Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
Speaker 2: We all about that high school drama.
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Speaker 4: Friends.
Speaker 5: I'm so excited Ashley Rickards is here with us today.
Speaker 5: You know her as the incredible Sam. She came in
Speaker 5: and turned Brook Davis's world upside down and then really
Speaker 5: helped set it right side up. And I'm so excited
Speaker 5: you're here today. I haven't seen you since like a
Speaker 5: pre pandemic convention.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I came to something where I was like, because
Speaker 4: I knew you, saying because we have the same vocal coach.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, so I've seen your face like up
Speaker 4: on the wall that he has whenever I'm there. So
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, okay, And then yeah we got
Speaker 4: together and I heard your voice for the first time.
Speaker 4: It was blown away you too, Oh my god, No,
Speaker 4: but you're incredible, Like I wish.
Speaker 3: We'd figured out a way to get you to sing
Speaker 3: on on Wondre Hill. That would have been so fun.
Speaker 3: I mean at this point, like, you know, we've got
Speaker 3: dogs eating hearts, we've got Nanny's being shot in cornfields,
Speaker 3: Like why not, let's just make Sam a rock star?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, why not? Yeah? The dog eating the heart
Speaker 4: thing is great.
Speaker 5: Anything is possible in tree Hill and season seven anything.
Speaker 3: Uh well, let's uh, let's get like, let's get to
Speaker 3: know you a little bit for this audience, because everybody
Speaker 3: knows you as Sam. But I here's some things that
Speaker 3: I love that I didn't know about you. It is
Speaker 3: a that you grew up on a horse farm that
Speaker 3: catered to children with special needs, which is amazing. What
Speaker 3: an experience. Like how many years are life? Did you
Speaker 3: spend there.
Speaker 4: A lot on the horse farm?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: My family doesn't really do anything halfway, so I was,
Speaker 4: you know, I went to a horse camp one year
Speaker 4: and then I guess the next year and a half,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, we had twenty four horses and
Speaker 4: we're we're living on seven acres and and yeah we
Speaker 4: we they have shoes for horses so that like they
Speaker 4: can go indoors and don't slip. So we would bring
Speaker 4: some of the Oh, and I should say they were
Speaker 4: miniature horses, so I mean I was, yeah, I know, way,
Speaker 4: I did a little bit of like English riding, not
Speaker 4: on this, not on the miniature horses obviously, but yeah,
Speaker 4: so they were really great for like we bring them
Speaker 4: to nursing homes and we'd bring our dogs too, And
Speaker 4: one really crazy experience was that I brought Amber, who
Speaker 4: was our beagle, and at the time too, you know,
Speaker 4: this one woman in her room and she was talking
Speaker 4: about about her dog, about her kids and everything, and
Speaker 4: that's great. And then you know, I went outside and
Speaker 4: the nurse was like, I can't believe she's talking. She
Speaker 4: never talks. And I was like, wow, wow, that was
Speaker 4: that was crazy. But I guess the power of animals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, horses especially, they're such incredible animals.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you go from growing up on a
Speaker 5: horse farm and doing so much of this sort of
Speaker 5: care work, how do you find your way into acting
Speaker 5: rather than you know, forcefully training animals or something like
Speaker 5: like what light? What lit you up?
Speaker 3: In that way?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of by force. I went to
Speaker 4: a small Montessori school that was just like walking distance
Speaker 4: from my house. And when I say small, I mean
Speaker 4: very small. There were five people in my grade and
Speaker 4: so to put they were doing a high school or
Speaker 4: an opera, and I don't even think we had enough
Speaker 4: people in the high school in middle school put together
Speaker 4: to do it. So it was mandatory and I didn't
Speaker 4: want to do it. I'm very stubborn. And then I
Speaker 4: really liked it. And I remember the moment, like in
Speaker 4: the back of the theater where I was like, ugh,
Speaker 4: I really like this. I can't let anyone know. But
Speaker 4: then of course I had to let people know because
Speaker 4: my family does not do anything halfway, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I want to be an actor. And so we actually
Speaker 4: ended up going to LA pretty quickly after that.
Speaker 3: So your family moved to LA for you to be
Speaker 3: able to pursue acting.
Speaker 4: We okay. So I don't know if you remember Lou Pearlman.
