Speaker 1: Do you remember getting into a car accident with me?
Speaker 2: No, no yet, I was so I must have just
Speaker 2: been sixteen and you couldn't drive yet. And we went
Speaker 2: to the one on one coffee shop. Yes, a coffee right,
Speaker 2: I love that place. And we were pulling out and
Speaker 2: I stopped at a stop sign and for some reason
Speaker 2: backed up and backed into a woman in her car.
Speaker 1: Do you remember this.
Speaker 3: Now that you're saying it. I vaguely remember the backing
Speaker 3: up crunch.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. It was the first time I'd ever
Speaker 2: been in an accident. I was sixteen.
Speaker 1: I was terrified.
Speaker 2: But what was so funny about is then you and
Speaker 2: I get out and this woman could not have been meaner.
Speaker 1: She was so upset. She's like, are you even can
Speaker 1: you even drive? Because we were kids, we.
Speaker 4: Were so young, exactly is this your parents car?
Speaker 2: And I remember you? And I got so like whoa lady?
Speaker 2: And she was like she was convinced that, you know,
Speaker 2: because I just heard her car, and that I was
Speaker 2: never going to pay it, that I didn't have insurance,
Speaker 2: and I was sneaking off and I was like in
Speaker 2: the middle of the day, and I just remember her
Speaker 2: being this like crazy, frantic upset lady, which in retrospect kind.
Speaker 1: Of makes sense.
Speaker 2: You see two like babies get out of the car
Speaker 2: that just backed into you, and it's like it was
Speaker 2: an expensive car, it was an suv, it was my
Speaker 2: Pathfinder brand new. Oh yeah, but I just remember you
Speaker 2: and I being so self righteous, you know, because I
Speaker 2: gave her the insurance information.
Speaker 1: But I remember assuring her.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's my car, I have my own money,
Speaker 2: I do this, and she was so uninged, and I
Speaker 2: just remember you and I being like.
Speaker 4: I wonder why you backed up at the stop sign.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: We maybe maybe yeah, or maybe you were too far
Speaker 3: too far out, I know what I mean, Like maybe
Speaker 3: you felt like you were too far out.
Speaker 2: So oh but I just yeah, I get you know,
Speaker 2: And like this has happened to me a couple of times,
Speaker 2: Like now we have backup cameras, but like it happened
Speaker 2: to be a couple of times where I would back
Speaker 2: into something because I just wouldn't look.
Speaker 1: I mean, what an idiot.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that wasn't sure if you remembered that. I
Speaker 2: had that like memory come back to me and I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, Danielle was in the front seat, and
Speaker 2: like we were both.
Speaker 1: Just so like couldn't believe this woman. I can look
Speaker 1: back and like, how dare she not respect me?
Speaker 3: Dare she assume we're in our parents' car. We are
Speaker 3: clearly in our mid teens. We are clear in the
Speaker 3: middle of a dish.
Speaker 4: We should have been in high school.
Speaker 2: Exactly what she was probably like, these kids are ditching school,
Speaker 2: which absolutely the right thing to She's like, do I
Speaker 2: have to call the cops on you?
Speaker 1: Where's a truancy officers? Officer?
Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. You just backed into me, and I'm
Speaker 2: like it'll probably just like calmed down.
Speaker 4: Lady, lady, guys, just a material object.
Speaker 1: Don't stress. I used to call everybody's stress puppies.
Speaker 4: That's why, remember such a your mom's such a stress.
Speaker 2: Puppy, just being like she's a total chiz rat right now,
Speaker 2: she's all chizen out.
Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with the accident, but I
Speaker 3: wanted to know if you recognize the shirt I'm wearing,
Speaker 3: it's the north Western San Diego shirt. Yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 3: this was made that for us, right, Yes, it was
Speaker 3: given to us at a at a meet and greet
Speaker 3: after one of our Podmets World live shows based on
Speaker 3: the school that Eric Matthews wants to go to the
Speaker 3: north Southwestern state. And they made the shirts and they're
Speaker 3: so cute they look like they could actually be our merch.
Speaker 3: So you know, our our fans are not chiz rats. No,
Speaker 3: not or stress puppies or stress puppies. Where'd you get
Speaker 3: chiz rat?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, when you're crusting, crusting with some cluckers coffee
Speaker 2: cats and sebastopol on coffee all, you know, you become
Speaker 2: like a total cheers rat, like these words coming.
Speaker 4: Down of you know this, I want more of this.
Speaker 1: This is Sebhole speak from nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 4: This is the most teen writer.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've just been transported into and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh man, that's pretty great, Sebhole. Wow, thank you for
Speaker 3: thank you for taking me back.
Speaker 2: Writer.
Speaker 3: We had so many good times, a lot of rain.
Speaker 3: I remember being with you in the rain a lot.
Speaker 3: We liked the rain, I know, we love the rain.
Speaker 3: We loved County Crows and so we used to sit
Speaker 3: and remember there was you had like a big rock,
Speaker 3: like a landscaping rock in your yard and Encino and
Speaker 3: we would like hang out on the rock, a little
Speaker 3: bit of nature.
Speaker 1: Hey man, you know, get away from the city, rain
Speaker 1: my rock.
Speaker 4: This big landscaping rock.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, get away from the stress, puppies.
Speaker 1: Let's just crust on this rock and think. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Welcome to Pond meets World.
Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm right or Strong, and we are
Speaker 3: missing our dear wil Fredell today. As you could imagine,
Speaker 3: every now and then, things come up for us in
Speaker 3: our personal lives that have to take priority over doing
Speaker 3: the podcast, and when we've already got things scheduled, it's
Speaker 3: too hard to necessarily cancel them and pick a different date.
Speaker 3: So we have chosen to do the show without Will today.
Speaker 3: He is going to be sorely missed, but he will
Speaker 3: be back. Everything's cool and good, but there was just
Speaker 3: something he needed to take care of. So we will
Speaker 3: welcome him back with wide open arms for our next episode.
Speaker 3: And today we are very excited to interview someone.
Speaker 4: DJ Tanner is a.
