1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,119 Speaker 2: And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast. 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's what you really miss podcasts. The 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: guest too. Oh, let's know, Alex just finish Shocked on Broadway. 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: They just recently closed, and Alex has a concert coming 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: up at the Polladium and in London doing Pippin. I 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: would love to see that, I know. Yeah, there's a 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: lot of stuff we talked about the Glee projects. 9 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: And then Alex's memory is unmatched. 10 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: It's a vault. Yeah. 11 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 2: I hurt from laughing. My side's hurt, my cheeks hurt. 12 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: Just be prepared. Here is the. 13 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: Maybe funniest thing that's ever happened on the show thus far. 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: This is Alex Noble. 15 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: How are you? How is? How was the closing of Shocked? 16 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: Congrats on that beautiful. 17 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 3: I almost hemorrhaged my chords after Thanksgiving and so I 18 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 3: was out of the show all of December. 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and. 20 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: My Auntie cleared me to the very last one and 21 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: then sat in the audience just in case something went wrong. 22 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's crazy. That must have been hard, 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: you know, No, just a nice break. 24 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: My body was exhausted, that was a lot. I mean, 25 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 3: if there was the morning show, I did it. If 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 3: there was a TV show that had the in front 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: of it, I did it. 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: All across the country too, and then also eh show 29 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: truly and. 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 3: Then eight shows a week. I think my body was 31 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: just like, uh, you're done. 32 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: Sit down, please, yes, please God, I'm glad you got 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: to sit down. 34 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: Then same and I'm glad Beyonce has followed your lead 35 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 2: and started putting out country music. 36 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 3: Honestly, just stunt on the whole. She just said, look over. 37 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 2: There, said Alex is doing it so good. 38 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: Honestly, Beyonce should play Lulu in the movie. It would 39 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 3: be a success, and I would gladly bow out. 40 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: Whoa, no, no, no, you have to do it. 41 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think Beyonce would be better. 42 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, Beyonce can cover it on the soundtrack. 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 3: Okay, yes, yes, yes. 44 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly need to see you on that screen, Oh 45 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 2: my god, as much as I love Beyonce. 46 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: Beyonce Knowles, yeah, sacred. Okay. So the last time we 47 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: talked to you on this podcast, we were just talking 48 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: about your Tony and all things Tony. Congrats on the Tony. 49 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: You're a Tony Winner. You're still a Tony Winner forever. 50 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: So this one I would love to talk about because 51 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: we've had like Damien on and we've had Sam on 52 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: and so I'm just curious, like how that whole thing 53 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: one for you because you won like a two episode 54 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: arc and then you ended up being on our show 55 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: for a very for a very long time. 56 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 3: My experience was traumatic, to say the least. Kevin called 57 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: me lazy and I pulled up. 58 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: Kevin called you lazy. 59 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: I will never let Kevin live it down for the 60 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: rest of his life and mine. Whoever goes first put 61 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 3: it on my tombstone. 62 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: Kevin, what did you say? 63 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 3: It's Kevin, Remind the people what you said. 64 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: Look, and I grew up watching American Idol, right, and 65 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 2: you watch these judges. Simon mostly was like he was mean, 66 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: but a lot of the time he was right. Yes, 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: and I always I mean, we're all the same in 68 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: this way. We're like, if you give me, if you 69 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: put me in the position to be that person, oh 70 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: let me. However, when you when I got on set, 71 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 2: because that was my mind set going into the Glee project, 72 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be 73 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 2: a bitch. Yeah, but when you get there and you 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 2: see all like everyone talented children, everyone's living under these 75 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: conditions that I wasn't even sure about, right, and you're 76 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: not Like I can't do that to these kids and 77 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: I don't know where they come from if they can 78 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: handle it, Like who am I? 79 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: I also just got hired on this random show. However, 80 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: I looked at Alex. 81 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, this bitch is good, and 82 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 2: guess who knows it? Alex does, and I could something 83 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 2: jumped out of me. Oh it was because like I 84 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 2: can't let how I felt was we all know how 85 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: good you are, like please shut them down, like you 86 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: can't phone it in, yeah, because it's easy for you. 87 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: Like I feel like your resting is better than most 88 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: peop people. Was going full out, and so it was 89 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 2: like I didn't know like where you were in your 90 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 2: head during that time, like what was going on at all? 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 2: So like who am I to go up and be 92 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: like you need to do more like my dad? But 93 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 2: it was just something I just was. 94 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: Like, oh, this is good. 95 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 3: I mean we all knew and not even to cheat 96 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: my own horn. It was just like I I really 97 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 3: just was different than everybody, and not to like brag 98 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 3: about it, Like the mechanism that I have was just 99 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 3: so different than everybody there. It's like, you want to sing. 100 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 3: I know how to sing. I've been singing for my 101 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 3: life and bread and butter since I was two. 102 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have like a when I hear people 103 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: sing like that, I have, you know, like all the 104 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 2: already hands like going up and that's just me. Yeah, 105 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: like I can't, I can't help it. It jumps out 106 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 2: of my body. And so when I saw you sing 107 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: for the first time, that's what happened. And I was 108 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 2: just like I need, like I want to selfishly, like 109 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: I want to hear this on a ten right now. 110 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: And I know you're just like cruising out of six. 111 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 3: Cruised out of six, But you know, it's also the 112 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 3: scared the scarcity of not the scarcity of the scaredness 113 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 3: of it all of being eighteen and thrown into this 114 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 3: wild circumstance with this myriad of different talents from everywhere 115 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 3: and trying to figure out one how you last and 116 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 3: one how you shine at the same time. And somehow 117 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 3: I was trying to play nice to everybody, but it 118 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 3: wasn't really working, and we love a good editor, because 119 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 3: between me and Lindsay had a peers we were the 120 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 3: bitches of the season. It's because we always I mean 121 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 3: in theater you have to know, like you're going to 122 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 3: hear a lot of nose and you have to create 123 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,039 Speaker 3: this thick skin around that. And I think we come 124 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 3: in knowing that we're very confident, but then that doesn't 125 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 3: read well even if you're being nice and trying to 126 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 3: just coast on die. 127 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: No, it's an immediate villain edit for you. 128 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 3: Yes, right, which is crazy? 