Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
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Speaker 5: All right, everybody, welcome in. We have a very special
Speaker 5: fun one today, a bit of a two parter, which
Speaker 5: is very appropriate considering our guest, because she was so
Speaker 5: good that we had to bring her back twice in
Speaker 5: that beautiful soap opera style where we slapped a wig
Speaker 5: on her for an episode and hope the audience would
Speaker 5: buy it. And thankfully, not because of the wig, but
Speaker 5: because of her performance we did. Ladies and gents, please
Speaker 5: welcome Amanda Schule.
Speaker 6: That's probably my favorite intro ever.
Speaker 5: Oh clip it.
Speaker 6: Hi, Hi, my friends. I'm so happy to see you
Speaker 6: from Afar. I wish it were less Afar.
Speaker 4: You too, Where are you now? You're in a You're
Speaker 4: in a fabulous tucked away little library at your parents house,
Speaker 4: you said, or somewhere where.
Speaker 6: And then my parents' house in Honolulu.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, okay wow, is it six eleven am right now? Okay,
Speaker 5: So this is a perfect example snapshot of just how
Speaker 5: professional and amazing Amanda is. Because it's eight am where
Speaker 5: I am, and I didn't have the time. I put
Speaker 5: on a hat that was about professionals I could get
Speaker 5: for you all, Amanda looks like she just stepped out
Speaker 5: of hair and makeup. It's all done, she's all dulled up.
Speaker 5: It's six eleven, the roosters haven't even woken up yet,
Speaker 5: and Amanda is on her Mark wardrobe, regular job.
Speaker 6: But you are very kind.
Speaker 7: That's that's that is the exact reason I showed up, buddy.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, just to prove it all.
Speaker 5: I always we don't get to see each other often.
Speaker 5: We got to see each other at convention recently Wilmington,
Speaker 5: and it was a blast because it was just a
Speaker 5: reminder of how much I enjoy your company. But I haven't.
Speaker 5: I left the show and I didn't ever revisit it.
Speaker 5: So this doing this podcast is the first time I'm
Speaker 5: rewatching episodes, and I remember the broad strokes of what
Speaker 5: we did, right, But I forgot all of the nuance,
Speaker 5: all of the small stuff, and so much of it.
Speaker 5: And I got to say, watching you play Unhinged, Katie,
Speaker 5: there was so much I'd forgotten about. But it is
Speaker 5: so fun and juicy you play Psycho, and because I
Speaker 5: know you in real life, it's even more enjoyable for me.
Speaker 5: But you play unhinged so well, so committed to it.
Speaker 6: You're very kind.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't we all rather be crazy and mean than nice
Speaker 7: on camera?
Speaker 6: I mean, this is our opportunity, right.
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, all the moments in real life where we
Speaker 4: just want to be horrible and cheer not to because
Speaker 4: we're civilized, kind human beings, we can let it all out.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, I mean the opportunities to just be like Cracker
Speaker 7: Jacks is you know, one of the funnest parts of
Speaker 7: our job, you know, so absolutely, I would you know,
Speaker 7: just jump in the chance to have that opportunity any
Speaker 7: day of the week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you It's we were saying this last week that
Speaker 5: I think actors, most actors enjoy playing the opposite of
Speaker 5: who they are in real life, Like nice people love
Speaker 5: playing villains because they get to access and act on
Speaker 5: a side of themselves that is very foreign you know,
Speaker 5: and what you just said in mind, it's like Katie's
Speaker 5: so funny because there is no high road, like you're
Speaker 5: saying in your real life. How You're like, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be the mature adult and take Yeah, Katie just has
Speaker 5: one road and it is the Yeah, it is in
Speaker 5: one speed and it is cracker Jacks as you would say.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she knew what she wanted. Listen, she's a professional
Speaker 6: act plate.
Speaker 7: She knew what she wanted, and she was dedicated and
Speaker 7: she went after her goal.
Speaker 6: I mean, I love this.
Speaker 4: I love the psychology of it too. That makes sense.
Speaker 4: I wish I knew more about how Katie was that
Speaker 4: unhinged as you say, and managed to make it that
Speaker 4: far in her career without.
Speaker 6: Having them the best one dudes.
Speaker 4: I guess Clay was just the one that pushed her
Speaker 4: over the edge.
Speaker 6: Right, and then to look at that face and that hat.
