WEBVTT - S2E16 You’ve Got Yale! with Laura Breckenridge 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:08.119 Hi. I'm Laura breckon Ridge. I played Rachel car and 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:18.880 Gossip Girl, and we're rewatching. You've got Yale. Welcome back, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.959 listeners to your one and only source into all things 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.599 gossip Chrome. You know you love it. X O x 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:30.680 O Hi everyone, welcome back to XO XL with me 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.280 Jessica's or. A lot has been happening recently, but today's 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.800 rewatch is where it starts to get really juicy. We're 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.200 digging into season two, episode sixteen. You've got Yale, Chuck 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:44.240 and Lily team up to try to take the company 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.879 back from Jack, while Blair risks her future to scheme 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.199 against the new teacher, Miss Carr, who gets into a 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.560 few scandals of her own. Speaking of that new teacher, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.720 Laura Breckinridge, who plays Rachel Carr, is joining us today 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.000 and I can't wait to ask her about her time 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.440 on the show and dig into the steam are storylines 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:21.720 that she has coming up. Okay, everyone, here's Laura. Hello, Hi, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.000 how are you? How are you good? I'm so excited 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.720 to like actually see your face in a little bit too. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.120 It's a crazy rainstorm and I'm like you should see 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.720 my studio and in like a dark hole, but you're 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.000 making it feel much brighter because it's been forever. It's 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.600 time me too. Shannola sends her love by the way, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.200 I need to saying that. Yes, oh my gosh, you 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.640 have to give her a big How great is she? 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.640 She's fabulous, She's the best fabulous. She really mean, she's 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.080 just she just lights up every room she does. And 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.280 she's directing a lot now. She she directed an episode 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.120 of Shameless. Her episode was girl, We need to tell 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.520 her she needs to do to be directing you and 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.400 I in something. Yeah, I would love that. She's so good. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.080 I work on auditions with her sometimes. She just always 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.600 has such good advice. She's she's really she's really great. Yeah, 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.600 And I mean that whole cast of Shameless was so incredible. 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:23.000 It was like, you know, so many storylines like Gossip Girl, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.359 but every time you went on like her storyline was crazy, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:27.639 and then you would go to Emmy's and then you 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.240 go to Jeremy's and every time that they all just 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.799 brought so much like heat to the screen, you know 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.880 what I mean. You're always like, whoa, that's crazy and 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.519 they made it all work together, and um, you always 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.040 needed to know what was happening next and it was 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.679 a crazy ride. Yeah, and and talk about a show 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.560 that just kept going. I mean they did like eight 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:51.280 or nine seasons. I think they did eleven or in 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.080 the You're right, because I did. I did season eight 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.480 and they went on a couple of years after after. Okay, yeah, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.280 so I can't. I still remember when she booked the 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.240 pilot and I was like, how did eleven years ago 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.480 by already? Well? Yeah, and the kids were so I 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.040 mean they literally grew up on that show. I remember 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.079 going to the table read and I was like, wait, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.000 I don't know who these who everyone is? And then 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.760 I'm like, oh, wait, that's because they were twelve years 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.679 old when you watched season one this last week. Jessica, Yeah, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.840 I know. I mean time flies, It just does. I mean, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.919 even like with us, like it's been years, it's been 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.360 crazy years. Wait. I want to introduce you because I 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.840 got so excited. We just comped right in. This is 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:40.560 Laura Breckinridge, and she's gonna be rewatching season two episode sixteen. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.680 You've Got Yale, which is the title is based on 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.480 the romantic comedy You've Got Mail starring Meg Ryan and 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.320 Tom Hanks. Um So that's what we're going to get into. 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.280 But I want everyone to kind of get to know 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.880 about you if they don't already, which I'm sure most 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.240 everyone listening does. By the way, Before I do that, 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.240 do you hear the thunderstormer or no? I feel like 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.200 I heard a rumble, but I wasn't sure. I mean, 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.760 it is like the craziest thunder I've ever heard in 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.120 my whole life. Anyways, it's actually like very like cozy. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.240 But I'm like, jeez, I a thunderstorm me too. I 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.720 remember my mom used to be like, so and so 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.680 is bowling today in in Heaven And I'm like, Okay, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.240 I like that. They definitely just got a strike with that, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:30.520 like huge thunder right there, right yeah, um, okay, So 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.960 we have you here to rewatch with us and you 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.000 play Rachel Carr, Miss car Um. Can do you remember 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:42.080 your casting story? And at this point, obviously season one 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.920 had come out, so had you heard of the show? 