WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Kim Fields 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.520 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. Wait, we're 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.880 doing this garage Man. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:18.319 Supreme Supreme Audition, Supreme So Supreme role called Supremo Supremo Role, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.440 Suprema Supreme roll. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.320 Call my feelings. Yeah, I can't control Yeah, because we're Finn. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.680 Talk to ye, missmocas Soul. 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:38.080 Supremer Supreme Role came Suprema Supremo Role. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.360 My name is Sugar, Yeah, and I don't care, Yeah, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.160 because I just met two D Yeah, and we're friends 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:45.600 with Blair. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:57.480 Supreme Supreme Supremo roll every Wednesday. 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And my second question 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.760 is any burn men. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm out. I've 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.360 given houses away because. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:17.280 Oh you know what are you talking about there? 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.600 Yes? Yeah that house. I saw a few rats in there. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.840 I was like, hey, merry Christmas. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.239 Yes, that's what he did. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:37.679 I gave my house my sister. All right, guys, of 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.679 course love here. You may have heard me. We got 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.959 a bill, we gotta lie here, we got Steve and 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.839 a family member is still out getting cigarettes. He said 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.960 that he comes home eventually. But I don't know. I'm 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.880 not being kurt, but there's really no time to waste, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.000 and it's not every day a guy gets to interview 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.000 his uh childhood celebrity, which is anyway. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:02.760 I don't want to that next tool. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.600 I want to wait. I don't want to waste to act. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.000 I want to waste a second on acting royalty. I 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.239 will say that our guest today, UH is pretty much 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.640 maybe the reason I sort of kind of talked to 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.760 UH bottles of syrup every uh pancakes Saturday? Wait in 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.120 Black Households is set? Is pancakes on a Saturday? Like 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.320 an event? Yes? 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.399 Yes, yeah, any day of regular. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.360 No for Black Households like that was a treat. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.720 That was a Saturday. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:39.240 I survived off of like tasty cakes, quarter waters for Saturdays. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.680 That's that's that's when we're rich. That's when the cat 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:47.400 you know, check our cash. The first black roller skater avenue. Uh, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.520 the reason why I fell in love with any girl 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.480 who wore braces in my in my school. Oh yeah, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:59.080 the only the only person whose character truly understands uh 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:05.160 what uh dejection from a Jackson means, especially when one 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:11.560 works works so hard to give them gifts that they 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:17.280 made with their own money anyway, and the fact that 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.919 most people don't know. Without this person, the the empire 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.880 known as Friends would have never existed. Yes, Like did 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:33.400 you know this? Yeah? Your your beloved Chandler, Joey, Monica 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.479 and I guess and Rachel you know, I'm just saying 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.120 Ad and Becky whoever else is on Friends, you miss 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.839 Joey with Without with our guest today, none of that 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.919 would have been possible. Uh yeah No, Seriously, Ladies and gentlemen, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:53.039 acting royalty or quest Love Supreme today, welcome incomparable Madam 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.680 Kimberly Victoria Field. What's like supremes? Finally? 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.560 What an intro? Finally? Man we've been trying to do. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.159 I know we've been doing five minutes intro. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.080 Wow, thank you for that intro. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.880 Get better little TV for real. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.480 Yeah, seriously, no, seriously, we have so many questions that 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:21.839 asking so little time. So, Kim, where were you born Harlem? 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:22.359 Right here? 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:22.920 Really? 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.279 And I'm Kim. I was born Kim Victoria, not Kimberly. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.159 Kim Victoria, Yes, just Kim is okay. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.160 Yes, we will request love you can call me. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.599 No, no, we were not to give the proper respect 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.480 respect due. What were your memories of Harlem? How long 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.120 did you live there? 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.920 Six years really from zero to six? 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.000 So what what what were your memories of Harlem growing up? 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.840 Is it anything close to the centerfied? 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.800 Well not the gingrified, right, No, but I mean like 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.520 my building is still there, My park is still there, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.040 my beloved Saint Nicholas Park, the the whole grass lawn 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.640 that we used to slid down in you know, cardboard 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.080 boxes because who had or you get them old busted 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.760 up tires and you'd slide down the cracks on the 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.680 sidewalk in front of my grandmother's building, which was six 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.280 fifty four Saint Nick. So you know, it's nothing but 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.279 love the other dad one in front of my elementary 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.640 school ps. Ninety two. Really yep, still looks the same. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.880 Any other notable peers of yours growing up in that. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.800 Area or I don't remember where they lived, But Danielle 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.880 Spencer who played Deal on What's Happening, So basically my 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.160 mom and a whole bunch of other amazingly talented actors 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.679 would go to acting school in Saint Philip's Church. Alfan 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.880 used to hold his classes there, the Alphan Theatrical Ensemble, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.920 And so basically all of like the dopest actors on 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.520 the planet were in New York and in that environment 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.039 in the early seventies, and so you know, some of 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.880 them who had kids, they couldn't afford babysitters like us, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.760 And so we would be at the at the acting classes, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.440 imitating what we saw our parents doing to keep ourselves entertained. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.600 And so Danielle was there because her stepdad Tempell got 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:15.240 rest to saw he was there. And and your mother 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:16.160 was a part of this troop. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.320 Yes, okay, so we would be remiss. Are you tired 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.760 of people coming up to you saying how much their 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.800 mom is Your mom has traumatized them all their lives 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:36.480 cackle right now, But I got I'm just saying I 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.200 thought about it and the Okay, yes, of course, now 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.200 that we're adults, we know what acting is. Yes, but 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.280 let's take it back like thirty years or whatever. How 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.880 many of your friends were traumatized at the side of 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:50.240 your mom. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.600 For those that haven't seen good times, Oh god, yeah, yeah, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.040 I'm just kidding. Kim's mother played uh, Penny, well, Penny. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.920 But what was the character's name? 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.520 I can't remember, Missus Gordon. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:10.720 Missus Gordon, Yes, her name was, Yeah, she was Plenty's mom. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.720 Penny of course was was Janet Jackson and the Penny 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:13.800 was being abused by her mother. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.080 And what iron I said. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.400 Miss Missus chip Fields played the hell out of that, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:20.200 Yes she did. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.680 Yeah, yeah, that hit. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.720 If I ever see in the street, you know, it's 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.880 a hat, tip of the hat and you know, what 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.720 do you need? What can I get for you? 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.760 So you're just saying that watching your mother and these 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.280 workshops prompted you to. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:42.560 Also not No, that was just the intro and and 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.079 kind of the environment to just be exposed to it all. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.520 It wasn't until I actually saw her and saw the environment. Uh, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.560 when mom was doing Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey on 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.240 Broadway and on tour that I really started getting a 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.079 sense of all that goes into this, you know, and 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.319 the people who were a part of the craft and 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.080 makeup and hair and wardrobe and sets and props and 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:07.640 all of that. And then when you see it all 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.600 come together as a little kid, you know, looking at 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.360 it on stage, and that's that's really what what got 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:14.040 me into it. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:16.200 So was it commercials first? That? 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:16.840 Yes? 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:22.880 What was your very first commercials first? First? So with 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.640 technology not being as advanced as it was back then, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.719 where you just speaking to. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.840 A still bottle still? Okay, Yes, I was, you know, yeah, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 it was just just a bottle that was just there. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.040 Oh, another course left first. So I'll say that Baby 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.200 I'm Back was technically the first sitcom I was allowed 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.840 to watch. Okay, I wasn't allowed to watch TV much 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.000 back then. Yeah, because you guys came on right after 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:57.520 the Jacksons and in seventy six seventy seven the Jackson's. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.439 Had Yes, they did the specials. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.640 Yeah, Arriety show. So you were I think your character 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.000 was Angie, yes, uh, and Baby I'm Back with it 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.840 was Damon Wilson's Damon. Yeah, I never that's how he 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.400 pronounce his name, demon like he was a Shakespearean actor. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:19.240 He may have been. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.640 He was a preacher too, Yeah. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:28.640 Jamond Wilson and the great What's Your Brother? On the show? Okay, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.840 I don't know what became of him whatever, but yeah, 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.439 my mom loved Denise Nichols. I guess everybody was. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:39.200 Everybody, yes, and everybody's uncle loved Oh. He was so 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.520 happy when I got that job. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.760 Really, everyone until the heat of tonight, yeap. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.679 Up until I mean, well that's when the last time 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:50.719 he really started to start seeing it. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:57.600 Okay, I'm like, why are you starting? So that was 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.960 your very first sitcom? Yes, so how easy was it 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.680 for you to adjust to that environment? 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:10.320 It was definitely a learning experience, you know. For example, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.560 I didn't know about continuity, and so we did a 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.480 scene and I was supposed to come into the kitchen 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.320 area from having been awakened, and so we did the take, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.280 you know, one time, and then I thought I was 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.320 backstage and I thought, well, if I was asleep, my 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.120 hair should be a little messy, so I must my 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:28.920 hair and then it came out and they were like, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:34.839 cut who touched her hair. So that was the first 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:39.360 time I learned about continuity. Yeah, absolutely, and things like, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.600 you know, don't look in the camera and don't laugh 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.160 at your own jokes and don't laugh at other people's 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.200 jokes and you know, stuff like that, and so it 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.440 definitely was a lot of fun, you know, but it 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.000 was it was on the job training because I had 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.160 never done a series. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.439 Before, and by that point you moved to Los Angeles. Yeah, 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:01.360 So what was that transition like because the seventies, I 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.520 mean a lot of people don't even realize that for 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.760 a lot of African Americans, like you know, we've only 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.880 known the current environment that we're in right now for 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.680 just fifty years. So I'll say for at least the 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.000 first ten years, I'm sure that it was a learning 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:25.800 curve for anyone in Hollywood in the seventies. Sure, kind 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.440 of trekking uncharted territory that wasn't previously available to them 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.760 any decades or time before. So what was it like 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.520 coming Like, where were your memories of moving to LA Like. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.520 Well, I went to school back at PS ninety two. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.080 I went to school that morning, and when I came 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.120 back to our apartment, the little few things that we had, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.640 including like my little easy bake oven and you know 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.280 those like everything, my view Master. Everything was packed up. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.760 It wasn't a whole lot. And my mom said, we're 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.520 moving to La tonight. I was like, without no, just 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.400 because we hadn't done I just went to school like 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.040 any other day. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.280 So why did y'all end up moving to La So. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.400 Mom had been there when she toured with Hello Dolly, 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.680 and she just felt like that area had more opportunities 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:14.200 work wise. Harlem in the early to mid seventies was 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.560 a lot different than it is now, and so Mom 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.240 just thought that that was going to be a better 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:23.040 look for us, and so she she, you know, packed 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.200 us up and we went out there. One of the 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.800 other guy persons who was a part of the acting 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.719 troupe that Alfan had was Laurence Hilton Jacobs, and him 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.640 and my mom were like brother and sister, and so 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.120 when we came out to La he was like, you know, Chip, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.120 I got you and a guy Kimmi, and you know, 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.000 whatever you guys need. And so what you're talking about 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.160 right there, you know that there was really no blueprint 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.200 and everybody just kind of, you know, that village holding 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.920 it together and figuring it out. Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.240 because he had gone out there and booked Welcome Back, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.920 caught her, and so he knew kind of the ropes. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.800 But it was still different for you know, a female 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.200 and a female with a little kid. And so we 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.439 moved and got an apartment eventually in West Hollywood, and 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.640 then Mom started working. Then I started working. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:10.080 How does that work? 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:11.640 That's what I was wondering, because I'm like, you guys 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.000 are both working actors. Of course her more than you, right, right, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.280 But how does she do that? How is she mom 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.560 an agent manager in her own career? Right? 