Speaker 5: Oh guys, stop give me more. Feed my ego and
Speaker 5: this right here, we're just going to kind of do
Speaker 5: like a Q and A to talk about your experience
Speaker 5: in the show. But I do want to say, speaking
Speaker 5: of this the unhinged nature, it is funny that when
Speaker 5: Katie clearly is starting to go cuckoo for cocoa puffs
Speaker 5: and she's talking to her roommate played by Candae.
Speaker 6: Pats more food analogies.
Speaker 5: Okay, go on, yes, this is all I do. By
Speaker 5: the way, is I riff? And it's either eighties references
Speaker 5: or food references, so welcome to the party. It's funny
Speaker 5: that because when we see the roommate meet Clay, she's like, hey,
Speaker 5: bud heads off her lithium and it's about to get bad.
Speaker 5: I once I heard that piece of information, I wanted
Speaker 5: to go back in time to the scene where Katie's
Speaker 5: like doing her hair and she's like, he will be
Speaker 5: mine and it will be great. I'm like, hey, roommate, and.
Speaker 4: The roommate was it, like this is weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you didn't smell what she was cooking.
Speaker 4: Are you on your lithium or are you off it?
Speaker 5: One hundred percent when someone when your roommate is looking
Speaker 5: at the obituary of a guy she's met for six
Speaker 5: minutes going he will be mine, Yeah, there's like a
Speaker 5: million red flags that should get your attention.
Speaker 4: And how did she just wait for you to come
Speaker 4: to her? Why was she not proactive? Like what is
Speaker 4: this roommate busy doing with her life that she doesn't have.
Speaker 5: Joy boundaries, classic enabler behavior.
Speaker 7: But this also might not be the first time she's
Speaker 7: had to be like, oh this again.
Speaker 5: You know, well clearly not, because when Clay goes how
Speaker 5: bad does it get? She looks and dead serious and goes,
Speaker 5: it gets bad? You should be careful.
Speaker 4: I'm so curious how you you know, before you started
Speaker 4: playing cuckoo Katie, you came in and did such a
Speaker 4: beautiful job as Sarah. You ripped our hearts out and
Speaker 4: made us laugh and made us cry and feel all
Speaker 4: the things that we needed to feel in order to
Speaker 4: be invested in Clay and Sarah's storyline, and in Clay's storyline.
Speaker 4: As he continued like the two right right, that che
Speaker 4: mystery was.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's to facilitate the regular you know, he was
Speaker 7: this new character stepping onto the show, and the whole
Speaker 7: point is to give his backstory in just like a
Speaker 7: flash of the pan, you know, super fast. But we
Speaker 7: need to care about him, We need to care about
Speaker 7: his journey, and we need the audiences to understand who
Speaker 7: he is going forward based on who he was frier
Speaker 7: to meeting him. I wasn't told that I was dead.
Speaker 7: When I what when?
Speaker 6: I yeah, shot Sarah no way real. Yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 6: told I was dead.
Speaker 7: So Rob, you and I had a scene looking over
Speaker 7: like a balcony.
Speaker 6: I was wearing like an orange kind of top.
Speaker 7: My hair kept going to my face with windy and
Speaker 7: I kept like touching you with my hand and they
Speaker 7: were like no, no, no, no, no, can't touch And I
Speaker 7: was like, oh, interesting, and so I kept like, I
Speaker 7: kept my finger. They were like, you can have it
Speaker 7: just sort of close. And then I think it was
Speaker 7: maybe shooting a second episode. I can't remember exactly when
Speaker 7: I was told, oh, bt dubs, you're dead.
Speaker 4: That is so surprising that they just didn't tell you
Speaker 4: ahead of time. I would have been so confused as
Speaker 4: an actor, like I can't touch my husband.
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's more just that it they wanted it.
Speaker 7: It was a figment of his imagination and it was
Speaker 7: very real to him, so so we wanted it. We
Speaker 7: I wasn't part of the decision making. They wanted it
Speaker 7: to be as realistic as possible. And I don't know
Speaker 7: if somebody would go in and be like Clay with
Speaker 7: their live you know, I don't know what the what
Speaker 7: the other choices would have been, but I think it
Speaker 7: was just they wanted it to be as grounded as
Speaker 7: possible and that was the reasoning.
Speaker 5: M hmmm. When you auditioned, do you remember, was there
Speaker 5: any material that would have foreshadowed the Katie arc? No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, Katie wasn't in the picture at all.
Speaker 7: They after the three it was it was just a
Speaker 7: three episode contract and Sarah for Sarah, correct for Sarah,
Speaker 7: and after three episodes, I think they liked what they
Speaker 7: saw and.
