Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory spelling an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Eric Roberts, who were just in Dubai.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in Dubai.
Speaker 2: What were you filming? Because I know you're always working.
Speaker 3: I wasn't filming. I was showing up and going high
Speaker 3: and Eric Roberts and isn't as beautiful whatever? It was
Speaker 3: that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, wall I'm not going to make this about me,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna make this about me. I was just saying,
Speaker 2: I want to go to Dubai. See you flew wait wait.
Speaker 2: When we were working on Dancing with the Stars, I
Speaker 2: remember we had show night one night and then I mean,
Speaker 2: you guys, it's a maddening schedule, wonderfully fulfilling, but it's crazy,
Speaker 2: an epic and it doesn't stop. And I remember it
Speaker 2: show night and you had to get on a plane
Speaker 2: the next morning to go to New York and then
Speaker 2: come back learn in another dance for another week. And
Speaker 2: you were fine, You just keep going.
Speaker 3: Well, that's my life, and I love my life, even
Speaker 3: though it's a little crazy sometimes but it's great fun
Speaker 3: and they and occasionally they pay me.
Speaker 2: Well, that's but that's what I love about you. Like,
Speaker 2: do you wait, I have a question. Do you ever
Speaker 2: go anywhere for pleasure or you guys always just working
Speaker 2: and then you fit the pleasure.
Speaker 3: My pleasure is coming home. That's my vacation. That's all
Speaker 3: the animals greet me. The wife is here, and we
Speaker 3: have a great place where we don't have any neighbors.
Speaker 3: We have lots of land. You know, it's just it's heaven.
Speaker 2: Could we create like a commune because I love animals,
Speaker 2: I have five kids, I love your wife, and you
Speaker 2: have lots of land. I'm just putting it out there
Speaker 2: because I'm putting things out in the universe. I'm just kidding. Wait,
Speaker 2: tell me about your animals. I'm a huge animal person.
Speaker 3: Well, we have everything you can think we have. We
Speaker 3: have horses, we have chats, we have dogs, we have
Speaker 3: a scroll sanctuary. We have a raccoon family who we've
Speaker 3: taken care of for many generations. And we have a
Speaker 3: coy pond with all kinds of fancy koi fish, one
Speaker 3: great big guy who's white with the red nose, who
Speaker 3: we named Rudolph. And yeah, but the cool story is
Speaker 3: a squirrel sanctuary. We found a hurt scroll many years ago,
Speaker 3: and eighteen years ago found hurt scrool in the yard,
Speaker 3: and we take it to wherever you take it and
Speaker 3: they fix it and they call us, can and bring
Speaker 3: it back? Sure? They come back, they say, oh, you
Speaker 3: have all these trees, can bring all the hurt scrolls
Speaker 3: when they get well here, we said sure. Three hundred
Speaker 3: scrolls later, we have a scroll sanctuary, and the and
Speaker 3: the city gives us one hundred pounds of walnuts every
Speaker 3: month to feed the squirrels. So and they're all hand tamed,
Speaker 3: and they freed people out when they come to their
Speaker 3: property because they they walk towards to it with their
Speaker 3: hands out to eat, and everybody gets like freaked out.
Speaker 3: But it's just heaven here. That's that's what I do.
Speaker 3: When I'm all.
Speaker 2: I'm literally speechless right now. I never say no, I'm not.
Speaker 2: This is mind blowing because my dream is to have
Speaker 2: an animal sanctuary. I slowly started to build that dream. Obviously,
Speaker 2: you know my history, you know, born in Hollywood, grew
Speaker 2: up in Beverly Hills. My dad loved animals, and so
Speaker 2: together we would always talk about animals, and one day
Speaker 2: in animal sanctuary. So I slowly started to move out
Speaker 2: of you know the West Side, and Hollywood because you
Speaker 2: can't have animals and land affordably there, and moved to
Speaker 2: the valley and at one point had a property where
Speaker 2: I think we had like thirty animals, pigs, goats, chickens,
Speaker 2: and it was the life. I really wanted to give
Speaker 2: my kids a little bit of a change of plans
Speaker 2: right now, as life loves to throw curveballs and then
Speaker 2: you just keep going. But I want to get back
Speaker 2: to that because I really believe in animals and humans.
Speaker 2: It's just such a beautiful So were you always the
Speaker 2: animal person or Eliza or No.
Speaker 3: We're both animal people and we got together, so.
Speaker 2: We're animal people together.
Speaker 3: We're animal people, and we became a farm.
Speaker 2: I'm a big believer in animals. Have you ever had
Speaker 2: a pig?
Speaker 3: I've had any pigs in my life. Yes, pigs are
Speaker 3: really cool. In fact, the most famous pig in our
Speaker 3: world belonged to George Clooney many years ago. He had
Speaker 3: a pig and it was a Babe Magnet one percent.
Speaker 2: And I got into my love of pigs through Luke Perry,
Speaker 2: who I believe George Clooney had fed him into getting
Speaker 2: a pig, and he had Jerry Lee Lewis and who
Speaker 2: always came to set. So I was like, one day,
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a pig, and yeah, we have Wilbur.
