Speaker 1: It's nine Genee with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. So
Speaker 1: today our guest on nine oh to one on one
Speaker 1: is none other. They're in uh Brooke thee who played
Speaker 1: Leslie Sumner years through total of nine episodes. She was
Speaker 1: the head of the Alpha Omega sorority where all the
Speaker 1: girls went, how can you short? Sassy blonde hair? Cute?
Speaker 1: Our ladies? Are you? Tori is sick and so you
Speaker 1: got with me, but she very disappointed not to talk
Speaker 1: to you. It's so good to see your face though. Nice.
Speaker 1: It's such an honor to be on your show. I
Speaker 1: was listening to it. It's way too much fun. Are
Speaker 1: you reverse age? What in the world? No, I'm being
Speaker 1: super serious. Is that because you know the art of massage?
Speaker 1: This is true? We should okay for anyway that doesn't know,
Speaker 1: you are a massag a licensed masseuse. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: became a board certified massage therapist. How old my daughter fourteen?
Speaker 1: So twelve years ago? Wow? Yeah? And I work at
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills nine and oh my good? First of all,
Speaker 1: is that that the best part? She works at the
Speaker 1: bh Hotel? Wow? Oh my gosh? Okay, so wait, you
Speaker 1: massage people at the h Hotel do it? Does anyone
Speaker 1: ever say this is weird? But I feel like I
Speaker 1: know you or no, I feel like I've seen you here.
Speaker 1: Do you know it really hasn't happened because I looked
Speaker 1: very I got my hair is pulled back, I'm in
Speaker 1: my uniform and all of that good stuff. But I've
Speaker 1: recently recently hired a few new people and they're like
Speaker 1: horror fans, so asked because I'm part of the Nightmare franchise,
Speaker 1: and and my it was really our new manager walked
Speaker 1: in and he'd been there for a week and then
Speaker 1: he found out and he's like, I can't, I can't
Speaker 1: talk to you. I gotta go wait with Were you
Speaker 1: in Nightmare on Elm Street? Yeah, so it's Nightmare Elm
Speaker 1: Street four? Oh my god, did you get murdered by Freddie? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did. Oh my god, first of all those movies.
Speaker 1: Tori is going to be so pissed. She's missing that.
Speaker 1: She's a huge fan. You're gonna have to come back.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be so much wait, oh my god, So
Speaker 1: was that before nine out two one out? I can't Yes,
Speaker 1: it was, Yes, I was. It was eighteen when I
Speaker 1: did nine excuse me when I did Nightmare four and
Speaker 1: I was twenty three and twenty five when I did
Speaker 1: nine O two one out because I right, you did
Speaker 1: how many episodes total? You know we got to I
Speaker 1: m dB. I think, I think, yeah, it's nine episodes,
Speaker 1: I've something, not O nine, I think, and we've seen
Speaker 1: about four okay, four or five? Okay? Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: know I was listening to the one with p J
Speaker 1: and he was like, I was twenty two and they're like,
Speaker 1: you're so wrong, and that's what I've been saying. I
Speaker 1: was laughing. I wasn't really. I love that you called
Speaker 1: him called Paul p J. P J was that's what
Speaker 1: he went by. Do you remember that ny likes? I
Speaker 1: think that's all I kind of knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: now that you say it, I wish I had known
Speaker 1: that before I did the interview. I probably couldn't called
Speaker 1: him p J. Oh. He probably doesn't go by p
Speaker 1: J anymore. But I don't know why he wouldn't find that.
Speaker 1: But I have the funniest story about p J. Because
Speaker 1: it's not a funny story, it's not long, but um,
Speaker 1: I lived in Burbank and he must have lived in Burbank,
Speaker 1: so I would always see him like on on auditions
Speaker 1: and then of course, you know, we did the show together.
Speaker 1: And then I'd always be like Bob's Big Boy or
Speaker 1: Pattings or something like that, and there would go p
Speaker 1: J and it's convertible and he had this huge great
Speaker 1: Dane and all you saw was this enormous great Dane
Speaker 1: sitting in the back with the lockdown and he would
Speaker 1: drive around with the top down on this confortible with
Speaker 1: his roommate Brad Pitt. Yeah, right, sitting next to the
Speaker 1: I didn't know he had a giant great Dane. He did.
Speaker 1: It was it was Actually, it was just so funny
Speaker 1: because you didn't notice. I didn't notice him or the car.