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.560 Did you know about it because of yeah, there wasn't 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.800 a ton of shows on TV then, or because you 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.360 are an actor in that world, like what was your 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.080 what was going on? Yeah? I remember my casting story 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.440 very well because it's a story of you know when 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.919 you think something goes really well and then you don't 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.040 hear and you're like, oh, I thought I thought it 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.880 went well. I get and you forget about it. I 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.520 knew about the show. I actually had auditioned for the pilot. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.200 I auditioned for Blair, so I knew about it. And 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.160 then I went back to college. And because I had 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.800 taken time off to work and wasn't that in tune 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.840 with I knew what was airing, but I wasn't in 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.479 tune with how things were doing. Maybe I would say um, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.000 because I just didn't. I didn't have time to watch TV, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.919 so I wasn't aware. And then I auditioned. I actually 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.760 auditioned again. I was looking I have in my email 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:44.640 like all my old audition emails, you know, with and 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.560 I was like, I know, I wanted for something else, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.960 and I went in for the college student when they 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.479 went to visit Yale, and then I got sent this 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.599 audition and it was like teacher, who looks young? I 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.400 was like, oh, yeah, okay, I look young. Um, I'm 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.279 told all the time I look young, and was it? 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.280 And it just you know when you read sides and 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.480 you're like, oh, I get this like it. It makes 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.599 it kind of clicks for clip. Yeah, and I just 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.880 felt like I kind of got her. But you know, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.520 it was like a week in New York and there 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.240 were other auditions, and I think that same day I 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 had another audition for thirty Rock and Tina Feye was 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.760 in the room. I was like, very nervous about that audition, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.080 but this one was with casting. When you were casting, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.080 it's like a cozier audition experience. So I did it, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.000 and I just did the scenes I did. There was 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.240 two scenes, I think, and there was no notes. It 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.320 was just a well that was great, thanks, thanks, and 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.880 you're kind of like, wait, did you like it or 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.960 you never know that, like give me something right. You're 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.400 like you don't know if that means you nailed it 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.520 or like they were like that was good, but it's 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.719 not going to work. And I moved on. And I 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.600 feel like with guests, it said it was a guest spot, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.240 it didn't say it was a recurring and they cast 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.120 it was pretty quickly, you like here in the next 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.120 couple of days, I didn't hear anything. So I moved on, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.160 and I think it was like honestly, was like two 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.320 weeks later, maybe there was Thanksgiving between some for some reason. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.880 It was a long time, and my entire team called 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.440 me one afternoon. They're like congratulations, like for for what 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.240 you got it and they're like gostep girls, like wait 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.920 what I got it? And they're like, yeah, it's gonna 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.240 be a few episodes and and that was that. And 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.640 I called my best friend from college, who at the 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.960 time it wasn't she she had graduated and she works 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.720 in finance and she's very put together woman, very you know, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.720 in control, and suddenly I called her, was like, so 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.720 I booked an episode of Gospiel girl, you watched that show, right, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.400 And she just starts like hyperventilating and she was like, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.520 oh my god, I gotta hold on, hold on. I 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.720 was like, what is happening. She's like, I just I 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.840 had to find a conference room because I'm freaking out, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.160 and I just I this is like some of the 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.840 most exciting news I've ever heard. It is my favorite 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.360 show and you're gonna be on it. And that was 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:01.200 my first taste of just how like fans toward it. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:06.960 Yeah yeah, um, she was super super excited. I was 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.240 gonna say, from this is speaks of how much they 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.440 must have liked you from the beginning of meeting you, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.920 auditioning for the pilot, then bringing you back for someone else, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.080 and then bringing you back a third time again like 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.600 they were basically waiting to find something to connect, you know, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.720 put the pieces to the puzzle together for you, because 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.720 they don't keep bringing you back if they didn't love 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.640 what they saw. It's you know, it's a waste of 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.200 people's time. So that just speaks volumes that you kind 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.240 of shined from the beginning. Maybe they didn't see you 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.839 as Blair, you didn't feel the connection with Blair, whatever 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.559 it may have been. And and to be honest with you, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.560 like your list of credits of what you've done, and 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.199 then like going to Princeton like I'm so like I 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.760 presston enamored and everything with what you you know, like 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.280 