Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tori Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast Toy.
Speaker 2: You're most well known for your iconic role of Donna
Speaker 2: Martin on nine O two and Oh, but you also
Speaker 2: played another iconic role of Violet Bickerstaff on Saved by
Speaker 2: the Bell Let's get into It. So I was surprised
Speaker 2: to say that you were only in three episodes. I
Speaker 2: for sure thought, what you're okay. According to IMDb, there.
Speaker 1: Was three others, Oh my god, okay, okay. So yes.
Speaker 1: So Adri is my producer and big Saved by the
Speaker 1: Bell fan, so she wanted to do this episode today.
Speaker 1: And of course, me being Tori, I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything to ask me. You like,
Speaker 1: there's there's not that much and she's like, oh I
Speaker 1: have questions. I'm like, okay, okay, let's let's do it.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. And it is true like next to
Speaker 1: nine O two one, oh, I would say Save by
Speaker 1: the Bell, I get asked about the most out of
Speaker 1: things that I've done, and then Scary Movie two, and
Speaker 1: then Scream two, and then yeah, and the list goes on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was I was cast. Oh sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: jumping the gun. Just proceed with your questions. Adrian.
Speaker 2: Okay, so, since you were only in such a few episodes,
Speaker 2: what do you think contributed to Violet's a lasting impression?
Speaker 1: Well, so I will take you back to the audition.
Speaker 1: I was fourteen. I had done, you know, stuff for
Speaker 1: my dad, and I started acting on my dad's shows
Speaker 1: when I was five. At ten, I was like, I
Speaker 1: really want to do this professionally and want to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, do stuff that's not my dad's stuff.
Speaker 1: I started taking acting classes. I had an acting coach,
Speaker 1: and then I got an agent. It was a children's
Speaker 1: agent and Iris Burton was her name, and she sent
Speaker 1: me on all kinds of auditions and I loved doing that.
Speaker 1: I would go to school and then you know, I
Speaker 1: would get home and someone would take me and I'd go,
Speaker 1: you know, sit you know, outside in a room with
Speaker 1: like tons of stage moms and there were kids, and
Speaker 1: I'd be sitting there and being like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And I believe the first role that I auditioned for
Speaker 1: that I got that wasn't my dad's. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm going to forget the name of it. Okay, it
Speaker 1: was on if anyone knows it was on CBS, and
Speaker 1: that was my first I was a co star. I
Speaker 1: think I had like two lines. It was a series
Speaker 1: and I was in one episode.
Speaker 2: Let's see it on here. Oh no real. The very
Speaker 2: first thing listed is Vegas from nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: Right, I did for my dad when I was five,
Speaker 1: and then I went on to be on The Love
Speaker 1: Boat twice, Fantasy Island twice, Hotel twice. I think The
Speaker 1: Three Kings TJ. Hooker. I did The Three Kings for
Speaker 1: my dad. Lou Diamond Phillips was the first time we're
Speaker 1: still friends that I met him. It's really not listed
Speaker 1: on my IMDb. No, let me ask chat she knows everything.
Speaker 1: Was there a CBS primetime series in the late eighties
Speaker 1: called The Wizard and Mister Yeah, Okay, it's a CBS
Speaker 1: primetime show. It was just called The Wizard, so I
Speaker 1: was close. It was just called The Wizard. It was
Speaker 1: ran September eighty six through eighty seven. The series centered
Speaker 1: on Simon McKay, a brilliant inventor with dwarfism played by
Speaker 1: David Rappaport, a little person who used his genius to
Speaker 1: create toys and gadgets with the help of bodyguard Alex Jagger,
Speaker 1: Douglas Bar was Tory Spelling on an episode of The
Speaker 1: Wizard on CBS. Yes, wait, you guys, how can I
Speaker 1: find it? And you guys couldn't find it? Okay, it's
Speaker 1: not a game to race. Wait. Yes, Tory Speeling did
Speaker 1: appear in The Wizard and CBS, even though it wasn't
Speaker 1: her best known role. She made a guest appearance on
Speaker 1: the series starring David Roppoor. That's how we're including I
Speaker 1: am dB lists The Wizard among amongst her early television credits.
Speaker 1: She was thirteen anyway, Trames, do you remember him? Was he?
