Speaker 1: Hi guys, and welcome to this episode of the Let's
Speaker 1: Be Real Podcast. This week's episode is so special to
Speaker 1: me because my amazing friend Laura Morano is here. You
Speaker 1: may know her from the Disney show Austin and Allie
Speaker 1: or her movie Saving Zoe, which is now on Netflix.
Speaker 1: She has the music coming soon, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it all and so much more. I hope you guys
Speaker 1: enjoyed this episode and I can't wait for your feedback.
Speaker 1: How long have you been an acting industry now? Um,
Speaker 1: almost twenty years? Wait? What? Yeah? Nineteen going on twenty
Speaker 1: years if you can believe it. So was five. Do
Speaker 1: you remember your first thing that you booked? Yeah? It
Speaker 1: was a J. C. Penny commercial. Oh my god, that's insane.
Speaker 1: You're five, yeah, and I was crazy. I was like
Speaker 1: so wild and uncontrolled, but you were five. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: I was like calling the director of the video my
Speaker 1: dad even though he was my dad. My dad was
Speaker 1: on set and it was so weird, I know. And
Speaker 1: I was like like physically abusing the guy playing my
Speaker 1: older brother, like five, so you could get it totally.
Speaker 1: They were like, if anything, they were so um for it.
Speaker 1: They were like hit him more, kicking more like just
Speaker 1: for more energy. I know, poor guy Dylan. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It was pretty nuts. Yeah. I had a long career,
Speaker 1: I know, but I feel like I'm also just getting
Speaker 1: started because I'm only in my twenties. So isn't that's
Speaker 1: so insane to me? Do you remember when you first
Speaker 1: booked Austin an Alley? Yeah, when I went out for it,
Speaker 1: I remember like just wanting it so badly. You watched
Speaker 1: Disney's Kids totally, and also I just like love the
Speaker 1: script and you know, I love music, and so the
Speaker 1: fact that I got to do music with it, so
Speaker 1: I wanted so badly. And um, I remember at the
Speaker 1: end of the test it was Ross was there. He
Speaker 1: was like the last person there for Austin. Rainey was there.
Speaker 1: She was like the last person for Trish, and then
Speaker 1: there were two people for Ali, me and another girl.
Speaker 1: So it was very obvious for Rosstin Rainey that they
Speaker 1: got it, but for me not so much. That's so stressful,
Speaker 1: so stressful. I didn't hear for a few days and
Speaker 1: then someone called me who was like a family friend,
Speaker 1: and they were like, congratulations, were so proud of you,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what you hadn't heard. Then No, well,
Speaker 1: my mom, I guess heard that day and she wanted
Speaker 1: to tell me in person, but she told other people
Speaker 1: so that they to me. And I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I was freaking out. And then we filmed the pilot
Speaker 1: and it went super well, and then you don't hear
Speaker 1: for a little bit, and I remember my mom so
Speaker 1: obnoxious that I love it. Um, she told me that
Speaker 1: the pilot got picked up at school. I was in
Speaker 1: my honor's biology class and she came with like chocolate
Speaker 1: milk shaking a balloon. Yes, did you come in your class? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. I know and like everyone in my school,
Speaker 1: like especially the teachers. I was such a teacher's pet,
Speaker 1: so everyone like knew me and it wasn't as disruptive
Speaker 1: as I thought it was. But but that's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: Like but like, no one under as a kid, no
Speaker 1: one totally gets that, like any every kid in my
Speaker 1: classroom was like what, like, what's going on? This doesn't
Speaker 1: make any like what does this mean? Like pick a pilot,
Speaker 1: gut picked up? Like what are these words in this order?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Um? But yeah, it was definitely
Speaker 1: I remember I feel like so embarrassed. But so excited
Speaker 1: because I knew it was gonna it was life changing news. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean being started to show and that I'm sorry
Speaker 1: Austin and Ally. It was a great Disney show. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It was a fun to film, Oh my gosh. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was so fun. It was so much work but
Speaker 1: so fun. Um. And I was doing school at the
Speaker 1: same time, so that was definitely hectic and a lot,
Speaker 1: but so worth it. Yeah. I remember when you told
Speaker 1: me during lunch that you still go to college part time. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I'm not going to graduate till I'm like thirties,
Speaker 1: and I think that's so cool. Yeah, it's a lot,
Speaker 1: for sure, UM. And that's basically how it kind of
Speaker 1: works as I take time off. So UM, I definitely
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not going like right this second, right now.
