tell you what your ARC's gonna be for the first season. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.760 You're gonna do this, and you're gonna do this, and 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:05.400 you're gonna do this. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.359 Who did Shonda? Shonda? 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.400 And she got to me and I'm like, oh yeah, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:10.960 let me have it. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.360 And she was like, I want to write a presidential divorce. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.640 I think you're gonna be here maybe three episodes and 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:20.400 it's gonna be great. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:29.480 And I was like, inside, yo, but cut to you, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:33.240 like having more stuff to do on this show than 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.600 anyone else. Yes to you being. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.360 Elected as the president of the United States. At the 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.080 end of the seventh season, Mellie Grant is the fucking 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.880 President of the United States. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.400 Ridiculous, amazing, so. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.000 Longed, but I'm like, my I'm gonna get some good 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.840 tape for my real is it killed me? 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.360 I go to Liza Smith and I make her talk 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.360 through my four four words that I have per episode 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:00.760 or whatever. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.080 Smith is an acting coach who's incredible. Really gone to 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.160 her for a meal. I took class with her. Everybody, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.520 look up if you're a prospect, if you're an actor 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.559 in Los Angeles, and she does New York too. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.920 Lee got that job with me and for me because 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.400 I went with if I had two words, if I 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:23.040 had two pages, and then it was. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.199 Six pages, and then I had a big fight, could live. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.480 And then I got to stay all seven episodes and 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.160 the trio was like. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.840 Oh what a what APO? 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.120 And then I was like fuck I. I was really 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.720 just proud, got taped like scenes for my reel. 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.680 You got seven seasons of footage now for your reel. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.360 Seven seasons and a critics choice. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.280 Of juicy as like acting. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:52.400 Yes, this is the old time, greatest, most loved, hated, revered, respected, shocking, 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.080 incredible characters. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.320 Yes, oh my god, there's a gift of a lifetime. 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.520 And you guys just still people. Don't they still talk 0:12:59.559 --> 0:12:59.800 to you? 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:00.000 They? 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:01.280 Oh? Yeah? 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.880 Every episode you would wait to get a call from 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.160 your agents or something being like you're in the next one, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.840 and would you be freaked out every single time? Okay, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.719 Mellie's going to be written off, or she's going to 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.080 be killed, or you're auditioning for other things, and what 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.200 if you would book something else. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.719 I was also recurring on Criminal Minds and we were 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.640 trying to offer me like something over there, and so 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.920 they were trying to leverage it. They didn't think anything 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.960 was right the Scandal for some reason. But then I 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.880 thought for seven years, I was I was going to 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:28.760 get killed off Scandal. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.960 So did we all of us did remember every every 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.439 new episode, we'd be like, I'm still here, thank god 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.520 every episode. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:36.920 But yeah, I was. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.360 They tried to leverage Criminal Minds with Scandal. It did 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.839 not work, Peter Yo. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.000 But as an actor, right, these are so few and 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.120 far between, these moments, these experiences where you do have 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.840 a small role and then it turns into a big, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.480 significant role on a show. I did Weeds. I was 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.839 supposed to do four episodes on Weeds and I ended 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.760 up doing eight seasons of Weeds. And it was literally 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.040 I had four or four episodes whatever. I was like 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.720 a gang banger, no big ship. And the next thing 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:04.800 I knew, I was like they. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.760 Kept bring I can't imagine without you. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.800 It was thank you. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.960 Any other big one isn't dread Mateo like she's the 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:20.480 other famous one, like Bellamie on Sopranos, Drea da Matteo 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.600 is like a huge prolific role. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.880 Is she married to Taturo's character, not Toaturo Michael Imperio. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.560 She's married to Michael Imperio. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:33.480 I'm gonna pull out my. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:40.200 Wife on fucking the Sopranos. Also was a co star, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.240 a tiny co star. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.720 Josh was not a series regular until I. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.560 Was Yes, that's right, yeah, yeah either. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.320 It's so crazy because when we started this podcast and 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.480 we have to read guest starring Bellamy Young, George Newbird, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.280 it was so crazy. I'm like, what they started the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.480 whole show. We were all on the same show. Can 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.720 we talk about, like, how was it working with Barry Bostwick, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.680 like your personal fave moments of the episode? 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.120 For you Very's alleged Rocky Horror picture show. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.640 You guys, Brad, He's Brad in the Rocky heartor Picture Show. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.680 I was like, what in the world? 