Speaker 4: He was throwing these like talent competitions and one was
Speaker 4: in Orlando. So I went there and had a fun
Speaker 4: time and didn't get anything out of it. But there
Speaker 4: was some person I don't know who, but it was
Speaker 4: like a talent scout or something that was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: you should come out to LA, and so my mom
Speaker 4: and I came out for this, you know, meeting that
Speaker 4: ended up being a casting call. That long story short,
Speaker 4: ended up with me meeting my first entertainment lawyer. So
Speaker 4: by then he sort of, yeah, he sort of introduced
Speaker 4: us to everybody, and so that way we had a
Speaker 4: foot in the door and kind of just went up
Speaker 4: from there. And yeah, and then me and my mom
Speaker 4: we were going back and forth for a while. But
Speaker 4: then my mom realized she really liked La and I
Speaker 4: loved La.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, are you an only child? Yeah, she says, defeated.
Speaker 3: Well it doesn't show like the only children here.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well we.
Speaker 3: All grew up yeah, into the club. So it's a
Speaker 3: little less less stressful for a family to pick up
Speaker 3: and move when they've only gotten kid. You know, it's
Speaker 3: just the three of two. Was it two of you
Speaker 3: or three of you?
Speaker 4: It was my mom and I my dad came out
Speaker 4: like every two weeks or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, cool, wow. I mean that's that's just
Speaker 3: got it. That's that's gotta be a lot of a
Speaker 3: lot of freedom. I don't maybe it was a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure. I don't know, just the feeling of like
Speaker 3: we're we're here, We've picked up our whole life. We're
Speaker 3: coming out here for me to try and do this
Speaker 3: thing that I think that I love as a child.
Speaker 3: When did it start transitioning for you as like this
Speaker 3: is something that I can really do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean part of being stubborn is kind of
Speaker 4: obsessing of something. And so we were still doing the
Speaker 4: horse farm, and when we were traveling back and forth,
Speaker 4: we were trying to see, you know, where that will
Speaker 4: fit in with everything, and we kept it going quite
Speaker 4: a bit longer than probably I don't know. We all
Speaker 4: really loved the farm, so that was hard moving away
Speaker 4: from it. But when we got a different house in Florida,
Speaker 4: and by that time, my mom and I were mostly
Speaker 4: living in La so it just kind of naturally formed
Speaker 4: it into that.
Speaker 3: When we decided to pursue acting, there's usually a moment
Speaker 3: that we something happens where we realize like I have
Speaker 3: to do this and it's I'm going to make it work,
Speaker 3: and like you're saying, the stubbornness of I'm going to
Speaker 3: figure out how to make this work. I have to
Speaker 3: do this, And it sounded like maybe being on stage
Speaker 3: was a moment for you for that. But I feel
Speaker 3: like when you get to La and you start integrating
Speaker 3: with the community here and getting jobs. Like where do
Speaker 3: you have a moment where everything really clicked for you?
Speaker 4: I do. That moment was back in Florida and I
Speaker 4: was sitting at the Players Theater backstage. I can remember
Speaker 4: the smell. I can remember, and I still use that
Speaker 4: mascara great.
Speaker 3: Lash pink too with the green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not I paid to say anything about that,
Speaker 4: but I was putting that on. And also I was
Speaker 4: playing an eel, so I don't know in my so
Speaker 4: my face was green, and like I don't know why
Speaker 4: the eel needed scara, but anyway, Yeah, I just remember
Speaker 4: the smell and everything, and like it was just like
Speaker 4: one of those awful moments. And yeah, and then you know,
Speaker 4: just once you were on set, you were in the
Speaker 4: in your first sort of experience with with the real
Speaker 4: world acting, not just like an acting class or acting school,
Speaker 4: it became even more addictive and like, like you know
Speaker 4: that you have to do it, like you were saying,
Speaker 4: and it's just I've never bad science.
Speaker 5: So how did you get cast on our show? As Sam?
Speaker 4: So? I auditioned and I was with my parents. Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was Don Kucko's down into Luca Lake and the
Speaker 4: creator was there, and he came up to the table
Speaker 4: with my mom and my dad and I and he said,
Speaker 4: saw your audition looked really good for you. I was
Speaker 4: like okay, and neither of us really knew what was
Speaker 4: going on. But then I got the call later that
Speaker 4: afternoon off to Wilmington. We go.