Speaker 6: They yeah, they did. Well I'm not just meaning like
Speaker 6: you know haha.
Speaker 7: Like from my perspective, of course, they liked the idea of,
Speaker 7: you know, something going forward with it and how can
Speaker 7: we do that.
Speaker 6: We'll put a wig on there we go.
Speaker 5: They did like it.
Speaker 4: They saw they you know, to are the credit of
Speaker 4: our producers. I think they could recognize when there was
Speaker 4: somebody who had real talent and came on the show
Speaker 4: and had something to offer and filled a void that
Speaker 4: it's like you filled a void we didn't know we
Speaker 4: were missing. And it's hard to define that, especially when
Speaker 4: you've got a show with such a huge cast. You
Speaker 4: think you know everybody's sort of playing a part. But
Speaker 4: when somebody comes in and you're like, oh, this is
Speaker 4: new and fresh and it feels good. It doesn't feel
Speaker 4: like a flash in the pan. This feels like something
Speaker 4: I need more of it. It makes sense that they
Speaker 4: would try and keep you around. I mean, it's funny
Speaker 4: that they did it that way, but it sure was
Speaker 4: fun I mean, my goodness, what a riot.
Speaker 7: I think we ran a little bit of a course
Speaker 7: of flashbacks and you know, fast times at Ridge one
Speaker 7: hind and what we needed to do with Sarah, and
Speaker 7: so we moved forward. Speaking of the cast of thousands,
Speaker 7: so many storylines.
Speaker 6: Did this episode have? Fully moly, Yeah, there were a
Speaker 6: lot of stories.
Speaker 7: When I was watching it back, I was like, good grief.
Speaker 6: But everyone seemed.
Speaker 7: To get their share, Like, how was it even impossible?
Speaker 7: With like forty three storylines? You felt like you got
Speaker 7: enough of a taste of every single one of them.
Speaker 5: But yeah, when you think about an ensemble, if you
Speaker 5: have forty two minutes of content and you have let's
Speaker 5: say seven main characters, you were really only given six minutes.
Speaker 5: It's per character to tell a whole episode's worth of story.
Speaker 5: And when you look at it like that, that's nothing.
Speaker 6: Well, was that math that you did just now?
Speaker 5: I started last night, I finished a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 5: Took me out.
Speaker 6: Why was the hat right?
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but yeah that's a challenge six minutes, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's and you don't get just one crack at it,
Speaker 5: your breaking it. So it's it's a difficult balancing act.
Speaker 5: But I agree with you. I thought the episode did
Speaker 5: it well. But before we get into the episode, let's
Speaker 5: let's walk it back, because your trajectory is crazy in
Speaker 5: that you did not come into acting as traditionally as
Speaker 5: an actor. You are one of those ridiculous, obnoxious multiple
Speaker 5: threats where you got onto center stage through dancing and
Speaker 5: then you were like, by the way, in my back pocket,
Speaker 5: look at this other thing I do that I'm really
Speaker 5: good at, which is bonkers. So so talk a little
Speaker 5: bit about doing center stage and what that was like, right, sure.
Speaker 7: And thank you. I was a dancer. I mean I
Speaker 7: started ballet at the age of three, and I knew
Speaker 7: that I wasn't ready to stop dancing when I when I.
Speaker 6: Graduated from high school.
Speaker 7: But I also didn't know whether I wanted to dance
Speaker 7: professionally or whether anybody wanted me, and so I went
Speaker 7: to college, which is I guess different from from a
Speaker 7: lot of professional dancers because it's it's a finite career
Speaker 7: and a lot of people started a lot younger professionally.
Speaker 6: Than I did. And so I went.
Speaker 7: I went to went to school for a couple of years,
Speaker 7: and I went to the summer program at San Francisco
Speaker 7: Ballet and at the end of the summer program they
Speaker 7: offered me a scholarship to say for the year. So
Speaker 7: I went for the year as a student and took
Speaker 7: college classes at USF in the morning and performed with
Speaker 7: the company at night. And at the end of our
Speaker 7: year of our of my year, there a we were
Speaker 7: doing rehearsing our end of the year showcase, and I
Speaker 7: remember the choreographer said, We're going to have this big
Speaker 7: Hollywood producer come in today, and I had no idea
Speaker 7: what she was talking about, but I knew I was
Speaker 7: going to get the job. Like I was like, I'm on,
Speaker 7: this is happening. I don't know what it's for, but
Speaker 7: game time.
