Speaker 1: It's nine O gene one Old Engine with Jenny Garth
Speaker 1: and Tory Spelling.
Speaker 2: We have a special guest today. She played Christy Koons
Speaker 2: on the episode titled Rebound. Welcome actress Christy Lynn Smith. Hello,
Speaker 2: how are you great?
Speaker 3: You look so pretty?
Speaker 2: You look so great?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: You know what I see? I see like a woman
Speaker 1: living in her passion. Because I just was reading this
Speaker 1: thing about this information that you sent of for about
Speaker 1: your your film that you produced and co wrote.
Speaker 3: It's called Rated.
Speaker 4: It's called Rated.
Speaker 3: It sounds fascinating.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're amazing, by the way to even bring that up.
Speaker 4: These aren't progressives, so I would have to go so
Speaker 4: close to the things. I can see you better without
Speaker 4: them unless I'm reading. But back to what you.
Speaker 2: Just mentioned, it sounds so great. You guys are amazing concepts.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: It's based on our award winning short film that we
Speaker 4: We wrote it in twenty fourteen, We shot it in fifteen,
Speaker 4: premiered in twenty sixteen. This has been a ten year journey,
Speaker 4: you guys. Though it is called Rated, are ated, and
Speaker 4: we are still in post production. It's about a woman
Speaker 4: who's you know, in the crossroads of her life, little menopause,
Speaker 4: little overwhelmed mother of two. She wakes up with a
Speaker 4: yelp like star rating over her head.
Speaker 3: This is a nightmare, really nightmare. Is this a scary movie?
Speaker 4: No, not a scary movie. But I wake up with
Speaker 4: two and a half stars. Okay, my husband has five.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's really about her journey, about who
Speaker 4: she is as a person. This story is really about
Speaker 4: humanity and empathy and kindness. If we could all just
Speaker 4: have a little bit of more in the world right now.
Speaker 4: But it really unravels this beautiful story of this woman
Speaker 4: who I'm honored to play Maggie to, you know, play
Speaker 4: her again after ten years, and we're like this little
Speaker 4: engine that could. It's a ten year journey, though, I
Speaker 4: mean to get a movie made. And we've had a
Speaker 4: couple of Guardian Angels that saw the short over COVID.
Speaker 4: We put it on Vimeo on demand, and this producer,
Speaker 4: Mark Pellington reached out and said, do you guys have
Speaker 4: anything you know beyond the short? This is the best
Speaker 4: short I've ever seen. I mean, you know, take it
Speaker 4: with a grain of salt, but it's one of my
Speaker 4: passions that I that one of my passion projects that
Speaker 4: I did ten years ago. I would love to say,
Speaker 4: you guys, the short.
Speaker 3: You need to see that, I want to see it.
Speaker 4: I will send it to a team.
Speaker 2: Talk about signs.
Speaker 4: That's like it was crazy right, meant to be well,
Speaker 4: and it's been a journey. So we had to get financing,
Speaker 4: which is not easy. A lot of eggs are in
Speaker 4: the basket of our own and it's a low budget
Speaker 4: indie movie that we shot in Oklahoma and it's in post.
Speaker 4: So the star like rating if you could imagine, you know,
Speaker 4: like floating over your head.
Speaker 3: Yes I can. Yeah, I think we all can relate
Speaker 3: to that fear.
Speaker 4: You know. It's just so relevant to what we're going
Speaker 4: through with our world right now. And you know, if
Speaker 4: you were to ask yourself, how many stars would I
Speaker 4: have on any given day? It really puts us in
Speaker 4: a position to say, wow, wait a minute, how can
Speaker 4: I be kinder? How can I be gentler with myself
Speaker 4: and others? Because we really don't know what's going on
Speaker 4: with any of us at any given day.
Speaker 1: So are the stars based on kindness and being a
Speaker 1: good human? Are they based on like your appearance and your.
Speaker 4: Nothing nothing but who you are? As a person.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, that is not something I wish this
Speaker 1: was real.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 3: We need like a yelp for humans.
Speaker 4: Well, there was something that actually happened many years ago.