Speaker 1: I would just see the great dance. That's b J
Speaker 1: go down. Real funny. When did you do just the
Speaker 1: Ten of Us? Because I loved that show? So Just
Speaker 1: the Ten of Us was? Uh? So I was night
Speaker 1: nineteen to twenty one, so we did three seats maybe
Speaker 1: it was eighteens excuse me, one degree of separation of
Speaker 1: Nightmare in Elm Street on the ten of Us. So
Speaker 1: Heather Landing Camp Landing Camp, Yes, the original, the iconic
Speaker 1: night Marion Elm Street Girl Amograma to like a week ago.
Speaker 1: I'm still like dear friends with everybody from just a
Speaker 1: toid of us. I actually just organized a huge year
Speaker 1: reunion at the Hotel um and I organized the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It was last Yeah, it was really really fun and
Speaker 1: everybody was like, I can't believe you pulled this off.
Speaker 1: It started with like, let's all get together for lunch
Speaker 1: like five years ago, and then of course life takes
Speaker 1: over and we had a couple of tragedies in with
Speaker 1: within the cast and um, so it got put on
Speaker 1: the back burner and then COVID hit and then we
Speaker 1: had one of our dear directors passed away, and I
Speaker 1: was like this, I'm doing this now before we start
Speaker 1: losing people, because you know those people more forties and
Speaker 1: fifties and you know, late eighties. So I was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this, so good for you, and Heather went.
Speaker 1: Heather was supposed to go, and unfortunately she her sister
Speaker 1: in law passed away, and yeah for Heather, I so
Speaker 1: glad to give her grandma. How many of the ten
Speaker 1: of us were there, So it was myself, Deborah Harmon,
Speaker 1: who played my mother and um Heidie Ziegler who played
Speaker 1: the little sister, and then joe Anilette. We had a
Speaker 1: whole Zoom thing, so Joanne Wilette joined via Zoom and
Speaker 1: uh and Bill Kirkeenbauer the father who lives in Thailand
Speaker 1: because his son moved to Thailand, and they were like,
Speaker 1: we're moving to Thailand, We're never going to see her son.
Speaker 1: So we had like this really kind of weight. So
Speaker 1: it was really just the three of us and then
Speaker 1: two but wait, fun fact, just the ten of Us
Speaker 1: was a spin off from Growing Pains, right, yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is all pre nine oh job, yeah, nineteen. I
Speaker 1: think I was nineteen one because then I did a
Speaker 1: series with Terry Garden Margaret Whitten when I was twenty two,
Speaker 1: and then I did a series with Matthew Perry and
Speaker 1: Dan Schneider when I was twenty three use us one
Speaker 1: degree nine O two one. Oh, because Matthew Perry did
Speaker 1: nine O two one Oh. He I have the funniest
Speaker 1: story about him too. So I went to n y U.
Speaker 1: So I was there. My roommate was from California, and
Speaker 1: I didn't watch any television because I have like severe
Speaker 1: dyslexia right, and I was like so excited to actually
Speaker 1: get into college. And I was like, okay, my blinders
Speaker 1: are on. And anyhow, our suite mate gets a television
Speaker 1: and my roommate Robin goes, we gotta watch. We gotta
Speaker 1: sit down and watch the show. Is my friend from
Speaker 1: high school is on. His name's Matthew Perry, And I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, so we watched. I watched his show
Speaker 1: every Friday night. And then when I did Just The
Speaker 1: Ten of Us one day, was sitting across the table
Speaker 1: the table read and I went right over to him
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my goshars, I watched your
Speaker 1: show on Friday nights, and so we hit it off
Speaker 1: right away. So it was really fun. Did either of
Speaker 1: you make the book? Matthew Perry told a lot of
Speaker 1: tales in that book. Oh yeah, no, yeah, we kind
Speaker 1: of like lost. I lost. I lost connection with him
Speaker 1: after I did the series right before nine or two
Speaker 1: right before um um, friends, Okay, I have another question.
Speaker 1: I have two more things I have I liked. Two.
Speaker 1: One is you've been married forever forever? Whoever, how when
Speaker 1: did you get married? How old were you? So? I was?
Speaker 1: I know right, I was twenty four when I got
Speaker 1: married and was still married. But this is me comparing
Speaker 1: was he an actor? Is he an actor? Was he
Speaker 1: an actor? Yeah? So he was an actor. We got
Speaker 1: put together by our mutual publicist. Oh my god, they
Speaker 1: still around. Who is it, Brenda Feldman? Of course I don't.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. She was like, she showed me his
Speaker 1: head shot, and then she showed him his my head shot,
Speaker 1: and then she kept having us do like publicity events,
Speaker 1: and I kept seeing him at these publicity events, and
Speaker 1: then finally he would always pull up on his hog
Speaker 1: and he was all leathered out. God, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: like these like true like cheerleader goody two shoes, and
Speaker 1: I was like, can I go for a ride on
Speaker 1: your motorcycle? And he's like yeah, And that was that.
