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Speaker 1: miss and that's what you really missed with Jenna and
Speaker 1: Kevin and I Heart Radio Podcast. Hey y'all, welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. New episode, new cast member, same old
Speaker 1: Jenna and Kevin. Um. Today is a very exciting episode.
Speaker 1: We have one of our BFFs on. We got to
Speaker 1: chat with the one and only Heather Morris. Brittany as
Speaker 1: Pierce Hemo is in the building. And um, the beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about Heather is that, like I think the women
Speaker 1: on the show, you are all very good at expressing
Speaker 1: yourselves openly and being direct. And I think you taught
Speaker 1: all of us males, you know, how to speak up
Speaker 1: for ourselves. Oh that's amazing. And Heather, I had an
Speaker 1: amazing story on the show how she had a baby
Speaker 1: during it she was doing a lot more than everybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she she was, she was doing she was extra, as
Speaker 1: she would say she would being extra at that time. Um,
Speaker 1: in the best way possible. And also we all learned,
Speaker 1: I think, on the show from each other, within the
Speaker 1: women as well, how to speak up for ourselves. And
Speaker 1: you know, we get into this in the episode with Heather.
Speaker 1: But coming from a dance background, you kind of like
Speaker 1: shut your mouth, put your head down, and do the work.
Speaker 1: So this is a different experience for her as well,
Speaker 1: and how she evolved through the show. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: for you guys to hear I also learned a lot.
Speaker 1: There were lots of things I didn't know even being
Speaker 1: around her every day. So I'm excited for all of
Speaker 1: you to hear it. So let's get to it. Let's
Speaker 1: stop talking to listen to Heather. Hi Emo, Hey, welcome back.
Speaker 1: I just listened to Chris's episode prior to this. I
Speaker 1: loved it. I was we were walking, We're living the
Speaker 1: neighborhood walking Taylor and I and I was listening and
Speaker 1: I was like, that's cackling to myself, isn't either be?
Speaker 1: I love him. It's very sweet. It's very I think
Speaker 1: it's sweet. It's also nice to see someone that we've
Speaker 1: known since they were eighteen blossom into the force that
Speaker 1: that he is today, justa bestseller. He was always there,
Speaker 1: he just had to grow in exactly. Yes, Chris was
Speaker 1: always there, you know, that was his destiny from day one,
Speaker 1: always a force. So how there. I'd like to start
Speaker 1: this episode by sharing with you the thesis of this podcast,
Speaker 1: just to set the tone. The tone is um. What
Speaker 1: Lady Murphy had said earlier in his episode was that
Speaker 1: there's a difference between what Glee did to us and
Speaker 1: did for us. H that's the thesis that Ron new podcast.
Speaker 1: So do what you want with that. Yeah, it's worth
Speaker 1: We're watching the Ted Kittency Uni Bomber Show right now, Taylor.
Speaker 1: We've been to that yesterday. That's what we did on
Speaker 1: our time without our children bend watching the Uni Bomber Show,
Speaker 1: and one of the episodes said, Kazynski gets forced into
Speaker 1: this like this like social experiment where they're basically testing
Speaker 1: like the Soviet spies UM ways on these Harvard law students,
Speaker 1: of these Harvard students. I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 1: about this, but he was basically like brainwashed, and he
Speaker 1: was so intelligent that like he wouldn't let them break him.
Speaker 1: So they were trying to make him feel like he
Speaker 1: was crazy for having these eccentric ideas about about UM
Speaker 1: technology and how we're you know, as in a society
Speaker 1: like really social and all these ideas that he like
Speaker 1: essentially was coming up. At the same time, they like
Speaker 1: brainwashed him try and make him think he was crazy
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't let it break him. He was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy. Essentially, it forced him
Speaker 1: to do what he was gonna do. And anyways, anyways,
Speaker 1: all this aside, Yeah, I mean speaking of is that
Speaker 1: how you felt during what a crazy social experience as
Speaker 1: much as everyone trying to break you and convince you
Speaker 1: I did break, I did break. We all broke. Kevin
Speaker 1: was the last to break. But we were talking about
Speaker 1: that too, How we all we all broke? When when
Speaker 1: did you break? Heather? Okay, what a question. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget to the day when we were sitting on a
Speaker 1: golf cart and I I was in my deepest of
Speaker 1: darkest and Nia go, Nia looks to Kevin and she goes.
Speaker 1: She just stopped talking all together. She just didn't talk
Speaker 1: to anybody. And I was like, I don't you're right,
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak a word. I don't speak out. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that day. She took it too. She
Speaker 1: took it to the real level it should have been
Speaker 1: taken to. Yeah, she always did. She was the one
Speaker 1: that could get through. She was like a translator for
Speaker 1: a lot of us. She can read us and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is what's going on. Yeah, she was like our puppeteer,
Speaker 1: I mean speaking of I was going to get to this,
Speaker 1: but we may as well just like get into it
Speaker 1: if you don't, right, if you we were, we were,
Speaker 1: we're like it like it's like burning now where you're
Speaker 1: like to step out for a second a minute, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to sit on the ledge. That's where we're
Speaker 1: at already. UM. I love this with you guys. I
Speaker 1: love doing this. We love you, we love having you.
Speaker 1: The tour was pretty crazy for all of us women.
Speaker 1: I think, Um Kevin's memory served is very good about
Speaker 1: out how like all the girls like locked themselves in
Speaker 1: the dressing room at one point and was like I
Speaker 1: want to go home. Like I felt that way for sure. UM,
Speaker 1: but I'll never forget you shared a story with me
Speaker 1: and if you're open to sharing it, um, Like you
Speaker 1: had kind of come to a breaking point on tour
Speaker 1: and you you had said to me like now I
Speaker 1: was the only person who really confronted you about it
Speaker 1: and and was like I'm worried about you. You You were
Speaker 1: like are you okay? UM, And I'm just curious if
Speaker 1: you if you would be comfortable to share sharing that story.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, so yeah, I just like when I started
Speaker 1: the show, essentially, I just had I mean there's so
Speaker 1: much backstory to all this. Obviously we know, but like
Speaker 1: we can go back, go back, we can go back
Speaker 1: and go back, We'll go back. But we were in it.
Speaker 1: We were in it. I just had a really unhealthy
Speaker 1: work habit that I had tried to keep up for
Speaker 1: so long. Um just basically because I had not had
Speaker 1: to work hard for this show. I got this job
Speaker 1: just out of thin air, essentially. I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 1: had put in the work as a dancer, but you know,
Speaker 1: people in mind an audition for the show, I just
Speaker 1: got it. So I felt like I had to keep
Speaker 1: that up. And people pleased the whole time. And I
Speaker 1: was just pushing and pushing and pushing. And when we
Speaker 1: started the the tour, I had developed an eating disorder disorder,
Speaker 1: I stopped getting my period. I was so in my
Speaker 1: head about food and what it was doing for me.
