1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: My daughter would love that call sheet. Your daughter was huge. Yes, 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 1: she's a huge fan, and I'm getting a lot of 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: cool points by talking to you today. Until she finds 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: out that I said the word cool points, I'll get 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: some deductions for that, but yeah, she's very happy. Hi. 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm Alison Hannigan. You probably remember me from My Stepmother's 7 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: An Alien. I played Jesse because fan favorite. I've done 8 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: some other stuff too, but you know we're really here 9 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: to talk about my stepmothers an Alien. Right, Hello everybody, 10 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: and welcome to the very first episode of Off the Beat. 11 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: I am your host, Ryan Baumgartner, and I am so 12 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: excited to start this journey with all of you. Now, 13 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: my guest today has fought demons, worked as a kindergarten teacher, 14 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: and let's just say she has had a lot of 15 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: crazy experiences at band camp. Get ready for an absolutely 16 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: hilarious conversation with Alison Hannigan. Now, Alison, she was born 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: to be in show biz and she has been working 18 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: in the industry for her entire life, well with the 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: exception of a couple of years when she was a baby, 20 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: but we'll just let those years slide, okay. And while 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: her early jobs may have been motivated by the promise 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: of desserts. She has since been in everything from Buffy 23 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: the Vampire Slayer to American Pie to How I Met 24 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: Your Mother and now to my daughter's current obsession, Fancy Nancy. 25 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: And somehow in all of that, she also managed to 26 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: have her very own the office experience. Now that is 27 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: what you call a tease. It was my absolute pleasure 28 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: to sit down with Allison. And you're not gonna believe 29 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: how funny she is. I mean, you probably will believe it, 30 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: but you get my point. Please welcome with me the incredible, 31 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: the unbelievably talented Alison Hannigan. Bubble and Squeak. I love 32 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cookie every month, 33 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: left over from the night before. Oh, I can hears 34 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: my breathing. It's very awkward. I'm going to breathe away 35 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: from the microphone. Alison. Hello, Alison, how are you good? 36 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: Are you in a beehive? I am in a beehive. Well, 37 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: my initials are b beast. Yes, so I try to 38 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: make everything around me like I'm a bee. I love it. 39 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: You have a bed in your background. I'm in a 40 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: guest bedroom, which is actually very close to our bee hives. 41 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: So there you go. Do you have bee hives? My yes, 42 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: it's my husband. He's yes, he's trying to get all 43 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: the bees. I think it was gonna be let's just 44 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: have one beehive. Now we have, like I don't know, 45 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: we're a shelter for bees. His beekeeper that he works 46 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: with is like, hey, we've got some bees from Beverly Hills. 47 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: They need a place to stay and bring him over. 48 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: That's not how my husband sounds, but I I imitate 49 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: him like that. I didn't know people did this city. Yes, yeah, 50 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: I mean we have a lot of space, so that's helpful. 51 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, we are the honey people now. I just 52 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: just saying to a friend that we just we're going 53 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: to be known as the honey people because every time 54 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: we go somewhere, we're like, here's some honey. But I 55 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: love that. I want some of your honey. And I 56 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: mean that in a yes, Okay, come get some honey, 57 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: some oranges. We can take care of your shopping needs. 58 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: I used to have avocado trees, lots of huge, huge 59 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: avocado trees, and there's only one thing in the world 60 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: I can't eat which is avocados. So there you go. 61 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: That was like, no, we don't have the trees anymore. 62 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,280 Speaker 1: Now I moved. I didn't cut them down. I didn't. 63 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: It wasn't like a fie on you trees. But yes, no, 64 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: I don't have them anymore. We have an avocado tree, 65 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: but it is a strange breed of avocado that I 66 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: don't know. Our gardener says you're supposed to eat the skin. 67 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: I don't believe him, and it's gross. They're not tasty, 68 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 1: but he has wonderful AVOCADOSM brings us some. Well, there 69 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: you go. You can trade for the honey exactly. Um, 70 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: I'm such a big fan of yours. I'm so excited 71 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: to be talking to you. But I want to go 72 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: back into your brain. Boy. Okay, good luck. Well, because 73 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: we have we have some like weird crossovers, though not 74 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: not exactly. You were born in d C, but you 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: started acting in Atlanta. That is where I am from. No, yes, 76 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: the A T L And I was there when you 77 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: were there. If my research is true, did you move 78 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: to Atlanta or you just started acting in Atlanta? So 79 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: we My mom and dad sort of split up in 80 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: d C when I was a baby, and then she 81 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: was born and raised in Atlanta, so she moved back 82 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: there with me. And so even though it's born in See, 83 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: I don't remember it at all. Like, my hometown is Atlanta. 84 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: That's where I was in elementary school and everything. Yeah, 85 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: where did you go to elementary school? Well? First it 86 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: was this small little private school called the Children's School 87 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: right near Kimont Park. And then I really I really 88 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: wanted to take the school bus, so I begged my 89 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: mom didn't take me out of private school and so 90 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: I could go to public school. She's like, okay, And 91 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: so then I went to UM. I had one year 92 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: of Garden Hills Elementary School, and then moved to middle 93 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: school and went to Sutton Middle School, and then we 94 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: moved out to California. Okay, all right, I know Sutton. 95 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: I was a Holy Innocence and Westminster kid in the 96 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: A t L. So you started doing commercials. I understand 97 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: when you were four in the A t L. Now 98 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: was this something that you were interested in or your 99 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 1: your mom was interested in, or how did this start? Well? 100 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: I don't really actually remember a time where I didn't 101 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: want to be an actress. So for me, I always 102 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: wanted to do it. Back then, it was a hobby. 103 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: It was like I played soccer and I also did 104 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: commercials and print jobs. Both my parents were photographers when 105 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: I was a baby, so if they ever needed a 106 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: you know baby for modeling, they just stick me in 107 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: front of the camera and I loved it. So that 108 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: sort of led to you know modeling, and you know, 109 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: I thought that was really fun, and then commercials as well. 110 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: My first commercial was like a Duncan Hinz cookie commercial. 111 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: I think I was basically an extra, but I got 112 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: to just walk with this chocolate chip cookie to the 113 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: car and it was really hot because its Atlanta, and 114 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: the chocolate chips would just melt all over my fingers, 115 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: so they wouldn't let me eat the cookie, but I 116 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: could lick my fingers after every take. It was heaven. 117 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: I was sold right then and there, like this is 118 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: the job for me. But then you said you moved 119 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. So now when you moved to Los Angeles, 120 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: were you moving because you wanted to pursue this or yes, yes, 121 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: My mom was really supportive. My dad had moved out 122 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: to Santa Barbara and I came to visit him when 123 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: like some break or something and uh, and she had 124 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: set set up some agent meetings because we had always 125 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: heard it was really hard to get agents in California. 126 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: So we met with like four agents and they were 127 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: all like, well, if you move out here, we'll take you. 128 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: So she was like, all right, let's do it. So 129 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: she was kind of bored, and that's how we got 130 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: out here, I mean, thankfully. I think I had gotten 131 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: really close to or so I was told to this 132 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: movie with Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson I think called 133 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: The River or something. The River anyway, remember a long time, 134 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: but so so they did you know, it was a 135 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: southern movie or whatever, and and I wound up screen 136 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: testing for that and so I think that kind of 137 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: gave her a like, oh wait, maybe she can do 138 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: more than just the local commercials. So we did and 139 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: we moved out and I had an agent and worked 140 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: a little and didn't work a lot, But it was 141 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: just something I always knew that I wanted. I just 142 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: got like a weird accent then always. I don't know 143 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: where that came from. Always, but yeah, I mean I 144 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: remember just I was an only child, still am and uh, 145 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: and then I would be home alone a lot and 146 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,959 Speaker 1: I would just always pretend that I was on television. 147 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: I was, like I thought, I guess I wanted to 148 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: be a reality television star before it ever was a thing. 149 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: But um, so I would just walk around the house 150 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: like thinking, I'm on television right now, somebody. I just 151 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: can't see the cameras, but I'm sure that I'm on TV. 152 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to be Cindy Brady, so I 153 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: just always knew. So. So the long answer to that 154 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: question is yes, my mom definitely wanted it as well, 155 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: but it wasn't She was not pushing me into it, right. 156 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: Did you do Did you do theater at all? Or 157 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: was it really for you about film? I did a 158 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: little bit of theater, but not not really like I 159 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: wasn't a proper actor or sorry, Um, I did do 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: my first like stage show at the Alliance Theater. It's 161 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: like the biggest. She just name drops, like the biggest. 162 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: I just did this one show, probably a camp it was. 163 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: I don't really remember. I was very young, but I 164 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: do remember that we all did Shell Silverstein's A Light 165 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: in the Attic, which is just really cute little short stories. 