129 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, which was And you both come in there like 130 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 2: trained can seeing your faces off. And we talked to 131 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: Damien and Damien was like, I didn't know what I 132 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: was doing in that. Damien also has a very different voice, 133 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: but had been on tour station in a different way, 134 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 2: and so it was like all these people were like 135 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 2: why why are we here with these people? And why 136 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: are we here with those people? 137 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 3: It's just the different people that we're around. And also 138 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 3: seep sleep deprivation. I mean we were woken up to 139 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 3: just lights being on, like it's pitch black darkness, and 140 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 3: then all of a sudden you hear the ripcord of 141 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 3: the generator and then like studio lights come on and 142 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 3: you're just like, ah, okay. 143 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: Oh my god, well you have to just shoot in 144 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: the school, right, So it was like at the odd 145 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: hours of when they were not no, sorry. 146 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: We shot on a campsite. 147 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like in the woods. 148 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 3: We were in the woods in a campsite in Glendale. 149 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, like dusty. 150 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 3: Like the boys had their own uh what do they 151 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 3: call it, little turret, not a turret, little cabin, and 152 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,119 Speaker 3: the girls had their own little turret cabin over here, 153 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 3: and then there was like a bathroom cabin in the middle. 154 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 3: So like to get to the girl's turret, I don't 155 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: know why that word sounds so wonderful right now, we 156 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 3: had to like walk outside. But also every elimination day 157 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 3: it chowse like it wanted to rain. I don't know 158 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 3: what was happening in La when I got when I 159 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 3: moved to La and they were like, I was like, 160 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 3: it was raining every Friday last year for like two 161 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 3: solid months. But like you're in these like these dirty 162 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 3: conditions and you're outside in the mud because it's raining 163 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 3: every day, you're in your boots. And then on top 164 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 3: of that, it was like, y'all, can we have like 165 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 3: a housekeeper come and clean the bathrooms because it's a 166 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 3: free for all. It's a shared bathroom, and it's a 167 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: free for all. Yeahs is a bathroom for a good 168 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 3: week and a half. Yeah, like tears, like actual tears 169 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 3: where Emily who's on the show, she's like, baby, you. 170 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: Need to go, oh my god. 171 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 2: And then you have an asshole like me show and 172 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 2: be like you're not doing enough. 173 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 3: Well, we also had nicky Anders kicking our asses every. 174 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: Every week, right, every week? 175 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 3: Right, And it's still jarring that. Like Ryan was told 176 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: me that I was the first person that didn't win 177 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 3: the Glee Project and then got on the show and 178 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 3: never left. Well, I eventually left. 179 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: So you and Lindsay both won? 180 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 3: Are we both won consolation prizes of two episodes and 181 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: a song on the Christmas album? 182 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: Right? Right? 183 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 3: Okay? 184 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: And then what was it like getting a call? Who 185 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: called you? 186 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,839 Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure it was just my agent being like, hey, bitch, 187 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 3: you're flying out. And I was also in my high 188 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 3: school mind you, yeah, and it came at this No, 189 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 3: I'm very just very experienced. No, I was my junior 190 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 3: years when I filmed the Glee Project, and then my 191 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 3: senior year is when I did my first episode of Glee, 192 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 3: the Glee Project couldn't tell anybody about it until it 193 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 3: started airing or until like so, so we finished. We 194 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 3: finished filming in February of my junior year, which is 195 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 3: what twenty eleven, and then it aired that same summer. 196 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 3: So I came into my senior year a star, very fame, 197 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 3: very famous. I was already famous because I was only 198 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 3: a black kid in my school, but like very even 199 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: more famous. But no, my agent just called, She's like, 200 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 3: you're leaving, and I remember because I had just booked 201 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 3: what did I book Chicago at my theater for first 202 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,479 Speaker 3: senior year musical and couldn't do it. 203 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: It was very straight, it's done to Hollywood. 204 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 2: We so when you got to Glee, we just watched 205 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: your episode. Let me tell you, thank god you ended 206 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 2: up on the show. I know because you're like Wade's 207 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:26,719 Speaker 2: first interaction and also just the pairing of like Chris 208 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: and Amber together that whole magical that was absolutely right. 209 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 2: And then when you show up as you need and 210 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 2: that fully realized, and it was also just I don't 211 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 2: know the contrast to seeing you as Wade and then 212 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 2: Unique and then performing boogie Shoes was just like, yeah, 213 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 2: ship on. 214 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: Them, right, what was boogy Shoes? 