Speaker 1: But the last time was in UM I was on
Speaker 1: was when I was filming The Perfect Date actually, and
Speaker 1: that was so intense because basically I had UM I
Speaker 1: was doing. I was there January and February and the
Speaker 1: Perfect Date was going to start filming in March, and
Speaker 1: so at first I didn't know if I had to
Speaker 1: drop the class and the classes I was in. UM.
Speaker 1: I talked to my teachers and they were okay with
Speaker 1: me face timing into class. So I face timed into
Speaker 1: class and like every face ting to you in and
Speaker 1: the teachers. I would FaceTime the teacher and then they
Speaker 1: would like put me in class and I wouldn't be there,
Speaker 1: and I just remember feeling so think we would also
Speaker 1: like so bad for the other students, being like, who
Speaker 1: is so what it would happen when you when you
Speaker 1: need to raise your hand? Would you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would do it, and then they would, you know,
Speaker 1: answer to ask and you know, it seemed to work
Speaker 1: out for us. What are you majoring in politics? Philosophy
Speaker 1: and law? So super kind of random from what that's
Speaker 1: what my brother is doing? Really? Yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: I think it's super fascinating. And my school that is
Speaker 1: one major, so it's not three majors into one. It's
Speaker 1: like all one major together. It's called ppl UM. So
Speaker 1: I feel like always it sounds more impressive than it is.
Speaker 1: But that philosophy is so interesting to me, so interesting.
Speaker 1: Would you want to be a lawyer or is it
Speaker 1: just to have the education of it? Yeah, just to
Speaker 1: have the education of it. I think I am doing
Speaker 1: I'm lucky because I'm doing what I want to do
Speaker 1: as a career right now. I've been doing it, at
Speaker 1: least for acting since I've been five, and for music,
Speaker 1: you know, starting when I was like sixteen ish. Um.
Speaker 1: And I I am in that position where I still
Speaker 1: want to learn and I still think it's so important
Speaker 1: to go to college and learn. Um. And since I
Speaker 1: have this kind of like unique opportunity, why not go
Speaker 1: to college to learn about something that I don't have
Speaker 1: to stress about getting a job in. But still I
Speaker 1: feel like I educate yourself exactly. Yeah, so I'm seventeen.
Speaker 1: What advice would you give your seventeen year old? So
Speaker 1: let's see, Okay, seventeen, I would have been junior year
Speaker 1: um in high school. I would have been on our
Speaker 1: second season of Austin l a um. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it sounds so cheesy, but um and it's
Speaker 1: something that I think we'll be advice I'm giving myself
Speaker 1: every year all the time. But just to you know,
Speaker 1: go beyond your safety net and your boundaries and don't
Speaker 1: be scared, don't be scared to take risks, don't be
Speaker 1: scared to you know, take big leaps and fall on
Speaker 1: your face because that's part of life, that's and it's
Speaker 1: okay to fall and get back up again. See I
Speaker 1: have troubled doing that, Yeah, for sure. Same even still
Speaker 1: it's like the scariest thing in the world to actually
Speaker 1: acknowledge like failure and failing and how do you get
Speaker 1: over that? You know, you just the more you live
Speaker 1: life as someone who also has still way more life
Speaker 1: to live, I think the more you see that's just
Speaker 1: a part of life, and you know, you we are
Speaker 1: going to make mistakes and we are going to fail,
Speaker 1: and failure is actually just part of success. Failures integral
Speaker 1: to success. And you know, I try to remind myself
Speaker 1: every time I feel like I hit different um you know,
Speaker 1: missteps or hit different things that I wish I didn't hit.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a learning experience. It it is, It
Speaker 1: totally is. It doesn't make things easier, but it's just
Speaker 1: important to try to have that perspective. For sure. I
Speaker 1: just respect you so much just because I think it's
Speaker 1: so cool that you're doing everything and you're just even
Speaker 1: if you're like, for example, not only going to college,
Speaker 1: but you're also like managing yourself and making music on
Speaker 1: your own and that's a really scary thing. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I think for me, there's so many things
Speaker 1: I love and want to do and I am doing um,
Speaker 1: and so it's just about time management. But it's a lot.