166 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: But we would act out short stories and I just 167 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: thought that was brilliant. I love that. The Giving Tree 168 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: still one of my favorite too. Now, you played soccer 169 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: as a kid, and you you got an injury. Was 170 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: that something that was significant for you? Well, it was 171 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: significant in making the shift from Southern to California, because 172 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: as I, okay, girls in the South don't kick that hard. 173 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: You know, they're not as aggressive, They're much more polite. 174 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: But I mean, it was an accident, but basically I 175 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: got kicked in the ribs really hard and sort of 176 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: dislocated something I don't know, but that was the end 177 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 1: of my soccer career. So I used to before that, 178 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: I would say I want to be a soccer player 179 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: or an actress, and then it was just okay, I 180 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: only have one option. Now I don't like getting hurt, Well, 181 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: I asked, because I had. I had a very similar story, 182 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: and I won't bore people with the entirety of the story. 183 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: But my dream was to be the first baseman for 184 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Like not just a professional baseball player, 185 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: but like that was my dream. And I went through 186 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: an injury and a surgery and something went terribly wrong 187 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: for me, which ended my athletic career. And so I 188 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: really got into acting and theater for me at the 189 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: time because sports were no longer an option for me. Right, 190 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: I don't know if sports were an option for me. 191 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: I thought I was really good when I was in Atlanta, Like, 192 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: I was usually one of the better players on the team, 193 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: even though it's small. I was quick and I was good. Um. 194 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: But then I got out here and everybody's really really good, 195 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, I'm not that good. And 196 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: then I got hurt immediately, and I was like, that's fine. 197 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: I wasn't very good compared to these people. There was 198 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: a lot of like, oh, you've got the ball, It's okay, 199 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you know. I was on a 200 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: team called the Mighty Mites. Although you know what you 201 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: just reminded me of I did when I first started soccer. 202 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: I was like three. I was on an all boys team. 203 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: I was the only girl and we got to play 204 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: at halftime for the was it the Chiefs? The Chiefs? 205 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: The Chiefs say that anymore, the Chiefs. I don't think 206 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 1: they are the Chiefs anymore, but they were back then 207 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: in the seventies. Yeah, And so we got to go 208 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: to the you know, Big formerly known as Chief stadium, 209 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: and I think they brought on a goal to put 210 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: it on the center line so that you wouldn't have 211 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: to run because I had never seen a field that 212 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: big and uh and I just remember running by somebody 213 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: in the audience and they're like, that's a girl. Okay, 214 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: we gave it away the braids. And the weird thing 215 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: is that was me. That's the crazy thing about it. 216 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: That was me saying that. I remember going to those 217 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: games and watching people play and thinking they didn't pick me. Um, 218 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: you knew early on you you wanted to be an actor. 219 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: What television shows were of influence to your What what 220 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: were you watching? I was watching a lot of reruns, 221 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: you know, Brady Bunch. I love Lucy Gilligan's Island. I 222 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: went on and off of that one. You know. I 223 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: didn't like it when it went into color. I was like, no, 224 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: this is this is just too much for me. Um. 225 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I wasn't really allowed to watch 226 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: television that much, except maybe on weekends. But my mom 227 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: was a single mom and she worked a lot, so 228 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: I would watch television when she wasn't home, and goodness, 229 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: she never like touched the TV to see if it 230 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: was warm. But yeah, so so whatever really was on 231 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: after school. I remember when I was a little older, 232 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: I became friends with Oh, when I went to public 233 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: school and I went, I became friends with this girl 234 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: who had cable. Oh that was amazing. So I would 235 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: go to her house and like, can we watch cable? 236 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: Can we watch you can't do that on television. She 237 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: was like no, she was so over it. I was 238 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: just like, this is gold. You have so many channels. 239 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: It was amazing. So I would watch whatever I could it, honest, 240 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: whatever you could. Yeah, would you act it out? Yeah, definitely. 241 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: I remember seeing a production of Annie and getting the 242 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: record and just playing that over and over. I cannot 243 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: sing to save my life, but I was like, oh, 244 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: you know, so I would just sit there and reenact 245 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: the songs by myself at nauseam. Yeah, well I still 246 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: do that. That's the weird thing. And I don't really 247 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: sing either. So you moved to Los Angeles and started 248 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: to work. What was the role for you that you 249 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 1: felt like, oh, I've made it or I've done it? 250 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: Was that my stepmother is an alien or I mean 251 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: I thought that was going to be the break, you know, 252 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: Actually it wasn't even when I got that role, it 253 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: was that was a very long process of auditioning, and 254 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: they did an old fashioned screen test like lights camera action. 255 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: So my mom and I were drying into this screen test, 256 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: and at that point, I think it's like down to 257 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: two or three girls. And then they had some some 258 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: of the guy characters as well. And we pull into 259 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: the Fox lot, the twentieth century Fox lot, and I 260 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: see Seth Green walking across the parking lot and I 261 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: just about lost it. I was like, Oh, that's the 262 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: kid from Amazing Stories, and I just I mean, oh, 263 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: my goodness, how I was even able to like say 264 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: a line after seeing him, And it was just the 265 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: greatest day. We spent the day of they were sort of, 266 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: you know, doing chemistry tests of this kid with that kid, 267 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: and it was just amazing. It's still after that took 268 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: several months before we found out that I got the job, 269 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: so it was really grueling, but I got the job 270 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: and I got to be in this like big huge 271 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: motion picture with you know, I had my name on 272 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: a chair and it was just so exciting, and Dan 273 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: Ackroyd was in it and combasing her and it was 274 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: just incredible. I turned I was thirteen and I turned 275 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: fourteen while filming, and dan Ackroid gave me a bicycle, 276 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: and I just thought it was the greatest moment of 277 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: my life. And it had this yellow ribbon that I 278 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: didn't take off, so I'd right around the lot with 279 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: the bow on it. And then the transport Transportation Department 280 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: would put in my trailer at night, and then you know, 281 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: I take it on the morning or whatever. And one day, 282 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: I don't know why we were on the lot. I 283 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: think it was like the weekend or something, but we 284 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: were there for some reason and we walked past and 285 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: I saw the bow on the ground. I was like, 286 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: what what, Why is the bow on the ground? What happened? 287 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: And Uh, turns out my bike got stolen. They ripped 288 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: the bow off, they just threw it aside, and they 289 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: stole a kid's bike. And so anyway, when yeah, they 290 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: stole my bodd bike, did the bowl And by the way, 291 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: I think they ran over the bowl on the way 292 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: out that had like tire marks. I could be exaggerating 293 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: that my imagination, but that's how my heart felt. That's 294 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: how it felt, right. It's I just durned fourteen. I 295 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: can't handle this kind of thing. You stole my bike 296 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: off of the twentieth century Fox lot. By the way, 297 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: It's not like I just left it outside of a 298 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: seven eleven. It was on a lot anyway. So Dan 299 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: found out, and of course, he being such a sweetheart, 300 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: replaced the bike, and he told me he was going 301 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: to replace the bike. But I do remember I was 302 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: doing a scene where I had to be really emotional 303 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: and I was riding the character's bike and Richard Benjamin 304 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: was the director, and he he started shouting, just think 305 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: about your bike. But at that point I had already 306 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: known that, like Danton had already told me he was 307 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: going to give me another one, and so it kind 308 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 1: of like made it worse. Like I was already in 309 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: the like I'm going to cry space, but then when 310 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: he's like, think about your bike, I just kind of like, 311 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: now I can't. I've got to stop laughing. Yeah, So 312 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: I do remember, like that's not the best direction right now, 313 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: because I know that makes me happy I'm getting a 314 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: new bike. Was there a yellow bow on the new bike? Oh, 315 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: good question. I probably just take like tire marked bow 316 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: and put it back on there. Put it back on it. 317 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: I kept the tire mark bow for a long time. Yeah, 318 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: do you still have is it on your wall? Have 319 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: to like through storage? Okay, I have a lot of 320 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: those things, like yeah, from early things. It's like, oh, 321 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: the call sheet from this there's like a box of 322 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: old call sheets that I have never gone through again. 