Speaker 1: It's nine oh two one OMG with Jenny Garth and friends.
Speaker 1: You guys have been asking for this in the comments section,
Speaker 1: and guess what today is? The day? The beautiful, the
Speaker 1: one and only Lindsey Price, who played Janet Sosna, is
Speaker 1: my guest today. Hello Lindsey, Hi. It has been such
Speaker 1: a long time in the coming because we've been wanting
Speaker 1: to have you for so long and I'm just really
Speaker 1: glad that you're here.
Speaker 2: We made it happen. I'm sorry the last time we
Speaker 2: were I think we were supposed to meet but then
Speaker 2: our travel got delayed. Anyway, you're here now, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Oh you Okay?
Speaker 1: So after the show, yeah, you worked and worked and worked.
Speaker 1: You did some really great stuff. You did well. Was
Speaker 1: that show Eastwick? You did Lipstick Jungle?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you did Splitting Up Together?
Speaker 2: What am I missing?
Speaker 1: Those were three well received shows that lasted.
Speaker 2: They lasted a while, and then the rest of it
Speaker 2: is stuff, as you know, that never like makes the air.
Speaker 2: I was lucky because I kept working, but you were lucky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was hard to It's hard when, as you know,
Speaker 2: also when you have little ones to just move to
Speaker 2: Atlanta for three months or whatever it was, you know,
Speaker 2: so I had to pick and choose things. And yeah, anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm not done yet. I keep going.
Speaker 1: That's good. I love that about you. You are a
Speaker 1: hard worker, You're profession.
Speaker 2: It's just what I am. I think it's more than
Speaker 2: the hard work. And I appreciate you saying that because
Speaker 2: my mom would be happy to hear I'm a hard worker.
Speaker 2: But I think I more than anything. It's just it's
Speaker 2: what I love, you know, like it's a part of
Speaker 2: my actual composition to me an artist and an actor
Speaker 2: tell stories.
Speaker 1: You hear no drama either, which is so refreshing. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're not one of those actresses that comes
Speaker 1: in with her entourage and you know, has her all
Speaker 1: the things, and it is always, you know, got some
Speaker 1: story to tell, some dramatic situation going on in her
Speaker 1: personal life. You are very You're very stable person. I've
Speaker 1: always been so drawn too that I remember I always
Speaker 1: tell you this every time I see you, though, But
Speaker 1: I always used to talk about you when you weren't around,
Speaker 1: and I would say, Lindsay is the most beautiful woman
Speaker 1: I have ever met. That's crazy, you know. I tell
Speaker 1: you this every time and it's the truth. Oh, Like,
Speaker 1: I had no reason to say that to you back
Speaker 1: in the day other than the truth that you just
Speaker 1: have the most beautiful arms. You're just your hair is
Speaker 1: so pretty, your teeth are perfect. Like, you're just beautiful.
Speaker 2: I'm not sucking up to you either.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's very kind. I know. Whenever you've ever said this,
Speaker 2: I've always said to you, it's so odd because I
Speaker 2: went onto the show with you guys who were literally
Speaker 2: icons of beauty and fashion, and always felt like the odd,
Speaker 2: funny one like I've never ever felt and even to
Speaker 2: this day like and I know I've played roles that
Speaker 2: were supposed to be glamorous and whatever else. I don't
Speaker 2: see myself that way.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, girl, I'm gonna shake you right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not unhappy, you know what I mean, But I
Speaker 2: don't like, I'm just happy to be here when I
Speaker 2: go to the work, and I think, I think our
Speaker 2: job as actors is to sort of disappear, do you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. We're supposed to be the person
Speaker 2: that we're portraying. We're not actually supposed to like be
Speaker 2: some superstar when you go on to a set, you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not all about you. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to be all.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not. I really, I'm very I understand
Speaker 2: why people feel that when you kind of have to
Speaker 2: pump yourself up in order to do the job that
Speaker 2: you're asked to do. But I I'm it's not my
Speaker 2: I love it when I see that kind of you know,
Speaker 2: posturing or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so interesting. So when tell me about what
Speaker 1: you what you went through for the audition process to
Speaker 1: play the character of Janet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had auditioned for Aaron's spelling a couple of
Speaker 2: times before. But I think everyone sort of has this story.
Speaker 2: They're like a million times and I kept coming back,
Speaker 2: but I had moved. I went to high school in
Speaker 2: New York, and I'd moved back home to LA specifically
Speaker 2: to work on a show, not nine Out two. And
Speaker 2: now I think, Oh, I did a soap and it
Speaker 2: was a couple of months and what was on it
Speaker 2: was Bold and the Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Old in the Beautiful Yeah I think, I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: It was like a really good and beautiful.
