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Speaker 1: Hey, fam, Hello Sunshine. Today, on the bright side, we

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Speaker 1: have a Hollywood actress who has seen the industry in

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Speaker 1: almost every decade. OSCAR nominated actor and star of the

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Speaker 1: new movie Thelma June Squib is here. At ninety four

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Speaker 1: years old. She's taking on her very first leading role.

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Speaker 1: And get this, she's an action star. You won't want

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Speaker 1: to miss her incredible stories of perseverance and pearls of wisdom.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, August twelfth. I'm Danielle Robe.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Simone Boyce, and this is the bright Side

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Speaker 2: from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together

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Speaker 2: to share women's stories, laugh, learn and brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: All Right, it's Monday, Danielle. Let's kick things off with

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Speaker 2: On My Mind Monday, our opportunity to share stories that

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Speaker 2: motivate us, inspire curiosity, and provide a fresh perspective for

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Speaker 2: the week.

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Speaker 3: What you got today?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you know everybody's been talking about a brat summer, right, Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: you almost can't get away from it on the internet.

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Speaker 1: But did you know that this is not our first

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Speaker 1: brat summer?

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Speaker 3: Really tell me more.

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Speaker 1: Okay, before I tell you about the past version, I

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Speaker 1: think we have to talk about where this one came from,

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Speaker 1: just so we're all on the same page, because the

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Speaker 1: origin of this summer's hottest word, brat comes from the

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Speaker 1: singer Charlie XCX. She had this hit album called Brat,

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Speaker 1: which came out on June seventh, and it quickly became

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Speaker 1: one of the most talked about albums of the summer.

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Speaker 1: And then when Kamala Harris announced that she was running

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Speaker 1: for president as a Democratic nominee, Charlie XCX tweeted, Kamala

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Speaker 1: is brat, So it took on this whole political meaning.

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Speaker 1: But everybody was like, what does what does a brat mean?

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Speaker 1: What does brat Summer mean? So Charlie XCX describes the

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Speaker 1: concept of brat Summer to be all about being that

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Speaker 1: girl who's a little messy and likes to party and

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Speaker 1: brat Summer is all about that nea lime shartchuse green.

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Speaker 1: It's about aerial fonts and white tanks and baby teas.

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Speaker 4: That's the Y two K of it all. That's the

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Speaker 4: y two K portion exactly. That's so well said, well

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Speaker 4: this summer. The word bratt has galvanized this sense of

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Speaker 4: community and belonging and saying brat, I think has made

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Speaker 1: And here's what I find interesting. I came across this

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Speaker 1: article in the UK publication The Standard, and it lays

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Speaker 1: out these summer trends throughout history. So this article is

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Speaker 1: saying that naming these summers kind of started in the

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Speaker 1: sixties because that was the summer of love. It was

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Speaker 1: all about peace and love and music. And then there

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Speaker 1: was the og Bratt Summer, which dates back to the

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and it was when this group of young

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Speaker 1: actors known as the Brat Pack began to dominate the

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Speaker 1: coming of age teen movie genre. You remember that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course, like the Summer of the Brat Pack was

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Speaker 3: It was Breakfast, Claus Saint almost Fire.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen Candles exactly. And then, of course, if we fast

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Speaker 1: forward to current day, twenty nineteen was the Hot Girl

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Speaker 1: summer that took off. It was inspired by Megan the

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Speaker 1: Stallion's hit by the same name. There was even kind

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Speaker 1: Vax Summer aka the summer after the vaccine started being

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Speaker 1: available and people were social again, like taking selfies with

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Speaker 1: their vax cards. But this whole idea of naming summers,

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Speaker 1: they seem particularly guided toward women. What do you think

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Speaker 2: I think that just speaks to the economic power that

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Speaker 2: we know that women have. I mean, we saw women consumers,

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Speaker 2: past year or so, between Barbie and Beyonce's tour and

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift's tour. So I think at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, advertisers know that having a catchy, memorable, sticky

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Speaker 2: name for a period of our lives where we all

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Speaker 2: you know, if they can hop on this trend and

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Speaker 3: I mean it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. I think of it more community based. I

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Speaker 1: the time. And I almost think speaking of Barbie. It's

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Speaker 1: like reclaiming femininity and redefining it for whatever moment we're in.