323 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, but somebody would love that call sheet. Now, 324 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: my daughter would love that call sheet. Your daughter was huge. Yeah, 325 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: she's a huge, and and I'm getting a lot of 326 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: cool points by talking to you today. Until she finds 327 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 1: out that I said the word cool points, I'll get 328 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: some deductions for that. But yeah, she's very happy. I 329 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: heard you haven't shown your kids Buffy? Have they seen Buffy? No? No? 330 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: And then my husband, who was also on Buffy for 331 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 1: season and a half or something, he just the other 332 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: day I was like to our oldest daughter, I think 333 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: you're probably old enough for Buffy. And I was like, 334 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: excuse me. I feel like this was a discussion. You 335 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: don't remember the part where I flay somebody a lot, 336 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 1: like their skin comes off, Like do they need to 337 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: see that? Do they need to see when Willow goes evil? 338 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. That's interesting. It's not that they don't 339 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: want to you don't want them to, it's too horrible. Well, 340 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: I just I'm scared of the later sits like went 341 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: Dark Willow. I just they can watch it, or well, 342 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: my older one could watch it up until Dark Willow 343 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: and then we'll just take a break for a few 344 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: years and find a good therapist. But Michael Scott is okay, 345 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: oh yeah, totally brilliant, brilliant. I remember watching the second 346 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: episode with her and it was just it's so good, 347 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: it's so good. And by the way, can I talk 348 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 1: about my embarrassing moment with probably Greg Daniels, but I 349 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: don't actually know for sure. I was doing some pilot 350 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: that didn't go around the time that they were casting 351 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: for The Office. I was a massive fan and lamb 352 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: of the British version. I think it's probably the best 353 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: television show ever made. So I was in doing chemistry 354 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,679 Speaker 1: reads with somebody at the NBC whatever for the pilot 355 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: I was going to do. I had flown in from 356 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: like London because I was doing play there and so 357 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: so anyway, we were doing chemistry reads in the you know, 358 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,959 Speaker 1: the Kevin Riley's office or whatever, and but then there 359 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: were all these people like in the hall doing something else, 360 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: and I was like finally said what's going on or whatever, 361 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: and someone who is clearly one of the you know, 362 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: producers or somebody of the Office, I was like, oh, 363 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: we're making an American version of the Office, And without 364 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: even like thinking twice, I was like, no, don't do that. 365 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: That's horrible idea, Like you can't. I was like, don't 366 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: You're going to ruin it. I was like, and I'm 367 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: like saying this to somebody who's clearly like they're in 368 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: the process of making this show, and shut up. But 369 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: it was just like this reaction because I just you know, 370 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: held the British Office up to like such a huge 371 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the golden child of of television shows. 372 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: I'm glad they didn't listen to me. Um, But still 373 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: about whoever I said that too, I don't actually know 374 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: who it was, but um, yes, that's amazing. Oh yeah, 375 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's such a bad move. Well, 376 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: by the way, John Krasinski said it to Greg Daniels 377 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: as he was auditioning for the show as well, so 378 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: it was probably probably like, oh my god, I know, 379 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: how you know, how can I go about doing this? 380 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: So you well, so first off after my stepmother is 381 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: an Alien, you you felt like you had done it. 382 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: And wait and by the way, Seth Green, not only 383 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: were you his love interest once you ended up being 384 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: it again? Was he like your teen idol? Is that 385 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: what you call it? Yeah, I mean I was certainly 386 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: starstruck when I first met him and saw him. But 387 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: then so we both wound up getting my stummage in Alien. 388 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: So we worked on that. That was really fun. And 389 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: then I did another like or I did a sitcom 390 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: and he was on a few episodes of that, and 391 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: then I feel like, I feel like there were quite 392 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: a few other jobs, like little jobs where he was 393 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: on it, and so then I just was like, well, 394 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: I can only work if Sath Green is on it, 395 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: Like that's the only job I'm going to get. So 396 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: he was basically he's my lucky charm, is what I thought. 397 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,640 Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I don't know. I mean, 398 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: I've got this audition. Should I see if that's available? 399 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: That's the only way I'm going to get this job. Zeth, 400 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: did you get called for this show? Okay, and just 401 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: tell your agent that we just drive me to the 402 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: audition because you're my good luck. Time read with me. Yes. 403 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: So in nine you get Buffy. What was the process 404 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: of you getting that? Were you had you seen the movie? 405 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: Were you a fan of that story? Did you know 406 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: anything about it? I mean, much like my my other story. 407 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: I heard that they were making a show of Buffy 408 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,679 Speaker 1: the van Personay, I was like, oh, can't they just 409 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: get a better idea? So who knew? I was so 410 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: negative back then. But anyway, Um, so I had a 411 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: friend who would get the breakdowns, which you know are 412 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: for anybody who doesn't know it's when it's when they 413 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: put out like all the auditions that are going on, 414 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: all the shows and stuff that are looking for people, 415 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: And so he would get them somehow, and he kept saying, like, 416 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: there's a part for you on this pilot, Buffy the 417 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer. So I would call my agent and say, hey, 418 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: so my friend says I'm right for this. Yeah, no 419 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 1: that we've called, they don't they don't want to see you, okay. 420 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: And so I called a few times about it because 421 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: he kept pestering me, and then they shot the pilot 422 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: or it was a pilot presentation with somebody else. I 423 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,399 Speaker 1: never even got to audition for it. So then it 424 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: gets picked up, they're recasting that role. My friend calls again, Hey, 425 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: it's back in the breakdowns. You've got to go in 426 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: on this, And so I called my agent again and 427 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: they're like, they didn't want to see you, I don't think, 428 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, my friend says I'm good for it, 429 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: and anyway, so basically I did get the audition that time. 430 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: I think it was just all right, we've seen everybody else, 431 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: so I don't I don always say it. So I 432 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,400 Speaker 1: went in and I just auditioned, an auditioned, an auditioned 433 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: an audition. I think I had eight auditions for the role. 434 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: And I was I was always told by like my 435 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: acting coaches as a kid, always wear the same thing 436 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: to the callbacks, so it's fine when they're spaced out, 437 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: but towards the end it was sort of like, Okay, 438 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: come back tomorrow. And then I'm like, well, wait, I 439 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 1: just wore this yesterday. But then I'm also so far 440 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,680 Speaker 1: in because in the breakdown it says that she looks 441 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: like her mom still dresses her, and so I had 442 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 1: an outfit that I wore that was very much what 443 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: I thought Willow would look like. And so I do 444 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 1: remember the I went to network, which is the sort 445 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: of you think is the final phase. So it was 446 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: three of us and you go to studio first, then network. 447 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: So I wore my little outfit and then usually that's 448 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: the end of the process. But then they called and said, no, 449 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 1: they want to do chemistry reads tomorrow, come back. And 450 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: I had this huge panic of like, well, do I 451 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: still wear the same thing? And then at that point, 452 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: you know, that was audition seven, so I'm not going 453 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: to change it up now. But I was like oh, 454 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: and then I and then I was so superstitious. I 455 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: was like, I've got to wear everything. I got to 456 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: wear the same socks. I've got to you know, I've 457 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: got it. It's got to be everything. So um were 458 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: the same out of it. And then at that point 459 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: it was just down to two girls. I obviously had 460 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: a not so great agent because I knew going in, Oh, 461 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: the network wants this girl, Josh wants this girl. You're 462 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: just you just got through great, thanks for the pep talk, okay, 463 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: and so so I was just like the filler in 464 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: the sandwich and uh. And then the second day when 465 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: we were doing chemistry reads, it was just down to 466 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: me and one other girl, and it was the girl 467 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: that I knew Josh wrote the part for, so I 468 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: was like, oh gosh. And we had been doing the 469 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: same scenes over and over and over and they wanted 470 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: to see a new scene. So Josh wrote specifically a 471 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: scene for the three of us. Was um for Buffy 472 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: and Xander and Willow, and it had all this computer 473 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,959 Speaker 1: jargon and just like a paragraph of just things. I 474 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: had no idea what it was, but I went in 475 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, I was prepared, and then 476 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: I started. I got to that paragraph, I could not, 477 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: for the life of me, like I couldn't even look 478 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: at it. The words started jumping on the page and like, 479 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: I just I think I said some of the words, 480 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: but definitely not in the right order, and I just 481 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: kept rambling, and finally I was like, okay, you gotta 482 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: stop this now. And later um, even though it took 483 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: a week after that time for them to tell me, 484 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: I got it and it went back into the breakdowns. 