Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.
Speaker 2: And daphnews Aniga and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to Still the Place.
Speaker 4: It's our Melrose minute.
Speaker 3: And we had lots of stuff going on in the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks. Of course, in our previous episode
Speaker 3: we had a recap, and we also are still dealing
Speaker 3: with the la fires and lots of stuff going on,
Speaker 3: and we are happy to have more opportunity to talk
Speaker 3: to each other.
Speaker 5: And with you all about all.
Speaker 3: The things that come up that we just don't have
Speaker 3: time to do in our regular episodes.
Speaker 1: Just energyic really quick. Josee Bissett is with us, so.
Speaker 4: For p Hello, we have just.
Speaker 2: So I have a story that I just want to
Speaker 2: jump in first and tell because it's so funny. I
Speaker 2: have this reaction about Sydney coming and like taking over
Speaker 2: Jane's life, and you know, you just want Jane.
Speaker 4: It's so easy to say no, like I would never
Speaker 4: let her do all that. It's so insane that she
Speaker 4: I know that you don't have a choice, because those
Speaker 4: are the lines. During the shooting of the show.
Speaker 2: My sister shows up to my house from across the
Speaker 2: country in her car.
Speaker 4: That she came with a girlfriend.
Speaker 2: I remembered this as I was watching this, I went,
Speaker 2: wait a second, he shows up at my house.
Speaker 4: She I'm like, oh, how long are you staying for?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Just a little bit. So she and her friend show
Speaker 4: up with a car packed with stuff. The friend leaves,
Speaker 4: the sister doesn't.
Speaker 2: The next thing I know, she's like moved into my
Speaker 2: guest room. The next thing I know, she's taking acting classes.
Speaker 4: And not only that, and I'm like, okay, I gotta
Speaker 4: go to work. She's taking an acting class with a
Speaker 4: friend of mine. And then the topper is I get
Speaker 4: her apart on Melroe's Blaze. No way, my sister.
Speaker 2: In real life came over, lived with me, took an
Speaker 2: acting class with my friend, and got onto my show.
Speaker 2: And I went and tracked it down this morning. She
Speaker 2: plays a ticket agent at the airport. It's season two,
Speaker 2: and it's when Billy's like running to get a plane,
Speaker 2: probably to go find Alison.
Speaker 4: But it's season two when she comes up and there's
Speaker 4: Jennifer and I'm just like, I did it. It's so
Speaker 4: easy to let it happen, is my point?
Speaker 2: Right, crazy, It's so easy, like it just happens and
Speaker 2: she was just like before you know, she has headshots,
Speaker 2: and then she's she did another little indie movie, and
Speaker 2: then I think a year later she was like, I'm
Speaker 2: done with this.
Speaker 4: This is ridiculous too, you know.
Speaker 2: Just and I remember when she left and she went
Speaker 2: back to her life on the East Coast, and I thought,
Speaker 2: I wish I could do that because I had the
Speaker 2: buck I had that I'm doing this for better for worse.
Speaker 4: And she left and like, has a fantastic life. That's
Speaker 4: all she took.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, really, yea, that's just so crazy because
Speaker 3: I know that you're like, you're close with your sister,
Speaker 3: like you guys, you know, you guys are close and stuff.
Speaker 3: But just that you were having this exact parallel storyline
Speaker 3: actually so weird in your life is so bizarre.
Speaker 2: Didn't remember it, but it might encourage her to come
Speaker 2: back out and give it another ghost. Anyone else had
Speaker 2: that with friends or family lived with them, because I've
Speaker 2: had that a.
Speaker 6: Lot for I have never had anyone do that, and
Speaker 6: I would never do that to someone like I just yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't even like people just randomly showing up at
Speaker 6: my door, like I just like, well, they just give me.
Speaker 4: Heads up, that's it?
