WEBVTT - Amy Jo Johnson Meets World 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:20.920 Okay. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.919 I was thinking about how weird it is that every 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.960 now and then at conventions someone will bring me something 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.440 I won't sign. For example, I think I've said before, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.000 but maybe I have not. I don't sign my Maxim magazine. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.199 I don't sign them for many reasons we don't need 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.120 to get into now. But so sometimes people bring those 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.760 up to the table and I'll say, oh my gosh, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.360 I'm really sorry I don't sign those, and then like 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.440 they'll be like, oh, okay, that's a bummer, and I'll say, 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.240 but we can, you know, you can get a different picture, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.240 or if you don't want anything at all, totally fine, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.720 nice to meet you. And they leave, and then like 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.000 ten people later, someone will come up and they have 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.200 their own pictures printed out that they want me to sign, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.119 and they're all pictures of me where you can see 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.600 my feet, And I'm. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.399 Like really, and I'm like, how many pictures of you? 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.080 I was gonna say, I don't think I've ever seen 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.520 a photo of you where I can see your feet. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.480 Oh wait, you know what, there's actually a photo of 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.000 all of us barefoot. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.280 Yes, on the beach, like we're standing like. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:22.680 On a leg. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:31.720 I don't think anybody that no one wants your features disgusting. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.600 You're great at climbing trees, though, I was gonna say, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.280 and it's perfect for your trip. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.560 To mortor wrapped up in all. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.440 Just when you remember when you get into the center 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.240 of Mount Doom, throw the ring in. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.080 It can save us. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:52.880 All anyway, And I'll think, should I not sign these? 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.160 Uneasy? Either? 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.240 I don't little dirty, I feel a little gross, But 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.720 I'm also like, you sign them with your feet right 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.720 over my feet. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.560 So like a scribble on my feet. No, but so question. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.480 I guess these are mostly teenage girls asking for this 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.440 right women right, very like. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.680 You would be wrong, such as so bad at this game. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:20.600 I don't know. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.160 I don't know what you're applying that don't understand what's 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.120 happening here. They're like websites rate my feet. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:28.560 Wiki feet. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.280 I'm all over wiki feet, and I I'm just. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.720 Like wiki feet. Wait, is that really a thing? Wiki feet? 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.080 Look it up, man, let's go, let's go. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.040 Let's things. I don't want to google for a thousand 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.679 alex wiki feet. 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.480 Wiki feet, looking up Wilfredell. Right now, we're going to 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.240 see what's on here. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.200 Is a celebrity feet kind of like, okay, because you 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.960 don't care about your I mean you're not like private 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:55.880 about your feet, right. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.640 Well, No, That's what I'm saying is that I'm like, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.960 I don't really like it's just feet, like it's feet. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.880 I don't to me, I don't understand how feet have 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.240 been I won't be on Wiki feet. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.160 I won't be on Wiki feet the same way I 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.679 don't have a cutout, and you guys both have cutouts, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:11.800 Like I'm just never true. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.800 We discovered that we can talk about that since your 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.280 feelings really seem hurt by it. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.240 I hate this is really the worst jumpin I've ever 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.160 done in my entire life. Will is all over Wiki feet. Yeah, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.560 Wiki feet men for example. I mean, it's crazy how 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.799 many shots there are actually of him with just no shoes. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:31.560 Yeah, that's the one. We're talking about that stuff. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.320 Okay, then there are other ones. Let me let me 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.880 get to this me. Yeah, there's some in your backyard 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.960 where you your dog and feet. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.800 Oh my god, okay, yeah. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:46.760 I. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.960 Have to burn this phone. Now, get rid of that phone, Jensen. God, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.960 I have another question. Did you ever injure your foot 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.160 or oh no, you know what this is. Were you 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:57.960 getting a tattoo. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.800 Yeah, I was getting a tattoo. Yeah, I was getting 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.520 I was covering the other tattoo that I had. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.040 Is writer on wiki. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.480 Oh my god, no, it'll break your phone if you 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.080 should right strong? 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.440 Oh you mean rights strong for Wiki feet men in 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:13.000 this shot? 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:15.040 Wait? 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.160 What shot is that? What is that? 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:17.400 Farm? 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.360 Okay, see you can't things you don't even think of. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.680 That's my point. It's like, oh. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:32.200 See, no one wants that. What is that from? 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.120 Are you? Are you allowing people to bring this shot 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.440 of just your foot to sign? 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.200 You should start offering it at that point? Yeah, like 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.600 I gotta give him, Like does it look like you're 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:47.559 really have flat feet? 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.320 Serious question? Is this your foot or baby Yoda? 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.080 Yeah? 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:01.400 Yes, my feet are stable, made for a fe and living. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.000 You know, I know your feet made well for that. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.360 Oh what's that from? 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:09.160 Am I naked? 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.240 What do you do? A picture of writer? He's sitting 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.839 criss cross apple sauce. He has no clothes on. It 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.360 appeared in my contemplating life? 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:22.120 Is you know what? I think that's from penthouse? 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:32.159 When you's like wait, what what really wanted me? 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:38.920 And just so you said, Will had ten photos on 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.960 Wiki feet writer who said there's no way I have 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.640 any on there has twenty eight. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:45.320 There you go. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.800 I'm always the lady the beloved for my feet right 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.039 foot model. I think I think there's a future here. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.320 I mean, that's my point. Let's say you were to 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.880 open fan and then just do feet pictures. Yeah, I 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.760 think is there something? 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.600 Does anyone have any moral objections to that? When it's 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.920 feed to foot to foot feed, you know what it's 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.320 being used for them, But. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:13.880 What is it being used for other than people? 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.440 I mean, I guess it's just it's like, are they like. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.400 Hand websites are I'm sure there's probably. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.120 Well, you know, there's also they say that scientifically, the 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:30.960 part of your brain that deals with sex also is 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.799 right next to the part of your brain that deals 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.880 with feet, So they think a crossed wire and they're 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.880 kind of they connect there's a whole part. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.839 Of your brain that deals with fat. No, it's just 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.599 one small section of your brain. But it is true. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.360 But it isn't true, just conceptually, the idea of cross 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.159 Just instantly say it's not true. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:53.320 You have no red, no brain that's google. There's no 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.520 one part of the brain that does anything. The brain 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.479 is a whole system of jokes. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.839 There's certain memories set in the brain. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.040 Of course there are, Writer, that's just absolutely incorrect. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:05.680 So tell me where the part of the brain that 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.039 deals with sexes. Please explain that that here, here you go. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:14.440 Pre sex is the most distributed part of the brain. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.760 You can't say there's this one. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.840 Part, writer, while you're fighting. I need you to know. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.000 I need you to know that Danielle has one hundred 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.680 and thirty four pictures on Wiki feet. 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:23.440 I see. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:24.080 That's insane. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.080 You know what it is, though, Writer, It's not all 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.600 naked feet. There are even times I've worn like strappy sandals. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:31.680 Yeah right, Hi, can we can we talk you for 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.160 one second? Let's get back to how to write or 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:34.920 telling you you're wrong. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.760 In the so mutose sensory homunculous S one territory representing 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.080 the feet is next to the brain areas representing the genitals. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.080 The links to the widely reported S one theory explain 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.440 the feat's orogenis zones. There are sections of the brain 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.320 that control different things. There just are right body parts, sure, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.320 well right, but there's also the so that's exactly what 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.640 they're talking about. The orogenous zone the brain representing the 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.280 part of the feet and representing the part of the 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.360 genitals are right next to right next to each other, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.080 right so acrossed wire and you're that's what you that's 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.000 what they call it. The you know, if there's some 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:14.680 kind of cross what do they call when they fire? 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:15.520 When they fire? 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.520 Explain why writer's feet look that way. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.960 No, that's genetics. That's the part that's the hobbit part 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:23.320 of the brain. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.920 It's the Hobbit lineage of Scotland right into my feet, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:34.600 through Pennsylvania over to northern California. You do, You've got 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.160 Scottish Highland feet. There's nothing wrong with that. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.839 Bye, Jensen, Thanks for embarrassing us with our feet. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.320 I signed your maximals all the time. By the way, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.680 we've talked about this. They leave your table and bring 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.480 them over here. Bring them over here, I'll sign them. 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.520 Feenie call Daniel's feet. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.000 Welcome to pod meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.640 or Strong, and I'm Wilfredee. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:18.040 So this week's guest and I have quite a long history, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.280 despite the fact that I, as far as i'm aware, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.440 have never met her. But yet for the past twenty 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.040 or so years, our pictures have been placed next to 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.280 each other alongside Tiffany Ambertheesian, underneath a meme headline that 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.440 reads something like, if this was your first crush, It's 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.760 time for some meta musil. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.839 I was wondering where this was going. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.200 Yeah for me too, I mean I thought you never 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.320 met yeah exactly. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.120 And the debates of who you liked more, well, those 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.280 have somehow dominated Twitter since the Terrible Apps inception, and 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.480 now this week we will meet this real life superhero 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.880 who you know best as Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.439 on every og incarnation of the Mighty morphin Power Rangers, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.760 a franchise scene on TV and movies before franchise was 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.560 a commonly used term in Hollywood, and you'd later see 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.520 her on Spin City Er in the movie Killing Mister Griffin, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.160 and as Julie Emrick on fifty episodes of Felicity. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.079 Now without the helmet, and she's. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.640 Returning to her spandex bad guy fighting roots in the 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.240 coolest way possible, which we will all talk about. So 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.680 this week, please welcome an icon and the woman I 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.640 will always vote for in those dumb online polls. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:30.880 Amy Joe Johnson. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.760 Yeah, Hey, Hi, how's it? 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.760 Collin it's so great. It is so nice to meet you. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.400 I feel like this has been a very long time coming. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:46.960 Oh, well that's nice. Yes. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.599 Are you aware of the heated debates we are involuntarily 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:56.800 a part of over who was their first nineties crush? 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:57.880 I am not aware of. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.120 Wow. Wow, you don't google yourself as much as Yes, you. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.920 Don't get sent nearly as much as I do a parent. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.720 So who's the winner? 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:16.800 Oh, there's never a winner. We're all losers in that situation. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.520 A thing I'd like try not to think about that 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:21.240 kind of a thing. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.360 Yeah, no, that's the point. I think men are the 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:24.480 winner in that situation. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.840 Just listen. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.840 I I just I've always wanted to meet you, and 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.439 I'm so happy we're able to do it here. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.160 Well, I'm very happy to meet you guys. Thank you 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.520 for having me on the on your podcast. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.840 Yeah you wouldn't You wouldn't remember this, but you and 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.640 I had a very nice conversation once at the premiere 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.720 of the Mighty Morphem Power Rangers movie. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.040 You know what. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.440 I was chatting with my pal David Yost yesterday and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.520 he did remind me that you were there. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.440 Oh really okay? Yeah, yeah, wow, I wasn't there. Was 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.920 I No, I think I was just me. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.240 I don't even remember being there. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.200 You were there, you were there. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.240 I think I was there. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.480 So I know you began your life performing as a 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:12.000 competitive gymnast. How does Power Rangers come calling as your 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:12.800 first job. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.839 Well, so I moved my life to Los Angeles when 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.720 I was I think like twenty twenty one. I went 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.679 to school in New York. I followed a boy cross 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.280 country and I was there for about six months and 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.640 I actually left and moved back home. But the night 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.480 before I went, I met this acting coach, this man 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:44.760 named Walter, who you know, was this very funny, eccentric 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.079 older man. Well he wasn't even older then. He was 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.320 younger than me than I am now, but he seems 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.920 older all the time and just like filled me with 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.320 all of this love and just was like, you're going 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.120 to be a star. And he had this like tiny 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.760 little workshop. And I moved home. He even called my 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.560 parents and he said she has to come back, and 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.840 so I did. I went back, and literally the week 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.319 I moved back is when I got my first audition, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:10.840 which was for Power Rangers. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.520 Wow, your first ever audition was for Power Rangers. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:21.840 Yeah. Yeah, I did a couple like tiny, little like 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.240 student films and stuff that six months that I first 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.800 got there. But like my first real audition it was 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.760 with Katie Wallins too, because I had taken a commercial 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.760 acting workshop class with her and so she was casting 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.920 the show and so she called me and told me 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.400 to come in. I didn't even have an agent. I 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.400 didn't get an agent till after I left the show. Ges. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.160 Wow, so it was Power Rangers already. It was a 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.720 big thing in Japan, right. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 Yes, so it was. I mean I had a whole history, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.760 I think. Yeah, stan Lee even wanted it at one 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.200 point and tried to pick and sell it and he 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.360 couldn't and then heim Saban ended up getting the rights 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.720 to it and you know, made it what it was 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.400 at the time, and just took the Japanese footage and 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.920 just shot fifteen minutes of the real footage that we had. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:22.360 I wouldn't call that the real footage, the new footage, yeah, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.920 the American footage and sort of smushed it together and 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.600 it was just this really weird, cheesy, fun, brightly colored 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.560 kids show that kind of like. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.720 But so, did your audition include fighting or because you 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.960 were the acting side, you didn't have to do any 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.440 of the stunts. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.760 Oh, we did all our stunts okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:50.000 until we ran out of the footage we had. We 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.440 did a bunch of the stunts even with the helmets on, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.440 and then I couldn't breathe. Me and David Yos really 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.600 complained about the fact there were like three holes in 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.720 the helmets and we couldn't breath. I got stunt doubles 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.960 for us with the helmets on, but I was a gymnast, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.840 David with a gymnast, and everybody else was in martial arts, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.640 and so we kind of just faked it for the audition. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.520 I do think it was my gymnastics that got me 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.880 the role. I don't think it was my acting skills 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:17.520 at that time. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.000 So how old were you when you booked the job? 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.560 Twenty? I think I just turned twenty two, okay. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.200 And how old were you when you started in gymnastics? 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:28.080 Oh? 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.160 My god? Seven? Wow? Yeah. That was like my upbringing 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.880 in my life, Like I loved it. And then I 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:40.920 actually quit gymnastics when I was around seventeen, okay. Yeah, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.200 and then and then it came in real handy for 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:44.960 that and. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.280 You obviously you just hadn't lost it, even though you 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.160 hadn't really been. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:51.800 I you know, I just wrote a comic book. I 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.800 don't know if you guys know that, but the Power 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.960 Rangel's comic book. And so me and my boyfriend, who 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.440 I wrote this comic book with many more from Power 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.000 Rangels Turn, we went back and we watched all these 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.040 old episodes. Because I don't know about you guys, but 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.200 I never watched the show when it was I don't know, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.720 I think I watched a few, and then I realized 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.480 quickly as an actor for myself, I didn't like to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.360 watch myself. Now, as a writer director, I've been in 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.280 a few things that I did, I don't even look 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.680 at myself as myself. Yeah, when I'm editing, you know 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.840 what I mean, I just being Anyway, we went back 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.800 and we watched a bunch of old episodes of Power Rangers, 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.360 and I was really sort of surprised and a little 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.760 bit impressed with myself that I had still had so 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.960 many of those skills that I had as a gymnast 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:42.720 when I was younger. I mean, I can't do any 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.560 of that stuff now, really, I did. I have a 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.400 a trampoline in my backyard, and I did a backflip 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.640 last summer and I was out for like a month, like, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.280 oh no, ACT said, you did no more flips? 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.480 Yeah, I don't know why you think you could still flip. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.880 You could do it twenty years ago. I don't know 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:01.400 why that thing. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:02.880 Yeah, I did? You land it? 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:09.680 I did, okay, And then I was feeling really good 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.600 in that moment physically, and I actually went and played 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.879 frisbee with my boyfriend and I was doing tart wheels 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.480 all over the lawn and yeah, no, no more. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.119 The next day your body was like, what were you doing? 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.320 Oh my god, no more going upside down. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:30.760 That's you had a very like independent late teenage early twenties, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.760 because you said you moved across the country to New 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.359 York to follow a boy. Then you were back in 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.680 LA and then The Power Rangers filmed in New Zealand. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:39.040 Right. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.160 Yeah, So, first of all, I grew up on kip 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.879 Cood in Massachusetts, in like a small town. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.000 Which town, curiously, Dennis, Okay, So we were in manam 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.920 It right before the bridge. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.600 Oh oh really, right next to right next to Plymouth. 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.600 Yeah, well that's where we spent you know, I'm from Connecticut, originally, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.280 but that's where my family had our little summer and 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.560 were there all the time. So I spent all my 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.199 time in like Hyenna's Port, like that whole kind of 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.760 area around that, the Cape Cod. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:08.800 Yeah, so very good. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.760 Yeah, so I still have family there. I love going home. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.960 I was just there two weeks ago. I actually love 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:14.639 it in the winter. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.640 It's so it's a great place. Yeah, great place. Yeah. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.600 So then I went from Cape Cod. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.440 To k New York. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.560 Okay, all right, so you didn't go didn't go that far, okay, 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:26.280 But then. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.919 I drove across country with a boy to Los Angeles. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.920 A year after I went to New York. A year 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.120 or so, I got to LA and six months later 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.320 I landed Power Rangers. A year later we were still filming, 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.199 and a year later it actually aired in September, and 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.800 then we filmed two seasons for a whole other year, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.359 and then we went to New Zealand to shoot the movie. 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:52.160 Did it ever? 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.360 Did it ever get to a point where you were 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.680 no longer using the Japanese footage where the entire show 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:58.480 was being shot here? 