485 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: That was heartbreaking, But Josh said, He's like, well, you 486 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: couldn't say the lines to save your life, but the 487 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: chemistry was there, and that's when I knew, Like, then, 488 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: why did it take you a week to tell me 489 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: on the breakouts. It was so excruciating too, and it 490 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: wasn't during pilot season, so so normally of course you 491 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: find out like within twenty four to seventy two hours 492 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: or something. But my agent was like, sure, take a 493 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: week to tell her and I was like why why? 494 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: So I still like technical way on hold for a 495 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: week and then I ran into Nick Brendon at the 496 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: foremosta cafe and he already knew and he said something 497 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: to me that was like, you shouldn't worry about this, 498 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: and I was like, well, wait, why because I didn't 499 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: get it or because I didn't get it? What do 500 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: you mean I shouldn't worry about this? Now I'm worrying 501 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: about this and that so um So it was torture 502 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: and it's a crazy people don't hear these stories. I 503 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: love because that's what happens. The office was a very 504 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: similar situation. I think it was two weeks after the 505 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,959 Speaker 1: last time I came in and I was calling my 506 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: manager being like, did we get it? What did they say? 507 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: What's happened? You know? And you can't think about anything else? 508 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: And it went back down in the breakdowns. So my 509 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: friend who gets the breakdowns, was like, oh, you must 510 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: not have gotten it because it's in the breakdowns again. 511 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: So they started auditioning other people again, and I was like, well, 512 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: then why won't they release me? Tell me I didn't 513 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: get it, like just one way the other. This waiting 514 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: is killing me. And it was the days of beepers, 515 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: so I would like look at my paper every time, 516 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: and then finally I got a beep to, you know, 517 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: call my agent. And I was dating some dude that 518 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: didn't have a phone, and so we went to the 519 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: seven eleven pay phone. And so I found out that 520 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: I got it on a pay phone on Westwood Boulevard 521 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: that is no longer there. It was there for a 522 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: long time, and I would wave to it when I 523 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: drove by. It's no longer there because we don't need 524 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: few phones anymore, but you'll never forget that the seven 525 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: eleven still there. What did you do when you when 526 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: you hung up? Did you yell? Did you pound the 527 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: glass of the payphone? I think, because I think I 528 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: just drove myself to go return the call. And then 529 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: I drove back to my boyfriend's house and I was like, 530 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: I got it, and he wasn't very supportive. He was like, Okay, 531 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,800 Speaker 1: it was so good, but boyfriend, UM, but I don't know. 532 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: I think I was just so like excited, and I 533 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: don't actually remember. I mean I remember the phone call 534 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: of like what are you sure? Me? Okay? Great? And yeah, 535 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 1: it was just incredible, especially because I was like, I 536 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: had had money from when I was a child actor 537 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: that they like put into a trust fund that you 538 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: can't get till you're eighteen, so that was sort of 539 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: what I was living off of. And I was down 540 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: to like six d dollars and I was like okay, 541 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: and I went and I took bartending school classes because 542 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: I was like, well, I've got to get a job 543 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: that I can do at night, so I'll be a bartender. 544 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: And I tried so hard to get a job as 545 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: a bartender, and nobody would hire me because they were like, honey, 546 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: you cannot card people. You look like you're twelve years old. 547 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: There's no way that you can ask somebody for their 548 00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:01,719 Speaker 1: I d like, but I need a job. It's easier 549 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: for alson Hannigan to get on a show that runs 550 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: seven years. Did you get a bartending job? That is? 551 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: That's the major takeaway from me on that I had 552 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: a certificate and everything I went to that school, I spent, 553 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: you did it more money than I should have going 554 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: to Bartender School. I could have survived another month without 555 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: that that fee. Yeah, that's amazing. How much when you're 556 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: creating a character does physicality enter into it for you? 557 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: It does, especially with Buffy and Willow. Actually, Willow. I 558 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: remember when I clicked into Willow. I was sitting in 559 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: my little jeep Wrangler and I was going over the lines, 560 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: and there was this line about she's talking to Buffy 561 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 1: and she's try and Buffy's asking like how did they 562 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: know each other? And Xander and Willow have known each 563 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: other for years and and Willow says something about like, oh, 564 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: we used to date, but we broke up and and 565 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: Buffy asked why and then um, Willow says, because he 566 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: stole my barbie so obviously they were kids. And then 567 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: at the end of the scene, Buffy says, so did 568 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: he ever give your barbie back? And the line was 569 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: most of it, And I remember like wanting to make 570 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: that a really good thing of just like it was 571 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: like just making it really happy, like most of it, 572 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: like sort of looking at the positive rather than you know, 573 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: and that clicked it for me. I was like, oh, 574 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: that's how I'm going to play her. So then I 575 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 1: went back and sort of read all the lines with 576 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: that kind of voice. And then I do know that 577 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 1: because you know, I hadn't worked like like that. Really. 578 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: I just was very aware of my arms, and especially 579 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 1: in auditions, I was like, what do I do with 580 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: my arms? And so I had a ring on my 581 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: middle finger, so I would always like play with that ring. 582 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: That sort of became how I felt Willow. Yeah, So, 583 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: so it wasn't like some big bold, you know, I'm 584 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: going to have a limp, but but it was the 585 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: holding my ring thing, which I think I've done another 586 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: characters too, So don't write in they were influenced. Those 587 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: other characters were influenced by your work as well. That's 588 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,840 Speaker 1: how I would That's how I how I would explain 589 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: it away. Yeah, yeah, I mean there's so much we 590 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: could talk about with Buffy. I want to hit on 591 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: at least one thing. So Willow discovers that she likes girls, 592 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: and in the episode The Body in two thousand and one, 593 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,319 Speaker 1: you have a kiss on screen. And for those of 594 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 1: you who don't know, this is just a couple of 595 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,319 Speaker 1: years after Ellen DeGeneres very early on one of the 596 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: first kisses on network television between women. Was this something 597 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,359 Speaker 1: that was brought up at the time. Were you sort 598 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: of aware of it at the time that this was 599 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 1: a really significant moment or or how did that come about? Well? 600 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly was not prepared for like how 601 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: profound it was going to be. Joss had sort of said, oh, 602 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 1: we're bringing on this new character. She's going to be 603 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,600 Speaker 1: a friend for Willow, and then I feel like he 604 00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: just sort of sort of said, like a special friend 605 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: for Willow or something like. It wasn't that big of 606 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: a deal, but it was. It was enough where I 607 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: was sort of like, huh, okay. And I think because 608 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,600 Speaker 1: the show handled it so beautifully and it wasn't really 609 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 1: about like, Okay, here we are. This is the first 610 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: at the time, it was the first series regular from 611 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: the beginning of the show to come out, and you know, 612 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,839 Speaker 1: because there had been other shows where they're like, Okay, here, 613 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: we'll introduce this new character or whatever, but not a 614 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: character that had been on since the beginning. And because 615 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: it was just treated this same as you know, the 616 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 1: Os Willow relationship, which is what I love so much. 617 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,799 Speaker 1: You know, it just felt right and beautiful. It wasn't 618 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: until afterwards that I realized what an effect it had 619 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: on so many people and just how important it was. Um. 620 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: I mean, I just really liked it because, you know, 621 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,759 Speaker 1: such a beautiful love story and Amber was just so wonderful. 622 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 1: And in fact, speaking of Ellen, I actually I do 623 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,799 Speaker 1: regret how I played the scene where I come out 624 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: to Buffy because I was listening to an Ellen podcast 625 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 1: years ago and she was talking about her coming out 626 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: and she was saying that, you know, the reason why 627 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,839 Speaker 1: people often just cry and cry is because it's it's 628 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: been this weight that they've carried around, and so it's 629 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 1: just the release of that brings you to these these tears. 630 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, I screwed up because 631 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 1: as I intentionally chose not to make it a crying 632 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:09,479 Speaker 1: moment because I didn't want anyone to feel like I 633 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: was ashamed or like that. I felt like that was 634 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 1: anything wrong. So I just wanted it to be I 635 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 1: wanted to treat it the same as I would tell 636 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,840 Speaker 1: her about Oz. But then hearing Ellen's story, I was like, 637 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: oh no, I should have made it much more emotional, 638 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,919 Speaker 1: but I just I don't know, So I do regret that. 639 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,880 Speaker 1: But nobody has ever come up to be told and 640 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 1: told me that I did it wrong. Right, Well, I 641 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,359 Speaker 1: don't think there is I don't think there is wrong. 642 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: And as you said, the whole story was handled like well, 643 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: I think the word you used was beautifully. I think 644 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: it was handled beautifully and not with a heavy hand. 645 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 1: And I know that how important that moment in that relationship. 