Speaker 1: It's nine oh gene one with Jenny Garth and Tory Spelling.
Speaker 2: Amy.
Speaker 3: Guess what today? What we have a very special guest.
Speaker 1: In the house.
Speaker 2: I know, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: We're doing nine oh two one on one with Tracy Mittendorf.
Speaker 3: You guys, you know she played Laura Kingman in season four.
Speaker 3: She was good, the bad, the good, the bad, so confusing.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to talk to her.
Speaker 2: Her character wigs me out, but her performance is incredible.
Speaker 1: I know. Okay, so let's do this. Let's talk to her. Hi,
Speaker 1: you guys, this is this is like a reunion because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you in thirty years. Is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my god, it's so good to see you. A you
Speaker 1: look exactly the same. No, it's crazy, it's mild, very sweet.
Speaker 1: Really excited to talk to you because we've been in
Speaker 1: the thick of all things Laura Kingman on the Pod
Speaker 1: in season four and we loved you and we hated
Speaker 1: you and all the things in between, and so you're
Speaker 1: just such a good actress. Let's just say that right
Speaker 1: out of the gate. Oh no, you're sweet. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I you know, I hesitated about doing this simply because
Speaker 1: it's been thirty years and going back and looking at
Speaker 1: my work from thirty years ago, it's just horrifying. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you're doing it right on the show.
Speaker 1: But we grow and we and we don't always like
Speaker 1: to look back and see we do grow. You and
Speaker 1: I think we're the same age. Yeah, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: at this point have developed that developed that like I
Speaker 1: don't give an f you know, like I'm just so
Speaker 1: when I watched show back, I'm so tickled and like
Speaker 1: stoked that that's me. And I appreciate it in such
Speaker 1: a different way now than I ever could before because
Speaker 1: I do share that like hate to watch myself think. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I'm doing this because I just have so
Speaker 1: much respect for you and for Tori. You were both
Speaker 1: like badass women moms. You know, I'm working moms. I
Speaker 1: just think that's incredible. And you were just so sweet
Speaker 1: to me on the show and you didn't need to be.
Speaker 1: It was my first show I did. I was right
Speaker 1: out of college. I did the soap for one year
Speaker 1: and then you did a lot of the soap just
Speaker 1: a year one year, But how many episodes is that? Is? That?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 1: I was full on in that. I mean, they because
Speaker 1: I replaced a character, so they had me working. Was
Speaker 1: that days of our lives?
Speaker 2: Was that days of our lives?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, yeah, And so it was they moved me
Speaker 1: out from New York. I was all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: three cameras, you know what am I doing? And so,
Speaker 1: I mean that was really good training ground though it was,
Speaker 1: it was, and I was glad to get off it.
Speaker 1: I mean, one year's enough. And then I was on
Speaker 1: this show that was I think it was the height
Speaker 1: of its popularity too.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you.
Speaker 3: Came in right after the summer, right when we went
Speaker 3: to college.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah, you guys were just so
Speaker 1: sweet to me, and I really appreciated that. I never
Speaker 1: forgot it, so fondest I thank you. First of all,
Speaker 1: I had the fondest memories of working eat with you too,
Speaker 1: and just I remember just then just watching your work
Speaker 1: and just being inspired by it and learning from just Honestly,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it. I
Speaker 1: think you're a really good actress. Thank you. Thank Okay,
Speaker 1: enough with that, But anyways, Amy, I was telling you
Speaker 1: I saw Tracy on my TV two nights ago and
Speaker 1: what was that? It was you. I've just started to
Speaker 1: watch for the first time the Dead People's show with
Speaker 1: the dead guy. He makes the dead people look good?
Speaker 1: What's it called with the funerals? Yeah? That too? Thank you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. That was one of my favorite gigs I have.
Speaker 1: I have a track record of opening really successful series.
Speaker 1: I'm not on them all the time. I'm just on
Speaker 1: the first episode and I remember that. Yeah. I sat
Speaker 1: it next to Alan Ball, who was the creator of
Speaker 1: that show, who also did American Beauty. He's this incredible
Speaker 1: writer director, And I went to like an orphan's Easter
Speaker 1: dinner at a friend's house in la and he's from
Speaker 1: Georgia and I'm from Georgia and we sat next to
Speaker 1: each other and he was on the Sybil Shepherd's show
Speaker 1: at the time, and then he started writing sixteen a
Speaker 1: hundred me in for that and I so wanted the part.