Speaker 3: It was just a random audition that came in.
Speaker 4: It was an audition. I did it like everyone else.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, I guess people were looking at it
Speaker 4: and the right person had to run into me at
Speaker 4: Don Kuco's.
Speaker 5: And you were sixteen right when you came out to Wilmington.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like fifteen sixteen something like that, really young.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you graduated high school.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to do any onset I've
Speaker 4: never had to do any thank god, any onset schooling
Speaker 4: because that's your mensa.
Speaker 3: I mean, that would be hard to find a tutor
Speaker 3: who's capable of Yeah, you probably would have been teaching them.
Speaker 5: I'm yeah, yeah, when you're smart enough to graduate that
Speaker 5: many years early, I feel like they're like, she's good,
Speaker 5: she's finny.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know. I just saw a lot
Speaker 4: of my friends going through the onset schooling, and that
Speaker 4: just seemed kind of like awful because there you are,
Speaker 4: you're parallel to doing something that you've love, something that
Speaker 4: you want to do, and then you have to go
Speaker 4: into a room with somebody who really has no idea
Speaker 4: where you are schooling wise, and is also teaching the
Speaker 4: seven year old in the scene like with you.
Speaker 3: So I loved on set tutoring really. It was just
Speaker 3: always it was my favorite thing. And I always did
Speaker 3: way better in my classes when I was doing a
Speaker 3: when I was doing a job, because the classroom environment
Speaker 3: just was really not suited for my brain. I had
Speaker 3: such a hard time focusing and paying attention and retaining information.
Speaker 3: But we would do one on one and I would
Speaker 3: get straight a's every time, and it was it was
Speaker 3: material that was ahead of where my class was, so
Speaker 3: it was always more complex, and then I would get
Speaker 3: back to school and then be bored because I was
Speaker 3: already ahead of everybody. Like I wish I'd been able
Speaker 3: to do one on one tutoring for most of my life.
Speaker 3: I probably would have graduated early. That would have been nice.
Speaker 3: But I loved it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely was in a way a lot of
Speaker 4: one on one tutoring because you had to. When you're
Speaker 4: going back and forth that month, you have to find
Speaker 4: a different schooling program. So it was definitely travel schooling.
Speaker 4: So you know, my mom tried to be my teacher
Speaker 4: for a bit, but you know, mothers and drivers, that
Speaker 4: didn't last very long. So we were from like like
Speaker 4: you were saying, you know, the one on one kind
Speaker 4: of stuff, which of course you excel at more. I
Speaker 4: just I just really had no interest. And maybe in
Speaker 4: science and history I cared, but like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: math no interest.
Speaker 5: Was it hard to pick up and move away from
Speaker 5: all your friends right at that sort of moment when
Speaker 5: everyone's like getting their driver's licenses and life is sort
Speaker 5: of opening up in that way?
Speaker 4: It would, except for that my social circle consisted of
Speaker 4: like two people, so so it wasn't It wasn't that
Speaker 4: hard in that way. And I kept in touch with
Speaker 4: them too. But you know, coming out here so early on,
Speaker 4: especially being in acting classes and whatever, you you mad,
Speaker 4: you meet a lot of people your age pretty quick,
Speaker 4: and that's that kind of fulfills that void.
Speaker 3: How did it feel coming into season six of a show?
Speaker 4: I had no understanding of like how long it is
Speaker 4: for you guys to be in like season, Like, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I didn't know any of this. I think
Speaker 4: I don't like a guest star or something. But I
Speaker 4: had no understanding of what that felt like for you guys,
Speaker 4: So I couldn't really like give you an answer, but
Speaker 4: it it felt great because it was super smooth. Everyone
Speaker 4: knew what they were doing.
Speaker 3: Do you do you remember your first day on set?