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Speaker 3: So I like your take much better.

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Speaker 2: I actually, I actually think that us coming up with

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Speaker 2: like the fact that I mean, it's no secret that,

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Speaker 2: and so I think that this just speaks to like

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Speaker 2: the overall excitement that people feel during It's a real phenomenon.

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Speaker 1: I agree. But the aspect that I find so interesting

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Speaker 1: femininity means at that time on our own terms, and

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Speaker 1: so no one can tell you you're not having a

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Speaker 1: bratgirl summer exactly.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's powerful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's like an embrace of our identity.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. I'm not sure men have the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Men need to have more fun. Y'all need to y'all

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Speaker 1: need more to things. You need more things, You need

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Speaker 1: more cute names for things. Y'all need to have more fun. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Speaking of women defining moments over time, our guest today

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Speaker 2: is doing just that. I mean, it might as well

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Speaker 2: be June's Squib Summer, because, at ninety four years old,

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Speaker 2: June is the leading lady of the new Jerry Action

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Speaker 2: comedy film Thelma, and this role marks her first ever

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Speaker 2: leading role in her decades long career Jerry Action.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, June Squib really is the epitove

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Speaker 1: me of never giving up on yourself. She started her

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Speaker 1: and in her most recent role in Thelma, she plays

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Speaker 1: a mischievous ninety three year old woman who gets scammed

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Speaker 2: She even did a lot of her own stunts, which

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Speaker 2: just blows my mind. And for all of our Inside

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Speaker 2: Out fans out there. June Squib actually voiced the character

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Speaker 2: nostalgia in Inside Out too, and people, there are no

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Speaker 2: signs of this woman slowing down anytime soon, because later

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Speaker 2: this year she'll be starring in Eleanor the Great Scarlett

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Speaker 2: Johanson's directorial debut, Hot Eyes on that one.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to chat with her about her career

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Speaker 1: and ask her for some of her reflections. So after

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Speaker 1: the break, we're talking Hollywood through the decades and balancing

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Speaker 1: the love of your craft with the love of a partner.

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Speaker 1: All that up next, June, Welcome to the bright Side.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how excited Simone and I were

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Speaker 1: to have you here. We're so grateful that you came

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Speaker 5: Lovely, No, I enjoy this.

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Speaker 1: So we want to start out with something really serious.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like you have a big beef with a

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Speaker 1: movie star named Glenn Powell.

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Speaker 5: He's gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna play a quick clip from your Instagram.

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Speaker 5: Okay, hey Glenn Powell, you think you're so cool with

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Speaker 5: your big fancy Twisters movie. Oh I could kick your ass.

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Speaker 1: So what's going on there, dude. Is this like the

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Speaker 1: type of thing where someone's so cute that you have

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Speaker 5: No, not really. It was like, just prove to everybody

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Speaker 5: that you're an action star. That's what it's all about.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 5: It's so I went up. I guess every action star

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Speaker 1: That's funny, very funny.

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Speaker 2: Well, you have proven yourself to be an action star

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Speaker 2: through and through because in your latest project, Thelma, you.

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Speaker 3: Play a grandma on a mission.