Speaker 1: And you know, in any kind of um situation where
Speaker 1: you have a lot on your plate, some things are
Speaker 1: going to be going better and smoother than other things. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, for me, music is us something I absolutely
Speaker 1: love and always just needing in my soul to do
Speaker 1: as even if like that's when you know when you
Speaker 1: love something like you're doing, even if you're the only
Speaker 1: one that would listen to it totally. Um. But it's
Speaker 1: definitely been a complicated road for sure, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's always challenges that come by, and I think it's
Speaker 1: figuring out how to deal with it, you know, when
Speaker 1: the time comes and sometimes you know, that's dealing with
Speaker 1: it head on. Sometimes it's taking a second figuring things out.
Speaker 1: You know. For my acting career, I've been doing it
Speaker 1: for so long and it's obviously so much more developed
Speaker 1: than my music career, which I've done really way after
Speaker 1: I started acting. Um, But I just I love music
Speaker 1: so much. I really really did you see what music
Speaker 1: can do. Oh yeah, and I think now more than ever,
Speaker 1: it's actually a pretty cool time to be an independent
Speaker 1: artist and put stuff out independently. It's just it's a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It's a lot of work, and it's
Speaker 1: a lot of figuring things out for sure. Um So
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a pretty cool challenge for myself
Speaker 1: to kind of push myself in figuring those things out.
Speaker 1: And I still am um but I I love it,
Speaker 1: I really really love it. I think it's so cool.
Speaker 1: You also produced too, Yeah, I mean, um so, I
Speaker 1: produced a movie with my mom and sister a few
Speaker 1: months ago, yeah, Saving Zoe. And so since that experience,
Speaker 1: we've been wanting to produce more and we're working on
Speaker 1: a few projects actually right now, which I'm excited about,
Speaker 1: so exciting. That's so crazy. I wanna talk about Saving
Speaker 1: Zoe for a second, because the message in that film
Speaker 1: is so incredible. What made you want to, um, focus
Speaker 1: more on a serious topic instead of you know, you've
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of romcoms, which are great, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Quote, this is such a topic that
Speaker 1: needs to be to discuss more. Yeah. Yeah, So it
Speaker 1: deals with online sexual exploitation, UM, which is a facet
Speaker 1: of sex trafficking, which is a facet of human trafficking.
Speaker 1: And it's something that is so big, especially because the
Speaker 1: Internet is like just g enormous and has taken over
Speaker 1: our lives um. And so because of the expansion of
Speaker 1: the Internet, um, sex trafficking has just increased so much um,
Speaker 1: which is incredibly scary and something that is not talked
Speaker 1: about at all. Um. But you know, when we were
Speaker 1: first developing this project, we didn't really have this awareness
Speaker 1: or education about the topic. Really. What it came from
Speaker 1: is came from a book that I loved I read
Speaker 1: when I was eleven, was called Saving Zoe, like the
Speaker 1: movie title, and you know, at its core, it's really
Speaker 1: a story between two sisters. And you worked with your
Speaker 1: sister exactly, Yeah, and we played sisters. Crazy fitting I
Speaker 1: know again, you know this was twelve th years ago. Um,
Speaker 1: my space was big, and so actually in the book,
Speaker 1: it's more about my space, which is kind of hilarious.