Speaker 4: There's you know, there's a rating system and actually I
Speaker 4: believe it's China, don't quote me or where John read
Speaker 4: about this many many years ago, where there is a
Speaker 4: rating system and you can get points deducted for applications
Speaker 4: or loans. It's a really interesting concept. And you know,
Speaker 4: our goal is that the whole world gets to see
Speaker 4: this movie. So right now we're finishing post production with
Speaker 4: the stars. There's I think twelve hundred visual effects, which
Speaker 4: is almost as many as a Marvel movie.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: On a tiny budget, wow.
Speaker 4: And a very little budget. We're like, we're like little
Speaker 4: baty people here.
Speaker 1: Know well, it sounds like such an amazing, like fulfilling
Speaker 1: I know, Tory and I are both just so happy
Speaker 1: for you to keep it going, Like to finish something.
Speaker 1: What an accomplishment?
Speaker 4: Yes, you know, that's that's the thing.
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 4: John's chugging away. We have our little production thing here
Speaker 4: in this in our garage. I'm in my garage right now.
Speaker 4: I oh, mine recognize the self tape backdrop here, you.
Speaker 1: Know, can we go back and talk about your time
Speaker 1: on nine or two and oh.
Speaker 4: All right, gosh, yes, but thank you so much for
Speaker 4: just honoring that journey for me. It's it's been quite
Speaker 4: a journey. So thanks, happy for you.
Speaker 2: Well, we're so excited for you. And let us know
Speaker 2: when how.
Speaker 3: We can help send us the link to and support.
Speaker 4: I will absolutely as you know, alumni of.
Speaker 2: So we can say when when it becomes a massive hit.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, thank you. You guys are so sweet.
Speaker 4: It means so much, you know, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: So nine o two and.
Speaker 3: Oh, how well do you remember your time there?
Speaker 2: First?
Speaker 3: Start with that because it was a long time ago.
Speaker 4: It was so long ago, so I will say this
Speaker 4: is very funny. So I auditioned multiple times for the show.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a big deal toy to be on
Speaker 4: a spelling show back you know, in the nineties, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, it's an honor. I auditioned many times, and
Speaker 4: I was trying to remember how many times. I have
Speaker 4: a little journal from nineteen ninety two. When I moved
Speaker 4: out to Los Angeles in nineteen ninety two, I actually
Speaker 4: have a. It was dated October. I mean, look at those.
Speaker 4: Christy Lynd Smith Lussy. October thirty first, nineteen ninety two
Speaker 4: is when I moved to LA Is that crazy? There's
Speaker 4: a really sweet little, you know, thing about following my
Speaker 4: dreams and I'm going to miss my mom and it
Speaker 4: was really sweet. I read it, I know, Oh.
Speaker 2: My gosh, and it says, who'd you audition for?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 2: Character?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, let me get to the page. I know, right,
Speaker 4: But I think I think I really aligned with Christy
Speaker 4: Koontz because I had just gotten engaged in June. I
Speaker 4: think we shot this maybe in the fall, right, because
Speaker 4: it aired in January sounds right. So I got married
Speaker 4: June twenty seventh, nineteen ninety eight. This show aired, I
Speaker 4: believe it was, I want to say January or February,
Speaker 4: so we must have been filming in the fall. And
Speaker 4: I got proposed June twenty seven, nineteen ninety seven, So
Speaker 4: I was right in the middle of getting married, right
Speaker 4: and being scared to get married. And this is what
Speaker 4: this character is going through, which is very interesting to me.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm so excited. I think I had too
Speaker 4: MUCHO long tea today. Am I so hyper?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 3: You're bringing the energy. It's quite real. By the way,
Speaker 3: we love your enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: This is all yeay, okay, Well, I will say that
Speaker 4: the one that I booked, and it has in a
Speaker 4: Highlight nine two and zero producer session, it was do
Speaker 4: you want to know what number audition this was? Since
Speaker 4: I was, I guess in the book number two hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty nine of Commercials, Films and TV. You kept
Speaker 4: track in the beginning, but it just then I stopped
Speaker 4: because it was too depressing, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, you made it to two hundred and what.
Speaker 4: Two hundred and twenty nine was the one that I booked?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, this is such a good story.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: So right before on two twenty two, I was brought
Speaker 4: in for a role named Emma.
Speaker 3: Who's that Emma Cawfield? No, that was just his name. No.
