Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: It's funny how life works out and everything happens for
Speaker 2: a reason. And literally, when I was on Dancing with
Speaker 2: the Stars, I got offered this movie Lost in the Everglades,
Speaker 2: film mea Florida in the Everglades. I couldn't accept the
Speaker 2: movie because we didn't know how long I was going
Speaker 2: to stay on Dancing with the Stars, because it could
Speaker 2: have been a contender. I was robbed. But so after
Speaker 2: two fruitful weeks double elimination, she got nothing and I
Speaker 2: got Lost in the Everglades. So it works out, you guys.
Speaker 2: I left the ballroom and headed to the alligators. Gosh,
Speaker 2: there's some joke in there somewhere is and they're there
Speaker 2: is okay, I don't know what it is. So ruth
Speaker 2: Anne and I are here because ruth Anna is very,
Speaker 2: very loyal. Thanks for coming into the Everglades with me anytime.
Speaker 2: So let's go one step further back. So we're here
Speaker 2: right now in Florida, in Fort Lauderdale, filming in the Everglades.
Speaker 2: And I get the script for Lost in the Everglades
Speaker 2: and it's a movie.
Speaker 3: I'm the lead.
Speaker 2: It's a thriller, and I'm like, oh, take me back
Speaker 2: where I belong. Women in peril movies. I did them
Speaker 2: through the nineties. I excel at this shit like tving movies.
Speaker 2: You know that this is a TV movie, but like
Speaker 2: just that thriller and like, yeah, women rescuing women and
Speaker 2: fighting off the bad guys and the alligators and when
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I know, it's like the back of
Speaker 2: my hand. But Ruthianne had concerns about this movie. Whether
Speaker 2: I was in the ballroom or not.
Speaker 1: I had major concerns. Okay, at the time that the
Speaker 1: call came in asking.
Speaker 3: About your availability for the movie. That was at the.
Speaker 1: Precise moment that Hurricane Helene was hitting Florida. And I
Speaker 1: am someone who really likes to follow hurricanes when they happened.
Speaker 1: And so I was on Facebook and whatnot looking at
Speaker 1: various videos of wins today.
Speaker 3: Why I need to work more so you don't have
Speaker 3: time to stuff. That's a really good point.
Speaker 1: And some of the videos coming in were of alligators
Speaker 1: that were in flooded streets and people walking into their
Speaker 1: homes waist deep in water only to find an alligator
Speaker 1: floating in their living room.
Speaker 3: And I thought to myself nights me.
Speaker 1: But Okay, I thought to myself, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is really the best time to go to the Everglades.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not a good time to go to Florida
Speaker 1: at all as a matter of fact. But you were
Speaker 1: still on the show, So I wasn't that concerned, all right.
Speaker 2: And then we have Bump Bump bom double elimination, and
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you're available.
Speaker 1: And then Hurricane Milton hit, right, and I was triply concerned.
Speaker 3: Because things were not looking so good in Florida.
Speaker 2: And make note of this from the beginning that none
Speaker 2: of that was my concern, right, Nope, nope, nope. I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: you know what I've been through. I've been through a lot.
Speaker 2: I feel bad for everyone that's gone through all the
Speaker 2: horrors of the hurricanes and everything they've been through. But
Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, I'm going to put
Speaker 2: it just into individual perspective from within my life.
Speaker 3: That's all I can do is apply myself to it.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know what I've been through.
Speaker 2: I've been through a lot, and in this last year,
Speaker 2: I've gone through a lot, and you know what, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to be stopped by an alligator. No, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go. I'm going to go do it. My
Speaker 2: only thing was I hate leaving my kids. That's always
Speaker 2: a big deal for me. And it's the time of
Speaker 2: year where they're all in school and so I you know,
Speaker 2: if I could take them with me, if it was
Speaker 2: some more vacation, I could bring.
Speaker 3: All five with me, that would be great. But I couldn't.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so that was my concern. I wasn't afraid
Speaker 2: of the storms. I wasn't afraid of alligators, or the mosquitoes,
Speaker 2: or the mosquitoes, gjuanas or I love iguanas, or the
Speaker 2: ndalyst invasive species that populate the Florida Everglades.
Speaker 3: Uh huh so uh anyway she did.
Speaker 2: She kept sending me articles on the everglades, and on purpose,
Speaker 2: I didn't look them up. And I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, everglades is not something you plug into the
Speaker 2: wall and like makes the room smell good.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like I am not going there.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to be responsible, right and make
Speaker 1: sure you had all the.
Speaker 3: Inf well, get the decision well.
Speaker 2: As usual, I chose to make a decision not based
Speaker 2: on not being informed, not being informed because it's how
Speaker 2: I roll. So anyway, long story short, we got on
Speaker 2: a plane and we flew to Florida and we started
Speaker 2: this movie. And here we are winding up this movie
Speaker 2: and guess what, she's.
