Speaker 1: I am all in again.
Speaker 2: Oh, I am all in again with Scott Patterson an
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Speaker 3: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast.
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Speaker 3: iHeart Podcast, iHeartMedia. One to eleven productions. One on one
Speaker 3: interview live at Warner Brothers Studios on the day of
Speaker 3: the big event, December eighteenth, live podcast in front of
Speaker 3: thousands of super fans, and I am joined by the
Speaker 3: illustrious Emily Carota. Missus Kim is in the house. How
Speaker 3: are you, Emily, I'm good.
Speaker 4: Thank you for inviting me, sir.
Speaker 1: Excited, You're very welcome. Excited. Can you feel the energy
Speaker 1: here today?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy, It's like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: It's so great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 3: So tell us about, if you don't mind, your first
Speaker 3: introduction to Gilmore Girls, the script. Do you remember getting
Speaker 3: the script, reading the script, your reaction to it.
Speaker 1: Yes. When I read.
Speaker 6: When I got the script, I thought I really liked
Speaker 6: missus Kim because she wasn't stereotypical. But yeah, I thought,
Speaker 6: I'm so used to like using an accent and everything.
Speaker 6: So when I went in to meet Amy, I did
Speaker 6: my Korean accent. She goes, wait a minute, what are
Speaker 6: you doing, And I said, uh, Korean accent? She goes, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: she didn't have an accent.
Speaker 4: Really, and yeah, because it was great.
Speaker 6: So Amy was like breaking all the stereotypes from the
Speaker 6: get go, right, I was right, I said, this is
Speaker 6: a good show.
Speaker 1: Why so, but you got the accent in.
Speaker 6: No, the accent as actually, she goes, but but you
Speaker 6: do kind of talk like a general.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it wasn't really an accent, no, so it
Speaker 3: was removed it and purposes, gotcha, gotcha, that's how her
Speaker 3: mind works.
Speaker 1: Right, sure, sure, short short.
Speaker 3: Working with Amy, right, dream come dream you know that right,
Speaker 3: being directed by her saying her words, Dan's words. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean really special, right, we got very lucky.
Speaker 6: And really fast and word perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: They asked me all the time if I well, how
Speaker 3: much we got to improv?
Speaker 1: And I just laugh. I said, what's that?
Speaker 3: Well, when you have somebody that good writing, you don't
Speaker 3: need to improv, you know, but you can.
Speaker 4: Kind of tell because the product was so good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it was because she had such
Speaker 6: strict standards.
Speaker 1: Right, So let's get into that.
Speaker 3: Why do you think it has stood the test of
Speaker 3: time the way it has and continues to grow.
Speaker 6: It's one of the best shows around. I don't know
Speaker 6: exactly was it's because it's based on reality too. I
Speaker 6: think it's not catering to Oh, I think the audience
Speaker 6: will like this. It's it's real stories that comes from
Speaker 6: it all started from her, her heart, and I think
Speaker 6: we all felt that, and I think the audience feels it, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very personal stories that she lived or can relate
Speaker 3: to and wanted to write about. She must have had
Speaker 3: an interesting upbringing in the valley, huh. I tell you
Speaker 3: those that Sherman clan, you know, be a fly on
Speaker 3: the wall there. I understand her father, Alan Sherman was
Speaker 3: was a top comedian. Oh, that's right, and the house
Speaker 3: was filled with all of the leading comedians of the day,
Speaker 3: you know. So she developed a sense of humor in
Speaker 3: that way. And boy, it's just what a sense of
Speaker 3: humor that is. I mean, the wit, and that's what
Speaker 3: I love about the show so much. Tell us about
Speaker 3: your experience watching the episodes. You watch the episodes, what's
Speaker 3: your what's your behavior towards the show? Do you actually
Speaker 3: consume the show?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a there's always a little things that I've
Speaker 6: missed the first time, and you catch the second time,
Speaker 6: you know, right. The humor was interesting because we couldn't
Speaker 6: sit on it. We couldn't you know. Amy would just say,
Speaker 6: just barrel through it, you know, so you couldn't do
Speaker 6: normally like in a sitcom. You'd pause and you'd say
Speaker 6: the gagline and then it would get a response. But
Speaker 6: the style of the show was so different because we
Speaker 6: would just barrel through and either the audience gid it
Speaker 6: or they didn't.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't care, right, right, right?
Speaker 3: Who'd you love working with the most? Not that I'm
Speaker 3: asking you to pick a favorite, but what I mean,
Speaker 3: working with Keiko must have been a real pleasure. I
Speaker 3: find her one of the most unsung, underappreciated actresses in
Speaker 3: this town. I thought she was just incredibly skilled. Yes, uh,
Speaker 3: and she worked very deep, Lee and Uh tell us
Speaker 3: about working with Keiko.
Speaker 4: Oh, Keiko is a dream.
Speaker 6: By the second season, I didn't have to work because
Speaker 6: we had built this like for her wedding or when
Speaker 6: I kicked out of the house.
Speaker 4: You know, I just I was so moved. I didn't
Speaker 4: have to do any preparation.