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.480 Or was was there always Japanese fotah thrown in? Yeah? 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.760 No, they ran out. I mean I I did one 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.680 hundred and fifty two episodes within two years. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.600 Oh my geesh, that's a lot. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.879 Okay, yeah, so in one filming day, how like how 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.000 much how many pages were you guys doing? 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.520 Oh they would shoot like four episodes at a time. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.840 Yeah, schedule, but you're doing stunts. Yes, so intense. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:24.480 Oh, I know. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.320 There was you know, two units and we were ay 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.360 weeks and like we were just in it. We were 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.040 like paid seven hundred dollars a week. It was non union. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.520 Were you having were you exhausted all the time? Like 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.240 was it stressful or was it? 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.200 I mean, I had a blast. I didn't really honestly 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.280 didn't think the show was going to become what it 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.880 was for for kids. I didn't think that at all. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.960 I thought, Okay, I'm getting my feet wet, I'm learning 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.359 how to hit a mark. I'm you know, this is 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.320 kind of like a cool first job. And I just 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.840 sort of emerg myself in it. And it was a 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.080 year later that it aired and then the kids just 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:05.920 loved it. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.720 Yeah, my son went through such an intense Power Rangers phase. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:12.159 My kids. It still works. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.560 Yeah, And now there's like fifty different shows. They're all 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.480 in the same ilk and you know, and he's like 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.520 he knows which ones are from which generation, and I'm like, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.080 I cannot keep up with any of this. It's so yeah, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:25.600 it's great. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.040 Yeah, there's so many. I think it's I think it 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.320 just ended last year, to tell you the truth. So 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.480 I think I don't know how many generations of Power Rangers. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.760 There were different pasts, but there were a lot. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:41.600 Yeah, yeah, for sure. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.800 Did you have an adjustment period coming off of Power 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:49.160 Rangers into your next job, like to change, like, oh 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.639 this is this is different then a different type of 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:53.520 set than I'm used to. 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:59.640 Yeah, So I actually asked to leave before the movie. Actually, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.280 I went to the producer and said, you know, I 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.040 think I'm done. 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.880 We shot thirty eight episodes today. I think I'm finished, right. 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:12.879 I heard other actors are making a little more than 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:19.320 seven episode a week, right, Yeah. 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.679 And he was very kind to me. He wasn't so 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:26.159 kind apparently to other people. But he said, go and 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.240 shoot the movie. If you go and shoot this movie. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.760 And then I wrote this other movie called Susie Q 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.480 that I would love you to star, and it was 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.840 this little Disney movie and like five ten more episodes 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.919 when we come back from New Zealand, and I was like, 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.879 that's great, and he gave me this beautiful Guild guitar 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.800 or a Gibson guitar, and that was sort of my sendoff. 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.240 And then yeah, for a year, at least a year 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.199 to two years, it was very hard to get that 0:21:56.280 --> 0:22:00.480 next job. So I just sort of don't move into 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:06.560 plays and acting classes and just tried to you know what, 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.400 I decided, I'm not going to focus on getting an 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.720 agent or a manager. I'm going to focus on the 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.040 craft and let that naturally happen and. 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:14.399 Come to me. 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.040 Wow, that's very yeah, mature of you. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.640 Which I was a very naive person. But I think 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.119 if I look back, I think that was kind of 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.600 a smart choice for me to go and just sort 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.240 of like kind of hone my skills as an actor. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.920 And it was about two years later, a year and 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.720 a half later, I got my first movie of the week. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.480 Remember movies of the week. Remember how much fun movies 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.280 of the Week worked. Did you guys ever do movies 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:42.760 of the week? 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.560 Did you writer Danielle, did you guys do your your 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:48.560 mow stime? Switch was, Oh that's right, Yeah. 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.399 That's an ABC movie of the Week. Yeah, And actually 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.560 my first job was a was a movie of the week, 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.879 which one along road Home. The job where I was 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.800 in a depression era family. It was like one of 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.080 the kids and only had like three lines. 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:03.640 In the movie, and that. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:08.760 They asked me to come to a dr and then 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:10.560 I was like, I only had a couple of lines. 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:16.000 And then some woman did my boice. Oh no, whatever, what. 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:20.919 Did your family think of you becoming this like a 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.800 part of this huge phenomenon. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.240 Oh, they were very proud. Again, I came from sort 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.760 of a small town in Cape Cod nobody was in 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:34.800 the arts in any means, and I just remember my 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:38.600 dad and my mom were really proud. My dad was 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.359 so proud to a point that my mom had to say, 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.600 stop having people come over the house when she comes home. 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.000 Oh yeah, just the. 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:49.919 People lined up and I'd be like, God, I just 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:50.720 want to come. 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:56.360 Home, Please don't bring the neighbors over with their cameras 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:00.359 to Yeah, I went through that with my grandparents. I'd 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:02.560 go visit my grandparents, and my grandmother would go, come on, 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:04.320 we're going to make the rounds. And I'd go to 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:08.520 like her bank and her grocery store and her Nordstrom 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:10.960 to meet all all the people she talked about. 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:12.000 You'll have to do that. 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:15.320 My Dad's like, the guy at the car wash place 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:16.720 really needs to meet you. 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:17.640 I'm like why. 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:19.560 He's like, well, he wants to talk to you about something. 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:21.120 And then I'll get there and I'll be like just. 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.960 My big fan, like all right, thanks, thanks dad. 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:45.080 So going back to Power Rangers, so it becomes a 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:49.800 complete and total phenomenon, I mean it's it's everywhere. How 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.280 did your life change when it aired? And then it's 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:55.720 all over the place, I mean since it because it's 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:56.199 so strange. 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:58.240 It's like, was really a kid show. 0:24:58.280 --> 0:24:59.679 We say we were on a kid show, but we 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.480 had you know, the parents would watch with the kids. 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.520 Power Rangers was really kind of a little kid's phenomenon 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:07.119 at the time. So could you still have a totally 0:25:07.160 --> 0:25:09.080 normal life unless there were little kids around? 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:10.920 Or were you being recognized everywhere? 