Speaker 1: Actors are a funny group.
Speaker 2: They have to do crazy things sometimes in the acting.
Speaker 2: I played a character for a very long time that
Speaker 2: was beloved all around the world called Sabrina on Sabrina
Speaker 2: the teenage Witch.
Speaker 1: She had these magical powers and she could be anywhere.
Speaker 2: So I did ski on Mars, and I was a
Speaker 2: trapeze artist walking across a tightrope at the circus. And
Speaker 2: I was a princess jumping across a volcano. So I
Speaker 2: got to do some really really fun stuff.
Speaker 3: She can cast spells and talk to cats on screen,
Speaker 3: of course, and she's a fabulous actress who played all
Speaker 3: kinds of characters, including a very beloved teenage witch.
Speaker 4: The one and only Melissa Joan.
Speaker 3: Hard is this season's first guest on The Lingo Kids
Speaker 3: Grown Up Podcast. Welcome to season three of Growing Up,
Speaker 3: the Lingo Kids podcast that encourages kids to dream big
Speaker 3: and discover who they want to be. Join us on
Speaker 3: this special adventure as we speak with some remarkable people
Speaker 3: about the skills and hobbies that got them where.
Speaker 4: They are today. I sure hope our guests.
Speaker 3: Are excited about all the little twists and turns we
Speaker 3: have in store this season.
Speaker 4: I know I am.
Speaker 3: If you love brain boosting trivia, mind bending riddles and
Speaker 3: super fun quizzes, then you, little listener, are our.
Speaker 4: Perfect travel companion.
Speaker 3: You and my awesome co host Luis are gonna get
Speaker 3: along just great.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be quite the ride.
Speaker 5: Okay, first dance co host, you'll do great. Louise, You're
Speaker 5: a brave knight. Maxie said so with his eyes when
Speaker 5: I left him at home. You can do it.
Speaker 3: Comen, good morning, Emily, Oh, good morning Louise.
Speaker 5: Today, I'm sir Louise. Oh, that's why I brought my sword.
Speaker 4: Sure, but that's not a real sword, is it.
Speaker 5: Sure it is. It's Sir Louise's special sword.
Speaker 4: Hmm, looks kind of wobbly to me.
Speaker 5: It's not wobbly. It growls to scare monsters away.
Speaker 2: Girl.
Speaker 4: Oh, I see? And why did you bring it today?
Speaker 5: To show everyone what a cool night I am?
Speaker 4: Oh? I get it. This sword is your prop for
Speaker 4: your night character.
Speaker 5: That's right. With the power of my sword, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: send you away from this planet.
Speaker 4: You are a very convincing fighter.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Actors use props like the sword all the time so
Speaker 3: that their characters are more realistic on plays, TV sets
Speaker 3: and movies.
Speaker 5: Actors.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are people whose job is to play well
Speaker 3: other people, animals, even objects, just like you're doing now
Speaker 3: playing a night. Being an actor is about being creative.
Speaker 5: I just want to know more about being an actor.
Speaker 4: Emily Well, I think one of the very special gifts
Speaker 4: go Forward Labs gave us should be able to help. Ah.
Speaker 5: What does it do? Emily?
Speaker 3: I think if I move it left and then right
Speaker 3: and make a circle.
Speaker 5: Wow, what's happening? Earie Well?
Speaker 3: The producers of this podcast wanted to add some magic
Speaker 3: to this episode. None of it would happen in real life,
Speaker 3: but it can happen here and growing up.
Speaker 5: I love it. Hi there, Wow, who's that?
Speaker 3: Her name is Melissa jan Hart, an actual actress.
Speaker 5: She appeered out of nowhere.
Speaker 3: That's the science of the magic. I guess, Hi, Melissa,
Speaker 3: why do you like being an actress?
Speaker 2: I like being an actres because I like working with
Speaker 2: a group of people to create something different, whether it's
Speaker 2: you know, doing a scene where you're skiing on Mars,
Speaker 2: or you get to live in different time periods, you
Speaker 2: get to live in different locations. You know, one minute
Speaker 2: you might be in Australia. The next minute you're living
Speaker 2: on Mars.
Speaker 5: That's cool. I didn't know it could be an actor,
Speaker 5: just like that drugging. Oh no, my super special sword
Speaker 5: it broke.
Speaker 3: Oh, Louise, I'm so sorry. I'll help you pick the
Speaker 3: pieces up.
Speaker 5: Now, how will I defeed dragons? Emily?
Speaker 4: Don't worry.
Speaker 3: We can get another sword later. Actors always get other props.
Speaker 5: Really, that's cool because the good night always needs a
Speaker 5: good sword.
