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Speaker 1: It's surreal. But then you know what's so weird about that?

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Speaker 2: Ryan, It's like I had this moment, it's so incredible,

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Speaker 2: and then I had to go home and like Alden

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Speaker 2: was puking and like my dog shit in the living room. Hi,

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Speaker 2: my name is Angelie Cabral and I am fun and sparkly.

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Speaker 3: Hello to all of my esteemed listeners. Yes I'm speaking

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Speaker 3: to you. Welcome to another highly sophisticated episode of Off

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Speaker 3: the Beat. I am, as always, your devoted host, Brian Baumgartner.

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Speaker 3: Why am I in such a good mood today? Well,

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Speaker 3: it's the new year, so it's a new me. And

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Speaker 3: also because my guest today is a great personal friend

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Speaker 3: of mine and an absolute hero of my daughter's Angelique Cabral,

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Speaker 3: or as they know her, Queen Amaya from the smash

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Speaker 3: Disney hit movie Wish. Now, if you are over the

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Speaker 3: age of six, or if you are not a parent

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Speaker 3: who has demanded to play that soundtrack every single time

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Speaker 3: you get in the car, well she might be more

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Speaker 3: familiar to you as Jill from Enlisted, or Colleen from

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Speaker 3: Life in Pieces, Becca from Undone, or any of the

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Speaker 3: other great roles that she's had in her career which

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Speaker 3: goes all the way back to a United Airlines commercial

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Speaker 3: when she was just six years old. I wonder what

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Speaker 3: she made her parents play in the car on the

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Speaker 3: way to auditions. Well, we're going to find that out.

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Speaker 3: And lots more about growing up on the beautiful coast

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Speaker 3: of California, getting her start on soap operas, and eventually

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Speaker 3: fulfilling every little girl's dream of becoming not just a

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Speaker 3: Disney princess, but a Disney queen. Here she is the

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Speaker 3: queen of my car Stereo Angelique Cabral.

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Speaker 4: Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and squeak. No

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Speaker 5: I cook get every mot oh from the ninetyfo.

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Speaker 3: What's hello?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Long time?

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Speaker 3: Happy New Year? You're still festive?

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Speaker 1: Look at you in a panic listen.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't thank god you texted me this morning because

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm in it with taking down Christmas.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen me on my Instagram

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Speaker 2: basically November twenty fifth, and my husband, in absolute moment

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Speaker 2: this is enough.

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Speaker 3: We're done. It's a fire hazard for sure.

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Speaker 2: Everything's brown and it's just and he's like, and he

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Speaker 2: has OCD okay of cleanliness and so which just gets

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Speaker 1: This is it. So I woke up this morning.

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Speaker 2: I've just been in a frenzy like cleaning and so

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Speaker 2: this is my last hurrah. This is it, this is

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Speaker 2: this goes away after this conversation. I'm packing up all

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Speaker 3: That's it until that's that's it till next year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now do you recycle Christmas sweaters?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: I have roughly, I think something like forty two. Stop it,

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Speaker 2: it's disgusting. No, it's not okay. And I do recycle

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Speaker 2: I have some kitchy ones, but I also have some

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Speaker 2: Correct, right, all all sizes and shapes of holidays truly

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Speaker 2: I have a bin for each holiday, and I have Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But your husband is the one with OCD.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not me, Obviously, it's over for.

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Speaker 3: Every holiday solves just just a little, just a little

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's a real journey for us over

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Speaker 1: That's where we're that's where we're landing.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, all right, call new Year. I mean

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Speaker 3: We can restart, the bins can be recycled, and we're

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Speaker 3: we're good. So you were born in Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: I was born in Hawaii. Was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: No, so my it's a very romantic story actually, Brian.

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Speaker 2: But my uh my dad ran away from home basically

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Speaker 2: They got married and lived on a boat that he

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the relationships over Plato doesn't fully stand the test

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Speaker 1: They immediately got divorced. My father took said boat.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to write a movie about this someday or

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Speaker 2: We never saw that ship again. And I say ship,

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Speaker 2: there was a big storm in Tahiti. So my dad

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Speaker 3: So Carmel like Monterey Monterey.

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Speaker 2: Hawaii is like where I was born, and my mom

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Speaker 1: It was very fun, like he was. He's more emotional

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Speaker 3: Now Hawaii is beautiful. To me, there is I don't

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Speaker 3: To me, there is almost no more beautiful place on

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm you know, Carmel is so close to

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Speaker 1: The coastline is just so beautiful. The one oh one

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Speaker 2: I should say I loved living there, but I thought

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Speaker 2: It's not ironic. Now I just hope to make enough

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Speaker 2: Like what's happening? It's so beautiful but very quiet. And

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Speaker 2: And I couldn't wait to just get out of there,

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Speaker 3: Now you started doing some work. I understand your first

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Speaker 3: Right, you didn't bring this up because I have always

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Speaker 1: I called her Aunt Edie. She's not my aunt, she's

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Speaker 2: Okay, she's my mom's cousin, so I believe that makes

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Speaker 1: Or is my second cousin?

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Speaker 2: She went to college and grad school. She said, do

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Speaker 2: always do something else. So I double majored. I did

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Speaker 2: And eighty God bless her. Has had a very long,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie to you. It's not fun.

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Speaker 2: her and her health is. She's as strong as a horse,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that it sounds like you are well,

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Speaker 2: Her, and that I'm doing my best for sure, and

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Speaker 2: there's really no one. There's no one else to really

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Speaker 1: That makes no sense. So I'm happy to do it.

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Speaker 1: But she's my cousin. That's so weird. That's so weird.

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Speaker 1: I know, well, but Brian, I grew up watching her.

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Speaker 2: I would come to LA and watch her on like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was going to ask you about that.

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Speaker 3: You went, you followed her advice. I'm going to get

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Speaker 3: for their musical theater program. Yes, did you see yourself?

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Speaker 3: You know Edie was talking to you about not going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my brain was I'm a Broadway star, right, My

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Speaker 2: and I got incredible training. I felt super confident and amazing,

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Speaker 2: I was like, I'm ready, Like this was my dream,

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Speaker 2: my passion. It's all I did my entire life. It's

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Speaker 2: And I started nannying for a lot of these families

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Speaker 2: to tell you something that I realized very quickly. There's

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Speaker 2: needed to. And I did some. I did some regional things,

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Speaker 2: I never like made my Broadway debut. I'm still waiting

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Speaker 3: Did do so than you think now? Well, yeah, well

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Speaker 3: we'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, can't wait to be honest in two

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Speaker 2: big in birthday parties. I did some commercials I did.

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Speaker 2: I did foot modeling for years. I have a tiny foot,

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Speaker 3: This is not like an only fans thing. This is

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Speaker 3: like a no, this is like a legit This is

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Speaker 1: Legit thing, like where you're a foot model and you

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Speaker 3: Like a hand model or elbow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like really stressed about it.

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Speaker 2: I was always like moisturizing my feet and like making

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Speaker 2: sure I didn't get onions or blisters. Those are the

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Speaker 2: days of my youth. But yeah, I did like weird.

