WEBVTT - One on One: Mädchen Amick 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:17.520 I am all in, kiss you more, I am all 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.759 in with Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast. Everybody 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.200 Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast. We're here with 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.800 Majin Amck. One of the great, one of the great 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:33.560 talents that this town has ever produced. She's obviously know 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.640 from Twin Peaks. Um. There was a two thousand and 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.320 seventeen revival uh. She had the pivotal role of Wendell 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.280 Mead on e R. She's also currently a series regular 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.960 on Riverdale as Alice, and that's been since two thousand seventeen. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.720 She directs, she writes, she produces, she does everything. She's 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.040 got a wonderful organization um dealing with mental illness that 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.280 we're gonna get to a little bit later. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.440 I give you the one only makes your naming. Welcome 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.759 to the show. How are you? Thank you? I'm good 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.840 and I have so applaud to you for saying my 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.319 name correctly. I always knew your name. I always knew 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.679 how to say it correctly, and before you came on, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.880 our team coached me on it. They kept sending me 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.040 like it's a long a it's here. I said, like, guys, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.440 I know, I know her, you know, I know I know. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.360 So even back in back in the day, did it 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.240 give you trouble? Ear no German and you knew that 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.440 this is the way it's pronounced. Yeah, I'm well, I'm 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.160 I'm part German, so I know I know this. Okay, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.640 I know these things. Yeah. And it's just such a 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.160 beautiful name. It's it's so fun to say. It makes 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.640 your name. I just love that name. I have a 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.800 story about my name. Do you do? Yeah, I can't 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.600 lay it on us. So my husband and I went 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.800 to Zurich, I don't know before pre pandemic. You know, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.920 the life that we had before pre pandemic that one 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.240 and the general manager you know, of the hotel out 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.200 I would we would come and go and as you passed, 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.280 they were always very gracious, Hello, David, have a great day. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:12.920 And they would say hello, mrs have a good day. Untry, like, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.680 I don't know what's happened. So as we were checking out, 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.320 the general manager was like, I am so sorry. I 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.600 just want you to know that I can't call you 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.320 by your name. And I was like, I get it. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.280 It goes because it's so disrespectful. I would be calling 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.480 you girl, like, Hi girl, because it's you know, it's 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.760 like Maiden, it's it's girl in German. So he's like, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.320 I'm sorry, I know what's your name, but I just 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.680 can't call you that. Okay, Well, hey, at least they 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:47.160 were honest. I want to just jump right in um 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.919 and uh and get to it. You played Shelly, Christopher's 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.680 girlfriend eventually became his wife and mother. Did g tell 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.280 us about how the audition process and all that, how 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.360 you get the wall? Um? Actually, I UM tested a 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.520 whole bunch of times and got really really close to 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:15.760 getting Laurel and um and just at the end of 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.000 the day, like the Studio Network, they're like, oh, it 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.320 just doesn't feel right for whatever reason. Right, it's like 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.440 who knows why people, But I was just I was like, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.239 I was so excited. I was like, oh, I love 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.520 this script and I love Amy UM. So I was heartbroken, 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.160 not gonna lie, but then I was really excited that 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.800 Amy just invited me back to play. Um. You know, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.280 this kind of cookie character that came in and I 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:47.680 guess tortured everybody. She was she was interesting. How many 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:52.040 how many auditions? How many tests did you go through? 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.640 I think at the Laurel eye roll. Oh. Um, well, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.760 I think you know, it's like the normal. Like I 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:06.920 probably went in straight to producer session because I had 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.920 you know, done twin at that point and a few 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.520 other things. Um, and so I probably went into producer session. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.279 And then I think I might have gone in again 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.359 just to like tweak stuff and have Amy give me 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 notes and things like that, and then I went straight 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.680 to getting the test offer. But then you go through 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.160 rounds in front of this the studio, and then if 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.520 you make it past that, will go through rounds and network. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:46.120 I mean, it is a tortuous torture situation for for 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.800 for for our for our listeners who don't know the 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.120 process of getting a role like that. Um, if you 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.000 go straight to producers, it's considered out of perspect that 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.480 you don't have to go in at the casting director 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.839 level because of your resume. So you go right into producers. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.040 You read they love you. Let's let's make a test 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.520 deal for them and then bring them in for the studio. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.279 And so you know, so your agent and the studio 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.360 are negotiating a six year contract for you, and your 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.960 agent keeps calling you saying, well, this is how much 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.719 they're offering first year, second year, third year, and are 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.920 these are the bumps. So you know, when you go 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.440 into that first UH network or studio audition, it's a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.840 callback that if you get this thing, you're gonna be 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.279 really rich. There's a lot of pressure that actors put 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:44.040 on themselves because, yeah, this is the moment. Now it's real. 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.520 You know, you know that you're in the hot seat. Um, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.839 you know you're working your tail off to get to 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.799 prove the audition. Yeah, they and they keep layering on 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.560 more elements per tests, like now do it with a 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.040 little bit of this, a little bit of that. Let's 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.919 see you coming next week and see what you do 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.839 with these notes that we give you. So it's it's 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:10.200 it's it's a really long, UH nerve wracking process. Yeah, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:16.160 and and then yeah, and then then the your agents 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.520 usually know because they're talking to somebody right there, talking 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.839 to like the casting directors, or maybe they've gotten in 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.520 with the producers, or maybe they have an in at 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.400 the studio and they're like, oh, you're their first choice 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.760 or you're their second choice. If you go in and 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.320 nail it, you might get it. Or they kind of 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.039 put you in last last minute, so you know, you 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.400 just have a good shot. So you have this like 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:46.440 going in and then you show up and you're all 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.080 waiting in the hallway, you know, at some studio, some 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.600 office building, so you see all of your competition, you know, 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.760 and then you see them go into the room and 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.080 sometimes you just hear all these laughters and everybody is 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:06.280 getting along so great, and then you yes, you know, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.000 you're just like m M, I don't know if that 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:15.679 one went well. That actor's way to each other too, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.240 is they come out sometimes like, oh, man, nailed it, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.520 nailed it. I think I got it. I think I 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:26.560 got it. Oh my, it's totrous. It's absolutely it really, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.520 it's exhilarating and exciting. But yeah, it's uh, it's a 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.240 long way to find out if you won the lottery, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.040 because it's like when in the lottery, it is it's 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.200 absolutely something. It's really lightning in a bottle to even 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.560 get a job. Uh. And then it's it's another lightning 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.560 in a bottle that it's actually a series that gets 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.880 picked up past a pilot and then if it goes 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.120 more than a half a season or a season, you're golden. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.800 You're just golden, you know. Um, And and I mean, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:06.239 I was it's hard. It's hard. It's right, You're right, yeah, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.560 it's it's I I luckily I've got David Lynch as 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.120 a mentor. And there have been many moments in my 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.680 career because I've been doing this for thirty five years now. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.840 I mean, I'm not that much older myself, but um 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:26.440 uh that I go to David and just like I 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.080 don't know what I'm doing, Like I don't know if 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.400 I'm ever going to work again. I don't do I stop, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.840 what do I do? And he always gives me this 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:39.160 great simple advice every time, Magkin, I told you, actors 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:49.760 are um not working and you're lucky if you get anything, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:51.920 and you just gotta hang in. If this is what 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.640 you want to do, you just gotta hang in. So 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.000 I just kept hanging in Since nineteen, I've just been 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.680 hanging in. Do what you can do other things, you know, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.040 you can get your mind off it, and you know, yeah, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.640 stay open, stay creative, keep that, keep your vessel open, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.400 right creatively speaking, there are other things you can do. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.760 Doesn't always have to be acting. And I always think, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.559 and I always say, you know, I left home at 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.600 sixteen from Reno Nevada and came to l A, which 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:29.600 just a singular focus. Um, and so I don't have 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.959 any other skills. I'm just I'm stuck. So this is 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.840 what I gotta make it work. So but I always 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.800 and I give people advising time is find that other 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.079 thing that you can do, that you know you can 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.640 do at least to pay the bills, or maybe you 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.160 love doing it, maybe it's in a creative outlet. But um, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.199 you know, if you if you put all your eggs 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.840 in one basket in this business, it's just really hard 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:04.120 and stressful. And you know I can if you look 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.199 at my resume like, oh wow, she's been working for 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.760 thirty five years, she's wrote, you know, she's rolling, she's 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.840 got no worries And no, it's not true. In between jobs, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.920 you don't know when the other job it's going to come, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:20.000 and you know you you hopefully put a little bit 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:26.760 of to get It's so but that's why I'm starting 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.920 to direct now, right. But it is rather amazing with 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.800 so much of the movie film and film talent going 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.400 into television with all of these uh, I mean there's 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.959 like five shows and it's still hard to get work. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.120 It's like even harder now because a lot of the 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.320 film people have pushed the TV, the traditional TV people 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.600 out of the business almost and made them somewhat irrelevant. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.920 So if you if there's if you're not a crossover talent, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.880 if you're not doing both film, uh, TV and film, 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.080 and you don't have those relationships, it's hard to sort 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.240 of get in TV now because it's all film people. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.640 They're gonna kind of go with those people that they 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.040 have those relationships with. Yeah, and I'm sure, I sure 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.760 you're you know, we're maybe somewhat similar and aged about 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.959 thirty eight now, right, is that how how old we are? Um? 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:27.160 But we remember back let's go with that. Um, you know, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.199 back in the day, Um, there was this real taboo 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.319 that it was very separate, like you're either a film 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.320 actor or a television actor, and it was always said 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.280 that those film actors don't go into television or you've 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.040 turned in your film card, never to be invited back 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.520 into the party again. And I would I would always like, well, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.760 that's a really dumb role. That doesn't seem to make sense. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.280 And I just kind of didn't that I could. But um, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.720 but now, like you said, all all of our films 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.520 have now gone to television. All of our good films 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.120 are limited series on streaming and you know, all of 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.640 those premium cable networks, and we've lost a lot of 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:18.960 our middle ground films. They've either gone to the row together, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.839 you know, as much money as you possibly can to 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:26.080 just barely squeak out of film independent or over the 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.760 moon budget with five people that they'll have star in, 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.680 you know, for millions, and it's become a Disney ride, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.040 Like those are the big action movies that you know, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.920 they turned into video games and Disneyland rights and that's it, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.200 Like we lost our middle ground of film. Yeah, but 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.440 I think independent film has truly gone independent where people 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.560 are just financing their own stuff. I mean, studios aren't 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:59.360 putting money into independent film any longer or or less 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.240 and less. But I mean the old studio bosses, you know, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:08.199 they would pluck a television talent out of the series 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.280 very early so that audience didn't get used to seeing 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.640 them for free on television because that was their fear. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.600 So if it's like if, if, if they're gonna get 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.640 I mean, how long was Pierce Broston on Remington Steel? 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.800 How long was that run? Was that four or five 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:28.360 six years or um, because they plucked him, they got 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.520 him out of that series, and you're gonna do movies. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.680 You know. This is because you're charming and great and 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.800 all that stuff. Um. Yeah, that doesn't apply anymore. That 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.760 just does not apply anymore. But I always think it's 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.720 an advantage, you know. I think the film people actually 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:52.360 have a big advantage. All right, so let's let's do 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.640 a little uh gilmore stuff. Your introduction was as surprised 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.160 at Rory's Chilton debate, audiences are rooting for Christopher and Laurel, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.840 we get back together. How was it being the character 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:11.000 that was preventing that? Um, it was kind of the 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.520 usual for for characters that I've done. Um, I sing 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:24.120 you so during during twin Peaks, Shelley Johnson was absolutely 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.680 a victim but had a little naughty side, and um, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.240 I started getting really weird attention from that I had. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.440 It was very and I and I learned really quickly 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.200 that when you played victims on film or television, UM, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.280 you can kind of get targeted to, you know, by 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.320 not well meaning fans, um that look at you as 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.240 a victim. It's a very weird psychological thing. So I 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.360 made a very conscious effort to start playing very strong 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.000 female roles from that point on. So then the next 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.120 thing I did was dream Lover, and I played real 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.640 film fatale James Spader. So I kind of like I 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.760 kind of got known for that for a bit. So 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.400 and and I really avoided those like just just being 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.440 the hot girl on the action guy's arm, you know, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.120 because I just I wanted like more interesting roles. So 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.200 I seemed to started doing all of these like really 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.680 like causing trouble and you know, so it was it 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.520 was kind of normal for me. But what I liked 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.160 about her is that she was innocent in it all. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:33.160 She was very um hi hi, you know, so good 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:36.960 to meet you. Having no idea that that the entire 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.680 town and and social group, you know, looked at that 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.040 character as like getting in the way, you know, how 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.000 how dare she? Well that's yeah, that's what it has 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.800 to deal with. And Gilmore Nation, you know, they want, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.960 they want what they want, and if they don't get it, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:04.520 it's like look out. Uh they're very determined bunch. Well, 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.520 you definitely had a presence and you were quite the 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.160 opposite of Laurela. How did you prepare for this role? 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.520 What kind of preparation did you do mm hmm, you know, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:22.880 I mean Amy's Amy's writing. It is so specific and um, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.520 which is like a really really testament to her because 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:31.080 I'm kind of known for UM. I kind of like 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.840 to play with with dialogue and I'd like to play 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.200 with what's written and push the envelope and keep trying 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.560 to find something and and for the most part, I 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.920 think I'm kind of allowed and respected to do that, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.360 you know, but what with her material, it's it's it 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.800 has such a rhythm to it um that I didn't 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:54.600 want to I just you don't mess with it like 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.560 you just do it. So it's really full and just 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.160 really leaning in and um. And there's even that like 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.520 that fast timing and there's like such a cadence to it. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.639 It was it was challenging for me. Obviously it's not 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.439 the way I talked, but it's this very syncopated you know, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.040 so that I just really focused on trying to get 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.320 the right feel and the right rhythm. You know. I 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.879 think the character stood for itself, you know, I understood it, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.840 and I didn't have to prepare too much on that. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.600 It was just more like I want to honor um 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.040 the style of the show, and I want to do 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.000 the character right, and I want to do the writing right, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.520 and I wanted to be able to fold into the 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.439 main cast. You guys had done such a beautiful It 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.200 was this great orchestration of all of you and how 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:51.600 you came together and how you wove this this rhythm 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.960 in and I wanted to come in and honor it 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.080 and not come in and disturb anything. So I just 0:17:56.240 --> 0:18:00.800 was behaving and trying to trying to hang on and 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:11.560 follow you guys. You know, I speaking of rhythm and cadence, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.520 and you know it was almost Iambic. It was almost 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.560 Shakespearean and rhythm there's very few and she does it 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:30.200 really well, right, David, I had I remember exactly exactly, yes, yes, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.680 I mean talk about I am yeah, yeah, oh, very 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.000 very specific. Yes, wonderful to watch actors do. Maam at 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.160 really well. He has his you know, his Joe Montaigne 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.199 is and he's got his people that he goes to, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:52.159 William H. Macy people like that. But um, you know, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.920 I found coming off of seven years of Gilmore, uh, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.360 and I did another series right away, and I just 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.840 had no idea what I was doing because the rhythm 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.520 was completely different, and it was it was. It was 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.000 a comedy and it took a little while to adjust 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.720 to it because I was just every time you get 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.800 these great scripts and there were hsterically funny and then 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.399 you try to act them and it was like whoa. 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.480 It was almost like they were depending too much on 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.119 me to fill it right. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.120 I wasn't used to that. I was. I was used 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.840 to just sort of memorizing dialegue, getting the rhythm, nailing 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.119 it as fast as I could, and it was a 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.919 whole different gay anyway, Um, what was do you remember 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.000 your first day on set and what that was like 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:46.520 for me? Um? I think it was that that the 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:51.679 scene where I arrived to be introduced to Laura Lay 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.880 and then I think we sit down on a couch. 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.240 I don't know if there was if I'm by the 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.600 way I'm you can already title this podcast makes an 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:04.480 Am the worst podcast guest ever, because what are you 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:09.840 talking about? No? No, no, no no, that's just because yes, 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.520 you're great. What are you talking about? Thank? You know? 