215 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 3: Like that song? It's so ingrained in my brain now 216 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 3: if anything else is that one right there. I remember 217 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 3: every ounce of it. I remember even hearing Tiffany's guide 218 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 3: vocal for the first time. I was like sitting in 219 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 3: a hotel in West Hollywood because I had flown out 220 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 3: the night before recording and they sent it to me 221 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 3: and I literally started sobbing. I was like, this is 222 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 3: so good. And then I get into the studio and 223 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 3: just fully go unhinged singing. And then I'm in the 224 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 3: Powerhouse with Zach and Brook when all these gorgeous, gorgeous dancers, 225 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 3: and I'm like, I can't keep up. I can't keep up. 226 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 3: And then the shoe was walking and I said, I 227 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 3: definitely can't keep up. And there were some tallest seals 228 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 3: because I I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself 229 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 3: because I really wanted it, and I really wanted it 230 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 3: to make a splash, because I was the last one. 231 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 3: Damien had started, Sam had started, Lindsay had already done 232 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 3: her thing, Danny Go was tapping the house down boots 233 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 3: and it was just like the run of the group 234 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 3: me just trying to make it up as you go, 235 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 3: because I mean here hearing that you weren't the win 236 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 3: of the Glee Project and then dealing with all like 237 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 3: the backlash from the fans that watch the Glee Project 238 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 3: where you're not the forerunner and nobody likes you and 239 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 3: everybody likes the the Irish brogue or the outcast for 240 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 3: the Dreadlocks or the Broadway princess like Lindsay, and then 241 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: here you come. You're just like, ah, I know how 242 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: to say, I know what I say pretty well. But 243 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 3: it was very nice you do enlightening seeing it for 244 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 3: the first time, and like just in englfing what that 245 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 3: experience was. It was very cathartic at that time. I mean, like, 246 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 3: who would know that you were just a teenager in 247 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 3: your freshman year and your boyfriend at the time like 248 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 3: tells you about this magical television show and you watched 249 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 3: a pilot on the YouTube, and then you become a 250 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 3: fan of all these lovely people on the lovely Glee 251 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 3: Show and then you're on it. It's stupid. It doesn't 252 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 3: happen that way, right, and honestly shouldn't happen that way. 253 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 3: It was wild. I mean, I remember Brooke walking up 254 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 3: to me and she's like, I know what you're doing 255 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: with your face. Stop it smile And I said. 256 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh my god, I said, sure. 257 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 3: Babe, I can smile. And then you know, then you're 258 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 3: called back to do another episode that you weren't supposing. 259 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 3: You're like, well, that's it. They're like, no, this isn't it. 260 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: You're gonna do another one as well. But then this 261 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 3: one is just like a cutaway. We just put you 262 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 3: in the script. Put you in the script, and I 263 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 3: said okay, and then you're lifted up by all the 264 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 3: gorge gorgeous boy dancers and a split lift. Yeah, I 265 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 3: might have a hamstring, but like, yeah, and you got 266 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: to work with Jay Groff. Yes, my babies. 267 00:14:58,480 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: Amazing. 268 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 3: It's crazy to think even to think how I kind 269 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 3: of just fit into this world back then? 270 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: Yeah you did? How did you? 271 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 2: How did it feel coming on to set with everyone? 272 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 2: And I mean because in that episode you we didn't 273 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 2: really get to work with you at all. You you worked 274 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 2: with Amber and Chris, Amber and Chris the best and Sean. 275 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. The first person to greet me when I got 276 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 3: to uh uh base camp was Leah. Hm. The very 277 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 3: first one. She was very warm, she was very inviting. 278 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 3: She welcomed me with open arms, and I can hold 279 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 3: that to be true. Yeah, I had no qualms back then. 280 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: Hm. 281 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 3: I was like, work, bitch, this is your show. I'm 282 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 3: just here for a few I'm just for a little pal. 283 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 3: I'm not even near your little show choir yet. 284 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: I haven't touched it. 285 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, hebby, I'm at a whole other school. I don't 286 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 3: know what from me, baby girl. 287 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: When you did come over, though, it did feel like 288 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: you just fit in. 289 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 3: I don't know why that was though. 290 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 2: It's just a personality that wasn't it like we all have. 291 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 2: I like, I don't know a world in which we 292 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 2: don't get along. 293 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 294 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: Same, And maybe that's it. 295 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 3: I think it was just and I mean we weren't 296 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 3: around each other outside before we started doing everything, even 297 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 3: before I even walked in, because I was at the 298 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 3: Little Glee movie premiere. Come on three D, right, come 299 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 3: on three D? I have a three D film. I 300 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 3: still understand where the three D came in at Was 301 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 3: it they that came in at the Green? I don't 302 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 3: know where three D was. 303 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: It had to be three D that was real and yeah, yeah, 304 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: you were around. I was around, Now were you? Like 305 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: most people newcast members who came in were week to 306 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: week where a script would show up on their door 307 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: and they'd say, oh, wow, I guess I'm doing another episode. 308 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: Was that the same for you? 309 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 3: I think so? 310 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: Yes? 311 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 2: Were you flying back to school like in between episodes? 312 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 3: No, because I graduated high school after season three, got 313 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 3: it okay, and I was on my way to Berkeley 314 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 3: School of Music on my little scholarship to you know, 315 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 3: ooh and and struggles as a college kid and being 316 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 3: did and then my agent called us, Ryan said, to 317 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 3: you on the show next season, So bringing the Last 318 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 3: to Hollywood. We'll give you this little ten thousand relocation fee, 319 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 3: and you better make it. Wow, better make it work, 320 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 3: Make it work. 321 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: Some of my favorite memories. You were in that newer 322 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: class like one, Jacob and Becca and Melissa and everybody 323 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: joined us and we created like our new group of people. Yea, 324 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: and boy did we have fun. 325 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 3: Oh we had too much fun. 326 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 2: It was so much fun. And it was I was 327 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 2: worried too, because it was like everyone that we knew 328 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 2: that we had like going away. Yeah, like half of 329 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: them left and like, oh, thank God. 330 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: Like all of you are so cool. 331 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 3: It's what you said about personality. It's I think that 332 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 3: it was like a good group of people that did 333 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 3: mesh well together or knew what like the greater good 334 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 3: of making a sixteen hour day less shitt. 335 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. We really, I mean really did 336 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 1: some ridiculous things. 337 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 3: Like I'll never forget that Christmas episode Becus boy Child, 338 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 3: my God, and Jenna looking at me and listening like 339 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 3: drink chugging mountain dew. Oh my god, we're not worried 340 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 3: about our sperm count, ladies, And I said help. 341 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: That's that's right, I said help. In our white outfits 342 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: were our wipe arrays like talking. 