WEBVTT - Some Time With...Adria Later (Part 2) 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.759 Welcome back to how Rue Tanaritos. We are back with 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.680 the second part of our interview with our studio teacher 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.800 from Full House, Adria Later. Adria is giving us all 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.680 a unique glimpse into what it was really like behind 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.320 the scenes of the show and being the baby wrangler 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.320 for Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. So buckle up and 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 get ready, here's part two with Adria. Now, Jodie, I 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.280 think you and I went to regular public school in 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.200 addition to being schooled on the set. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.800 So do you remember did you go to like your. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.360 First period of the day or did you do all 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.040 of your schooling on the set and just go to 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.520 school on the hiatus weeks. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.360 I went to school, I mean cause I was in 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.160 elementary school, so we didn't really have like periods yet. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.280 First second, it was like I went to school until 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.040 about lunch, which was like eleven forty five or twelve ish, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.000 and then my mom would pick me up and I 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.680 would work on my script in the car and I 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.400 would drive, you know, from because we lived in Orange County, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:20.120 drive from Orange County to Sony Studios, which was in 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.200 Culver City, which at that time in La traffic was 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.200 such that you could make that journey in about forty 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.880 five to fifty minutes, and amazing. That would not be 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.479 happening now, that would you wouldn't You would not. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:32.600 Be able to do that now. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.800 But I was so fortunate because you know, it got 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.240 to like have quote unquote normal friends and normal school 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.880 stuff and be plugged in a little bit to the classroom, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.200 and then I would take that stuff, you know for 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.280 Thursdays and Fridays on tape days when we had to 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.279 be there longer hours. I would take all of those days, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.960 all those days, work for Thursday and Friday and work 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.040 on it on set. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:56.920 Now, the reason you were able to do that and 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.640 go to school for those few hours and then come 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.960 to set was that your time on set could only 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.800 be three and a half hours because if you do 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.120 go to your own school, you can't then come to 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.200 work and work eight hours. So on the day so 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.600 you went to your own school, you could only be 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:13.960 on this head for three and a half hours, so 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.399 you would come from to run through. That was it. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.120 But on Friday when we were taping, you had to 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.919 be there all day because we needed an eight and 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.200 a half hour day on yourself. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.880 Okay, huh, Okay, Yeah, there's all those like little nuances 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.160 and things of you know, how often kids need breaks 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.720 and how like how long they can work for Like 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:36.840 Ashley and Mary Kate at the time, what is like 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.880 for young kids, It's like twenty minutes in front of 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.760 the camera, right, but broken up into. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.880 Yeah, I mean when they're infants. Actually they read it 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.639 at eight months old, so I think at that time, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:47.880 I didn't have to look back at my book. I 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.400 think it's they're allowed on the set for four hours, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.320 you know, working four hours. I think it's two hours 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.160 of work and two hours of break. When they're infants, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.240 like under six months old, you know, they can only 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.440 work twenty minute increment, right, But once they were you know, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.440 because they were eight months old, they were they fell 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.440 into that category of being allowed there for four and 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:07.639 a half hours. 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:08.040 Got it. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.520 And the reason we use twins is because what they 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.040 could have done. They could have brought let's say, Mary 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.840 kateen at eight o'clock in the morning and brought in 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.400 and Ashley brought in or her at noon and then 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.480 you know, get an eight hour day out of it. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.120 But because we flipped them back and forth and back 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.600 and forth every other scene. They were both there for 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.120 their whole a lot of times. So four and a 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.200 half hours, you know, gettle and then it goes up 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.280 to six and a half hours when they hit I 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.240 think I forget five, five or six years old, and 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.200 you know, the goes up. But they chose not to 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.840 split their call, which they do on most feature films 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.160 and most TV shows, is they'll give a staggered call 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.320 on twins to get a longer period of time on 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:54.200 the set with them. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.160 Right, But then you're but then you're sort of you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.240 you got to keep your fingers crossed that that one 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:00.680 particular twin is in the. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:01.840 Mood to be doing it. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:02.840 It's kind of risky. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:04.480 Yeah. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.280 Yeah, if you tried to do something right about nap time, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:09.520 forget it, it's not happening. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.960 And they were such good natured babies, so. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.039 They really, yeah, they absolutely were, and they just became 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.640 such a part of the family. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.720 When the two of you too, I mean you treated 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.600 them like little sisters, you know, oh yeah, burn your 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.880 back on them. You played with them, you sat with them, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.800 you talked to them. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.520 I was very close with Ashley Mary Kate. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.359 I mean sort of like how Andrea and I were close, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.120 like I, you know, sort of look to Andrey and 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.560 Candice is like the older ones, Like I definitely was 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.599 that to Ashley Mary Kate and oh yeah I had 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.839 they would come to our house on weekends and all 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.320 that kind of stuff. But when you had such a 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.920 huge part in really you know, creating the fun of 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.240 the Michelle character in you know, them repeating the lines 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:55.800 and doing all that. 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.200 Stuff, when did you kind. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.600 Of realize like, oh, they were like this was becoming 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.239 more than just them on the show. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.679 But because you traveled with them quite a bit, right. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.080 I want to say it wasn't until they were five 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.760 years old. I think it is when they did their 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.440 first movie of the Week with Jeff. Jeff wrote a 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.320 television movie of the Week for them, followed by I 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.160 think two other movies of the right, and then they 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.920 went on to do a whole video collection of spy, 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.359 you know, little Spy. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:23.680 Right. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.920 They worked, They worked a lot, They worked really hard. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.960 Yeah hard, Yeah, they definitely did. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.400 But yeah, it was like five, They were like five 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:33.880 when they started doing all this, So it was a 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:38.880 little more towards like the fourth or fifth season exactly exactly. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.240 I know, after the first season, first of all. After 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.440 the first month or two, Jeff and I talked about this. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.080 He had them just paid as daily actors. They were 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.400 not under contract, and I remember it was like, I 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.760 don't know, three four, five weeks into the shooting, he said, 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.960 he kid to me, He says, I guess I should 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.360 put them under contract, shouldn't I? 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.120 Yeah, I think, wow, right, I had no idea. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.960 I think originally the plan was to use babies for 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.240 a certain period of time and then just flip out 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.599 to older ones and liked and then season two go 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.039 to a couple of five year olds. Well, they chose 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.200 not to do that on Full House, which I think 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.279 was the key because America absolutely those little girls grow 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:22.120 up right in front. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:26.000 Yeah, they like they watched literally, you know, Michelle go 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.880 from infant to toddler to you little kid, and you know, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.640 they watched all of us sort of grow through the 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.400 just in these incredible you know lengths of time of 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.480 like so much, I mean, such our formative years, you know, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.720 like the things that you really remember about your childhood 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:45.600 and so much of that. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.600 I remember being in a restaurant during the time the 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.719 Full House was on the air, and this is before 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.080 you could tape shows and go home and watch them later, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.800 right right right restaurant with my family, and there was 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.880 a table next to me, a whole family with several children, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:01.880 and all of a sudden, this mother said, oh my god, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.440 look at the time. Full House is going to start 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.400 in thirty minutes. We have to leave now get the show. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.479 And they had out of that restaurant so they could 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.880 go home and watch the Full House. And so I 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.360 love that. I love that they were going home to 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:13.960 watch the show. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.480 That's amazing, so great. So I love hearing those stories. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.080 I had a great following that show Full House for seriously. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.160 And then in the later seasons, you know, we had 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.119 more babies that you were nick We had Blake and Dylan, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.200 and so you know, we kind of started the process 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.360 all over again, although they weren't the same infants where 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.160 that we used different we went infants, and then I 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.520 think we did skip. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.200 There the first Nicky and Alex as infants, and then 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.720 the bill points were the the toddler version of the 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:47.760 right Nicky and all. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:52.040 Right, yeah that's right, I remember. I remember the renter is. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.560 Were you put on Nicky and Alex's duty? Then? Because Mary, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.360 Kate and Ashley were a little bit older and could 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.400 kind of manage their own lines a little bit better. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.840 At that point, they were older, and we hired another 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.160 dialogue coach to work lines with them because at that 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.960 time they were they were I was not coaching them 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.000 with lines. They were now saying their own lines, and 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.440 so he brought a dialogue coach on, Barbara Dowt, Barbara 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:14.800 her last name, and. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.320 She oh, yes, oh, she was my acting teacher for 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.840 a while too. I loved working with. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.600 Barbara, wonderful woman and she worked. Yeah, so that I 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.520 could move on to working with Nikki and Alex. You know, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.920 the will Hoyt boys, right, Having twins on set playing 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.320 brothers at the same time. Boy, that's a that's a 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:33.680 big ask. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.640 That Yeah, that was hard because you couldn't there was 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.200 no swapping them out. It wasn't there weren't they weren't 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.959 triplets or you know, there wasn't four of them. There 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:43.760 was two of them, and both of them were on 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.360 camera at the same time. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.760 And you're working with boys instead of girls, which I 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.640 know sometimes language comes a little bit later for boys 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.800 or the command of language, So I imagine it was 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.240 a lot to differ. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.360 Mean, they're friskier for the most part. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:56.959 Oh for sure. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.240 Yeah, they're sort of scattered. It was. It was a 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.840 big change working with on set twin boys at the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:03.320 same time. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.319 Yeah, did your same tricks work of the fruit, the 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:12.000 dried fruit and the bracelets to make up. Well. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.040 My sister Ronda at the time, who was also a 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.440 studio teacher, we brought her. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.080 Yes, and I think yeah, Ronda was working with Ashley 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:18.960 Mary Kate as their. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.600 Teacher and helping me coach the two boys. And so, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.120 I mean we would talk to them in the dressing 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.640 room and they always wanted stories about band aids and 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.120 monsters and sharks. And one time we're going out on 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.120 the set to do a scene and I said, okay now, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.800 and I think it came across on the microphone. I said, okay, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.640 we're going to tiptoe like sharks. I don't know, I 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.840 just made that up selection because they liked sharks. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:42.480 Right. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.280 My sister said, the audience is going to have no 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.080 idea what you're talking about. I said, they shouldn't even 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:48.560 listen to me. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.040 You know, this is I'm working with babies. You do 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.880 you have any idea? What kind of ridiculous has me? 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.120 I get up as I go along. You know, there 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.480 was no set pattern. You just you shoot from the 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.040 hip when you're working with right, That's what I had 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.400 to do. There was a scene where we wanted to 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.760 have the boys go from the crib and crawl out 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.360 of the crib to walk, you know, because you know 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.480 coddlers eventually do that. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.560 Oh yeah, yeah, I've lived through that myself. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.760 Trying to explain to them, they couldn't get it. I 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.920 grabbed Ashley and I said, Ashley, get into the crib. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.240 She climbed into the crib. I said, and I want 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.400 you to climb over the top and out of the crib, 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.880 which she did. Then I put the little one in there. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:32.040 The boy did exactly what she did, so Ashley was 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:32.840 able to help. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.520 Me, and then their mom was forever pissed that we 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:36.360 taught them how. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:37.040 To crawl out of the crib. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.320 After Full House ended, did you I mean, you know, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.240 like I was saying, you were working on on Hook 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.360 and doing other movies and stuff part of the time, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.719 but not you know, you were full House was kind 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.840 of where you were mostly. But what happened after the 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.240 show did you wind up going with Ashley, Mary Kate 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:06.600 or did what happened? 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:07.680 What happened next? 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.360 No, when the show ended, I had a falling out 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.719 with the gentleman who represented them, Rob Wright, and so 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.679 my connection with them ended abruptly by him. He did 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.920 not want me working with them. So they went on 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.599 to do a lot of these little music videos, and 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.480 there were other studio teachers they used. I went back 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.560 into the film world and did a number of feature films. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.640 After I did Jurassic I started doing some of the 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.839 Jurassic Park movies. I think I did Jurassic Park and 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:35.600 Jurassic three. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:36.959 Oh. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.520 My friend Stephen Ray Morris would die to hear that. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.640 He's such a huge Jurassic Park fan. I forgot you 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:42.040 worked on that. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.120 So I did that. I did Harry and the Henderson's. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.760 I did a really interesting film called Road to Perdition 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.680 with Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. Ashley was in that too. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:53.640 Oh. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.320 It was a career that took me back into the 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.960 feature film world, although I did do one other series. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.239 I did Two and a Half Men for four years, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.280 okay with Angus Jones. Yeah. Yeah. He had a real 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.600 nice setup because we would do we would do I 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.680 think three weeks on one week off, so we do 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.160 three weeks in studio, and then that other week he 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.440 would go back to his own school. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:16.280 Right. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.960 We did everything by fax machines. His school was voy cooperative, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.360 sent me all the work, so he was right on track. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.200 So yeah, I mean I went back into the feature 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.200 from film World. I ended up getting married and my 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.400 husband and I moved to Lake Tahoe for ten years 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.880 we lived there, and then about four years ago, I 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.959 moved back to Los Angeles. We sold the home in Tahoe, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:44.480 and my husband passed away unfortunately last year. So I've 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.200 decided to work more. I actually have an assignment this 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.840 week for a few days. And I don't know that 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.120 I led you to tackle a series again, but I 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.160 do work and enjoy working a few days a week 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.120 still in the business. That's so great. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.000 I love that, you know. It's funny. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.319 I got my undergrad degree in like liberal studies with 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.320 an emphasis in elementary education, and I actually wanted to 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.600 be thought about being. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.760 A studio teacher for a while. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.160 I really, and I think I even may have talked 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.480 to you or Laura about it and was trying to 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.600 kind of get more information about what I needed. You know, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.760 what I would need to do and after I had 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:19.640 graduated and stuff. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.840 But it's it's such a delicate. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.080 Balance because you like, you know, we said, you're you're 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.240 there to protect the welfare of the kids and to 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.360 teach them, but you also, you know, working within the 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.640 craziness of this business, right like you have to be 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.720 there to protect the kids and be like, no, this 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.400 is what's happening. And I just always admired you for that. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.040 You you know, you took nobody's BSh. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.160 It's all about the safety of the children. Safety. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:48.880 And yeah. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.120 So I mean when we were doing the movie Indiana 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.760 Jones and the Temple of Doom and Kihi Kwan was 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.040 my student who just won the Academy Award last year. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:58.800 Wow, Yeah, excited for him. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.840 There was a scene where he who he was about 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.520 ten years old at the time, he had to run 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.600 across this rope bridge over a three hundred foot gorge 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.880 and it was built by engineers. It was a very 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.800 safe rope bridge, but I wasn't comfortable with it. And 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.680 he and Kate were supposed to run away from the 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.560 bad guys across this rope bridge, and I was he 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.760 was such a little thing and I was so afraid 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.240 for him to be on that bridge, and they're ready 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.480 to roll the camera. Stephen is ready to roll, and 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.040 I said, well wait, I said, you know, I'm just 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.240 I am not comfortable with him running across this bridge 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.280 with no safety line. With this it's a three hundred 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.800 foot drop into the gorge. So he said okay. So 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.040 the special effects guy came in and he set up 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.680 all these wires and he wired key to Kate Capshaw. Now, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.200 if he had fallen off the bridge, actually he probably 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.600 would have taken her with him, taken her right, but 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.960 at least he was wired to an adult. So I 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.120 write safer. But Stephen was always great about that. If 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.120 there was anything that I saw that concerned me, he 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.480 would just stop and wait for it to be corrected. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.120 And that's really great to hear because there are not 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.760 everybody you know in this businesses like that. And it's 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.120 he's done so many incredible movies with so many kids. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.040 Do you, I mean, have you stayed in contact with 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.040 anybody else from from any of the movies that you've 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:18.920 worked on. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.480 I saw Drew Barrymore not too long away. That was great. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.160 In fact, I had lunch with Ashley last year and 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.320 she's told me that she ran into Drew Barrymore at 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.520 Fred Siegels years ago, and she said it's funny, actually said, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.040 I was so nervous to talk to Drew Barrymore, but 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.200 I went up to her and said, you know, you 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:41.120 and I had the same studio teacher. I know we did, 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.160 you know, says her, that's so crazy. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.200 I'm actually I'm I'm flying out to New. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.960 York to go do Drew's show, so I will definitely mention. Yeah, 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:51.840 I will definitely mention cool. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.720 Oh. She was also great, great, you know, we had 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.520 such a good time and full on the et. She 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:03.280 was just just yeah. I remember when we finished the 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.360 film and we went on a promotional tour. We flew 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.240 into Oslo, Norway. She had never seen snow in her life, 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.000 and I said, Drew, only you can have your first 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.920 snow experience in Norway. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.680 Right, Yeah, yeah, not the mountains of Big Bear, you 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.240 know anything, but like, you go all the way to 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:20.200 Norway to see snow. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.840 He was a real person. She thought Et was alive. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.600 Et was her friend. But Stephen had the scene where 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.800 E t he's in this like this contraption and he's 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.600 he's done. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.560 Oh, that all God, I'd still to this day. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.600 So when he when he was doing that scene, he 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.120 talked to Drew first and he said, so, this is 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.480 a scene where Et is so so sick, he's going 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.320 to die, and it's really sad. And the tears started 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.200 to roll out of her eyes. And then Stephen went 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.080 like this with his finger to roll camera. He didn't 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.680 say action, he didn't sick, just right right, and they 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:02.280 photographed Drew being so sad and crying over Et. And 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.080 that was one of the magic tricks of that of 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:05.919 that particular thing. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.600 I was a huge Et fan as a kid. I 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.639 used to I had the record of ET, and I 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.640 would sit in bed with my grandmother who was staying 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.879 at her house when I was like three years old, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.479 which was about when the movie came out, and she 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.960 had broken her leg, and I would drag my little 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.480 Fisher Price record player into her bed and I would 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.040 sit there and we would listen to ET or you know, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.600 snow White or something. And I loved ET, but the 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.200 scene where he screamed where he in the closet always 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.159 freaked me out. And I was that part, so I 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.359 would like grab onto her. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.320 When Et screamed. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.320 But I when I learned I had the same teacher 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.479 as you know that did eat the movie ET, I 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:56.960 was like. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:58.480 I was very excited. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.720 So I was, yeah, it was like, you just have 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.920 had such an incredible career, and I. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.720 You have been lucky, been really lucky. It's you know, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.639 I'll never mean, it's just this whole lifetime experience that 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.280 I had in the film industry, which was kind of 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.040 a fluke because I mean, I was a public school 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.800 teacher and I went through a divorce and I was 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.560 still teaching public school and going in at lunchtime into 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.760 the lunch room and sitting with the other studio, the 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.800 other school teacher ladies, talking about who got benched at recess, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.879 and I thought, there's got to be more to me 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.600