Speaker 3: Character name that sits among the most elite sitcom roles
Speaker 3: of the nineties. Thanks to our guest this week, an
Speaker 3: actor who we can only imagine was compelled by a
Speaker 3: to appear with us in a nineteen ninety seven Halloween
Speaker 3: Bottle episode that ended with Ben and I most likely
Speaker 3: dying in an airplane crash. She played Millie slash Ushkar,
Speaker 3: Queen of Malevolence, daughter of Evil, the love interest of
Speaker 3: the newly cast Jack for season five, causing a serious
Speaker 3: rift with his roommate Eric because she might just be
Speaker 3: a witch. It became one of the most memorable cameos
Speaker 3: Boy Meets World ever had, and around the same time
Speaker 3: as the Craft was released in theaters, we had our
Speaker 3: own version time exactly, we got our own version of
Speaker 3: a cute witch chic. But more importantly, she spent eight
Speaker 3: seasons on Full House one hundred and ninety two episodes,
Speaker 3: a show that cracked the top ten twice and was
Speaker 3: only out of the top thirty shows on TV in
Speaker 3: its first season. Twenty four point three million viewers tuned
Speaker 3: into its hour long series finale, and it was a
Speaker 3: show that was still in the top twenty five when
Speaker 3: it was taken off the air, which means it shouldn't
Speaker 3: have been a surprise when they all returned for a
Speaker 3: sequel Netflix show that ran for five more seasons. She
Speaker 3: has since built an empire working with Hallmark and now
Speaker 3: Great American Media. Her Christmas movies have become as much
Speaker 3: of a tradition for the holiday as candy canes, and
Speaker 3: now as former criminologist turns Craft's artisan Ainsley McGregor, she
Speaker 3: continues her journey of grabbing the torch from Angela Lansbury
Speaker 3: and then solving a mystery with it. She's taken on
Speaker 3: a power position in Hollywood, producing everything she now stars
Speaker 3: in and a ton of other projects, like the recent
Speaker 3: movie Unsung Hero. This week on Pod Meets World, we
Speaker 3: are talking to someone I am regularly mistaken for. It's
Speaker 3: nineties Royalty, Candice Cameron Beret.
Speaker 5: That's fun.
Speaker 1: I never knew that you guys got confused in pupil's minds.
Speaker 3: It happened a lot when I was a teenager, when
Speaker 3: she and I were both teens. It would be like
Speaker 3: are you And I would start to answer and they'd
Speaker 3: be like.
Speaker 4: From full House, he Hi.
Speaker 3: I was just saying, how I still to this day
Speaker 3: get mistaken for.
Speaker 1: You and I get mistaken for you.
Speaker 3: It recently happened for me at a valet I had,
Speaker 3: I had handed over my car keys. I went into
Speaker 3: this event, I came out, I went to get my car,
Speaker 3: and he was like a teenager and he said, excuse me,
Speaker 3: this might be a weird question, but are you And
Speaker 3: then just trailed off and I said to Panga from
Speaker 3: Boy Meets World and he said, no, I was going
Speaker 3: to say. I was going to say, And then he said,
Speaker 3: one of your kids' names their mom And he said,
Speaker 3: because I did Natasha I did, wasn't Natasha?
Speaker 4: I did hockey? I did hockey hockey with him?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh no.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's an interesting way because it wasn't
Speaker 3: even that you. So you mistook me for somebody who
Speaker 3: used to see it like hockey practice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just like that show that.
Speaker 1: Was on a teen show in the nineties, right, Oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 5: It was so say the same thing all the time,
Speaker 5: but it's like are you, and I wait for it because.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they go to paying us. That's funny.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. We've been really
Speaker 3: looking forward to talking to you. And I have to
Speaker 3: assume you don't do a ton of interviews where you
Speaker 3: get to talk about playing a witch who has taken
Speaker 3: control of the soul of a teenage boy.
Speaker 5: Huh No, not too many interviews on that I'm looking back,
Speaker 5: I'm laughing pretty hard in retrospect.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, I'll get to a question about that later.
Speaker 3: But I know we asked you to watch the episode
Speaker 3: kind of as a catalyst to remember this fever dream
Speaker 3: of a script. Did you remember a lot about the
Speaker 3: Witches of Penbrook or like us, did you feel like
Speaker 3: it was watching a totally different person on screen?
Speaker 1: Totally different.
Speaker 5: I'm glad I watched it because I.
Speaker 1: Don't think i'd seen it since we did it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And first off was like, oh my gosh, the
Speaker 5: bleach blonde hair, the cut, like.
Speaker 1: It was just so nineties. It was kind of incredible
Speaker 1: and that was fun.
Speaker 5: But then watching the episode, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: I remember playing playing a witch. And then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is like a little bit spookier and darker than
Speaker 5: I remember. And I'm like, huh wait, I said that
Speaker 5: we did that, and I was like there was a
Speaker 5: lot of making out too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, a lot of making out. Which the first
Speaker 3: thing I wanted to ask you is what was going on?
Speaker 3: Were you had just finished your first iconic run of
Speaker 3: Full House as DJ Tanner just two years earlier in
Speaker 3: ninety five, So what was going on in your life
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety seven when you came and joined us.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, So I had just gotten married this way.
Speaker 1: Which is crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I got married in nineteen ninety six. I
Speaker 5: met my husband at eighteen. Then I was going to say,
Speaker 5: you were very young, right, That's what I remember about you.
Speaker 1: Being on set.
Speaker 2: It was like, Wow, she's she's only a couple years
Speaker 2: older than us, but she's like married and has this
Speaker 2: whole like grown up life that I remember being like.
Speaker 4: Why what is that?
Speaker 1: Like, I know it was.
Speaker 5: It was I don't even know what was going on
Speaker 5: in my life except for that, like because we lived
Speaker 5: in LA at.
Speaker 1: The time, or had you left LA for some reason?
Speaker 5: He was so I still had always had my home
Speaker 5: in LA, but my husband was playing for the Montreal Canadians, right,
Speaker 5: so I was living there half the year throughout the
Speaker 5: season and then I would come back. So yeah, so
Speaker 5: I might not have been in LA like at that time,
Speaker 5: depending on when we filmed it, but that was what
Speaker 5: was going.
Speaker 1: On in my life.
Speaker 5: It was just like marriage, and I was still trying
Speaker 5: to work here and there, and then that kind of all,
Speaker 5: you know, left. I just put that to rest for
Speaker 5: a while, because then a few years later I had
Speaker 5: or a year after that, I had Natasha Wool.
Speaker 3: So you were visiting us like a few months to
Speaker 3: a year after you got married and about a year
Speaker 3: before you had your head, before you had Natasha.
Speaker 4: Yeh oh, my gosh.
Speaker 1: See interesting transition period.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you had a long, extensive list of impressive
Speaker 3: shows that you had guest starred on already. You did
Speaker 3: Punky Brewster to Saint Elsewhere, Who's the Boss. Did you
Speaker 3: enjoy the process of being a week long guest star
Speaker 3: in comparison to what you spent eight years doing like
Speaker 3: the star of Full House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I liked it. It was fun.
Speaker 1: Sick calling world is I really like it.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, guys, but that is my
Speaker 5: favorite place to be. So even with all the movies,
Speaker 5: all the television movies I do, the mysteries and the
Speaker 5: Christmas movies and all of that, my home is in
Speaker 5: multi cam soundstage land.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 5: So being a guest star, it's always a little bit
Speaker 5: intimidating when you're walking on someone's set. And I remember,
Speaker 5: for with you guys, you guys were awesome. I already
Speaker 5: kind of knew you, like, especially you Danielle, so I
Speaker 5: felt comfortable. But I'd finished Full House a year, I
Speaker 5: guess a year or two before that, So then I
Speaker 5: was really nervous walking on that set, even though you
Speaker 5: guys made it great. But I remember being in the
Speaker 5: audience or the live show, and we taped that and
Speaker 5: had the audience and that's something I'm so used to.