343 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 3: It was like, but seeing Mary's boy Child, I will 344 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: always go back and look at that thing and look 345 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 3: at the one mistake that haunts me for the rest 346 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 3: of my life. 347 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: What is that one? 348 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 3: I don't know what I was where I was. I 349 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 3: was in the white room, and we were doing one 350 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 3: piece of choreography, like a little gyration, and somehow it 351 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 3: just snuck up on me. 352 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: And I just say, oh shit, I gotta go watch 353 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: just like looking it made it, you know, broke in 354 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: the front of the stage doing it for us too, 355 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: like we had somebody to watch. 356 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 3: I mean, Britney Parks was doing Divas right while filming. 357 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 3: I said, hey, I don't know what this is. You 358 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 3: taught this in ten seconds. 359 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: I mean, roar, We're like, you know, trap across the stage. 360 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 3: I've never thought in my life I would see a 361 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 3: man in a wheelchair heeded across the stage. 362 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: I was like, please fall, I could collect an insurance check. 363 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: I mean, there were some dark times in that show, 364 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 3: but like somehow I wanted to be there most days. 365 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 2: Yes, you got me through too. Like I looked at 366 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 2: during that Christmas episode. I hit a wall one night 367 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 2: and I was like, I don't have to do half 368 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 2: the shit Alex is doing this episode like you had 369 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 2: to do some crazy shit. 370 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 3: I gave birth to black baby Jesus. 371 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you came up to me and you're like, 372 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 2: we're just we're just don't make belief. 373 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: It's like I needed to hear that, thank you. 374 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:35,959 Speaker 3: It is adult. Make believe. It can't be that serious 375 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 3: all the time. We're not curing cancer, all right, We're 376 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 3: changing lives sometimes, yes, but me giving birth to black 377 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 3: baby Jesus and a glitter diaper not changing lives. 378 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: That was a Saturday too when we shot that number, 379 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: wasn't it though? 380 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 3: It was? 381 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: I remember vividly those sequins scratching the side of my 382 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: armpits so badly. 383 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 3: The City Hawkins dress that Vanessa wore was like she 384 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 3: was bleeding for her art and I said, it shouldn't 385 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 3: be this. 386 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: Deep, literally, it should not be this deep for her art. 387 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: I was like, and she had like all across her 388 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: and she never complained. It was a sweet little thing, 389 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: like the blood cloth. 390 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 3: I was like, couldn't be me. 391 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 2: No, she think she had been like physically abused in 392 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:27,640 Speaker 2: front of us. 393 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 3: Tell me I was perfectly always good to walk into 394 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 3: the wardrobe trailer and make my new costume and walk 395 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 3: on set. Did you do that all the time they 396 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 3: would send They would set an outfit and I'd be like, 397 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 3: absolutely not, and I'll just walk in and I'd look 398 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 3: at Jen and be like, baby, we're not doing this. 399 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 3: Hand me this, because you know, they the whole premise 400 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 3: of like Unique. I almost said, Monique, Wow, racism is real. 401 00:21:54,720 --> 00:22:00,479 Speaker 3: Unique was like she was wearing her mother's clothes. So 402 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 3: I was just in, like the finest of Lane Bryant 403 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 3: like the finest of Lane Bryant and like the top 404 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 3: tier of tour Rid and you know, they got dark 405 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 3: real fast, so where everything was just like falling off 406 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 3: of me. The entire time. I was just like, I'm 407 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 3: really not that fat. 408 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: Everything are coming into like the classroom with kids Drenk. 409 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 3: Looking like I didn't belong to I'm like, everybody. 410 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: Gets to wear like gap, like what are you wearing today? 411 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 1: You're like, I don't know. I have no idea. 412 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 3: And then there were days that I'd be wigless and 413 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 3: I'd like, I really don't know what's going on. 414 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 1: Those were the days, right, Yeah, I. 415 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 3: Was like, I have no idea. What was this person 416 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: talking about? A character with like identity crisis? I mean yes, 417 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 3: but still. 418 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I. 419 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 2: Didn't see you like that aspect of it was like 420 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 2: thoughtful to you, like the identity of it all because 421 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 2: it was one of them. 422 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 3: No, I think I just made it in my own delulu. 423 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 3: I made it. 424 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: Thoughtful, Okay. 425 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 3: I'd be like, oh, so this is what it is, 426 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 3: because remember that time, they did not tell any of 427 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 3: us who the catfish was. 428 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: But it's me. I forgot it. 429 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 3: Everybody to sit here, I guess and I was like, no, it's. 430 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: Me, and we're wondering why we got along. 431 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 3: I was like, thank y'all, y'all are not dance? Like 432 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: who else is going to be the person who's never 433 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 3: had a scene with this person? Who else is it 434 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 3: gonna be? 435 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 1: I remember we were all sitting around in the choir 436 00:23:52,240 --> 00:24:00,160 Speaker 1: room talking about it in between setups, and You're like. 437 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: Like, we can me stop calling a kid kater, like 438 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: we know it's me. They were like what really, yes, yes, 439 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 3: so right, like it is the obvious tell story right. 440 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: Oh my god, the catfish story. 441 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was I mean, there were a 442 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 3: lot of unhinged. The shooting story. I'm still unwell from 443 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 3: crying real tears. 444 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: I wasn't even there. I didn't need to be with you. 445 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: You you how is that? 446 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 2: As someone who watched the show and was a fan 447 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 2: of this show and then you end up on the show. 448 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 3: And you watch what the show is, it. 449 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 4: Starts becoming really crazy, unhinged, unhinged. 450 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 3: It was strange, but like then you really just I mean, 451 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 3: by season five, I was just like, well, y'all, come on, 452 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 3: from all of us, play my dress on, come on, 453 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 3: we ain't got to traumise too much happened to just 454 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,959 Speaker 3: do it, just say a little, We're gonna get through it. 455 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 3: Brad is gonna eat a yam. 456 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 2: Right, you learn quickly. You saw how we were like, okay, 457 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 2: come on. 458 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 3: But that's why I was so quiet most of season 459 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 3: for quiet Esque, because I was just watching. 