WEBVTT - Hayley Orrantia 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.800 I just ate an entire plate of bacon to myself 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:10.000 and am I ashamed? Yes, it was a delicious Also, yes, 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:12.719 we got an air fryer. So we've made it to 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.120 that stage of adulthood. I don't know if I'm proud 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.120 of that either. It's kind of admitting that you've given 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.040 up on the traditional sense of cooking. You're like, listen, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.520 I just I'm not going to use the oven anymore. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.080 I'm gonna use this toaster situation that's got a fan 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.000 in it. And I don't really know how the science works, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.960 nor do I even know if it's any good for me. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.080 Could be throwing gamma rays into my food. I don't know, guys, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.239 but I've given up and I just want everything to 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:43.080 be easy as I slowly devolve into an old person. Also, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.840 I think my air fryer is on steroid Zoe, because 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.200 every time I put something in there, it is done 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.360 way before like the little cheat sheet says it should 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.080 be done, and sometimes we're burning stuff. So I don't know, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.560 but yeah, we're at that stage of our lives where 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.600 we were at the stage of our lifer where we 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.480 were talking about air fryers a lot, which is depressing. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.280 Then we got said fryer of the air, and now 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.679 we're air frying and we're talking about what to air fry, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.319 and we're buying cookbooks on Amazon about what cookbooks would 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.520 be the best for Sarah and I to air fry 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.679 things with. So Today's Super Bowl Sunday. I know it's 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.240 gonna come out. It's gonna come out tomorrow. But um, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.680 do I have some wings marinating ready for the air fryer? Yeah? 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.640 I do. Am I excited about it? Yeah? Did I 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.880 put some money on the game? Yeah? I did. The 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.640 Chief's gonna win, so I think so because Patrick Mahomes 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.440 and I was like, Brady is so good. Have you 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.319 seen badroom homes? Like there's like no look passes and stuff. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.160 Brady is so old. He's past the air fryer portion 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.040 of life. I don't even know what's next. He was 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.400 in the air fryer portion of life five years ago 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.880 in Boston. Now he's in the Tapi yoca portion of life. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.160 Now he's looking great. You know that guy's never had 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 coffee before, hasn't had a granule of sugar in like 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.360 twelve years. If that's what it takes to win a 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.880 Super Bowl, I don't want to ring keep it all right, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.240 I want my coffee, I want my good poop afterwards, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.760 and then I want to donut. Okay, So anyways, hopefully 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.880 I was right because I put some money on the Chiefs, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.520 and I could use the electration money because I've been 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.239 spending it on air fryer materials. Very excited abou the 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.119 Weals cast Today. One of the stars from The Goldbergs 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.680 is on the show, a show that I am obsessed with. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.480 Sarah and I watched it all the time. I believe 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.000 they used to have the spot after Modern, so we'd 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.720 watched Modern Family into the Goldbergs. I think that's how 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.280 it worked. Anyways, we watched every week anyways, but such 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.560 a great show. And this woman's story is kind of 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.880 crazy because yes, she's on this like really long running, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:50.720 amazingly popular sitcom, but she started through a singing competition. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.000 It's hard to do. It's hard to go from reality 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.960 TV singing competition to like starve a TV show. I 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.160 can't think of a lot of them. My friend Katie Stevens, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.280 who was on American Aisles, she's now in the Bold Type. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.720 That's one. And then maybe our guest this week. This 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.680 is the show you do not want to miss. Coming 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.760 up on the Wells Cast. Hayley or Anthea play the intro. Doe, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.600 Let's get an air fryer, guys, let's fry some air. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.080 This is a Wells Cast with Wells Atoms and I 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:34.119 Heart Radio podcast. Hello, Hello, how are you? I'm good. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:39.080 You've got a cool hat on. Thank you? You got 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.080 a cool office. Yeah. Well, when a pandemic hits, you 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.720 gotta do it up the right way. I feel you 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.400 turn lemons into vodka drinks. How's it going, it's going. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.240 It's been a little bit of a busy morning, but 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.960 always exciting. So are you just doing press for Goldberg 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.480 stuff today? That's kind of what Well, it's been a 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.360 little bit of and seems like a common conversation I'm 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.520 having is about um, my home flipping business that I 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.840 do in Nashville with my family. So outside of that, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.280 it's kind of just mostly been Goldberg's mid season premiere. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.960 You ready to go? Yeah, alright, We're back in the 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.279 Wells Cast. Very excited to half one of the stars 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.560 of one of my favorite shows on ABC, The Goldbergs. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.760 It's Hayley or Antia. How are you good. How hurt you? 