Speaker 1: I Am all In, Kiss You.
Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast, Hey.
Speaker 3: Everybody, Scott Patterson one on one interview, I Am all
Speaker 3: In podcast, iHeartRadio one to Live in productions with Catherine
Speaker 3: Bayless and her Gilmore Girls. Stats sheet reads like. She
Speaker 3: played Stephanie for two episodes in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3: First appearance was in season five, episode six, Norman Mailer,
Speaker 3: I'm Pregnant. Last appearance this episode seven, Season five, You
Speaker 3: Jump I Jump Jack as a member of the Life
Speaker 3: and Death Brigade. We are first introduced to Stephanie in
Speaker 3: the women's bathroom at Yale, where she stumbles in wearing
Speaker 3: a gorilla mask and Rory follows her out of the
Speaker 3: bathroom Just so You're getting into the black suv after
Speaker 3: reciting in Omnia Paratus Ah, Rory later gives the nickname
Speaker 3: of Gorilla Girl. A little bit about Catherine is She's
Speaker 3: an actress, singer, dancer, triple threat from Vicksburg, Mississippi, I
Speaker 3: Ssissippi and as a true Southern bell. She appeared as
Speaker 3: a series regular in VH one's TV series Hit the
Speaker 3: Floor as Kyle Kylee. As she recurred on a number
Speaker 3: of TV shows, including Gimore Girls, One Tree Hill, The Loop,
Speaker 3: Sordied Live. She also appeared in shows like NCIS and
Speaker 3: The Big Screen as a lead opposite Kelly Clarkson in
Speaker 3: From Justin to Kelly and Bring It On Again. She
Speaker 3: also had numerous other independent films, including Below the Beltway, Elle,
Speaker 3: A Modern Cinderella's Tail, Stonemakers, and Too Dead to Kill.
Speaker 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give you Katherine Bayless. Hey, y'all, Catherine,
Speaker 3: tell us how you got into acting.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question, Okay.
Speaker 2: So I started off as a dancer and I'm a
Speaker 2: little Mississippi girl and got the dancing bug there, and
Speaker 2: then went to New York City for school.
Speaker 4: And then I fell into acting because I did musical theater.
Speaker 2: And basically a manager approached me after a musical theater
Speaker 2: performance and I.
Speaker 4: Was like, oh, I'm a dancer.
Speaker 2: She's like, no, I think you're an actress too, and
Speaker 2: I was like okay, And I auditioned for her and
Speaker 2: then she starts sending me out. I'm like, oh gosh.
Speaker 2: I got to take it seriously. And I went to
Speaker 2: Williamsburg Conservatory in Manhattan, and that's how I really got
Speaker 2: the bug and fell in love with it, and I
Speaker 2: never gave up the dancing. I thought I was getting
Speaker 2: up the dancing when I moved to LA from New
Speaker 2: York City, and then every job I got basically I
Speaker 2: was dancing and singing along with the acting triple threat.
Speaker 3: Triple threat, they call you a triple threats. You could
Speaker 3: do it all. Oh yeah, So telling about the first
Speaker 3: big role.
Speaker 2: That you got, Oh, okay, the first big role, Well,
Speaker 2: I will talk about the first role I got, which
Speaker 2: was kind of funny. I moved to LA, I'd been
Speaker 2: there for a week and I went over to my
Speaker 2: agency and they're like, oh, we had this great audition
Speaker 2: for you. So I went in for it, auditioned, didn't
Speaker 2: think anything of it. They called me back and a
Speaker 2: week later they said you got the role. And I
Speaker 2: was like, what do you mean I got the role.
Speaker 2: It's my first audition ever. They're like, you got it.
Speaker 2: So it was for bringing On Again the Cheerleading movie.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, And ironically I didn't play cheerleader. I played
Speaker 2: a quirky reporter that had multi personalities and yeah, I
Speaker 2: h that was it. That was a big one. And
Speaker 2: then the next big on the same cast, director he
Speaker 2: called me in for this movie just you wait, from
Speaker 2: Justin to Kelly, Yes, the American Idol Musical. And that
Speaker 2: was honestly like a dream come true for me because
Speaker 2: they got to do it all. And I I tell
Speaker 2: everybody it was a paid vacation in Miami for like
Speaker 2: three and a half months. And that was my first
Speaker 2: big role. I mean, you name it, we did it.
