Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Rito's welcome back to how Rude Tanner
Speaker 1: Ritos and part two of our interview with Molly Morgan.
Speaker 1: Getting to chat with Molly about growing up in a
Speaker 1: circus family has already made this one of the coolest
Speaker 1: interviews on the pod so far, and not to mention
Speaker 1: her iconic role as Mickey on Full House. Seriously, what
Speaker 1: can't this woman do?
Speaker 2: So please welcome back to the pod, Mollie. Do you
Speaker 2: remember your audition for Full House?
Speaker 3: I do kind of. I remember, like, I remember that
Speaker 3: we were late, and I remember we were not prepared,
Speaker 3: and I remember, like, I don't remember that. I remember
Speaker 3: being out outside with my dad, and my dad teaching
Speaker 3: me the carney whistle, which is this guy.
Speaker 2: Is the oh right I wish right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah sometimes yeah.
Speaker 4: I can can't whistle without I'm I'm a terrible.
Speaker 3: Whistler, so so I just I remember my dad teaching
Speaker 3: me the carney whistle. And then I remember being in
Speaker 3: the audition room and I remember Joanne saying like, oh,
Speaker 3: you would ask for more time, so I thought you
Speaker 3: were going to be terrible.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, right, okay.
Speaker 3: And she's like you're great, You're coming back at three
Speaker 3: or whatever the time that was. And uh, and then
Speaker 3: I just remember like being in you know, in the
Speaker 3: second audition, and then I was on set like that's it.
Speaker 4: Just all yeah, it's true. I mean for Guest Star Rules,
Speaker 4: you're like auditioning the week before you're shooting for a sitcom,
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes even the like the Monday of and
Speaker 4: you're going to be you know shooting on a Thursday
Speaker 4: or something. Totally yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, and I remember, like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I did a lot of them sort of at that
Speaker 3: time period. I worked like like quite a bit for
Speaker 3: you know, for somebody who does the kind of thing
Speaker 3: that I didn't.
Speaker 4: The yeah, the bad Girl you were you were on
Speaker 4: a ton of shows and I was like, oh, there
Speaker 4: she is.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, so so yeah, like I I just remember
Speaker 3: like like those beats of it and then uh, and
Speaker 3: then I remember not being able to like like like
Speaker 3: hit the Carney whistle for the table read.
Speaker 4: You know who I know who does an incredible carney whistle.
Speaker 4: Barbara Cameron. Really Barbara Cameron Canvas's mom, Okay can whistle
Speaker 4: for you? Let me. We've been out places before where
Speaker 4: she has whistled. Yeah, she she and she kills it.
Speaker 3: I can do it the double much easier.
Speaker 4: Oh like yeah, Now, I just know I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: yell really loud and wave my arm if I need you.
Speaker 3: So anytime that I need to whistle for my kid,
Speaker 3: let me tell you, because it's a humiliating experience for him.
Speaker 3: That's when I especially nail it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's where the occasion, right. Look, I me and
Speaker 4: Andrea and my younger daughter b who's fifteen, were at
Speaker 4: Dancing with the Stars the other night, and I embarrassed her.
Speaker 4: I was like the only one dancing up at one point, and.
Speaker 2: She was just like, oh my god, it was glorious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all right.
Speaker 4: I mean that's what I tell him. I go, Look,
Speaker 4: I've put up with you guys so far. I get
Speaker 4: to be embarrassing now. I finally don't care what people think.
Speaker 4: Let me embarrass myself, you know. Yeah, it's been too long.
Speaker 4: We're like worrying about what people think. Let me dance
Speaker 4: in the damn grocery store if I want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm there with you.
Speaker 4: So how old is your How old is your son?
Speaker 3: He's ten?
Speaker 4: Ten? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and has he seen your episode of Full house
Speaker 1: is that is seen to other things, and we were.
Speaker 3: Watching we were watching it this morning. My husband was like, oh,
Speaker 3: we should have waited for ten to watch it.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll never like kids are never that interested.