Speaker 4: Ooh, that's catchy.
Speaker 3: Let me finish packing these Okay there, phew, Okay, now, Louise,
Speaker 3: I have a good story for a good night. Picture
Speaker 3: this a time with no phones, no TV, no Hollywood.
Speaker 5: Wow. How long ago was that, Emily?
Speaker 4: Around the year fifteen hundred.
Speaker 5: Hold on, that's like the Dinosaur's time.
Speaker 4: Well not quite, but it's still a long time ago.
Speaker 3: So picture a long road in the countryside, and in
Speaker 3: the middle of the road a group of ten actors.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: This troop spends every night walking from one town to
Speaker 3: the next. With every new day they get on a
Speaker 3: new stage and get.
Speaker 4: All of their props out, like their swords, yes they're.
Speaker 3: Ten twenty swords, their chairs and tables, and when everything
Speaker 3: is set, the fun begins, the actors tell a story
Speaker 3: together for people to enjoy.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a cool band tour.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Acting has been around since ancient times, of course, but
Speaker 3: some people turn it into a job with these tours.
Speaker 5: Oh but I wonder, Emily, what were the plays about
Speaker 5: knights and dragons?
Speaker 4: Hmmm, not exactly, Louise.
Speaker 3: Most of them were comedies, stories about people who fell
Speaker 3: in love, neighbors who got into funny troubles.
Speaker 5: Like that time Maxi jumped into the new.
Speaker 4: I'd love to see a play with Maxie in it.
Speaker 3: And you know what, Luise, our very special guests for
Speaker 3: our game show today is Melissa Joan Hart, the actual
Speaker 3: actress you just talked to.
Speaker 5: That's amazing. She can have a sword.
Speaker 3: Too, yes, and she's been in tons of beloved comedies.
Speaker 3: She even can fly on a broom on TV, of course.
Speaker 5: Fly on a broom. I want to do magic like her.
Speaker 5: Then she can teach me.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure she'll have some advice for you.
Speaker 3: Most of us grown ups know her as Sabrina the
Speaker 3: Teenage Witch.
Speaker 5: Cool nickname, and who is Sabrina, Emily, Oh.
Speaker 3: Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a young witch who lived
Speaker 3: with a talking cat named Salem.
Speaker 5: A talking cat, no way, and was Salem nervous on set?
Speaker 4: Oh? All actress get nervous? Luise? Why?
Speaker 5: Well? I have butterflies in my stomach every time I
Speaker 5: speak in front of other people.
Speaker 3: And today's my first game show. So I brought my
Speaker 3: sword to feel brave. Oh, I understand, Louise, but it broke.
Speaker 5: Now I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: I know what we can do, Louise. Let's ask Melissa
Speaker 3: herself with the magic wand as an actress, Melissa gets
Speaker 3: to be in front of people all the time.
Speaker 4: So fire away, Hi Louisa and.
Speaker 5: Emily, Hi Melissa? How do I stay cool in front
Speaker 5: of other people?
Speaker 2: If you're nervous, your heart is pounding and your head
Speaker 2: is kind of swirling, and you just feel like I
Speaker 2: don't know if I can do this, and you feel
Speaker 2: yourself like start to not be able to breathe so easily.
Speaker 1: That is completely normal.
Speaker 5: That's great to hear.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we think we're nervous, but we're actually excited, like
Speaker 1: what can I do? What am I gonna do? What's
Speaker 1: this gonna be? Like?
Speaker 4: Yep, that's me wondering what the game will be?
Speaker 5: Like me too, Emily, I'm a little nervous but also
Speaker 5: really excited.
Speaker 2: You'll always feel those nerves, and if you don't, I'd
Speaker 2: be worried.
Speaker 1: So just remembering that it's completely normal.
Speaker 5: Melissa made me feel so much better.
Speaker 4: Thanks Magic wand ready to talk to her in person
Speaker 4: and host your very first game show, Sir Louise.
Speaker 5: Super ready, let's go.
Speaker 3: Welcome to our very first growing up talking game show.
Speaker 4: I'm Emily and this is Louise Say Hi Louise.
Speaker 5: Hi everyone, I'm Louise. Good night for tonight, I mean
Speaker 5: your co host.
Speaker 4: And please welcome our very special guest for today, Melissa
Speaker 4: Joan Hart.
Speaker 3: Melissa has been an actress and she was four years
Speaker 3: old and she's loved all around the world for playing
Speaker 3: Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Clarissa, and Clarissa explains it all.
Speaker 4: Hi, Melissa, how are you feeling today?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm full of energy and happy.
Speaker 4: Just like me and me. How are you feeling about
Speaker 4: being here with us?