646 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,759 Speaker 1: You know, it was for people. Yeah, and by the way, 647 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: we didn't think people were watching our show either, like 648 00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: we weren't really. We were the sort of little show, 649 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: that different show that got really good reviews on the 650 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,879 Speaker 1: w B at the time, you know, it was. It 651 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,760 Speaker 1: wasn't until Comic Con that we were sort of like, oh, wait, 652 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: we have fans. This is pretty cool. But I do 653 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 1: remember once once um those episodes started airing, then we 654 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: were getting you know, mentions of uh, this the first 655 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,399 Speaker 1: time a series regular from the start of the show 656 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 1: has come out, and and so then it sort of 657 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,399 Speaker 1: took on this like okay, wait, we actually did do 658 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: something really incredible. That's awesome. Yeah, and I will forever 659 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: be grateful to be part of that storyline. I mean, 660 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,759 Speaker 1: I'm just the amount of people that come up and 661 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: say that it was it was so helpful for their development, 662 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,880 Speaker 1: or to see somebody going through the same things, or 663 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: I just I've been reduced at here so many times 664 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,759 Speaker 1: because people's stories and how it helped them. And I 665 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,240 Speaker 1: love being part of that really ship. I'm so grateful. 666 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,680 Speaker 1: I do have to ask you because I don't know, 667 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,480 Speaker 1: it seems like I have to about American Pie such 668 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:34,000 Speaker 1: an iconic, memorable, quotable character. I mean, you've had songs 669 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,680 Speaker 1: written about your what is it a catchphrase? Is that 670 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,160 Speaker 1: what we call it? Is it a catchphrase? Yeah? Yeah? 671 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 1: An iconic piece of the lexicon of movies? Is that right? Ye? 672 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,080 Speaker 1: Are you still approached by that? And is that annoying 673 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,280 Speaker 1: to you? Or do you celebrate it? I mean, look, 674 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,719 Speaker 1: it's not annoying because I am so grateful to be 675 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,399 Speaker 1: in something that people still remember and love. And it's 676 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,239 Speaker 1: uncomfortable now that I'm a mom and I don't want 677 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: my kids watching that that movie or asking me about 678 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 1: it for a while, but whatever, And it was more 679 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,160 Speaker 1: uncomfortable when they were a lot younger. Now it would 680 00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,120 Speaker 1: be an easier conversation to have. But I mean, that 681 00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:28,239 Speaker 1: was just a little independent movie even though it was universal. 682 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: It was it had a five million dollar budget, which 683 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: you know, it's not much. And I remember my manager 684 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,000 Speaker 1: calling me before I read the script and he's like, Okay, 685 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,160 Speaker 1: we're sending you the script. You're either going to love 686 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,160 Speaker 1: it or hate it. Nobody like that's just how it's going. 687 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 1: People can't stand it or they love it. So I 688 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,040 Speaker 1: loved it. And he was saying, take a look at 689 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: you know, whatever role because all the rules were open, 690 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,480 Speaker 1: and see which one you like. Oh. I think it 691 00:41:55,520 --> 00:42:00,440 Speaker 1: was actually between my yeah, exactly, Heather and Michelle. And 692 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,759 Speaker 1: I was like, no, I love Michelle and just immediately 693 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,919 Speaker 1: like wanted to do that part. And so I went. 694 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,600 Speaker 1: I went to the audition. It was casting. It was 695 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,520 Speaker 1: just me and the casting director, and he told me, um, no, 696 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,440 Speaker 1: she can't be that quirky, like take out all the 697 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 1: you know, all the quirk just take that away and 698 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,880 Speaker 1: because we want, you know, we want these two to 699 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 1: be together or whatever. And I was like, oh, okay. 700 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: I mean it's written in question form. Every line has 701 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: a question mark at the end of the sentence, and 702 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,480 Speaker 1: so I was like, oh, all right, well that's weird 703 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 1: because that's definitely not how I pictured it. So I 704 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,439 Speaker 1: did it again, just super boring, and he was like, Okay, great, 705 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to bring you back for the directors and 706 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,319 Speaker 1: that's that's great. And I got on the phone to 707 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,640 Speaker 1: my manager. I was like, they said that they're gonna 708 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 1: bring me back for the directors, but honestly, I don't 709 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: want to go because if he wants me to do 710 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,560 Speaker 1: it like that, I just that's that's not going to 711 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,960 Speaker 1: be funny. And so so they were like, yeah, yeah, okay, 712 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: well let's just see if you get the call back 713 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:13,399 Speaker 1: and talk to us then. And so I did, and 714 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: the call that they took me, my managers took me 715 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,040 Speaker 1: to lunch right before maybe to butter me up to 716 00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,080 Speaker 1: go to the callback. I don't know why, but we 717 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,040 Speaker 1: were at lunch and I had like seven iced teas 718 00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: or something ridiculous, and then I sat in traffic all 719 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,399 Speaker 1: my way to the callback, and I had to pee, 720 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 1: like I've never had to pee before, and I just 721 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,600 Speaker 1: remember kind of then you have to go through it's 722 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,800 Speaker 1: on the backload of Universal and drying to find the bungle, 723 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,279 Speaker 1: I was going to wet my pants and so I 724 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 1: was like, well, I don't want to be late. I'll 725 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,279 Speaker 1: sign in and then run to the bathroom. So I 726 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,360 Speaker 1: did that, and I'm like, I went into the bathroom 727 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: washing my hands, and the assistant comes in to the 728 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,960 Speaker 1: bathroom and says, okay, we're ready for you, Like, oh, 729 00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,160 Speaker 1: all right, So I never come in the bathroom. Yeah, 730 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,959 Speaker 1: well yeah, I mean yes, well thank god I wasn't 731 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,319 Speaker 1: in the stall still, so I dry my hands, but 732 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,120 Speaker 1: I never had time to settle down. I still had 733 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,640 Speaker 1: that I'm gonna weet my pants energy, and so I 734 00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: just went in and I never even decided if I 735 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,319 Speaker 1: was going to do it boring or the way I 736 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,440 Speaker 1: wanted to do it. And because I had that like 737 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 1: hyper p energy, I just did it the way I 738 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,640 Speaker 1: wanted to do it, and I got the job. There 739 00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:28,360 Speaker 1: you go. I'm sure the casting director appreciates me telling 740 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:35,319 Speaker 1: that story, but I think that that shows a boldness 741 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,440 Speaker 1: from you, whether it was intentional or not. Right, so, 742 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,200 Speaker 1: like it was just about the P or whatever, But 743 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,600 Speaker 1: if you read the script this morning, that you would say, 744 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,080 Speaker 1: if it was just about the PA, it was just 745 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,080 Speaker 1: about the PA, just about Alison to Hannigan's peak. No, 746 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,880 Speaker 1: but I mean, like there are times you read something 747 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,520 Speaker 1: and you see it clearly and it sounds like you did. 748 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: There were multiple was available for your choosing at least audition, 749 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: and you saw a character and you saw the role 750 00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 1: and they said, well, no, they want it like this. 751 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,480 Speaker 1: Well that's not you know, well that's not what I 752 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,799 Speaker 1: wanted to do. I really like, I had so much 753 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,160 Speaker 1: fun just being weird and like talking in question form. 754 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,640 Speaker 1: It was so much fun. And then like no, no, no, 755 00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: be just lose the quirk and and just like, you know, 756 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: we want them to root for them to be together. 757 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,239 Speaker 1: I'm like, what, But that didn't I didn't see it 758 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,480 Speaker 1: that way, and I'm so not normally like that either. 759 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,319 Speaker 1: I'm very much like, Okay, what do you want? I'm 760 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 1: your puppet, you know. So I guess that was just no, 761 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,160 Speaker 1: this is how I would want to play it. It 762 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,880 Speaker 1: also helped that I was on Buffy and it wasn't 763 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,000 Speaker 1: like I have to get this part, you know. It 764 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,839 Speaker 1: was like, hey, that'd be great. It's a small part 765 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,239 Speaker 1: in this movie I thought was really funny. But it 766 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,200 Speaker 1: wasn't like, oh, this is going to change your life, 767 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,680 Speaker 1: you know. You didn't know that at the time. So 768 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,640 Speaker 1: the stakes weren't that high, and I had a job 769 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,160 Speaker 1: to go back to, so that gave me a confidence 770 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:19,200 Speaker 1: that I didn't normally have. And I know and you 771 00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,279 Speaker 1: know that because people always say act like you don't 772 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,279 Speaker 1: care about the job, but it's you can't. Well, you 773 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:27,560 Speaker 1: have to truly not care. You have to truly not 774 00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,839 Speaker 1: care exactly well. And I'm so grateful that I had 775 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,279 Speaker 1: a crappy agent for Buffy because they weren't able to 776 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,400 Speaker 1: give me the script, so I only had the sides, 777 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,520 Speaker 1: and had I read the script, I would have completely 778 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,920 Speaker 1: lost my mind and I wouldn't have There's no way 779 00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,080 Speaker 1: I could have gotten it because I would would have 780 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: wanted it so desperately. So I'm I'm really glad that 781 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,040 Speaker 1: when I got the script, I was like, I want 782 00:46:54,040 --> 00:47:00,960 Speaker 1: the lottery. Yeah. I did not realize that American Pie 783 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,480 Speaker 1: was that small a budget, not that five millions. As 784 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,520 Speaker 1: you said, it's not nothing, but it's not a studio 785 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:15,200 Speaker 1: movie budget, and that's with like distribution, and and then 786 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,560 Speaker 1: they were going to dump it in the winter. I 787 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,640 Speaker 1: think it was going to be like released on Valentine's 788 00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,680 Speaker 1: Day or something, you know, where movies don't really tend 789 00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,799 Speaker 1: to do much now that's when my movies come out. Yeah, 790 00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,400 Speaker 1: that's where's case you're doing Valentine's Day love movies. But 791 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,200 Speaker 1: so they did the first sort of test screening where they, 792 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,719 Speaker 1: you know, grab a bunch of people and say, hey, 793 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,520 Speaker 1: watch this movie and tell us what do you think? 794 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:48,040 Speaker 1: And the ratings or whatever they were phenomenal. It was 795 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:52,080 Speaker 1: somewhere in the nineties, like nine percentile or whatever, and 796 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,040 Speaker 1: they freaked out, like Universal was like, what do we have? 797 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,719 Speaker 1: So then they made it a summer movie, which you 798 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,640 Speaker 1: know that's when like all the blockbusters come out. But 799 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,160 Speaker 1: I yeah, it was just that sort of It was 800 00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,879 Speaker 1: really like I love the script. Then I remember doing 801 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,359 Speaker 1: the table read and meeting everybody and hearing everyone and 802 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,359 Speaker 1: I was sitting next to Sean William Scott and he 803 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,279 Speaker 1: was like, I think he had just you know, come 804 00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,440 Speaker 1: from working at home depot or something, and he was 805 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: just the sweetest, most like, can you believe we're gonna 806 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,280 Speaker 1: do a moving picture? I mean, he was just so 807 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:32,400 Speaker 1: endearing and I love him so much. But they also 808 00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,360 Speaker 1: because it was such a low budget movie, it was tears. 