Speaker 1: And obviously this is just a manifestation of what my
Speaker 1: body was really going through in my mind. But I
Speaker 1: just was unhealthy. I looked at all food is bad,
Speaker 1: and um, I was in a really bad place. I
Speaker 1: just didn't know it yet, and I remember being in
Speaker 1: the dressing room, like getting myself ready. I had just
Speaker 1: walked into the the food hall with everybody looked at
Speaker 1: the food as I did every single time, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I just don't think I want that today,
Speaker 1: you know, stared at it like I did every single time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody was noticing. And I went back in
Speaker 1: the dressing room and Nyawa done and she was like
Speaker 1: I can't remember exactly what she was saying, but she
Speaker 1: was approaching me about my eating disorder because I know
Speaker 1: she herself had had beating disorders and she was very
Speaker 1: open about it in her book, and so she of
Speaker 1: course was the first to speak up about it and
Speaker 1: just say like, you know, I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on with you, but I feel like, you know, something
Speaker 1: is happening, and just was trying to be there in
Speaker 1: a way, and I just completely blew it off like no,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, a person fine. So there was nothing else
Speaker 1: after that, There was nothing to be spoken about. But
Speaker 1: she probably got the hand like, oh, okay, well if
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to talk about it, she's not ready
Speaker 1: for this conversation totally totally, and that's who she was.
Speaker 1: She was just always ready to pass about it and
Speaker 1: that's all. Yeah, we're all like that now. It just
Speaker 1: takes that that time and place in your life where
Speaker 1: you realize, like there life too short. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: be scared to address the hard things. You just have
Speaker 1: to do with the people you care about. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Like what's the worst is going to happen? Like I'll
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll take the risk of pissing you off
Speaker 1: for asking the questions that I feel need to be
Speaker 1: asked inappropriate when that comes with age too and maturity, right,
Speaker 1: Like for somebody like me who doesn't like confrontation or
Speaker 1: like to rock the boat at all, You know that
Speaker 1: it feels like it's like a pot star versus like
Speaker 1: actually being a solution. But now you see it. I
Speaker 1: see it as like a solution and like not trying
Speaker 1: to stir the pot and like dance around like people
Speaker 1: talking like what's going on with Heather, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Versus like somebody like not going like I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: ask her what's going on and if she's okay, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: which should have been the solution the entire time. We're
Speaker 1: going to be really honest. It's like, that's what number
Speaker 1: ones do you know? Like the high ups. It's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just got to talk about your leaders. Yeah, your leaders.
Speaker 1: And that's what we do when we're when we have
Speaker 1: adult twenty year old or twenty twenty cast members who
Speaker 1: are adults who are all always in this thing together,
Speaker 1: right right, But we were children. Yeah, well no, I
Speaker 1: mean that that would come up like you guys are
Speaker 1: all kids. I'm like, which, no, we're twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: just like children. That's such an interesting thing because so
Speaker 1: many people like we were kids in the sense that
Speaker 1: like a lot of people don't hit the height of
Speaker 1: their career until later in life, right until they've put
Speaker 1: in like the time as an adult versus us who
Speaker 1: we all did. Actually, most of us put in a
Speaker 1: lot of time previous to Gale that people don't know about.
Speaker 1: And then you're an overnight sensation. You're like, actually, no,
Speaker 1: like all these people you've seen somewhere else before this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And of course when you're twenty three year
Speaker 1: not adult, so they our brains were not fully developed.
Speaker 1: We're also the youngest cast vers it was like easier
Speaker 1: for them to group us all together like the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. So well that's it. Let's talk about Beyonce.
Speaker 1: So you came in to do the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we've told this story a lot, but let's
Speaker 1: let's just retell it. Um. Tell us how you got,
Speaker 1: how how you joined Lee, how you got how Bernie
Speaker 1: Spears came to be like share the story with us. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: so I was prior to coming to teach you guys,
Speaker 1: I had gone on to work with Beyonce um for
Speaker 1: the Beyonce experience, and then took a big break from that.
Speaker 1: Then she came back and she came out with her
Speaker 1: big single ladies head and I had to reudition for that,
Speaker 1: and I had to reudition for Beyonce. I had done
Speaker 1: her tour and then we were done with the tour.
Speaker 1: There was like ten girls, four guys. It is all finished.
Speaker 1: And then you know, we had a big, huge break.
Speaker 1: Go do your other jobs, Go get another pizza job,
Speaker 1: and try and live your life somehow the money that
Speaker 1: you don't have. And then I had to go re
Speaker 1: audition for this huge like single ladies tour ish thing
Speaker 1: that was happening. Wild. Yeah, it's just wild. We had
Speaker 1: to go on an audition with everybody else. Um, which
Speaker 1: is fine, you know you do that thing, and she
Speaker 1: got it. You do it, got it, got it, did it?
Speaker 1: She still got it? It still did it. Um. And
Speaker 1: so simultaneously at the same time, I decided I was
Speaker 1: going to be this actress now, like I wanted to
Speaker 1: be a star in my whole life. So I wrote
Speaker 1: to my agents and I was like, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for the opportunity, but right now, and I took
Speaker 1: a break. I'm going to focus on acting and I
Speaker 1: was going to like to just acting school quote unquote
Speaker 1: and um, which was essentially just like a cult. Now
Speaker 1: that I was that it was basically a cult. How
Speaker 1: they're moreish joins cult. That's the headlines of this week. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So I started that whole journey of like
Speaker 1: I'm going to be this actress. And um, Zach Woodley
Speaker 1: he was my biggest champion at the time. I knew
Speaker 1: that and I had assisted him doing Fired Up, which
Speaker 1: was a cheerleading movie. Um. And he came to me
Speaker 1: and he was like, Hey, I have a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: I want you to teach the single ladies dance to
Speaker 1: some some actors who are doing it in one of
Speaker 1: their episodes of the show. And also they're kind of
Speaker 1: looking for dancers because all these kids are seniors and actors,
Speaker 1: they don't really have anybody who can move on the show.
Speaker 1: Um and just kind of be like background fillers. Essentially.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, great, I'll wear my best outfit,
Speaker 1: gonna wear my coolest jams there. Um, So I was
Speaker 1: gonna go teach that day. And I don't I think
Speaker 1: you guys might know this story in a roundabout way,
Speaker 1: but the day of my audition, UM, I was driving
Speaker 1: in my Prius on the way to the audition. I
Speaker 1: had just turned around the corner to the Paramount lot,
Speaker 1: and in this point in my life, I was like
Speaker 1: battling with ibs right Like I had really sensitive stomach.