Speaker 2: And that's when I got the taste of Hollywood for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, who directed the Justin with Kelly thing? But
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that bring it on the first one you mentioned?
Speaker 4: The first one? Oh damon Santa Stephane.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Okay, I thought it was somebody else. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So tell us how you got the role of Stephanie.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the audition?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, So I remember I had gone
Speaker 2: and for Gimmick Girls for another role, like a long
Speaker 2: time ago, but here they called me in for this one,
Speaker 2: and I was literally called gorilla girl drunk girl, and
Speaker 2: I went, huh, I think I have some practice in that.
Speaker 2: My friends like just channel the other night. I'll think
Speaker 2: stright great. So I go in and the audition was
Speaker 2: like barely any lines, and you saw the Norman Mayler,
Speaker 2: you know episode and I literally had to like minute
Speaker 2: taking off the gorilla mask and being drunk and they're
Speaker 2: just they're laughing at me. I'm like, really, like, I'm
Speaker 2: not really doing much. But you know, there's a fine
Speaker 2: line between acting too drunk and then just being tipsy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess, I guess I did a good job.
Speaker 2: And that was my first audition and then they literally
Speaker 2: roll and so I was so pumped.
Speaker 4: And I didn't have a name yet.
Speaker 2: So they were like, yeah, you don't have a name.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, just Gorilla girl. And then I went
Speaker 2: into the table read and I know all girl were
Speaker 2: in the table read and it was such and they
Speaker 2: finally gave me a name and they said, oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, this is recurring, so you're going to be
Speaker 2: in the next episode.
Speaker 4: So that's what I knew.
Speaker 2: Like, yes, because I loved Gilmore Girls and I just
Speaker 2: love the best pace.
Speaker 3: Obviously I talked so so you'd watch the you were
Speaker 3: aware of the show before you audition?
Speaker 4: Yes, I was ware of the show. Had I seen
Speaker 4: every single episode?
Speaker 2: No, because it was the season, But I did know
Speaker 2: the genre and I knew, like, you know, all the characters,
Speaker 2: made most of the characters and everything, but had never
Speaker 2: met anybody yet. So I will say that Gilmore Girls
Speaker 2: was probably the most welcoming cast.
Speaker 4: I became buddies with.
Speaker 2: With Alexis like right away, and all those boys that
Speaker 2: were in the episode, we all still like stay in
Speaker 2: touch for years, which was cool.
Speaker 3: Why do you think they didn't develop your character more
Speaker 3: with with Logan in the last three seasons?
Speaker 4: Why didn't they?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I'll tell you why. What happened, and
Speaker 2: this is what I think. So they actually called me
Speaker 2: back to work. They said they were calling me back
Speaker 2: for my availability after that second episode that I did,
Speaker 2: and I had booked a recurring role on One Tree Hill,
Speaker 2: and so I was so bombed because I wanted to
Speaker 2: do both, but it wouldn't work out because I was
Speaker 2: shooting One Tree Hill in North Carolina, right and you
Speaker 2: know when it rains.
Speaker 4: At poors in Hollywood, you know, you're like, I can't
Speaker 4: get a job to save my life.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, you're like, I got
Speaker 2: two jobs and like basically I'm on it. Like it
Speaker 2: was crazy.
Speaker 3: So you're you're over there in North Carolina with Chad
Speaker 3: Michael Murray.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 3: Because I'm doing a series with him right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the series.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's called Sullivan's Crossing. It's a yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's coming to the CW in the fall. Actually, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3: We already finished our first season. The first season already aired.
Speaker 3: Last Sunday was the last two episodes. They did a
Speaker 3: back to back episode. So first season's done. So Canada
Speaker 3: is all abuzz. Now it's coming to the US. We're
Speaker 3: bringing the Band of the United States. We're playing stadiums.
Speaker 3: We're gonna rock.
Speaker 4: I love it. I'll be there.
Speaker 3: What was it like working with Matt Suecri Did you
Speaker 3: get to work with Matt A lot?
Speaker 2: I did, And you know, at the time, I mean,
Speaker 2: don't quote me, but like, I mean that was an
Speaker 2: up and coming actor, you know, and you know as
Speaker 2: as I mean I trained, you know, and so did he.
