Speaker 1: This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Dorty. Hi, everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of Let's Be Clear with Shanna Doherty.
Speaker 1: So today's episode is going to be a Q and A.
Speaker 1: You guys sent in hundreds of questions and I'm going
Speaker 1: to answer them. I'm not going to get to all
Speaker 1: of them. I think that's pretty much impossible, but eventually
Speaker 1: we will. So we're going to go through as many
Speaker 1: today as I can get through. I'm sorry, I have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a sore throat. So from and
Speaker 1: if I butcher your names, I'm really sorry. From Kristen
Speaker 1: de mac Isaac. Growing up, did you ever read and
Speaker 1: respond to your own fam mail or did someone else
Speaker 1: do this for you? So interesting question, Yes, I actually did.
Speaker 1: My mom and my dad were very much huge. They
Speaker 1: encouraged me to read everything so that I would understand
Speaker 1: my responsibility of being in the public eye. And they
Speaker 1: would so we would have like fan mail days where
Speaker 1: we would sit down and read the fan mail and
Speaker 1: then I would sign a photo or sign like a
Speaker 1: little card, but certainly on little House. NBC would supply
Speaker 1: us with all that stuff and then put it in
Speaker 1: the envelopes, give it back to our producers and they
Speaker 1: would send it off to the fans, So yes, I did.
Speaker 1: I actually really enjoyed reading the fan mail. Later on
Speaker 1: it became a little overwhelming and that process sort of stopped.
Speaker 1: I think Aaron Spelling did it, but I can't be sure.
Speaker 1: From Mel mel B, I know you, girl high. Who
Speaker 1: is your biggest inspiration in life? And what three words
Speaker 1: would you tell your younger self. My biggest inspiration in
Speaker 1: life is probably always going to be my parents, and
Speaker 1: it's just because of the way that they raise me
Speaker 1: and what they taught me, and their strength and their perseverance,
Speaker 1: and my admiration for them knows no limits. And what
Speaker 1: I would tell my younger self is to chill out
Speaker 1: and don't take it all so seriously. That's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: From Chelsea Luanne, what is something you've learned about yourself
Speaker 1: since you started Let's Be Clear podcast. I've learned that
Speaker 1: being transparent and honest is a double edged sword, and
Speaker 1: there are moments where it's really wonderful because you're getting
Speaker 1: to share yourself in such a very personal way with
Speaker 1: people who personally connect with you with your journey, whether
Speaker 1: it is through cancer, just your acting or whatever. And
Speaker 1: in that regard, it's really wonderful and really nice. But
Speaker 1: there are also people out there who they think that
Speaker 1: they want to hear you be transparent, but then when
Speaker 1: you are, they don't really like the answer. They don't
Speaker 1: like that transparency, and it turns into a you know,
Speaker 1: bashing of Shannon or a bashing of other people and
Speaker 1: creating sort of this contentious environment, and that is something
Speaker 1: that I don't really like. You know, the point of
Speaker 1: this podcast was to connect with all of you. It
Speaker 1: was to be very clear about things in my life
Speaker 1: that had transpired, talking to my friends, talking to doctors,
Speaker 1: bringing knowledge and strings and hope to the cancer community,
Speaker 1: which I hope I'm doing. So that's what I've learned,
Speaker 1: is that transparency is a double edged sword. But I
Speaker 1: will always I will always lean towards transparency because at
Speaker 1: least I'm getting to be honest, and at least I'm
Speaker 1: getting to say what has transpired in my life and
Speaker 1: what my truth is. And there's something very cathartic about that.
Speaker 1: Lindy's Candy Boutique, Where does your strength come from during
Speaker 1: your hardest days of coping with your diagnosis? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have said this before that, I kind of imagine
Speaker 1: that there's a well inside of me, and when it's dry,
Speaker 1: you just kind of got to dig a little deeper,
Speaker 1: and when you dig, you find more strength. I also
Speaker 1: know my mom is one of the strongest human beings
Speaker 1: I know, So I get a lot of my strength
Speaker 1: from her, and from the love and support of my
Speaker 1: friends and that support system, and my brother and sort
Speaker 1: of people knowing when I'm sort of going through probably
Speaker 1: a darker time or a time when I'm not feeling
Speaker 1: as strong, I tend to become a hermit. I tend
Speaker 1: to not answer phone calls. And my friends now know
Speaker 1: that about me, and they sort of persist in reaching
Speaker 1: out to me so that they can help me dig
Speaker 1: a little deeper for that strength. So I'm really blessed.