Speaker 1: That was just my nineties teen dreams are just coming
Speaker 1: through with that. And twenty eight years later, yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: so we have two kids, twenty eight. I keep her house,
Speaker 1: my son. He's twenty seven, dated for six years, so
Speaker 1: two thirty three, thirty four years. And are you all
Speaker 1: just kind of living your Follywood lives like you all
Speaker 1: were sort of like young Hollywood at the time, right,
Speaker 1: I know, it's all the Pacha stories, you know, just
Speaker 1: hanging and you know, just like just yeah, exactly going
Speaker 1: out all the time and having fun and yeah, it
Speaker 1: was fun. It was really fun. We Jenny, should we
Speaker 1: talk about massage or Leslie Sumner? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know which direction? Okkay, then that's three things. Hold on, okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about we already kind of talked about massage
Speaker 1: because you know, one fast question, Okay, go ahead, because
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell has gone so viral for her mouth massage.
Speaker 1: She got do you know what I'm talking about? It
Speaker 1: had a whole name, so she talked about it on
Speaker 1: I think she did on our Instagram, and then she
Speaker 1: talked about on Kelly Clarkson and basically it's like it
Speaker 1: has a name that I don't know the name, but
Speaker 1: Kristen Bell knows it and your massage the phase and
Speaker 1: then she said, I love glove are to do a
Speaker 1: lot of matt Like would you want to do that back?
Speaker 1: I would not be doing it. I more like like esthetician,
Speaker 1: like you know the facialists might do that, which they
Speaker 1: do a lot of that. Yeah, because that's like going
Speaker 1: in like that's a different category. I mean, honestly, that
Speaker 1: sounds more like TMJ issues. That's what she said. But
Speaker 1: she said, oh yeah, because there's a tension in the jaw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that Kelly Clarkson had t MJ. We should we should
Speaker 1: get that. It was a lot of hands, all right.
Speaker 1: I have worked on somebody's mouth inside, you know, a
Speaker 1: regular client that I said, you know, or you'd be
Speaker 1: comfortable with doing this, and I really you know, so
Speaker 1: I have done it one time, but not so much
Speaker 1: for like you know, um um wrinkles and things like that.
Speaker 1: So it was it was more working with the TMJ
Speaker 1: and all in there two things I couldn't recommend more
Speaker 1: highly at the Beverly Hills Hotel the chicken salad sandwich
Speaker 1: in the diner which they will bring up to the pool,
Speaker 1: and the pigs in the blanket and yes, yes, what
Speaker 1: about the McCarthy salad of course yes, And if you
Speaker 1: if you David Spade style and add the celery he
Speaker 1: adds to it, and it's like, oh he does you
Speaker 1: know celery and cucumb or something else. You guys are
Speaker 1: making me hungry, I know, right, I really like going
Speaker 1: to the Campana cafe that's my favorite, or sitting outside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: best I feel like I'm in Charlie's Angels, Like in
Speaker 1: any minute, I'm gonna get a call and they're gonna
Speaker 1: bring a rotary phone up and I'm gonna five down there.
Speaker 1: I love it. It's beautiful. Another thing I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about is I saw on your Instagram,
Speaker 1: Um that you flew the trapeze. You did the trapez
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, so I did. Um. I didn't do
Speaker 1: the trapeze. I wish I did, but it was similar.
Speaker 1: It was the motorcycle with the kind of trappeez underneath,
Speaker 1: and we did spinning and like on Circus of the Stars.
Speaker 1: I'm wait, so you wrote a motorcycle on a high
Speaker 1: wire and then did flips underneath of it hung from
Speaker 1: So we had the motorcycle and then there was the
Speaker 1: wire and then I was on a trap piece underneath,
Speaker 1: so kind of like kind of square like this, So
Speaker 1: and I would hang from the bar do all these
Speaker 1: crazy stuff and then we would spin like this. And
Speaker 1: I remember, Um, I did it with Ernie Rance Jr.
Speaker 1: From like the Turtles, And I remember when we did
Speaker 1: it really low for a month and then when they
Speaker 1: set it up like the night before they moved it
Speaker 1: and it was so high and Ernie is up on
Speaker 1: the motorcycle and he looks down because there's a look
Speaker 1: fucking hard and Charlotte, he was a crazy mutant ninja turtle.
