Speaker 1: It's nine with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. This is
Speaker 1: very exciting. Today we are getting the chance to talk
Speaker 1: to Brooke. While she played Brooke, she was, you know,
Speaker 1: the varsity volleyball head coach, super volleyball player. We are
Speaker 1: so excited to welcome Alex Wilson to our podcast. Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm good? How are you? We've only
Speaker 1: been like thirty years just a blink of an eye, right.
Speaker 1: It's so fun catching up with people from the show,
Speaker 1: and we're really glad to have you. It's just me
Speaker 1: today and Amy, but we're so excited to talk to you. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Wait, first, where are you? Where
Speaker 1: are you in Pasadena too? Oh? Yeah? Where? Well? I
Speaker 1: can my address? Yeah? What straight? Don't you love Pasadena? Though? Love?
Speaker 1: I was born you were born here? That's right? Were
Speaker 1: you have a rose Queen? No? I didn't go up here, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I was born here and I moved to Virginia
Speaker 1: when I was five. We're in Virginia Fairfax. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: my husband's from Virginia. This weird. Virginia beach. Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1: So you play Brooke obviously you know that. But our listeners. Um,
Speaker 1: she played Brooke and you were in three episodes of that,
Speaker 1: some the summer episodes. Yes, it seems like much more.
Speaker 1: That's weird. It seemed like you were really prominent. I
Speaker 1: was going to say, like eight episodes. Wow, well that
Speaker 1: would have been nice. I don't know. They can't keep
Speaker 1: the racist around for eight episodes, like you think she
Speaker 1: broke the ice? Okay, good, okay, First walk us through.
Speaker 1: How did you get the role of Brooke. Um? Well,
Speaker 1: I auditioned obviously for Aaron and Um. I remember walking
Speaker 1: into the room with the producers because I remember when
Speaker 1: I got the script, I was like, this is my part.
Speaker 1: I want this part, and I said, I really think
Speaker 1: that everybody has a little racism in them because of
Speaker 1: their conditioning and their culture, and I want to play
Speaker 1: this part. So when I walked into the room, I
Speaker 1: when I'm here, I've already had Luke because I worked
Speaker 1: with him on Loving and now I want Jason. And
Speaker 1: then I told him that I said, I feel everyone
Speaker 1: has a little bit this in them, and I think
Speaker 1: it's really really an important storyline to tell. I like
Speaker 1: it that. She was like, I want I want Jason
Speaker 1: now very yeah, assortive of you. I love that. I know,
Speaker 1: wasn't it already had Luke? So I didn't really have Luke.
Speaker 1: What I really did say. It's so fascinating to me
Speaker 1: because I wondered if because in the first episode she's
Speaker 1: much more likable and we don't see any of that yet,
Speaker 1: so that a little bit. Yeah, it's so interesting to me.
Speaker 1: You did know the trajectory of the character right from
Speaker 1: the oh yeah, oh yeah, because was an art because
Speaker 1: I was going to get dumped at the end. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so because yeah, as the audience, we we we we
Speaker 1: wanted you to leave the audience. We're like, she can't
Speaker 1: stay the people. Wait, okay, so people. Do people still
Speaker 1: associate you with racist Brooke? Well, not me, because I
Speaker 1: haven't been working for a very long time. I've been
Speaker 1: raising my family and um. But when I went on
Speaker 1: Pete Show, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he said that, a
Speaker 1: lot of the fans were like, why are you having
Speaker 1: her on? You're like, I'm not really a racist, I
Speaker 1: just played one on TV. Yeah, exactly. It was interesting.
Speaker 1: It was so ahead of its time, the show in general,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a little in our face.
Speaker 1: I would say, your storyline but really really ahead of
Speaker 1: its time and an important conversation. But what a tough
Speaker 1: character to play, because, like the I was so massive.
Speaker 1: I can imagine that you must have really had trouble
Speaker 1: when people watched it, when they saw you on the street. Well,
Speaker 1: that's so funny that everyone says that to me. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a chameleon basically, so I didn't get recognized very often.
Speaker 1: And I also, right after I did that ark on No.