Speaker 4: And that's amazing, No, it is to have that foresight
Speaker 4: and that like instead of feeling nervous to just be like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I got this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, But I mean as a dancer, it's like
Speaker 7: you're you're only as good as your performance, right. So,
Speaker 7: and I had done musical theater growing up, and so
Speaker 7: again I had no idea what this person was coming to, see,
Speaker 7: who they were coming to, see, what they were looking for.
Speaker 6: But I jumped higher, I kicked higher. I performed for
Speaker 6: the mirror like I did.
Speaker 7: Everything to razzle dazzle that I thought would get me attention,
Speaker 7: and somehow it worked. And she had she had gone
Speaker 7: across she was an ex professional dancer herself, and she
Speaker 7: had gone across the country looking for a dancer who
Speaker 7: could act. And I just happened to be in the
Speaker 7: right place, desperately in the right place of it right now.
Speaker 5: Wow, But so hold on, she needed a dancer who
Speaker 5: can act well. So she saw you dance, but I'm
Speaker 5: assuming the next step was her asking can you act right?
Speaker 6: Correct? So the next step was I am.
Speaker 7: The company assistant came to me in the hall and
Speaker 7: she gave me the.
Speaker 6: Script like a it was.
Speaker 7: It was a Sony Pictures movie, so it was like
Speaker 7: a full, you know, beautifully put together, full script. And
Speaker 7: I had never seen one of those before, and in sides,
Speaker 7: and she said that that person wanted you wants you
Speaker 7: to read audition, and I was like, got it, it's happening.
Speaker 7: So I went home read the script and like in
Speaker 7: True Dancer, I memorized all of my lines and everything
Speaker 7: so I would not need the pages going in.
Speaker 6: I was going to perform.
Speaker 5: Wait the whole script or did she tell you like
Speaker 5: this scene?
Speaker 7: I had three scenes I believe as Jodie Sawyer who
Speaker 7: which is the role I ended up getting? And so
Speaker 7: the next day I didn't know when they were going
Speaker 7: to ask me to go audition. The next day between rehearsals,
Speaker 7: excuse me, she pulled me in to and I was
Speaker 7: like beat red and sweaty and just you know, in
Speaker 7: my leotard and tights. And I went into this tiny
Speaker 7: little rehearsal room and did the sides and afterwards she said, great, okay,
Speaker 7: so can you read these sides for me. I'll give
Speaker 7: you a few minutes to go outside and look at them.
Speaker 7: And it was Susan May Pratt's role, which is kind
Speaker 7: of the bitch. And again, you know, leading back to
Speaker 7: what we were saying before, I was like, oh, I
Speaker 7: like this one more? Can I have this one, please,
Speaker 7: and she was like, you don't get it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of sweet though.
Speaker 7: So I went into the hall and I worked on it.
Speaker 7: And she told me later that the reason she had
Speaker 7: done that was because she called her boss when I
Speaker 7: was out in the hall and she said, I found her.
Speaker 7: I found Jody. Sorry, I'm just going to get a
Speaker 7: little more of her on tape for you. And so
Speaker 7: I came in and I read a little bit more
Speaker 7: and then then you know, not natural natural next steps
Speaker 7: where they sent me down to La to meet the director,
Speaker 7: Sir Nicholas Heitner and the producers, and then I did
Speaker 7: a screen test and that.
Speaker 4: It's one of those classic Hollywood stories. It's it's just
Speaker 4: discovery and and you get swept up and somebody recognizes
Speaker 4: the star power and they go okay, let's go, and
Speaker 4: you're just swept along for the ride. It's magic.
Speaker 7: And it's also just one of those classic like explanations
Speaker 7: of I mean, I always I was in the right
Speaker 7: place at the right time, and a little bit of
Speaker 7: you know of luck is operation meeting opportunity, Yes.
Speaker 5: And.
Speaker 7: I feel like I was perfectly prepared for that role,
Speaker 7: not necessarily for anything going forward. I had never done
Speaker 7: screen acting before, so I wasn't prepared for the roles
Speaker 7: that came afterward. I really needed to work on those
Speaker 7: and study and work with coaches and all of that.
Speaker 7: But for that role for a dance student in a
Speaker 7: highly competitive dance school, check, yes done, I was ready
Speaker 7: for that.
Speaker 5: Had you ever taken acting classes? Did you have an
Speaker 5: interest in acting prior to this?
Speaker 6: I had an interest.