Speaker 6: Like what if I'm I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my sister and I were living together when
Speaker 1: during this part of Mar's Place, we lived together in
Speaker 1: an apartment in West la On, Massachusetts. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: was living with her, but she worked. Actually this, I
Speaker 1: never made this connection. She worked in advertising.
Speaker 4: Huh, well.
Speaker 1: Together thirty years later.
Speaker 6: Weird? Is it?
Speaker 1: My sister worked in advertising at Disney while I was
Speaker 1: doing this. I don't I can't imagine I even ever
Speaker 1: asked her about her job because I didn't even connect.
Speaker 4: She had technical advice on the show at D and D.
Speaker 1: I don't think we did. But you know, look I
Speaker 1: didn't do a lot of actual advertising, right, Alison worked
Speaker 1: at the desk and dates apparently that's but that's so funny.
Speaker 3: She wasn't trying to steal your life. She was stealing
Speaker 3: your character's life, or maybe your character.
Speaker 4: I was stealing her life.
Speaker 1: I was playing her on TV.
Speaker 3: So funny, bizarre. Well, I know, Josie, you have a
Speaker 3: sister that you're really close with.
Speaker 5: I have a sister that I'm really close with.
Speaker 3: I remember that was part of our relationship, Like that
Speaker 3: was what we talked about is like having a sister
Speaker 3: like you from certain sister things that you have. Of course,
Speaker 3: you know, we have to obviously tell this particular sisterhood story.
Speaker 6: Right right, How what's your age gap you and your sister?
Speaker 5: My sister's old I am the younger sister.
Speaker 4: Okay, bye?
Speaker 5: How much three and a half years?
Speaker 3: And you know, I've always felt like with siblings, like
Speaker 3: I don't know how you guys feel, but like I
Speaker 3: think it's sort of a classic theme, like you got
Speaker 3: to pick a lane, you know, if you have a
Speaker 3: sibling that is older than you and they've already kind
Speaker 3: of chosen their lane, I think so often you pick
Speaker 3: a very different lanes, Like I'm not gonna I can't
Speaker 3: try to compete with that. I can't do that or
Speaker 3: be that this person's already doing that, you know.
Speaker 5: And so I think sort of the like.
Speaker 3: That was sort of how I see my relationship with
Speaker 3: my sisters. Like my sister was, you know, a certain way,
Speaker 3: and I just kind of went a different path than
Speaker 3: you know, I felt like she'd already grounded herself in.
Speaker 4: But if it's a passion of yours, do you divert?
Speaker 3: You know, That's what we see with with Jane and
Speaker 3: Sidney is like, you know, is is Sidney really passionate
Speaker 3: about this or what is that? Because normally I think
Speaker 3: people are like you'll find that siblings are very very different,
Speaker 3: or if you have more than one kid, your kids
Speaker 3: are vastly different. You know, the one kid is this
Speaker 3: way and another is that way. One is art, he
Speaker 3: want is sport whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, think about Elizabeth and Andrew Shoe right,
Speaker 1: Like like Lisa had this great, big, amazing career, Andrew
Speaker 1: does a couple of auditions, gets Melroe's place and does
Speaker 1: a great job but wonderful, and then he was just
Speaker 1: like I'm done. Yeah, right, like she went on to
Speaker 1: win an oscar like it's her passion. For him, it
Speaker 1: was I'm doing this. But his passion is really politics
Speaker 1: and changing the world. Like we're so glad he's out
Speaker 1: there doing what he's doing, trying to change the world.
Speaker 1: But it's also another similar thing there. He just happened
Speaker 1: to stumble into the post place, right.
Speaker 4: No, he didn't happen. Remember the whole story told she
Speaker 4: brought him in, She brought him.
Speaker 3: He wasn't seeking it is I think what Courtney's trying
Speaker 3: to say that he wasn't seeking it necessarily.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, he was a soccer player and he thought, well
Speaker 1: that would be fun and he happens to be and
Speaker 1: charming and were great for him. But afterwards he didn't
Speaker 1: he didn't want to keep going.