Speaker 1: I always have, I just didn't know about it at
Speaker 1: the time. And I just had guzzled a coffee because
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta have energy. I'm good, I'm
Speaker 1: ready for this. Heather turned to the corner. This is
Speaker 1: right before I walk in to meet you guys and
Speaker 1: Ryan Murphy. Um, I turned the corner and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fart. I let out a fart and it's
Speaker 1: not a part. I sharted my pants on Gower and
Speaker 1: what's the other cross road is it? Melrose? I was
Speaker 1: on Gower and Melrose and I was just doing left,
Speaker 1: and I had started my pants and I was about
Speaker 1: to enter the paramount lot for the very time. To
Speaker 1: teach you guys Hollywood glamour at its fineness. I was
Speaker 1: in my American apparel maroon on maroon onesie. I remember this.
Speaker 1: It was that, yes, you didn't know. We didn't know.
Speaker 1: Times before. I had just shipped my pants and I
Speaker 1: had to get there in like ten minutes. So I
Speaker 1: pulled into the neighborhood right across the street. I don't
Speaker 1: even have to take off my onesie. I take off
Speaker 1: my underwork inside my onesie like I pull it through
Speaker 1: my leg, I b I roll it in a ball,
Speaker 1: I throw it out the window. I check if I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I don't like there's no stink coming from me. I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give away that I just shipped
Speaker 1: my pants. It's also like a really like boogie neighborhood
Speaker 1: Hancock Park, like stop, I'm dead. She didn't even blame
Speaker 1: It was an early Christmas president for some mane walking
Speaker 1: by walking their dog, and then I walked in the
Speaker 1: fair amount and I continued to teach you guys the
Speaker 1: single ladies, and you did teach us single ladies. I
Speaker 1: can't remember how long you taught us single ladies for,
Speaker 1: do you remember. I wouldn't say it was a total
Speaker 1: of two or three. I couldn't imagine it would be
Speaker 1: more though longer. I don't know. Maybe you were around
Speaker 1: the weren't you, like before we had started shooting the
Speaker 1: new episodes the actual season, Like you were around when
Speaker 1: we were always in the tin shed rehearsing, and then
Speaker 1: you guys were in the tin shed rehearsing. And then
Speaker 1: I remember, like then you Zach brought you around to
Speaker 1: meet all of us, like immediately, um, and then we're
Speaker 1: all just hanging out. But then when did it? Was?
Speaker 1: It like, oh, she's going to stick around, so I
Speaker 1: had I can't remember exact timelines because I know I
Speaker 1: had been teaching you guys that and then after I
Speaker 1: believe it was the same day after I was teaching
Speaker 1: you guys, I was supposed to go read for Ryan Murphy.
Speaker 1: I was given I was given the quinsides, and I
Speaker 1: was supposed to go to the Bungalow and just read
Speaker 1: for him, like what And it happened twice. Two times
Speaker 1: he asked me to read for him because I had
Speaker 1: met him with with Zach, you know, once we were
Speaker 1: done rehearsing, he was like, yeah, I'd love to have you.
Speaker 1: And both times he canceled on me for this read.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what solidified it. Maybe he knew
Speaker 1: about just start Glory like you're Halo was like enough
Speaker 1: that he was like, great, just caster like she had
Speaker 1: do it twice. Don't even audition for this show. You
Speaker 1: don't even audition. That's how he knew, Kevin. That's how
Speaker 1: he talked to Frank Gatsen. Yeah, so I never I
Speaker 1: never went to Reform just like which lucky enough because
Speaker 1: if I would have read, he probably would not hire.
Speaker 1: Now that is not true. That is not true. You
Speaker 1: never know tell us about Remind me about Brittany us peers,
Speaker 1: because like I remember you doing Brittany like for all
Speaker 1: of us in the choir room and like the lip
Speaker 1: sinking um and would make us all like laugh, it's
Speaker 1: a really bite and you were like expanding on it
Speaker 1: every choir room scene like for us in between My
Speaker 1: biggest champions guys, and it was so fun. And then
Speaker 1: Ryan Murphy would walk in and my heart would stop
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh my God. And then you
Speaker 1: guys would talk to him and you would then, you know, somehow,
Speaker 1: I don't know, convincing that he needed to stay and
Speaker 1: listen to my were like one day we were like,
Speaker 1: enough is enough, he needs to see I got to
Speaker 1: talk about this. We gotta talk about this. And I
Speaker 1: don't even think I did much. I was just doing
Speaker 1: like the finger in the air and I'm like, huh,
Speaker 1: and that was it. I don't even think real people
Speaker 1: knew about this part of Brittany as hears wow right,
Speaker 1: because it was just between us, was that Brittany was
Speaker 1: toned deaf. And then it turned out that Sugar Motto
Speaker 1: was actually telling that bless I remember Ryan's cackle when
Speaker 1: you would do it though, he had that loud cackle
Speaker 1: that you would hear like I love it. Do you
Speaker 1: remember too. Wasn't it that same day then that you
Speaker 1: guys had a scene I think it was you and
Speaker 1: nia Are you Bane and Niad a scene in the
Speaker 1: Mr Shoes Spanish? It was an office or something. It
Speaker 1: was one of the teachers yet and then Ryan started
Speaker 1: feeding you lines because it was right after we forced
Speaker 1: you to perform as Brittany for him, and then it
Speaker 1: was like after that, then all of a sudden, like
Speaker 1: the next scripts from here and out, it's just here.
Speaker 1: She is. She the full fully fledged, full fledged character,
Speaker 1: and it's them the best comedy on the entire show,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. It was a mixture of nerves
Speaker 1: and my love for mean girls Karen because she was
Speaker 1: so genius. Oh my deliver that loved It makes so
Speaker 1: much sense Karen for mean girls, is this is who
Speaker 1: she's going to be. Oh my gosh, wow, I know now.
Speaker 1: Now you hear it, now you feel it. I do.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Okay, my mind is blown. What's interesting
Speaker 1: that I never thought about and didn't even think to
Speaker 1: ask you back then, was that sense of responsibility or
Speaker 1: like overcompensating for not having auditioned, because I know what
Speaker 1: that feels like if you get offered something, You're like,
Speaker 1: I didn't earn this. I got to make sure that
Speaker 1: I make it worth a while that they hired me,
Speaker 1: that they have me. Did that start sort of immediately
Speaker 1: or was it something that was sort of like probably
Speaker 1: subconsciously building as the years went on. Well, I think Jenna,
Speaker 1: when when you had reached out to me and and
Speaker 1: we're kind of approaching me about this this podcast in general,
Speaker 1: you were like, you know, we really want to dive
Speaker 1: into the fact that, like you're a when you're a
Speaker 1: dancer and you're working as a dancer, your job is
Speaker 1: to show up, shut up, and do your job. And
Speaker 1: that's who I was. That's who I was every moment
Speaker 1: that I walked like into a job as a dancer, um,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we're bred to do, is
Speaker 1: like you show up, you work your ass off, you
Speaker 1: keep quiet, and you do your job. Um. And so
Speaker 1: I had already had that like worth, that work ethic
Speaker 1: within me to just like show up and do it.