Speaker 1: You know. We took some storylines and update them a
Speaker 1: little bit because social media, Yeah, exactly, where it's not
Speaker 1: in my space. It's we're in such a different world
Speaker 1: than we were twelve years ago. Crazy, how like far
Speaker 1: come with just within the next one past five ten
Speaker 1: years totally and it's a lot of um the time,
Speaker 1: we haven't really caught up with it, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to this kind of subject. Well, speaking of technology,
Speaker 1: I just want to say I like that you still
Speaker 1: have a footphone. It makes me so happy when I
Speaker 1: first found out, I fell down. It makes it makes
Speaker 1: me want to get a flip phone. Thank you. By
Speaker 1: the way, Motorola is making a flip phone and or
Speaker 1: already did and like released it and I'm like, thanks,
Speaker 1: guys told you are you just known for your phone? Now?
Speaker 1: I am, though, I I still get shocked how many
Speaker 1: people don't know um, which shouldn't shock me, but like
Speaker 1: people in my own life, they're like, wait, you have
Speaker 1: a fliphone. I'm like, how did you not know this yet? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's so interesting because you do everything from
Speaker 1: an iPad, right, And I just think it's so cool
Speaker 1: because I try and separate myself, Like I turned off
Speaker 1: my notifications on Instagram just to kind of connalize a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I just want to get a flipphone. Now,
Speaker 1: what may do you not want to get an iPhone?
Speaker 1: I just you have I've just always had my flop phone,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure, um, a lot of people on my team,
Speaker 1: actually a lot of fans I think, are very annoyed
Speaker 1: that I have a flip phone. It's incredible. I like,
Speaker 1: thank you. I started geeking out when I found out,
Speaker 1: and it just made me like connect with you even more.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Um yeah, I mean the idea, there's so
Speaker 1: many kind of things I go into it, but yes,
Speaker 1: the overall idea is trying to have some sort of
Speaker 1: separation between all the incredible but overwhelming things smart devices
Speaker 1: offer and just having a way that people can contact
Speaker 1: me in Um, but it is. It can be challenging
Speaker 1: for sure to have of you know you, even for
Speaker 1: us to like contact each other. Challenging can make me
Speaker 1: laugh every time I'm like, oh it's ex sorry, like wait,
Speaker 1: she is a flip phone. And the thing is like,
Speaker 1: it's actually there's now so many, in an ironic way,
Speaker 1: so many ways to reach me where I almost feel
Speaker 1: like Instagram phone call, where I just sometimes it gets
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed, just ignore everything. So I get that. It's
Speaker 1: like but because with the world we live in, it's
Speaker 1: like crazy, how how it is? Yes, what do you
Speaker 1: think inspires you, um, and I think are real people
Speaker 1: and real stories. Um. You know, I feel always inspired
Speaker 1: when I talk to people, and always inspired when I
Speaker 1: actually have a real life human connection with someone, um,
Speaker 1: because I think we all have such different experiences. But
Speaker 1: what always strikes me as fascinating is that we might
Speaker 1: have different experiences, but we feel the same feelings. When
Speaker 1: we're at our lowest, no matter what brought us there,
Speaker 1: we're feeling the same things. When our highest, we're feeling
Speaker 1: the same things. And I think we have so much
Speaker 1: to learn from each other. So that's what always really
Speaker 1: really inspires me. Talking to people and listening to people.