Speaker 2: I started to say the same thing.
Speaker 3: No, Angel boris Emma Emma.
Speaker 4: Okay, but auditioned for that.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you didn't get that, Okay.
Speaker 4: I like my part. I want you guys, it's really
Speaker 4: kind of cute.
Speaker 2: That would have been an interesting take because you would
Speaker 2: have been Brandon's.
Speaker 3: Tight because of Kelly anyway.
Speaker 4: No, but I thought this was is this is this
Speaker 4: so cheesy that I'm sharing this?
Speaker 2: Oh no, fantastic?
Speaker 4: Really okay, okay, let's see here. I know there was
Speaker 4: another one. Oh there we go nine just as callback
Speaker 4: Vicki huff doesn't say the character on that particular one.
Speaker 4: It was very sporadic. I would list the show, the
Speaker 4: casting director, and then you know, a lot of feedback
Speaker 4: would say like great actress, not the girl. Yes, we've
Speaker 4: all been.
Speaker 2: Run in a different direction, right right right.
Speaker 4: But I thought this was cute that it did say
Speaker 4: when I booked it, let's see, it had a little,
Speaker 4: a little tidbit. Let me see here. Oh, okay, went
Speaker 4: great nine O two one zero producers went great, booked
Speaker 4: with a big old book right there.
Speaker 3: Whoa.
Speaker 4: So that was cute. And then I ended up after
Speaker 4: that doing the other show Seventh Heaven and Charmed. So
Speaker 4: your dad was good to me. I was really sweet.
Speaker 2: He just yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And auditioning, I just remember the room being very crowded.
Speaker 4: Do you remember self tapes were not happening back then.
Speaker 6: It was five.
Speaker 3: I remember that room.
Speaker 4: I remember that room.
Speaker 2: It was big.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of producers.
Speaker 3: A lot of men in that room.
Speaker 4: A lot of men, and I would always get little
Speaker 4: butterflies before I auditioned for anything, or I still do.
Speaker 4: I got butterflies even being with you today, because I
Speaker 4: just I don't know, I get I I just call
Speaker 4: it excitement.
Speaker 2: That's yeah. It's a good thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The show itself, I mean I rewatched it.
Speaker 3: What did you think.
Speaker 4: I loved it because.
Speaker 1: You mostly worked with the character of Steve played by
Speaker 1: Ian right, right, But what do you remember from that
Speaker 1: day or days whatever it was?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we had a little bit you and
Speaker 4: I when I thought that was really cute. Actually, when
Speaker 4: do you want me to start in the beginning, like
Speaker 4: in order of the scenes or.
Speaker 1: No, whatever whatever stood out to you, Okay, it floats
Speaker 1: your boat.
Speaker 4: Who would you meet first?
Speaker 2: Did you actually meet Ian since you were playing off
Speaker 2: of him or no?
Speaker 4: I don't remember who I met first, but I remember
Speaker 4: them being lovely. Everyone was lovely on I mean, anyone
Speaker 4: that I met. I remember being just very welcoming, which
Speaker 4: was really sweet coming in. It's hard to come in
Speaker 4: as a guest player sometimes I shit is and I
Speaker 4: felt very welcomed and warm. I don't know, Maybe I
Speaker 4: don't know I just I felt.
Speaker 3: Well, that's good news. Yeah, we love hearing that.
Speaker 4: And the scenes when I rewatched them, you know, it
Speaker 4: resonates even now that it was so in line with
Speaker 4: what I was going through.
Speaker 3: That is wild.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is, because Steve says, and I wrote it down.
Speaker 4: Who's to say, what makes you happy at twenty three
Speaker 4: is going to keep you happy at thirty three.
Speaker 3: That's terrifying when you're about to get married.
Speaker 2: Or forty three or fifty three, or.
Speaker 4: It was that really sweet scene. I'm trying that gorgeous
Speaker 4: wedding dress and he's just doing this. You know, he's
Speaker 4: dealing with his own issues obviously, right, but he's saying
Speaker 4: these things that are affecting christ.
Speaker 3: You're getting what we're just saying because.
Speaker 4: I play Christy and Christy.
Speaker 1: But the similarities are just too much much.