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Speaker 2: Thelma is determined to track down the criminals who scammed

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Speaker 2: her and retrieve her money. And I'm sitting here watching

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Speaker 2: this film. It's so entertaining, and yet I'm struck by

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Speaker 2: the fact that storylines like this are so rare. How

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Speaker 2: does it feel to know that you and everyone behind

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Speaker 2: this film are literally helping pioneer a new genre, which

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Speaker 2: the internet is calling jerry action film.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I haven't heard that. That's wonderful. Well, I think

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Speaker 5: we have to give Josh Margolin a great deal of

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Speaker 5: so he was the leader while we were shooting the film,

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Speaker 5: and I'm very, very very proud of it. I am

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Speaker 5: The script was really wonderful. He's a great writer. So

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Speaker 5: I don't know what to say. I'm thrilled. We're all

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Speaker 2: I can sense the pride in your voice when you

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Speaker 2: talk about it. Why are you so proud of this one?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm in my nineties, so to be doing a

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Speaker 5: film that's doing well, that people are seeing that everybody's

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Speaker 2: I mean, just making a film number one, it's like

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Speaker 2: it's like huge congratulations are in order because it's such

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Speaker 2: an impossible feat. Then to make a film that people like,

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Speaker 2: that's a whole other thing. And then to make a

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Speaker 2: It's such a beautiful story too. You actually do your

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Speaker 2: process of doing your own stunts out of ten?

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Speaker 3: Would you do it again?

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Speaker 3: I think, what were some of the most thrilling stunts

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Driving that scooter? That was I knew when I read

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Speaker 5: the script that this was gonna be great fun, and

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Speaker 5: it was. It was. And then with Richard behind me

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Speaker 1: Now, you've dedicated your life to the craft of acting.

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Speaker 1: I have the numbers here. You've been in for twenty

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Speaker 1: five films, over thirty five TV shows, countless Broadway shows.

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Speaker 1: I would venture to say you've been a part of

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Speaker 1: over eighty productions. Oh, I'm sure it could be more

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Speaker 1: than that. Honestly, how does it feel to be starring?

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Speaker 1: You mentioned a leading lady? How does it feel to

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Speaker 5: Well, it doesn't feel any different. I look at each

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I have said this that if Josh had

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Speaker 2: Was saying, Yeah, this character that you play Filma is

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Speaker 5: Oh god, yes, yes, of course.

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Speaker 3: When do you think you felt most underestimated?

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Speaker 5: Well, when I auditioned for something. When you're young, you're

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Speaker 1: There's this moment in the movie. I'd venture to say

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Speaker 5: I've always felt that. I've always sort of thought, even

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 5: I did strange things.

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Speaker 5: Well? I remember this one audition and I had worked

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Speaker 5: I said, what in the f were you doing in there?

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Speaker 2: Jusie do you think that's a secret to your longevity

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Speaker 5: It might be I'm very stubborn and if I decide

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Speaker 3: Hey, we can all use a little bit more of that.

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Speaker 5: No, but I think that is a lot of it,

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Speaker 2: Well, especially thinking about how much the industry has changed

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Speaker 5: I don't know that I've seen women. I've seen age,

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Speaker 5: though age certainly has changed tremendously. I feel. What do

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Speaker 5: but they're writing, they're writing for this now. There's an

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Speaker 5: interest in age, there's an interest in how an older

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Speaker 3: Do you see that when you are reading the scripts

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Speaker 5: Well, I only get them if there's a over a

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Speaker 5: But what I see is kind of wonderful. I mean

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Speaker 5: And I think also we have a lot of wonderful

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Speaker 1: You, it's amazing. June. Okay, we have to take a

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Speaker 1: quick break, but we'll be right back with more from

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Speaker 1: the ninety four year old star of Thelma, June Squib.

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Speaker 2: And we're back with more pearls of Wisdom from Oscar

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Speaker 1: You have an upcoming role in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut

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Speaker 1: about a woman who decides to relocate at the age

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Speaker 1: you kind of know what that feels like. When I

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Speaker 1: think about friendships. As you're coming up in Hollywood, you

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Speaker 1: said you lived with a friend as well. They bring

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Speaker 1: so much to our lives. Is there a girlfriend whose

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I would say there are two women who I've

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Speaker 5: The Evette Freeman, who is an actress and a director.