Speaker 3: Still here, still standing as all are land.
Speaker 2: Let me knock them, let me knock on wood. Jeez,
Speaker 2: the day left.
Speaker 3: But it's actually.
Speaker 2: Turned out to be one of the best experiences ever
Speaker 2: on a set with the crew. I concur Sunshine Films
Speaker 2: executive producers Damien and Jacobo, and Damien is directing it.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you this crew that they've done so
Speaker 2: many movies together, it's like a well oiled machine. I
Speaker 2: have not only felt welcomed, I felt accepted. They are
Speaker 2: kind and they enjoy what they do. They are passion
Speaker 2: and they're talented, and all the actors cast are great.
Speaker 3: I mean. So a little backstory.
Speaker 2: It's about a mother whose college age daughter, single mom,
Speaker 2: college age daughter is going for spring break, goes off
Speaker 2: to South Beach. I believe are they from Indiana?
Speaker 3: I believe they're okay?
Speaker 2: And she disappears and it's a mother's hunt of knowing
Speaker 2: something is wrong. Tracking down. Uh, there's a love interest
Speaker 2: maybe a snake hunter. I'm saying maybe, yeah, And she
Speaker 2: goes into the Everglades to find her daughter. And this
Speaker 2: movie spoke to me on many levels. Not the Everglades,
Speaker 2: not the alligator, but I am a mom. It spoke
Speaker 2: to me on one level, okay, and I went with that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I can only imagine how us mothers feel
Speaker 2: on you know, any given Friday night when our kids
Speaker 2: are like, oh, safe arrival. Call I'm at this party,
Speaker 2: and you're like tracking location, and then the location goes out.
Speaker 3: This happens in this movie, and then you're like, wait,
Speaker 3: where are they?
Speaker 2: But you know I can get in a car and
Speaker 2: drive twenty minutes and be like track them down or
Speaker 2: call one of their friends.
Speaker 3: This doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's about a mother's fight to get her
Speaker 2: daughter back. Tommy Rose plays my daughter. She is gorgeous
Speaker 2: and talented, and people say we could look like mother
Speaker 2: and daughter. I prefer sister and sister, but you know,
Speaker 2: whatever gets the job done anyway. Yeah, we filmed the
Speaker 2: movie primarily in the Everglades. I am proud to say
Speaker 2: that I did what ninety nine percent of my own stunts.
Speaker 1: Absolutely much to my chagrin, but yes, you did your
Speaker 1: own stunts.
Speaker 3: What is this word you say, chagrin? What is this
Speaker 3: word horror? Maybe what languages is that? And old fashioned?
Speaker 1: Speaking of old I do want to add those old
Speaker 1: people listening to your podcasts, we have one of those,
Speaker 1: maybe a couple that the location where the within the
Speaker 1: Everglades is where the old TV show gentle Ben was
Speaker 1: shot like a hundred years ago. Remember that moment you
Speaker 1: just made our podcast not relevant.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it is the coolest experience though. So one
Speaker 2: thing that I have learned, and I keep trying to
Speaker 2: take this through my life, that I'm really open to
Speaker 2: not being fearful. Everyone knows. If you know me, you
Speaker 2: know you know that I'm very fearful in life. And
Speaker 2: this new chapter, as Brian Austin Green says, Tory two
Speaker 2: point oh, I am letting go of all those fears
Speaker 2: and I'm taking on things that scare me, which is
Speaker 2: why I took on the Ballroom and me.
Speaker 3: That's why I took on you. I took on you
Speaker 3: twenty five years ago. Well that's that's way I got it.
Speaker 3: This thing on. We're here all day, well at least
Speaker 3: for another ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, So no, no, I'm taking on things that scare
Speaker 2: me and look in them right in the eye. So
Speaker 2: you guys side note, if you see an alligator, you
Speaker 2: go zig zag, zigzag zigzag because they.
Speaker 3: Can't keep up. Little known fact if you ever run
Speaker 3: into one.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I took on Dancing with the Stars because
Speaker 2: I had said no for thirty two seasons, so I
Speaker 2: said yes. Thirty third season got kicked off. First lesson learned.
Speaker 2: But I'm not better you guys at all.
Speaker 3: WHOA, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I take with it so much transformation that I've learned
Speaker 2: in anyway. So normally something like this would scare me
Speaker 2: to death. I would be like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: going out where there's going to be dangerous animals.
Speaker 3: I can't am I going to get hurt?
Speaker 2: And for me, I went into this, I was like, no,
Speaker 2: Tory two point ogg got nothing on me. We were
Speaker 2: in this, Like what area were we in with the airboats?
Speaker 2: It's a swamp Everglades. Yeah, like where we filmed. You
Speaker 2: could not get to set without going on an airboat.
Speaker 3: Right, this was deep in the Everglades.