Speaker 1: And it took a week to hear back and then
Speaker 1: you know, it was It was a It was a
Speaker 1: dream job. The writing was so good and it's a
Speaker 1: great show. I wish I had done more of the
Speaker 1: funny me too.
Speaker 2: Can you remember how you got the part? On nine
Speaker 2: O two one? Zero.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to think about that because I
Speaker 1: didn't know what I was going to talk about because
Speaker 1: it's been so long. Oh don't you worry. I've got
Speaker 1: a questions, You've got stuff. So something I do vividly remember,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure it was nine o two one
Speaker 1: oh's audition was a room full of people and Aaron
Speaker 1: Spelling was there, and just a ton of producers and directors.
Speaker 1: And that's when back then, that's when you used to
Speaker 1: used to go in for everybody. You didn't go on tape.
Speaker 1: You you went into a room with a bunch of
Speaker 1: people staring at you, staring at you. So I think
Speaker 1: that it was for a NATO. It might have been
Speaker 1: Meloe's place, but I think it was nine or two.
Speaker 1: And I tell actors that all the time, young actors.
Speaker 1: When I was I did a series for MTV, Scream,
Speaker 1: and I was the oldest one on the show everyone
Speaker 1: else for you know, the twenty something kids, And I
Speaker 1: would tell them that that's the one I would bring
Speaker 1: up is that as actors, we used to go in
Speaker 1: and we used to read with casting directors with their assistants.
Speaker 1: We used to meet the director. We used to meet
Speaker 1: the producers, the showrunners, and audition for them, and we
Speaker 1: don't do that anymore. We go on tape or it's
Speaker 1: maybe a casting director, and then we never hear anything.
Speaker 1: Just here.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't hear if you don't happened.
Speaker 1: Like it never happened, just out there.
Speaker 2: And so your feeling right.
Speaker 1: Your job is just the audition basically until you get
Speaker 1: the job.
Speaker 5: See why they had a room full of people there,
Speaker 5: including Aaron, because this part is so important. If the
Speaker 5: person didn't do it right, it would literally have ruined
Speaker 5: what is such a major arc in this season. It
Speaker 5: was so crucial that they get it right, and I
Speaker 5: think they did. I mean, i'll tell you stories as
Speaker 5: we talk, but you nailed it.
Speaker 2: I have to tell you.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was going to be because because
Speaker 1: I was only booked for those first three episodes, and
Speaker 1: I felt, Okay, I've experienced college, I know what that
Speaker 1: environment's like. I can do this. What was terrifying was
Speaker 1: when they brought me back and handed me.
Speaker 2: The script most unhinged gal around.
Speaker 1: Not only that, I so I do a lot of
Speaker 1: a theater and I'm I love Tennessee Williams and being
Speaker 1: given this monologue from one of the most beautiful plays
Speaker 1: ever written for the American theater was terrifying. And I
Speaker 1: had like four or five days to do it. And
Speaker 1: so when I look when I look at those scenes,
Speaker 1: which I just did for the first time in thirty years,
Speaker 1: and I all I saw was this young, scared actress
Speaker 1: trying to do justice to this beautiful play. And I
Speaker 1: think I tried a little too. I love you. No
Speaker 1: you didn't. First of all, I should have pulled back. No,
Speaker 1: you should never ever pull back. That's my theory, right,
Speaker 1: because that's a little bit.
Speaker 5: It was a little big, But you weren't doing You
Speaker 5: were Tracy doing Tennessee Williams. You were Tracy being Laura,
Speaker 5: Laura doing Tennessee Williams. And that was the same thing
Speaker 5: we talked about with Jenny, because Jenny was Kelly and
Speaker 5: then Kelly doing it.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna ask you this, Uh, Jenny,
Speaker 1: do you feel like, oh, I'm going to make the
Speaker 1: choice that my character is a bad actress. It's very
Speaker 1: hard to make that choice. You'd make the choice that
Speaker 1: you're did you ask yourself that before you did the scene? Oh?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah?