Speaker 1: I'm very lucky with the people that I have in
Speaker 1: my life. You're ten seventeen. What is the biggest misconception
Speaker 1: about you that you would like to clear up? Oh,
Speaker 1: there are so many. I think the biggest misconception about
Speaker 1: me is that I am a bitch. I think that's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest one I am. I am definitely not
Speaker 1: a bitch. I am strong, and I'm smart and I
Speaker 1: have an opinion, and if those things make me a bitch,
Speaker 1: then there's something incredibly incredibly wrong with this world and
Speaker 1: how they view women and what the women are allowed
Speaker 1: to put out there. So I don't really think that's
Speaker 1: on me. I think that's on society, if that's what
Speaker 1: it is. I'm actually like a really I can be
Speaker 1: painfully shy and very self conscious and things hurt me
Speaker 1: really deep. I'm not I don't have thick skin, and
Speaker 1: particularly since twenty fifteen when I got diagnosed with cancer,
Speaker 1: that those walls that protected me from a lot of
Speaker 1: negative comments all sort of came down, and with them down,
Speaker 1: I often sometimes feel like I don't have a coat
Speaker 1: of armor anymore. And that can be beautiful, but it
Speaker 1: can also be detrimental. More on that later. But that's
Speaker 1: probably the biggest misconception from Dana. I apologize. I'm going
Speaker 1: to butcher your name right now now, Dana Jacko Viello,
Speaker 1: how do you choose to handle any criticism, bullies and
Speaker 1: haters your way over the years and now compared to
Speaker 1: when when you were younger? Is there any difference? Ship
Speaker 1: so why? Well kind of just answered that one in
Speaker 1: the sense of back then I think I just put
Speaker 1: up all these walls and really was able to slough
Speaker 1: it off and ignore it, and I wouldn't read anything
Speaker 1: I had blinders on, and now I don't, And I
Speaker 1: think the oftentimes I get sent stuffed by people that
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't read, and I now know to not
Speaker 1: read it because it's not going to be useful for me.
Speaker 1: But the harassment haters, bullies now impact me more. But
Speaker 1: I also like to remind myself that there's a thing
Speaker 1: called keyboard warrior, and that usually if you're someone who
Speaker 1: is going on to tell someone how awful they are
Speaker 1: or that they're toxic, or that they're this, or they're
Speaker 1: ugly or like, whatever their mean comments are, it's really
Speaker 1: a reflection upon how they feel about themselves and not
Speaker 1: what they really feel about me. They're just gonna unload
Speaker 1: it on me because I seem like an easy target
Speaker 1: for them, But that's their issue, And yes, it's a
Speaker 1: thing that I constantly have to remind myself of from forever.
Speaker 1: F Ce your skin is flawless? What is your beauty regime?
Speaker 1: Oh my Guinness, I love you. My skin is not flawless.
Speaker 1: As you can see, I got some stuff going on lately.
Speaker 1: But my beauty regime, I'm I do not wash my
Speaker 1: face in the morning with any soap. I just rent
Speaker 1: it with water, which I've found helps a lot. And
Speaker 1: I use serums and moisturizers and more serums. I'm figuring
Speaker 1: out which are the best. I like changing products a
Speaker 1: lot because I feel like my skin gets used to
Speaker 1: one thing. But I just moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, and I
Speaker 1: have this little at home micro dermibration thing that I
Speaker 1: roll on my skin lately, and that seems to be helping.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much it for that. From to how
Speaker 1: y'all do it? What do you feel is your legacy? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have one yet, but I
Speaker 1: guess looking at legacy in a very simple way, I
Speaker 1: hope my legacy is that I was a really good daughter.
