Speaker 1: Welcome back, listeners to your one and only source and
Speaker 1: to all things gossip Crow. You know you love it.
Speaker 1: X O x O. Well, hello, Happy Wednesday, everybody. It's
Speaker 1: Jessica's or welcome back to XO XO. Today we're going
Speaker 1: just a little bit off the usual path. My guest
Speaker 1: wasn't on Gossip Girl, but we met at that time,
Speaker 1: and I've loved her ever since. We've traveled the world together.
Speaker 1: She's my ride or die, My dear, wonderful, beautiful friend,
Speaker 1: Nina Dobrev. We became friends when I was on g
Speaker 1: G and Nina was playing Elena and Catherine on The
Speaker 1: Vampire Diaries, another hit on the c W. We spent
Speaker 1: so much time with each other's cast, and we got
Speaker 1: so close that when I moved to Atlanta, I rented
Speaker 1: an apartment in her same building because I just couldn't
Speaker 1: get enough of her. So trust me, Nina has a
Speaker 1: fair share of stories about me and the gang, and
Speaker 1: today she's going to talk all about everything from her
Speaker 1: c W days to working with our hilarious friend on
Speaker 1: a new movie coming out. And I just love her
Speaker 1: so much and I know you will too, My girl,
Speaker 1: Nina Dobre what's up, pretty girl? Not much? You look
Speaker 1: at Dorrable. Where are you my little home studio in Canada?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I know I would. I would move everything,
Speaker 1: but if one chord or anything changes, as you know,
Speaker 1: I would not be able to like sort of, oh,
Speaker 1: I know you're the worst with technology. I love you
Speaker 1: to pieces, but you can't work anything out of ever. No,
Speaker 1: but it's it's like perfect, I'm here, I get to
Speaker 1: see my little cutie and you're in Atlanta, which I'm
Speaker 1: so jealous of, even though I love it here in Calgary,
Speaker 1: like love it. But that was a big part of
Speaker 1: our like story kind of hey, totally, Yeah, big chapter
Speaker 1: in our friendship was in Atlanta. We were basically roommates.
Speaker 1: Yeah what was that six seven years ago? I think?
Speaker 1: So that's crazy. Are you enjoying working there right now?
Speaker 1: Has it been like nice to be back? Does it
Speaker 1: feel weird? Because when I went back to New York
Speaker 1: for the work after Gossip Girl, it's like it was
Speaker 1: such a different vibe because that's all I knew and
Speaker 1: connected with the city was Gossip Girl, because that's why
Speaker 1: I lived there and did that. So it's definitely changed
Speaker 1: a lot since we were here. In a really good way.
Speaker 1: I feel like every time I come to the city
Speaker 1: it gets better and better. The biggest difference is all
Speaker 1: the people that I used to hang out with, that
Speaker 1: my familiar faces. Most most of everyone has left, and
Speaker 1: so it does feel a little weird. It's very nostalgic,
Speaker 1: but also a little weird because all the homies aren't
Speaker 1: You're You're not there. The rest of the cast isn't there.
Speaker 1: People have moved on, and it's strange to be in
Speaker 1: the city and not have all the pieces of the
Speaker 1: puzzle right right for sure. Um. Actually, speaking of Vampire Diaries,
Speaker 1: I had David rappaport on and when I heard an
Speaker 1: audition story with You, which I'm gonna play his clip
Speaker 1: really quick, I was like, he gave me goose bumps. Nervous,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you because I think your friends with you brev.
Speaker 1: That was one of the best auditions I had ever seen,
Speaker 1: and for that role specifically. And I remember calling the
Speaker 1: CW because this is before the booked Vampire for the spinoff.
Speaker 1: I think she had booked Vampire Diaries that year. I
Speaker 1: called them and said, look, I just read this girl.
Speaker 1: I got goose bumps for my best friend. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: does not look like Kelly Rutherford because she was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a young Kelly Rutherford. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how we would cast her, but you like, she needs
Speaker 1: to be un your radar. You guys have to find
Speaker 1: something for her. And I just remember thinking, I'm going
Speaker 1: to like think about this girl in a couple of
Speaker 1: years and be like, oh god, I miss that opportunity.
Speaker 1: She was so incredible, Oh my god, how cool? Though,
Speaker 1: hang on, you're like, what she find that? Trying to
Speaker 1: remember did I audition for Postel Girl for the spinoff
Speaker 1: which was Kelly Rutherford, which Britney Snow ended up doing it,
Speaker 1: So he was just saying he called and was like,
Speaker 1: you guys have to have this girl on your radar.