Speaker 2: Sorry? Did you tell them the story that you were
Speaker 2: getting married like when you audition.
Speaker 4: For I don't think so.
Speaker 2: It's so like uncannt like unbelievable, like right, I don't.
Speaker 4: I probably would have been too nervous to say anything,
Speaker 4: you know like that.
Speaker 3: But can I ask you a question? Are you still
Speaker 3: married to the man you married?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 1: I am Okay, congrats, thank you. Second question is what
Speaker 1: when you were in that moment and he was saying
Speaker 1: that line that you would just read to us, did
Speaker 1: you did that scare you? And then also did that
Speaker 1: scare you to get married or did that creep into
Speaker 1: your mind at all? And then also, now what do
Speaker 1: you think about that?
Speaker 4: Okay? I think I was very young at the time.
Speaker 4: So when I was twenty seven when I shot this,
Speaker 4: I got married at twenty eight. Looking back, I was like,
Speaker 4: I was a baby getting married. I felt. Now looking back,
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, well, I was really young. But John and
Speaker 4: I have been so close for so long. We met
Speaker 4: each other in acting class back in Florida. He moved
Speaker 4: out a year before me. We became roommates. Yes, we were.
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like Chrissy from Three's Company,
Speaker 4: Me and three guys, and we were always there for
Speaker 4: each other. Long story short. I went away to work
Speaker 4: and when I came back, he asked me to be
Speaker 4: his girlfriend. He actually proposed three times. I turned him down.
Speaker 4: The first two one was water scuba diving and I
Speaker 4: swam away like no, but with bubbles. The second time
Speaker 4: he was on the beach at the same location. And
Speaker 4: I was getting bit by bugs and I ran down
Speaker 4: the beach. And then the third was in La Joya.
Speaker 4: He got on a rock where we had like hell
Speaker 4: litt kissy time. Did I say kissy time?
Speaker 3: You said kissy time?
Speaker 4: I like that and I said yes. And then so
Speaker 4: to cut back to your question, I don't think it
Speaker 4: resonated at the time. I think I was so involved
Speaker 4: in Chris Stycones nine two to zero, doing a good job,
Speaker 4: working very method actor myself. And but I'm sure it
Speaker 4: creeped in unsubconsciously, and you know.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Steve also says, you know, who needs a commitment at
Speaker 4: this age? You know, certainly not me? I say, you know,
Speaker 4: and a very young voice. I don't. You know what's interesting?
Speaker 4: I do feel like my voice has changed, Yeah, in
Speaker 4: my olden age. What is up with that?
Speaker 3: I think that that happens for people.
Speaker 1: I think that like you, you tap into like a
Speaker 1: voice that resonates with like your true, your truth, you know,
Speaker 1: and that is less like HI, maybe less like nervous.
Speaker 1: That kind of uncertainty is gone in your voice as
Speaker 1: you get older.
Speaker 2: It's happened to all of us.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, we were babies, little girl.
Speaker 3: Babies, babies, little baby people.
Speaker 4: I do feel like when I hear my voice, it
Speaker 4: hasn't quite. It hasn't quite how do I I know
Speaker 4: what you're saying, but almost like a it hasn't settled
Speaker 4: into my you know, into my soul in a way.
Speaker 4: My voice, yeah, current voice, No back then, thirty years ago.
Speaker 4: When I hear my voice now, I mean, I'm just hyper.
Speaker 4: So that's christy. People ask if I drink coffee, I'm like, no, this.
Speaker 5: Is just me.
Speaker 3: Just tea, just teek tee.
Speaker 4: I think I did have a little too much oolong
Speaker 4: tea today, but it'll hit you the tea, the tea,
Speaker 4: I think it. But I think I wasn't. I don't
Speaker 4: think it resonated at the time, but I did. Leading
Speaker 4: up to the wedding with John, I think I I
Speaker 4: was nervous. I was even nervous walking down the aisle.
Speaker 4: I think because your whole life is flashing before you
Speaker 4: of what is this? And and but we're best friends,
Speaker 4: you know, we've been very I don't know how long
Speaker 4: that is.
Speaker 1: No, you have to remember the number, because that I
Speaker 1: know I'm trying to do and I can't.
Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety eight eight.
Speaker 4: And then I am twenty six year.