Speaker 3: It was hopefully they hired me so but I did
Speaker 3: a couple of months of that show, and I think
Speaker 3: I auditioned while I was still on it, but I
Speaker 3: was like fresh out of high school, maybe nineteen, I.
Speaker 2: Can't remember, but what I remember was that it was
Speaker 2: a guest star or reoccurring role. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: The woman that was playing the secretariat the Beverly beat
Speaker 2: was was they were replacing her, but they But that
Speaker 2: was the audition, so I just thought it was going
Speaker 2: to be a couple of episodes. I think, if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, it was only like three two or three,
Speaker 2: and it was like a Girl Friday roll, like, here's
Speaker 2: your envelope, Steve, and oh Brandon, a message came in
Speaker 2: for you, you know. But it was my favorite show ever
Speaker 2: growing up, and so the idea of being on it
Speaker 2: was just like epic for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you had the most wonderful thing happened, because yeah,
Speaker 1: you started out slow as like a peripheral supporting character
Speaker 1: in season eight, but yeah, and you really did have
Speaker 1: very few scenes whenever they were in the office. Right
Speaker 1: like you said, but you won everyone over. You won
Speaker 1: the audience over, you won the actors over, you won
Speaker 1: the people in the offices, the top people over, and
Speaker 1: they started writing more for you. And made you into
Speaker 1: this really important character.
Speaker 2: It was wild. Those stories that you hear every once
Speaker 2: in a while, it actually happens to someone when they
Speaker 2: just work hard and do their job. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you're sort of rewarded for it. It doesn't always work that way.
Speaker 2: I just I think I remember. Also, you know, Ian
Speaker 2: is so funny, and the show has taken on, so
Speaker 2: it's I mean, I love the show and I always
Speaker 2: will love the show because it was always both drama
Speaker 2: and comedy. It was always rom calm and also gave
Speaker 2: like real world issues a look for young people. And
Speaker 2: when your characters all got older and you were in
Speaker 2: the workplace and you know, trying to figure out your
Speaker 2: your young lives. You know. I think the Steve character,
Speaker 2: he really started to like take a turn and shine
Speaker 2: when you could see his sort of comedy. So we
Speaker 2: had that banter back and forth, and it was kind
Speaker 2: of I think a parent that like maybe Janet wasn't
Speaker 2: the typical bombshell, like she was brainy and you know, sarcastic,
Speaker 2: and they wrote it with that type of humor and
Speaker 2: everything just clipped, you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was necessary that I was so fabulous.
Speaker 2: But it was that it was really clicking between the characters,
Speaker 2: and that I think was the audience was probably ready
Speaker 2: to see him do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your character was like the perfect fodder for his character.
Speaker 1: You guys like it was spurry, It was you know,
Speaker 1: it had like moments of you didn't know, do I
Speaker 1: want them to get together? Do I not? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I had forgotten though, that the that he you you
Speaker 1: kind of wanted your character wanted to be with Steve
Speaker 1: initially and like invited yourself to a party or something.
Speaker 2: I think it was like it was actually the reunion episode.
Speaker 2: It was your your It was reunion high school reunion
Speaker 2: and I'd been working in the office and he asked
Speaker 2: me to go as sort of like a placeholder because
Speaker 2: he was trying to make someone else think that he
Speaker 2: was like a quality guy or something. But I but
Speaker 2: my character was was falling for him, and he did
Speaker 2: something sort of rude or just dismissive.
Speaker 1: He took his clothes off in the locker room. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was going to get with somebody. You were there,
Speaker 1: but she goes to the locker room and I yes.
Speaker 2: And actually Randy Spelling had told me like a couple days,
Speaker 2: or maybe it was actually at the Rap Party, because
Speaker 2: Aaron asked me to be be a regular at the
Speaker 2: Rap Party for season eight, and that accisode had aired
Speaker 2: and we had this scene where Steve comes to the
Speaker 2: door and he's like, I'm sorry, and we had this
Speaker 2: really real emotional moment. And Randy said that he watched
Speaker 2: that scene and he told his dad, you have to
Speaker 2: hire She's like an amazing actor and whatever else, and
Speaker 2: so Aaron listened to him. I guess. So I don't know, Well,
Speaker 2: that's one part of the story.
Speaker 1: Another part at the Rap party, Tory and I don't
Speaker 1: know in what condition we were at that time, but
Speaker 1: Aaron had taken us aside and was like, what do
Speaker 1: you think of Lindsay. You know, we were like, we
Speaker 1: love Lindsey. She fits right in. She's like the perfect
Speaker 1: person for Steve's character. And we were just like glowing
Speaker 1: you up. And I think that was the like moment
Speaker 1: where he was like, Okay, I'm getting this from both
Speaker 1: my kids at this point, may probably listen and I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he loved you too to even entertain that thought. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we were just like, yes, she has got to
Speaker 1: stay on the show.
