WEBVTT - Alyson Hannigan 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.360 My daughter would love that call sheet. Your daughter was huge. Yes, 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.239 she's a huge fan, and I'm getting a lot of 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.400 cool points by talking to you today. Until she finds 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.080 out that I said the word cool points, I'll get 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:24.720 some deductions for that, but yeah, she's very happy. Hi. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:30.040 I'm Alison Hannigan. You probably remember me from My Stepmother's 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.880 An Alien. I played Jesse because fan favorite. I've done 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.839 some other stuff too, but you know we're really here 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:48.200 to talk about my stepmothers an Alien. Right, Hello everybody, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.480 and welcome to the very first episode of Off the Beat. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.480 I am your host, Ryan Baumgartner, and I am so 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.440 excited to start this journey with all of you. Now, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:07.520 my guest today has fought demons, worked as a kindergarten teacher, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.920 and let's just say she has had a lot of 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.040 crazy experiences at band camp. Get ready for an absolutely 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:22.640 hilarious conversation with Alison Hannigan. Now, Alison, she was born 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.240 to be in show biz and she has been working 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:29.240 in the industry for her entire life, well with the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.640 exception of a couple of years when she was a baby, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.080 but we'll just let those years slide, okay. And while 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.920 her early jobs may have been motivated by the promise 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:44.160 of desserts. She has since been in everything from Buffy 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.480 the Vampire Slayer to American Pie to How I Met 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:53.880 Your Mother and now to my daughter's current obsession, Fancy Nancy. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.240 And somehow in all of that, she also managed to 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:03.080 have her very own the office experience. Now that is 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.480 what you call a tease. It was my absolute pleasure 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.960 to sit down with Allison. And you're not gonna believe 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.360 how funny she is. I mean, you probably will believe it, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:17.399 but you get my point. Please welcome with me the incredible, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:28.160 the unbelievably talented Alison Hannigan. Bubble and Squeak. I love 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:35.080 Bubble and Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cookie every month, 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:48.280 left over from the night before. Oh, I can hears 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:54.799 my breathing. It's very awkward. I'm going to breathe away 0:02:54.800 --> 0:03:03.720 from the microphone. Alison. Hello, Alison, how are you good? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.960 Are you in a beehive? I am in a beehive. Well, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.040 my initials are b beast. Yes, so I try to 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.320 make everything around me like I'm a bee. I love it. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.880 You have a bed in your background. I'm in a 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.960 guest bedroom, which is actually very close to our bee hives. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.760 So there you go. Do you have bee hives? My yes, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.280 it's my husband. He's yes, he's trying to get all 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.120 the bees. I think it was gonna be let's just 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.200 have one beehive. Now we have, like I don't know, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.320 we're a shelter for bees. His beekeeper that he works 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.280 with is like, hey, we've got some bees from Beverly Hills. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.800 They need a place to stay and bring him over. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.840 That's not how my husband sounds, but I I imitate 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:59.560 him like that. I didn't know people did this city. Yes, yeah, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.000 I mean we have a lot of space, so that's helpful. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.040 But yeah, we are the honey people now. I just 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.760 just saying to a friend that we just we're going 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.760 to be known as the honey people because every time 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.440 we go somewhere, we're like, here's some honey. But I 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.599 love that. I want some of your honey. And I 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.120 mean that in a yes, Okay, come get some honey, 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.040 some oranges. We can take care of your shopping needs. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.720 I used to have avocado trees, lots of huge, huge 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.479 avocado trees, and there's only one thing in the world 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.360 I can't eat which is avocados. So there you go. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.560 That was like, no, we don't have the trees anymore. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.280 Now I moved. I didn't cut them down. I didn't. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:49.320 It wasn't like a fie on you trees. But yes, no, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.200 I don't have them anymore. We have an avocado tree, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.000 but it is a strange breed of avocado that I 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.640 don't know. Our gardener says you're supposed to eat the skin. 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.640 I don't believe him, and it's gross. They're not tasty, 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.159 but he has wonderful AVOCADOSM brings us some. Well, there 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:12.600 you go. You can trade for the honey exactly. Um, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.480 I'm such a big fan of yours. I'm so excited 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.320 to be talking to you. But I want to go 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:24.000 back into your brain. Boy. Okay, good luck. Well, because 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.440 we have we have some like weird crossovers, though not 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.800 not exactly. You were born in d C, but you 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:37.719 started acting in Atlanta. That is where I am from. No, yes, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.760 the A T L And I was there when you 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.159 were there. If my research is true, did you move 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.599 to Atlanta or you just started acting in Atlanta? So 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.440 we My mom and dad sort of split up in 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.080 d C when I was a baby, and then she 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.560 was born and raised in Atlanta, so she moved back 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.279 there with me. And so even though it's born in See, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.479 I don't remember it at all. Like, my hometown is Atlanta. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.080 That's where I was in elementary school and everything. Yeah, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.039 where did you go to elementary school? Well? First it 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.680 was this small little private school called the Children's School 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.400 right near Kimont Park. And then I really I really 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.279 wanted to take the school bus, so I begged my 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.160 mom didn't take me out of private school and so 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.320 I could go to public school. She's like, okay, And 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.039 so then I went to UM. I had one year 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.159 of Garden Hills Elementary School, and then moved to middle 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.800 school and went to Sutton Middle School, and then we 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.880 moved out to California. Okay, all right, I know Sutton. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.240 I was a Holy Innocence and Westminster kid in the 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.360 A t L. So you started doing commercials. I understand 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.200 when you were four in the A t L. Now 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.680 was this something that you were interested in or your 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.279 your mom was interested in, or how did this start? Well? 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.320 I don't really actually remember a time where I didn't 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.240 want to be an actress. So for me, I always 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.400 wanted to do it. Back then, it was a hobby. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.240 It was like I played soccer and I also did 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.920 commercials and print jobs. Both my parents were photographers when 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.160 I was a baby, so if they ever needed a 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.120 you know baby for modeling, they just stick me in 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.640 front of the camera and I loved it. So that 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.320 sort of led to you know modeling, and you know, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.040 I thought that was really fun, and then commercials as well. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.720 My first commercial was like a Duncan Hinz cookie commercial. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.320 I think I was basically an extra, but I got 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.160 to just walk with this chocolate chip cookie to the 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.880 car and it was really hot because its Atlanta, and 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.880 the chocolate chips would just melt all over my fingers, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:42.760 so they wouldn't let me eat the cookie, but I 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.720 could lick my fingers after every take. It was heaven. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.760 I was sold right then and there, like this is 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.040 the job for me. But then you said you moved 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.600 to Los Angeles. So now when you moved to Los Angeles, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:00.320 were you moving because you wanted to pursue this or yes, yes, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.680 My mom was really supportive. My dad had moved out 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:07.040 to Santa Barbara and I came to visit him when 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.920 like some break or something and uh, and she had 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.800 set set up some agent meetings because we had always 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.120 heard it was really hard to get agents in California. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.440 So we met with like four agents and they were 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.880 all like, well, if you move out here, we'll take you. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.920 So she was like, all right, let's do it. So 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.480 she was kind of bored, and that's how we got 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.880 out here, I mean, thankfully. I think I had gotten 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.800 really close to or so I was told to this 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.600 movie with Sissy Spacek and Mel Gibson I think called 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:43.559 The River or something. The River anyway, remember a long time, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.440 but so so they did you know, it was a 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.720 southern movie or whatever, and and I wound up screen 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.320 testing for that and so I think that kind of 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.760 gave her a like, oh wait, maybe she can do 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.520 more than just the local commercials. So we did and 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.720 we moved out and I had an agent and worked 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.280 a little and didn't work a lot, But it was 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.800 just something I always knew that I wanted. I just 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.439 got like a weird accent then always. I don't know 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.720 where that came from. Always, but yeah, I mean I 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.440 remember just I was an only child, still am and uh, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.920 and then I would be home alone a lot and 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.959 I would just always pretend that I was on television. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.800 I was, like I thought, I guess I wanted to 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.920 be a reality television star before it ever was a thing. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.760 But um, so I would just walk around the house 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.880 like thinking, I'm on television right now, somebody. I just 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.200 can't see the cameras, but I'm sure that I'm on TV. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.000 You know, I wanted to be Cindy Brady, so I 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.880 just always knew. So. So the long answer to that 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:55.920 question is yes, my mom definitely wanted it as well, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.920 but it wasn't She was not pushing me into it, right. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.680 Did you do Did you do theater at all? Or 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.800 was it really for you about film? I did a 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.200 little bit of theater, but not not really like I 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.520 wasn't a proper actor or sorry, Um, I did do 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:17.800 my first like stage show at the Alliance Theater. It's 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.760 like the biggest. She just name drops, like the biggest. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.440 I just did this one show, probably a camp it was. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.760 I don't really remember. I was very young, but I 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:32.120 do remember that we all did Shell Silverstein's A Light 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.480 in the Attic, which is just really cute little short stories. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.320 But we would act out short stories and I just 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.040 thought that was brilliant. I love that. The Giving Tree 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.640 still one of my favorite too. Now, you played soccer 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.520 as a kid, and you you got an injury. Was 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.480 that something that was significant for you? Well, it was 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:59.120 significant in making the shift from Southern to California, because 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.760 as I, okay, girls in the South don't kick that hard. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.760 You know, they're not as aggressive, They're much more polite. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.080 But I mean, it was an accident, but basically I 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.640 got kicked in the ribs really hard and sort of 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.320 dislocated something I don't know, but that was the end 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.200 of my soccer career. So I used to before that, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.160 I would say I want to be a soccer player 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.880 or an actress, and then it was just okay, I 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.440 only have one option. Now I don't like getting hurt, Well, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.280 I asked, because I had. I had a very similar story, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.640 and I won't bore people with the entirety of the story. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.120 But my dream was to be the first baseman for 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.520 the Atlanta Braves. Like not just a professional baseball player, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.760 but like that was my dream. And I went through 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.560 an injury and a surgery and something went terribly wrong 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:57.120 for me, which ended my athletic career. And so I 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.320 really got into acting and theater for me at the 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:06.000 time because sports were no longer an option for me. Right, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.360 I don't know if sports were an option for me. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.440 I thought I was really good when I was in Atlanta, Like, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.520 I was usually one of the better players on the team, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.319 even though it's small. I was quick and I was good. Um. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.120 But then I got out here and everybody's really really good, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.760 and I was like, okay, I'm not that good. And 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.480 then I got hurt immediately, and I was like, that's fine. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.000 I wasn't very good compared to these people. There was 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.400 a lot of like, oh, you've got the ball, It's okay, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.320 you know. I mean, you know. I was on a 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.120 team called the Mighty Mites. Although you know what you 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.000 just reminded me of I did when I first started soccer. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.320 I was like three. I was on an all boys team. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.280 I was the only girl and we got to play 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.840 at halftime for the was it the Chiefs? The Chiefs? 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.120 The Chiefs say that anymore, the Chiefs. I don't think 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.560 they are the Chiefs anymore, but they were back then 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:07.280 in the seventies. Yeah, And so we got to go 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.800 to the you know, Big formerly known as Chief stadium, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.160 and I think they brought on a goal to put 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.560 it on the center line so that you wouldn't have 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.520 to run because I had never seen a field that 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.480 big and uh and I just remember running by somebody 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:28.079 in the audience and they're like, that's a girl. Okay, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.760 we gave it away the braids. And the weird thing 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.240 is that was me. That's the crazy thing about it. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.440 That was me saying that. I remember going to those 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:46.640 games and watching people play and thinking they didn't pick me. Um, 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.640 you knew early on you you wanted to be an actor. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:53.240 What television shows were of influence to your What what 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.800 were you watching? I was watching a lot of reruns, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:03.600 you know, Brady Bunch. I love Lucy Gilligan's Island. I 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.040 went on and off of that one. You know. I 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.520 didn't like it when it went into color. I was like, no, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.320 this is this is just too much for me. Um. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.720 But yeah, I just I wasn't really allowed to watch 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.200 television that much, except maybe on weekends. But my mom 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.280 was a single mom and she worked a lot, so 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.640 I would watch television when she wasn't home, and goodness, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.360 she never like touched the TV to see if it 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.920 was warm. But yeah, so so whatever really was on 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.880 after school. I remember when I was a little older, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.800 I became friends with Oh, when I went to public 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.440 school and I went, I became friends with this girl 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:44.240 who had cable. Oh that was amazing. So I would 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.000 go to her house and like, can we watch cable? 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.240 Can we watch you can't do that on television. She 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.080 was like no, she was so over it. I was 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.760 just like, this is gold. You have so many channels. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.480 It was amazing. So I would watch whatever I could it, honest, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.280 whatever you could. Yeah, would you act it out? Yeah, definitely. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:10.000 I remember seeing a production of Annie and getting the 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.440 record and just playing that over and over. I cannot 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.280 sing to save my life, but I was like, oh, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.960 you know, so I would just sit there and reenact 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:26.280 the songs by myself at nauseam. Yeah, well I still 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.440 do that. That's the weird thing. And I don't really 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:33.080 sing either. So you moved to Los Angeles and started 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.960 to work. What was the role for you that you 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.560 felt like, oh, I've made it or I've done it? 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.680 Was that my stepmother is an alien or I mean 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.800 I thought that was going to be the break, you know, 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.640 Actually it wasn't even when I got that role, it 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.240 was that was a very long process of auditioning, and 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.520 they did an old fashioned screen test like lights camera action. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.400 So my mom and I were drying into this screen test, 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.160 and at that point, I think it's like down to 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.200 two or three girls. And then they had some some 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.400 of the guy characters as well. And we pull into 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.080 the Fox lot, the twentieth century Fox lot, and I 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.200 see Seth Green walking across the parking lot and I 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.080 just about lost it. I was like, Oh, that's the 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.400 kid from Amazing Stories, and I just I mean, oh, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.600 my goodness, how I was even able to like say 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.600 a line after seeing him, And it was just the 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.480 greatest day. We spent the day of they were sort of, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.760 you know, doing chemistry tests of this kid with that kid, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.840 and it was just amazing. It's still after that took 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.320 several months before we found out that I got the job, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.640 so it was really grueling, but I got the job 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.440 and I got to be in this like big huge 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.640 motion picture with you know, I had my name on 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.600 a chair and it was just so exciting, and Dan 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.199 Ackroyd was in it and combasing her and it was 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.800 just incredible. I turned I was thirteen and I turned 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.639 fourteen while filming, and dan Ackroid gave me a bicycle, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.840 and I just thought it was the greatest moment of 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.159 my life. And it had this yellow ribbon that I 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.240 didn't take off, so I'd right around the lot with 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.439 the bow on it. And then the transport Transportation Department 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.639 would put in my trailer at night, and then you know, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.639 I take it on the morning or whatever. And one day, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.600 I don't know why we were on the lot. I 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.040 think it was like the weekend or something, but we 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.399 were there for some reason and we walked past and 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.280 I saw the bow on the ground. I was like, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.040 what what, Why is the bow on the ground? What happened? 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.879 And Uh, turns out my bike got stolen. They ripped 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.760 the bow off, they just threw it aside, and they 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.840 stole a kid's bike. And so anyway, when yeah, they 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.920 stole my bodd bike, did the bowl And by the way, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.600 I think they ran over the bowl on the way 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.280 out that had like tire marks. I could be exaggerating 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.280 that my imagination, but that's how my heart felt. That's 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.159 how it felt, right. It's I just durned fourteen. I 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.399 can't handle this kind of thing. You stole my bike 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.639 off of the twentieth century Fox lot. By the way, 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.040 It's not like I just left it outside of a 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:28.760 seven eleven. It was on a lot anyway. So Dan 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.440 found out, and of course, he being such a sweetheart, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.159 replaced the bike, and he told me he was going 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.840 to replace the bike. But I do remember I was 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.359 doing a scene where I had to be really emotional 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.800 and I was riding the character's bike and Richard Benjamin 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.200 was the director, and he he started shouting, just think 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.760 about your bike. But at that point I had already 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.080 known that, like Danton had already told me he was 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.320 going to give me another one, and so it kind 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.600 of like made it worse. Like I was already in 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.920 the like I'm going to cry space, but then when 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.600 he's like, think about your bike, I just kind of like, 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.639 now I can't. I've got to stop laughing. Yeah, So 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.040 I do remember, like that's not the best direction right now, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.520 because I know that makes me happy I'm getting a 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:20.200 new bike. Was there a yellow bow on the new bike? Oh, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:25.080 good question. I probably just take like tire marked bow 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.000 and put it back on there. Put it back on it. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.960 I kept the tire mark bow for a long time. Yeah, 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.800 do you still have is it on your wall? Have 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.199 to like through storage? Okay, I have a lot of 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.960 those things, like yeah, from early things. It's like, oh, 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.840 the call sheet from this there's like a box of 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.679 old call sheets that I have never gone through again. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.640 I don't know, but somebody would love that call sheet. Now, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.600 my daughter would love that call sheet. Your daughter was huge. Yeah, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.320 she's a huge, and and I'm getting a lot of 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.520 cool points by talking to you today. Until she finds 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.160 out that I said the word cool points, I'll get 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:31.879 some deductions for that. But yeah, she's very happy. I 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:37.760 heard you haven't shown your kids Buffy? Have they seen Buffy? No? No? 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.080 And then my husband, who was also on Buffy for 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.480 season and a half or something, he just the other 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.680 day I was like to our oldest daughter, I think 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.800 you're probably old enough for Buffy. And I was like, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.800 excuse me. I feel like this was a discussion. You 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.040 don't remember the part where I flay somebody a lot, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.439 like their skin comes off, Like do they need to 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.520 see that? Do they need to see when Willow goes evil? 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:07.000 I don't know. That's interesting. It's not that they don't 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.800 want to you don't want them to, it's too horrible. Well, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.560 I just I'm scared of the later sits like went 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.040 Dark Willow. I just they can watch it, or well, 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.640 my older one could watch it up until Dark Willow 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.520 and then we'll just take a break for a few 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:30.400 years and find a good therapist. But Michael Scott is okay, 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:37.000 oh yeah, totally brilliant, brilliant. I remember watching the second 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:42.000 episode with her and it was just it's so good, 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.600 it's so good. And by the way, can I talk 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:49.399 about my embarrassing moment with probably Greg Daniels, but I 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:53.080 don't actually know for sure. I was doing some pilot 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.399 that didn't go around the time that they were casting 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.359 for The Office. I was a massive fan and lamb 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.520 of the British version. I think it's probably the best 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:08.159 television show ever made. So I was in doing chemistry 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.679 reads with somebody at the NBC whatever for the pilot 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.760 I was going to do. I had flown in from 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.440 like London because I was doing play there and so 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.359 so anyway, we were doing chemistry reads in the you know, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.959 the Kevin Riley's office or whatever, and but then there 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.160 were all these people like in the hall doing something else, 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.080 and I was like finally said what's going on or whatever, 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:37.040 and someone who is clearly one of the you know, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.800 producers or somebody of the Office, I was like, oh, 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.280 we're making an American version of the Office, And without 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.320 even like thinking twice, I was like, no, don't do that. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.919 That's horrible idea, Like you can't. I was like, don't 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.000 You're going to ruin it. I was like, and I'm 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.560 like saying this to somebody who's clearly like they're in 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:02.120 the process of making this show, and shut up. But 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:06.359 it was just like this reaction because I just you know, 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.359 held the British Office up to like such a huge 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:15.040 you know, it's it's the golden child of of television shows. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:19.560 I'm glad they didn't listen to me. Um, But still 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.240 about whoever I said that too, I don't actually know 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:28.480 who it was, but um, yes, that's amazing. Oh yeah, 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.200 I was like, oh, that's such a bad move. Well, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.280 by the way, John Krasinski said it to Greg Daniels 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.440 as he was auditioning for the show as well, so 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:44.480 it was probably probably like, oh my god, I know, 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:47.640 how you know, how can I go about doing this? 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:52.639 So you well, so first off after my stepmother is 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:54.520 an Alien, you you felt like you had done it. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:56.960 And wait and by the way, Seth Green, not only 0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.520 were you his love interest once you ended up being 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:02.800 it again? Was he like your teen idol? Is that 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.080 what you call it? Yeah, I mean I was certainly 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:08.119 starstruck when I first met him and saw him. But 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.639 then so we both wound up getting my stummage in Alien. 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.080 So we worked on that. That was really fun. And 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:18.240 then I did another like or I did a sitcom 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.879 and he was on a few episodes of that, and 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:24.960 then I feel like, I feel like there were quite 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:28.040 a few other jobs, like little jobs where he was 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:30.919 on it, and so then I just was like, well, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:33.680 I can only work if Sath Green is on it, 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.200 Like that's the only job I'm going to get. So 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:40.680 he was basically he's my lucky charm, is what I thought. 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:42.640 And I was like, well, I don't know. I mean, 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:45.520 I've got this audition. Should I see if that's available? 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:50.760 That's the only way I'm going to get this job. Zeth, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:54.480 did you get called for this show? Okay, and just 0:24:54.520 --> 0:24:56.439