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Speaker 2: I did weird side hustles, and I really made my

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Speaker 2: and I really made my way through it. But never

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Speaker 2: never the Broadway dreams that I had wanted or moved

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Speaker 2: there with. But then I met my husband and he

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Speaker 3: Wait a second, did your husband have a child from

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Speaker 3: if so, then we've got a sacurious conversation to have here.

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Speaker 1: Oh could you imagine? No, he did not.

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Speaker 2: He had a business that was like his child. But no,

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Speaker 2: I did not have another child.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you didn't meet him in the okay,

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Speaker 2: We were very in love though, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I'll never move to La.

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Speaker 1: I ate La.

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00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 2: I don't like TV TVs for the birds, TV's. I

441
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 2: was like, TVs for losers. We can't make it on Broadway,

442
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,400
Speaker 2: That's what I'd say.

443
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a time, there was a time people

444
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 3: saw Yeah.

445
00:21:59,080 --> 00:21:59,919
Speaker 1: People did think that.

446
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 2: So we moved to La and I pretty quickly. This

447
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,840
Speaker 2: was like two thousand and nine, twenty ten. I I

448
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 2: got this manager who took a chance on me, and

449
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,959
Speaker 2: like really thought I had I mean, listen, Brian, I'm

450
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 2: sure you can attest to this. Like early on in

451
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 2: everyone's career, I feel there is a time where you

452
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 2: just it's like ignorance is bliss.

453
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: This is how I felt. Anyway.

454
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 2: I came here from ten years in New York thinking

455
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 2: I was the best. I'm very confident, like too confident.

456
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,000
Speaker 2: I just thought I was the beasnys like you're lucky

457
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,840
Speaker 2: to meet me, like here, I am. I must so

458
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,239
Speaker 2: I would call myself a soap actress. I did some

459
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 2: stints on soaps.

460
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 3: You did quite a few more than what I knew about.

461
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I keep that buried.

462
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,199
Speaker 2: But yeah, I did a lot of soaps, did a

463
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 2: lot of commercials, and I certainly had confidence that, like

464
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 2: what here, I am right? And I started these acting

465
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 2: classes pretty quickly. I got recommended to Leslie Kahn, who

466
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 2: has changed my life. She's a dear friend to this day.

467
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: And I kind of learned how to audition, and I

468
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 2: learned what people I feel like want in the room.

469
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 2: Back then, everything was in the room right, and so

470
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: I made fans pretty quickly because I could take notes,

471
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 2: I think from years of being in theater and also

472
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 2: just kind of living my life in New York. I

473
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 2: was like, I'm a hard worker. Like I love to work,

474
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 2: I love to take a note. I love to like

475
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 2: grind it out, and I don't think a lot of

476
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,160
Speaker 2: people do even now, especially now, I still think that's

477
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,919
Speaker 2: one of the things that sets me apart, is like

478
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: when it comes to like being in the room or

479
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 2: on set or whatever, there's a zero I'll never have

480
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,159
Speaker 2: an ego about it. I'm just like, tell me what

481
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 2: you want me to do. Let's go, let's go, let's

482
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 2: move on, let's work it out. I always feel like

483
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 2: there's a sense of community like theater, like I just

484
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 2: love that feeling of being on set and like working

485
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 2: out together. Anyway, I had pretty quick luck, I will say, like, like,

486
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: I think that all those years in New York kind

487
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 2: of primed me for like this, just go here in

488
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 2: La somehow.

489
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 3: I mean, much like you and your New York friends

490
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 3: looking down back in the day on television. You know,

491
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 3: I think there's still a stigma which you sort of

492
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 3: alluded to, about soap operas, and I know that I'm

493
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,879
Speaker 3: not soap opera material, but I always thought that that

494
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 3: would have been a good experience to have, particularly particularly

495
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 3: what the.

496
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: Hell was there?

497
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 3: Particularly coming from theater, because I feel like that the

498
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 3: experience of soap operas where you're handed pages and it's go,

499
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 3: and you get one shot at it and you're done,

500
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 3: You know that that would be kind of a fun

501
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 3: transition and having sort of high stress time work sort

502
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 3: of as an introduction to film and television. Do you

503
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 3: feel like, in all seriousness, did did that give you something?

504
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 3: Do you think?

505
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: Yeah?

506
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 3: And also confidence on set in front of a camera

507
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 3: and a crew, right.

508
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 2: I think when I look back on those days at

509
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 2: the soaps, which I did almost all of them in

510
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 2: New York, at various times that I almost feel like

511
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 2: was my grad school. To be fully honest with you, like,

512
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 2: I think that that's what made the transition to television

513
00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: actually easy for me, because I kind I had all

514
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,959
Speaker 2: that those hours and the idea of having to do

515
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 2: those turn those pages so quickly and you only really.

516
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: Get one or two takes.

517
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I think to this day, I'm so

518
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 2: quick with words, and I'm so quick on a set,

519
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 2: and I love the stress of like, Okay, let's go,

520
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 2: we only have one like this, like anything with time,

521
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 2: and like, yes, I also love multiicam for the same reason.

522
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: It feels very much like a performance, like a play.

523
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: And I also just believe that everything you do, like

524
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: you said, like it's a wealth of like tools, and

525
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: I have this big toolbox around me or tool belt whatever,

526
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 2: and I'm pulling out these tools. And I've collected so

527
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 2: much knowledge and so much ability in my lifetime thus

528
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: far that I can't wait to see, like what the

529
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 2: next twenty years brings, because I feel very much, I

530
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 2: feel very capable at all times, and I always say

531
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 2: to myself, I've never let myself down. It's true, Like

532
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 2: no matter what, no matter what, the situation is I

533
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 2: always kind of rise to the occasion. And I don't

534
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: think I knew that then when I first moved here.

535
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: But I look back and like, oh, it's the soaps.

536
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: It's the soaps and all those I took a bunch

537
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 1: of soap classes. There's a teacher in New York called

538
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: Bob kraft Hour.

539
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 2: I was always taking classes, trying to like perfect my

540
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 2: craft so that I could I never wanted my acting

541
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 2: to be the problem. If anything, it's the wardrobe or

542
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 2: the this, or the lights or whatever. But I don't

543
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 2: want it to ever be me.

544
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 3: I still feel like that, right.

545
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was my grad school, that's for sure.

546
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so interesting. You hit the ground running here,

547
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, lots of commercials, also guest spots in

548
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 3: big show. No, but like big shows at the Melrose

549
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 3: Place two and a half man, I mean a variety,

550
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 3: as you say, a variety of sort of disciplines and genres.

551
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think there's a procedural that you

552
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 3: haven't done.

553
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: I think I've done at least one of every procedural, but.

554
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: That you know, the It was interesting because I got

555
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 2: here I think late two thousand and nine and I

556
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: started these classes and I saw around me people working, right,

557
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 2: I am very much like I need to see it

558
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 2: and then I can replicate it.

559
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 3: Okay.

560
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 2: So I remember this girl in my class booked some

561
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: guest star and I was like, I texted Karen's like,

562
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: I can do this. I need to book a guest star,

563
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 2: and like two weeks later I got this. The very

564
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: first real job was the Melrose Place, okay, and I was.