Speaker 2: That's that's to be honest with you, like that, that
Speaker 2: moment and you guys and the friendship set that I
Speaker 2: I I got because of that experience were more valuable
Speaker 2: to me than even ever being on the show. Because
Speaker 2: I was, like, you know, a young kid like in
Speaker 2: the industry since I was young, so I wasn't in
Speaker 2: an actual high school. And how surreal for me to
Speaker 2: like be socially accepted and loved by you guys who
Speaker 2: I watched on TV because I wasn't actually going to
Speaker 2: high school. It's so it's very there's so many layers
Speaker 2: of it, you know, And we really, we really did.
Speaker 2: You really were a part of my life and like
Speaker 2: my my youth and my like development with friendships. It
Speaker 2: was pretty special.
Speaker 1: It served a pretty prominent point in all of our developments,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I know, right, because that was
Speaker 1: our environment. That was it, That's where we all kind
Speaker 1: of grew up.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: And I just know that, you know, I loved I
Speaker 1: always loved working with you, and you were always just
Speaker 1: happy and in a good mood and pleasant and prepared.
Speaker 1: You were just you were like the perfect acting partner
Speaker 1: and you fit seamlessly into the cast, so we were
Speaker 1: all just thrilled that you were there.
Speaker 2: I you know, it's mutual. I remember, like we used
Speaker 2: to have so much fun. Though we used to like
Speaker 2: put on weird wigs and laugh and the trailer and
Speaker 2: everything that I remember is actually offset, you know. I
Speaker 2: definitely remember certain scenes and the work that we did
Speaker 2: and feeling really lucky that they wrote me into scenes
Speaker 2: with everybody. You know. I loved our scenes together, and
Speaker 2: but it's the off camera stuff that I remember the most.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like one of your favorite memories.
Speaker 2: We you and I in particular, were always super gigly.
Speaker 2: But I remember, like probably towards the end when I
Speaker 2: think it was Janet's bachelorette party, maybe it was a
Speaker 2: baby shower. Was the baby shower or was it? Or
Speaker 2: was it Donna's It was Donna's bachelor Okay, and this
Speaker 2: is so naughty, but you know, we had shot like
Speaker 2: our important parts of the scenes, but someone brought yellow shots.
Speaker 2: I think it was some time. About this a million times,
Speaker 2: but like I was not I was. I was such
Speaker 2: a good girl at work and we had tons of
Speaker 2: fun off off camera of course, but like we were,
Speaker 2: there was the moment of knowing that I was included
Speaker 2: in this part of like TV history, but also having
Speaker 2: so much fun with you guys, my friends. It was
Speaker 2: so great. I don't know. It was a yellow shots. Also,
Speaker 2: didn't we all get bikes?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was one of the like a Christmas present
Speaker 1: for everybody. We got bicycles.
Speaker 2: We all got bikes.
Speaker 1: Where's that bike? Did you? You don't still have your
Speaker 1: bike now?
Speaker 2: I think I remember when I moved, I had to
Speaker 2: get rid of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what it was such a random gift too,
Speaker 1: was and we were all we were around, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we were famous at that point, not like we could
Speaker 1: go out on a bike ride that was total around
Speaker 1: on our bicycles exactly. There was just like a hundred
Speaker 1: bikes on the lot wherever we were on Kester and Calvert,
Speaker 1: is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and everyone was on their bikes in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: I just I just remember feeling like this is so
Speaker 2: like it's all kind of like a dream, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love it that you had that perspective, like coming
Speaker 1: into it, maybe even appreciating it more from your perspective.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wondered for you guys too, Like eight seasons
Speaker 2: is a long time that's a long time. And by
Speaker 2: the time I got there, those eight seasons were under
Speaker 2: your belt. And because of this what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, growing and having your actual social life, your
Speaker 2: all of your moments, all of your sort of development
Speaker 2: happened in that atmosphere with those people. I always wondered
Speaker 2: how you guys felt in season eight. But you would
Speaker 2: like show up and do amazing work, and the characters
Speaker 2: would evolve and and you know, I just felt so
Speaker 2: so like lucky to be a part of the end there,
Speaker 2: because that's so emotional and iconic.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I think we were. I for one
Speaker 1: was just it didn't ever I'm sure there are moments
Speaker 1: when it felt like work, and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of things that I had to like grow through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it felt it didn't feel like eight seasons. It
Speaker 1: didn't ever feel like this arduous, like I have to
Speaker 1: go to work. It felt like I'm going going to
Speaker 1: hang out all day with my friends and the crew
Speaker 1: and you know, just have a great day. Everybody's there
Speaker 1: together making something that you know, we were proud.