Speaker 1: You are you were in good hands at least at
Speaker 1: least yeah, exactly exactly, but that was really fun. I
Speaker 1: actually became friends with the guy who ran the whole
Speaker 1: trapeez thing and had it in his backyard. I went
Speaker 1: to that guy, did you Yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy
Speaker 1: with the trappee and his backyard, like in in the valley.
Speaker 1: Where was that north Bridge a dent? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was in north Bridge. And I probably blanking on
Speaker 1: his name because I'm still friends with him. Um, it'll
Speaker 1: come to me in a minute. But I want you
Speaker 1: to remember. Yeah, I remember I got pregnant and I
Speaker 1: was flying on that trapeeze and I didn't know and
Speaker 1: so I went into my O B G Y and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so I drank a little bit
Speaker 1: and I've been flying on a trapeez have I just
Speaker 1: kind of looked on me like that was before, Like
Speaker 1: you know, we can do that now? You know. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's a little more common to go flying on trapeez,
Speaker 1: Like I think people do it as like team building
Speaker 1: and yeah, but it's a great it's a great skill
Speaker 1: to have. It's a great skill to help you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Put that on your resumes. You like have forties seven
Speaker 1: million acting. This is my talents, hobbies, talent, special skills.
Speaker 1: To ask about Leslie Sumner for a minute, because here's
Speaker 1: what I find shocking about your trajectory. First week, we
Speaker 1: like you were like we like Leslie Sumner. Then she's
Speaker 1: so ghastly like, oh my god, your your gross Leslie Sumner.
Speaker 1: But then we're back when we love at you again,
Speaker 1: Like it was like you should have got canceled, but
Speaker 1: somehow you stayed in the sorority and you stayed friends
Speaker 1: with everybody and you're just pool side flirting with Steve Megan,
Speaker 1: Celeste al Mad Like what, yeah, you're troublemaker. I know.
Speaker 1: I was like wow, Like I was surprised I didn't
Speaker 1: get canceled because that whole episode it was almost just
Speaker 1: like let's just ignore that that just happened, and it
Speaker 1: was it was really like important, the message even so
Speaker 1: important today, like yeah, Aaron Spelling sort of ability to
Speaker 1: see the future was just crazy because it made as
Speaker 1: much sense and was terrible. Yeah, man, as it is now,
Speaker 1: but then you just recover from it. Yeah, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't happen today. The funny thing is I was
Speaker 1: actually thinking about my character and thinking about what was
Speaker 1: going on with her. And of course, when I was
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, when I was twenty four, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, so I'm kind of final, all right whatever,
Speaker 1: So you know, I was like, you paid me, got
Speaker 1: me a check, all right, I'm good. Um So, but
Speaker 1: I'm looking back now and I'm like, Wow, with the
Speaker 1: anti Semitic messages that are out there today, I can't
Speaker 1: believe how relevant that was. And I'm thinking about her,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, you know, she looked like she
Speaker 1: fit in, but she did it. So she wore this
Speaker 1: mask and she and it was almost like maybe she
Speaker 1: had a lot of Maybe she was bullied when she
Speaker 1: was younger. I mean, there's so many things that could
Speaker 1: have happened to her. Why she was like we just
Speaker 1: this is on the d L. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: really flaunt this. We can kind of admit we're Jewish,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm blonde and blue eyed. I don't
Speaker 1: look like it anything funny. I found out that I
Speaker 1: did my d n A in two thousand twenty and
Speaker 1: I found out I'm Jewish. Oh my god, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy my son's bearing a Jewish girl. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, got some bloodline in there. It is
Speaker 1: fully fascinating. That was a very important storyline. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just sort of like it kept getting buried. It did. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it did. It was kind of. It happened and was
Speaker 1: addressed quite well in the show by Andrea Poofed. It
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, well, I think also too. I wasn't like,
Speaker 1: I think if it was maybe more of one of
Speaker 1: the series regulars, it might have been you know, maybe
Speaker 1: for Andrea to take it further, it might have been
Speaker 1: something good. The other girls just join up, join this, right,
Speaker 1: just join it, curb her going in, Yeah, you'll be fine, Andrea,
Speaker 1: and then your character continues. But that is really never
Speaker 1: mentioned again, no, because she goes on to run the
Speaker 1: Rose Parade thing and all of that there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know right that season six. So you did see
Speaker 1: you flirt and your flirt with my Steve Sanders, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you Steve. I was hoping, but it didn't flourish. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if Steve was your type, was was your character's type?