Speaker 2: Wilbur the pig.
Speaker 3: How cute.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so animals, Oh my gosh. So we are
Speaker 2: in the Dancing with the Stars finale and I got
Speaker 2: to say, we had rehearsals all weekend. It was really
Speaker 2: good to be back.
Speaker 3: I love being back. I love that group. What amazes
Speaker 3: me about that group, and I've been around a lot
Speaker 3: of groups in my life, is that crew. They're two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty strong. They're the biggest crew I've ever
Speaker 3: been around, and they're all in sync, and they all
Speaker 3: like each other, and they all like us what least,
Speaker 3: they act like they do, and they're fantastic. They are
Speaker 3: the most incredible crew I've ever worked with.
Speaker 2: So one day we were having like a training session
Speaker 2: and everybody was around and you actually said that to everybody,
Speaker 2: and I remember sitting there thinking, Wow, I mean, you've
Speaker 2: been on a gazillion cruise in sets and you would know,
Speaker 2: but I've had the same experience. I have never been
Speaker 2: with a kinder crew that every single person for top
Speaker 2: to bottom and everywhere in between. Wants to be there.
Speaker 2: They're passionate, they're kind. No one talks bad. You know,
Speaker 2: there's no gossip, no gossip, which is great. As a girl,
Speaker 2: I hate the gossip. But what a great experience. And
Speaker 2: our time was cut short. Yours was longer than mine.
Speaker 3: Well, I got to tell you. The bad thing is
Speaker 3: we got cut. But the good thing is we didn't
Speaker 3: have to learn another dance. That's hard work. It's hard work.
Speaker 3: It's it's not really fun because you have to really
Speaker 3: devote yourself to it. And and I am not a dancer,
Speaker 3: so it's like it's like asked me to throw a
Speaker 3: shot put. It's the same thing. I'm not to throw
Speaker 3: a shot put. I'm not a dance But I did
Speaker 3: it for my wife who is very happy, and uh
Speaker 3: and I and I love giving to my wife. Finally
Speaker 3: something fun and you know, so that's why I was there.
Speaker 3: And it was fun because of brit my partner. She
Speaker 3: was so fantastic.
Speaker 2: Ritz Stewart is an amazing, amazing human. All the pros
Speaker 2: are they're awesome, They're really great. And I mean you
Speaker 2: know this, being on sets, you get really attached because
Speaker 2: you're in not a bubble, but in something that no
Speaker 2: one else can fully completely understand unless you're in it,
Speaker 2: and you're in it with those people for a certain
Speaker 2: amount of time that you'll never have again. So you
Speaker 2: get very close, very fast, hopefully. And from what I'm
Speaker 2: hearing and that, we've had one of the best seasons
Speaker 2: of the best cast and the best pros and everybody
Speaker 2: truly got along and it was just so incredible to
Speaker 2: be there. I do want to ask you, because brit
Speaker 2: has talked about it publicly, I was really wanting to
Speaker 2: see your dedication week. Are you okay to talk about that?
Speaker 3: Sure? Of course, because my dedication week is my to
Speaker 3: my favorite singer songwriter who happens to be in my family.
Speaker 3: But he's just I mean, when you hear is Steph,
Speaker 3: you go, oh, That's why Eric loves him, because he's
Speaker 3: that good. He's like incredible, and I'm just so proud
Speaker 3: of him and I'm so moved by his work. And
Speaker 3: so that's who I was going to dedicate everything too,
Speaker 3: and we're going to have him play too. He was
Speaker 3: going to get to play on the show.
Speaker 2: I know. I heard that, and Britt was so moved
Speaker 2: and she was telling the story on social media and
Speaker 2: literally brought me to tears listening to her and her
Speaker 2: adoration for you and care and she it was nice
Speaker 2: that she was like, I want you guys to know
Speaker 2: that this was important to my partner and we wanted
Speaker 2: to do it, and I wanted to see him do
Speaker 2: this because what I guess what everyone doesn't know is
Speaker 2: right up front in the season and they kind of
Speaker 2: throw a lot of things at you and they go
Speaker 2: really far, like it almost makes you believe you're going
Speaker 2: to be there a really long time. They're like, you know,
Speaker 2: what Disney film do you want to do? What dedication?
Speaker 2: You know? And you're like, wow, that's week five, that's
Speaker 2: week six, I'm going to be there, and you start
Speaker 2: to believe, which is good. And yeah, so I the
Speaker 2: dedication week though, that was something I was hoping personally
Speaker 2: to be there. I was going to dedicate it to
Speaker 2: my friend Shannon Doherty that I lost this year, who
Speaker 2: globally everyone lost a true warrior and amazing human.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we love Shannon and she.
Speaker 2: For everyone out there, you know, fighting so hard and
Speaker 2: still championing through. I wanted to dedicate it to them,
Speaker 2: and also dedicate it to the human that she elevated
Speaker 2: me to be because I don't know if I would
Speaker 2: have done Dancing with the Stars on some level if
Speaker 2: it wasn't for her. She before she passed, really encouraged
Speaker 2: me to find me again and to have my voice
Speaker 2: and have my confidence. So yeah, the dedication week, I wish.