Speaker 2: Of, and you always pretty much led with that and
Speaker 2: felt that way you could tell, you know, like.
Speaker 1: I think so till the very end. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I had my moments, but or maybe when I
Speaker 1: was like trying to grapple with why this storyline or
Speaker 1: why this line or whatever, But in general, the feeling
Speaker 1: of just this is such a cool situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I oftentimes think, especially because you know today everything
Speaker 2: is like, you're lucky if you get one season of
Speaker 2: can we did like thirty two episodes or whatever it was?
Speaker 2: You know, I can't remember, but I always wonder if
Speaker 2: you look back and actually know that you were a
Speaker 2: part of something like it's you're like nine or two,
Speaker 2: and I was one out of a handful of shows
Speaker 2: that had that kind of run, had that sort of
Speaker 2: icon status for all of you, you know, Like I know,
Speaker 2: for me to this day, people were like Janet and
Speaker 2: it was so long ago, and I was literally I got.
Speaker 1: Of course they do. If I saw you in the
Speaker 1: grocery store, I would flip out, like Janet, especially because
Speaker 1: I watch the show every week now and just now
Speaker 1: is the time when you are starting to get a
Speaker 1: lot more airtime and more stories.
Speaker 2: Like where are you at now?
Speaker 1: We're episode twenty eight in season eight's we're almost through
Speaker 1: season eight? Because you kind of came in the middle.
Speaker 1: Baby that makes sense and a very slow grow yeah,
Speaker 1: which I was just talking with Amy about that. I
Speaker 1: appreciated because we got to know you before we were
Speaker 1: forced to accept you as not as an actor, but
Speaker 1: as a person watching the show a fan. I got
Speaker 1: to know you more, and then I was rooting for
Speaker 1: you instead of just having so often the characters were
Speaker 1: just like thrown in and we were all hanging out
Speaker 1: of the peach pit together, like no, there was no
Speaker 1: real backstory ever, but we've gotten to know a little
Speaker 1: bit more about you. That your parents were both hippies,
Speaker 1: just like fun stuff, and that you were you were feisty,
Speaker 1: and you didn't you know, you didn't lose your voice
Speaker 1: in front of your bosses. The guys at work. You know,
Speaker 1: they were young, but they were your bosses. And your
Speaker 1: time on the show actually touched on a lot of
Speaker 1: things like cultural differences, pregnancy before marriage, a career, a
Speaker 1: career driven woman who's not afraid of her sexual side.
Speaker 1: In the episode we just watched, I would, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody would want to know how much of Janet was
Speaker 1: actually Lendsy coming through those words so interesting.
Speaker 2: I've never thought about it until just now. What you
Speaker 2: just said was so was so interesting. But I think
Speaker 2: fans got to know Janet the way that you would
Speaker 2: get to know somebody in real life, someone you work
Speaker 2: with at the office, and do you have a couple
Speaker 2: of interactions and then like all the information starts to build,
Speaker 2: so you could really accept her as Steve's wife or
Speaker 2: like baby mama or whatever it was. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: really a grown up storyline for me, to be honest.
Speaker 2: At that time, I had only had like a couple
Speaker 2: of boyfriends, do you know what I mean? Like I
Speaker 2: was literally not I was more grown up than other
Speaker 2: kids my age, but I was I didn't have I
Speaker 2: wasn't even close to living that type of life with
Speaker 2: like a office job and.
Speaker 1: How old are you in real life?
Speaker 2: When I need we need to google? But I feel
Speaker 2: like I know my kids google it. I had my
Speaker 2: twenty first birthday there with you guys, because I had
Speaker 2: I threw a prom party, do you remember, And we
Speaker 2: were in a warehouse downtown and I think I don't
Speaker 2: know if you were there, but it was definitely during
Speaker 2: that time. So like I was nineteen twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: I think I was.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, being you weren't fully cooked yet.
Speaker 2: No, being married and having a baby and all that
Speaker 2: I was just it was just like so foreign to me.
Speaker 2: So it was for real acting. But her tone, her feminism,
Speaker 2: her sort of like feistiness, and intelligence, her Intelli. I
Speaker 2: don't want to say I'm you know this, like, yes,
Speaker 2: you were intelligence.
Speaker 1: You exuded an intelligence that none of the other characters
Speaker 1: really had.