Speaker 1: And then on a bigger scale, I hope my legacy
Speaker 1: is that I put a face an emotion to cancer
Speaker 1: and that I helped as many people as humanly possible.
Speaker 1: Only baby girl sixteen, Where's the one place in this
Speaker 1: world that you would love to travel to? There's just
Speaker 1: too many places. Boy, Where would I like to travel to? Botswana, Kenya, Sardinia, Vietnam, India.
Speaker 1: It's a big list. I have a lot of places
Speaker 1: that I want to go to. And again, guys, I
Speaker 1: apologize about my sore throat. I threw a party for
Speaker 1: my best friend's mom's ninetieth birthday and I was in
Speaker 1: charge of planning the entire thing, and boy did I
Speaker 1: work hard and as a result, I sort of lost
Speaker 1: my boys. Chrispy Mayhem, I was wondering if you would
Speaker 1: be comfortable sharing with us what's in your everyday bag
Speaker 1: and or beauty bag. So in my purse is always
Speaker 1: my iPad and my cell phone. There is two eyeliner pencils.
Speaker 1: One is the Chanelle Pencil Antique. The other one is
Speaker 1: the new Victoria Beckham eye liner, which I love. And
Speaker 1: I usually keep a little pot of moisturizer with me
Speaker 1: and then my Listics lip conditioner. I literally cannot go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I've left my house and driven like three blocks and
Speaker 1: turned around and went back to the house for it.
Speaker 1: It is my absolute favorite thing ever. And let's see,
Speaker 1: there's always a hair band and my wallet and my passport.
Speaker 1: My passport is always with me. Mitchell seven two three,
Speaker 1: How did you feel about the Brenda Dylan Kelly triangle
Speaker 1: and the whole treating scandal. I was horrified. I was
Speaker 1: so not into that because A I just thought Brenda
Speaker 1: and Dylan were like the best things. Ever, so I
Speaker 1: didn't understand anyone wanting to mess up that storyline. And
Speaker 1: then to have someone's best friend sleep with your boyfriend
Speaker 1: is such a betrayal that I don't even know how
Speaker 1: Brenda recovered from that. I don't think she ever did
Speaker 1: recover personally. So I wasn't thrilled with it, but I
Speaker 1: didn't have much say, so I went with it. Shando's strong.
Speaker 1: How did you find working with James Echalis here? Scenes
Speaker 1: together were always quite emotional, they were. James was one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. We got along really well, and he
Speaker 1: was a great actor who made me feel in those
Speaker 1: moments like he was a dad like he was very
Speaker 1: protective of me. So I loved working with James Jaylee
Speaker 1: nineteen Pepper Sweeney was on his guest. He stated when
Speaker 1: he appeared on nine Note two and Zho, you walked
Speaker 1: around with the giant python around your neck. Ginny and
Speaker 1: Tory said that they didn't remember that. I don't remember
Speaker 1: that either if I had a python around my neck,
Speaker 1: it's because it was either in an episode or one
Speaker 1: of our animal wranglers brought it and I was getting
Speaker 1: used to it. I know there was a photo shoot.
Speaker 1: I did it one time with uh it's an albino python,
Speaker 1: and I did a photoshoot, So maybe the photoshoot was
Speaker 1: done on the set and I had to get used
Speaker 1: to the python. I also remember that on that photoshoot
Speaker 1: the python went to the bathroom on me and it
Speaker 1: was pretty horrifying. Power of X men. I'm curious about
Speaker 1: your relationship with Tiffany with theas in you two ever
Speaker 1: met discus nine or two and now we met a
Speaker 1: really long time ago because she was dating Brian Austin Green,
Speaker 1: who's always been a great friend of mine. I think
Speaker 1: Tiffany is wonderful. I love her, and I think she,
Speaker 1: you know, stepped in and did a fabulous, amazing job
Speaker 1: and in something that was probably very difficult to step
Speaker 1: into for her, and she handled it with class and grace.
Speaker 1: Sir Nick Lee, how would you direct a Preue Resurrection special?