Speaker 1: I was did you prepare as a bad actress or
Speaker 1: a good actress? No, because then they were just saying
Speaker 1: Tracy's a bad actress. You may announce everybody. I just
Speaker 1: want you all to know that I've made a choice,
Speaker 1: a choice that she's going to be bad you that
Speaker 1: I'm going to use that now you should. I think
Speaker 1: I'll use it too, really, dots all the actually thought
Speaker 1: I actually thought you were quite lovely when I was
Speaker 1: watching it, and I watched your audition with him. Although
Speaker 1: he was creepy, I mean, it was painful. I can
Speaker 1: I can feel your pain because you just reminded me
Speaker 1: I did it too. Did that have audition for her?
Speaker 1: If they tried to do that episode today, First of all,
Speaker 1: he would be rested for having a young actress come
Speaker 1: and you know, even letting her into his house to
Speaker 1: a he was. But I thought you were quite lovely,
Speaker 1: and I thought honestly that if I was to cast it,
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily think that Shannon would have been the actress.
Speaker 1: But she was the type that makes sense. She's you know,
Speaker 1: sexy and kind of grounded, and that's kind of that's
Speaker 1: Maggie the cat to me.
Speaker 5: Totally, these were all y'all's best episodes, because Shannon is
Speaker 5: amazing in these episodes too, because you know, I'm I know,
Speaker 5: Tory's so disappointed to not be here, so you got
Speaker 5: stuck with me. But I watched it as a fan,
Speaker 5: so we weren't like judging your work.
Speaker 2: In Tennessee Williams kat on a honton roof, We're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Laura has lost it.
Speaker 1: When you're up on this scaffolding anybody, everybody, you guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched it. I'm sure they did.
Speaker 1: They're listening now, but you got to watch it. It's
Speaker 1: so good. It's so good, and then it's so confusing too.
Speaker 1: And you must have felt this way when you read
Speaker 1: the script. It in the beginning for the first three episode,
Speaker 1: you were accusing Steve Sanders, and then you came back
Speaker 1: and you then you're hooking up with them and he's
Speaker 1: your biggest supporter. Yeah, and why he trust me, I'm
Speaker 1: not that's such a lot. Yeah, that was That's not
Speaker 1: on me. That's not I'm sure not on him either,
Speaker 1: because I yeah, it just didn't it wasn't very consistent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they made it there. Yeah, they made a leap.
Speaker 3: They really needed you, They needed you for all this.
Speaker 3: It was like a big arc in the season and
Speaker 3: that's often too wanted to become an actress and then
Speaker 3: going off.
Speaker 1: To London, right, Oh, is that what happened? You didn't
Speaker 1: watch after your episode?
Speaker 2: What I can say.
Speaker 5: And that's why I was so excited to talk to
Speaker 5: you today because I was probably nineteen at the time
Speaker 5: when I was watching this, because we're all about the
Speaker 5: same age, so we were in college watching this, like
Speaker 5: you said at the height, And what I found so
Speaker 5: interesting is I saw you obviously go on to do
Speaker 5: other things, and every time I would see you on screen,
Speaker 5: I would get like ooh, because it was so ingrained
Speaker 5: in me that character. And I think it was the
Speaker 5: first time we sort of saw someone We saw it
Speaker 5: a little bit with Christina Elise, but somebody that was
Speaker 5: like a bit unhinged, and it was sort of like
Speaker 5: my first experience with that. And that's why I thought,
Speaker 5: I mean, now, maybe look back with different eyes. But
Speaker 5: then I was just like sucked in, like this is
Speaker 5: what happens if a girl kind of goes off the
Speaker 5: edge or gets too obsessed with something.
Speaker 2: And I just it took me a while. I'm scary. Yes, like,
Speaker 2: I'm so happy to see you today because you really
Speaker 2: are nothing like Laura you look. But it was like,
Speaker 2: that's stuck with.
Speaker 1: Me, and that means I also most of the things,
Speaker 1: I've died a lot in a lot of different things too,
Speaker 1: so that's traumatic. It really kind of does leave an imprint.
Speaker 1: I'm not just the viewer, but I'll see the actor. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I had totally I'd forgotten a lot of
Speaker 1: that last scene, so it was interesting to watch it again.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you're doing it. Are
Speaker 1: you Are you not watching the next episode? Are you
Speaker 1: trying to refresh yourself as you go along? Is that
Speaker 1: what's happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just watching an episode by episodes, so we're
Speaker 3: at the end of season.