Speaker 1: She's amazing, and then he was so pumped when he
Speaker 1: found out that you got Wow crazy. I sort of
Speaker 1: remember that, but also that was what twelve thirteen years ago,
Speaker 1: because yeah, I was like, wait, did I audition for Gossecrol?
Speaker 1: I don't think I did. I remember wanting to because
Speaker 1: I think I had just started acting or was just
Speaker 1: allowed to start auditioning for things in the United States
Speaker 1: because I was on the Grassy and how long was
Speaker 1: that again? I was on the Grassie for I think
Speaker 1: three seasons if I'm not mistaken, But the show went on,
Speaker 1: I mean for You're Never Ending. I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember. For audition for maybe I did. Maybe
Speaker 1: I sent a self tape. I think I sent a
Speaker 1: self tape for your character. Actually, oh my god, is
Speaker 1: that funny back in Canada. But it didn't go like
Speaker 1: I didn't even get a call back. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. But my god, that's so crazy that
Speaker 1: that's so sweet that he said that. I know, it
Speaker 1: was so sweet. So when you auditioned, do you remember
Speaker 1: when you auditioned for Vampire Diaries? Like did you have
Speaker 1: to read for Elena and Katherine or or was it
Speaker 1: just one and then they wrote for that? No, no,
Speaker 1: I only auditioned for Elena, and it was a ringer
Speaker 1: of auditions who there was like audition self tape in
Speaker 1: the audition too, then fly there to do the screen
Speaker 1: test and then go back and then come back again,
Speaker 1: and it was just like audition after audition after audition
Speaker 1: in front of the studio and the network and all
Speaker 1: the things. So they you didn't know that you were
Speaker 1: going to play another care No, I had no idea
Speaker 1: when I was auditioning that there was multiple roles. Once
Speaker 1: I got the show, I knew it was based on books.
Speaker 1: In the In the books there was a Catherine character,
Speaker 1: and I remember asking them. I was like, who's going
Speaker 1: to play this role? And it was like is it me?
Speaker 1: Or how do you? How do you do that? Like?
Speaker 1: Can I do I play both? Or do you hire
Speaker 1: another person? Looks like me? How does it work? And
Speaker 1: they didn't. They wouldn't tell me. They were like, we
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. I think they were like testing
Speaker 1: me to see if if you would do it. I
Speaker 1: hope I was like talented enough for something to be
Speaker 1: able to pull it off well then and then you did.
Speaker 1: That's really special, Nina, than you It was. It was
Speaker 1: a lot. It was definitely like shooting is very I mean,
Speaker 1: people in the world look at shows and it's very
Speaker 1: glamorous and amazing, but the hours are long and you
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into it. Adding a second
Speaker 1: character definitely, you know, the workload was significantly larger, but
Speaker 1: it definitely also allowed for a lot of variety, so
Speaker 1: you definitely didn't get bored. I'll tell you that you
Speaker 1: didn't have time to. But did you have chemistry reads?
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people on Gossip Girl didn't. They
Speaker 1: think Blake and Layton maybe did, but no one else did,
Speaker 1: which I find so funny. But did you have chemistry reads?
Speaker 1: Or we we did? The first time I auditioned with
Speaker 1: the first round of Damon's and Stephens, I didn't know
Speaker 1: that I was cast, but I guess, like I later
Speaker 1: found out that they're like, yeah, she's the one, Like,
Speaker 1: we're definitely going for her. So they strung me along.
Speaker 1: I know, just tell her the girl she's working hard,
Speaker 1: Just tell her she's got it, so they so I
Speaker 1: was the choice. But then they were auditioning all these
Speaker 1: guys and we thought we got close with a bunch
Speaker 1: of them, and in fact, weirdly enough, I was dating
Speaker 1: one of them. One of the Damon's was my boyfriend
Speaker 1: at the time, and then they were going to choose him,
Speaker 1: but they ended up not choosing him. But I got cast,
Speaker 1: and then it got awkward. We broke up, and then
Speaker 1: they did a whole second round of like Damon and
Speaker 1: Stephen auditions, and for that we did a huge chemistry read.
Speaker 1: I think I don't remember the exact number, but I
Speaker 1: feel like there was at least ten to twelve to
Speaker 1: thirteen guys that I had to read with. Three of
Speaker 1: them were flown in from like London, two of them
Speaker 1: came from Australia. They went all over the world trying
Speaker 1: to find Damon and stuff and and so I chemistry
Speaker 1: read with all of them, but nobody else in the
Speaker 1: cast as far as I know, I had to do it.
