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Hey y'all, welcome back 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:22.440 to the show. New episode, new cast member, same old 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:29.040 Jenna and Kevin. Um. Today is a very exciting episode. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.480 We have one of our BFFs on. We got to 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.640 chat with the one and only Heather Morris. Brittany as 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:41.600 Pierce Hemo is in the building. And um, the beautiful 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:47.440 thing about Heather is that, like I think the women 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.360 on the show, you are all very good at expressing 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.240 yourselves openly and being direct. And I think you taught 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.280 all of us males, you know, how to speak up 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.480 for ourselves. Oh that's amazing. And Heather, I had an 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.000 amazing story on the show how she had a baby 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.320 during it she was doing a lot more than everybody else. Yeah, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.560 she she was, she was doing she was extra, as 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.240 she would say she would being extra at that time. Um, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.400 in the best way possible. And also we all learned, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.080 I think, on the show from each other, within the 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.560 women as well, how to speak up for ourselves. And 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.080 you know, we get into this in the episode with Heather. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.240 But coming from a dance background, you kind of like 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.200 shut your mouth, put your head down, and do the work. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.799 So this is a different experience for her as well, 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.639 and how she evolved through the show. So I'm excited 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.359 for you guys to hear I also learned a lot. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.120 There were lots of things I didn't know even being 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.400 around her every day. So I'm excited for all of 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.079 you to hear it. So let's get to it. Let's 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:45.360 stop talking to listen to Heather. Hi Emo, Hey, welcome back. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.040 I just listened to Chris's episode prior to this. I 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.239 loved it. I was we were walking, We're living the 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.400 neighborhood walking Taylor and I and I was listening and 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.799 I was like, that's cackling to myself, isn't either be? 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.280 I love him. It's very sweet. It's very I think 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.720 it's sweet. It's also nice to see someone that we've 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:14.040 known since they were eighteen blossom into the force that 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.120 that he is today, justa bestseller. He was always there, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.080 he just had to grow in exactly. Yes, Chris was 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.639 always there, you know, that was his destiny from day one, 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.360 always a force. So how there. I'd like to start 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.280 this episode by sharing with you the thesis of this podcast, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.240 just to set the tone. The tone is um. What 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.680 Lady Murphy had said earlier in his episode was that 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.880 there's a difference between what Glee did to us and 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.560 did for us. H that's the thesis that Ron new podcast. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.520 So do what you want with that. Yeah, it's worth 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:03.240 We're watching the Ted Kittency Uni Bomber Show right now, Taylor. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.960 We've been to that yesterday. That's what we did on 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.520 our time without our children bend watching the Uni Bomber Show, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.680 and one of the episodes said, Kazynski gets forced into 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:19.440 this like this like social experiment where they're basically testing 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:26.479 like the Soviet spies UM ways on these Harvard law students, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.719 of these Harvard students. I don't know if you've heard 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.320 about this, but he was basically like brainwashed, and he 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.640 was so intelligent that like he wouldn't let them break him. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.640 So they were trying to make him feel like he 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:45.920 was crazy for having these eccentric ideas about about UM 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.760 technology and how we're you know, as in a society 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:56.240 like really social and all these ideas that he like 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.000 essentially was coming up. At the same time, they like 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.040 brainwashed him try and make him think he was crazy 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.440 and he wouldn't let it break him. He was like, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.920 I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy. Essentially, it forced him 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.359 to do what he was gonna do. And anyways, anyways, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:16.080 all this aside, Yeah, I mean speaking of is that 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:22.760 how you felt during what a crazy social experience as 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.920 much as everyone trying to break you and convince you 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.279 I did break, I did break. We all broke. Kevin 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.679 was the last to break. But we were talking about 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.120 that too, How we all we all broke? When when 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:43.800 did you break? Heather? Okay, what a question. I'll never 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.680 forget to the day when we were sitting on a 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:52.640 golf cart and I I was in my deepest of 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:57.279 darkest and Nia go, Nia looks to Kevin and she goes. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.560 She just stopped talking all together. She just didn't talk 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.200 to anybody. And I was like, I don't you're right, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.080 I don't want to speak a word. I don't speak out. Well, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.039 I'll never forget that day. She took it too. She 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:13.800 took it to the real level it should have been 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.800 taken to. Yeah, she always did. She was the one 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.560 that could get through. She was like a translator for 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.040 a lot of us. She can read us and be like, oh, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.360 this is what's going on. Yeah, she was like our puppeteer, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.520 I mean speaking of I was going to get to this, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.680 but we may as well just like get into it 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.120 if you don't, right, if you we were, we were, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.520 we're like it like it's like burning now where you're 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.920 like to step out for a second a minute, Yeah, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.760 you need to sit on the ledge. That's where we're 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.279 at already. UM. I love this with you guys. I 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.640 love doing this. We love you, we love having you. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.680 The tour was pretty crazy for all of us women. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:07:00.000 I think, Um Kevin's memory served is very good about 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.279 out how like all the girls like locked themselves in 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.000 the dressing room at one point and was like I 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:09.640 want to go home. Like I felt that way for sure. UM, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.600 but I'll never forget you shared a story with me 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.120 and if you're open to sharing it, um, Like you 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:16.800 had kind of come to a breaking point on tour 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.600 and you you had said to me like now I 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.520 was the only person who really confronted you about it 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.560 and and was like I'm worried about you. You You were 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.000 like are you okay? UM, And I'm just curious if 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.600 you if you would be comfortable to share sharing that story. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.440 Oh absolutely, so yeah, I just like when I started 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.400 the show, essentially, I just had I mean there's so 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.760 much backstory to all this. Obviously we know, but like 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.760 we can go back, go back, we can go back 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.880 and go back, We'll go back. But we were in it. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.400 We were in it. I just had a really unhealthy 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.760 work habit that I had tried to keep up for 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.640 so long. Um just basically because I had not had 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.320 to work hard for this show. I got this job 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.240 just out of thin air, essentially. I mean, yeah, I 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.560 had put in the work as a dancer, but you know, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.680 people in mind an audition for the show, I just 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.240 got it. So I felt like I had to keep 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.680 that up. And people pleased the whole time. And I 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.680 was just pushing and pushing and pushing. And when we 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:17.760 started the the tour, I had developed an eating disorder disorder, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:22.760 I stopped getting my period. I was so in my 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.080 head about food and what it was doing for me. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.360 And obviously this is just a manifestation of what my 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.720 body was really going through in my mind. But I 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.480 just was unhealthy. I looked at all food is bad, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.800 and um, I was in a really bad place. I 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.079 just didn't know it yet, and I remember being in 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.280 the dressing room, like getting myself ready. I had just 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.640 walked into the the food hall with everybody looked at 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.199 the food as I did every single time, and I 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.200 was like, I just don't think I want that today, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.000 you know, stared at it like I did every single time. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.640 I'm sure everybody was noticing. And I went back in 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.000 the dressing room and Nyawa done and she was like 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.920 I can't remember exactly what she was saying, but she 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.400 was approaching me about my eating disorder because I know 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.959 she herself had had beating disorders and she was very 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.920 open about it in her book, and so she of 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.000 course was the first to speak up about it and 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.440 just say like, you know, I don't know what's going 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.840 on with you, but I feel like, you know, something 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.560 is happening, and just was trying to be there in 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.480 a way, and I just completely blew it off like no, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:34.320 I'm fine, a person fine. So there was nothing else 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.280 after that, There was nothing to be spoken about. But 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.560 she probably got the hand like, oh, okay, well if 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.160 she doesn't want to talk about it, she's not ready 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.760 for this conversation totally totally, and that's who she was. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.480 She was just always ready to pass about it and 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.800 that's all. Yeah, we're all like that now. It just 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.160 takes that that time and place in your life where 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.800 you realize, like there life too short. Yeah, you can't 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.920 be scared to address the hard things. You just have 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.240 to do with the people you care about. Yeah, yeah, exactly, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.080 Like what's the worst is going to happen? Like I'll 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.080 I'll be I'll take the risk of pissing you off 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.760 for asking the questions that I feel need to be 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.640 asked inappropriate when that comes with age too and maturity, right, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.280 Like for somebody like me who doesn't like confrontation or 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.160 like to rock the boat at all, You know that 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.960 it feels like it's like a pot star versus like 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.560 actually being a solution. But now you see it. I 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.000 see it as like a solution and like not trying 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.600 to stir the pot and like dance around like people 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.640 talking like what's going on with Heather, what's going on? 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.559 Versus like somebody like not going like I'm just gonna 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.760 ask her what's going on and if she's okay, you know, yeah, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.240 which should have been the solution the entire time. We're 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.160 going to be really honest. It's like, that's what number 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.640 ones do you know? Like the high ups. It's like, yeah, yeah, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.320 you just got to talk about your leaders. Yeah, your leaders. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.960 And that's what we do when we're when we have 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.880 adult twenty year old or twenty twenty cast members who 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.960 are adults who are all always in this thing together, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.800 right right, But we were children. Yeah, well no, I 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.920 mean that that would come up like you guys are 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.200 all kids. I'm like, which, no, we're twenty three years old, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.040 just like children. That's such an interesting thing because so 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.760 many people like we were kids in the sense that 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.599 like a lot of people don't hit the height of 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.319 their career until later in life, right until they've put 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.000 in like the time as an adult versus us who 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.240 we all did. Actually, most of us put in a 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.040 lot of time previous to Gale that people don't know about. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.559 And then you're an overnight sensation. You're like, actually, no, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.120 like all these people you've seen somewhere else before this. Yeah, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.000 yeah yeah. And of course when you're twenty three year 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.640 not adult, so they our brains were not fully developed. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.080 We're also the youngest cast vers it was like easier 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.760 for them to group us all together like the kids. Yeah, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:10.440 I'm pretty sure. So well that's it. Let's talk about Beyonce. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.319 So you came in to do the show. I mean, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.319 I know we've told this story a lot, but let's 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.960 let's just retell it. Um. Tell us how you got, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.559 how how you joined Lee, how you got how Bernie 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.280 Spears came to be like share the story with us. Okay, Well, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.360 so I was prior to coming to teach you guys, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.520 I had gone on to work with Beyonce um for 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.280 the Beyonce experience, and then took a big break from that. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.200 Then she came back and she came out with her 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:45.360 big single ladies head and I had to reudition for that, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:52.360 and I had to reudition for Beyonce. I had done 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.760 her tour and then we were done with the tour. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.720 There was like ten girls, four guys. It is all finished. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.079 And then you know, we had a big, huge break. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.360 Go do your other jobs, Go get another pizza job, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.280 and try and live your life somehow the money that 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.040 you don't have. And then I had to go re 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.199 audition for this huge like single ladies tour ish thing 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:22.280 that was happening. Wild. Yeah, it's just wild. We had 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.800 to go on an audition with everybody else. Um, which 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.439 is fine, you know you do that thing, and she 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:32.840 got it. You do it, got it, got it, did it? 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.360 She still got it? It still did it. Um. And 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:45.840 so simultaneously at the same time, I decided I was 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.440 going to be this actress now, like I wanted to 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.480 be a star in my whole life. So I wrote 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.600 to my agents and I was like, thank you so 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.520 much for the opportunity, but right now, and I took 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.160 a break. I'm going to focus on acting and I 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.880 was going to like to just acting school quote unquote 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.679 and um, which was essentially just like a cult. Now 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.400 that I was that it was basically a cult. How 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.800 they're moreish joins cult. That's the headlines of this week. Um. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.800 So yeah, So I started that whole journey of like 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.400 I'm going to be this actress. And um, Zach Woodley 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.800 he was my biggest champion at the time. I knew 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.640 that and I had assisted him doing Fired Up, which 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.840 was a cheerleading movie. Um. And he came to me 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.600 and he was like, Hey, I have a great opportunity. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.880 I want you to teach the single ladies dance to 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.440 some some actors who are doing it in one of 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.080 their episodes of the show. And also they're kind of 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.880 looking for dancers because all these kids are seniors and actors, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.520 they don't really have anybody who can move on the show. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.240 Um and just kind of be like background fillers. Essentially. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.400 I was like, Okay, great, I'll wear my best outfit, 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.400 gonna wear my coolest jams there. Um, So I was 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.120 gonna go teach that day. And I don't I think 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.280 you guys might know this story in a roundabout way, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.960 but the day of my audition, UM, I was driving 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.480 in my Prius on the way to the audition. I 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.560 had just turned around the corner to the Paramount lot, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.560 and in this point in my life, I was like 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:21.560 battling with ibs right Like I had really sensitive stomach. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.600 I always have, I just didn't know about it at 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.720 the time. And I just had guzzled a coffee because 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.320 I was like, I gotta have energy. I'm good, I'm 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.480 ready for this. Heather turned to the corner. This is 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.760 right before I walk in to meet you guys and 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.520 Ryan Murphy. Um, I turned the corner and I'm thinking 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.640 I'm gonna fart. I let out a fart and it's 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:47.600 not a part. I sharted my pants on Gower and 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:53.440 what's the other cross road is it? Melrose? I was 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.880 on Gower and Melrose and I was just doing left, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.000 and I had started my pants and I was about 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.440 to enter the paramount lot for the very time. To 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:06.920 teach you guys Hollywood glamour at its fineness. I was 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.040 in my American apparel maroon on maroon onesie. I remember this. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:19.840 It was that, yes, you didn't know. We didn't know. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.360 Times before. I had just shipped my pants and I 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.800 had to get there in like ten minutes. So I 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.840 pulled into the neighborhood right across the street. I don't 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.400 even have to take off my onesie. I take off 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.240 my underwork inside my onesie like I pull it through 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.680 my leg, I b I roll it in a ball, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.640 I throw it out the window. I check if I'm fine. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.960 I don't like there's no stink coming from me. I'm good. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:44.920 I'm not going to give away that I just shipped 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.600 my pants. It's also like a really like boogie neighborhood 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:57.320 Hancock Park, like stop, I'm dead. She didn't even blame 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.720 It was an early Christmas president for some mane walking 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.760 by walking their dog, and then I walked in the 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.879 fair amount and I continued to teach you guys the 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.399 single ladies, and you did teach us single ladies. I 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.680 can't remember how long you taught us single ladies for, 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.280 do you remember. I wouldn't say it was a total 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.840 of two or three. I couldn't imagine it would be 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.840 more though longer. I don't know. Maybe you were around 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.679 the weren't you, like before we had started shooting the 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.520 new episodes the actual season, Like you were around when 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.040 we were always in the tin shed rehearsing, and then 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.320 you guys were in the tin shed rehearsing. And then 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.879 I remember, like then you Zach brought you around to 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.040 meet all of us, like immediately, um, and then we're 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.560 all just hanging out. But then when did it? Was? 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.760 It like, oh, she's going to stick around, so I 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.560 had I can't remember exact timelines because I know I 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.560 had been teaching you guys that and then after I 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.399 believe it was the same day after I was teaching 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.639 you guys, I was supposed to go read for Ryan Murphy. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.639 I was given I was given the quinsides, and I 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.760 was supposed to go to the Bungalow and just read 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:11.760 for him, like what And it happened twice. Two times 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.080 he asked me to read for him because I had 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.000 met him with with Zach, you know, once we were 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.320 done rehearsing, he was like, yeah, I'd love to have you. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.800 And both times he canceled on me for this read. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.800 And I don't know what solidified it. Maybe he knew 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.680 about just start Glory like you're Halo was like enough 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.040 that he was like, great, just caster like she had 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.800 do it twice. Don't even audition for this show. You 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.080 don't even audition. That's how he knew, Kevin. That's how 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:47.800 he talked to Frank Gatsen. Yeah, so I never I 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.240 never went to Reform just like which lucky enough because 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.240 if I would have read, he probably would not hire. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.960 Now that is not true. That is not true. You 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:10.679 never know tell us about Remind me about Brittany us peers, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.360 because like I remember you doing Brittany like for all 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.240 of us in the choir room and like the lip 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:22.000 sinking um and would make us all like laugh, it's 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.600 a really bite and you were like expanding on it 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.920 every choir room scene like for us in between My 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.640 biggest champions guys, and it was so fun. And then 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.200 Ryan Murphy would walk in and my heart would stop 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.040 and I'd be like, oh my God. And then you 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:42.440 guys would talk to him and you would then, you know, somehow, 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.439 I don't know, convincing that he needed to stay and 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.639 listen to my were like one day we were like, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.840 enough is enough, he needs to see I got to 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.119 talk about this. We gotta talk about this. And I 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:53.840 don't even think I did much. I was just doing 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.920 like the finger in the air and I'm like, huh, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.560 and that was it. I don't even think real people 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:06.040 knew about this part of Brittany as hears wow right, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.439 because it was just between us, was that Brittany was 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.200 toned deaf. And then it turned out that Sugar Motto 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:19.280 was actually telling that bless I remember Ryan's cackle when 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.879 you would do it though, he had that loud cackle 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.320 that you would hear like I love it. Do you 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.640 remember too. Wasn't it that same day then that you 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.399 guys had a scene I think it was you and 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.439 nia Are you Bane and Niad a scene in the 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.399 Mr Shoes Spanish? It was an office or something. It 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.000 was one of the teachers yet and then Ryan started 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:49.040 feeding you lines because it was right after we forced 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.919 you to perform as Brittany for him, and then it 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.280 was like after that, then all of a sudden, like 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.280 the next scripts from here and out, it's just here. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.480 She is. She the full fully fledged, full fledged character, 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.640 and it's them the best comedy on the entire show, 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.000 Thank you, Thank you. It was a mixture of nerves 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:15.359 and my love for mean girls Karen because she was 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:22.080 so genius. Oh my deliver that loved It makes so 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.320 much sense Karen for mean girls, is this is who 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:30.640 she's going to be. Oh my gosh, wow, I know now. 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.240 Now you hear it, now you feel it. I do. 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.160 I don't think. Okay, my mind is blown. What's interesting 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:39.720 that I never thought about and didn't even think to 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:45.199 ask you back then, was that sense of responsibility or 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:49.199 like overcompensating for not having auditioned, because I know what 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.320 that feels like if you get offered something, You're like, 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:53.879 I didn't earn this. I got to make sure that 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.360 I make it worth a while that they hired me, 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.760 that they have me. Did that start sort of immediately 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:02.840 or was it something that was sort of like probably 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:08.359 subconsciously building as the years went on. Well, I think Jenna, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.399 when when you had reached out to me and and 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.439 we're kind of approaching me about this this podcast in general, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.280 you were like, you know, we really want to dive 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:20.879 into the fact that, like you're a when you're a 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.600 dancer and you're working as a dancer, your job is 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.040 to show up, shut up, and do your job. And 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.399 that's who I was. That's who I was every moment 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:35.280 that I walked like into a job as a dancer, um, 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:36.760 And that's kind of what we're bred to do, is 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:38.920 like you show up, you work your ass off, you 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.320 keep quiet, and you do your job. Um. And so 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.439 I had already had that like worth, that work ethic 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:48.760 within me to just like show up and do it. 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.880 Don't ask questions, do everything you're asked. You know, you're 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:53.840 there to do what you need to do, and then 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:55.400 you're done. And so like that's who I was going 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.600 into it. And then I also had just been handed 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:02.400 this beautiful lat warm on the show that just blew 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:04.040 me away. When I watched the pilot, it was just 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.439 like incredible, and I knew the show was special. And 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.880 so when we were going into this stuff into all 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:13.040 these rehearsals and then starting shooting. I just I couldn't 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:17.040