Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome to you and That's what you really missed podcast.
Speaker 2: We have a guest, a very special guest. I just
Speaker 2: Tricia ray Stall.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: We were like, we need Milly on the show, Millie
Speaker 2: Marley's mom. And what a joy she is, What a
Speaker 2: pleasure to chat with her. She has such a presence
Speaker 2: and I think she's just yeah, so gifted and like,
Speaker 2: what a great addition to the show. Yes, I agree,
Speaker 2: And obviously we did not get to be in a
Speaker 2: lot of scenes with her now and everything she did,
Speaker 2: but I'm so happy that she was in eight episodes
Speaker 2: and in.
Speaker 1: Season four and that she agreed to come and talk
Speaker 1: to us. So this is Tricia.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 2: Hey, my goodness, what's up.
Speaker 1: How's it going? Oh good? How are you guys doing good?
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so excited, guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Of course, let me tell you, since you have popped
Speaker 1: up on the screen and our rewatch, you have just
Speaker 1: been like the biggest delight and highlight of all these
Speaker 1: episodes because you, I just become such a gigantic fan
Speaker 1: of yours. You were so good. You were just so good.
Speaker 3: You guys, thank you so much. That means a lot.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 3: It was a freaking fantastic experience.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 3: Glad I got to be just a tiny part of it.
Speaker 2: No, you're a big part of it. We just didn't
Speaker 2: get to work together all that much. So we're just
Speaker 2: so interested to hear your experience and how you got
Speaker 2: on the show, and you know how you're doing now,
Speaker 2: but we're so grateful for your time.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us, like how how Glee came your way?
Speaker 2: Obviously you were an actor and you know you got
Speaker 2: your uh your degree in theater, but like, how did
Speaker 2: Glee volunteer life was properly trained?
Speaker 3: I was still a I was. I took a little
Speaker 3: being a veer off of acting for a while, and
Speaker 3: I was a special ed teacher. I'm not kind of
Speaker 3: turned off by acting when I got out here, because
Speaker 3: it was like, uh, the desperation turned me.
Speaker 1: Off fair and yes, smells reeks of desperation everywhere you go.
Speaker 1: And so I had come.
Speaker 3: From like a small pond where I was like a
Speaker 3: you know, big theater actor in the area. Then I
Speaker 3: came out here and it's like you're an actor.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody is yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So anyhow, I was teaching special education and I was
Speaker 3: still acting, and I got the audition, and so it
Speaker 3: was like, uh, I had an audition I think four
Speaker 3: times three or four times.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they were still looking for Melissa at
Speaker 3: the time, they hadn't found her yet. I think that
Speaker 3: maybe my eyes and my hair coloring helped me get
Speaker 3: that little at the end. Take whatever, anything right, anything
Speaker 3: to put you over, and you never know what it's
Speaker 3: gonna be exactly. So, yeah, I auditioned. It was for
Speaker 3: Robert Ulrich, who I think did most of the casting
Speaker 3: that didn't involve like the the musicians and stuff. And
Speaker 3: uh yeah. I was at work and I got a
Speaker 3: call and said, are you ready for some good news?
Speaker 3: And they told me and I still worked as a
Speaker 3: teacher all through Glee. It was a weird. Wow, it
Speaker 3: was a weird existence.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, Oh my gosh, how did you because well,
Speaker 1: the schedule was very inconsistent and all over the place,
Speaker 1: things changed and moved.
Speaker 3: Boss who was super cool. She was really understanding and
Speaker 3: cool about it. I'm a specially I was a special
Speaker 3: A teacher No longer. I was a special A teacher
Speaker 3: and I had a very rare certificate to work with
Speaker 3: like the most severe kids, so they wanted to hang
Speaker 3: on to me, so they didn't want to work so
Speaker 3: they kind of were flexible with me.
Speaker 1: You know, amazing make you happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was crazy. That was crazy and being
Speaker 3: at work as some people. Some people are cool about it,
Speaker 3: and some people didn't like the fact that I was
Speaker 3: doing a TV show and I was still working there.