Speaker 1: I feel like he was? No? Wait, yes, so what
Speaker 1: was he famous for? He was played and he was
Speaker 1: famous for something though he was on The Wizard anyway.
Speaker 1: I just remember having like the biggest crush on him,
Speaker 1: and he was like I feel like he was in
Speaker 1: other things, just that episode. But anyway, I remember being
Speaker 1: thirteen and he was fourteen, and I always thought he
Speaker 1: was so cute and I had my guest appearance with him.
Speaker 1: So that was like my first like on camera, like ooh,
Speaker 1: you get to work with actress, being an actress and
Speaker 1: they're really cute and you can have crushes on them. Okay,
Speaker 1: So after my co star appearance in The Wizard, I
Speaker 1: went on to audition for and Get to Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: when I was fourteen, So I did that. I'm just
Speaker 1: listing stuff that my dad wasn't attached to, because that's
Speaker 1: all people ever said, is like, E're only and stuff
Speaker 1: because your dad's a producer. Partially true, but and then
Speaker 1: I went on to audition for Save by the Bell
Speaker 1: and I got the role of Violet Bickerstaff. And I
Speaker 1: remember going into the audition and there were tons of
Speaker 1: girls everywhere, and it was to kind of play this
Speaker 1: nerd but it wasn't. They didn't specify. Actually, I wonder
Speaker 1: I would be curious to go back to the breakdown
Speaker 1: or just to say what that character, how they defined
Speaker 1: her in the sides that you would read to go
Speaker 1: in of what they were looking for in that character.
Speaker 1: It was to play you know, screeches love interest. And
Speaker 1: I guess one would assume I watched the show, I
Speaker 1: was a big fan from being you know, his character,
Speaker 1: that it would be someone that could be kind of
Speaker 1: like nerdy and eclectic and kind of Yeah, I wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder what they were looking for. But all I
Speaker 1: know what I came to the plate with when I
Speaker 1: went in for my audition is I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, this character was inspired. So the character of
Speaker 1: Violet Bickerstaff, because even though when a character is written
Speaker 1: for a show or a movie, it's you know, ultimately
Speaker 1: up to the actor playing that role to create that character,
Speaker 1: and sometimes when it's a smaller role, it's not defined
Speaker 1: of what they want. So you go in there and
Speaker 1: you can kind of have the luxury if the producers
Speaker 1: and writers and directors like what you're doing of creating
Speaker 1: a character. So I was inspired to go in for
Speaker 1: this audition for Violet Bickerstaff based on a character that
Speaker 1: I did in real life and my best friend down
Speaker 1: at the time, we had gone to elementary school together,
Speaker 1: we went to high school together. We were born on
Speaker 1: the same day, Don Dawn. We would do these two
Speaker 1: characters and entertain our friends at lunch. And they were
Speaker 1: a married nerd couple called Roger and Ethel Sweelander, obviously
Speaker 1: a take on spelling. And I don't know why I
Speaker 1: was the boy and she was the girl, but she
Speaker 1: wasn't an actress and she was I would say if
Speaker 1: it was the two of us together, and we were
Speaker 1: best friends. She was the quieter one, you know, she
Speaker 1: was like really good at sports, and she was really smart,
Speaker 1: and I was like the fun like drama club kids.
Speaker 1: So like we would entertain our friends during lunch and
Speaker 1: we'd be like we'd put on like suspenders and bow ties,
Speaker 1: and I put my hair in two braids, which Violet
Speaker 1: ended up wearing, and I put on glasses, fake glasses,
Speaker 1: and we would come in and be like, oh, Ethel
Speaker 1: and Roger spe longer here. And my thing was I
Speaker 1: always snorted and our friends during lunch, and we would
Speaker 1: do it like after school and stuff and at parties,
Speaker 1: like our friends would think it was really funny that
Speaker 1: Ethel and Roger would just show up places and I
Speaker 1: would go all out and dress up for the part.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I go into the audition and read for
Speaker 1: Violet bicker Staff, and I added a snort to my line,
Speaker 1: so I was like, oh, Samuel, and I would snort.