Speaker 2: I wish they had done sooner. I wish everyone could
Speaker 2: have done it.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't that have been fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That would have been beautiful. Although your hair metal
Speaker 2: I was there for you were great.
Speaker 1: I mean, thank you so much, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I love that one that was That was one of
Speaker 2: my favorites. What Disney one were you going to do?
Speaker 2: Do you remember?
Speaker 3: I don't remember, Uh, Elijah, do you remember you.
Speaker 1: Were going to do your granddaughter George's favorite one?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Georgia, like my oldest grandchild, Georgia, she's five,
Speaker 3: and it was some from some movie she loved and
Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 2: Now I didn't have one. It was probably fate stepping in.
Speaker 2: They kept saying, hey, we gotta know, we got to
Speaker 2: know what's your Disney movie? And I'm like, with five kids,
Speaker 2: I have so many, And I was like, am I
Speaker 2: supposed to be the typical blonde princess, like I want
Speaker 2: to be a villain, though I'm always the good girl,
Speaker 2: like I don't know so many thoughts. I know everyone
Speaker 2: talks about your enormous body of work, which is enormous.
Speaker 2: I hope you're okay with me mentioning something because I'm
Speaker 2: a huge horror fan. You were in Human Centipede.
Speaker 3: I asked to be in that movie. I had read
Speaker 3: that one and two and I called them and I said, hey,
Speaker 3: you guys are making part three, put me in it.
Speaker 3: And they said, what do you mean? I said, I
Speaker 3: just want to be associated with that, with that beast
Speaker 3: that you guys you created. Put me in it. So
Speaker 3: they made me a senator who was all freaked out
Speaker 3: by the creature.
Speaker 2: So you were number three, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh wait that so I'm a huge horror fan, like
Speaker 2: a sick horror fan. It doesn't matter a list B list,
Speaker 2: like I've seen every horror film ever made. Human Centipedes.
Speaker 2: You could tell I'm getting really passionate right now, I'm
Speaker 2: getting loud. Sorry, Human Centipede is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: And hey, it's not for everyone, And definitely when you
Speaker 2: say that to someone, they they're like, but.
Speaker 3: For anyone under fifteen years old. That's how I feel
Speaker 3: about it. It is so gross and so oh my god,
Speaker 3: what is that that you can't show children that movie? Ah?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's where I went wrong.
Speaker 3: You can't show children in that movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, Eric Roberts, I've never showed my children
Speaker 2: that movie. Yeah, but no, it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: So you're a huge horror fan.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love horror movies. Made a bunch of
Speaker 3: horror movies. I've made probably half a dozen, and I
Speaker 3: just love them. My favorite horror movie of all time, though,
Speaker 3: is because I was such a little boy when I
Speaker 3: saw it, and it scared me for months and months
Speaker 3: and months I dreamed about it. And it's called The
Speaker 3: Tingler starring Peter Lourie. I have to look it up.
Speaker 3: It's all black and white film, a caterpillar about about
Speaker 3: two feet long, about eight inches wide, and it goes
Speaker 3: into movie theaters and kills people. But as a little boy,
Speaker 3: oh my god, it scared me so bad.
Speaker 2: The Tingler. I'll have to watch that and any others.
Speaker 2: What are your top three? So Tingler and what other two?
Speaker 3: Well? The first and the second wolf Man with long
Speaker 3: Chaney Junior are epic, epic epic films, and of course
Speaker 3: the first Dracula talkie.
Speaker 2: Oh you're going old school here.
Speaker 3: I just like good horror movies as opposed to boo movies.
Speaker 3: I like a story. I like to get into the character,
Speaker 3: feel sorry for him that he's evil. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are there any current ones that you enjoy? Have you
Speaker 2: seen Hereditary?
Speaker 3: I have not? Should I?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, watch Hereditary. It's it has the gore, it has,
Speaker 2: but it has the story. The acting is great. Dare
Speaker 2: I say it's an artsy, you know, horror film, but yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's very well done. Oh my gosh, can we
Speaker 2: do a horror film together?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Loved to Elizac and the three of us do a
Speaker 2: horror film together? Yes, Oh my god, I would lose
Speaker 2: my mind. Okay, so no one here probably knows, but
Speaker 2: Eric and I have this. Dancing with the Stars is
Speaker 2: not the first time we have worked together. We did
Speaker 2: a show. It was his series on ABC called Less
Speaker 2: Than Perfect, and I came in as a guest star,
Speaker 2: which to this day, and I'm not just saying this
Speaker 2: because you're on my podcast. I'm not just saying this
Speaker 2: because I was just on Dancing with the Stars. I
Speaker 2: tell everyone this story. I really do, because going way back,
Speaker 2: I try to play it cool, but I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan girl of yours. But aside from that, it is
Speaker 2: very difficult sometimes to be a guest star going on
Speaker 2: to someone else's show. I know that because I was
Speaker 2: doing nine O two and oh, and I was always
Speaker 2: super welcoming to anyone that was on the show because
Speaker 2: I know it's hard and it's scary, and you're there
Speaker 2: to show up and do your best work, and it
Speaker 2: makes it so much easier when people are inclusive and
Speaker 2: welcome you and not by me. But I did see
Speaker 2: at times on nine O two and oh maybe that
Speaker 2: didn't happen and everyone was young and going through their
Speaker 2: own stuff, but it was a huge thing for me.