Speaker 5: But it was like my heart was pounding that very
Speaker 5: first scene. I got so nervous, and then it was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: How to do this. I couldn't do this.
Speaker 5: But and once we got through that first scene, I
Speaker 5: was like, Okay, it's like riding a bike. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it's always a little different to come on to someone
Speaker 5: else's stage because you respect everyone and you want to
Speaker 5: do a great job.
Speaker 1: You want to show up and.
Speaker 5: You know, and then you just hope that everyone's as
Speaker 5: nice and loving and fun as you hope they will be.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know that feeling.
Speaker 3: We've talked about it many times, that like you're walking
Speaker 3: into someone else's family, the same way you guys were
Speaker 3: such a family on Full House.
Speaker 4: You know, we've now been on the air for five years.
Speaker 3: We've got that same family, and you're like, hey, guys,
Speaker 3: just yeah, So I'm glad that it made it a
Speaker 3: good experience for you. And then what do you remember,
Speaker 3: if anything, about playing Millie aka Bushcar, Queen.
Speaker 4: Of Malevolence, daughter of evil?
Speaker 1: What a bizarre laughter? What is going on? I know,
Speaker 1: it's so funny.
Speaker 5: I remember when they asked me if I would feel
Speaker 5: comfortable and they asked me to do that part, and
Speaker 5: they were like, how do you feel about playing a witch?
Speaker 5: And I was like, well, I'm an actress, like totally fine,
Speaker 5: and I'm this is fun.
Speaker 1: It's sitcom, it's great comedy. I'm good with that, and
Speaker 1: so I yeah, came in just feeling really fun.
Speaker 5: But now watching the episode, like ah, I.
Speaker 3: Said that, I mean, at the very least, I wonder
Speaker 3: if it sounded fun to play a character that was
Speaker 3: so against type for you totally, and it was fun.
Speaker 5: I remember feeling that it was fun. I'm like, no
Speaker 5: one would expect this from me, and it's still felt
Speaker 5: like a very safe place to do that because of wait,
Speaker 5: the show was all about in itself and it's it's
Speaker 5: a family show, so I felt comfortable.
Speaker 1: In that way. But but it was a little weird.
Speaker 5: I mean, I remember saying some of those lines now
Speaker 5: having watched and I'm like, ah, this, this doesn't totally
Speaker 5: feel good, saying like I'm the Queen of Darkness, and
Speaker 5: they were like, like, say it in the most evil
Speaker 5: Rowley voice.
Speaker 1: That voice had my.
Speaker 5: Demon voice, and I'm like, I didn't even know I
Speaker 5: had one. But as an actor, you're kind of just like, Okay,
Speaker 5: let's just have fun with this and do that. But
Speaker 5: I'm I'm laughing watching the show.
Speaker 3: I mean, we absolutely loved one of your so much,
Speaker 3: and we actually discussed whether or not it could have
Speaker 3: possibly been your real voice or if it had been
Speaker 3: like boosted by computer BOYO vio.
Speaker 4: And it's when you growl.
Speaker 3: It's not a costume and I actually pulled the clip,
Speaker 3: so I want to play the clip for you.
Speaker 4: Listen to this. It's not a costume, so is that
Speaker 4: a real boy?
Speaker 1: But that's my real voice? It is you?
Speaker 2: Okay, we were like, is it actually her? Or did
Speaker 2: they dub it over?
Speaker 1: That's so funny?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I just I just growled like as
Speaker 5: much as I could growl. And I remember the director
Speaker 5: actually telling me. At one point we were rehearsing scenes
Speaker 5: on that balcony, and he kept saying like, say it
Speaker 5: like as dark and evil as you can. And I
Speaker 5: kept trying, and he would go like, you're just too sweet.
Speaker 1: I'm just not buying. I just can you just.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I'm trying really hard, and you just
Speaker 5: kept going like, just keep practicing it to whatever. So
Speaker 5: I was determined to sound like I was a real
Speaker 5: evil witch.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Now we've alluded to it a little bit by talking
Speaker 3: about how it feels different looking back at it retroactively.
Speaker 3: You are very vocal about your faith and your values
Speaker 3: and how much they play a pivotal role in the
Speaker 3: jobs you act in and the jobs you produce. Would
Speaker 3: you if you were offered a role like that today,
Speaker 3: would you take it? Or do you think that's something
Speaker 3: you pass on?
Speaker 1: Here's what I always say. I am an actor. I'm
Speaker 1: not looking to play myself right. So if there was
Speaker 1: a there was a part that called for the evil witch,
Speaker 1: but it was redemptive at the end.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm always looking for in my storytelling and
Speaker 5: stories of faith, whether they have faith or not, I
Speaker 5: just want redemption. So if the through line was like
Speaker 5: evil is good, let's keep practicing this.
Speaker 1: My answer would be no, which how does the episode.
Speaker 2: End really redeem anybody? And it's so weird because it's
Speaker 2: also like suddenly Boyby's world is magic, like there is
Speaker 2: real spells in the world, and like, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, I mean that exact part if offered today,
Speaker 5: I probably.
Speaker 3: Not, yeah, because I was thinking about that. It really
Speaker 3: just ends with you the witch just failing. So at
Speaker 3: least she isn't successful, you know, right, she fails, but
Speaker 3: like to writer's point, we also just kind of believe,
Speaker 3: but it could have been successful, like as in, it
Speaker 3: could have worked exactly, which is all weird. I loved
Speaker 3: your hair and I in general just loved the very
Speaker 3: cool nineties look.
Speaker 4: You had going on.
Speaker 3: It was like a little trendier, a little edgier with
Speaker 3: some of some of the things we saw with you
Speaker 3: as DJ. And now, what are your opinions looking at
Speaker 3: it considering all those nineties trends are back in style.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes I'm like I can't even look at some
Speaker 5: of those styles because I've been there, done that, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I just like, stay away.
Speaker 4: But they do look.
Speaker 5: Cute on people twenty five years younger than because right, yeah,
Speaker 5: but that was fun.
Speaker 1: I remember right after.
Speaker 5: Full House, I cut like all my hair off. I
Speaker 5: went into a boy cut. I bleached it blonde because
Speaker 5: I just, I don't know, there's something about it. And
Speaker 5: I loved every second a full House. But I just
Speaker 5: felt like I'm coming into something new, a new place
Speaker 5: in my life, and so that's how I exercised.
Speaker 1: Yeah control, I mean an adults, I just like cut
Speaker 1: my hair off and made it bleach blonde.