Speaker 1: Don't ask questions, do everything you're asked. You know, you're
Speaker 1: there to do what you need to do, and then
Speaker 1: you're done. And so like that's who I was going
Speaker 1: into it. And then I also had just been handed
Speaker 1: this beautiful lat warm on the show that just blew
Speaker 1: me away. When I watched the pilot, it was just
Speaker 1: like incredible, and I knew the show was special. And
Speaker 1: so when we were going into this stuff into all
Speaker 1: these rehearsals and then starting shooting. I just I couldn't
Speaker 1: blow it. I couldn't say no. I couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 1: blow that, you know. And I didn't even know I
Speaker 1: I didn't even know I could have the voice to
Speaker 1: do that because right, like I said, like I just
Speaker 1: was a dancer, and that's not what you do. You
Speaker 1: don't speak up for yourself, you don't, cause Marcus right, right,
Speaker 1: and we saw that it was like very you were
Speaker 1: always so professional, um and like obviously watching like what
Speaker 1: you said, because I remember you being very respectful, like
Speaker 1: we because we were all a bit more comfortable with
Speaker 1: one another, and we had done the pilot, so we
Speaker 1: had this sort of and you know, bond and we
Speaker 1: would talk shit or gossip with one another, and you
Speaker 1: were really good about not participating in sort of like
Speaker 1: that well, which was also intimiding too for me, because
Speaker 1: I felt like you guys had this you guys had
Speaker 1: this this circle in this friendship that you established previously,
Speaker 1: and it felt like I don't know about Naya, but
Speaker 1: it felt like for me, we were these outsiders, right
Speaker 1: like you guys had established this fleet club and we
Speaker 1: weren't so like I always I always loved what you
Speaker 1: guys had. I always loved that you guys were like
Speaker 1: outspoken and could do that. Um, I just didn't feel
Speaker 1: like I had the privilege to do that, you know.
Speaker 1: I felt like a little I don't know, a little
Speaker 1: like Kitty in the corner of science experiment the sweet funny,
Speaker 1: this sweet money. And then and then we all went
Speaker 1: to the school NIA and she taught us how to
Speaker 1: speak up for ourselves. And then Nia, I mean it's
Speaker 1: also she was the one who has been working, like
Speaker 1: working in TV longer than any of us. She was
Speaker 1: doing Barbie longer than Yeah. But honestly, I will say,
Speaker 1: even if in the in this like speaking up thing
Speaker 1: that we're talking about that other people probably don't really
Speaker 1: know what we're saying, it's like the chance to complain
Speaker 1: in some respect, right, or the chance to say no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. Um, it's just not
Speaker 1: It's not like you're not bread to do that as
Speaker 1: an artist because or an actor, because you should be
Speaker 1: lucky to get your have the job you have, right,
Speaker 1: you don't know when your break is going to come on.
Speaker 1: When it does, you don't really exactly millions of other
Speaker 1: people you just shot right. But on our set, I
Speaker 1: will say even the people who did know how to
Speaker 1: respectfully speak up for themselves a ka rivera. Yes, everybody
Speaker 1: who most people who did in the show also did
Speaker 1: their damn job. And well that's the thing. Like, it
Speaker 1: was like the expectation for our show because we were, um,
Speaker 1: there were so many eyes on. It was you show up,
Speaker 1: you do your job as best as possible, you do
Speaker 1: the best you positive, you do better than you think
Speaker 1: you can um, and then you expect that from the
Speaker 1: rest from everybody else. And I think that was also
Speaker 1: the pressure of like everybody else better show up because
Speaker 1: you're showing up, right. That's the way I kind of felt.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm doing my job. Everybody else should
Speaker 1: do their job. When it takes everybody, when there's so
Speaker 1: many moving parts, there's eighty of us have seen it's
Speaker 1: like everyone's got to show up to make this thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody has to be on the same page. Otherwise it's like, right, okay,
Speaker 1: But even I mean, like even I remember there's this
Speaker 1: funny story though, Um, we were doing Rocky Horror and
Speaker 1: it was really late. It was like one thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning and we were in those horrible wigs for
Speaker 1: like the whole and out of trees, and like how
Speaker 1: they're sitting on the floor in between takes and it's
Speaker 1: really late, and I just see, like how there's eyes
Speaker 1: like start to well up a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: turned to Kevin and I'm like, how there seems unwealth
Speaker 1: and I mean all of us were not well at
Speaker 1: that moment. And I turned to Kevin and he's like,
Speaker 1: you know when Heather's will and you know she's upset,
Speaker 1: you know it's bad. That is true. I did used
Speaker 1: to say that all the time. How there was like
Speaker 1: the marker for if. Then you're like, okay, I think
Speaker 1: it's okay now to be like justify she was like
Speaker 1: I was bar you were talking. You gotta you gotta understand,
Speaker 1: Like I so, So I come from like my parents
Speaker 1: work habits were I had a dad who like threw
Speaker 1: himself into work. He went four am to nine pm
Speaker 1: every single day. He built his company from the ground up,
Speaker 1: and it was a very unhealthy work habit. This is
Speaker 1: just kind of how I've justified how I grew into
Speaker 1: that habit. He was just work all day, all night,
Speaker 1: always work. And then we took these special family vacations
Speaker 1: for a week long, and he dove hard into that,
Speaker 1: loved us, and then went back to work and was like,
Speaker 1: you know this, this just provider, right. But he was
Speaker 1: always like just the hardest worker that I knew. And
Speaker 1: I had a mom who was like, just stay at home.
Speaker 1: She she's very she's very hermit like, she didn't like
Speaker 1: to go out, she doesn't like to do stuff. And
Speaker 1: so I have these like two opposing sides to who
Speaker 1: I am. And I felt like that really happened to
Speaker 1: me within this show. It was like, I worked so
Speaker 1: damn hard on this show, and I had such a
Speaker 1: strong work habit, and then one day it was just
Speaker 1: gone and I just had no motivation. I think I
Speaker 1: just pushed myself to that break of not being able
Speaker 1: to sustain. It's unsustainable when you try and do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we all know. We were working sixteen
Speaker 1: hour days, twenty two episodes hour long. It was a
Speaker 1: really hard show to work on. And I always it's
Speaker 1: hard to explain that to people because you should be lucky.