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.679 I had a totally normal life. I mean we were like, again, 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:20.680 paid seven hundred dollars a week, and at one point 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:24.199 I remember David Yost coming over to my house and 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.560 he opened a drawer and there was like thirty five 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:31.440 checks still sitting in the chore Oh my gosh, thank yeah. 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:33.320 I mean like I was a little bit clueless of 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:37.919 like LA and we were working so much, right, so 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:42.080 I think the first time that we were sort of like, 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:46.240 oh wow, this is a very popular show where a 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:50.679 couple different scenarios. One we went to Hawaii to do 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:55.639 a personal appearance and it was me, JDF and David 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:57.879 and we They announced it on the radio and we 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.000 got off the plane. You know how they'd lay you. 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:02.800 So we got off the plane and there were at 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:06.440 least a thousand people at the airport. I do believe 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:12.359 it was more, and they started laying us FA and 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.600 laying us and then JDF turns around and looks at 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:19.520 me and all I see her his eyes just all flowers, 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.160 and we were like like we were almost laid to death. 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:27.919 I know that, but that was crazy. And then the 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.239 Universal amphitheater shows. We showed up like we thought we 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:34.280 were doing one little show, and it ended up selling out, 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:37.280 so we ended up doing four shows in one day, 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:41.520 and it actually, to be honest, it gave me nightmares. 0:26:42.040 --> 0:26:44.919 And I realized in that moment, I don't think I 0:26:45.000 --> 0:26:48.840 really actually want to be famous. I struggled with that 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:51.120 for a long time. And it wasn't until I actually 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.639 discovered writing and directing is my passion and that's really 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:58.919 all I want to do. I prefer to be behind 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:01.200 the camera than in front of it. But it took 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:03.400 me about twenty years to really figure that out. 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:05.560 Will you tell what were those shows? Tell me more 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:08.159 about those live shows. What were those Universal Amphitheater shows. 0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:11.960 So when the movie or so when the TV show 0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:15.760 first hit, they did this live show at Universal Amphitheater 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:19.080 and it shut down the highway. There were so many 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:21.639 people that showed up. They had to shut down the 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:24.560 one oh one and we were actually stuck in traffic 0:27:24.600 --> 0:27:27.320 trying to get to the show, and you're like, the. 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:32.040 People doing the show. 0:27:28.320 --> 0:27:28.399 We. 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:34.159 Get there. It was just I don't know. They just 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.720 made this live show. We did one. We did it once. 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:38.320 It was one day, and then you had. 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:39.800 To do stunts on stage, and like it was. 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:41.240 A oh yeah. 0:27:41.280 --> 0:27:44.000 They had had helmets on and we go on to 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:47.560 this big platform and we off the helmet and the 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:51.119 whole Amphitheater screams, and then we did flips off of 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.280 the platform and ran around the. 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:56.960 Stage and I remember me and Twee kept going. We 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.119 were screaming with the audience, and then we go on 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:01.400 the back and hind some I was like, no screaming. 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:04.280 Did anyone ever get hurt? 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:07.960 Tweetd Tweet actually hurt her knee when she jumped off. 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:12.119 She uh, yeah, she hurt herself. But yeah, okay. 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:14.840 And then were you getting paid for these show, these 0:28:14.880 --> 0:28:16.600 live shows? Were you getting paid more than you were 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:18.840 getting paid for the TV show? 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:23.399 My hindsight is really bad. You'd have to ask, like 0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:26.359 David Yost or Walter was Walter. 0:28:26.520 --> 0:28:27.600 I'm just going to go out on the limb and 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:28.520 say probably. 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:33.120 Not, probably not, probably not, Yeah, fifty good good luck, 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:37.040 Oh my god, yeah. 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:38.240 Oh my goodness. 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.480 Well, I just remember knowing seeing how the level of 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:44.440 talent physically that the cast had. 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:48.160 I when I was we were fourth season of the show, 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:48.920 fifth season the show. 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:52.920 We're at Radford and there's a martial arts studio up 0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:55.200 the street, and I thought, I'm going to take some classes. 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:57.400 So I decided to take some hot kedo classes right 0:28:57.440 --> 0:29:00.680 up the street, and Walter was in my class and 0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:03.400 was a black belt obviously, as I was trying to 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:07.880 put on my outfit, learning what ties to what, and 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:11.080 he the teacher said Walter is gonna give us a demonstration, 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:12.840 and I was like, oh, okay, great, So we all 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:17.160 sit around the mat and he flips into the room, 0:29:17.800 --> 0:29:20.480 like full on flips into the room out of nowhere 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:25.040 like this amazing thing, flips over us to land in 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:27.840 the mat, does this gymnastics things backflip, and then just 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:30.200 starts doing these high kicks that would have taken Shack 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:31.720 out like seven feet in the air. 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:32.680 This insane. 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:36.320 And then he finishes and he walked out. Oh and 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.920 it was the whole class looking around like what the hell? 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:41.240 It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever 0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:43.520 seen up close, where it was just like, how is 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.640 a human being pulling this off? So the level of 0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:49.960 skill that you all had, because what JDF, I know, 0:29:50.040 --> 0:29:50.760 was a martial artist. 0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:52.640 David Yos was a martial artist as well. 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:53.960 Wasn't he He was a gymnast. 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:55.880 He was a gymnast. So again. 0:29:57.240 --> 0:29:59.520 I still with exactly what Ryder said. I'm thinking of 0:29:59.760 --> 0:30:02.880 you doing all the stunts. You're working six days a week, 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:06.080 Oh my god, you're doing You're shooting multiple shows at 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:07.680 the same time, and having. 0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:10.120 An actor and an aut to that degree. I mean, 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:12.200 I've always felt this way about dancers in generally, like 0:30:12.320 --> 0:30:15.240 it's just so yeah, it's so impressive and if anything, 0:30:15.280 --> 0:30:18.120 you guys should have been getting paid way more than 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.920 your average actor, right, like yeah, it's you're. 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:24.760 Doing everything I can retroactively pay you, Like I feel 0:30:24.800 --> 0:30:28.240 like you you deserve to. There needs to be away. 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:33.480 Oh you know what, like whatever, it was, what it was. 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:37.560 It was my first job and now honestly doing conventions, 0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:41.840 which has been super helpful as I transitioned from acting 0:30:41.880 --> 0:30:47.719 to writing and directing. And just like the kindness that 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:48.480 comes from. 0:30:48.320 --> 0:30:50.680 Those shows and great aren't they. 0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.440 Kids that are adults now and how it impacted their 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:59.440 lives and like like yeah, I'm good, Like I'm happy, 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:03.520 like super grateful that I had the experience. But it 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:08.280 was dearly a wild ride, definitely a wild ride. Yeah. 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:10.520 I know we've now mentioned him a couple of times 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:14.680 only as JDF, but you know, Jason David Frank we 0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:18.320 lost him last year, and we all know firsthand that 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:22.640 when you share that many years with somebody and you 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:26.240 know you have those kinds of experiences, those are relationships 0:31:26.240 --> 0:31:27.840 that are one in a million. Not a whole lot 0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:32.320 of people know what those those relationships are like, can 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:33.840 you talk to us a little bit about what your 0:31:33.840 --> 0:31:36.480 relationship is like with the other Power Rangers and how 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:38.200 bonded or not bonded you feel. 