WEBVTT - Amanda Schull 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.280 First of all, you don't know me. 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.880 All about that high school drama girl drama girl, all 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:06.480 about them. 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.520 High school queens. We'll take you for a ride. And 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.560 our comic girl cheered for the right team. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.920 Drama queens Jyley's my girl, lough girl fashion, which you'll 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:17.079 tough girl, you could. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:17.520 Sit with us. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.640 Girl drama, Queens, drama, queense drama, Queens drama, drama, Queens 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.639 drama Queens. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.120 All right, everybody, welcome in. We have a very special 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.680 fun one today, a bit of a two parter, which 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.960 is very appropriate considering our guest, because she was so 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.440 good that we had to bring her back twice in 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.040 that beautiful soap opera style where we slapped a wig 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.680 on her for an episode and hope the audience would 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.400 buy it. And thankfully, not because of the wig, but 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:52.080 because of her performance we did. Ladies and gents, please 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:53.840 welcome Amanda Schule. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.680 That's probably my favorite intro ever. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:00:59.840 Oh clip it. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.320 Hi, Hi, my friends. I'm so happy to see you 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.200 from Afar. I wish it were less Afar. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.280 You too, Where are you now? You're in a You're 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.479 in a fabulous tucked away little library at your parents house, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.040 you said, or somewhere where. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.600 And then my parents' house in Honolulu. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:25.040 Oh wow, okay wow, is it six eleven am right now? Okay, 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.320 So this is a perfect example snapshot of just how 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.479 professional and amazing Amanda is. Because it's eight am where 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.399 I am, and I didn't have the time. I put 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.720 on a hat that was about professionals I could get 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.040 for you all, Amanda looks like she just stepped out 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.640 of hair and makeup. It's all done, she's all dulled up. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.640 It's six eleven, the roosters haven't even woken up yet, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.080 and Amanda is on her Mark wardrobe, regular job. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.520 But you are very kind. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.320 That's that's that is the exact reason I showed up, buddy. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:57.920 Let me tell you something, just to prove it all. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.800 I always we don't get to see each other often. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.200 We got to see each other at convention recently Wilmington, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.160 and it was a blast because it was just a 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.240 reminder of how much I enjoy your company. But I haven't. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 I left the show and I didn't ever revisit it. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.200 So this doing this podcast is the first time I'm 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.040 rewatching episodes, and I remember the broad strokes of what 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.920 we did, right, But I forgot all of the nuance, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.200 all of the small stuff, and so much of it. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.720 And I got to say, watching you play Unhinged, Katie, 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.320 there was so much I'd forgotten about. But it is 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.760 so fun and juicy you play Psycho, and because I 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.320 know you in real life, it's even more enjoyable for me. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:45.920 But you play unhinged so well, so committed to it. 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:46.960 You're very kind. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.359 Wouldn't we all rather be crazy and mean than nice 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:52.000 on camera? 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.880 I mean, this is our opportunity, right. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.240 Right, Yes, all the moments in real life where we 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.680 just want to be horrible and cheer not to because 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.680 we're civilized, kind human beings, we can let it all out. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:05.920 Yeah. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:11.239 No, I mean the opportunities to just be like Cracker 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.440 Jacks is you know, one of the funnest parts of 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:19.640 our job, you know, so absolutely, I would you know, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.000 just jump in the chance to have that opportunity any 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:23.640 day of the week. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.000 Yeah, you It's we were saying this last week that 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.960 I think actors, most actors enjoy playing the opposite of 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.720 who they are in real life, Like nice people love 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.640 playing villains because they get to access and act on 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.520 a side of themselves that is very foreign you know, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.720 and what you just said in mind, it's like Katie's 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.120 so funny because there is no high road, like you're 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.120 saying in your real life. How You're like, I'm gonna 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.840 be the mature adult and take Yeah, Katie just has 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.800 one road and it is the Yeah, it is in 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.800 one speed and it is cracker Jacks as you would say. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.680 Yeah, she knew what she wanted. Listen, she's a professional 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:00.360 act plate. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.560 She knew what she wanted, and she was dedicated and 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:04.880 she went after her goal. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:06.800 I mean, I love this. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.760 I love the psychology of it too. That makes sense. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.839 I wish I knew more about how Katie was that 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.200 unhinged as you say, and managed to make it that 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.000 far in her career without. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.760 Having them the best one dudes. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.520 I guess Clay was just the one that pushed her 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:25.640 over the edge. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.360 Right, and then to look at that face and that hat. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:34.599 Oh guys, stop give me more. Feed my ego and 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.840 this right here, we're just going to kind of do 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.239 like a Q and A to talk about your experience 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.000 in the show. But I do want to say, speaking 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.640 of this the unhinged nature, it is funny that when 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.839 Katie clearly is starting to go cuckoo for cocoa puffs 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.520 and she's talking to her roommate played by Candae. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.440 Pats more food analogies. 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.600 Okay, go on, yes, this is all I do. By 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.440 the way, is I riff? And it's either eighties references 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.120 or food references, so welcome to the party. It's funny 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.360 that because when we see the roommate meet Clay, she's like, hey, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:09.440 bud heads off her lithium and it's about to get bad. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.920 I once I heard that piece of information, I wanted 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.200 to go back in time to the scene where Katie's 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.960 like doing her hair and she's like, he will be 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.719 mine and it will be great. I'm like, hey, roommate, and. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.320 The roommate was it, like this is weird. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.680 Yeah, you didn't smell what she was cooking. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.080 Are you on your lithium or are you off it? 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.839 One hundred percent when someone when your roommate is looking 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.320 at the obituary of a guy she's met for six 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.520 minutes going he will be mine, Yeah, there's like a 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.720 million red flags that should get your attention. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.839 And how did she just wait for you to come 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.520 to her? Why was she not proactive? Like what is 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.520 this roommate busy doing with her life that she doesn't have. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:55.599 Joy boundaries, classic enabler behavior. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.920 But this also might not be the first time she's 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.320 had to be like, oh this again. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.400 You know, well clearly not, because when Clay goes how 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.520 bad does it get? She looks and dead serious and goes, 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.000 it gets bad? You should be careful. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.640 I'm so curious how you you know, before you started 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.360 playing cuckoo Katie, you came in and did such a 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:23.880 beautiful job as Sarah. You ripped our hearts out and 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.720 made us laugh and made us cry and feel all 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.719 the things that we needed to feel in order to 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.440 be invested in Clay and Sarah's storyline, and in Clay's storyline. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.560 As he continued like the two right right, that che 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:36.040 mystery was. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.760 Yes, it's to facilitate the regular you know, he was 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.840 this new character stepping onto the show, and the whole 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.760 point is to give his backstory in just like a 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.839 flash of the pan, you know, super fast. But we 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:52.480 need to care about him, We need to care about 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.120 his journey, and we need the audiences to understand who 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.520 he is going forward based on who he was frier 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.680 to meeting him. I wasn't told that I was dead. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.360 When I what when? 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.960 I yeah, shot Sarah no way real. Yeah, I wasn't 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:13.680 told I was dead. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.560 So Rob, you and I had a scene looking over 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:19.800 like a balcony. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.240 I was wearing like an orange kind of top. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.600 My hair kept going to my face with windy and 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.040 I kept like touching you with my hand and they 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.440 were like no, no, no, no, no, can't touch And I 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.920 was like, oh, interesting, and so I kept like, I 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.200 kept my finger. They were like, you can have it 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.160 just sort of close. And then I think it was 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.360 maybe shooting a second episode. I can't remember exactly when 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.560 I was told, oh, bt dubs, you're dead. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.720 That is so surprising that they just didn't tell you 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.480 ahead of time. I would have been so confused as 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.600 an actor, like I can't touch my husband. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.160 Well, I think it's more just that it they wanted it. 