Speaker 1: For any of them. That must ain't telling me about it.
Speaker 1: She was taking a while when she took this show
Speaker 1: on that there were ten seasons.
Speaker 2: Well, and there's like thirty episodes or thirty two or something.
Speaker 1: They don't do that anymore. I mean, it's running podcasts
Speaker 1: ever in the world. Yeah. It's wonderful though, but I
Speaker 1: can imagine you do forget a lot of them because
Speaker 1: I forgot all of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that's what's so funny too, because.
Speaker 5: I watched it, you know, I was the fan. We
Speaker 5: were all in soo already watching it, and then I've
Speaker 5: kind of dabbled it watching it again. But your character
Speaker 5: is unforgettable. And I wonder how long did people recognize
Speaker 5: you from nine oh two one oh after you did it?
Speaker 2: I mean that must have been crazy.
Speaker 1: I just got it last like three weeks ago. Someone
Speaker 1: in the airport, Well what happened? I said, are you serious?
Speaker 2: He said, what you say?
Speaker 1: What they say? You said, you're from nine to two?
Speaker 1: And oh, I said, are you kidding me? I said,
Speaker 1: when did you watch that? Because he was younger than us,
Speaker 1: and he said, oh, no that I think he's there
Speaker 1: rewatching it. He and his girlfriend are rewatching all of it.
Speaker 1: And he recognized me from that. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I mean I did, but I got it a lot
Speaker 1: right after the show aired, and I got it a
Speaker 1: lot from I don't know if you had this, but
Speaker 1: from like basketball players who were in the locker room,
Speaker 1: or you know, like weird like crazy. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought you were going to say prisoners. No, I had that.
Speaker 1: That was more than So that was a lot.
Speaker 5: I got a lot of Yeah, Days of Our Lives
Speaker 5: would be a major one too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's hilarious basketball players.
Speaker 2: Okay, So did you play her the same in each arc?
Speaker 5: Because the first version of Laura, you know, it's almost
Speaker 5: like she just got worse by the second. So did
Speaker 5: you have to come in and play her a bit
Speaker 5: more over the top for the second.
Speaker 2: Set of episodes? She almost sort of redeemed herself in
Speaker 2: the first set, and I was like, oh, I'm cool
Speaker 2: with her.
Speaker 5: Yeah this round, I was like, yeah, we don't know
Speaker 5: what Steve did. Like we kind of talked about this
Speaker 5: when your first set of episodes aired because it was
Speaker 5: so fascinating. They showed your perspective and his, and we
Speaker 5: assume the truth was somewhere sort of in the middle.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: But that then she comes back and she's very you know,
Speaker 5: really frightened.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, I had to be honest with you. I
Speaker 1: struggled with it was a hard It was hard. Those
Speaker 1: first three episodes were hard because you're having to kind
Speaker 1: of I had to believe that it was true and
Speaker 1: my version was true, but I also struggled as a
Speaker 1: woman that so many women in the nineties in college,
Speaker 1: probably ninety percent of them don't report being raped, you
Speaker 1: know at that time, and that the show is choosing
Speaker 1: to focus on the male being the victim. I really
Speaker 1: struggled with that a bit, just as a woman, So
Speaker 1: as an actress, I went in with you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't fully say yes, I'm confused and vulnerable. And then
Speaker 1: so when that progressed, I chose that her being lost
Speaker 1: and alone in college, that just made it worse. And
Speaker 1: so when she shows up again and later in the season,
Speaker 1: she has been alone a lot. She doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of friends, and I think I think Iron's character
Speaker 1: was somebody that she could convince.
Speaker 3: Interesting she came back for your fourth episode, let's say,
Speaker 3: Lara part two, that were you up to something when
Speaker 3: you came back, like straight.
Speaker 1: Out of the gate? No not, I think I mean
Speaker 1: because he finds me in the episode he comes into
Speaker 1: my room in the beginning of the second time I
Speaker 1: came back. So I think I think there was legitimately
Speaker 1: trying to do this play to somehow find some footing,
Speaker 1: to find some places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so weird. You're right that she would even allow,
Speaker 3: you know, allow him to get close to her again
Speaker 3: if that had.
Speaker 2: Been and vice versa. But I think they had some guilt.