565
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: Like, Okay, that's eazy. Okay, I did that.

566
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 3: That's easy.

567
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 2: And then there's this I'm or you know her, Susan Bash.

568
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: She's this amazing casting director. I went in for Happy

569
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 2: Endings and this was a big show when I first moved.

570
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 1: Here was casting.

571
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: I never really auditioned before, like for a comedy, okay,

572
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 2: And I go into Happy Endings and David cast who's

573
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 2: a dear friend of mine now like I guess, and

574
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 2: the Tanne bombs I think it was their show, like

575
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: loved me and thought I was hysterical. The part was

576
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 2: already I believe casted by. I think it was Casey Wilson,

577
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 2: but I didn't know that. And I fucking like walked

578
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 2: in that room like this is my part, right, and

579
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 2: they gave me some notes and I ended up going

580
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 2: to this. I ended up taking more classes, but basically

581
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: they had me do the table read because Alicia Cuthbert

582
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 2: couldn't do the table read and she was like the

583
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 2: lead of that show. So I, with zero credits beside soaps,

584
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: did this huge table read for network and studio for

585
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 2: the pilot of Happy Endings, and then I end up

586
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: getting it yes, and then I ended up getting a

587
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 2: part in the pilot. I got a little co star,

588
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: and then the next season, David gave me another role,

589
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: completely different role, playing Damon's Damon Wayan's like work life

590
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: or something, so like in the say it's like notorious

591
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: that in the same show, I'm two different characters, which

592
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: never happens, but I'm two different guest stars. And that's

593
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: just an example I think of, Like if I had

594
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: to sum up my career, that's what I would say,

595
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: is like I do well, people like me, they put

596
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 2: me here, and that leads to the next thing, which

597
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: I guess is just la in general, that's just Hollywood, right,

598
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: But like if you make fans and do good work,

599
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: people are going to remember you, and it leads to

600
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: ABCD and even now, like I work with people and

601
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: then they'll put me. I mean, justin Adler, I worked

602
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:35,959
Speaker 2: with him on Life and Pieces for years and then

603
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 2: I was in Maggie.

604
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: Like I this is just.

605
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 2: Kind of how I think, at least for me, my

606
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: kind of career has unfolded. Like I get to work

607
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 2: with the same people and I love that. It's the

608
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 2: biggest compliment ever, ever, ever as an actor, the people.

609
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you've had that before.

610
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, no, for sure. And it's you know,

611
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 3: it's it's all the things that we're talking about, right,

612
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 3: Like one, you're good, you're hard working. You don't ever

613
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: want there to be a take where it's about you,

614
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 3: like Okay, camera screwed up or lighting is weird, or

615
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 3: you're wearing the wrong color pants or whatever. But you're

616
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 3: also positive and nice and nice at the end of

617
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 3: the day. That's a huge part of it as well.

618
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 3: Just to be wanted to be worked.

619
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: With, that's correct. Just to be wanted to be on

620
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: set with.

621
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: But I always feel like, like that's why I feel

622
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 2: like I miss about going in rooms and starting to

623
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 2: do this again now. But like I always feel like

624
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,239
Speaker 2: I win the part in the room, doesn't matter what

625
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 2: how the words come out. But it's like, if you

626
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 2: want to hang out with me for twelve hours a

627
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: day on set, I'm your girl, do.

628
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

629
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 2: Like, if you want this to be an easy, lovely process,

630
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 2: I'm your girl. And then you could make me whatever

631
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 2: you want. You can give me notes all day and

632
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 2: I'll do whatever you want. But also half of it

633
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: is just being Most of it is just being on set.

634
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: Do you want to hang out together.

635
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 3: Right right tomorrow? You want to see me again?

636
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: Right?

637
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 2: Or do you want to see me every day for

638
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: seven years right exactly? Because I mean we both have

639
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 2: worked with people that is not the case, and you're

640
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: just like, oh, this is a nightmare and you should

641
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 2: never work again, right, Like you're kind of like, how

642
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 2: do you work like that? I'm obviously not going to

643
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: name names, but like there are people that there are

644
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: people like this out there, and you're just like, I'll

645
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: neext to you later, but you know So that's I

646
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: think that's my kind of overall take on how my

647
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 2: early days in LA went. It's like it was it

648
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: was kind of wild and mad, and then all of

649
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: a sudden, I like I saw my friend testing and

650
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I can test.

651
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: What's that? What does that mean?

652
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 3: Oh?

653
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm mean okay, I can do that.

654
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: And then I tested for the show and then I

655
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 2: got the show, and then I was like, oh, that

656
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: was easy.

657
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: And then I kind of had to stopped working.

658
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: Well, I believe the show that you're talking about is enlisted. Correct,

659
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 3: that was well.

660
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: That wasn't my first.

661
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 2: My first pilot that I booked to series was a

662
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 2: show called Devious Maids.

663
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 3: Actually, yes.

664
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: But the tricky thing about that because Mark Cherry. Again

665
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: Mark Cherry had seen me in a show. We were

666
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: hanging out backstage. I was making him laugh. We got

667
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: got got got guy YACKI d yak and he said,

668
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 2: I think I have a show for you. This pilot

669
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: sees I said that sounds great. Yeah, yeah, Mark Cherry,

670
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 2: sounds great your next show after Desperate Housetimes. Absolutely I

671
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: booked the pilot. It was very That was a that

672
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 2: was a real talk about talk about having to have

673
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 2: your wits about you and be able to pivot. Brian,

674
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 2: that was like crazy. I had to test. I had

675
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 2: to go back to test. It was ten o'clock at

676
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: night and to go back to Warner Brothers. I lived

677
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 2: in Santa Monica at the time, and he gave me

678
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: cold sides to read for this other part for this test,

679
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: and I thought, what the fuck and I did it

680
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: and then I got it. But it was one of

681
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 2: those things I was like, Thank God, I was good

682
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: with words and I didn't freak out giving getting twelve

683
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 2: pages of sides at ten o'clock at night. Anyway, that

684
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: show didn't go to series on eighty see, it went

685
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: to series on Lifetime, and Lifetime changed the cast all around,

686
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: like Lifetime bought it for ABC. So like that was

687
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 2: my actual first pilot, but I didn't go with the show.

688
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: Enlisted was my I immediately booked and listed after that.

689
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 3: And something else important happened during that time. You met me,

690
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: I met you.

691
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 2: Now, let's that's the real that's a real game changer.

692
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: That's just a moment in my life.

693
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: Let's unpack this for just a second. Do you remember

694
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 3: the night that we met?

695
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Was I working? Was I working?

696
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's all very foggy to me as well.

697
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: But was it at a party you close? Was it

698
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 3: a place called Pearls on sun Sunset?

699
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: It was sunset and like doheany with Jeff? Wasn't it

700
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: with Jeff?

701
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 3: No, there is maybe the biggest A All I can

702
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 3: say is maybe the biggest A List star are in

703
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 3: the world. His mom was there.

704
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: Is this real?

705
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 3: This is this is real?