Speaker 2: Those things were always really important to me as a person,
Speaker 2: to you know, like my education and morality and so
Speaker 2: all those things were very easy to play. Oh right, yeah,
Speaker 2: super aligned. But the having a baby and you know,
Speaker 2: getting married, married and all that stuff that was so
Speaker 2: far from where I was.
Speaker 4: So far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy when you say that, because I'm thinking
Speaker 1: where was I when this was happening. I had already
Speaker 1: had a baby and was in this like grown up
Speaker 1: situation of you know, homeowner, all the things that came of.
Speaker 2: All of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I remember just feeling like, yeah, my
Speaker 1: kid is in the trailer sleeping, but Lindsay's here and
Speaker 1: I'd rather hang out and giggle than go then go
Speaker 1: be a mom.
Speaker 2: Right now, we did so much giggling and so and
Speaker 2: actually I thought about you many, many, many times since,
Speaker 2: because I have, as a person and as an actor,
Speaker 2: struggled with the work life balance my heart because I've
Speaker 2: always done this, It's just a part of who I am.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned, my heart's always been into places. And
Speaker 2: I've had to be honest with you, a really hard
Speaker 2: time balancing the drive and the focus that it takes
Speaker 2: to be a successful actor. You know, you have to
Speaker 2: really give it your all, not just with your time
Speaker 2: but your attention, you know, balancing that with the type
Speaker 2: of mom I want to be. It has been really
Speaker 2: difficult for me. And I always think like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: Jenny was doing it that whole time and I didn't
Speaker 2: even notice, Like you did it so effortlessly. It seemed
Speaker 2: to fetless. Yeah maybe, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know what I was doing. It was just try
Speaker 1: and figure it out as I was going.
Speaker 2: But you didn't lose your joy. You never seemed stressed,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like it was really admirable
Speaker 2: to look back after I had babies and think and yeah,
Speaker 2: and I did. I really did think about you a lot,
Speaker 2: especially right when the when when the boys were little babies,
Speaker 2: I was just doing pilots.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about the boys for a second, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you when I found out that you had a baby,
Speaker 1: I was like over the moon because I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just felt like I had watched you grow up
Speaker 1: and then you had a baby in real life, and
Speaker 1: in my in my mind, I was like, oh, Steven
Speaker 1: Janet had a baby, But it wasn't Steve or Janet.
Speaker 1: It was you and your your wonderful husband, Curtis Stone,
Speaker 1: and it just made me so happy. The life that
Speaker 1: you found for yourself and that you made for yourself
Speaker 1: just was like for me, it was always like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for her.
Speaker 2: Thank you. But you know, I was always like in
Speaker 2: love with love, you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 2: always wanted I wanted all of it, but I really
Speaker 2: loved being in a romantic relationship. You know. I wanted
Speaker 2: to give those parts of myself to somebody, but it
Speaker 2: is hard to find the right guy, especially also when
Speaker 2: you're working all the time, in all those hours and
Speaker 2: post nine o two and zero, I you know, thought
Speaker 2: I found it and it turned out to not be
Speaker 2: the thing, and continued to work and my sort of
Speaker 2: like work life started to completely take off, and my
Speaker 2: romantic life took a back seat, and I actually got
Speaker 2: to a point like after Lipstick Jungle, and that show
Speaker 2: was literally about like can women have it all? Like
Speaker 2: they like have their jobs and you know, their relationships
Speaker 2: as well. I've started to feel like I might not
Speaker 2: be able to find it. Guys were really like weird
Speaker 2: about success and how much time you give them. I
Speaker 2: mean you you know, it's it's really difficult to find someone.
Speaker 2: But then along came Curtis and he was artistic enough,
Speaker 2: like being a chef. The culinary art is actually an art,
Speaker 2: you know. It's the alchemy of taking you know, things
Speaker 2: that you feel and making somebody feel something, whether it's
Speaker 2: through you know, the way it tastes or or the
Speaker 2: way it's presented. So he was artistic enough, but the
Speaker 2: ausie side of him was very like it like in
Speaker 2: control of his masculinity, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like yes, confident, confident, that assy man typical. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: did you guys meet?
Speaker 2: It was a blind date like just before all the
Speaker 2: apps took off. So the friend that set us up
Speaker 2: actually said, you're you can't pick for yourself anymore, like
Speaker 2: not like the yeah, and she's like I found your husband,
Speaker 2: and she was right. I never felt like I needed
Speaker 2: to be set up. But that was that's what happened.
Speaker 1: And did you know, did you know when you met
Speaker 1: him that, oh, yeah, you're right, this is going to
Speaker 1: be my husband.