460 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: I was just absorbing. When did I walk out of 461 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: with the porter potty? Do you remember that one? Uh 462 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: if I. 463 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 3: Were a boy episode? Oh? 464 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: That was ad episode that was. 465 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 3: The end of work is good? 466 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: It's really good, good, Alex. I didn't remember that, thank you. 467 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's great. 468 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 3: The end of work where a wig was thrown down. 469 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 3: You know the shittiest part about that scene where the 470 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 3: wig was thrown off. I sat there on the Glee 471 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 3: set for about three hours trying to make the peak 472 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 3: contraption because I was supposed to be so scared that 473 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 3: I peed on myself. It eventually got cut because it 474 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 3: was just like I was giving birth to a child. 475 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 3: Because it wasn't just this gorgeous cinematic stream coming down 476 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 3: my leg. It was just like what it was just 477 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: like ah, and I was like, this is not cute. 478 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: We were going for It's. 479 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 3: Like I don't think y'all gonna use this, but there 480 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 3: I am just standing there singing if I were born 481 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 3: wet for three dates. 482 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: Al just just oh god, oh my god. 483 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 3: What I do remember that episode was I had a 484 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 3: breakdown because you know who wouldn't be triggered and traumatically 485 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 3: stressed by being bullied in the bathroom. And Wendy looked 486 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 3: at me and said, what do you need? And I 487 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 3: was just like, smoothie. I got that damn smoothie. 488 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: Both and then I spilled it on myself on that 489 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: white top. Oh my god, sweet Wendy, Sweet Wendy. 490 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, sweet, sweet Wendy. 491 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: That was a big storyline for you. 492 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 3: That was the That was the biggest one. O than 493 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 3: the catfish one, Darling. Oh my god, oh the cat 494 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 3: I was put to the ringer. They were like underdog, 495 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 3: where can we put the underdog? And what's beneath the underdog? 496 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 2: Cat fish? 497 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 3: Truly in the toilet? What a time. And then just 498 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 3: rolling around on a star bus. 499 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: That was fun, unhinged. 500 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 3: But very fun. 501 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 2: It was fully school like field trip schooled out. Yeah, 502 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: Becca and I got drunk. 503 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: Brooks hiding in the back of the on the top 504 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: of the truck laying down always we're on the top 505 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: of the bus right and you're going down like towards 506 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: the Hollywood sign. By way, that bus was rickety as hell. 507 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: But the trees when they were like, dump, the trees 508 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: are going to hit the branches are going to hit you, 509 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: we were like, we've made it. We really made it. 510 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 3: Top tier work. 511 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: Also, at that point, the headlines we were all talking 512 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 2: about like could you imagine this show was like the 513 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 2: biggest thing on the planet, and then during production just 514 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 2: wiped out. 515 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 3: Branches. Well, and that's what you really missed. Yeah, they 516 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 3: all they all got to capitate it, honey. 517 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 518 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 2: But nope, we stayed alive to make it to Pink's 519 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:41,959 Speaker 2: Hot Dogs. 520 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 3: Honestly, the fact that we made that day is quite stunning. 521 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: Every day felt like that, really, yes, exactly, astonishing that 522 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: we made our day or just seeing wrong. 523 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 3: Ryan didn't come down and say, I didn't improve this, 524 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 3: I didn't I don't know what you're wearing. 525 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 1: Get it off. Uh. 526 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 3: I remember they filmed that whole entire rooftop scene. Uh, 527 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 3: Heather and Darren and then Ryan came down and said, nope, 528 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 3: I don't like to set. 529 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: I remember when we're hearing about that, right. 530 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 3: Oh, so can I go home because I have to 531 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 3: see it? I can go, Okay, bye, I'll see y'all later. 532 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 2: It was I wish people could understand how it was 533 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: so high school, oh, because we would it was fully 534 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: just games of telephone all day long, because Alex would 535 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 2: hear that then for example, like might text us and 536 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 2: be like, oh my god, I saw this thing, Like oh, 537 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 2: so then we're not getting called in later, so then 538 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 2: like we might have tonight off, and so we were 539 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 2: all just God, we were assuming. 540 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 3: Planning our days because you know when you work that 541 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 3: long of hours, which I never understood the term friturday 542 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 3: until I'm sitting at a circus in the middle of paramount. 543 00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: Pictures on a tilt whirl the tilted worl scare for 544 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: my life. 545 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 3: I'm still that wheelchair should be in the Smithsonian because 546 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 3: how they rigged that bitch? Oh no, no, no, they 547 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 3: just made you because the wheelchair was on there for 548 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 3: a second. I was like, insurance check again. 549 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: No, No, that wouldn't have worked. 550 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 3: That wouldn't have worked. That that is a liability because 551 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 3: had it come flying at me, I would own a lot. 552 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: Of things, Yes, and it was like, physics tells me 553 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: that for. 554 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 3: Trifical force is not going to keep that metal hunka 555 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 3: hunkah down. 556 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: How many times did we do that until the world 557 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: thing I got sick. 558 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 3: I think we only did it like a handful of 559 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: times because that's enough. 560 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: That was enough. 561 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 3: They couldn't stop it midway. So it was like a 562 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 3: minute ride. 563 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 2: Each and it was the only time I've ever done 564 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 2: that in real life until to Worl. I think probably 565 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 2: like any of those carnival rites, because I think it 566 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 2: was like, well, this should be safe, right because they 567 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 2: have to protect this. 568 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 3: Why would you think that, I don't know, why would 569 00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 3: you think that naive? 570 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: I was even nice? 571 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 3: Both the cars alone could have broken somebody. Oh, because 572 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 3: there was there was a camera on each one of them. 573 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: That's right, that's when Mandy Moore was choreographing. Right, Yes, 574 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: we need a different choreographer for a little bit. 575 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,720 Speaker 3: That's Cod's collaborators, cohorts. 