Speaker 4: They're like, no, it's so cool whatever, They're not true.
Speaker 3: I feel like it was right around his age that
Speaker 3: I started to be interested in like watching.
Speaker 4: Other kids on stoves.
Speaker 3: But like until now, it's just you know, cartoons or manga,
Speaker 3: you know, or video games right right, you know, it's like,
Speaker 3: oh gosh, it's live action or right anything from like
Speaker 3: you know, like the nineties. It's like, oh.
Speaker 4: Gosh, oh yo, oh, what is wrong with the quality
Speaker 4: of this television?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Like you guys are standing in like a.
Speaker 4: Like a haze, like it's so yeah, oh totally. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but you didn't see every wrinkle on your face like
Speaker 4: you do work. That's oh my gosh, yeah I can
Speaker 4: look at my pores and yeah, yikes.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the cigarettes, like I we asked Marla.
Speaker 1: When Marla Sokoloff was on the show, we gotverybody asks
Speaker 1: about the cigarettes. Of course, cigarette like did you did
Speaker 1: you remember.
Speaker 3: Clothes they were they were? I remember them being like uh,
Speaker 3: those those weird like like stage cigarettes that are made
Speaker 3: of like marshmallow and rose hips.
Speaker 4: I think they had those, and they had some clove
Speaker 4: ones or when it like the smoke needed to like
Speaker 4: actually sort of like be a thing, because I remember
Speaker 4: me and Marlo stealing him. Yeah, at least one yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Wait during that episode or or like other shows after No.
Speaker 4: I don't know what whatever. I think that was the
Speaker 4: only one that she smoked on. So I think was
Speaker 4: that that show? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Funny, Yeah, I mean, I mean, listen, I was fifteen
Speaker 3: by the time that I was smoking clothes and.
Speaker 4: Of course, right right, well, and if you're you know,
Speaker 4: a teenage serious actor, you you have to be. It's
Speaker 4: a requirement.
Speaker 3: It's like nothing burns your lungs, like my gosh. So,
Speaker 3: I mean I don't know how much I was smoking
Speaker 3: at the time, but like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't need to be taught how to know, right, right,
Speaker 4: I know how to ask.
Speaker 3: I just remember my dad laughing at all of us.
Speaker 3: He was like, oh, so the camera moved away, and
Speaker 3: everybody's like, right, but.
Speaker 4: You know it's just for research, yeah, right exactly, I'm preparing,
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: I did a I did an episode of Two and
Speaker 3: a half met Sorry, my cat just moved my camera.
Speaker 4: Oh that's okay, mine, I realized, I keep moving mine
Speaker 4: up with my knee.
Speaker 3: So I did an episode of two and a half
Speaker 3: Men where like like once again, like they put a
Speaker 3: cigarette in my hands and and at that point it
Speaker 3: had been years since I've smoked, and they were like, here,
Speaker 3: what do you want? And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: And it was like it was those like rose hip
Speaker 3: and marshmallow and then oh smelly and uh and so
Speaker 3: I had this and and then a couple of years later,
Speaker 3: I got a message from some guy who found me
Speaker 3: on Facebook and he was like, I would pay you
Speaker 3: money to you smoke a cigarette. I was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: those days are over.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't smoke anymore. Yeah, it's anything, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: you could watch me, uh a full of fitted sheet.
Speaker 4: I don't know, is it?
Speaker 3: You know, I'll tell you some spinach, sir, exactly.
Speaker 4: Everybody has a thing, you know, the internet, rascal. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you're and you're still acting to this day. Yes,
Speaker 4: what are you? What is like the stuff that you're
Speaker 4: working on? Now? What is what is like in career wise,
Speaker 4: what's exciting for you?
Speaker 3: I mean, so, I you know, I have my agent
Speaker 3: and and they get me auditions every once in a while.
Speaker 3: I really have been very laxa daisical about my career always.