Speaker 2: I totally totally understand that. I feel like we all
Speaker 2: kind of had our own version, but for me it
Speaker 2: was my hair too. I could not wait to cut
Speaker 2: my hair the second Boy These World was over. It
Speaker 2: was so essential to just be like it finally in
Speaker 2: charge of your own appearance in some way, you know,
Speaker 2: because when you have a whole team and you have
Speaker 2: writers and producers, they're all in charge of what you
Speaker 2: look like every weekend. So getting away from that was
Speaker 2: really important for me too. That's so interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that episode, Danielle, when you cut your
Speaker 5: hair on the show. Yes, and I so during Full House,
Speaker 5: I had cut my hair. I always had long hair,
Speaker 5: and then I cut a bob that was just.
Speaker 1: Above shoulder length.
Speaker 5: But I purposely didn't tell the producers, and I did
Speaker 5: it on a random weekend while we were in the
Speaker 5: middle of the season, and I just told the hairdresser
Speaker 5: to cut my hair. So when I showed up that
Speaker 5: Monday at work, I got reprimanded and they were kind
Speaker 5: about it, you know, but they took me over and said,
Speaker 5: you absolutely can't do this. You should have talked to
Speaker 5: us first. And I don't remember if i'd seen the
Speaker 5: episode that you cut your hair first, or I cut
Speaker 5: my own hair first, but I just knew if I asked,
Speaker 5: they would have said no, or they'd say, well, you
Speaker 5: got to wait because we want to write it into
Speaker 5: an episode something like that. And you know, it didn't
Speaker 5: feel good, but it's so true. You don't have control
Speaker 5: of what you look like or what your appearance is.
Speaker 5: And then of course when we ended the show, I'm like,
Speaker 5: let's just change it all up totally.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they are even you know, in control
Speaker 3: of some of the things you do away from stage.
Speaker 3: Like writer was very into snowboarding, and it was like,
Speaker 3: they don't want you snowboarding.
Speaker 4: They don't want you.
Speaker 1: And they found out about and they were like, don't
Speaker 1: do that again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as a teenager for every teenager, so much
Speaker 3: of what you want to do is just shart showing
Speaker 3: people how you can make your.
Speaker 4: Own decisions and you can do your own thing.
Speaker 3: So yeah, when, no matter what kind of incredible, amazing
Speaker 3: situation you had on a show that you loved so much,
Speaker 3: when it's over, there is a real sense of like,
Speaker 3: I'm free, and.
Speaker 4: Here's how I'm going to here's how I'm going to
Speaker 4: exercise that.
Speaker 1: So, Kendice, how exactly you win? Full House started? I
Speaker 1: was ten, I was on from ten to eighteen.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, that's those are some formative years there. So
Speaker 2: I started Boy Meets World at thirteen, so it was
Speaker 2: thirteen to twenty. So I was like already full on
Speaker 2: adolescent when the show started. But you started you were
Speaker 2: still very much a kid at ten.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, And isn't it. I know you guys
Speaker 5: talk about this all the time, but it is weird
Speaker 5: growing up in front of a camera, going through puberty
Speaker 5: on national television, and for better or for worse, there's
Speaker 5: you know, really wonderful things being able to be on
Speaker 5: a television show and be cossful and all of that,
Speaker 5: but it's just bizarre when like everyone sees your first ZiT,
Speaker 5: your boob's coming in.
Speaker 1: Yes, like whatever, it's weird. Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was the hardest transition for you? At what age
Speaker 2: or season was the most difficult?
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: Probably right around fifteen sixteen, because you know, that's when
Speaker 5: girls really change or I mean, it's the timeline can
Speaker 5: be different for anyone, but when you're going through puberty.
Speaker 1: I think that for.
Speaker 5: Me fifteen sixteen and then having episodes like talk about
Speaker 5: you know your weight or things like I you know,
Speaker 5: it was always the chubby cheeked girl, and a lot
Speaker 5: of people loved that I was. And I can look
Speaker 5: back and go like, I was just a normal, normal,
Speaker 5: average girl. And yet and yet you meet people and
Speaker 5: they're always like, you're so much thinner in person, Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, you're so and you're just like, is that
Speaker 5: all people see?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 1: They just see my chubby cheeks?
Speaker 5: And so it's of course as a teenager you feel
Speaker 5: that insecurity, whether you're on television or not. Yes, but
Speaker 5: it gets magnified when you are So those ages were
Speaker 5: a little bit more awkward for me. And I just
Speaker 5: want to always go back and go I just want
Speaker 5: to hug, I want to hug fifteen year old Candice
Speaker 5: and go, okay, don't listen to anyone.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the show when it was on the
Speaker 1: air back then? Were you keeping up with it? I did?
Speaker 1: They always we got a videotape, a.
Speaker 5: VHS tape that you had to pay for, yes, that
Speaker 5: we had to pay for, and my mom got every
Speaker 5: single one of them, and we taped on the nights
Speaker 5: that our show aired.
Speaker 1: So I never really watched it.
Speaker 5: On television, but we got the videotape, and I would
Speaker 5: watch every episode because I just in that way, I'm
Speaker 5: a learner, so I always I do like to watch
Speaker 5: whatever I do so that I can see what I
Speaker 5: can fit and make better the next time.
Speaker 3: Interesting writers stopped watching because he would notice.
Speaker 2: The second I think I watched the first season and
Speaker 2: I was like, never again, can't do this.
Speaker 1: It's going to be too sub conscious. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: Jody never watched the episodes either, until maybe she had
Speaker 1: her daughters and watched a few, But no, I watched
Speaker 1: them all.
Speaker 3: Did they write an episode about your weight ever? Because
Speaker 3: I had one about my weight?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had one.
Speaker 5: I had the one where I'm and I had lost
Speaker 5: like twenty pounds from the end of one season to another,
Speaker 5: I came in losing twenty pounds, but they thought it
Speaker 5: was so great and they were like, oh, on the
Speaker 5: opening titles, why don't we have you on an exercise bike,
Speaker 5: like just to promote that, And looking back, I don't
Speaker 5: think that was bad. I mean, I really put a
Speaker 5: lot of hard work and effort into losing twenty pounds.
Speaker 5: But the season before I had that episode where it
Speaker 5: was like Kimmy and I were going to a pool
Speaker 5: party and I didn't want to put a bathing suit on,
Speaker 5: so I did a crash diet to try to lose
Speaker 5: weight in a week so I wouldn't feel bad about
Speaker 5: myself in a bathing suit, and then passed out at
Speaker 5: the gym because I wasn't working out. So you know,
Speaker 5: and those are those are things that we also that
Speaker 5: many of us struggle with. But yeah, you know, you
Speaker 5: play it out on television and sometimes it's like, Okay.
Speaker 4: Did they talk to you about it before? Like did
Speaker 4: they call it?
Speaker 1: They did? Okay, they did.