Speaker 2: I mean at that point I was not cynical, but
Speaker 2: just cautious, you know. And you look at him, he's
Speaker 2: just he looks like trouble. He's got like that like
Speaker 2: sort of but he's so not trouble.
Speaker 1: It's a funny thing. He looks like trouble, but he's
Speaker 1: you just know, he's a good guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I was pretty sure that he was not
Speaker 2: going to be the one. You know, he was just
Speaker 2: you know, throw it in a backpack, ausie travel, you know,
Speaker 2: cheffing like it was all kind of it sort of
Speaker 2: actually fits sort of what I was always attracted to,
Speaker 2: like a little bit unavailable, you know, but it turns
Speaker 2: out he wasn't. So yeah, very quickly, within a year
Speaker 2: we were buying a house and doing.
Speaker 1: At all, you know, having a baby.
Speaker 2: Having a baby.
Speaker 1: There's baby Hudson.
Speaker 2: He's fourteen. He's only fourteen. No, he looked like he's
Speaker 2: here seventeen, but he's he really does.
Speaker 1: And you guys have really championed for him and nurtured
Speaker 1: this artistic side of him and he's he is he
Speaker 1: going to be in the next camp Rock Rock?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He We did not intend for him to be
Speaker 2: in this business, like I really wanted him to just
Speaker 2: both boys. Emerson has expressed a little bit of interest
Speaker 2: in what I do, the acting, the make believe, you know,
Speaker 2: it seems cool to him. But Hick was always just
Speaker 2: a musician, right, and he was in a band and
Speaker 2: he played festivals. I mean, his band was like some
Speaker 2: kids would go to soccer practice and he would just
Speaker 2: have band practice and then you know, guitar and songwriting
Speaker 2: was just a part of what he did. And my
Speaker 2: manager was like, do you think you'd ever let him
Speaker 2: audition for something that was musical? And I kind of
Speaker 2: felt like that wasn't a good idea. And then he
Speaker 2: auditioned for camp Rock because when I was like, huts
Speaker 2: it how funny camp Rock? And it was a movie
Speaker 2: that he had watched a million times right via streaming,
Speaker 2: And then he got it. And then two weeks later,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like a stage mom on the set
Speaker 2: the first time ever. Can you imagine being on a
Speaker 2: set and I'm like behind the monitor. And someone thought
Speaker 2: I was in the hair department at one point, like it.
Speaker 4: Was just the weirdest but most wonderful thing to like,
Speaker 4: I would rather watch him discover, you know, all the
Speaker 4: aspects and what's so cool about being an actor and
Speaker 4: an artist.
Speaker 2: Then at this point, you know, like I don't know,
Speaker 2: rather I really enjoy watching him do what he's doing.
Speaker 2: He and he absolutely crushed it because he's literally playing
Speaker 2: himself like a cool sort of musical you know, genius
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: So what is it like, though, are you scared at
Speaker 1: all about like letting him enter into the world of becoming,
Speaker 1: you know, a celebrity ultimately, because that's what about to happen,
Speaker 1: even more so than his notoriety with his band totally.
Speaker 2: I hmm. I had a really slow build as an actor,
Speaker 2: and I think that's what made things always low stress
Speaker 2: for me. I just kept doing my job and kept
Speaker 2: booking great roles. And you know, I'm a little nervous
Speaker 2: because I think what happens to young kids, especially in
Speaker 2: this like Disney Ecosystem. You know, he's he's recording an album,
Speaker 2: he's in this movie. It's just it's it's huge and
Speaker 2: and now social media. I just feel like it could
Speaker 2: all happen pretty fast. But he is the He is
Speaker 2: the coolest best kid in the world because he's like,
Speaker 2: if it all goes away tomorrow, how fun was this?
Speaker 2: You know? He has all these other aspects of his
Speaker 2: of his personality and what he loves that he's kind
Speaker 2: of taken mind. I'm just happy to be here mentality,
Speaker 2: you know. And he's very different from a kid that
Speaker 2: has been sort of wanting it, and you know, the
Speaker 2: family has been crafting this like star vehicle for them
Speaker 2: their whole lives. He's literally just doing what he loves
Speaker 2: to do. So I'm not worried about him as much
Speaker 2: as I'm worried about just the balance of keeping you know,
Speaker 2: a regular teen experience going with all this other amazing stuff.
Speaker 2: He's going on tour, Jenny, We're going to do like
Speaker 2: what we're gonna go do, Crypto Kia Arenas all across
Speaker 2: the country, and then he goes to Europe in February,
Speaker 2: and I'm literally getting.
Speaker 1: On the bus with him. You're going to be a
Speaker 1: butt on the bus? Are you going to get a
Speaker 1: bunk or do you think you'll get the bog a bunk?