Speaker 6: You know what.
Speaker 1: Then he started to do something and he really that's
Speaker 1: where the heart.
Speaker 6: Is, right.
Speaker 4: But she brought him into that.
Speaker 2: I remember the whole story of him saying, we were
Speaker 2: on a red car bit and I says Jess to
Speaker 2: do and then she called him in Africa, get your
Speaker 2: ass to Hollywood.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna you know what I mean. So, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it wasn't his passion so interesting?
Speaker 6: So Elizabeth suggested him for Melrose.
Speaker 4: I think it was for something else.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay, and somebody said, is your brother and actor?
Speaker 1: I wonder if somebody saw him and went, hey, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: He would be a good billy.
Speaker 1: Yeah hello, Well I think he did something else before Melrose.
Speaker 4: Oh he did?
Speaker 1: Okay, did we haven't he told the whole story. We
Speaker 1: can just go okay, we listened to that episode.
Speaker 2: What about the Randa and Terrence thing, that thing of
Speaker 2: you're with someone he's concerned about appearances and stature.
Speaker 4: And all of this, and you're not.
Speaker 2: And he lies on her behalf and wants her to
Speaker 2: see because it makes him look better if she's a
Speaker 2: ballerina or whatever in between dance companies and something.
Speaker 4: And I mean Courtney kind of called it out as
Speaker 4: she was reading it that it was he was so controlling.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like you see, you see potential, like
Speaker 2: I want you to be.
Speaker 4: I am in the rondo position.
Speaker 2: Would have totally fit in and gone along, maybe lied
Speaker 2: by a mission and then just wanted to fit in.
Speaker 4: I would have wanted to.
Speaker 2: Fit into what this guy that I really liked be period,
Speaker 2: end the story until it was and I have I
Speaker 2: have totally done that. I mean I wrote an article
Speaker 2: on Oprah Magazine about it. You know, one day I'm
Speaker 2: beating a guy who goes plays polo and goes to
Speaker 2: see Mozart down at the Dorothy Chandler and then we
Speaker 2: broke up, and then I'm like on meeting a guy
Speaker 2: with a Harley and then I get my own Harley
Speaker 2: and the Dead.
Speaker 1: So I think that's really common for young women. I
Speaker 1: feel the same way you did. I would have been
Speaker 1: intimidated and felt less than now I would feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're different, we don't have the same interests. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would have been bored. I would have been born
Speaker 1: and I would have said, Okay, this is boring for me.
Speaker 1: I want to go laugh with some other people. But
Speaker 1: I think right, it would have personalized. It told the
Speaker 1: story about how they were better. I was worse. I
Speaker 1: should be that, right, we were so vulnerable to them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, age of maturity helps, right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Was thinking that too when you were talking Jose about
Speaker 1: different choices you would have made. And what came up
Speaker 1: for me when I was watching the show this morning
Speaker 1: before this was we were different then, Like I'm looking
Speaker 1: at it, going, I should have made a different choice.
Speaker 1: But I'm going, well, that's what my voice was then,
Speaker 1: Like my voice is deepened, I've become more grounded, I've
Speaker 1: become more authentic because all of that stuff has fallen
Speaker 1: away in layers. So that probably was as authentic and
Speaker 1: honest as I could be. Like, it's not fair to say, oh,
Speaker 1: I should have been more honest, Like that's probably as
Speaker 1: much of myself as I had access to.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 1: That was we were in our early twenties. We were babies.
Speaker 1: I think you were twenty one jos like.
Speaker 6: I was twenty one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we were babies.
Speaker 4: And Laura was a little bit older. They're playing her
Speaker 4: younger sister. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that play atwelve you totally sold it, you guys,
Speaker 1: but you weren't much older.
Speaker 5: No, just a couple of years older.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's nothing at that time, now it's nothing
Speaker 1: two old years older.