Speaker 3: Like what felt like getting to Wilmington and just being like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is my life now for the next you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of months.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah. The when I had that this is my
Speaker 4: life now was because my mother snores a lot, loudly
Speaker 4: and profusely, and it's the worst and you can't you
Speaker 4: can't sleep in the room next her. So we requested
Speaker 4: that we have like two different rooms, doesn't matter. Well,
Speaker 4: then they gave us two different of those whole apartments
Speaker 4: down by the waterfront. And so I'm fifteen and I
Speaker 4: have my own apartment, your own apartment.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 4: It was so great. I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I do deserve this.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: That was really fun. That was that was great And
Speaker 4: I could not hear. I mean, my mom was in
Speaker 4: the one right next to me, but I still couldn't
Speaker 4: hear a snore, so I got adequate sleep.
Speaker 3: That was nice and your whole life changed then sounds
Speaker 3: like yeah very much.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Then I moved out of eighteen because I was like,
Speaker 4: I've done this before. I got it. But yeah, it
Speaker 4: was fun.
Speaker 3: It's awesome, that's so cool.
Speaker 5: Was it kind of a wild experience? I mean, to
Speaker 5: your point, you've done a guest star before, and now
Speaker 5: you move across the country, you're in an apartment, and
Speaker 5: because you've graduated high school, you're doing full I mean
Speaker 5: you were doing full work days with us.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Was it sort of surreal to go to set and
Speaker 5: be like, oh, we're just going to be here for
Speaker 5: seventeen whole hours every day, like or did it just
Speaker 5: feel so exciting?
Speaker 4: I think I think it was so exciting that I
Speaker 4: didn't mind any of the long hours. If anything, it
Speaker 4: was like a point of pride being like, oh, we're
Speaker 4: still here at that point, you know, then on awkward,
Speaker 4: you know, I'd be like, oh my god, we're still here.
Speaker 4: And I think that that must have been how you
Speaker 4: guys felt.
Speaker 3: There were days. I think we all, you know, I
Speaker 3: think any job has those days it has too, but yeah, it.
Speaker 4: Was great, and I think I learned a lot about
Speaker 4: like memorizing lines. I had a system, but it was
Speaker 4: great to, you know, try that system out. And I
Speaker 4: learned a lot from you guys too, Like Sophia, you
Speaker 4: were just so warm and such a professional, like you
Speaker 4: just hit your mark, did the line. That was great
Speaker 4: and joy when I saw you and said we had
Speaker 4: like scenes in the same area and we would be
Speaker 4: in chairs, like you were just so kind and warm
Speaker 4: and yeah, it was just such I feel really grateful
Speaker 4: that that was my intro to like a reoccurring role
Speaker 4: in a larger sense, because there are there could have
Speaker 4: been a lot crazier places that would have probably left
Speaker 4: a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah, so I'm very
Speaker 4: grateful that that that was my first experience.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. I remember being you know, we were that
Speaker 3: we had been on the show for long enough that
Speaker 3: I think we all felt established and sort of like
Speaker 3: we were figuring out how to be grown ups, and
Speaker 3: so we really enjoyed having younger having kids around, having
Speaker 3: that younger generation come in and learning how to help
Speaker 3: you guys figure out things that you didn't know because
Speaker 3: you know, you weren't the only one who came on
Speaker 3: the show without a ton of experience. We had a
Speaker 3: lot of younger people who had come in and who
Speaker 3: had never done an acting job before, or who didn't
Speaker 3: really know much about where to how to find your
Speaker 3: mark or your lighting. And it was fun to be
Speaker 3: transitioning into that phase of our lives of learning how
Speaker 3: to be able to pass on everything that we had
Speaker 3: learned over the last six years. When we came in,
Speaker 3: feelings a little bit like whoa you know, on a plank,
Speaker 3: that's like teetery tottering in water and now and then
Speaker 3: we felt really solid. So it was fun. It was
Speaker 3: fun to have you around, and you were always really
Speaker 3: collaborative and had lots of fun ideas and I felt
Speaker 3: like you, you know, you're very stoic. You have a
Speaker 3: very stoic sort of personality, and so it's I mean,
Speaker 3: as far as I experienced on set, and so it
Speaker 3: was it was easy to I guess project that you
Speaker 3: knew exactly what you were doing, and so it was
Speaker 3: always a little like surprising, like oh, yeah, that's right,
Speaker 3: Like she's she's still learning where the marks are and
Speaker 3: all this stuff. It's really fun.