Speaker 2: And when I went on Less than Perfect, I got
Speaker 2: to say, you were unbelievable to me. We had scenes together,
Speaker 2: but you welcome me, you made me feel comfortable, and
Speaker 2: it was one of the best experiences. And I love multiicam,
Speaker 2: I love comedy, but doing that show, I felt really great,
Speaker 2: and I got to say it was because of you.
Speaker 3: Well good for me. I'm glad to hear that story.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's so true.
Speaker 3: I've always been a fan. I've always been amazed by
Speaker 3: your existence, your life, how you've handled it. And I
Speaker 3: like you. You're fun to hang out with.
Speaker 2: I like you too, and you're really here's the thing
Speaker 2: I feel like, having watched your movies, having seen you,
Speaker 2: you're disarming. I got to say you disarmed me that
Speaker 2: day because I walked in not nervous, but nervous of
Speaker 2: your presence, because you're epic, you're a legend, and you've
Speaker 2: played some like sketchy characters. I was like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what he's going to be like. But I came
Speaker 2: into it with no preconceived notions other than just watching
Speaker 2: your movies. And that was it. And I came in
Speaker 2: and you were so charming and so funny and so likable,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm home. Like
Speaker 2: it hugged me and I was just like, and when
Speaker 2: we went back to Dancing with the Stars, I'm just
Speaker 2: this human. I was like, oh my god, he's done
Speaker 2: fifty million things. I don't know if he's even gonna
Speaker 2: remember that was one episode I worked on years ago.
Speaker 2: He won't even remember. And you saw me and you
Speaker 2: remembered me, and I was blown away by that.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm a fan of I'm a fan of your life.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of yours too. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 2: of your wife's as well.
Speaker 3: Me too.
Speaker 2: I know she's the best, Eliza. Will you pop on?
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 1: Certainly.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Look at the idea I stole from Carry Anne and Nava.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, did you make that yourself?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I wish I was crafty like that. I'm so not
Speaker 1: crafty Amazon, I said up all night made it.
Speaker 2: For it was a crafty too. Oh my gosh. If
Speaker 2: he's an animal lover, he's charming, he's funny, he's a
Speaker 2: fan of mine, and he crafts. If he crafted too,
Speaker 2: I might have to steal him, Eliza.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's time to share, time to share.
Speaker 2: You've had him for what is it, thirty two years?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Thirty two years?
Speaker 2: Yeah, give or take? Okay? Cool? Oh I like that?
Speaker 2: Wait where did you get that?
Speaker 1: You mean this?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Amazon?
Speaker 2: Everything from Amazon?
Speaker 1: You guys not to shamelessly promote.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're so jealous and you saw your Carry
Speaker 3: Anne's captain. Oh I want Oh my god, I was inspired.
Speaker 1: I wasn't jealous Tory, the sides lesson perfect. I think
Speaker 1: the first day we saw you at dancing, I also
Speaker 1: reminded you that you came and read for my mom
Speaker 1: and me for I believe it was her TV movie
Speaker 1: either Who Gets the Friends or the Other Woman and
Speaker 1: you're a little girl and you and and my mom
Speaker 1: just immediately she just said that girl is special. I
Speaker 1: love her. She just loved you. She absolutely loved you.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, you came in an auditioned.
Speaker 1: It was so great.
Speaker 2: That was when you told me that story, it like
Speaker 2: warmed my heart because it included my dad and I know, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it made me really really happy because it's you know,
Speaker 2: it hasn't always been easy. No, we conceived notions nebo babies. No,
Speaker 2: I think I feel like I started nebo babies. I
Speaker 2: don't even know why.
Speaker 1: Well, because you were you kind of were ahead of
Speaker 1: your time.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's there wasn't nebo baby. Then it
Speaker 2: was nepotism, and it was like, we're spelling, she can't
Speaker 2: act because her father's famous. It's it's them, Okay, So
Speaker 2: I believe them.
Speaker 4: Family businesses aren't just our business. I mean carpenters a
Speaker 4: lot of times there are kids, you know, lawyers die,
Speaker 4: they all passing down.
Speaker 3: We all do that.
Speaker 2: But why are we scrutinized so much?
Speaker 3: Whereas it because we have the jobs everybody in the
Speaker 3: world wants. Everybody wants our job. Everybody thinks they can
Speaker 3: do our job. And the the the better you are
Speaker 3: at our job, the easier you make it look. So
Speaker 3: everybody thinks they can do it. It's hard acting, but
Speaker 3: if you're good, you make it look easy. So somebody
Speaker 3: thinks I can do that.
Speaker 2: You're right. And I always hear the word over and
Speaker 2: over for in this business. I guess thirty five years
Speaker 2: now forty glamorous. I know, oh boy, I know.