Speaker 3: They didn't like it. So huh, I got both attitudes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Did you know how many episodes that you were going
Speaker 2: to be working on or was it.
Speaker 1: Episode by episode like a script would shock? I was
Speaker 1: never told.
Speaker 3: I think I was told recurring, you'll get at least
Speaker 3: three episodes or something like that. Wow, but then they
Speaker 3: give me a lot more. So I was happy season four,
Speaker 3: season five, I was only in Little one or two
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Did you and Melissa ever have to do some sort
Speaker 1: of chemistry audition or is it you both were hired
Speaker 1: separately and then you show up to work and they
Speaker 1: we did not.
Speaker 3: I was told when they finally found her that was
Speaker 3: right before again, I got hired. They told us they
Speaker 3: had found her, but we did not have to do
Speaker 3: any kind of chemistry reader or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Wow, because is that common.
Speaker 3: For them to do it?
Speaker 1: I think these days now Yeah, I would say maybe.
Speaker 4: But ugly we didn't do it that much. I think
Speaker 4: there wasn't time. There was no time. But something about
Speaker 4: watching you two together is your chemistry is incredible, right,
Speaker 4: Your scenes together are so special. There really feels like
Speaker 4: there's a deep bond in connection. Obviously you're both incredible
Speaker 4: actors and so that helps, but it also feels like
Speaker 4: there's that thing that you can't plan for, which is
Speaker 4: just this real magic friendship and magic. Yeah, what was
Speaker 4: it like showing up and getting to work together?
Speaker 3: Well, thank you first of all. A second of all,
Speaker 3: this is what I think it may have been, and
Speaker 3: what may have helped us a lot, is that Melissa
Speaker 3: was just she came from New York. She didn't have
Speaker 3: a ton of experience. I didn't have a weird boat
Speaker 3: roughly the same experience. Why she had done like a
Speaker 3: national commercial and a couple more things. But so we
Speaker 3: were both like she was coming really into the experience
Speaker 3: because I was. It was so neat to come and
Speaker 3: watch her star rising every time I came to said,
Speaker 3: it was like they were getting more and more famous,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, totally, you guys were already established.
Speaker 3: The new cast was. I was watching them experience it,
Speaker 3: which was really cool. But I think, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: from the East Coast, and again we both just kind of, uh,
Speaker 3: we're just the new, you know, new people and coming
Speaker 3: from the East. I don't know, just something about that,
Speaker 3: maybe both being kind of green and but it was
Speaker 3: definitely we felt definitely comfortable together.
Speaker 2: And Glee was I mean, you know, we were almost
Speaker 2: like we had peaked by the point that you guys,
Speaker 2: you know, we were at its peak when you joined
Speaker 2: so as a special ed teacher. I mean you said,
Speaker 2: you know, some of the people didn't love that you
Speaker 2: were also working as an actor, but not only that
Speaker 2: that you were on the probably the hottest show on
Speaker 2: TV at the time. What was your experience. It's like
Speaker 2: out in the world, do people start to recognize you?
Speaker 2: Do people at school recognize you?
Speaker 3: What was it while I was on the show? I
Speaker 3: did get recognized quite a bit. One of my favorites
Speaker 3: was I was actually teaching. I had my kids at
Speaker 3: Pershing Square ice skating, and a whole group of girls
Speaker 3: from like a Catholic school or something. We're there, and
Speaker 3: they lined up to get me hugs and autographs. So
Speaker 3: that was like er special to me. You know, a
Speaker 3: couple of times where people were I could feel people
Speaker 3: were taking pictures of me when I was out, like
Speaker 3: I would do something, feel a flash, you know, or hurt. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it was fun for me. It was the perfect
Speaker 3: amount of a little taste of fame and not have
Speaker 3: to really be inconvenienced by it. Sure, you know, I
Speaker 3: have it be fun but not stressful. Yeah, so I
Speaker 3: appreciate it was fun.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 3: It's died out. I mean since then, I hardly get recognized.
Speaker 3: Once in a while, I get recognized, you know, from
Speaker 3: something else too, but but usually still most often from Glee,
Speaker 3: but only once in a while. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you didn't get to sing on the show, sadly?