Speaker 5: Like I might be going way to like the psychology
Speaker 5: of these characters, but like Laura has some guilt over
Speaker 5: what she maybe she misinterpreted what was happening or had
Speaker 5: her perspective and then it became this hold to do.
Speaker 2: And he has guilt because he does it.
Speaker 5: Admit he shouldn't have done what he did, even though
Speaker 5: it wasn't necessarily quote rape or criminal, it was he
Speaker 5: knew he had celested, and there was the whole thing.
Speaker 5: So he's got guilt, which is why I think it
Speaker 5: was a perfect storm. You two connected because of this past,
Speaker 5: and then it just spirals and he almost causes the spiral,
Speaker 5: not exactly, but he doesn't, you know, bring you down
Speaker 5: and say wait a minute, or did you call Brenda
Speaker 5: and do this about the rehearsal. It's like he's so
Speaker 5: in with you, probably from the guilt, that it exasperates
Speaker 5: this messiness.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it got really messy. I think I think
Speaker 1: obviously the characters unhinged otherwise to go there so quickly
Speaker 1: over not getting the part, or you know, I think
Speaker 1: already confused and lost and struggling in college and alone,
Speaker 1: and then Okay, this is going to solve everything. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do this play. I'm going to get this
Speaker 1: part and work my ass off on it, and I'm gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, nail it and should have gotten it. And
Speaker 1: then and legitimately feeling like, wait, what happened? How did
Speaker 1: she all of a sudden get the part when she
Speaker 1: bombed the audition? And right, so that's legitimate confusion. And
Speaker 1: then he was, you know, guilty of seducing his leading ladies.
Speaker 1: And then to find out that she went to his house.
Speaker 1: So it all those pieces to defend her, that character,
Speaker 1: all those you and she wasn't the only one saying
Speaker 1: it so right, you know, so you know, yes, she
Speaker 1: made it worse and then totally went off the deep end. Right,
Speaker 1: who directed? Do you remember? Who was that James? That
Speaker 1: house that directed? Do you have any section one of them?
Speaker 1: Maybe that maybe that last one? I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just was wondering because, especially with the
Speaker 1: last couple episodes, you had so much like work to
Speaker 1: You had to really prepare stuff and bring it in
Speaker 1: and sometimes on an episodic show like this, it gets
Speaker 1: a little like you know, the director doesn't really step
Speaker 1: up and help or support the way they could with
Speaker 1: an actress, especially when they have stuff this heavy. I
Speaker 1: was just wondering if if you remember any like people
Speaker 1: that supported you or helped you, or like, you know,
Speaker 1: made it up. I don't. I don't for those episodes.
Speaker 1: I do remember a director and I can't remember his
Speaker 1: name on the earlier episodes being very kind and thoughtful
Speaker 1: and trying to help me through a moment this one,
Speaker 1: this one, I think I was just, you know, I
Speaker 1: was so focused on trying to as an actor, trying
Speaker 1: to nail that arc and try to make sense of it.
Speaker 1: And you must know this so well. When you're on
Speaker 1: a series, you almost have to be director proof because
Speaker 1: can you take from the good and hopefully you get
Speaker 1: really good ones, but there's bad ones out there that
Speaker 1: tell you to do things that just aren't write for
Speaker 1: your character, especially if in an episodic. They're coming in
Speaker 1: for each show. You're on the show every episode, so
Speaker 1: you want your character you understand, and sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: good thing and you do know your character. I've definitely
Speaker 1: worked on series where the ego is really big and
Speaker 1: they just won't do anything the director says, well, they
Speaker 1: just focus on the guest star because that that regular
Speaker 1: will not do anything, and that's got to be frustrating
Speaker 1: for a director.
Speaker 2: Well, and this character is so complicated.
Speaker 5: This isn't like Sorority Girl one, you know number two,
Speaker 5: Like if this didn't go, if you didn't do it
Speaker 5: right and have that support you needed, it could have
Speaker 5: derailed multiple episodes. That's why I think there was so
Speaker 5: much pressure on this character because you became the forefront
Speaker 5: of this episode.
Speaker 2: And again, it could have been clowny if you didn't
Speaker 2: do it right, or like too soapy or I.
Speaker 1: Mean, we got you to play this role because you're right,
Speaker 1: Amy been could have been disaster. You're you're you're very sweet.
Speaker 1: I know because I've seen your work after the show,
Speaker 1: Like I know your work and you're always consistently like
Speaker 1: just good, you know, and and like I don't want
Speaker 1: to say dependable, but you know that you're going to
Speaker 1: give the characters do what's the saying, it's it's to oats, No,
Speaker 1: what's the we were having this argument? Sorry you are,
Speaker 1: you're doing the character right.
Speaker 2: But what's blowing my mind? And I hope this makes
Speaker 2: sense because looking at you right now. First of all,
Speaker 2: you do look the same, so beautiful.
Speaker 5: You did something with your face, like your eyes and
Speaker 5: the like playing that character because I thought you were
Speaker 5: going to look like that today and you don't look
Speaker 5: anything like that.
Speaker 2: So you were doing that and it was like.
Speaker 5: Crazy in the eyes and that's your eyes, you guys,
Speaker 5: Like that's what's going on?
Speaker 1: Because I thought you.
Speaker 2: Had fake how have you? It was not just in
Speaker 2: the things that you were saying. It was in the
Speaker 2: body language.
Speaker 5: It was in the face and the movement and even
Speaker 5: like the creepy masks on the door of the room.
Speaker 2: And like the laundry.
Speaker 5: Every single part of that character I think was so
Speaker 5: good in these episodes, and that's why, like it was
Speaker 5: burned into me.
Speaker 2: I was like, I will never forget that character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think I was trying to remember at
Speaker 1: the time, I was really into Cassavettis, and I think
Speaker 1: I was trying to channel gentlemen from a woman under
Speaker 1: the influencer. I think, wow, I think there's probably the
Speaker 1: young actress in me was trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: do you tap into something where you go so you know,
Speaker 1: that's to get to that point, it's got to be
Speaker 1: you know, is hard. I've had you know, and I've
Speaker 1: had people in my life who have gone there, and
Speaker 1: so it's it's you know a lot of people are
Speaker 1: like such a selfish act you know to do something
Speaker 1: like that, but that's how lost you are when you yeah,
Speaker 1: going to that extreme, You're so lost. So it was,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I was probably trying to channel
Speaker 1: anything I could find as such a young actress. I'm
Speaker 1: going to look back on that, and we were, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're so young and we're trying to do these really hard.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, you had to make that nutty nutty gal
Speaker 5: likable too, or we all would have been like, get
Speaker 5: rid of this cuckoo chick. We had to feel compassion,
Speaker 5: which I did the entire both.
Speaker 2: Laura Part one and Laura Part two.
Speaker 5: Like even though what you sort of did, although I
Speaker 5: still we debated this back and forth a lot because
Speaker 5: it's never clear what really happened in Laura Part one,
Speaker 5: but you you were still likable, and we had this
Speaker 5: almost like oh no, like oh, bless her heart kind
Speaker 5: of like, oh no.
Speaker 1: That's hard. That's a hard thing because we're you're watching
Speaker 1: these characters on this show and you fall in love
Speaker 1: with these characters, and so any character that comes on
Speaker 1: that that disparages them or it, you're not going to
Speaker 1: be liked. And so that's a it's a hard balance
Speaker 1: to play what they've written for you and play that
Speaker 1: character but also not be completely hated by anybody watching
Speaker 1: the show because then nobody cares and so what so.
Speaker 5: Well, and you your character is so important to bring
Speaker 5: Steve to the forefront because look, Steve can be sort
Speaker 5: of a secondary character.
Speaker 2: But in both Laura Part one and Laura Part two.
Speaker 5: And it really brought Jenny to the forefront because she
Speaker 5: comes to defend Steve and that was so important for
Speaker 5: our core characters. And then in this one, it really
Speaker 5: caused the friction between Steve and Brenda for the most
Speaker 5: we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I mean we were almost like a laughing right, Wow,
Speaker 2: they're going.
Speaker 1: And say, I'm your brother's friend, not yours.
Speaker 2: My god, he's kind of a you know, a D
Speaker 2: word in this.
Speaker 5: But you still we had to not hate you. We
Speaker 5: never hated you.