Speaker 6: Because she became like a daughter to me because everything
Speaker 6: she does is so honest and real right yeah, not
Speaker 6: pushed right yea.
Speaker 1: And working with Lauren what was that?
Speaker 6: Like? I love Lauren, She's so quick. Yeah. One time
Speaker 6: I was late. They said we're ahead of schedule. So
Speaker 6: I came in and I found out they had rehearsed
Speaker 6: without me. So we get so, I, you know, get
Speaker 6: through a makeup and everything, and then I show up
Speaker 6: on set and she goes, just shoot it. Emily's got it,
Speaker 6: and we did and then I went home. But she
Speaker 6: was like she had total trust in all of us,
Speaker 6: I think, and brilliant.
Speaker 3: What's what's your impression of Adam Brodie? I know you
Speaker 3: worked really great scenes with him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, here, I don't know. He was one of my favorites.
Speaker 6: And plus he played the guitar so well.
Speaker 1: Oh did he? I did not know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh really he's a guitar player.
Speaker 4: Okay, got a lot of musicians on this show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah. So what are you working on now?
Speaker 6: I'm doing a workshop in New York in a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks and then a show in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3: Oh great, great, Greg, Well, good luck with that. Listen,
Speaker 3: thanks for stopping by, And I think it's time to
Speaker 3: get ready to go out on stage. We're getting We're
Speaker 3: getting pretty close there. The troops are gathering out there.
Speaker 3: There's thousands of them. My god, I just walked from
Speaker 3: the diner to here, which is you know this used
Speaker 3: to be the old cake shop, right, Wasn't this a
Speaker 3: cake shop set?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: So it was like a mob scene out of just fantastic.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic. The fans are great. Anyway, thanks for coming by.
Speaker 3: I'll see you out on stage in a minute.
Speaker 1: Okay, Thank you, Ted Rooney.
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Maury is in the house. What's your
Speaker 3: favorite food?
Speaker 5: Oh boy, a Dues fast food on Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 5: This is my second plug. Three years ago on your show,
Speaker 5: I plugged Dues and the owner thanked me so much.
Speaker 3: Tell us about your first experience with Gilmore Girls. You
Speaker 3: got the script you read it? Was it an audition
Speaker 3: and an offer of what happened? How'd you get the show?
Speaker 4: How did we get to fall in love with more?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: My goodness. I read my one page that I got,
Speaker 5: which was it says Maury plays the piano. Okay, so
Speaker 5: that was me my preparation for the audition was to
Speaker 5: play the piano, which I'm a hack, and so I
Speaker 5: came into the room with no lines and they laughed,
Speaker 5: and I think that's what booked it, because they saw
Speaker 5: me standing next to Sally Struthers and they laughed, and
Speaker 5: then they sat me down to the piano and I
Speaker 5: played a little bit and they said say this and
Speaker 5: say that, and I said this and that, and that
Speaker 5: was it. I walked out of there and I went
Speaker 5: to Mexico's one week tour of Mexico, and back then
Speaker 5: didn't have cell phones. My pager went off and I
Speaker 5: went to a phone and they said, we've been calling
Speaker 5: you for two days. Man, you've got to come back
Speaker 5: up here and shoot an episode of And so I
Speaker 5: left my three week tour of Mexico and shot the
Speaker 5: first episode I was in, and flew back down and
Speaker 5: finished the vacation.
Speaker 1: Great story.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a movie like that where the guy
Speaker 3: goes away and everybody starts in the business starts calling
Speaker 3: and we've lost several messages.
Speaker 5: We really need to talk to you. We'd love to
Speaker 5: make it able to get amped up as the messages go.
Speaker 3: To tell you did you get more money as a
Speaker 3: result of that you have a little more clout going
Speaker 3: into the negotiation.
Speaker 5: I was just happy to be there, Scot. I was
Speaker 5: hired from my you know, my skinny build and my height.
Speaker 5: I'm glad to have done it. I'm so lucky to
Speaker 5: just show up in my you know, with my hat
Speaker 5: and my sunglasses and stand there next to Sally.
Speaker 3: And I always envied you because you got to work
Speaker 3: with Sally all the time, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Sally and our friends and we actually went to
Speaker 5: the same high school in Portland or right yeah, Grand
Speaker 5: High School, and she was the big star because of
Speaker 5: all in the family in the seventies when I was
Speaker 5: still a kid, she was the big star that came
Speaker 5: out of Grand High School. So the first day on
Speaker 5: the set was kind of special because I sat down
Speaker 5: next to her in the director's chairs and I said
Speaker 5: something about she said something, oh, it's so hot here,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, yeah, I know now, like the summer
Speaker 5: is in Portland. She goes, h are you at Rooney's son?
Speaker 5: And that was her favorite teacher in high school, my dad,
Speaker 5: So he had my dad. She had my dad in
Speaker 5: math class, and she remembered she put Rooney together and
Speaker 5: she realized at Rooney's son. Yeah, so tell us what
Speaker 5: it's like working with her. I just think she's brilliant.
Speaker 5: I think she's the best actress out there. Oh well,
Speaker 5: she can do anything. She's amazing. She's got the energy
Speaker 5: and the humor. But she also was kind of my caretaker.