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:44.720 Yeah, sure, yeah, David David is like my family. My 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:50.880 daughter calls him uncle Yost. We go on vacations every year. 0:31:51.040 --> 0:31:57.200 And he's actually from Wareham. Oh really, Okay, he his 0:31:57.320 --> 0:32:01.520 parents or he has a house on Wareham's So so 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:05.200 we go to Cape Cod every year together and I 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:08.280 just love him to death. And JDF was a very 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:15.440 very close friend and that was just awful. Yeah, but 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:19.120 as you guys know, like everybody, they're like family in 0:32:19.160 --> 0:32:21.080 a lot of ways, you know. And so I would 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:28.240 say David and Jason we're the closest to me. I'm 0:32:28.240 --> 0:32:35.680 now super close with jdf's daughter Jenna, and yeah, and 0:32:35.720 --> 0:32:41.680 then I see Walter at shows and Catherine, who played 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:44.440 the Pink Branger after me. She's super sweet. She texts 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:47.160 me every now and then we actually got closer, like 0:32:47.200 --> 0:32:48.720 I didn't really know her because I wasn't on the 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:52.719 show with her. But Jason passed away, we ended up 0:32:52.800 --> 0:32:55.640 reaching out to each other and sort of stay connected 0:32:56.240 --> 0:33:00.400 just through texts here and nice yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:04.280 And other than that, you know, I don't really and 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:06.760 then we lost Twee as well, who was the Yellow Ranger. 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:11.600 And then I don't really know much of the other people. 0:33:11.800 --> 0:33:14.640 I've met Aaron before she was a Pink Ranger once 0:33:14.720 --> 0:33:17.960 or a Yellow Ranger pink, Oh my god, I don't know. 0:33:21.240 --> 0:33:25.640 But yeah, yeah, well it sounds even funny for me 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:28.720 to bring this up considering what's available on TV now 0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:32.440 for kids. But the violence in Power Rangers was very 0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:36.480 controversial at the time in Canada. It was actually pulled 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:39.120 from TV before the end of the first season because 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:39.840 of complaints. 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:41.160 Do you remember any of that? 0:33:41.880 --> 0:33:45.520 I do, I remember. I remember the controversy over that, 0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:50.760 and and I think it was sort of a choice 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:53.240 for parents, like either they let their kids watch it 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:55.800 or not. But the message of each show is always 0:33:55.840 --> 0:34:01.240 like this positive, you know, learning lesson and having female 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:08.759 superheroes kick but was kind of cool, yea, yeah, but 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.520 we were just like pounding away on people. 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:16.160 Yeah, it seems mild compared to what's out there today. 0:34:17.440 --> 0:34:21.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, certainly compared to what's out there today. 0:34:21.880 --> 0:34:24.520 But my kids are huge fans and we have all 0:34:24.600 --> 0:34:28.640 the Power Rangers action figures, and I have many times 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:31.600 tried to pick up an action figure and be a 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:34.440 Power Ranger, and both of my sons have said to me, no, mommy, 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:37.600 you're the pink Power Ranger. And I was like, I don't. 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:40.080 I don't just have to be the pink Power Ranger 0:34:40.120 --> 0:34:41.480 because I could be a different one. 0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:44.000 Even though they exactly you. 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:49.000 Take your choice, but they always want me to be 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.319 the pink Power Ranger. I'm always like, okay, I well, 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:55.120 I am happy to do it. So I wanted to 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:59.239 talk to you about Felicity and your work with a 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:02.600 fellow boy me It's World guest star alum Carrie Russell. 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:07.200 Was it difficult doing the transition from Power Rangers and 0:35:07.280 --> 0:35:09.440 how did that role come about for you? 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:14.840 So I landed Felicity maybe four years, I don't know. 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:19.760 I left Power Rangers in ninety five and I got 0:35:20.239 --> 0:35:22.839 Felicity in ninety eight. So in between that, I had 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:25.000 done a bunch of Movies of the Week, like we 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:27.120 were talking about before, and so I think I had 0:35:27.160 --> 0:35:30.560 time to sort of take my acting classes and stuff. 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:33.880 And so when I landed that, that was just such 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:37.920 a huge win and I was just so excited to 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:42.439 be part of something that felt just like a little 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:48.360 more elevated Rangers. I'm kind of special and I had 0:35:49.960 --> 0:35:52.440 a great time. I was on the show most of 0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:55.640 the time. Again, I went and I asked to leave 0:35:55.719 --> 0:36:00.399 after two seasons, but I had lost my mother right 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:02.360 when I got the show, and I think I just 0:36:02.440 --> 0:36:05.359 needed to go grieve. I actually went to Chicago and 0:36:05.400 --> 0:36:07.040 recorded a rock album. 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:11.480 Oh wow, Oh, your character on Felicity was a musician. 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:15.000 So as if being like a gymnast wasn't an acting 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:19.240 wasn't enough, you also actually played guitar and were singing, 0:36:19.600 --> 0:36:20.919 and that was really you doing it right? 0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.399 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, Julie was first 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:26.640 a dancer, but then I was like, I don't really 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:28.479 know how to dance, but I play guitar, and they're 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:31.680 like great, so they incorporated that, which was cool. 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:35.600 Had you always been interested in singing? 0:36:37.160 --> 0:36:40.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I started playing. I taught myself how 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:42.880 to play the guitar in when I was like eighteen nineteen, 0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:47.879 and I've always just kept music on the side, sort 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:50.000 of like a hobby, a place to just kind of 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:54.320 go and express, especially when you know things aren't happening 0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:57.960 acting career or writing and directing. I actually have an 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:02.400 EP coming out and maybe about a month and a 0:37:02.480 --> 0:37:05.359 half we're still mixing it, but it's called Still Here 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:13.000 Mystery Songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so by going back 0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:16.080 to Felicity, what was the question anyway, it was just 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:18.799 it was a huge trendsit it was a very different experience. 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:22.239 Yeah, yeah, do you looking back now, do you? 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:24.560 I mean, obviously the grieving process, you need to do 0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:26.520 what you need to do when you need to do it. 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.759 But if you had to go back, would you have 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:29.759 stayed on Felicity? 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:35.640 Absolutely? Yeah, And there are no regrets, Like the way 0:37:35.920 --> 0:37:38.320 everything rolled out was the way everything rolled out. And 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:42.120 I and now that I know deep inside, like I 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:46.080 am much happier behind the camera and writing and directing 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.759 and I and I kind of knew that then, but 0:37:48.840 --> 0:37:52.640 I didn't give myself permission to actually pursue yea, I 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:59.040 thought I wasn't allowed to for whatever reason. So you know, 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:01.880 in hindsight, would I have stayed on the show? Probably 0:38:01.960 --> 0:38:06.560 should have and yes, But at the same time, I 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:08.120 still I don't know if I would have been any 0:38:08.160 --> 0:38:11.560 happier if I stayed, because I don't think that I've 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:15.960 ever truly loved acting, where as I love writing and directing. 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:20.000 Yeah, you mentioned that you're making your return to your 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:23.360 legacy with the comic book Mighty morphin Power Rangers The Return, 0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:26.880 which you co wrote for Boom Studios. Why don't you 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:28.440 tell us all about that? 0:38:29.480 --> 0:38:33.480 Yeah, So I wrote a comic book with my boyfriend 0:38:33.800 --> 0:38:36.840 Matt and we actually came up with the idea during 0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:40.920 COVID and it was a Power Ranger sort of like 0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:43.439 what if the original Rangers had stayed together? Where would 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:47.280 they be now? And we just started creating this wild 0:38:47.440 --> 0:38:51.560 story and then pitched it to Boom and about three 0:38:51.640 --> 0:38:59.680 years later. Everything takes long, they said yeah, and they 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:03.600 Hasbro and so we did it and we got this 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:07.759 amazing artist and Issue one came out a month ago. 