Speaker 5: They actually talked to my mom and dad and they
Speaker 5: talked to me and said, would you feel comfortable if
Speaker 5: we wrote an episode like this? And I was like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 5: but when you're in it and doing it, it feels
Speaker 5: a little awkward.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I remember for me when they when they called me
Speaker 3: into the office to tell me they were going to
Speaker 3: it wasn't really like they asked. They just kind of said,
Speaker 3: you know, we just you know, want you to know.
Speaker 3: Obviously it was Will and I. Will had gained some weight.
Speaker 3: I had gained some weight. You know, obviously you guys
Speaker 3: have gained a little bit of weight. So we're going
Speaker 3: to write an episode about it, and we just wanted
Speaker 3: you to know. And here's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: It's going to be really funny to see my jaw
Speaker 1: on the floor right now. What.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I remember that was that being the hardest
Speaker 3: part for me was that meeting because Will very much
Speaker 3: was like, oh, yeah, I'm totally fine with it just immediately,
Speaker 3: which I know now he was very insecure and it
Speaker 3: was really painful and powerful for him, but I didn't
Speaker 3: know that. And he was very much like he was
Speaker 3: so funny and such an amazing actor and was so like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: that's no problem, that's fine for me. And for me
Speaker 3: it was more like, oh wow, like I didn't no
Speaker 3: one had said anything to me about it. I had
Speaker 3: been aware that I had gained weight, but I was
Speaker 3: still you know, I was a size four.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like.
Speaker 1: Girl, wasn't like I had let's talk about it.
Speaker 3: And so I remember thinking, Wow, they to these people
Speaker 3: think I've gained enough weight, we have to write an
Speaker 3: entire episode about my weight gain.
Speaker 4: And and then and now right now I have.
Speaker 3: To say I'm fine with it because they didn't even
Speaker 3: present to me another alternative. And even if they did,
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have felt comfortable being like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: If you had canned, if you had said I'm not
Speaker 2: comfortable doing that, that would have been the story.
Speaker 1: It is like, oh my gosh, it would have become
Speaker 1: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: And it's like, yeah, it's such a weird situation, so
Speaker 2: much pressure.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, then there was just in my head
Speaker 4: forever awful.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so sorry, Like, okay, that just that hurts me.
Speaker 5: I am grateful. We had wonderful producers that I really
Speaker 5: did love.
Speaker 1: So they did ask.
Speaker 5: They asked my parents first first, and then they asked me.
Speaker 5: They did ask too, They're like, how would you feel about.
Speaker 1: Having an episode about getting your period, and I was
Speaker 1: like no, no, really, no.
Speaker 5: No, and they went okay, and they didn't they didn't.
Speaker 4: And they didn't push it. Yeah. See that's that's nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I you know, we've interviewed a lot of
Speaker 3: actors on this show, and a lot of them have
Speaker 3: this story. A lot of them have the story of
Speaker 3: being told they've gained weight or the episode where they
Speaker 3: they're playing a certain character. And especially for the women,
Speaker 3: the nineties were a rough time, you know.
Speaker 5: So have you seen that TikTok or real that's been
Speaker 5: going around about you know, why so many many of
Speaker 5: us have eating disorders, such mental disorders of body image.
Speaker 1: And it's this.
Speaker 5: Great video that shows like Nicole Ritchie and Jessica Simpson
Speaker 5: and maybe even Paris Hilton, like all of these kind
Speaker 5: of iconic people, not Paris Hilton, but saying that they
Speaker 5: were saying, Oh, you're the chubby one, you're the fat one,
Speaker 5: you're the mom Jean's one. And you look at them
Speaker 5: and you're like, they're a size too.
Speaker 1: There are six, there are a size eight.
Speaker 5: They're like just very still small, average sized people. Anyway,
Speaker 5: it's a pretty good, it's a powerful video that's gone
Speaker 5: around and I'm like, see, ye, that's what I grew
Speaker 5: up with. That was the that was the standard. You're
Speaker 5: called fat if you're a size four exactly as a
Speaker 5: forty something year old woman like those it's hard to
Speaker 5: to get those things out of your mind. They've really
Speaker 5: formed and shaped you. You got to do some work to reprogram,
Speaker 5: like what is what should be normal?
Speaker 4: Yes, well, I'm I'm so great.
Speaker 3: Every time I have a conversation with somebody, I'm always like,
Speaker 3: it's just there is a It is a weird, comforting
Speaker 3: feeling to know there isn't something wrong with me.
Speaker 4: That that's my experience.
Speaker 3: For all of us who for all of us who
Speaker 3: grew up at around that same time with that same experience,
Speaker 3: we all say the same things.
Speaker 4: I have to reprogram myself.
Speaker 3: I still struggle with disordered thoughts about food and disordered
Speaker 3: thoughts about working out, and and it has taken a
Speaker 3: lifetime to get to a place where I feel like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I have got a hand a handle on it. And
Speaker 3: even still the bad habits and the bad thoughts can
Speaker 3: creep up and I have to rein it back in.
Speaker 3: So you know, there is a there is a comfort
Speaker 3: in knowing that it's there's nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 4: That that's how I feel.
Speaker 1: So no, okay, I feel I know, I'm just mind.
Speaker 5: We could keep going about it because I just I
Speaker 5: was reading I had a movie come out this past weekend, inside.
Speaker 4: The way, what was the movie? Tell me about the movie? First?
Speaker 5: Oh, not Unsung Hero. But I have a new mystery
Speaker 5: movie series. That's all I called The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries.
Speaker 5: But of course i'm reading comments. I just said, premiered
Speaker 5: this week. I want to see what people thought about it.
Speaker 5: And most of the comments were very kind, but there
Speaker 5: was those handful of what did she do to her face?
Speaker 5: Why does she have so much botox?
Speaker 1: Did she get?
Speaker 5: You know, an eyelift? Did she get?
Speaker 1: Of course those are the only comments you remember. You
Speaker 1: don't remember all the hundred positive ones that are like now,
Speaker 1: she's so beautiful, she's aged.
Speaker 2: So gracefully, But you only remember your brain. That's why
Speaker 2: you just have to stay away.
Speaker 5: Don't mean anything like I just want and I don't
Speaker 5: answer them, but I want to go like, no, did
Speaker 5: you not watch the movie?
Speaker 1: Because all I could see were my wrinkles. That's all
Speaker 1: I could see.
Speaker 5: Because I don't have Botoks. Actually I don't. No, I
Speaker 5: didn't get a facelift, and no I'm not on tho
Speaker 5: Zepic and like, okay, so anyway, we'll move on.
Speaker 3: You know, the the obsession with comments, especially about women's
Speaker 3: faces and what have they had done, has gotten to
Speaker 3: a point that is just intolerable. You if you click
Speaker 3: on the comments on anything a woman has posted, it
Speaker 3: will within the first five there's something about too much filler.