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I love answering questions.
Speaker 2: I love to entertain, so I love to tell people
Speaker 2: about myself and try to make people laugh.
Speaker 3: We are going to have a last so let's begin, Melissa,
Speaker 3: tell us why and how you became interested in acting.
Speaker 2: There was a TV show when I was a little
Speaker 2: called Romper Room, and there was a woman named Miss Marianne.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the show, she'd sit all
Speaker 2: the kids down and she'd hold up the magic mirror
Speaker 2: and she'd say.
Speaker 1: And I see Tommy, and I see.
Speaker 2: Joe, and I see Betty, and she would say all
Speaker 2: the kids' names, and she would never say Melissa.
Speaker 1: And I wanted her to say my name so bad.
Speaker 2: And I realized she was saying the names of the
Speaker 2: kids that were in the audience, so if I could
Speaker 2: get to be on that show, then she would say Melissa.
Speaker 2: And so that's where my acting career kind of started.
Speaker 2: I told my mom, I need to be on TV.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, did they ever call you out on that show.
Speaker 2: I did not get to be on Romper Room, but
Speaker 2: recently I found out that one of my best friends was.
Speaker 1: Like, I was on that show, and I got so jealous.
Speaker 1: I was like, no way, I never got to.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I know how that feels. One time I
Speaker 5: was on a magic show with my mom and the
Speaker 5: magic man needed help with a trick, so I said,
Speaker 5: pick me, pick me please, but he never picked me.
Speaker 3: Oh, we all get second chances, Louise. Speaking of which, when.
Speaker 4: Did you get your first chance at acting? Melissa?
Speaker 2: I was four years old and I got my first job,
Speaker 2: which was a commercial for a bathtub doll. The bathtub
Speaker 2: doll was called Splashy, and I got to just play
Speaker 2: in the water for I think like an hour.
Speaker 5: I love warm water and splashing, but I'd be shy
Speaker 5: if I had to do it in front of other people.
Speaker 5: Does that mean I can't be an actor?
Speaker 2: People can definitely be actors if they're shy. Some of
Speaker 2: the best actors are people that are shy or overcome
Speaker 2: things like maybe a stutter or any other kind of
Speaker 2: thing that you think might get in the way. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think that you can really come out of shell
Speaker 2: and get to be You can play someone who's not shy.
Speaker 3: I love that being an actor gives us a chance
Speaker 3: to live different lives, even if it's only on stage.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to be a Knight or a very
Speaker 5: or my dog Maxie. How can I become an actor, Melissa?
Speaker 2: Well, some things I think you can do or join
Speaker 2: anything local in your school, join the theater program, join chorus,
Speaker 2: go to a dance studio, take some dance lessons, because
Speaker 2: they might this one day. They might just need someone
Speaker 2: to do hip hop or ballet, or they might need
Speaker 2: you to play the flute, or they might need a singer,
Speaker 2: or they might need a gymnast, someone to do a
Speaker 2: backflip or you know. So having all those fun skills
Speaker 2: that you can play with you can.
Speaker 5: Make so many dreams come true as an actor. Can
Speaker 5: you tell us about other fun things you did as
Speaker 5: an actress?
Speaker 1: There are so many.
Speaker 2: But I was really lucky because I played a character
Speaker 2: for a very long time that was beloved all around
Speaker 2: the world called Sabrina On Sabrina the teenage Witch. And
Speaker 2: because she was a witch, she had these magical powers
Speaker 2: and she could be anywhere. So I did ski on Mars,
Speaker 2: and I was a trapeze artist walking across a tightrope
Speaker 2: at the circus. And I was Alice in Wonderland, and
Speaker 2: I was a princess jumping across a volcano and at
Speaker 2: one point throwing my evil twin into the volcano.
Speaker 5: Throwing your evil twin to the volcano sounds crazy, I
Speaker 5: love it.
Speaker 1: Actors Rock actors are a funny group. They come up
Speaker 1: with some crazy things.
Speaker 2: They have to do crazy things sometimes in the acting.
Speaker 2: They tend to be very creative people with sort of
Speaker 2: very colorful brains, right, so you might think of them
Speaker 2: as people that see lots of rainbows and bright colors
Speaker 2: and fireworks in their brain.
Speaker 3: Melissa, right before joining you, we were playing around with
Speaker 3: this magic wand right here and hyps Yes, my mic
Speaker 3: just turned into a parrot. This is officially my most
Speaker 3: magical moment on set?
Speaker 4: What was yours?
Speaker 1: Oh, magical moment on set?