Speaker 1: Seven, twenty six, twenty seven years, twenty seven. I think
Speaker 1: that's it because my daughter was born in ninety seven.
Speaker 1: She's twenty eight.
Speaker 4: Now, Oh wow, that's a long time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been married a long time. How do you
Speaker 3: keep it going?
Speaker 4: You know, marriage is ninety how do you keep the kissy?
Speaker 5: Time?
Speaker 2: A lot?
Speaker 3: Good one?
Speaker 4: You know, I mean it. I think we both know
Speaker 4: that marriage does change. But we are each other's biggest supporter.
Speaker 4: We create together art now but also babies together. But
Speaker 4: we're always there for each other. We always have each
Speaker 4: other's back no matter what. And we've been through a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a long time.
Speaker 4: Fly time, and we both you know, we're both growing up.
Speaker 4: And I think, where did I hear this? I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe I read it. But it's really about being each
Speaker 4: other's best friend, I think. And I feel like even
Speaker 4: Christine Harry seemed like they really cared about each other,
Speaker 4: but they were friends, you know. And I think friendship
Speaker 4: is important because people do change and just getting older
Speaker 4: and having kids, and you know, the time that we
Speaker 4: get to spend with one another, I think kindness goes
Speaker 4: a little long way too, you know. In relationships, whether
Speaker 4: it's a partner or a friend or a coworker, and
Speaker 4: just giving each other a break on where they are
Speaker 4: in the moment.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's hard to say.
Speaker 2: What, why?
Speaker 4: How we you know, are still together. I think love
Speaker 4: has a lot to do with it, but also respect
Speaker 4: for one another.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you just summed it up like those
Speaker 1: are all the good qualities of a relationship, and you know,
Speaker 1: you go in and out of them, you lose sight
Speaker 1: of them, you return to them, and then that's how
Speaker 1: you're growing.
Speaker 3: You're so inspiring. I don't think to her, she's.
Speaker 2: Just like I could listen to you speak all day.
Speaker 4: I Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm talking too much.
Speaker 3: So no, this is your interview. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: This is about you?
Speaker 6: Oh wait?
Speaker 2: What signs are you? Guys? Sorry? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Okay, what science? Here we go. Okay, I'm a Gemini. Okay,
Speaker 4: so June third, what about you?
Speaker 2: I'm a Taurus Jennys and Aries. Okay, my daughter is
Speaker 2: a Gemini.
Speaker 4: What's her birthday?
Speaker 2: June ninth?
Speaker 4: June ninth? So does she have two personalities? Like she?
Speaker 4: Can you really bubbly? And then also be like a
Speaker 4: hermit in her room.
Speaker 2: Those weren't the wording so I was going to use.
Speaker 3: But she's still teenager.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super kind thinks about everyone, does you know, and
Speaker 2: then has the like don't mess with me kind of
Speaker 2: really inspirational, strong personality that I don't have and I
Speaker 2: look up to.
Speaker 4: Actually, but yeah, amazing. No, I just like, I feel
Speaker 4: like I'm very energetic and very I love people. But
Speaker 4: then I can go my other gemini.
Speaker 1: My husband's a Gemini, so I can one hundred percent
Speaker 1: relate to what you're saying.
Speaker 4: And then I get really Probably after this I'll be like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I'm so tired. You know, I need
Speaker 4: to take a social break because I give. I try
Speaker 4: to give all of myself when when I'm with people,
Speaker 4: but then you have to I need self care as well,
Speaker 4: and I think, and congratulations, by the way, on your
Speaker 4: amazing book tour. I just went on Instagram recently. I've
Speaker 4: tried to cleanse myself a little bit, but then I
Speaker 4: good idea just to see what you both were up to,
Speaker 4: and congratulations on your book and congratulations on your podcast,
Speaker 4: and just you know, I just wanted to say just
Speaker 4: thank you. For inviting me. So I know we're not done,
Speaker 4: but I just wanted to get that.
Speaker 3: Out so nice. Thank you very much, of course.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, back to John. Okay, what is John? Sorry?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: John is a scorpio?
Speaker 2: November?
Speaker 4: What of what?
Speaker 2: November?
Speaker 4: What? Oh? Twelve?
Speaker 2: My ex is a scorpio.