Speaker 3: So you know, I oweer some new headshots because mine
Speaker 3: are pretty old, and just use it and it's great.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've always loved yeah, exactly, I've always loved auditioning.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's like you know.
Speaker 4: I personal auditioning is fun, right, and I mean.
Speaker 3: In personal auditioning is fine. But I mean I love
Speaker 3: setting up like you know, the zoom and I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't have to brave the four oh five anymore.
Speaker 3: So that's exciting game changer, right, Yeah. And but but
Speaker 3: for the most part, like like my loves are my
Speaker 3: family and I do are comadian de l'arte. It's an
Speaker 3: Italian style there, and then I do. I've done some
Speaker 3: independence with some friends lately. Bobby Love, who's my father's neighbor,
Speaker 3: like just shot a movie that's on Amazon. It's called
Speaker 3: a Moment for Love. And let me tell you, Bobby
Speaker 3: Love would murder me if I didn't say that, So.
Speaker 4: Go watch that, Okay, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3: It's so cute. It's it's like it's like winning all
Speaker 3: these awards in like the LGB TQ oh amazing balls
Speaker 3: and and he's like he's not an actor, but somebody
Speaker 3: approached him and they're like, we think that we should
Speaker 3: do a documentary and he's like, no, it will be stripted.
Speaker 3: Oh there does my cats It scripted and there will
Speaker 3: be a fantasy. And it's like this funny, interesting hodgepodge
Speaker 3: that is like it's going to be a cult classic.
Speaker 4: It is. Oh I love it.
Speaker 2: I got to check that out for love.
Speaker 3: Like it's just on the edge, you know where like
Speaker 3: like I've I've showed it to my kid and he's like,
Speaker 3: this film is amazing and like just as you think
Speaker 3: it's about to like like what are we watching here,
Speaker 3: it like you know, turns the corner and it's great.
Speaker 4: I love it, very cute Okay.
Speaker 3: And then you know, I'm dancing a lot. I'm doing
Speaker 3: a lot of belly dancing.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 3: Finally I'm I'm performing solo and I'm exciting. That's fun
Speaker 3: and they're bracking. I mean, I could you know, stand
Speaker 3: up in front of people and say anything to just
Speaker 3: sort of like, you know, dance and tell a story
Speaker 3: and you zick is is cool and it's new.
Speaker 1: You know, do you choreograph your own stuff or do
Speaker 1: you get outside input? I tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about the dancing that works all of the above.
Speaker 3: I I'm going to be working with Zoe Jake's doing
Speaker 3: House of Truro in New Orleans and December, and that's fun.
Speaker 3: And that's all her choreography, so you know, she it's
Speaker 3: a group of like you know, her students together and
Speaker 3: then they take a week. We take a week and
Speaker 3: we you know, learn transitions. We'll have learned the choreography
Speaker 3: ahead of perform that when I dance on stage. You know,
Speaker 3: the fun thing about dancing on your own is that
Speaker 3: nobody can tell when you've screwed up.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, like me, that's all.
Speaker 3: Oh I missed that one, so right, you know, move
Speaker 3: on and uh And so I do, though, I you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like like I've taken my like trained acting and
Speaker 3: I've like applied it to this thing where I like
Speaker 3: get up and I rehearse you know, every day for
Speaker 3: like several weeks before I perform, and I have like
Speaker 3: a basic outline of where I'm going with it, and
Speaker 3: then I have like spots run like and here I'm gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, do something that's isolations, or here I'm gonna like,
Speaker 3: you know, mostly move with my arms, mostly move right.
Speaker 3: So it's it's both, it's you know, scripted and improved.
Speaker 4: Oh how long how long ago did you start doing
Speaker 4: dance or like belly dance specifically, I.
Speaker 3: Think sixteen sixteen, so yeah, yeah, And when I was
Speaker 3: a teenager, I took from my my guru Mesmura, who
Speaker 3: was this woman who I used to watch dance at
Speaker 3: Darmacgreb when I was a little girl, and I took
Speaker 3: lessons from her.
