WEBVTT - Some Time With... Tahj Mowry! (Part 1) 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.440 Hey there, fan Ritos, Welcome back to a brand new 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.800 episode of How Rude Tanarritos. Today, we have a guest 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.319 you've all been waiting for. It's Taj Maurie. You know 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.159 him as Teddy, the lovable and very honest best friend 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.400 we all wanted to have in kindergarten and his success 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.680 on Full House was just the beginning. We're going to 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.159 get into everything today, from Full House to Kim Possible, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.640 and yes, even the Muppets mayhem, much to Jody's delight. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:49.440 Definitely the Muppets. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.040 We can't wait to talk to Taj, so let's bring 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:52.360 him in. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.800 Yeah, go like, god, hi ToJ. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:58.920 Reunited. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:00.720 So good? 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.640 Whoa how so good to see you too. You look 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.399 amazing you so do you? 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:13.480 Oh my gosh. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.720 Yeah, this is like the benefits of doing the show 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.520 is we get to see people that we know. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.720 It's really it's a beautiful thing. It's so wonderful. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:31.080 Yeah, your smile, you there you go, oh all. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:38.040 Of that gushing and you oh you guys walk amazing 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:38.639 you guys. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.560 You really look the same, you love the same. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.880 Well you look the same but better like you were 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:50.360 five years old. And yes, yes, ray. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:51.440 Thank you guys. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.840 Oh my goodness, you're joining us. We're just thrilled that 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:55.320 you're here. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.440 Yeah, and we just jumped right into the interview, so 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.960 we're just yeah. So you know, like there's no we 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.680 don't do like an official We. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.200 Just yeah. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.080 Well, because fans love to hear, like the first reaction 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:10.480 when we. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.120 All see each other, that was. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:19.760 Right there, you are the winner, the best on a 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:20.560 zoom entrance. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.240 I'll take it. I'll take it true. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.000 But you know what, I feel like, you like were 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.480 you were such a part of the show for being 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.919 Michelle's friend for so long, and like. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:37.680 Yeah, it's just like. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.160 I I love bringing back people and like you were 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.960 the younger generation, just a little bit younger than me, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.880 and like bringing back people that are like that was 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.200 such a part of my childhood and like I remember 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.480 it like on the behind the scenes stuff is just it's. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.880 Yeah, we haven't seen each other in so long. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:56.440 I feel like. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.080 I've seen I feel like, out of everyone, I've seen, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.799 you guys the lead because I see I've seen other 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:07.200 people at you know, award shows or advents. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.280 Or stuff like that. And so that's why my reaction 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:09.960 was so light. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:17.360 Yeah, No, I have been avoiding sometime now it's been intentional. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.720 I just I feel like we should address it. Uh yeah, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:22.959 the pod. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:31.040 Yes, Oh god, I just I what I remember is, uh, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.960 you coming to set and your sister's coming with you, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:35.240 and they. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.200 Were my age. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.560 So I was always stoked because I was like, yes, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.040 finally some people mine age to hang out with. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.080 And the three of us just kicked it like we. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.280 Just hung out and you know, and like, yeah, it 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.920 was just like your whole family was you know. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.400 It was Yeah, I love like. 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.760 Your parents, like the whole past. You guys were the 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.680 whole package. You're feeling so nice, yeah, so kind, just 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.560 so down to earth and wonderful to have on set. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:05.680 Thank you. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:13.000 Yes, Now, I mean you, I think you and I 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.200 and Andrew have all started in this business about the 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.520 same time. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.480 You were like four around there around there, Yeah amazing. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.760 Andrew you were five, I was five. I was like 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:22.400 four and a half. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:23.600 Yeah, we're all. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.200 We're all old and we're all we're all we've been 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.320 doing this time the days of Masa. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.200 No, but we it is like. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.040 It's crazy to think of all of the things that 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.280 have happened sort of in between now and then. I mean, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.880 you major, you made your debut on Who's the Boss? 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:43.839 Right, I did? 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.479 I did remember that, Like do you remember? 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.760 I mean, I don't. I feel like that that was 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.400 my first show. I feel like the show. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.039 I did after that, which was how I got Full House, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.039 I remember more of more of and that was a 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.720 show called Out All Night and Now with Patty LaBelle 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.640 and Morris Chestnut and Via. 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.320 I remember that show. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.200 And that's how I think Jeff had saw me on that, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.479 and then that's how I got Full House and then 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.680 so I remember more of that. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.560 But Who's the Boss, I don't. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.680 When I see it, I'm like, oh, okay, I think 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.240 I remember the steps that I walked. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.440 Down right right, But like because I used to love. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.960 Like growing up on sets, and and I was mesmerized 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.880 by the fact that you could go up a staircase 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:29.920 but nothing was there. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.240 You know that. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.960 It amount of people that go that are surprised when 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.080 they come to a set and they're like, wait, it's 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.560 all on the same level, but you got up the 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.000 stairs right, and you're like, that doesn't funny enough. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.880 The Full House stairs. I will never forget. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.680 How hyped I was the first time I got to, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.040 you know, do a scene and go up there. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.600 I was like, oh, I'm a part of the show. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:02.280 Now, Yes, yes, I just loved it because that set, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.520 that living room set was so cool and so I'll 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.520 never forget how amazed I was when I got to 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.000 finally go up those stairs. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.960 The stairs were tall too, they were tall. They were tall. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.360 It was tall stairs with the land different landing. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.560 Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I feel down them. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.240 At least one was a season. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.880 Well, they would try to put an adult up there, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.000 like if it was just kids waiting for an entrance 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.080 after the stairs are they would try to put a 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.600 p a or somebody there because Adria would be up 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.600 there all off on the other side, or there'd be 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.560 ladders or nails or all sorts of lights whatever, you know, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:48.880 so it could be it would you know, Yeah, splinters, yes. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.440 The seconds off camera, like if you don't see it, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.320 it looks it was just a show. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.160 Yeah, exactly. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:01.520 There's always like random half drink water bottles and the script. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:07.320 Yeah during dust. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.480 Swim through it. God, the memories. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.320 Well, House fans absolutely adore Utag. They loved you as 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:20.000 Michelle's friend, so from the very beginning, like what made 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.000 you want to become an actor? 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.080 Like what was the thing that I was like, this 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:26.040 is why I want to do it. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.520 I think it was just it was always fun for 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:33.880 me to memorize lines and like become someone else, like 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.200 and pretend, you know. And growing up my mom so 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.840 I've been told I would watch commercials and then I 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.600 would repeat the commercial and act the commercial. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:46.680 Back out, and she was like, we got to do 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:47.480 something with this. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:56.160 Kid nowhere else. So yeah, it was just fun for me. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.440 And I'm so grateful because it's still fun for me. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.119 You know. It never became not fun. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.040 And I know that you know, that can happen to 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.360 a lot of actors and kids who start so young 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.680 they sort of grow out of love with it, but 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.280 that never happened with me, and I'm just so grateful. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.400 But yeah, I just I just wanted to have fun 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.040 and like pretend, you know. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.120 Yeah, and your parents think about putting all three of 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.200 their kids into the business. Were they intimidated by it? 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.760 Were they go getters like we're gonna we're gonna make 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:29.440 our kids start. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.920 Were your sisters doing it first and then you? Or 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.880 was it you? And then they know it's actually we. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:40.080 Actually started around the same time because they actually guest 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.280 starred on Full House one episode and then they ended 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.240 up getting They got Sister Sister before I got Smart Guy. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.800 So I think a lot of people assume that it 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:56.679 was like I started way later, but we're eight years apart, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.920 but we kind of started around the same time, which 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.960 was just And yeah, my parents, I feel like, to 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.360 answer your question, they were the best of both worlds. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.760 Like they were super supportive, but they weren't like stage 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.200 parents in any way. And like I said, we liked 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.600 what we were doing. We never felt forced, and I 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.640 think that's why they put us in it, because they 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.240 saw that like, oh they have something, and I think 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.199 they like this, and we did. But my dad was 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.520 in the military during it, so he my mom was 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.480 usually the one. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.559 Taking us to our auditions and stuff. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.160 Like that, but he would do it also, you know, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:41.240 homework in the car, getting carsick, the audition because I 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:42.520 can't read it in the car. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.240 But yeah, they were just. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.920 The best of both worlds, you know, super supportive, always 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.720 kept it fun, great at running lines with us, you 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.600 know what I mean. But also you know, from that 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.800 military background, they taught us and instilled in us not 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.360 only are our faith which is very important, but also 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:04.880 just the hard work. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.800 You know, if you if you want to do this, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:07.800 you gotta work hard. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.000 You gotta know your lines, you gotta you gotta, you 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.120 gotta perform, you gotta be on set and perform. But 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.120 they also taught us how to separate it. So when 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.200 we weren't on set, we weren't on set. We were 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.480 just regular kids. And I think that sort of helped 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.440 us stay somewhat normal. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.959 I mean, I think that's why you and your your 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.480 family were such a great fit with the full house plan, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.479 because that was all of our moms too, incredibly supportive 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.160 there every week, always taking us back and forth and 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:37.800 whatever it took. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.360 But when we were. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.959 Off, we were off your kids, and they it was 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.760 never like they wanted it more than we did. That 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.320 it was like, as long as you are loving this great, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.160 if that changes, we'll like we'll figure it out, you know. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.040 And so yeah, I think we were really fortunate in that, Yes, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.800 we were fortunate in that regard that you know. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.439 It was it was something that we loved. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.120 Doing, and I think that's why that's why we still 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.160 do it, because it was never something that was forced 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.840 upon us or that was like a chore or something. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.079 You know right, it never felt that way, and my 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.040 mom kind of just juk us for a while. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.320 She was managing all of us. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.719 I can picture your now by the way, Yeah. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:25.320 I love it. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.720 But she jumped right into that and she just had 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:34.040 this business knowledge that just you know, she just had it. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.480 And I'm very thankful for that because, you know, as 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:42.280 an adult actor, I learned a lot. And because she 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.680 stood up for us at such a young age. You know, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.240 I never had to really worry about not being taken 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:54.280 care of on a set because you know, Mama Darlene, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:59.360 she don't play. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.480 So so yeah, I'm very I'm very thankful for both 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.960 of my parents. Man, Oh my gosh, they're amazing. 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.760 I definitely remember your parents being around on the set. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:14.959 Now. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.840 Yeah, so you were five when you started on Full House. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.040 Do you remember, I mean, do you remember your first 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.920 day there? I mean again at five? Like, tell me 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:25.760 about what you. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.920 Did on a random Tuesday thirty seven years ago, you 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.120 know what I mean? You're like, oh, yes, with a 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:32.920 lovely coffee. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.120 No, I don't know. I think I vaguely did it. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.000 I'm not sure if I really remember this or if 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.560 it's just a name what I saw. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:44.080 Yeah, I remember certain scenes, so like I remember, and 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.920 I don't know if it was like my first episode, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.679 but I feel like it might have been like Michelle 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:54.520 and I talking about how she was doing her handwriting 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.120 or something, and I feel like that might have been 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.000 I was telling her she's got to cross her te's 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.319 or daughter eyes or something like that, right, and I 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.959 and I remember, I remember that scene, and I remember 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.760 being in the classroom, and I remember, you know, scenes 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.719 with Dave and U. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.640 And I remember very well anytime I got to go 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.160 to like a new set, like I was talking about. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.079 The staircase, or like if we were in a car 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.480 or like that was cool for me because I'm like, oh, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.760 I'm not in the classroom today, like I get to 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.200 be somewhere up or in Michelle's room, you know. So 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.280 I remember the little things, but yeah, I was so young. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.920 I remember school, being tutored with with the rest of 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.200 the kids. And I remember when like Journey and Miko, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.440 I remember when it was all of us, because there 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.240 were some episodes where it was, you know, the whole crew, 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.280 and then there were some episodes where it was. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.600 Just me and Michelle, you know. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.640 So I remember very pretty vividly when it was like 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.440 the whole crew because it was like, oh we got 0:13:59.440 --> 0:13:59.959 more kids. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.160 Yeah, that was always the best when you were on 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.800 a show, like for us, it was like hi, other people. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:11.840 My age yeah yeah yeah yeah, so it's great. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.880 Yeah yeah, I remember. I remember that little. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.800 The little like group of you guys, oh my god, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.160 yeah kids. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:21.080 Yeah. Yeah. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:21.280 Man. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.960 So those those little those little moments I remember, but 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:24.320 I don't. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.800 I don't remember like what my first day on set 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.080 was like or anything like that, because it's just like. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.720 Yeah, but yeah, because you're still here. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:39.000 Love it. I love it. So yeah, little things, little things. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.160 Did you were you strictly tutored on set or like 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.720 homeschool or did you go to regular school as well? 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.040 So I think I was. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.280 This is not normal for for actors in general when 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.960 they're kids, but I would only be tutored on set. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.480 So if I wasn't working, I would go back to 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.840 my public school and I would be and I would 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.320 be yeah. See So that's why that see, that's why 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.760 that set was just so the full house set just 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.960 felt like home. It felt safe because a lot of 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.720 child actors don't do that. They're homeschool, they don't know 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.720 what it's like to be around their peers, and then 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.840 when they become an adult, it's like whoa, it's the 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.320 what is this? What's life? And it can be hard. 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.720 So I'm very thankful that my parents did it that 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.960 way because I was in sports. You know, I had 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.360 my friends at school. I didn't really have a lot 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:40.840 of their friends per se. I didn't still to this day, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.160 my my my best friends are not in the business, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.200 and and that's how it's. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:46.880 Been for years. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.760 And of course I have, you know, lovely friends in 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.160 this business, but my but my core group of people, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.520 they're they're not actors, you know what I mean. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.800 They may be artists and other avenues. 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:04.200 But but I think that really helped, you know, help 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.000 me learn about what life is like outside of a set, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.040 which that did bring its complications because I would be 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.000 gone and then come back and then kids, I remember 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.520 middle school was the whole other thing because they were like, oh, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:17.680 you could leave whenever you want. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:25.240 I'm like, no, the changing dynamics, I know, like for girls, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.280 I mean, I'm not sure, but for girls, it was 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.200 like you came back after being gone for three days, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.440 there were entirely this one and You're like, I thought 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.040 we thought we were cool. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.880 Yeah, yeah, no, that definitely happened, especially during the Smart 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.840 Guy days, because that was middle school and middle schools 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:46.520 not fun. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.440 Soddol. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.120 We all done middle school being on a TV show, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.360 I think we would definitely be like, yeah, no, that's 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.680 middle school sucks. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.480 Anyway, I'll never forget. It was the first day of 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.480 like see sixth grade. I had all the friends in 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.679 the world, went to go shoot three episodes. A Smart 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.080 Guy came back. Everyone hated me, and I was like, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:14.960 what is happening? And so those dynamics were hard, but 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.199 I'm grateful for them because I was that kid that 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.400 got made fun of at school. I was that kid 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.480 that had to stand up for myself at school, and 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:28.159 so I'm able to uh to have sympathy my mammy. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.479 I was able to grow in that way. So I'm 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:31.000 grateful you. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.119 Give you a thicker stand where you're like, you know 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.840 what you learn. I feel like you learned at a 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.679 much younger age. In some way, You're you're forced to 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:45.200 confront the ideas of uh, of being who you are 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.359 versus being who people want you to be. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.520 So like, I think any kind. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.920 Of struggle with that question a little bit earlier because 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.480 it's like wait a minute, like yeah, and I'm in 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.680 seventh grade and you guys don't actually. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.880 And then learning learning how to discern who your real 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.720 friends are and not just for like what you do 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.280 you know, because I had to learn that like oh, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.520 you're on a TV show. Cool, I'll be your friend, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.480 but like are you really both friend? 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.080 Though? Like you do you like me? 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:15.440 Though? 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.440 I can't imagine going through that today because it would 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.680 all be about getting a picture with somebody or getting 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:23.879 into their house and record you. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.080 Yeah, Like I don't know. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.960 It's hard enough then to be like I don't know, 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.560 are you cool or not? Like now it's like no, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:30.200 I don't. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.919 Know how these kids do it now with social media. 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:34.720 I don't know how. 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.760 Like I I'm so grateful that we didn't have that 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.520 because that would have been a whole other thing. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.960 Had enough hard enough, now, did you When you did 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:48.520 smart guy? 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.399 You did that from like ninety seven to ninety nine. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:58.280 Sure you're like exactly, yep, that was the years I 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.080 could give you specific dates. But was it like super 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.240 fun for you to play like this ten year old 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:06.320 super genius kid? 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:06.760 Was that? 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.760 I mean again, you loved pretending yeah. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.159 It was cool. It was definitely. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.119 That was cool because that was my first experience with 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.639 something being created around you, because that was something that 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.119 we just went into the network and I just was 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.440 taug and they were like, okay, we'll give you your shows, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.480 and so that was fun to know that, like, oh, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.040 this environment was sort of created around me. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.800 But I never felt the pressure of that. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.639 A lot of people ask that I never felt it 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.200 because you know, the home life was great, so grateful 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:43.560 for that. I always felt safe and looked after. But yeah, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.280 it was fun. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:49.080 I think the most challenging thing about that part. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.600 Was knowing the definition of the words that I was 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.600 saying so that I could act it out properly, because 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.040 I can't just be saying these words that I don't 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.720 know what they mean. So you know, I had someone 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.600 specifically on set that would be working with me with 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.399 my lines to know, Okay, do you know what that 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:08.920 word means? 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:09.760 This is what this means? 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.000 So and I'm like, okay, that might change how I 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.600 how I how I say it, And. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.840 So that that was like a like a Siri before Syria, 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.720 but you know what I mean, I light and look 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:20.600 up the word. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.440 Like yeah, someone was like here's what that means. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.679 It was s at training before I even knew what 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:35.399 SATs were. Uh, that's probably aging me too, because I 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.120 don't even think they have SATs anymore. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:37.879 Anyway. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.600