Speaker 4: I had a story about that, Sophia. There's this book
Speaker 4: it's too high for me to reach. I was going
Speaker 4: to get it, but it's on a bookshelf I'm five
Speaker 4: for and that's too high. But I had this book
Speaker 4: called Lost Histories and you were like, Oh, what's what
Speaker 4: about That sounds super interesting. I'm like, yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 4: I had never read a word of that book, but
Speaker 4: I knew. I knew that people read books on set,
Speaker 4: and I was like, that's what I'm going to do,
Speaker 4: just be reading this book.
Speaker 5: Just kind of bring a book.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I read it.
Speaker 5: Is so funny.
Speaker 4: I read books for real, but just like on my
Speaker 4: phone now. But but yeah, I was totally faking it
Speaker 4: the whole time. So maybe that's where you got the
Speaker 4: stoic from.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We were like, God, she's so mature. She's like in
Speaker 5: the corner reading all these books. Yeah, this you know
Speaker 5: wise teenager. Okay, wait, were there were there any sort
Speaker 5: of experiences or similarities in your life as a teenager
Speaker 5: that you felt like you were pulling from to play
Speaker 5: sam or even when you were like working, did you
Speaker 5: sort of feel like you had to figure it out
Speaker 5: really quick and just pretend like you knew what you
Speaker 5: were doing.
Speaker 4: One of the one of the coolest scenes I ever did,
Speaker 4: just to like sidetrack a little bit, was we're doing
Speaker 4: a super long run shot and like you could not
Speaker 4: even see the camera. It was at night, and it
Speaker 4: was with Evan Peters. Oh my god, how fun is
Speaker 4: it to see him doing right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, you guys had a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I feel like you got on really well. We'll come
Speaker 3: back to that.
Speaker 4: Keep quing, sir, No, we did. He was. He was
Speaker 4: as quirky as I was. But I guess with Sam
Speaker 4: what I related to most was like having a guard
Speaker 4: up and PanAm not trusting people and you know, being
Speaker 4: an only child, feeling kind of alone and like that
Speaker 4: mentality of like, well, no one else is going to
Speaker 4: do it for you, and then being able to pull
Speaker 4: from things that I probably didn't let anybody onto in
Speaker 4: real life was very therapeutic.
Speaker 3: What were you going to say, though, you said you
Speaker 3: had a moment when it was you were shooting a
Speaker 3: scene with Evan.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, we just looked at each other and we
Speaker 4: were like, all scenes should be shot this way. We
Speaker 4: can't see a camera. It was night, but we didn't
Speaker 4: see anything and it was so easy to do.
Speaker 3: I've those are the best.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have had like two of those since, but
Speaker 4: oh my god, it's such a great, great thing.
Speaker 3: Mh.
Speaker 4: But that was that was one of the moments that
Speaker 4: I'm like, I wish I could do that again. That
Speaker 4: was so nice. But yeah, dude, Evan Peters, how well
Speaker 4: is he doing?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, he's taken off. You guys picked
Speaker 3: up right away. I mean I remember when he came in.
Speaker 3: You both just clicked. It was like easy, connective energy.
Speaker 3: You both always had your like inside jokes. I feel
Speaker 3: like I was always looking over the two of you,
Speaker 3: giggling in the corner and just talking about whatever kids
Speaker 3: sixteen year olds talk about at the time. It was
Speaker 3: so fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was. He was just kind of quirky and offbeat,
Speaker 4: and I was probably not pretending to read books at
Speaker 4: that point, but it was it was nice, it was easy.
Speaker 4: I felt like somebody got my sense of humor. And yeah,
Speaker 4: we did click right away because he was in his twenties.
Speaker 4: But I remember, like my mom was like, do you
Speaker 4: mean anything, We can take you someplace, and he goes,
Speaker 4: just did you go to the grocery store and get
Speaker 4: some beer and popcorn. Oh, he got pancakes too, but
Speaker 4: that was genuinely all he bought. And I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 3: Bear and popcorn and pancakes. What else does that seventeen
Speaker 3: year old?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh gosh. So fast forward ten or so years later,
Speaker 3: you're still in LA. What's happening in your life? What
Speaker 3: are you know, some of the lessons that you've learned
Speaker 3: through your experience on Awkward at Montree Hill and all
Speaker 3: the other stuff that you've been doing since then. Just
Speaker 3: give us a lay of the land for you right now,
Speaker 3: where you're at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been it's been great to have that experience.