Speaker 1: It's so it's the myth in Eric's book. You kind
Speaker 1: of busts that myth a little because even though he
Speaker 1: was telling you about our house, we do. You have
Speaker 1: like a large front yard and a lot of land.
Speaker 1: You know, the house is also falling apart and in
Speaker 1: need of all kinds of love and help. And I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a job.
Speaker 3: I got a story for you the other day. Beautiful
Speaker 3: windows in our kitchen And the other day I'm opening
Speaker 3: one and it comes out the out of the frame. Whoa,
Speaker 3: I got a window in my handle LEI but it
Speaker 3: gets to all carefully, don't break it. I mean it
Speaker 3: was and that's our house.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you do all you do the work too?
Speaker 3: Please? No, I do not. I am an actor.
Speaker 2: Okay, good. I couldn't take him Collins. I was about
Speaker 2: to lose my mind, Thank god. Okay, don't tell me.
Speaker 2: You cook too, Eric, I cook, but.
Speaker 3: I'm not handy. I do not do repair work. I
Speaker 3: did not fix it up. I oh it's alyk. I'll
Speaker 3: take care of that. I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2: But you cook.
Speaker 1: And that's and then we were talking about baking, right
Speaker 1: we were okay, So Tori, we have to tell you
Speaker 1: because Keaton Keaton Simons is the person that Eric was
Speaker 1: doing his dedicate. You never said his name.
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: It's okay. It gives people something to research. But our daughter,
Speaker 1: Morgan Simons of Pie Bakeshop, PI Bakeshop because you have
Speaker 1: five kids, a lot of birthdays the pie sign, so
Speaker 1: she is We're very lucky because she's a chef. She's
Speaker 1: a professional chef, and in culinary school her least favorite
Speaker 1: instructor was the pastry and baking person. So she decided
Speaker 1: to play against the material and really kick ass and
Speaker 1: impress him because it was impossible, and she became this
Speaker 1: unbelievable constructor of these magical cakes.
Speaker 3: She's such an incredible baker and artist that one year
Speaker 3: she gave her brother a cake that was a guitar
Speaker 3: in a real guitar case. He thought it was a
Speaker 3: real guitar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when they presented to him in hotel cafe and
Speaker 1: his angel case with a candle in it, and LeVar
Speaker 1: Burton was there and Tia Carra, everybody can tell the story.
Speaker 1: And Keaton first said, why is there a candle in
Speaker 1: my guitar? And then he realized, he said, why is
Speaker 1: my sister being my guitar tech today? And give him me?
Speaker 1: And then he put it together. Oh it's my birthday
Speaker 1: and it's a cake.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Was this before what's that show?
Speaker 1: It was before the shows where they do that, right,
Speaker 1: She just like was doing it heat of her time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great. So if you ever decide that you want
Speaker 1: to love baking, she'll come over and she can make
Speaker 1: you love baking.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing I feel like in life, where
Speaker 2: either we bake or we cook I'm really good at cooking.
Speaker 2: I put all my heart and soul into it. I
Speaker 2: think we talked a little bit about this yestoray and
Speaker 2: I like, throw, yeah, if it's not on the ceiling,
Speaker 2: then it wasn't made by me, and it's not with love,
Speaker 2: and it's not execute it right. I'm really messy, but
Speaker 2: I'm really proud. I'm like a mad scientist in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Now when it comes to baking. I'm not saying I
Speaker 2: can't bake. I can bake, but it's a precision thing
Speaker 2: and that's not my thing, right, right, right. But my
Speaker 2: daughter is an amazing baker. She's also good at math.
Speaker 2: So you know which what age? Stella, who is sixteen?
Speaker 2: And oh, I'll have to introduce you guys. It was
Speaker 2: such a mad rush the two shows I was on.
Speaker 2: But at the finale, I want to introduce everyone to
Speaker 2: my family Dancing with the Stars and beyond. But it
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's one of her dreams in life.
Speaker 2: She's very specific. She wants to own a bakery in Japan.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she's had this dream. She's been baking since
Speaker 2: she was four years old. She's outstanding to the point
Speaker 2: where I kind of just stand back in the kitchen
Speaker 2: because she so, yeah, she's a junior in high school,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of like she's like doing all this
Speaker 2: math and stuff, which I know she will need for baking,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, gosh, all the other stuff. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: just get through it. But you're creative, you are, and
Speaker 2: you know what your dream is, so we should connect
Speaker 2: them for sure.
Speaker 1: And I agree with your philosophy about school. I think
Speaker 1: that you know the part of it that makes kids
Speaker 1: hate school, we just need to not take that so seriously,
Speaker 1: especially if you already are what you are, and then
Speaker 1: just go ahead and let that blossom. I think that's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Right for me, It's an archaic notion that was set
Speaker 2: up so long ago.
Speaker 1: Of this.