Speaker 1: And I remember I was in my dad's office and
Speaker 1: we weren't at our new house, not the Manor, because
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up there at our first house. I
Speaker 1: remember being my dad's office. The landline ringing, and it
Speaker 1: was my agent and she was like, you got the
Speaker 1: part of Violet bicker Staff and Saved by the Bell.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god, I just remember
Speaker 1: my world changing in my head. I was just like,
Speaker 1: this is everything she said. She's like, so it was
Speaker 1: the snort and I go whaty she goes. They were
Speaker 1: blown away that you had such a take on this
Speaker 1: character and really went all out and came in and
Speaker 1: just added your twist to it and made her your
Speaker 1: own and sealed it with a snort. And they love
Speaker 1: it and they want you to do the exact same thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: long winded answer, but that started my journey on Save
Speaker 1: by the Bell. Now I know you said only three episodes,
Speaker 1: it feels like I was on for so long just
Speaker 1: because people iconically know that character. But it was always
Speaker 1: I don't remember getting the role how long they said
Speaker 1: I'd be on for, but it was intended to continue
Speaker 1: and continue. But nine O two and oh went and
Speaker 1: that became I was a series regular. So I did
Speaker 1: I think my last episode, I was doing nine O
Speaker 1: two and oh, and I went back and guest starred,
Speaker 1: but it just got too hard to do both. So
Speaker 1: then I just stayed on nine of two and zero.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy that that's only three episodes. I know,
Speaker 2: what was your first impression walking into that set as
Speaker 2: you came in season two?
Speaker 1: Walking onto that set was really scary. It was really
Speaker 1: scary just because I had done True Beverly Hills and
Speaker 1: I'd put on my dad's sets growing up, and very
Speaker 1: different experience. We're the boss's daughter of how people treat you,
Speaker 1: and you know, these experiences were like, hey, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to fit in, be one of the gang, and
Speaker 1: be there and do the best job I could. True
Speaker 1: Beverly Hills was the experience I had right before that,
Speaker 1: and that one was a tough one for me because
Speaker 1: it's it's strange, it was never intended this way, but
Speaker 1: the it worked out on that movie is there is
Speaker 1: you know, Troop Beverly Hills. And then I was, you
Speaker 1: know Troop Culver City, so the Culver City red feathers,
Speaker 1: and it was like very while they tried to like
Speaker 1: get us and hang all together because we filmed for months,
Speaker 1: it broke up into clicks kind of really fast, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that was the intention. And I know,
Speaker 1: and I'm still friends with Kelly Martin and we talk
Speaker 1: about this and she's like, I didn't even feel a
Speaker 1: part of it, And I was true, you know, part
Speaker 1: of that troup. But it's hard not to take it
Speaker 1: personal when you'd feel like, oh my gosh, I just
Speaker 1: want to like the popular girls. I wish they would
Speaker 1: ask me to sit at the table and have lunch
Speaker 1: with them. So coming off of that, I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I hope I fit in this one,
Speaker 1: because I didn't feel like I completely fit in during
Speaker 1: Troop Beverly Hills. Although everyone was really nice, there wasn't
Speaker 1: anyone that wasn't nice. It was just, you know, they
Speaker 1: would do their own thing and we would kind of
Speaker 1: just sit there. But yeah, so say by the Bell,
Speaker 1: I can still recall coming onto that set and the boys.
Speaker 1: I believe I met Dustin first, who the kindest, loveliest person.
Speaker 1: He was the youngest of the group though, so I
Speaker 1: would say from my perspective, while they were all very close,
Speaker 1: there was definitely a different It was kind of like
Speaker 1: me and Brian on nine on two and zero when
Speaker 1: we started as opposed to the others, Like while we
Speaker 1: were all became friends, it was like, oh, those are
Speaker 1: kind of the younger too, So it definitely with the
Speaker 1: whole cast you could have that you could feel the
Speaker 1: vibe that they were, like, Oh, Dustin's kind of the
Speaker 1: younger one because he was younger than all of them,
Speaker 1: but he walked me around, showed me everything. Mark Paul
Speaker 1: Mario came up. They were super kind, and I just
Speaker 1: remember I was a little scared of the girls. They
Speaker 1: definitely had their own vibe and were very together as
Speaker 1: a unit, and everyone had their inside jokes, and it
Speaker 1: was just like, oh, not only is this super scary one,
Speaker 1: I'm coming onto this famous show as a guest star,
Speaker 1: and I had two I had never done a live performance.