Speaker 1: And when you read with who booked it, which is
Speaker 1: Paul and Ian, did you know like when you had
Speaker 1: the scenes with them right away, like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: definitely there's a vibe here, and there's a vibe here.
Speaker 1: You know. That was the beginning of my career. So
Speaker 1: I definitely didn't have a say. They did a little courtesy,
Speaker 1: what did you think? But they didn't listen to me
Speaker 1: at all. It's hard to tell. Yeah, I mean, of
Speaker 1: course those chemistry, that's way they got cast. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I had chemistry with a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know. And and then at the same time, I
Speaker 1: also felt like a broken record because at this point
Speaker 1: I'm there for four hours saying the same words with
Speaker 1: all these like they all started looking the same and
Speaker 1: blending into one other. So I was just like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, the one with the hair and the eyes
Speaker 1: and the years. He was pretty good. Like that's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's hard to be objective when you're there for that
Speaker 1: many hours doing the same line and trying to make
Speaker 1: it fresh and organic again and again and again. But
Speaker 1: it does make sense because you really are so many
Speaker 1: people's favorite actor and favorite thing from c W, and
Speaker 1: that's so special and so wonderful. Um. I just feel
Speaker 1: like when Vampire Diaries hit on the c W, because
Speaker 1: of what the c W was doing with this age
Speaker 1: range and all of that was like so epic, all
Speaker 1: that and the and the vampire genre in general. That
Speaker 1: there was Twilight, there was true Blood. Then we happened.
Speaker 1: And honestly, when we were doing it, I remember everyone
Speaker 1: talking about how like, I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: everyone's a little burned out of a little vampire thing,
Speaker 1: Like we don't want to be the ones that didn't
Speaker 1: make it. Of all the ones, and by some miracle
Speaker 1: it was, they weren't done with it. People wanted more vampire.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they would still watch it if
Speaker 1: you guys were Well, let's talk about when we first met,
Speaker 1: because we originally met at It was the Upfronts, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the c W Upfronts. So your season two was my
Speaker 1: season one. So they parade you to New York and
Speaker 1: they fly you out and you have to stand on
Speaker 1: this stage and talk about your show and and you know,
Speaker 1: you come out on stage and you wave a little
Speaker 1: bit and they're like, because there are mannekins television. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but there's like this green room in the back that
Speaker 1: holds all of us hostage in the back, and I
Speaker 1: don't remember. There wasn't any alcohol back then? Was there? No?
Speaker 1: That would have been dangerous. I feel like there was.
Speaker 1: It was just kind of a waiting room for us
Speaker 1: to kind of wait and eat show that had to
Speaker 1: go out and present and stuff. But it was a
Speaker 1: lot of me oh, a lot of people, like all
Speaker 1: the shows that all the Gossip Girl kids us. There
Speaker 1: was what was the show that I don't know if
Speaker 1: One Tree Hill was still on? Um, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: There was so many. Yeah, but I'll never forget because
Speaker 1: it was my season one. I was fucking terrified. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you like to square, but I just did.
Speaker 1: There you go. Um. I was so scared and intimidated
Speaker 1: and nervous, and you know, like in one corner is
Speaker 1: Blake Lively, who looks like a supermodel and is the
Speaker 1: most popular person on television, and and Trace Crawford, who's
Speaker 1: impossibly good looking. Like there's just like all these people
Speaker 1: that that I've seen on TV, and I'm just just
Speaker 1: like import from Canada. They just like shipped me in.
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, go. So I remember being scared,
Speaker 1: but you know, if you gets till you make it.