Speaker 7: I had never taken I mean maybe a couple of
Speaker 7: like musical theater like after school things when I was
Speaker 7: really little. And like I said, I had done some
Speaker 7: musical theater performances here community theater and here being Hawaii
Speaker 7: where I am right now, But I had never done
Speaker 7: like screen acting anything of any sort like that, which
Speaker 7: is it's very different obviously.
Speaker 5: Wow, that is so wild man. Well, we so we
Speaker 5: asked fans for questions for you, and we were flooded
Speaker 5: with them. So do you mind if we fire a
Speaker 5: couple at you please? Okay, So I liked this one.
Speaker 5: May asks did you prefer playing Sweet Sarah or Psycho Katie?
Speaker 7: Well, Sweet Sarah, you and I Rob had some really
Speaker 7: lovely moments. You know, I'm thinking in particular about the scenes. Well,
Speaker 7: most of the scenes, the death scene, that whole all
Speaker 7: of that whole storyline was really quite lovely, just establishing
Speaker 7: their romance. But again, I like being crazy.
Speaker 4: Well, speaking of that, our next question is from Hennessy Nicole,
Speaker 4: another nickname we have coming in here. She's asking, what
Speaker 4: is your favorite psycho movie?
Speaker 6: Care?
Speaker 4: Did you take any inspiration from anyone?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 7: I didn't take any inspiration that I can think of
Speaker 7: from from a movie or anything.
Speaker 6: Oh you know what this? I mean, this is sort
Speaker 6: of strange that I don't know why this came to
Speaker 6: Maybe because of the location. Did you I'm sure you
Speaker 6: both have seen Cape Fear.
Speaker 4: I have not. I know I watched the first like
Speaker 4: twenty minutes of it and he started biting somebody's cheek
Speaker 4: and I was like, I gotta go. I can't.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, no, figure out, I don't even remember that.
Speaker 6: You know what is like.
Speaker 7: Kind of the best movie with a turn with a
Speaker 7: character turn, Primal Fear with any movie?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh yeah, that's such a great movie.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen Primal Fear.
Speaker 5: And here's the problem is that because of the Internet. No,
Speaker 5: it's okay, because I have seen none of that movie.
Speaker 5: Except for the turns. Oh, of course, it was like
Speaker 5: best turns like on Instagram are real, like best turns
Speaker 5: of a character.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, man, I tried to watch what was
Speaker 4: it called The Usual Sasa the other day. I try
Speaker 4: to show it to my boyfriend and he had never
Speaker 4: seen it, and like, I was like, oh, you got
Speaker 4: to see it cause you're so saying, well, it's so great.
Speaker 4: I got to say that the movie does not hold
Speaker 4: up very well, Like it's really slow, and it's by
Speaker 4: the end you're just kind of like, I don't even care.
Speaker 4: I was so surprised because I have this memory, and
Speaker 4: I guess maybe our attention span has just changed over
Speaker 4: the years. But and I had wondered about if I
Speaker 4: go back and watch Primal Fear, am I gonna have
Speaker 4: the same experience because I loved The Usual Suspects.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, interesting, Yeah, well, the Primal Fear
Speaker 7: from my memory again, I haven't seen it in decades.
Speaker 6: He is so good, he is so so good.
Speaker 5: He's terrifying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's committed.
Speaker 5: Uncomfortable, yeah, committed.
Speaker 4: I mean that's the thing. I think that's what makes
Speaker 4: your performance so believable too, is there's the mustache twisting
Speaker 4: version of being a villain. And then there's the version
Speaker 4: where you've really genuinely believe what this character is believing,
Speaker 4: the psychosis, the break with reality that they're having. It's
Speaker 4: the only way to make it. There was a compassion
Speaker 4: like watching this episode, I felt and I know we're
Speaker 4: going to get into the episode later, but I felt
Speaker 4: a compassion for her. It wasn't she wasn't just this
Speaker 4: dastardly evil girl. It was like, oh god, she's really.
Speaker 7: She's not doing these things to like upset any kind
Speaker 7: of a bounce.
Speaker 6: She's doing these things because she needs to write. Yeah,
Speaker 6: bad people don't know they're bad people. You know.
Speaker 7: They everyone does something for a reason, and usually it's
Speaker 7: you know, even if it's a selfish reason or no,
Speaker 7: you know, in their mind, a noble reason. It's it's
Speaker 7: not for evil, mustache twisting reasons, right.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: And and I appreciate that because I your comments, thank you,
Speaker 7: because I mean, you have to care about her. You
Speaker 7: can't be like, oh this storyline again these six minutes
Speaker 7: it's oh, you know, let's actually empathize with this person
Speaker 7: because and Clay does, right, and that's sort of you
Speaker 7: know that's his humanity.