Speaker 4: That's that's that, that's the end. It's just it's it's it's.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable and it yeah, it's uncomfortable and it's painful and
Speaker 3: it's hard to read, and like writer said, it's so
Speaker 3: hard to not have those be the ones that stick
Speaker 3: out to you.
Speaker 1: One of my.
Speaker 3: Favorites is that they regularly on the on like the
Speaker 3: thumbnail at the bottom of an article where they want
Speaker 3: you to click on another one, they use a picture
Speaker 3: of me from when I was truly eight and a
Speaker 3: half months pregnant, but they only use it from the
Speaker 3: shoulders up, and it's a story about like, you'll never
Speaker 3: believe what she looks like now, and I'm it was
Speaker 3: two weeks before I delivered Adler and yeah, my face
Speaker 3: is significantly puffier and I want to be.
Speaker 4: Like book guys. Could we just could?
Speaker 3: We also just mentioned and a half months pregnant here,
Speaker 3: but no, just get those clicks no matter what. So
Speaker 3: you and I had obviously done some ABC TGIF related.
Speaker 4: Promo work together.
Speaker 3: We have also run into each other at a lot
Speaker 3: of teen magazines and charity events. We were definitely in
Speaker 3: the same circles. Had you ever watched Boy Meets World
Speaker 3: before you came and appeared on it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, really did? Of course?
Speaker 4: Oh that's so funny.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course I absolutely did. But like I love
Speaker 1: all the shows from the eighties.
Speaker 5: And nineties, all the sitcoms, like they were great, and
Speaker 5: I and it was more fun because we knew each other.
Speaker 1: So I also feel like I feel like back.
Speaker 5: Then, well I don't want to say like we were
Speaker 5: cheering each other on. Its feel competitive. I'm like, this
Speaker 5: is so cool the TGIF shows or whatever whatever. I
Speaker 5: was just we were all rooting each other on, so
Speaker 5: they were really fun to watch. And yeah, and I
Speaker 5: think there's always a connection when because again, we are
Speaker 5: a specific group of people, whether we know each other
Speaker 5: or not, whether we're personal friends or not. But we're
Speaker 5: in a really special club together. Yeah, grew up on
Speaker 5: television in the nineties, you know, some a little bit
Speaker 5: in the eighties, and there's something that's very specific about it.
Speaker 5: But and and also experiences that a lot of people
Speaker 5: will never have and understand that we share together. So
Speaker 5: just having this conversation feels.
Speaker 1: So cool to me. But of course, like watching your show,
Speaker 1: I always watched it and loved it. It was so fun.
Speaker 5: And because there's also the personal connection of going like
Speaker 5: I wonder what it's like on their stage, and I
Speaker 5: wonder who is doing their hair and makeup, and I
Speaker 5: wonder if they get to make the same decisions that
Speaker 5: I'm making, or don't get to that I don't get to,
Speaker 5: you know, all that kind of stuff you think about.
Speaker 3: Well, I can speak intimately to what it was like
Speaker 3: to be on the Full House set because my first
Speaker 3: speaking job on television that wasn't a commercial was on
Speaker 3: Full House. I did two episodes. I think it was
Speaker 3: your first my very first Oh wow, it was my
Speaker 3: outside of doing commercials, so my first TV job. It
Speaker 3: was my first live studio audience. It was so much fun.
Speaker 3: The crew, the cast, everybody.
Speaker 4: Was so nice.
Speaker 3: I walked around and asked for signed headshots from everybody.
Speaker 4: Everyone gave me one.
Speaker 3: I still have them all in a binder with like
Speaker 3: my call sheets, the script and the ape from each
Speaker 3: and every one of you, and then the pictures. My
Speaker 3: mom was walking around asking everybody could you take a
Speaker 3: picture with Danielle and I have all just the greatest
Speaker 3: photos from especially that first week. So I wondered, with
Speaker 3: obviously DJ, being such a beloved and well known character
Speaker 3: from such a beloved and well known show, do fans ever.
Speaker 4: Bring up your appearance on Boy Meets World to you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, a ton, but I yeah, I get a handful
Speaker 5: of comments. And I was actually I was on my
Speaker 5: my own podcast. I had a pastor friend of mine
Speaker 5: on and before we were talking theology, like deep stuff,
Speaker 5: and before it started, he was like, Okay, we just
Speaker 5: have to talk about Boy Meets World, like before we
Speaker 5: even get this whole thing, we just need to talk
Speaker 5: about Boy and that episode that you were on, you
Speaker 5: were like, it was.
Speaker 1: It was so cute, it was so funny.
Speaker 5: But yeah, fans, especially because you know, if they're fans
Speaker 5: of your show, sometimes they get me mixed up with
Speaker 5: Tapanga or whatever.
Speaker 1: But then they always yeah remember, and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you were on.
Speaker 5: An episode of Boy Meets World, and yeah, that's always cool.
Speaker 5: So it happens every once in a while.
Speaker 3: So, like us, you obviously grew up in the industry.
Speaker 3: Who was your crew? Who were your friends? Who were
Speaker 3: you hanging out with when you weren't on set? And
Speaker 3: did you guys go to ED Debvick's.
Speaker 1: Yes, been to EDS totally so funny.
Speaker 5: I think like with Jody and Andrea, I've been Dad
Speaker 5: Vivics and then with my sisters and stuff, you know.
Speaker 5: My so most of my crew were not in the industry. Okay,
Speaker 5: I really had my friends from school because I part
Speaker 5: time did like went to my real public middle school
Speaker 5: in high school, so that was like my core crew. However,
Speaker 5: if there were industry people that I hung out with,
Speaker 5: and he and he was, I hung out with him
Speaker 5: a lot. Was Julia White, So Julia and I were
Speaker 5: really really good friends. And I was friends with Darius
Speaker 5: and Kelly too, because Family Matters was just a couple
Speaker 5: of stages down. But Julia and I we were good friends.
Speaker 5: We liked each other a lot, and yeah, we're buddies
Speaker 5: for a long time and we still keep in touch.
Speaker 5: But yeah, he was like he was like your best Yeah,
Speaker 5: my bestie.
Speaker 1: And you guys were Were you on the Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: A lot for all eight seasons or no? We were
Speaker 1: on the Sony lot.
Speaker 5: It was like the old Columbia and then it changed
Speaker 5: to Sony and Culver City. We were on that for
Speaker 5: the first four years, I believe, and then went over
Speaker 5: to Warner Brothers.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, now you are producing a ton of movie
Speaker 3: and TV. Was that always something you wanted to do
Speaker 3: as you learned more about the business, Where did that
Speaker 3: like entrepreneurial spirit come from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always been an entrepreneur at heart. So when
Speaker 5: I came back into the business, because I took this
Speaker 5: big ten year break when I had my three kids,
Speaker 5: and then when I came back, I think I was
Speaker 5: just like I had I had processed things for ten years,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I just came back with a bang.