Speaker 2: You get a bunk? He imagine me packing for this trip,
Speaker 2: but we're not gonna cloth, not gonna fit. No, I
Speaker 2: have to like have chic little capsule wardrobe. Like figure
Speaker 2: it out. But it's, you know, as weird as it is.
Speaker 2: And I don't care if people think. They probably think, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, she's not working, so she's like letting her
Speaker 2: kid do it. There's no vicarious living. I'm literally just
Speaker 2: observing this crazy thing that happened to him and.
Speaker 1: His mom with him, like yes.
Speaker 2: Because and look, at the end of the day, most
Speaker 2: boys this age are sort of pulling away and wanting,
Speaker 2: you know, to have less and less time with their parents.
Speaker 2: We literally get to laugh and experience something. For this one,
Speaker 2: it's literally a season. It's fall and one month you know,
Speaker 2: in the winter, and that's it. We'll remember it forever.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, everybody, you have to keep your eye
Speaker 1: out for what's about to happen with Lindsay's son, Hudson.
Speaker 1: He's about to be a super star. Who knows who knows? You, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see. That's the best part about is nobody knows,
Speaker 1: but anything is possible.
Speaker 2: I guess I.
Speaker 1: Need to blog. I need you to do something for
Speaker 1: everyone when you're on that bus and tell us what
Speaker 1: it's like. Okay, I've been on the bus as the girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I've never been on the buses.
Speaker 2: I need to actually offline ask you some fun questions.
Speaker 2: I am. It's gonna be so funny. And also, nothing
Speaker 2: makes you feel older than hanging out with ultra cool
Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen seventeen year olds. And they the talent these
Speaker 2: days is just staggering, Like, yeah, they act and they're
Speaker 2: own movies like we did that, but they also dance
Speaker 2: and carry music, write music like HUD's written thirty four
Speaker 2: thirty forty songs since January, just like all of his
Speaker 2: his music, his lyrics, you know, it's wild.
Speaker 1: You've got to be really happy for him.
Speaker 2: I am, I as great.
Speaker 1: And is Emerson going too or is he staying with dad?
Speaker 2: He's He's gonna hop on a couple of times. Emerson
Speaker 2: rules this hap. He's the smartest of all of us,
Speaker 2: and you know, but he's eleven and he's I think
Speaker 2: he plays crazy club soccer and he's doing his you know, schooling,
Speaker 2: and I think he's gonna want to kind of keep
Speaker 2: all that going for the most part at home. So
Speaker 2: I'll hop on and off the bus obviously straight off
Speaker 2: and never be away from him for longer than a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 1: Ask Curtis down to go on the bus.
Speaker 2: He's too tall for the bus or whatever you call it.
Speaker 2: They literally, they were literally the other day they were like,
Speaker 2: if anyone's over six foot, it might be a struggle.
Speaker 2: And god, he's six four, he's gonna get on a
Speaker 2: couple of times. I think it's just wild. It'll be
Speaker 2: a really funny experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I love this. I love it so much.
Speaker 1: It's like the next chapter. It's just so exciting. Who knows.
Speaker 1: Talk to me for a second about Baby to Baby
Speaker 1: because I know that's something that you have always been
Speaker 1: very invested in and it's very important to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there's two different organizations that I love to
Speaker 2: work with, but I love Baby to Baby. I think
Speaker 2: that it's a wonderful collection of moms using their superpowers
Speaker 2: to help, you know, families and situations where they need support.
Speaker 2: I love it. I also work with Adopt Together, which
Speaker 2: is an organization that friends of ours from the boys
Speaker 2: preschool started, and because my mom was an orphan and
Speaker 2: I can see how her adoption created this ripple effect.
Speaker 2: I mean, she had nothing. You know, when she was born,
Speaker 2: she was abandoned, she had to take care of her
Speaker 2: baby brother. She was blessed enough to have an adoption,
Speaker 2: and look at the ripple effect. You know, she became
Speaker 2: someone who could have her own children and pay for
Speaker 2: the the love and gratitude that it takes, you know,
Speaker 2: to become a mom. Basically, you know, she she didn't
Speaker 2: have anyone teach her how to do that. She she
Speaker 2: learned from her adoption and that kind of love. So
Speaker 2: Adopt Together is an organization that helps crowd fundraise for
Speaker 2: adoptions because there's so many kids who want families, and
Speaker 2: there are so many parents who want to adopt, but
Speaker 2: the it's you know, extraordinarily expensive to do it. So
Speaker 2: Adopt Together helps connect those dots, the families and the
Speaker 2: kids and raise they raise money to make the adoptions possible.
