WEBVTT - Glee Mama Trisha Rae Stahl 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.160 And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.119 An iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.680 Welcome to you and That's what you really missed podcast. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.919 We have a guest, a very special guest. I just 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:18.480 Tricia ray Stall. 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:20.480 Wow. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:26.360 We were like, we need Milly on the show, Millie 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.160 Marley's mom. And what a joy she is, What a 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.120 pleasure to chat with her. She has such a presence 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.199 and I think she's just yeah, so gifted and like, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.800 what a great addition to the show. Yes, I agree, 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:45.320 And obviously we did not get to be in a 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.120 lot of scenes with her now and everything she did, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.720 but I'm so happy that she was in eight episodes 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.120 and in. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.000 Season four and that she agreed to come and talk 0:00:58.040 --> 0:00:59.480 to us. So this is Tricia. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:00.600 Hi. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.520 Hey, my goodness, what's up. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:11.560 How's it going? Oh good? How are you guys doing good? 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.119 Thank you so much for being here. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.480 Yeah, I was so excited, guys, thank you for having me. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.959 Of course, let me tell you, since you have popped 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.200 up on the screen and our rewatch, you have just 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.520 been like the biggest delight and highlight of all these 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:33.399 episodes because you, I just become such a gigantic fan 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.919 of yours. You were so good. You were just so good. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.200 You guys, thank you so much. That means a lot. 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:40.360 So good. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.080 It was a freaking fantastic experience. 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.319 It was amazing. I'm glad to hear that. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.320 Glad I got to be just a tiny part of it. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.120 No, you're a big part of it. We just didn't 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.400 get to work together all that much. So we're just 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.880 so interested to hear your experience and how you got 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.360 on the show, and you know how you're doing now, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.240 but we're so grateful for your time. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.000 Can you tell us, like how how Glee came your way? 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.000 Obviously you were an actor and you know you got 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.639 your uh your degree in theater, but like, how did 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.040 Glee volunteer life was properly trained? 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.919 I was still a I was. I took a little 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.079 being a veer off of acting for a while, and 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.040 I was a special ed teacher. I'm not kind of 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.960 turned off by acting when I got out here, because 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.240 it was like, uh, the desperation turned me. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.880 Off fair and yes, smells reeks of desperation everywhere you go. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.120 And so I had come. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.800 From like a small pond where I was like a 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.400 you know, big theater actor in the area. Then I 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:41.880 came out here and it's like you're an actor. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.160 You know, everybody is yeah, exactly. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.640 So anyhow, I was teaching special education and I was 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.360 still acting, and I got the audition, and so it 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.160 was like, uh, I had an audition I think four 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.440 times three or four times. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.119 Wow. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.560 Yeah, and then they were still looking for Melissa at 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.440 the time, they hadn't found her yet. I think that 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.000 maybe my eyes and my hair coloring helped me get 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:14.560 that little at the end. Take whatever, anything right, anything 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.000 to put you over, and you never know what it's 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.080 gonna be exactly. So, yeah, I auditioned. It was for 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.560 Robert Ulrich, who I think did most of the casting 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:26.000 that didn't involve like the the musicians and stuff. And 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.880 uh yeah. I was at work and I got a 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.160 call and said, are you ready for some good news? 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.600 And they told me and I still worked as a 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.200 teacher all through Glee. It was a weird. Wow, it 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.480 was a weird existence. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:43.520 Really yeah, Oh my gosh, how did you because well, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.160 the schedule was very inconsistent and all over the place, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:53.000 things changed and moved. 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.240 Boss who was super cool. She was really understanding and 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.480 cool about it. I'm a specially I was a special 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.440 A teacher No longer. I was a special A teacher 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.160 and I had a very rare certificate to work with 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.720 like the most severe kids, so they wanted to hang 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.280 on to me, so they didn't want to work so 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.480 they kind of were flexible with me. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.920 You know, amazing make you happy. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.040 Yeah, so it was crazy. That was crazy and being 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.000 at work as some people. Some people are cool about it, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.279 and some people didn't like the fact that I was 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:18.680 doing a TV show and I was still working there. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.040 They didn't like it. So huh, I got both attitudes. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.240 Yeah, I'm sure. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.120 Did you know how many episodes that you were going 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.080 to be working on or was it. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.680 Episode by episode like a script would shock? I was 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:32.400 never told. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.040 I think I was told recurring, you'll get at least 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.920 three episodes or something like that. Wow, but then they 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.240 give me a lot more. So I was happy season four, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.040 season five, I was only in Little one or two 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:42.479 or something. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.960 Did you and Melissa ever have to do some sort 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.240 of chemistry audition or is it you both were hired 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.800 separately and then you show up to work and they 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:50.520 we did not. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.600 I was told when they finally found her that was 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.599 right before again, I got hired. They told us they 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.520 had found her, but we did not have to do 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.200 any kind of chemistry reader or anything like that. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.760 Wow, because is that common. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.040 For them to do it? 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.200 I think these days now Yeah, I would say maybe. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.960 But ugly we didn't do it that much. I think 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.599 there wasn't time. There was no time. But something about 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:24.160 watching you two together is your chemistry is incredible, right, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.880 Your scenes together are so special. There really feels like 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.720 there's a deep bond in connection. Obviously you're both incredible 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.760 actors and so that helps, but it also feels like 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.680 there's that thing that you can't plan for, which is 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.880 just this real magic friendship and magic. Yeah, what was 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.320 it like showing up and getting to work together? 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:45.960 Well, thank you first of all. A second of all, 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.960 this is what I think it may have been, and 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.279 what may have helped us a lot, is that Melissa 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.760 was just she came from New York. She didn't have 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.720 a ton of experience. I didn't have a weird boat 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.480 roughly the same experience. Why she had done like a 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.680 national commercial and a couple more things. But so we 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.600 were both like she was coming really into the experience 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:07.960 because I was. It was so neat to come and 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.320 watch her star rising every time I came to said, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.320 it was like they were getting more and more famous, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.800 you know what I mean, totally, you guys were already established. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.760 The new cast was. I was watching them experience it, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.760 which was really cool. But I think, you know, I'm 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.160 from the East Coast, and again we both just kind of, uh, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.559 we're just the new, you know, new people and coming 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.680 from the East. I don't know, just something about that, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.960 maybe both being kind of green and but it was 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.719 definitely we felt definitely comfortable together. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.200 And Glee was I mean, you know, we were almost 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.760 like we had peaked by the point that you guys, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.000 you know, we were at its peak when you joined 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.279 so as a special ed teacher. I mean you said, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.080 you know, some of the people didn't love that you 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.720 were also working as an actor, but not only that 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.680 that you were on the probably the hottest show on 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.440 TV at the time. What was your experience. It's like 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.000 out in the world, do people start to recognize you? 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.840 Do people at school recognize you? 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.400 What was it while I was on the show? I 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.520 did get recognized quite a bit. One of my favorites 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.720 was I was actually teaching. I had my kids at 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.400 Pershing Square ice skating, and a whole group of girls 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.720 from like a Catholic school or something. We're there, and 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.040 they lined up to get me hugs and autographs. So 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.920 that was like er special to me. You know, a 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:26.520 couple of times where people were I could feel people 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.080 were taking pictures of me when I was out, like 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.800 I would do something, feel a flash, you know, or hurt. Yeah. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.720 So it was fun for me. It was the perfect 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.440 amount of a little taste of fame and not have 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.520 to really be inconvenienced by it. Sure, you know, I 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.640 have it be fun but not stressful. Yeah, so I 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:46.640 appreciate it was fun. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.200 That's fair. That's fair. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.280 It's died out. I mean since then, I hardly get recognized. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.280 Once in a while, I get recognized, you know, from 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.360 something else too, but but usually still most often from Glee, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:06.720 but only once in a while. Yeah. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.680 So you didn't get to sing on the show, sadly? 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.000 Are you a singer? 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.560 I'm not a singer, but I could have sang. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.720 So you could have sang. So did you have a 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 song in mind that you would I would have wanted 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.120 to sing. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.040 You know, I never put that much thought into it, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.000 but I really did want to. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.720 Sing you a song? Yeah, you and Melissa should have 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.640 done one. I know that would have been so sweet. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.640 I had just hoped. I was like, why don't they 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.480 ask you? Why haven't they asked me? If I can sing? 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.320 Like I can carry a tune? So I knew that 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:34.520 they could work with me, you know what I mean. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.200 Yeah, they helped us on our hardest days, so yeah 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.720 they could. They can make it definitely, definitely, But I would. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.960 Have loved for it to be something heart felt towards Marley, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.160 just because the fans would have loved that. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.520 Yeah, totally. What I found and what I do find 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.240 fascinating is like, like you said, you're both coming into 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.880 this fairly green and together, and you had these scene 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.920 where you're by yourselves a lot, which I also think 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.080 is added pressure. I do feel like when you're in 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.480 a group, you know, we were often in ensemble scenes 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.000 where you can sort of depend on the other people. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:18.040 You guys were really leading these scenes, and then you're 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.160 also dealing with heavy subject matter almost every time you 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.199 were talking, and everything was on the show where a 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.120 lot of things are heightened and there's a lot of 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:34.880 craziness and silliness and snark you two always brought it 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:40.920 back to something like really grounded and meaningful, and I 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.800 just wondered, like, how did it feel, maybe like tonally 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.080 working on the show, because you were coming in and 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.840 doing these like sort of heavier scenes every time, and 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.080 like how was that getting into that well? 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.240 As an actor? For me? I found this to be 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.280 the most wonderful challenge. I mean, especially Shooter was shooting star. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.839 Shooting star that was a shooting star. Yes, I had 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.600 to have the camera up in my face like this, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.800 in like towering in a corner of the kitchen, and 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.920 I had never had to work with the camera like 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.280 up in my face so tight like that. And when 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.240 I left that day, and when I left lots of days, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.360 but that day in particular, I remembered so much why 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.960 I love acting. I was so high on the way home, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 like the best high I ever had. And I'm like, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.240 you can be on a big show. Who knows what 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.840 stars I met or worked with that day, But what 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.280 I know, what I remember is the high from acting 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.600 and having that challenge of that camera be in my face. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.960 I was floating on air like that. I never realized 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.280 when I got into television film because I really thought 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.640 I'd missed the live audience and wouldn't like it as 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.480 much as theater, but I did. It's just different challenges. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.040 They still give me such a high. Yeah, so it 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.720 was really Yeah, I loved I loved that we had 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.079 those quiet moments, those real moments, and it really connected 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.199 with the audience too, for sure. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.880 Yeah, Jenny, you must have felt that too, because, like 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.240 you both come from the theater world, where those intimate 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.440 scenes must be feel so counterintuitive to theater training because 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.080 you are you can be so quiet and still in 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:18.000 the cameras, catching every everything. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.200 Yeah, it's a nice challenge because I love playing to 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.280 a big audience. I love the instant gratification you get of, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.200 you know, having a live audience. But there's a nice challenge. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.079 And there's also something about the intimacy of those smaller 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.920 scenes that feels the act so theatrical. They feel theatrical 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.439 in a lot of ways that these kind of group 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.240 scenes don't feel. And we also got to perform on 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.679 stage and dance and sing, and so you got we 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.680 we got our fix of a little bit of both. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.520 But yeah, it was definitely it was a transition that 0:11:54.600 --> 0:12:00.400 I had to make initially coming from theater to to Glee, Trisha, 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:05.680 I'm curious so like your character really, I mean, the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.760 jokes that the kids made were relentless, and as we've 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.440 watched back, as many things don't age while on our show, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.079 it never let up and it was just a part 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.720 of what it was. But I'm curious from your perspective, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.880 what was that like for you to play that character. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.559 Well, I mean, having like being a real fat person 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:38.640 that I'm really fat in real life, I have experienced 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.840 a lot that had to make me kind of numb 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.160 and put up a wall, and so that's how you 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.840 cope with it. When you're a heavy person, you have 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.760 to you have to put up some kind of like 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.000 tough exterior because you're gonna deal with it a lot. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.960 So I mean I've already was in my thirties and 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.000 I dealt with it so much so it really didn't 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:59.520 bother me. You know. I don't love that most characters 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.400 that has to be about my weight, Like sometimes you 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:02.880 just wanted to be about you being a human, not 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:03.600 about your weight. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:04.920 But I also. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.560 Appreciated Glee for representing so many I mean that's what 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.480 I first fell in love with about the show before 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.160 I was ever on it right, Well, just the fact 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.160 that Ashley Think was on there and she was a 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.160 chubbier girl, and I was like, oh my god, they 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.559 like she had boyfriends and god, she was a normal person. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.680 Half the time, I was like Jesus treating you know, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.880 somebody with some weight like a normal person. It was 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.120 really great to see more than many things that Lee 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:30.400 did it. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.359 That was a first, you know, yeah, no, definitely, definitely. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:42.880 And to your credit, your character was so charming and 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:49.319 strong and such a great pillar for Melissa's character as well. 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.280 That while those jokes were relentless and I'm like, okay, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.880 enough of them, like we're done with them now watching them, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.160 you made your character so much more than that. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.880 Thank you, Thank you very much. You know what was 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.160 great on set was the one guy that made fun 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:05.599 of me a lot, one of the jocks. He was 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.280 a blondehaired guy that was recurring. His name was Jesse 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.280 the actor. I don't remember his last name, but I'll 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.120 tell you what. First of all, we became super tight. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.080 I have an adopted son and he was adopted, and 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.280 so like, we bonded on a really like emotional level. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.280 So there was no I mean, when he's called me 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.600 those names. He was the sweetest, most loving, mature, understanding guy. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:31.560 So oh great, you not to hear it whenever you 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.520 watch characters having to be mean like that. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.680 I was like, how do you do that? 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.000 It hurts me to watch you say when she sits 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.600 around the house, the house, you say that. I was like, oh, 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:46.520 his characters dying. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.760 Kevin was dying. I was like, I do not want 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.680 to say. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.520 You were always really awesome to be on set. I 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.120 don't know if you remember. You can be one of 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.960 my first days there. I don't know if we were 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.560 a lunch or we were around some table doing something. Yeah, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.880 and you came right up to me and spoke to me. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.320 It meant a lot to me. It means a lot 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.960 to the people who are new, like any smile or 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.320 sense it's a sign of welcome, you know. Yeah, Jenn, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.040 I saw you at work a lot. I'm not a lot. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.480 I mean it was always big crowds and stuff, you. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.280 Know, I know, like the cafeteria, like across the way. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.119 And I even read and I was reading the transcript 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.440 of you Guys's episode for the New Rachel and it 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.680 said that you're not like You're not like super comfortable, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.320 like meeting new people all the time and like, you 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.600 know what I mean, it's not like your thing. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.160 No, And I wish I think, knowing what I know 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.120 now on a set, if that was, if this, if 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.360 I was a regular on a show, I would go 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.520 out of my way at this point now to make 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.160 sure I knew every crew and a member's name, because 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:46.920 by the end we did. But you know, and then 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.840 make sure that everybody feels comfortable knowing what it's like 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.440 coming into somebody else's house now, you know, it was 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.520 it was a first for a lot of us. We 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.280 were also very green when we started, and you know, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.280 this was a huge experience in life changing for all 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.960 of us. And you know, we were learning, and so 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.640 we were looking to like the adults because there were 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.240 a lot of kids on our show, like, yeah, you 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.960 don't need to tell us, Like Michael Manley took us 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.680 under his wing, romy Rosemann took us under her wing, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 and like said, you know, they just gave us little 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.800 nuggets of wisdom because they've been doing this for forever 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.560 and they know what it's up, you know, like what 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.720 it's all about. So we really did look to them 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.760 for guidance and leadership as well. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.040 I didn't have any bad experiences. Everybody was so good. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.840 I was so green. I don't know what I was doing. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.520 I remember there was a somebody named Hope and she 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.360 played like she was like she had a higher What 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.360 was her role? What was her job? 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.720 Oh, Hope was an ad right, yep. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.560 Okay, well I remember, I didn't. I thought Hope was 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.880 one of the pas. I kept calling and oh my god, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.960 it's so embarrassed. Oh, I was so embarrassed. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.040 That's funny. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.120 I didn't know who I would like you if I 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.000 when I go on set now, I'm much more careful 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:58.840 to understand the role and who the person is. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.440 Yeah, you know a lot of people there. I never did, Yes, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.040 I think especially. I was always just in awe of 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.320 like people like you who could show up on a 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.440 really big show, which is already intimidating. It's a gigantic crew, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.879 a gigantic set, and then you're able to perform your 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.920 ass off because actors were all in our heads. We're 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.479 all insecure and questioning everything all the time, and so 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.280 at the end of the day, when the call action, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.280 it's just you and Melissa on screen. Everybody's quiet and 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.320 there's hundreds of people on set like waiting for you 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.920 to do your thing, Like, uh, right, that's why I'm here. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.240 You forget, I think it's easy to forget. And any 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.959 experience I had pre Glee, people were so kind to 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.840 me and went out of their way to be kind 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.080 to me on the Office and on True Wood, and 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:57.359 I was always sort of in awe and I tried 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.879 to do my best. It wasn't perfect about it, but 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.679 just the I feel like when you show up on 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.679 a set like that, the odds are stacked against you 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.360 in a number of ways. And to make anybody feel 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.280 at least seen or heard. And I think I always 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.919 felt like if somebody doesn't know who to go to, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.680 like let them come to me, and then I'll get 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.399 them to who they need to go to, because I 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.240 understand how crazy this is. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.560 Luckily, I think everybody was like that because I know 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.000 I have some people like and they just were so 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.159 nice and helped me out, even though it's nothing that 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.200 they should have been dealing with. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.000 No, everybody was. Everybody was very cool, and I think 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.120 we all learned from that as well. Like our crew 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.160 was the best, Like we just had such a wonderful 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.960 family and team surrounding us, teaching us because even though 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:45.760 we were four seasons in, it's still a lot of 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.240 times felt like we didn't know what we were doing either. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.520 Interesting listening to your podcast, I'm learning that and it's 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.959 such a learning experience to remember. Remember, Trisha, everybody's like 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.040 in their own head, everybody still, you know, even if 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.600 there are years on this still worried about their lines, 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.480 They're still worried about their performance. There, you know what 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.000 I mean. It's like, yeah, you forget you think everybody's 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.680 again they got their shit together, and they're not. I 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.960 have no problem, you know, my. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.600 Gosh, Oh you're fine. What are you up to now? 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.440 Are you teaching? Are you acting? What's what's the last? 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:17.600 Oh? 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.119 I left after Glee, I ended up doing a series 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.400 regular on a Tyler Perry Show, and I quit, amazing. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.720 I quit acting for that. I mean, I'm not not acting. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.159 You double down on the act. Yeah, right, got it, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:30.679 got it. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.800 It was amazing timing because I was really burned out, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.040 not on the kids, but on the sculpture of the 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.960 education system. So it was perfect timing. And then okay, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.840 so since then, right now, currently I have a horror 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:48.359 movie coming out in September Pineville. I have a show 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.600 that I'm recurring on on a major streaming service that 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.440