809 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,680 Speaker 1: So there was like the A tier, which was like 810 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 1: the Jason Biggs and Eddie and like the guys cast 811 00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,960 Speaker 1: um and then there's a bat here and I think 812 00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,960 Speaker 1: Sean and I were seat here, so we were like 813 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:54,880 Speaker 1: very much bottom, you know, but fine. In fact, I remember, 814 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,040 Speaker 1: because it was just you knew going in Scale plus fifteen, 815 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,320 Speaker 1: you know, it's just a you're gonna make as little 816 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: as they can pay you. But there was in the 817 00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,440 Speaker 1: contract there was a sequel. Uh, And I was like, 818 00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,839 Speaker 1: and I said to my people, I'm like, I'm not 819 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:16,120 Speaker 1: signing on for a sequel for Scale plus fifteen. And 820 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 1: by the way, my character leaves at the end of 821 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,040 Speaker 1: the movie, so she wouldn't even be in the sequel, 822 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,040 Speaker 1: so they can just take that out. And I don't 823 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,160 Speaker 1: know why I said that, because you know, it wasn't 824 00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: like I was that savvy in the business or whatever, 825 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,200 Speaker 1: but they did. They took out the sequel clause because 826 00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,880 Speaker 1: and my character leaves at the end of the first movie. 827 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:46,919 Speaker 1: And boy was that really smart, really smart. Yeah. I 828 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,440 Speaker 1: wasn't seat here for the sequels, tell you that much. 829 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,600 Speaker 1: And by the way, I only worked seven days on 830 00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:01,520 Speaker 1: the first film because and I know specifically, because we 831 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,200 Speaker 1: had to get my schedule to work around the Buffy schedule. 832 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,680 Speaker 1: So they had to like, you know, have days off 833 00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,520 Speaker 1: from Buffy. And so they were like, Okay, we'll give 834 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,640 Speaker 1: you seven days. And so I worked seven days on 835 00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: the first one and eleven on the second one, and 836 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: I think they were doing weekends for me, but anyway, Yeah, 837 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,360 Speaker 1: So so I really did feel like such a minor part, 838 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,120 Speaker 1: which I didn't care. I loved I loved Michelle and 839 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,840 Speaker 1: and then I do remember like the first day of work, 840 00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,560 Speaker 1: We're at some high school and it was a scene 841 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,080 Speaker 1: where actually her first scene where she's talking to to 842 00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,680 Speaker 1: Jason and and I just remember being at like craft 843 00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,480 Speaker 1: service and some of the crew guys were like talking 844 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,360 Speaker 1: to me like my character, you know, in question for 845 00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,160 Speaker 1: him and sing songy and like talking about banking camp. 846 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,879 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh that's funny. Um. Little did 847 00:50:54,920 --> 00:51:01,240 Speaker 1: I know later, but I was like, okay, I guess 848 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:05,919 Speaker 1: that's good. Imitation is a form of flattery, right, Yeah. 849 00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,200 Speaker 1: But it was just this little movie. And then I 850 00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,239 Speaker 1: remember seeing a screening of it, like just you know, 851 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:16,200 Speaker 1: casting and producers, and I was like, oh, this is 852 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:21,040 Speaker 1: so good. I'm so excited. And then somehow I got 853 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:24,560 Speaker 1: a VHS tape and I remember playing it for Seth 854 00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,720 Speaker 1: and Sarah in the trailer at lunch one day or whatever. 855 00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,959 Speaker 1: Seth loved it. Sarah was like, it's not my type 856 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,160 Speaker 1: of film, and I was like, wait, are you doing 857 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:39,080 Speaker 1: cruel intentions right now? Um? But yeah, so but I 858 00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,440 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, Seth loved it, that's all that matters. 859 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,000 Speaker 1: But I was just so excited for my friends to 860 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,759 Speaker 1: see it because because at that time, that was so 861 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,640 Speaker 1: my sense of humor, and I just loved it. And 862 00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,279 Speaker 1: so it just was one of those things that every 863 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: step of the way it just got better. Like that 864 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,560 Speaker 1: cast read, I was like, this is good, and then 865 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,680 Speaker 1: the directors were amazing, and then you know, seeing the 866 00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,040 Speaker 1: final product, I was like, this is unbelievable. It's so cool. 867 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,719 Speaker 1: And then for it to come out and just be 868 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,840 Speaker 1: so well received and just such a huge hit, we 869 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:16,560 Speaker 1: were like, what is happening? It was a fun ride. 870 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,280 Speaker 1: That's amazing. But I can't imagine how many times people 871 00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:27,000 Speaker 1: have approached you with yes, definitely no. I remember saying 872 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,640 Speaker 1: once in an interview it's like if I had a 873 00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,280 Speaker 1: nickel for every time. And then I was like, oh wait, 874 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:41,640 Speaker 1: I do. Thank you American Pie. That's amazing. See American 875 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:46,279 Speaker 1: Pie to American Pie. I know. Wow. I mean, just 876 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:51,240 Speaker 1: the people at Universal must just think you're a negotiating 877 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:58,360 Speaker 1: shark because you're like that one clause out as probably 878 00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:02,080 Speaker 1: like I've probably ruined it for a bunch of actors 879 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,480 Speaker 1: behind me. They're like, we're not falling for that. You've 880 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,279 Speaker 1: got to sign your sequels now. I don't care if 881 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:14,239 Speaker 1: you're an extra. They learn their lesson. Oh that's amazing. 882 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,680 Speaker 1: Let me ask Let me ask you this. If you 883 00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:23,520 Speaker 1: look at you know, three huge cultural works of art 884 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,080 Speaker 1: that you have been involved with at least that at 885 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,400 Speaker 1: least have have caught flame, Buffy, American Pie, How I 886 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,200 Speaker 1: Met Your Mother? What is the what is the role 887 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,040 Speaker 1: that people come up to you the most about or 888 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,880 Speaker 1: approach you the most about. It depends on my location. 889 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,880 Speaker 1: If I'm around some sort of sporting event, it's going 890 00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:48,160 Speaker 1: to be American Pie. If I'm at a bookstore, it's 891 00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,520 Speaker 1: probably going to be Buffy or a comic bookshop, and 892 00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:56,319 Speaker 1: definitely Buffy. Um. And then I would say, overall, How 893 00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:01,760 Speaker 1: I Met Your Mother probably is the most popular because 894 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:06,719 Speaker 1: it was popular when it was on. Then we started streaming. Well, 895 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:11,879 Speaker 1: first we were played on airplanes, and that's when we 896 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:15,520 Speaker 1: were like, wait a second, We've got a captive audience, 897 00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,800 Speaker 1: and so we sort of saw that we were getting 898 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,440 Speaker 1: a little more popular with that, and then Netflix started 899 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,719 Speaker 1: airing us and that changed everything, and I feel like 900 00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:31,160 Speaker 1: it just keeps growing. I feel like both of the 901 00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:34,799 Speaker 1: shows that I was on, we're more popular after they 902 00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,480 Speaker 1: were over than when they were actually on, even though 903 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,920 Speaker 1: How I Met Your Mother kept growing. But the fans 904 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,200 Speaker 1: are incredible. In fact, back to Comic Con, when our 905 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,240 Speaker 1: our last season and you know, you do the whole 906 00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,960 Speaker 1: press thing of the show's over, and they asked us 907 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,000 Speaker 1: to go to Comic Con, which was sort of baffling 908 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,479 Speaker 1: because we're not a science fic. It wasn't like we're 909 00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,400 Speaker 1: the Big Bang Theory. It's like it's a sitcom that 910 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,200 Speaker 1: has not thing to do. But okay, so we did, 911 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:06,080 Speaker 1: and um people stood in line like all night to 912 00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:09,200 Speaker 1: be in our panel. And then Entertainment Weekly did some 913 00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,440 Speaker 1: sort of survey where they they gauge all the social 914 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:16,680 Speaker 1: media whatever it is to see who won Comic Con. 915 00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:21,120 Speaker 1: And we won Comic Con. We meet like we beat 916 00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:25,680 Speaker 1: Superman versus Batman or whatever movie it was, and we 917 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,440 Speaker 1: were like what we what? Because because people were talking 918 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,200 Speaker 1: about us the most on social media. I guess that 919 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:39,560 Speaker 1: was pretty incredible to to hear. Yeah, that is surprising 920 00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:44,080 Speaker 1: because comic Con is a very specific type of event. 921 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:49,440 Speaker 1: Definitely that feels way buffier. You must have done that. Yeah, 922 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:54,319 Speaker 1: oh yeah, we did. I don't remember when we started, 923 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:57,480 Speaker 1: but it was when Seth was on, because Seth and 924 00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,919 Speaker 1: I were there and uh, and we were like, wait, 925 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,880 Speaker 1: don't don't we get to go like walk around and 926 00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,919 Speaker 1: see all the stuff. And they're like, no, you can't 927 00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,960 Speaker 1: do that. We're like, we have to. We're a common 928 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:10,759 Speaker 1: come we want to go see the stuff. And so 929 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:12,600 Speaker 1: then they were like, well we have to send security 930 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,759 Speaker 1: with you, and we're like, oh my god, which of 931 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:18,799 Speaker 1: course draws way more attention than if you just put 932 00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:22,080 Speaker 1: a baseball cap in and go walk around. And so 933 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,960 Speaker 1: he and I quickly realized, okay, we can't do this 934 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,560 Speaker 1: with security. We gotta break free, and so we did 935 00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,920 Speaker 1: and it was fine. Well, as soon as you have 936 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:33,080 Speaker 1: like coming through, coming through, coming through, it attracts a 937 00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,120 Speaker 1: crowd of like what's happening, and then you can't do 938 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,600 Speaker 1: anything because you've got like fifty people around you sort 939 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:43,080 Speaker 1: of trying to figure out why some some dudes trying 940 00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,840 Speaker 1: to protect you know, having security is way worse. I 941 00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:51,000 Speaker 1: think partly it's because the security who are with you, 942 00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:55,839 Speaker 1: they somehow there is an attention that they enjoy about that, 943 00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,360 Speaker 1: like there's a puffier chest, there's a higher walk, and 944 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,520 Speaker 1: of course, like if you're just standing there, you look 945 00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:05,280 Speaker 1: at this person who's walking by with this great purpose 946 00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,279 Speaker 1: looking around, and then of course and they're always like 947 00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,240 Speaker 1: seven feet tall. I feel like maybe I'm just short. 