WEBVTT - The Melrose Minute (S1 EP 20) 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.400 Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorne Smith. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.400 And daphnews Aniga and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.760 Hey everyone, welcome to the Melrose Minute. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:18.599 You know, there's always too much to talk about, Like 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:20.919 while we're doing a recab, it just feels like there's 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.480 all the stuff that we needed to put into a 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.920 Melrose Minute. So we've let's be honest, we could talk 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.240 all day every basis. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.400 So I mean an hour is a not pretty soon 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:28.840 it's gonna be. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.480 A Melrose half hour, especially because our. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.160 Husbands don't want to hear us at home. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:33.840 So we have to come here and get it all out. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.320 So my dogs are getting so annoyed, they're like, already 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:36.760 talk to the. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.159 Girls, to the girl. So here we are. Put it 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:40.720 on the pod. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.839 We were just talking about before we got on about Sydney. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.680 We just watched her second and last episode for this season, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.239 but how her outfits were getting crazy and you had 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.000 some thoughts about what you were wearing. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.920 No, it's just like it occurred to me like the 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.040 character was so open to whatever, and the wardrobe department 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.760 was so amazing that they would put whatever on her, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.080 and I just got this opportunity to try. But I 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.960 just remember feeling like while I was I've mentioned this before. 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.840 I was a brand new actress, right, I'm a midwestern 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.120 I'm a girl from Iowa. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:11.920 Right, not the. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:16.800 Most like edgy, you know place, And I just remembered, 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.240 like the idea that Sydney could wear all these colorful 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.759 things and try them on and whatever was just so 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.319 different than my own experience. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.160 Was it crazy for you? Was it exciting? 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:27.400 And I loved it? 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:28.160 I loved it. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:28.760 I loved it. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.480 And there was a moment in my own like youth 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.039 and childhood where I was interested in like trying on 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.080 you know, eighties fashion. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:36.759 I mean, who wouldn't write. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.320 Day glow or like, like I was a junior high 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.000 and like I remember remember the movie Flash Dance, right, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.760 and so I was And I was a dancer too, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.559 So like I was so interested, Oh, I'll wear leg 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.040 warmers to school or whatever, like you know as part 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.360 of my outfit leg warmers, which I got mercilessly mocked for, right, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.000 and so like not really a risk taking place fashion 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.000 wise Iowa. So it was such an interesting thing to 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.280 be given this character that could do anything and should 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:07.240 be you know. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:08.520 Trying anything and whatever. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.240 But I just remember feeling also the actual voice inside 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.040 my head going, oh, what are people back home going 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:14.440 to think? 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:15.480 Did you get reaction? 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:16.400 I did get? 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:17.799 I mean, in fact, do you remember there? 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:18.480 I did. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.480 It's sort of hard to remember, but I just remember 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.880 feeling super insecure about it, like what is everyone going 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.040 to think? Not only that the scene that I had 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.080 to be in bed with my sister's husband, even though 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.120 it was a dream, was a nightmare sequence or whatever, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.360 but like to have to have done that, I was 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.200 so insecure, like what are people going to think? And 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:35.640 I'm going to be judged for this? It was like 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.080 such a weird thing that I just watching it again, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.080 I was reminded of that feeling just starting out in 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.360 my career, going what are people going so funny? 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.359 My background is the absolute opposite of yours. I grew 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.880 up in the sixties in Berkeley, California, where there were 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.959 like free boxes on every corner for free clothes whatever 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.880 whoever wanted anything, and we shopped at thrift stores and 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.919 we had our dress up box at home. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.320 My sister and I didn't have a TV, but we 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.639 would go home and put. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.040 On things feather boas or whatever just to play after school. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.520 So when I was doing this show with Denise. I 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.520 got so excited because because it like went with that, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.359 you know what I mean. It wasn't crazy, she wasn't 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.160 crazy out of the top, but in Joe's own way, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.240 we'd try things that kind of push the edge. And 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.720 I just loved going to work because it felt like 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.120 I was being paid to try stuff out of the 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:25.280 dress up. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.720 Box, you know what I mean. Yeah, I just loved her. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.400 She had really cool, kind of ethnic, kind of esoteric stuff, really. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.320 Chic, upscale, cool stuff. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:34.600 Yeah. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.520 I thought Allison was more conservative because she was a 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.560 Midwest girl, so I didn't have that sort of super 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.400 playing dress up. But that's a really fun thing about 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.640 being an actor, which is getting to play different characters. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.400 I did a TV movie once where I played a 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.560 murdering dairy princess, and that was super fun because that 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.600 was like costumes, and I had work costume murdering. Yeah, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.520 she was like a dairy princess, and that was super fun. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.600 But I've often played to quote normal people, so my 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.720 clothes weren't that exciting. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:04.480 So it's fun to. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.840 Get play super fun dress up, like you were playing 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.640 super dress up and wearing these extreme things and getting 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.120 to it was also it was the time on the 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.360 show you could tell that they were experimenting with you. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.080 They were letting it get fun and funny and a 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.719 little more unexpected. Like every time we walked into a scene, 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.119 I was like, Oh, this is going to be fun. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.400 I had that feeling about it. And part of it 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.480 was the costume. Like you'd walk in, I was like, Oh, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.599 what's going to happen here? 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.640 Yeah, it didn't seem at all like you were. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.800 You seemed very open to wearing whatever they wanted to 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:35.320 try you in. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.720 I loved it, but they just couldn't shake that little 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:38.880 voice in my head that was like. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:39.640 What are they going to think? 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:40.240 Didn't you think? 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.360 Like we came of age in a time when most 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.000 people had no nudity in their contracts, right, Like, I 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.040 don't know about you, but since I turned fifty, people 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.039 say nudity required. I'm like, did you think I waited 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.920 till I was fifty to do nud Like what do 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.800 you think it's writing? But it used to be on 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.600 TV you were pretty well covered. Now it's so different. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.680 But I always from the time I was seventeen, I 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.120 started professionally thought about my kid is going to see 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.680 this one day, right, I always had that thought. I 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.400 didn't want anything out there that would embarrass my kid. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.240 I'm so grateful now that I have a seventeen year 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.680 old and he did that, like there are things that 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.920 would be embarrassing me, kind of an eye rolling thing, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.320 like nothing that would be horrifying for him to watch. Right, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:17.599 friends would try to show him. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:18.839 Yeah, I knew. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.600 I knew I'd never have. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:21.720 Kids, so I didn't. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.640 Have that proble. You had to do whatever you wanted 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.840 to very compromising positions. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.760 I suppose it's free. It was like, but you have siblings, right. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.880 Yeah, I have a sister. We're very close. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.279 We're only seventeen months apart. I have a half brother 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.200 who's twenty years younger than I am, so that's different. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.239 We didn't grow up together. But you know, watching your 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.560 story with and us talking about the Jane and Sydney 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.599 of it all has brought up, you know, my own 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:53.520 thoughts with this sister. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:53.720 Now. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.680 Of course, you don't really compare your real life to 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.680 Melrose situations. That would be I hope, although. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.520 You're still it was fast when you said what you 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.640 told us last episode, that your sister was actually. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.000 Showed up and which is c started living with me, Yes, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.920 and then ended up on Norral's plays as an extra. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.240 I love that and two other jobs I remembered too, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:15.720 I got her. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:21.240 But at any rate that aside confusing, Yeah, No, I 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.240 just wanted to talk about like that kind of dynamic 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.400 and your relationship with siblings. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.800 Why are they tough? Why are they so tough? Why 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:30.799 what would cause and. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.560 Get to the point of not talking you know, or 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.040 I mean it has to do a set. I look 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.240 at you, and I think automatically, Courtney. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.839 I look at you and I think of boundaries. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:40.320 Set boundaries. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.120 I'm sure that's part of your answer, and it should be, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.200 But I don't know what do you think about? 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.039 You know, like siblings are the longest relationship you have 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.039 in your life, right. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.000 Yeah, we don't get to choose them, right, that's. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.400 Interesting, But they really are the longest relationship you have 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.720 because you know your parents won't always be there, as 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.640 you know, and but your siblings are more aligned with 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.400 you know, how you'd move through the world and age 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.000 and stuff. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.240 The kind of the roles you were given as a child, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.720 you know, like one was given maybe like I was 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.320 the older one. I was I totally assumed I had 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.680 to protect my younger sister that you know, and she, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.200 I'm sure felt in my shadow and resisted. I never 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.560 wanted her to copy me or follow me or go 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.280 get your own friends and that kind of thing. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.280 And I've you know, I. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.200 Don't have that so much now, but it does kind 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.840 of rear its head in different ways, you know, even 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:35.440 as adults. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.680 Yeah, well you do hear people saying like those things, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.960 those birth order things are really classic. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:41.440 You know. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.600 The oldest child often feels like they had to lead 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.600 the way and be good and whatever. The next or 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.680 youngest she's just kind of a different path and plays 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.160 a different role, not that they're assigned necessarily, but that 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.520 it just is natural. It's a natural birth order of relationship. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.080 And I just hear it all the time that there's 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.800 these sort of classic relationships. And I have an older 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.000 sister as well, and so like for the Sydney and 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.559 Jane relationship, it was easy to imagine being the younger 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.360 sister because I am the younger sister and I always 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.960 looked up to my older sister. And I don't think 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.200 I ever did anything psycho, but you. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:16.840 Could use that. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.720 We definitely is easy to draw from really real emotions 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.640 about feeling not as smart or not as good or 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.800 not as you know anything, and wanting to be like 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.080 your older sister either. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.920 Have you ever had to deal with, like really having 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.960 a er where you've had to take time off or 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.560 really deal with difficult subjects with each other. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:38.880 I think it's hard not to. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.520 And what I was thinking is, you guys are talking, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.680 is is you live your life in reference to this person? Right? 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.240 Like my son is an only child, so he's kind 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.400 of like he's he's forging his own path. But we 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.720 were in reference, and I was thinking about my parents 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.360 telling me that one of the teachers in kindergarten, my 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.800 sister is a beautiful visual artist, extraordinary. So's my dad 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.320 saying that in kindergarten, I wouldn't draw because I couldn't 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.280 draw as well as my sister. It's probably why I'm 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.240 an actor, right Like I'm an actor and a writer. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.600 And she said I still can't draw, and I think 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.319 it's just I just said, well, she's got that, that's hers, 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.679 So I could there have been something there. I don't know, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.200 but I ended up like acting from a very young 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.760 age because that was mine. She sort of claimed it, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.360 and that happens with siblings, right, they claim this. So 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:22.800 you look over here. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:23.520 And it's fascinating. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:24.840 Yeah, yeah, she's older. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.200 She's older too and half, so she got it first, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.400 like she Yeah, And I may not, honestly, I may 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.040 not have that talent, right but I don't. I will 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.160 never know because I'm so early lane And of course 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:37.520 I couldn't do it as well as her, she was 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.520 two and a half years older. But also maybe I 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.199 don't have that gift. She's gifted, as is her daughter, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:44.280 and as was my dad. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.400 You know, my sister and I when I was in 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.000 seventh grade, so she was a couple of years younger. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.120 We both auditioned for a play, my first play at 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.960 the school, and I got a part. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.040 I was cast as a part. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.320 It was HMS Pinafore again another it was a musical 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.640 that I shouldn't have done. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.400 I got because I was a good young actress. 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.959 And my sister was up. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.920 For the lead, another lead in it, but they had 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.840 to draw straws and the other blonde girl got it, 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.960 and so Jennifer didn't, and she got the rule of 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:21.640 Dick dead Eye. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.600 My boss name is Jennifer too, is your name Jennifer. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.880 Sister's name is Lisa. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:31.800 So I've always. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.920 Wondered, like, oh, that poor thing, that poor my poor sister, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.559 Like she drew the wrong straw. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.560 Did that change her destiny by the trajectory? 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.240 But you know, the thing is like, even if you 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.319 have a talent, let's say my sister had a talent, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.520 she doesn't have the obsession or tenacity because as we 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.120 all know, she came out and she took acting classes 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.040 and I gave her jobs and she after a couple 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.640 of years, was like, I don't like sitting around waiting, 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.920 So it takes more than the talent. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.960 Like your sister does something with her drawing? 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.320 Does she do something with her drawing? 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:01.880 She's still an extraordinary artist. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.560 Yeah, it's not her business though. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:04.720 No, it's interesting. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.920 I like that I can remember both of your sister's 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:12.720 names now from now on, I won't forget Yours is Lisa, Lisa. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.760 My sister told me once that artists people have a 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.000 visual talent for visual arts shadows, and I asked my 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.600 niece about it too, like I see things kind of 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.760 in two dimensions. If I draw flower, it's a two 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.000 dimensional flower. I'm not doing shadows. And she was trying 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.200 to explain it to me, and I was like, I 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.040 don't see what you see or doesn't translate in my 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.480 brain the same way now writing does, right, Like I 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.240 write scenes, so it's all tied up together. I don't know, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.840 but I don't think of drawing it. I think of 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.880 writing it, right, Yeah, right. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:42.480 That's interesting. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.679 I do things very I think it's called kinetically or 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.880 viscerally emotionally, like this is my language, this is how 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.160 I process things. This is how and that's very useful 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.000 for acting. My sister doesn't. She's very logical. Well, so 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.080 we'll have these conversations and they're a little bit like 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.760 we kind of miss kind of miscommunicate a little. I'm 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.640 very proud of how my sister and I have had 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.280 dealt with some difficult We're very different in some big ways, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:13.040 and we literally just choose to not talk about things 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.800 that we shouldn't that we know will cause friction because 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.000 we value our love, We value the connection. Because of 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.480 what you said, it's the longest relationship, it's my earliest relationship, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.960 she's my earliest ally where your little little babies trying 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.840 to figure out this world together, and I don't want 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:34.000 that to be destroyed by opinions that exist. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.520 Now, yeah, that's great. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:36.600 So I think it's. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.600 Very important for if you can skillfully kind of navigate that. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:40.120 Yeah. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.400 Yeah, for sisters, I can't wait till you come back 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.040 on the show. I'm very sad we have to take 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:45.520 these episodes off, but. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.240 We have so many fun Sydney soon. Yeah, there's lots. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:55.520 There's lots of times coming on soon, guys, which is soaking. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:13:00.000 Her entry, such fun coming, so excited. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.679 All right, So here's our fan question. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.200 Watching a nineteen ninety two episode of The Young and 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.600 the Restless, there was a depth styling gel commercial and 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:10.319 the woman. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.800 Looked like Laura Layton. Does she remember this? 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.959 There's a reason she may have looked like me. It 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.000 was me actually in nineteen ninety two, so I have said, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.280 you know, Melrose was my first job. It was like 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.240 my first acting job, but this depth commercial was my 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.800 first actual job on camera. And I was hired for 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.439 this hair gel and I got to the set for 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.320 my very first job, my very first commercial, and and 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.000 I remember like I showed up and like there was 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.319 all this like conversation around me, and everybody's just sort 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.640 of looking at me, and they're like kind of like 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.120 getting me set up, like maybe go to wardrobe, or 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:50.439 maybe you go to the hair trailer and maybe you 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.120 get started whatever. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.280 But there was this conversation and. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:56.880 I realized that they were discussing my hair color and 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.079 that it didn't look the color that they were expecting 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.840 as it had in my audition. And apparently they had 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.719 hired a blonde, a redhead, and a brunette for all 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.440 different like parts of this commercial or maybe different versions 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.200 of the commercial, and I'd been hired as the redhead, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.120 but showing up on the set that morning, they didn't 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.200 think my hair looked red and it had in the commercial. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.640 They'd hired me as the redhead. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.360 And changed your hair at all. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.760 I had not changed my hair, And so there's all 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.920 this like sort of conversation, you know, behind whatever was 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.280 going on, and then they finally just decided to proceed. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:34.960 And once they put me on the set with the 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.200 lights and everything, I was like, oh, looks red. So 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.520 it was lightly like a lighting thing or whatever. But 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.920 after that commercial, I was like, I didn't lose the job, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.320 you know, like for not being redhead enough, but I 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.960 did right after that decide Okay, I actually need to 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:51.960 commit to being a redhead. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.320 I'd never really identified as a redhead. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.200 And I kind of I just yeah, I just kind 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.880 of had like I felt maybe sort of like eh hair, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.400 Like I have a lot of red head in my family, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.640 but my own hair I just felt was kind of 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.200 like eh, like kind of a little bit of this, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.960 a little bit of that, and kind of nothing or whatever. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.440 But after that commercial experience where I almost lost a 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:10.960 job for not being red enough, I was like, well 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.080 that's it. I'm going to be a redhead. And I 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.400 like started, you know, coloring my hair And wait. 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.720 A second, were you as red as you were when 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:20.800 you showed up on Melrose? 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.720 So Melrose was after the depth commercial, So by then 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.920 I was like fully redhead person admitted more, I'm going 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.160 to make sure like that's you know, clear, Like I 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.600 don't want to be like you were something or other 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.120 and not really one thing or another. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.280 It's so perfect with your skin tone. I can't imagine 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.640 you with another color. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.000 Well, and kind of neither can I. Like, it's not 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.880 like it was definitely in my family, like my sister 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.800 had beautiful auburn hair, and my grandfather's nickname honestly was red. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.200 Like you know, he was the guy that, oh, hey 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.640 red you know. So it was like yeah, so it wasn't. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:54.960 Like not a thing. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.280 I just felt like mine was very meh, you know great. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.480 Remember deep like the they probably still have it. Remember 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:02.240 how heavy it was. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:06.560 I don't know if they still have it. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.720 Used to be so heavy, didn't they like the like 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.800 just all the products, the sprays, AquaNet, everything. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:14.400 Was so hilly around. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:15.800 I think, yeah, that's still around. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.040 I remember when I really committed when my hairstar when 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.040 I was young, it was super blonde and then it 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.160 started to get darker. And when I was first working, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.240 I would just use sun in and I would just 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.440 put the sun down and then blowed dryer. And that 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.440 was my fancy hair coloring technique. I that. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.920 Orange yeah, or like mammone juice, just sitting on the summer, never. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:38.960 Knew what you were going to get. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.720 Yeah, it's kind of apricot color. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.200 You know. It reminds me of. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:47.440 Like Junior high is sun in banda so let and 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:49.640 Baby Johnson's baby oil. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.600 Yes, we'd lie. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:52.880 Out all summer and get. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.680 Like, you know, just trying to fry ourselves in oil. Yeah, 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.520 so god so dumb. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:02.120 All right, we'll do more questions on our next Melrose. 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:02.640 Minute and at some point. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.320 We don't have time now, but I want to know 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.400