Speaker 1: Are you a singer?
Speaker 3: I'm not a singer, but I could have sang.
Speaker 2: So you could have sang. So did you have a
Speaker 2: song in mind that you would I would have wanted
Speaker 2: to sing.
Speaker 3: You know, I never put that much thought into it,
Speaker 3: but I really did want to.
Speaker 1: Sing you a song? Yeah, you and Melissa should have
Speaker 1: done one. I know that would have been so sweet.
Speaker 3: I had just hoped. I was like, why don't they
Speaker 3: ask you? Why haven't they asked me? If I can sing?
Speaker 3: Like I can carry a tune? So I knew that
Speaker 3: they could work with me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they helped us on our hardest days, so yeah
Speaker 1: they could. They can make it definitely, definitely, But I would.
Speaker 3: Have loved for it to be something heart felt towards Marley,
Speaker 3: just because the fans would have loved that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. What I found and what I do find
Speaker 1: fascinating is like, like you said, you're both coming into
Speaker 1: this fairly green and together, and you had these scene
Speaker 1: where you're by yourselves a lot, which I also think
Speaker 1: is added pressure. I do feel like when you're in
Speaker 1: a group, you know, we were often in ensemble scenes
Speaker 1: where you can sort of depend on the other people.
Speaker 1: You guys were really leading these scenes, and then you're
Speaker 1: also dealing with heavy subject matter almost every time you
Speaker 1: were talking, and everything was on the show where a
Speaker 1: lot of things are heightened and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: craziness and silliness and snark you two always brought it
Speaker 1: back to something like really grounded and meaningful, and I
Speaker 1: just wondered, like, how did it feel, maybe like tonally
Speaker 1: working on the show, because you were coming in and
Speaker 1: doing these like sort of heavier scenes every time, and
Speaker 1: like how was that getting into that well?
Speaker 3: As an actor? For me? I found this to be
Speaker 3: the most wonderful challenge. I mean, especially Shooter was shooting star.
Speaker 3: Shooting star that was a shooting star. Yes, I had
Speaker 3: to have the camera up in my face like this,
Speaker 3: in like towering in a corner of the kitchen, and
Speaker 3: I had never had to work with the camera like
Speaker 3: up in my face so tight like that. And when
Speaker 3: I left that day, and when I left lots of days,
Speaker 3: but that day in particular, I remembered so much why
Speaker 3: I love acting. I was so high on the way home,
Speaker 3: like the best high I ever had. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: you can be on a big show. Who knows what
Speaker 3: stars I met or worked with that day, But what
Speaker 3: I know, what I remember is the high from acting
Speaker 3: and having that challenge of that camera be in my face.
Speaker 3: I was floating on air like that. I never realized
Speaker 3: when I got into television film because I really thought
Speaker 3: I'd missed the live audience and wouldn't like it as
Speaker 3: much as theater, but I did. It's just different challenges.
Speaker 3: They still give me such a high. Yeah, so it
Speaker 3: was really Yeah, I loved I loved that we had
Speaker 3: those quiet moments, those real moments, and it really connected
Speaker 3: with the audience too, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jenny, you must have felt that too, because, like
Speaker 1: you both come from the theater world, where those intimate
Speaker 1: scenes must be feel so counterintuitive to theater training because
Speaker 1: you are you can be so quiet and still in
Speaker 1: the cameras, catching every everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nice challenge because I love playing to
Speaker 2: a big audience. I love the instant gratification you get of,
Speaker 2: you know, having a live audience. But there's a nice challenge.