706
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: This is the this is I like Rat Pitt's mom,

707
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: like Janferish who's.

708
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 3: Close, okay close and Jess Zor Yeah.

709
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm still friends with her. We were hanging. I was, yes,

710
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: for sure. I remember this night we were there.

711
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: And you were working with Matt soon and that's why

712
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 3: you came up to me because Matt Soone was directing Enlisted.

713
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: He was directing an episode. Yeah, and I came right

714
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: and I came up.

715
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 2: I'm very good at that, like if I put things

716
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 2: together again, I'm a connector so I like went.

717
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: I remember going right.

718
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 2: Up to me, like, Hi, I'm on just like again.

719
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm on a show, thinking that was

720
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: like a big deal. But we like became quick friends,

721
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: like we were like it was so fun.

722
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 3: Yes, and Enlisted, you played Army staff sergeant Jill. I

723
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: don't remember this or did you have. I know it's

724
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 3: a comedy, so they weren't putting you through a boot camp,

725
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 3: but did they have, like, I don't know.

726
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: What did go to boot camp?

727
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, oh you did.

728
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's a whole thing. I'll send you a link.

729
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 2: There's a whole like documentary they made of it. But

730
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 2: they sent me, Jeff Stultz, Parker Young, Keith David, and

731
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: Chris Lowell to boot camp for a weekend in Texas.

732
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: Where was it like one of these? It wasn't Fort Hood,

733
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 2: but it was similar. I'll remember, Okay, it was the worst.

734
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 2: It was the worst two days of our lives.

735
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: It was no joke. They like took our phones and

736
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: they it was real boot camp.

737
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: Like I cried, like it was horrible omeric. Yeah, I slept.

738
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: There was like cockroaches in my room. I was the

739
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: only girl. We had to like memorize the the oath

740
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: and how to Oh my god, it was it was

741
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 2: so hot. Parker threw up. It was I mean, listen,

742
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 2: the boys loved it. The boys were like, this is amazing. Actually,

743
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 2: I take that back. Chris Lowell. Chris Lowell hated it.

744
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: Chris Lowell was like, you know, because he'd been around

745
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: Baronic Kamar's private practice, he was like, this is fucked up.

746
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: I'm calling Disney. This is fuck. This is like he

747
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: like used to do it, like he was so mad.

748
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 2: And then Jeff and Parker like rose and they like

749
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 2: loved it. And then I was like somewhere in between,

750
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: like I was like, I want to be a legit soldier.

751
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: I want to learn how to do this. I want

752
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 2: to climb the rope, I want to do the obstacle course.

753
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 2: I want to get my ass beat. But then there

754
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 2: was like cockroaches and I couldn't sleep and I'm legally

755
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 2: blind and they like couldn't find my contacts and it

756
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 2: was like.

757
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: Awful, and that part then it then it took a turn.

758
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: But I remember being that, yeah, they wanted it to be.

759
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: Like veryng Yeah, and when I look back on that,

760
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,760
Speaker 2: they would, by the way, for I never happened today,

761
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: Like that would never happen in twenty twenty four. Never,

762
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 2: this was twenty thirteen, and they were like, yes, it

763
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: wouldn't soldiers.

764
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 3: You or wouldn't like it.

765
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: I just don't think any show would be allowed to do.

766
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 3: That, right, That's that's what I'm thinking. They just set you.

767
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me coach, like it was gnarly, Like

768
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: I don't even think that day knew what was happening.

769
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: Like I remember Mike Royce and Kevin Biehle like being

770
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: like texting us like when we got back, like how

771
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 2: was it? Like, I don't even think they realized the

772
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 2: extent or how legit it was going to be. And

773
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 2: they were like apologetic. They were profusely apologizing, like I'm

774
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 2: so sorry that you went through this, Like they did

775
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 2: not know how bad it was going to be.

776
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: I just this is totally tangential, But I just watched

777
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: this documentary Hell Camp. Have you heard about this?

778
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: No?

779
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 3: No, this is about this thing that happened in the

780
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties where if you had a bad kid

781
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 3: they would get kidnapped in the middle of the night

782
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 3: and brought to like a camp for bad kids and

783
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: they had to like walk across the Utah Desert. I

784
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: mean I remember hearing about this, like, oh, so and

785
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 3: so the bad kid got sent to whatever, right. I

786
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 3: just watched this documentary and I could just imagine you

787
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 3: guys ending up with just a I don't know. Staffs

788
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 3: are like what like a drill master.

789
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, our drill sergeant was so we landed at

790
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: like ten o'clock or something. That's how they that's you're

791
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 2: not exaggerating, like that is not far from the truth,

792
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: and like I'll never forget when we got to this place,

793
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 2: which I need, I will find.

794
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: Out for you.

795
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 3: Okay.

796
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: We it was late and like we got to the

797
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: the barracks and that it was black kitch black, and

798
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 2: we were on like a football field and they took

799
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: all of our ship, like our phones and our all

800
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 2: our ship put it in a garbage bag and said

801
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 2: you'll get this back at the end and they made

802
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 2: us run like five miles in the middle of the

803
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 2: night before we could even go to bed.

804
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: And Chris Lowell was just like nope.

805
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 2: He's like I'm not this is not right, Like he's

806
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: like I need to speak to someone immediately, like he

807
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: was the only and then.

808
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: Chris park were like Marker and Joff were like yeah,

809
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: we're on, yes, sir, yes, sir.

810
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 2: Like whatever, like they were so in and I was

811
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 2: like I don't, I don't know, okay, I guess like

812
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,280
Speaker 2: I didn't.

813
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: Really know what you did, but we just did it.

814
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 2: And then we were so tired and then they woke

815
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: us up through the night. There was two nights that

816
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: we spent there. They like give you those scary like

817
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 2: like they bang on your door and like make you

818
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 2: wake up and like go take a cold shower, they

819
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: like torture you, like that's real and put to the night.

820
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: This is what.

821
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, very real, very chance. You look at our show.

822
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 2: We never we got praised for going to boot camp

823
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 2: and like all of the the veterans and the soldiers,

824
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 2: like it was a very popular show, right with soldiers,

825
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 2: and they like loved how legit it was, and like

826
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 2: even our uniforms and how everything we had. We had

827
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: several people on set advising us. We had all sorts

828
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 2: of to make it very real, like they want even

829
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 2: though it was a comedy, they wanted it to be

830
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 2: very real. Yeah, it was one of the best shows

831
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 2: in my life. I loved it so much.

832
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 3: I love to hear that. I mean, what an incredible experience.

833
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 3: And again yeah, probably you're right, like that what you're describing.

834
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, never happened today. Never, It would have never, they

835
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: would never.

836
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: No, we could have stued seventeen times, like for sure,

837
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: for sure, that would not happen for sure, or at

838
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 2: least or at least someone from HR would have gone

839
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 2: with us.

840
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 3: Okay, there would have been somebody there, somebody. Yeah, I

841
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 3: mean we had.

842
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 2: No one in sight, no one insight. They flew us

843
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 2: like Southwest coach, like garbage. It was awful, not a

844
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 2: stipend to be seen.