Speaker 2: Oh like deep, like like weeds coming out like Everglades
Speaker 2: is that what they are everglades, everglades and yeah, swamps
Speaker 2: filled with When you asked like, hey, I'm just wondering,
Speaker 2: like how.
Speaker 3: Deep does this go, They're like, oh, it goes deep.
Speaker 2: And you're like, look at me in these waters and
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, there's gators, there's water mocksins. In fact,
Speaker 2: one island we filmed on was called cotton Mouths Island.
Speaker 2: You weren't there that day, No, no, you missed that.
Speaker 2: And when we took the airboat up to it, it
Speaker 2: was Gerald's place.
Speaker 3: Jerald of quite a character. Uh.
Speaker 2: He told me that, Yeah, they filmed all kinds of
Speaker 2: movies and stuff. And I was like, who is the
Speaker 2: favorite celebrity that you worked with? And he was like
Speaker 2: Desperate Housewives. I was like, I said, a celebrity, not
Speaker 2: a show, but yes, okay, Gerald. And then he was
Speaker 2: very excited to tell me that he was in two
Speaker 2: of the movies that filmed on his little island. His
Speaker 2: little island literally consists of a cabin.
Speaker 3: And an island around it.
Speaker 2: That's it, with alligators, with alligators surrounding it.
Speaker 3: And so he was in Lake Fear one and two.
Speaker 2: He plays a bad guy. He dies in number two.
Speaker 2: I told him I would check it out shout out
Speaker 2: to Gerald anyway. He uh yeah, So he would sit
Speaker 2: old man character bunny.
Speaker 3: He would sit on his rocking chair.
Speaker 2: And there's some scenes where I have to go in
Speaker 2: the water and when we did my deal.
Speaker 3: Is it a deal actress? Do deals? Contract? Whatever? Deal signs? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ruthanne was very concerned about aligators and me doing it,
Speaker 2: so she wanted to make sure I had a stunt
Speaker 2: double correct, which they are so great here. I had
Speaker 2: a stunt double. Her name is love I Love Jones,
Speaker 2: and she's amazing. But me being me, I was like,
Speaker 2: I want to do as many of the stunts as
Speaker 2: I can do. So they're like, are you going to
Speaker 2: get in the water, like there's alligators in there, and
Speaker 2: I was like, yep, so and I was like nope.
Speaker 2: And when she says nope makes me say yep even
Speaker 2: more true.
Speaker 3: This is our dynamics. So you know, the more you
Speaker 3: say no to me, the more I do it.
Speaker 2: So, uh, there's a scene where I'm supposed to be
Speaker 2: like a flailing in the swamp and there's alligators. The
Speaker 2: thing is and my kids kept asking this, like because
Speaker 2: there was an alligator wrangler.
Speaker 1: Xavier was who's loss more than one? There's the how
Speaker 1: many alligators there? They need multiple wranglers.
Speaker 2: Right Max Fish group look him up. You can rent
Speaker 2: macm ac m A c K. But Marshall owns it
Speaker 2: and you can Their whole family works with this, and
Speaker 2: you can get airboats, you can go fishing and get
Speaker 2: shown snakes if you want to all guide it tour.
Speaker 2: They all work as a family. So Xavier and Marshall
Speaker 2: were the alligator wranglers. So they come into the water
Speaker 2: with you and I'm like, holes.
Speaker 1: They have poles to tur the alligator. So Xavier, who's
Speaker 1: with me? He says, don't worry.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I don't know where I got this.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: And he's like, well, if the alligator comes and they
Speaker 2: come fast, I just prod him right here in his
Speaker 2: head and he'll be like and I'll like it and
Speaker 2: he'll turn around so he won't eat you.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, sounds good action.
Speaker 2: Uh No, So we did it. And as we're filming
Speaker 2: this scene, we have eyes. They're telling everyone we got
Speaker 2: eyes on a gator and sure enough, you know, I
Speaker 2: look over and I'm like I got eyes on a
Speaker 2: gator too, and he's just like and they're like, don't
Speaker 2: worry about him. He's a young lad.
Speaker 3: He's just curious. And I was curious, Like he'll come
Speaker 3: up and he won't bite. Oh no, they all bite.
Speaker 2: But but he's curious. He's just curious what's happening. He's
Speaker 2: not scared. Oh God, I'm glad he's not scared. Okay,
Speaker 2: So and they said, oh, he's a small one.
Speaker 3: He's like six seven.
Speaker 1: Feet as opposed to the twelve foot one on the
Speaker 1: other side.
Speaker 2: Of that island, right, the one they called Richard. And
Speaker 2: you say, why why is he named Richard? Because he's
Speaker 2: a dick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what they what they say.
Speaker 2: And they have to like rope an aira off, like
Speaker 2: don't go near Richard.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, they rope it off with police tape. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: don't go here, he will be a dick. Don't pust
Speaker 1: out the dick here.