Speaker 2: We were just like, oh god, this is going the wrong.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you did job, thank you. I ended up
Speaker 1: It's funny. I ended up doing I think probably five
Speaker 1: or six years later, I ended up doing Alma in
Speaker 1: Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke ask you about this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where did you do that? At the Fountain Theater and
Speaker 1: we had almost a year run and the Ovation Awards
Speaker 1: are the Theater Awards in LA and I was up
Speaker 1: against Linda Lavin and Ruby d and now wow look
Speaker 1: at you.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And then after that, two years after that, I played
Speaker 1: a character called Maggie in After the Fall and Arthur
Speaker 1: Miller play No, it's all like predetermined, Yeah, right, is right?
Speaker 1: So foreshadowing love it. Yeah, You've just Yeah, like you said,
Speaker 1: you've had such a well rounded career, and your resume
Speaker 1: is so full of all kinds of different genres. You've
Speaker 1: done sci fi, horror, and yeah, you've done it all.
Speaker 1: You've done live theater. I have one of the most
Speaker 1: iconic horror deaths in the film, which Toy, We're here, Tory,
Speaker 1: We're here.
Speaker 3: She would be so excited right now because she loves
Speaker 3: horror films. I'm not really away which one.
Speaker 1: I'm not either, which is so funny because I've done
Speaker 1: the series, I've done you know, my very first so
Speaker 1: my very first film after and I know two one
Speaker 1: to oh was Wes Craven's New Nightmare, which did Nightmare
Speaker 1: and Elm Street and then he you know, there were
Speaker 1: other directors who did the other ones, and then he
Speaker 1: came back and did the one I did and it
Speaker 1: was my first movie. Wow. I have this credible death
Speaker 1: scene where Freddy Krueger is dragging me up the wall
Speaker 1: and he disappears and then he appears. He disappears and
Speaker 1: dragging me up the wall and I'm screaming and I'm
Speaker 1: reaching my hand out to the little boy and then
Speaker 1: he just cuts me. Oh my god. And it was
Speaker 1: all done in a in a studio that completely turns
Speaker 1: so you could go up the walls, so that I
Speaker 1: could go up the wall. It's crazy town. It's crazy town. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was my first movie. So fun though. That's what
Speaker 1: a lot of people know, a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: there's certain if you've been on that, then you end
Speaker 1: up going on to some other things like Angel and
Speaker 1: then you know. Obviously the last one was MTV's Scream
Speaker 1: This series.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good show. Actually, that was a
Speaker 2: really good show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a fund what you're living in New Orleans?
Speaker 1: I live, I live in New Orleans, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of why I live here. The first season was shot
Speaker 1: in Baton, Huge, and the second season they were going
Speaker 1: to film in New Orleans and we were gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: my husband and I were like, well, let's buy an
Speaker 1: investment property, because that's what you do when you're on
Speaker 1: a series. Right, So Mark, now, right, So we were
Speaker 1: looking in California and we were living in Central California
Speaker 1: at the time, and I couldn't find anything. And then
Speaker 1: we looked in New Orleans and we just found this.
Speaker 1: The house I'm in now, this really great, you know,
Speaker 1: one hundred year old house, and it was amazing. It's
Speaker 1: just ugly, just painted, you know, yell and purple. And
Speaker 1: so while I was filming the series, you know, again,
Speaker 1: I was the mom of the main character. My character
Speaker 1: had all this history, and so I was I was
Speaker 1: integral in it. But I didn't have to work that much.
Speaker 1: That's kind of role. It was great. So I was
Speaker 1: getting paid, worked maybe one or two days a week,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time I spent renovating
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 3: Is that the house I saw on your Instagram?
Speaker 1: The white is it white? Like, yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so we're now I'm actually doing Uh, we have
Speaker 1: a commercial property that's from the eighteen forties. Then we're
Speaker 1: that we're renovating. Oh that's so fun. Yeah, it's an
Speaker 1: old pharmacy and an old brick carriage house and we're
Speaker 1: turning it in a restaurant, bar and a deli. Amazing.
Speaker 1: Look at you. You're just our Laura king You do
Speaker 1: what you gotta do, don't you really sprouted her wings?
Speaker 5: I will say I am so grateful for you doing
Speaker 5: this because of all the ten seasons, there's only a
Speaker 5: handful of guest stars that really are just unforgettable, and
Speaker 5: you are one of them, and like Laura Kingman will
Speaker 5: never be forgotten. It's just such a Yeah, it must
Speaker 5: have just been so juicy to like play that character.