Speaker 1: Two and oh, Aaron's spelling my one of my favorite
Speaker 1: people in the world hired me for another job. So
Speaker 1: I moved directly to Canada. Like the week after I finished,
Speaker 1: I wrapped Now two and now, Oh that's awesome. What
Speaker 1: was that job? It was called round Table. It was
Speaker 1: a short lived series, um Roxanne Big Stacy, Hi Duke.
Speaker 1: It was really really fun. I played a sociopath and
Speaker 1: it was one of the best auditions I ever had.
Speaker 1: And it was always for Aaron He I don't know.
Speaker 1: He always brought the best out of me. Ah, that's
Speaker 1: nice to hear. Yeah, we we hear that a lot.
Speaker 1: He was such a great producer. Yeah, and very funny
Speaker 1: and generous of his time. Talk into a room and
Speaker 1: have everyone be warm and kind to you. Is you're
Speaker 1: just gonna You're gonna shine. Yeah, so this is a
Speaker 1: really important question. Did you know how to play volleyball?
Speaker 1: Or were you faking that I knew nothing about something volleyball?
Speaker 1: I was right. I was like, I would bet my
Speaker 1: last dollar. She's never played volleyball before, never in my life,
Speaker 1: and right here bruised and so painful. And like I
Speaker 1: said on Pizzo, my hats are my hats off to
Speaker 1: all volleyball players because it's really rough. What about your role?
Speaker 1: What about your roller blading skill? Actually, Jason's a really
Speaker 1: good skater, so he helped me. He did help you.
Speaker 1: I love that montage with you guys skating down the
Speaker 1: path and he's like holding your waist and helping you skate.
Speaker 1: So cute. But we did have an issue with outfit
Speaker 1: that what happened? How did that outfit make it to
Speaker 1: the screen. Well, I don't want to insult anybody, but
Speaker 1: I didn't have to say. Did you think when you
Speaker 1: walked into your trailer and saw that hanging there? I
Speaker 1: might have been a little horrified, But again, you're a
Speaker 1: guest star, you don't really really we have to say,
Speaker 1: Tori isn't here, but that was her favorite outfit. She's
Speaker 1: not loved it, and Amy and I were like, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe for us Ammy it was just like the
Speaker 1: usage of too many pads, like black white, black white black,
Speaker 1: about the pads. Jason's not wearing any nothing at all?
Speaker 1: Why do you look like a fragile middle thing. They
Speaker 1: didn't want to hurt I will say, even though my
Speaker 1: I had a strong dislike for Brook, I was so
Speaker 1: done with her. But you rock a short haircut like
Speaker 1: nobody that was you. Yeah, it's so sweet of you
Speaker 1: to say I did love that haircut and was that
Speaker 1: just a style that you had? And it was because
Speaker 1: it was a bold haircut even even back then. I um,
Speaker 1: I was fired from a job, from a job called
Speaker 1: home Front, and it broke my heart into a trillion pieces,
Speaker 1: and I went and I just cut all my hair off.
Speaker 1: When that happened, oh my Goshend. And then cutting your
Speaker 1: hair you had like a brittany moment. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: didn't go, oh my gosh, you you were. It was
Speaker 1: like a little love triangle between Steve and Brooke and Jason.
Speaker 1: So I'm just really curious, who did you think Brookes
Speaker 1: should have been paired up with Well, I think Jason, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why why why do you say? I just think there
Speaker 1: was a lot of appeal, And I didn't really do
Speaker 1: many scenes with I think he would just liked me,
Speaker 1: But I didn't do a lot of scenes with him.
Speaker 1: With all with Steve, Yeah, Steve was just kind of
Speaker 1: chasing you around. Yeah, with you and no shirt on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and those and those shorts that would make anyone a
Speaker 1: little nervous. But you had those. You did even even
Speaker 1: though the relationship had so much friction, you had some
Speaker 1: excellent kissing scenes. Yes, we want to know pretty much
Speaker 1: all I did? How was How was the kissing? Well,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun, says Jason Priestley. He's
Speaker 1: a good kisser, very good kisser across the board, that's
Speaker 1: what we heard. Yeah, I call that aggressive. I called
Speaker 1: the aggressive kisser, but Iron corrected me and saying it's passionate.