Speaker 1: Oh no, but maybe maybe her sign lines up better
Speaker 1: with a scorpio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and my mom is a scorpio too.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: You grew up with it, you know how to handle it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think ish.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I think I don't know. My
Speaker 4: kids are Pisces and.
Speaker 2: Capricorn, both grade signs. Yeah, but you guys were both.
Speaker 2: I think both partners have to be completely invested in
Speaker 2: knowing there's highs and lows and be able to work
Speaker 2: through that because there's so much love and we all
Speaker 2: change and right, we're not going to be the person
Speaker 2: at the core who you fell in love with, but
Speaker 2: you know we're growing, We grow and changed. Last question,
Speaker 2: you did you just directed your first movie? Correct?
Speaker 4: I directed a short film, Yes, that I wrote, and
Speaker 4: so I guess I can call myself a filmmaker now,
Speaker 4: which is great.
Speaker 3: But it was done at all. Yeah, written directed this.
Speaker 4: Was happening at the same time.
Speaker 2: So John have all trades.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know what, someone really awesome, Mark Deplas
Speaker 4: said on on Instagram. Here I said I'm taking a break.
Speaker 4: But a couple years ago, I think it was at
Speaker 4: a film festival and said, the Calvary's not coming, meaning
Speaker 4: doesn't matter where we are at our career, right on
Speaker 4: a series making tons of money, they're still not coming.
Speaker 4: So if you want to be in this industry, you
Speaker 4: need to create your own stuff. And so I wrote
Speaker 4: a short film. It actually spawned out of a bad birthday,
Speaker 4: I will say, and I just started writing. Then I
Speaker 4: worked with this screenplay Dula. He's fantastic and just improving
Speaker 4: and writing and it turned into a script. It wasn't
Speaker 4: my intention at first. I was just writing, you know,
Speaker 4: like Shame of Consciousness, and I thought this might be
Speaker 4: a really fun idea, and then it turned into a
Speaker 4: solid short film. And then I go, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: I need to make this. I need to star in this.
Speaker 4: And my husband said, well, do you want me to
Speaker 4: direct it? And I go, you know what I need
Speaker 4: to do this? Yeah, you need more like female directors
Speaker 4: and writers and producers. And so I'm on the film
Speaker 4: festival journey, meaning I just started submitting fingers crossed that
Speaker 4: I will have a really good premiere.
Speaker 3: Can you say, does links? I need to see this too?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, okay, I want you to. Well, if
Speaker 4: it's in LA, i'd rather invite you to the premiere,
Speaker 4: do you know what I mean? I'd rather, but I
Speaker 4: want to send you a link to the other short
Speaker 4: for sure, but maybe let me see, let me see.
Speaker 3: You think about.
Speaker 4: It's up to you, right thing, well, because no one
Speaker 4: has seen it yet.
Speaker 3: Oh, when you're ready enough, when you're ready, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean people have seen it, but I'm submitting, so I'm
Speaker 4: I'm it's kind of close to my heart right now.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm a little nervous to send it,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. But it's called Everyone Has Issues.
Speaker 4: Oh we'll cut back to you know, everyone has Issues
Speaker 4: dot dot dot basically. So it's about relationships. It has
Speaker 4: a quirky spin to it, a little bit of like
Speaker 4: Lars and the Real Girl. So it's about a woman
Speaker 4: trying to connect with her n usual new partner, George.
Speaker 4: That's all I want to say. That's all I want
Speaker 4: to say. And so I'm really hoping that it gets
Speaker 4: It's a really fantastic world premiere. Worst case scenario, let's
Speaker 4: say it doesn't do as well as rated for some reason.
Speaker 4: Because Raid had played sixty film festivals and won twenty
Speaker 4: three awards, so it's up here. We can't compare other
Speaker 4: work though, to new work. We just can't. Every piece
Speaker 4: of art is a different living being, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: So if let's just say film festivals they love it
Speaker 4: or they don't get in, I'll put it online or
Speaker 4: maybe I'll distribute it on short TV or other short
Speaker 4: film played or something. I don't know. I just want
Speaker 4: to keep making art, and I'm working on a screenplay
Speaker 4: about three generations coming together for a femial tragedy. I
Speaker 4: need to find a really good older actress to play
Speaker 4: my mom, and then my daughter would play my daughter,
Speaker 4: hopefully if she's not too busy. She's going to college
Speaker 4: in the fall.