Speaker 1: Who of the guys was your like? Which who did
Speaker 1: you like? Probably Luke? I like the bad guy, A
Speaker 1: very different. I love that you called it a hog. Yeah. Wait,
Speaker 1: does he still write a hog? He rode one for years,
Speaker 1: and then when my daughter was four, he got an
Speaker 1: other one and he literally sold it in six months.
Speaker 1: He said, it's so different writing because of smartphones. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna die. Good for him, good for you. I'm
Speaker 1: guys not writing anymore. Yeah, I mean yeah. I was like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't say no because I was like, well, if
Speaker 1: I wanted to do something, I wouldn't want him to
Speaker 1: tell me. I couldn't. So I was like, look, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just all the life and short. That's how you
Speaker 1: last twenty eight years. Yeah, I guess I literally learned
Speaker 1: a little something about marriage from you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Have your kids watched you on nine? Uh? Not? I
Speaker 1: don't think nine, You know I should. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta show my daughter because she's fourteen. She would like
Speaker 1: this the show now, but she get I know, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I've taken her to they were showing Nightmare in
Speaker 1: Elm Street um at on Grammans, which was really cool,
Speaker 1: like the original film with the original and so it
Speaker 1: took her there. I took her to see that and
Speaker 1: a couple of episodes of Just the Ten of Us.
Speaker 1: But you know, she's a gen z er all. She's like,
Speaker 1: it's an not fast, she's out. You know, it's like,
Speaker 1: well she can she can do. Like my kids, they
Speaker 1: watch it, but they also have their phones in their hands,
Speaker 1: so they're like watching four things at once. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: about multitasking it. Do you ever find yourself like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's on or you stumble on it somehow,
Speaker 1: like what sort of you're feeling about it when you
Speaker 1: watch it now? It's well very nostalgic obviously, and I
Speaker 1: have actually stumbled across it because some people will text
Speaker 1: me go, oh my god, your episode is on or
Speaker 1: whatever and whatever you know network it might be playing on.
Speaker 1: Remember it was on soap that's hopped around. It popped around, yes,
Speaker 1: and then I'll pop on and yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was a fun time because I had just gotten engaged
Speaker 1: and so I have a lot of like I remember
Speaker 1: I remember the phones, like the big giant knew, but
Speaker 1: they were flipped and all you guys had them. And
Speaker 1: I remember I had just gotten when I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I got the right flip fall or not flip fall.
Speaker 1: But it was like you know the cell. Remember who
Speaker 1: your false friend was, like when you showed up on set?
Speaker 1: Who you like made friends with? Like first, you know what?
Speaker 1: Who I made friends with was? Luke? Yeah? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you hear that. I know you hear so many answer.
Speaker 1: So he I was in the makeup trailer. I was
Speaker 1: looking over my lines and he bounces in to the
Speaker 1: trailer and he goes, hey, Broke, He goes, how are you?
Speaker 1: He goes, do you remember we did a soap reading together.
Speaker 1: I was the guy reader, so I had I had
Speaker 1: tested for something, so I can't I can't even remember.
Speaker 1: And he was the reader and I I want to say,
Speaker 1: did he get the part? Or did they I think
Speaker 1: they just called him in to read. I think he
Speaker 1: must have been friends with the casting director or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they weren't, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was, are the character was already on the show
Speaker 1: or they haven't cast him? But he read with me
Speaker 1: and then he's like, and I'm really good friends with
Speaker 1: Bill Kirkenbauer, who plays your dad on Just the Ten
Speaker 1: of Us. So, um, so it was in media connection
Speaker 1: and he was just very lovely. So yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: hear that a lot from everybody. Of course, it makes sense,
Speaker 1: I know, right, And so it's a it's heartbreaking. All
Speaker 1: of that's heartbreaking and it's shocking. So and I'm sure
Speaker 1: I have no idea how you guys took the news
Speaker 1: when you found that out of a deer cast member,
Speaker 1: it must have been really hard. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: lose people. And as we all get older, that's it
Speaker 1: seems more and more common and you see it happening
Speaker 1: to other people and other casts, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: because it's like your family totally. And when you worked
Speaker 1: that along with someone, yeah, you guys did ten seasons.