Speaker 4: It would have been probably really rough holding up carrying
Speaker 4: a show like Awkward if I hadn't, you know, had
Speaker 4: that huge experience on Montree Hill, which was still I
Speaker 4: mean has so many fun memory. It's like, even even
Speaker 4: when we were back there for the convention, I still
Speaker 4: went and walked around down to time. I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that was so nice. And there was this one scene
Speaker 4: where it was pretty early on in our filming. I
Speaker 4: think it might have even been in this episode where
Speaker 4: you and I Sophia were in a real life diner
Speaker 4: filming nice and you know, there are all the fans
Speaker 4: who are always like waiting outside once we're filming one
Speaker 4: of my episodes hit the air yet, but they're losing
Speaker 4: their mind over you, and they know they know that
Speaker 4: I'm somehow in the scene with you, so then they
Speaker 4: start losing their mind over me. And I was so excited.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, I'll fine that. And it
Speaker 4: was fun. It was so great because they, you know,
Speaker 4: freak out over you, and then they were still wanting
Speaker 4: to freak out, so I got the second phase of
Speaker 4: the freak out. That was fun. But I guess the
Speaker 4: things that I learned m on One Tree Hill that
Speaker 4: really helped me the most was just how to how
Speaker 4: to be on set, how to how to welcome new people,
Speaker 4: how to kind of I don't know, if the day
Speaker 4: can be made shorter. You can point it out to
Speaker 4: maybe like a very new director who you can tell
Speaker 4: is a little intimidated, like it's all good. You know,
Speaker 4: we can not to like back seat direct, but you know,
Speaker 4: when you're doing your rehearsals, you can just say, you know,
Speaker 4: is it better for you if I'm over here? And
Speaker 4: then it is and we all get out two hours earlier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, those little tips and tricks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know, you guys really taught me
Speaker 4: like how to cry, and it's just take your time
Speaker 4: and kind of have it rolling before you need to
Speaker 4: be on it because it's kind of distracting when they're
Speaker 4: like an action then you're supposed to be like, but
Speaker 4: you can just have them be rolling in that waste
Speaker 4: anyone's time for thirty seconds and that was super helpful
Speaker 4: and important. Also I learned never ugly cry and definitely
Speaker 4: what that meant. But really, as it is, it's like
Speaker 4: it's so hard when you're really upset. You're just upset.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and what you were saying about, like you
Speaker 4: know how exciting it is to have like a new generation,
Speaker 4: it was. It was the same way on on Awkward,
Speaker 4: we had have new people who we knew were going
Speaker 4: to be around for a long time for many episodes.
Speaker 4: It was that like excitement and seeing how they were
Speaker 4: on set and you know, a lot of them it
Speaker 4: was their first big thing too, and so you know,
Speaker 4: you hope you're helping them, but yeah, it was. It
Speaker 4: was just such a pivotal show for me just setting
Speaker 4: it up for everything else I do.
Speaker 5: That's so cool.
Speaker 3: I love hearing that.
Speaker 5: When you tell that that story about all the folks
Speaker 5: outside the Dixie Girl. It feels like a perfect segue
Speaker 5: because we told the fans you were coming on the show,
Speaker 5: and my god, they sent in so really questions for you.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so we want to do I mean, we
Speaker 5: have a million more questions want to ask you, but
Speaker 5: you know, we want to. We want to spread the
Speaker 5: love around and let make sure we get through some
Speaker 5: of us Q.
Speaker 3: And Okay, So the first one is from Katie. She says,
Speaker 3: what is your favorite scene of Brooke and Sam?
Speaker 4: I remember being very uncomfortable assaulting you and that first
Speaker 4: scene so for you, so it's pretty happy like every
Speaker 4: other episode where I didn't have to like punching or
Speaker 4: throw you down.
Speaker 3: I mean, have you how much have you watched the episodes?
Speaker 3: Like have you gone back and watched the stuff that
Speaker 3: you were in or are you one of those actors
Speaker 3: that's like I just can't I can't watch it.
Speaker 4: No, I've watched it, I just haven't like it's so
Speaker 4: weird to watch like something where it's like ten years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for you, it is isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's hard to pick one, but I think you know
Speaker 4: that episode where Sam leaves. I think we both got
Speaker 4: to do a lot of crying, and that's always good.
