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Speaker 1: I am all in, Kiss you, I am all in

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Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. Hey Everybody,

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Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, I'm all in podcast UH one eleven productions,

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. We have a very very very special

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Speaker 1: guest today in Rusty Schwimmer. She appeared in Gilmore Girls

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Speaker 1: for only two episodes of Complete Waste. Should have been

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Speaker 1: so many more, but at least we had her for

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Speaker 1: two as Suki's midwife Bruce. She first appeared in the

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Speaker 1: season four episode seven, The Festival of Living Art, and

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Speaker 1: her last appearance UH was season four episode eight, Died Jerk.

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Speaker 1: She is a very very versatile actress. She's appeared in

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Speaker 1: both dramas and comedies. After starting out in Chicago, Stay

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Speaker 1: Age love Chicago actors, love them, you love them. You

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Speaker 1: guys get beat up in New York a lot, but

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Speaker 1: you don't deserve it. You don't deserve it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I remember, I remember when Malkovich marched in there with

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Speaker 1: burn this and they just beat him up, man, And

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Speaker 1: it was such such a great performance, you know, such

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Speaker 1: a it was, wasn't it such a stunning performance? Um Uh,

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Speaker 1: Chicago stage. You ventured to Hollywood, where you landed roles

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Speaker 1: in various television series. In the early nineties, you appeared

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Speaker 1: in films as such as Little Princess, Twister. You were

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Speaker 1: in Twister, Wow, great film, Perfect Storm and other great film, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Runaway Jury, North Country, The informant Um and The Sessions.

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Speaker 1: But most recently, Russy has appeared on The Righteous Gemstones,

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Speaker 1: which we're gonna get into a little bit, Chicago, mad

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Speaker 1: better call Saul Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special. You

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Speaker 1: were in that, yes, sir, okay, So you know what

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Speaker 1: that's that's tell us a little bit about that. That's fantastic. Well,

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Speaker 1: a gentleman by the name of Seawan. There you go.

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Speaker 1: Who was who? We became friends? I think actually in

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Speaker 1: um he and I have a bunch of friends, including

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Speaker 1: all of his brothers, and one of them is called

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Speaker 1: James Gunn. And James Gunn likes to hire his friends

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Speaker 1: whenever he can, so before he left the franchise of

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Speaker 1: Guardians of the Galaxy, he wanted to have all of

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Speaker 1: his friends and his relatives in the franchise. And so

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Speaker 1: he called me up and said, hey, you want to play?

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Speaker 1: And I said, oh sure, why not. I'll cancel my massage.

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Speaker 1: I'll be right over. That's funny. That's really great, really

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Speaker 1: really great. Um anyway, so let's get started. Let me

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Speaker 1: let's start off with how did you get the role? Well,

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Speaker 1: I had a really really um auditioned for Suki way back,

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Speaker 1: and and then also uh rose Abdu's part also Gypsy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they loved you. They they they had to have you.

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Speaker 1: They loved what you did in the room. Did do

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Speaker 1: you remember the Suki audition and it weren't really really

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Speaker 1: well for you, and you're disappointed that you didn't get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But then you know, when you see

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Speaker 1: you know. So um So that's how it started. And

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Speaker 1: then I just kept kind of coming in and doing

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Speaker 1: don't know why, uh something about it because you're all

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Speaker 1: hired for my reactions. I think that Bruce was probably

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I had to come So you

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Speaker 1: had to come in and fight for it. Good and

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Speaker 1: glad you got it. Glad you got it? Um, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was hysterical you would play. Look, you

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Speaker 1: had plenty of television experience from before alimbeel picket fence

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Speaker 1: as you are. Well you talking about a little bit

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Speaker 1: our cast? Well, the thing that I remember probably the most,

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Speaker 1: that's still an audition that is not you don't have

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Speaker 1: so I had two lovely days on the Warner Brothers

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Speaker 1: have a you know, a wardrobe fitting beforehand. But Brenda,

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Speaker 1: But uh so Nick and I were very, very excited.

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Speaker 1: Never cracked a smile during your scenes, and it was

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Speaker 1: It's hard to get work, even though they're producing more shows.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Um yeah, yeah, Uh. What do you remember

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