Speaker 1: It's nine OG one.
Speaker 2: With Jenny Garth and Tory Spelling. Today we are joined
Speaker 2: by the beautiful actress Jane Daily, who played dylan hypnotist
Speaker 2: doctor Mollie Campbell. Oh my goodness, you're a sight for
Speaker 2: sore eyes.
Speaker 1: Am I. It's been a while.
Speaker 2: Has an end, it has and the thing is on
Speaker 2: our podcast on OMG. We have been watching back the
Speaker 2: show and we are now at the pinnacle stage for
Speaker 2: Dylan when he meets with you his hypnotherapist named Molly Campbell.
Speaker 2: That's right, yeah, did you First of all, I have
Speaker 2: to ask this first because I'm trying to know. Did
Speaker 2: you know you were named after our wardrobe stylist.
Speaker 1: No, I did not know that, as I who I
Speaker 1: was named after already, so happy to.
Speaker 2: Be the one to tell you. Yes, she was our
Speaker 2: wardrobe designer at the time.
Speaker 1: Well she actually dressed me really great.
Speaker 2: So good you go. Oh my goodness, this is funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is fun huh.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are at in season five when Dylan is
Speaker 2: introduced to you by his weird friend Charlie. If you
Speaker 2: remember him, no, no, let's start with this. What do
Speaker 2: you remember about being on Nino Tito? Like you worked
Speaker 2: with Luke pretty much exclusively. Yes, and that seemed like
Speaker 2: a really sort of an intimate, vulnerable on camera relationship.
Speaker 2: It was, and I'm wondering how it was for you
Speaker 2: off camera.
Speaker 1: On the set, Luke was so great to me. He
Speaker 1: was so kind and open and warm, and we wanted
Speaker 1: it to be good together, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: He really wanted that. He wanted because it was a
Speaker 1: weird direction that the show went right then, it was
Speaker 1: a little off beat, and he really wanted it to
Speaker 1: be real. So we had a lovely, lovely connection together.
Speaker 1: He was very, very kind to me. I worked also
Speaker 1: almost exclusively with Jason, who directed all or most of
Speaker 1: the episodes I was in. So my main memory the
Speaker 1: first first day was going into the makeup trailer with
Speaker 1: all you beautiful girls everybody, and I was terrified because
Speaker 1: I thought, oh God, here's Jenny and Tori and Tiffany
Speaker 1: and all these beautiful and you were all so popular
Speaker 1: right then, remember, I mean, it was like just Pinnacle,
Speaker 1: you know of the show that I remember meeting you
Speaker 1: own the makeup trailer. But that day, that first day
Speaker 1: when we went up to the house, the location that's
Speaker 1: up at the house there had been an absolutely horrific
Speaker 1: Malibu fire. Yes, and the whole place was burned down.
Speaker 1: And when we drove up to the location, it was
Speaker 1: like you were on the moon. It was phenomenal looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was fabulous but horrible, and there was
Speaker 1: the one little house sitting in the middle of it,
Speaker 1: phenomen wild.
Speaker 2: I had the feeling. I don't I wasn't there. It
Speaker 2: wasn't shooting that stuff with you guys, but I had
Speaker 2: the feeling when I was watching it. But that's exactly
Speaker 2: what had happened, that that little house was just there
Speaker 2: on its own. Wow.
Speaker 1: And it really fed into what we were doing. I
Speaker 1: think from the minute Luke and I walked into that
Speaker 1: location and sat down and we started talking about, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's real or not, but you've
Speaker 1: been here before and we did all that kind of
Speaker 1: thing that we both really got sensations of that I
Speaker 1: think because of the weirdness of the lad location.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that must have been really weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: So you had before you came to Nino Twoino, you
Speaker 2: had been on Melrose Place, if.
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, Mello's Place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with U was that one with Heather with one up,
Speaker 2: and then I worked with you again, Jenny on Star
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Wait? What year was that?
Speaker 1: After nine o two one? Oh? You and I briefly
Speaker 1: I played your mother in law in the movie The
Speaker 1: Movie of the Week Star Wall. You played what was
Speaker 1: his name?
Speaker 2: It was his name, but I know what was his name.
Speaker 1: I was tried at this this morning. I'll tell her that.