948 00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,520 Speaker 1: But between Seth and I were just like looking up 949 00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,320 Speaker 1: to this these two guys that are trying like causing 950 00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,160 Speaker 1: such a scene where like we know how to do this, 951 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:29,680 Speaker 1: we can get it's okay. That was really silly. But anyway, 952 00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,960 Speaker 1: that was just a long winded way of saying It 953 00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:35,680 Speaker 1: was sometime within the first couple of seasons. But we 954 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,720 Speaker 1: went down there and we were just shocked at the 955 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,800 Speaker 1: fact that we could fill an auditorium. They actually bumped 956 00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,360 Speaker 1: us up to a bigger auditorium because of all the 957 00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,920 Speaker 1: interest in hearing us talk, and it was amazing, And 958 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,280 Speaker 1: I remember that was the first time I had seen 959 00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,880 Speaker 1: somebody like burst into tears because they got to hug 960 00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,600 Speaker 1: David Boreana so it was just like, oh, people like 961 00:57:56,720 --> 00:58:19,920 Speaker 1: this show. That's awesome. What was your process for getting 962 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,920 Speaker 1: cass there on? How I Met your Mother? Oh? How 963 00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:26,560 Speaker 1: I Met your mother? Okay, So the creators Craig and Carter, 964 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,800 Speaker 1: Craig's wife, well, Craig and his wife, Rebecca were very, 965 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:36,080 Speaker 1: very big Buffy fans, and so when How I Met 966 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:39,920 Speaker 1: your Mother's loosely based on Carter and Craig's friendship. And 967 00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,560 Speaker 1: so when Craig went to Rebecca and said, hey, so 968 00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,680 Speaker 1: Carter and I think about, you know, writing this story 969 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,840 Speaker 1: kind of based on ourselves, what do you think how 970 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,880 Speaker 1: what do you think about that? She was like, well, 971 00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,160 Speaker 1: as long as Alice and Hannigan plays me, I'm fine. 972 00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:58,600 Speaker 1: And so she basically got me the job. So I 973 00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:02,800 Speaker 1: always am super grateful to Rebecca for that. And so 974 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,720 Speaker 1: I got this call, Hey, you know these guys have 975 00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:09,080 Speaker 1: you know, they've got the script or whatever. And at 976 00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:12,080 Speaker 1: the time, I was reading a lot of scripts and 977 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,520 Speaker 1: it really stood out as special. I liked it immediately, 978 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,640 Speaker 1: and then it was just a sort of will you 979 00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,160 Speaker 1: meet the showrunners? And I was like, okay, is it 980 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,680 Speaker 1: an audition? No, just go meet them? Okay, great, which 981 00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,680 Speaker 1: is weird but great um and they were lovely and 982 00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:32,640 Speaker 1: so sweet, and then the network wanted me to do 983 00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:39,840 Speaker 1: the audition the test exactly. So I remember I was like, okay, 984 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,600 Speaker 1: one audition or if ie going straight to network the 985 00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:48,040 Speaker 1: big leagues now. So they for for the network tests, 986 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,120 Speaker 1: they have to iron out the whole deal of you know, 987 00:59:51,160 --> 00:59:53,440 Speaker 1: how much we're gonna blah blah blah blah blah all 988 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,720 Speaker 1: this stuff, and I just remember there was like one 989 00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:02,200 Speaker 1: little hiccup that my p bowl and business affairs couldn't 990 01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:04,880 Speaker 1: get past. So the network day was going to be like, 991 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,680 Speaker 1: you know, Wednesday or something, and they didn't have a deal. 992 01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:13,000 Speaker 1: So I was ready to go test on Wednesday, and 993 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,840 Speaker 1: no deal, So no, I don't get to test. So 994 01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,480 Speaker 1: so I thought, well that was it. Okay, And then 995 01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:22,480 Speaker 1: I think in the room it was Gary Newman I heard, 996 01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,480 Speaker 1: who was the president of twentieth Century Fox who produced 997 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,160 Speaker 1: the show. But he was like wait, I thought Alison 998 01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,400 Speaker 1: was coming in for this, and then they were like yeah, 999 01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,320 Speaker 1: we can't get or whatever, and he was like, come on, 1000 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,800 Speaker 1: and so they called back and said okay, come test 1001 01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,040 Speaker 1: on Friday. It was like two days later or something, 1002 01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,840 Speaker 1: and so I did and there were no other girls there, 1003 01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:44,800 Speaker 1: and I was like, this is awesome. They were testing 1004 01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,080 Speaker 1: the role of Barney, so it was just me and 1005 01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,560 Speaker 1: a bunch of Barneys. And I'm like, Okay, if I 1006 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:54,360 Speaker 1: can't get this, then I'm really because I hate auditioning. 1007 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,280 Speaker 1: By the way, I'm so I'm not a great auditioner. 1008 01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:01,240 Speaker 1: It's such a different skill said, and I just don't 1009 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,360 Speaker 1: possess that that that skill set. I get two in 1010 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,840 Speaker 1: my head and I sort of like I leave my 1011 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,480 Speaker 1: body and I start judging myself. I'm like, oh no, 1012 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:15,960 Speaker 1: that wasn't good. Watch from the outside, so bad. So anyway, 1013 01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:17,920 Speaker 1: so I was really happy that I didn't have to 1014 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:22,000 Speaker 1: like sit there and see my competition and uh. And 1015 01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,680 Speaker 1: then while I was waiting, Neil Patrick Harris walks in 1016 01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,160 Speaker 1: and we had been friends since like we're sixteen or something, 1017 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,480 Speaker 1: so we're both really excited to see each other and 1018 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,840 Speaker 1: just have a familiar face. And he went in first. 1019 01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,840 Speaker 1: Oh he was contemplating doing some sort of prap fall 1020 01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,560 Speaker 1: or something um and I was like, yeah, I hit 1021 01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,360 Speaker 1: the wall, so I can hear you did it, that 1022 01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,360 Speaker 1: you've done it, and he did, get here, you bounced 1023 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,680 Speaker 1: off the door or something um, and I was like, oh, Neil, 1024 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,360 Speaker 1: you're the best. And so I went in. It was 1025 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,280 Speaker 1: just me and that was great. It was fun. And 1026 01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,640 Speaker 1: then I left and it wasn't. They didn't make me 1027 01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,480 Speaker 1: wait for very long, and I did. I think on 1028 01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:05,240 Speaker 1: the way home maybe I got the call. So that 1029 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,960 Speaker 1: was really exciting. And then a few days later they 1030 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,400 Speaker 1: were wanted to test for Marshalls. They asked me to 1031 01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,160 Speaker 1: come in into a chemistry read. So I did it 1032 01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:18,760 Speaker 1: chemistry read and Jason Siegel and I had been in 1033 01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:24,240 Speaker 1: a movie together years before called dead Man on Campus. 1034 01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:28,120 Speaker 1: Don't rush out to rent that right now. I've missed 1035 01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:29,640 Speaker 1: that one, but I'm going to watch it tonight. You 1036 01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:31,760 Speaker 1: know a lot of people did. It was fine to miss. 1037 01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,040 Speaker 1: And when I saw him it was him and some 1038 01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,560 Speaker 1: other guy, and I saw him, I was like, oh 1039 01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,040 Speaker 1: that god looks familiar r now. And then we did 1040 01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,680 Speaker 1: that like hey, how are you like? We know we 1041 01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,920 Speaker 1: know each other. I just have no idea why I 1042 01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,360 Speaker 1: know you. And then later on it was I realized 1043 01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:54,000 Speaker 1: we've worked together, um, but he sort of just stood 1044 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,400 Speaker 1: outside and did his thing, and then the other guy 1045 01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:59,080 Speaker 1: was like very much like, Okay, she is the job 1046 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to kiss up to her, and so he 1047 01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:05,040 Speaker 1: was like on me the entire time, which fine, like 1048 01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:07,360 Speaker 1: do whatever you gotta do. And then we go in 1049 01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:09,240 Speaker 1: and I read with that guy, and then I read 1050 01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:13,480 Speaker 1: with Jason, and I mess up. I totally jumped on 1051 01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:16,919 Speaker 1: one of his jokes and I was like, oh, I'm 1052 01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:21,320 Speaker 1: such a jerk. I just ruined this guy's chances. But again, 1053 01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,680 Speaker 1: we both played it off and the chemistry was clearly there. 1054 01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:28,720 Speaker 1: But I was so concerned that I blew it for 1055 01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,360 Speaker 1: him because I screwed up his one, like one of 1056 01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:35,400 Speaker 1: his punch lines. I was like, oh, I'm so sorry, 1057 01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,080 Speaker 1: but thank god he got it because I would have 1058 01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,240 Speaker 1: that would have haunted me for years. Well, and I 1059 01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,280 Speaker 1: mean the fact that is that you already had the job, 1060 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:47,760 Speaker 1: So being back in the corner drinking a glass of 1061 01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,520 Speaker 1: wine and smoking a cigarette like you were, it's probably 1062 01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,080 Speaker 1: probably why you messed up. It's like, I've got this now, 1063 01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:55,760 Speaker 1: I don't have to be I think I just messed 1064 01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:58,840 Speaker 1: up because I'm terrible at auditions. I mean, clearly, or 1065 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,480 Speaker 1: that's the key to it, is that I mess up, 1066 01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:06,280 Speaker 1: and it helps because you share the chemistry. Because I 1067 01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,240 Speaker 1: messed up in Buffy and I messed up on his 1068 01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:12,080 Speaker 1: How I Met Your Mother. So that's a good lesson actually, 1069 01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:16,080 Speaker 1: not that we're into teaching lessons here, but that there 1070 01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,840 Speaker 1: is something about the energy and the intention, and I 1071 01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:23,360 Speaker 1: do think that's so often as actors. Why maybe you struggle, 1072 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,840 Speaker 1: why I struggle at times with auditions is that, yeah, 1073 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,240 Speaker 1: you get so worked up about it being perfect and 1074 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,720 Speaker 1: forget that it's really just about showing yourself as best 1075 01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,920 Speaker 1: you can and that limited amount of time. Exactly. I 1076 01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:42,280 Speaker 1: do really think that chemistry is so there when you 1077 01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:45,200 Speaker 1: mess up. Like, honestly, I've thought about it since, and 1078 01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:48,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, if I were in a casting session, I 1079 01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,840 Speaker 1: might try to mess up just to see how how 1080 01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,840 Speaker 1: it plays, you know, because then you kind of, without 1081 01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,800 Speaker 1: going completely off script, you do get into a little 1082 01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:03,600 Speaker 1: bit of improv. I don't know, it's just it's just 1083 01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,600 Speaker 1: been telling in my situations where where it's like it 1084 01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:12,080 Speaker 1: was so right even though I totally screwed up his line, Yeah, 1085 01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:17,680 Speaker 1: and he handled it beautifully. He didn't, like I mean, 1086 01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:24,200 Speaker 1: he was totally professional. Um, How I Met Your Mother 1087 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:30,120 Speaker 1: started roughly the same time that the office started. Yes, 1088 01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,680 Speaker 1: I think you guys must have started first. Yeah, but 1089 01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,040 Speaker 1: I don't feel like there was a ton of