576 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: One might say, that's right, now, can you on this show? 577 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 3: I thought I was just acting, Jenna, Well. 578 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: Call it what you will. What was it? Do you 579 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: have a favorite song or a song that you loath singing? 580 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,239 Speaker 1: What does a fox say to this day, you and 581 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: Kevin with my fist up my likeness and image right, yes, 582 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: somebody they offered to like. 583 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 3: Us to buy them at the end of the season. 584 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars. 585 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 3: Mine was ten. 586 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: Oh wow, she's more expensive. Wow. I was like that 587 00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: wig better be made from my own. 588 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: God, damn here, just just cut off. Oh that was 589 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 3: my least favorite. My favorite, I mean coming rising like 590 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 3: a phoenix out of the ashes was Diamonds Are Girl's 591 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 3: Best Friend, only because the day before I had a 592 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 3: fever beyond fevers, like I should not have been standing. 593 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 3: That's when they brought the set medican and said, please 594 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 3: go home. Oh really, I'm always filmed that scene in 595 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 3: the bathroom right before the song. 596 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: I was dead, just like printed primming and right, that's right, And. 597 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 3: I literally was dead. 598 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: I was deaf, I was hot death mmmm fever. 599 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 3: I should have been in the hospital, I probably, but no, 600 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 3: you know, I didn't know, didn't feel like it. I 601 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 3: wanted to be there and I wanted to be a 602 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 3: team player. Didn't speak in the scene glorified extra. 603 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: That's always the worst one when you're like, I don't 604 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: need to be here. And I also shouldn't be here glorified. 605 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was most of season four. 606 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: It was most of our tour. 607 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 3: I'm just like, y'all are really paying me a lot 608 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 3: of money to sit here. I'm not going to and 609 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna let you know that. I know that, 610 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 3: right because I'm smarter than that, and I have bills 611 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 3: to pay because I'm eighteen. 612 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: You came in like you were thirty guys. 613 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: Imagine me having to come in with these veterans and 614 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,800 Speaker 3: acting like a child. Y'all did that enough? 615 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 1: See? 616 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 2: But that mentality, that perspective alone, It's like, not everybody's 617 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 2: coming in with this. 618 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 3: They couldn't. I was happy to be there, but I 619 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 3: also knew that I had to task at hand. 620 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 2: Was there any time do you remember like I have, 621 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,719 Speaker 2: I don't know handfuls of stories where I either loved 622 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 2: being in the recording studio or like, had a terrible 623 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 2: time in your quarter studio. Because you are a vocalist, 624 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 2: did you enjoy the recording process? 625 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 3: Sometimes yes, sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think. 626 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 2: Alex God scooping to the note. 627 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 3: I would never want to scoop to anybody's note. I 628 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,720 Speaker 3: was like, I just sang it. It was kitch person, 629 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 3: what do you mean scoop up to? Okay? It's not okay. 630 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,600 Speaker 3: But Alex got very meticulous because I am a vocalist 631 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 3: and he's like, honey, I'm not going to sit here 632 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 3: and edit these vocals. You don't sing it perfectly. 633 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: He brought out the best. He really did. He was 634 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: so it was so infuriating at the time. Yes, he 635 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: really did push you though, to the point where you're like, oh, 636 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: I guess I can do it if I needed to. 637 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 3: I mean I sang I sang Sergeant Pepper's Only Heart 638 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 3: Club band that Top Harmony until I was actually just screaming. 639 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 3: I was like, sir, I don't get nothing else in me. 640 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 2: The thing is that you go back and it's like 641 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 2: nobody's getting a cleaner vocal. 642 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,359 Speaker 1: No way, no. 643 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 3: But I mean I was the hollers, the holeration, like 644 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 3: it's still iconic. It's still iconic, Like it's stuck in 645 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 3: my brain and I can't listen to Katy Carry's Wide 646 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 3: Away without thinking. 647 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,720 Speaker 1: About me God wide Away. 648 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 3: There are a lot of songs that I can't listen 649 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:27,879 Speaker 3: to without thinking of the versions of Glee. 650 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 2: Yes, well, the amount of times that we would also 651 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,240 Speaker 2: just do them like they are pounded into our brains. Yes, 652 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,720 Speaker 2: because you do them for an hour in the recording studio, 653 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 2: then you do them for eight hours on set. 654 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 1: And then you wake up the next day thinking about it. 655 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, or the crew member would be singing it 656 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: the next day. 657 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,319 Speaker 2: You're like, pay if you see me out in Like 658 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 2: I have been in public at bars or something and 659 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 2: somebody to leve will come on and I'll be in 660 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 2: the corner by myself just doing the background. 661 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 3: Okay. 662 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,240 Speaker 1: So then Alex, then you did another musical TV show. 663 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 3: I've done three Darling Okay, I did one episode of Empire. 664 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 3: That's right, honey. Listen. Every meeting it's like, so, what's 665 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,239 Speaker 3: your next musical project? I'm like, can I not? I've 666 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 3: been singing for my supper since i was eighteen? 667 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,839 Speaker 1: BIB What were those like after doing Glee? And then 668 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: also were they similar or were they different? 669 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:46,000 Speaker 3: I mean, coming back and coming off of Glee, anything 670 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 3: was possible, right, I mean doing Zoe's was such a 671 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:54,360 Speaker 3: walk in the park, mainly because it was a minute 672 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,399 Speaker 3: steady cam maybe like three to four takes and you're done. 673 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 3: But I also didn't I sang a lot on that show, 674 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,520 Speaker 3: but I didn't do so there was the concept of 675 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 3: like her hearing heart songs and that kind of thing. 676 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 3: A majority of the time that I sang on the show, 677 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,319 Speaker 3: it was like out in real life, like they just 678 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 3: made the character a singer. So I didn't do that 679 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 3: many heart songs. I think over like the the seasons, 680 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,439 Speaker 3: I did like six and I like did five other 681 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 3: or something. Got it, But it's like it's it was 682 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,760 Speaker 3: always just so easy because like I'm also not doing 683 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 3: multiple camera angles and takes and we didn't get it. 684 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 3: And also we weren't filming with film. It was digital. 