WEBVTT - Some Time With... Judy Savage! (Part 1) 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.160 Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome back to how Rude Tanner Ritos. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.840 We have an extremely special episode for you today. We 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.120 are so excited to interview a woman who single handedly 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.840 changed both of our lives. The talent agent who represented 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.880 Jody and me as child actors, the fabulous Judy Savage. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:37.640 Yay. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.880 Judy was a trailblazer who founded the Savage Agency over 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.040 forty years ago. She represented some of the biggest child 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.360 actors of the eighties and nineties, including Daniel Fischl, Writer Strong, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:54.920 Danica mckeller, Kelly Martin, Laris Olennick, Elizabeth Berkeley, Hillary Swank, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.840 and Emma Stone, just to name a few. Judy is 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.360 a legend in the entertainment industry. She always put the 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.720 kids first before productions or parents. She was a unique 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.040 combination of being a bulldog when it came to negotiations 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.920 with the studios, yet at the same time, she was 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.640 like a mother who focused on her kid's emotional wellbeing 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.160 above all else. She is proof that you can be 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.880 super successful in this business and treat people well. Our 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.960 love and appreciation for Judy knows no limits. It is 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.280 our honor to welcome to the pod the incomparable Judy Savage. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.000 Oh she's connecting, she's connecting. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:35.320 I hear it. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:36.840 Oh we're getting there. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.560 Yay, yay, here. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.120 We are you tube look fantastic. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:42.119 Great to see you. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.280 Came in this morning and said it all up. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.480 Oh are you guys? Where are we? 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.040 It's great to see you. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.160 Oh, thank you. Where are you? 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.520 I mean, I'm in the valley and she's. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.680 I'm in Orange County at home. Yeah, we do this 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.760 from home. We get to see each other every week 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.120 like this and talk about full House and our childhood's 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:02.640 growing up. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.760 It's a blast. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.160 Yeah, Yeah, we do, Yeah, we do. We do a 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.720 couple episodes a week. Yeah, Andrey and I have we 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.800 we have so much fun. And we have mentioned you 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.079 so many times on the show and what an amazing 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.280 impact you had on our lives and like just you 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.960 as an amazing character of a person and just all 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.160 of the things that we love about you. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.120 So we're really excited to have you. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.440 We are. We're really excited to have you on the podcast, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.000 like you were. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:36.280 I was on once before on Ours. Yeah wasn't it 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:37.240 wasn't yours. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.720 It was you did you did right? Or Strong? And 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.320 Daniel Fishle's podcast. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.560 Yeah, you did writer and Daniel's. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.799 Yeah, this is a different podcast. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.800 This is this is a different podcast. This is the 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:50.480 full house one. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.200 They produce our podcast, so like they they are involved. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:59.360 Jensen and Danielle and and and stuff helped produce ours. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:04.160 But yeah, no, no, they're not different. Yeah we keep 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.000 similar told Yeah, similar format, just a different show. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.000 But yeah, I know you had so many kids that 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.079 were acting in the eighties and nineties, it's hard to 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:14.040 keep them all straight. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.280 I haven't lost my marbles yet. I can remember who 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:24.680 they all were. When I retired in twenty seventeen, I 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:31.480 still had thirty six kids on series. And the whole 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:36.760 business has changed. There's yeah, there's no long term series anymore. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.800 No, it's streaming. You're lucky if you get eight or thirteen. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.840 You're right, thirteen's nice, a nice season. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.560 Now the year starting? 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.880 Yeah right, Well, do you guys know that you too 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.400 were two of my first clients, and it was the 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.320 first client that got a series on. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.840 Chad Me and Chad Allen were your first two clients 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.160 who got who got on series? So he was on 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.640 our house oh days more lives. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.480 Yeah, that's right, remember that? 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:13.040 Yeah? 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:17.400 Oh, do I remember that and Jody, she. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.599 And her mother came in and. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.239 I think I was about four. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.000 Oh, you were three or four, and you were amazing. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.359 And Andrew was like that young I was. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.320 I was probably four, yeah, probably four. And I booked 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.679 days more lives when I was five. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.560 Yeah, that's crazy. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.960 Jody started book booking commercials like right away. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:46.680 Mm hmm that similar commercial eyes your wide eyes didn't 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.680 need fried trip for years. You. I remember, like I 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.000 remember going to your office, to your bungalow and banner. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.400 I loved that office. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.440 I remember that the little waiting area with the shell 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.039 Silverstein books that's I read like the giving tree, like 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:03.680 these are the things I. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.120 Can remember the sound of the creaking floor in that office. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:08.440 I know. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:15.080 Ye do you know that I bought that in two 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:20.920 thousand wait a minute, no, nineteen seventy seven for forty 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:28.000 thousand dollars, and when I retired in twenty seventeen, I 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.800 sold it for a million dollars. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.600 Oh my god, well that's easy. Yeah. Yeah. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.400 It was only because and I sold it. Nobody could 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.880 come in and look at it. They had to just 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.880 drive by. But it was the land, the land. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.080 I was going to say, that land now is like, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.640 you know, because I remember going I remember going. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:48.159 To Judy's office. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.760 Judy's office was like Santa Monica and Vine. 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.200 Yeah, yeah, Santa Monica and Invite. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.159 I drive by it all the time, but on that 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.839 street anyway, And I remember going to Judy's office before, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.160 like before Hollywood was like. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.680 Nicer than it was. When it was like we're going 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.760 to Judy's office. You were like, oh, okay, We're gonna 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.320 like pull it back, and you know, it was, it was. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.240 It was an interesting time in Hollywood. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.000 It was. But I were robbed on my street. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.719 Yes, yes, yeah, you had like the gate in front 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.160 of it. Yeah, like you had to protect the bungalow yep. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.839 But going back to back in the beginning of everything, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.400 I know that you know, you had been a stage mom, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.000 But what was it that made you decide that you 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.040 wanted to be an agent? 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.880 All my life growing up, I grew up in Michigan 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 in a small town. I had to go to church 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.200 in the morning with my grandmother, so I could go 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:49.320 to the movies in the afternoon. And in this small 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.320 town there was one theater and the movies changed on Saturday, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.200 so every Sunday I could see a new movie and 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.839 I'd come home from the movies and pray and wish 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.240 that I could go to Hollywood. I took singing lessons, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.640 dancing lessons, acting, I couldn't do any of them, but 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.720 I just wanted to be in Hollywood. So it was 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.920 my kids. It was actually Mark who got started, and 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:20.760 then Tracy and then Brad and they got me into Hollywood. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.160 So I was. I loved being an agent. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.200 And by the time I got the agency started, my 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.880 kids were growing up and going off to college. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.680 And so you were all my new kids. Yeah, I 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.200 felt like an aunt to all of you. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.240 Hey, fan Ritos, don't forget to check out our merch 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.880 at howarudemerch dot com. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.560 We knew everybody it was, you know, And and that 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.320 was back in the days of like everything was a 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.440 phone call with no emails or anything, you know. So 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.160 it was right, but a lot of a lot of 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:05.800 carphone conversations between my mom and you or or sell 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.200 or carphones right that had to be installed in the 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.080 in your trunk because they they it was basically a 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.800 small satellite that you had to carry around. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:14.520 Yep. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.960 And I talked to each one of your mothers probably 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:18.520 every day. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, Emily, guys, you. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.760 Guys had interviews all the time. Yeah, not even that 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.440 many interviews anymore for you. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.800 No, no, well we always joke that no one needs to, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.000 you know, use a Thomas Guide anymore. And by the 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.880 time we were five, we could have planned an entire 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.839 cross country navigation route on the Thomas guy. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.280 Yeah. Yeah, and Andrew, do you remember when I got remarried. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.640 I married his father. It was. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.800 Harris col He was out in the lobby and he 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.240 was asking you questions and said, I'm Andrea Barber and 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.079 I'm with the Salvage Agency. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.960 I said, Average, I'm Andrew Barber, and I'm from the 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:06.080 Average Agency, the Average Agency. Yes, I was learning how 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.320 to slate and yeah, you're teaching how to slate and 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.360 so I was like, okay, that was four So of course, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.120 and Barber and I'm part of the Average Agency. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.200 By the way, for those who listening and don't know 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:17.840 what a slate is, a slate is in the top 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.880 of an audition. You go in and you say your name, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.400 usually where you're from, and how tall you are or 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.560 some weird sort of like or something like that, or 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:27.480 some or your shoe size. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:27.760 I don't know. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.720 Whatever they ask you for at that point. But yeah, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.920 now what are the average agency? What are you two 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:32.720 doing today? 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.360 Well, I mean today I went to the gym. I like, 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:50.280 I mean like moming, acting, producing, podcasting, still still auditioning, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.720 but it's all you know, it's all self tapes now. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:57.480 Yeah, so different, it's very different. But yeah, no, we're. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.559 Just all the cast inductors that I knew have all retired. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.240 I mean, yeah, very few are still around. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.920 Oh yeah, who was the first child actor that you represented? 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.360 Oh I heard it was Chad Allan. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.719 Well, it was Chad Allen was the first. I had 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.680 a few, but Chad was the first one that got started. Okay, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.360 chat and Charity, but Charity was shy, so Chad was 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.200 the one. And YouTube. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.280 Yeah, it's the early days, you know. You know, it's funny. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.439 I wound up working with Chad Allen years later in treatment. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.200 He went on, he went on to get his I 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.120 believe his doctors PhD or something. He yeah, he got 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.959 back in school and he and I, for yeah, a 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.040 brief time worked together when we were working in treatment. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.400 We worked at the same spot and it. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 Was just so lovely to oh oh yeah, it's such 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.559 a sweet well. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.480 He decided when he was probably about twenty eight. I 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.440 think that this business was not he didn't choose it, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.120 it was chosen for him. So he decided to go 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:11.079 back to school and get his masters and his PhD 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.160 and be a psychologist. Yeah, about three or four other 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:20.000 clients ended up being psychologists. So there's something something about 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:20.680 being an actor. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:21.520 Well, you have. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.319 To be crazy to get crazy, you know what I mean, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.840 to understand it and work with it. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.400 You're like, ah, yes, I can relate to that. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.960 Yeah, And I think it's I think it's because I 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.120 that's what I exactly what I would be doing. If 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:35.880 I weren't continuing to act, I would have gone back 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.760 to school and probably gotten my master's or PhD. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.600 Right, it makes sense because you're as you're when you're 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.959 when you're creating a character, you're thinking about their motivations 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.839 and their emotions, and there it's very it is very 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.440 it's a psychological. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.160 Study exactly, we're fast. It's a psychological study, and so 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.320 it's sort of like a natural offshoot of that. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.280 M Yeah, it seems like a natural a natural link. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:58.280 Yeah. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.440 I mean you've represented you shan Lee Woodley and Emma 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.120 Stone and like people that have now gone on to 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.200 win Academy Awards, Andrew and I in the next ten 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:12.160 years obviously, But how could you tell when, like what 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.440 was the it thing that you just saw? Like how 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.640 did because you were so great at seeing it and 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.760 finding it and like what. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.720 Was was it? Just there was just a certain spark. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.800 I didn't know they were going to win Academy Awards. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:30.400 I thought everybody I represented was going to be a star. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.439 I mean, that's that's just what I went with Diane 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:35.880 and I would Diane Harden and. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.760 I would say, they're going to be the biggest star. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:41.600 Yeah. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.240 And Diane Harden is Judy's best friend who was also 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.520 an acting teacher or. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.120 Yes, and almost all of my clients after I met Diane, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.600 I sent her to send them to Diane for training. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.480 Such a great teacher, smart am well. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.520 She had been an actress, her husband is an actress, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.240 her daughter is still an actress. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.000 And most remember. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.280 Aaron lare at all. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.160 I don't remember. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.679 I got him when he was six. He was in 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:22.240 a Broadway show and he was my client until he 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:28.480 turned twenty or twenty two. And he's married to the 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:35.120 singer from not Ariana Grande but from Wicked, the first, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.199 the first Wicked, not. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:41.520 The most a Dina Manzell Mademoiselle. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:47.920 So he's married to Adana Mozelle. Okay, he's a psychologist. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.720 He runs the place in Malibu, you know that place 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.240 in Malibu where all the. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.720 I mean I might know a few of them, list 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.880 of some names. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.800 Pass just promises that's where I went. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:05.440 Promises. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.360 Okay, probably it might be well, I don't know who knows. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.840 Anyway, he's the director of that and so but she 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.240 just now got a Broadway show and she's going to 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.120 New York for a year. So he'd like to fly 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.000 to New York every almost every weekend. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.440 Wow, I mean it was so much fun. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:33.040 I mean, you really were such an amazing agent for 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:39.880 young people because you were so maternal and warm and kind, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.880 and there were a lot of agents and managers that 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:43.960 we know of that were not. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.360 And you were. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:52.200 Always like you just made us as young performers and 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.120 our parents feel like we were safe, you know what 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.400 I mean, Like you we knew that, like if something happened, 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.520 you could called Judy and Judy would be on it. 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.200 Well, you know, one thing, there was an agent in 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.320 town who is no longer with. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:16.120 Us, I remember, and she would say the worst things 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.680 to kids, like one little one child drove all the 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.360 way from San Diego dressed like Annie and stood outside 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:29.120 Iris Burton's window and sang tomorrow tomorrow, and Irish opened 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.960 her window and said, kid, for you, there is no tomorrow. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.560 And she was just mean. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.480 Yeah, And so when I started, I said, I don't 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.240 want to be the kind of agent that has her 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.520 clients on the couch when they're the psychologist's clouch with 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.280 couch when they're forty years old. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.080 You asked me, how did I know? 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.000 Yeah, I thought everybody was going to be a star, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:00.920 and I just happened to pick people. Almost everybody I 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:06.200 picked worked because they got training. But the fact that 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.600 you win an Academy Award is that you get a 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:09.440 certain role. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:11.080 Right. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.240 You know, either one of you could have gotten an 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.440 Academy Award if you've gotten a role because you're talented. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.600 And Emma Stone just happened to get all these roles 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:28.320 that were weird and she went with it. Yeah, shy Lee, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.040 well Shale, it's never gotten Academy award, but she's worked movies. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.280 But she's done a ton of stuffy Yeah, I loved 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.080 her in big little life. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.440 So what was your process, Like, I'm trying to remember 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.600 when we first met and we would come into your 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.880 office and you would have us read for you, right, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.520 what what specifically were you looking for? Was it like 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.680 a certain skill or a mindset or a look? 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.040 Like? 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.880 What what were you looking for in these kids? 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:56.240 Cute, short, talented, and personality, because that's what they want 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.520 when you're little, and they all, I just want a 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.920 six year old to play for a ten year old 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.600 to play. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.439 The tea works in your favor. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.000 If you're older and look younger, Yeah. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.000 That worked in your favorite. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.920 But as you grew I that it's not. It doesn't matter. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.159 Once you get into be a teenager. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.080 Well then they want you to be Just have your 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.600 GED and be over eighteen so they don't have to 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:21.239 school you. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.120 You play sixteen, right, But neither one of you had 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:26.600 to do that. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.080 I did my GED. I took my GED in high school. 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.440 I think whatever, fifteen and a half whenever you could 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.119 do it. I still graduated, but I had it in 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.720 case I ever did work or a lot of times 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.520 it was like if you were auditioning and you were 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.960 fifteen sixteen, like a big piece of it was like, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:44.679 do you have your ged? 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.720 Because they that was what they wanted. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.639 So yeah, so I did it and I don't think 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.520 I ever needed to use it on anything. 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:51.720 But did you, Andrew? 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.800 Well, I didn't because I was on Full House till 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.440 I was eighteen. I was in college when Full House ended. Okay, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.600 so I had already graduated from high school by the 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.080 time I was getting ready to retire from acting at 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.680 least for twenty years before I came back to it. Yeah, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.240 there was no need for me to get my GED. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.760 But yeah, that's fast. I didn't know that about you, Jody. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.639 That's you learn something new every day. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.879 Yeah, yeah, I got that to, you know, just make 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.600 it easier to work more easily. But then I was 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.000 in high school and I was like, I don't really 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.440 want to work all the time. I was kind of 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:32.840 enjoying just being a you know, quote unquote normal kid. Hey, fan, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.760 rito's make sure that you go to our merch website, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.560 how rude merch dot Com, where you can see all 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.439 of our fun T shirts, sweatshirts, crazy ideas that we 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:41.760 have and. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.520 We'd love to hear from you about more. So how 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:45.200 Rude Merch dot com well. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.000 And that's an important point, Judy. You let kids be kids, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.760 like you never pressured us to work more than we 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:57.159 wanted to. I remember personally, when I was in junior 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.479 high or maybe like a freshman year in high school, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.040 I was just done. Like when we were in hiatus 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.159 from Full House, I didn't want to go out on auditions. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.960 I didn't want to do and I just wanted to 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.399 be a kid and hang out with my friends after school. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.200 And so my parents, my mom and dad were like, Okay, 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.120 just call Judy and tell her. And I was so afraid, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.439 and I was like, oh god, what was she going 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.840 to say? But no, like you were just like, great, 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.840 let me know when you're ready to come back and 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.959 go out for auditions again. And I was like, oh okay. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.320 So I was just a kid for six months and 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.479 you were just like whatever, whatever you want to do. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:33.480 That was you remember Krista Dan she was anyway. Christa 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.320 was very religious. She would get a callback, but she'd 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:42.200 have to go to some Christian camp or something, and 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:43.960 she absolutely would not go. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:44.680 On the callback. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.399 So I would call them and I'd say, I'm sorry, 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.920 but Christa can't come in for this because she's got 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.240 a previous engagement, or she's going to a Christian thing. 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.400 It never happened with other people. They just wait for her. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.159 I find that this business often it like if you 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.119 just say, hey, I just need another day, or like 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.480 can we do oftentimes. 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.840 You people will work with you. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:09.840 And maybe that's because we've been in the business forever, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.160 so it's a little more accommodating. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.080 But but yeah, you never. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:14.920 Met like because you were well known. 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.400 Yeah, you were well known. 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.360 So they would wait for you. If you were new, 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:21.120 they wouldn't. 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.840 I make Andrea wait for me all the time. 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.399 I do. Are you still good friends? 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:30.800 Yes, my gosh, yes. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.480 I was just down at her house the what like 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.879 two weeks ago because my older daughter, Zoe was playing 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:42.440 a soccer game at a school five minutes from where 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.600 she lived in her new house. So I went over 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.960 there and we had Mexican food and oh, yeah, Aby 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.160 and I are we're quite the duo. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.960 We're still close, just like we were growing up on 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:52.520 full House. 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:54.320 Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:56.720 And what are your children doing now? 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:57.080