Speaker 1: I was like, if I'm going to do this.
Speaker 5: I really want to do this, and it was it
Speaker 5: was cool because I had such this time to grow
Speaker 5: and evaluate all of the things.
Speaker 1: And then when I came back, I was very.
Speaker 5: Very happy that casting doors opened for me because you
Speaker 5: kind of never know when you take a break that
Speaker 5: long whether people are going to go like, ah, you
Speaker 5: were a kid, we don't need Jaz as an adult.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: They didn't say that to me. It was like, oh,
Speaker 5: we remember you and we liked you, so come on in.
Speaker 5: And I was grateful for that opportunity. But then I
Speaker 5: just you know, I'm a futuristic thinking person. I'm a visionary.
Speaker 5: I think we're most of us are all creatives. And
Speaker 5: it was like, well, what can I do? And I
Speaker 5: would like to do more? But you kind of mentioned
Speaker 5: it at the beginning. It was like not having that
Speaker 5: control and having everyone tell you what you're going to
Speaker 5: do with your life. I think that's the difference in producing,
Speaker 5: where I was like, I don't want to just be
Speaker 5: an actor and be told what I can do.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to build the vision. I
Speaker 1: want to build from the ground up and create. And so.
Speaker 5: I've Danielle like, I would love to talk to you
Speaker 5: so much about directing. I've directed a little bit in
Speaker 5: MULTIICAM but which I love. Yeah, but I really found
Speaker 5: that producing was more of my sweet spot and what
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed doing, even even more than directing because
Speaker 5: it's it's so collaborative.
Speaker 1: It's all of the puzzle pieces.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like playing Tetris and you're just like,
Speaker 5: where can I put a round peg into a square hole?
Speaker 1: Like how do I for the opposite of that?
Speaker 5: I meant, you know, and so I just I love
Speaker 5: the development process and that's why I really like producing.
Speaker 3: As a parent who has taken my children to more
Speaker 3: interactive events than I can remember, I am very interested
Speaker 3: in your Great American Media's Christmas Festival, which is in
Speaker 3: New York this year. Can you tell us a little
Speaker 3: bit about it. I know Danica mckeller is going to
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're so excited. This has been a vision for
Speaker 5: a couple of years now, and so my company, Candy
Speaker 5: Rock Entertainment, is producing this event and it's going to
Speaker 5: be at the UBS Stadium that's in Long Island over
Speaker 5: the over the Christmas season, really holiday season, like end
Speaker 5: of October through I think the first week of January.
Speaker 5: But it's a family event, so you know, bring your kids.
Speaker 5: You don't have to have a family to come either.
Speaker 5: But it's immersive, meaning it's not just it's not like
Speaker 5: a con because we know there's Christmas Con and those
Speaker 5: kinds of things where it's very and we do Nineties
Speaker 5: Con together, which they're super fun, So.
Speaker 1: They're really great.
Speaker 5: You get to meet all the fans, but it's very
Speaker 5: autograph driven and picture taking driven, whereas this is a
Speaker 5: holiday event. This is for you to come, eat all
Speaker 5: of the food, the Christmas and Hanka foods and you know,
Speaker 5: all the things that we're celebrating it is. There's live
Speaker 5: ice skating, there will be movies playing, there will be crafts.
Speaker 1: To be made.
Speaker 5: You can you know, do all the pictures that you
Speaker 5: want that will be very you know, like TikTok style
Speaker 5: or instagram worthy of snowblobe pictures and all that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff. So it's a fun place to come with
Speaker 5: your friends and with your family. And also you'll get
Speaker 5: to meet some of the actors and sign pictures, take
Speaker 5: take autographs, do the meet and greets, and have q
Speaker 5: and a's with some of the actors from Great American
Speaker 5: Family Channel. But it's just it's much bigger than an
Speaker 5: autograph experience, so fun.
Speaker 2: One Santa is there like a one Santa with a
Speaker 2: Sarah or or is it going to be multiple Santas.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I really don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know the answer to that, but you'll be
Speaker 5: greeted by a lot of characters throughout the entire evening, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 3: And this is all in preparation for a massive Christmas
Speaker 3: season on great American media with a movie you've produced
Speaker 3: and start in coming out soon, A Christmas Less Traveled.
Speaker 3: Tell us what it was that gravitated you to these movies.
Speaker 5: Well, it's always interesting every year to be looking at
Speaker 5: Christmas scripts.
Speaker 1: To develop them, to find a news.
Speaker 5: Story that's not that new, because you want the comforts.
Speaker 1: Of what we all love in these movies.
Speaker 5: So we found a couple of great scripts, and A
Speaker 5: Christmas Less Traveled is actually quite heartfelt, and it's a
Speaker 5: journey about this woman that ends up going on a
Speaker 5: road trip because her dad passed away and left her
Speaker 5: these cassette tapes and it's all these these things and
Speaker 5: stories that he wanted to tell her before he passed,
Speaker 5: but he just didn't have the emotional capability to say
Speaker 5: it to her.
Speaker 1: So she goes on this little journey as she listens.
Speaker 5: To her dad tell her of these experiences and all
Speaker 5: the things that he always wanted to say to her.
Speaker 5: So and lessons to be learned, so that one's pretty heartfelt.
Speaker 1: And now I'm going.
Speaker 5: Into development right now on a movie with Cameron Mathieson
Speaker 5: and he's a huge fan favorite. We're excited to work
Speaker 5: together because we wanted to for about fifteen years and
Speaker 5: have you never, ever, never been paired in a movie together.
Speaker 5: So we're doing a movie and right now it's called
Speaker 5: The Sweetest Christmas And guess what, guys, We're on a
Speaker 5: maple farm and there's lots of Christmas trees.
Speaker 3: Oh maple farm, sweet Christmas trees.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: So with these movies, do you shoot them all in
Speaker 2: the same town or do you do you use the
Speaker 2: same crew? Like how does the actual production come together?
Speaker 2: Because they are similar, right they sort of. Is it
Speaker 2: the same group of people every time in the same place.
Speaker 1: It depends. It's not always the same group of people.
Speaker 5: And with all the movies that are produced, you know,
Speaker 5: we shoot them all over they're not they're not all
Speaker 5: done in the same location. But because I've been working
Speaker 5: in Canada for a very long time, I've been shooting
Speaker 5: up there in BC and typically in Vancouver or Colonna
Speaker 5: or Victoria, and so for twenty years, really I've been
Speaker 5: shooting there, so I have a lot of the same
Speaker 5: people in same crew, and depending how close I'm working
Speaker 5: on movies back to back, sometimes we roll one crew
Speaker 5: into another crew, but they still get Everyone gets like
Speaker 5: a three week break while we're prepping for the next movie.
Speaker 1: So I just shot.
