Speaker 1: I Am All In Again. I Am All In Again
Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey everybody, Scott Patterson,
Speaker 1: I Am All In Podcast. We are live at Warner
Speaker 1: Brother Studios on the day the big event, December eighteenth,
Speaker 1: the I Am All In Again Podcast. We have Rose Abdu.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and she has decided to grace us with
Speaker 1: her presence today.
Speaker 2: Thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 1: And it's great to have you. Great to see you.
Speaker 2: It's so great to see you.
Speaker 3: We're mind blowing to be back here, isn't it wild?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you walked on here?
Speaker 1: I do, back in two thousand. Were you in the
Speaker 1: first season?
Speaker 3: The fans know the show so much better than I do,
Speaker 3: But I was definitely not in the first season. But
Speaker 3: I was in Richard and Star's Hollow and the very
Speaker 3: first thing I had to do was Fizan's car, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: And that was a night shoot. Yeah and Jared, and
Speaker 3: it was so much fun.
Speaker 2: It was so cold.
Speaker 3: I was so excited and I remember just remember holding
Speaker 3: the windshield wipers so tight and just being so excited
Speaker 3: to be on the set.
Speaker 1: Do you remember it was directing the episode?
Speaker 3: I think it was Jamie Babbett, Oh, Jamie Babbitt think,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, And I just remember having to I just
Speaker 3: loved talking to Ed Herman because we're both from Michigan
Speaker 3: and we had a ball together. And then I remember
Speaker 3: one of my very first episodes with you, we were
Speaker 3: there was a long line. There was like a lot
Speaker 3: of pumpkins. I just remember I always say this about
Speaker 3: the show that when it was supposed to be fall
Speaker 3: in the show, it.
Speaker 2: Was beastly hot. At one when it was supposed.
Speaker 3: To be super hot, like June Rory's graduation, it was
Speaker 3: freezing cold, like it was always down. And I just
Speaker 3: remember this long line and you had to come down
Speaker 3: and we had just been talking off camera, so you went,
Speaker 3: Hey Rose, and you were like, your name is so
Speaker 3: close to Gypsy because Gypsy Rose, like you said hey
Speaker 3: Rose instead of a Gypsy. It really made me laugh
Speaker 3: and we all had coffee together.
Speaker 1: Yes we did. So tell us about the experience of
Speaker 1: the first time you got recognized as Gypsy.
Speaker 3: That's such a great question, you know, it always seems
Speaker 3: to happen like at an airport, I think, where people
Speaker 3: have enough time to just stare at other people at
Speaker 3: the boarding gate, right you know who you look like.
Speaker 3: I get that a lot. Uh. And then here's what's
Speaker 3: happening lately. People say, I knew you were Gypsy because
Speaker 3: I recognize your voice. And meanwhile, I don't speak like
Speaker 3: Gypsy had an accent. But it really is flattering to
Speaker 3: me that there's something about me as me that they
Speaker 3: it's still reminds me of.
Speaker 1: It's a very distinctive voice, a very distinctive look, and
Speaker 1: you have that thing that all musicians want. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, right, that's a good compenty Like.
Speaker 1: You're walking by and you can you know, it's still
Speaker 1: such a company people, it's you.
Speaker 2: I love it, and I just really love I love
Speaker 2: getting recognized from the show.
Speaker 3: And it's funny because there they're all ages now like
Speaker 3: when it started, it was always like a kind of
Speaker 3: you know, young, it's now like twelve year olds all
Speaker 3: the way up to I don't want to say like
Speaker 3: my age, but like.
Speaker 1: Seventy years blind, crippled and crazy.
Speaker 3: There you go, all so fun and then meeting the
Speaker 3: people that say, I watched it with my mom and
Speaker 3: now my daughter watches it with me, and then and
Speaker 3: it keeps going.
Speaker 2: It's so exciting. Can you believe twenty five years next year.
Speaker 1: It's it's incredible.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. Yeah, I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely a fan podcast, it's a fan TV show.
Speaker 1: It's like it's without them, that's right, I mean, without them,
Speaker 1: where would we all be. We'd be seeing on a
Speaker 1: couch somewhere.
Speaker 3: But I don't brother, it wouldn't be I love it.
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you this my friends. I should say,
Speaker 3: should I save this for later my friends?
Speaker 2: For Christmas?
Speaker 3: Actually, my friend Christy Christy Carlson wrote a Gilmore Girls
Speaker 3: Oh Yeah, and gave.
Speaker 2: Me this as a gift.
Speaker 3: And it's a Luke's coffee cup and I guess if
Speaker 3: I'd put the battery in it, it would say it
Speaker 3: says something. I'm not sure what, but I do want
Speaker 3: you to sign it because I'm not. I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: seeing him, the actual Luke. I'm going to get him
Speaker 3: to sign my cup.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say anything, it doesn't say anything.