Speaker 1: I pretended to be confident, and then of everyone you
Speaker 1: came up and talk to me. You were so nice
Speaker 1: and you were so inviting and and not that anyone
Speaker 1: was mean, but everyone was just like they had their
Speaker 1: friends and they were doing their thing, and I think
Speaker 1: you invited me. Afterwards, You're like, hey, you should come
Speaker 1: meet up with us, Like we're gonna go to this
Speaker 1: restaurant or bar or whatever it was, and we're having
Speaker 1: a trick. You should come. And I was just like,
Speaker 1: she's so nice. I love to go. Am I going
Speaker 1: to be one of the cool kids. I really want
Speaker 1: to be one of the cool kids. Well that makes
Speaker 1: me happy. That's how it all started, this friendship of
Speaker 1: our what's your perspective on it, though, I want to know,
Speaker 1: like your your side of that. I remember everyone was
Speaker 1: super excited about Vampire Diaries. We were on in a
Speaker 1: room and I thought, I'm gonna go say hi, we're
Speaker 1: working on the same network. But you you seem super
Speaker 1: nice and there was definitely like a connection and you
Speaker 1: were down to come, and that was cool that you did,
Speaker 1: and we had a great time and that started a
Speaker 1: friendship of I traveled the world with you. We've been
Speaker 1: through breakups, we've been through new jobs, we've been through
Speaker 1: you being with me for my last little bit before
Speaker 1: I was pregnant. I mean, we've just gone through so
Speaker 1: much together and you just have done so well and
Speaker 1: stayed true to who you are as an artist. Just
Speaker 1: everything you've done is awesome and and love hard that
Speaker 1: we just watched and is number one on Netflix, which
Speaker 1: is amazing, and just that speaks so many things of
Speaker 1: like how good you are. So it's just to see
Speaker 1: you come from that show and to have all that
Speaker 1: it's just so beautiful and amazing. Nina. But when did
Speaker 1: it hit for you that you were like, oh, people
Speaker 1: like this. First of all, that was the sweetest thing
Speaker 1: that you or anyone has ever said to me, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, it's true. It's true. I love you girl
Speaker 1: the moment. There's something for me when it's like when
Speaker 1: the fans and then you're like, okay, and your fans
Speaker 1: are absolutely by the way, all the fans that are listening,
Speaker 1: we love you for all the support and all that.
Speaker 1: Nina's fans are like die are. They're very passionate, very
Speaker 1: passion They're very passionate. I love them for it. I
Speaker 1: love it. Um. The Upfronts is really surreal and cool.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it doesn't like our show hadn't come
Speaker 1: out yet when the Upfronts happened, so it didn't like
Speaker 1: the fandom wasn't aware yet. Yeah. I think there was
Speaker 1: this one weekend where the CW had us fly from Atlanta.
Speaker 1: That was the other thing is that we were in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: so for a long time we really didn't know the
Speaker 1: impact or the fact that it was as big as
Speaker 1: it was because we were in this little bubble in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And then they had us fly I don't remember what city,
Speaker 1: maybe it was l A. We defied l A to
Speaker 1: do a like an appearance or something in a mall,
Speaker 1: and when we got to the mall. Jessica, I felt
Speaker 1: like Justin Bieber, I literally you didn't know. No, it
Speaker 1: was so I was like, is Justin Bieber here? Like
Speaker 1: what what did we just walk into? I like turned
Speaker 1: around to like see if he was behind me, because
Speaker 1: there was thousand upon thousands of kids in this mall
Speaker 1: to like almost to a dangerous degree, like there was
Speaker 1: too many people. And that was obviously at the moment
Speaker 1: where I was like, holy ship, right, well really like
Speaker 1: the show this is really it was so cool and
Speaker 1: so surreal, and so I had definitely had an out
Speaker 1: of body experience. Yeah, for sure, did you have one
Speaker 1: like that? What what was your moment? There was like
Speaker 1: a few different things. I remember I got there walking
Speaker 1: around New York taking it in on days off, and
Speaker 1: I would see billboards of the cast are going by buses.
Speaker 1: There was things like that where I'm like, Wow, they
Speaker 1: really believe in the show, that they're really marketing it.
Speaker 1: And then I think it was when we had to
Speaker 1: have security guards. Maybe we got to work one day
Speaker 1: and they were like, you guys can't like walk outside
Speaker 1: by yourself. Yeah, we didn't have that problem in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but wait, wait, can I stop you for ones. I think,
Speaker 1: have you already told the story about the Hello Kitty?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? No, Oh my god, that's so you
Speaker 1: have to because you said security guards. So it made
Speaker 1: me think of that. So we were walking the set
Speaker 1: and this there was a group of girls and one
Speaker 1: hands me this like Hello Kitty key chain. Really cute.
Speaker 1: I'm I love Hello Kitty, by the way, So I'm
Speaker 1: super pumped and I take it and I'm like walking in.
Speaker 1: The security card grabs it from me and he's like no,
Speaker 1: and I'm like what, Like why would you do that?
Speaker 1: And he's like, you gotta be careful. Chain a bear.
Speaker 1: It was like a bear keychain, like on a thing.