Speaker 1: Are there any elements to your director style that you
Speaker 1: incorporate or emphasize in your work? So I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think that Prue had so many powers and the
Speaker 1: astral projection and everything else. I think that I would
Speaker 1: have her come back as the strongest elder ever, but
Speaker 1: where you know her form, everything that she can do,
Speaker 1: her her power is tangible, and my directors style that
Speaker 1: that I would incorporate or emphasize in my work. I
Speaker 1: when I direct something, I do a lot of shot
Speaker 1: list and I like to have storyboards done, and I
Speaker 1: usually base the esthetic the look of it on a
Speaker 1: particular painting. So, for instance, the last episode I directed
Speaker 1: of Charmed, it was based on a salvad Or Dolly painting.
Speaker 1: That was the color scheme, the esthetic, the mood, everything else.
Speaker 1: And then I just like to be overly prepared, because
Speaker 1: don't I don't think that people have to work sixteen
Speaker 1: hours on a TV show and a day. So I
Speaker 1: like to know how I can condent things, how I
Speaker 1: can put people in two shots, how many cameras can
Speaker 1: I actually use, still be on budget, hopefully come in
Speaker 1: under budget, and get people out at a normal hour
Speaker 1: so that they can go home and have family time.
Speaker 1: Kathy two bagels. What happened in the last episode Charm
Speaker 1: season three? The Missing episode twenty three. This is a rumor.
Speaker 1: There is no missing episode twenty three. Louis Oakes, what
Speaker 1: items did you keep from the set of Charmed? I
Speaker 1: kept a lot of clothing. I kept a lot of
Speaker 1: clothing which I still wear, actually, Mucco Metal. Please tell
Speaker 1: us literally anything about your experience on Heather's I, you know,
Speaker 1: was I don't think I was eighteen yet and my
Speaker 1: mom was on set with me. I remember thinking that
Speaker 1: the other girls were really beautiful and that I was
Speaker 1: awkward looking, and I had a little bit of insecurity
Speaker 1: about that. But I really kind of hung out with
Speaker 1: my mom because, you know, except for Winona, everybody else
Speaker 1: was older than me at that time. The True Fire,
Speaker 1: I would like to know your experience in the mood
Speaker 1: friends till the end where you had to sing, and
Speaker 1: you did it very well. Thank you. Would you like
Speaker 1: to participate in a musical movie? Did you ever think
Speaker 1: about being a singer? I did think about being a
Speaker 1: singer after that movie came out. I had a couple
Speaker 1: of meetings with some amazing record people, and it was
Speaker 1: something that I discussed. But ultimately I think I was
Speaker 1: incredibly insecure about my singing voice, and I was also
Speaker 1: insecure about how people would receive that from me. I
Speaker 1: think I got scared. I chickened out of doing anything
Speaker 1: with singing. I might regret it a little bit, but
Speaker 1: not too much. What are some roles that you auditioned
Speaker 1: for that you didn't get? There's a lot. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of roles that I auditioned for that I
Speaker 1: didn't get. I can't really remember one offhand right now,
Speaker 1: Oh I did. I remember when I was young, I
Speaker 1: auditioned for a movie called Pollyanna or a TV show
Speaker 1: called and I really really really really wanted it, and
Speaker 1: I thought I had it and I didn't and I
Speaker 1: was pretty bummed. And I auditioned for Annie. I didn't
Speaker 1: get Annie. I auditioned for I think I auditioned for
Speaker 1: Anna green Gables and I was I know, I'd read
Speaker 1: all the books. Later in life, I auditioned for scorsese
Speaker 1: movie Aviator with Leonardo, and I also did not get that.