Speaker 1: I had done school plays, but this was like on
Speaker 1: TV Saturday morning, and you know, they taped all their
Speaker 1: shows in front of a live audience. I had never
Speaker 1: done it before. We rehearsed all week, and then the
Speaker 1: day of taping we would do you know, they would
Speaker 1: bring in the studio audience and you would go live basically,
Speaker 1: and it was really really scary, just because you know,
Speaker 1: later I went on to do other sitcoms, but this
Speaker 1: one was like I was fourteen, I already had like
Speaker 1: that thing of like people being like, oh, the boss's daughter,
Speaker 1: even though this wasn't my dad's show. I was like,
Speaker 1: are they going to judge me because my dad's a
Speaker 1: famous producer movie? They think the producer of this show
Speaker 1: and my dad are friends and me. That's why I
Speaker 1: got it. This was all in my head, but it
Speaker 1: was still scary. But to this day, and I would
Speaker 1: say this, I enjoy the experience with everyone on that show.
Speaker 1: My feelings and my perception of how things played out
Speaker 1: is mine, and it's you know, we all take things
Speaker 1: personally when sometimes they're not at all. I was fourteen,
Speaker 1: but to this day, I would say this to anyone
Speaker 1: in the cast. I remember the boys being insanely nice,
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth Berkeley so kind, and the other two, which
Speaker 1: were Tiffany and Lark, were very nice to me, but
Speaker 1: a little it was at a little not disjointed disassociation,
Speaker 1: like they just they were there to do their job
Speaker 1: they had. I don't remember feeling the warmth from them
Speaker 1: and the acceptance that I felt from the guys and
Speaker 1: felt from Elizabeth. And that's the truth. Obviously. You know
Speaker 1: that went on to change, and Tiffany came on nine
Speaker 1: to two and zero and she was dating Brian and
Speaker 1: we had a friendship, and you know, if she and
Speaker 1: I ever talked this out, she probably wouldn't even remember.
Speaker 1: But that was just how I perceived it. But because
Speaker 1: of that experience on Saved by the Bell specifically, it
Speaker 1: was I don't regret anything that was really important for
Speaker 1: my journey because after that, from the time I started
Speaker 1: Nino two and oh, any person that stepped onto that set,
Speaker 1: and you know, I took a page out of Dustin
Speaker 1: Diamond's like playbook, like he welcomed me with open arms,
Speaker 1: walked me around the set, introduced me to everyone. I
Speaker 1: always went above and beyond because I knew how scary
Speaker 1: it was to come onto an established shows set. So
Speaker 1: any guest, star, co star, background player, anyone, and I
Speaker 1: think anyone that's ever worked with me on NINEO too,
Speaker 1: I would tell you that this is the truth. I
Speaker 1: went out of my way to do anything and everything
Speaker 1: to make them feel as comfortable and as part of
Speaker 1: it as possible, because, yeah, you want them to do
Speaker 1: their best, you want to be their cheerleader. They're just
Speaker 1: there to do their work, and it's hard feeling like
Speaker 1: you don't fit in, like it.
Speaker 2: Did you end up hanging out with them, like, did
Speaker 2: you guys have school together on set? All that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff.
Speaker 1: I remember I had to do on set school. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I think they did their separately. I might
Speaker 1: have done it with Dustin, but I can't remember exactly.
Speaker 1: I remember instantaneously having the biggest crush on Mark Paul,
Speaker 1: who didn't I remember he was so nice, but a
Speaker 1: little more aloof I think, and Mario was just it
Speaker 1: was kind of It's interesting. I felt like girls that
Speaker 1: came onto the set like co stars, and we were
Speaker 1: all the same age, you know, so it was okay
Speaker 1: high school. They were like the two leading men. So
Speaker 1: I would liken it to nine O two was the
Speaker 1: only comparison I have. Like a girl coming onto the
Speaker 1: said an actress, and there's Luke and Jason, you know,
Speaker 1: Brandon Dylan. So it was Mario and Mark Paul, and
Speaker 1: it's like who would get the girl? So I remember
Speaker 1: them both not being flirtatious, but they knew they were
Speaker 1: like they knew they knew that girls were into them.