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.520 I'm great. I'm a studio city. But I know that 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:36.200 you live in l A. But then also in Nashville. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.720 So where are you right now? Well, technically I am 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.360 also in studio city, sirs. So that's very weird. You 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.040 might be down the street from me, But I do 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.000 live in Nashville part time. I just haven't been able 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.800 to go for a while because a pandemic happened. But otherwise, yeah, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.479 I'm kind of in between both. You know that I 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.919 lived in Nashville for twelve years. Yes, and that's not 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.640 where you're from, though, is it. No, I'm from California, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.520 but I lived there after college and did radio and stuff. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.080 I'm surprised that I never I guess I ran into 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.520 you out there. What where do you live in Nashville? Um? 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.679 Do you know the twelveth South area? Yeah, okay, I 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.760 have a place there, and I adore it. That part 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.320 of town so fun. But Nashville in the last five 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.440 years especially has been really fun with all these new 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.040 restaurants coming in and bars opening up, and I mean, again, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.280 in a normal non pandemic world, but yeah, I love 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.320 it so much, and I secretly might love it a 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.160 little more than l A. But you know, it depends 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.560 on the day I've held on my house over there 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.839 on the East Side. So if I ever can travel again, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.960 I think Sarah and I are going to try to 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.680 do half the year in Nashville. That's that's the plan 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.200 for tax reasons. Such a good place right right, exactly 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.320 for tax purposes, but also because seasons. Um, that's something 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.640 I miss and it's kind of nice to be able 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.480 to sneak off to there and have a little bit 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.119 of that. I want to talk about the Goldberg's season eight, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.760 but first, Yeah, I do some research on you, and 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.800 are you like getting in the h G t V game, Like, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.320 are you the next like Joanna Gaines because you're flipping 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.160 houses out in Nashville. Look, don't compliment me with a 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.000 Joanna Gaines thing, because I adore her, um and I 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.160 would die one day to meet her. But we'll talk 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.440 about that later. No, my dad, before I was born, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.680 was like flipping houses in his hometown of Great Falls, Montana. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.520 And then I did a little bit in my hometown 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.600 of Dallas, Texas. And then once I started going to Nashville, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.960 you know, five or six years ago, and we've seen 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.080 this kind of boom in the market, We're like, why 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.799 don't we start doing it there? Um, So he started, 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.039 you know, inquiring with different properties, and it wasn't until 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.880 twenty that I actually signed on to be kind of 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.320 a partner in our company. And um, yeah, so one 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.719 thing led to another, and these production companies started hitting 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.680 us up about the idea because pretty much my entire 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.279 family's involved with different jobs. Um my mom, my dad, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.559 my uncle, my cousin, and myself, and so I guess 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.719 it kind of writes itself in that way. But no 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:06.480 TV show quite yet, but that would be awesome. What's 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.240 your style? What's your aesthetic? Because it ship lap and 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.120 subway tile? Is it modern? What are we going for here? Well, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.960 in Nashville, honestly, it depends like on where I am, 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.640 because in Nashville, I my house is very like modern farmhouse. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.480 But here in l A it's been an interesting mash 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.120 up of like I always have a little bit of 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:34.400 Boho in my life, but um, it's kind of uh, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.480 mid century industrial meats Boh in a weird way. Um. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.000 Lots of plants, so that's a thing good for you 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.480 that you can keep them alive. I haven't figured that 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.040 part out. Okay, So Pie in the Sky? Where do 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.040 you want this show to go? Like, what do you 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.280 want it? Netflix? Do you want it? H G t V? 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.520 I mean, do you think that Disney and ABC would 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.360 pick this up? Because you gotta put this ship out 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.080 there in the universe if you want to happen. Definitely. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.600 I also don't want to pigeonhole idea in case one 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.000 doesn't like it. Uh No, Honestly, we would love to 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.520 have conversations with the Magnolia Network, which is CHIP and 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:19.560 join the Games network, UM, HDTV, Disney plus HBO Max, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.520 just because me and my family have a bit of 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.800 a potty mouth, so that might play better in met platform. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.080 Um So, I don't know. We're kind of open to 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.600 We also are in the process of developing what it 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.800 even look like, so based on how the format works, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.560 it might cater to a different network, So we don't 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.400 really know quite yet. That's like my dream job. I 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.360 didn't think this is where this interview is going to go, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.520 but like you have to know that I am obsessed 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.600 with those shows, Sarah and I literally all we watch 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.760 before we go to bed. So I'm excited for you. 