Speaker 2: Gosh, he went on to do a lot of good
Speaker 2: stuff that this. Oh yeah, he was a sweetheart.
Speaker 1: Good for his name anyway. But yeah, I had done
Speaker 1: Melrose Place. I had done a lot of Aaron spelling
Speaker 1: stuff because I've been around in Hollywood since seventy eight,
Speaker 1: so I had done a lot of stuff and auditioned
Speaker 1: for him so many times back when he was still,
Speaker 1: you know, really really doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone such everyone says that they had such a
Speaker 2: positive experience. Oh yeah, knowing Aaron and working repeatedly with him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's always fun to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he kept people that he loved and hired them
Speaker 1: again and again, which was so wonderful. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know this, but during nine o two one zero,
Speaker 1: I was commuting back and forth from our home in
Speaker 1: Naples Florida.
Speaker 2: So wow, how did that work?
Speaker 1: It was tricky. I would fly in, do two episodes
Speaker 1: I guess they were back to back, and fly home,
Speaker 1: then come back and I did two more back to back,
Speaker 1: and then if I do another one back to back.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of interesting. We had taken like
Speaker 1: a little sabbatical. We had a home in Naples as well,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of interesting flying back and forth.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I wasn't used to it.
Speaker 2: People do that all the time, like now, that's what
Speaker 2: actors pretty much do. They don't Nobody lives in La anymore.
Speaker 1: I feel like, oh no, no, they live in you know,
Speaker 1: Sun Valley, Idaho.
Speaker 2: Oh lucky ducks. I need to start I need to
Speaker 2: start packing.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Something that intrigues me so much about you is that
Speaker 2: you just said that you started acting in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: Well I started acting in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2: What is happening right now? Okay? You have been in
Speaker 2: this business.
Speaker 1: I was sixty years. Wow, sixty years, sixty years.
Speaker 2: That's six wow, six generations of years. What I mean
Speaker 2: You've seen all of the changes, You've seen everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, it's dramatic.
Speaker 2: What stands out to you as like the major moments
Speaker 2: of change as far as you your perception in the industry.
Speaker 2: That's so fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the things that the things that haven't changed.
Speaker 1: Jenny still audition. You still go in. Granted we can
Speaker 1: do it like this sometimes, but you still audition. There's
Speaker 1: still people that love you and hire you, and other
Speaker 1: people that they're like, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: You know, it's still that, you know, the rejection is
Speaker 2: still there.
Speaker 1: It's there. But back when I first started, there was
Speaker 1: such a glamor about everything and it was such a
Speaker 1: big deal my first movie and my first TV. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like wow, where now there's so much availed,
Speaker 1: so much content. You know, a lot of it people
Speaker 1: don't see. Lot gets shuffled to the side. I mean
Speaker 1: I just by accident found and Farrell and Sugar the
Speaker 1: other right on, you know, just by accident. So some
Speaker 1: really good TV. That's almost like film has just gotten
Speaker 1: so diluted.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's just so many options. Yeah, and you're right,
Speaker 2: you lose it. And when you're saying, like when you
Speaker 2: did a movie or a show back then, it was
Speaker 2: a big deal and it was the everybody knew about it,
Speaker 2: and everybody was watching it because that's all there was.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean nine o two one oh in
Speaker 1: its heyday and right when I was on it, right
Speaker 1: in the middle of your of your run, before Luke
Speaker 1: left and then came back, of course, But I live
Speaker 1: I lived down in Palace Verties, and there are all
Speaker 1: these neighborhood teenagers who were just totally into nine oh
Speaker 1: two one oh, and in particular at the time, Luke
Speaker 1: Perry was like off the charts. Everybody was so in
Speaker 1: love with him. Right, So I became a very big
Speaker 1: celebrity in my little neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I bet.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun back then. And they
Speaker 1: all had watch parties and so a couple of times,
Speaker 1: because they were girls that I knew or I knew
Speaker 1: their mothers, they'd asked if I would come by, So,
Speaker 1: just like on The Bachelor, I would drop in at
Speaker 1: their watch party when they were watching an episode I
Speaker 1: was on, and they go, wow, Bob, they were so excited.