Speaker 1: They knew that they were they were charming. Let's just
Speaker 1: say that, very very charming. Well, I guess it's charming
Speaker 1: as like, you know, fourteen year old fifty year old
Speaker 1: boys could be so like Twilight, your team like Jacob
Speaker 1: or Team Edward. Like it was definitely like Team Mario,
Speaker 1: team Mark Paul, and I definitely was like Team Mark Paul,
Speaker 1: but like got more attention from Team Mario. So I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I just wish Mark Paul would want
Speaker 1: to like ask me on a day, but Mario asked
Speaker 1: me on a date, which was still great, but I
Speaker 1: felt like more friend zone there. And we're still friends
Speaker 1: to this day. But he was like one of my
Speaker 1: first dates when I was fifteen. We went out and
Speaker 1: he and I both told this story. And it's because
Speaker 1: I was on the set of you know, Saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell and one of my episodes. He was like,
Speaker 1: do you want to go on a date, And so
Speaker 1: I had just gotten my license, So it was probably
Speaker 1: the third episode I did because I was already at
Speaker 1: nine on Too and Zo and I drove my car.
Speaker 1: He was fifteen, he had turned sixteen yet I picked
Speaker 1: him up, and we've told the story. We went to
Speaker 1: a movie at Universal and you know parked. I parked
Speaker 1: my car, my BMW convertible, my first car, same car
Speaker 1: Donna Martin had as well, Champagne parked it and had
Speaker 1: never done that before because I'd never been in like
Speaker 1: a mall complex like that big. And we watched a
Speaker 1: movie and then came back and could not find my
Speaker 1: car and he needed to get his mom was like,
Speaker 1: are you coming home? Like he needs to get home.
Speaker 1: I panicked and I had to This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I had to call my house. So I called the
Speaker 1: security at my house and the security guard had to
Speaker 1: come pick Mario and I up and then drop Mario
Speaker 1: at his mom's place and then take me home. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was our short lived romance. So embarrassing. We've all
Speaker 1: been there with Mario Lopez. No, I can't find where
Speaker 1: I parked my car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you've spoken about your first on screen
Speaker 2: kiss being with Dustin.
Speaker 1: Yes, can you tell us more about that? Of course,
Speaker 1: he was so funny. He was so funny and so
Speaker 1: kind and at the end of the day, he just
Speaker 1: wanted to be accepted by everyone and his peers. And
Speaker 1: like I said, he was always kind of like the
Speaker 1: younger kid, and I, from what I saw that always
Speaker 1: stayed with him a lot, So you know, he would
Speaker 1: always I felt like overcompensate by trying to be funny
Speaker 1: or trying to stand out, and I loved it, like
Speaker 1: I was there for his humor and also he was
Speaker 1: really vulnerable, and I feel like, yeah, it was. It
Speaker 1: was a great first experience, pri experience, like first on
Speaker 1: screen kiss. It was because you know, it was a sitcom,
Speaker 1: so it's not like you're doing like an crazy open
Speaker 1: mouth kiss, and like it kind of like got me
Speaker 1: into kissing on screen because there was no pressure except
Speaker 1: like an entire studio audience watching us kiss. But he
Speaker 1: was just so nice and such a gentleman and it
Speaker 1: was just sweet. So I don't remember like how scared
Speaker 1: I was. I was probably more scared of like all
Speaker 1: the lines. I would always say my lines like in
Speaker 1: my head and be like, okay, here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go, because I was terrified of like saying a
Speaker 1: line wrong in front of a studio audience, like fear
Speaker 1: because you know, everything I had done before then it
Speaker 1: was like you could do as many takes as you want,
Speaker 1: don't worry if you mess up the line. And this
Speaker 1: was a studio audience, so you felt like, I know,
Speaker 1: all the network was there every every taping.
Speaker 2: So speaking more of Dustin, we all know later in
Speaker 2: life he made an adult film.
Speaker 1: Yes, did you ever see it? I have never seen it.
Speaker 1: I have never seen his adult film. Yeah, very fair,
Speaker 1: have you?
Speaker 2: No, I have not.