Speaker 1: You just don't know until you're there. You don't know
Speaker 1: when you're there. Yeah, I've gone on sets that are
Speaker 1: musicals and they're only shooting ten episodes in their thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and I'm like and they're freaking out and they're like,
Speaker 1: I'm so tired, Like yeah, it's up to a set before,
Speaker 1: Like I'm so sorry, this is taking so long. It's like,
Speaker 1: you guys, this is like nothing, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: This is beautiful? Um. Speaking of that, it also reminds
Speaker 1: me of a time when, like the when when you're
Speaker 1: a character, when Britney Spierre started to really explode um,
Speaker 1: and people really started to learn who you were. We
Speaker 1: were seeing you on like the cover of magazines, like
Speaker 1: you also got more famous than I think you would
Speaker 1: ever had ever expected or asked for. And it was
Speaker 1: kind of like, in a way like watching another Chris
Speaker 1: of sorts, like where that's not the part that you
Speaker 1: that you wanted or asked for, and yet I know
Speaker 1: how grateful you were to your fans and still are.
Speaker 1: So there's this like conflicting feeling of like wanting your
Speaker 1: personal life because you are so private and you do
Speaker 1: keep to yourself kind of like your mom like, and
Speaker 1: then you know there's this whole other side of you
Speaker 1: that had worked so hard for so long. So um,
Speaker 1: I remember when you kind of like moved out and
Speaker 1: moved away and was like, I'm just going to open
Speaker 1: a coffee shop and get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: But can you talk about that, like kind of like
Speaker 1: your rise to this crazy amount of fame that you
Speaker 1: you didn't expect. Yeah, it was a wild ride, and
Speaker 1: I think I wanted it super hard and I pushed
Speaker 1: for it, and I didn't know what I was pushing for.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what the end product was. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could be assuming, but I always felt like you
Speaker 1: guys kind of knew what what um, what it was
Speaker 1: to promote things, what it was to do press, what
Speaker 1: it was to do interviews. I had never been in
Speaker 1: the front and forefront. I was always in the background,
Speaker 1: So I didn't know what any of that meant. And
Speaker 1: I thought I did, so I thought I was ready
Speaker 1: for it all like, and I just wasn't. You. I
Speaker 1: had done limited acting, I had not had any like
Speaker 1: trust training. I didn't know what any of that was.
Speaker 1: So when I got when I went into it knowingly
Speaker 1: and willingly, it was like very overwhelming and I was
Speaker 1: very excited. But then I did get the attention that
Speaker 1: I had just put the hard work in for and
Speaker 1: it scared the ship at I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to be look, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be approached. I want to sit at the table
Speaker 1: and not have people stare at me like all that.
Speaker 1: And it was that it was at a breaking point
Speaker 1: between like you know, the life and Style magazines and
Speaker 1: then and then into like social media and reality, and
Speaker 1: so it was kind of like transitioning, um. And I
Speaker 1: definitely could have I could have been more graceful with
Speaker 1: that and gone with that that whole ride of like
Speaker 1: now we are real people and we can show you. Um,
Speaker 1: but I you know what, you guys knew. I wasn't
Speaker 1: into social media at the time. I was like, I
Speaker 1: just want to work and I want to show that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still working all that aside, um. And so
Speaker 1: the way I see it is, I just I had
Speaker 1: put all my bags and all my bags, all my
Speaker 1: eggs into this glee basket and now it was just
Speaker 1: getting too heavy and I just wasn't happy anymore. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, Taylor and I out of the blue, who
Speaker 1: got pregnant and it wasn't planned, And I felt like
Speaker 1: it was the most beautiful gift that I could have
Speaker 1: been given in the world. Um and I definitely took
Speaker 1: all those eggs and I threw them in a parent basket.
Speaker 1: And since then, obviously I've learned balance. It was just
Speaker 1: at that point it felt like it was something I needed.
Speaker 1: It was like the perfect thing for my heart at
Speaker 1: that time, because I just didn't know. I also, you guys,
Speaker 1: I didn't start going to therapy until three years ago,
Speaker 1: like right around when I had died, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know all these things that were wrong with me. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that I was hurting. And that's why I
Speaker 1: stop talking to show um so and you guys could
Speaker 1: see stuff like that. It's just like, we know it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's I always teach my kids at the convention weekends
Speaker 1: because I teach you hands. I'm like, it's really hard
Speaker 1: to be the person that sits down and tells your
Speaker 1: friend that you're worried about that. It's really difficult and
Speaker 1: you just gotta sometimes you gotta get uncomfortable to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: But I'm such a big advocate for therapy because I'm like,
Speaker 1: even if you're not going to medicate yourself, at least
Speaker 1: just like understanding it to know yourself a little bit
Speaker 1: better totally. It makes you have to pause because I
Speaker 1: think when we were doing that, or you're or someone
Speaker 1: that works a lot, you are just concerned with that.
Speaker 1: So all these things just build up, they accumulate, and
Speaker 1: then you're left with this whole, like you said, all
Speaker 1: these eggs that you sort of have to sort through.
Speaker 1: At some point, they don't go anywhere. They're all still there.
Speaker 1: You just move them to the basket. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: at some point you have to allow yourself carve out.
Speaker 1: At some point, let me figure this out, because if
Speaker 1: you don't, then it comes out in other ways, right Ye,
Speaker 1: speaking of being pregnant on the show, So like I
Speaker 1: can't even imagine. I was like I had a good pregnancy,
Speaker 1: Like I was very lucky. But like imagining going back
Speaker 1: and doing what you did while you were pregnant, I'm
Speaker 1: like in shock, and I'm just curious because it feels
Speaker 1: like a fever dream to me when you were pregnant,
Speaker 1: because I remember like doing Nationals on like speed and
Speaker 1: being like there's like eight months pregnant. Um, what that
Speaker 1: experience was like for you Because we were younger and
Speaker 1: you were the first of us to go through that like,
Speaker 1: what was that like? Was it was it lonely? Did
Speaker 1: you feel like we understood what you were what you
Speaker 1: were dealing with, or what was your experience? It was
Speaker 1: actually interesting because um Penny, the camera operator, the camera assistant,
Speaker 1: she had a sense like she kind of knew and
Speaker 1: that's also new. She could see it women and women
Speaker 1: she knew. She just had a feeling, and so it
Speaker 1: definitely felt isolating, and I don't know, it was interesting,
Speaker 1: but I also was excited and like it was the
Speaker 1: first time, and obviously had no idea what I was
Speaker 1: doing to know how to eat. I didn't know how
Speaker 1: to take care of myself. Like I said, I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting it. I didn't know I was about to get pregnant,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have my plan. I didn't get ready
Speaker 1: for it. I was just like, well, here I am,
Speaker 1: I'm pregnant. I don't even think I found out till
Speaker 1: I was like almost out of my first trimester. Like
Speaker 1: do you remember when I turned I was I had
Speaker 1: this like weird witchy thing and I was like, I
Speaker 1: think somebody's pregnant and you and I didn't realize it
Speaker 1: at the time. Obviously, in hindsight, I put it together,
Speaker 1: but you're like, yeah, You're like, I just have a feeling.
Speaker 1: I think somebody's I don't know who it is. And
Speaker 1: you face whips around so fast. It was like, why
Speaker 1: why do you think that? I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do you think that too? If its like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't think it was like
Speaker 1: that week or something that you thought maybe you were pregnant.