Speaker 4: Actors love that when they get a chance to cry.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so somewhere in there.
Speaker 5: Well, that sort of relates to Christina's question because she
Speaker 5: wants to know what was your hardest scene to shoot?
Speaker 5: Would it have been one of those really emotional ones,
Speaker 5: do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one, and I don't remember what episode
Speaker 4: it is, but I think Sam had done something bad
Speaker 4: and she was I was just like doing the dishes
Speaker 4: or something in Brooks House and like that required a
Speaker 4: lot of emotion. So that was pretty hard. But yeah,
Speaker 4: actually the first scene in close over Grows was probably
Speaker 4: the hardest because I had no experience with like physicality
Speaker 4: or stunts or anything. So you did a lot of
Speaker 4: the guidework on that that I guess technically for me
Speaker 4: that was the hard us.
Speaker 5: I just remember having to be like, don't worry, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be okay. You can chell me like we'll be well,
Speaker 5: we're gonna be all right. Do it like, do it harder,
Speaker 5: you know, because you yeah, it was you poor thing.
Speaker 5: I mean, they gave it to you on your first day.
Speaker 5: You're like, hey, nice to me. You let me just
Speaker 5: hte like, what a weird brutal to be introduced to someone.
Speaker 5: And I remember being like, I know exactly how you're feeling.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be okay me and you.
Speaker 3: Yeah what, So, Ashley, did they ask you to come back,
Speaker 3: like for Brooks wedding or anything? Where were you? Where
Speaker 3: were you? Where did you go?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't know where I was. I
Speaker 4: don't think so. I don't think so. I think because
Speaker 4: we walked off in by like that's pretty offense, and
Speaker 4: she was just gone. She didn't like die or anything,
Speaker 4: but she just like, but you walked off.
Speaker 3: Into the sunset to go live with her mom.
Speaker 5: You wound up awkward though pretty quickly, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't like a year exactly.
Speaker 5: So I feel like that's the thing that happens is,
Speaker 5: you know, great people leave a show and then they
Speaker 5: wind up on another show, and then they're not available
Speaker 5: to come back for special episodes or whatever, because you know,
Speaker 5: you're off working and starring on your own thing, which
Speaker 5: was so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to have been in two places
Speaker 4: at once, though, thinking.
Speaker 5: Back on it now, Jess wants to know this, and
Speaker 5: so do we. Is there any storyline you would have
Speaker 5: liked to see for Sam that you didn't get to
Speaker 5: do while you were on the show.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's like an easy one where
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, Sam gets pregnant, but that would have
Speaker 4: locked me in for a couple episodes.
Speaker 3: Definitely would have kept you around for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that would have been great. Then there's also like,
Speaker 4: what about the skateboarding thing, because Sam was supposed to
Speaker 4: be a skateboarder, and oh yeah, I am athletic. I
Speaker 4: am not afraid of heights. I am so scared of
Speaker 4: being an inch and a half off the ground.
Speaker 3: Skateboards are terrifying.
Speaker 4: It's fine, I paddleboard, I mean, but I can't skateboard.
Speaker 4: I'm just I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's like these hoverboards with the two wheels on either side.
Speaker 3: My daughter has friends that just jump on these hoverboards
Speaker 3: and they're just zooming, zipping around their driveways in the house,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, every time I get on one, I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm gonna fall over.
Speaker 4: I haven't tried one, probably for the same reasons. The skateboards.
Speaker 4: It didn't work.
Speaker 3: Tara is asking what is your best on set memory
Speaker 3: with the cast and crew? That's a nice like, oh,
Speaker 3: let's put a bow on it. I just loved this moment.
Speaker 4: Okay, on set moment. I don't mean to make fun
Speaker 4: of this person, I really I don't. So there was
Speaker 4: this background artist who I thought just smelled like a
Speaker 4: ragan o but he just smelled overall Herbie. Sure in
Speaker 4: life I would come to know what that is, but
Speaker 4: he was. He was just so weird. And he was
Speaker 4: talking to me, and he was kind of like holding
Speaker 4: up the wall and like wondering it kind of thing.