Speaker 2: So that so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it had a glamor and a bigness to it,
Speaker 1: where now, like I said, it feels quite deluded, but
Speaker 1: it also has so much more. I mean I look
Speaker 1: at things like this and I think, well, who would
Speaker 1: have thought we could do this?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? I mean, all these years later, we can
Speaker 2: still talk about this great show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we can do this where you can have
Speaker 1: this blog going on about your life and about your
Speaker 1: career and tories and what all you're doing, and you
Speaker 1: can connect with me, you know, all these all these
Speaker 1: years later.
Speaker 2: It's great. I mean, that's been so amazing to be
Speaker 2: able to go back and talk to all the incredible
Speaker 2: guest stars that the show had. And you were just
Speaker 2: so beautiful just watching you where we've just recently been
Speaker 2: talking about a your beauty and be the intimacy of
Speaker 2: those scenes and the bizarreness of those scenes. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: how those scenes kind of didn't really feel like we
Speaker 2: were watching nine O two one oh anymore, especially when
Speaker 2: you would put him under your spell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, under the spell? Do you remember, Jenny or have
Speaker 1: you watched yet? It may have been the final episode,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but where I had been dressed for
Speaker 1: a party to go out and he sort of crashed
Speaker 1: to my house and said, I need your help. You
Speaker 1: have to put me back under. He was trying to
Speaker 1: find you, Kellyeah yeah, and I was dressed in the
Speaker 1: black dress and very glamorous and all made up, where
Speaker 1: before i'd been like a little hippie dippy and that
Speaker 1: little that little clip where I'm going It'll all come back, Dylan,
Speaker 1: you know, just keep breathing. That's a deeper, deeper, deeper.
Speaker 1: And the crew guys were just hysterical. Oh. It really
Speaker 1: did have a little bit of a kind of a
Speaker 1: sectional undertone.
Speaker 2: There was some undertone there. We've noticed it for sure.
Speaker 2: There's one time when you're leaning over and your beautiful
Speaker 2: dec ltee is exposed. I'm talking exposed.
Speaker 1: What I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: When I watched it afterwards, I thought, well, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that was.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, And weren't you like, Oh I look damn good, thank.
Speaker 1: You, Jenny. That was of course, how many years ago
Speaker 1: was that nineteen ninety five? Are we talking ninety six
Speaker 1: ninety five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it seems like that, right, It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's almost thirty years ago, it is. Yeah, I'm seventy.
Speaker 2: Five and you still look damn good.
Speaker 1: You still look like the girl next door. Jenny.
Speaker 2: Now I have to wear glasses to see you. It's
Speaker 2: a little different.
Speaker 1: See I there, I have them. If I really want
Speaker 1: everything in focus.
Speaker 2: It's better to just take them off sometimes and see
Speaker 2: things blurry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, all so you can see me, I don't
Speaker 1: have to see you as well.
Speaker 2: It's better that way, trust me. It's just so fun
Speaker 2: to catch up with you, and I love hearing about
Speaker 2: your connection with Luke. And did you ever see Luke
Speaker 2: again or work with Luke again?
Speaker 1: Don't make me cry? So Luke was so so loving
Speaker 1: to me. So he and I emailed for a while
Speaker 1: after I left the show, which was really lovely of him,
Speaker 1: because we were very connected that day. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I can't remember from this picture, can you see it? Daddy?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: That was the black dress and the.
Speaker 2: Scenes that's the dress, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And the flowers. I'm certain that lou canded them to
Speaker 1: me as I was, you know, we were wrapping me
Speaker 1: off of the off of the show. So we emailed
Speaker 1: a couple of times back and forth and stayed a
Speaker 1: little bit in touch for a while, you know, and
Speaker 1: then that all fades away, as it always does after
Speaker 1: guest starring on something. But I followed him and watched
Speaker 1: whatever else he did because I really really cared for him,
Speaker 1: and I was like everybody just devastated, just totally devastated,
Speaker 1: you know, when he died so young, and it just
Speaker 1: broke my heart. But what people, I don't think everybody
Speaker 1: realizes or realized what a terrific actor he was and
Speaker 1: how much he really gave of himself when we worked.
Speaker 1: And I still remember a film he did called eight Seconds.
Speaker 2: So I love that movie.