starring opposite Laura Lenny and Liam neeson Um and also 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.800 Gossip Girl herself Kristen Bell, like on on Broadway, Like 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.640 that's incredible, Blue Bloods, Gray's Anatomy. I Mean, you've done 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.640 such amazing work. So it's like, I just that's awesome, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.120 Like for anyone listening as an actor when you keep 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.559 going back in for the same show. If you're not 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.360 getting roles, sometimes it does get discouraging, but like if 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.640 you get you feel good when they're like having you 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.040 come back for something else because obviously there's something there 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.640 they liked. So that just speaks volumes of you. It 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:19.360 also just feels really thank you. That's very nice, um, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.200 and a really nice way to look at it. It's 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.840 nice to you know, with casting directors, you go in 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.840 sometimes they bring you back, and they bring you back 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.840 for different things. And there in my career there's been 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.840 a good amount of casting directors who will just kind 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.000 of believe in you, right, and um, there's something really 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.199 wonderful about knowing that support is there, even when it 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.240 gets discouraging, as you said sotially, like it's just I 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.080 keep it's not it's not fitting. Why is it not fitting? 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.280 You know? Crucible? You mentioned Crucible, and I just remember this. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.960 I went in for like three different Oh I heard that, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.280 Oh that I heard it's crazy that thunder to mute 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.319 my microphones. It doesn't interrupt our episode. That was crazy. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.920 That was that was exciting, big strike up in Heaven. 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.680 I mentioned cruis Ball was like boom, yeah, like that's 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.920 a good show. Yeah, I think I went in for 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:17.119 that show four times for different roles in the production, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.000 and it was one of the I went in and 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.000 I remember I said to my agent, I was like, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.080 I want to be in this production so badly. I 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.360 will be the grass in the background if I have 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.080 to be, because I love the show and I love 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.680 the actors who were part of it, and it just 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.560 felt like such an opportunity. And I kept feeling I 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 was having good auditions, but the you know, I went 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.400 in for different parts in it and it wasn't fitting. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:44.120 It wasn't fitting. And then I got cast, and which 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.240 was I still remember that phone call. You remember those 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.480 phone calls when you get those jobs that you're really 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.520 excited about. And we get to set and there was 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.679 actually grass on our set. Was incredible, there was grass 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.400 in the background. I was like, I almost like I 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.640 would have done too. I would have been lying. I 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.960 just wanted to see them worse. And but you know 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.320 what you brought, you bring something to I'm sure they 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.200 learned something from you. But that is a it's great 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.360 company you were with, for sure. Let me ask you this, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.280 had you met Kristin Bell before that, because a lot 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.679 of times people don't know, like us working on the show. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.880 She did her voiceovers mostly I think in l A. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.760 I'm sure there was times she may have traveled and 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.559 had to go into certain studios, but I mean there 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.800 was years that went on that I had not met her, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.920 right right, Yeah, we worked together. We did Crucible a 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.439 few it was a few six years before Gossip Girl. Okay, 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.720 so you met her there, but obviously not on the show. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.080 Not on no, no, no, Yeah, It's it's interesting you 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:46.840 it feels like you work intimately together, but but you don't, don't. Yeah, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.080 I mean there's times you could do a whole season 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.240 of a show and not have a scene with another 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.240 main character. Which is so you and I had no 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.520 scenes together. We didn't, but I know we shot at 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.840 the same locations. Yeah, Like there's always that time where 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.400 we are probably like crossing in the mare and makeup room, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.800 or your scene was before mine or something like that, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.319 But we didn't actually work together. No, we didn't have 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.280 a scene together, which I'm um, so we will have 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.840 to like get on that will work somewhere else together. Um. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.520 So you went to Princeton, Yes, what did you study there? 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.240 I was a classical studies major, like that's so impressive, Laura. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.440 I really like school. So I studied ancient Greek theater 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.160 and literature. I kind of joke that I was maybe 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.839 justifying my career choice. I knew when I went I 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.760 had already been working. I knew I wanted to be 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:45.160 an actress, and I wanted to study things that interested me. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.880 I did acting at Princeton as well. But you can't 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:53.600 major in theater there. You can major in other Sorry, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.920 you can't major you can major in you can't major 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.160 in a trade. Basically, you can't be like a pre 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.480 med major. You can't be a business major. But you 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.600 they encourage that you learn how to be a scholar, 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.600 if you will how to study to learn, and then 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.600 you can have a track. So I had a friend 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.400 who was an anthropology major on the premed track and 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.680 went to med school, and so I was on a 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.040 theater track. There is a great theater program there that 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.400 has just continued to grow, and there's a wonderful theater 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.600 scene that's there. But you're not a theater major. You're 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.200 either an English major with a theater track. And I 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.040 did classical studies and I was interested in arts place 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.680 in society. I would say, and how theator changes to 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.840 reflect the society in which it's performed in. And I 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.280 when you look at fifth century BC, kind of distills 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.120 culture in a time and you can kind of see 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.720 how they talked to each other. And so I was 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.920 just fascinating by the way. I find it really fascinating. 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.199 It's you know, theater Crucible, for example, we revive did 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.880 after nine eleven. It had been written during the McCarthy era. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.280 What is it to do? What was it in two 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.480 thousand two? What was it saying then versus what it 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.120 was saying in nifty and it's saying a lot of 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.000 the same things, but it has a different relationship in 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.760 that time period, of course, right with its audience. And 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.600 so that's what I was. I kind of studied. My 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:28.360 thesis was on media performed at different time periods in history. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:33.080 So that's my fancy and so incredible, and no, who cares, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.600 Dorky's cool man. But let me ask you this. Do 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.640 you think that the show like, especially because we're gonna 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.160 get into this break it's you've got Yale, it's all about, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.320 you know, getting into these Ivy League schools. Do you 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.120 think that the show portrays prep schools. Yeah, correctly. And 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.000 now I know it's a show and there's things that 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.880 are going to be pulled or pushed or plugged a 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.360 little bit more, you know. But I mean I wasn't 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.240 applying to like Princeton or Yale or anything. I didn't 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.120 even go to school. So like very interested, Like did 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.000 they portray it well? Like is is the waiting and 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.280 the hype? And like the is the stress is all that? Like? Yeah, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.200 I was heating right on. My high school experience was 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.240 very different because I didn't I went to a private school, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.080 but it wasn't a prep school. I went to professional 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.600 children's school and it's in New York. It's kids who 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.440 were working professionally that need flexible schedules and a lot 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.920 of dancers and actors and even horseback riders, tennis players, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.920 and that school that I love. I love my high 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.480 school and that's awesome. All of my friends from high school, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:41.080 we were super supportive of each other. Everyone pursuing their 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.920 own thing, write their own uh what they wanted to 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.160 do with their life, and so not everyone wanted to 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.560 go to college. Some people were going to join a 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.600 ballet company and just do that. Some people were doing 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.520 a ballet company and college. Other people were going to 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.600 be singers. That there's just everyone had their own track 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.440 and that's what that school support courts. And so I 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.120 knew I loved acting, and I knew I loved academia 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.240 and I wanted to go to college, and so I 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.000 felt very supportive. But there wasn't a competitive Uh. There 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.920 were other people applying to college, but I didn't think 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.520 we were competitive in anyway. It wasn't like, oh, like 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.240 in this episode, they're like one constant student gets earlier, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:26.359 right that I didn't. We didn't Blair and Serena, Yeah, exactly. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.040 We didn't have that at my high school. I was 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.880 very excited. I really wanted to go to Princeton. I 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.520 did apply early. It surprised me that it was. It 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.880 felt like the perfect fit, but um, I went and visited. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.000 I had worked with somebody. They were developing Dirty Dancing 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.880 at the time for Broadway, and I was playing Baby 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.520 in the workshop and a woman had just graduated it 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.200 from Princeton and the writer of the show, her husband 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.160 was a professor Princeton, and I was like, I don't 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.280 know if they have an art scene there, Like no, no, no, no, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.480 they do and the woman who I was working with 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.960 took me to Princeton for a night to a theater 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.040 production by this company, Pig Iron Group. They were fabulous 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.560 and I left. I was like, oh that it just 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.880 felt like a fit for me. And I was very 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.880 happy that my school helped me find my fit right. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.920 And I do think whatever your step is after high school, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.240 you're very young at that time, but it is trying 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.680 to find what fits for you, what's right for you. Yeah, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.439 not every path, Not everyone's path is going to college 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.359 or going to a theater school or going into the 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:37.040 right you know, trade like it. It's all very individual, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.960 but we do, you know, and I think really people 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.840 need to know that for sure. That's so good. Once 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.240 I got there, and then you hear stories about the 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:50.280 prep schools, you know, it does sound those it does 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.240 sound intense, more intense than I mean, I feel like 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.480 it's intense. It's intense like because I think sometimes if 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.600 you're at a certain school, there's pressure to then continue 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.960 on to a certain type of education if you will. Yeah, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.720 and so that was not my experience, and so I 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.320 do feel like I was a little bit like outside 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.120 looking and being like is that really what it's like 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:16.360 over there because it didn't feel that way for me, right, Yeah, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.040 I think I think it does get competitive at certain schools, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.800 certain high schools. I mean, I'm I'm sure. I mean, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.679 I know this is gossip Girl and there's always like 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.160 some crazy breath being dropped, but like there's I think 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.800 there's definitely an element in real life of waiting and 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.200 the right for sure. Actually, we have a fan question 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.320 for you. It's in real life, would Laura be more 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.879 like Miss Car, Serena or Blair? And I'm only jumping 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.960 right to that because Blair and Serena are so different 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.920 trying to get and then the fact that Serena gets 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.159 into Yale and Blair quite doesn't. And then you know, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.600 you have Miss Car that comes in, who's like so 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.760 wonderful and suite, you know, in the very beginning, and 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.120 then we see some like devious things come out later. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.399 But who would you be most like? Is what the 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:06.560 fan question is. Um, I am a rule follower and 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.880 I'm not cool, so so does I'm like I think 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.760 you know, I'm like, oh no, they said we have 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.600 to even you know, I was parking at the parking 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.000 garage here and I'm in an suv and there's all 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.520 these like compact spaces. I was like, I'm in an suv. 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.000 I can't park in there, like I'm following the rules, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.760 and so maybe Miss Carpet then I'm like, but not 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.560 where Miss car goes, right, there's there's pieces of miss 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.560 like I'm a little bit of each of them. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.399 I I'd like to think, Um, I'm not as rigid 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.879 as a Miss Car right if if if you know 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.320 what I mean, Like, I'm more relaxed. I don't feel 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.560 like everyone else needs to. She's like, I am going 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.639 to I follow the rules and I'm going to teach 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.040 you that you need to as well. And I don't 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.040 feel a connection to that part. I would say, you know, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.320 you do you? Right? I like that you do you 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.680 because listen, when we all do us, it's we're okay, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.520 just be nice and do you be nice? To be 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.200 considerate of others, be thoughtful. And then although, how about 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.080 Blair in this episode when she's talking to m Car 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.480 and she's like, I just what does she say to you? 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.040 It's when she's kind of coming to apologize, but she's 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.720 kind of always what Blair does, She's like still got 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.199 an angle yeah, it's it's so good. She's like, and 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.880 then when she's like, I'm trying to do better that 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.720 part at the end, Oh yeah, she's a great line. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.080 What is that line? Um, I can't not I was 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.400 It's something like I can't not do that right, It's yeah, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.879 I'm watching it. It's so beautiful and me too, and 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.919 I was, I was hiking her zingers are great. But 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.480 what she says to you was like she just this 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.200 is the way she works, like she has to like 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.600 kind of dig into people and kind of do all 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.479 that and she doesn't know, but she's trying to do it. 0:20:50.480 --> 0:21:04.520 She's trying to be better. So here, let's let's talk 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.520 about where we left off and get into this episode 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:08.159 because there's so much that happens. I want to hear 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.280 your thoughts on things. I want to break some stuff down. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.800 So here's where we left off. After reading Bart's will, 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.800 Chuck finds out that Bart left the entire empire to Chuck, 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.560 but Jack plotted to get it taken away. Nelly Yuki 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.040 stole Dan's phone and told Gossip Girl about Lily and 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.360 Rufus's baby. Blair told Chuck it's over for good. Serena 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:30.960 and Eric find out about the secret love child, and 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.640 Lillian Rufus are told that their son has died. That's 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.879 where we have left off, and here is what this episode. 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.280 Here's the logline. It's that time of year when Constance 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.240