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:26.680 Well, she was never. No, she was she was mom 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.880 And it stopped right there. And one thing I always 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.360 to this day, I'm marvel at like like Mom had 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.400 me when she was eighteen and and and you know 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.160 it's like she's such a good parent, but she knew 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.280 nothing about parenting. She was a kid herself, and you know, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.920 just just how did that? How did she know the 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.080 stuff to teach me and to pour into me and 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.080 to know things like, hey, she is not my competition, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.400 She's my child, especially when we are you know, both 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.400 at you know, at some point we both began working 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.960 my Aunt Pat, my mother's sister, was an integral part 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.080 of all of this. Mom asked her to come out 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.160 and to move to LA And so my aunt Pat 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.040 was actually the one who was on my on set 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.400 with me all the time I was working up til 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.160 I was eighteen. She would travel with me to all 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.920 my appearances and everything. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:24.720 Wow. Man, so it's I guess you can say that, Well, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.600 that's weird because I always thought she was your manager. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.520 So but that's that's good that she had the insight 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.920 at least to to put some distance, no distance, because 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.920 most parents don't do that, like they either live their 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.000 dreams through their kids or yeah. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.360 And she and she was not that, you know. And 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.960 she also she never stopped parenting me even though she 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.440 was finding her way as a parent. You know, one 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.880 time I had said it was like maybe the second 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.000 or third season of Living Single, Facts of Life. And 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.520 she had raised me to be a really good kid, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.280 like don't talk back, be very disrespectful. You know. I 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.800 had home training and she said to me one day, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.720 can me clean up your room? And I promise, y'all, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.400 I promise, y'all. I was not trying to be smart. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.320 It was a genuine question when I said, isn't that 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:25.640 what we have a housekeeper? And I really was love 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.400 and then sure enough, before I could finish, I got 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.080 popped in my mouth. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.640 That's my next question. I wanted to know if you 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:31.560 was a baby. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.000 Okay, that wasn't a whooping baby, because I was a 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.240 good kid, but she caught me in my mouth. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.600 In your book, you're talking about a situation when you 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.000 were on set and you had to talk back to 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.720 a parent and you weren't really sure how to do that. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.040 Exactly. I had to talk back to missus Garrett and 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.160 Jermaine Jackson episode and my mom was like, no, no, 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.400 it's okay, you can do. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:52.320 This now here. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:53.200 This is fine. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:53.840 But she knew. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.520 I mean, you know, I wasn't talking back, but it 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.400 was just that sense of we're not You're not going 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.120 to be that child, you know, And then she called 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.880 Then the top it off girl, she called the studio 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.560 and talked to one of the producers and said, I'm sorry, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.840 but Kim won't be returning as as two D any longer. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:15.160 She doesn't know how to deal with this. And yeah, when. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.240 Yeah, I love it, I love it, I love it. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.119 That's something Yeah, absolutely, and of course him, being a parent, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.080 was right there with her and said, okay, Chip, no problem, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.119 we understand. Tell her thank you so much for her 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.000 time and everything. And of course they were dealing with 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.760 being They were parenting me to make sure that I 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.520 didn't start tripping at age you know, eleven or twelve 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.760 or whatever it was. And I was like, oh my bad, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.080 I didn't know. No problem, I got it, my socks, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.960 got it, my toys, put these away, you know, and 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:50.439 that sort of. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.880 Absolutely I always wondered, like, what's the what's the power 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:01.639 dynamic where you're an established person at your job but 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.560 you still got to come home and take the garbage out? 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:05.120 That's right? 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.280 Yeah, well it keeps you grounded. I mean, think about 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.880 when the Obamas won and Michelle was like, but you're 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.159 still taking the babies to school in the I know, 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:16.320 you just became, but you take your babies to school. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.560 I mean there's certain things that you know conceptually, no 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.080 matter if it's fame or or or whatever it is 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.119 being connected to, some form of groundedness has to be 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.680 in play. Otherwise you turned. 