Speaker 2: You have science, you have history of this. Everyone was
Speaker 2: putting into one box. And you know, growing up, even
Speaker 2: I'm not that old, but even back and I still
Speaker 2: to this day have trouble getting past the fact that
Speaker 2: I failed algebra like twice. I felt dumb and I
Speaker 2: always say that word and it's taken me years to
Speaker 2: realize I'm smart. Cookie, I'm a really smart woman. And
Speaker 2: it's funny because school is supposed to enhance our academic
Speaker 2: you know, knowledge and process and create us and in
Speaker 2: some ways it conforms us and it's a bummer. And
Speaker 2: nowadays we let our kids kind of dictate who they
Speaker 2: are at a young age, and I love that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all my kids I kind of know exactly the types
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 1: I think that's so great. More parents should be like that.
Speaker 1: One of the things that Keaton also did, besides all
Speaker 1: of his music, there's a thing called the Natural Child Project,
Speaker 1: and they put out a book called The Unschooling Manual,
Speaker 1: and they wanted an audiobook and they loved his voice,
Speaker 1: so they had him read it. He was so inspired
Speaker 1: by that. Is like we do we need to update
Speaker 1: that whole concept because so many kids are just oppressed
Speaker 1: by it, and like you said about yourself, they start
Speaker 1: to feel bad about themselves. It's baseless, and then you
Speaker 1: can't get rid of it, you know. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you. That's beautiful. Your kids are very lucky.
Speaker 2: Thank you. But yes, I would love to be a
Speaker 2: force to advocate to change that. Wait, Eric, tell me
Speaker 2: about your book.
Speaker 3: Well, it took me a couple of years to write it,
Speaker 3: and it's the story of my life so far. I'm
Speaker 3: very honest about myself and my misgivings and my journey,
Speaker 3: and the love of my wife and the love of
Speaker 3: my family, and the love of what I do for
Speaker 3: a living, and the fact I'm lucky enough to be
Speaker 3: able to do it pretty much every day, and just
Speaker 3: I have a life worth living, and hopefully made it
Speaker 3: clear in the book. It's called Runaway Train. Runaway publisher
Speaker 3: named it. I made the movie. They named the book.
Speaker 3: It's already out. It's been out for about ten days,
Speaker 3: and he's doing very well.
Speaker 2: Did you do the audio recording of it already?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Did?
Speaker 3: And the audio version is actually better than the written
Speaker 3: than the printed version, because I got in the audio
Speaker 3: room with my wife and we had a field day
Speaker 3: and change a bunch of stuff. Didn't tell them. We
Speaker 3: just did it. So it's out there. It's a little
Speaker 3: different from the book, sophy. I recommend the audio version.
Speaker 2: Awesome. You have such a great voice. I probably should
Speaker 2: know this. Have you done many voiceovers?
Speaker 3: I've done a lot of voice work. Yeah, other people's books.
Speaker 2: I put like animation, narration, I've done narrations.
Speaker 3: I've done it. In fact, I have a movie out
Speaker 3: right now that I'm very proud of Hippo. Hippo, I
Speaker 3: do the narration for the whole film. It's probably the
Speaker 3: best movie I've been associated with in my adult life.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, maybe that's true. Anyway, it stars my wife
Speaker 3: and these other two actors that are phenomenal. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: it's basically a three character piece. And I'm only bragging
Speaker 3: about it because I can because she The movie is
Speaker 3: so good and she's so good in it. Wait you
Speaker 3: see it, and it really You know my wife I've
Speaker 3: known since nineteen ninety three when we coached on the
Speaker 3: movie together. She's an elite actor. But the world doesn't
Speaker 3: know that until Hippo. Wait you see Hippo. It's gonna
Speaker 3: blow your mind. And she proves to the world she's elite.
Speaker 3: And the movie is phenomenal, and these kids in it
Speaker 3: are phenomenal. And I'm a snob. I don't think anybody's
Speaker 3: that good. My wife kills it. Oh my god, she's phenomenal,
Speaker 3: and it's just a cool movie. Hip Hop.
Speaker 2: I have heard amazing things. I'm excited to see you.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's a good movie.
Speaker 2: Everyone's hippo. You guys are the ultimate duo, not just married,
Speaker 2: not just partners, not just best friends. But you start together,
Speaker 2: you produce together. Like everything package we have.
Speaker 3: We have a good time together. We even have a
Speaker 3: good time fighting.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, it's not clarify that one why
Speaker 2: she likes she.
Speaker 3: Like tells me no, and I'll say yes, no, yes, no,
Speaker 3: and we'll do that and both like, okay, let's start over.
Speaker 3: And we know we uh, we like each other.
Speaker 1: We don't sweat it so much anymore.
Speaker 3: And we like each other. And you know when when
Speaker 3: when we disagree, it's because we have a difference of opinions.
Speaker 3: So we explore that and we and it's fun. And
Speaker 3: my wife is much smarter than I am, so I
Speaker 3: love what I learned all the time from I'm a
Speaker 3: professional student and that's why I'm an actor. I love learning,
Speaker 3: and she's a great teacher. We have great time.
Speaker 2: And I've spent a lot of time with them together.
Speaker 2: And I'm a believer in love and an epic romantic.
