WEBVTT - Sugar and Spice with Vanessa Lengies 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.120 And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.119 an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.760 Welcome to and That's what you really miss podcasts. This 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.360 is a very special audition at Blue Wires Studios at 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.040 WIN Las Vegas, with a very special guest, Vanessa Lenjie. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:26.599 Hello, Oh my gosh. Wow. First of all, selfishly, let's 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.520 just go not even I love the win. And so 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.640 when this thing happened, people are like, you can talk 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.320 about the wind, make it sound organic. No, this is 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.159 actually nobody loves the win more than Kevin. I love 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.560 Las Vegas. And then I'm like the biggest walking billboard 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.760 for Win Las Vegas. I'm always trying to find an 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.479 excuse to come here, and I swear this isn't like 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.280 spawn con. This is me truth. I showed up days 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.160 earlier than Vanessa and Jenna just to be here. Yes 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.840 you did, And as Vanessa Lenji's would say, we're winning, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.920 Yeah we are. You are winning with why? Winning with why? 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.679 In Las Vegas specifically, I forgot how much I loved 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.679 Las Vegas. And Jen and I flew here and was 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.119 looking over there's that that that sphere and this beautiful win. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.720 I love Vegas. Get me an alcoholic can of whipped 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.960 cream and stay at the wind. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.440 And we'll be winning. She walked into the casino, She's like, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.480 just the smell of liquor. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:26.360 And. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.440 That's my This is our Las Vegas residency. See was 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.360 what when a Dallas a residency? Selene? They all have residencies. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.440 This is ours. And when you think of interview with 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.600 Vanessla and Jason, you think in line after Adele and Selene, 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.080 you think of us. That's the natural progression. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.480 Obviously, if you have no taste, Kevin, I did start 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.160 listening to the Selene Dion Christmas album as you had requested, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.480 my Canadian queen. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.600 Yeah, and was I wrong? No, you weren't wrong. You 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.360 can see that year round. No, you actually can. Yeah. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.560 The last time I was in Vegas was to see Celine. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.000 Was it not the most spiritual experience ever? 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.240 Yeah? I cried. I cried and my friend told me 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.040 to be less loud. What? Yeah, I was screaming a lot. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.880 What do you mean, be less loud? We don't talk anymore? Okay, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.799 cut them out? Uh No, it is amazing. I was. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.680 I was just I just felt found myself screaming. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.720 Same experience when I saw dolphins in the wild for 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.320 the first time, where I just started screaming at them. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.519 The same experience with Celene. I do feel like it 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.560 is watching Celine because I saw Selene a couple of times. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:40.400 Watching her was like seeing a pot of dolphins. Thank you, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.320 because there was something so miraculous about it, and like 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.920 you could hear her like smack her own chest. She 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.040 pointed at me and said, do you believe in love? 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.040 I don't believe. I said, yes, obviously, I don't believe anything. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.000 She told me to jump off the cliff. I would 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.800 happily swan dive off that. Kevin saw Celine with me 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.880 for the very first time. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.840 My first time, my first time seeing Selene was with 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.720 Kevin McHale and the lead up too was actually just 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.520 as good as the concert because I was like shaking, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.079 you were actually shaking. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.080 I have a picture of her like outside the theater 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.200 and she couldn't She was smiling, but she looked so nervous. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.680 She's just like, I don't know what to do. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.359 The same night I saw Selene, Darren Chris was at 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.800 in Vegas as well, and you had to choose between 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:27.160 the two. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.200 No, he was like, come come meet me, out. Sorry, Darren. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.840 I was like, I'm in bed. He was like, come, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.200 you can come in your pajamas. So I literally went 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.880 to meet Darren Chris out in Vegas in my pajamas 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.800 and it was it was he had a VIP private 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:41.680 Steve Aoki. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.240 Yeah, I don't know what that's called. Rave, Yeah, Raves, 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.760 did you show up to a club in your pajamas? 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.839 In my pajamas? I feel like that for you though. Yeah, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.240 it's true, because if anybody can pull that off, you can. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.800 I was just going to say, that is very Vanessa 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.200 Lenngi's to show. I wasn't sure what what you were 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.040 going to show up in today. I wasn't sure, and 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.080 that's a good thing. She brought outfits and one of 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.320 them has a window. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.040 Yeah it's a brick house dress and I'll change into 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.840 it for another episode. Has a little peep window for 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.160 the atas. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.760 Speaking of ceiling again, I swear I went to the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.760 new show here last night, the Wind Las Vegas Awakening. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.520 I had two friends with me, and when I tell you, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.320 we were gasping. Were you I have never seen anything 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.000 like gasping. We were like there was a part of 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.880 it where they created water with light and then had 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.080 gigantic jellyfish dropping from the. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:50.000 Ceiling real jellyfish. No, they were not real jellyfish. So 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.119 I don't know because it looked so good. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.760 Wow, I didn't know. I had no idea what I 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.320 was myself, Oh you should It was we'll come back 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.880 next time for our It was very surreal because if 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.360 you blink then like the entire set change, like things 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.760 are coming down from the ceiling, things are coming up 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.720 from the floor. There were these like creatures with masks 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.400 that were like eight feet tall that would look at 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.679 you and it was terrifying, but also like don't look away. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.480 It was I couldn't get over it. It's like what is this? Also, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.440 how does somebody think of that? And also it ruined 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.800 any other like theater experience for me because now I 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.880 know it's possible, right, And then I was like, I 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.640 would like to see more Beyonce do this. Oh wow, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.359 what does Beyonce in the round look like? Dr that? 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:49.800 Yeah, okay, let's talk about Vanessa Enjis. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.440 We're going to be here all day and I'm prepared 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.039 for it. I know this is a lot. This is 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.479 a hard episode to keep compact, but we're not going 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.240 to It feels like we've been friends forever. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.120 It didn't feel like you join the show at season three. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.479 It feels like you've been there from the start because 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.840 you locked in so quickly with all of us, truly 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.840 just coming in very quickly doing your iconic rendition of hey, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.800 big spender. To have to do that in front of 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:22.360 a very established show at the time, with friends, your peers, 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.200 your age, and to commit so deeply was actually the 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.840 most impressive thing I think I've ever seen. Telly tell 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.479 us about your your initials, well, well that get to 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.560 that too, but also tell us about like how you 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.279 got Glee and all of that. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.240 Yes, this is great, This is great. First I want 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.880 to say, Kevin, you look so sexy to me. I'm 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.080 going to try to keep it together. You should have 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.599 put us a little further apart to go how did 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.440 I How did I come to be young? 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:54.000 Glee? 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:59.280 So it was twenty ten I think I think that 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.920 feel ten or eleven contract and I got this audition. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.640 It said it's just an episodic one episode. This character 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.400 sugar Mata, and she does she's a terrible tone deaf singer. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.720 Sorry to interrupt, Yes it was was it just a 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:16.320 guest start. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:20.320 Was that's correct, that's correct, that's the power. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.600 And I remember Eric's I always say his name, Yes, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.200 that's right, Stilts. Eric Stultz was in the audition room 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.840 with me in the casting room and gift. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.000 It was a gift. I was like, Oh, this is 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:36.520 so great. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.520 They really treat actors with respect, the directors here. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:41.200 I love that. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.600 And and there was something that happened in the audition 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:50.080 where you gave me permission to be as awful as possible. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.040 And I just thought, Wow, what a what. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.320 An opportunity, because you know, when you go to audition, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.440 you want to you want to impress. You know, it's 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.640 like counterintuitive to try to be as awful as possible 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.240 instead of the usual experience of trying to be as 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.440 impressive as possible. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.280 And I could feel it, like I just could. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:14.640 Feel this, this sense of oh, I'm going to be 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.440 I'm going to be with these people like this. Yeah, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.520 and it's working, but also kind of like what Jenna's saying, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.840 it's weird that I came in season three because our 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.960 relationship feels like it started before that and will outlast this, 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.760 of course. And I could feel that already in the 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.800 audition room is what I mean. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.760 Wow? Yeah, And then and then I were we nice 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.400 to you when you came in. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:42.959 So so so I came in to do a practice 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.840 for Big Spender with Brad on piano, and and you 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:48.679 guys were filming. 