Speaker 1: It was like a stuffed animal like on a key chain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like but kind of big. Anyways, he takes off the
Speaker 1: head of this stuffed animal keychain and there's a microphone
Speaker 1: in it, and he knew because he had worked on
Speaker 1: other shows. He's like, you can't just take gifts into
Speaker 1: your trailer that someone trying to like get information or
Speaker 1: get a story. And I literally felt so violated, so
Speaker 1: wild because had he not been there, I would have, honestly,
Speaker 1: I would have put the key chain. I would put
Speaker 1: my keys on it would have used it, that would
Speaker 1: have went everywhere with me, which was like really scary,
Speaker 1: very illegal. But yeah, well, and the thing is, at
Speaker 1: that time, Nina, there wasn't like social media and things
Speaker 1: like that, so paparazzi was crazy and people did follow
Speaker 1: you to get stories or to find out who you
Speaker 1: were eating lunch with and things like that. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they had to be more creative and put microphones and
Speaker 1: animals and give them to you. So scary for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Fresh Fine because it's delicious and wonderful
Speaker 1: and it's healthy and you know, I love wine and
Speaker 1: I love that you made a healthy one. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I love how much you love It makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: But First Fine is a wine company that I started
Speaker 1: with Julian Huff and it is a low carb, low sugar,
Speaker 1: gluten free, vegan friendly, keto and all the good things
Speaker 1: for you wine that also is a good tasting wine
Speaker 1: because a lot of the other wines in that category
Speaker 1: taste horrible. And Brad's a real like wine guy, and
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to try because I don't like it. What
Speaker 1: a I'm gonna say to your best friend, I don't
Speaker 1: like your wine. I'm like, well, she she'd like the honesty,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you you're gonna like it. And he'd
Speaker 1: drink it and absolutely loved it. Yeah, we worked really
Speaker 1: long and hard in Our winemaker is a really fantastic
Speaker 1: winemaker who you know. That was our priority is making
Speaker 1: a premium product that also is good for you. And
Speaker 1: then obviously in moderation, if you drink thirty bottles, you'll
Speaker 1: probably get a headache. But if you if you have
Speaker 1: like a four glasses or like a bottle, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna feel horrible the next day with our wine because
Speaker 1: it's not it doesn't have all those additives, right, totally. Well,
Speaker 1: if you guys haven't tried it, you should try it.
Speaker 1: It's delicious and healthy and and it's my girl's wine,
Speaker 1: so you should anyway. And then can we talk about
Speaker 1: the movie. I don't know how much you can say
Speaker 1: that you just did with a great cast, Chase Crawford
Speaker 1: being someone in it, people don't really know like how
Speaker 1: low key funny is and just how wonderful Chase is awesome.
Speaker 1: He's so you're right, I don't think people know. Well,
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to get to know it because
Speaker 1: of the show on Hulu that right on the Boys.
Speaker 1: He's really funny on that. But we've known for years
Speaker 1: that Chase is one of the funniest people ever. He's
Speaker 1: just got this very specific, dry sense of humor. And
Speaker 1: I don't think he's like aware of how good looking
Speaker 1: he is, which also like adds to the whole thing
Speaker 1: because he doesn't take himself too seriously. He's just wonderful.
Speaker 1: He's a wonderful human, he really is. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we did this movie, um we wrapped about a month
Speaker 1: ago called Reunion with Chase and Lottarel Howary and Billy Magnusson,
Speaker 1: Gillian Bell, Jamie Chung Hitchcock. It's like a really fun
Speaker 1: cast and we hit cast. We had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun on that one too, And Chase is so funny
Speaker 1: on that. This movie. Wait, I have to say actually
Speaker 1: because it's a comedy, and I have to say that
Speaker 1: because this is a goss Girl podcast. Chase's character in
Speaker 1: this movie is almost as though Nate grew up kind
Speaker 1: of okay, like, yeah, it's like Nate fast forward fifteen years.
Speaker 1: He's like pretty much playing the same character, but a
Speaker 1: little bit more exaggerated and a funny version. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: people are going to love that because Nate he was
Speaker 1: always just like trying to do the good thing and
Speaker 1: the right thing, and like Nate was really funny to me,
Speaker 1: I guess in in that in that way, he's nothing
Speaker 1: like Nate in this movie. He's not exactly a nice
Speaker 1: guy in our movie, but he's definitely like an upper
Speaker 1: class hop guy. Right, And where did you guys film?
