WEBVTT - Miss Saved By The Bell 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:15.280 Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast Toy. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.439 You're most well known for your iconic role of Donna 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.079 Martin on nine O two and Oh, but you also 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.520 played another iconic role of Violet Bickerstaff on Saved by 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.480 the Bell Let's get into It. So I was surprised 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.720 to say that you were only in three episodes. I 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.440 for sure thought, what you're okay. According to IMDb, there. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.960 Was three others, Oh my god, okay, okay. So yes. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.199 So Adri is my producer and big Saved by the 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.720 Bell fan, so she wanted to do this episode today. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.880 And of course, me being Tori, I was like, I 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.440 don't know if there's anything to ask me. You like, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.120 there's there's not that much and she's like, oh I 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.720 have questions. I'm like, okay, okay, let's let's do it. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.800 Let's do it. And it is true like next to 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.320 nine O two one, oh, I would say Save by 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.680 the Bell, I get asked about the most out of 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.679 things that I've done, and then Scary Movie two, and 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.959 then Scream two, and then yeah, and the list goes on. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.920 But yeah, that was I was cast. Oh sorry, I'm 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.600 jumping the gun. Just proceed with your questions. Adrian. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.800 Okay, so, since you were only in such a few episodes, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.039 what do you think contributed to Violet's a lasting impression? 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.440 Well, so I will take you back to the audition. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.080 I was fourteen. I had done, you know, stuff for 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.640 my dad, and I started acting on my dad's shows 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.640 when I was five. At ten, I was like, I 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.720 really want to do this professionally and want to be 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.360 able to, you know, do stuff that's not my dad's stuff. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.680 I started taking acting classes. I had an acting coach, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.520 and then I got an agent. It was a children's 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.200 agent and Iris Burton was her name, and she sent 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.480 me on all kinds of auditions and I loved doing that. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.760 I would go to school and then you know, I 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.560 would get home and someone would take me and I'd go, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.720 you know, sit you know, outside in a room with 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.160 like tons of stage moms and there were kids, and 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.560 I'd be sitting there and being like, oh my gosh. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.280 And I believe the first role that I auditioned for 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.200 that I got that wasn't my dad's. Oh my god, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.040 I'm going to forget the name of it. Okay, it 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.440 was on if anyone knows it was on CBS, and 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.360 that was my first I was a co star. I 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.520 think I had like two lines. It was a series 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.320 and I was in one episode. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:50.440 Let's see it on here. Oh no real. The very 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.760 first thing listed is Vegas from nineteen eighty one. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:55.919 Right, I did for my dad when I was five, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.480 and then I went on to be on The Love 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:03.240 Boat twice, Fantasy Island twice, Hotel twice. I think The 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.639 Three Kings TJ. Hooker. I did The Three Kings for 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.160 my dad. Lou Diamond Phillips was the first time we're 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.920 still friends that I met him. It's really not listed 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:20.000 on my IMDb. No, let me ask chat she knows everything. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:26.280 Was there a CBS primetime series in the late eighties 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:32.680 called The Wizard and Mister Yeah, Okay, it's a CBS 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.800 primetime show. It was just called The Wizard, so I 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.480 was close. It was just called The Wizard. It was 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.520 ran September eighty six through eighty seven. The series centered 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.040 on Simon McKay, a brilliant inventor with dwarfism played by 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.000 David Rappaport, a little person who used his genius to 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.000 create toys and gadgets with the help of bodyguard Alex Jagger, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:57.520 Douglas Bar was Tory Spelling on an episode of The 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.040 Wizard on CBS. Yes, wait, you guys, how can I 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.600 find it? And you guys couldn't find it? Okay, it's 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.560 not a game to race. Wait. Yes, Tory Speeling did 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.960 appear in The Wizard and CBS, even though it wasn't 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.840 her best known role. She made a guest appearance on 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.560 the series starring David Roppoor. That's how we're including I 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.640 am dB lists The Wizard among amongst her early television credits. 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:25.440 She was thirteen anyway, Trames, do you remember him? Was he? 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.839 I feel like he was? No? Wait, yes, so what 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.640 was he famous for? He was played and he was 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.760 famous for something though he was on The Wizard anyway. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.840 I just remember having like the biggest crush on him, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.159 and he was like I feel like he was in 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.440 other things, just that episode. But anyway, I remember being 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.040 thirteen and he was fourteen, and I always thought he 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.120 was so cute and I had my guest appearance with him. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.839 So that was like my first like on camera, like ooh, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.240 you get to work with actress, being an actress and 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.839 they're really cute and you can have crushes on them. Okay, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.760 So after my co star appearance in The Wizard, I 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.880 went on to audition for and Get to Beverly Hills 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.320 when I was fourteen, So I did that. I'm just 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:13.400 listing stuff that my dad wasn't attached to, because that's 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.120 all people ever said, is like, E're only and stuff 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.960 because your dad's a producer. Partially true, but and then 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.560 I went on to audition for Save by the Bell 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.840 and I got the role of Violet Bickerstaff. And I 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.599 remember going into the audition and there were tons of 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.240 girls everywhere, and it was to kind of play this 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.480 nerd but it wasn't. They didn't specify. Actually, I wonder 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.440 I would be curious to go back to the breakdown 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.000 or just to say what that character, how they defined 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.680 her in the sides that you would read to go 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.520 in of what they were looking for in that character. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.560 It was to play you know, screeches love interest. And 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.919 I guess one would assume I watched the show, I 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.320 was a big fan from being you know, his character, 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.800 that it would be someone that could be kind of 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.520 like nerdy and eclectic and kind of Yeah, I wonder, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.080 I wonder what they were looking for. But all I 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.359 know what I came to the plate with when I 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.920 went in for my audition is I was like, oh 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:22.160 my gosh, this character was inspired. So the character of 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.640 Violet Bickerstaff, because even though when a character is written 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.320 for a show or a movie, it's you know, ultimately 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.279 up to the actor playing that role to create that character, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.640 and sometimes when it's a smaller role, it's not defined 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.880 of what they want. So you go in there and 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.800 you can kind of have the luxury if the producers 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:49.919 and writers and directors like what you're doing of creating 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:54.039 a character. So I was inspired to go in for 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.520 this audition for Violet Bickerstaff based on a character that 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.520 I did in real life and my best friend down 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.159 at the time, we had gone to elementary school together, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.600 we went to high school together. We were born on 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:11.800 the same day, Don Dawn. We would do these two 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.800 characters and entertain our friends at lunch. And they were 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:21.600 a married nerd couple called Roger and Ethel Sweelander, obviously 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.240 a take on spelling. And I don't know why I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.920 was the boy and she was the girl, but she 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.040 wasn't an actress and she was I would say if 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.560 it was the two of us together, and we were 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.240 best friends. She was the quieter one, you know, she 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.880 was like really good at sports, and she was really smart, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.680 and I was like the fun like drama club kids. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.520 So like we would entertain our friends during lunch and 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.040 we'd be like we'd put on like suspenders and bow ties, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.920 and I put my hair in two braids, which Violet 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.880 ended up wearing, and I put on glasses, fake glasses, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.680 and we would come in and be like, oh, Ethel 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.000 and Roger spe longer here. And my thing was I 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.760 always snorted and our friends during lunch, and we would 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.920 do it like after school and stuff and at parties, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.600 like our friends would think it was really funny that 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.040 Ethel and Roger would just show up places and I 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.000 would go all out and dress up for the part. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.320 So anyway, I go into the audition and read for 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.320 Violet bicker Staff, and I added a snort to my line, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.320 so I was like, oh, Samuel, and I would snort. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.679 And I remember I was in my dad's office and 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.280 we weren't at our new house, not the Manor, because 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.920 I didn't grow up there at our first house. I 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.840 remember being my dad's office. The landline ringing, and it 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.760 was my agent and she was like, you got the 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.200 part of Violet bicker Staff and Saved by the Bell. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.800 And I was like, oh my god, I just remember 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.120 my world changing in my head. I was just like, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:04.560 this is everything she said. She's like, so it was 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.640 the snort and I go whaty she goes. They were 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.559 blown away that you had such a take on this 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.440 character and really went all out and came in and 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.680 just added your twist to it and made her your 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.600 own and sealed it with a snort. And they love 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.199 it and they want you to do the exact same thing. Anyway, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.640 long winded answer, but that started my journey on Save 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.200 by the Bell. Now I know you said only three episodes, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.360 it feels like I was on for so long just 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:36.240 because people iconically know that character. But it was always 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.080 I don't remember getting the role how long they said 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.200 I'd be on for, but it was intended to continue 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:48.440 and continue. But nine O two and oh went and 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.920 that became I was a series regular. So I did 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.360 I think my last episode, I was doing nine O 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.320 two and oh, and I went back and guest starred, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.120 but it just got too hard to do both. So 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.640 then I just stayed on nine of two and zero. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.480 Yeah, it's crazy that that's only three episodes. I know, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.600 what was your first impression walking into that set as 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.000 you came in season two? 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.880 Walking onto that set was really scary. It was really 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.160 scary just because I had done True Beverly Hills and 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.000 I'd put on my dad's sets growing up, and very 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.439 different experience. We're the boss's daughter of how people treat you, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.480 and you know, these experiences were like, hey, I just 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.679 wanted to fit in, be one of the gang, and 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.600 be there and do the best job I could. True 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.120 Beverly Hills was the experience I had right before that, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.360 and that one was a tough one for me because 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.720 it's it's strange, it was never intended this way, but 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.199 the it worked out on that movie is there is 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.320 you know, Troop Beverly Hills. And then I was, you 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.720 know Troop Culver City, so the Culver City red feathers, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.280 and it was like very while they tried to like 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.079 get us and hang all together because we filmed for months, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.319 it broke up into clicks kind of really fast, and 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.360 I don't think that was the intention. And I know, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.319 and I'm still friends with Kelly Martin and we talk 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.960 about this and she's like, I didn't even feel a 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.680 part of it, And I was true, you know, part 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.880 of that troup. But it's hard not to take it 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.640 personal when you'd feel like, oh my gosh, I just 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.839 want to like the popular girls. I wish they would 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.360 ask me to sit at the table and have lunch 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.640 with them. So coming off of that, I was like, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.640 oh my gosh, I hope I fit in this one, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.480 because I didn't feel like I completely fit in during 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.720 Troop Beverly Hills. Although everyone was really nice, there wasn't 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.040 anyone that wasn't nice. It was just, you know, they 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.720 would do their own thing and we would kind of 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:00.400 just sit there. But yeah, so say by the Bell, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.560 I can still recall coming onto that set and the boys. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:11.760 I believe I met Dustin first, who the kindest, loveliest person. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.679 He was the youngest of the group though, so I 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.520 would say from my perspective, while they were all very close, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.000 there was definitely a different It was kind of like 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.200 me and Brian on nine on two and zero when 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.839 we started as opposed to the others, Like while we 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.080 were all became friends, it was like, oh, those are 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.440 kind of the younger too, So it definitely with the 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.280 whole cast you could have that you could feel the 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.960 vibe that they were, like, Oh, Dustin's kind of the 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.040 younger one because he was younger than all of them, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.199 but he walked me around, showed me everything. Mark Paul 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:49.080 Mario came up. They were super kind, and I just 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:54.679 remember I was a little scared of the girls. They 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.360 definitely had their own vibe and were very together as 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.600 a unit, and everyone had their inside jokes, and it 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.040 was just like, oh, not only is this super scary one, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.960 I'm coming onto this famous show as a guest star, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.400 and I had two I had never done a live performance. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.360 I had done school plays, but this was like on 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.720 TV Saturday morning, and you know, they taped all their 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.480 shows in front of a live audience. I had never 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:27.080 done it before. We rehearsed all week, and then the 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.560 day of taping we would do you know, they would 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:34.640 bring in the studio audience and you would go live basically, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:40.280 and it was really really scary, just because you know, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.760 later I went on to do other sitcoms, but this 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.880 one was like I was fourteen, I already had like 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.520 that thing of like people being like, oh, the boss's daughter, 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.080 even though this wasn't my dad's show. I was like, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.960 are they going to judge me because my dad's a 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.640 famous producer movie? They think the producer of this show 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.520 and my dad are friends and me. That's why I 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.360 got it. This was all in my head, but it 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.720 was still scary. But to this day, and I would 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.880 say this, I enjoy the experience with everyone on that show. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.239 My feelings and my perception of how things played out 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.640 is mine, and it's you know, we all take things 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.480 personally when sometimes they're not at all. I was fourteen, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.560 but to this day, I would say this to anyone 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.800 in the cast. I remember the boys being insanely nice, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:35.520 and Elizabeth Berkeley so kind, and the other two, which 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.640 were Tiffany and Lark, were very nice to me, but 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:43.520 a little it was at a little not disjointed disassociation, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.400 like they just they were there to do their job 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.320 they had. I don't remember feeling the warmth from them 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.480 and the acceptance that I felt from the guys and 0:14:54.600 --> 0:15:00.800 felt from Elizabeth. And that's the truth. Obviously. You know 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.680 that went on to change, and Tiffany came on nine 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.520 to two and zero and she was dating Brian and 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.480 we had a friendship, and you know, if she and 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.800 I ever talked this out, she probably wouldn't even remember. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.360 But that was just how I perceived it. But because 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.040 of that experience on Saved by the Bell specifically, it 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.200 was I don't regret anything that was really important for 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.680 my journey because after that, from the time I started 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:30.359 Nino two and oh, any person that stepped onto that set, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.440 and you know, I took a page out of Dustin 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.720 Diamond's like playbook, like he welcomed me with open arms, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.040 walked me around the set, introduced me to everyone. I 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.160 always went above and beyond because I knew how scary 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.120 it was to come onto an established shows set. So 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.560 any guest, star, co star, background player, anyone, and I 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.400 think anyone that's ever worked with me on NINEO too, 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.240 I would tell you that this is the truth. I 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.960 went out of my way to do anything and everything 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.320 to make them feel as comfortable and as part of 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.280 it as possible, because, yeah, you want them to do 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.720 their best, you want to be their cheerleader. They're just 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.800 there to do their work, and it's hard feeling like 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.520 you don't fit in, like it. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:16.920 Did you end up hanging out with them, like, did 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.040 you guys have school together on set? All that kind 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.840 of stuff. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.640 I remember I had to do on set school. I'm 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.360 not sure. I think they did their separately. I might 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.880 have done it with Dustin, but I can't remember exactly. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.680 I remember instantaneously having the biggest crush on Mark Paul, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:42.400 who didn't I remember he was so nice, but a 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:48.280 little more aloof I think, and Mario was just it 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:54.160 was kind of It's interesting. I felt like girls that 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.920 came onto the set like co stars, and we were 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.360 all the same age, you know, so it was okay 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.240 high school. They were like the two leading men. So 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.840 I would liken it to nine O two was the 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.439 only comparison I have. Like a girl coming onto the 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.959 said an actress, and there's Luke and Jason, you know, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.400 Brandon Dylan. So it was Mario and Mark Paul, and 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.959 it's like who would get the girl? So I remember 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:28.880 them both not being flirtatious, but they knew they were 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.200 like they knew they knew that girls were into them. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.399 They knew that they were they were charming. Let's just 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.399 say that, very very charming. Well, I guess it's charming 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.600 as like, you know, fourteen year old fifty year old 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.199 boys could be so like Twilight, your team like Jacob 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.520 or Team Edward. Like it was definitely like Team Mario, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:51.720 team Mark Paul, and I definitely was like Team Mark Paul, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.159 but like got more attention from Team Mario. So I 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.320 was like, Oh, I just wish Mark Paul would want 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.880 to like ask me on a day, but Mario asked 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.639 me on a date, which was still great, but I 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.200 felt like more friend zone there. And we're still friends 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.320 to this day. But he was like one of my 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.840 first dates when I was fifteen. We went out and 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.160 he and I both told this story. And it's because 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:18.679 I was on the set of you know, Saved by 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.679 the Bell and one of my episodes. He was like, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.199 do you want to go on a date, And so 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.280 I had just gotten my license, So it was probably 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.919 the third episode I did because I was already at 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.880 nine on Too and Zo and I drove my car. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.960 He was fifteen, he had turned sixteen yet I picked 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.879 him up, and we've told the story. We went to 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:41.000 a movie at Universal and you know parked. I parked 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.280 my car, my BMW convertible, my first car, same car 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:49.520 Donna Martin had as well, Champagne parked it and had 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.399 never done that before because I'd never been in like 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.439 a mall complex like that big. And we watched a 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.840 movie and then came back and could not find my 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.560 car and he needed to get his mom was like, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.800 are you coming home? Like he needs to get home. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.080 I panicked and I had to This is so embarrassing. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.520 I had to call my house. So I called the 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.359 security at my house and the security guard had to 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.199 come pick Mario and I up and then drop Mario 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.880 at his mom's place and then take me home. And yeah, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.520 that was our short lived romance. So embarrassing. We've all 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.200 been there with Mario Lopez. No, I can't find where 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:28.920 I parked my car. 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:34.159 Yeah, okay, so you've spoken about your first on screen 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.359 kiss being with Dustin. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.360 Yes, can you tell us more about that? Of course, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.359 he was so funny. He was so funny and so 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.479 kind and at the end of the day, he just 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:51.680 wanted to be accepted by everyone and his peers. And 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.679 like I said, he was always kind of like the 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:59.000 younger kid, and I, from what I saw that always 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.720 stayed with him a lot, So you know, he would 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.240 always I felt like overcompensate by trying to be funny 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.760 or trying to stand out, and I loved it, like 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:15.879 I was there for his humor and also he was 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.679 really vulnerable, and I feel like, yeah, it was. It 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.199 was a great first experience, pri experience, like first on 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.120 screen kiss. It was because you know, it was a sitcom, 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.919 so it's not like you're doing like an crazy open 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.760 mouth kiss, and like it kind of like got me 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:37.560 into kissing on screen because there was no pressure except 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:41.439 like an entire studio audience watching us kiss. But he 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.919 was just so nice and such a gentleman and it 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:52.199 was just sweet. So I don't remember like how scared 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.960 I was. I was probably more scared of like all 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:57.600 the lines. I would always say my lines like in 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.160 my head and be like, okay, here we go, here 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.399 we go, because I was terrified of like saying a 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.800 line wrong in front of a studio audience, like fear 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.919 because you know, everything I had done before then it 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:11.760 was like you could do as many takes as you want, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.080 don't worry if you mess up the line. And this 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.159 was a studio audience, so you felt like, I know, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.760 all the network was there every every taping. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.879 So speaking more of Dustin, we all know later in 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:24.679 life he made an adult film. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.320 Yes, did you ever see it? I have never seen it. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:33.280 I have never seen his adult film. Yeah, very fair, 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:35.440 have you? 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:36.960 No, I have not. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:38.520 Is anyone here? 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.880 Oh okay, did you ever invite any of the cast 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.080 members to your iconic sixteenth birthday party? So Ley Moon 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:49.439 for I talked about all. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.760 The hot guys were there my eighteenth birthday part? 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:51.879 Oh? 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:59.399 Sorry, sorry, that's a really good question. I feel like 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.760 if any thing Mario maybe was there, I would have 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:08.320 to ask him. I don't know, Like Mario from that 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.000 experience was the only one like I kept in touch 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.560 with and Elizabeth I would say, and I'm still really 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:20.320 good friends with Elizabeth Berkeley. And then yeah, shortly after that, 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.720 you know, Tiffany and Brian start going out, so I 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:25.800 would see, you know, Tiffany would be on set. We 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:31.760 had that connection from Saved by the Bell and then 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.520 she joined the show, so it was just a whole 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:35.800 different experience. But I don't know. I don't think any No, 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.320 I don't think so. Maybe Justin might a been at 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.400 my eighteenth birth day. 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.480 Right a little behind the scenes. Who was dating who? 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:52.040 Oh geez, I don't I don't know. Fun fact, throughout 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.080 my episodes, I was on Saved by the Bell. Scott 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:58.800 Wolfe got his start there and was on it. He 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:05.080 was background player, so in all of like like Violet 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:07.160 was in the choir like he was. If you look 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.680 in episodes, he was back there and all the classroom scenes, 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.840 and so they would have different like background players, but 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:18.080 they would keep the kids kind of consistent. So all 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.399 of the episodes I did, he was there. So later, 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:23.159 you know, when we were both on Fox and I 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:24.560