Speaker 1: I forgot what it was when there was some time
Speaker 1: you think like you had just found out or you
Speaker 1: were about to find out. Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I look back and I'm like, how would if they
Speaker 1: have written me in pregnant? Because I had to fight
Speaker 1: to get out of there. I was like, I to
Speaker 1: stay on the show pregnant pregnant, especially all the hard
Speaker 1: work we do. Well you did it for a long while,
Speaker 1: and I remember being in heels in your back and
Speaker 1: I just felt so bad. I just remember doing cart
Speaker 1: wheels on Spice Girls, and I'll never forget that pregnant.
Speaker 1: There was a tiny little Eli on my belly doing
Speaker 1: car as a spice girl when we did drag Race.
Speaker 1: When um I was pregnant, I did like a full
Speaker 1: split and I was like one day, one day, I
Speaker 1: was gonna know mom with a minium. She did sing
Speaker 1: for her life that show. But like, no, wait wait,
Speaker 1: first of all, you too on that show, Kevin on
Speaker 1: that show, Jenna, well, but still both of you guys,
Speaker 1: it was that hard, Like what was that? Like I
Speaker 1: say to Kevin, it was there was like before we
Speaker 1: would go out on stage, would be backstage like waiting
Speaker 1: and hanging out in the wings and like and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, I'm not nervous, and He's like, no, neither I.
Speaker 1: And it's because like when we both have bad nerves,
Speaker 1: we both have really bad nerves. Because I was like,
Speaker 1: we don't have to sing live, Kevin, like we're lip
Speaker 1: thinking like we do on Glee all the time. Like
Speaker 1: this fills like home for us, and there's something freeing,
Speaker 1: which I wonder if you had this experience too, about
Speaker 1: it felt like we were in a mask because we're
Speaker 1: so not ourselves. It was free, like it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whatever who. The hardest thing about it was like the
Speaker 1: actual drag, like the costumes, it's it's it's own entity, right,
Speaker 1: like you just getting in the makeup and the and
Speaker 1: and then the boys on top of it have to
Speaker 1: wear all this padding and stuff. So it was definitely
Speaker 1: that was horrible movie. It was intense. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: I still need to understand how any of you can
Speaker 1: dance and heels. I don't get it. You did a
Speaker 1: great job. Kevin's heel broke right before he did dance
Speaker 1: on the floor. His heel broke backstage and they're trying
Speaker 1: to like nail it back in and crazy Jenna, that
Speaker 1: was like absolutely not. I was like, excuse me, We're
Speaker 1: not nailing a heel together for him to go dance
Speaker 1: on it. I said, no, no, no, no, no. She
Speaker 1: just comes out of nowhere. There's a whole wardrobe department
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what we're gonna do. No, we're not,
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. Just went away. It was like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get some of your shoes. Was like, we're not
Speaker 1: doing that. And it was really nice and it was
Speaker 1: brought me back to the Glee days of like how
Speaker 1: nice it is to have people who know you and
Speaker 1: like the end of Glee when we all learned to
Speaker 1: sort of protect each other and protect ourselves. And she
Speaker 1: just stuck her head on likes just like common sense,
Speaker 1: like you don't know. I feel together. No, that's a
Speaker 1: big hazard. It's a no no, it's a no no.
Speaker 1: And then like I was like Kevin, like it was
Speaker 1: nice to have somebody who knew I was pregnant during
Speaker 1: that time because I wasn't can tell anybody, so at
Speaker 1: least there was somebody there that new, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm feeling ill today, but I don't feel great.
Speaker 1: You're an actual winner, baby, you are. They're more so
Speaker 1: at my baby shower. And I love secret more than anything.
Speaker 1: And everybody's like Heather's away for like months and we
Speaker 1: don't know what she's doing, and we're like, come on,
Speaker 1: somebody knows what she's doing, and they're like, no, I
Speaker 1: thought I could get it. I thought I could get
Speaker 1: it out of her. Thought, what did you think it was?
Speaker 1: I thought you were doing like a Marvel done something
Speaker 1: like like because they make you sign NDAs for stuff.
Speaker 1: So I was like, is she a Marvel cater? Like
Speaker 1: it's Star Wars because I've always broken all those India's
Speaker 1: like I it is like X Factor or any of
Speaker 1: those like I drag Race. I told everybody everything, and
Speaker 1: I was really bad at it. You're the best secret keeper.
Speaker 1: I love secrets. Congrats that's a Did you have fun
Speaker 1: doing it? I had a blast, A really fun time.
Speaker 1: The choreo team, Uh, Aaron run free. I just like
Speaker 1: we worked so well together. She was on the mask answer,
Speaker 1: by the way, if nobody knows, I was on the
Speaker 1: mask answer and I want it and I was a
Speaker 1: scissors And that's all you have to know about it
Speaker 1: was was your head? Was your helmet heavy? It wasn't heavy.
Speaker 1: He looked heavy. It was not. They all looked really heavy.
Speaker 1: And honestly, it's really funny because it's like it's basically
Speaker 1: like a bicycle helmet and it's this contraction that has
Speaker 1: the chin strap and then there's like wires somehow that
Speaker 1: connect to the actual thing, so it's super light. Ah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad as you think it was. It
Speaker 1: was between the Eiffel Tower or I think it was
Speaker 1: a lily, might have been a lily, and scissors, so
Speaker 1: I got to pick. Those were the three that she
Speaker 1: pitched me. Cute Eiffel Tower, which was just too big
Speaker 1: and bulky. I couldn't have danced to her. And then
Speaker 1: there was lily and she was really pretty. But like
Speaker 1: once I saw scissors she was. And the funny part
Speaker 1: about scissors was when when she showed me the picture,
Speaker 1: like the sketch um I pictured her so different, like
Speaker 1: this is me with a d D. Heather thinking that
Speaker 1: this scissor is just gonna be like crazy. She's jumping
Speaker 1: around the stage doing jumping Jack's like, she's just like
Speaker 1: they basically an adolescent scissors, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and the crafty scissors. And then I have a meeting
Speaker 1: with Beth, he's the creator, and she was like, oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: she's super posh. She's like your hairdresser scissors. She's done magazine.
Speaker 1: She's super fancy. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: the Heather, what is wrong with two kids? So of
Speaker 1: course you went to craft teachers, crafty scissors, all the
Speaker 1: stop behind the scissors, nimate objects. This is who they are.
Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, we had a full meeting about who
Speaker 1: she was and what did she do. It was such
Speaker 1: a blast um And like I was saying, so, Aaron
Speaker 1: and I worked so well together, and it was actually
Speaker 1: really helpful because I was able to help him with
Speaker 1: choreography so that his assistance could then go work on
Speaker 1: the other characters and then I just felt like I
Speaker 1: got to do a little bit more because it's a
Speaker 1: really isolating experience when you go out there and do that.