685 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound so nice? Like three or four of 686 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: the steady cam and then you're done with a radical 687 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: number and then it's over. That was like the last 688 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 1: setup for us. I I don't get it what it was. 689 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 3: But also like the scenes, I didn't have to act 690 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 3: with seventeen other people in the room. 691 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,360 Speaker 1: It was like two barely. 692 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 3: I was always attached to her hip, so there was 693 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 3: always two cameras on either of us. 694 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 695 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 3: Is this what TV is? Like? Is this what people 696 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:17,880 Speaker 3: keep coming back to? Right without like truly like yeah, 697 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 3: sitting there for hours upon end because you think about 698 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 3: sitting in a choir room full of twelve people. You 699 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 3: have to get everybody's reaction to every minute detail and 700 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:28,840 Speaker 3: then turn it. 701 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: Around right and then do something weird with it, and 702 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 1: then have a directors put their little spin on it. 703 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: And costumes Katy Perry costume, cupcake costumes, you know. 704 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,719 Speaker 3: Yes, put us in the largest costumes and then say 705 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 3: walk to the door. I don't fit right, Oh you 706 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 3: don't fit. Nope. You do some of that raffle down 707 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 3: on TV match. 708 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,920 Speaker 2: Cut cut, and then it's at delay to figure out 709 00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 2: how we work the person out. 710 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm wow. 711 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 3: But Zoe, it was so easy. Like I was just like, okay, 712 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 3: what do you want me to do? Oh, we're done 713 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 3: for the day. The sun is still up. 714 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: Wow. 715 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 3: Like I would go to work with the sun up, 716 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 3: and then I would get out of work with the 717 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,480 Speaker 3: sun sun still up. 718 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: That was always the weirdest part where we'd be on 719 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,799 Speaker 1: the soundstage for hours and then you come outside and 720 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 1: it's just pitch black and you're like, that. 721 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 2: Is pitch back. 722 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: It's like eleven pm, I've missed it. Just the light 723 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: of the Paramount New York City Street. 724 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,920 Speaker 2: You're like Okay, oh, here heard the text from my 725 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 2: friends who are out. 726 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: They are their home now you Oh they're drunk. Okay, 727 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 1: so yes, exactly, exactly, Yes, I definitely can come out. 728 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 3: It's gonna be easy to There's only one scene with 729 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 3: like two people, so definitely gonna make No, we'll be there. 730 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 3: But for Zoe's was just like I would always make 731 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 3: my plans wow constantly. I know you guys really missed out. 732 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:11,920 Speaker 1: Yeah we did next my next one. Literally, you just 733 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 1: tell us which one and we'll join you. 734 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,799 Speaker 3: I'm just out here doing musical television for the rest 735 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 3: of my life. Who would have thought that little reality 736 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 3: competition would have got me that far? Yes, I will 737 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,400 Speaker 3: give you all the credit I would give you out. 738 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,920 Speaker 2: I deserve no credit, but I will secretly take it. 739 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:28,480 Speaker 3: He said. 740 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: Don't be lazy. 741 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 3: Said okay, don't you sit in a chair all day? 742 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 1: I do the guilt. 743 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,319 Speaker 2: I felt like that leapt out of my mouth. 744 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,759 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, does it keep you up? And 745 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,839 Speaker 1: is it one of those that you replay in your mind, Kevin? 746 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 1: Or you don feel that at all? 747 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 3: Okay? But who asked you? You know what? I think 748 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 3: I partially owned Jenna's first Tony. 749 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 5: You do Yes, it was the whistle tone on the 750 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 5: Tony performance that actually did win that They were like, well, 751 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:06,400 Speaker 5: let's change the envelope. 752 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: Bitch this one. It's this one, just screaming into the 753 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: either like, hey, remember who didn't get nominated the whistletone, 754 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:16,360 Speaker 1: I screamed. 755 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,040 Speaker 3: I mean, I was on so much, so many drugs 756 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:24,319 Speaker 3: that night, not like bad ones, like roided out of 757 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,720 Speaker 3: my mind and I had at least a whole milligram 758 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,279 Speaker 3: of Xanax in my system. My body was. 759 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,600 Speaker 1: Relaxed as a possible through trendizone. 760 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,399 Speaker 3: Thretnos own alone, the Lord that strengthens me, because let 761 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 3: me tell you, that was the tone came out from 762 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,920 Speaker 3: my my dreams and hopes and aspirations. 763 00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,480 Speaker 1: In life, and it was I felt that it was. 764 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 3: I have never done a whistletone directly in the center 765 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:51,319 Speaker 3: of it. 766 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:56,320 Speaker 1: It was just you. Just I threw my remote. It 767 00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,440 Speaker 1: just said, it's like I hit a button on a keyboard. 768 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 1: It was strepid. And I've watched a lot of bootlegs 769 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:05,440 Speaker 1: of you, and. 770 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,759 Speaker 3: Chones never came out that way on stage. I mean 771 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,000 Speaker 3: there was one that it was just so flat on 772 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 3: the bootleg. I said, baby, you don't have to be impressive. 773 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,640 Speaker 3: These people are from Middle America. They don't give a damn. 774 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,239 Speaker 1: But it's just one time to do it properly televised. 775 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. It was. 776 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 3: Oh my god. 777 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: Well, Kevin will take credit for Alex, Alex will take 778 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,719 Speaker 1: credit for my Tony. We'll just all take credit for 779 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:34,080 Speaker 1: each other. 780 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 3: I think that's the best way. That's a functional healthy. 781 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: H I think I think. 782 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 2: So, yeah, as long as you're good with it. I 783 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,839 Speaker 2: in the back of my head, I'm like, I can't 784 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,960 Speaker 2: be that story of like Brandy tells. You know, if 785 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,239 Speaker 2: Brandy's like a teacher told me that I will never 786 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,600 Speaker 2: be anything, it's like. 787 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:55,280 Speaker 3: Oh I did that to my middle school math teacher, 788 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,319 Speaker 3: English teacher. She literally looked at me one day and said, oh, 789 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,439 Speaker 3: your work ethic will never amount to much. Wow. 790 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,160 Speaker 2: Can I tell the people something? On that note? Though, 791 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 2: On that note, anytime I've seen Alex in New York postally, nobody, 792 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,720 Speaker 2: nobody works more and harder. 793 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 1: Than Alex. She's ever on a stage set, always no 794 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:26,560 Speaker 1: happy medium. 795 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 2: Oh let's let's do we forget the like independent musical 796 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:32,840 Speaker 2: artists career. 