845
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I love Yeah, you're what do you

846
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 3: call it? Your your canteen? Like you had no Yeah,

847
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 3: you couldn't get a Snickers bar or whatever. It was

848
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 3: just empty. Oh gosh, Well that's when we met.

849
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 1: That's when we met.

850
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 3: And then that show unfortunately.

851
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 2: Uh one hit wonder Man one season wonder that was it. Yeah,

852
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 2: sadly it's been ten years now, it'll be eleven this year,

853
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: but it was a ten years since that show, and

854
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: we still have text chains all of us with Kevin

855
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 2: and Mike, and all of us were like such close friends.

856
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was a really incredible bonding. I think

857
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: honestly bonded us because we were so tortured. To be

858
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 2: honest with you, it's just a beloved show. Like we

859
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 2: talk about trying to do like a reboot or like

860
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 2: a version of that, or I keep trying to ask

861
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 2: Jeff if he'll do like a podcast with me about it, but.

862
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: He's very hard to tie down. That just stults.

863
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 2: He's very busy being a bro so but yeah, it

864
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 2: was a great experience, and then it kind of led

865
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 2: me to my next things and the next thing.

866
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: So it was kind of just what I would say

867
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: a highlight of my career for sure.

868
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 3: Life and pieces where we actually got to work together.

869
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: Yes, that was so fun.

870
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. We got to work together at an airport.

871
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 2: What was that the Vanny's Airport van Eysed Airport.

872
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 3: Yes, what was the experience like of getting cast as Colleen?

873
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,479
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I was pinching myself. I still can't.

874
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: I often can't believe when I get cast in something

875
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: like just the people around me on that show, Diane Weize,

876
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: Jim Brolan, Colin who's one of my best friends now

877
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 2: in his whole family, Betsy Tommy, it was a dream.

878
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 2: It was just the best five years of my life.

879
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: And I loved everyone on that show. And the way

880
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 2: that we got to storytell the four short stories. It

881
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 2: just lent itself to such beautiful storytelling, always with heart,

882
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: always kindness. I tend to always get I gravitate towards

883
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: shows like that that have like a sweetness or kind

884
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 2: of like a lesson something that makes you a little

885
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 2: bit cry, Like I that's how I am all the time.

886
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 2: Like I'm always a little teary, always a little emotional.

887
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 2: I feel things very deeply. I really relish in things

888
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: and soak things up. And that show taught me. Also,

889
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 2: you know, that was my first show that had You've

890
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 2: had the great fortune to have this, but like that

891
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 2: was my first show that had several seasons, right, So

892
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 2: like I got to learn how to kind of carry

893
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 2: over this character from season to season, seemed to see.

894
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 2: I watched her developed, I watched her grow, and she

895
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 2: was very different by the end of that series than

896
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 2: the Calleen in the in the pilot. And I became

897
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,360
Speaker 2: a mother on that show. I was pregnant. I was

898
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 2: pregnant with Addie. Yeah, I got very large. I had

899
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 2: a lot of Domino's pizza. Anyone who watched my series

900
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: back then, Dominoes gave me a very nice gift during

901
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 2: my pregnancy, which was a little embarrassing.

902
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: That's what a what a repeat customer I was. I

903
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: ate a lot of Dominoes. Yeah, I mean it's it's

904
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: one of those situations.

905
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: Like you know that you just your life has forever

906
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: changed on a show like that, and it kind of

907
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: solidified myself as like this actress who like can definitely

908
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 2: hold her own.

909
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: With big names, and it's changed my career for sure.

910
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 3: Well, we have to talk about I mean, we have

911
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 3: to talk. You've been working NonStop Maggie on Hulu also undone,

912
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 3: By the way, I do have to ask you about

913
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 3: about that. For those of you guys who have not seen,

914
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: you absolutely should see undone. It's rotoscoped, which I've found

915
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,879
Speaker 3: out that's what it's called. Now. Was the process they

916
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 3: filmed you like you were shooting a show, a show,

917
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah it's not, and then they trace over you. Yeah,

918
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah it is. Was that was that fun

919
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 3: to see the final because you literally don't see it

920
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 3: until correct two.

921
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 2: It's like almost a year and a half after we

922
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: shoot it that we see the final project undone.

923
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: We did two seasons of that beautiful show.

924
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 2: It's to date the work I'm most proud of, hands down,

925
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 2: the depth of my character, her journey, the art, the

926
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 2: artistic integrity of that show, the mess. It deals with

927
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: mental health, it deals with time travel, it deals with

928
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 2: at needs people like It's just an incredible show that

929
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:12,760
Speaker 2: touches in so many different worlds. Pisco is an incredible artist,

930
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 2: and Kate Purdy and Bob Rafael Wakesburg who created the show,

931
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 2: who also did It's that funny one with a donkey

932
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 2: on I'm talking about what did they do.

933
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: That show on Netflix forever?

934
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 3: Oh, that's funny.

935
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: BoJack?

936
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 3: Thank you?

937
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 2: So they did BoJack Horseman. It's a dark comedy. This

938
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: show is unlike anything I will ever do again or

939
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 2: I have ever done. You shoot it almost like in

940
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: a black box theater, and you shoot it with these

941
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 2: marks on the ground, and they shoot you in the

942
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 2: same scene hundreds of times from different angles, and you

943
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 2: don't understand what's happening.

944
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: You never will.

945
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 2: I still don't understand quite what rotoscoping is, to be

946
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 2: totally honest, I just know that they shoot us. We

947
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 2: don't wear makeup. It's like very bare bones. It's again,

948
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 2: it's as if you're in college doing a black box production.

949
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: They cut it together the way they want it to

950
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 2: be seen, and then the artists in I believe Austin Okay,

951
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: trace us. Then they send it to Amsterdam where they

952
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 2: paint with oil paints over all of it so it

953
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: looks like a moving masterpiece, right, it really looks like

954
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: it looks like a moving piece of art.

955
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 3: Are you wearing costumes?

956
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: You're wearing like I had one costume the entire series.

957
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 2: It's like one dress, okay, but you're but you wear

958
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: it and then they paint it and then they change

959
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 2: your makeup a little bit, and like, yes, I would say,

960
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 2: like there's a couple of scenes where I'm wearing like

961
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 2: I'm going backpacking and hiking.

962
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: I did you put on pants?

963
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 2: You wear the costumes, but you don't worry about touches,

964
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 2: you don't worry about your makeup. They can kind of

965
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 2: paint over anything. It's really kind of hard to explain.