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Speaker 5: She's directing more now, and Kitty McMillan. And Kitty actually

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Speaker 1: That's fun when work in friendship cross is over. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I also should mention I have a wonderful assistant, Kelly Sweeney,

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Speaker 5: are much closer than my actual age. Strangely enough, I

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Speaker 5: have other young friends. Chris Colfer I met during Glee

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Speaker 5: and we became bonded at the hip and have been

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Speaker 5: Fred Heckinger, who is from Thelma, we became very close.

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Speaker 5: He lives in New York, but when he's in LA

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Speaker 5: I always see him. He comes over for dinner or

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Speaker 1: Who cooks.

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Speaker 5: I don't cook, I mean it's brought in. Usually. I

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Speaker 1: They are friends with Margot Martin Day. Yeah, she cracks

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's wonderful to have her as a friend. We

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Speaker 5: about thirty some years. Wow, that last apartment I had

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Speaker 5: I don't know why, but we have the same feeling

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Speaker 5: And so it's wonderful to talk to her about acting

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Speaker 5: because I know that it's going to be somebody that

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Speaker 3: You know, what is that philosophy?

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Speaker 2: If you don't mind sharing that you both have in

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Speaker 5: Well, I think we both want reality and that's something

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Speaker 5: that's very important to me. And also my husband, who

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Speaker 5: was very important to me as a teacher, pounded into me.

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Speaker 5: And less is more. That's another one, because the less

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Speaker 1: You're so dedicated to your career. How did you balance

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Speaker 1: with that love of craft? Did they understand it very much?

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 5: I don't think there was that understanding my second husband,

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Speaker 5: because he taught acting. He was the one that wanted

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Speaker 5: me to change and wanted me to give up musicals

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Speaker 5: So I don't know quite what the answer is. I

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Speaker 5: guess you just learned to sort of handle everything all

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Speaker 1: Did you just sort of know when you met Charles,

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Speaker 5: Because we were married thirty years before he died.

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Speaker 1: And you had that spark.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. And I also recognized that he had this ability

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Speaker 5: that was acting. That was a part of what I

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Speaker 1: What do you think he found in you?

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Speaker 5: I think I had a love of life that he

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Speaker 5: I really do.

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Speaker 2: You actually credit your second husband, Charles, with giving you

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Speaker 2: Right When I look at your career, I think about

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Speaker 5: I think you have to want something, and I think

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Speaker 5: and so I did it. I don't know what you made.

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Speaker 5: It sounds yell and I you know, I could remember

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Speaker 5: when I first went into his class. Oh, I was

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Speaker 5: and he and I because he was saying, you're going

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Speaker 5: to You're going to do it. I say I can't.

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Speaker 5: I can. I mean, we went through shit together to

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Speaker 2: How did you find the faith, that trust, the belief

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Speaker 5: It never occurred to me to give up. It just

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of younger generations of women today

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Speaker 2: and then you need to have your next reinvention at forty,

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Speaker 2: or you need to be in the C suite by fifty.

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Speaker 2: What you want to say to anyone out there who

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Speaker 5: I just don't think it's ever too late. I really don't.

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Speaker 5: And it's not me sitting here in my nineties because

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Speaker 5: It's as simple as that. And also, if you want

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Speaker 3: June, we're going to wrap this up.

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Speaker 2: It has been such a treat having you here in

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Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us, Thank you for including me.

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Speaker 1: June Squid is an OSCAR nominated actor and star of

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Speaker 1: Selma in select theaters and on vod.

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Speaker 2: That's it for today's show. Tomorrow, the multi talented performer

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Speaker 2: Mikayla Hey Rodriguez is here with us. She's talking about

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Speaker 2: her iconic roles in Pose and Loot, her new music,

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Speaker 2: and so much more.

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Speaker 1: Listen and follow the bright Side on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boice.

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Speaker 2: You can find me at Simone Voice on Instagram and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok.

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Speaker 2: That's r b A Y See you tomorrow, folks. Keep

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Speaker 2: looking on the bright side.