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:12.960 Issue Too is just just came out and there's four 0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:16.520 issues and we kind of leave it open ended and 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:20.000 we have more ideas. And it's been very different because 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:22.400 I'm a I write screenplays and I have a couple 0:39:22.360 --> 0:39:24.719 of features, and I have two movies and I'm getting 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:27.560 off the ground. So to switch to go to comic 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:32.440 book writing was very different. It's a different muscle, Yeah, 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:35.080 but the immediate not immediate, but the. 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:39.640 Quicker gratification of it is very exciting and fine, then 0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:43.319 this story in this script away and then to get 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:49.040 back this amazing drawing and artwork, and like it's it's 0:39:49.080 --> 0:39:51.600 been really thrilling and fun and the response has been 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:52.160 pretty great. 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:54.680 So great. Where can people get it? 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:56.640 The comic book shop, right. 0:39:56.600 --> 0:40:00.239 Your local shop Wednesday wednesdays of the day when the 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:01.319 new books drop. 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:03.480 I think is for comic book fans. I think that's 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:04.319 what it is. Now. 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:08.520 Is it you said the original it's the OG Power Ranger? 0:40:08.600 --> 0:40:10.840 So is it the Green Ranger or is it the 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:12.760 White Ranger or is it the Gold Ranger? 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:14.399 Ah? 0:40:14.880 --> 0:40:16.920 So we actually that was one of the things We 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:20.479 went back and watched the show and found our sort 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:23.800 of jumping off point, and our jumping off point is 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:26.720 when the Green Ranger was still the Green Ranger. Okay, 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:33.000 So then from that point on we've created this news story. 0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:36.480 And the story really is there's flashbacks to what happened, 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:40.040 something really tragic happens twenty two years ago, but the 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:44.080 main story takes place now with the Rangers as middle 0:40:44.120 --> 0:40:44.680 aged people. 0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:46.439 That sounds really cool. 0:40:46.560 --> 0:40:49.600 It does happen, But are your characters from Power Rangers 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:51.120 your original OG characters cool? 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:52.160 The Original five. 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:55.200 Yeah, yeah, that's so great. That's neat. 0:40:55.320 --> 0:40:57.600 And I also wanted to touch on another thing that 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:01.000 bonds us. We have both become directors. You directed a 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:05.440 movie starring Felicity Huffman and Lauren Hawley called Tammy's Always Dying, 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:08.840 and you recently directed an episode of Superman and Lois 0:41:09.000 --> 0:41:12.040 So what drew you to direct behind the camera? 0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:18.000 Like I said a little bit earlier, I think I 0:41:18.000 --> 0:41:21.120 I've always wanted to do that. Right now, I am 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:23.480 did you guys have a video camera in the nineties 0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:26.640 and just videotape everything. 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.160 Right especially? Yeah, I have. 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:35.319 A hundred mini DVDs that I'm transferring right now, and 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:37.680 I realize I'm in none. 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:42.680 Of it right running around like filming everything, And I 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:49.640 really I think from that time I already loved directing. 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:53.200 Like there's I found one tape where this girl Raymi, 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:54.880 who was my friend. I dressed her up in my 0:41:54.920 --> 0:41:57.759 mom's old nightgown and made her run around a graveyard 0:41:57.800 --> 0:41:59.719 and just filmed her like I don't know what I 0:41:59.800 --> 0:42:03.640 was doing. She was like my muse, I have her 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:08.319 holding like a cookie monster. And anyway, but again, like 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.960 I said, I just I guess I didn't know if 0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:15.480 I was allowed to do that. And then I started writing, 0:42:15.719 --> 0:42:18.600 and in my thirties I wrote a couple of screenplays 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:22.319 and I actually sent one screenplay called Crazier Than You. 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:24.120 I sent it to John Ham because I had done 0:42:24.160 --> 0:42:26.800 a series with him and I knew he was directing, 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.440 and I said, do you want to direct this? And 0:42:29.480 --> 0:42:32.080 he read it and he's like, you should direct this, 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:35.680 and I was like, oh, maybe I should. And not 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:38.080 that it took a man to give me permission, but 0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:40.440 kind of I think in my head it did, and 0:42:40.480 --> 0:42:43.239 I was like, I can do this. So as soon 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:46.799 as I finished Flashpoint, which was the last series that 0:42:46.840 --> 0:42:50.799 I did here in Canada, I just started shooting short 0:42:50.840 --> 0:42:55.080 films and so I just got to I just like 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:57.839 figured it out, caught my teeth and just like got 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.319 people together. And then I did my first feature called 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:03.120 The Space Between for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, 0:43:03.160 --> 0:43:07.080 and just got everybody together and did it. And then 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.440 I did Tammy And so I don't know if I'm 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:12.080 answering your question, but I realized that I've wanted to 0:43:12.120 --> 0:43:13.480 do this from the very beginning. 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:17.680 I just didn't You've always been a director yeah. 0:43:17.880 --> 0:43:20.520 My wife has a similar you know, because she she's 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:23.160 always been an actor and only recently started directing, like 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:25.279 the last ten years. And it's so interesting because we 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:28.200 compare notes and like I always had this idea as 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:30.400 a kid, like I would look I would be like, oh. 0:43:30.280 --> 0:43:32.279 That's like the real job is directing, right. I would 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.600 look at the director and I would imagine, like, someday 0:43:34.640 --> 0:43:35.319 I'll get there. 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:36.799 And for her that. 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:39.200 Just never even occurred to her because there were all 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:41.239 men and it was not even an ope. It was 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:43.200 just not a conversation. It was like, if you're an 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:45.800 actor and a female actor, you just kind of stay 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:48.319 in that lane. And I remember, like when I was 0:43:48.320 --> 0:43:51.440 like twenty four, I worked on a film with a 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:55.160 female DP, and I remember just being like, oh, that's possible, 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:58.840 because literally it didn't exist. It's still so rare, you know, 0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:01.359 but it was like, oh, yeah, it's such a you know. 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:03.960 It's just it's so I'm so glad it's finally changing, 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:06.239 you know, because for somebody like my wife, who is 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:08.360 an amazing director, it would have been such a it 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.400 would have been such a natural thing for her in 0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:13.760 her early twenties to do that instead of acting probably, 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:14.200 you know. 0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:18.200 Yeah, And then I'm just so grateful for and love 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:22.520 watching people like Greta Gerwig or you know, these these 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:25.719 women who just knew early on and just like our 0:44:25.800 --> 0:44:30.319 help paving the way. It's like yes, yes, like why not, 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:32.680 like we have so many stories to tell. 0:44:33.040 --> 0:44:36.520 Similar to Writer's Wife Alex, never even occurred to me. 0:44:36.760 --> 0:44:39.640 Never through all the years of growing up. Never once 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.959 being on Boy Meets World, did I think, oh, yeah, 0:44:42.960 --> 0:44:45.200 someday I want to direct. Never, it was just like, yeah, no, 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:48.360 I'm I'm of course, I'm in front of the camera person, 0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:50.640 and that's all it's ever going to be. And then 0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:54.680 really it wasn't until Girl Meets World where I was like, oh, 0:44:55.680 --> 0:44:58.480 you think maybe I could, I could maybe do this, 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:01.759 And then the minute I did, I was like yes, 0:45:01.840 --> 0:45:03.360 it was like, oh my gosh, of course this is 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:04.520 what I'm supposed to be doing. 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.000 But did we have a single female director on Boy 0:45:07.239 --> 0:45:08.280 especially season seven? 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:11.240 We did? Was it was Jody right Well, Lynn McCracken. 