966
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 2: But you don't understand why they're shooting you in so

967
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 2: many weird ways until you see the time travel and

968
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: you see it in its entirety. During the series, you

969
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 2: never see like anything. It kind of goes into this

970
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: abyss and it's so beautiful. But you also just have

971
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: to kind of trust them, right, and it's so guttural,

972
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 2: and these scenes are really emotional. A lot of these

973
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: scenes it's not stuff that I'm used to doing, right,

974
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 2: And there's no like let's hurry up and go No, no, No,

975
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 2: it's like you do all day, like two pages. It's

976
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: like the opposite, so it's kind of indulgent. And I

977
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 2: loved it so much and working that closely with Bob

978
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 2: Odenkirk who played my father, Rosa Salazar who played my sister,

979
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 2: Constance Marie who played my mom, And then we had

980
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 2: some great guest stars too. John Corbett came in for

981
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 2: a while on a ortise I'm forgetting triple Horn, Genie

982
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 2: triple Horn. It was just wonderful, just an incredible cast,

983
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 2: and everyone is like, what are we doing? And I

984
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 2: don't ask, just do it. Just look here and just

985
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 2: make sure you don't walk past here because if you

986
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 2: walk past here, there's an entire wall down a hole,

987
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 2: so you can't move here. You've got to just move here.

988
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 2: Like it's all very like they see it. The artists

989
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 2: and Hisco who's directing us. We did the second season

990
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 2: during COVID and he was in Amsterdam directing us.

991
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: No one was in the room with us ever.

992
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 2: It was just me and the two me and whoever

993
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 2: I was in the scene with, and the three camera guys.

994
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 2: That was it, so it was bare bones. There was

995
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 2: like five of us on set all day during COVID.

996
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 2: Everyone was directing us from remotely. They were remotely directing us.

997
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 3: Are you going to have a third season?

998
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 2: No, Apparently the show's done. I think the strike ruined.

999
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 2: That the strike ruined, and all the executives are gone.

1000
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where everyone changes and now

1001
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 2: no one cares about the show, right, so your executives

1002
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 2: go away, then soon does your show? Sadly, but watch

1003
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 2: it everyone, it's a beautiful show. It's still on Amazon.

1004
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 3: It's beautiful and done on Amazon. Now. You told me

1005
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 3: while you were sick, you do vision boards. You attempt

1006
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 3: to manifest. You've talked a little bit about that. Today

1007
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 3: it's the new year. It's a time for wishes.

1008
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: I make a lot of wishes. I've made wishes my whole.

1009
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 3: Life for new wishes. How was that transition?

1010
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: Betul loved it.

1011
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 3: I called you because my kids were making me crazy

1012
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 3: blaring music from Wish in the car, and of course

1013
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:30,439
Speaker 3: because it came out during the strike, I didn't get

1014
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 3: to see all of the fancy press and parties, and

1015
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 3: I just kept seeing your name show up there singing

1016
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 3: the songs Queen Amaya in Wish, Congratulations and Welcome to

1017
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,839
Speaker 3: the Disney Universe. Do your kids love it? Are they

1018
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 3: bored with it? Because it's just mom, No, they love it.

1019
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 2: I think maybe we've seen it, I think seventeen times,

1020
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 2: so I think now they're a little bored of it maybe,

1021
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 2: But I did say, you know, when it first came

1022
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,240
Speaker 2: out over the holiday weekend of it was Thanksgiving weekend,

1023
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 2: we saw it every day. Okay, one time we saw

1024
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 2: it twice a day. We saw because everyone wanted to

1025
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 2: see it with me, right and my kids wanted to

1026
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 2: see it with their friends, and everyone wanted to see

1027
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 2: it together. So we went almost every day for a

1028
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 2: solid ten days, I would say, at least, and then

1029
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: several times since then, like scattered throughout the holiday. My

1030
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 2: kids cannot get over it. We listen to it much

1031
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 2: like your children, Yes, on repeat on Spotify every single day,

1032
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 2: every single song. They know every word. Addie Plate, she

1033
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 2: wants me to play King Magnifico and Queen and Maia.

1034
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 2: So it's like our favorite game. Right now, I reenact

1035
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 2: every moment and then she likes to switch between King

1036
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 2: Magnifico and Asha.

1037
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: Okay, so she is.

1038
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: Very aware all that. My little boy, who's four he's

1039
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 2: he like knows it's me. And every time I come on, mommy,

1040
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: that's you. Mommy, like in the middle of the theater,

1041
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 2: very loud right and at Target when we see the.

1042
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 1: Merch, they're real into the merch and there, Mommy, that's you.

1043
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: I don't you know. I think it's the most.

1044
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,320
Speaker 2: Magic time to have a Disney movie in the theaters

1045
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 2: for the holidays. It couldn't be any better. Like, I

1046
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 2: can't even get over it. And my kids are at

1047
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 2: the perfect age. I think if I think if Addie

1048
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 2: she's six, I think if she was a little older,

1049
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 2: she wouldn't care as much, right, But she is absolutely

1050
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: smitten with it and she loves it.

1051
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: She thinks it's so pretty. She loves and listen, it's

1052
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: about wishes.

1053
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: It's like my life, Like it's literally like I feel

1054
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: like I weirdly manifested this movie, like I make wishes.

1055
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 2: I've grown up making wishes on stars every day eleven eleven.

1056
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm praying. I'm constantly talking to the universe.

1057
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 2: I constantly am looking into the stars, to the sky,

1058
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 2: asking for guidance, asking for signs bring me here.

1059
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: I know I can handle this.

1060
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 2: Like constantly talking to the universe, and I feel like

1061
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 2: this is just another example of that.

1062
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 3: Wow, I can't tell you beautiful, I mean it is.

1063
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean I guess this. Maybe I've

1064
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 3: bought into the promos and stuff now, but it really

1065
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 3: is like the quintessential Disney message, right, like, yeah, the

1066
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 3: whole full circle from when you wish upon a star

1067
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 3: to like this being the like manifestation of said said,

1068
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 3: which ye.

1069
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's you know, it's their one hundred

1070
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 2: years of animation. Okay, So Disney just celebrated one hundred

1071
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 2: years of animation. So the movie has a lot of

1072
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 2: nods to old Disney. You'll see some sleeping Beauty, You'll

1073
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 2: see snow White, you'll see Bambi, a lot of the

1074
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 2: sleeping uting bad guy Magnifico with the green tendrills like

1075
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: all that. It's also a little bit about the origin

1076
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 2: story of the wishing stars. So then at the end

1077
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 2: she's like Cinderella the Fairy Godmother. So you're absolutely right.

1078
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 2: It feels kind of full circle, and I think that

1079
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 2: for Disney's one hundred years of animation, there couldn't be

1080
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 2: a better message or story.

1081
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: I also like it because it's a love story.

1082
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: This is a story about a young heroine who believes

1083
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 2: in herself and fights for herself. It's her and her

1084
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 2: forging the story. Similar to Mowana right, she's like out

1085
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 2: on her own, fighting for herself. And I think it's

1086
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 2: a story of resilience and perseverance, and I think it's

1087
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 2: a great message for young children, especially young girls. And

1088
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 2: I love that the Queen ends up spoiler alert, being

1089
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 2: a good queen, Like she flips sides and she finds

1090
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 2: love for her country and her people and what's right

1091
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: for them and herself instead of the loyalty to her man.

1092
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 2: And I think that's a huge pivot and I love

1093
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 2: that message for women. And I also love that at

1094
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: the end they say long live the Queen and the

1095
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 2: king is trapped in his mirror, but he belongs right

1096
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 2: Like I don't know if I'm allowed to say all that,

1097
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,760
Speaker 2: but I just love it. I think it's a great

1098
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 2: it's very timely. I think I just think it's resonating

1099
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: with all different audiences. Disney adults, Disney Fine addicts are

1100
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 2: loving it, and kids love it and think it's beautiful.