Speaker 1: That's it's incredible. And yeah, when you lose somebody, it hurts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: loss is hard mm hm. When you were on, it
Speaker 1: was really the height. So this was really as the
Speaker 1: show was. It had build, built building, it's just at
Speaker 1: its height. So did and you did a lot of episodes,
Speaker 1: I mean seven nine is a lot of episodes were
Speaker 1: you recognized as Leslie Sumner immediately once it started airing. Now,
Speaker 1: the funny thing is, I don't know. I've always tried
Speaker 1: to be kind of a chameleon in my characters and
Speaker 1: my roles, and I rarely get recognized, so like, like,
Speaker 1: even just like just The Ten of Us with the
Speaker 1: big poofy curly hair and um um nightmare on Elm Street,
Speaker 1: I wore a wig. I looked like I was forty one.
Speaker 1: You did not look forty I did. Jenny is so
Speaker 1: much nicer than me. You look younger now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it, you look younger now. I did. So I
Speaker 1: really have like I have this like kind of It
Speaker 1: was kind of cool. And then and my mother sometimes
Speaker 1: didn't recognize me. She began, oh my god, I'm watching
Speaker 1: this show. And I'm like, I didn't recognize you, but
Speaker 1: I heard your voice, and I was like, oh, that's good.
Speaker 1: I'm accomplishing what I lot. Good. That's nice to be
Speaker 1: able to just go live your life and not to
Speaker 1: worry about that. Yeah. I mean, obviously, probably just The
Speaker 1: Ten of Us was the most that I got recognized
Speaker 1: when I was that age, because I looked probably the
Speaker 1: closest in my real life to her. But everything else
Speaker 1: I looked very different. So I kind of like that
Speaker 1: were you plumped when you got nine o two and
Speaker 1: oh so excited? Especially that was so I have this
Speaker 1: is my funny story. So I do. I do season four,
Speaker 1: which I know that's where we're on, and I won't
Speaker 1: talk about six, but go and get married, get pregnant.
Speaker 1: And my agent calls me. She goes, they want to
Speaker 1: bring you back for season six, but it's like literally
Speaker 1: like you're still going to be pregnant. I'm like, look
Speaker 1: me me and if baby is coming early? And I
Speaker 1: swear to God, I willed that baby to come two
Speaker 1: weeks early, week after I gave you no to three
Speaker 1: weeks after on nine or two one. I remember going
Speaker 1: inside Diane Young's office because she hit cast me in
Speaker 1: just the ten of us. Um she I was like,
Speaker 1: I introduced her to my baby. It was three weeks old.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I was like, book me, I'm doing
Speaker 1: this and she's like, what you're pregnant. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: won't be watch gosh, your way I love you is.
Speaker 1: I don't want to like the kind of call you
Speaker 1: would get like from you know, I guess your agent
Speaker 1: where you like scream oh my god, you know, like
Speaker 1: you get so excited. Yeah, when you book a show
Speaker 1: like that, an iconic show that's so like you said
Speaker 1: in the height, yeah, it's pretty exciting. And the fact
Speaker 1: that it was reoccurring and not just you know, episode
Speaker 1: was really exciting. Really really, why why did you stop acting? Yeah? What?
Speaker 1: What the heck? Why did you stop acting? You like
Speaker 1: did a whole her real shift to Rooney. I turned forty.
Speaker 1: It's the typical story. I turned forty and I had
Speaker 1: like three auditions a month, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is a numbers game and I'm not going to book
Speaker 1: anything and I'm bored. And I was like, my husband
Speaker 1: had gotten hurt on a film, really really hurt, like
Speaker 1: life changing hurt. And um he he said, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to take any drugs because I'm going to get
Speaker 1: addicted because he was in so much pain for a
Speaker 1: very long time, and he sage chiropractic and accupunt and
Speaker 1: he would come home from his massage and I visually
Speaker 1: remember him sitting on the couch going, I'm not in
Speaker 1: any pain right now, and so I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'll always be an actor and I'll go back.
Speaker 1: I'm on a long term hiatus, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to do something different. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to school. I just wanted to. I wanted to change.
Speaker 1: So I did and I and I didn't even mean
Speaker 1: for it to become what it was. But when I
Speaker 1: got the job at Beverly Hills Hotel, I love working there.
Speaker 1: I love what I do. I love meeting all these
Speaker 1: people from all over the world, and um, I'm very
Speaker 1: gratified there. And so it's a cool place. I bet
Speaker 1: it's considered one of the cream of the crop, because yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like when I got I had worked in it
Speaker 1: a spa locally where I live, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I kept telling my husband, I said, I want to
Speaker 1: work five star. I'm gonna work five star hotel. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to do it and he's like okay.