Speaker 4: She still teaches and like what I'm like, I know
Speaker 4: that name and it's I have. Yeah, she's been somewhere
Speaker 4: where she I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's amazed. She's like she still she still performs,
Speaker 3: and she's still and she's about to celebrate her fiftieth
Speaker 3: like dance anniversary.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, come out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and so all these like wonderful dance moms
Speaker 3: that I've had over the years, but took with her
Speaker 3: when I was young and then really started training like
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, sixteen years ago.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. I love it all the.
Speaker 4: Like, what's like the coolest place that you have gotten
Speaker 4: to perform?
Speaker 3: I mean nothing beats Carnival a and that.
Speaker 4: That's true, that is that is kind of peak like.
Speaker 3: Right, But I dance with a troop of the Renaissance
Speaker 3: fair as well. They're a seraphim Arabesque ensemble, and and
Speaker 3: that's like super fun. It's you know, in the middle
Speaker 3: of my workday, so I'm out running booths and being
Speaker 3: our true Carney and I get to like, you know,
Speaker 3: hit the stage and dance with them, and then I
Speaker 3: change into my Italian clothes and I go and do
Speaker 3: the shows with my dad and my sister, and it's
Speaker 3: it's a it's a blast.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, life is life is grand.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think there's ever a dull moment.
Speaker 2: There's no accountants in the Morgan family anywhere.
Speaker 3: You know, my husband is nearly an accountant. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was smart enough to marry a businessman.
Speaker 4: There you get, yeah, there, you got to balance it
Speaker 4: out somehow. We have the artsy neurodivergence over here, and
Speaker 4: then we're like we need someone that thinks linearly to
Speaker 4: actually make us.
Speaker 3: Do things heard the cats otherwise. Yeah, and he's a
Speaker 3: professional fiduciary so he works in trust administration. Okay, he's
Speaker 3: a professional adult.
Speaker 4: He wears like a tie and oh.
Speaker 3: So sexy love it like all these circus people. And
Speaker 3: I'm like, my husband wears a.
Speaker 4: Suit, right and it's not made of spending.
Speaker 3: Ah. So he's he's a very good Morgan wrangler, amazing,
Speaker 3: you know, gets us to show up on time. And
Speaker 3: we've finally like gotten him to do our comedia with us.
Speaker 3: We lost an actor to like real life and uh
Speaker 3: and finally got my husband to do it with us.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's cool.
Speaker 1: So that's who does he play?
Speaker 3: He plays the Capitano. Okay, yeah, it's have do you
Speaker 3: know comedia?
Speaker 4: I know a little bit. I just remember like every
Speaker 4: uh theater history class that I ever took or art
Speaker 4: history whatever that is always like disgusted there. But there's
Speaker 4: like definitely like sort of those stereotypical characters and yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: The archetypal like the Capitano is like and and Billigan's
Speaker 3: Island like is always yeah, you know the show that
Speaker 3: they you know, trot out and say like this was
Speaker 3: a classic comedian and it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so my husband plays you know, the like the
Speaker 3: captano who's trying to steal Isabella, and I play Isabella,
Speaker 3: and I played the dumbest Isabella you've ever seen, you know,
Speaker 3: like but yeah, really fun. Hopefully he continues to be
Speaker 3: in a accountant because we need him to stay you know.
Speaker 4: Right, somebody needs to manage the finances. Yeah, someone needs
Speaker 4: to pay the rent while everyone else is out doing
Speaker 4: the circus. I get it. That's yeah, it's very important
Speaker 4: for us artistic people.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for coming on the show today, Molly.
Speaker 4: This was so fun to get to catch up and
Speaker 4: talk with you. Like, I just really really enjoyed seeing
Speaker 4: you again, and I like, I love all of your creativity.