Speaker 3: I don't think I put the battery in. To put
Speaker 3: the battery, Luke keeps saying, so even Hallmark got it.
Speaker 2: No, I want it to meet Scott because okay, or
Speaker 2: just your name, Finn, you are gypsy Rose. You can
Speaker 2: call me Rose.
Speaker 3: I'm Gypsy Rose. But of course I'm going to make
Speaker 3: him sign it. I'm not just a castmate. I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, all right.
Speaker 3: I love it, and I love your shirt. And now
Speaker 3: you have like all kinds of Luke plaid shirts. This
Speaker 3: is this is a.
Speaker 1: Backup shirt because the one that they want me to
Speaker 1: wear today was delivered to the house.
Speaker 2: But I never got Okay, but you've you've got your
Speaker 2: own Luke's merch. Now we've come.
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers does Yeah, it's not mine, it's Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of it. Have you gone around.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen seen the level of merch they are
Speaker 1: bringing to Bear. I did not know that.
Speaker 3: And I really was blown away by Hughes Brothers, which
Speaker 3: I always thought should have been named Gypsies, but stayed
Speaker 3: Hughes Brothers. So I had a whole backstory in my
Speaker 3: head about who the Hughes Brothers were and how they
Speaker 3: probably moved to Florida and then Gypsy took over. But
Speaker 3: I love that there's a way, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I love that there's a whole diner inside my gas station.
Speaker 3: So that's right, there's some competitions, Yes they are so
Speaker 3: Hughes Brothers is coming after you with the burgers and
Speaker 3: the drink.
Speaker 1: We're ready, We're ready. We like competition. We're not going
Speaker 1: to try to crash anybody. We'll just we'll just buy
Speaker 1: you out. There you go, We'll just buy you out
Speaker 1: and steal your ideas. So you're on Hacks. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is an incredible show. I resisted it for so long.
Speaker 1: I was sitting on an airplane coming back from Canada
Speaker 1: and I had some time to kill and I got
Speaker 1: into Hacks.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled that you binged Hacks. It was really thank you.
Speaker 2: I really work so good. Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: I I'm really proud of it, and I'm really proud
Speaker 3: of like working with Jeane Smart is just like she's
Speaker 3: just a best She's just a regular gal. And you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Hack's crew that are huge Gilmore fans.
Speaker 2: Oh really so yeah.
Speaker 3: They ask a lot of questions about it, and I
Speaker 3: really need to give the series a rewatch. Like the
Speaker 3: fans start over from as soon as they finished. They
Speaker 3: just start back over for.
Speaker 1: One critique of Hacks. There's not enough you.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you. I appreciate you saying that I will
Speaker 2: let them know.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's get on that so fun.
Speaker 3: I love doing it and it's really like a family,
Speaker 3: like we were all. You know, you don't see each
Speaker 3: other all the time, but when you do, you're just like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: time has passed. But I have a better memory of
Speaker 3: doing the year in the life, I think because it's
Speaker 3: you know, more recent, and we got to hang out
Speaker 3: more when I.
Speaker 1: Was burd Plus it was more relaxed, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of a better hang yes, because we knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be done in three and a half.
Speaker 2: Right, it was more like a movie, right, Yeah, So
Speaker 2: that kind of was our.
Speaker 1: Closure if you really want to call it that, and
Speaker 1: I don't because I'm I know we'll probably do so more.
Speaker 1: I expected, I do. I expected.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, like maybe a Christmas movie, wouldn't it
Speaker 2: be fun?
Speaker 1: Why not want a year? I mean every other year?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: You just saw recently now I'm going to interview you.
Speaker 3: The Walmart commercial was thrilling to me. It was so
Speaker 3: fun just to hear the music and see the little
Speaker 3: you know, and so the product I didn't even know.
Speaker 3: It's like a big coffee machine that, So, are there
Speaker 3: any more Walmart commercials? You know, Gypsy wants to sit
Speaker 3: at that counter at the diner.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think the posts that they
Speaker 1: did on their Instagram and on my Instagram, on Lauren's
Speaker 1: Instagram exceeded any previous posts that Walmart has had on
Speaker 1: their Instagram by about fifty x. So I think they
Speaker 1: might be interested in doing more on that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: I have no inside information.
Speaker 2: Well, it was very exciting to see you guys together again.
Speaker 1: Make sure I'm available yest year.
Speaker 3: And I was like, Kirk get in there wants Gypsy
Speaker 3: wants to be at the counter. I was like, Gypsy
Speaker 3: could have carried that machine in. It is a more
Speaker 3: kind of job, though.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, look you'll do the car stuff when they's gilmore commercial.
Speaker 3: It's inevitable that does Walmart have any auto supplies that
Speaker 3: they need Gypsy.
Speaker 2: For if you're listening, I don't know.