Speaker 1: So I would cold call and I had heard that
Speaker 1: you couldn't work um at five star hotels until you
Speaker 1: have at least five years under your belt, like they
Speaker 1: will ask you. And I was like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm working five Star and I'm I'm like had
Speaker 1: like a year in and I started started. I would
Speaker 1: co call like five tells. I went online I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, who charges the most firms sage those We've
Speaker 1: got to be my hotel. Oh my god, you found it.
Speaker 1: I did so. I did it like it was my
Speaker 1: third time doing it, and I remember you could never
Speaker 1: get to a director, you could never get through to anybody.
Speaker 1: And then I finally, third time around, I called the
Speaker 1: hotel bel Air, which is Beverly Hills Hotel sister Spaw.
Speaker 1: They're part of the Dorchester collection. And I got through
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, I can't even
Speaker 1: believe I'm talking to somebody. And she's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to apply online, but I totally need a
Speaker 1: massage therapist. When can you come in? I'm like today, No,
Speaker 1: I did so. I was like, oh, how about Thursday?
Speaker 1: You know? And then the rest is history. And I
Speaker 1: worked for an amazing team there. Our director is amazing
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy there. What what I'm just curious
Speaker 1: for all the people listening, what does a massage at
Speaker 1: the Beverly Hills Hotel cost? So I think we are
Speaker 1: a ninety minute is almost three dollars, it's around there.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little in the two Friday Saturday offensive.
Speaker 1: If you do an in room ninety minute. I think
Speaker 1: you're at five hundred dollars. Yeah, It's like when I
Speaker 1: first started working there, I was like, I remember I
Speaker 1: asked one of the front desk people. I was like,
Speaker 1: don't you like hand over the bill? Like, oh god,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. And now I'm like thousand bucks not
Speaker 1: when two massage is done. You know, it's so weird that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember when one of our trainings, we
Speaker 1: were told that the Beverly Hills Hotel caters to the
Speaker 1: top one of the ten percent most wealthiest people. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a crazy world to live in. Okay,
Speaker 1: So have you ever gotten somebody that comes into the
Speaker 1: to get a massage and you're like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to touch this person. I can't do it. Once in
Speaker 1: a while, I was gonna ask if you get lots
Speaker 1: of celebrities, which I bet you did, so I do,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you off camera. Yeah yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't read what I get in trouble. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I can, but just in case, it's like
Speaker 1: it's like a therapist. You can't reveal your like if
Speaker 1: they're in the hotel. I definitely can't say. But I
Speaker 1: don't know who's in the hotel this week because I
Speaker 1: haven't been to But yeah, I'm happy for you. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's fun, but I'm happy. Yeah, I'm at sixty. I'm
Speaker 1: going to retire from massaging and I will go back
Speaker 1: to acting part time. So somebody wants to give me
Speaker 1: a job, that's great to do it now, because you
Speaker 1: look good everything. I need to be a weirdo. But
Speaker 1: like what I mean, at sixty, she's not gonna look
Speaker 1: good enough. Well, I'm just saying, like carpet dim Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so hard. It's a really hard juggle because I'm
Speaker 1: full time status there and I have to maintain certain
Speaker 1: hours and I can't. I don't have flex ability of
Speaker 1: you know, I used to. And I also have a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old daughter and I kind of just I
Speaker 1: have my little blinders on. And once she goes to
Speaker 1: college and I'm gonna go retire someplace and just like
Speaker 1: you know, see what happens. Yeah, yeah, open that door.
Speaker 1: My friend Heather laning Camp, you know who, Um, she
Speaker 1: had some horrible tragedy in her life and and I'm
Speaker 1: still friends with her, like I said, And I think
Speaker 1: it was a year ago or maybe two years ago,
Speaker 1: we were sitting at the beach. She told me about
Speaker 1: her secret beach at Malibu. So I always go and
Speaker 1: like I'm down here, come on, and so she'll come
Speaker 1: down and and I remember she was talking and she said,
Speaker 1: you know, my daughter is getting married and I'm finally
Speaker 1: ready to open the door to acting again. And then
Speaker 1: she booked an amazing show on Netflix. So you know
Speaker 1: when you open the doors that you know, you manifest ups.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Then the Midnight Club on on on Netflix.