Speaker 1: But it is. He's very face grabby and very like
Speaker 1: head on the bat. Yeah, he's I have to watch
Speaker 1: this again. Really good. It was the Mustang. You also
Speaker 1: got some spicy scenes in the Mustang. I did that
Speaker 1: was fun. Wait, one question, why were you laying flat
Speaker 1: in the Mustang. There was a scene where you and
Speaker 1: Brandon roll up to the beach club and you're literally reclined, like,
Speaker 1: I have no he's up here in your way back here.
Speaker 1: That's so weird. I'm gonna watch it because I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I think I think maybe the seat
Speaker 1: was broken or something. I don't know. That is so funny,
Speaker 1: it's so true, hilarious. I love hearing about it because
Speaker 1: it is. It was. Brooke was interesting because she's a
Speaker 1: real standout. You know, even this many years later, I
Speaker 1: remembered her from the first couple of times I watched it,
Speaker 1: remember it now, And she starts out strong and then
Speaker 1: you're like, God, this girl sucks. So did you go
Speaker 1: into it like I just want to know a little
Speaker 1: bit about like because you had to make her likable,
Speaker 1: because otherwise, why is this stead Why is Brandon gonna
Speaker 1: like her? An Steve? But then you had to like
Speaker 1: play it authentically of being really really difficult, And like
Speaker 1: I said, I was going and I went into the
Speaker 1: producers and said, I want this job. I got this job.
Speaker 1: I want to play this part. It was so painful,
Speaker 1: in fact, the lines that I had to say, were
Speaker 1: just so when I would go home at night, I'd
Speaker 1: be really depressed, like this is awful, and I get
Speaker 1: back on a little bit. If I could have been
Speaker 1: played a little lighter, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it served a purpose. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: the show was so um fortunate to do those kind
Speaker 1: of serious subject matters, and I think that this one
Speaker 1: needed to be done. Of course, Yeah, I agree. Did
Speaker 1: you know that you're ranked tenth overall of Brandon's greatest lovers?
Speaker 1: I didn't, but just tenth, not number one. No, you're
Speaker 1: gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a trophy. We'll
Speaker 1: talk it. Are talking to number one, Alex number one?
Speaker 1: I know, of course, of course, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll share it with you. Okay, thank you. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know there was like this ranking system until today.
Speaker 1: This is new to me. Yeah, Jenny was number one,
Speaker 1: Emily Valentine number four, Niki fell in there somewhere, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you made the list because there had to
Speaker 1: have been more than ten. There had have been like
Speaker 1: twenty people up for that. She was a standout brooke.
Speaker 1: You remember her like as you're looking back on the series.
Speaker 1: You go, oh yeah, I remember that, but yeah, not
Speaker 1: pretty in me. Going back when I did pize show,
Speaker 1: I did watch it a little bit. I don't remember
Speaker 1: the reclining seat, but now you'll see it. I was.
Speaker 1: I was shocked at how hard she actually is and
Speaker 1: that would not go over today, Like I believe that
Speaker 1: if she was around my daughter, she'd be canceled in
Speaker 1: a second. Yeah, fascinating conversation. The difference between probably watching
Speaker 1: her then and watching her now, we're even more just disgusted. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: it's just watching it back is cringe e Yeah, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And if that's why me though for a while, really
Speaker 1: really no, I mean he stuck with me Jason scared?
Speaker 1: Oh he did, he did because you were so cute.
Speaker 1: What are you up to these days? Just raising my daughter?
Speaker 1: She's actually a senior at cs Arts High School. You
Speaker 1: have a senior? So fun, that's a great year. Just one,
Speaker 1: just one? Okay? How many do you have? Three? Three?
Speaker 1: And I wor to their ages? Oh gosh, four nineteen
Speaker 1: and almost sixteen. Wow, and you look like you're thirty
Speaker 1: special filter on this camera. Oh you look amazing too.
Speaker 1: But I really was expecting the short hair. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I'm sorry. I guess I gotta cut my hair.
Speaker 1: Can you pull it up or something for her? Just
Speaker 1: like you know, Oh, there's there. She is that I
Speaker 1: like to hide to. Other than Brooke being a terrible person,
Speaker 1: she did have the iconic hair. I think later in
Speaker 1: the series, Kelly cut cut a short pixie haircut just
Speaker 1: like that one. Maybe you inspired that, maybe maybe I
Speaker 1: think you did. You know who inspired my haircut actually
Speaker 1: was when Julia Roberts cut all of her hair off
Speaker 1: and she was on the cover of Vogue or I
Speaker 1: don't know what was it when she was like Wendy,
Speaker 1: remember she played so it was a long time ago. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts inspired inspires a lot of people. She's something
Speaker 1: that's a good one to look up to. Yeah right, Well,
Speaker 1: raising your daughters is the best job you could ever
Speaker 1: do out It really is. And I'll tell you. Reality
Speaker 1: TV came in and I was watching an episode of
Speaker 1: Oprah and she talked about eggs getting old and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm not getting hired in Hollywood, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a baby. And that's what I did.
Speaker 1: And it's sort of transition, and I closed that chapter
Speaker 1: of my career and then my chapter of raising my daughter.
Speaker 1: It's been the best thing I've ever done in my life,
Speaker 1: my best creation. Of course, that's what I think too.
Speaker 1: What do you ever think about going back? You know,
Speaker 1: I do consider it sometimes, and I do miss it.
Speaker 1: I missed the work, but I don't know that I
Speaker 1: missed the business aspect of it. But the grind, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I would want to do that. I've
Speaker 1: just been so peaceful for so many years Pasadena. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very peaceful in Pasadena people. It is. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I can tell you have a very serene energy about you,
Speaker 1: and it only it must be attributed to not being
Speaker 1: an actress anymore. Actually, no, no, no, no being erotic,
Speaker 1: no worry about aging. Except today I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, thirty years older. I know that's it happens.
Speaker 1: It's uh, you can't stop what's coming. No, that's very true,
Speaker 1: very true. You got to enjoy every moment because I
Speaker 1: don't know how you're old. You are. But I'm coming
Speaker 1: up on a milestone birthday and it can be very intimidating. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I'm coming up on a big milestone myself, which
Speaker 1: this one, I'm not mentioning it, Okay, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to say it out loud. Yeah it's yours. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about. I'm a few years um,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, Well, age is just a number number.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, this is so true. We're forever young.
Speaker 1: Do you miss you know, like being in front of
Speaker 1: the camera and acting like do you feel like I
Speaker 1: know because I've done the same thing that you're talking
Speaker 1: about when my daughters were young. I left the business
Speaker 1: for two years and just moved out of town and
Speaker 1: I told everybody I was retired. Moved I moved up
Speaker 1: by Santa Barbara. Oh nice, and I told my manager,
Speaker 1: I'm retiring. I don't ever want to hear from you again.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know if something changed, and I
Speaker 1: I got lured back to l A, probably because I
Speaker 1: needed to make money. Sure, But I can relate to
Speaker 1: giving up your career. Maybe your dreams you that you
Speaker 1: used to have, or maybe they've just pivoted a little
Speaker 1: and now your dreams are to be the best mom
Speaker 1: that you can be. Yeah, it is the best job ever.
Speaker 1: Really is the hardest, hardest, Yes, most painful, but it's good.
Speaker 1: And my daughter wants to be an actress. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: graduating from an art school and we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: But she's so much better than me. Doesn't that get you?
Speaker 1: My kids are all harder than me, prettier than me,
Speaker 1: better than Everywhey. I'm it's good. I'm proud of that.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, I'm doing good. Then I think so too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so awesome. Well, I just want to say thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. I know the fans
Speaker 1: are gonna go crazy when they see you, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be like, they're gonna love you, they're gonna hate you,
Speaker 1: you never know. Well, any attention is good attention, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Thank you for taking the time to talk
Speaker 1: with us. Well, it was so nice to talk with
Speaker 1: you after so long. I remember you were very serious,
Speaker 1: very serious about your work on that show, and I
Speaker 1: remember that I thought you were really, really, I mean
Speaker 1: still do a really really good actress. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your work over the years. Thank you. That means a
Speaker 1: lot to me. All Right, you have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: I guess I know you too. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: Good to see you. Take care, bye,