Speaker 1: Is anyone here?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, did you ever invite any of the cast
Speaker 2: members to your iconic sixteenth birthday party? So Ley Moon
Speaker 2: for I talked about all.
Speaker 1: The hot guys were there my eighteenth birthday part?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, that's a really good question. I feel like
Speaker 1: if any thing Mario maybe was there, I would have
Speaker 1: to ask him. I don't know, Like Mario from that
Speaker 1: experience was the only one like I kept in touch
Speaker 1: with and Elizabeth I would say, and I'm still really
Speaker 1: good friends with Elizabeth Berkeley. And then yeah, shortly after that,
Speaker 1: you know, Tiffany and Brian start going out, so I
Speaker 1: would see, you know, Tiffany would be on set. We
Speaker 1: had that connection from Saved by the Bell and then
Speaker 1: she joined the show, so it was just a whole
Speaker 1: different experience. But I don't know. I don't think any No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Maybe Justin might a been at
Speaker 1: my eighteenth birth day.
Speaker 2: Right a little behind the scenes. Who was dating who?
Speaker 1: Oh geez, I don't I don't know. Fun fact, throughout
Speaker 1: my episodes, I was on Saved by the Bell. Scott
Speaker 1: Wolfe got his start there and was on it. He
Speaker 1: was background player, so in all of like like Violet
Speaker 1: was in the choir like he was. If you look
Speaker 1: in episodes, he was back there and all the classroom scenes,
Speaker 1: and so they would have different like background players, but
Speaker 1: they would keep the kids kind of consistent. So all
Speaker 1: of the episodes I did, he was there. So later,
Speaker 1: you know, when we were both on Fox and I
Speaker 1: was on nine of two No, and he was on
Speaker 1: Party of Five, it was like, oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: was so great to see him, and I was so
Speaker 1: excited for his success. That was the first time I
Speaker 1: met him. And I'm not sure who was dating. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've read things about like Tiffany and Mark
Speaker 1: Paul maybe, but I don't know. I wouldn't know, to
Speaker 1: be honest, I want to say none of them.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've heard all the room. Wait, what are
Speaker 2: the rumors that they like kind of all dated each other?
Speaker 1: Really did they?
Speaker 2: But I don't know it rumors maybe Never did you
Speaker 2: ever run into any of the cast while you were
Speaker 2: out clubing in Hollywood back in the day.
Speaker 1: I feel like I would. Yeah, I mean, obviously I
Speaker 1: would continue to see Tiffany because if we ended up
Speaker 1: working together and we would go out together and we
Speaker 1: were friends. But yeah, like Elizabeth and I feel like
Speaker 1: Mark Paul was never out in the scene. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Mario was either, Like if there was, I
Speaker 1: don't know. They were good boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you could ride a crossover episode between Say
Speaker 2: by the Bell and nine O, two and zero, what
Speaker 2: would that storyline be?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wait, well could it be like whatever
Speaker 1: you wanted to be?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Could it be like whatever happened to Baby Jane? And
Speaker 1: so there's like two sisters and it's Joan Crawford and
Speaker 1: Betty Davis, but it's really Donna Martin and Violet bicker Staff,
Speaker 1: my two characters from and O and Say By the
Speaker 1: Bell or.
Speaker 2: Maybe whatever you want, Okay, I'll do that?
Speaker 1: Is that random? So random? It's the first thing that
Speaker 1: came to mind. A crossover though, would be like I
Speaker 1: don't know, because like Donna would be an easy crossover,
Speaker 1: and save by the Bell because she was kind of
Speaker 1: I think she was a blend between like Jesse the
Speaker 1: good girl and like Kelly the popular girl and there
Speaker 1: would be Donna. I feel like she'd be friends with
Speaker 1: all of them, and Lisa like so she would fit
Speaker 1: right in. And it's funny. The two shows I did
Speaker 1: both had like iconic diners, so we would always be
Speaker 1: on that set. But and and what wait? I had
Speaker 1: to sing and say by the Bell, which I do
Speaker 1: actually sing and have sang in different movies and mass singer.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a great singer, but I can be
Speaker 1: coached and a little bit of Missiletnes. But saved by
Speaker 1: the Bell. They didn't even ask if I could sing.