Speaker 2: And there's also something about the intimacy of those smaller
Speaker 2: scenes that feels the act so theatrical. They feel theatrical
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways that these kind of group
Speaker 2: scenes don't feel. And we also got to perform on
Speaker 2: stage and dance and sing, and so you got we
Speaker 2: we got our fix of a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was definitely it was a transition that
Speaker 2: I had to make initially coming from theater to to Glee, Trisha,
Speaker 2: I'm curious so like your character really, I mean, the
Speaker 2: jokes that the kids made were relentless, and as we've
Speaker 2: watched back, as many things don't age while on our show,
Speaker 2: it never let up and it was just a part
Speaker 2: of what it was. But I'm curious from your perspective,
Speaker 2: what was that like for you to play that character.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, having like being a real fat person
Speaker 3: that I'm really fat in real life, I have experienced
Speaker 3: a lot that had to make me kind of numb
Speaker 3: and put up a wall, and so that's how you
Speaker 3: cope with it. When you're a heavy person, you have
Speaker 3: to you have to put up some kind of like
Speaker 3: tough exterior because you're gonna deal with it a lot.
Speaker 3: So I mean I've already was in my thirties and
Speaker 3: I dealt with it so much so it really didn't
Speaker 3: bother me. You know. I don't love that most characters
Speaker 3: that has to be about my weight, Like sometimes you
Speaker 3: just wanted to be about you being a human, not
Speaker 3: about your weight.
Speaker 1: But I also.
Speaker 3: Appreciated Glee for representing so many I mean that's what
Speaker 3: I first fell in love with about the show before
Speaker 3: I was ever on it right, Well, just the fact
Speaker 3: that Ashley Think was on there and she was a
Speaker 3: chubbier girl, and I was like, oh my god, they
Speaker 3: like she had boyfriends and god, she was a normal person.
Speaker 3: Half the time, I was like Jesus treating you know,
Speaker 3: somebody with some weight like a normal person. It was
Speaker 3: really great to see more than many things that Lee
Speaker 3: did it.
Speaker 2: That was a first, you know, yeah, no, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 2: And to your credit, your character was so charming and
Speaker 2: strong and such a great pillar for Melissa's character as well.
Speaker 2: That while those jokes were relentless and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: enough of them, like we're done with them now watching them,
Speaker 2: you made your character so much more than that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you very much. You know what was
Speaker 3: great on set was the one guy that made fun
Speaker 3: of me a lot, one of the jocks. He was
Speaker 3: a blondehaired guy that was recurring. His name was Jesse
Speaker 3: the actor. I don't remember his last name, but I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what. First of all, we became super tight.
Speaker 3: I have an adopted son and he was adopted, and
Speaker 3: so like, we bonded on a really like emotional level.
Speaker 3: So there was no I mean, when he's called me
Speaker 3: those names. He was the sweetest, most loving, mature, understanding guy.
Speaker 2: So oh great, you not to hear it whenever you
Speaker 2: watch characters having to be mean like that.
Speaker 1: I was like, how do you do that?
Speaker 3: It hurts me to watch you say when she sits
Speaker 3: around the house, the house, you say that. I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: his characters dying.
Speaker 1: Kevin was dying. I was like, I do not want
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: You were always really awesome to be on set. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember. You can be one of
Speaker 3: my first days there. I don't know if we were
Speaker 3: a lunch or we were around some table doing something. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you came right up to me and spoke to me.
Speaker 3: It meant a lot to me. It means a lot
Speaker 3: to the people who are new, like any smile or
Speaker 3: sense it's a sign of welcome, you know. Yeah, Jenn,
Speaker 3: I saw you at work a lot. I'm not a lot.
Speaker 3: I mean it was always big crowds and stuff, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I know, like the cafeteria, like across the way.
Speaker 3: And I even read and I was reading the transcript
Speaker 3: of you Guys's episode for the New Rachel and it
Speaker 3: said that you're not like You're not like super comfortable,
Speaker 3: like meeting new people all the time and like, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, it's not like your thing.
Speaker 2: No, And I wish I think, knowing what I know
Speaker 2: now on a set, if that was, if this, if
Speaker 2: I was a regular on a show, I would go
Speaker 2: out of my way at this point now to make
Speaker 2: sure I knew every crew and a member's name, because
Speaker 2: by the end we did. But you know, and then
Speaker 2: make sure that everybody feels comfortable knowing what it's like
Speaker 2: coming into somebody else's house now, you know, it was
Speaker 2: it was a first for a lot of us. We
Speaker 2: were also very green when we started, and you know,
Speaker 2: this was a huge experience in life changing for all
Speaker 2: of us. And you know, we were learning, and so
Speaker 2: we were looking to like the adults because there were
Speaker 2: a lot of kids on our show, like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: don't need to tell us, Like Michael Manley took us
Speaker 2: under his wing, romy Rosemann took us under her wing,
Speaker 2: and like said, you know, they just gave us little
Speaker 2: nuggets of wisdom because they've been doing this for forever
Speaker 2: and they know what it's up, you know, like what
Speaker 2: it's all about. So we really did look to them
Speaker 2: for guidance and leadership as well.
