WEBVTT - Marisol Nichols Meets World 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.759 So randomly writer, But both you and I right now 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:23.599 are on call for jury. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.360 Dude, Yeah, gosh. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.120 Have you ever have either of you ever been picked? 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:29.880 Have you ever been like part of a jury? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.720 Oh story, Yeah, it was wonderful. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.520 It's a great experience. It was hard, but it was great. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.400 Picks me. It's like the ninth time. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.200 I've been on jury duty. Like, but been on call 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.559 and nobody ever picks me. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.200 It's super fun. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.720 And in my jury selection, there was a woman who 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.720 would just like, I hate cops because they were like, 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.440 you know, they had there was a component of the 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.320 case involved, you know, listening to the cops. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.480 I trust the cops, and she was like, no, I can't. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.920 And the judge kept he was like, but come on, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.160 you've you've had how many bad experiences have you She's like, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.880 I don't care, I can't be a I hate cops. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.880 And it was just like Okay. After a while, it's 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.520 like she could just went out, yeah, just get out 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:04.800 of here. 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:05.240 It just lead. 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:05.480 Yeah. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.800 I had So the only time I came close, I 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:08.240 flew back. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:09.480 This was when I was still trying to keep my 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:15.399 Connecticut citizenship status, so I would fly back for jury 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.360 duty from California to keep one. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.160 Of vid because you thought you were going to move back. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.679 Sometimes I thought I was going to move back. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.679 I was also just from Connecticut. I had my Connecticut 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:24.360 driver's license. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:24.680 Everything. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.400 It was just fighting, you know, fighting against living in California, 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.920 which I've been were for thirty seven years. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.400 When you flew back, you had to hold on to 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.560 two eagles to get there, exactly, but the most. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.880 Powerful eagles in the country, so. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.800 Bald eagles just and it was just saying America an eagle. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:43.080 But no. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.400 I I got to the Vader section and the guy 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.480 next to me was shaking, literally shaking, and he just 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:50.880 his legs were shaking. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:52.280 He just did not want to be there. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.400 So we had a case where it was like they 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.080 weren't allowed to write down the victim's name, or they 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.840 weren't allowed to say it out loud, so they wrote 0:01:58.840 --> 0:01:59.800 it down on a piece of paper. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.400 It got to the guy. He opened it. I could 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:03.840 tell it didn't even look at him. Yeah I know. 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.000 Or the judgment what he goes, yeah. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:06.960 I know. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:12.519 Or good friends with their family and the judge is like, uh, okay, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.880 you're dismissed, like thanks, and he was like he made 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.600 a shape in the door like Wiley coyote getting out 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:18.960 of the thing. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.840 It was yeah, I know, and. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.640 That was why people want to get out. So, I mean, 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.480 I guess just time and stuff, but like. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.840 Expensive if you if you have a job that you're 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.360 going to now have to even though they legally have 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:30.800 to let you out, you don't get paid for your 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.440 job and they get you like what fifty bucks a day. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:34.079 If I just find it. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.160 I just found it so educational and it made me 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.040 feel good about the justice system. You know, I'm sure 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.840 there are situations where it doesn't make you feel good 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.920 about the justice system, but in my case, it made 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.880 it made me feel like, you know, I don't know, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:51.040 I just like only like over a week, so maybe 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.160 seven days total, that's long. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:54.240 Yeah. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.000 Yeah, and it was a rape case, which is hard, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.520 but it was really Yeah. I still am friends with 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.480 somebody I met on ur we're on Jurady together when 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:04.440 we started running lunch. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.040 Of course, she's one of the bo Bleys. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.280 I saw her when we were in North Carolina doing 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.600 you guys probably met her Aaron. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:16.200 Yeah, so I was of course perfectly in keeping with writer. Yeah. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.959 No, the the the whole thing is just I'm I'm 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.799 on pins and needlescause I got a call every night 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.280 to see if I have to, you know, get to 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:25.480 the jury room. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.040 So I don't know. I personally think there should be 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.480 professional jurors. No, I think it should be a job. Absolutely. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.160 Why not take a bunch of usually people that are 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.480 retired that when they will get it daid off because 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:39.640 they're paid to do it. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.680 That's like what why because you get the same salary 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.320 and you actually learn a bit about the about the 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:47.640 legal system, and that's. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.440 Your office to be a jur No, but that's your job. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:55.320 No, because the point is to respond without expertise, to 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.120 respond from just a citizenship level, you know, to not 0:03:59.200 --> 0:03:59.960 be necessary. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.760 An expert has to break down scientific you know, facts 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:04.640 and all this kind of stuff. 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.080 You have a little bit of of knowledge in this situation, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:08.720 you can. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.480 But I think no, the whole point is that you're 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.600 supposed to be, like if you're on trial, you know, 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:18.200 you want people who aren't experts so that the lawyers 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.520 have to present the you know evidence. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.040 I would argue though, that the person who's like, uh, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:25.960 not doing great in their life right now and is 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.919 a plumber and called in the jury duty would be 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.559 easier to bribe than the person who's the professional juror 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.720 who's making a decent salary to be a. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.600 Jur you'd think so, but I feel like politics proves otherwise, right. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.440 I remember from when I was on a jury multiple 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:46.320 times it being like somebody saying something like yeah, but 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.240 I don't believe that, I feel like, and somebody else 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.960 being like, you know, you're not allowed to go off vibes, man, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.200 like we you know, it really has to be about 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.080 what was presented. And I did find that it was 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.320 kind of hard for me to take out my feelings 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.360 from the situation to be like, well, yeah, I mean, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.440 and then things that they were like, well that was 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.080 that was stricken from the testimony, was like but I 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:13.680 heard it. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.960 Yeah, don't think of a white elephant, don't think of ahant. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.520 I'm actually not allowed to take that into consideration. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:23.320 Am I sure? 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.400 I'm not taking that into considering. Like you're a great 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:30.000 double question. You questioned yourself a lot, thankfully in my 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.520 In my situation, it was like, was this an insurance 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.520 fraud situation based on a based on an accident that 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.039 had happened and this person had was trying to get 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.960 a lifetime's worth of I think PT based on an 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.919 accident that had happened, but they had also been in 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.359 several other accidents and had been in PT at other times, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.320 Oh my god, for other aspects of their life. And 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.400 so the company was trying to say you needed PT, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.440 and now you're saying we should be this insurance and it's company, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.479 this person who hit you should be responsible for PT 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.560 for the rest of your life based on but you. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.240 So it was kind of stuff like that. But yeah, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.280 it's it is, it's it's. I agree writer that the 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.240 educational aspect of it was was fascinating, and I went 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.520 into it thinking I'm gonna hate this, and then it. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.920 Didn't didn't need it kind of it's I mean, I 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.920 would have to miss some podcasts and I'd have to 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.040 miss some stuff, but it wouldn't be the worst thing 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:25.360 in the world. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:26.280 No, you would enjoy it. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.719 I think being raised by two lawyers. I still I 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.720 think I saw my dad in court once. I've never 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.800 been really in courtrooms or done it, so I think 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:34.880 it'd be fun. By the way, I don't know why 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.880 I said plumbers not making any money. They make so 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.080 much fortune to make a fortune plumber's four. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.920 Hundred dollars an hour. Yeah, yeah, that's that's an exaggeration. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.760 But it's a lot plumber, a lot of money, Yeah, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.479 make a lot of money. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.880 Also worth it. Can't can't do the plumbing. Not gonna, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:50.920 not gonna open that up. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:52.559 I honestly think it was so funny. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.000 I was thinking about that the other day, like, if 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.200 I went back to school, it would be a trade school, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.160 and I think I would learn plumbing. I think that's 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.320 really yeah, I do. I think it's you're your own 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.880 boss people. Yeah, I have it all day now, I 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.760 might as well have the education behind it. For exactly. 