WEBVTT - IDINA MENZEL 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:10.320 Oh, September. What a beautiful, beautiful season of the year. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.840 I love this season. I say beautiful, but it's also 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:18.840 kind of bumpy. September is a time of profound change, 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:25.600 and change often means disruption. It's a month much like 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:31.040 its spring counterpart, March, where anything goes is the typical 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.960 weather forecast in most areas. One day it's beautiful, one 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.160 day it's raining. Could be calm and mild, could be hot, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.279 and Muggie could send us rain and wind. Even if 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.360 serene summer weather does hang out a little bit longer, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.280 September does the equivalent of flooding our emails with reminders 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.720 that fall in soon winter just around the corner. It's 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.720 those cooler mornings and cooler nights, the shorter days, the 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.800 trees that aren't quite shedding their summer coats yet but 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:09.919 begin randomly dropping their leaves hither and thither. In yonn 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.200 that tell us would better enjoy every drop of sunshine 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.600 we can soak up. If you live in a place 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.959 that affords you the opportunity to study the behaviors of 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.399 some of the wild critters, you probably pick up right now, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.360 and they're frenzied behaviors especially those that are collecting and 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.760 storing food for the winter. Hello, Mr squirrel, I'm talking 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.480 to you. I'm actually talking to me because I'm like 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.959 a squirrel every fall. I'm canning. I'm canning, I'm freezing. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.800 I'm dehydrating because I'm storing up food for the winter. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.280 Those reminders served me to jar up everything that I can. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.240 I put away the patio furniture and make sure the 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.920 gutters are cleaned out. While I should make sure the 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.320 gutters are cleaned out, I forget that often I prepare 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.400 the garden beds for winners worst. But these days also 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.120 send me into a state of reflection, thinking of all 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.360 the beautiful things September has brought to me in the past. 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.440 September made me a mom with the birth of my 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:21.000 oldest child, Isaiah, and then my second born, Sheila. September 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.640 is the first bite of a ripe juicy apple in 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:29.840 the knowledge that change, change is what propels us forward, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.320 even when we resisted, even when we hate it. Some 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:39.000 of us, really, especially at this stage in life, hate change. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.520 No what else September brought us besides my kids finally 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.919 getting to go back to in person learning the new 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.360 movie Cinderella that opened September three in theaters and on 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.799 Amazon Prime Video. Why does this movie excite me so 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.240 royal because one of my most favorite actresses plays the 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:05.000 evils stepmother Broadway sensation Adina Menzel, who I first saw 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.120 way way back in her Tony winning role of Alphaba, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.680 the Wicked Witch of the West and the smash musical 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.360 Wicked that I've seen like eight times now. And who 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:20.160 everyone I mean, everyone who has a child or a 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.760 grandchild is familiar with well familiar with her voice, at 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:29.120 least as Elsa in Disney's Oscar Award winning Frozen. No 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.440 one else is super exciting she is here with us today. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.760 I can't wait to get caught up with her and 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.400 all that she's been up to. 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If her plan went through, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.080 she would be in her first day of school today, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.599 but some paperwork was missing, and so instead she got 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.280 to come home and she gets to meet and talk 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.760 with Idina. I don't know if you remember. We had 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.039 lunch together many many moons ago, and my daughter, Sheyla came, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.599 who was at that time your biggest fan, and I 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.000 had taken her to see you and Wicked. And now 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.920 Delilah is your biggest fan, and she has not yet 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.920 got to see a new movie. And then we'll get 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:06.680 to watch the movie later on. The movie's great, it's fun. So, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.159 Idina men Zelli, what have you done? What have you 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.200 been doing during the COVID shutdown? You've been busy, busy, busy, busy. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.640 I've been busier, probably than I would have thought. During 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:21.279 a pandemic. Cinderella happened, and then I came home for 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:22.680 what was going to be a two week break to 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.920 see my family and then didn't go back for months 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.000 because of COVID, and then we that one little you know, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.200 kind of dipped down the numbers. They got it, they 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.279 had figured out how to be safe on set and 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.040 got us back in and we we finished the film, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.560 the films Cinderella, and then a couple of months go 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.800 by and then I just finished Enchanted. Yeah, so I've 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.359 been busy in making music. But mostly, you know, the 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.680 pandemic for me was a silver lining and that I 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.160 got to be home more and go to my son's 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.080 basketball practices and just be a mom and a wife 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.800 and hang out at home. And I would like to 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.880 see it that I learned how to cook like everybody does, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.760 but I didn't. I did a few arts and crafts, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.360 and I found that I liked dakupage ng Jacopa chair 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:13.279 and some vases. I loved acupage. I ate the whole house, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.160 and I'm age posh. I went a little crazy. I 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.440 I love to cook. And maybe a month or two 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.600 before the COVID shut down, two of my girlfriends taught 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.360 me how to make sour dough bread and one shared 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.919 a starter that's like fifty years old. So my girlfriends 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.600 and I became the sour Dough Sisterhood, and now I 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.880 shared the same starter. It has a name, and we 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.800 became the Sour Dough Sisterhood. And we would send pictures 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.000 to each other, you know, where we put like herbs 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.400 in it, or herb butter in it, or Janie added 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.400 because my producer, Janie is very health conscious, so she 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.840 added all these healthy nuts and grains and she only 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.159 used hold wheat bread. Then we would send pictures to 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.880 each other. And then I noticed as the year went on, 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.919 the picture of me holding the bread the bread loaf 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:14.360 was the same size, but I but you're asked that bigger. Yeah. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.280 I was growing like with each picture, and I'm like, shoot, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.480 should I edit these? Like should I use the body 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.520 shaping thing? Get rid of that sour dough middle that 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:30.160 I've created. So it was a wonderful experience, but boy, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 now I'm trying to walk ten thousand steps a day 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.720 to trim trim down the sour rating. For a minute, though, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.960 wasn't it just to kind of just eat whatever and 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.400 not worry about having to be on camera public in 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.720 some way and just enjoy And it was great until 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.760 I realized I had to get back into my corset 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.880 for Cinderella, and then I that will be so humiliating 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.840 if they have to extend the corset and it redo 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.560 the costume out on the peloton. At that point started 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:05.200 trying to work off my sour bread. Well, I haven't 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.280 gotten back up, you know. I haven't done a speaking 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.640 tour or anything since this hit. But I am doing 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.120 my ten thousand steps a day, or I'm trying to anyway. Um, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.000 so you finished Cinderella. I did a commercial for it 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.200 a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't had a 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.880 chance to watch it because I want to watch it 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.119 with the kids. But tell me about that. Yeah, it's 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:31.240 it's really joyous, honestly, the music and the arrangements and 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.120 and she's not a whimp. I hear, she's not waiting 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:39.600 for the Brinds Desavers. Are you gonna have a good life? Yeah, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.960 it's very modern. It's modern take on Cinderella, and it's 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.679 it's good. I think that, you know, we have to 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.480 they say these these stories are timeless, but sometimes they 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.040 don't always stand the test of time. When I need 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.839 a little recalibrating and we need to look at them 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.560 as a society and just just until still a lot 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.160 I have had a very hard time as a mother 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.720 with eight girls, exposing them to Disney princesses who were 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.640 waiting for their night in Shining Armor, their prince Charming 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.480 to kiss them and wake them up or whatever, because 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.079 I'm like, that's not real life. I know. That's why 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.760 I feel lucky that I'm Elsa and Frozen, because I 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.120 think that that Disney team that created Frozen was really 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.439 trying to be responsible and held accountable in that way, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.400 and that that was all about the two sisters falling 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.600 in love with one another really and being there for 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.200 each other. And so I think that there's a trend 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:38.080 to really do the work there. And in Cinderella, it's 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.480 really about a woman not compromising herself and not settling 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.000 and having a vision of what she wants in life. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.840 And and also it's a really nice role model for 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.480 young men to see because the man she chooses is 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.160 actually very supportive of her and wants her to be 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.120 her best self. Wouldn't that be nice if we could 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.959 always give that message and that our young daughters received 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.000 that message that you know what, you can make it 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.360 on your own if you choose to have a prince 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.880 Charming in your life. Make sure he loves you for you. Yeah, 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.520 It's just that's how I feel in my with my 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.320 husband now. I just feel like he sees me. He 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.760 sees me for who I am and with all my imperfections, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.280 but he also sees them as being my strengths and 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.880 what makes me special. And so he's a good example 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.760 for my son and to see my son to see 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.600 the way that he treats me with that kind of respect, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.280 and for my son to see the way I treat 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.880 myself and the characters I play, and that I you know, 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.000 I feel a lot of guilt as a working woman 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.760 when I leave my son or I'm busy for the day, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.480 or you know, can't be at every practice or game. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.480 But he's also seeing that his mom does what she 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.840 loves to do and what she's passionate about for a living. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.760 Does he have any clue how amazing I am amazing 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.600 and slapped and hot a DNA that you are, that's right? 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.520 How how you drip with with awesomeness? Thank you? Know? Um? 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.320 I think he does. I think, depending on the day, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.400 plays it off. But um, he's very proud. He will. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.880 It all comes down to this one time where the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.280 teacher called me and said, Um, he was a music 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.520 class and she asked everyone to raise her hand and 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.800 tell what who their favorite singer was, and he said 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.959 my mom. So I think about that every time he 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.760 screams set me when I'm singing something in the shower 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.440 and tells me it's too loud and annoying. I take 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.520 myself back to that music class. Nevermind myself that deep 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.959 down he's very proud, and he's also probably going to 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:43.800 use it to get some of the girls one day. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.880 Of course he is. Actually, I'll say, he actually really 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.360 likes this movie because he likes that I'm kind of 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.319 playing I shall I say the nemesis. Um, he likes it. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.000 The music I'm singing this, this original song I have 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.840 in this in the movie that I co wrote called 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.720 dream Girl, is really, as he would say, badass, and 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.200 he wants me to rock more. I think. So he's 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:10.760 excited by that. Very cool. That is awesome. So Cinderella 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.839 out now available to anybody? Yeah? Is it? It's what? Yeah, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.960 it's out now, or it's on Amazon, or you can 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.360 go to certain theaters and see it. I have to say, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.400 it's pretty awesome to see you on a big screen. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.840 You know, we're all assuming that we've just kind of 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.840 we don't need it anymore and we're home. But one 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.559 day it would really be nice if we could all 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.839 safely get back into a theater because I got to 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.880 see it outdoors and a big screen and it's just 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.640 luminous and fun, and let's do that, let's do it 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.360 out to me, you probably see more of my smile lines, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.120 Oh you're so beautiful, but um, it's good because of 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.280 music and the dancing and the be um all the 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.200 tracks are really you know, when you have great sound, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.160 it's just a different story, a completely different story. Somebody 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.960 one said to me. You know, you can get up 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.880 and pause and go to the bathroom, or if something 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.880 emotionally makes you feel a little uncomfortable, you can stop it, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.040 Whereas when you're in a theater you have to sit 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.480 with what the creators we're doing and whether whatever that 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.000 makes you feel. And I think that's the lost art here. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.240 A little bit is that my husband gets up twelve 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.960 times to pee in the middle of an emotional movie 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.040 and where are you going? Where are you going, honey? 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.600 Where I'm going to make popcorn and go into this 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.640 and like, but this is not how it was intended 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.079 for you to see. Well, it's you know, it's depressing. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.079 I know, we'd sit in it for a minute. Yeah, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:30.120 feel the feelings, It's okay, embrace the embrace the feelings. Yeah. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.320 If a movie doesn't have like three car explosions in 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.360 it and at least you know, two or three bad 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.200 guys and the chase, and my husband isn't interested unless 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:47.600 it's Princess Pride. Princess Pride, It's true, that's a great movie. Yeah. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.360 Well I'm I'm pretty evil, except then you learn what 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.640 makes me tick in this movie, which is why I 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.280 love it a lot, because you know, she's not just 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.560 an archetype. She's she's definitely has levels and pain and 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.920 human experience that you get to see, like Alpha ba. Yeah, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.960 I guess I'm drawn to those characters, you know, as 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.240 misunderstood powerful women that um that have to take their 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.160 anger out by you know, and their anger, but their 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.440 anger is frowned upon their rage, their power so becomes 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.960 it becomes scary as opposed to becoming powerful and beautiful. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.480 And so this is a different angle on that, but 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.880 but all stemming from the same place of women with 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:35.000 strong talent and passion and strong feelings that temper them 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.800 and bring them and suppress them, and then it comes 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.640 out in different ways. And so I think it's important 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.400 for everyone to keep reminding themselves that. But the whole 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.280 point is to step into other people's footsteps, you know, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.640 and find that empathy. I mean, that's I think why 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.400 I like being a performer, because I'm always asked to 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.160 do that. I think is human beings. Before we judge 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.440 someone is important to kind of think about what was 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.080 their experience? Maybe why are they acting this by you know, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.920 I'm having so much fun getting caught up with you today, Adina. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.800 Can we pause for just a second and let one 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:12.200 of my podcast sponsors take about The show must go on, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.080 but without these sponsors, none of this would be possible. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.400 This podcast is sponsored by Better Help, a company set 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.080 up to help people. 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Where if a guy is talented and driven, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.880 he's the head of the company. He's the best thing ever. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.400 You know. He can take over the world. He can 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.280 run these major corporations and have a race to space 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:27.120 with his other multi billionaire buddies. So when in your 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.680 person life, in your real life off screen, has there 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.320 been a moment, And I know there's probably been many 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.719 where you were made to feel like you should be 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.520 less than who you are. There was a scene in 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:46.560 Amadeus Mozart where the guy who had commissioned the requium 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.080 or whatever said, it's there's too many notes and let's like, um, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.200 what do you mean there's too many? Take some out, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.400 get get rid of some of it. Is there a 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:02.800 time that you can share where somebody made you feel 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.120 like who you are, your talent, your personality, your beauty, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:13.000 your strength, your features that are like you're beautiful, thank you. 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.679 But was there a time where, I mean, I remember 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.120 a specific time when somebody tried to change my name 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.600 and this is my birth name and they're like, no, no, no, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.400 you can't. You can't go by the Lila. It sounds 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:28.960 too made up. Yeah. Um, I'm thinking of several things, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.240 and you don't have to name names. I'm not asking 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.760 you to hurt anybody. I never want to hurt anybody 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:39.040 on the show. But well, I think of my wicked experience. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.520 But the person that was most at fault for the 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:48.240 way I felt was honestly myself. Um, I allowed myself 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:54.520 to feel insubordinate and like undeserving. I was so my 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.280 insecurity was so high, it's going to get fired in 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.560 every incarnation of the workshops and different things of Wicked. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:07.000 And I so adored and revered Christian Channoit's process and 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.159 how like she was just she really was such a 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.199 pro and she seemed like hit the character to me, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.159 she was so perfect and every time she said her 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.960 line to everyone laughed, and I was just really feeling like, um, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.199 not feeling Wicked at all. And so that became like 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.399 a self fulfilling prophecy because the more I tried to 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.400 fake it, I just felt worse and worse about myself. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.000 So this is one of those beautiful times where the 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.919 character and the person were, you know, art imitating life 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:42.720 and it wasn't. I remembered of one night where the 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.920 director had said, like, step into your light. I mean, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.200 the show is called Wicked, let's go like, let's be badass. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.120 You know you're holding back and only and I don't 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.760 like to say this because I want young people to really, um, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.439 not copy other people and embrace what makes them unique. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.280 And yet I think there's a time to emulate the 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.360 people that inspire us. And I had this moment when 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.320 I was backstage and I said to myself, tonight, I 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.200 am going to pretend like I'm Glenn Close playing alf 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:15.160 blah blah. She would hold for applause, she would take 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.560 a long about, she would hold the notes longer, she 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.240 would let the silences just linger, you know, like there 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.160 would be no worrying about being too good or too 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.720 talented or too powerful. And so that was the best 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.199 show I ever had because I said, no, you hold here, 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:37.840 they're applauding. Don't go into the next song yet, take 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.760 that in or or lay into this line, and don't 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.760 be afraid to be angry or powerful. This is who 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.840 you are, you know. And it's so that's that's always 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.280 a weird example for me to talk about, because I 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.280 want kids to like, really believe in what makes them unique. 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.439 And yet sometimes we have to look to the women 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.480 that we are inspired by for a little help sometimes. 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:03.480 You know, my mom was a very big I'm five 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.680 ten and she was three inches taller than me, very 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.040 big woman, but she was she looked like a model. 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.120 You know, she was beautiful, and she had a very 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:17.800 big personality. And it wasn't until much later in life 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.120 that I realized she had a lot of insecurities, a lot. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.520 But I didn't know that when I was a kid, 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.399 and a lot of times, you know, you were you 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.160 were talking about what would Glenn Close do? And when 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.480 I would be going into a situation, and I would 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.280 be just be so anxious, in a bundle of nerves. 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:36.879 I would think about my mom and how you know, 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.280 she would walk into the principal's office and she would 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.760 defend her daughter, and my mom the same. She was 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.119 so beautiful everybody to this day, she's seventy three, she 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.919 looks like she's in her fifties. She's everyone say she 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.040 would look like Fara Fauce that when she'd come into school. Um, 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.440 she was so powerful on behalf of us, my sister 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.480 and myself, and like and fight for us and loyal, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:00.720 and yet we would see are look in the mirror 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.440 it herself and take yourself down. Oh this I look fat. 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.040 Oh I don't like the way I look here. And 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.639 and so I realized as a parent that no matter 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.240 what you have to be an example, you can't because 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.440 the kids are watching what you do, and no matter 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.840 how much you said you're beautiful girls and you're you're talented, 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.840 it didn't matter. I inhabited the part of her that 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:23.879 saw a beautiful woman in the mirror and then was 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:27.919 disparaging to herself. So it's important as parents that we 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:32.800 start of fake fake it till you make it. My motto, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.680 fake until you make it. Well, if you're faking it 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:37.480 til you make it, you're doing a damn good job, 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:42.359 because you're amazing. You're amazing. I love your voice. I mean, 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:48.320 everybody knows your voice, probably because of Frozen, but I 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.679 had the pleasure of hearing your voice for the first 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.479 time in Wicked, and then of course bought the album 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.560 and then you know, followed you. And there is a 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:05.919 quality to your voice that is otherworldly. Oh thanks, like 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.880 a power that blows me away. Oh thank you, so 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:15.760 thank you for sharing your music with us all these years. Delilah, 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.919 did you have anything that you wanted to say or ask? 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:23.719 You're sitting here so nicely. In the movie Frozen, did 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:28.960 Hans actually wanted to marry Anna just to take over Aaron? Now? 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:33.200 What do you think about that? Was that upsetting for you. 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.080 Was that upsetting that ending? Yeah? I didn't like he 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.760 wanted to take over your castle. Yeah, he was so deceiving, 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.240 wasn't he? H? I know, And it was a surprise 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.760 because we all believed he really loved her, right. I 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.720 tend to think that characters are complicated, and maybe he 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.080 thought she was really wonderful, but he also wanted the 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.120 power of taking over the castle. So I think it's 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:02.080 left up to our interpretation. And is Anna, you're like 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.639 the character who plays her? Is she your actual sister? 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.760 Kristin Bell, she feels like a sister. No, she's she's 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:14.879 my friend and she's very much like Anna, and we 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.280 treat each other like sisters. But I actually have a 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:21.040