It 1090 01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:41,240 Speaker 1: wasn't like we were had some weird competition. We were 1091 01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:46,000 Speaker 1: clearly like on different nights. I felt like we totally 1092 01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:50,840 Speaker 1: talked about your show and appreciated it. And yeah, I 1093 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,240 Speaker 1: don't feel like there was ever any I mean, honestly, 1094 01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,680 Speaker 1: I remember from the start of How I Met Your 1095 01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,240 Speaker 1: Mother we were produced by twenty Century Fox that and 1096 01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:04,000 Speaker 1: they also produced My Name Is Earl. And My Name 1097 01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:09,200 Speaker 1: Is Earle was their baby. They they loved that baby, 1098 01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:13,320 Speaker 1: and so I do remember us always being like, well're 1099 01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:17,200 Speaker 1: not my name is Earl, and it we really felt that, 1100 01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,400 Speaker 1: you know, like from the studio perspective of like they 1101 01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:23,520 Speaker 1: don't care about that. Like anytime like the studio run 1102 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,120 Speaker 1: through would run late, They're like, oh, they're lunching with 1103 01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,640 Speaker 1: my Name is Earl. Like, we were definitely bitter about 1104 01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,120 Speaker 1: how much attention they got and they got all the 1105 01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:36,880 Speaker 1: you know, the campaigns and and but they also came 1106 01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,400 Speaker 1: out with a huge bang and we did not, So 1107 01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,880 Speaker 1: you know, rightfully, they probably earned it more than we did. 1108 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:47,000 Speaker 1: But uh, that's the only like show. I Oh, and 1109 01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:49,160 Speaker 1: then we got really mad at Dancing with the Stars 1110 01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:53,560 Speaker 1: because they kept kicking our butts with the numbers because 1111 01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,200 Speaker 1: they were up against so so for us, I think 1112 01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,360 Speaker 1: the only like shows we ever talked about, we're the 1113 01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:03,880 Speaker 1: ones that we're like getting our attention or from the 1114 01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:09,000 Speaker 1: studio or kicking our ass in the numbers. It's fascinating 1115 01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:11,400 Speaker 1: because you know, my name is Earl. We were we 1116 01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:15,240 Speaker 1: struggled mightily out of the gate, and we're almost canceled 1117 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,560 Speaker 1: a couple of times. My name is Earl is one 1118 01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,360 Speaker 1: of the reasons we were even stayed on the air 1119 01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,520 Speaker 1: because they put us behind my name is Earl. And yes, 1120 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,000 Speaker 1: exactly as you said, it came out of the gate 1121 01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:32,800 Speaker 1: crazy big, and then nine months in or whatever, we 1122 01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,040 Speaker 1: finally kind of overtook them and everything sort of swung 1123 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:40,560 Speaker 1: that show. It's so crazy that our shows lasted for 1124 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:44,200 Speaker 1: so long and that show was so huge out of 1125 01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:48,480 Speaker 1: the gate, and then and then bye bye. We were 1126 01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:52,640 Speaker 1: perpetually a bubble show. We barely got like we barely 1127 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:56,080 Speaker 1: got the back order, and then you know, it was 1128 01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:59,080 Speaker 1: definitely sort of are we going to get this season two? 1129 01:07:59,240 --> 01:08:01,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, and no, yes we did. And then 1130 01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:05,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly which seasons it was, but It 1131 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:10,120 Speaker 1: was probably after we started our numbers and popularity started 1132 01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:14,000 Speaker 1: increasing because of you know, really being popular in airplanes 1133 01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,040 Speaker 1: and jails, that we did get like a two season 1134 01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:23,599 Speaker 1: pick up. At once we thought we were rock stars. 1135 01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,559 Speaker 1: I think it might have been season three and four, 1136 01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,000 Speaker 1: but it was like, not only did we get picked up, 1137 01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:37,520 Speaker 1: but we got our two seasons. That was amazing. Yeah, yeah, 1138 01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,280 Speaker 1: we were there too. We were on the bubble for 1139 01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:43,080 Speaker 1: so long. It was so nice not to be called 1140 01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:49,880 Speaker 1: the Bubble Show. I know, I know, yeah, please, um, 1141 01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:52,400 Speaker 1: I know since how I met your mother has been 1142 01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,759 Speaker 1: off the air. Now you've been expanding your horizons even further. 1143 01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:00,759 Speaker 1: You're hosting. Do you like hosting Pen and Teller? Do I? 1144 01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:05,240 Speaker 1: You know? Yes? I love that I get to be 1145 01:09:05,920 --> 01:09:09,320 Speaker 1: thrown into a world that is so foreign to myself, 1146 01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:14,880 Speaker 1: Like the the magician world is just so different. And 1147 01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:18,479 Speaker 1: to get to sort of watch these people come on 1148 01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:23,479 Speaker 1: and perform in front of their icons, because Penn and 1149 01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:27,040 Speaker 1: Teller are living legends. All these magicians have grown up 1150 01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,960 Speaker 1: being inspired by them and like and so to watch 1151 01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:34,760 Speaker 1: sort of people's dreams coming true is really cool. To 1152 01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,320 Speaker 1: be a little like you know, Fly on the Wall 1153 01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:41,840 Speaker 1: and the Magic is amazing. I went in knowing very 1154 01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,360 Speaker 1: very little, and obviously we've been doing it for a 1155 01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,160 Speaker 1: long time now, so I know more than I wish 1156 01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:50,599 Speaker 1: I knew. But there's still so many people that are 1157 01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:54,880 Speaker 1: so incredible that just make me feel like I'm a 1158 01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:58,799 Speaker 1: six year old watching magic happen. So it's it's fun. 1159 01:09:59,120 --> 01:10:01,519 Speaker 1: I have a six year old who watches me do magic, 1160 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:05,280 Speaker 1: and that's about the only person who would be impressed 1161 01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,920 Speaker 1: by mine. I don't know, you should come on. I 1162 01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:12,320 Speaker 1: don't know, no, chick, come on. You could come on 1163 01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,800 Speaker 1: at least to like just be the person that they trick. 1164 01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:19,760 Speaker 1: That would not be difficult for me. That would be 1165 01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:24,519 Speaker 1: really incredible. Alison. I can't let you leave before I 1166 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:29,320 Speaker 1: tell you I have loved essentially everything that you have 1167 01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:34,400 Speaker 1: ever done except except oh and you haven't seen dead 1168 01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:38,680 Speaker 1: Man on campus. So, and I mean no disrespect to 1169 01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:43,880 Speaker 1: you or anyone else associated with the project, but Fancy Nancy, 1170 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:49,200 Speaker 1: specifically the theme song for Fancy Nancy gets stuck in 1171 01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:53,200 Speaker 1: my head. Oh good, I think if you don't like 1172 01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:59,840 Speaker 1: Fancy Nancy, this interview, Fancy Nancy, Fancy Nancy. Thank God 1173 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:04,639 Speaker 1: we're not singing it well, I mean that's what I do. 1174 01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,840 Speaker 1: You used to sing Annie running around the house. I 1175 01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:11,920 Speaker 1: now have to sing Fancy Nancy and then go out 1176 01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:17,280 Speaker 1: of my head. It's such a good show, though. I 1177 01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,280 Speaker 1: love the animation, so I'm doing an animated show for 1178 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:22,360 Speaker 1: Netflix right now too, and the kids are watching that, 1179 01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:26,080 Speaker 1: and I truly do love it. It's so creative. It's 1180 01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,960 Speaker 1: such a different world of acting that I enjoy so much. 1181 01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,000 Speaker 1: But no, the theme song for Fancy Nancy, we Gotta 1182 01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,760 Speaker 1: we Gotta Work, well, I didn't write it, and I 1183 01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:41,559 Speaker 1: think the kids love it. I love that show that was. 1184 01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,960 Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I've always always wanted to do a 1185 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:50,160 Speaker 1: cartoon and I don't think I was good at it 1186 01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:54,280 Speaker 1: until I had children, because I do a lot of 1187 01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:59,840 Speaker 1: emoting with my face, apparently, and that doesn't work in cartoons, 1188 01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:01,880 Speaker 1: so you have to do it with your voice. And 1189 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:03,920 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that until I had kids and I 1190 01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,320 Speaker 1: started reading bedtime stories out loud and like, oh and 1191 01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:10,599 Speaker 1: and Fancy Nancy was just such a dream and I 1192 01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,960 Speaker 1: just had so much fun doing that every single time, 1193 01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,840 Speaker 1: and honestly, I would have done it for a hundred years. 1194 01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:20,040 Speaker 1: I loved that show and it was just like I 1195 01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,040 Speaker 1: also love being part of a show you could just 1196 01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,160 Speaker 1: PLoP your kid down and you know it's going to 1197 01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,559 Speaker 1: be okay and safe and not like inappropriate for their 1198 01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:35,720 Speaker 1: their age. So that was I love that show. Fancy Nancy, 1199 01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:41,479 Speaker 1: Fancy Nancy. Well, if there's a reboot, maybe I can 1200 01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:45,439 Speaker 1: come up with a different theme song. Um, Alison, thank 1201 01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,200 Speaker 1: you so much for coming and talk to me. No, 1202 01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:53,400 Speaker 1: you're one. You're delightful. Uh too, you offered I think 1203 01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:57,679 Speaker 1: some just some great insight into not just your career, 1204 01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,400 Speaker 1: but how a lot of actors should maybe think about 1205 01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,160 Speaker 1: the audition process and fame and whatnot. I'm so happy 1206 01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:07,280 Speaker 1: for you and respect you so much. Thank you so 1207 01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:24,240 Speaker 1: much for talking to you. Thanks for having me. Fancy Nancy, 1208 01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,000 Speaker 1: Fancy Nancy. I don't think I'm even doing it right 1209 01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,360 Speaker 1: because now it's catchy. Now it's stuck in my head. Alison, 1210 01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:33,960 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the podcast today. I am 1211 01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,920 Speaker 1: so glad we finally got a chance to sit down 1212 01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:41,440 Speaker 1: and really talk. So thank you. Thank you as always 1213 01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,320 Speaker 1: to your listeners for tuning in if you liked what 1214 01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,240 Speaker 1: you heard today, and I don't know how you couldn't. 1215 01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:50,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's Alison freaking hand again. She 1216 01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:54,280 Speaker 1: is incredible, But if you did, please go ahead leave 1217 01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:58,400 Speaker 1: a review on Apple Podcasts or send us a note 1218 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:02,519 Speaker 1: at Instagram at Off the Beat, we would love to 1219 01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,040 Speaker 1: hear from you. I will be back next week with 1220 01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:10,360 Speaker 1: another incredible guest from one of your very favorite shows. 1221 01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,920 Speaker 1: But until then, everybody, have a great week. We will 1222 01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:28,920 Speaker 1: see you next Tuesday. Off the Beat is hosted an 1223 01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:34,160 Speaker 1: executive produced by me Brian Baumgartner, alongside our executive producer Langley. 1224 01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:38,840 Speaker 1: Our producers are Diego Tapia, Liz Hayes, Emily Carr, and 1225 01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:43,200 Speaker 1: Hannah Harris. Our talent producer is Ryan Papa Zachary. Our 1226 01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:47,479 Speaker 1: theme song Bubble and Squeak performed by my great friend 1227 01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:51,480 Speaker 1: Creed Bratton, and the episode was mixed by seth Olandski 1228 01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:00,479 Speaker 1: M hmm