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:14.600 Lynn McCracken did something and then what was her name? 0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:17.200 She did the Eskimo episode, the famous episode. 0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:19.839 Oh I wasn't in that one. I don't think gosh, 0:45:19.920 --> 0:45:20.520 what was her name. 0:45:20.600 --> 0:45:22.640 She only did the one episode, but she was also 0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:24.600 but you know what that was with a lot of 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:27.440 Jody and that other woman came up through a Disney 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:29.759 program for women's price, which was great. They had a 0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:33.800 famous stock, right, Jody Binstock was great. She's now a producer. 0:45:34.360 --> 0:45:35.759 But yeah, there was. 0:45:35.880 --> 0:45:38.840 Unfortunately, Disney has a program I'm assuming they still have it. 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:43.840 They had a fellowship even back then to encourage female directors, 0:45:43.840 --> 0:45:44.520 which was awesome. 0:45:44.560 --> 0:45:44.880 That's right. 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:46.319 We had Lynn and we had Jody. I don't think 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:47.280 I was in that program. 0:45:47.280 --> 0:45:50.800 Who knows. Yeah, that's all right, that's the reality, especially 0:45:50.840 --> 0:45:53.280 back then of directing. It's just the boys club. 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:57.640 Yeah, yeah, well you have a daughter. How old is 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:58.080 your daughter? 0:45:58.800 --> 0:45:59.280 Fifteen? 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:03.680 Does she show any interest in the entertainment industry at all? 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:09.200 She really doesn't. She loves math and she loves coding 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:10.480 and right. 0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:14.160 So healthy, Yeah, I love it. You can just support 0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:18.840 those things unequivocally, just say yeah. 0:46:17.800 --> 0:46:22.759 Yeah yeah. But although I find her like she's I 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:26.200 find her very creative and I like, I think that 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:31.160 she would be a really great writer and she actually 0:46:31.200 --> 0:46:32.960 I did like a little video the other day. I 0:46:32.960 --> 0:46:34.600 wanted to go to the comic book shop and see 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:38.040 if they had my my comic book there. And so 0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:40.480 I asked her to filmmate and she did such a 0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:46.360 good job. She edited a little movie and I'm like, Ricky, 0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:49.560 you there's a future for you in the arts, and 0:46:49.640 --> 0:46:51.280 she's like, Nope, nope. 0:46:54.719 --> 0:46:56.200 That's so funny. 0:46:56.920 --> 0:47:01.280 So last question, over thirty years since going from Gymnasts 0:47:01.360 --> 0:47:06.040 to Worldwide super Icon, when you see that first season 0:47:06.200 --> 0:47:10.040 version of yourself on Power Rangers, what are your thoughts 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:11.479 on young Amy Joe? 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:12.799 What would you tell her now? 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:19.480 Well, I think one thing I struggled with for a 0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:23.200 long time through my twenties was comparing myself to other people. 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:27.160 I think I would tell her, don't do that. That's 0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:31.480 just it's it's not it's a dead end road there, 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:35.560 or it's a painful road. Actually, I would tell her 0:47:35.600 --> 0:47:39.840 to not do that, and and I would tell her 0:47:39.880 --> 0:47:40.840 to go right and direct. 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:48.200 Yes, yes, Early, I would also like to go back 0:47:48.280 --> 0:47:49.879 and ask for a raise for you. 0:47:50.360 --> 0:47:55.200 Yeah, retroactively exactly, a raise, some more stunt people and 0:47:55.440 --> 0:47:56.759 more than three holes in the mask. 0:47:58.280 --> 0:48:04.640 Yes, there were three Rangers that did ask for that 0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:05.480 and they were fired. 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:09.080 Okay, really they had paid the way for you to 0:48:09.160 --> 0:48:15.359 know the answer for that. Wow the nineties man, Yeah, Wow, Well, 0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:17.759 Amy Joe, thank you so much for being here with us, 0:48:17.960 --> 0:48:20.600 sharing your time and your story with us. It's I'm 0:48:20.760 --> 0:48:22.520 I feel like I can't believe this is the first 0:48:22.520 --> 0:48:26.200 time I'm meeting you. Been a big fan from AFAR 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:28.239 for a long time, So thank you so much for 0:48:28.280 --> 0:48:29.200 being here with us. 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.520 Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are awesome. 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:33.600 Go to the comic book store get her comic. 0:48:33.880 --> 0:48:36.920 Yes, mmp more from Power Rangers the Return. 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:39.399 I'm going to get a copy and then next if 0:48:39.400 --> 0:48:41.239 I if I see you at a con, I'm going 0:48:41.320 --> 0:48:42.880 to have you sign it for my kids. 0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:48.960 They're going to be so excited. Thank you, Thanks bye. 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:54.960 Seven hundred dollars a week, and they probably do a 0:48:55.239 --> 0:48:57.520 time four episodes. 0:48:58.000 --> 0:48:59.920 With all the physical stuff too, They're doing all the 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:02.000 your own stuff. It's always that way though. 0:49:02.040 --> 0:49:02.960 I feel like you know. 0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:07.920 That It's such a crappy thing about the entertainment industry 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:11.279 is that people are always exploited because you. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:13.480 Know, we all, I mean everybody loves movies and TV 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:16.000 show like we all love you know, the dream of 0:49:16.040 --> 0:49:17.000 like being a park. 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:18.840 Imagic. 0:49:19.200 --> 0:49:21.480 Yeah, and like so I mean, and it's not. 0:49:21.400 --> 0:49:24.040 Just actors, it's it's mostly crue right, I mean it's 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:26.520 mostly people like young people coming out of film school 0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:30.400 totally taking advantage of and paid nothing or very little. 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:33.720 And yeah, and then actors obviously, you know, you're willing 0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:35.920 to sacrifice because you're in front of the camera because 0:49:35.960 --> 0:49:38.240 you think it's you know, it's and and the truth 0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:41.840 is like that's not sustainable, like you know, the chances 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.319 of you you know, she had a sustainable career, luckily, 0:49:44.360 --> 0:49:46.000 because it sounds like she did a lot of smart 0:49:46.000 --> 0:49:49.880 things afterwards. But you know, being just being on one 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:51.399 of those kinds of shows or being on a soap 0:49:51.440 --> 0:49:52.680 opera that can last a couple. 0:49:52.480 --> 0:49:54.000 Of years and then you might not work again for 0:49:54.680 --> 0:49:56.400 ten years. That's just the way. Oh it is. And 0:49:56.400 --> 0:49:58.400 it's not to do with your talent. It's just the 0:49:58.520 --> 0:49:59.960 nature of the business. 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:01.960 I got this other weird thing with this type of 0:50:02.000 --> 0:50:04.480 show where it's like almost like an athlete, you get 0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:06.319 hurt and they're going to catch somebody else. 0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:06.600 That's it. 0:50:06.640 --> 0:50:07.000 You're done. 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:08.960 Oh you blow up your knee. Sorry, you got to 0:50:08.960 --> 0:50:12.280 go do something else now. So yeah, that's it's crazy. 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:15.160 But they that's Another reason that I really love the 0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:17.640 conventions and the convention circuit is because a lot of 0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:20.720 actors like Amy Joe, like a lot of the Rangers 0:50:20.719 --> 0:50:23.480 that we've met, people that maybe didn't make a lot 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:26.959 of money when they were on the show now get 0:50:26.960 --> 0:50:28.880 to make a little bit now and meet the fans 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:29.920 and do all that kind of stuff. 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:31.959 So it's nice that there's kind of research. 0:50:31.640 --> 0:50:33.160 And with grown ups as opposed to. 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:37.160 Seven seven year old kids screaming every exactly shake somebody's 0:50:37.200 --> 0:50:40.759 hand to be like, yeah, okay, that's cool that the 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:43.200 idea for the comic book though, sounds really That sounds really, 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:43.680 that sounds cool. 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:46.920 Great film, Yeah, that sounds really great. So it's a 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:47.640 great idea. 0:50:47.800 --> 0:50:50.280 She's so well rounded. It's really awesome to see somebody 0:50:50.320 --> 0:50:50.879 who like. 0:50:50.960 --> 0:50:55.799 Clearly has never settled into one version for some Yeah. 0:50:55.840 --> 0:50:59.319 Well, and I love that never once after being a 0:50:59.320 --> 0:51:02.439 part of such a massive franchise, Like she's so very 0:51:02.480 --> 0:51:05.840 clearly is like comfortable, Like most people become addicted to 0:51:05.920 --> 0:51:08.640 the being on camera and to the fame feeling and 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:10.040 to the attention that brings. 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.600 And for her to be like I don't want it, 0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:13.520 I don't like it. 0:51:13.640 --> 0:51:16.680 Yeah, and to be totally comfortable being like, I'm just 0:51:16.840 --> 0:51:18.600 gonna be happier behind the scenes. 0:51:18.640 --> 0:51:20.880 So she walked away from two series. 0:51:21.960 --> 0:51:24.319 I mean that's she asked to be written out of 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:25.280 two different series. 0:51:25.280 --> 0:51:25.880 That's amazing. 0:51:26.680 --> 0:51:27.880 That takes a lot of confidence. 0:51:28.000 --> 0:51:30.319 Yeah, I'll say well, thank you all for joining us 0:51:30.320 --> 0:51:32.840 for this episode of Pod Meets World. 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