Speaker 5: Too, And when you tap into that, it sort of
Speaker 5: when there is a human element to a villain, it
Speaker 5: muddies the water, and I think those are the more
Speaker 5: interesting villain same thing with heroes. It's like you want
Speaker 5: someone who you there's like a piece of you going like, oh,
Speaker 5: but I get that the same way with your heroes.
Speaker 5: If there's a little ugly, you're like, that sucks, but
Speaker 5: oh it's human Like, it's it's fun when it's when
Speaker 5: you kind of challenge the audience to like not be
Speaker 5: able to pigeonhole a character immediately.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't reduce someone down to a moment or
Speaker 4: an issue in their life. You can't dehumanize them if
Speaker 4: they're very, very real and human.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think that's also kind of human nature's
Speaker 7: flaw at least mine, is reducing people down to an
Speaker 7: instant or a moment or an experience, right, And that's
Speaker 7: something that like, for instance, I'm guilty of when somebody
Speaker 7: cuts you off in traffic, all they are is that
Speaker 7: one thing that one maneuver, right, But the reason that
Speaker 7: they did that could be that they're they're rushing to
Speaker 7: pick their kid up from school or you know.
Speaker 6: They they're distracted because they have a family member who's ill,
Speaker 6: or you know, whatever it is. Everyone is.
Speaker 7: Is the sum of all of their experiences, not just
Speaker 7: that one that you meet them in. And I'm not
Speaker 7: sure how I got guarded on this tangent, but it's like,
Speaker 7: nobody is just one thing, and villain shouldn't be that
Speaker 7: one thing. She you know, Katie might have had a
Speaker 7: really rough upbringing. Yeah, something could have happened to her
Speaker 7: at the age of six or seven that just damaged
Speaker 7: her so deeply that she's looking for love in all
Speaker 7: of these misguided places.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that the ability that you have to see that,
Speaker 4: and the intelligence you apply to your character in spite
Speaker 4: of the circumstances that are on the page and everything
Speaker 4: that seems so wild and soapy and silly, it makes
Speaker 4: all of those things work because you are so smart
Speaker 4: and so real about who she is. So you know
Speaker 4: it's true though it would not have worked without it
Speaker 4: wouldn't have worked without your insight and ability to convey that.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Cammi asks what were the challenges of playing a second
Speaker 5: character that wanted to be the first one? And I
Speaker 5: kind of have a follow up, which was when they
Speaker 5: called you and said we want you to come back
Speaker 5: and play basically the identical twin of his dead wife.
Speaker 5: What was your initial reaction to that?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Did you have any trepidation about, oh, is this gonna work?
Speaker 5: What will people think? No, the fact that they're like,
Speaker 5: we're going to put a wig on you and everyone's
Speaker 5: gonna buy it. Like you didn't balk at that at all,
Speaker 5: walk at that, no, look at you go.
Speaker 6: Okay, so it's a different person. Yeah, it's a completely
Speaker 6: different person.
Speaker 7: So you just you you create a different person. And
Speaker 7: and they also waded her into the water. I mean,
Speaker 7: she doesn't start off as cuckoo, you know, she's she's
Speaker 7: We meet her in your episode that you directed joy,
Speaker 7: just like that little tiny flash, and then we we
Speaker 7: get deeper and deeper and deeper, just as she goes
Speaker 7: deeper and deeper, you know, into this obsession.
Speaker 6: But no, I mean she's a totally different person.
Speaker 7: But fair enough, she she's playing act Sarah.
Speaker 6: She's not.
Speaker 7: She's she's only able to be what she's read in
Speaker 7: that journal, right, or what she's she's learned about.
Speaker 6: So she's playing Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not like she knew Sarah, and then you
Speaker 4: had to try and pretend to you had to play
Speaker 4: a version of yourself, pretending to be a version of yourself. Right, No,
Speaker 4: that would have been really hard.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: It's just just this is what I've read, and this
Speaker 7: is what he likes, and so I'm going to be
Speaker 7: exactly what he wants and what he needs.
Speaker 6: You know, it's it's it's plain make believe she's acting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so she got it. She got a very thorough
Speaker 5: breakdown in backstory and was like, great, I'm going to.