Speaker 2: She's so so complicated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was in fact. I mean as
Speaker 1: you get older, I mean you probably feel this way, Jenny,
Speaker 1: But as you get older, you go, oh, I think
Speaker 1: I understand that a little bit better now, and you
Speaker 1: look back on some of these parts and go, oh.
Speaker 1: The hard thing being an actor is that it's out
Speaker 1: there for everyone to see, and so your growth is
Speaker 1: out there for everyone to see. Oh yeah, yeah, which
Speaker 1: can you know, it can be tough. You just have to,
Speaker 1: you know, accept that's part of the gig and try
Speaker 1: to grow with each job. So yeah, well I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what's next for you. And I mean
Speaker 1: you're going to keep yourself busy with these renovations, which
Speaker 1: is so fun. Yeah, yeah, I have these renovations. I
Speaker 1: also have a project that I worked on which you
Speaker 1: maybe would want to contribute to. It's called Shutter to Think.
Speaker 1: And I saw that also on your Instagram and I
Speaker 1: saw someone's feet and I was very confused, are they
Speaker 1: your feet or are they any lynnux Beat? I created
Speaker 1: so girls education. If you can educate women around the world,
Speaker 1: girls around the world, we can pretty much change the world.
Speaker 1: Because girls get educated, they work, the money comes home.
Speaker 1: They don't leave their villages, they stay. And the majority
Speaker 1: of girls are not educated. The boys are educated. And
Speaker 1: so I was involved with a friend who started Girl
Speaker 1: Rising and I started this project called Shudder to Think
Speaker 1: and it's any but any celebrity who has taken a photo,
Speaker 1: they can donate the photo. Amazing, let's do that. I
Speaker 1: was I was just at I was just at the
Speaker 1: gorge to see Brandon Carlisle and John H. Fan was
Speaker 1: so lucky to meet Johnnie Mitchell and talk to her,
Speaker 1: and then I ran into any Lenox and I was
Speaker 1: I was able to thank any Lennox for her Oh good.
Speaker 1: I definitely wanted it easy because it's you just send
Speaker 1: a boot up and I used to have genius.
Speaker 3: First of all, that's a genius because that's an easy
Speaker 3: ask of people. And also I love that title, shudder
Speaker 3: to think if you like, break it down, get it shutter,
Speaker 3: help the girls think. And I've had some good responses.
Speaker 1: Meryl Street donated, and Helen Chemmy and Moby and just
Speaker 1: the list is amazing and good for you, growing, good
Speaker 1: for you have so much admiration. Yeah, thank you, thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just so great to see your face again and
Speaker 1: talk to you and learn all about this and I
Speaker 1: don't know, you're just great. You're great, that's all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are phenomenal on this show.
Speaker 5: Because even now, just this little time we've had, is
Speaker 5: like you don't even look like her in that same way.
Speaker 2: You're personalities difference, So it's just like that must have
Speaker 2: been so out of left field to play her, and
Speaker 2: you just nailed it. Like I said, I will never
Speaker 2: forget Laurie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I've played anybody that unhinged since
Speaker 1: that was That was it. That's right, I feel I
Speaker 1: feel somehow good about that. Yeah, well, we were happy
Speaker 1: to be a part of it, of your unhinged performance
Speaker 1: of a lifetime. Thank you, thank you, and you have
Speaker 1: any other questions, just let me know. In ne Orleans.
Speaker 1: I love it. That sounds like good life. Well be well,
Speaker 1: love to your family and thank you too. Okay, Bay
Speaker 1: so awesome.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, she's she's so cool because she really,
Speaker 5: like I said, like for you all to be that
Speaker 5: young and play character like.
Speaker 4: That, I know she she had to have a serious
Speaker 4: like death so hard because she was so like over
Speaker 4: the top, but couldn't be over the top, like we
Speaker 4: had to believe that she.
Speaker 5: Would climb that scaffolding and was gonna in the you know,
Speaker 5: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Like I said, he could have gone clowney so easily.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was fun. I was talking to
Speaker 1: our old coast stars. That's that's those are always fun episodes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: our one on ones. I loved it.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the finale, she's going to Washington, so we're
Speaker 5: getting ready for.
Speaker 1: That next week. Y'all who loves Christmas? I do.
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