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.919 Because because obviously in my thirty or five years, I've 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.280 done a lot of things, and I remember the people 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:25.520 they meet their stories, the crew. I remember those connections 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.639 and when you talk to me about like you know 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.919 what the character did, I'm like, I don't know. I'm 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.000 gonna have to watch that. No, but I think my 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.000 first I think very I think my first day on 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.080 set was I was sitting down on the couch and 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:40.639 living room and I don't know if I was talking 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:53.720 to Lorelei, Lorelei or UM. Yeah, I don't know. Or look, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:58.120 let's talk about your foundation. Okay, let's do that. Tell 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.320 us tell us a little bit about what you're doing 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:06.160 and what the foundation is all about. Yes. So, uh, 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:10.800 just over ten years ago, UM my son's freshman year 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:15.920 at college at UC Irvine. UM, he witnessed a very 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.960 really traumatic event which now we can see and look 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:24.320 back that it was the trigger that UM exposed his 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.359 genetic predisposition to a mental illness. He eventually got a 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:34.320 diagnosis of bipolar disorder. UM, but what we went through 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:40.440 in those first couple of years was so heart wrenching 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:45.360 and full of despair and finding him the right diagnosis 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.600 and the right treatment and UM, it just hit our 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.280 family out of nowhere. I've I met my husband back 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.560 in seven we've been together forever. We have two kids, 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:59.760 son and a daughter and just very very tight knit 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:04.119 fly because you know, band of Gypsies. He was a singer, songwriter, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:10.119 recording artist, and I'm an actress. His name is David Alexis, 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:14.600 and he's worked with great people like Sliding, the Family 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.640 Stone and two May Asked for instance, and all these 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:23.200 you know, really great r and b um. So it 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.239 just hit our family out of nowhere. And you know, 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.840 you think that you are, you know, enlightened and you 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.240 know everything and you're open to everything, and ma'am, this 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.840 came out of nowhere and we had no no clue 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:42.840 how to navigate it and speaking to how bad our 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:47.159 mental health care system is and the support services and 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:49.720 the guidance and everything that you would need to navigate 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.960 through was not there. So we went through through that. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:56.760 Our son got better, he got a good diagnosis, he 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:02.240 got good medication and um and then he destabilized again 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:07.120 in the summer with the manic episode. And he has 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.040 um uh psychosis when he goes into mania, which is 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:15.199 pretty common. And so we were thrown back into you know, 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.399 ten years earlier, and the mental health care care system 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:23.399 was worse. Yeah, and we had been talking all on 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.160 you know, and we had become big advocates since that happened. 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.359 You know, for ten I would I was I am 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:34.399 Glenn Closes, Bring Change to Minds first global ambassador, so 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.439 I was helping get the word out and sharing our story. 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:40.560 But um, it got to a point when we saw 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:46.159 how bad things were um during that summer that we're like, 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.199 all right, that's it. We kept talking about, you know, 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.040 one day we want to start a foundation, we want 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.800 to make a change. And it was like, all right, 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.280 gloves are off, we're doing it. We're gonna do what 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.639 we can. So we found it don't mind me, don't 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:03.160 mind me. That's the don't mind me dot org. Go ahead, sorry, 0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:06.520 And uh so we obviously use you know, I'm able 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:09.440 to use my platform, and we have a podcast, don't 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:13.719 mind Me podcast. My daughter and I host that, and um, 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:16.639 so we do everything we can for our advocacy pillar. 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.920 But um, what we're really proud of is we're one 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:25.000 of the few that have direct impact. So we use 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:28.280 our funds and the fundraise so that we can scholarship 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.080 people into treatment that wouldn't otherwise be able to whether 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.399 they can't afford it or they can't find it. UM. 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:40.320 So that's that's really been a big part of my focus. 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:45.520 Obviously finishing up the last year on Riverdale, I've been directing, 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:52.240 I've corrected feature UM. But since I just didn't have 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:57.320 much to do, decided to, uh start a foundation, a 0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:00.640 nonprofit foundation. What are you doing with five minutes per week? 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:07.320 You have spare time, you know, yeah, leaped or you know, exercise, 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:10.000 but no, let's let's do something else. Well, good on 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:14.400 you for for starting this organization. And I hope your 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:18.000 son is doing better. Yeah, he's doing really well now 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.959 and he's working in patient advocacy UM and wants to 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:26.880 eventually become a case manager. And he really involved in 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:31.000 the foundation because I mean he's his boots on the ground. 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.720 He knows, he knows what's smack. So everybody, so everybody listening, 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:39.879 everybody downloading, go to don't mind me dot org and 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:42.240 just check it out, you know, and if if you 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:44.160 want to get involved in somewhere or spread the word 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:49.359 or donate, just go ahead and do it. UM. Anyway, UM, 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.560 thank you for sharing that and wish you all the 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:57.160 best with that. Than you really really admirable. We're gonna 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.240 do rapid fire. We're going, We're going from the sublime 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:04.320 to the ridiculous. Here we go, ready for rapid fire. 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:06.800