Speaker 3: It seemed like a lot anymore. And it wasn't just
Speaker 3: like the comparison, like I was older than she was,
Speaker 3: but I was also needing to play older than or
Speaker 3: younger than I was in real life, Like if I
Speaker 3: was twenty three years old and I needed to play
Speaker 3: eighteen or nineteen, I was like, ooh, that's that's a right.
Speaker 3: You know, that seems like such a big gap and
Speaker 3: I need to really sell that difference.
Speaker 4: And you did, Yeah you did.
Speaker 5: I mean I feel like I went down to like what,
Speaker 5: like you know, twelve.
Speaker 6: The hair half a paf down.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 4: This well no, no.
Speaker 1: No, but you're an emot you were an emotionally immature
Speaker 1: eighteen year old. I really and I'm not just blowing smoke.
Speaker 1: I thought it was perfect.
Speaker 4: No, it was good because it.
Speaker 1: Also we forgive you because it's almost like you don't know,
Speaker 1: like you don't have any You're you're manipulative because you're
Speaker 1: trying to get your needs met. You're not trying to
Speaker 1: be mean. You just don't have another way of moving
Speaker 1: through the world because you're so emotionally immature.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: I think it really worked.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, definitely Sydney's insecurities showed like, yes,
Speaker 3: you know through So that's the ability part that I.
Speaker 5: Don't know, and it gets it got, you know, when
Speaker 5: my character.
Speaker 3: Comes back later in subsequent seasons, I feel like the
Speaker 3: age thing became like a lot less important, you know,
Speaker 3: and it was more just like maintaining that through line
Speaker 3: of gosh, how do you sustain this sort of like
Speaker 3: constant insecurity and like how, you know, how does that evolve?
Speaker 3: Like it started at a certain heightened point, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're just I don't know. It just felt like
Speaker 3: trying to figure out how to take that and carry
Speaker 3: that through truthfully.
Speaker 1: Right, And I was just thinking that, you know, you
Speaker 1: guys are are so close and yours your sweet friends.
Speaker 1: When you hated when your characters hated each other, and
Speaker 1: you were like you had to be so mean to
Speaker 1: each other, like after the scenes broke, what did it
Speaker 1: feel like when you would finish just yelling vitriol at
Speaker 1: each other?
Speaker 4: That's hard?
Speaker 1: What was that, pens Laura?
Speaker 6: I mean like, if that's exhausting too write having to personally,
Speaker 6: I don't love getting mad, and that's part of my
Speaker 6: My own founder issues are conflict avoidance, which I think
Speaker 6: Jane had massive amounts of that well cast, because yeah,
Speaker 6: but it's tiring, it's hiring as an actor to I think,
Speaker 6: to be angry but also to be so emotional, which
Speaker 6: Jane had a lot of crying.
Speaker 4: And stuff like that. So yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 6: Then we would have our relief with our little silly
Speaker 6: laughing fits when we just had too much and then
Speaker 6: we couldn't stop laughing, So that was always fun. Those
Speaker 6: some of my favorite moments.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember director saying to me because I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be angry and he see, He goes, well,
Speaker 1: how do you yell when you're angry? And I said,
Speaker 1: I don't yell, and he goes, that's an issue. I
Speaker 1: was like, don't like in front of my Tiger crew,
Speaker 1: like I said, I do this right now?
Speaker 4: Interesting?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I had to look at that because it
Speaker 1: was like, I don't And I was like, how am
Speaker 1: I going to play this? If I don't, I will
Speaker 1: right over. That's not a great I get more range
Speaker 1: rolling over and trug my belly.
Speaker 4: That's that's such a cute image.
Speaker 2: And I'm the dog, I'm the attacker. I totally all
Speaker 2: to apologize and.
Speaker 4: I throw things. Not anymore, but I used to throwing.
