WEBVTT - Some Time With... Christine Lakin! (Part 1) 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.000 And welcome back to How Rude, Tana Ritos. Today's guest 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.840 is a very familiar face. Not only did we all 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.080 grow up as child actors on ABC's iconic TGIF lineup, 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.920 but we just went glamping together a few weeks ago 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.120 as part of a special episode of How Rude. She 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.320 is an actress, a director, and a highly accomplished choreographer, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.559 but you may best know her as Al Lambert on 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:48.080 the beloved sitcom Step by Step. Please welcome to the pod, Christine. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:53.760 Laken Woo woo he she is hiday By, Hi Brad 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:58.360 Hi naked Lakey. Welcome back. Sorry, but that's it. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.160 I've ruined your good name with my nickname for you. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:03.680 Did I ever have a good name? 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.279 No, you didn't, So I don't. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.600 Feel too bad, okay, And just so you know. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.160 We jump right into the interview, so uh so welcome. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.480 There's no yeah, you know, there's no preparation or like 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.600 lead up or like hey, let's let's get in them now, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:17.160 it's just we go. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.960 Why why why start now? Why start now? 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.360 Christine needs so good to see you. Last we saw 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.320 you was uh was on our little blamping trip. 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:32.280 It was yes, out in the wilderness, the hard just 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.120 the wilderness, desertness right. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.240 With with flowers, right, yeah it was and and uh 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.080 and and branded cornhole. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.400 Cornhole, branded corn hole. That was fun. You were really 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.840 good at that, Christine. You were rocking your corn hole. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:50.360 Yeah, every you know. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.120 That sounds inappropriate. Yeah, yeah, just. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:59.480 Rocking, rocking the holes. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm not good 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.040 at things like that, but every now and then I 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.840 have like one good shot and then I just have 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.280 to stop. And then that's the way. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.640 And I know, I think it's really you sunk one in. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.320 Quite well, you sink one and then and. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.560 Then you're like that's it. That's I'm done now bye. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.360 Right all I needed to do, really, I don't like. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:15.160 People wanting more. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.280 That's right, That's what I tried to do. That was fun. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:19.760 I really had a great time with you guys. And 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.160 we laughed a lot. Oh my god, we always laugh 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:22.440 a lot. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.160 We have a ridiculous amounty fun together. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.040 Yes, it's always good. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.679 Well, we are so happy to have you on the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.600 podcast again. And uh, it's you know, we've talked about 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.760 how much fun it is to renit, renite renight. I'm 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.000 going tonight now, so you reunite. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.359 There. 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.120 We go there we go. Are are you okay? 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.440 I well know, I'm trying to deal with my my 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.600 lighting schematics. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.960 Yeah, the glare and helped. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.720 Back light and there's front light. And I'm not a DP, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.040 but I'm trying to be my own. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.040 From this is usually just for social media. It's we 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.920 don't post the video anywhere, much to people's dismay, but 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.480 it's because our guests can't figure out how to operate lines. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.639 So I mean that way, I. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.880 Can barely figure it out. So all right, now we're now. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 We're just talking about what a great director you are, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:13.880 and I feel like I have to take it all back. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.200 You should now you know what your great director is 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.400 terrible DP. That's that's a different then CO two to 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.919 completely different jobs. Yes to you know, that's why you 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.720 hire good people. That's why you hire people that know 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:27.840 how to work a light. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:29.200 It's true. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.480 But you know what's funny on set like and you 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.799 might remember this, but it was, and I don't know 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.440 if you've been on other sets since, Like obviously when 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.760 you're working on a TV show and like everybody has 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.160 their jobs, but it feels quite collaborative and it's like 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.800 resetting your prop every now and then, or you're responsible 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.680 for certain things or whatever. But there are some sets 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.120 you get on, and especially when you're the new person. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.480 For instance, as a director, I've been like, because I'm 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.600 just so used to working with props as an actor, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.080 sometimes I'd be like, oh, let me just I'm just 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.920 gonna fux with this, and someone will come up and 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.560 be like, excuse me, may I help you with that? 