Speaker 3: I didn't have any bad experiences. Everybody was so good.
Speaker 3: I was so green. I don't know what I was doing.
Speaker 3: I remember there was a somebody named Hope and she
Speaker 3: played like she was like she had a higher What
Speaker 3: was her role? What was her job?
Speaker 1: Oh, Hope was an ad right, yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I remember, I didn't. I thought Hope was
Speaker 3: one of the pas. I kept calling and oh my god,
Speaker 3: it's so embarrassed. Oh, I was so embarrassed.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: I didn't know who I would like you if I
Speaker 3: when I go on set now, I'm much more careful
Speaker 3: to understand the role and who the person is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know a lot of people there. I never did, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think especially. I was always just in awe of
Speaker 1: like people like you who could show up on a
Speaker 1: really big show, which is already intimidating. It's a gigantic crew,
Speaker 1: a gigantic set, and then you're able to perform your
Speaker 1: ass off because actors were all in our heads. We're
Speaker 1: all insecure and questioning everything all the time, and so
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when the call action,
Speaker 1: it's just you and Melissa on screen. Everybody's quiet and
Speaker 1: there's hundreds of people on set like waiting for you
Speaker 1: to do your thing, Like, uh, right, that's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: You forget, I think it's easy to forget. And any
Speaker 1: experience I had pre Glee, people were so kind to
Speaker 1: me and went out of their way to be kind
Speaker 1: to me on the Office and on True Wood, and
Speaker 1: I was always sort of in awe and I tried
Speaker 1: to do my best. It wasn't perfect about it, but
Speaker 1: just the I feel like when you show up on
Speaker 1: a set like that, the odds are stacked against you
Speaker 1: in a number of ways. And to make anybody feel
Speaker 1: at least seen or heard. And I think I always
Speaker 1: felt like if somebody doesn't know who to go to,
Speaker 1: like let them come to me, and then I'll get
Speaker 1: them to who they need to go to, because I
Speaker 1: understand how crazy this is.
Speaker 3: Luckily, I think everybody was like that because I know
Speaker 3: I have some people like and they just were so
Speaker 3: nice and helped me out, even though it's nothing that
Speaker 3: they should have been dealing with.
Speaker 1: No, everybody was. Everybody was very cool, and I think
Speaker 1: we all learned from that as well. Like our crew
Speaker 1: was the best, Like we just had such a wonderful
Speaker 1: family and team surrounding us, teaching us because even though
Speaker 1: we were four seasons in, it's still a lot of
Speaker 1: times felt like we didn't know what we were doing either.
Speaker 3: Interesting listening to your podcast, I'm learning that and it's
Speaker 3: such a learning experience to remember. Remember, Trisha, everybody's like
Speaker 3: in their own head, everybody still, you know, even if
Speaker 3: there are years on this still worried about their lines,
Speaker 3: They're still worried about their performance. There, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. It's like, yeah, you forget you think everybody's
Speaker 3: again they got their shit together, and they're not. I
Speaker 3: have no problem, you know, my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, Oh you're fine. What are you up to now?
Speaker 1: Are you teaching? Are you acting? What's what's the last?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I left after Glee, I ended up doing a series
Speaker 3: regular on a Tyler Perry Show, and I quit, amazing.
Speaker 3: I quit acting for that. I mean, I'm not not acting.