Speaker 4: They probably do for a fee. Come on, nothing's free, Egypty.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, create your own wrench. There you go,
Speaker 4: call it the Gypsy Rose my.
Speaker 1: Tools wrench or something.
Speaker 3: Gypsy Rose is the perfect name for Gypsy, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I think her name was Gypsy Rose. I've just decided
Speaker 2: that's what it was.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, tell us about your experience developing this character. Did
Speaker 1: Amy Sharon Pealagino have feedback? Did you discuss building the
Speaker 1: character with her? Because it's so very memorable and.
Speaker 2: So very thank you for saying. Do you know what?
Speaker 3: Honestly, it was like it was an audition I had
Speaker 3: the day after my birthday, and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, there's so many talented women here to play Gypsy.
Speaker 2: What am I going to do to set myself apart
Speaker 2: from these people?
Speaker 3: And it was a waiting room full of people here
Speaker 3: on the lot somewhere, and I thought, oh, she says
Speaker 3: I miss my home. In the Richard keeps saying, look,
Speaker 3: check the car again. I can't check this car anymore.
Speaker 3: I miss my home, And I thought I missed my home.
Speaker 3: To me means I miss my village. So at the
Speaker 3: last minute, right before I walked in, I gave her
Speaker 3: an accent. I just decided, oh, so prepared not an accent,
Speaker 3: and I just prepared an accent on the spot. I
Speaker 3: did an accent of a country of indeterminate origin, much
Speaker 3: like Berta is, Like where's she from we don't Know, and.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 3: And the only note Amy gave me in that original
Speaker 3: audition in two thousand and one, I think it was
Speaker 3: she goes go faster and I did.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's all you need is to go faster.
Speaker 3: Great, because I always used to say when people go
Speaker 3: ROSI talk so fast. I'm like, I don't talk so fast.
Speaker 3: You listen too slow. And I did it and that
Speaker 3: was it.
Speaker 2: And then later I learned that I had done a.
Speaker 3: Pilot audition for a show called Love and War that
Speaker 3: Amy wrote, and she said, oh, I liked you ever
Speaker 3: since you auditioned for that pilot for me, and I
Speaker 3: had no idea she remembered, she remembered, Yes, she's awesome.
Speaker 3: And then I got to do Bunheads with her. I
Speaker 3: had just seen a clip someone put a clip of Bunheads.
Speaker 3: I really forgot. How we talked super fast in that
Speaker 3: one too. I like any shows like that, like even
Speaker 3: Missus Maisles, they talked super fast.
Speaker 1: Isn't it uncanny? How good Amy is it?
Speaker 2: Kindima?
Speaker 1: And how she fights for each and every person, because
Speaker 1: you know that we were all a fight exit at
Speaker 1: the studio, like every one of them who who who
Speaker 1: What are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: We could get so and so and so and so
Speaker 1: and so and so. In fact, we have offers out.
Speaker 3: To them, and she has the eye for people that
Speaker 3: are going to make interesting combinations with each other too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and really, I met people on this show that have
Speaker 3: become like Sally's one of my closest friends that have remained,
Speaker 3: you know, forever, So that it's been, it's just been
Speaker 3: such a blessing. It's it's just not lost on me
Speaker 3: how special it is to be involved in something that
Speaker 3: this many years. I thought it was one episode. I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm here to fix the car, and I didn't know
Speaker 3: she was going to recur and be in and I
Speaker 3: think total, I think I'm in like twenty three, but
Speaker 3: it feels like more to the fans. I think I'm
Speaker 3: only in twenty four series, like twenty three or twenty
Speaker 3: four over the course of the seven seasons. While the
Speaker 3: fans call it the six seasons, but I call it
Speaker 3: the seventh seasons.
Speaker 1: There's some good episodes in the set, I agree.
Speaker 2: I had a really good ones.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love to read what people think of everything.
Speaker 3: You know, and you're in the life I had so
Speaker 3: much fun, and the fans are like, I just think
Speaker 3: that if we did one more, we'd game for it.
Speaker 3: We wanted on record that we're game.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I actually Lauren and Alexis would be game.
Speaker 1: I think now they would. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: she didn't you know, Lauren didn't say anything during the
Speaker 1: Walmart commercial, but I don't know. There was a twink Lenner.
Speaker 2: You know, the twinkle was there because you were there,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: But listen, you're just one of the great character actresses.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much in our business.
Speaker 2: Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 1: I mean, and isn't it wild? And you you've gone
Speaker 1: on to do great things?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: How talented this cast?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like all A players.
Speaker 3: A players and really have gone on to do such
Speaker 3: different things like musicians, stage work, yeah, movies, different stuff,
Speaker 3: and really incredible, I know, and it makes me.
Speaker 2: Want to go.
Speaker 3: I want I got to play with them years ago.