Speaker 2: So I'm super passionate about it and love being a
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's important. I mean, yeah, it's cool. You're helping
Speaker 1: a lot of people. It's got to feel really good.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: And also in your mom's honor, like yeah, because your
Speaker 1: mom she's just like wow, she's a force.
Speaker 2: She's a force, you know, and I realize how lucky
Speaker 2: and blessed my situation has been in this lifetime, and
Speaker 2: she did not start that way, but her choices and
Speaker 2: the way that she had thought to survive and stay
Speaker 2: positive and give love, like she doesn't carry any of
Speaker 2: her pain or past into her parenting. My brother and
Speaker 2: I I just really respect and I want to honor
Speaker 2: her for sure. So this is just a small way
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: And you lost your dad.
Speaker 2: I did. I lost my dad. He is the best.
Speaker 2: It was during COVID. It wasn't because of COVID, but
Speaker 2: it was twenty twenty and it just I don't know,
Speaker 2: it just reframed everything. You know. I miss him so much.
Speaker 2: He is such a good guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I can only imagine how I know
Speaker 1: how hard that is. But for your mom to go on,
Speaker 1: you know, And does she live with you or.
Speaker 2: She lives in the house that she was with my
Speaker 2: dad and my brother moved in to kind of take
Speaker 2: care of her. He's in school, he just graduated and
Speaker 2: got his degree to be a therapist. But ironically is
Speaker 2: that he's not like he can't give me therapy because
Speaker 2: that's against the rules. But I'm unfortunate that I keep
Speaker 2: that rule. Yeah, but it kind of worked out. I mean,
Speaker 2: she she was with him. It would have been fifty
Speaker 2: years the year that he passed, and he was the
Speaker 2: only reason. I think that she not the only reason,
Speaker 2: the main reason she clicked into this amazing, extraordinary person
Speaker 2: that she is because he saw her as she was
Speaker 2: and loved her for it. And you know, it's it's
Speaker 2: very different than just losing someone that you were married
Speaker 2: to for fifty years, like he was the person you know.
Speaker 2: So it's been it's been difficult, but look, grief, big grief,
Speaker 2: it is just a direct result of big love, you know,
Speaker 2: like it's the it's the same thing essentially. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been difficult.
Speaker 1: But well we're adulting now.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm so adulty.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you like this, I know.
Speaker 2: I mean you're sort of like in the normal I
Speaker 2: had kids late, but like your girls are grown. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: what's that? Like?
Speaker 1: That's crazy because they're just their own people now and
Speaker 1: you only you sit back and watch and then you're
Speaker 1: there for them when they call on you.
Speaker 2: You know, do you are you always worried? Yeah? All
Speaker 2: the time. It's like a great anxiety all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know I don't. It's hard because like
Speaker 1: I'm always like, what if they call the middle of
Speaker 1: the night. I turn my ringer off now because I
Speaker 1: protect my sleep because I'm older and I really need
Speaker 1: my sleep. But you know, they're out there in this
Speaker 1: world in different time zones, and it's a lot.
Speaker 2: But it's the best thing.
Speaker 1: I know that you and I love being moms more
Speaker 1: than anything.
Speaker 2: So much, so much. But it is a total mental illness,
Speaker 2: isn't it. It is like it's just constant. I'm constantly
Speaker 2: like obsessing and looping over over some some aspect of
Speaker 2: being their their mom, and it's and I know it's love.
Speaker 2: And then I try to like let go and let
Speaker 2: God and my feet, you know, be like okay about things.
Speaker 2: But man, and I realized watching like my friends who
Speaker 2: have older kids, that I think it only gets a
Speaker 2: little bit worse because they're out of your house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you have to pretend like it's not worse. Ye,
Speaker 1: you have to pretend like you're happy for them at
Speaker 1: all times. But in your head, New York, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I can do this right. It's much much more difficult
Speaker 1: than like changing diapers and chasing toddlers yeah, I would
Speaker 1: love that. I would love to go back to that,
Speaker 1: but you still have a lot of joy left in
Speaker 1: these boys of yours. So I'm really really I know
Speaker 1: I said it before. I'm just really happy for you
Speaker 1: and I love you so much, and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that you came on the show to talk to all
Speaker 1: of us, all of us hardcore fans of.
Speaker 2: I've been waiting. I've been waiting to be on the show.
Speaker 2: And right after I was like, yes, that's weird. It's
Speaker 2: so fun to it's so fun to talk to you,
Speaker 2: but it's also so fun to just remember that was
Speaker 2: a really really happy time in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad. Yeah, mine too, Mine too. I love
Speaker 1: your girl, Thank you loving me too.
Speaker 2: Would you do speak