Speaker 1: You double down on the act. Yeah, right, got it,
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 3: It was amazing timing because I was really burned out,
Speaker 3: not on the kids, but on the sculpture of the
Speaker 3: education system. So it was perfect timing. And then okay,
Speaker 3: so since then, right now, currently I have a horror
Speaker 3: movie coming out in September Pineville. I have a show
Speaker 3: that I'm recurring on on a major streaming service that
Speaker 3: I can't talk about coming out in twenty twenty five
Speaker 3: in anything else, going on a little indie that I did.
Speaker 3: That one's too Oh I didn't even talk about that
Speaker 3: one yet, you know. It takes a long time with totally.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's about it right now.
Speaker 3: I think, off the top of my.
Speaker 1: Head, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited to still be doing stuff and because
Speaker 3: you're out here, but I'm still happy.
Speaker 1: To You're just so talented. Like every time you come
Speaker 1: on screen, Like I said at the beginning, I just
Speaker 1: get so happy because you're like a breath of fresh
Speaker 1: air every time, and like getting to watch you work
Speaker 1: it feels like a gift, you know, like we're all
Speaker 1: tired of each other's faces, Like, oh, Tricia, yes, give
Speaker 1: us the.
Speaker 3: Same for you guys, because I have to tell you,
Speaker 3: guys that I have told anybody that will listen that
Speaker 3: you guys are the hardest working, freaking people in Hollywood.
Speaker 3: You kids, but you were kids then. I was like,
Speaker 3: you guys, never at my healthiest, finniest, most energetic moment
Speaker 3: in my life. Could I do a single day on
Speaker 3: set that they do didn't leave in the air. They're like, oh,
Speaker 3: I do it again.
Speaker 2: I know it sounds everything after the scene, it's so easy.
Speaker 2: Everything we've done ever since, it's been like a walk
Speaker 2: in the park. It's so funny.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I bet, I bet you guys. And what
Speaker 3: a great training ground for you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And then we'd be off to like go to break
Speaker 3: or something. They'd be like, okay, you guys got to
Speaker 3: go to you know, recording studio. I'd be like, oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know. It was not a normal TV guys,
Speaker 1: awesome to watch.
Speaker 3: I was like, thank you. Where did the energy come from?
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just about it. We were
Speaker 1: just on at you mentioned Shooting Star. Did you have
Speaker 1: a favorite scene or another favorite sceneor episode that you
Speaker 1: did while you were on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, that I always mentioned was my favorite when
Speaker 3: I cowered in the corner because the again, the camera
Speaker 3: had to be right in my face. Another one would
Speaker 3: be I mean I got to shoot a scene with
Speaker 3: Sue Sylvester with Jane Lynch in her office, and then
Speaker 3: we went to another part of that scene. We went
Speaker 3: to watch the Christmas, the Christmas rehearsal, so I think
Speaker 3: that whole thing, we'll just get to work with Jane
Speaker 3: Lynch closely and actually have a scene with her and
Speaker 3: actually get the interact with her was freaking amazing. And
Speaker 3: then the magic of the Christmas set like, okay that
Speaker 3: they feel it through the TV when they watched, but
Speaker 3: when I was there, I was like, I just felt magical.
Speaker 3: It felt so beautiful and magical. I just thought it
Speaker 3: was so cool. And Regionals too. It was so cool
Speaker 3: to be a part of Regionals because everybody came back
Speaker 3: for that one. Yeah, right, and we're so huge, and
Speaker 3: to watch them like make this day happen.
Speaker 2: Always like such a feat. But they always chose the
Speaker 2: right director to get us through because god, now that's
Speaker 2: there's so many moving parts, truly, so many moving parts.
Speaker 3: Incredible to watch it all happen.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you enjoyed that, because I always felt
Speaker 1: bad for the people who because performing the yeah, and
Speaker 1: people who had to sit there. I was like, are
Speaker 1: they right, because it's a long day of just sitting
Speaker 1: and watching.
Speaker 3: I wasn't in my trailer uniform. They actually got to
Speaker 3: look pretty that day.
Speaker 1: Exactly what is the feeling that Glee leaves you with.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean just joy. Even though I was there
Speaker 3: you guys when tragedy happened and I saw the shift
Speaker 3: in yeah, the emotion on set and the energy, I
Speaker 3: still am left with an overall a feeling of joy.