Speaker 1: I always wondered why he didn't do more, bigger, because
Speaker 1: he was he really had it all. He really to me,
Speaker 1: And it's probably because we had that really close association
Speaker 1: and he had to trust me, you know that he
Speaker 1: wouldn't look foolish or stupid, or I wouldn't look foolish
Speaker 1: or stupid when we tried to do something that was
Speaker 1: so out of the norm for the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he loved what he did.
Speaker 1: He did, he loved it, And I remember he left
Speaker 1: for a while, tried to do some other things and
Speaker 1: came back because he missed it. Who you all do
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, leave it for a while, you come
Speaker 1: back because you miss it. Yeah, he was a great guy.
Speaker 1: He was a great guy. You know what. Skipping from
Speaker 1: Luke for a minute, Jason Priestley such a doll and
Speaker 1: he directed me, and I think I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it was all of them, you might know better, but
Speaker 1: at least two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it was all of them.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was such a sweetheart too, And everybody
Speaker 1: was so very, very kind of You had an awesome crew,
Speaker 1: You had crew. They were so lovely to me, So
Speaker 1: I felt a part of it. I felt a part
Speaker 1: of something very big for a while.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love hearing that because you were
Speaker 2: a part of it. You know, everybody who stepped foot
Speaker 2: onto any of our stages, our sets was had that
Speaker 2: same feeling of yes, ownership and involvement, and yeah, that connection.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: That's why the show is still as iconic as it
Speaker 1: is to this day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was made with like such love and such.
Speaker 1: A Plusure's incredible cast. You had one of those serendipitous
Speaker 1: casts that just meshed and was wonderful together. Even with
Speaker 1: whatever wasn't wonderful parts, the whole was always great on
Speaker 1: that show. There are very few shows like that. Friends
Speaker 1: was one of them. Nine O two and zero was
Speaker 1: one of them. Sein felt You know, there were a
Speaker 1: few shows where the cast just like.
Speaker 2: Yeah and It's crazy because you just reminded me that
Speaker 2: that is such an important factor in why people still
Speaker 2: feel so connected to the show. And even like you know,
Speaker 2: we go together as a cast sometimes in do appearances.
Speaker 2: Once in a while, it will be every the whole
Speaker 2: cast will get together and whatever differences or you know,
Speaker 2: lifestyles or whatever, we all put it aside and then
Speaker 2: we just come together as what we always were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were such a wonderful group of kids.
Speaker 2: I want to know what you're doing now, why you
Speaker 2: are sitting in this beautiful location and looking so gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Just my library. We're in my library. I'm a very
Speaker 1: big reader. I read a lot, and I'm writing. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to write a novel. In the midst of that,
Speaker 1: I'm also writing a memoir because I have been in
Speaker 1: the business for sixty years and there have been some
Speaker 1: bizarre twists and turns in my career and some wonderful
Speaker 1: stuff too. When I retired last year, I actually officially said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm done because I was tired driving in
Speaker 1: and out of Hollywood. Jenny, you know, I'm seventy five.
Speaker 1: That drive from Palaes Bertie's into Hollywood and out the
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers and all. It just got so tough. So
Speaker 1: my last thing that I was doing was I had
Speaker 1: a recurring character on The Rookie And finally that the
Speaker 1: last season when they were using me, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to send a driver. I get I can
Speaker 1: do it. And they finally said, oh, sure, of.
Speaker 2: Course, as they should because they do so well.
Speaker 1: Because it just got it just got rough. You know,
Speaker 1: the truck's flying by, and the LA freeways and all that.
Speaker 2: It's hard to drive. It's hard ways.
Speaker 1: It's hard at seventy five. It's it's probably hard at
Speaker 1: sixty fifty. I don't know. But so I got really
Speaker 1: fed up kind of with that, and then and then
Speaker 1: COVID hit. And during COVID, I was still doing quite
Speaker 1: a few commercials. I did a lot of national commercials
Speaker 1: for a while. The hair, it was the hair.
Speaker 2: Jenny, Yeah, it's really.
Speaker 1: They hired me for the for the hair.
Speaker 2: You had good hair in the nineties, but now it's
Speaker 2: like prime real estate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the white hair is a prime real estate white hair,
Speaker 1: really real because it was such not but it was
Speaker 1: pretty white hair, you know. Yeah, that's my mother, God
Speaker 1: bless her. She had great hair. So The last thing
Speaker 1: I did was finish my last episode of The Rookie,
Speaker 1: which was over a year ago. And now what I
Speaker 1: have is a whole lot of little indie movies of me,
Speaker 1: my five grandchildren on my FaceTime.