Speaker 1: They were just like this is I was as so
Speaker 1: swating the choir and it was beautiful dreamer and they
Speaker 1: were like here's the like uh oh god not hs
Speaker 1: because that tape. Listen to it and just like match
Speaker 1: your mouth too.
Speaker 2: So that wasn't you singing because that was like an
Speaker 2: epic solo.
Speaker 1: That was an epic solo. And sorry to say, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were like, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to work with a vocal coach or can you do it?
Speaker 1: They were just like, oh, here, you're just gonna lip
Speaker 1: sync it. It's like oh, which is kind of scarier
Speaker 1: and harder to do. I wish I had attempted to
Speaker 1: sing it.
Speaker 2: But anyway, your kids seeing those episodes.
Speaker 1: So my kids are like into throwback TVs, I mean
Speaker 1: getting into it. They love Full House. They have not
Speaker 1: watched Saved by the Belt. I feel like they need
Speaker 1: to watch Saved by the Belt. I feel like my
Speaker 1: kids don't have any idea who I am. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: they've seen Scary Movie too. They love that. They've seen
Speaker 1: Scream too, But other than that, they've they've never seen
Speaker 1: my work.
Speaker 2: I watched Say by the Phone a long time. I
Speaker 2: wonder if it holds up. I wonder too, but I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm biased. Grew up on that show,
Speaker 2: all right. How do you think Say By the Bell
Speaker 2: and Beverly Hills, Nino two and Oh shaped nineties teen culture,
Speaker 2: but in different ways.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously I can speak more towards Nino two
Speaker 1: and Oh, and I couldn't see either of them back
Speaker 1: then because I was in it, you know, and we
Speaker 1: were young. But looking back at it now, I mean
Speaker 1: it was Nino two to and Oh specifically, I think
Speaker 1: was the first time that gave a voice to teens.
Speaker 1: You know, every show it was about the adults and
Speaker 1: their issues and their problems and what it was really like.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's that old thing like kids should
Speaker 1: be seen, not heard, and kind of I feel like
Speaker 1: that's the way it kind of used to be on
Speaker 1: TV as it progressed. It was like kids have a voice,
Speaker 1: and they have a strong voice, and they should be
Speaker 1: heard and they have issues just like adults, you know.
Speaker 1: And I feel like nine two and oh was the
Speaker 1: first that took a chance to focus on a nighttime show,
Speaker 1: say by the Bell, I think we're wor because it
Speaker 1: was a morning show so kids wanted to watch kids.
Speaker 1: But I think they took a big gamble day my
Speaker 1: dad doing a show that spoke to teens that adults
Speaker 1: would be viewing. You know, primetime TV started at eight o'clock,
Speaker 1: so that was a risk. You know, people, you know
Speaker 1: predominantly it was adults watching, and what if you know,
Speaker 1: it was their house and they controlled whether kids watched
Speaker 1: or not because back then it was like everyone had
Speaker 1: a TV in their room. It was more like gathering
Speaker 1: and watching in your living room. And they took a
Speaker 1: big chance of you know, parents and adults being like, eh,
Speaker 1: we don't want to watch a show about kids. But
Speaker 1: thank god it worked, and then Saved by the Bell
Speaker 1: it was you know, Saturday Morning TV. I feel like
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning TV before Saved by the Bell was kind
Speaker 1: of focused more on kid kids, and this was about
Speaker 1: you know, preteens and then teens again, giving them a
Speaker 1: voice in a comedic, light hearted way, but they'd actually
Speaker 1: dealt with a lot of issues as well, And if
Speaker 1: you go back, there's a lot of issue oriented episodes
Speaker 1: that the teens on that show go through, similar to
Speaker 1: nine two and oh.
Speaker 2: I feel like nine two and ohs. Yeah it felt
Speaker 2: trail well, yeah, but it felt a little more like
Speaker 2: real life. You could relate a little more.
Speaker 1: Bear. There wasn't a laugh track after every line, you know,
Speaker 1: so yeah.
Speaker 2: True, people weren't playing pranks on their principle all day long.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: All right, well that's kind of most what I have
Speaker 2: unless any memorable behind the scenes moments or bloopers or
Speaker 2: anything that really stands out from day about the belt.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, why not think I remember it as soon as
Speaker 1: I lee.