Speaker 1: We shot it in Los Angeles. We shot it in
Speaker 1: Calabasas for nice, just over a month. It was a
Speaker 1: quick shoot, but it was really fun one. But I
Speaker 1: feel like you probably haven't filmed other you know, working
Speaker 1: on your fresh vine in California and being able to
Speaker 1: do your photo shoots and stuff. You really haven't filmed
Speaker 1: something in l A in a minute though, Right, I
Speaker 1: hadn't filmed anything in l A since Dog Days Probably
Speaker 1: that was in two thousands seventeen. I think I remember
Speaker 1: going to that premiere with you. Yeah. Also, there's like
Speaker 1: a little fun fact that you always have Maverick in
Speaker 1: your movies, correct, Ye, I was watching like there's Maverick
Speaker 1: crossing the streets, Like what I'm like, Nina's dog. I
Speaker 1: love that you do that, and I'll forget that you
Speaker 1: do that, and then I'm like watching your show or
Speaker 1: movie or whatever it is, and then I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: seek Maverick and I freak out. Well, I'm sad to
Speaker 1: say though, unfortunately, because it made absolutely no sense to
Speaker 1: have a dog. Maverick is not going to be in Reunion.
Speaker 1: It's the only movie that I've been in since I've
Speaker 1: had I know. It's it's I'm surprised you didn't say, like, hey,
Speaker 1: rewrite this scene. It's I don't want to give anything away,
Speaker 1: but it actually like it was impossible, but I tried.
Speaker 1: I thought about it. I was like, I thought of way,
Speaker 1: but it made no sense with the story for there
Speaker 1: to be a dog anywhere in this movie. I'll get
Speaker 1: them to put her name in the credits or something
Speaker 1: like the prop dog or something perfect, which is also
Speaker 1: funny story. Maverick. We got back from Coachella, Nina and
Speaker 1: I one day. It actually I was at Coachella with you, okay,
Speaker 1: and I saw I was actively looking to adopt a
Speaker 1: dog or rescue a dog, and I was following all
Speaker 1: these rescue instagrams. And while I was at the festival,
Speaker 1: I saw Mavericks pop up, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is my dog. I don't know which one. There's two
Speaker 1: of them. There's their brother and sister, but like, one
Speaker 1: of these two dogs is my dog. So then we
Speaker 1: left Coachella to get Maverick. And then we were on
Speaker 1: my roof deck. I had a place in Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: Nina comes and brings the dog so we can meet.
Speaker 1: But she brings both, right, because at the time I
Speaker 1: couldn't decide, like I didn't know which one I wanted,
Speaker 1: so I just took both of them. And then I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, maybe I'll keep them both and
Speaker 1: I can raise two puppies. And then I got home
Speaker 1: after like a day and a half, I was like,
Speaker 1: this is not happening. There's no way I have two puppies.
Speaker 1: But I knew in my heart of heart that someone
Speaker 1: in our friend group would fall in love with the
Speaker 1: other and so I held on to him. And then
Speaker 1: I came to your roost shop, like you mentioned, Yeah here,
Speaker 1: she wasn't Maverick yet, was she? No, she was, she
Speaker 1: was Maverick. And then the other dog I named Goose
Speaker 1: Goose Yeah, yes, okay, So they were so Maverick. You
Speaker 1: guys kind of had like a little bit of They
Speaker 1: were both very chill dogs, but Maverick had a little
Speaker 1: bit more of like a bubbly personality, and Goose at
Speaker 1: the time was just kind of like lounging and chilling.
Speaker 1: It's very chill. Yeah, yeah, And I remember thinking like
Speaker 1: maybe I would take the dog, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm like traveling too much. So I literally
Speaker 1: text Chase and said, You've got to come meet this dog.
Speaker 1: And now Chase has the brother to Maverick, and his
Speaker 1: name is Yeah, I love the name Shiner. I'm a
Speaker 1: little bummed that it's not Goose. I liked Maverick and Goose,
Speaker 1: but now knowing Shiner, I can only see Shiner Shiner.
Speaker 1: Now I know. I'm so happy that Chase took him
Speaker 1: and they're still there's still in each other's lives to
Speaker 1: this day, and when they see each other, I was, God,
Speaker 1: it's so huge, and they see each other, they're like
Speaker 1: my brother. Oh my god. They play so hard and
Speaker 1: they look nothing alike. I'm pretty sure the rescue plays
Speaker 1: lied to me. There probably not actually siblings because they
Speaker 1: look not related at all, completely different. They actually yeah,
Speaker 1: but like before we washed them, they kind of looked
Speaker 1: more similar because they're all scraggly and gross and dirty.