Speaker 1: You can't meet with people. You're not even allowed to
Speaker 1: hang out with people that you're working with, like the
Speaker 1: choreographers to eat their seen with you. Then other people
Speaker 1: will know if they spot them, They're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you work on the mass answer. She must be on
Speaker 1: the mass answer. So they're very they're very intense about it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like Kevin and Ice where they were like
Speaker 1: they tried but were sneaky. I bet they were worked
Speaker 1: with Liz though. Yeah, yeah, we had a full We
Speaker 1: had a full chat about you and I was about
Speaker 1: to see you, Liz. I saw you a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks later. Shout out to Liz. She every show I've
Speaker 1: ever done in the UK she's been a part of somehow,
Speaker 1: this is incredible. I love her. She like has all
Speaker 1: these incredible stories, like she was there when one direction
Speaker 1: got put together and it's like BFF all of them
Speaker 1: and all this like crazy, crazy stories. I love that
Speaker 1: she's the best. I just I wish she wouldn't live
Speaker 1: out here. Did you know you were going to win?
Speaker 1: Did you like I had zero zero clue. Wow. I
Speaker 1: was in the bottom my second episode that I was on,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, well this is it. You
Speaker 1: sun failed that Dancing with the Stars, You're gonna fail
Speaker 1: at the mask dancer. Like I shouldn't have been on
Speaker 1: that show anyway. I'm sorry Normany was on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you weren't, like the first person is a full blown
Speaker 1: petition dancer. Well that's what I mean. There's no reason
Speaker 1: why she couldn't be on it, and not to put
Speaker 1: shade on her because she's super sweet. And I also
Speaker 1: at the time wasn't going to be like, well she's
Speaker 1: a dancer, so why is she getting ship If you're
Speaker 1: both answers, that's fine, you're both on the show right period. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, it's fine. Um, but now I got to
Speaker 1: dance next to Adam Garcia who was in Canodia Ugly,
Speaker 1: and he's like this incredible um performer. He's like amazing,
Speaker 1: no idea, it was the whole time. I just know
Speaker 1: it was so amazing and also wild to be like
Speaker 1: dancing in a mask and trying to like win over
Speaker 1: the audience. You know, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 1: You have a big We went over the audience, not
Speaker 1: on camera, off camera, because these people are voting for
Speaker 1: you live. They liked me or not coming in being
Speaker 1: like this posh Scissors. That wasn't the game plan. Like
Speaker 1: I couldn't go in there and be the super serious
Speaker 1: Scissors because then I wouldn't gain the attention of all
Speaker 1: these people. No, no, no, I had to be like
Speaker 1: fun and exciting, you know, wave to little people like
Speaker 1: a Disney character on a Disney World. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's right, putting on stage. Just let her do what
Speaker 1: she wants to do. Like, I've hardly seen a performer
Speaker 1: who is as hypnotizing as you. Like you think it
Speaker 1: was such a privilege, and I told you this time,
Speaker 1: like it's such a gift to be able to watch
Speaker 1: you perform. You It's unreal. We were watching Showmance the
Speaker 1: other day and Bust your Windows came on, little Bust
Speaker 1: your Windows. There's something about the way you dance that focus.
Speaker 1: We'd always watch like slave for you on tour. We'd
Speaker 1: all like stop, We'd gotta watch. I gotta watch. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Just as equally, I love you both so much and
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with both of you in a very underground,
Speaker 1: not crazy weird way. You could be crazy. It's okay,
Speaker 1: we could be crazy. Let's talk about snakesmis for just
Speaker 1: one second because it's coming up. Um, we just wanted
Speaker 1: to share but with people we are. We're doing Snakes Smiths.
Speaker 1: Hemo is going to be there. He's always been, um,
Speaker 1: incredibly supportive of all of this with along with us
Speaker 1: the whole time. Um, this is the third year we're
Speaker 1: doing it. So I just wanted to remind people that, um,
Speaker 1: Snake Smiths is here. It's a seven pm from the
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio Theater in Los Angeles, and you can't
Speaker 1: join them. We would just say you're performing. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: performing and say something about it if you want. But
Speaker 1: I want to teach what it is I know. But
Speaker 1: then well, okay, so give you're a really good secret keepers,
Speaker 1: so give us something to give Give us a nugget.
Speaker 1: M guys, don't look on the spot. That's the whole
Speaker 1: point of this. It'll be like a perfectly wrapped little
Speaker 1: gift just for you. Yeah, yes, it went on the top.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right, Yeah, that's right. So
Speaker 1: Hema will be there performing something there's your nugget. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited for this year. I cannot believe it's live.
Speaker 1: I know, we're so grateful that my heart has been
Speaker 1: so great and that we get to do this live
Speaker 1: and we get to be with everybody. This is the
Speaker 1: first we were getting to do that, UM, and it's
Speaker 1: just like it's just a totally different vibe. So we're
Speaker 1: super stoked that we can. We're able to do this
Speaker 1: will be an audience that would be so much fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play games. There's gonna be like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good time. But if you can't come in person,
Speaker 1: you can also we are streaming the event on December
Speaker 1: eight at five pm Pacific Standard time, so make sure
Speaker 1: you go to box office at Mandolin dot com. And
Speaker 1: all those tickets are donations towards Alexandria House. UM, all
Speaker 1: that money goes to them, and it's just an incredible
Speaker 1: cause and they've been so so nice and supportive of
Speaker 1: us trying to string something together for them every year
Speaker 1: there and you know, I've been wonderful to keeping Naya's
Speaker 1: memory alive also within Alexandria House as well. So UM email,
Speaker 1: thanks for thanks for supporting Snake Smiths along with us always.
Speaker 1: If I wasn't a room parent, I did more. No,
Speaker 1: you get enough on your place. Room parent is crazy. Later, Um,
Speaker 1: some of these top Brittany is purest lines. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to share. Do you have a favorite? You have
Speaker 1: a favorite before I read any of these off, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. The story was pretty funny. There's there's
Speaker 1: so many good ones. I just loved when Ian would
Speaker 1: come on set and he would he would it would
Speaker 1: be like he's in class, like he was sit there
Speaker 1: and write things down, and he'd come to me on
Speaker 1: the side and say that, oh my god, you were
Speaker 1: probably his favorite, just because he got to like you
Speaker 1: could like his mute as you could say all these
Speaker 1: like crazy things. Did did people come to Like people
Speaker 1: come up to you and like say, Brittany lines to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I don't even know, I said, And so
Speaker 1: that's like this one, like Sara Patch kids are just
Speaker 1: gummy bears that turned to drugs. Heart attacks are just
Speaker 1: from loving too much. No, that's cute. A unicorn of
Speaker 1: someone who knows he's popular but isn't afraid to show it.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think maybe the best line of
Speaker 1: the entire show, ever is did you know that dolphins
Speaker 1: are just ga sharks? I mean there have been I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's got to be the best line because
Speaker 1: it's ever right like that, that's it how much fun?