Speaker 2: I have five kids with my soon to be ex husband,
Speaker 2: but we're still very close. And I want to find
Speaker 2: what you guys have. I want to grow with somebody
Speaker 2: because I'm on my next phase in my life. You know,
Speaker 2: my fifties my second chapter. Yeah, so I don't know
Speaker 2: if I want to find an Eric or in Eliza
Speaker 2: or a combination of both.
Speaker 3: Combinations to grow old. It's really fun to go old.
Speaker 3: The only bad thing I'm growing old is you eventually die.
Speaker 3: But if you didn't die, growing old is such a
Speaker 3: wonderful journey. We're having so much fun.
Speaker 2: Right, can we change that other part? Maybe there's a
Speaker 2: way still.
Speaker 4: I know well you, I mean, you guys work together too.
Speaker 4: I'm still glad to know that you're still close. That's
Speaker 4: so important.
Speaker 1: But Tori, you are done. You're going to find that
Speaker 1: because it's very different when your kids are growing up.
Speaker 1: Already you have these freedoms that.
Speaker 4: You guys that you really never had, and they right
Speaker 4: and so now and plus your priorities are already you
Speaker 4: already know your priorities. And it's a great test for
Speaker 4: the person that you partner with because since your priorities
Speaker 4: are your kids, then then that person's gonna know that
Speaker 4: going in. And you know, it's just like we're not
Speaker 4: we're not putting on our best Sunday everything anymore. We're
Speaker 4: just who we are. So I am You're just.
Speaker 1: So wonderful I think that your next chapter in terms
Speaker 1: of romance is going to be just the best. That's
Speaker 1: my self.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm I'm excited. One thing about me is I
Speaker 2: never lose hope. I am a big believer in believing,
Speaker 2: and I believe so hard in everything ebbs and flows,
Speaker 2: you know, professionally, romantically, financial, life. I'd never give up hope.
Speaker 2: And that's a great thing for people to have to
Speaker 2: keep going. Yes, so listen, this is amazing. I am
Speaker 2: loving this interview. I love both of them so much so.
Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars finale Tuesday nights. Eric and I
Speaker 2: are performing in it. Everyone's back the entire season, all
Speaker 2: the cast. It's so nice to be reunited and it
Speaker 2: feels so good, and we've all been working hard and
Speaker 2: we plan to put on an epic show and I'm
Speaker 2: blessed to be a small part of it. Small, but
Speaker 2: I'm throughout it. May I ask you about this because
Speaker 2: I would be amiss if I didn't. My seven year
Speaker 2: old is obsessed with Christmas movies, like obsessed, and I
Speaker 2: was telling him, I'm like, oh, I'm interviewing and interviewing.
Speaker 2: I don't interview, I'm talking with my friends today. I'm
Speaker 2: talking with Eric Roberts and he's on Dancing with the
Speaker 2: Stars and I showed him. He's like, oh yeah, because
Speaker 2: he came, oh you're back. I was just about to say.
Speaker 2: I was telling my seven year old boy Bo this
Speaker 2: morning that I was talking with you today, and I
Speaker 2: showed him your picture and he remembered because it came
Speaker 2: to Bow shows I was in and he's coming back
Speaker 2: to the finale and he's like, oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: like and I said, I was telling Eliza he's obsessed
Speaker 2: with Christmas movies. And I was looking up, you know,
Speaker 2: current stuff that you were doing, and I saw Sants's cousin, Yes,
Speaker 2: and I go, Bo, your friend Eric here, look and
Speaker 2: he was like, oh, he's very excited. And it's wait,
Speaker 2: it's coming out in a few days.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: So it's premiering at the Las Crusis Film Festival on
Speaker 1: December fourth. And Eric doesn't know this yet, but he's
Speaker 1: flying down there because I'm working on something. There's another
Speaker 1: one out too, called the the Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful one. It's in theaters. You I'm obsessed
Speaker 1: with Christmas movies too, Yes she is, but this one's
Speaker 1: in theaters. It has Lauren Graham, it has Judy.
Speaker 2: Greer and I love her so much.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Tori, So you have any careers, You're going
Speaker 1: to adword this movie. It's in theaters. Go to the theater.
Speaker 1: But the Santa's cousin is going to be so fabulous
Speaker 1: for bo it's so much fun. I'm missus clause he's Santa.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's very excited. So he's excited to see you
Speaker 2: in it, because you know, you know, when there's seven, like,
Speaker 2: they don't understand. I can't tell him your body of work.
Speaker 2: I tell it. He doesn't know who I am. He
Speaker 2: doesn't know what I've been in Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2: He said to me, Mom, I love you, but it's
Speaker 2: very long to sit in that audience. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's right, He's right, you know, but he's seven. He's like,
Speaker 2: can I watch it on tis crafty and clever? He said,
Speaker 2: could I watch it on TV? How about that? And
Speaker 2: I said, no, baby, I want you there because this
Speaker 2: is a moment we'll never get back in time, and
Speaker 2: I would love you there. I did not tell him
Speaker 2: it's a three hour show though I finale is three hours. Ye,
Speaker 2: it's rough, but he'll be very excited to see you
Speaker 2: in person because you're in Santa's Cousin and play Santa Claus. Wait,
Speaker 2: you play Santa Claus or Santa's cousin who steps in this?