Speaker 2: Oh that's the best movies you can have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have five beautiful grandchildren. I have one that's
Speaker 1: a real following grandma's footsteps. She's a real singer, dancer,
Speaker 1: actor out there. You know.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm playing golf, I'm taking care of grandkids to Italy Sunday.
Speaker 2: What this life you're living? I will I'm seriously it's good.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, you know what I say to myself, Jenny,
Speaker 1: I deserve it. I did that Hollywood thing for sixty years,
Speaker 1: first New York then Hollywood, and.
Speaker 2: You survive like that's a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 1: I survived it because back in nineteen eighty four, my
Speaker 1: husband and I dunk and gamble. We moved down here
Speaker 1: to the South Bay because I couldn't stand what was
Speaker 1: going on Santa Monica and kids at school with my
Speaker 1: little boy, and whether I saw your mommy, your Mommy's
Speaker 1: on TV, and it just I just didn't want that
Speaker 1: whole showbiz thing to totally run our lives, so we
Speaker 1: got further away from it. And that's why I was
Speaker 1: able to stay in it so long. I truly believe
Speaker 1: that because I wasn't enmeshed in the middle. One of
Speaker 1: the last big things I did was go to a
Speaker 1: big party up at Spelling's house. I remember it was
Speaker 1: when it was it decades ago, I can't remember. And
Speaker 1: that was one of the last big Hollywood things I
Speaker 1: went to because it was hard. I did Mission Impossible
Speaker 1: three with Tom Cruise and I went to that big
Speaker 1: party afterwards. But I didn't do a lot of the
Speaker 1: Hollywood party scene. I was a grown up mommy two children.
Speaker 2: You know, you had your priorities in order.
Speaker 1: I had my priorities right from a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: since I got to Hollywood. I didn't want because I
Speaker 1: had already been divorced once from when I lived in
Speaker 1: New York, and I just didn't want to go down
Speaker 1: that road too much. But I'm still here.
Speaker 2: Well, you have inspired me by the way you've handled
Speaker 2: your career. Oh, thank you, and just your longevity. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you still talk about it so positively. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: And I really look forward to reading your book, So
Speaker 2: I want you to finish that.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. I will. I will absolutely make sure
Speaker 1: you guys get a copy. If I get there, you'll
Speaker 1: get there. Don't say that, yeah, I'll get there.
Speaker 2: That's just there.
Speaker 1: It's just writing's hard. You know that, right. You tried,
Speaker 1: haven't you.
Speaker 2: It's very difficult. Yes, you have to really focus.
Speaker 1: Stay focused.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's tough when you got those cute little
Speaker 2: grand kids running around.
Speaker 1: Oh, and they're so adorable, and they go from age
Speaker 1: fourteen down to four so they're just precious. You have
Speaker 1: a beautiful daughter. I saw something popped up on Instagram.
Speaker 1: And I don't do any social media, Jenny. That's another thing.
Speaker 2: I still really.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm so smart, none of it. But my my
Speaker 1: daughter in law has an Instagram account, and so I
Speaker 1: go on to look at pictures of my kids and
Speaker 1: the other day, you know how it opens up there
Speaker 1: were you, There was you with your daughter.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was just it was meant to be
Speaker 2: because then we were going to be visiting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were going to visit. So also, you make
Speaker 1: sure you give my best to Jason.
Speaker 2: Do you will do? I'm seeing him next week, so
Speaker 2: I will tell him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell him, I said, said.
Speaker 2: That we all send all of our love to you,
Speaker 2: and so so much gratitude for being a part of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You know that it was Luke
Speaker 1: that dubbed me Molly the Malibu Mystic.
Speaker 2: Well you should have run with that.
Speaker 1: My husband still calls me that to this Oh here
Speaker 1: comes Molly the Malibu Mystic. She's gonna tell me about
Speaker 1: my future.
Speaker 2: I love that. Well, Mollie the malibuu Mystic. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for being on our podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. It was really a pleasure
Speaker 1: and I loved my time on the show.
Speaker 2: Could you now go right, go right? Yes?
Speaker 1: Love you, love you, Bye bye Jay Bye