Speaker 1: But congratulations, ah, thank you, well, it seems like your
Speaker 1: life is full of creativity and joy like I don't know.
Speaker 3: Don't you feel just so happy for her tour?
Speaker 2: I truly do, And you just seem like a genuine
Speaker 2: kind person, and good things happen for people like that,
Speaker 2: and you lost me a Gemini because I I got nervous.
Speaker 2: There's another sign to you.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, you know what I think. I think
Speaker 4: the sign doesn't make the person. Just because the day
Speaker 4: I was born doesn't mean that if you've had if
Speaker 4: someone's had a bad experience with a certain sign, doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that the next person you meet might be that person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's all other things involved, Like, you're right,
Speaker 1: you know all the other parts of what makes a
Speaker 1: sign a sign? What is it?
Speaker 3: Tori? You know more about it than me, Like you're rising, You're.
Speaker 2: Right, and now they say you're rising signs more authentically
Speaker 2: you I don't know. Yeah, well, you're right. This was
Speaker 2: a lovely conversation the three of us. This was amazing.
Speaker 2: Please let us know when everything is ready and comes out.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I will you know. It's funny I
Speaker 4: ran into I mean more about nine too. And oh
Speaker 4: the scene with the eggs, the eggs scene. I think
Speaker 4: I must have gone through dozens of eggs when we
Speaker 4: were bashing those eggs, and Christy Koons is a little
Speaker 4: like overwhelmed with the with the eggs and saying, you know,
Speaker 4: he's so great and he's so good to me, and
Speaker 4: that was that was a funny moment that I remember
Speaker 4: having to smash all those eggs. I mean, I feel
Speaker 4: like we need to talk more about nine to two
Speaker 4: and O we're talking about life. But I mean, it's
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's so lovely that you guys are
Speaker 4: just so supportive and amazing women. I think that's you know.
Speaker 3: We're rooting for you all the way.
Speaker 5: Sweet.
Speaker 4: You know it's funny. I ran into Jason in twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen for some reason. We were at a party about
Speaker 4: a film festival and I asked him to take a picture.
Speaker 4: He was the kindest, most lovely human. So I went
Speaker 4: on my phone to try to find this picture yesterday
Speaker 4: and I printed it and I thought it was going
Speaker 4: to come out like a little, tiny little picture.
Speaker 3: It was like eight by ten.
Speaker 4: It is the biggest.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's such a great picture.
Speaker 4: But not only one. I had two and printed.
Speaker 3: Got time to frame those.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: We loved talking to you. Your delight and inspiring to
Speaker 1: keep chasing your dreams and never give up. And look
Speaker 1: what's happening for you. It's it's all coming together.
Speaker 4: That's exes thus are so sweet I so appreciate.
Speaker 2: Just the full circle moment. So this is awesome.
Speaker 3: We love touching face with you again in life.
Speaker 4: Oh you're so sweet. I really appreciate it. I think
Speaker 4: I've I think I think I've ran into you a
Speaker 4: couple of times, Tori, but I was too shy to
Speaker 4: say hi.
Speaker 3: No, yes, what?
Speaker 4: Maybe I think at like a Christmas Christmas like when
Speaker 4: the kids were little with Santa. I think there's like
Speaker 4: a little Christmasy Santa thing. Maybe I don't know. I
Speaker 4: think it was like years ago.
Speaker 2: Was it like a gifting thing like in different brands
Speaker 2: and there's Santa, yes, yes, yes, Oh for Mark Communications,
Speaker 2: I think so yes. Was it the Ondas Hotel?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't Oh, I don't know, I remember Santa. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure Santa was there, but Santa. But next I'm
Speaker 4: going to say hi.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there you go. Please always say hi
Speaker 2: to us.
Speaker 4: I know, I know, I will, I will.
Speaker 1: Well all the best with your films. Could look at
Speaker 1: the festivals.
Speaker 3: You're going to do great.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Really good talking to you.
Speaker 4: Oh, nice talking to you both too. Bye, all right bye.
Speaker 5: Yeah,