Speaker 2: Or anything else you want to add to your experience.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just really grateful for the experience. I
Speaker 1: think it taught me so much about I mean, comedy
Speaker 1: is my heart and that was the first show, and
Speaker 1: you know, that was the first show to give a
Speaker 1: voice to my comedy, and that kind of paved the
Speaker 1: way for me to be able to take charge to
Speaker 1: make Donna comedian. I don't know what the word I'm
Speaker 1: looking for, I mean, because Donna wasn't written that way.
Speaker 1: Donna wasn't you know, Donna wasn't written as much like
Speaker 1: Donna was friend number one, I think in the pilot
Speaker 1: and then you know, she went on to have a
Speaker 1: character name and then you know, they gave her a
Speaker 1: little bit of a background, but you know, she pretty
Speaker 1: much started as Kelly and you know, Brenda's friend. And
Speaker 1: you know, I realized from early on, like, gosh, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stars here and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: magic here, and I have to do something to stand out.
Speaker 1: You know. I didn't feel like I was the prettiest
Speaker 1: girl there. I didn't feel like I was the most
Speaker 1: talented girl there. But I knew deep down that I
Speaker 1: was the funniest one there, and so that was and
Speaker 1: that's just something that's always been. I'm not a very
Speaker 1: confident person, but I'm very confident in my ability to
Speaker 1: make people laugh in my ability to do comedy. And
Speaker 1: I had that from a young age just in real
Speaker 1: life making people happy and smile. And I liked seeing
Speaker 1: people get utter joy from laughter. And so if I
Speaker 1: hadn't had that experience on Save by the Bell, maybe
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to really take that chance
Speaker 1: on nine two and oh to make Donna stand out
Speaker 1: and do the physical comedy. And you know, the more
Speaker 1: the writers saw that on nine O two and oh,
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, you like comedy, so Donna, they
Speaker 1: would start to write towards my strength and do the
Speaker 1: physical comedy and do all the Lucy esque things that
Speaker 1: I loved to do because that's just my passion. So
Speaker 1: what was the question? There's the violet snort. I really
Speaker 1: actually do snort in real life when it comes out
Speaker 1: once in a while.
Speaker 2: I mean, the snort was awesome, Thank you. It really
Speaker 2: lent to the character.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Oh, I have one Rinning. So they had the
Speaker 1: reboot of Say by the Bell, and I believe Mark,
Speaker 1: Paul and Mario and Elizabeth and Tiffany, I think they
Speaker 1: all produced it. They came together and did it no,
Speaker 1: And I was really bummed because I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: Dustin had passed away, and I was like, that's kind
Speaker 1: of like his legacy is, like what's left is like
Speaker 1: Violet because they would have gone on to get married hopefully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just like it's a character that everyone talks about.
Speaker 1: And I say that with confidence just because I know
Speaker 1: the fans, like they always bring up Violet and she's
Speaker 1: so beloved. So I was kind of bummed. And I
Speaker 1: did Mark Paul's podcast and I said, like, what happened
Speaker 1: and they only went one season? He said no, honestly,
Speaker 1: like season two. And Elizabeth had confirmed this with me
Speaker 1: when I talked her about after like season two, we
Speaker 1: were totally gonna bring in Violet. And I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: damn it.
Speaker 2: It would have been fun to see her pop up
Speaker 2: season light.
Speaker 1: But yeah, during my life, but uh yeah, who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe something else will be done again. Was saved by
Speaker 1: the bell One day. I can go back and do Violet.
Speaker 1: I should do like I should do something Violet like
Speaker 1: on online, like a TikTok Violet. That'd be fun.
Speaker 2: Did you keep any of her wardrobe? No?
Speaker 1: I can't keep any of Donnas either. I was a
Speaker 1: good girl. I wanted so much for people to like
Speaker 1: me and think I was like nights and great and
Speaker 1: like I would never have kept anything like that would
Speaker 1: have been like but kind of what Donna and Violet
Speaker 1: war they kind of I mean Violet, I can't picture
Speaker 1: her ever wearing like a crop top or anything. But
Speaker 1: it was the you know, the early nineties, so it
Speaker 1: was like the little like bike shorts and baby doll dresses,
Speaker 1: so it was kind of a crossover