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.800 And he just is such a good human being easy 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.840 on set, especially we had to do. I didn't know 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.640 Cattleman and I didn't know Barry, and so I was like, oh, hell, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.840 is this gonna go? But it was great because he 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.000 is such a great actor. And a great guy. So 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:42.800 it was all wonderful lessons, lessons everywhere I turned, all 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.000 through scandal. Just it was like grad school, just like 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.040 gobbling up all these wonderful lessons. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:53.920 Yeah, we'll be right back. Guys. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:02.600 Wow, you are so Bellamy. It's terrifying. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.640 It's face. I really did forget about hucked face. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.360 There was a lot of huck face. This is the 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.120 episode where spider bit me on my face on your 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.600 do you remember that, Katie? Like it got really serious 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.600 and so the on the show it looks like I 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.840 got punched dead ass, punched in the face and you 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.240 could see the little spider bite in some of the 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:21.680 closer on your eye. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.080 Like they did a good job. I don't think anyone 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.880 else would have noticed, but I was like, oh, this 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.160 is when Jerima was having something fucked up, Like what. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.640 Happened now to Gueramo. Yeah, he's got a. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.120 Few things because he had a peanut allergy blow up 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.760 at his face blew. Yes, yes, when we were shooting, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.480 we've had some stats and. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.640 Then this jazzy little spider comes and bites me on 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:40.720 my fucking eye. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.360 Anyway, go ahead, Katie Bellamy in if you could even 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.200 answer this years and years together. I would like to 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.880 know some of your all time favorite Melly memories on 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:58.400 set and some of your favorite Bellamy memories off set. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:07.280 No swear, I loved every second of being Melly. I 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.240 loved it. I loved it because at first. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.760 It was just like, who gets that great material? Do 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.040 you know? 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.720 So I'm just so grateful to have something great to 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.760 work on and great people to work on it with. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.600 Eventually they'd write these little one act plays. When they 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.760 shot Tony and he's like comatose in the bed, Jeffy 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.440 and I have like a whole one act play over 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.480 his sleep, and damn body had the easiest day that day. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.159 We were all like, oh, it's my next line, and he. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.560 Was like, and he's he truly fell asleep probably right 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.760 part of it, and we were like, oh, you gotta wait. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.960 But I think about at first, I really also because 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:53.879 I'm not so good at conflict, but Mellie was so like, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.200 really it have these big fights with people, and they'd 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:57.920 be like, I'm so swarm storms. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.520 It's just a character, and I'm just saying with the road. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.960 But eventually I'm an exorcise. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.720 This part of me. I'm gonna go to work. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.280 Get that part out, Get it out. Yep, love that. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.760 Let's do this between her thighs. Let's have it now. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:17.160 I can just. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.520 Remember with Jeffy, or with Tony or with Carrie. We 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.520 just got to do so much good work. It's the 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:25.479 work I remember. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.560 But what I hate the most is that we didn't 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.640 get to interact that often, right Katie, myself and Mellie. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.480 Which can you guys remember if we did have. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.520 A location, it was something to do with a collection. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.680 Yes, I remember at the edge with Cornelia's and. 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.879 Operation and all that, because cars what it was we did. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.480 If there was an early one too, maybe it was 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.760 a flash No, it wouldn't have been a flashback. I'm 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.199 telling you guys, I've never watched Scandal. I don't know 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:52.880 what happened. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:54.320 Wait, are you being serious? 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.440 No, I'm being serious because we tweeted. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.240 Yeah, you would be the person that would watch the episode. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.760 But you were on the section of your phone writing 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.640 all of your tweets and stuff like that. You were 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:04.800 in your phone tweeting. 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:05.920 Have you never seen it? 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.639 I last night when I was watching the episode to 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.560 come and talk to you all today, it was I 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.800 spent the first ten to fifteen minutes just crying, just 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:22.680 grass and joy and overwhelm and memories and oh, I'm 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:24.880 just so grateful that we were all there and then 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.119 we get to do this, and I'm so proud of 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:27.720 all of us. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.320 Me too. It's like lightning in a bottle. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:30.760 Wee get. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.000 We feel so lucky hosting this podcast. In all honesty 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.320 because I say this and I don't mean to sound conceited, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.879 but the show holds up, and the world is so 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.240 great and the writing is so great, and I'm watching 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.639 everything on TV now and Scandal is right there. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.159 Yeah, it's such a gift. Yeah that we got to 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.560 rewatch it. It's and now we're far away from it iney, Yeah, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.440 where I can watch myself and not be like, oh God, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:57.879 why did I do that? I wanted to do it 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.080