Speaker 4: And I was like, Wow, this guy is intense.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: They were doing that that scene when they're about to
Speaker 2: jump off right and I could see him preparing, like
Speaker 2: in a corner, like legit, getting ready to have that
Speaker 2: thrill when after they jumped, you know, and like and
Speaker 2: I was standing like right there and I'm like dang.
Speaker 4: I was like, who's do you, Matt?
Speaker 2: And not only is he a great actor and really
Speaker 2: like serious about his craft, like he's just a really
Speaker 2: good person. And we had some really late late late
Speaker 2: nights on that shoot because we were shooting the whole
Speaker 2: Safarian I mean we shot until daylight. And that was
Speaker 2: probably like one of the coolest experiences as well. And
Speaker 2: so we have to know each other, all of us
Speaker 2: kids like that little life and Death brigade, little group.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, fun group. We we just got to experience
Speaker 3: some of them on this Let the party's over this
Speaker 3: last episode when they're in Richard's poolhouse and they come
Speaker 3: out and Dean sees them, and Rory's in the tiara
Speaker 3: and Dean skulks away, and you know, Logan puts his
Speaker 3: arm around her and says, we'll get you through it, kid,
Speaker 3: come on back inside, you know. I mean, he's just
Speaker 3: he is. He's so good, isn't he he is?
Speaker 4: He's so charming.
Speaker 2: And I really thought that everyone was rooting for him
Speaker 2: when he got on the show, and they wanted they
Speaker 2: wanted that love affair to keep on going forever and ever.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, not everyone but I'm certainly one
Speaker 3: in the in the rooting for for Logan column. I
Speaker 3: just love this this new energy injected into the show
Speaker 3: because the first time I've seen the show, I'm just
Speaker 3: it for the first time. I love this energy that
Speaker 3: he brings to this show. I love this storyline because
Speaker 3: I mean, where's it gonna go? Rory's out of the house,
Speaker 3: laurelized with Luca. It's like all of these storylines are
Speaker 3: sort of kind of tie everything. All the loose ends
Speaker 3: are tying up, right, so things are blossoming, and but like,
Speaker 3: where's the story going now? And it's like Logan, thank you, Logan,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you Logan. So so you pretty much
Speaker 3: remember where you filmed the the glamping scene. Where did
Speaker 3: you shoot that? Because we, you know, we were speculating
Speaker 3: on where that was. I know it was California, had
Speaker 3: to be, but oh no, no.
Speaker 2: No, it was definitely California because I drove out there
Speaker 2: because I remember calling my dad. My daddy gives up
Speaker 2: really early for work. He's an attorney. He's crazy.
Speaker 4: He get like three. So I was excited, like, Dad,
Speaker 4: I'm coming home from work, you know, And I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't know whatever. But the heat. I remember it was.
Speaker 4: It was out.
Speaker 2: I want to say, like by Griffith Observatory area. It
Speaker 2: was around there, like like somewhere around there.
Speaker 5: I mean that's you know, no, no, it wasn't too bad.
Speaker 2: But the drive, the one that was the farthest out, well,
Speaker 2: the Disney ranch was where we shot the other you know,
Speaker 2: the big scene like you know, when the jumping with
Speaker 2: the umbrellas and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But that location was filled with bees.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: That was oh yes, that was my memory from there.
Speaker 2: So here we are dressed to the nines, you know,
Speaker 2: and we've got this fake champagne and which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I will stick by the end of the day because
Speaker 2: I drank so much of this ginger all but it
Speaker 2: has so much sugar in it. So the bees were
Speaker 2: like everywhere. I'm like, y'all, this is not cool, like
Speaker 2: and we didn't know what to do. And like I'm like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go put our champagne every year until we start,
Speaker 2: you know, filming, and then bring it back. But but
Speaker 2: no one, I don't think anybody got bit which was
Speaker 2: but but yeah, I remember that was a really fun episode.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you what the working with Knny
Speaker 2: Ortega was like life.
Speaker 4: You worked with him obviously several times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and his episodes really pop. I mean those episodes
Speaker 3: are just filled with life. Every frame is the beautifully lit.
Speaker 3: It's just Kenny's a master. Kenny's great.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I will never forget. She's like Catherine, just
Speaker 4: go over there and be fabulous. And I've watched the
Speaker 4: episode recently.
Speaker 2: I went, oh my god. He he literally got to me.