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.480 Yes, we were on the auditorium stage right, I remember that. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.240 And I walked into the audio auditorium and to meet everyone, 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.480 and I met Kelly for the first time. Telly is 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.560 now my best friend. I still will never forget meeting 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.480 mister Aristotle. And then and then and everyone was on 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.280 stage and you guys were either recording or practicing. We 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.760 got the beat with the purple pianos, and I walked 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:19.040 down and I watched and I felt just this awe. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.400 I felt this awe of the energy. And then and 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.160 then you cut. And then I think it might have 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.640 even been telling you. It's like, everyone, come meet Vanessa. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:34.000 She's gonna play sugar Mata. And I remember I was like, who, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.920 who the fuck is this? And might have used the 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.480 F word, but that was the energy, was who the 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:45.319 f is this? And then and Kevin, you were very excited, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.680 because Kevin would be very exciting, He was very nice. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.240 I was an actual Vanessa Lnji's fan because I don't 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.880 know if you've anyone seen American Dreams, because that was 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.680 the best show and I was obsessed with it. I 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.800 did not miss an episode and Vanessa was on it. 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.000 I played Roxane but Jorski, the trouble making best friends 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:08.679 absolutely hussy. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.480 And was so good and believable as the Hussy. Thank you. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.960 I pulled from the deep for that. She just showed 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:21.720 up as herself. She's like and I didn't know, like 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.040 we don't know usually who's getting these roles, and then 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.880 when Kelly brought her in, I was like, I know 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.000 absolutely who this girl is. I have seen her. I 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.640 grew up watching her. And also one of my first 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:39.640 like young Hollywood quote unquote events in La was at 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.680 I might have been like the Sportsman's Lodge, like years 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.320 before Glee, like I was on a boy band and 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.360 it was like a gifting suite, I think for something, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.560 and I had never been to one of those before. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.800 And there was like a little step in repeat and 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.640 I looked over and Vanessa Lenji's was there, and I 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.080 was so star struck I had like I left, I 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.640 walked past. I couldn't even look at her or going 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.440 to talk to her because I was like, this is 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.480 I'm seeing a celebrity and I have to leave. And 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.640 then she shows up on the show that I'm on. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.960 Are you kidding me? I didn't know that, and I 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.959 knew how good she was. So that's why when there 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.720 was some coldness from other members of the cast, I 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.240 was like, oh, you just wait, because this is an 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.600 actual actor. She belongs here. Well the rest of us 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.000 can go yes, like she's legitimate. The rest of us 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.439 are faking it, wow, because I was like, she's been 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.120 doing this longer on TV than all of us have combined. Right, wow. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.080 First, did they give away Hello Kitty toasters at that 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:37.800 gifting suite? 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:38.679 I have no idea. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.760 I had never been to a gifting suite either, and 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.760 I remember being like, how much is this toaster? And 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.480 they're like, you just can take it? And I was like, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.920 I can take this toaster. It puts Hello Kitty's face 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.880 on toast. You're just going to give this to me? 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.959 They're like, yeah, that's that's the point. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.880 I remember, thousand dollars. This is great. Wow, Kevin, I 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.439 love you and that's very sweet. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:04.240 I feel I feel just uh honored. And then and 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.160 then yeah, people were so so So I walked into 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.360 that rehearsal or or film and they were weird. I 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.439 were really weird from coming. I'm a sensitive cancer, uh, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:21.079 and I could tell that something was up and and 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.040 and you know, I had respect for it too. I 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.880 was like, you know, everyone has been working together for 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.880 the last you know, two years. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.000 They haven't had any time off. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.920 They've gone from filming a season going on tour, filming 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.160 a season going on tour. This is a tight knit group. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.120 And I think maybe I've had enough experience to know, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.800 you know, that there is a whole ecosystem here that 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.679 I do not yet know about. So I think in 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.200 my mind, I was just feeling like I can just 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.320 be as open as possible and be as you know, 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.640 kind of malleable as possible, and just remember, you know, 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.600 to show up with love and all the crevices where 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.040 love is needed. And I had known Corey's previously, so 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.000 Corey and I were friends, so that was also. I 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.560 was like, Corey was like Vanessa and that moment, so 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.160 you and Corey made me feel very very welcome. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.160 And then and then you know, and women, it's different. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.000 I think I think everyone was going through something and uh, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:21.280 and also you were probably fairly being like can. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.600 You can you roll with this? Because this is intense. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.839 What we're doing is intense, So you know, what do 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.960 you what are you going to bring? Are you going 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.000 to be a foe? Are you going to be a friend? 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 Are you going to be competition? You know, I could, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.840 And I feel like that's a very you know, when 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.760 you're meeting new women, that's kind of through it. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.720 That's unfortunate in Hollywood that it feels like that, but 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:46.360 it often feels like that. And in hindsight, like I 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.280 wish we had made more space, but we were also 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.400 personally all going through as you said, that's so much. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.960 I was ready for it. I mean I was. I 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.560 was there just Vanessa and you like roll. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.480 With it, and we always watched and when we talk 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.320 about the in the podcast when you came on the 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.400 last season, we talk about you because even with like 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.640 you know, Heart is like. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.000 Your first real big episode other than Big Spender. There's 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.760 a lot of characters, there's a lot of story for 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.840 not a lot of people, and you always made such 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.240 a mountain over a mole hill, like in the best 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.000 way possible, and like just committed to the one line 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.640 you had in the episode and made it something. That's 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.800 why they always cut to you. That's why, like you 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:35.560 always made us laugh because it was so genuine and uh. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.200 And then you know, in hindsight, like so appreciated that 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.880 it wasn't somebody who came in that was like, this 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.360 is my house now, bitch, Like you came in very respectful. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.480 You had enough experience. You've been on a lot of 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.920 shows before, You've done a lot of stuff. And then 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.400 I remember though, when you started. I think when Corey 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.240 like set the tone for us. You're like, He's like, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.880 she's cool. You have somebody you trust, it's like a 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:05.120 mutual friend. You startarted telling us about your audition for make. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:13.480 Stick It the Legendary and Vanessa, I think so much 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:19.520 because that tale right now. Okay, so in my Sticket audition, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.520 I commit to. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:28.280 Things and I had just I had basically before the 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:33.360 audition gone to a local gym gymnastics studio and just 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.040 copied them. I just studied them and copied them. I 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.800 tried to get as strong as possible in two weeks, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.840 which doesn't happen. But then I didn't get I bought 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:48.120 this gymnastics up top and bottom set like they have 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.960 one before they disrobe, you know, the and it goes 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.160 a zipper goes jumpsuit. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.040 Yeah, but I'm. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.080 Five to two and the jumpsuit was made for a 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.240 taller person, and I didn't have time to get it hemmed, 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:00.960 or even didn't think of getting it hemmed. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.440 Anyways, I go to do this. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.600 There's like an agility test to this audition, which doesn't 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.280 really happen often, So. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.920 My agility test. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.320 They have cameras filming it, and I'm standing there poised, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.520 like I watched the gymnasts do in the in the 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.480 in the gymnasium, and I, you know, I look to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.000 the right, I look to the left, and all I 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.520 have to do is run across the matt, the performance matt. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.720 What do they call that? A floor? A floor? That's right. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.440 See, I know so much about gymnastics, and so I 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:38.320 just I just was focused, and I saw my endpoint 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.440 and I gave it my all, and halfway through the floor, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:48.480 tripped over my long pants and face planted it like 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:54.960 like like face planted like rugburn on cheek and I 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.480 was just lying there. It almost blacked out because like 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.320 I opened my eyes and I'm just laying on the 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.359 floor and I feel like the whole room is just 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.960 holding their breath. And I just had this split second 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:12.160 like fucking pop sorries for you. Yeah, no, children, do it, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:17.760 pop up and do the final stick at landing and 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.919 at your audience. And I just did it and people 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.560 burst out laughing. And then when I and then they 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.119 gave me the job, which great. And then I remember 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.560 Jessica bending Or, the director. We were there and filming 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.720 the scene. She's like, I'm bored of the scene, Vanessa. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.320 Can you do the thing you did in your audition 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.640 where you fall over and then like pop back up 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.440 and make it seem real? And so in the movie 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.440 there's a scene where like do this little jig and 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.760 just face plant and then just like pop up and go. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.440 And that was that was totally pulled from that audition. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.280 And then I used humor. You know you guys, you 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.639 you were we you know, the start of us meeting 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.719 was rocky, but you welcome. You welcomed me in really fast. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.040 And Kevin was like, I'll give you all the tea. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.879 I'll let you know that's going on. Oh yeah, you 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.360 were my you were my little canary in the coal 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.240 miners because my vibe I could feel everything. Yeah, but 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.560 I wasn't but the but what I was seeing was confused. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.920 I also knew that I knew how difficult it must 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:18.359 be for a new person coming in because we had 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.040 been through that a couple of times. But I also knew, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.159 like your resume, and I knew you weren't not you 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.520 were not new, but you may be new to us, 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.480 like you're more qualified than the rest of us to 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.600 be here. So I felt like I could trust you, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:34.560 be like you're going to get these things because you've 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:39.000 been on You've been a regular on a show. That's right. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.440 Yes, And then and then Jenna and I didn't get 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.119 close until later. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.720 I can't even remember, but I do. Memory is too good. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.000 No, actually I have well, I remember emotional things. So 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:55.840 I remember when we fell in love because. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.440 It was later. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.440 And I feel like Melissa Buele are wonderful makeup artists 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.000 who did both Vanessa and I kind of brought us 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.399 together as well, because we were both separately very close 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.000 with her and you're like this girl con vibe with 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.000 like anybody. And then like the three of us started 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.560 hanging out, and I just I trusted Buele, you know, 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.639 and when I saw her getting close with you, I 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.360 was like, oh, there must be something to this girl. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.320 And to be fair, like I had already been on, 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.600 I was unhinged at that point. My torso was aside 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.439 my from my legs, like I just was not not 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:33.600 on my body, so. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:35.680 And can I just come to your defense? Just here, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.399 and they stand up for my friend Jenna. What I 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.760 was hearing from my Seam and Kevin McHale at the 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.320 time was that people were fucking mean to you and 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.040 talking about you behind your back, putting you down. You 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.600 were having a sing and no one was showing up 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:56.040 with like is she okay? Does she need anything? Instead 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.000 they were like can you believe what she's up to 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.239 and how she can't keep her stuff together? And I 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:05.240 think my response was when she gets back, I'm gonna 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.119 love her like she like, I'm just gonna be the 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:10.960 thing that I would want somebody to be for me 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.560 at that point. And so I remember kind of waiting 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.480 for you to come back and just being like I 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:22.280 can't wait to love this woman, and were so kind 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.600 to me, and you responded right like you like you 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.920 were nothing like people were you know, painting, painting and 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.000 very nice, and then you know we had just I 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.000 just remember so much love, falling in love, fall in love, 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.920 oh someone, mousies. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:43.920 So many mousies. There's also the fact that like when 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.120 and we'll get there. But when the new cast came in, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.200 there was there was this like new life that breathed 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.359 into this and I was revived at that point. I 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:56.080 think I had. 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.880 Rid of some of the energy that was like, well, 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.800 if I can't act like those people and get what 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:07.320 they're getting, then I need to like find myself again. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:08.520 And then it was like a. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.160 Gift, like all these new people came in and we're 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.480 kind of looking to us for leadership, and I was like, oh, bitch, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:16.680 I can do this and like set a new tone, 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.760 and so like we felt like even you were a 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:19.320 part of that. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:20.640 We got to set a new. 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:24.439 Tone with our new cast members and we had like 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.879 a ball Yeah I think season three, Yeah it did, right, I. 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:34.000