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.400 This is cool and when it gets going, if you 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.240 guys want to do an episode at our house, come on, dude, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:02.240 I mean collaboration episode. Perhaps I see that in the future. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.960 I think. So our budget is dollars, but we need 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.320 you to do like two dollars of the work, right, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.120 somehow we'll figure the math out and it'll end up 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.360 working out. It will be beautiful. Yeah. I'm so curious though, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.120 on those shows if when they style it, if they 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.680 actually get to keep that furniture, if it's just for 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.640 the sake of the show. Would you know the answer 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.120 to that? So, I think because my friend Brandy Cyrus 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.000 and her mom did a show that was that was 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.120 basically that, and from what I understand, no, you don't 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.120 get to keep that staging stuff that sucks. It does 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.040 suck because then you can then you know your crap 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.040 from like the last house in there, and you're like, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.480 this looks right like a dark brown letter couch because 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.760 you've had some nineties six that you're just like, I 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.319 guess this will work. It like really disappointing. Yeah, but 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.319 it was good luck on that, I'm sure. I mean, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.120 that just sounds like it's gonna sell itself. Speaking the 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.560 shows that are very successful. You're in your eighth season 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.360 of The Goldbergs. Did you think starting out that this 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.160 thing was going to run this long? No, I honestly 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.960 landed this show in such a miraculous way. Like I 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.520 I've really never worked on anything before this, and so 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.600 this was like my first real gig, and then to 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.000 have it go this long on a network like this 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.920 is pretty insane. You know, you always have hopes that 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.760 it will and I loved the writing so much, especially 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.560 in that first audition when I got it. I'm like, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.959 there's something to this show that just resonates with me 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.839 that you wanted to and you put it out in 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.720 the universe. But I don't think any of us knew 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.200 that it was definitely gonna happen. But now we've gotten 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.440 into a comfortable space. I think people like it, so 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.000 hopefully we can keep doing it. I'm trying to get 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.640 to Sarah's status. Yeah, you're close. I remember so when 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.800 Modern rapped, I was having a conversation with a bunch 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.640 of writers and stuff, and I was like, do you 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.640 think that there will be a show that will do 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.040 this now? Because it's very you know, back in the day, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.840 those single shows could run Forever, Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, and 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.199 just like the way that the market has changed with 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.000 streaming services and stuff, it just seems like the appetite 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.280 for those type of shows are starting to dwindle. But 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.480 then I'm like, I don't know, Big Bang went forever, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.640 and you guys are on your eighth season, so I 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.840 don't know. I guess my question is I wonder if 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.319 this is going to be like one of the last 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.520 iterations of this or not. Well, that's what we've been 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.120 wondering too, because as we're doing this show and it's 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.760 still got a great audience that tunes in every week, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.439 and we're very grateful for that, there's also a part 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.319 of us that's like, we're not seeing this format work 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.640 out as often, and when I watched shows on my 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.520 own time, it's usually through streaming networks and a lot 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.679 of the times they're limited series, and it's just a 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.280 new phase of entertainment that we're kind of entering. So 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.800 it's it's we're kind of all in a little bit 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.160 of a middle ground trying to figure out what's next, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.720 but grateful that we've been able to go this long 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.880 and honestly wouldn't hate it if we were one of 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.600 the last dinosaurs or network television. Is this what I 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:08.320 will take it? Your character, Erica wasn't supposed to be 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.360 a girl from what I understand. Did you know that 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.880 going into this? So I knew this was about a 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.880 real family, but I didn't. I don't think it was 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.640 until a little bit later after meeting the creator of 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.320 the show, UM, once I booked it, that I was 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.200 informed that it was based on his older brother Eric, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.280 And you know, with developing the show, I guess they 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.920 realized that turning it into an older sister could appeal 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.600 to you know, any younger women that would be watching. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.400 I guess I don't know, UM, And so I'm grateful 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.960 for it because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.360 book it, I don't think. But it's kind of created 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.120 an interesting dynamic because every other actor on our show 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.400 has this sort of like booming cloud of like this 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.720 is a real person, right, But I kind of get 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.800 the excuse to or the writers are able to freely 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.440 write for things that maybe weren't applicable to Eric because 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.080 I've changed to a girl in the show. So UM, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.400 for example, like my character was never supposed to sing, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.200 and that's something that I do in my off time, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.120 and so I mentioned it to the creator of the 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.160 show and then it kind of ended up becoming a 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.920 part of the character because they allowed you know, there 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.880 was that wiggle room in between all of it. So 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.600 it's kind of worked out for the best. It's funny 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.600 stuff like that tends to work, I think the best 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.959 on shows. One of my favorite examples of that Eric 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.840 stone Street from Modern who plays Cam. He was a 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.400 clown in his past life, like he like fisbo was 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.600 a real thing he did, and so he brought it 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.559 to the writers and they were like, holy sh it, Okay, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.560 well we've got to make this thing. And that's the 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.319 episode that he wanted. Emmy for all those writers just 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.280 going home just like watching their families and just trying 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.040 to figure out, like what the next episode is going 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.360 to look like and get ideas, and then when actors 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.800 come in with you know, already like a bag of tricks, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.600 they are like, hell, yes, this will make my job 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.480 so much easier, which I think it's so cool. Definitely, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.480 I know that with storyline ends. Wendy micklen and Covey, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.280 who plays Beverly on the show. She actually came to 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.520 set with a storyline that was something that happened to 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.480 her that ended up making the show because it's a 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.800 very Beverly esque thing where her mom was actually listening 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.560 in on her and her friends hanging out in her 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.959 bedroom and fell asleep outside of her door, and so 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.680 she like opens the door and she's like, what the hell. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.440 It's pretty incredible, Like sometimes actors do have these little 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.960 nuggets of things from their personal life that really applied 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.400 to what's happening in this show. It's great like going 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.760 back to like them writing the show and turning Eric 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.920 into Erica because it makes more sense for viewers and 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.400 stuff and brings more people in. But there's also a 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.000 part of me that's like, if I was writing a 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.320 show and my family knew I was writing about my family, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.760 what I would do to my brother is I would 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.360 turn him into a girl on the show, just because 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.000 that's a siblings due to each other, you know. Honestly, yes, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.640 I think that in a way. And I've actually talked 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.640 to the real Eric Goldberg, and at the beginning he 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.000 was very okay not being associated in a way with 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.400 that with the show, because if anything bad happened to 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.360 any of the other where they announced anything that maybe 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.080 these people had done in real life. He can hide 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.840 behind the fact that it's not really him. But then 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.760 I think later on maybe he's like, I kind of 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.640 want to be on the show so kind of a 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.400 weird middle ground, But your character has gotten like a 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.400 big character arc. You got to start as kind of 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.200 a dork, and now you get to play the cool person. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:40.240 Like that seems unfair to me? Was that because you 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.280 get the best of both worlds, you know? I it 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.160 started out where the character was described in the audition 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.360 to be like the cool girl at high school, like 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.800 he's always ashamed of her embarrassing younger brothers. And then 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.040 they started getting into season one and they're like, let's 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.080 do a throwback ninth grade Erica thing where she's got 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.080 braces and crazy hair. And I love because it it 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.680 allowed me to really step outside of my comfort zone 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.560 and do some goofy ship I would have never done before. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.560 I do say it is a little bit of the 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.600 best of both worlds. But we haven't seen her in 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.760 a long time. I'm kind of wishing they would bring 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.920 her back again. Yeah, it's kind of like Monica on Friends. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.240 You know that she was yes, where they had like 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.920 the throwback where she was a lot heavier. But sometimes 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.000 it's just it's just such good comedy like that. Friends 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.400 is one of my all time favorite shows, so she 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.400 did so great in that, and it does feel a 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.880 little bit like you get to step outside of your 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.600 character for just a little while and and be ridiculous, um, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.640 which is a lot of fun. And I also think 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.080 it helps for the viewer to understand the character development 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.720 of that person, Like I understood Monica so much more 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.560 when I found out her neuroses and being such a 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.480 neurotic person came from this past life of hers. And 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.920 I think that that's a cool way to like continue 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.880 to grow the character for the viewer, especially if you 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.880 go as many seasons as Modern did, where it's just 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.480 like at that point you have to find that sort 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.560 of like dynamic in there because it's it's Friends went 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.880 ten seasons as well, It's like you want a little 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.119 bit of that dynamic in who they are. The cast 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.320 of the Goldbergs is just packed and awesome. Who is 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.679 your favorite person to do scenes with? Oh, that's so difficult. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.040 There's so for different reasons. Um, I like working with 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.440 different people, like Wendy McLennan Covey, who plays but really 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.639 she's just so entertaining to watch because she has she 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.520 has this great improv background, and she'll just kind of 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.840 throw things at you out of nowhere that you don't expect, 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.439 and it makes it so much more fun to be 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.840 a part of UM. And I can never keep a 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.320 straight face with her. So I really enjoy working with Wendy. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.800 But I also love doing scenes with the JT P, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.560 which is like the younger group of guys and Barry's 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.359 friends on the show UM, just because we're also close 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:01.199 in age and just the hanging out in between the 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.520 scenes that is really fun to UM. I don't know 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.520 like it's difficult because it's always been different people that 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.920 I have different experiences, even George Siegel, who's eighty four 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.639 now I think, who you would think I have no 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.080 nothing to relate to on but he also plays music 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.240 and he's just like an amazing human being and has 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.560 one of the greatest laughs you'll ever hear in your life. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.879 So I love doing scenes with him just because you 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.679 never know what he's going to say. He's kind of 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.760 got this crotchety old man thing that he'll pull out 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.120 every now and then. That's so fun to be around. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.880 Who's taught you the most about the craft of acting 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.639 from that cast? I would say just by watching Wendy Um, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.520 I think she she just does so well, Like she's 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.119 such a great leader, um for our show. The way 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.199 that not only just as an actress and getting to 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.160 see how she can you know, throw in something completely 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.480 random that uh just works so well. She's not She's 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.800 capable and willing to like just be free in the scene. Um. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.639 She's also not afraid of of looking ridiculous for the 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.080 sake of comedy, which is something I struggled with when 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.199 I first got into it, where I'm like, how do 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.640 you just be okay with knowing that you look insane 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.359 right now? Like or dancing ridiculously? How are you people 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.840 are watching this? But that's just a part of what 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.840 the comedy is and and acting and being comfortable in 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.840 that space. So I've learned a lot just by watching her, 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.840 and she's an incredible leader to our crew. Like I 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.720 haven't really gotten the experience to work on too many 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.040 other sets, but the way that she um, I don't 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.080 know the right word, and manage is not the right word. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.400 But the way she manages like being the number one 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.560 on the call sheet and creates these really personal relationships 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.520 with every crew member even is really inspiring, and it's 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.840 something that I think allows our set to feel as 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.600 intimate and fun as it is day in and day 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.240 out going into the show. Are you a fan of 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.119 Red and I one. I've seen a few episodes, but 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.639 I actually constantly get made fun of by my friends 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.400 and family because I don't. Actually, I've missed so many 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.960 iconic like movies and TV shows, and so I'm now 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.560 trying to do the process of going backwards and watching them. Um. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.520 So I haven't seen the whole thing all the way through. Um, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.280 but Bridesmaids, of course it is like iconic for me 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.440 and Wendy being in that. Uh. When I first auditioned 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.959 for the show, she was the first person who had 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.960 signed on, and I was like, I have to work 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.560 with her, Like that's just that has to happen. So 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.159 it was pretty wild that it ended up happening. And 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.520 she's just as amazing as she is, but in front 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.800 of the camera shees off, do you need to go 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.040 back and watch Reno because she's so good in that show? 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.760 And you can and you can tell it's it's got 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.760 to be like improv. And it's just those people are 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.320 just really funny, you know, like, Yeah, they have such 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.880 an ability that I personally feel like I lack too. 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.240