Speaker 1: That's so exciting. Are you going to be really singing
Speaker 1: music anytime? I am? I am? Um. Yes, Actually, I
Speaker 1: definitely have some stuff planned. You know. I released an
Speaker 1: EP last year, my first independent, my first AP in general,
Speaker 1: but my first kind of world an artist, yes, me Um,
Speaker 1: So I'm working on my second EP, which is kind
Speaker 1: of in that world a little bit. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get too much away, but I'm I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: the me EP is kind of the start of a trilogy. Okay,
Speaker 1: so like you're talking like me part two, Well, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll have to say you're like you. If I just
Speaker 1: nailed that, maybe maybe you're in the world. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just so interesting just your life, you know, because
Speaker 1: you've been acting since you're five, and yet you've still
Speaker 1: maintained this, um I'm putting in quotes normal childhood as
Speaker 1: much as you can. You know, going to school, going
Speaker 1: to college? Was it ever hard to balance? And do
Speaker 1: you ever wish it could just be I just want
Speaker 1: to do acting and I don't want to think of
Speaker 1: anything else, or I just wish I could focus on
Speaker 1: school like every other kid. I think I just love
Speaker 1: so many things and I it was a hobby for you, Well,
Speaker 1: I not in a hobby. I just think that I
Speaker 1: have so many things I want to be a part
Speaker 1: of and love and um, so many things that I
Speaker 1: think make me me that and make me me it's
Speaker 1: spot um that I can't imagine having my life without
Speaker 1: one of those things. Um, They've really shaped me. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine my life without school without actually going to
Speaker 1: um a physical school. And I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people my sister included, who was homeschooled or who you know,
Speaker 1: have different kind of schooling things because they had to
Speaker 1: and they are awesome, incredible people. I just knew for
Speaker 1: me it's different for every birth totally, and I needed it.
Speaker 1: But I love acting and I love music so much
Speaker 1: that I think if I didn't have that in my life,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be the same person. Yeah, exactly. That's the
Speaker 1: thing that was like every hubby, you know, like with
Speaker 1: my brother, if he didn't have basketball, I know he
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the same person. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: different hobby totally. I think it's it's something to note
Speaker 1: for sure. How lucky are we and how lucky am
Speaker 1: I that I get to do something as a job
Speaker 1: that a lot of people consider as a hobby. That's
Speaker 1: crazy And I really try not to lose sight of
Speaker 1: that ever, because that is nuts and weird and I
Speaker 1: feel very that I can do that. So if you
Speaker 1: have to choose one, acting or saying, is there one
Speaker 1: that you could or can you just not? Um, it's
Speaker 1: so tough to make the decision, one because um, they're
Speaker 1: so different, and two because they give me different things
Speaker 1: and offer different things. Music I think will always be
Speaker 1: something that I want to do first and ironically didn't
Speaker 1: do first. But um, it's always just like since I've
Speaker 1: been little, my favorite thing in the entire world. But
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine my life without acting. Um yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually also don't know if I'd be able to
Speaker 1: do music without my acting in a weird way, umn
Speaker 1: be able to Okay, got it, they kind of feed
Speaker 1: off each other and well Austin and Nellie was totally
Speaker 1: It's funny I say that because I think, yes, in
Speaker 1: some ways, if I just had one to focus on,
Speaker 1: um like, if acting wasn't on the table and I
Speaker 1: just had music, that would give me all the time
Speaker 1: in the world and um and opportunities to just focus
Speaker 1: on music. But I kind of I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I need both in my life to
Speaker 1: feel fulfilled. How often do you write music? I mean
Speaker 1: it's that is all over the place, So from every
Speaker 1: day seen alone. How many songs do you think you've written? Um?
Speaker 1: It has been a funny year because it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of releasing stuff so um less making more. Yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: so a lot of releasing. But I've I've done a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, like written a bunch of stuff by myself, um,
Speaker 1: but not much that I've recorded. I've recorded a little
Speaker 1: bit of music, just kind of like experimenting with other
Speaker 1: people and co writing with other people. But I'm kind
Speaker 1: of looking at the year is kind of back to
Speaker 1: the studio alright, creating a little bit more stuff for sure?
Speaker 1: Is that like something that you'd want to do more collaborations?