1101
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 2: And the music by Julian Michaels Phiels. It's very fresh

1102
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 2: and cool and hip and catchy. Like I mean, I

1103
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:11,919
Speaker 2: listened to it every day because it makes me feel

1104
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 2: good and also I want to get those residual checks.

1105
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 2: Thank you, keep playing it on repeat.

1106
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: He played it on repeat.

1107
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, the merch deal will be disappointing for you.

1108
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry.

1109
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 2: Yes, i've heard tell you because you've done you've done voiceovers.

1110
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was going to ask you about that.

1111
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 3: So what well? First off, because you sing and sing

1112
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 3: so well, was this something that the people involved were

1113
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 3: aware of. Did you audition your.

1114
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 2: I did audition and I had to sing. Yes, I

1115
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: had to sing. It was like a prerequisite for the part.

1116
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 2: And I it's a good lesson for me, honestly, Brian,

1117
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 2: because I don't consider myself a singer anymore.

1118
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: This was twenty years ago.

1119
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 2: I was singing in college and I haven't really sung,

1120
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 2: and I was nervous and I was scared and I

1121
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 2: didn't want to do it. And I remember I was

1122
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: going to do press for undone when this appointment came in.

1123
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: I was going to south By Southwest and I had.

1124
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 2: No time, and I picked myself up by my bootstraps

1125
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 2: and I was like, you are a singer, you can

1126
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 2: do this, you can sing a cappella for days. And

1127
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,440
Speaker 2: I knocked it out of the park. I was very

1128
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 2: proud of my tape and it led me to a callback.

1129
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 2: And then they changed the character. At first, she was

1130
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 2: actually an evil queen my first round of sides, and

1131
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 2: then they changed that she was going to be a grounded, loving,

1132
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 2: maternal queen. And I took the note and I did that.

1133
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, they knew I sang. I was scared.

1134
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: I did it. And then when it came time to

1135
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: recording the music. When we were doing this, it's a

1136
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: you know, it's a year and a half.

1137
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 2: People don't realize this, but it's about a year and

1138
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 2: a half from start to finish, almost two years now

1139
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 2: of doing the project, right, So I knew the singing

1140
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 2: was coming, I didn't know when. And I kept being like,

1141
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 2: am I singing? Like what's happening? Like, oh my god,

1142
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 2: am I going to get caught. I had heard there

1143
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,880
Speaker 2: were songs, but I didn't know. And then Julia Michael's

1144
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 2: like sends you this demo and you have to like

1145
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,240
Speaker 2: learn it, and then you go into the recording studios

1146
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 2: and you have I had lessons, and I had like

1147
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 2: a rehearsal period and it was so thrilling, and it

1148
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 2: just reminds me kind of like riding a bike, like

1149
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 2: if you have it in you, it's always there. And

1150
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,240
Speaker 2: I just think that's a great lesson to remember, especially

1151
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: as a mom and someone who's like constantly putting other

1152
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 2: people first, like to remember that, like it's still in

1153
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 2: you just because you're not doing it every day.

1154
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:27,720
Speaker 1: And I proved that to myself.

1155
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 2: And now I'm excited to sing more and I can't

1156
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 2: wait to hopefully sing more in other animated movies or whatever.

1157
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 2: But I feel confident about that. And then when I

1158
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 2: had kind of forgotten what the songs we even like

1159
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 2: kind of were, and then you see the whole movie Combine,

1160
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,080
Speaker 2: You're like, I cannot get over that this is real.

1161
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 2: I could not believe it. And we couldn't even do

1162
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 2: press because of the strike. Everything was against this movie.

1163
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: It felt like, right like the day that their La

1164
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 2: premiere was happening in Hollywood Boulevard on Hollywood Bulevard, they

1165
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 2: shut down Hollywood Bivard. November eighth was the day we

1166
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: rad or we had come to an agreement, but we

1167
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 2: still could not attend.

1168
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: The actors could not attend, so I went by myself.

1169
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 3: It was the same It took pictures.

1170
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: It was yeah, it was the same day.

1171
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 2: Like I was like in plain clothes, like just like

1172
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 2: looking like weeping, just like looking at the beautiful premiere

1173
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 2: and we couldn't go.

1174
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: But that's, you know, kind of a great story.

1175
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 2: Now at the on the other end of it, I'm like, wow,

1176
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 2: that's amazing, Like I it was so beautiful. The premier

1177
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: was so and I've heard that, like the Disney premiere

1178
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: is the most amazing thing for your kids and everyone

1179
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 2: gets to go. It was at the l Capy ten

1180
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 2: and I we didn't get to go. But they've had

1181
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 2: other events since then that we could attend, like now

1182
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 2: that we're done with the strike obviously. But that was

1183
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 2: November eighth, and at five thirty two pm or whatever,

1184
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 2: they were like SAgs reached an agreement and so I

1185
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 2: like ran down to the thing hoping that they would,

1186
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 2: like I don't know, I called my team like can

1187
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 2: we please go?

1188
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:45,919
Speaker 1: They were like no, and that would be a bad look.

1189
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: You shouldn't go. And I was like okay, so we

1190
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: couldn't go. Anyway. It was a it was ironic, just

1191
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 1: like of all days, right.

1192
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, guess what. But it was a wish, it.

1193
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 2: Was a that's right, I mean wishes that we would.

1194
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 2: I just wanted to be able to promote it at

1195
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 2: least something. So we've been able to do some promotions.

1196
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 3: Well that is really cool. I feel like everyone who's

1197
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 3: an actor, they really would prefer to be either an

1198
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 3: athlete or a rock star a singer. Did you feel

1199
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 3: like it like when you went into the recording studio

1200
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 3: and stuff like did you did you have that like

1201
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 3: or was it just like a boring old voiceover?

1202
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: No? No, I was like, am I a rock star?

1203
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 3: Yeah? Exactly, it's true calling right.

1204
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: And by the end, because Benjamin and Benjamin Rice, who's

1205
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 2: the co writer of the music, and he like produced

1206
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 2: it so he's like the one that mixed it all.

1207
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 2: So Benjamin works very closely with Julia. They were there

1208
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 2: together directing me in that moment for that session, and

1209
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 2: I literally was like I can do anything. I was like,

1210
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 2: this is forget acting, forget comedy. I'm a singer. And

1211
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 2: I felt so confident, like I was emotional, I was crying.

1212
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 2: It's a very beautiful score, beautiful music. And it was surreal.

1213
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 2: It's surreal. But then you know what's so weird about that? Ryan,

1214
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 2: It's like I had this moment, it was so incredible,

1215
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 2: and then I had to go home and like Alden

1216
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 2: was puking and like my dog shit in the living room.

1217
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 2: It's just like, you know, working as as you're a parent.

1218
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 2: It's like real life, Like no one cared at all.

1219
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: I came holme.