Speaker 1: Like that's great. There wasn't a lot of impropping on
Speaker 1: the show too, so it's nice that like Ian could
Speaker 1: do whatever he wanted because he's one of the creators
Speaker 1: and writers and just for that. Yeah, oh absolutely, before
Speaker 1: we let you go, do you have a favorite Santana
Speaker 1: Brittany moment? Oh golly, oh my god. I was like,
Speaker 1: I had my notes ready for my favorite song just
Speaker 1: based on what you guys did. I was like, I
Speaker 1: have a phone note, but we'll give us the notes,
Speaker 1: give us the notes. Tell us, Okay, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite song on this show? Yeah, you asked stupid. I
Speaker 1: loved you Can't touch this. That was so much more
Speaker 1: because it was like, I know, I think everybody hated it,
Speaker 1: but that is no other I have the same memories
Speaker 1: as you have this number. I agree. I am with you, yes,
Speaker 1: because hammer pants and yeah and like the nineties and
Speaker 1: the late eighties, like that was mine in the number.
Speaker 1: It was a really fun day directed that, right. I
Speaker 1: was just really worried about the rap. The rap was
Speaker 1: messing me up, So I think that's what I was
Speaker 1: concerned about. That's a lot of words dead. That is
Speaker 1: hilarious though, that all of all the numbers, she brings out.
Speaker 1: What was my least favorite song? I hated Hello, Goodbye
Speaker 1: and what you Want? Those like those are classics that
Speaker 1: you just shouldn't touch. Okay, I see where you're that
Speaker 1: you just shouldn't. I hate it, I will say as
Speaker 1: much as um. The Gaga stuff was amazing, Like, Jenna,
Speaker 1: you knew I hated bad Roman lobster was a terror,
Speaker 1: and well that mask was really hard on you. That
Speaker 1: was really hard, Coster. Yeah, the lobster was eating my brain.
Speaker 1: It looked really good though. I would just look over though,
Speaker 1: and she would just not be thrilled she was. That
Speaker 1: was a hard one. That was a hard one. It
Speaker 1: was a hard one. You're always there for me, Jenna, Oh,
Speaker 1: you were always there for me. Hither she would love
Speaker 1: you love to play the people's hair, and I would think,
Speaker 1: oh my god, the best head rubs of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh I think about those. Yeah, I just need a
Speaker 1: human touch, you know, Like, yeah, I hear that. I
Speaker 1: hear that. What was the Santana line that she said
Speaker 1: on the show. I just need I'm like a warm
Speaker 1: body or something. It wasn't it like, um, we'll find it,
Speaker 1: we'll find it and we'll Yeah. She's like, I'm I
Speaker 1: needed something between my legs and a warm Yes, what
Speaker 1: what is it? We'll find it. Well, I'm like a lizard,
Speaker 1: I need something warm beneath me, yes, or else i'd
Speaker 1: just my food. What a brilliant mind, what a brilliant line.
Speaker 1: Do you have any more favorites? Things which on your notes?
Speaker 1: What's in your notes? Yes? Um? Okay? The River Deep
Speaker 1: Mountain High was my childhood as a dancer, so of course,
Speaker 1: and all those two were just like on tour too,
Speaker 1: you get to like, actually that was a good one.
Speaker 1: But they were such a joy to watch. H for me?
Speaker 1: Is it the fact that we did jump on trampolines
Speaker 1: and I remember everybody was like so over it, especially Amber.
Speaker 1: Amber did not want to be doing this. She hate
Speaker 1: a bnut And I was having the best in in
Speaker 1: my life. The song is crazy, And then they wanted
Speaker 1: to put it on our first tour ever when we
Speaker 1: went the Radio City Music Hall and the fact that
Speaker 1: they thought that that wasn't a hazard and we did it.
Speaker 1: We did do it, and it was actually really fun
Speaker 1: on tour to do that. The reason why we all
Speaker 1: hated that number in real life, we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: during mattress was because they turned they had to turn
Speaker 1: the air conditioner off for sound purposes, and it was
Speaker 1: so freaking and jumping, just balancing on these tramplines. We
Speaker 1: should have known because there was my preamble. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: anything else on these notes, himo? Oh no, I think
Speaker 1: that's it. Are we asking favorite songs with Nya? Because
Speaker 1: favorite scenes? Anything like that you did with nine it
Speaker 1: was you got I think, Yeah, you got so many
Speaker 1: one on one scenes with her, and you guys were
Speaker 1: so good in your relationship started a movement, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Santana Britney fans are still wild, like they're
Speaker 1: passionate love them. Yeah, yeah, with the best of intentions.
Speaker 1: That's right. I just got I just got so many
Speaker 1: wonderful moments with her, and and I think everything we
Speaker 1: got she annihilated, and she she came from truth and
Speaker 1: I remember every time we would do something, she just
Speaker 1: wanted it to be more truthful. And more real and
Speaker 1: more personal, and um, getting to watch her sing the
Speaker 1: songs that she got to sing like Songbird to me,
Speaker 1: like those were real tears because she was just so
Speaker 1: incredible and her voice was just she was an angel.
Speaker 1: And it was like, yeah, I just feel so lucky.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, like a perfect moment.
Speaker 1: But I mean she was all around the meeting. There
Speaker 1: was not now, it was it was why. It was
Speaker 1: again like watching you perform. It was a gift watching
Speaker 1: her perform, very very good. Thanks for sharing all these
Speaker 1: wonderful nuggets. Um, it was such a pleasure to have you.
Speaker 1: And we just know we can always count on you
Speaker 1: and we really appreciate that. We love you. I love
Speaker 1: you guys so much. As are consistent. You guys are
Speaker 1: like the rock and I'm like and I need to
Speaker 1: tether to you. You're the best. Wow. Heather Morris just
Speaker 1: a Jim, isn't she? She really is? And it's it's
Speaker 1: just such a joy to see your friends grow and evolve,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I just feel like we've all
Speaker 1: I'm just so glad we've all stayed so close and
Speaker 1: found each other in this new, new way and it's
Speaker 1: it's wonderful to see you know, your friends like you
Speaker 1: go from obviously being super talented and professional to being
Speaker 1: also an incredible mom and wife, and it's just yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wonderful to see everyone do their thing. Remember how
Speaker 1: there's wedding. We didn't even talk about that. Nia was
Speaker 1: so pregnant, she was very pregnant. She's like, I'm on
Speaker 1: a food tour. Well, we'll have to have Heather back
Speaker 1: and then we can we'll talk about we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the wedding. Well, thank you Heather more us for coming
Speaker 1: on and sharing and baring your soul. We love you
Speaker 1: so much, and come back next week for another recap
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