Speaker 1: I was pretty bummed about that one. Obviously I would
Speaker 1: want to be in that movie. And I auditioned for Heat,
Speaker 1: the Michael Mann movie, which I loved, and I loved
Speaker 1: Michael Mann and all the actors that were involved. But
Speaker 1: ultimately he hired Ashley Judd instead, which was a bummer
Speaker 1: for me but great for her. Those are just some
Speaker 1: fan that I can remember. Oh, if you could get
Speaker 1: back into the director's chair given it unlimited budget, what
Speaker 1: would be your dream movie or series to direct an
Speaker 1: unlimited budget? You know, I don't think I would care
Speaker 1: about the unlimited budget. I work well on budgets. It
Speaker 1: would it would just have to be a piece that
Speaker 1: was emotional and stirred people. I want to bring out
Speaker 1: emotions from the audience. And there's a couple of books
Speaker 1: that I have my eye on that I would love
Speaker 1: to direct. There was a book that Rebecca Diynerston wrote
Speaker 1: that I really wanted to direct, but by the time
Speaker 1: I reached her, they had already had to deal with
Speaker 1: somebody else, which was a bummer. But you know, anything
Speaker 1: that just feels I kind of like more from my
Speaker 1: from my style. I kind of like a little little
Speaker 1: bit more of a simple movie, even though I obviously
Speaker 1: directed with CGI and stunts and all of that, so
Speaker 1: I can definitely do it. Of course, I would love
Speaker 1: to direct a Matrix style movie. That's one of my
Speaker 1: all time favorite movies. But you know, they did it
Speaker 1: so well, I I could never touch that ever ever,
Speaker 1: just it was every single thing about the matrix was perfection.
Speaker 1: What co star made you laugh the most between takes,
Speaker 1: Oh depends on what show we're talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian always made me laugh, Toy always made me laugh,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Holly and I made each other
Speaker 1: laugh quite a bit. So I think out of significant
Speaker 1: TV shows, those are the ones. And then working with
Speaker 1: Kevin Smith and just all of those actors were hysterical,
Speaker 1: so we would all kind of chuckle at one another.
Speaker 1: What is your fondest memory from your time on the
Speaker 1: Little House and any valuable lessons that Michael Lannon taught you.
Speaker 1: Michael Lannon taught me to be true to myself. He
Speaker 1: taught me to embrace my voice, to stand up from myself.
Speaker 1: And he taught me how to play a liar's poker,
Speaker 1: which occupied a lot of dead time on the set.
Speaker 1: You know, when they're lighting and stuff, you sit around
Speaker 1: and you're in school, or you're sitting around and or
Speaker 1: on your breaks, and so I would play a liar's
Speaker 1: poker with the crew, and that was always really fun.
Speaker 1: I loved Michael. I loved the movie Gone in the
Speaker 1: Night what was your memories of making that movie. It
Speaker 1: was hard. I felt a deep responsibility to the family
Speaker 1: to portray their story accurately, and it was to dig
Speaker 1: and find her emotion and what she was going through.
Speaker 1: I got to meet her. There was just a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure that I felt doing that movie. And it's
Speaker 1: also one that I'm really, really, really proud of. I
Speaker 1: think it turned out wonderful. The cast was amazing in
Speaker 1: that movie, and it was Yeah, that would go down
Speaker 1: as a piece of work that I'm extremely proud of.
Speaker 1: Who's your dream person to work with. It's directors. It's
Speaker 1: people like Michael Mann, people like Martin Scorsese, people like
Speaker 1: Joe Wright, Darren Aronofski, obviously Quentin Tarantino. There's just and
Speaker 1: there's so many Stephen Soderberk like there's it's usually directors
Speaker 1: that I look to that I really really want to
Speaker 1: work with. I mean, obviously, there are actors that are
Speaker 1: fantastic that you can only dream of working with. The
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro's of the world and Nicole Kimmins, the
Speaker 1: Michelle Pfeiffer's, all of those people phenomenal. Yes, of course
Speaker 1: I would want to work with them, but I think.
Speaker 1: For me, my main focus would be on who the
Speaker 1: director is. Is it true that there was an All
Speaker 1: Hell Breaks Loose? Part two? Nope, not true. Beck ma'am Stanton.