1220
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 2: I was like, guys, I just had the best day

1221
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 2: of my life. And everyone's like, no, we have my

1222
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 2: chicken nuggets fell off the ground.

1223
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:23,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't care.

1224
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 3: They don't care.

1225
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: No one cares. And I think that's a really you

1226
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 1: know tumbling. It's a really good lesson, like you need

1227
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: these amazing lives, Like right, like we know.

1228
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 2: People, it's so fun. You have this amazing and at

1229
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you're just a parent, You're

1230
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 2: just a mom. You're just trying to get through the day, right, Yeah,

1231
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 2: I get through the day.

1232
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever told this story before,

1233
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 3: but I'm going to use this opportunity. So my house

1234
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,600
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles was a little bit of a setup,

1235
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 3: but basically the driveway went down towards the house. So

1236
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 3: there was a they call it a French drain right

1237
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 3: that the water would go into and then a pump

1238
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 3: would pump it because otherwise the house would flood. Like

1239
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 3: this is this is how this house was set up, okay.

1240
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 3: And I am in sweats on my hands and knees

1241
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 3: in the rain, with my hands in this drain one

1242
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 3: afternoon because it was raining and it had clogged with leaves,

1243
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 3: so not just water, but just like disgusting leaves mud,

1244
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 3: trying to clean this out so that because my garage

1245
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 3: was starting to flood, and my neighbor comes out, He's like,

1246
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,600
Speaker 3: do you need any help? And I'm like no, this

1247
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 3: is the worst job ever. And then I turned to

1248
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 3: him and I said, you're gonna laugh. He's like what,

1249
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 3: And I said, in about two and a half hours,

1250
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 3: you're gonna see me walk out of my house with

1251
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 3: an umbrella covering me and a tuxedo on the way

1252
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:56,240
Speaker 3: to the Screen Actors Guild Awards where we're probably going

1253
01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 3: to win. And we did. But that whole day, I'm

1254
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 3: on my hands and knees cleaning just shit out of

1255
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 3: this French drain, like the most horrifying thing ever. And

1256
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 3: that's that's what you described. Like, it's like that's it.

1257
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 3: You see one you see, you see one thing, but

1258
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 3: in reality it's like.

1259
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: You don't know what my day was until I got here.

1260
01:01:23,120 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, that is such a good story, and

1261
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 2: I love that so much, and I'll like, I'll never

1262
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 2: forget that.

1263
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: That's a great story. It's just so humbling, right.

1264
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just so becomes your black Car.

1265
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 3: To the SAG Awards. I cannot wish you any more

1266
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 3: best wishes. I don't know. I tried to use it

1267
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 3: too many times.

1268
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: I see you're wrapping it up.

1269
01:01:48,360 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 3: Yes, nailed it. Is there anything else coming up that

1270
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 3: we can look out for you? And are you back

1271
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 3: to work or that?

1272
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 2: Well, I'm coming out in a show. I don't know

1273
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:02,720
Speaker 2: when I feel. I think it's the Spring. It's on Amazon,

1274
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 2: I want to say free V and it's called Clean Slate, Okay.

1275
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 2: It's starring Laverne Cox, nice George Wallace and I recur

1276
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 2: on that. That was actually the last thing I shot

1277
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: right before the strike, okay, And we were like day

1278
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 2: the day that.

1279
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: The writers strikes start.

1280
01:02:18,640 --> 01:02:20,480
Speaker 2: It was like this last two weeks of trying to

1281
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 2: wrap that show in Savannah. So that comes out in

1282
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 2: the spring, and then I am developing and I have

1283
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 2: several things up my sleeve and hopefully one of them

1284
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 2: will stick in the next couple of weeks. To be honest,

1285
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 2: we're getting there. We're back to work, Ryan, Mommy needs

1286
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 2: a job.

1287
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 3: Congratulations. One of these days we're going to have to

1288
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 3: work together again as well. Good luck with wish. Honestly,

1289
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 3: my next watch, I think is going to be undone.

1290
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 3: You've sold me and I was looking up all this

1291
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 3: rotoscoping stuff and I saw clips and yeah.

1292
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: You won't believe it. And what's so interesting.

1293
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,400
Speaker 2: It's so interesting because when I watch that back season one,

1294
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:02,440
Speaker 2: I had just had Adelaide.

1295
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: Actually no season one.

1296
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 2: I was like, it takes so long to shoot this thing, right,

1297
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 2: I was pregnant, very large for me.

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Speaker 1: Then I you can tell that I like had the baby.

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Speaker 2: It's like the trans my own personal metamorphosis in season

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Speaker 2: one is wild. And then season two, I had just

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Speaker 2: had Alden and similar, it's like you can just see

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Speaker 2: throughout because they can't. It's like they only paint over you,

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Speaker 2: so it's like your actual body side. It's like wild.

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Speaker 2: It's wild for me to watch back wow. But uh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I feel very excited and very hopeful and full of

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Speaker 2: wishes for this new year and what's coming.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait to talk to you again. Maybe

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Speaker 1: in next year. Let's see where we are.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be there opening night on Broadway when I

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Speaker 3: can't wait when it finally hits.

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Speaker 2: That's on my vision board by the Way Broadway for

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Speaker 2: the in the next five years, for.

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Speaker 3: Sure, five years, not these.

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Speaker 2: I'd like it, not this, not yet, not right now.

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Speaker 2: There's too much stuff I want to do here. But

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Speaker 2: also I've realized that Broadways now that I'm on the

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Speaker 2: other side of those hopes and dreams of my monies,

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Speaker 2: it's hard work, not a lot of money, rough, rough,

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Speaker 2: rough schedule, And when you come from TV you're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's like so cushy.

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Speaker 1: I'd like, I don't know if I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I had that in me yet.

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Speaker 2: Let me just give me, give me a little minute. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it's not as it's not all it's like cracked

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Speaker 2: up to me. I could maybe do it for three months,

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Speaker 2: how about three months?

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Speaker 3: Good luck? Good luck, thank you so much, happy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, thank you, Happy New Year,

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Speaker 2: Happy towenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Angelique is so great to see you and shout out

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Speaker 3: to Fort Bliss in El Paso High Fort Bliss that

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Speaker 3: is where Angelique and her enlisted co stars went to

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Speaker 3: train in the Hot Hot Texas. Everyone check out Wish

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Speaker 3: in theaters now, whether you have kids or not, everyone

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Speaker 3: loves a Disney movie. Am I right? Or if you're

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Speaker 3: a little behind like me, go and watch Angelique in

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Speaker 3: undone on Prime Video listeners. I'm going to be back

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Speaker 3: here next week. Join me, will you? Until then? I

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Speaker 3: hope your week is fantastic. Off the Beat is hosted

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Speaker 3: and executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive

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Speaker 3: producer Ling Lee. Our senior producer is Diego Tapia. Our

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Speaker 3: producers are Liz Hayes, Hannah Harris, and Emily Carr. Our

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Speaker 3: talent producer is Ryan Papa Zachary, and our intern is

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Speaker 3: Ali Amir Sahi. Our theme song Bubble and Squeak, performed

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Speaker 3: by the one and only Creed Bratton,