WEBVTT - Where is Luke Danes? Part 2 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:18.440 I Am all In. I Am all In with Scott 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.439 Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. All Right, everybody, We've 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.640 got a very special guest this week. Her name is 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.560 Carla McClusky. She was the assistant director and uniproduction manager 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.680 on The Gilmore Girls. And she was born in Madison, Wisconsin, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.360 um and she was assistant director for twenty seven episodes, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.000 and she was uniproduction manager from two thousand five two 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.040 thousand six. She gained an immense amount of experience working 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.320 in Hollywood and film and television. She's the mother to 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.960 Brighton and Caitlin, a writer, a stroke survivor. She released 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.320 a book Grandma Told Me So, Lessons in Life and 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.240 Love in two thousand seven. She's also well known for 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.600 her assistant directing in the closer Pretty Handsome, Ally mcbeel, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.959 Babylon five, If These Walls Could Talk, Color of Night, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:13.720 Jurassic Park, and much more. Ladies and gentlemen, Carla McCluskey, Carla, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.759 how are you doing? Episodes? Got to that I solemnly swear, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.760 and shortly thereafter had a stroke during hiatus, so I 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.959 was sidelined for a while. Oh my goodness, you directed 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:30.560 a Gilmour episode. Yeah, it was mainly Um Alexis and 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.200 I mean and it was it was Rory and Harris 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.240 kind of episode fencing. Okay, well, now that you mentioned it, 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.720 it is coming back to me a little bit that 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:46.400 you did that. You did direct an episode. How interesting? Wow? Um, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.120 so tell us about, um, what is it to be 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.160 an assistant director? What a job? What kind of jobs 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.560 did you have on set? What did you have to do? 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:59.000 It's probably the hardest job if if you everyone admits 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.520 that just your responsible for everything. I mean wardrobe responsible 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.920 for wardrobe, and sound is responsible for sound, and the 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.280 assistant director is responsible for everything. And so you're trying 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.840 to coordinate everything. You schedule the show, you decide what 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.440 shot when. You have to have a time frame down 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.760 so people know, like, you know, how long this is 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.480 gonna take, how long that's gonna take. And um, you 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.920 know it's very different on TV. Director doesn't have as 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.000 much power as on a feature. Well on Gilmer Girls, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:32.280 it's Amy we all know that everything. But yeah, you're 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.160 just you know, you're the one bix. You know, you 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.280 mainly just here you go rolling God, you know, but 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.919 but there's so much more and you know, as you 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.960 usually like the first one there and the last one 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.600 to leave. That's more in the second category. But as 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.240 a first assistant you just have more responsibilities. So what 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:57.280 did you think of each character's trajectory on the show? Who? 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 Who Are? Who are you? Who are? Who? Did you 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:06.080 particularly notice change? Uh? In terms of you guys, I 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.480 did the first show, so I saw, you know, the 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.200 younger cast Alexis and was Dean, you know, I mean, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.239 I'm Jared. I mean the young people I just saw 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.600 completely mature as not just actors but as people, you know, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.720 So that was quite amazing. And I know in the 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:30.040 whole Dean just met Wait, what's this really Logan thing? 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.399 There's always you know, Dean isn't always the most popular, 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.200 but I just rewatched an episode they asked me about 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.600 and you know, he was he was just charming. I mean, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.840 it was so wonderful to start with everybody when you 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.000 start with the show. First of all, you guys are 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.720 with me, you know, when he brings someone new in, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.360 sometimes the actors and casts is like, yeah, what's this? 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.600 But I always knew that you knew me and I 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.160 knew you, and if I said something, you know, we 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.800 had a wonderful before and it was great to do that. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.760 So um, I mean you and of course Lauren. I mean, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.200 so many are just such professionals right away. So you know, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.880 I didn't um as as actors, you know, didn't see 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:17.599 a huge change because you're always good, um and as people, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.640 you're mature adults, so there wasn't such a change then either. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.160 But I'm not sure if that's the question that you're 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.680 asking or if the whole arc of the character or 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:33.120 is that Oh that's fine, Oh that's great. Um um. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.560 So listen, we had pretty intense discussions in our last 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.360 episode about all the relationships, especially Luke and Laurelies. I mean, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:46.400 did you see the connection between those two characters right away? 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.040 Did you notice it? Yes, I definitely did. I mean 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.839 there's a chemistry there. You know, there's definitely chemistry. And 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.960 it was just you know, rewatching, you know, because I 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.600 haven't really watched this. It's sort of a assing because 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.280 I do all the fan festivals and the fans can 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.760 recite every script by heart, you know, it's like amazing. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.760 And they asked me a question about something and I'm like, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.080 you know, this is twenty years ago or whatever, and 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.640 it's sort of like and I haven't I don't rewatch 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.040 them really and rewatching I'm going to rewatch them. I mean, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.840 I watched one last night and I'm like, this is 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.040 so good. I mean everything about it was so good 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.880 and I just loved it and I can see why 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.000 people love it so much, and I mean, I always 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.080 love this show. I came in and they showed, you know, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.599 and asked and I said, well, could I see this show? 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.040 And they had the pilot episode and I'm like, oh, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.600 this is good. And every single time, no matter when 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.360 I got the script, I'm going to be walking on 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.520 the zet or something. It was great and the scripts 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.480 were always and that does not happen a lot. When 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.440 you're proud of something that you're doing, I'll work those 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.240 eighteen hours or twenty hours or whatever because it's it's 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.520 it's wonderful. I mean, it's just it's so good, and 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.040 it's certainly I can see why it's the huge hit 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.839 that it is now. And from the beginning, it's it's 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.840 spoiled me. That show spoiled me because I went on 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.160 to do other shows and it just you know, they 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.520 were good and great writing staffs and all that. But 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.040 it was just it was different, you know, it was different. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.000 It was I'll be honest about it. I've done a 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.880 lot of shows and everything, and this one was top notch, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.360 and and some other ones were good, but you know, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:31.760 it's just not even nearly close anyway, Thank god, it 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.960 was such a positive experience. So let me ask you this. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.120 Do you think that Luke should have spoken up earlier 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:41.200 to Laurela professing his love to her? In your opinion? No, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.679 I don't, And didn't you know what from the beginning? 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.800 I don't know. No, I think it means that whole storyline. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.760 I think it was wonderful. I mean, I the whole 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.839 series would have been condensed much more quickly. I think 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.719 I think it was important to go through all the 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.359 different things and have her have other relationship ships and 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.800 have this friendship. After all, what does a good relationship 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.159 what is it based on? It's based on a friendship. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.760 You know, I'm best friends with my husband of forty 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.440 five years. You know, it's just like and we're still 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.040 mad in love. So I think that's a real good start, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.320 and that's the basis. And I don't you know, I 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.560 don't think it would have been I liked how it 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:24.320 was done right. What do you think of Max, Max Medina? 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:26.840 You're going to be testing me as some of this 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.440 I liked. I like the actor. Oh no, without question, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:38.000 without a great No, Max is fine. I'm not remembering 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.160 every story, you know it was. I can't think of 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.040 someone I went, w Where's why they go there? You 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.840 know that just wasn't aiming for one thing? You know, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.640 it's there was you know, it played the way it 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.840 was most flaying. How about Rory and Dean? What do 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:59.080 you think of that whole arc? Lived Rien, Jess Ollive, Rorrien, Max, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:06.160 Just love y'all. That was great. It was just so sweet. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.880 I mean, those are the sweet years. It was so 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.520 so so nice, and they've all gone on to such success. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.280 I mean it's just fabulous to see, you know, great 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.040 launching pad for those guys, you know, and girls. Um 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.880 what about Emily and Laurela? What about that dynamic? What 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.240 do you remember about that? It's fabulous? I mean to 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.440 gros too. I mean there's just so great and such 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.719 lovely people. And the episode that I did watch that 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.040 they've mentioned to me, the people that are doing this, um, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.120 you know, it's a lot about their relationship and to 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.080 see that it was Rory's dance. I don't know what, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.720 but anyway, that's what I was asked to watch. So 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.599 I did watch that and to see, you know this 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.920 there held this constantly conflict, conflict, but then to actually 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:53.240 see in that particular episode, the love, the love that 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.360 when she when Laurelae sleeping and then Emily like it 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.840 puts her hair back, see that she's seeing her as 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.360 this the little girl that she even says thank you mommy, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.640 thank you mommy, because she was heavily that's rue. And 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.720 and of course, I mean in any family and most families, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.000 and know in my family there was a lot of 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.720 discord and very different. They were very different and so 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.840 um you know, you get it. It is. It is 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.600 rather amazing that Emily thinks that she can walk into 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.600 Laurelized house and give her what for and give her 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.560 that level of disrespect. I mean, it just is amazing. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.000 And I was so glad that she kicked her out 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.520 of her house, like, get out of my house. You 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.839 don't think this is a life, It's not good enough 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:44.280 for you. Leave. That's so true. That's not an exaggeration. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.200 There are mothers and hopefully my girls will say I'm 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.080 not like Fai, But there are mothers like that. I mean, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.360 I think they're like evil. Like some of the stories 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:59.200 I hear, I'm like, oh my goodness. You know, it's 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.400 like what one person said, they brought there, they were strange, 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.839 and they bought their young daughter to finally meet this 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.080 wicked mother, and mother says she's so pretty, she must 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.240 take after her father. I mean, it's just like this classic, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.080 even worse than Emily Sin. What a what a what 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.920 a complicated character? And what a what a complicated relationship? 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.120 That is my god. It's like they just hate each other. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.960 They just absolutely hate each other, but they need each other. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.360 They underleath that they really don't. They still have that, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.520 you know, there is this love connection even with the hate, 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:41.040 tred or the complete both sides. You know. Let me 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.439 ask you this, how important did you think that characters 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:48.360 like Suki, Michelle Lane, Miss Patty Kirk are to the Yeah? 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:54.199 I think they were just so important each one. And 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.800 I actually I've written two books, and my first book 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.880 has a lot about memories come from stars hollow. Basically, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.600 that's right, c upload I Wisconsin, he said Madison. But 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.559 it's a little town outside of medicine. And I had 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:12.120 the craziest characters and you know, writing about all of 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.400 the drudy at the bakery, but I mean that's so important. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.760 Each one of those characters was so well defined and 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.600 unique and wonderful. You just love them. They're so great 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.719 and to and to be um, oh my gosh and 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.160 blaking that his name uh was right there? Who played 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.720 a bunch of different characters, so it was the crazy guy, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:41.320 like the cable guy, and he was I mean, he 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.760 played a variety of those characters. But I mean they're 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:50.080 just such such amazing, you know, I I think they're 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.160 so wonderfully. I mean, that's the whole secret to having 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.840 a great show, as you have all these characters that 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.520 are so come fleet and unique, and you you know, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.800 it's not like now, so who would be I mean, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.720 you know what, you know what really hit hit me 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.080 last night watching the episode was what a scene stealer 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.560 that Melissa McCarthy is. When she comes on screen, it's 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:19.280 like you can't watch anybody else. It's just h I mean, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.560 what a star quality she has and it was apparent 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.199 right away. And the comedy bits she's doing are not 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.120 easily done. When she sprays herself in the eyes and 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:34.240 her I mean delivering the dialogue that way and doing 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.360 the physicality of it and then coming back out and 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.560 having a good conversation with those two. You're never going like, oh, 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.440 come on, the wrong way for Emily and the wrong 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.120 way for you know. It's just like, oh my god. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:54.880 And she's so so just just every time she's on screen. Yeah, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.120 she just takes she runs away with a scene. She's 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:06.760 the most talented her and good god. So you were 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:11.040 assistant director from the beginning, in the early years, obviously, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.640 did you have any idea when you started out how 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.320 important the show would become to so many people around 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.040 the world In the show I had to be a 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.040 huge hit right away. So I'm not at all surprised, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.520 not at all. I felt the same way when I 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.720 read the pilot. I thought, this is I'll never get this. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.520 This is gonna be a big show, um or at 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.200 least for that network, is gonna be big. But I 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:40.160 predicted five years. I was wrong by two. Well I 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.319 think it would have kept going, you know, boy, Yeah, yeah, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:51.040 we can talk about that. Yeah. It was interesting too, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.280 because I was there, like live there it was my life. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.480 And then after I had this stroke, I mean I directed. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.199 Then I was envisioning that I would keep direct Dean 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.080 and I had the stroke and so I was but 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.120 they kept They were such a wonderful show for me. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.559 Amy just was amazing and everybody and um, so they 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.640 even when I couldn't work, I mean it was a 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.160 big one. Um they had me because a lot of 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 people would come on and and to break down these shows. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.920 They were very complicated, and they would ask me to 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.320 do it while I was home. And then when I 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.000 actually could work, then they brought me back as the 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.640 production manager, which is a very difficult job and lots 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.240 of stuff, but you don't have to be on the 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.640 set all the time, which was difficult for me at 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.280 that time. And so they really let me. I mean 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.840 it was they supported me throughout, which I will always 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.440 always be great. And then I had my mother had, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:46.840 you know, became ill, and so then I ultimately had 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.080 to leave and I got this great job as an 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.440 executive at Sony. So I went for that and went 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.880 to Madrid. But other than that, I love the show 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.240 and I said Caitlin down there so she could report 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:04.360 back and George, Um, what are the really juicy behind 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.720 the scenes stuff that you can tell us talk about 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:14.119 if I don't do that, really you have a specific 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.920 thing and it would only be positive. I mean the 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.680 last night's episode. I remember sometime. I mean, we just 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.760 laughed so much. We were so sleep deprived, and there 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.960 was and I don't remember. I think it might have 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.640 been that episode because I just remember because Laura Laie 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.000 Lauren was on the floor so when that dress came 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.640 down and hit her and caused the back problem, and thought, oh, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.840 maybe that was it because we're in the living room 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:41.840 and I just remember we just we're all just cracking up, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.880 you know, like as an actor when you can't get that, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.720 you're like, oh my god, it broke up this glory again. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.520 But we weren't filmed, you know, we couldn't even like 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.120 roll again. We couldn't do anything. Lauren could do it. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.160 And it was it was probably like four o'clock in 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:58.240 the morning or something, but just the laughter and the camaraderie, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.480 and we would go out after Friday on Friday nights, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.240 you know, would either be in the camera truck or 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.720 else we go out with Amy and Dan and especially 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.000 in the beginning and just have a blast and our 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.720 rap parties. At one rap party, I think I gotta 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.400 lead it to Gypsy and I was sort of embarrassed, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.200 like I thought, oh my god. And I went the 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.600 next day and I apologized to Amy. I said, I'm 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.360 so sorry, she's oh my god. I left you all 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.880 the more for that. And then when I was direct 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:29.480 Dorothy Parker Productions, Drink here, Dorothy Parker Drink here Productions. There. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.360 When I was directing, I was so exhausted because you 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.480 really had to be like, how am I shooting this? 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.560 Blah blah blah blah blah. And I live in Malibu, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.560 so that's like another two hour driver hour driver or whatever. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.560 So I actually stayed in somebody's dressing room. I don't know. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.440 It was a nice one. And and so one of 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.000 the nights the guard came and said, no, I just 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.200 saw the slower. It was just what's going on. I said, Oh, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.600 I'm just here, don't worry, and Amy can do this 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:02.240 his honey, you can't sleep in the dressing room. I 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.879 didn't do that anymore. Why liability issue for the studio, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.119 Like if there was a nearthquake or some something, nobody 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.920 knows you there I said, well, tyl M, I'm here, 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.560 you know, just get me if there's problem. Yeah, they 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.080 you know, they get your car, they'll get you home, right. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:20.320 Everybody speaking of sleeping, I can't do it, but lunch 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.640 are everybody had his spot and they all took him 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.280 and were sound. It's like I remember the Lance and 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.200 everybody was like, there's now away here, you know, because 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.520 you just utterly exhausted. The show is a grind. I 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.200 want to grind. Wow, did you did you find did 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.760 you like the days that we would shoot the town 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.520 hall meetings because it was just the one location. Well, 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:48.119 those easier days on you. Nothing is easy, I mean. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.120 And and all the actors are there. I mean they're 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:55.840 hysterical when you get um, oh my god, that bet 0:17:55.960 --> 0:18:00.000 and Mrs Betty. I know, I know, I'm thinking, um, 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.200 come on, Amy, tell me who my talk was? Babette, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:10.200 Sally and Pats telling this together? You mean the set 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.080 just I'm like, I'm losing control here. I mean, they're 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:18.720 all And it was also often really hot in there 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.880 because it gets hot in the valley and we had 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.399 to be tented in because it's a night scene, and 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.879 so we're all like whipping wet and and it was 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.080 a lot of work. Any of those I personally preferred, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.560 you know, two people in the room that was my favorite. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.080 All of that going on, it's a huge deal for 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.760 an a D or for lots of the production stuff. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.000 It's a big, big, big thing when you have so 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.040 many actors and extras and coordinating everything. You know, it's 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.600 it was worked. So when you were directing, what were 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.280 the most difficult scenes for you to direct? You know, 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.640 it really came naturally because you know, I've been doing 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.960 the chauffeurs along. I'm like, hey, and I knew the 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.080 style and they knew you know, so it wasn't really difficult. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.520 It was I felt bad because when my last day, 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.920 I remember, um, how make in Paris is the wonderful 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:17.159 actors Liza wheel Tisa. Okay, so Liza was it was 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.119 a big fencing scene with everybody stunts and fencing and 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.240 all this other stuff and lies against the script the 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.600 day before and she the next day's work, which I 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.439 didn't schedule. The next day D scheduled had her with 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.560 these like ten page monologues or I mean something, I 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.800 mean not tempage, but a huge monologue. So she's like, oh, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.600 my god, I have to memories all this and I'm 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.119 in the middle of fencing, and you know, so I 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.000 felt bad for them, but I loved it and it 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.439 worked out fine. There was one time I remember, and 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.400 I don't know which part, but it was like four 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.879 o'clock in the morning, and I think I turned to 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.400 Michael the the DP and I'm like, you gotta help 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.760 me here. I don't know if I can't even remember 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:05.480 my name right now, Michael Price. Yeah, but I did. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.760 It was fun there because I really modeled, like I 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.639 don't know if you've seen that episode, but you should 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:12.680 bring me back when that episode on, because I did 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.840 all the President's Men, when the deep throat scene, and 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:20.600 there's a scene that's I shot it scene shot for 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.520 shot as the scene in the in the parking lot anyway, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.080 not but I love it. Carla. We want to have 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:31.040 you on all the time. Your stories are great, stories, 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:37.240 keep keeping coming coming. I don't want to know if 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:43.680 Carla is team Logan just is team all I loved, 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:48.240 I mean you, not love them all, I mean my 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.959 low Jared, I mean they're all you know. I probably 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.480 worked the most with them, but I did do stuff 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.320 with Matt such a great guy. I mean, they were 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.359 all just the sweet eat his people besides being you know, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.040 the sweetest characters are best characters or you know, it's 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.600 just And I also worked on We're going to do 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.200 a spinoff sort of with Milo and so I did 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.560 that too with skateboarding and a lot of stuff like that, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.800 and so you know, they're just all the best. With 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.680 rob Estus, yeah, you know they shot the pilot down 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:26.480 there in Venice Venice Beach. Yeah yeah. Um, so we 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:31.040 had George Bell on recently and uh, you know it 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:35.040 leads to the question, how did your daughter get into 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:41.640 actually becoming or even a part time dialogue coach? Well, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.080 I brought you you both of your dialect coachs because 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.040 as you know, everybody's getting fired. I mean, we went 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.400 through more crew than you can. Our department has gone 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.959 okay this, you know, everybody was fired, and so we 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:57.800 needed when I worked my husband new George, like when 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.119 they were like seventeen, you know, they my husband went 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.720 to Juilliard for acting, but before he went to Juilliard, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.800 he went to Northbridge where he met George. And George 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.200 is our lifelong like best friend, and I got him. 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.240 He worked with me on hook and he was a 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.080 great he did. I said, I need somebody for these 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:17.119 last boys, George, and so I really started him on 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:22.320 his dialogue coaching journey, which actually was really on Gilmer Girls. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:26.440 But George. Everybody loves George is everybody in my whole life. 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:29.720 Everybody loves George. I mean he's in my book actually, 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.439 And I staid talking about relationships with friends, and I'm like, 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:40.200 George Bell and I wrote about it. But so I'm thinking, like, okay, 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.800 everybody was at wood Stands, who can we bring in? 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:44.919 And I'm like, I gotta have the perfect man. I 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.119 have the perfect person, you know, to have and um 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.600 and so we got George and everybody loved him, you know, 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:53.199 and he was the best and it was great. And 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.160 then George was just overwhelmed, especially he was gonna quit. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.160 Like the first night, he goes, oh my god, because 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:00.760 I wasn't there on the set and it was just horrible. 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.400 But but it all worked out. But um so then 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.800 later on, and I don't know what season, but one 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.160 of the later seasons, he says, I just can't do this. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:10.879 This is all the time, you know, I have to 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.720 have a break. And so he wanted someone to fill 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.360 in and came to me and I was a production 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.440 manager at the time and I was just talking at 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:21.280 home and everything, and I said, I have to think 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.480