Speaker 1: And then we washed them and with it, when their
Speaker 1: furs were clean, they look like completely different dogs. So
Speaker 1: but whatever, it worked out and everyone's happy and China
Speaker 1: has a great home and dogs. But when you were filming,
Speaker 1: obviously you didn't have the dog in. Your hours were crazy,
Speaker 1: especially because you were doing two characters, and even more,
Speaker 1: there was more another season's wasn't there for total? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like what did they have going on there? There's a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so cool. You forgot to mention that I had
Speaker 1: I had a cat during this time, which is a
Speaker 1: lot easier to have a cat when you're filming than
Speaker 1: I have a dog because you don't take the cat
Speaker 1: out for walks. You just have to change the letter
Speaker 1: box once. Um. Being back in Atlanta filming now, can
Speaker 1: you tell us a little bit about what you're filming now?
Speaker 1: Because it's a completely different thing. You're living in a
Speaker 1: different spot, Like it's just can you talk about what
Speaker 1: it is. I'm I'm living in a new but different
Speaker 1: spot because the place that I bought is being rented
Speaker 1: to someone else, so I had to rent another place,
Speaker 1: but I found a place on the same street. Perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm still in the hood. I love that hood.
Speaker 1: By the way. I remember talking to like a bunch
Speaker 1: of people from your Cat and they were telling me
Speaker 1: that first season of Vampire Diaries, Nina went and bought
Speaker 1: this place in an area that was like not what
Speaker 1: it is now. Let's just say that, Yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 1: very nice. Yeah, everyone's like, what's she doing? We don't
Speaker 1: even know for getting picked up for another season, yet
Speaker 1: she's spending money on this thing, and I'm like, like,
Speaker 1: who's last thing now. It definitely was a little crazy
Speaker 1: at the time, but it turned out to be a
Speaker 1: very smart choice for sure, because the area was was
Speaker 1: not a nice area and it became one of the
Speaker 1: hotspots in Atlanta, so I was very lucky. But even
Speaker 1: when I came there, everything was like building up a
Speaker 1: little bit and things like that, but it still wasn't
Speaker 1: what it is now. So for sure, No, it was
Speaker 1: like a very smart thing you did. Now it's almost
Speaker 1: too crowded and too crazy and phil like New York
Speaker 1: in this little area. But the movie that I'm shooting
Speaker 1: here currently is called the Outlaws and it's a it's
Speaker 1: a Netflix movie. It's action comedy and it's so fun.
Speaker 1: And Pierce Brosden, Yeah, Pierce Brosden is in the movie.
Speaker 1: James Bond himself. James Bond is my daddy, So I
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, Oh my god. I couldn't be sweeter,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't be more talented, and he couldn't be funnier.
Speaker 1: He's just the most incredible human being. Off the accent
Speaker 1: is everything. But my brother and I met him once
Speaker 1: and he was just so lovely. My brother's like, I'm
Speaker 1: literally talking to he had a suit on, holding a
Speaker 1: drink at a bar. It was it was as if
Speaker 1: we were in the movie Double seven with him. But
Speaker 1: it's like what you said, he was just very charming.
Speaker 1: He really listened when you were talking to him. He
Speaker 1: was just a really great and and and as an actor,
Speaker 1: he's like one of my favorites for sure. We had
Speaker 1: dinner the other night with him and Ellen Barkin and
Speaker 1: Adam Divine and Jackie Sandler and the whole cast. We
Speaker 1: had the big dinner and he was telling the stories
Speaker 1: about all these things, and he mentioned Mrs Doubtfire and
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten that he was in Mrs. Oh My God,
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite favorites, and so I
Speaker 1: actually rewatched it last night and it holds up. It's
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah. Um, but yeah, he's a dream to
Speaker 1: work with. Adam Devine is in the movie as well,
Speaker 1: and he's I mean, that's a great cast. Again, the
Speaker 1: dreamy ist of co star is I'm so happy and
Speaker 1: lucky too. He's a producer on the film too, which
Speaker 1: is really cool. But he's just he's so funny and
Speaker 1: so talented and so sweet and just everyone, all the
Speaker 1: whole team is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Is it any of
Speaker 1: the same crew by chance? Like, is there anyone in
Speaker 1: the crew that was on Vampire Diaries or not? That's
Speaker 1: the crazy part. I expected to walk onto the set
Speaker 1: and see like all my familiar faces and I think
Speaker 1: there's maybe one person. Oh my god, that's so weird. Well,
Speaker 1: but I guess so much shoots there. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's weird and it's not because right now in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, there's between seventy and eighty productions. WHOA,
Speaker 1: So I'm sure all those people are on Marvel movies
Speaker 1: or something because they're also shooting Black Panther right now here,
Speaker 1: they're shooting Guardians of the Galaxy, shooting all these films
Speaker 1: in Atlanta currently wild and crazy. Well, I'm super excited
Speaker 1: again for this film and this cast. Thanks Mama. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play a quote game real quick, of quotes from
Speaker 1: Vampire Diaries, and you just tell me which characters at it. Okay.
