WEBVTT - Let's Go Back to the Beginning...with Mama Rosa (Part 1) 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:07.680 This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Doherty. Hi everyone, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.039 welcome to an episode of Let's Be Clear with Shannon Doherty. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.680 And I have Mama Rosa on. Hi, Mama Rosa, Hi, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.799 Hi everybody. So I wanted my mom to be on 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.239 because well, she's only been on one other time and 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.480 it was for like a quick Christmas sort of hello 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:27.960 to all of you. But I wanted her on because Mom, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.559 I want to talk early early, early years, right, Like 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.400 I want to talk about how I got into the business, 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.519 sort of like my first job and then really my 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:44.800 first meaningful job that sort of started my career the 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.159 way that it did. So how did I get started? 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:50.800 How did I even get in the business? Mom? 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.440 Well, your first foray into acting was in elementary school 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.880 when you played Alice and Alice in Wonderland, and you 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.160 really got into that. Wanted the dress and everything, so 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.800 we had to go to Disneyland and get you the dress, 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.640 and you did that. But then you went with a 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.000 friend to a children's theater at a church in Redondo 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.280 Beach and you just went to watch her audition and 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:17.760 then we were going to all go out and get 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.680 Hamburgers afterwards, and you ended up auditioning, as did your brother, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:28.160 and you got the role of Sneezy in the Seven 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.080 Dwarfs and he got the role of Grumpy, and you 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.720 guys just enjoyed it so much. It's like you didn't 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.880 want to all you have an audition, but then you 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.119 got into it. And the wonderful thing about children's theater 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:45.080 was it allowed you to participate in everything, not just 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.440 in the roles that you were doing, but in painting 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.000 the sets and helping build the sets. And so from there, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.760 somebody just happened to see you and your brother and 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.480 suggested it, and you really wanted to do. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.920 It, suggested that I do acting. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:08.280 That's usually an agent in everything, and your dad and 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.000 I discussed it and we were really like we were 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.680 basically still new to California and the whole thing kind 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.119 of like we weren't sure about it. And you looked 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.880 at us one day and you said, I have to 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.480 do this, mom, because I have to work with Michael Landon. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 And at the time you had this rag doll named Drusilla, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:33.760 and it was amazing because eventually that led to coming 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.560 to life. You played a role of Drusilla in Father Murphy, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.600 which Michael created and brought you into and that really 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.960 started a lot. But before that, you had gone to 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.920 an agency which was actually an older lady in a 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.800 modeling agency, and she sent you to a children's agent 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.799 and they put you in Variety magazine and she started 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.959 getting all these phone calls and that led to you 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:10.120 doing the animated film The Secret of Nim with Don 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.200 de Lauis and the wonderful producer Don Bluth, and it 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.320 just kind of roll alone from there. You were with 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:23.720 wonderful people. It was a wonderful experience. You We did 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.959 what we needed to do and went there and came home. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.240 Your dad would always drive us the night before to 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.480 wherever we had to be the next morning or the 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.320 next day for an audition, because I was not familiar 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.320 with Los Angeles at all, So how what do you 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.440 mean drive the night before? Like the auditions were in 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.840 Los Angeles? So then like, would we spend the night 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:43.920 in a hotel or something? 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.720 No, we would just like, oh, we would just go. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:48.760 We were driving to. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.880 A location and he'd say, Okay, this is where you 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.520 have to go, and I would see it. Then I 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.240 would know, so the next morning or then you know 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.040 how to get that, I would know how to get there, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.840 that's funny. So it was a lot going on, and 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.760 it was a lot not just for you to learn 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.960 and your brother to learn, but it was a lot 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.680 for me to learn. And I learned how to get 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.160 around Los Angeles. I learned how to be more confident 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.600 myself and what I needed to do in order to 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.400 get to places and get things done. And it was 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.680 just a whole learning experience for the whole family, I think, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.960 and we were very cautious about it, and I think 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.360 rightly so I think parents need to be cautious about it, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.599 just like you would be cautious about putting your children 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.719 in sports or any activities. It all takes not just 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.640 a lot from the child, but it takes the family 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.080 to be behind it and to be willing to put 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.360 in the time work. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:45.880 Because ultimately, you know, I mean, we had obviously you 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:51.200 and Dad, so you I remember you going to set 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.960 with me all the time, which left Sean my brother, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:00.680 but Dad took him to whatever sports activities everything else. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:06.360 But essentially, some people would assume that at least one 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.400 sibling is left out, like somebody in the family is 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.880 perhaps less attention paid to them or whatever, because one 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.280 is requiring auditions, and then when they finally book a 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.400 job a series, they're going to work five days a week. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.160 And as a child actor, I don't remember back then 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.720 what the rules were. How long could we work? Oh, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.800 it's been a while. Was it twelve hours or less? 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.040 I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but I know you 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.720 had to. There were definite three hours of school every day, which, 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.760 by the way, you guys, doesn't intense. Yeah, it doesn't 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:41.680 seem like a lot. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.520 But when you're talking about three hours of school, when 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.000 you're in a classroom with only maybe either a by 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:55.400 yourself or perhaps five ten kids, that's it's very, very, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:06:01.360 very intensive. And I remember my parents and always sort 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.800 of fighting for really really good set teachers, which I 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:10.880 did with Helen and Lillian and maryon Fife. I always 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.280 had really good set teachers that were heavily focused on 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:19.599 me getting an education, and they actually would not I 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.520 remember that there was a chunk of time that they 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.720 had to leave you in school. They couldn't take you 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.719 out after just ten minutes of being in school. It 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.320 was like thirty minute blocks. Yeah, I think it was 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.800 something like that. So in those thirty minutes, it's been 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.599 many years. I know right for me too, it was 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.839 highly focused, intense work. Well, part of that, like when 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.000 you're doing commercials, it's a whole different thing because you're 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.280 not really familiar with the teacher. Generally, after a while 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.640 when you're doing it, you'll run into the same teachers 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.080 off and on, and that's always nice. But when you 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.880 actually are doing a series or a movie, then you 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.000 have the same teacher all the time. And fortunately, once 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.599 you started working with Michael Lindon and his crew, the 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.600 teachers were excellent. And he told me from the beginning, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.240 he said to me, you as a parent have to 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.640 be satisfied with your child's education, because he knew how 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.240 important education was for us, and you can't if you 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.920 see something, are you there something that troubles you or 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.680 you think she needs something different, ative teacher says you 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.240 as a parent have the right to go to the 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.400 producer and say we need this. Ironically, that was Michael. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.400 He was the producer. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.480 And he was just really wonderful and the teachers that 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.239 he had, like Helen Menir, had been with him for years, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.880 I guess since Little House on the Prairie started, and 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.840 she was wonderful teacher. And then he brought in Marion Fife, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.160 who was another fabulous teacher that he hit, so we 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.080 always knew who was teaching you and what was going on. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.960 And then as you got to older. When you got older, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.680 and I remember one particular series you were on Our House. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.520 It was you and two others, and the other two 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.280 children were younger than you, and you were already you 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.400 were studying from the least the International School of France, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:20.600 so we needed teachers that were really there for you 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:21.720 all the time. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.320 So eventually you also could speak French, because that was 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.880 the whole thing of the school is And eventually you 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:32.000 would want to transfer to the school in Los Angeles, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.400 lily Sae Francais, which is in fact the public school 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:38.360 of France. They had two It was all in the 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.240 same campus, but you could either take all your classes 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.040 except for French class in English, or you could transfer 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.040 to the French side, where every class is taught in French. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.079 And obviously that was always the goal. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.319 And because on that particular show, on the show Our House, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.720 the three of you were in such different age groups 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.000 that they required to have separate teachers for and then 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.560 you were required to have three teachers because of the 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.520 intensive study that you had. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.160 I just remember Lillian being my teacher. Lillian was one 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.959 of your teachers. I don't I don't remember other teachers. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.640 There were two other teachers. Maybe it's because I bonded 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.240 with Lina and Lynn was the base for you. She 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.120 also spoke fluent French, so she said on French test. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.400 And then someone came in for geometry I believe it was, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.000 and then there was another teacher for something else for calculus. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:31.920 Uh. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.559 You got a good education, and it wasn't It wasn't 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:40.080 easy because your dad would go to the school really say, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.239 and they would have all the lesson plans and everything 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.679 waiting for him. Once a week he would do that 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.520 and it was sealed and it had to be presented 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.720 to the teachers sealed. And the test, all the tests, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.320 anytime you took tests, any of your homework, anything, the 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.720 teachers put in an envelope and it was sealed and 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.719 then it was taken back to the school. So it 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.840 was not like you're going to a set and going 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.079 into a classroom where they just haven't. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.960 An a and fixed your work for you and do 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.079 all of that. So you got a really good education 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:16.320 which led you to be in the Who's Who among 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:21.079 American high school students, all American high schools, among American 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.920 high school students. And that was not for who I was. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.720 It was for my grades. It was for your grades. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:31.000 It was like the top five percent. I forgot I 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.240 was in that. I was in it for two years 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.800 in a row, right, an excellent student. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.960 And going back to what it's like for a family 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.199 and for your brother, this is another tribute to Michael. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:46.840 Michael allowed the crew and anybody working on the series 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.040 that if you had children who wanted to come and 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.439 be on the show, he would put them in background 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.360 or whatever. And Sean loved that, and Sean was really excited. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.920 One time when somebody really wrecked nice. He had a 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.240 scene like we was recognized in a base, small thing 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.400 that was going on in the background, and it was 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.240 in the series, but it was background. But he got 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.320 a really good shot and he was like really happy. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.440 But he also loved theater more, and he took acting 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.760 class more for theater, and after a while it just 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.240 wasn't his thing. He played football, which is. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:29.559 Why I got into politics. Basically acting anyway, right, essentially 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.400 most of our politicians it's all acting, so Okay, that 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.880 was That was a lot and very fast. And no, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.600 we like you know you you took a what's supposed 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.880 to be a forty five minute podcast, you narrawed it 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.880 down to ten minutes. So no, there's a lot more. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.160 We can't cover it all in one because then I'll 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.400 have nothing else to talk about, mom. So I'm going 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:59.959 to go back because I I remember my first job 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:07.200 being a pack bell commercial. You're right, and it was 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:15.240 for the Latin American market. Yes, the Spanish Hispanic. And 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.280 the woman who played my grandma. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:27.240 I think it was Carmen Zapata, right, veryst Hispanic actress. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.360 She was fabulous and all I had to do was sleep. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.880 All I had to do was lay in bed sleep, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.320 which was quite easy. I actually think I fell asleep 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.200 on set in the bed because she did like this 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.440 is amazing. I'm coming to work and I'm working with 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.559 this cool lady and I get to actually sleep and 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.480 it was like you were with a grandmother. Yeah, she 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.480 was so nice. She was so nice, and I did 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.800 I remember I did a shouted out commercial. You did 0:12:58.840 --> 0:12:59.600 a lot of commercial. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:14.960 Yes, do you remember what drew you to horses? 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.760 Yes? Robert Kennedy in his time, no way before that. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.880 What does the story I've been telling everyone. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.920 Because that's true. Here's here's what happened. You went and 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.680 you auditioned for a surgery over commercials. Yes, and it 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.240 was you had to be on a horse, and we 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.880 were in Bell Canyon, which at that time was very secluded, 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.800 and I was so nervous about getting there that we 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.120 got there I think like five or six in the morning, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.360 and we weren't didn't need to be there till eight 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.320 or something, and suddenly we heard all this thundering coming 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.800 through and it was this whole big motorcycle gang or whatever, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.040 and I was like, Okay, let's lay down and be 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.360 very quiet, and we were just like and then come 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.080 to find out, well, they were shooting a commercial there 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.360 as well. Another was another commercial. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:09.040 But yeah, I do remember Sergio Valentte, it wasn't so 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.839 I think I'm still correct that Robert Kennedy and his 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:17.760 times got me into horses. Really yeah, because Sergio, you 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:24.320 were on and off the horse pretty quickly, and I 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.080 loved my horse. But there was something that felt a 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.920 little like wild about that particular commercial shoot. For me 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:37.600 as a kid, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed everybody who 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.720 was in the commercial with me, and but it was 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.080 it was weird. It was the area was a little rough. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.280 I mean the land. I mean, now, it's amazing. But 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.560 here's what was weird for me is that I remember 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:57.800 they had us sort of climb on the horse one leg. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.040 My right leg would be in the stirrup, and then 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.200 you had to hoist your left leg and they would 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.200 see whose bottom looked the best in jeans. But we 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:12.560 were kids, we were young, and Sydney Penny did it 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.920 with me and her bottom looked the best, so she 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:22.920 had the butt shot, which made her Yes, But a 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:30.080 little now that you think about it, it's a little inappropriate. Now. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.600 When I said it was great, I just mess you. You didn't, right. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.160 I didn't have to do it, and that part was great, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.040 but I didn't even realize it. I just seated at 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.000 the time though that I didn't get the butt shot, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.920 only because the butt shot person then got the big 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.000 close up and they were considered sort of the star 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:54.440 of the commercial. But you're right, it's great because I 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.480 don't know any commercial that would do that nowadays, at 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.800 least in the United States of America. I don't think 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.880 that you're doing an ass shot of how old was 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.120 I ten? Eleven? Ten? Yeah, I don't think that's happening, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:12.400 and I. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:18.560 Think there's it's probably still certain done. Maybe they didn't 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.000 even they were thinking. Maybe they were just thinking genes. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.120 I really think they were just thinking where the insignia 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.760 was was on the back they were doing a close 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.640 up of that. I don't think it was about because 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.160 I would not have allowed to do a commercial with adults, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.600 not with kids. You got to be a little bit 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:42.000 more aware. I know you were. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.560 I know you were very protective, not saying you weren't 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.120 so sergiov Linte. Was there any other commercials I did? Yeah? 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.440 You did. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:57.240 Do you remember doing Mattel? You did Mattel, I don't. Yeah, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.480 you did various things, and you you joyed it for 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:04.800 the most part. And the Matail commercial you were the 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.639 You got to dress up in the long fully dressed 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.119 and your hair was all curly, and that was something 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.280 that was really especially to have a girl, a little 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.680 girl doing commercials. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:16.920 It was a lot. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.439 And what I finally figured out was to take the 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.119 trunk of my car and I would put a box 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.080 for Sean in a box for you and things in it, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.480 and I would have different changes of clothes because we 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.479 might think that we're going for one commercial audition and 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.640 suddenly we would get you know, we would check in 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.280 before we headed home because you didn't have cell phones then, 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.919 and it would say, no, we need you to do 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.040 and we would go to another commercial. You might have 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.200 your hair and braids in the next minute. You might 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:44.920 need to have like curls. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.840 Right. I liked my braids, and I liked my oshkosh 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.480 be gosh. You were more a. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.520 Little tomboyish, which was great. And I think that also 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:57.600 because of that, I think it just kept you on 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.760 a real level plane and having a brother and just 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.280 being a to You weren't slow into like you know, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.080 I have to have this. I have to And then 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.200 if you did have to have something special, fine, But 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.480 otherwise it was you generally just went in your ashkush. 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.280 That's how you got I think that's how secret of nim. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.280 You went in your your I think it was your peach, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.560 your orange colored ashkoush walls. And you always like to 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.600 have we called it dog ears. They call it two 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:34.199 ponytails now. But and you always wanted ribbons, so you 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.679 always had ribbons in your hair. You love ribbons, but 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.560 you were a top little tomboy basically. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:46.120 Well the ribbons just for me was decorative and gave 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:50.439 a little just to my outfit, but it was it 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.640 was cute. So when you did the Secret of Nim 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.320 they actually put a big bow in your character's hair 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.360 because you always wore ribbons. That was a nod to you. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:04.240 As I ran into Don Bluth at a convention, and 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.760 I can't believe how talented he is. He drew me. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:09.919 I brought it home and I showed you right, he 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:16.800 drew he he drew Teresa all over again and signed 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.640 it and we talked about what that experience was and 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.520 the big bow in my hair and all of it. 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.840 What a wonderful that was with Don de Luise. Yeah, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:35.520 but Don Bluth was amazingly talented and so kind, so kind, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.800 And you know the interesting thing about voiceovers is that 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:44.240 you don't you're in a booth by yourself, recording your lines, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:50.920 with people staring through recording studio through a glass telling you, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.720 you know, do it this way or do it that way, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.320 or give me five readings in a row, and you 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.040 don't get to hang out with the cast that much 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.560 because you're all on different time schedule. But I did 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:02.720 meet Dom DeLuise. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.919 I think also by doing an animated movie while you 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:14.159 were so young and doing that voiceover later, you have 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.160 always been so good doing this in the sound booth 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:19.560 when they have to go back and. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.680 Oh you mean looping. Yeah, and that's just that's little 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.520 That's that's Father Murphy and little House. That's Michael Landon 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.600 one hundred percent. That taught me how to. But I 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.520 think you were so deep into it because you felt 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:35.239 comfortable because you'd part of Yeah. I mean I I 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.240 don't particularly love it now because I think when you're 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.320 so guys, what looping is is if there's when you're 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.320 filming and there's a noise over your line but you 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.400 don't have time to take it over, or the sound 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:53.240 cuts out, there's something weird. When they're done editing, you 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.960 go into a booth and you re record, but you 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:03.200 have to match the movement of your mouth perfectly. Sometimes 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.119 they don't do it perfectly, which is when all of 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.520 us watch a show and we're like, ooh, what's that. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:14.320 That's that's what's called bad looping. And I I don't 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.760 love it because I think when you're in the moment 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.920 on the sound stage and you're filming with your fellow actors, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:27.639 there's a different chemistry. There's all the emotion is coming up, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.840 you're fully in character. But I'm also not deeply opposed 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.840 to it. When I have to loop, I'm okay with 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:41.520 it because of Michael's with it. Yeah, I so back 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:48.199 then when I when I started, because I'm old, you 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.600 didn't have the the the playback, so you couldn't watch 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:55.880 your lips, you couldn't do anything. There was no patience, 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:00.000 all by sound and so they would beep you in 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.720 so it would be three beep, beep, beep. You could 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.520 hear what you recorded most of the time, but you 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:13.959 had to be perfectly in sync with that. And that 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:19.520 is the hardest way to loop humanly possible, in my opinion. 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.920 But that's how I learned, and I think that's why 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:26.520 I'm really good at it is because and Michael taught 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.920 me how. And by the way, his sound engineers were fantastic, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:32.760 his whole crew. 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.760 There was nobody in his crew that wasn't just and 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.760 they were just. They were kind, they were polite, they 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:45.000 were respectful. I mean, they were fun. I mean, they 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:48.520 were just it was I think it's probably one of 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.720 the best crews evers e were in the business ever. 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:56.720 But you've always been a crew person. You've always since 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.800 you were little. You would like both talk to the crew. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.720 You always have just been interested it's and they would help. 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:06.440 They would show you things, they taught you things. 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.719 And then once Michael taught me how to play Liar's Poker, 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:10.520 I would always hang out with them so I could 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:16.320 make extra money, which is hysterical. So Father Murphy the 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:21.560 audition came around, and like my mom said earlier, I 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.800 had this sort of cloth doll that I had named Drusilla. 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.560 So we get the sides for Father Murphy for the audition, 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:30.520 and the character. 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.520 Didn't get the sides. Did you get them before? I 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:35.679 thought you didn't get them to you walked into the 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:37.000 into the room. 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:39.640 I don't know. Do you think I did a cold read? 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.840 I'm pretty sure I can't remember. Okay, I trust your memory. 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.880 Let's say I did a cold read, walked in and 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:52.919 the part was named Drusilla, which was so cool. I 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:57.840 also thought, well, I'm getting this job because you walked 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:01.520 into a room full of this is your first series. 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:03.640 But it wasn't a series. I was only a two 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.080 part episode. Yeah, but I mean you know it led 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:10.080 to but you walked into a room. I walked in 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.960 with you, you know, to check you in. 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.040