Speaker 1: Of course? I love collaborating. Yeah, it's funny, I I yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but I also wouldn't mind doing, um, some kind of
Speaker 1: alone work as well, and just recording some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that I've just written. Would you say it's therapeutic
Speaker 1: for you for sure? Oh? Yeah, Sammy, it's like super
Speaker 1: important for my health. I journal a lot, and then
Speaker 1: I use that stuff that I journal about into my songs. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's journaling. Yes, I haven't gotten into it tried. When
Speaker 1: I like, if I really need to, I do and
Speaker 1: I feel great, but I can't get myself to like
Speaker 1: make admit to it. I get that. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: I'm a similar way. I don't do it every single day,
Speaker 1: though i'd like to. Um. Yeah, for me, the key
Speaker 1: is like, don't judge yourself when you're doing it, Like
Speaker 1: just completely don't judge yourself. No one is reading it,
Speaker 1: no one should be reading it besides you. UM so
Speaker 1: just try your best to get out of your head. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just would you ever clap with Ross lynch Ya?
Speaker 1: I think that would just bring back the memory. You
Speaker 1: should do that. I have flipping love Ross. He's the best.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think it's just we're also busy. We're
Speaker 1: all all over the place. He's a freaking Vancouver. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we all for the Austinity cast and crew
Speaker 1: of in like dying to get together and do a reunion,
Speaker 1: but it's it's crazy with all our schedules. So I
Speaker 1: know you're saying with the reunion it would be like
Speaker 1: take I've seen heard you say it would be like
Speaker 1: take place in like years after. Oh yeah, if we
Speaker 1: did like a like a full lawn TV movie reunion.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I feel like you know, in the finale
Speaker 1: of Austin Lle we cover a lot of ground. Um,
Speaker 1: so I would have to kind of be in between
Speaker 1: where the two starting and points of the finale have
Speaker 1: um or happen whatever that sentences grammatically. But um, but
Speaker 1: like just to get together and hang is tough because
Speaker 1: we're all over the place. Yeah, I think it would
Speaker 1: it be like Austin and Alle like rated rum because
Speaker 1: I'm more grown up and by that time all the fans.
Speaker 1: I love that you asked that we would joke on
Speaker 1: set um in the in in the beginning now kind
Speaker 1: of throughout the whole series, we would joke a bunch
Speaker 1: of times about you know, the reunion show on Austen,
Speaker 1: about being like on HBO and like but just like
Speaker 1: things have gone real downhill for all that Alley, like
Speaker 1: Austin has a beer belly, Alley has like there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of unplanned children, um, and like we would
Speaker 1: just crack ourselves up, and I'm pretty sure like no
Speaker 1: one else would think it was funny, but we all
Speaker 1: thought it was. You just put it out in the university.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna happen HBO. Where are you at?
Speaker 1: How long there was Austin and Alley? It was, uh,
Speaker 1: the last episode I think was in Wow Crazy, I know,
Speaker 1: gone by Son. We're so weird. It's thinking of like
Speaker 1: we've just lived in a decade. Like I know where
Speaker 1: were you? I was eight years old? I just which schools? Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: where were you in? I was just graduating um middle school?
Speaker 1: So you were I mean you were kind of about
Speaker 1: to start middle school in a few years. I was
Speaker 1: in like element, I don't know element your school. Oh,
Speaker 1: now I'm at eleven. That's so weird. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm like I had braces. Okay, I had braces and
Speaker 1: I UM was on a show Culture Jackson VP. I
Speaker 1: was on one episode that was my big thing that year.
Speaker 1: I loved that UM and I worked a bunch of
Speaker 1: braces and I was super embarrassed. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, no one looked at me have braces. I
Speaker 1: used to want braces. I had races and I hated it.
Speaker 1: But like I when I was like younger and I
Speaker 1: saw like all the teens having braces, I would literally
Speaker 1: ask my dentist for braces, like, like, had anyone else
Speaker 1: thought that? Like I used to genuinely when my brother
Speaker 1: got braces, I was jealous, that is. I was like, hilarious,
Speaker 1: it's it's because you won't we you can't have totally.