Speaker 6: Run with it. Yeah, I know the breakdown services was
Speaker 6: strong for her.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: So the next question is from Stu Frank and he's
Speaker 4: asking was the Storm episode difficult to film? So you know,
Speaker 4: this is ahead of where we're at right now, but
Speaker 4: since we have you, I am curious how that went
Speaker 4: because I remember stopping by the set when you guys
Speaker 4: were filming all the stuff with the house inside, and
Speaker 4: it was like, I don't know, I feel like the
Speaker 4: storm stuff was all shot on the stage, right, Am
Speaker 4: I remembering that correctly? No, it wasn't, because there was
Speaker 4: some kind of crazy break in broken glass like stunts
Speaker 4: happening on the stage at one point I thought it
Speaker 4: was that one. Maybe that was inserts or something. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't remember ever filming on the stage. That could
Speaker 6: be my own memory.
Speaker 7: The storm stuff, that's where Quinn and Katie fight and
Speaker 7: go over the Yes, that's the episode you're speaking of. Yes,
Speaker 7: that was all filmed on location.
Speaker 4: Inside the house too.
Speaker 6: Inside the house.
Speaker 7: Oh, inside the house, and there was a rain machine,
Speaker 7: just like one of those huge rain towers blasting ice.
Speaker 5: Cold rain, always ice cold.
Speaker 4: How could they not have figured out a way to
Speaker 4: just run the water through a little heater. I mean,
Speaker 4: we all can get electric heaters in our homes. Like
Speaker 4: why why is it always freezing?
Speaker 1: I mean those towers are pretty big. That might have
Speaker 1: cost a little bit.
Speaker 6: Of a pretty penny to ye back then go see
Speaker 6: that water up for us. But we filmed that was
Speaker 6: like that particular, the stuff that between Quinn and Katie.
Speaker 7: We filmed that for the most part, all in one day,
Speaker 7: with the fight stuff and then going over and there
Speaker 7: were two beautiful stunt performers who obviously did the dramatic stuff.
Speaker 4: But what I.
Speaker 7: Remember about that that episode is because we were filming
Speaker 7: all day and well into the night.
Speaker 6: I mean it was.
Speaker 7: Probably like four. We were facing sunrise. We were right
Speaker 7: up against sunrise when we were doing a lot.
Speaker 6: Of that stuff.
Speaker 7: At the end, I fell asleep in like a little
Speaker 7: nook when they were doing Chantal's coverage. And I fell
Speaker 7: asleep in like a little nook and they had like
Speaker 7: dead asleep and someone came and woke me up to
Speaker 7: make me go outside and stand in the rain and
Speaker 7: like just be menacing staring into the window.
Speaker 6: Was like so was still asleep, and.
Speaker 1: They just kind of like propped me up outside and
Speaker 1: I was in the ice cold water, and it was
Speaker 1: such a shock to me. I remember just crying because
Speaker 1: I had like.
Speaker 6: Like so so, but you couldn't tell.
Speaker 8: You couldn't tell that I was crying because I was
Speaker 8: like like wet rat drenched and like the tears are
Speaker 8: and I was like, just don't quiver your mouth, Just
Speaker 8: don't quiver your mouth, just like stare straight ahead.
Speaker 6: But I was like it.
Speaker 4: Would have worked even if you did.
Speaker 7: Though, Yes, that's an interesting take, Commander, Let's try being
Speaker 7: less cry baby.
Speaker 5: That we had the same pumped in rain thing in
Speaker 5: a scene A couple episodes or several episodes prior with
Speaker 5: Clang Quinn and we had it was it was the
Speaker 5: scene where Clay tells Quinn about Sarah, and when Chantona
Speaker 5: I read the script, we we lobbied hard for the
Speaker 5: whole conversation to happen in the rain because we thought
Speaker 5: that we're so powerful, and luckily the director just kept saying, no,
Speaker 5: trust it, you don't want that. And then I did
Speaker 5: the first take because she's already in her car. But
Speaker 5: I did the first take where I had to run
Speaker 5: through the rain to the car, and that is take
Speaker 5: your breath away, cold water as if there is a
Speaker 5: giant glacier, just offset that. They are melting directly into
Speaker 5: the hose. So I can only imagine that you having
Speaker 5: to stand outside there at four and four in the
Speaker 5: morning exhausted is just torture.
Speaker 4: It's always brute. Do they have a hot tub for you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: They maybe they figured that. No, they figured that out later.