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, like Rocky Rocky, Rocky's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know what this situation is. So he came over.
Speaker 4: Background artist names Joe. We've been filming for like reasonably
Speaker 4: ten hours, but the prop food had been put out
Speaker 4: the beginning of the day. It was North Carolina heat,
Speaker 4: oh boy, and Joe decides to go eat one of
Speaker 4: those sandwiches, and a PA stops and before and goes no, no, no,
Speaker 4: don't eat that. Obviously for continuity as well, but like
Speaker 4: also there's ham, cheese and mustard on this like don't
Speaker 4: eat that.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he ate it.
Speaker 4: And we looked over like an hour and a half later,
Speaker 4: Joe was like, oh oh. And so then like when
Speaker 4: they did get to you know, see him and he
Speaker 4: was in the shot, he was just like on a launchair,
Speaker 4: I mean to sleep. Oh that was something. I think
Speaker 4: the other one was so I think it was a
Speaker 4: book that Hillary bought me, and she did buy me
Speaker 4: a great book on that I have to sit next
Speaker 4: to me, but this might have been another one. And
Speaker 4: it was about like fairies and mystical stuff and we're
Speaker 4: in the makeup trailer and I brought it and Rocky
Speaker 4: and I were like, there's a puison there that says
Speaker 4: like what kind of mystical creature are you? And so
Speaker 4: I was hoping for Unicorn. I got know I read
Speaker 4: ticket and I was like maybe that was a goof
Speaker 4: Now I got know him again. U. So so then the
Speaker 4: next day from the set and on my trailer is
Speaker 4: a little garden though just right on the step. It
Speaker 4: was so cute and so yeah, well we named him
Speaker 4: Philip and put some blush on him and I've had
Speaker 4: him ever since. Philip Philip is the best.
Speaker 5: I love that those are the little things you carry
Speaker 5: with you that you know nobody would know about who
Speaker 5: wasn't in the sort of intimate cast family. And I
Speaker 5: don't know, I just I love it. I love all
Speaker 5: those quirky little pieces of chotchkeys and things that make you,
Speaker 5: you know, feel a little warm.
Speaker 3: And those are the things that make it feel like
Speaker 3: a family. Just all the little things that happened in
Speaker 3: the trailers and between the trailers and from the trailers
Speaker 3: to set and in between the shots watching background people eat, say,
Speaker 3: old sandwiches, just like man, that's the stuff that really
Speaker 3: builds the bond.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, I remember one here we are like
Speaker 4: Arou'm Halloween or something. Rocky Tim and my mom and
Speaker 4: I and some other people all decide to go up
Speaker 4: to I think Charleston supposed to be like super Haunted
Speaker 4: or whatever, and so we wanted to go on one
Speaker 4: of those ghost tours. And props to the guy who
Speaker 4: was doing the tour, he is a good and committed actor.
Speaker 4: As corny as the situation was, he was, he was
Speaker 4: on it. And they're like, if you see any orbs,
Speaker 4: those are spirits. So whether it's a dust particle or
Speaker 4: an orb, we'll never know. But but so we're taking
Speaker 4: all these pictures and everything. At the end of the tour,
Speaker 4: we end up at like a cemetery because you've gone
Speaker 4: through like the house and other places, and so we're
Speaker 4: at a cemetery and I'm like, I'm like, fifteen sixteen,
Speaker 4: I'm just being obnoxious, but I'm laughing, giggling, stifling giggling
Speaker 4: the whole time. And we get out to the cemetery
Speaker 4: area or whatever, where we're like, Okay, take a bunch
Speaker 4: of pictures and see what you get. And there's this
Speaker 4: one picture with all of us where there genuinely are
Speaker 4: like orbs that didn't look like dust particles, but they
Speaker 4: could have been very large dust particles.
Speaker 3: M just hanging out all around you.
Speaker 4: It will ever know. Yeah, Wow, that was fun.
Speaker 3: Amazing, Well fun, guys. We're gonna wrap it up because
Speaker 3: we have a recap to do of our actual episode
Speaker 3: where we really start to get to know Sam, so
Speaker 3: we're going to dive into that. And thanks for hanging
Speaker 3: out with us this week, and we'll see you. We'll
Speaker 3: see you soon.
Speaker 4: Yep.
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