Speaker 3: You'll see I play Santa Claus. But you'll see I
Speaker 3: don't want to wreck the story. You'll love it. It's
Speaker 3: a kids dream the story. You'll love it.
Speaker 2: And I know Jonathan Stoddard and he's in it. Correct,
Speaker 2: great guy, he's great. So yes, very very excited. Now
Speaker 2: I know you're going to film today because you're juggling
Speaker 2: a million things at once. What are you filming today today?
Speaker 3: I play I play a lawyer who's in the wrong
Speaker 3: room at the wrong time and dies. Oh no, I
Speaker 3: died today. And they said, do you have anything that
Speaker 3: you don't mind getting blood on? I said no, I don't.
Speaker 3: They said, okay, we'll address you. So that's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, so you heard it here. So he's going
Speaker 2: to film today. He did this with me today. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful you're going to film today. You're dying today,
Speaker 2: and then you're going to be on Dancing with the
Speaker 2: Stars tomorrow. So it's like, hey, I.
Speaker 3: Love another every day. And I'm also very lucky. You know, actors, actors,
Speaker 3: you know, your whole life is spent trying to get
Speaker 3: on a set, and you know I live on sets.
Speaker 2: I love that. Do you do your own stunts? Ever?
Speaker 3: No, You're like, no, Remember the Summons Association in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty two because of Bob Fosse in nineteen eighty six
Speaker 3: and doing then I did a bunch of little stunts
Speaker 3: and then nineteen eighty six and I'm when when I
Speaker 3: went under my own stunts for a runaway train, I
Speaker 3: slipped a little bit on outside of the train and
Speaker 3: I scared myself and I realized I'm not a stunt man.
Speaker 3: I am an actor. In fact, I'm an actress. I'm
Speaker 3: an actor. I'm not at all physical. So I decided
Speaker 3: I'd never do a stunt again, and I never have,
Speaker 3: and I'm happy to talk about have you.
Speaker 1: Done your own toy stunts?
Speaker 2: I do try to do it as much as I can.
Speaker 2: I just got back from filming a movie in Florida
Speaker 2: and Everglades, and with my new found dancing skills and confidence,
Speaker 2: I went in and I'm supposed to be in a swamp,
Speaker 2: you know, here's a Beverly Hills girl throwing me into
Speaker 2: a swamp. You know, woman in peril movie. It's a
Speaker 2: great movie. It's a thriller. I had so much fun,
Speaker 2: great class, great director, great crew. But they were like,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be in the Everglades. There's alligators, there's swamps,
Speaker 2: and I was like, throw me in because I'm trying
Speaker 2: really hard at this point in my life to live
Speaker 2: without fear. I wow, lived with a lot of fear
Speaker 2: for the first fifty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And my dad, who was my hero, but you know,
Speaker 2: if he were here today, he would tell everyone he
Speaker 2: had a lot of fears. And I really took that
Speaker 2: on a lot of it and I don't want my
Speaker 2: kids to have that, right. So, Dancing with the Stars,
Speaker 2: I was scared, going to do it, swamps with alligators
Speaker 2: and airboats. I was scared, But I'm going to do it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so great, I'm telling you, because fear based.
Speaker 2: Reactions finding a partner after fifty you know, fifty one, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to do it all right, right, it's aired.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's that's really that's so inspiring. That's so
Speaker 1: inspiring because serves a purpose, but it's limited to like,
Speaker 1: don't get a car in a car with a kidnapper.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's we we overuse that particular
Speaker 1: trigger we do and unfortunately boxes us in and we
Speaker 1: realize it too late. You're realizing it at a perfect time.
Speaker 2: That's great, right, And yeah, I'm trying to swap fear
Speaker 2: with dream. So if I can dream and I can
Speaker 2: do it, I'm eliminating that and just pushing through it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, you're beautiful and dancing with the stars just beautiful.
Speaker 1: So and even a little thing that we're doing for
Speaker 1: the finale is gorgeous to see what you're doing. So excited.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I'm very excited. I can't wait. I will
Speaker 2: see you guys tomorrow. Have a great day. Dying today, Eric,
Speaker 2: because I love how you live.
Speaker 3: So I got to tell you I love dying. I've
Speaker 3: died lots. In fact, I had a fan send me
Speaker 3: a montage of all times I've died, Oh my god, hundreds.
Speaker 3: And I had another fan who didn't know that fan
Speaker 3: semi montage with all the people I have killed thousands.
Speaker 3: I've been a busy guy when it comes to death.
Speaker 2: Wow, Eliza, your husband's rad.
Speaker 1: It's pretty rad.
Speaker 2: You guys are amazing. I love you very much. You're
Speaker 2: near and dear in my heart, and I would love
Speaker 2: to stay in touch. People always say stay in touch,
Speaker 2: but there's people that touch your lives and keep coming
Speaker 2: back into your lives and you feel like there's a
Speaker 2: reason and a purpose and so yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 2: I'll see you on the ballroom floor tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah,