WEBVTT - 9021One on One: Casper Van Dien 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:01.640 It's nine OGE. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:13.200 With Jenny Garth and Tory spelling. Okay, everybody today on OMG, 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:14.280 we have a very. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.360 But crowds exploding was so guessed. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.959 Spesual guest today on the pod tour since he was your. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.640 Lover were Randy. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.120 Hi. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:27.960 Hi. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.639 Oh my god, you guys look so beautiful. It's like 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.360 it hasn't even changed. You guys looked the same as 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.040 that in the nineties. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.559 In the nineties. Oh my gosh, is beautiful too. You 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.000 are saying that about a boy. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.800 You haven't seen either of us since the nineties. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:47.839 I haven't seen either of you since the night I 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:48.440 don't think. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.040 I think we we've run into each other at events, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.480 but it was not long after the nineties. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.040 Yeah, it's not long at the nice quite a few years. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.280 Starship Trooper days. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.560 That's nineteen ninety seven, so there is. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:03.600 Still the nineties. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.160 Yeah, still, So we haven't seen each other the nineties. Yeah, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.640 I think I think I almost saw well. I think 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.640 I ran into you once Torri and in maybe the 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.120 early two thousands, but it was just briefly, and I 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.440 think you were going through something and I was going something, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.559 so like crossing like that, and I think I saw 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.640 you too. I just it's been so long though it's 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.440 been it's been one hundred years. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:34.440 Oh my love interest, Griffin Stone, Oh my gosh, this 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.560 was like Donna's first, like big love interest, like that 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:38.800 wasn't a main character. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.280 Yeah, then you got you you you left me for 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.000 the Ray Pruet guy right after that. I know I'm 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.280 kind of a pumpkin headude or or something like that. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.240 I think that was the line. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.800 You know what, in hindsight thirty something years later, I 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.960 think I got that one wrong. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:02.400 Yeah maybe, Yeah, you guys are very You were committed 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.160 to the whole. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.200 Yeah, you were still on the very pruit train until 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.760 we washed it back. And now she has a respect. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:17.240 Yeah, because he know too late. So Griffin and Donna, Well, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.359 if we ever do something else, you. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.560 Never know, I would love that. That would be amazing. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.200 I wanted to tell you. I wanted to get this 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.799 off right away. Your father, Uh was so good to me. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.000 He was such a good man to me, and he 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.799 always believed in me. He come over here and he 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.920 would he just give me a hug, and he pulled 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.520 me over and he he then put me on a 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.240 series afterwards, Titans. He just he always was thinking about me. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.440 So you're your your father. I mean, of course you 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.959 guys were wonderful, and and and and Jason and Luke 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.160 were wonderful, but your your dad was something special to me. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.320 So I just want you to know that I never 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.000 have never forgotten him, or his kindness, or his uh 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.440 his belief in me and uh and and I just 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.120 was always had much gratitude. And I've never gotten the 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.880 chance to tell you how I was sorry about his 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.520 passing because he meant a lot to me. So I 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.679 just wanted to Yeah. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.440 Well he cared about you a lot too, and did 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.520 believe in you. He thought you were so talented. Obviously 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.880 you are very talented. He knows how to pick him, right, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.440 he went on, I mean, look at your career, like, okay, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:25.000 so how. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:25.160 Did it go? 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:26.760 So you were on NINEO tourrent, you were on One 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.560 Life to Live first, right, Yes. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.240 It was One Life to Live for a little bit. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.360 And then I got when I came back out, I 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.960 got on nine on two. Oh, I had those those 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:37.760 I think it was supposed to be seven episodes. I 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.240 think we shot five. I think I shot five, And 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:40.880 what happened to. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.760 Was kind of the seven Prime Time. 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.480 Yeah, it was one. It was, Yeah, it was. I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.960 had had a show that competed with you. I know 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.040 what was it called. It was called Freshman Dorm. I 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.200 remember that show briefly. Yeah, I came on and uh, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.920 I think I might have done that. I don't know 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.760 if that was afterwards, I can't know. That was in 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.640 nineteen ninety three, so that was before that was That 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.160 was before I was it was competing with Melrose Place 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.040 or something like that, or they thought they were going to. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.920 But Steve Tish produced that. It had Robin Lively in 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:21.360 it and right and Matthew Fox and you know it 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.440 was and I played a surfer in that, and it 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.520 was before this guy from Jersey playing a surfer. So 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:28.360 it was kind of funny. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.000 So tell us how it happened for you, how you 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.520 got the role on. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.080 You remember, well, I just remember going to the offices 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.160 out which later we did shoot. We shot Titans at 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.120 the same place we shot nine O two and oh. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:44.920 So when I was on. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.880 Titans, wait, really in the same warehouse. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:52.120 Same warehouse out in the valley. So what yeah? Yeah, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.159 how long were you there? 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.880 How many years were you stuck in that warehouse? 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.960 I only only one season. We got canned right away. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.760 We were there for were you were you locked into 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.760 the warehouse. I'm just as a friend. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.080 I basically didn't want to go out. I was boarding 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.800 myself in you know, the you know, I was trying 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.640 to you know, everything was it was just similar. It 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:19.400 was just a similar place and and it just reminded 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.080 me of that. But it was the same casting office 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.120 and everything that we had. So I had to go 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.720 in an audition for that, and uh uh yeah, I was. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.760 I was so excited when I gotten on or too, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.000 because I uh had I auditioned for the other I 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.159 don't think I auditioned for the other roles. I don't 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.400 think I auditioned for the lead roles in that, but 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.280 I had always gone. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.159 I don't think Brandon you would have been like a Brandon, right. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:43.960 You know. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.920 I think was seen more as like a surfer back 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.520 then or something like that. You know. It was so 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.200 funny because the first two roles I got when I 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.599 went to Hollywood were a lifeguard and a surfer. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.640 I'm literally from early Dylan. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.279 Yeah, and I went to a military school, to an 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.640 all guy military school. I grew up in Jersey, so 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.640 I grew up, you know, shooting and uh fighting and 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.760 doing all this other stuff. And then I I got 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.400 out to Hollywood and like, you co'd only play a 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.320 surfer and a lifeguard. And I'm like, this guy from 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.120 Jersey can only be a surfer? What the hell you're 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:16.679 talking about? 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.719 And then you know you in an accent. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.760 I did. Yeah, I used to talk like this. This 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.040 is how I talk. I'm from Jersey. 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.040 I'm okay. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.400 Can you keep talking like that please for the rest 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.000 of the interview. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.640 I could totally talk like this for the rest of 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.280 that you were interview. I actually grew up. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.800 I remember having a crush on you. Now it just 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.320 all went away, Okay, keep going, keep going. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.159 Well, I actually, so you're saying you don't like guys 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:41.839 from Jersey. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.440 No, you just said it. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.080 You just said you said you crush on me. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:51.160 But I'm totally about you. No, No, you're studying The 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.839 stage is very funny, very good. So you could have 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.559 gone into the military or go to Hollywood. Wait, so 0:06:58.839 --> 0:06:59.760 vastly different. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.560 Yes, I yea. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.080 How do you make that choice? 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.279 I I grew up in the military family. I feel 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.920 very lucky. My dad was a Navy pilot. Both educator. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.760 So I didn't really have a jersey accident except for 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.960 if I was with my friends. But I wasn't really 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.800 allowed to have it at home. It's not that I 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.680 wasn't allowed to have it, but my dad was like 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:24.560 talk proper. So yeah, so I grew up. You know, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.360 they're the reason why. So I grew grew up thinking 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.520 I was going to go in the military, went to 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.960 an all guy military school by choice, graduated operations officer. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.640 I was third in command. I was in charge of 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.760 putting everybody to bed, wake them up. I had had 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.560 the most responsible abilities at that time. At that age, 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.440 I even had the key to the armory. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.640 All you were important, am I. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.120 I don't know why they did that, but you know 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.840 there was a lot of checks and balances that they 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.400 had for that, so that I couldn't just get in. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.920 But uh, I thought, I just uh. I went to 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.360 Then I went to Florida State, and I was going 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.400 to take a year off going to achool. They had 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.679 three girls every guy. For a little bit. I'm thinking 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:07.240 I was going to have more fun because I'd gone 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.680 an all guy in military school by choice. And then 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.880 I thought. Then I got started taking theater, but my 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.680 parents had introduced me. My parents are both educators of 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.040 both teachers, and my mom's a nurse. And then my 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.000 grandfather's marine World War One and he also did vaudeville. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.640 So they introduced me to Broadway and off Broadway, and I, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.840 you know, in literature, so I read a lot, and 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.199 I just grew up, you know, enjoying seeing movies and 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.120 stuff like that. I got hooked at an early age, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.640 and I think I just went out to Hollywood to 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.400 just see what it would be like. And that was 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.520 thirty six years ago. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.240 So how old were you when you went to Hollywood 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:46.920 for the first time. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:48.120 I was nineteen. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.439 How long before you booked your first job? 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.320 Well, they said I was an overnight hit in nineteen 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.520 ninety seven when I got Starship Troopers when it came out. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.280 But I got there September twelfth, nineteen eighty nine, and 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.240 I worked on nine two and oh, and I'd worked 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:02.960 on One Life to Live and I'd worked on that 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.000 Freshman Dorm series and a Dangerous Women's series and all 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.840 these other different shows and movies. But they said I 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.040 was an overnight success because they that's just what they. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.680 Do, you know, they like to we always like to 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:15.800 take credit for you. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.520 By the way, I love the you guys in a 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.320 way you basically did. I mean, you got the biggest 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.040 deal to be on nine O two one oh was 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.920 one of the hugest deals. And you know, I don't 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.680 know if I'm sure you guys might have heard this, 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.520 but everybody always says to me, they used to say, oh, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.880 nine O two one oho in space because it was 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.040 me and Diana Meyer who were on nine or two, right, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:44.760 Denise Richards and uh Patrick Patrick muldoon who were on 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.640 nine O two and oh, so we had we had 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.800 a We had a lot of people on there that 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.800 were so they called us. I used to say nine 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.839 O two one oh in space. So I even had 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.120 it then, which was cool. I loved it. I was like, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.600 you know, you know, and I had nothing. You know, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.240 people would say, you know, they'd ask me about and 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.079 I was like, yes, you know, mister Spelling he'd cast 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.840 me in that, and I believe he took a chance. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.280 I mean I always appreciated that. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.160 So O, hey, you're giving me drill sergeant energy right now. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:13.640 I don't know, do you feel it to her? I 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:14.680 feel like you are. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:15.840 You do you have kids? 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:17.560 My kids are all grown. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.079 Were you like a strict dad, like a like when. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.040 You were in high school at your school, like did 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.000 you use your military training too? 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.760 I made my kids do uh squats and push ups 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.000 and oh no, but you do you know why when 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.160 they were arguing I'm getting yeah, I'm not kidding. When 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.840 they would beat each other up, I would go, okay, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.360 ten squats and they would sit there and they'd be like, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.320 and then ten ten jumping jacks and they start doing 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.120 and then they start laughing because they get them in 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.760 their body and out of their head, and then they 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.080 start being and then they would laugh and like, dad, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.719 you're so silly and they go off. Didn't never hit 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.040 my kids, never spank my kids never did anything like that. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.080 But you know, ten pushs, you give me ten push ups. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:10:59.400 You guys are fighting right now. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.960 You pulled her or I feel like you need to 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:03.360 try this. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.600 I feel like my kids would be like, are you 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:07.080 kidding me? 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.240 I would last, well, I don't know, I just get 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.760 I think that sometimes when we get you know, it's 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.959 also like go play outside like what we did when 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.679 we were kids. You know, the kids nowadays all they 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.400 are their things, so they don't have the same. You know, 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.280 when you get outside and you start doing that kind 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.960 of stuff it and you get do physical activity, it 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.200 gets you out of being in the depressions part of you, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.480 or that anger and in your head. So I felt 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.760 like I never did it to be cruel. I wasn't 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.400 like I was some military sergeant, like I was like, hey, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.360 you've got over here. But I would go, okay, that's 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.880 them push ups and I would do them with them. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.240 So I didn't mind doing it with it. So I'd 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.199 sit down, I do the push ups with them, sit 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.600 ups with them, whatever it was. And if they kept arguing, okay, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.880 let's go do some more, or we go outside for 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.080 a run, or we go jump in the pool. So 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.840 I mean, well, I have one daughter who I mean, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.440 they're all twenty to thirty, but I have one daughter 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:09.160 who is twenty seven who she was wandering Starship Troopers 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.240 and she is now on Strangers. She was on Stranger 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.840 Things last season. You guys see Stranger Things. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.400 She didn't watch the last season, so she. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.079 Was Chrissy and Chrissy wake up that the cheerleader. And 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.600 so she is. I'm more famous now for being her 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.719 dad than cool. It is the coolest thing. You know. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:28.280 People come up to. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.960 Like, do you get recognized from Nina two? 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.320 And Oh, I do? I do. I get I'm gonna 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.679 say it like this. I get that, Oh, you're the 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.680 guy that burnt the house the lesbians were. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.320 In, and I was like, we're not on that episode yet. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.320 Spoiler alert, Oh spoiler. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.760 There's lesbians in a burning house. I know I was 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.800 on burning house. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.720 Well you were, well, there was the long girl was 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.839 but I had happened there was one girl. That's what 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.199 she said to me. She said that, you know, and 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.880 my wife's pan saxual, so I'm you know, she she's 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.440 she dated girls and I just married me and my 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.160 daughter's pant circles. She liked girls and boys. So I'm 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.080 all in the family. I'm all support of it, of it, 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.880 so I when I have to, I have to say that, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.240 I always have a disclaimer because it's like, I am 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.240 not that guy. It was the way it was written. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.199 I would never do that for any woman, So I 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.360 just go lesbian strange call in supporting the women. So, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.079 but that's crazy. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.280 People still recognize you for nine to two and No, 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.680 and I'm sure you get recognized for Starship trooper. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.120 That's the one I get recognized the most for as well, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.640 was until Chrissy, until Gracie. Gracie was called Christ. That 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.800 a stranger thing because like, the dads will come up 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.680 to me at the cons and they'll go, you don't 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.439 even know who this guy is, right, And the girls 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.760 will be like, no, the thirteen fourteen, sixteen year old girls, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.920 and then he goes, that's Chrissy's dad, and the girls 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.800 will start crying, and then they want to take a 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.680 picture with me. They could care less before their dads 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:55.880 say that or the mom say it. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.160 But now, oh my gosh, I feel like I definitely 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.760 saw that now now that you're thinking, told said Chrissy 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:02.400 the cheerleader. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.400 She's the guitarist that plays, you know. He he he plays, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.920 and he had the long to the great better actor 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.720 than I ever was. So that's how it works. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.480 Like we pass it down to our kids and they 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.120 are better at whatever we were good at. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.520 I think that's how it's supposed to be, if we're 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:21.240 doing our jobs. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.280 You're the only one of my kids is an actor, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.920 and she really gets She used to. She used to 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.880 come and sit and set and watch. So when I 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.200 was Tarzan, and she was. She was there when I 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.480 was in Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp. She'd be in 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.840 the background. She was always quiet, but always watching. She 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.960 reads a lot. All my kids read because it's just 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.680 something that that I got held back in first grade 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.800 because I couldn't read because I'm severely dyslexic. But I 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.760 uh I, So it's always a challenge for me. So 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.880 in the beginning of my acting it was more difficult 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.520 for me. Now it's it's become a superpower. I can 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.400 memorize like that and and it's become sometimes extremely good 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.040 at But when I was younger, it was it was 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.320 more difficult for me. And of course being to Slexea 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.840 choose acting, which is probably one of the most confusing 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.520 things for it. But it actually worked out really well 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.840 for me for that part. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.200 Okay, can we talk about you and me now? 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:22.680 Yes, absolutely. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.800 I want to ask you about Tarzan. I just want 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:27.360 to know about he. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.000 Did play Tarzan a lot Tarzan by allegedly just. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.120 You just slipped in the word Tarzan and I was like, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.600 oh my god, I forgot all about that. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.800 Right was twenty of Tarzan? It was uh books. When 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.400 I was a kid, so when I got there when 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:41.880 they called me. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.960 Was so cool as a guy to be like what, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.200 I go, I'm not. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.200 Tall enough to be him. I'm only you know, I'm 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.360 only five nine and a half. And they're like, they're like, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.000 and I'll go and that's a legit, five nine and 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:53.440 a half. I'm not one of those guys that says 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:54.400 I'm five nine and a half. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.760 Oh my god, I love as an actor. You just 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.160 said five nine and. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.760 A half and a half. You know what it is 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.000 because there's a lot I throw it in. Well, the 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.560 guys come up to me to go, hey, you're about 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.800 my height and they they they're looking up at me 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.760 and they go, You'reboddy five eleven like me, And I'm like, no, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.320 I'm only five nine and a half. I'm looking down 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.160 at these actors and I'm barefoot and I'm looking down 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.560 at them. I'm like, mm, so I'm honest when it 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.920 comes to that apple boxes, whatever the apple. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.880 Get back to Donna. Back to Donna. So everybody knows 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.400 that you were obviously Donna's love interest. I was you 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.080 were the guy at the frat. First of all, you 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.120 were you didn't were you in a frat when you 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:35.760 were in college. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.960 No, yes, I was. I was. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.760 Is it was it similar at all to the cake house? 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.080 You know, those were back in my drinking days, so 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.240 I think it might have been a little similar. But uh, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:53.200 she remember, I don't when I was. I'm I'm almost 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.400 thirty years sober. I'm twenty nine and a half years sober, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.440 so I haven't had a drink twenty nine, thank you. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:05.200 But I just uh uh yeah, around nine too, and 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.159 I was getting sober. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.879 You were sober when we met. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.639 Yeah, I was. I was sober when you. Yeah, I 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.600 was scared. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.000 Just this took so much like balls for me to 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.760 be like, let's talk about you and me, And then 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.359 Jen skipped to the characters. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.600 Well, sorry, I would make it would. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.960 Be like I'm sure girls and boys always see things 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.040 differently as Brian Austin Green, but as the kids would say, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:35.399 now behind the scenes, like we were talking a bit, Yeah, okay, you. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.680 Were good friends. We were you know, like I said, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.320 I was going through a divorce, so I was confused 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.320 at that point in time, but we were definitely talking 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.240 a lot. We were. I thought you, I thought of 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.520 he was a really good friend and and somebody that 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.480 I mean, I liked you. I liked you a lot. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.080 I liked you, you know, like what Brian said, A 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.560 really good friend. Damn, I can't get it right here. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:55.800 Well, no, but you guys have. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.400 Things we were like learning. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.639 Yeah, yes, definitely. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.840 But you also helped me. Yes, you were going through 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.479 a divorce, and I would like to say we were 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.080 for a short time there for each other because I 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.760