Speaker 1: And then even at eight, yeah, and then when I had,
Speaker 1: I was like, get these off of my teeth, and
Speaker 1: your teeth are gorgeous, thank you. Well there, yeah, three
Speaker 1: months and then a few Wait, what was the hesitation
Speaker 1: you were about to say something about me. It's you
Speaker 1: tried to plane it so I wouldn't have it, and
Speaker 1: then I got in Bsilne a few years later. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: which I had a great experience with. Your teeth are gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you? Like stop God, Laura, stop
Speaker 1: making me blush, making me blush. Wow. You know when
Speaker 1: I watched your wrong Calm the perfect day with Internet,
Speaker 1: it brought me back to like the old rom coms
Speaker 1: that I missed. I what's your favorite wrong calm? Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: Crazy Stupid Love great? Great if you'd call it's complicated
Speaker 1: a rom com, but like I love it, right. I
Speaker 1: think Crazy Stupid Love is my favorite rom calm for sure.
Speaker 1: I've watched it a million times and I watching a
Speaker 1: million times to more. What about you? How great? What
Speaker 1: was side note? Before? Um? I was just watching Dirty Dancing,
Speaker 1: which is just I've never seen dirty dancing so good.
Speaker 1: It's not really a wrong calm. I would say, it's
Speaker 1: just iconic, um, but it made me think of Crazy
Speaker 1: Stupid Love when he's like, I do the move. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's such a good and when they have the fight
Speaker 1: in the backyard and alma, I just love run Gossling
Speaker 1: and Emma Stone together. I know that when they do
Speaker 1: the whole lift in the apartment, I'm like, oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite round con If you say, oh, there's
Speaker 1: so many, I like love so many. I love clueless,
Speaker 1: I love two things I hate about you. Um, you
Speaker 1: keep making them so clearly. I love that, I really do.
Speaker 1: Are they as fun to make his air to watch? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, Um they're Everything is always just intense, like
Speaker 1: to film because we're not sleeping and we have stuff
Speaker 1: to do, and it can get tense on set. And
Speaker 1: but with every project I've ever worked on, there's always
Speaker 1: an aspect of fun, Like there has to be because
Speaker 1: that's the whole reason why we're doing everything we're doing. UM,
Speaker 1: and those are definitely particularly fun. I think for a
Speaker 1: Christmas wish, um, the Greg's Yes, that one was super
Speaker 1: special because it was just like you felt like you
Speaker 1: were in Christmas Land. It was wonderful. By the way,
Speaker 1: I think you should dye your hair pink from that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, like you genuinely rocked it. Thank you. Do
Speaker 1: you ever do that? I'm way too scared to do that,
Speaker 1: but go for it. I could wear a wig the
Speaker 1: wig look good, but I think you could pull it off.
Speaker 1: Like just like I dying my hair every time I do,
Speaker 1: if i'd like do blonde right, because I've done like
Speaker 1: the crazies I've ever done is like blonde. Yeah, blonde highlights.
Speaker 1: I am scandalous. I am so crazy, but it always
Speaker 1: like just hurts my hair a little bit, and I
Speaker 1: didn't like that. Just so you know, Yes, there's this
Speaker 1: hair mask that actually helps your hair and it dyes
Speaker 1: it at the same time. Is this magical? It's from
Speaker 1: I think the brand Moroccan oil. I love Okay hair
Speaker 1: mass So it helps your hair and it dyes it.
Speaker 1: So if you ever get it, highlights again and it'll
Speaker 1: come out over time. So if you ever want blonde again,
Speaker 1: you can temporarily. I'm putting in quotes diet. I tried
Speaker 1: it with pink and it worked. How long was your
Speaker 1: hair pink? Oh? Week or two? It depends on how
Speaker 1: much you wash it, But like I loved it. Oh my,
Speaker 1: this is like a game. I mean, am I doing this?
Speaker 1: I think I think I'm doing this? Dotted dog? Do
Speaker 1: you want to do it? Go matching, Let's go, let's
Speaker 1: do it. I feel like pink we could both rock. Though.
Speaker 1: Your hair is like I love the color hair is.
