WEBVTT - 9021One on One: Brooke Theiss 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:10.120 It's nine Genee with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. So 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.760 today our guest on nine oh to one on one 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.200 is none other. They're in uh Brooke thee who played 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:26.240 Leslie Sumner years through total of nine episodes. She was 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.600 the head of the Alpha Omega sorority where all the 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:35.960 girls went, how can you short? Sassy blonde hair? Cute? 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:42.240 Our ladies? Are you? Tori is sick and so you 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:48.720 got with me, but she very disappointed not to talk 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.240 to you. It's so good to see your face though. Nice. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.120 It's such an honor to be on your show. I 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.640 was listening to it. It's way too much fun. Are 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.760 you reverse age? What in the world? No, I'm being 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.800 super serious. Is that because you know the art of massage? 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:12.240 This is true? We should okay for anyway that doesn't know, 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.120 you are a massag a licensed masseuse. Yeah, so I 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.959 became a board certified massage therapist. How old my daughter fourteen? 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:26.759 So twelve years ago? Wow? Yeah? And I work at 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.120 the Beverly Hills nine and oh my good? First of all, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.320 is that that the best part? She works at the 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.319 bh Hotel? Wow? Oh my gosh? Okay, so wait, you 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.720 massage people at the h Hotel do it? Does anyone 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.440 ever say this is weird? But I feel like I 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.199 know you or no, I feel like I've seen you here. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.320 Do you know it really hasn't happened because I looked 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.520 very I got my hair is pulled back, I'm in 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.080 my uniform and all of that good stuff. But I've 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.640 recently recently hired a few new people and they're like 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.880 horror fans, so asked because I'm part of the Nightmare franchise, 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:09.920 and and my it was really our new manager walked 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.960 in and he'd been there for a week and then 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.520 he found out and he's like, I can't, I can't 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.880 talk to you. I gotta go wait with Were you 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.639 in Nightmare on Elm Street? Yeah, so it's Nightmare Elm 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.200 Street four? Oh my god, did you get murdered by Freddie? Yes? 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.480 I did. Oh my god, first of all those movies. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.079 Tori is going to be so pissed. She's missing that. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.400 She's a huge fan. You're gonna have to come back. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.960 It's gonna be so much wait, oh my god, So 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.480 was that before nine out two one out? I can't Yes, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:45.360 it was, Yes, I was. It was eighteen when I 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.520 did nine excuse me when I did Nightmare four and 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:54.799 I was twenty three and twenty five when I did 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.720 nine O two one out because I right, you did 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.080 how many episodes total? You know we got to I 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.119 m dB. I think, I think, yeah, it's nine episodes, 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.200 I've something, not O nine, I think, and we've seen 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.360 about four okay, four or five? Okay? Yeah, because I 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.840 know I was listening to the one with p J 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.360 and he was like, I was twenty two and they're like, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.160 you're so wrong, and that's what I've been saying. I 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.519 was laughing. I wasn't really. I love that you called 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.280 him called Paul p J. P J was that's what 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.560 he went by. Do you remember that ny likes? I 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.320 think that's all I kind of knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.720 now that you say it, I wish I had known 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.760 that before I did the interview. I probably couldn't called 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.920 him p J. Oh. He probably doesn't go by p 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.880 J anymore. But I don't know why he wouldn't find that. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.800 But I have the funniest story about p J. Because 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.520 it's not a funny story, it's not long, but um, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.800 I lived in Burbank and he must have lived in Burbank, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.040 so I would always see him like on on auditions 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:58.920 and then of course, you know, we did the show together. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.960 And then I'd always be like Bob's Big Boy or 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.720 Pattings or something like that, and there would go p 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.000 J and it's convertible and he had this huge great 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.680 Dane and all you saw was this enormous great Dane 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.360 sitting in the back with the lockdown and he would 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.880 drive around with the top down on this confortible with 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.880 his roommate Brad Pitt. Yeah, right, sitting next to the 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.719 I didn't know he had a giant great Dane. He did. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.880 It was it was Actually, it was just so funny 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.800 because you didn't notice. I didn't notice him or the car. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.400 I would just see the great dance. That's b J 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.800 go down. Real funny. When did you do just the 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.560 Ten of Us? Because I loved that show? So Just 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.719 the Ten of Us was? Uh? So I was night 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.880 nineteen to twenty one, so we did three seats maybe 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.680 it was eighteens excuse me, one degree of separation of 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.560 Nightmare in Elm Street on the ten of Us. So 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:04.680 Heather Landing Camp Landing Camp, Yes, the original, the iconic 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:10.200 night Marion Elm Street Girl Amograma to like a week ago. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.680 I'm still like dear friends with everybody from just a 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.960 toid of us. I actually just organized a huge year 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.120 reunion at the Hotel um and I organized the whole thing. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.039 It was last Yeah, it was really really fun and 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.440 everybody was like, I can't believe you pulled this off. 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.640 It started with like, let's all get together for lunch 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.359 like five years ago, and then of course life takes 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.880 over and we had a couple of tragedies in with 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.479 within the cast and um, so it got put on 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.919 the back burner and then COVID hit and then we 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.320 had one of our dear directors passed away, and I 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.120 was like this, I'm doing this now before we start 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.320 losing people, because you know those people more forties and 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.440 fifties and you know, late eighties. So I was like, yeah, no, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.600 I gotta do this, so good for you, and Heather went. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.760 Heather was supposed to go, and unfortunately she her sister 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.440 in law passed away, and yeah for Heather, I so 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.880 glad to give her grandma. How many of the ten 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.919 of us were there, So it was myself, Deborah Harmon, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.000 who played my mother and um Heidie Ziegler who played 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.120 the little sister, and then joe Anilette. We had a 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:26.000 whole Zoom thing, so Joanne Wilette joined via Zoom and 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.600 uh and Bill Kirkeenbauer the father who lives in Thailand 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.560 because his son moved to Thailand, and they were like, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.680 we're moving to Thailand, We're never going to see her son. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.440 So we had like this really kind of weight. So 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.320 it was really just the three of us and then 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:44.320 two but wait, fun fact, just the ten of Us 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.599 was a spin off from Growing Pains, right, yeah, and 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:52.440 this is all pre nine oh job, yeah, nineteen. I 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.760 think I was nineteen one because then I did a 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.200 series with Terry Garden Margaret Whitten when I was twenty two, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.200 and then I did a series with Matthew Perry and 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.880 Dan Schneider when I was twenty three use us one 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.560 degree nine O two one. Oh, because Matthew Perry did 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.679 nine O two one Oh. He I have the funniest 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.640 story about him too. So I went to n y U. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.960 So I was there. My roommate was from California, and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.400 I didn't watch any television because I have like severe 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.960 dyslexia right, and I was like so excited to actually 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.920 get into college. And I was like, okay, my blinders 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.320 are on. And anyhow, our suite mate gets a television 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.480 and my roommate Robin goes, we gotta watch. We gotta 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.280 sit down and watch the show. Is my friend from 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.520 high school is on. His name's Matthew Perry, And I 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.800 was like, okay, so we watched. I watched his show 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.360 every Friday night. And then when I did Just The 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.920 Ten of Us one day, was sitting across the table 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.800 the table read and I went right over to him 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.600 and I was like, oh my goshars, I watched your 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.160 show on Friday nights, and so we hit it off 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.120 right away. So it was really fun. Did either of 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 you make the book? Matthew Perry told a lot of 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.040 tales in that book. Oh yeah, no, yeah, we kind 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.480 of like lost. I lost. I lost connection with him 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.560 after I did the series right before nine or two 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.360 right before um um, friends, Okay, I have another question. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.840 I have two more things I have I liked. Two. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:23.760 One is you've been married forever forever? Whoever, how when 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.000 did you get married? How old were you? So? I was? 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.800 I know right, I was twenty four when I got 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:34.280 married and was still married. But this is me comparing 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.280 was he an actor? Is he an actor? Was he 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.840 an actor? Yeah? So he was an actor. We got 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:45.200 put together by our mutual publicist. Oh my god, they 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.199 still around. Who is it, Brenda Feldman? Of course I don't. 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.960 Oh my god. She was like, she showed me his 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.640 head shot, and then she showed him his my head shot, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.240 and then she kept having us do like publicity events, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.240 and I kept seeing him at these publicity events, and 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.920 then finally he would always pull up on his hog 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.319 and he was all leathered out. God, I'm like, I 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.640 like these like true like cheerleader goody two shoes, and 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.000 I was like, can I go for a ride on 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:19.000 your motorcycle? And he's like yeah, And that was that. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:24.079 That was just my nineties teen dreams are just coming 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:28.520 through with that. And twenty eight years later, yeah, twenty 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.760 so we have two kids, twenty eight. I keep her house, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:35.959 my son. He's twenty seven, dated for six years, so 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:41.600 two thirty three, thirty four years. And are you all 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.040 just kind of living your Follywood lives like you all 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.400 were sort of like young Hollywood at the time, right, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.160 I know, it's all the Pacha stories, you know, just 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:55.440 hanging and you know, just like just yeah, exactly going 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.080 out all the time and having fun and yeah, it 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.839 was fun. It was really fun. We Jenny, should we 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.680 talk about massage or Leslie Sumner? I mean, I don't 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.520 know which direction? Okkay, then that's three things. Hold on, okay, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.800 let's talk about we already kind of talked about massage 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.240 because you know, one fast question, Okay, go ahead, because 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.680 Kristen Bell has gone so viral for her mouth massage. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.079 She got do you know what I'm talking about? It 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.840 had a whole name, so she talked about it on 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.079 I think she did on our Instagram, and then she 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.440 talked about on Kelly Clarkson and basically it's like it 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:30.800 has a name that I don't know the name, but 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.040 Kristen Bell knows it and your massage the phase and 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.880 then she said, I love glove are to do a 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.520 lot of matt Like would you want to do that back? 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:48.360 I would not be doing it. I more like like esthetician, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.160 like you know the facialists might do that, which they 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.680 do a lot of that. Yeah, because that's like going 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:59.160 in like that's a different category. I mean, honestly, that 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.680 sounds more like TMJ issues. That's what she said. But 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.480 she said, oh yeah, because there's a tension in the jaw. Yeah, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.280 that Kelly Clarkson had t MJ. We should we should 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.800 get that. It was a lot of hands, all right. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.120 I have worked on somebody's mouth inside, you know, a 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.320 regular client that I said, you know, or you'd be 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.679 comfortable with doing this, and I really you know, so 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.679 I have done it one time, but not so much 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.720 for like you know, um um wrinkles and things like that. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.520 So it was it was more working with the TMJ 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.280 and all in there two things I couldn't recommend more 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.920 highly at the Beverly Hills Hotel the chicken salad sandwich 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.240 in the diner which they will bring up to the pool, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.920 and the pigs in the blanket and yes, yes, what 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.319 about the McCarthy salad of course yes, And if you 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.000 if you David Spade style and add the celery he 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.880 adds to it, and it's like, oh he does you 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.439 know celery and cucumb or something else. You guys are 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.400 making me hungry, I know, right, I really like going 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.760 to the Campana cafe that's my favorite, or sitting outside. Yeah, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.400 best I feel like I'm in Charlie's Angels, Like in 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.520 any minute, I'm gonna get a call and they're gonna 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:18.160 bring a rotary phone up and I'm gonna five down there. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:33.360 I love it. It's beautiful. Another thing I want to 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.400 talk to you about is I saw on your Instagram, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.880 Um that you flew the trapeze. You did the trapez 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.880 Oh gosh, yeah, so I did. Um. I didn't do 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.760 the trapeze. I wish I did, but it was similar. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.680 It was the motorcycle with the kind of trappeez underneath, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.680 and we did spinning and like on Circus of the Stars. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:57.640 I'm wait, so you wrote a motorcycle on a high 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:03.520 wire and then did flips underneath of it hung from 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.800 So we had the motorcycle and then there was the 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.560 wire and then I was on a trap piece underneath, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.160 so kind of like kind of square like this, So 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.160 and I would hang from the bar do all these 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.360 crazy stuff and then we would spin like this. And 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.959 I remember, Um, I did it with Ernie Rance Jr. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.439 From like the Turtles, And I remember when we did 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.000 it really low for a month and then when they 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.720 set it up like the night before they moved it 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.160 and it was so high and Ernie is up on 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.680 the motorcycle and he looks down because there's a look 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:44.360 fucking hard and Charlotte, he was a crazy mutant ninja turtle. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.000 You are you were in good hands at least at 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.000 least yeah, exactly exactly, but that was really fun. I 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.360 actually became friends with the guy who ran the whole 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.920 trapeez thing and had it in his backyard. I went 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.160 to that guy, did you Yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.480 with the trappee and his backyard, like in in the valley. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.199 Where was that north Bridge a dent? Yeah, I think 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.040 it was in north Bridge. And I probably blanking on 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.959 his name because I'm still friends with him. Um, it'll 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.000 come to me in a minute. But I want you 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.560 to remember. Yeah, I remember I got pregnant and I 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.840 was flying on that trapeeze and I didn't know and 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.360 so I went into my O B G Y and 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.440 I was like, okay, so I drank a little bit 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.080 and I've been flying on a trapeez have I just 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.520 kind of looked on me like that was before, Like 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.280 you know, we can do that now? You know. It's 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.680 it's it's a little more common to go flying on trapeez, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.040 Like I think people do it as like team building 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:44.000 and yeah, but it's a great it's a great skill 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.320 to have. It's a great skill to help you. Guys. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.920 Put that on your resumes. You like have forties seven 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.760 million acting. This is my talents, hobbies, talent, special skills. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.920 To ask about Leslie Sumner for a minute, because here's 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:06.200 what I find shocking about your trajectory. First week, we 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.880 like you were like we like Leslie Sumner. Then she's 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:15.800 so ghastly like, oh my god, your your gross Leslie Sumner. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.120 But then we're back when we love at you again, 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.120 Like it was like you should have got canceled, but 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.680 somehow you stayed in the sorority and you stayed friends 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.640 with everybody and you're just pool side flirting with Steve Megan, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.280 Celeste al Mad Like what, yeah, you're troublemaker. I know. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.040 I was like wow, Like I was surprised I didn't 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.960 get canceled because that whole episode it was almost just 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.160 like let's just ignore that that just happened, and it 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:50.120 was it was really like important, the message even so 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:55.200 important today, like yeah, Aaron Spelling sort of ability to 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.480 see the future was just crazy because it made as 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.640 much sense and was terrible. Yeah, man, as it is now, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.480 but then you just recover from it. Yeah, like, yeah, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.880 that wouldn't happen today. The funny thing is I was 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.000 actually thinking about my character and thinking about what was 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.480 going on with her. And of course, when I was 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.480 I'll be honest, when I was twenty four, I was like, okay, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.880 oh yeah, so I'm kind of final, all right whatever, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.480 So you know, I was like, you paid me, got 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.720 me a check, all right, I'm good. Um So, but 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:31.240 I'm looking back now and I'm like, Wow, with the 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.520 anti Semitic messages that are out there today, I can't 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.320 believe how relevant that was. And I'm thinking about her, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.600 and I was thinking, you know, she looked like she 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.840 fit in, but she did it. So she wore this 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.440 mask and she and it was almost like maybe she 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.560 had a lot of Maybe she was bullied when she 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.760 was younger. I mean, there's so many things that could 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.880 have happened to her. Why she was like we just 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.000 this is on the d L. You know, we don't 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.840 really flaunt this. We can kind of admit we're Jewish, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.400 but you know, I'm blonde and blue eyed. I don't 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.879 look like it anything funny. I found out that I 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.959 did my d n A in two thousand twenty and 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:17.040 I found out I'm Jewish. Oh my god, I'm so 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.679 happy my son's bearing a Jewish girl. And I'm like, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:26.359 oh my god, got some bloodline in there. It is 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:34.840 fully fascinating. That was a very important storyline. Yeah, it 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:40.480 was just sort of like it kept getting buried. It did. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.800 it did. It was kind of. It happened and was 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.280 addressed quite well in the show by Andrea Poofed. It 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.199 was like, yeah, well, I think also too. I wasn't like, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.159 I think if it was maybe more of one of 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.879 the series regulars, it might have been you know, maybe 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.840 for Andrea to take it further, it might have been 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:04.360 something good. The other girls just join up, join this, right, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:11.880 just join it, curb her going in, Yeah, you'll be fine, Andrea, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.960 and then your character continues. But that is really never 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.439 mentioned again, no, because she goes on to run the 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.080 Rose Parade thing and all of that there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.800 I know right that season six. So you did see 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.960 you flirt and your flirt with my Steve Sanders, Yeah, yeah, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.480 you Steve. I was hoping, but it didn't flourish. Okay, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.280 So if Steve was your type, was was your character's type? 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.520 Who of the guys was your like? Which who did 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.359 you like? Probably Luke? I like the bad guy, A 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:53.920 very different. I love that you called it a hog. Yeah. Wait, 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.720 does he still write a hog? He rode one for years, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.960 and then when my daughter was four, he got an 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.720 other one and he literally sold it in six months. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.800 He said, it's so different writing because of smartphones. He said, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.600 I'm gonna die. Good for him, good for you. I'm 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.119 guys not writing anymore. Yeah, I mean yeah. I was like, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:14.919 I couldn't say no because I was like, well, if 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.320 I wanted to do something, I wouldn't want him to 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.280 tell me. I couldn't. So I was like, look, you know, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.879 it's just all the life and short. That's how you 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.600 last twenty eight years. Yeah, I guess I literally learned 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.320 a little something about marriage from you. Thank you so much. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.520 Have your kids watched you on nine? Uh? Not? I 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.639 don't think nine, You know I should. I gotta I 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.000 gotta show my daughter because she's fourteen. She would like 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.920 this the show now, but she get I know, right. Yeah, 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.879 So I've taken her to they were showing Nightmare in 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:50.200 Elm Street um at on Grammans, which was really cool, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.760 like the original film with the original and so it 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.480 took her there. I took her to see that and 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.359 a couple of episodes of Just the Ten of Us. 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.600 But you know, she's a gen z er all. She's like, 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.520 it's an not fast, she's out. You know, it's like, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.040 well she can she can do. Like my kids, they 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.359 watch it, but they also have their phones in their hands, 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.960 so they're like watching four things at once. Yeah, talk 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.159 about multitasking it. Do you ever find yourself like, I 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.439 don't know if it's on or you stumble on it somehow, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.520 like what sort of you're feeling about it when you 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.600 watch it now? It's well very nostalgic obviously, and I 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.480 have actually stumbled across it because some people will text 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.399 me go, oh my god, your episode is on or 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.359 whatever and whatever you know network it might be playing on. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.920 Remember it was on soap that's hopped around. It popped around, yes, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.439 and then I'll pop on and yeah it was. It 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.919 was a fun time because I had just gotten engaged 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.640 and so I have a lot of like I remember 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.680 I remember the phones, like the big giant knew, but 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.639 they were flipped and all you guys had them. And 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.280 I remember I had just gotten when I was like, yes, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.920 I got the right flip fall or not flip fall. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.479 But it was like you know the cell. Remember who 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.240 your false friend was, like when you showed up on set? 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.080 Who you like made friends with? Like first, you know what? 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.159 Who I made friends with was? Luke? Yeah? Yeah, I 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.600 mean you hear that. I know you hear so many answer. 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:17.639 So he I was in the makeup trailer. I was 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.720 looking over my lines and he bounces in to the 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.600 trailer and he goes, hey, Broke, He goes, how are you? 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:27.240 He goes, do you remember we did a soap reading together. 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.400 I was the guy reader, so I had I had 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:34.240 tested for something, so I can't I can't even remember. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.880 And he was the reader and I I want to say, 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.520 did he get the part? Or did they I think 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.480 they just called him in to read. I think he 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:44.879 must have been friends with the casting director or something. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:46.520 I don't know if they weren't, I don't know if 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.040 he was, are the character was already on the show 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.280 or they haven't cast him? But he read with me 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.200 and then he's like, and I'm really good friends with 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.640 Bill Kirkenbauer, who plays your dad on Just the Ten 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:00.800 of Us. So, um, so it was in media connection 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:05.280 and he was just very lovely. So yeah, yeah, we 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.000 hear that a lot from everybody. Of course, it makes sense, 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.640 I know, right, And so it's a it's heartbreaking. All 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.760 of that's heartbreaking and it's shocking. So and I'm sure 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.160 I have no idea how you guys took the news 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.520 when you found that out of a deer cast member, 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.240 it must have been really hard. It's really hard to 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.560 lose people. And as we all get older, that's it 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:28.800 seems more and more common and you see it happening 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.560 to other people and other casts, you know, and it's 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.800 because it's like your family totally. And when you worked 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.520 that along with someone, yeah, you guys did ten seasons. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:46.600 That's it's incredible. And yeah, when you lose somebody, it hurts. Yeah, 0:22:46.760 --> 0:23:02.800 loss is hard mm hm. When you were on, it 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.879 was really the height. So this was really as the 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.719 show was. It had build, built building, it's just at 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.960 its height. So did and you did a lot of episodes, 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:16.600 I mean seven nine is a lot of episodes were 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:21.960 you recognized as Leslie Sumner immediately once it started airing. Now, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.440 the funny thing is, I don't know. I've always tried 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.560 to be kind of a chameleon in my characters and 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:32.520 my roles, and I rarely get recognized, so like, like, 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:34.280 even just like just The Ten of Us with the 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:38.119 big poofy curly hair and um um nightmare on Elm Street, 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.880 I wore a wig. I looked like I was forty one. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:51.359