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.840 Because everything is radiated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, thing is a 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.160 union and you're not supposed to touch that ladder. Well, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.160 you know, we're not supposed to move that couch, but 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.080 I keep doing it. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.800 I am the worst at that, again, because we're actors 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.360 and we're like and and it's because we're actors and 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.760 we do it, and nobody goes, that's my job. They're 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.520 just like the actors are touching things again, you know 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.160 what I mean? Right, And then you always see him 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.640 go over and like fix it or do it, you know, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.560 like just because they're like, that's my job and I do. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.560 And obviously, like you said, you work with people for 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.120 a while and you just kind of get a rapport. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.839 But yeah, it is hard. Sometimes you come in and 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.279 you're like, oh, I'm just I'm just so used to 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.320 doing this thing and I'm gonna and they're like, don't 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.240 touch that, don't touch that, right. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.279 And you're like, I'm sorry, you're doing it wrong. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.520 Yeah, right right, And I'm like, I'm sorry. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.520 Well as as women too, We're like, oh, let's fix up, 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.400 let's clean up, let's do this job, let's make it 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.640 all work, multitask, and they're like, no, right, we have 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:56.520 a department for that. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:57.799 Don't cross union lines. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.560 Oh yeah, yes, yeah, as much my house ran like that, right, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.520 So I can't cross department lines and that's your job 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:06.599 to unload the dishwasher. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.839 I think you should start implementing that. I should. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.800 I mean, you know, I'm gonna have a union rep 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.400 in my house and we're going to we're gonna break 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.159 into some some guilds. We're gonna have an iazzi and 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.440 membership here, and we're gonna you know what, things are 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:23.680 gonna happen change. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.040 I mean, listen, I don't want our industry to go 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.680 on strike again, but I'm not opposed to implementing one 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.599 inside my house. Oh God, on the ground, why are 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.400 there somebody socks on the ground? Can I ask you 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.600 a question? Do people just come in and their tiny 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.440 little feet are just so sweaty that they just have 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:39.160 to shed. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.880 Socks under the table house and then you'll never find 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:44.479 the mate again. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.000 No, this is like the bane of my existence in life, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.840 is not finding the mate to tiny socks. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.640 Well, speaking of other dramas, no, So, Christine, I know 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.839 we've talked a lot. I mean, you and I have 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.880 talked a lot about all sorts of things. But I 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.760 would love for people to kind of hear how you 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.600 got into the business as a child actor. They haven't 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.920 heard your story before, and you know, kind of how 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:15.839 you became Al Lambert and now the amazing industry. You know, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.719 wonder kid that you are. I don't know, I'm having 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.440 a bad day. I had night sweats all last night. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.560 I'm not Yeah, it's bullshit, I'm sorry. Yeah, it's we 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.719 called this podcast HRT for a reason, and yeah. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.440 Yeah, I'm with you. I'm right there with you. Yes. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:37.480 So I moved to Atlanta when I was six, and 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.280 I was never very good at sports because I'm I 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.080 was always a tiny little person, so so. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:47.480 You are pocket sized. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.080 I'm a pocket sized person. So team sports were always 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.840 just like a little bit hard for me. But dance 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.040 be kind of became my thing, and my mom really 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.520 wanted to involve me in a new you know, new community, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.919 new school like community, such as a dance class. So 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.800 I went to a dance studio, was starting to take 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.359 some dance classes. They had acting on Fridays. I really 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.160 was into what is drama? I want to be in it. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.400 I was the kid who from a very early age 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.360 was putting on place for my parents. I was an 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.080 only child. I was very creative, always having to entertain 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.360 myself and literally anyone else who would watch me, so 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.080 that watching Carol Burnett was a I just loved the 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.560 movie Annie, I loved her. I love the Carol Burnett Show. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.280 So I really wanted to do things like that, and 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.920 drama class seemed like a natural sort of fit, so 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.440 we went. The teacher was also a manager, as many 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.440 times you would find in the business that happens, and 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.320 she managed a few kids and said, hey, have you 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.160 ever thought about putting your kid commercials? And my mom 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.640 was not. This was Atlanta. This was like a regional, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.080 you know, kind of small town at the time, because 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.200 we're talking like eighties, not the where. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.120 Did you move from? You said, you moved to Atlanta. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:04.880 Where would where were you? 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.760 Originally? I was born in Dallas, only live there until 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.160 I was six months old. We moved to Maryland, lived 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.560 there for a few years, moved to Florida, lived there 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.640 for a few years, moved to Atlanta. So yeah, my 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.560 dad was My parents would say that they were corporate gypsies. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.280 So my dad basically would start up some companies and 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.600 then get poached by another company to work for them 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.200 for a while. On the poached by another company. He 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.760 was sort of in the beginnings of what we now 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.160 know and what we are using now, which is Zoom. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:40.000 But he did not create Zoom, but he created teleconference software, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.760 got it for like back in the eighties for large 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.600 corporations to do it exactly what we're doing right now. Anyway, 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.040 So thanks Christine's dad, we wouldn't be here. Yeah, you 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.800 probably wouldn't have several modems but made and then bought 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:59.719 by Motorola without my father. Yeah, So anyway, we went 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.640 on a My mom said, Okay, yeah, sure, I mean 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.280 she seems to like it. I guess we could give 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.439 it a shot. But there was no like, no one 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.240 really thought this was going to be a thing. Went 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.240 on a few auditions, booked a few regionals, booked a 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.600 few national commercials. My mom was like, maybe we need 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.440 an agent. I don't know, this seems to be going well. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.040 She seems to like it. So I started slowly doing 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.640 some just like very kind of small town things, print 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.000 jobs and few nationals and TV movies, blah blah blah. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.760 Was doing theater with my theater company in South Georgia, 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:34.040 and strangely enough, Kirk and Candice Cameron's mom was there 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.880 and we did a show for the Make a Wish 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.920 Foundation and it's like a special show just for them 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.959 and his mom at the time was becoming a manager. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.720 Wasn't sure agent manager, She wasn't sure which way she 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.720 was going. Anyway, her assistant approached my mom after the 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.040 show and said, we would love to talk more about 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:59.199 maybe representing Christina, California. That seemed like such a long shot. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.920 How is that ever going to work? This is again, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.840 before the time of zoom, So what are you doing 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.319 sending a beta tape? It's big to somebody to. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.520 Be like, look at my demo, real you need a 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.280 movie theater size screen, but hold on. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.240 Yes, So it was sort of like a long you know, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.520 it's like a slow burn nine months or something of 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.679 them just sort of randomly talking. Eventually she decided to 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.400 get her license and become a manager, I believe, And 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.120 for my spring break that following spring, my mom took 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.040 me out to California, mostly for fun, but also it 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.839 was like, like waited, you know, right off the trip, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.839 like maybe as a manager, and like do a demo 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.840 tape and just like have that beta tape ready to go? Yes. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.760 So we came to the set of Full House, which 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.120 is the first time I ever met Jodi Sweeten, and 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:54.120 I was beside myself and I still have the picture. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.440 I am wearing a stonewashed jean jumper and a great 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.400 It was my favorite outfit and I was a fan. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.560 I mean, I watched the show, I knew everyone. I 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.840 believe we actually also met Andrea. I may have a 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.520 picture with you, but I don't believe. So nice. I 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.120 just remember being so so nice, and I remember going 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:16.960 back and telling all my friends about it, and I 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.120 was just like I'm at the cast a full House, 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.640 and like Uncle Jesse put his face right next to 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.520 mine and he smelled so good, and we have a 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.920 picture together, and I was like Kimmy was so nice 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.240 and she wasn't a nerd at all. She was so sweet. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.040 But anyway, so that was just a really fun moment 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.319 for me. And I sat down on that glad chair 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.679 and I did a scene from the movie You all 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.560 I think were on maybe a break or dinner or something, 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.079 but they worked it out to shoot my demo tape 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.800 audition my monologue right on the set. So I sat 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.440 down in that on the set, which was like so 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.280 surreal for me because of course I'm just freaking right. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.000 And I did a scene from the movie A Reconcilable 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.880 Differences in which the character played by Drew Barrymore divorces 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.360 her parents on the stand. Oh yeah, And my special 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:08.920 skill as a kid is that I could cry on 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.360 a cue, So I had that That's what they wanted 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.760 to showcase. I had this ability to just you know, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.600 turn on the water works and do this whole thing 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.920 and blah blah blah. So anyway, I'm doing the doing 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.640 the thing, and who walks by in the control booths 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.800 because at that time, they were still control booths in 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.640 sitcom where people would see all the monitors what's happening. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.240 But Bob Boyette and he said, like, what is this, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.719 what's happening this child? You know, she's she's why is 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.240 she crying all the stuff. And we're doing a demo 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.400 tape and it's a favor and anyway, long story, long 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.040 story long. We go back to Atlanta a couple of 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.880 months later. You know, don't think again, don't think anything 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.120 of it. Right, they've been casting. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.679 Its usually when it happens when you're like, I forgot 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:52.640 about that, right. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.480 Yeah, And they were casting step by step. They had 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.920 every role locked but the role of Lambert. They had 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.840 had an actress and she had fallen through for various reasons, 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.560 and it was they were up against it. And Bob 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:13.720 Boyett said, where's that girl? Where's that tape? Someone find her? Wow? 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.680 And they did, and we got a call saying can 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.360 you be in California tomorrow? And I remember being like, 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.760 this is crazy, this is really crazy, Like no bities 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.520 across the country for an audition. I mean it was. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.520 It was also nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety at this time, right, so, 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.720 but again only child. My father traveled all the time. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.160 We had tons of frequent flyer miles. My dad said, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.040 if you want to do it, I've got the miles. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.040 If you don't want to do it, no pressure. But 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.040 it's it's don't worry about it, Like, if you want 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.640 to do it, we can make it happen and it 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.760 might be just a great story. Like no pressure, it's 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.600 just like, yeah, so we did. So I flew out 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.800 with my mom, got in that night. The next morning 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.960 I had my audition. I went in for Tom Miller 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:04.679 and Bob Boyette and and the casting director and did 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.360 the did the scenes and they laughed and I walked 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.079 out and they said, well, she's on a plane tomorrow. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.679 Do you want to see her again? And they were like, yeah, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.120 bring her back. Cans. I can't knot? Can I like 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.760 date it again? I think, just make sure it wasn't 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.560 like a fluke right right, And got to call. The 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:20.640 next day I booked the pilot. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:26.520 Yeah, yeah, I had no idea that it all started 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:27.520 on the Full House set. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.040 That's crazy, that wild, it's so yeah, so interesting, and 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.080 but I mean, you know, Bob Boyett loves finding new 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.400 talent new you know. Yeah, yeah, it's funny, that's kind 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.720 of I mean, I did Valerie and that was how 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.040 I got cast on on Full House. Was again Tom, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.160 Bob and the producers being like and Jeff being you know, like, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.160 oh wait, that's who we you know, it's just funny. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.840 You never again, you never know. That's the thing about 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.840 this business is like you never know what weird little 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.760 random thing, which is why I'm always like you going 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.640 to a pitch, meaning or you go do something and 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.520 like it doesn't go the way you want, You're like, yeah, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.720 but it might go away. I don't even have any 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.880 idea how it's going to happen. I mean absolutely so. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:09.960 But what an awesome experience. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.760 Yeah, and of course, you know, doing a pilot, I 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.200 mean it was it was wild. Like we moved basically 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.760 from the Hilton and Woodland Hills and then all of 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.080 a sudden it was like, ooh, we all knows, like 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.280 they had us in like the Century Plaza Hotel. I 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.200 was like, oh my god, where did you guys shoot? 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:28.960 Step by step? 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.960 We shot the first two years at Culver Studios in 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.920 Culver City, That's right. But the craziest part, and like 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.200 we've talked about this on our podcast that I have 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.480 with Stacy Keenan, but the craziest part of that was 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.880 because I think Tom and Bob and you know, Michael 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.600 Warren and Bill Bickley. They had done so many shows, right, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.840 they had they they knew the formulas. They was happy 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.920 these Lavernon Shirley, you know, Full House, like Perfect Strangers, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.480 all these shows. They just had the formula down, and 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.440 I feel like they knew when they were gonna push 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.440 something to make it a hit. They had Susanne Summers 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.040 and Patrick Duffy like the most of us honestly were 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.080 interchangeable at any given moment, I'm sure, especially in the beginning. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.720 But they wanted to put a lot behind it. So 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.760 the first two days of shooting that pilot, we shot 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.160 a title sequence at Magic Mountain where they shut the 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.360 entire place down, Like can we talk about that for 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.680 a minute, the amount of money. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.440 Yeah, that's insane, that's ambitious. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.800 Yeah, did you guys shoot the title sequence when you 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:34.600 shot the pilot? 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.160 We we shot that. We did shoot the title sequence, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:43.360 but because ours was in San Francisco, they did like 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:48.520 they took up doubles to do like the the fishing 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.760 bridge and the fishing stuff and all that that's actually 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.160 in San Francisco, Like those are doubles and our stuff, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.560 Like as they pulled out like that's all us in 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.480 like Griffith Park or something, and then they and then 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:02.120 it cuts to once they're far enough away to just 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:07.120 the car and the bridge. Yeah, but yeah, that's crazy crazy. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.359 They also had doubles for us. They did not let 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:15.280 us ride Colossus, damn insurance, god stupid. But we did 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.280 ride the boat rides, and that's the one that everybody 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.320 like remembers going down the boat and splashing. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:26.040 Right right right. It's sort of like Jurassic Park at Universal, Yes, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.360 which I take angry on in every October. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:28.800 She hates. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:29.680 I hate it. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.320 I hate it. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.560 I don't like scary rides. I don't like scary things. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:33.960 Do you think that's scary now? 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.119 Yeah, well just roller coasters. Yes, I can handle the 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.520 Jurassic Park ride. Okay, she can handle it. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.199 She can handle it. It's the it's the fact that 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.119 it's at horror nights that really. 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:45.440 Is the thing. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.520 That it's the horror nights that I hate. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:48.679 The monsters. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.480 We're prepping it now, we're starting that, we're just so 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.520 you know, this is the thing we do every year 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.240 that she says she's not going to do it, and 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.600 then we do it, and then she has a great time. Yes, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:05.000 you're right, Wine from Smokehouse, Yeah. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.080 It sounds and never oh no, enough of a whole 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.000 Hollywood horror nights. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.679 No, I mean we could keep going. My favorite does 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.040 let's not please sh. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.240 Sh no. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.520 I was gonna say. I was telling ab before we 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.960 started that you and I were in acting class together 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.440 and you were talking about, you know, doing class and 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.240 the fact that you could like cry on cue and stuff, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.000 and you I was always so intimidated by you in 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:34.560 class that lay in a bad way where I was like, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.800 I can't compare it, but like you were just always 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.240 you could pick up a script and like a cold read, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.040 you'd have it almost memorized, and like you would be 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.040 so in it. And I told her, I was like, man, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.720 I just never did that. And I was like, probably 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.800 because I was fucking around in class. But anyway, but 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.199 and Christine was serious and like I'm here, but no, 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.520 you just you're like and you're just so talented. I 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.800 love I. You know, you're one of my favorite peeps. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.000 And I just think you're super super talented and you 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.199 have been since you were a kid. And you know, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.159 people saw you do again, you know, they see us 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.120 do sitcoms or whatever, and they're like, Oh, you must 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.360 just be fluff, but you're actually really, really freaking talented. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.000 Oh thank you for saying that. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.840 And you're a bad ass director. You've been directing the Goldbergs. Yeah, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.120 you have been directing AFRICQE a while, so I'd love 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:28.399 to hear. 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.960 Yeah. I took a circuitous path along many routes and 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:40.160 various careers in the entertainment industry. But so I after 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.760 the show ended in nineteen ninety eight, I guess I 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.760 was in college. I went to UCLA and kind of 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.360 doing college and then also doing like the Guest Stars 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.960 and you know, the TV, the teen movies and this 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.919 is like the two early two thousands, just kind of 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.240 doing all that kind of stuff. I went back to 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.800