Speaker 1: I know it's it's a newly blonder and something you
Speaker 1: don't realize how much how much better you feel after
Speaker 1: sometimes like you get it like a little bit different person.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking Yeah, because you look
Speaker 1: in the mirror and you're like, whoa, this looks different.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, wait, I love every single thing
Speaker 1: about this. So like I'm blonder and just this morning,
Speaker 1: I've had this hair for a little bit. Now I
Speaker 1: looked in the hair, It's like, whoa, I'm blont, and
Speaker 1: like I knew it, it just takes time to register.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you mean. You're like, wait, I
Speaker 1: didn't look like this before, but like I love it.
Speaker 1: And then also it's like when you just get like
Speaker 1: a big hair cut and if your hair is long,
Speaker 1: you're like, whoa, your hair was so long. It's just
Speaker 1: like it puts you in a different perspective. I know
Speaker 1: when I cut all my hair, um, not all of it,
Speaker 1: but when I like I had, I had a major
Speaker 1: moment of I just want to change everything in life.
Speaker 1: I was going through a relationship change, I was getting
Speaker 1: a new place to move into. I was like changing
Speaker 1: the labels exactly, so just like cut my hair off.
Speaker 1: And the most satisfying I was liberating it was it's
Speaker 1: literally yes, it was so liberating. I loved it. And
Speaker 1: then um, I cut it again and I cut it
Speaker 1: really short and it kind of worked out perfectly, was
Speaker 1: for the perfect date. But it kind of was around
Speaker 1: that I was gonna say, you had really short hair
Speaker 1: in that movie. That was actually a year after I
Speaker 1: had first cut it. Um, yeah, because I just kept
Speaker 1: cutting it. I love the and then we went so
Speaker 1: short and I was like, wait, no, no, I hate it. Um.
Speaker 1: So you're growing it back now, yes, yes, and I'm
Speaker 1: it's actually grown so much. Um. But now I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit like, okay, well, I love that's growing back,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy it's growing back, but I'm bored again.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what can I do? You're gonna do this
Speaker 1: hair masks now, obviously I'm gonna get hair. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be great. Well for new music. Are we talking a
Speaker 1: new hairstyle? I mean, maybe let's do pink hair, new me,
Speaker 1: new music, new hair. I am totally down for this.
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm like you you've been my inspiration
Speaker 1: Sammy vy d Okay, here's what I'm thinking, tah to me, girl,
Speaker 1: I'm meant to ask you a deep question, and I
Speaker 1: would just think about it first. My gosh, pressure is on, right,
Speaker 1: so after you know, put more music out, probably when
Speaker 1: if you Grammys, even if you ask hers stop. How
Speaker 1: do you want to be remembered and what do you
Speaker 1: want your legacy to be? Ah, that's a great, deep
Speaker 1: introspective philosophical question. You're in philosophy. I am majoring in philosophy.
Speaker 1: I want to be remembered helping people and connecting to people.
Speaker 1: I think for me, that's the whole reason why I
Speaker 1: think we're all here is to connect with each other.
Speaker 1: And if I can create some sort of art um
Speaker 1: that makes that happen, be it entertainment, be it thought provoking,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But being able to connect people and
Speaker 1: connect to people is something that I definitely want to
Speaker 1: be remembered for. And I beyond that, I would think
Speaker 1: helping people anything I can do to help people. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: I think it's like everything's a little bit worthless if
Speaker 1: you're not using your platform or using anything in your
Speaker 1: life to help other people and connect to people. Laura.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy, thank you for coming on this podcast
Speaker 1: and I just read a pleasure. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for having me. Seriously, you're so flipping awesome, Sammy. You've
Speaker 1: just given me a device from the beginning on just
Speaker 1: you know, following my dreams, and I'm just so grateful
Speaker 1: for that and just you, my lab. I flipping love
Speaker 1: you so much and I'm so happy I got to
Speaker 1: do this. This is awesome, flipping killing it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode
Speaker 1: of the Lesbie Real Podcast. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Subscribe if you haven't already for a comment. If you
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Speaker 1: watch Saving Zoe on Netflix. Stay tuned for her music.
Speaker 1: She's the sweetest person ever. Laura, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for coming on my podcast. You guys, I'll see you
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