Speaker 1: She just booked. You see her, she you always see
Speaker 1: her from time to time, and she's definitely recognized her.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was because she terrified me
Speaker 1: and I literally had to slip through my parents bed
Speaker 1: for a month, like it looks the same, yeah, Neber
Speaker 1: that gray, Yeah, the gray. She woke up one morning, like,
Speaker 1: you know, with the freaking streaty. Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: him on Elm Street, Jenny, I don't know, honestly, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know. If you're like, is that the one where
Speaker 1: he stands you like this in the shower, Psycho, I'm
Speaker 1: so bad with dad literally gets like sucked into a bed. No,
Speaker 1: I never saw that, but I saw the one with
Speaker 1: Kevin Bacon. That's a different one. Tremors. No, no, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's that one. Kevin Bacon. Bacon was original and yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Um.
Speaker 1: The nice thing about the I thing about horror movies
Speaker 1: for actresses, which I still like to color us actors, um,
Speaker 1: but is there are the female is always the heroine.
Speaker 1: We know, you know, it's it's always been that way
Speaker 1: since the seventies, and I think it's like the only
Speaker 1: genre where the women get to be have always gotten
Speaker 1: to be strong five the powerhouse, and it's really kind
Speaker 1: of cool. And I think that's also why horror has
Speaker 1: such big fans, because you have a lot of female
Speaker 1: fans out there that love watching strong female characters. And
Speaker 1: there has always been, you know, from Jamie Lee Curtis
Speaker 1: to yeah, strong female roles in horror. Well, maybe that's
Speaker 1: why they like Leslie Sumner have a second chance at it,
Speaker 1: because you're like cool. They're like, we can't get rid
Speaker 1: of Brook yet you're too fun to have around. We
Speaker 1: made Leslie suck, but maybe will give her a side.
Speaker 1: We'll just pretend she didn't do any of that. Do
Speaker 1: you remember how does well, I guess you, how does
Speaker 1: she leave the show? Do you leave? Like, does something happen? No?
Speaker 1: I was like in the sixth season I was doing.
Speaker 1: I think what happened was just the kind of the
Speaker 1: whole Rose Parade and Rose Bowl kind of you know,
Speaker 1: it came, it ran its course, and then they just
Speaker 1: didn't need me to kind of run that anymore. So
Speaker 1: they didn't really ever get rid of me. So, hey,
Speaker 1: have a good I could see her being a lawyer
Speaker 1: or I never had an exit, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're calling you up for your sixty there. So so
Speaker 1: great to talk to you and catch up. It's a
Speaker 1: really long time. It's very sweet for you guys to
Speaker 1: have me on such an honor. Like I said, police,
Speaker 1: tell Tori, I hope she feels better, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to tell her. The funny thing is is um her
Speaker 1: Dad's shows have always been a part of me because
Speaker 1: in Nightmare on Elm Street, one of my classic lines
Speaker 1: that people want me to write all the time is
Speaker 1: it was homeworker Dynasty and Dynasty one like her loved
Speaker 1: Dynasty and I used to like bribe my bestie in
Speaker 1: the movie to do my homework for me, and she's like, Dad,
Speaker 1: get a VCR. I love Dynasty and I gotta go
Speaker 1: rewatch Nightmare st four. Now I have to watch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to start enny watching it at night. The
Speaker 1: first one is super scary and then they get campy,
Speaker 1: and maybe the second one is still scary, but the
Speaker 1: three and four, they especially four because Renny Harland directed
Speaker 1: that and he was all about them. Yeah, really a
Speaker 1: great director. He brought us all together and I really
Speaker 1: owe him. He really brought that whole cast together to
Speaker 1: make us. We used to go to barbecues before we
Speaker 1: started shooting, so by the time we started shooting, we
Speaker 1: were all friends. So yeah, it was smart, smart direct. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: i'd I'd love to have a barbecue with you. I
Speaker 1: would love to have barbecue you ladies. Have you guys
Speaker 1: also look so lovely And I follow you on Instagram
Speaker 1: and I follow Shannon and you and Tori, and you
Speaker 1: guys have really blossomed into beautiful women. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: you right back at you now, I really do, because
Speaker 1: you guys were in a time where you know, you
Speaker 1: guys want to bubble yourself and it wasn't I remember
Speaker 1: I'd always be walked from the set from a body
Speaker 1: with a Barty guard and I'd be like, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. While you're walking me, and I know
Speaker 1: I walk everybody. I was like, Oh, that's it's intense.
Speaker 1: That's an intense time. And you guys were young and
Speaker 1: you have handled it really well and I really do
Speaker 1: admire you. Thank you. That's really nice of you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but anyhow, we gotta come back with tories here. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I would maybe on when the six season starts, when
Speaker 1: you show up again. Yeah, definitely. Hello and thank you
Speaker 1: ladies so much for having me on your podcast. Is awesome,
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, having great great to see you