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.560 Up from chrisis when Randy Jackson was on the show. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:38.600 Which one he not dog got it okay. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.040 No, and he was saying that they had just did 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.800 four sold out out nights at the Forum and got 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:50.000 home back to Xino and you know, like, there it's 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.119 your turn that you didn't take the garbage out and 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.119 he's like, I just played sold out con to that, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.800 and then Joe's like what you say? Okay? 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.560 So right? 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.159 What was what was the. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.320 By the way, I mean, Randy Jackson was my that 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.400 was everything. He was everything to me. That was my crush. Yes, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.000 oh my god. Listen when they let him sing on 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.000 can you feel it? 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:14.600 Right there? 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.159 I was the only one in the Forum screen. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.800 As a working actor? What was the Hollywood shuffle process? 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:32.080 Like? 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.640 I love when you asked that question that way. 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:35.119 I love it. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.320 No, no, dude, it's like, yeah, like what was the 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.440 process like, now, of course you were lucky enough to 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:48.200 land key memorable roles in your career, but or in 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.200 the average could you talk about the audition process? And 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.000 oh yeah, like even as an established act, like did you. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.080 Still have to absolutely you still have to audition? And 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.679 it was there was a big part of it that 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.359 was on almost like family Reunion because you go in 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.520 Hey t Show, Hey Jada, Hey Vivoica you know, and 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.840 it's like kind of the yeah, you know, because at 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.960 that time it was, you know, just a handful of 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.879 roles and we were all going out for them, you know, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.440 and some of them you knew, up, yep, this one's 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.480 got deh, yet this is gonna be yours and you 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:19.360 know that sort of thing. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.560 Well, what was it like in your younger years, Like 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.360 were you still worn after commercials? 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.800 And sure, I'd still audition, but not as much. Number one, 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.719 when you're on a series, and see, you have to remember, 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.919 in that day and age of television so to speak, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.719 a season was twenty four episodes, so you were busy 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.359 for a much longer period of time than you know nowadays, 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.040 where it's like, oh there's six episodes, there's eight episodes. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.080 So you know, then you were doing TV movies, so 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:48.840 I would do like the ones I did with Gary 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.280 Coleman and that sort of thing. And at that point 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.840 I didn't have to audition, you know, Children of Divorce 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:55.520 or the ones with Gary Coleman. I didn't have to 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:56.400 audition for those. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.439 Was there, ever, did you feel like a feeling of security, like, Okay, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:03.359 we got through this year. Was there always like a 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.360 midpoint season where are you checking the Nielsen ratings every 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:07.200 twelve seconds? 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:08.840 Too young? I was, I was too young. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:09.119 I was. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.000 I was really just into again, make sure I had 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.440 good grades, make sure I was professional, make sure I 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.159 was a good kid. And so my priorities were not 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:22.879 about that part of the industry because I just I 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.560 was too young to really focus on that and the 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:30.000 things that I did that were important to me, aside 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.520 from the kids stuff. I really enjoyed being around the 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.240 crew and learning from them. You know, it's like it's 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.359 like a kid being around musicians and they love music. 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.240 You're just going to keep gravitating tourism every chance you get. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.720 And so that was really, you know, my lane right there. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.199 Here's a fact a lot of question I had. I 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.600 remember when it first came on the air, there was 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:58.480 a larger ensemble cast and then it was just whittled 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.840 down to the four of you. What was what was 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:06.560 the thought process or like what made that transition happen 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.800 because at one point, like Molly Ringwold was part of the. 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:11.960 The Cat bigger housemember. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.760 Yeah, way bigger, but I never I mean now, it's 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.760 like when you watch television, you got to watch every 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.960 episode and binge watch every second of it, whereas back 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:21.560 then it's just like, oh, it's on its horn. But 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:26.919