Speaker 5: She kind of looked after me and made sure that
Speaker 5: I you know, yeah, she's real sweetheart. You needed looking
Speaker 5: after I did well. I would always forget to put
Speaker 5: my glasses on, and so she in my mind at that,
Speaker 5: and actually no, she actually.
Speaker 1: Was like, take your glasses off.
Speaker 5: Your eyes are so beautiful, don't they won't notice?
Speaker 1: Take your glasses off?
Speaker 5: And then some way to come by, Ted, could you
Speaker 5: put your glasses on? Please?
Speaker 1: So it's always positive with her, isn't it.
Speaker 3: It's just like super sunny and great and laughter and
Speaker 3: she just lots of stories.
Speaker 1: She makes you happy to be.
Speaker 5: She's a bit of that, you know. Uh, comes from
Speaker 5: that old school in vaudeville kind of training and lots
Speaker 5: of stories, So lots of Hollywood stories. There was always
Speaker 5: some good story I could get.
Speaker 1: What's your most memorable guild more moment.
Speaker 5: With because for a couple of reasons, but because me
Speaker 5: and Babbett were on It's It's early on, and we
Speaker 5: have a little romantic moment on the steps there and
Speaker 5: in front of our house, the house they built for us,
Speaker 5: and they finished the interior and everything amazing thing. We
Speaker 5: had a little moment, a little romantic moment, and Sam
Speaker 5: Phillips wrote the music specifically for that moment. So when
Speaker 5: I met Sam Phillips at the Christmas party that year,
Speaker 5: she said, I wrote that for you guys, And I
Speaker 5: was like, because she had been one of my favorite
Speaker 5: singer songwriters for twenty years and it was phenomenal to
Speaker 5: have a writer like that. Right, the backs led the
Speaker 5: sound for a little kiss moment like that. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: that was very special.
Speaker 1: Right? Who else did you love working with the most?
Speaker 5: Every once in when I'd see Sean and we would
Speaker 5: talk about theater, you know. Yeah, by the way, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: I'm not Kirk. I wish I could be here. But
Speaker 5: where is Sean? Why he shot that Walmart commercial with
Speaker 5: you guys?
Speaker 1: Yes, where is he? Sean?
Speaker 3: He's off in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Marvel movies. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well we were both two kind of oddball, skinny guys,
Speaker 5: and so I think we kind of hit it off right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, two eccentric characters delivering the humor for the
Speaker 3: fan base. You get recognized a lot. It is weird
Speaker 3: us about that. It is so weird.
Speaker 5: Well, on the plane over, my son is so is
Speaker 5: with me. He was so embarrassed because this woman just
Speaker 5: stood there. I don't know where she came from, but.
Speaker 4: Are you Ted Rooney?
Speaker 5: Yes? And so she was, you know, gushing there and
Speaker 5: stopping traffic in the island. One of the one of
Speaker 5: the attendants had to make her sit down, and she
Speaker 5: while she was focused on was me and the fact
Speaker 5: that she was going to be here too at the event.
Speaker 5: So she was so thrilled about it. And that's it's
Speaker 5: just a little weird. On a red eye to Chicago,
Speaker 5: it was two in the morning and I was finding
Speaker 5: some place to sleep out of sleeping bag and three
Speaker 5: Australian girls come out of nowhere. The place is empty
Speaker 5: and there they're rabid fans. You know, I've the Australian girls.
Speaker 5: They come in three.
Speaker 1: What is that? What's going on with that? I've had
Speaker 1: extra nights you deean, you two.
Speaker 3: It's always always always a strands in threes usually yeah.
Speaker 5: Ah, yeah, it's good to take advantage of the opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 5: smart guy.
Speaker 1: Does that mean we have a hecklor off stage? He's
Speaker 1: actually been loving and speaking here.
Speaker 5: Got in Uh yeah, what placement.
Speaker 1: I'll look at that. Yeah, I got one. Yeah.
Speaker 5: This is a gift to the cast about twenty years
Speaker 5: gifts every year. You know, I thought i'd wear that.
Speaker 3: I used to wear that stuff to the gym, the
Speaker 3: hoodies and all that. I didn't care i'd get laughed at.
Speaker 3: But then I you know, I dropped the weights on
Speaker 3: my foot and leaving tears, you know that.
Speaker 1: Kind of thing. Ted, it's been a blast. We got
Speaker 1: to get back.
Speaker 3: Out on the live stage now to do that. I
Speaker 3: think they're you know, they're giving us the signal.
Speaker 5: I did want to mention tell Yes, twenty one Theater, Portland,
Speaker 5: Oregon is my theater company that I started up three
Speaker 5: years ago. We're thriving and we do great work. And
Speaker 5: I just had to mention that I live in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1: Thank fantastic.
Speaker 3: Go see Ted at the twenty one to ten Theater.
Speaker 3: He's a fantastic guy, a fantastic actor. Thank you for
Speaker 3: your time, my friends.
Speaker 5: On Stuy see out there, buddy, all right.
Speaker 1: Everybody off again.
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