Speaker 5: One recently, and then I'm prepping now for three weeks
Speaker 5: and I go back up there and I'm going to shoot,
Speaker 5: so I'll have a lot of familiar faces, but the
Speaker 5: cast always feels new.
Speaker 3: Right well, speaking of the cast feeling new, today, we
Speaker 3: are missing mister Wilford Owll, who would normally have been
Speaker 3: here with us. He had a personal thing that popped
Speaker 3: up and he could not get out of it, so
Speaker 3: he's not here.
Speaker 5: I was sad to miss him, and he is so
Speaker 5: funny watching that episode back, He's ridiculously funny and his
Speaker 5: comedic timing is so so good.
Speaker 3: I know I was going to ask you if you
Speaker 3: had any specific memories of working with Will or Matt
Speaker 3: that week.
Speaker 5: I I just honestly like, I just remember loving them both,
Speaker 5: like all three of you. But I think we only writer.
Speaker 5: We only had a couple of scenes. They were very short,
Speaker 5: exactly and.
Speaker 3: Writer is the most carefree, fun loving I've ever seen
Speaker 3: sean episode.
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of floating.
Speaker 5: I remember being slightly weirded out that I was kissing
Speaker 5: Matthew and not Joey.
Speaker 1: Because of the age, I think a little bit of that,
Speaker 1: but also because.
Speaker 5: Like I knew, like I knew Joe and then I
Speaker 5: was and now I'm like kissing his little brother, and
Speaker 5: so that was a little at the time felt a
Speaker 5: little bit funny.
Speaker 1: And then I just remember thinking how funny Will was,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I just like you. I just
Speaker 1: like you as a person. Yeah, you're cool, dude.
Speaker 4: He's funny and he's cool.
Speaker 3: Also, I wanted to let our listeners know that they
Speaker 3: can watch you as Ainsley McGregor in the Ainsley McGregor
Speaker 3: Mysteries A Case for the Wine Maker on Great American Family,
Speaker 3: which is out now, and you continue the franchise is
Speaker 3: Ainsley Solving Mysteries.
Speaker 4: And our question for you today.
Speaker 3: Is if Will was going to play a criminal, what
Speaker 3: criminal would Will play.
Speaker 5: I think he would be some kind of con man
Speaker 5: because he's such a good actor, so he would just
Speaker 5: he could be all the things, and you just don't
Speaker 5: even know what's.
Speaker 1: Real give him different accents and different outfits. Go, that's great.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a really that's it. That's brilliant. Well, and
Speaker 3: thank you so much for spending your time with us today.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, thanks for asking me to be on.
Speaker 1: I have to admit to you, I'm like, when are
Speaker 1: they going to ask me to be on? I was like,
Speaker 1: I was on an episode, I want to be on
Speaker 1: the podcast.
Speaker 5: I just like, I feel very united with all of
Speaker 5: us TV kids, So thank you for asking me.
Speaker 1: It was super fun.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you for spending your time with us.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Good to see you guys too. Bye.
Speaker 3: Exactly what she said, and it's you know, we realized it.
Speaker 3: We talked about it so much when we started season
Speaker 3: one of doing the pod. It's amazing what an unspoken
Speaker 3: shared Bondah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of.
Speaker 3: Us, you know, former child actors, nineties actors, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it, growing up in that time doing
Speaker 3: what we did.
Speaker 4: There's such a it's a it's a big.
Speaker 3: Community, but a very very small community when you really
Speaker 3: think about it, and.
Speaker 2: It's very different from I'm what I imagine being a
Speaker 2: kid actor now is like you know, or or from
Speaker 2: what I've experienced, even I mean, you get to work
Speaker 2: with kids all the time, but for me on Girl
Speaker 2: Meets World, like just their sense of their own careers
Speaker 2: is completely I always felt like none of us had
Speaker 2: any idea what was going on, Like we had we
Speaker 2: were like listening to lucky if we were lucky to
Speaker 2: have an agent like Judy Savage, we would take their advice,
Speaker 2: but none of us had a plan for the future
Speaker 2: or how. And I feel like now there's much more
Speaker 2: sort of predictable pathways of like you're on a Disney show,
Speaker 2: you get an album deal and you do you know,
Speaker 2: and like they have there's so much more ambitious and
Speaker 2: in a way good about it. You know, they know
Speaker 2: how to think about themselves in contextualize it. And the
Speaker 2: way that at that time I just felt like we
Speaker 2: were flailing and none of us had an hangy of
Speaker 2: what was going on. And yet but yeah, it's super
Speaker 2: interesting the way that like there's all these people that
Speaker 2: I know and I don't actually know them that well,
Speaker 2: Like I don't, you know, I don't I don't have
Speaker 2: many memories of like talking to Julie White that often,
Speaker 2: but sure enough if I see him, I'm like, yep,
Speaker 2: you and me we get each other, you know, it's
Speaker 2: like and there's that that community.
Speaker 1: It's a very interest connection. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: And something else I thought of with her that you
Speaker 3: know she talks about she took that ten year break
Speaker 3: where she was married and she decided to start a
Speaker 3: family and she took ten years off. So much of
Speaker 3: what I say about my own career, I really hurt
Speaker 3: my I think I hurt myself in my career if
Speaker 3: I wanted to be an actor by taking a couple
Speaker 3: just even a couple of years off, but really maybe
Speaker 3: it wasn't long enough off.
Speaker 4: Like I think about what she said where she.
Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, I did a couple of things, but
Speaker 3: then I just really stepped away for ten years.
Speaker 4: And then when she came.
Speaker 3: Back, there was a oh yeah energy you there was
Speaker 3: an energy and an excitement and like she's now new
Speaker 3: because we haven't seen her at all.
Speaker 2: And like one one of my best friends said that
Speaker 2: to me when I didn't get a part in a
Speaker 2: movie that I really wanted, I think when I was
Speaker 2: about twenty five or twenty six, and he was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, writer, it hasn't been long enough. You
Speaker 2: should just quit acting and come back in your thirties,
Speaker 2: and I remember thinking like, huh, okay, I didn't. I
Speaker 2: just ended up keep acting for a little while and
Speaker 2: then quit when I was about thirty.
Speaker 1: Just stop. It was good advice. I was like, that's true.
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to think of yourself in those ways.
Speaker 2: You'd think like, oh, I just gotta keep working or
Speaker 2: I'm gonna you know, but yeah, and that's what yeah again,
Speaker 2: like having any sort of objectivity and like knowledge about
Speaker 2: how acting careers work like that, I was always just
Speaker 2: stumbling through it, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: We didn't have like a business plan. We didn't think
Speaker 3: of it like uh, you know, yeah, we just didn't.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I thought that was really smart and I
Speaker 3: thought that was really interesting that, you know, then while
Speaker 3: she was away she got reinspired and had all these
Speaker 3: new ideas. Anyway, thank you all for joining us for
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