Speaker 2: People won't see that TV show from weeks and weeks,
Speaker 2: But sometimes if my kids come to visit me, or
Speaker 2: my husband comes to visit me, or my mom comes
Speaker 2: to visit me, and I see them onset, I get
Speaker 2: really excited about that.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know.
Speaker 3: How it feels, because I love it when my family
Speaker 3: comes to see me at work. And of all of them,
Speaker 3: who is your biggest supporter?
Speaker 2: I would say my mom's my biggest cheerleader. She is
Speaker 2: always proud of me. She's always encouraging me. We actually
Speaker 2: make movies and TV shows together, so she and I
Speaker 2: are like best friends work buddies, and so I feel like,
Speaker 2: you know her being honest with me just makes me better.
Speaker 3: A big round of applause for Melissa. Now let's jump
Speaker 3: into straight up fun our very first game show.
Speaker 4: Today, we're playing a short trivia around the world of acting. Louise,
Speaker 4: How does this game work?
Speaker 5: Okay, here's how trivia works. I'll ask a question and
Speaker 5: give a few answer options. Then Melissa has to guess
Speaker 5: which one is correct before.
Speaker 4: The bell rings.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, take it away, Okay.
Speaker 5: First question, where was the first theater in the world
Speaker 5: built a Greece, B, the United States or C. Egypt.
Speaker 2: I would say it's probably Greece, because I think ancient
Speaker 2: Greece used to have a lot of theater.
Speaker 5: You got it right. It was built in Athens, Greece.
Speaker 5: It was called the Theater of Dionysus, and it's a
Speaker 5: very popular tourist attraction today.
Speaker 1: I got that right. I didn't know that me neither.
Speaker 5: Okay. Question number two, how long did the longest play
Speaker 5: ever last? Was it a an entire summer, B an
Speaker 5: entire weekend, or c more than one whole day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say an entire summer.
Speaker 2: I just feel like there's I've heard stories of old
Speaker 2: like directors they would do these epic, huge scenes and
Speaker 2: it would last a long time, and they could make
Speaker 2: something last a whole summer long.
Speaker 5: Oh sadly, no, the correct answer is more than one whole.
Speaker 1: Day one day.
Speaker 2: I thought there's been at least Oh maybe I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of Shakespeare festivals where like all different stuff is on
Speaker 2: all weekend or all week Yeah.
Speaker 5: The longest play recorded by the Guinness World Records ran
Speaker 5: for more than thirty hours. It was about the history
Speaker 5: of India. It was played by Dpica Turassia on August fifteenth,
Speaker 5: twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a long time, though still twenty four hours
Speaker 2: to sit still. I don't like to sit through a
Speaker 2: three hour movie, so okay.
Speaker 5: Last question number three? What was the first animal movie
Speaker 5: star A A horse, B, a monkey or C A dog?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I want to say a dog, but
Speaker 2: like Benji or something. But I'm gonna go with a
Speaker 2: horse because of all the Westerns.
Speaker 5: Very very close. It was actually a dog. Its name
Speaker 5: was Blair, a dog actor that played the role of
Speaker 5: Rover in a British short film from nineteen oh five.
Speaker 1: Oh it was.
Speaker 5: The movie was named Rescued by Rover. It's a short
Speaker 5: film about a dog who goes through land and water
Speaker 5: to rescue a baby.
Speaker 1: Oh cute.
Speaker 4: Not to check that out, Melissa, have you ever performed
Speaker 4: with animals.
Speaker 2: On Sabrina the Teenage which I had to work with
Speaker 2: at a cat for seven years. But it wasn't just
Speaker 2: one cat, there were fifteen cats. I think the cat
Speaker 2: was so good for.
Speaker 1: So many bloopers.
Speaker 2: It was so sometimes the live cat would just go
Speaker 2: eat something, or run off the set, or lay down
Speaker 2: when you wanted to sit up, and so we'd be
Speaker 2: waiting on the cat a lot.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Melissa, and thanks everyone for being
Speaker 3: here with us.
Speaker 4: Louise, what did you learn from Melissa?
Speaker 5: I've learned that being an actor means you can learn
Speaker 5: so many skills like flying on a trapeze and training pets.
Speaker 5: Oh and work around the world with so many different people.
Speaker 3: That's right now. Do you think it's time to go
Speaker 3: grab something to eat after.
Speaker 4: Our first show?
Speaker 5: Yes? Please, I'm so hungry I could eat a whole dragon.
Speaker 3: Thanks for tagging along on this episode of Growing Up.
Speaker 3: If you want to know more about the amazing lives
Speaker 3: of actors, check out our episode Adventures and Acting with
Speaker 3: Joel McHale and remember a little listener, dream big, and
Speaker 3: always stay curious.
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