Speaker 4: I always have really admired that about you, Like I
Speaker 4: do remember distinctly when you were fifteen, Like I just
Speaker 4: remember thinking like, wow, she like she like knows herself,
Speaker 4: you know, and maybe you did, maybe you did it,
Speaker 4: but like you just you were very individual and I
Speaker 4: always really appreciated that. So oh yeah and super talented.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you. Oh I love it. I'm coming back,
Speaker 3: yeah right, yeah, I'll be here next week.
Speaker 4: It's exactly. But well, when we do our our episode
Speaker 4: where we're doing a a old Silks, I'll let you
Speaker 4: know and where Yeah, Andreya doesn't know we're doing it,
Speaker 4: but it's gonna be really fun. Yeah. Yeah, surprise, No,
Speaker 4: thank you so much for joining us, Molly, good to
Speaker 4: see you, Moll, bye bye. Oh that was so much
Speaker 4: My gosh.
Speaker 1: Her smile is infectious. Yeah, just lights up the whole screen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's funny because when she was most of
Speaker 4: the characters that she played she did not smile.
Speaker 2: No, no smiling, but no.
Speaker 4: Smiling, a lot of you know, yeah, a lot of
Speaker 4: just dead pan looks.
Speaker 1: Her voice like I haven't seen her episodes since probably
Speaker 1: nine in the nineties, but her voice like just stood out.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, yeah, that's making Like, yeah, she
Speaker 4: has a very distinct voice and also a very theater
Speaker 4: diction like performer, you know what I mean. Like you
Speaker 4: know that everyone in the family probably speaks with diction.
Speaker 1: You know, they're always performing, so the back can.
Speaker 4: Hear before we run back exactly, And uh, I do
Speaker 4: remember that though about her dad and I was just
Speaker 4: joining the family, but like they really are always performing.
Speaker 4: It's always a show. There's something. Yeah, someone's doing a
Speaker 4: magic trick folding themselves in a box. It's something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That was a great fun blast from the past. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was awesome to catch up with her. Maybe now
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, was it just rose hips and marshmallow?
Speaker 4: I was smoking. I was like, now I remember the clothes.
Speaker 4: It was clothes, Okay, I don't I were like, try
Speaker 4: these and then they were like, we can't give those kids,
Speaker 4: and uh and then brought out the marshmallow for although
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe we're just maybe they were real.
Speaker 4: I don't know. It was the eighties or early nineties.
Speaker 2: Marla said they were clothes.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marla is Marla is the expert on cigarette.
Speaker 4: Smoking, on the on the right, on the underage smoking,
Speaker 4: so she gets to decide to do kids we're not yes, no, no, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: don't beg I mean bega because she's like kind of
Speaker 4: awesome and like don't yeah, yeah, don't smoke. That wraps
Speaker 4: up our interview with Molly Morgan, and that has been
Speaker 4: so much fun. I really enjoyed it. I did too.
Speaker 4: She's so uh, well, Fana, Rito's we love it, appreciate
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Speaker 4: Actually one of those things sound like you could put
Speaker 4: them in like some sort of Thanksgiving dish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how I bride my turkey. Yeah, all of
Speaker 2: the cigarettes from its Yeah, ex.
Speaker 4: Just sort of crush them up. Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 4: video we'll be doing this year. Yes, it's just crushing
Speaker 4: up clothes cigarettes into a giant bucket and dropping a
Speaker 4: turkey into it. If you haven't seen that, everyone that
Speaker 4: is on Andrea's YouTube and uh we we man handle
Speaker 4: a naked there's a live birth, Like, there's a lot
Speaker 4: that happens. I pulled some things out that I didn't
Speaker 4: even know we're in there. Yeah. Anyway, back to the point,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 4: All all right, So remember everybody, The world is small.
Speaker 4: The house is full of carnies everywhere. They're all whistling. Yeah,
Speaker 4: circus performers, someone's I pulled out a drawer. There's somebody
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fascinatings.
Speaker 2: Never a dull moment isn't for you.
Speaker 4: Next time,