Speaker 1: It really was.
Speaker 3: The energy was incredible, Yeah, I mean, everybody was happy
Speaker 3: to be there and on the show. You know, it
Speaker 3: was incredible. It wasn't exhilarating to work on the days
Speaker 3: with tons and tons and tons of extras and stuff.
Speaker 3: The very first day I went there and it was
Speaker 3: a cafeteria scene with tons of extras, and it was overwhelming,
Speaker 3: but such an amazing learning experience. I mean, just to
Speaker 3: get thrown right in there was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so joy. I mean it still brings me a
Speaker 3: lot of joy because it brought so many people joy
Speaker 3: and the people that write to me, and I still
Speaker 3: do even if I don't get recognized a lot in person,
Speaker 3: I still get a lot of people writing to me
Speaker 3: and stuff, you know, yeah, and so many people writing
Speaker 3: to me about having overweight moms and just you know,
Speaker 3: relating to the material and stuff, and so I mean
Speaker 3: that just makes me happy that I was able to
Speaker 3: be part of it in touch people in that way, you.
Speaker 1: Know, for sure, absolutely were That's so good to hear it.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that was your experience. Yeah, I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you had a great time.
Speaker 3: Oh I did. And you know, I actually had a
Speaker 3: director of mine from a horror movie that I did
Speaker 3: write to me and tell me my mom was heavy
Speaker 3: and I denied knowing her at a soccer game and
Speaker 3: I actually have had to go to therapy for it.
Speaker 3: Hurt me so bad in my life that I did that.
Speaker 3: I like to have that conversation with him, Like I
Speaker 3: bonded with that director on such a different level that
Speaker 3: we ever bonded on set because of that, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's profound.
Speaker 3: Oh so, I mean the show touched many people for
Speaker 3: many reasons. Every character touched somebody, and I think that
Speaker 3: was what It's just amazing, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we're so glad you're continuing to grace us
Speaker 2: on the screens of our televisions and our and our
Speaker 2: movie theaters. And also thank you for all the amazing
Speaker 2: work you do as a teacher. I think there's such
Speaker 2: a need and you know you're it's it's absolutely incredible,
Speaker 2: and I think it makes such a well rounded person,
Speaker 2: which you are, so thank you so much for taking
Speaker 2: the time to chat with us. We really we've loved
Speaker 2: watching you on the show.
Speaker 3: As that means a lot, guys, and he means a lot.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for bringing me on to
Speaker 3: to reminisce like this.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Like I'm so happy you agreed
Speaker 1: to be on and I'm excited to watch you in
Speaker 1: more episodes as we keep going through this rewatch because
Speaker 1: like I said, you're just a gift. You're so so talented,
Speaker 1: Keep it up, keep it going. Excited to watch you
Speaker 1: and everything whatever you want.
Speaker 3: I likewise, I'll be watching you guys do so to
Speaker 3: see whatever you guys do next.
Speaker 4: Okay, so good to see you guys too.
Speaker 3: I'll be listening.
Speaker 1: Thank you, bye bye. She's such a light, she really is,
Speaker 1: and I I just time she comes on the screen,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that's Trisha, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously she's playing a character, but her energy
Speaker 1: is very she very similar to the character in many ways,
Speaker 1: and I wonder if it was also like a nice
Speaker 1: thing for Tricia and Melissa to have each other doing
Speaker 1: those definitely where you're just like, this is new, this
Speaker 1: is crazy. And like she said, our first day was
Speaker 1: showing up one of those big cafeteria scenes where.
Speaker 2: Well, and you're not coming into the show as it's starting,
Speaker 2: You're coming in at the height of season four, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a hard I mean, that's obviously
Speaker 1: a director's job, but coming in when you're not in
Speaker 1: big group scenes with characters who have been on for years,
Speaker 1: picking up the pacing and the tone and all those
Speaker 1: things is hard. But like they're professionals, they're very, very talented,
Speaker 1: and I mean, yeah, I am. I'm just so excited
Speaker 1: that we got to speak to her for a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know, what a treat. Well, I hope you guys
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