WEBVTT - Trina McGee Meets World 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.680 I'm going to apologize everybody right after that. By the way, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.960 if I'm a little out of it because I am 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:28.360 Dave four of fast, really tell me more about this fast. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.560 I want to know Sue and I are doing it 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.080 together and it is just wedding fast. Yeah, but it's 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.640 not even It's like, first of all, we look forward 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.000 to the olives like, I know, when you only get 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.320 them two of the games shining on your face, yes, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:44.959 like you get it to like we'll look to each 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.320 other six hours before and be like, we get olives, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.959 it's almost time for allis it is the other thing 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.879 that they don't tell you about, is it makes you 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.600 so gassy that the two of us look at each 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.960 other like, thank god, we're we we we said for 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.040 better or for worse, because this is the worst part. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.560 This is the part that everyone's talking. Come down to 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.319 it and year olds talking about gas. It's true, bad 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.880 diet fasting, you're gassing is what we're doing right now. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.520 It is so I'm day four, if I if i'm 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.080 if I'm out of it a little bit, that's why, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:23.760 oh my gosh, yikes, I get olives today. It's an 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.319 all of day congratulations. If you're going to get that 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.600 one all of like halfway through our show and suddenly 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.920 start perking up. They're talking more. Dude, Seriously. I was 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.880 eating my bar this morning and walked in and she went, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.560 what are you doing? Slow down, Savorite, that's all your 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.720 small bites, that's all you get into like noon. I 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.119 was like, I know, I know, it's horrible. Oh my gosh. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.640 Really I thought i'd start the day is by telling 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:49.960 you about my my fast Um, good to sea bold 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.240 of you. Is there something we we would rather talk 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.840 about for happening up the show? Is there any other 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.320 pre chatter we would like to I found a anything, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.120 anything would be better. I have a lump in my armpit? Exactly? 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.520 Is that weird? Is that bizarre? Does anybody else smell purple? 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.440 Is that? Is that weird? We're all really excited about 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.160 our guest today. Um Angela Moore was Shawn's long term 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.200 girlfriend and to Panca's best friend. She is an absolute 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.960 massive fan favorite, and we know her as Trina McGhee. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.000 She was in fifty nine episodes of Boy Meets World. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.080 She first appeared in season five, episode two, Boy Meets 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.079 the Real World or actually I think it's Just Boy 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.720 meets Real World and uh, she is absolutely our most 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.440 requested guest by fans. We have been getting your emails. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.280 We are so excited to have her here. Uh. We 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.600 didn't want to wait until season five when she makes 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.480 her first appearance on the show. We wanted to bring 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.919 her in now. So please join me in welcoming Miss 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:59.760 Trina McGhee. At some point, I'm going to comb my 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.600 arab before you. At some point, Thank you, Trina. At 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.720 some point. For four days, I haven't eaten for four days. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.400 I've had soup, powdered soup. You're talking to the perfect 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.640 person about fast t Yes, you're talking the perfect person 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.800 for I'm on a fast Are you hearing the voices yet? Yes? 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.000 And seeing seeing the weird things flying around, like we'll 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:27.720 just we'll be sitting there and all of a sudden, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.359 we'll just go like something just fluid. It's just very strange. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.800 Are you serious? You're like hallucinating? I try it feels 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.160 like that, like the third day, a little like you 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.320 could you could bring your mind there. I have an 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:47.200 alternative eat food, just too much of it. My cells 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.160 need rejuvenating. Writer, we didn't all go to a hippie 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.320 school where we learned everything about eat, drink and be merry. Like, yeah, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.400 I know, it still looks like he's thirteen. It kills me. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.520 I know, wait, Traina, I actually this is a good 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.760 chance now that we're talking about this writer, can we 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.360 can we go back to what we learned yesterday, Trina. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.560 We learned yesterday that writer went to a high school where. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:11.880 You know, first of all, we knew this that his 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.400 graduating class in high school was twelve twelve students at 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.880 at his high school in his graduating class. But what 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.680 we learned yesterday was that he walked a mile to 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.320 school every day and whoever was the first person to 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.000 arrive at the school had to start the fire to 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.040 warm the shed that they learned in it like you 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.240 do in high school. And there was it was a 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.479 series of buildings, but the main building, which was you know, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.479 like an old house, like this whole feat up house 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.800 that had been converted to just like rooms where students 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.360 could gather, had a wood burning stove and if you 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.680 got there before anybody else, you had to start the 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.440 fire to warm the place up. Ye I was gonna say, 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.320 because you do realize that when they described cult compounds. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.160 They always start with it's a series of buildings. Yes, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.599 it was, but look all schools are like that, right, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:08.200 Like Actually, this explains a lot between how maybe me 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.120 and writer clicked so well because I went to a 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.200 similar hippie type school where they used to take us 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.599 up to um from this city to this farm for 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.880 a week, three times out of the year, and you 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.160 had to get up and do chores and stuff like 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.360 that when it was only twenty people in our every class. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.680 This was from from fourth grade to eighth grade. I 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.520 went to people in my class it was called Manhattan 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.880 Country School. Wow, that's what my older brother did. Something similar. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.560 My family went to something called the Mountain School where 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.760 for like half of semeter in high school they went 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.920 to Vermont and like lived on a farm. But that's 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.960 different the good that was an experience. They took you 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.960 from a regular school to that experience. That wasn't It 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.800 wasn't like all writers here first, he's got to turn 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.600 about her. It wasn't. I mean when we left our 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.200 school for because we would do trips. We we went backpacking. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.200 It was literally what you could carry on your back 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.560 into the wilderness. Good luck. Yeah, And then there were 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.560 some vital trips, maybe a trip for things went wrong. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.000 We had bear encounters, we had trips where like it 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.760 rained on us for four days stree like nine and 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.480 I was like eleven, Yeah, but it was the best experience, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:18.960 Like I mean I look back on I mean, like now, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.880 because you know, I just took Indie to Alaska and man, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.280 the kid just cries and complains it. I mean, we're 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.240 trying to do like normal day height and he's just 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:28.599 and I'm like, oh my god, I'm want to send 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.560 you away. Yes, I want to send you away to summer. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.480 Like I was not a big believer in summer camp 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.200 because I never went to summer camp. I just like 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.080 went camping with my family. And so but now I'm like, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.000 I want to send him to summer camp because he 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.240 needs like another adult to tell him, like, fuck up, kid, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.560 because like Alex and I can only say it so 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.280 many times before we're just like mean parents. You know, 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.640 summer camp is great. Summer camp is the best. I 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.440 had Summer camp every single year up to becoming a counselor, Like, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.880 summer camp is the best. Okay, So we've learned already 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.600 that maybe part of the reason you and writer had 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.000 such chemistry is because you guys both went to hippie 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.360 high school. But that is jumping ahead because I can't 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.400 wait to talk about your chemistry. But one of the 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.520 things we love to ask everybody who comes on the 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.440 show is tell us about your origin story before we 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.960 all got to know you as Trina McGee and and 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.320 as Angela Moore. Tell us a little bit about the 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.960 early stages of your career. How did you get into acting? Uh? Well, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.280 I my road was very self driven. It was honestly 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.480 something I just knew I was gonna do. I woke 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.720 up one morning and I was like, I'm going to 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.640 be an actress now. The time before that, I had 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.160 already been two years at Howard University, and I was 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.920 gonna be I was a political science major at Howard University, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.880 but I really wasn't. I went to a very funny 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.520 time of going to Howard University because at the time, um, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.800 it was a very popular thing to go to a 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.880 black college university. And I went there because I had 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.120 predominantly had and upbringing with all white schools. So as 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.280 the Angela character you see me as in an all 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.400 white situation was how I grew up I went to 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.679 a predominantly all the hippie elementary school than a very 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.400 stark um high end, um predominantly Jewish um high school 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.080 called Horace Man in New York in Riverdale. I was 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.720 very competitive, you know, and I got there through you know, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.000 scholarships or whatever. And so then when I went to college, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.240 I wanted to go to an all black college. So 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.800 who was in my freshman year in the hall back College? 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.600 But P Diddy, um kid and play used to come 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.600 down and play all the times. I'm my best friend. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.520 Used to date P Diddy. I'd always used to drive 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.040 with him back and forth from from DC to New York. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.400 Um just you know, was Heathen of de Malverne and 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.640 I lived in Yonkers, Um, so I got a cat 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.000 caught up more in the entertainment that was coming to 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.520 Howard rather than actually you know, going to school, and 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.920 you know, and I realized, you know, I'm not gonna 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.480 you know, and it already Actually it started before that 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.160 in high school that I actually started cutting classes to 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.080 go on auditions downtown. My first audition, um, when I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.120 was sixteen, was for Bill Cosby and I had actually 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.439 they had a thing on the wall. It would open audition. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.240 I went to the open audition. I got called back twice. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.199 And this happened like three times. Now. I started cutting 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.079 school in high school to go downtown and do creative 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.440 stuff and and and I got in trouble, and my 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.200 chemistry teacher I got in trouble, especially in chemistry and math. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.559 I just wasn't interested. And they told me, if you 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.640 cut school one more time, you're you're gonna be, you know, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.079 in big trouble. You may not be able to come 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.800 back to hars Man, this really big thing that I 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.080 was going to. So they had an open call for 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.440 the The Cosby Show. So I begged my chemistry teacher. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.920 I said, please, can you please just let me leave 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:52.960 to go on this audition and I can I not 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.400 get in trouble, do not report me to the to whoever. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.800 And he just says, okay, today, not Bill. You will 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.000 never be a teennist. You're never gonna be at Kenny 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:08.400 and inaccurate. Yeah. So I go to these auditions and 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.719 three times for Bill Bill Cosby, I got to um 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.000 actually get taken to Brooklyn on the last time, and 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.880 and and and and we had I didn't get the part, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.080 so they had sent you home on this van right 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.120 that when you didn't get the part for Bill Cosby 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.320 and Brooklyn. It goes from Brooklyn to back to Manhattan. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.360 You don't want to be on the van. So I'm 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.360 on the van with this other girl, didn't. I think 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.400 in retrospect, you want to be on you want to 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:46.720 be exactly. I remember Felicia Rashan coming coming out and saying, girl, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.720 do you know how many parts I didn't get? Because 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.040 I was crying, I was balling, and I didn't get 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.000 this part. But then yeah, So then I went to 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.959 college and I uh was always so many stars with 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.280 my freshman class. Big didn't he polloge I Park I 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.640 don't know if you knew who she was, but she 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:06.080 was a big actress on Fridays. And Wendy Wendy uh 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.200 Mickel Robinson who was on the Game now to Rogie 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.840 Henson was in the class right below us. And Debbie Allen, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.560 who is a very big and um the arts community. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.720 I don't know if you know, guys, be taught she 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.680 taught um drama there. But I'm not going to school 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.679 for dram. I'm going to school for political science. So 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.360 you know, long story short, I left after two years 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.959 and I just said, let me just come home. I 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.839 moved back with my grandmother and I just started auditioning. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.240 But I thought I was gonna be a model then. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.000 So I and I auditioned for this agency called Flick 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.679 Flick No Click. It was back then for Molly and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.600 they said, no, well, you know, little you're a little short. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.520 Maybe you might want to try acting. And they said, okay, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.360 we'll send you out on a couple of auditions. See 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.040 what you get. We're not gonna sign you. And they 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.439 sent me on on. My first audition was for this 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.280 play called Chelsea Walls and it had Ed Sharon, Vincent 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:02.520 Dinofrio was in it. Um, Marissa tone A, Gina Gershawn. Okay, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.240 nobody was anybody then, And I end up doing this 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.880 way at this small part and Ed Sharon, who directed it, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.880 went on to direct Law and Order, um, all the 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.560 law and order stuff. So nobody was anybody. Jane Alexander 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.880 was like the matron of the whole thing. So um, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 So then that happens, and then my second after right 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.040 after that, my next auditions for a show Quincy Jones 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.319 is doing. I mean literally, it's my first three auditions 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.720 I'm kind of just discovered, you know. And then Quincy 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.960 Jones had this audition open call, eight hundred girls across 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.600 the country. Then I make it down to like the 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.400 last eleven girls, and that's what brought me out to 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.679 l A from New York, that Quincy Jones, but not 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:45.960 to necessarily have the part to compete against four spots 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.240 and eleven girls. So these eleven girls are me, Regina King, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.760 Lauren Hill, uh, this girl named Lisa to Cole Carson, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.520 he was working all the time. Then wow, and then 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.520 finally I actually get this part, this Quincy Jones part, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.000 and it's me. It's me and this girl Rose and Lisa, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.920 and we're gonna be this this big thing like the Monkeys, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.959 but it's gonna be a TV show, and long story short, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.439 the whole thing just falls apart, you know. But I 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.600 left out here in l A with an agent and 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.240 I start beating the Really, now heone's taken me serious? Wait, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.320 hold on, I have a question about this Quincy Jones show. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.480 So it was like a music show. The four of 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.800 you were going to be a musical act TV show. Yes, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:33.840 and you beat Lauren Hill. Yeah, yeah, musical show. I 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.920 remember that story because I remember because like the fujis 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.400 became huge, like while we were doing Boy and like 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.800 you know, I beat her for a job. Oh my god, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.480 what a story. No funny enough before that, a year 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.600 before that, I had my first jobs were off Broadway 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.240 plays and I used to do hip hop musicals and yeah, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.960 and I'd started about three of them off Broadway. And 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.720 Lauren Hill was the sixteen year olds was the fifteen 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:05.920 was the backup dancer for my show. Hearing you talk 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.680 about New York though, it brings you right back to 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.960 and if you didn't know that scene, the like the 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.360 New York audition scene where they would put you in 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.720 a van, well you you'd go and you'd everybody would 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 audition for Law and Order once a week, like it 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.960 was it's what you had. It would just say like 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.600 mix and match sessions too. It was always like show up, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.680 this stay, show up and they yeah, because it really 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.080 New York was out of the theater tradition, which is 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.680 so crazy, and it's so like people show up and 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.320 at the end of the day there's ten left, and 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.320 then the next day there's thirty people and it's like 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.320 all this like you always have the job and then 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.160 you don't have the job. It's like it was crazy 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.760 up staircases, Like you walk up staircases at twelve or 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.880 thirteen years old, these tiny little staircases, and you turn 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.120 a corner into this tiny little hallway and there'll be 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.600 forty two kids your age for some Cheerios commercial. Black steps, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:15:00.680 white walls, Yes, yes, the hot as hell and yes. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.520 Or you're in one of those terrible elevators. You've got 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.440 to move your little gate to the side, and it 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.400 barely like it's clicking up the steps to go up 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.120 and see Leonardo DiCaprio, who's auditioning for an A T 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.520 and T commercial. It's like that kind of thing. It 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.280 was such a such a scene. I also didn't know. 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.960 I'm amazed because I love television. I'm a television addict. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.960 I didn't know they shot Cosby in New York. They 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.720 thought that was out here Brooklyn, in Brooklyn, in the 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.560 same studios as my favorite soap opera at the time, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:32.760 Another World. I thought that was an l a series. Okay, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.040 that was more interesting. Okay, so you by the time 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.920 you end up getting too Boy Meets World, you had 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.160 already been on Sinbad, a different world. Martin picket fences, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:48.320 family matters and parenthood, and right, I had it done Daylight, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.920 and I had all the jobs I was gonna do. Okay, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:16:10.360 boy was your retirement plan? Believe you? When you got 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.960 the audition for boy Meats World? Had you ever heard 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.440 of boy Meets World? Had you ever seen Boy Meats World? 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.640 What did you know about the show if anything? And 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.600 what did they tell you about the character you were 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:26.520 auditioning for? Good question? Okay, Okay, I didn't blow Boy 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.160 Meets World crept up on me. Like I was just 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.080 watching the season one thing, you know, watch long thing, 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.440 and at that time, you guys were in season one. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.400 That was off the radar for me. I had just 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.800 I just maybe done a different world than that. That 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.000 that year, I was had debate on my first child. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.320 I was, you know, newly married, and so Boyme's World 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.160 was very much off the radar until after I had 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:57.040 done a movie called Daylight. Okay, And it was eighteen 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:01.160 months between Daylight and my next job, and I had 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.720 left my children in St. Louis with their grandparents and 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.840 was coming periodically out here because I just wanted them 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.760 to be and you know, we had had some family situations. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.800 I wanted them to be, you know, with more family 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.119 instead of this l a life. So and I was 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.119 coming back to audition, but I had been doing this 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 back and forth for eighteen months, not having much luck. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:21.760 I was kind of getting discouraged. I had just done 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.760 a big movie, so I'm thinking everyone's just supposed to 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.720 receive me in Hollywood, you know, which may or may 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:32.080 not happen, you know. So, um, I'm at this Hope, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.399 this like kind of not so great hotel on Wilshure right, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.840 and I'm I just had this big audition with Lauren Batty, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.520 okay for both for the halle Berry you know. So, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.800 and I was just depressed. I kind of knew I 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.639 didn't get this and everything. So I turned on my TV. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.240 It's Friday, and I was so disciplined back then. I 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.000 didn't go out and do nothing. I was just focused. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.639 So it's Friday night, I'm in the sad hotel away 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.320 from my kids, and I turned the TV and it 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:03.280 comes in in fun Is is Boime Twirl? And I 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.560 kind of got this weird feeling about this show. I 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.679 actually started watching it, and this was maybe six months 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.240 before I actually got the audition. When I actually started 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.960 watching it every Friday because really there was no other 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.480 channel that the TV could get to because it was 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:25.440 such a bad fault. I only get Boimesworld. I know 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.720 this is no why so um after a while it 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.159 was prepping for the audience exactly. You know, the one 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.080 door is closed and you keeping on it and then 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:41.840 another door opens. It was that crappy hotel door. Yes, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.639 and see, I know sitcom. I've always said all I 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.240 did was sitco every black sitcom for that I'd done, 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.240 and others to coom I just done. So so I 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.480 liked sitcom like the Beach, So that was and that 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.520 was the only show I could watch. The watch it 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.840 and then um, about six months later, I get this 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.360 call for Boy Meets Worlds. I thought that was kind 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.280 of surreal, and then they told me they didn't really 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.439 describe the part. They just said I love interest for Sean. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.280 Um they had. But the thing is, I knew you 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.960 had to be funny, you know, But when they gave 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.280 me the first first side, there was nothing funny about 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.440 drama for a joke, you know? It was it was 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.840 the scene. It was the scene that what I read 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.520 with with Trina when they brought brought me into for 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.080 us to do a chemistry read. It was a scene 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:31.480 that we had already done on the show. It was 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.919 a scene with um Larissa Otlantic when she had been 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.640 my girlfriend for like two episodes. I threw a picnic 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.560 for her out in the snow, and you know, it 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.440 was a dramatic scene. It was like Sean making this 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.640 big romantic gesture and the conversation between the two of them. 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.000 And so we had done it the year before or 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.440 two years before or whatever, and they were using that 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:58.240 scene to audition Angela's because they picked the one dramatic 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.320 Shawn scene. I knew it was some back and like romantic. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:08.160 Why there was as I remember it was, of course 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.280 there's That's how it was like. And then you had 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:16.080 to come back like that part. That part. Okay, So 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.359 I come in the first time. Now I come in 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.480 for Barbie Block. Now this is this is a funny story, 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.440 coming to read for Bobby Block first time? Okay. Um, 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.040 they go back to my agent and say that we 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.399 have no interest in her. She's not funny. So I'm like, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.359 wait a minute, there's nothing on the page that was funny, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.960 But what are they talking about? So I actually go 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.080 to my manager's office the next day and I said, 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.600 because I'm when I'm auditioning in l A. At this point, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.879 it's it's like ten girls in every audition, so I 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.359 know who my competition is. So I go back to 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.880 my age of the next day and I'm like, there's 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.359 only ten girls in this talent auditioning around all right. 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.600 I know this is my part. This is how I 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:53.639 grew up. I know how it is to be an 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.480 all white situation, you know, and this is it, this 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.440 is me. I can't really call them back and get 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.760 me in again. So my manager kind of loosing, like oh, traina, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.280 I mean, so I'm walking. All of a sudden, my 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.920 manager gets a phone call and she's puts me on 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.240 hold off. So I go ahead and I start talking 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.920 to the receptionist. Okay, who is this like feisty little 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.200 college kid, and she's so I can't couldn't stand her boss, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:19.640 who was the one who just told me to wait 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.120 outside because she had to take a call. I can't 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.040 stand them. They never let me do anything. It's this 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.600 asistant talking. And I said, you know, yeah, they know 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:28.639 one was to take chances, and I said, I should 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.879 be back in that room. Okay, I'm telling you, I 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.679 think so too. So she, because she wants to make 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:38.760 some feisty move, calls back Barbie Block and pushes me 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:47.200