797 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,439 Speaker 3: I did that one of my songs, just my silver Oh, 798 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:40,839 Speaker 3: like I would be. 799 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:44,280 Speaker 2: In the streets like of London and like that's Alex 800 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,000 Speaker 2: r Just I'm going. 801 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 3: There to do Pippen next. I can't wait to meet 802 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:56,440 Speaker 3: my public concert at the Palladium. It's going to be lovely. 803 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:03,920 Speaker 1: Oh my goshing leading player. I love that for you. 804 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 3: I am a full fledged wore in both ways. I'm 805 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,840 Speaker 3: always working and I. 806 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:14,560 Speaker 1: Was let yeah, knew this is key. Okay, before we 807 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:16,960 Speaker 1: let you go, can you tell us what the feeling 808 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:21,000 Speaker 1: that Glee, your experience or the show leaves you with. 809 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 3: What it leaves me with? You know, the show brought 810 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,880 Speaker 3: me so much, like it as a whole Glee project, 811 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,400 Speaker 3: and Glee, the word Glee and itself and the brand 812 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,360 Speaker 3: that it was. It gave me everything that I have today, 813 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,800 Speaker 3: all the relationships that I cherish, of the experience that 814 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 3: I got to learn. I mean, I did that first 815 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 3: episode and I was truly never anybody's actor, and then 816 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,959 Speaker 3: I learned what it was to be an actor, which 817 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,440 Speaker 3: is so much. You don't get that experience if you 818 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,600 Speaker 3: go to school and learn how to do it. And 819 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,839 Speaker 3: I'm so happy that I got to have that experience 820 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,440 Speaker 3: and just even was the good, the bad, and the ugly, 821 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:06,480 Speaker 3: and there was some really ugly ugly. It's something that 822 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 3: I look back on and very fondly wouldn't do it again, 823 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 3: would never do it again, but I loved what it 824 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 3: gave me. 825 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,240 Speaker 1: Hmm, that's great, beautiful. 826 00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:21,279 Speaker 3: I don't think I could do it again. Now I'm 827 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,279 Speaker 3: your age when you guys started to do it. 828 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,600 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Now i'm. 829 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:35,640 Speaker 3: Your age when like my body, just I applaud you 830 00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,640 Speaker 3: both for all of you, really, every last one of you, 831 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,759 Speaker 3: for really pushing yourselves at that age. Because let me 832 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:53,560 Speaker 3: tell you, oh, my niece, my knees quick every time 833 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:54,359 Speaker 3: I stand. 834 00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:58,000 Speaker 1: Up well after bleeve, my knees really do Chris. 835 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,320 Speaker 3: I look at a pair of heels now daily. 836 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:06,480 Speaker 1: And just no, no, not today. 837 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:11,320 Speaker 3: After wearing them from the years eighteen to twenty one. 838 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,200 Speaker 3: You plus, that's right every day? No thank you that 839 00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,360 Speaker 3: I almost cussed jakeob out for it, yelling about my shoes. 840 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:25,400 Speaker 1: I remember you picked me up, Fuck I didn't. You 841 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,040 Speaker 1: really did have the craziest platforms and heels like in 842 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,280 Speaker 1: part of your costume everything. 843 00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 3: But I don't understand the hell I was wearing my 844 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,960 Speaker 3: mother's clothing, but her shoes magically. 845 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,799 Speaker 1: Just fit there. Right, it's the jeans, and they were 846 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,480 Speaker 1: they were good, better shoes than Lane Bryant. So I mean, yes, 847 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:51,200 Speaker 1: I have somewhere. Well. Well, thank you Tony One winner 848 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,640 Speaker 1: Alex Nowell for coming on and sharing your experience. We 849 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,719 Speaker 1: love you so much, so much. You're just I love you. 850 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,279 Speaker 1: I love you both, miss you. Enjoy Hopefully I have 851 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,279 Speaker 1: a great concert. But also I hope you're getting some 852 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:04,960 Speaker 1: time downtime. 853 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,759 Speaker 3: Oh I'm not doing anything but drinking every day. It's 854 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,960 Speaker 3: wonder for my skin. But whatever. 855 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:18,200 Speaker 1: Make you happy, it's not depressed. When is your show 856 00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: with the Pladium. 857 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:24,080 Speaker 3: The first and second of April? I do have some time. 858 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,799 Speaker 3: I go out the fifteenth. 859 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,040 Speaker 1: Of March, so everyone needs to go see that ship one. 860 00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:31,080 Speaker 3: It's almost sold out. 861 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,840 Speaker 1: Yes it is, Yes it is, and that's so fun. 862 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:38,960 Speaker 1: I love you. You're the best. 863 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:40,760 Speaker 2: Thank you here again. 864 00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,759 Speaker 3: All right now, I'm gonna go put makeup on and 865 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,360 Speaker 3: be an actual human. I love you both, and I 866 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:44,840 Speaker 3: love you. 867 00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:51,640 Speaker 4: Oh god, I haven't. I don't even think I talked, okay, 868 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,279 Speaker 4: so ask me questions. I mean, the last time I 869 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,319 Speaker 4: smiled and laughed like that was actually when we were 870 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,640 Speaker 4: with Alex when we saw Shucked, Well we didn't see Shocked. 871 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 4: We were out there for iHeart, for the event and 872 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,400 Speaker 4: for the podcast event, and then we went and we 873 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,120 Speaker 4: saw Alex afterwards after his show, and we went and 874 00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,480 Speaker 4: hung out and had some drinks and like laughed and reminisced. 875 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,520 Speaker 1: And my cheeks hurt just like that. So always a 876 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,680 Speaker 1: good time with Alex. And this is good. Maybe my 877 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,080 Speaker 1: six sec will come back after this. So many memories, 878 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:31,960 Speaker 1: Like It's funny, some of my more like vivid memories 879 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,200 Speaker 1: are when like it's towards the end of the season. 880 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,040 Speaker 1: Maybe it's because it was sooner and there was like 881 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 1: less going on, right, like there was more the noise, 882 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:44,440 Speaker 1: like less press less all of the stuff and just 883 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:49,680 Speaker 1: more work. But I don't know. Anyway, Thanks Alex for 884 00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:53,320 Speaker 1: coming and chatting with us and share all the funny 885 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 1: funny things. Unke that memory, Yes, very good. It was 886 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,360 Speaker 1: literally I said Porter Potty and she like there you 887 00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: got everything trapped up there? Oh my gosh. That Christmas 888 00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,520 Speaker 1: episode is wildly unhinged and I can't wait to wader. 889 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:09,840 Speaker 1: I cannot wait for it because it is a crazy 890 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,719 Speaker 1: blacked out during it. Yeah, Kitty had a lot in 891 00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,759 Speaker 1: that one. It was a lot. It was a lot 892 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,040 Speaker 1: o god. All right, well, we love the Alex. Thanks 893 00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 1: for coming on. 894 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,400 Speaker 2: Thank you Alex, and damn, that's what you really missed. 895 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and 896 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,600 Speaker 2: that's what you really miss pod. Make sure to write 897 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,440 Speaker 2: us a review and leave us five stars. 898 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,319 Speaker 1: See you next time.