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.440 I'd call it drop a pencil plumbing. See if you 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:15.440 could get it right in the. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.400 Crack or yeah, it'd be great, it could be good. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.160 Welcome to Podmet's world. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.760 I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilford. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.640 When Corey and Topega found themselves in a less than 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.880 ideal college living situation, you know, in the Mary dorms 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.240 that every college offers, they did have at least one 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.480 thing going for them. A good actress living next door. 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.000 She played Kelly, the young mom neighbor having issues with 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.840 her colicky baby visiting the newlyweds for some change of scenery. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.960 She stood out during our rewatch, mostly because we've become 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.200 so used to some par performances from ourselves, and she 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:09.320 was just great, subtle, emotional, connected, not checked out. Wonder 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.440 what that felt like, And then when we started researching 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.440 her in real life, we realized her on screen talent 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.240 isn't even the most interesting thing about her. Best known 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.520 as Audrey Griswold in nineteen ninety seven's Vegas Vacation, she 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.920 was one of the rotating actresses to play the part, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.160 with her version traveling to the City of Sin with 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.000 her father Clark and finding trouble on the strip with 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.679 one Nick Papa Georgio. Or more recently, you saw her 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.400 on Riverdale, where she played Hermione Lodge, Veronica's very cool 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.800 but also criminally villainous mom, and in movies like Scream two, 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.560 Can't Hardly Wait and spiral from the Saw franchise, and 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.840 TV shows galore like Charmed, Beverly Hills, nine O two 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.480 to zero, Friends, teen Wolf, and twenty four. The list 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.360 just goes on and on. But outside of the industry, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.600 she has somehow worked with former FBI and CIS, Navy 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.680 seals and local cops to help trap child sex predators 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.080 in sting operations, acting as bait, playing many roles to 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.480 help bust criminals, both here in the US and globally. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:20.000 She's even started her own nonprofit organization to spread awareness 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.480 of the epidemic and prevent more children from becoming victims, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.320 especially in our now very online existence. But even with 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.960 a calling much more important than some nineties TGIF sitcom. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.120 She appeared in two episodes of We Have Convinced Her 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.120 to come on to talk to us today about her 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.600 time on the set of Boy Meets World and so 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.760 much more so. Welcome to Pod Meets World. Our neighbor 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:48.520 who's getting very little sleep actress and activist Marisol Nichols. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:57.560 Hello, okay, iles an hour. Oh because I got a 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.640 new puppy. Last name? 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.760 Oh goodness, who is that? 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:07.679 It's not so happy about it? Oh really, Gingerbread, Gingerbread. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.400 Well, you know that Gingerbread is very tired now because 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:14.520 she was up all night. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:19.280 All right, yeah, Oh my god, oh my gosh, I 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.160 can I can that little puppy on. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.640 I could smell the puppy breath from here. I just 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:24.439 love it. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.600 Was like baby powder. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.559 It's kind of amazing, so cute, and those super sharp 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.480 little needle teeth the puppies have are No one's. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.400 Going to comment that this is like life imitating art 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.439 because the part you played on Boy Meets World was 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.800 literally I know, I know. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.200 I rewatched it. I was like, oh, that's funny and ironic. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:47.040 Yeah, there it is. Yes, Hello, thank you so much 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.120 for being here. We are so happy to get to 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.160 talk to you. We recently watched your episodes of Boy 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.400 Meets World and we immediately thought, oh, look a real 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.079 actor working with us. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.800 Oh my god, that's so kind. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.280 You were so so great and so grounded and and 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.640 we we have talked a lot about in season seven 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.800 for quite a bit of it, we are very checked 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.640 out and we can see it in ourselves, and so 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.640 to see you so grounded and present was really a 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:13.640 bright spot fresh. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.560 Yeah, well look coming on too that I would have 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.319 never even be watching it. I was like, you don't 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.600 checked out at all. I was like, why this show 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.120 was was such a success. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:23.240 Thank you. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.760 Yeah. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.440 Well, we know that you grew up in Chicago, far 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.360 away from the bright lights of Hollywood. Were you always 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.560 an outgoing kid? A child actor type. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:39.199 No, not in the least I was. I was really shy. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.280 I was really perted for the longest time. And then 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.439 and then I became like big chip on her shoulder 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.920 kind of girl who blew off most of high school 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.400 blew up blockers. I was like a complete problem. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.600 What you were? Hunter? Were shot? Huntered? 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.880 Really character? 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:02.360 Character? 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:03.079 Yeah? 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.040 He blew. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.439 Oh okay, I blew up by accident a whole row 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.800 of freshman lockers. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.360 How do you How does one do that by accident? 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.520 So, if you remember, in the eighties, they had these 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.000 clickers which were like curling irons. They didn't have to 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.880 plug in battery everything in the eighties, so in between 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.560 classes you could take your clicker and curl your hair 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:34.080 really high. And so I was blowing off class as 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.280 usual during lunch hour and kind of opening up freshman lockers, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.960 and I saw this one that didn't have a lock 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.719 on it. I saw this girl's locker with a one 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.600 of these buttine curling irons, and so I don't know 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.880 what I was thinking why, but I took a piece 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.720 of paper and I wrapped it around it, and I 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.760 lit it on fire, and I ran downstairs for the 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.480 lunch room and waited for the big fire alarm, and 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.200 then when the fire alarm went off and everyone got 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.840 out of class, I was like, you're welcome, You're welcome, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.040 thinking that it was just a fire alarm. So then 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.800 we were out there for like forty five minutes, and 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.880 then the bomb squad showed up and I was like, oh, 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.560 this is bigger than I thought. And they thought a 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.800 bomb went off because the entire because it was like 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.960 a bomb, and the entire freshman like that row of 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:26.440 freshman lockers blew up amazing, cop oled, Oh. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.760 Did you cop to it? Did you say it was me? 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:27.600 It was too late. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.880 I already told everyone it was me, like an idiot? 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.480 Did you get kicked out of school? 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.840 I got kicked out for ten days, which was actually 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.120 fine with me because I didn't want to go to 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.880 school anyway, So I kind of didn't understand the punishment, right, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.559 like right, But that's kind of who I was. 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.240 So wow, man, I just. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.400 Moved to LA when I shot your Guy's show. I 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.120 think maybe they're like less than a year. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:51.040 Wow. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.040 Yeah, No, I was not an actor. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.400 In like ninety eight, ninety eight or ninety nine, is. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.160 That when we shot it? 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:57.640 Yeah? 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.080 I mean okay. No, I moved the end of ninety five. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.200 Okay, okay. And when you came to La did you 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.000 already have an agent? When did you decide you were 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:07.680 going to be an actor? 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.280 It's really weird, but there was a scout that was 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.320 coming through, Julie Hutchinson. I wonder if she's still around 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.520 from universe. She was coming through Chicago and putting all 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.320 like the Chicago actors on tape, and instead of me 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.640 doing like a monologue, which you would normally do as 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.960 a Chicago actor, she's like, you know, you're kind of 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.920 right for this show that we're trying to cast. Why 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:27.840 don't you read for that? 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:29.600 What was the show? 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.480 It was called My Guys. It was at Sunset Gower, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.240 So it was Paul Thomas Witt if you remember. Sure 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.880 they did Golden Girls, they did, you know, And they 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.040 ended up like a couple months later flying me out 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.320 and testing me, which I didn't even know what that meant, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.880 and I ended up getting the job, and so I 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.720 came out with a show. Wow, it was pretty cool. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:54.800 Record, a criminal record. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.760 So I did a little math. And it seems as 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.120 though you booked Vegas vacation real fast after moving to 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.520 La yeah pretty fast. Like, so you were doing the show. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.120 My guys, do you remember the audition for Vegas Vacation. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:17.080 Auditions because I auctioned for three months, oh three months 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.120 of auditioning, and every time I was like, They're never 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.720 going to cast me, like because to me, you know, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.840 Audrey Griswold was like the all American girl, you know, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.000 my Marisol, and I was like this little Latina kid 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.760 from Chicago, Like it's never going to happen. And so 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.640 they just kept bringing me in and bringing me in, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.440 and I think the last one was like, Okay, we're 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.160 flying you to Vegas to read for it, and I said, okay. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.240 We need to see you in Vegas. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.800 You know Ice Scream tested for that, did you. Yeah? 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.360 I read with Chevy like I went back like four 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.480 or five times too, and then I went I read 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.320 with Chevy Chase and Brittany Murphy was there audition. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.680 I think Murphy was originally Cat was. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.760 Okay, That's what I thought in my mind, Brittany had 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.920 the part. When I we walked out and like the 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.080 rest of that day was like, oh Brittany got this part. Yes, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.600 And then I never saw the movie or anything. I 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.320 guess I was just you know, like I didn't get it. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.320 I did the exact same thing. I don't know, Oh 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.600 you didn't hire me, fine, yeah, but. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:11.240 Yeah, Brittany. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.680 They offered it to Brittany work, and I guess she 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.720 turned it down, and so then they flew me out 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.520 last minute to Vegas and we're like, okay, well let's 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.360 do her again, and then I ended up doing it. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.760 Yeah wow, But that was that was the first time 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.440 I've ever even been on a movie set, so I 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.120 didn't know. I didn't know anything. I didn't know what 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.840 a mark was like, I didn't. I didn't know anything 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:31.320 that's brand new. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.960 And you hadn't like doing the show doing my guys, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.160 you didn't learn any of that stuff, Like you didn't 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:37.400 you didn't have I did, but. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.160 We only did like six episodes, OK, so I was 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.320 still like brand new. And I came from theater, so 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.880 that was sort of like theater because it was a 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.200 live audience, you know. Yeah, and so I was like, well, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.440 I'm just going to do that thing like the theater thing. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.120 So this was sort of you know, there's a lot longer, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.920 you know, all day on one scene, it was a 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.400 very yeah, yeah. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.240 What was shooting in like, yeah Vegas, real Vegas casinos, Like. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.399 I was okay. So we were doing split shifts, which 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.639 was like I was dead, you know, like I was 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.760 starting work sometimes at two in the afternoon and getting 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.440 home at like four in the afternoon or four in 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.920 the morning and walking through a casino. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:19.600 Yeah. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.000 So if you imagine after working fourteen hours and then 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.760 I actually have actually have a funny Vegas story, but 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.439 it's gonna paint me in a very bad light. So 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.040 just know the worst. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.160 School. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.280 I didn't go for it. But again, I was a 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.919 very different person back then totally. So I had to 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.000 get up. I think it was I was getting up 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:47.480 at four in the morning per pickup, you know, you 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.639 know what it is. And they and we were staying 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.320 all on the top of Canna, like the whole crew, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.320 almost everyone was staying in the Tropic caanist in piece exactly, 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.359 and the room next to me at like midnight, I 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.320 was having a giant party and it was loud, and 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.280 I was like, I have to get up in four hours, 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:07.959 and so I called downstairs and I was like, Hey, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:09.359 I'm here with the movie. Is there any way you 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.560 could just move me for the night. Just so I 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.199 can sleep because there's a party next door, and like, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.160 we'll get back to you. Instead, they sent security over 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.200 there to tell them to keep it down. So the guy, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.080 you know, so I hear through the walls at you. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:29.400 It's Vegas. It's in hindsight, I understand. But I had 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.400 to get up for work. Yeah, And so I didn't 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.119 sleep at all. And at four in the morning, when 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.840 I was about to walk out the door, they were quiet, 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:43.640 and I was like, oh, and like every evil my 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.840 turn exactly. And so I had my big, like ghetto 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.000 blaster that I had brought from home because I was 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.040 there for three months, and I put like Metallica and 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:59.480