Speaker 3: I want to do that again, you know, and if
Speaker 3: we get to that, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well on your new show. I mean that's quite
Speaker 1: a cast. Is that is quite a cast? I mean
Speaker 1: that that lead girl opposite Jean Smart her name is
Speaker 1: scares me apologizes.
Speaker 2: She's incredible and you know this is her first acting role.
Speaker 1: Was she a comedian and stand up?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Her timing is so and great.
Speaker 3: Yes, I adore them, Mander, Jean Smart, Paul downs there.
Speaker 3: They are a wonderful group of people, and we were
Speaker 3: so lucky to be in the fourth season and hopefully
Speaker 3: get a fifth season.
Speaker 1: But she has a real rich emotional life. I mean,
Speaker 1: in that that Bared Bingo game or whatever they're playing,
Speaker 1: she really dug deep and got some nice I'm.
Speaker 2: So proud of all them.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you watched it. Sometimes it's hard, there's
Speaker 3: so many things on and I know we're like people.
Speaker 3: I'm so flattered that people find us in stream and
Speaker 3: I understood that.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of really top shows.
Speaker 3: Top top And I just heard here today for the
Speaker 3: first time that we're going to be streamed on Hulu
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Excited, Hello hul Hello.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much girls on Hulu and Netflix.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Now does that mean, like, if I want to know
Speaker 3: how many people are watching it? No one ever counts
Speaker 3: and tells us how many people streaming it.
Speaker 1: How many people onlix? I can tell you you can
Speaker 1: from uh in October. From one week's period, it's almost
Speaker 1: seven hundred million viewer minutes per week.
Speaker 3: Imagine how many pairs of eyeballs in the nation and
Speaker 3: around the world are on our.
Speaker 1: Faces and we all signed a buyout idiots we are.
Speaker 1: Imagine the residuals on this.
Speaker 2: I cry.
Speaker 3: I'm so thrilled, and I really feel like, you know
Speaker 3: what it's getting, Put good karma in the universe and
Speaker 3: it'll all come back to Absolutely we love some more
Speaker 3: money possible.
Speaker 2: So you're doing hacks, doing hacks, and I did.
Speaker 3: I actually got to do an episode of Saint Dennis Medical,
Speaker 3: which is a new show on NBC and I love
Speaker 3: And it's only been on, it had only been on
Speaker 3: a month. It already got nominated for Critics Choice Award.
Speaker 3: So I'm lucky to have two shows nominated for Best Comedy.
Speaker 1: Can I be on a show with you, pa get nominated?
Speaker 1: I love it. I hold my golden potato and high
Speaker 1: esteem in my conference room.
Speaker 3: I love that that both of them. And I believe
Speaker 3: Golden Globe nomination for gene for Hacks, and you know,
Speaker 3: of course we won Best Comedy even the Emmys.
Speaker 2: This pissed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was great and uh yeah, and I
Speaker 3: did an episode of sex Lives of College Girls, Oh okay,
Speaker 3: which is another Max show, and I played a registrar
Speaker 3: lady named Joyce.
Speaker 2: That was really fine.
Speaker 1: And they're sure to be nominated now, right, probably.
Speaker 3: I was so I'm so thrilled to be working now.
Speaker 3: I had an agent who said to me, you know,
Speaker 3: once you hit forty, you're gonna just work. You're just
Speaker 3: one of those people that's going to work more later
Speaker 3: in life. And I feel like it does get greater later.
Speaker 3: And I really am so happy to be. Like I thought,
Speaker 3: all these young comedians and they're all going to need
Speaker 3: moms and grandmas.
Speaker 2: I'll be that person.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to be the I.
Speaker 3: Want to keep going till the wheels fall off. Betty,
Speaker 3: Betty white.
Speaker 1: Age, thanks for stopping by. I know you've got a
Speaker 1: big day ahead of you because we're doing a big
Speaker 1: live podcast in front of how many thousands of people?
Speaker 3: I mean they're supposed to be over a thousand people,
Speaker 3: two hundred and there's chair set up this year. Yes,
Speaker 3: all right, it's a lot of it's it's kind of
Speaker 3: like a rock concert. It is a like, Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: going to be music and it's going to be crazy
Speaker 3: when I come out. I want like dry smoke. I
Speaker 3: want there's going to be a smoking machine shooting up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna get on a trapeze and over the fly,
Speaker 1: over the crowd. Now we're going to deliver coffee bags.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do pink like pink silks. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have the silks hanging out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna do That's what I'm going to do,
Speaker 4: beautiful gipsy.
Speaker 1: It's so nice to be extreme pleasure. I will see
Speaker 1: you out there perfect and about what an hour and
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. I love being the first guest,
Speaker 2: and thank you for signing my look.
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Thank you, Hey everybody, and don't forget
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Speaker 1: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com