Speaker 1: You want to love that consumes you. You want passion
Speaker 1: and adventure and even a little danger. Damon. That was Damon.
Speaker 1: Good job. By the way. For the record, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not good at remembering quotes, so that was very lucky.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can get the rest of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: first rule of being a vampire is realizing how awesome
Speaker 1: you are. It's definitely not Stephen, either Vicky or Damon
Speaker 1: again st me. Yeah, oh my god, I told you
Speaker 1: I'm not good at the clothes. Okay, am I sensing
Speaker 1: another brother swap stephanous damn it, you were right, stefan um. Okay,
Speaker 1: last one. I survived childbirth, the death of my entire family,
Speaker 1: and five years of running from an immortal hybrid. I
Speaker 1: know this one. That's one thousand percent Catherine. Yeah, Catherine, Um,
Speaker 1: that like brings me back totally. It's crazy. It makes
Speaker 1: me want to go back and watch them all right. Also,
Speaker 1: another thing I don't think we touched on is like
Speaker 1: your do your beauty, beauty, it's so awesome girl. Do
Speaker 1: you love working with them? Thank you? Yeah, it's it
Speaker 1: was always a dream of mine to work with you or.
Speaker 1: I love them so much and I've been a fan
Speaker 1: of the products and what it represents since I was little.
Speaker 1: So it was a pretty surreal day when they called
Speaker 1: and so they wanted to partner together and have me
Speaker 1: as their ambassador. I was really, really really excited. I
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, well this has been so fun. I'm
Speaker 1: just like so pumped and proud of everything. And having
Speaker 1: you as you know, just my friend and my partner
Speaker 1: in life is also just spend your your such a great,
Speaker 1: great friend and you have all these things going on,
Speaker 1: so you've never lost that thing of being a true friend.
Speaker 1: And I really, truly, from the bottom of my heart,
Speaker 1: I love you so much. I love you so much too,
Speaker 1: and I feel the same way. You're kidding me. I
Speaker 1: hear you saying these things and I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Jessica Sore is one of the greatest
Speaker 1: human beings on the planet. And you've always always been
Speaker 1: there for me in every crisis or good time or
Speaker 1: bad time. You've supported me, but privately and publicly, you're
Speaker 1: the first person to celebrate. Before I'll even start celebrating.
Speaker 1: I'm like, know, whatever, and you're like, no, we're getting drinks,
Speaker 1: Like this is cool, We're gonna go do something about it.
Speaker 1: And I'm so proud to see what an incredible mother
Speaker 1: you've become. You've really blossomed into this girl, wonderfully beautiful
Speaker 1: human being and mom, and you meet such a great baby,
Speaker 1: and I know she's gonna be a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful girl.
Speaker 1: I love you. I love you so much, loving you too.
Speaker 1: Let's get you some tissues, ie h. Isn't she just
Speaker 1: the cutest I couldn't be happier or more blessed that
Speaker 1: we cross paths, both of us doing c W shows
Speaker 1: gave us a lot of opportunities and a lot of travel.
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, I never expected to meet one
Speaker 1: of my best best friends at a press event. So
Speaker 1: with that being said, I love you, Nina. You're amazing.
Speaker 1: Also for all of you. You should really go check
Speaker 1: out all of her upcoming projects. She has Reunion, The Bricklayer,
Speaker 1: The Outlaws, and go try her Fresh Mind wines. You
Speaker 1: will thank me and I thank you for listening. So
Speaker 1: until next time. X l x O xl XO is
Speaker 1: produced by Propagate Content and Met Jessica's Orne. Our show
Speaker 1: is executive produced by Linley. Our producers are Diego Tapia,
Speaker 1: Kristin Vermilia, Emily Carr, and Hannah Harris. Original music by
Speaker 1: Moxie and Lune and the episode was mixed by Seth
Speaker 1: O Lansky and