Speaker 3: It's not good. It's yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so we got eyes on him, so anyway I
Speaker 2: can see him, and I'm starting my scene and I'm
Speaker 2: in the water and they're like, toy, are you fine,
Speaker 2: and fine, I'm like, yeah, you guys, roll rolling, fine, fine,
Speaker 2: covered in swamp water, going underneath swoowing lots of swamp water,
Speaker 2: which my stomach's a littlequeasy from that.
Speaker 3: Uh So, if you ever want.
Speaker 2: A really good detox like guttural cleanse, just go to
Speaker 2: the Everglades and I should bottle it maybe it's new business,
Speaker 2: and guzzle it.
Speaker 3: Because ooh, that'll keep you going for days. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so I see him, I know he sees me,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, I have to be
Speaker 2: splashing around because I'm.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be oh girl, the exact thing you shouldn't
Speaker 1: do around an alligator, right, But.
Speaker 3: In my scene, I said, snap, girl, I can't sway him.
Speaker 3: Help me, help me, hot man, I'm coming by a boat.
Speaker 2: So uh, I start to splash and he I just
Speaker 2: see him, and he's probably about twenty five feet away,
Speaker 2: thirty feet He was close. He was way too close,
Speaker 2: way too close for our comfort. But you can't they're
Speaker 2: not hired actor alligators. Because my daughter's like, well, I
Speaker 2: don't understand they're actor alligators. Why couldn't they wrangle them
Speaker 2: and put them? I was like, no, no, no, we are
Speaker 2: on their territory filming you're wild. These are wild animals,
Speaker 2: and we're just saying, please let us film near you
Speaker 2: for a bit. And I see so I start splashing
Speaker 2: and he just turns. And I have never seen anything
Speaker 2: move this fast, even me back in the heyday when
Speaker 2: I was like, oh god, it was like a flash
Speaker 2: sail at Nordstrom.
Speaker 3: I never moved this fast. This thing was fast and.
Speaker 1: It flew and I was like, I can't even tell
Speaker 1: you the speed.
Speaker 2: But I didn't know alligators can be. Like he flewp
Speaker 2: out of the water. It was just like belining for me.
Speaker 3: And all I hear is.
Speaker 1: Touring out of the water.
Speaker 2: And guys, I like to say, like, I can't really
Speaker 2: move like.
Speaker 3: I all, I like flew up myself. I think I did, like,
Speaker 3: oh maybe I did a fox trot or a rumba.
Speaker 2: See, Pasha, I learned something. I got my ass out
Speaker 2: of that water so fast, with the help of my
Speaker 2: leading man pulling me up. And yeah, he came over
Speaker 2: and they poked him and then he turned around like
Speaker 2: bomb bomp bomp.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But anyway, so I have I have happened on
Speaker 3: a daily basis.
Speaker 1: I have no.
Speaker 3: Nails left because I chewed them down. Well, you do
Speaker 3: that daily anyway.
Speaker 1: But it was very, very stressful to watch this happen,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 3: It was so exhilarating.
Speaker 2: I was going through weeds, I had a snake palk
Speaker 2: in my hands, I was bashing bad guys.
Speaker 3: I felt alive. So here's the moral of this story.
Speaker 3: The ballroom.
Speaker 2: That was just my first step on my transformation of
Speaker 2: Tory two point zero Bostonverglades.
Speaker 3: That was just my second step.
Speaker 2: Well guess what, y'all, this is our last day on
Speaker 2: the movie. And guess guess where I'm heading back till tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Earl. I'm going back to the ballroom. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 2: I am taking all my skills from the Everglades and
Speaker 2: I'm going to go crush that finale on Dancing with
Speaker 2: the Stars.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited. Are you going to bring alligator shoes
Speaker 3: for everybody to wear? That is Horrible's is that an option? No,
Speaker 3: you guys know they're pretty texted species. No, that's a crocodiles.
Speaker 3: Actually they're not.
Speaker 1: There is a hunting season here for allig there is,
Speaker 1: I think that, and they eat them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, thank you.
Speaker 1: Not my thing, But they don't hunt Richard or the
Speaker 1: other two that are named Remember Tommy and Lisa.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Tommy, Why was it Tommy? Tommy and Lisa. There is
Speaker 2: like something to do with Elvis Presley. There was Lisa, Tommy, Pamela. Anyway,
Speaker 2: if you get to drive an airboat, do it. It
Speaker 2: was exhilarating and I got to drive it and had
Speaker 2: so much fun driving it like a speed demon on water,
Speaker 2: not like it is. It's a speed demon on water.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I got to wrestle some alligators.
Speaker 3: Check out her ig to see all the photos.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that was such cool, like slag of you,
Speaker 2: her Igh, I'm learning she is.
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of her.