Speaker 2: I was, by the way, that story about the pumpkin
Speaker 2: pie that I think Laura brought up again after throwing a.
Speaker 4: Raw pumpkin pie.
Speaker 2: I learned that from Playboy, Bunny Centerfold, Miss July Tawny,
Speaker 2: and she was so much better at it. She taught
Speaker 2: me in this We went in the bathroom. She goes,
Speaker 2: come here, Daphne, I got to show you how to
Speaker 2: be angry. And I'm like, she picks up this ashtray
Speaker 2: and she throws it against She goes, do it in
Speaker 2: a bathtub so that when you clean it up, it's
Speaker 2: not glass everywhere.
Speaker 4: It's in the shower.
Speaker 3: So so she actually like worked on her arm and
Speaker 3: like she say, you just need a better arm, like.
Speaker 4: Practice, you got to get your anger out. And I
Speaker 4: was like, what if this sounds great. You know, probably
Speaker 4: went to Flaming Colossus the night before.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway, So this so Tawny did it beautifully.
Speaker 2: Bam throws it against the thing and it didn't crack,
Speaker 2: and she was so bumped.
Speaker 4: She goes, oh, stupid ashtray. You know it didn't break
Speaker 4: because it was nice and thick. Anyway, So then I
Speaker 4: get mad later and I'm like, god, what did Tawny say? Again?
Speaker 2: It was like it just never had this same It
Speaker 2: went fun mush, that is so funny.
Speaker 6: I like throwing places you can go and plate.
Speaker 3: The axe throwing like that.
Speaker 6: Well there's the axe throwing, but there are places from
Speaker 6: when I hear you can actually go break just to
Speaker 6: get out anger rage rooms.
Speaker 5: Yeah, plate plate, smashing to get it out.
Speaker 1: I would just go there and go I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. Quick thing Playboy Bunny. Have you
Speaker 1: guys ever been to the Playboy Mansion or shot at
Speaker 1: the Playboy Mansion.
Speaker 4: I have not been up there.
Speaker 1: I strangely shot an episode of according to Jim, of
Speaker 1: all the weird things to shoot at the Playboy Mansion,
Speaker 1: and I one of my my dressing room was just
Speaker 1: one of the rooms, and the entire floor was like
Speaker 1: a bed, like it was all a bed.
Speaker 4: Like you did your dressing room. Wasn't origin of the
Speaker 4: bed like one of the rooms.
Speaker 1: It was one of the rooms in the mansion that
Speaker 1: they used as my dressing room. Oh and it's like
Speaker 1: you just didn't want to touch anything stains, but like
Speaker 1: the entire imagine like a floor that's a mattress.
Speaker 4: Yeah awesome, that's craty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so just an idea for future decorating. Just you know,
Speaker 1: when you're doing when you're planning your sex room.
Speaker 4: Maybe a full down bed not.
Speaker 1: We were walking on it and my girlfriend Mary was
Speaker 1: extra that day, just were like what, we're so drunk.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Wow wow, like goodness.
Speaker 3: So clearly need to have more of these little Melrose minutes.
Speaker 5: We have too much, like much fun, so much to
Speaker 5: talk about, too many tangents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, time, it's we love doing the recap, but we
Speaker 2: also love talking and catching up and telling the stories.
Speaker 4: It's Melrose twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: And I learned so much about both of you.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that day actually practiced her angry throw
Speaker 3: and this thing about the Playboy mansion that Courtney has
Speaker 3: been to like all these, all these things I learn.
Speaker 1: When we have this opportunity, and the nice thing is
Speaker 1: then I don't have to yell at you guys. Save
Speaker 1: it for the tape, Save it for the tape. I
Speaker 1: get to relax and get to it as always.
Speaker 3: Thanks for tuning in to steal the place, don't forget.
Speaker 4: To sanscribe, Josie. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: So good to see.
Speaker 6: You guys, Love you guys.
Speaker 3: Bye everyone, Bye
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