Speaker 1: I am from Santa Clarita, and I have a story
Speaker 1: about Shannon that I never forgot. She was filming that
Speaker 1: show that she did with Wilfrid Brimley at my high
Speaker 1: schoo Goal Heart High and Newhall, California, probably around nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight to nineteen ninetey nine. My friend was a
Speaker 1: senior with a huge question of her. He asked her
Speaker 1: to her of coming prom and Shannon treated him with
Speaker 1: complete respect and reflected on the date she was a
Speaker 1: successful working actress in all the team magazines and made
Speaker 1: him feel worthy of her time and consideration. She let
Speaker 1: him know she was working and gracefully thanked him for
Speaker 1: asking her. My question would be, as a successful young
Speaker 1: teen girl, where did that humility come from? I've been
Speaker 1: a fan ever since that day, because if I didn't
Speaker 1: have that humility, my parents would have been so mad
Speaker 1: at me. They they really taught me to be respectful
Speaker 1: of people until they give you a reason to not
Speaker 1: be respectful and then just walk away from them and
Speaker 1: I actually remember this, and he was lovely. He was
Speaker 1: so nice about it and so charming and sweet that
Speaker 1: he obviously deserved the attention, and he deserved me giving
Speaker 1: him consideration, and I wanted him to walk away from
Speaker 1: that feeling good. You know, I think if we all
Speaker 1: put ourselves in other people's shoes before we react or
Speaker 1: before we say something, it'll make us a lot kinder
Speaker 1: of human beings, because oftentimes we'll think, oh God, I
Speaker 1: can't believe somebody like asked me. But now think about
Speaker 1: that person who did ask you, and what they felt
Speaker 1: in that moment, the possible nerves that they felt, or
Speaker 1: maybe they felt self conscious, maybe they got dared to
Speaker 1: do it, maybe whatever it is, You've got to think
Speaker 1: about how they're feeling, so that your reaction can be
Speaker 1: one one of respect and humility as opposed to as
Speaker 1: opposed to any other reaction that someone perhaps might have.
Speaker 1: So I do like to take into consideration how people
Speaker 1: feel and what their emotional journey was having the guts
Speaker 1: to come and ask me. Because I'm too shy, I
Speaker 1: would never be able to do that. So for this
Speaker 1: person to ask me, I did respect them. I respected
Speaker 1: that they felt strong enough about themselves that they invited me.
Speaker 1: I thought that that was very cool, but humility is
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing, and more people actually really needed. Do
Speaker 1: you have any memories of working with Johnny Depp when
Speaker 1: you guest starred in twenty one Jump Street. I did
Speaker 1: not get to work with Johnny. My scenes were with
Speaker 1: other people, so I didn't really get to work with Johnny.
Speaker 1: But I had met Johnny later a bunch of times
Speaker 1: as I used to go to the viper room. I
Speaker 1: also lived above him for a period of time, so
Speaker 1: I actually looked onto his property, so sometimes I would
Speaker 1: wave to him. There's my Johnny Dupp story. I know
Speaker 1: it's been a long time. This is from Sweet Summer.
Speaker 1: I know it's been a long time ago, but I
Speaker 1: love Little House in the Prairie and I loved your
Speaker 1: character as Jenny. Can you tell us any favorite memories
Speaker 1: that you had while doing the show Boy. I just
Speaker 1: I got to work with Michael Landon. That's one of
Speaker 1: my all time favorite memories and just the things that
Speaker 1: I learned from him. He directed some of the episodes
Speaker 1: and wrote some of the episodes, and just remember how
Speaker 1: he was as a director. It probably didn't probably definitely
Speaker 1: helped me realize what kind of a director I wanted
Speaker 1: to be, and he gave an example to me of
Speaker 1: being so concise and so thorough and so prepared and
Speaker 1: really confident in his choices as a director, and I
Speaker 1: admired that and I took it with me and then
Speaker 1: Teddy Voitlander was our DP, probably one of the best
Speaker 1: dps I've ever worked with. Unbelievable, and Teddy was very
Speaker 1: kind because I was extremely curious and I wanted to
Speaker 1: know about the lighting and the lenses and how he
Speaker 1: was making these choices, and he took the time with
Speaker 1: me to really explain it. He had no problem putting
Speaker 1: me behind the camera and showing me the different lenses,
Speaker 1: and that also helped me later in life when I
Speaker 1: started directing, I worked on there was an episode of
Speaker 1: Little House with an actor named Off Bellamy, and probably
Speaker 1: one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had as
Speaker 1: an actor was working with Rough Bellamy. First off, he's
Speaker 1: a legend, and he's so special, he's so kind, he's
Speaker 1: so giving as an actor, and I learned a lot
Speaker 1: from him. And then afterwards because he always came to
Speaker 1: set and he had these little licorices that he would
Speaker 1: get in London, and so he would. After our time
Speaker 1: together was done on the episode, he would send me
Speaker 1: notes with these little licorices, incredibly special moments. Little House
Speaker 1: provided all of that. And then there's Victor French, who
Speaker 1: I called him Stinky and he called me the worm
Speaker 1: because I was squiggly and he was not stinky, but
Speaker 1: I was a kid, and that's the nickname I came
Speaker 1: up with. But we just had so much fun together.