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.240 It was a figment of his imagination and it was 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:10.120 very real to him, so so we wanted it. We 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.800 I wasn't part of the decision making. They wanted it 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.520 to be as realistic as possible. And I don't know 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.840 if somebody would go in and be like Clay with 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.320 their live you know, I don't know what the what 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.680 the other choices would have been, but I think it 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.360 was just they wanted it to be as grounded as 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.440 possible and that was the reasoning. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:45.920 M hmmm. When you auditioned, do you remember, was there 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.199 any material that would have foreshadowed the Katie arc? No? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.360 No, no, no, Katie wasn't in the picture at all. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.840 They after the three it was it was just a 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:03.600 three episode contract and Sarah for Sarah, correct for Sarah, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.319 and after three episodes, I think they liked what they 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.360 saw and. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.880 They yeah, they did. Well I'm not just meaning like 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:13.280 you know haha. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.199 Like from my perspective, of course, they liked the idea of, 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.679 you know, something going forward with it and how can 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:20.160 we do that. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 We'll put a wig on there we go. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:26.760 They did like it. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.280 They saw they you know, to are the credit of 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.040 our producers. I think they could recognize when there was 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.400 somebody who had real talent and came on the show 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.800 and had something to offer and filled a void that 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.120 it's like you filled a void we didn't know we 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:47.040 were missing. And it's hard to define that, especially when 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.679 you've got a show with such a huge cast. You 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.440 think you know everybody's sort of playing a part. But 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.240 when somebody comes in and you're like, oh, this is 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.600 new and fresh and it feels good. It doesn't feel 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.520 like a flash in the pan. This feels like something 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.680 I need more of it. It makes sense that they 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.920 would try and keep you around. I mean, it's funny 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.640 that they did it that way, but it sure was 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.240 fun I mean, my goodness, what a riot. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.000 I think we ran a little bit of a course 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.720 of flashbacks and you know, fast times at Ridge one 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.439 hind and what we needed to do with Sarah, and 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.240 so we moved forward. Speaking of the cast of thousands, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.160 so many storylines. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:29.920 Did this episode have? Fully moly, Yeah, there were a 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.000 lot of stories. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.560 When I was watching it back, I was like, good grief. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.640 But everyone seemed. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:41.600 To get their share, Like, how was it even impossible? 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.760 With like forty three storylines? You felt like you got 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.240 enough of a taste of every single one of them. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.199 But yeah, when you think about an ensemble, if you 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.400 have forty two minutes of content and you have let's 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:00.000 say seven main characters, you were really only given six minutes. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.120 It's per character to tell a whole episode's worth of story. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.760 And when you look at it like that, that's nothing. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.680 Well, was that math that you did just now? 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.120 I started last night, I finished a couple of minutes ago. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:15.640 Took me out. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:16.959 Why was the hat right? 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:23.320 Yes, yeah, but yeah that's a challenge six minutes, you know, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.199 and it's and you don't get just one crack at it, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.240 your breaking it. So it's it's a difficult balancing act. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.040 But I agree with you. I thought the episode did 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:31.880 it well. But before we get into the episode, let's 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.280 let's walk it back, because your trajectory is crazy in 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.480 that you did not come into acting as traditionally as 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.240 an actor. You are one of those ridiculous, obnoxious multiple 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:49.160 threats where you got onto center stage through dancing and 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.240 then you were like, by the way, in my back pocket, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.360 look at this other thing I do that I'm really 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.280 good at, which is bonkers. So so talk a little 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.079 bit about doing center stage and what that was like, right, sure. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.600 And thank you. I was a dancer. I mean I 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.240 started ballet at the age of three, and I knew 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.680 that I wasn't ready to stop dancing when I when I. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:17.840 Graduated from high school. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.160 But I also didn't know whether I wanted to dance 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.560 professionally or whether anybody wanted me, and so I went 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.760 to college, which is I guess different from from a 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.720 lot of professional dancers because it's it's a finite career 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.160 and a lot of people started a lot younger professionally. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.079 Than I did. And so I went. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.520 I went to went to school for a couple of years, 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.560 and I went to the summer program at San Francisco 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.040 Ballet and at the end of the summer program they 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.600 offered me a scholarship to say for the year. So 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.679 I went for the year as a student and took 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.680 college classes at USF in the morning and performed with 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.920 the company at night. And at the end of our 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.760 year of our of my year, there a we were 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.160 doing rehearsing our end of the year showcase, and I 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.960 remember the choreographer said, We're going to have this big 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.280 Hollywood producer come in today, and I had no idea 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.920 what she was talking about, but I knew I was 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.800 going to get the job. Like I was like, I'm on, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.040 this is happening. I don't know what it's for, but 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:19.160 game time. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:25.400 And that's amazing, No, it is to have that foresight 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.960 and that like instead of feeling nervous to just be like, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.160 oh yeah, I got this. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.040 Yeah, no, But I mean as a dancer, it's like 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.679 you're you're only as good as your performance, right. So, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.640 and I had done musical theater growing up, and so 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.600 again I had no idea what this person was coming to, see, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.360 who they were coming to, see, what they were looking for. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:55.120 But I jumped higher, I kicked higher. I performed for 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:56.439 the mirror like I did. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.840 Everything to razzle dazzle that I thought would get me attention, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.680 and somehow it worked. And she had she had gone 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.480 across she was an ex professional dancer herself, and she 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.959 had gone across the country looking for a dancer who 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.559 could act. And I just happened to be in the 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.120 right place, desperately in the right place of it right now. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.880 Wow, But so hold on, she needed a dancer who 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.160 can act well. So she saw you dance, but I'm 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.480 assuming the next step was her asking can you act right? 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.920 Correct? So the next step was I am. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.800 The company assistant came to me in the hall and 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:34.480 she gave me the. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.600 Script like a it was. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.040 It was a Sony Pictures movie, so it was like 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.320 a full, you know, beautifully put together, full script. And 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.160 I had never seen one of those before, and in sides, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.960 and she said that that person wanted you wants you 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.160 to read audition, and I was like, got it, it's happening. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.360 So I went home read the script and like in 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.280 True Dancer, I memorized all of my lines and everything 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.000 so I would not need the pages going in. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.000 I was going to perform. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.800 Wait the whole script or did she tell you like 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:08.520 this scene? 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:13.840 I had three scenes I believe as Jodie Sawyer who 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.960 which is the role I ended up getting? And so 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.760 the next day I didn't know when they were going 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.760 to ask me to go audition. The next day between rehearsals, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.360 excuse me, she pulled me in to and I was 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.920 like beat red and sweaty and just you know, in 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.320 my leotard and tights. And I went into this tiny 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:44.080 little rehearsal room and did the sides and afterwards she said, great, okay, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.320 so can you read these sides for me. I'll give 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.080 you a few minutes to go outside and look at them. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.480 And it was Susan May Pratt's role, which is kind 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.400 of the bitch. And again, you know, leading back to 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:56.960 what we were saying before, I was like, oh, I 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.800 like this one more? Can I have this one, please, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.280 and she was like, you don't get it? 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.760 Yeah, yeah, that's kind of sweet though. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.120 So I went into the hall and I worked on it. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.560 And she told me later that the reason she had 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.920 done that was because she called her boss when I 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.440 was out in the hall and she said, I found her. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.480 I found Jody. Sorry, I'm just going to get a 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.600 little more of her on tape for you. And so 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.280 I came in and I read a little bit more 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.720 and then then you know, not natural natural next steps 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.480 where they sent me down to La to meet the director, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.720 Sir Nicholas Heitner and the producers, and then I did 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.760 a screen test and that. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.760 It's one of those classic Hollywood stories. It's it's just 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.560 discovery and and you get swept up and somebody recognizes 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.640 the star power and they go okay, let's go, and 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.920 you're just swept along for the ride. It's magic. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.360 And it's also just one of those classic like explanations 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.360 of I mean, I always I was in the right 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.840 place at the right time, and a little bit of 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:05.600 you know of luck is operation meeting opportunity, Yes. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:05.840 And. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:12.000 I feel like I was perfectly prepared for that role, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.920 not necessarily for anything going forward. I had never done 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.639 screen acting before, so I wasn't prepared for the roles 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.040 that came afterward. I really needed to work on those 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.360 and study and work with coaches and all of that. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.560 But for that role for a dance student in a 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.000 highly competitive dance school, check, yes done, I was ready 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:33.240 for that. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.920 Had you ever taken acting classes? Did you have an 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:38.359 interest in acting prior to this? 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:39.920 I had an interest. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.960 I had never taken I mean maybe a couple of 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.399 like musical theater like after school things when I was 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.560 really little. And like I said, I had done some 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:54.880 musical theater performances here community theater and here being Hawaii 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.560 where I am right now, But I had never done 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.040 like screen acting anything of any sort like that, which 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.879 is it's very different obviously. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.879 Wow, that is so wild man. Well, we so we 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.120 asked fans for questions for you, and we were flooded 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.879 with them. So do you mind if we fire a 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.680 couple at you please? Okay, So I liked this one. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.760 May asks did you prefer playing Sweet Sarah or Psycho Katie? 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.920 Well, Sweet Sarah, you and I Rob had some really 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:37.720 lovely moments. You know, I'm thinking in particular about the scenes. Well, 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.960 most of the scenes, the death scene, that whole all 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.880 of that whole storyline was really quite lovely, just establishing 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.600 their romance. But again, I like being crazy. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.880 Well, speaking of that, our next question is from Hennessy Nicole, 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.240 another nickname we have coming in here. She's asking, what 0:18:58.400 --> 0:18:59.680 is your favorite psycho movie? 0:18:59.760 --> 0:18:59.879 Care? 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.359 Did you take any inspiration from anyone? 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:02.720 Oh? 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.440 I didn't take any inspiration that I can think of 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.480 from from a movie or anything. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.640 Oh you know what this? I mean, this is sort 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.679 of strange that I don't know why this came to 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.080 Maybe because of the location. Did you I'm sure you 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:17.200 both have seen Cape Fear. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.800 I have not. I know I watched the first like 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.840 twenty minutes of it and he started biting somebody's cheek 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.200 and I was like, I gotta go. I can't. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.480 Okay, yeah, no, figure out, I don't even remember that. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:30.480 You know what is like. 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.840 Kind of the best movie with a turn with a 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.520 character turn, Primal Fear with any movie? 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.440 Yeah, Oh yeah, that's such a great movie. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:40.200 I haven't seen. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:41.680 I haven't seen Primal Fear. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.800 And here's the problem is that because of the Internet. No, 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.240 it's okay, because I have seen none of that movie. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:51.399 Except for the turns. Oh, of course, it was like 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.840 best turns like on Instagram are real, like best turns 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:54.359 of a character. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.480 I'm like, oh, man, I tried to watch what was 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.160 it called The Usual Sasa the other day. I try 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.280 to show it to my boyfriend and he had never 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.120 seen it, and like, I was like, oh, you got 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.400 to see it cause you're so saying, well, it's so great. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:10.800 I got to say that the movie does not hold 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.680 up very well, Like it's really slow, and it's by 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:16.680 the end you're just kind of like, I don't even care. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.760 I was so surprised because I have this memory, and 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.040 I guess maybe our attention span has just changed over 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.600 the years. But and I had wondered about if I 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.639 go back and watch Primal Fear, am I gonna have 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.760 the same experience because I loved The Usual Suspects. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.760 I don't know, man, interesting, Yeah, well, the Primal Fear 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.120 from my memory again, I haven't seen it in decades. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.400 He is so good, he is so so good. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:46.480 He's terrifying. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:48.480 Yeah, he's committed. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.320 Uncomfortable, yeah, committed. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.200 I mean that's the thing. I think that's what makes 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.320 your performance so believable too, is there's the mustache twisting 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.760