WEBVTT - Some Time With...Marla Sokoloff (Part 2) 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.000 Welcome back to how Rude Tanneritos. We are back with 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.120 part two of our interview with the beloved Marla Sokoloff. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.320 This interview is so good you guys, We can't wait 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.480 for you to hear the rest of it. So what 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.239 was it like when you got the call that Fuller 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.120 House was happening and that we wanted you to be 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.920 a part of it and come back and reprise the role. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.879 I mean was so excited. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.640 I think Jeff had called me even before I got asked. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.159 It was like during season one and he was like, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:48.560 I want to let you know you are going to 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.599 be on it because you probably already sense my like rejection, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.640 but he was like, there will be Gia, don't worry. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.560 I just have to figure out how we're going to 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:00.760 do it, and I want to get the show up 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.360 and running first. So I was so excited. And they 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.320 really went out of their way to keep it a 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.280 secret from the audience, which was really fun. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.880 They did love surprising the audience with like bringing the 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.000 guest stars back and stuff, because people did lose their mind. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.319 They would be so excited. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.680 Yeah, lost their mind, Yeah you got. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.760 You got a massive applause when you walked into Stephanie's. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.440 But yeah, during the girl talking was so huge applause. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.120 Yeah, no, it was. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.720 It was really fun, so fun. I'll never forget that. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.440 And it just the surrealness. I remember you guys had 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.000 already been doing it for a while, and I think 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:39.200 I said to one of you, like, is. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.720 This crazy to be back on the. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.120 Stage with the set and like the dressing rooms upstairs, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.319 like so much of it just was yeah, so surreal. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.920 Do you remember us getting in trouble one afternoon? For 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.960 we had gone over to the Warner Brothers store okay 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.400 where we you know, you could get like whatever. It 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.480 was like an employee discount or something. You know, you 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.880 worked there, and they had all the Warner brother all 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.240 the Warner records, all the music available in there when 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.079 you would, you know, go buy CDs at an actual 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:12.600 physical store right back in the dark ages, and the 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:18.600 Green Day album had just come out and we were there. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.000 I think like my mom and maybe Sherry had gone 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.919 to lunch or maybe my mom and your mom. I 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.880 don't know, but my mom like had left for a while. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.400 It was like going shopping. So I was like, we 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.320 have the dressing room all myself, so we put the 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:32.440 Green Day album on. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.919 Oh my god, blast it, blasting. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.880 It, yes, lasting it, and didn't realize like they'd started 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.720 rehearsal and we were just like a Green Day just 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.280 rocking out in my room and I think Becca, our 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.520 ad came and was like, can you turn it down, 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.040 like we're trying to make a show. Yeah, we're trying 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.320 to make a show. And we were like, oh, we're 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.000 just being like all year old girls rocking out to 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:54.840 Green Day And. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.040 No, I totally remember that. That was the best. It 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.080 was so fun. Yeah, I don't remember going to this store, but. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.440 Yeah, we like we were we that was you know, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.600 we got to like walk around on the lot by 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.800 our mom would be like okay, fine, you guys can 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.959 go to the commissary by yourself. You know, we'd have 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.520 an hour free. It was like off campus lunch. So 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.560 we'd go watch the commissary and go to the Winner 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.680 Brothers store and we're like look at us, like we're 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.760 like the adults, like by ourselves. But yeah, it was weird, ridiculous, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.080 best feeling right, probably still probably trying to smoke stolen 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.440 cigarettes somewhere the. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.679 Yeah, just like clothes. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.760 Yeah, part of your method acting got smoke back in 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.200 the Commissary. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.080 Wearing we were both wearing crapped. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.040 I remember there was like on tape days there was 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.560 like catered meal. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.960 Do you remember stage on Thursdays? 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.640 And if we do that for Fuller? Did they or 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:49.720 was I just uneinvited? 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:50.680 No? 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:51.320 No, No. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.000 Seasons of Fuller, remember when we were on the the 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.680 smaller stage for the first season and we would walk 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.080 next door to dinner at that other empty sound stage 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.760 when we were doing Fuller's. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.680 Right, that was like yes, season one. Yeah, we were 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:09.840 on the two and a half men's. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.160 Stay men's stage and it was a lot smaller, and yeah, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.600 it was kind of we were doing it a little 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.680 bit differently then, but I think on those Friday nights 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.279 we would get we would go over there and have dinner. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.200 But then eventually it was just like the meal tickets 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.359 and they send us over to the Commissary, which I 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:25.760 preferred so I could get my tunea melt. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.160 You had to get your tradition sandwich before every show, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:34.159 your pre game meal. That's my pre show ritual, every pickle. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.839 Every time I see a tuna melt or order one, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.719 I think of Andrea Barber from the og full house 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.680 days because that was we would go to the to 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.680 the like lunch truck the roads coach right on like 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.320 the white you know, nondescript food truck on the Lorimar 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.080 Sony lot and we would go and get Martinelli's apple 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.960 cider and Tunea Melts and they were delicious. But that was love. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.640 Now I went to tune mel Now right now I'm hungry. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.520 It's such good comfort food. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.120 But yeah, that was But I do remember us going 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.960 yeah with Commissary was like our our adventure time, you know, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.200 weird growing up on a lot. Like it's so I 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.800 always think, like I laugh because I get on a 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.960 studio a lot and I'm like, oh, yes, this is 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.640 you know, this feels this chaos feels comfortable, like just 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.800 driving through the lot and there's all manner of things 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.120 happening and like, you know, just weird stuff you see 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:36.320 that You're like, that's normal, and it just like there's 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.240 no better feeling for me than when I'm on a 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.919 lot or a sound stage or on set somehow. Like 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.440 I'm just like, ah, yeah. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.880 If you're there for like an audition, because I feel 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.280 like that sends me into like a little bit of 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:47.679 a spiral. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.719 When's the last time I do? You and I have 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.920 seen each other at many an audition though, Yeah when 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.479 we were young, Remember I saw you at like Paramount once, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.640 Paramount once, but I no, I think not Paramount, CBS 0:05:59.720 --> 0:05:59.960 rad for. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:02.760 That were sitting recently. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.120 I'm thinking like between like post full House, I remember 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.000 seeing you at Paramount and then yeah. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.279 Yeah, and then bringing up as like adults we were 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.000 in we were both in on again some callback on 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.640 something and it was like sitting in the hallway. Now 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.520 you really go on set though, or on a lot 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.680 for auditions. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.520 Thank god. I don't want to do that ever. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.960 I miss that though, see I missed you. Yeah. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.719 See. I think there's two schools of actors. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.040 There's ones who love that and they want to see 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.640 people and they want to be in the room. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:32.840 I'm like, I'm sorry. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.360 We get to do as many takes as we want 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:39.039 in the privacy of our own home without traffic and amen. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:45.800 Yes, yeah, I don't like that because it's like so hard. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.440 It's just so hard to like feed off of any energy. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.120 I guess I don't know, Like for me, it's. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.400 No, it does put you in a bad position a 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.000 little bit. Isn't it. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.120 And I like I like getting notes. I like to 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.600 be able to do something and then if the casting 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.160 director or somebody's like, hey, could you give it you 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.839 know again, could you give it a little more edge? 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.359 Like you have such a sweet face? Can you do 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.880 something like? I feel like there's a lot of auditions 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.359 that you'll submit on and have they been able to 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.360 give you a note on something? And I'm like, oh, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.160 I could totally fix that. And that's what I like 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.119 being in the room is like I can play around 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.880 with it a little bit more. Tapes are always scary 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.440 because it's like I thought this was good, but you 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.480 might think this is not at all what you want 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:20.560 from the character. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.560 If I have no idea, Yeah, yeah, no, I totally 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.640 agree with that. I think maybe best case scenario is 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.640 when you do a zoom like callback. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.600 I just I yeah, it's so interesting. There are literally 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.280 two schools like people love it or hate it. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.480 Yeah. I feel like when we first started doing. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.000 The self tapes, I really thought it was crazy and 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.120 it was so out. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.440 Of well that well, then then the pandemic came and 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.520 everyone learned how to self tape themselves. Basically, whether you 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:49.600 were in entertainment or not. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.120 And now if I were to get like an in 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.000 person audition, I would probably need to like medicate myself. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.280 I would be so nervous going to it. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.880 I remember the even as I relate to the seeing 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.880 you in the hallway, and we're like again sitting in 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.640 the hallway, and I think we were joking because we 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.680 were like here we are years later, you know, like 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.760 sitting on the ground in a hallway full of you know, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.600 other actors, and all like yeah, and we could and 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.280 do you remember that, I all of a sudden remembered 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:22.720 we could hear everything. It's in the room. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.360 It's so cruel. I remember that. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:26.680 Psychologically, Oh my. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.800 God, it's such torture because you can hear the person 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.480 and the room, so like you hear the choices that 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.680 they're making and the response they're getting. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:36.840 You're just questioning every choice. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.000 Then all you do is just sit there and go 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.760 my choices, suck, my choices, suck. I made terrible ones. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.040 They like that better, they and like it's just it's they. 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.240 That I have to make my voice go up at 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.720 the end of that line, okay, right right. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.000 And then you're like, oh no, they oh that's it. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.040 Why am I even going in here? And then yeah, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.640 it's just that's the worst one. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.400 It's in there for like forty minutes and then you 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:00.280 go in You're in for like. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.480 Four right right, yeah, this is the word. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:05.880 You're going to hear him in there and they're like, hey, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.480 good to see you again. Where you're like, oh. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.400 Great, Yeah, it's like their godfather. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.600 This is it? Oh perfect, And yet you're still still 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.880 I never feel more at home, right, it's a. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.840 M yeah, no, it is something. Why do we do 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.640 this for punishment? City over here? 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.520 When you do self tapes at home? Is Alec your reader? 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:24.040 Your husband? 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.400 Is he your reader? Or who? 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.720 Like that's my biggest beef is I hate having to 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:28.760 provide my own reader. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:29.600 I don't really do. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.920 I'm not trying to act anymore so I'm mainly directing. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.080 But when those days were happening, it was Alec and 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.000 I do blame him for the demise of my acting 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.960 career because he truly sucks. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.480 And or he would I feel like he is really 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:45.960 so bad and he would want to you know, so, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.800 what what am I doing in this scene? And like 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:48.280 where are we? 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.079 I'm like, you're doing You're doing as little like, this 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:53.679 is your audition. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.240 So just say say the words please. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.800 And but now if if I were to do it, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.280 I would probably just have like a friend because that 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.240 was causing a. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.480 Lot of fights. He also is like one take, He's like, Okay, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.800 that was great, and I'm like, well, no that I 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:09.640 need one more reason. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:10.079 That's what. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:11.280 No, you don't, you're good. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.960 I actually go to a place where I do a 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.800 self tape with like a person who's a reader, and 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.120 they have the lighting and the thing. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.240 I just it's you go to much better. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.720 No, I go to the Creation Station Studios in North Hollywood. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:26.840 A little shout out to them. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.040 But Intrepid's great too, and they have really good actors there. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.600 That's why I liked them so much. They're they're actors, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:31.880 you know. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's same here too, and that's important, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.240 like great, yeah, keeping keeping us actors busy doing things 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:40.280 in between jobs anyway. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.800 But I also like it because you feel like you're 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.319 an audition, like you have to be off. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.280 But what I mean, it's like there, yeah, you have. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.720 To look good, you have to be prepared, you know, 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:49.360 So I do. I do prefer that. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.920 Plus I don't think I could get Mescal to do 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.840 an audition. He'd be like, I, well, which is probably 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.480 for the best. He would be like, I am not 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.319 the right person for this. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.400 Oh it's the worst. Yeah, I used this Michael dol Yeah, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.680 Michael my boyfriend. He's usually my reader. But he tries 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.080 to act and I'm like, don't you're distracted. Aligns with 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:09.880 me on Fuller, he would run lines with me. So 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.200 he would be Fernando usually trying to do the Argentinian accent. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:13.719 Stop it. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.839 And He's this tall white man with a red beard, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.720 and I'm like, no, stop, Like, just stop trying to act. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.920 Don't do an accent. It's so distracting that Yeah, you're right, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.000 it makes it. It makes it worse, and it causes 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.040 marital strife. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.720 Like it's no win situation, no bad news. Let's just 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.000 do this away from the family. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.840 Yeah, it's a better idea, but I am hearing that 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.920 it's going to start going back to in person. So 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.480 Andrew and I we need to figure out some sort 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:39.840 of a an. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.640 I do think there I'm saying I think there are 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.880 a lot of I think casting directors also like to 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.959 get the vibe of a person, you know what I mean. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.319 You walk into the room again and like they can, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.640 they can be one thing on their self tape and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.120 then they walk in there and be like, oh my god, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.760 you're insane, you know, or you're Although if that disqualified 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.680 people from this business, one would work insane. Oh my gosh, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:09.840 we love you. Here's always the actor, right, yeah, speaking 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.760 of insane, what was dude, Where's My Car? Like? Because 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.520 that was such a again, such a like like two 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.880 thousands staple movie. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.240 When I think of that movie, I think of trying 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.520 to not laugh and when you have to like tell 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.839 yourself bad thoughts in order to not be the one 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.520 to ruin the take because everybody was so funny. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.000 And bad thoughts like what like just picture horrific accidents. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.720 Exactly, like like someone you love dying, Like I had 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.920 to go to dark places just to not laugh, you know. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.080 But what if you make jokes about that and then 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.040 then you're just now you're laughing more, Because that would 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.959 be my problem is I'd be like, oh really, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:50.680 it would be all bad. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.480 But yeah, we had a great time, and I remember 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.840 it being like the dead of summer, you know, like 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.440 Ashton was on his hiatus from that seventy show. So 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.560 it was so hot and it was a very long 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.280 shoot because those were the days Whereen Productions had like 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.400 money to shoot, which is so nice. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.199 So yeah, you'd get like sixteen hour days and like 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.959 like a month or more to shoot. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.920 AMM remember it being like the whole none. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.640 Of this thirteen days. What do you mean you can't 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:17.800 do it in thirteen days? 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.880 Literally like twelve twelve days. It's pretty standard. But I 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:23.120 just we had the best time. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.760 It was so fun, and I had such a big 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.240 crush on Sean william Scott, Like it was intense, right, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.840 So yeah, it was fun. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.440 Sean Williams Scott always reminded me of Scott White. I 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:37.720 could see that from the they like from the episode 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.320 and so whenever when you were in that movie, I 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.360 was like, oh my god, it's like it's like our 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.720 little wild Joy right again, except there's the car missing, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.760 but like it's about a car. Yeah, I don't know. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.400 It was like my my little brain was like making 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.760 connections and travel. Yeah. I love that. It's funny and 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.760 I just love that, like you were in so many 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.040 iconic That one. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.160 Is a very I mean talk about niche Like that 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.400 one was not a hit on any level. When it 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.720 came out, I remember it being like a flop, but 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:08.280 then when it. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.600 Well, it was a it was a bong hit, but 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.280 it was you know what I mean, like it was 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:13.400 a it was a movie first. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.120 So I know my people and someone comes up and 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.040 knows they were just. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.080 Slow on the updates. I mean, they're like, we'll get 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.840 around watching it, just give us a little bit exactly. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.360 When somebody comes up and recognizes me from that, I'm like, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.480 I know everything I need to know about you, like 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.280 I know my. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.120 People and you're like, where's my car? 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:30.560 Yeah? 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.920 I want to talk about your your directing career. Yes, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.320 I don't. I don't know much about that. You've directed 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.200 several several from Sweet On You Rose All Day and 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 a Christmas Blending Christmas. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.640 That was a Rady bunch talk to me create Christmas movie, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:48.560 which was very fun. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.840 Oh okay, So how did you foray into directing? 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.200 And uh? I how did say? It was? 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.400 It kind of was born out of what we're talking about, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.320 just that frustration with acting and going into all of 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.600 these rooms and sitting in waiting rooms with Jodie Sweet 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.920 and being like what am I still doing? 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.440 That really was yeah, I'm. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:12.840 I'm really still doing this. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.440 And it's somehow I think having kids made it less 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.200 fun for me, because I would get so depressed. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.680 Now you're like, I now need a job, Like I 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:21.960 need a. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.360 Job, like, yeah, I have these girls who are looking 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.240 at me, going, why is mommy crying because she didn't 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:26.800 get a job. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.480 It just felt like the whole thing just it was 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:29.920 hard for me. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.760 And I would literally pull up auditions and not want 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.040 to get out of the car because I just didn't 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.000 want to see more dead eyes staring at me on 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.480 something I'd worked so hard on. And any job I 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:43.400 was getting was relationship based or whatever. So one night 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.320 I was crying to my husband at a bar and 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.640 he just looked at me and he said, you have 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.400 so much material that you've written over the years, go 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.760 make something. And it never occurred to me that I 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.560 could actually do that, and so I did. I had 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.800 this short that I made and it wound up being, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.400 you know, pretty successful, which was great, and I directed 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.040 it and I was in it and I loved the 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.560 directing parts so much more. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.240 Was that the preschool one? Yes oh yeah, yes about. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.480 Like the crazy parents, right, And it was born out 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.600 of my children's preschool, Like you walk into their school 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.960 and there was a picture of every kid in the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.480 class and what they couldn't pultn't eat, And I just thought, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:28.800 this was never like this. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.480 When we were growing up. You know, you just ate 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.800 what they gave you. So, I mean, my daughter now 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.520 has a dairy allergy, so I think the joke is 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:36.800 on me. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.680 But she did it then, right, come on, people just 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.080 eats Oh well wait, maybe not. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.760 But yeah, So it was really fun. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.720 And then I decided, I think I you know, it 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.880 was it was the first time in my life where 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.600 I felt like, oh, this is actually what I'm supposed 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.640 to be doing, you know, and it was very clear 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.840 to me. And so I took off two years and 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.120 I shadowed every director I possibly could and just tried 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.080 to learn as much without going to film school. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.520 But our film school is our experience, right, so exactly. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.199 And then I shadowed a director of a movie that 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.040 I was in and I was filming in Utah, so 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.560 I was away from my kids, and I was able 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.760 to really throw myself into shadowing like the way I'd 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.600 always wanted to. And that company who I know you've 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:25.280 worked with before, Jody, like Jeff Shank and Peter Sullivan. Yeah, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.320 they pitched me to Lifetime and they wound up hiring me, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.080 so I wound up Yeah, so they were really big 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.520 champions of me, which was really exciting. And yeah, it's 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.640 just kind of taken off from there. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:36.920