Speaker 1: Was pretty phenomenal, Erica, what was the experience like working
Speaker 1: with an older co star in Night Team ninety two
Speaker 1: is obsessed? It was a little weird, to be honest,
Speaker 1: and not because the actor. He was wonderful, but there
Speaker 1: was a huge age discrepancy and it just felt it
Speaker 1: felt like I was playing a role, which I was,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a role that I was necessarily comfortable playing.
Speaker 1: The intimate scenes were were awkward. But Bill Devane was amazing.
Speaker 1: William Devane was. He was awesome and if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for him, it would have been way worse. But he
Speaker 1: would just make me laugh. How is your time shooting
Speaker 1: North Shore and working with Jason Momo? Jason Momo was amazing,
Speaker 1: so North Shore was really interesting for me. I think
Speaker 1: I I was there for eight or nine months, and
Speaker 1: I basically lived in Hawaii towards the last couple of
Speaker 1: months where I started flying home because I got very,
Speaker 1: very very homesick. But I learned to surf in Hawaii
Speaker 1: from Hans Hatemann and Jason Amanda Urghetti. There was a
Speaker 1: couple of them that would we would all hang out
Speaker 1: all the time, and they would come to my house.
Speaker 1: I would go to their house. So it was it
Speaker 1: was it was like being on a paid vacation. It
Speaker 1: was actually for the fact that I could be on
Speaker 1: a set, have a job and wrap super early or
Speaker 1: not even have to work the next day, and spend
Speaker 1: my days surfing or tooling around Hawaii. That's kind of
Speaker 1: a dream job. From be my question for Shannon from France,
Speaker 1: are you happy? I am? I am happy, And it's
Speaker 1: been an interesting year and a half. Twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: did not start going rate and I found it incredibly challenging.
Speaker 1: And you know, every day is a challenge because with
Speaker 1: cancer things change all the time. Your protocols start working.
Speaker 1: You think you've got this protocol that's amazing, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, your body just stops reacting to it,
Speaker 1: and those are hard moments to get through. But I'm
Speaker 1: happy because I'm still here and I have people in
Speaker 1: my life now that truly love me and that will
Speaker 1: walk through hell with me and for me. And I
Speaker 1: was missing that for a lot of years of my life, apparently,
Speaker 1: And I think that there's I think none of us
Speaker 1: should waste time, because life is incredibly precious, particularly when
Speaker 1: you have cancer. I feel like a lot of clutter
Speaker 1: is out of my life now and things are much
Speaker 1: more clear and focused, and I know what I want
Speaker 1: from myself and I and I know how I want
Speaker 1: to wake up every morning. I also, you know, I
Speaker 1: just see things in a different light because of the
Speaker 1: year and a half that was hell. But I have
Speaker 1: one hundred percent turned a corner and I am I'm happy.
Speaker 1: I can say that I've had a really blessed life,
Speaker 1: and then I'm an incredibly lucky human being. So yes,
Speaker 1: I'm happy. Thank you for asking that question. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: as all we have time for with your questions. But
Speaker 1: I actually really enjoyed this. I think it's great being
Speaker 1: able to answer questions and we will definitely definitely be
Speaker 1: doing another one. I hope you guys liked it as
Speaker 1: much as I did. All right, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: guys for tuning in, and catch you on the next
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