Speaker 2: I was in the background just being fabulous, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: everybody probably thinks Stephanie is just like a drunk lush
Speaker 2: like she needs to go to Rea.
Speaker 4: It was hilarious.
Speaker 3: Kenny just such a great director. So what do you
Speaker 3: remember about Alexis? Did you did you get to know Alexis? Well,
Speaker 3: you said you you became a little bit of friends
Speaker 3: with her. What was it like working with her on
Speaker 3: set and meeting her for the first time the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm kind of a big personality, so I'm not shah,
Speaker 2: I probably should be shot. And all my scenes were
Speaker 2: with her, right and you know, the first day I
Speaker 2: made her was the gorilla thing or not, and we
Speaker 2: didn't how much time to like really like bond.
Speaker 4: But again, the second episode.
Speaker 2: My gosh, we were together twenty four to seven off
Speaker 2: of these locations.
Speaker 4: You know, we're all just hanging out board, you know,
Speaker 4: when we're not filming, and we really just hit it off.
Speaker 2: She's so down to earth and just a real person
Speaker 2: and not that it's you know, hard to find somebody
Speaker 2: like that, but like you just don't think someone like
Speaker 2: that is so busy and so talented and that it's
Speaker 2: going to be just like, oh yeah, let's hang out.
Speaker 2: So we ended up actually hanging out outside of set
Speaker 2: and we became friends, and you know, it was short
Speaker 2: lived because I then left for North Carolina, but we
Speaker 2: really got along and we even like you know, went
Speaker 2: to like some events together and stuff like that. Just yeah,
Speaker 2: she just uh, she's kind of like this like quiet
Speaker 2: but like interesting, right, little like light right.
Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna do a little thing we
Speaker 3: call rapid fire. So I'm just gonna ask you some
Speaker 3: questions and just answer them to the best of your ability.
Speaker 3: How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I like it with coconut almond creamer, a little bit
Speaker 2: of stevia and some cinnamon.
Speaker 3: That's very specific. Nice. Who is your favorite Gilmore Girls?
Speaker 3: Couple lou and Lorelai or Richard and Emily.
Speaker 4: Well, Luke and Lorela.
Speaker 3: Right, I mean, come on, I mean, it's not even
Speaker 3: a contest. We're gonna just take that question out of
Speaker 3: the thing in the future. It's just such so obvious
Speaker 3: what it is. What would you order at Luke's diner?
Speaker 4: French fries?
Speaker 3: No Jackson or Taylor for town selectmen?
Speaker 4: Jackson?
Speaker 3: Really? Who doesn't want the job? Would you rather listen
Speaker 3: to hep Alien or the Troubadour's cover songs? Oh? There
Speaker 3: you go, Grant Lee, Buffalo Ladies and Gentlemen Wins again?
Speaker 3: Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 4: Well you gotta go Yale because that's where my character was.
Speaker 3: What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
Speaker 3: for her or sleeping with her ex who is married?
Speaker 4: Crashing the car?
Speaker 3: Who from Gilmore? Would you not want to be stuck
Speaker 3: on a desert island with? Oh?
Speaker 4: Good question?
Speaker 3: The mom She kind.
Speaker 4: Of reminds me a little bit of somebody on there.
Speaker 3: Live. So Emily, huh yeah, Emily, no way? All right, okay,
Speaker 3: So something in your life you are all in.
Speaker 4: On, all in Well, surprise, I'm pregnant and we're having
Speaker 4: a baby, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, why don't you find out?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm like really pregnant. I'm almost eight months.
Speaker 3: For Oh my goodness. Yes, Oh that's exciting. Good for you.
Speaker 3: Is it your first a boy? Can you say whether
Speaker 3: it's oh, you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Have a son?
Speaker 4: Oh? Man, I know, I mean I was. I was
Speaker 4: happy with either. And we are just so blessed. So
Speaker 4: everything's going great, good news.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're miracles. You're just gonna have magic every day.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be wonderful. Oh, good for you. Well, I
Speaker 3: wish you all the best and thanks for coming on
Speaker 3: and all the best and happy and healthy birth.
Speaker 4: Thank you for your beautiful.
Speaker 3: Son, and all the best to you and your family.
Speaker 5: Okay, I appreciate it such a thank you so much, Catherine,
Speaker 5: take care all right, all right, bye.
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