Speaker 4: Because James and I used to have to do scenes
Speaker 4: in the rain all the time. That just became like
Speaker 4: as a.
Speaker 1: Guest star sing your status.
Speaker 6: I didn't mean to.
Speaker 5: They're like, oh, are you going to be difficult? We'll
Speaker 5: kill you off again.
Speaker 4: No, that's not Okay, they should have had a hot
Speaker 4: tub or warming tent or something.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I'm sure they slapped the blanket on me.
Speaker 5: It would be incredible should the show go on to
Speaker 5: do more more seasons, that you come back as a
Speaker 5: third character, because has that ever been done in television history?
Speaker 5: Someone plays on a non soap opera.
Speaker 6: Oh I was going to say, I'm sure. On the
Speaker 6: soap opera, I'm so sure.
Speaker 5: But on non soap opera programming, I think.
Speaker 4: You Marea's twin sister. Yeah, that she never knew about
Speaker 4: separated at birth. We can tell your hair red.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh you're Katie's twin sister. Oh, just be great,
Speaker 5: all the colors of the race.
Speaker 4: Yes, speaking of Rob, what you just said about more episodes?
Speaker 4: Did you guys know that there is this there's AI
Speaker 4: technology I've heard that's being developed or maybe it exists already.
Speaker 6: This is going to make me mad.
Speaker 4: I know you can input, like you could upload every
Speaker 4: episode of One Tree Hill. It scans for storyline, it
Speaker 4: scans our faces, it scans it basically, it creates. It
Speaker 4: could create new episodes in perpetuity, just any any character
Speaker 4: you want to see, any storyline, any anything, it would
Speaker 4: just create an entirely new episode based on our performances
Speaker 4: and what exists already.
Speaker 6: That makes me upset.
Speaker 5: Yeah, me too, I have heard what you're referring to.
Speaker 5: There was a kind of a tech panel with some
Speaker 5: people from the industry, and one of them was saying,
Speaker 5: how AI is kind of a will be sort of
Speaker 5: at best, like a complimentary good. It won't be replacing
Speaker 5: actors or writers because at what it does kind of
Speaker 5: at its best, it's like it's mimicry, it's copying. It's
Speaker 5: sort of a summation of everything, an aggregator of everything,
Speaker 5: like visual effects may take a hit because that work
Speaker 5: can be done more efficiently by technology. But what they
Speaker 5: were saying was that one of the things that could
Speaker 5: happen is like it you can go to it and
Speaker 5: ask it too, Like you can pay for the service
Speaker 5: of having, like, say, the characters from your favorite show
Speaker 5: do an episode like around something that you have asked
Speaker 5: it to do.
Speaker 4: Okay, Like you write your own episode basically and ask
Speaker 4: them yes, weird, all right?
Speaker 5: Lily g asks what's your favorite memory from being on
Speaker 5: the show?
Speaker 6: Oh, I had fun with you, Rob.
Speaker 7: It's interesting because for all those storylines that we discussed before.
Speaker 7: I only interacted with with.
Speaker 6: You and Chantal. You were the only people I worked with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I passed you in the hair and makeup
Speaker 4: trailer in the hallways.
Speaker 7: You directed the very first thing, that's right, Yes, a Katie,
Speaker 7: that's it.
Speaker 4: But other than that, like we never we never crosspaths.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't cross paths with anyone.
Speaker 7: On on set, you know, obviously off camera. It's a
Speaker 7: beautiful location to be able to film out there, and
Speaker 7: I had a lot of fun. Just I remember one
Speaker 7: day you and I Rob were working out at the
Speaker 7: beach house and I looked out and I don't know
Speaker 7: if it was like the Fast Times bikini stuff, because
Speaker 7: that part wouldn't have been my absolute face, but they
Speaker 7: were just butterflies everywhere, just butterflies, just these like rainbows
Speaker 7: of butterflies going by. And I just thought, I am
Speaker 7: working with lovely people in a beautiful location, just flooded
Speaker 7: with butterflies. I mean, how does it get much better
Speaker 7: than that?
Speaker 4: You know, my magic in Wilmington.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it was beautiful.
Speaker 4: That's so great. Well, friends, that's the end of the
Speaker 4: Q and A episode, But I want you to come
Speaker 4: back because We have Amanda for episode seven twenty one,
Speaker 4: What's in the Ground Belongs to You, and she's gonna
Speaker 4: walk us through more of playing Katie and we'll talk
Speaker 4: more about all the multi storylines that we had going on. Hey,
Speaker 4: thanks for listening.
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