WEBVTT - Some Time With... Lydia Cornell! (Part 1) 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.279 Hey, Fanaritos, Welcome back to how Rude Tanner Ritos, and 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.360 boy do we have a very special guest on the 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:28.360 podcast today. Lydia Cornell played the gorgeous Spanish teacher Senorita Mosley, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.920 who famously locked lips with Danny Tanner in the season 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.480 two episode El Problema Grande de dj But the word 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.879 actress doesn't nearly capture all of the facets. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:39.839 Of her extraordinary life. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.120 She is not just the beauty who is best known 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.560 for her role as the younger sister Sarah on the 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.519 nineteen eighty sitcom Too Close for Comfort. She is a 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.959 woman and children's advocate, an international public speaker on recovery 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.720 with twenty nine years of sobriety, a lecturer at the 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.840 LMU School of Film and Television, and a prolific writer 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.560 who has been invited to share her writings with the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:05.200 International Museum of Peace. She also hosts a podcast called Godshots, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.640 which explores mental health through the true stories of life's 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.400 uncanny coincidences. To say we are in awe of Lydia 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.520 before we even sit down to chat with her is 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:21.200 an understatement. Faner Ritos, please welcome the extraordinarily inspirational Lydia Cornell. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.039 Oh my gosh, it's so wonderful to see you. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.280 I like, I'm so excited that you're on the show, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.319 and I just can't I can't thank you enough for 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:30.640 doing this. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.000 And also like, you're just a badass, may I say? 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:40.760 Like, And we keep finding out that we grew up 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:47.760 surrounded and interacting with people who are absolute legends. Oh 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.840 and you are definitely one of them. So you're so 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.080 no truly, we so wanted to have you. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:53.480 On the show. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.400 And I just have to say I was a fan 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.720 of Too Close to for Comfort as a kid, and 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.440 I never somehow realized. I think maybe because I didn't 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.480 really have scenes with you that, like you were the 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.320 teacher and the Yeah, anyway, big fan, love it. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:07.960 You're a puge. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:13.560 Your care because of his voice is really bizarre. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.200 Never anyway, no, no, no, no worries. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:16.799 Not only that way. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.000 You should have heard us last week. She was Andrea 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.760 was sick, I had allergies. It sounded like we were 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.960 like the two old muppets, the two like old men 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.040 in the balcony, Like we love you guys. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:34.520 You guys are so sweet cool, Thank you, You're so 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.520 sweet for doing this and the more we find out, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.520 like we just it's like peeling an onion. We just 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.760 keep finding out more and more cool facts about you, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.720 and we're like, oh, we could get her on the show. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.280 Be so cool. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:44.760 Yeah. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.440 No, I'm very very excited. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.000 I had no idea even you know. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.880 I just think about how beautiful the show was, and 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.320 when Bob Saggett died, I was devastated because I've known 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:54.800 him forever. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.960 Well, Lydia, welcome to the show. We are so excited 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:11.919 to have you on. Senorita Mosley. Yes, Ola, I can 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.560 understand it, but I can't speak it. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.560 That I can read it. Great, if you could write 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.160 that down for me, I'll let you know. Abe, you're 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.160 going to take a crack at. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.320 This that now we know how you got the gig 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.400 and Senorita Mosley, it's fantastic. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:25.200 I love it. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:25.600 Well. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.040 I'm old friends with Jeff Franklin from years ago from 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.800 the garage. Yeah, and then he said you you speak Spanish, right, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.960 because I do. I like to show up my Spanish. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:35.200 Wherever I go. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.840 It's like I wish I paid more attention and spoke 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.080 better Spanish. But from originally oh okay, well that that 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.960 makes sense, So yeah, we'd love to like. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.000 I mean, there's so much to dig into. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.960 With who you are, your history, you're acting, you're you're 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.160 you're speaking, you're writing like you're just you're it's you're 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:02.400 really really talented. And I hope people no, it's true, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.840 Like I women in this business who really do a 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.800 lot and who kind of take the bowl by the 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.120 horns and go and create things for themselves. I have 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.840 huge admiration for me too, because this business is not 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.159 always friendly to women and to women creators, and it's 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:25.000 particularly not one that women often stay in for their 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.680 entire lives. And so when you meet women who are 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.880 doing it and doing it successfully, I always like to 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.520 just be like, big up to you, because it's you know. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.680 You make me want to cry. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.279 I'm serious, I just got tears in my eyes because 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.360 it has been a rough journey. I mean I worry 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.000 about I really have such love for younger women, and 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.560 you know, I became a mom at forty. So I 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.359 look at you guys, and you're young, and you're still 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.400 you're vibrant, and you're exciting, and you're doing it right now. Yeah, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.720 I want to encourage younger people to please stet to 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.000 their dreams and don't let anything ever stop you if 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.840 you believe in yourself. But you have to start believing 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.320 in yourself. A lot of women don't. That was my 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:05.719 problem for many years. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.200 Yeah, we're taught to doubt ourselves a lot. And I 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.360 think something Andrew and I talk about it a lot. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:16.160 Something happens, I think, particularly for women around mid age forties, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.560 all of a sudden you kind of start going, I wait, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.200 hold on, I'm not doing this for anybody. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.960 Else like this is there's a freaking. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.440 I am a different I am a different woman, and 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.760 so I love when and I love to see women 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.120 mentoring younger women. You know, we're so often taught that, like, 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.800 women don't look out for other women, and I don't 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.520 find that to be true. Once we all get to 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.560 the age where we kind of untangle that myths. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.440 Yeah, oh gosh, I can't say I love collaboration and 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.679 not competition. We're all yanique. We all love unique gifts 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.760 and to really spend each day in gratitude and joy. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:55.359 It's hard. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.159 It's hard to jump togself when you don't have a 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:58.920 regular job. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.720 You know, it's staying in this business without completely sacrificing 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.760 who you are is really hard, and it's it's not 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:06.720 always easy. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:08.839 But I'd love to start. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.200 I mean, at the beginning, I could just I'm gonna 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.159 jump all over there. I used to try and keep 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.880 my ADHD under control. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:17.400 But yeah, let's started. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.200 Let's start at the beginning, because that's usually a great 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.880 place to start. When did you first start acting or 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.000 getting into wanting to create or or write or perform? 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.560 When I was five, I got lost to Disneyland and 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.440 I got lost the Sleeping Beauty's Capital and they call 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.600 the police. Who knows what happened, honestly, but I was 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.360 obsessed with the Land of Make Belief, probably to escape 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.560 a very And I love my mom. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.000 She just passed away two years ago, a very critical, bipolar, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.200 borderline mother and I I know that's a hot term nowadays, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.280 but it took me. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.520 So long to unravel this toxic relationship. And I've had 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.760 a complete forgiveness of her. I forgave her completely and 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.880 I love her to pieces now in my heart. But 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.320 I think a lot of actors come to Hollywood to 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.120 seek the adoration of strangers. And you guys started here. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.360 I came here from far away. You know, it was 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.600 a dream to be Hayley Mills. And I watched The 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.400 Moon Spinners and Pollyanna, and I thought, oh my god, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.280 it's like she was. So the sense of innocence and 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.040 the sense of wonder was what turned me on about 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.360 the entertainment industry, thinking it was full of innocence and 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.840 wonder back then. But and it still is, you know, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.280 I have to seek that out. And I love movies. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.160 I just loved Micheli and I was in every play 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.240 in high school. I had a little theater in the 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.000 backyard with all over the sandbox, and I always got 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.640 to play the boy because. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.320 All the girls the neighborhood wouldn't play the boy, so. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.720 I was the prince or you know, oh, I love it. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:46.280 Yes. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.800 And I used to create very Shakespearean of you, yeah exactly, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.920 well reversed but it's close. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.080 And I used to create poster board scenery. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.800 And my dad was in the He was a violinist, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.600 was raised in Shanghai, escaped the Russian Revolution, and he 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.600 was his little boy, raised in Shanghai's whole life wow. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.640 And he was in the Shanghai Philharmonic and then he 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.960 got into an American a really good music school here, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:09.640 not Julliard. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.720 The other went Phillips And. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.600 That's when the Japanese invaded the Rape of Nan King 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.360 and they shut the city down and he couldn't leave 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.400 for ten more years. So he didn't make it to 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.520 America un till later. But he played first violin in 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.800 the Alpasa Symphony and I went to see him do 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.520 a production of Pinocchio and he let me come to 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.400 the rehearsals, and I was exploring the stage and just 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:37.480 the theater, the gauze whale with the light inside, and 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.839 he went in and out of the scenery in the 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.520 set design, and I was obsessed with theater. And that's 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.040 what started the bug. And then I did every play 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.040 in high school. I was a nerd and a had 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.760 very bad acne. I had one friend in high school, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.040 a gay guy, Dny Monroe. We moved from Scarsdale to 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.080 I mean from El Pasa to Scarsale, so I didn't 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:56.360 fit in. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.800 So it was like a really great escape. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.640 And that was where you started. Was theater. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.040 Yes, well, I was in a well. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.520 I wasn't in I was in a fellow, but I 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.160 didn't play Tesdemona. I played a male torch bearer with 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.440 long sideburns to cover my with my gay friend Monroe, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.360 but behind the Semona who's. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.000 The cheerleader with longlood here. So I wanted to be blunt. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.600 You know. It was this crazy idea that you could 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.280 escape your own reality by becoming an actress, right, you 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.360 know my motives weren't exactly sure. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.800 Well, I mean that I don't know that it's yeah, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.160 I think that's I mean that's what a lot of 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.079 people come here looking for some sort of escape it, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.959 whether you're viewing it or participating it. It is some 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.400 sort of escapism, some sort of pretending to be someone else, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.120 sort of you know, when you get to have this 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.080 persona in these creations and you know, well, I didn't. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.920 Mean it wasn't pure. It was like it was for 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.440 the fun. Yeah, I thought it was going to be 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:56.959 just right, wonderland of fun. 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.320 And I remember my high school drama teacher, mister Hazel 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.800 time I did the scene from Glass Bannagerie, the opening 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.880 where the brother talks about I have tricks in my pocket, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.280 I have things up my sleeve, and his eyes were 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.880 looking at me like like I became that guy. I'm 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.679 not like doing gender bending roles. I just happened to 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.840 love these roles where the main part was always more interesting, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.360 you know. So I'm writing roles like that for women, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.760 But back then I would he loved what I was 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.640 doing and it kind of fed my passion. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.080 So what was your first professional acting job it was? 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.400 Was it too close for comfort or was it I wanted? 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.360 My parents had moved to Holland my father had lost 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.560 his job and he was given a job in the 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.480 shipping industry by one of his childhood friends and made 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.760 it the Europe and he had a heart attack and 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.880 I went to take care of him with my family, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.160 and I began writing letters to all the producers on 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.920 Dutch American TV shows that were in Dutch with Dutch subtitles. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.560 Had written letters begging for jobs, and then I went, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.320 I'm going to go to Hollywood. I graduated college with 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.840 a business degree in Boulder. By the way, I worked 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.800 at Caribou Ranch with Joni Mitchell and Billie Joel and 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.559 you know, driving rocks throws to the airport and meeting 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:11.640 all those guys. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.520 It was a touch so cool. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:15.120 It was so cool. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.720 It was like I wanted to be in the rocks 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.120 in the music business first as a sideway to get in, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.720 so I go, how did I get into Holland? And finally, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.679 once I got back from Holland to La I went 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.199 to dinner with an agent one night. I was new 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.520 in town, brand new, and we went to La Scala 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.320 boutique and we walked in in the front booth. He 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.200 introduces me to four people, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Aaron Spelling, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:43.959 and Fred Astaire. They were all sitting together at the 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.920 front booth. I was so starstruck, I was shaking. I 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.320 couldn't I was tongue tied. And then we sat across 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.040 from them on another booth and during the dinner, I'm 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.079 not kidding this happened. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:55.719 Natalie would went like this to me. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.840 She summoned me with her index finger, and I'm like, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.400 I just like walked over there by hygnosis or something. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.960 And she said, mister Spelling would like to meet you. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.520 So apparently he likes to meet all the young new 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.280 girls right right here. You're an actress. And I said yeah. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.040 He says, why don't you come into our casting office tomorrow. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.960 I meet Kathy Henderson and I got my first love book. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.120 Oh and I got Charlie's Angel too, like two jobs. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:24.080 That was it. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.320 That's so cool. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.280 It was played shuffleboard and I looked right in the camera. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.800 I didn't realize you don't look in the cap. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.920 Rookie mistake, right, That's what an incredible meeting. That's that's 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.800 like a fever dream that doesn't even seem real. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.360 Yeah, well you guys, come on, I went to hear 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.280 your That feels like a feels like a dinner at 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.320 Jeff Franklin's house when you walk in and you're like. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.360 What, how are all these people here? This is a dream? 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.880 What is happening? Yeah, exactly right. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.679 A lot of parties have in his big house, that house. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:05.680 Yes, yeah, yeah, it's great parties, great music parties to. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.920 Boys and then whitney Y and Bobby Brown. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.839 Yeah, music is always always a huge part of it. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.720 So what was the what was like the turn like 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.200 the role kind of that turning point for your career 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.160 where you realized you were going to be doing more 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.600 than playing shuffleboard in a bikini and looking at the camera, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.280 but where we were like, oh, I think I might 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.679 actually like this is a thing, I might actually do the. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.559 Very next Huggerson And it was I met these producers, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.880 some of these agents, agents, managers at a party and 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.040 they said, hey, you look like the type they're casting 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:46.520 right now. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.480 And they had They managed a young boy named Michael J. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.839 Fox who was playing a He was twenty one playing 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.440 a twelve year old on Palmer's Down USA, and no 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.640 one knew who he was really. But I signed with 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.520 them twenty percent they took, My agent took it, and 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.720 my other manager, business Menser. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.080 Took five. It was like thirty five percent out the window. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.120 Right, and they sent me on one audition three. The 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.120 first one was Blue Jeans for ABC. I acted the 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.319 hell out of that role. It was a stage screen test. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.080 Didn't get it. Cry Apparently, if you sign a pilot 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.400 agreement to audition for a pilot, you sign seven years 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.760 of your life away. You can't do another pilot audition. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.520 So the luck was I didn't get that one because 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.800 it didn't go. The second one was Lady's manag for CBS. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:31.880 I didn't get that one. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.200 The third one was keep It in the Family too 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.600 close for comfort, and I was late. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:38.480 I took a bus. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.360 I was wearing the draggle, my hair was all like 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.680 wet from the rain. It was raining in La and 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.920 I remember coming in late thirty minutes late in the 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.280 cat and the secretary said, sorry, they've seen foreign to girls. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:51.160 It's too late. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.760 And I started to cry, like you know, just not 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.840 cry cry. But Arnie written comes out of the office 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:58.760 and he goes she. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.840 Lets the part letter coming in read, and so I 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.440 went in and it was my third big audition. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.280 Wow, sorry my voice, that's incredible. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.400 And then there's a line in the script. I'm reading 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.280 with Varcy Carsey and Tom Warner. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:12.400 They're in the room. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:16.560 My god, right, yeah, ABC execs Bob Stolphy and Arnie Sultan, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.480 who created Gets Smart with mel Brooks. And then there's 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.040 the captain director and I'm reading with Arnie and there's 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.040 a line in the script. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.280 That says, Sarah gives Dad a raspberry. So after my. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.720 Line, my line was, in case you haven't noticed, we're 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.520 two very sophisticated young women. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.640 So there and I pick up an imaginary raspberry and 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.800 I thrust it at him and. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.000 They burst out laughing. The whole room exploded with laughter, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.880 and I turned red and they go, what the hell 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.800 are you having me here? And I went, getting you 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.760 a raspberry? Like you said there and he goes, you 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.640 don't know what a raspberry is, and they all did 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:49.760 a bronx to here. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.040 You know that big loud right? 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.480 And what time can you Be's a callbacks tomorrow for 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:57.040 the network? 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.360 They thought, you know, and then he said he said 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.600 what planet are you from? And I think I said Texas. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:03.600 I was so. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.000 But anyway, the next day was a miracle because I 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.760 read what Ted night in front of Tony Famopolis, the 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:12.520 president of ABC. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.560 All the execs were there. I wasn't even nervous. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.360 I was the only one wearing a virginal flowered dress. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.640 The other four Callback girls were wearing cleavage and boobs 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.280 hanging out and nipples showing and cut off and I'm 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:26.280 like a virgin. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.800 And I read with Ted. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.320 And they were laughing and clapping. At the end, I 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.040 read with Devrevon Volckenberg, who plays my sister. At the 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.680 end of it, she says, what's your name again? I said, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.400 Lydia Cordemilov, Corni Lov. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.440 This is weird Russian name. I have to get a 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.520 shorter name. She says, that's weird. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.040 I worked for a Gregreek Corniloff, but they moved him 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.600 to Holland and I went, that's my father. She works 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.680 in the interval with shipping company in New York City. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.520 Out of ten million people in New York ever worked 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:58.080 for my dad. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:16:59.240 We're best friends. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:16:59.960 What are the odds? 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:01.760 Oh my gosh. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:02.520 I wrote a movie. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.520 I directed her in a movie we did together. I mean, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.600 we're like sisters. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.720 Oh oh wow, what a great story. That's one of 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.679 those one of those god shots coincidences. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:17.040 Yeah, yes, we're just school just all sort of lined 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.000 up exactly as it was supposed to. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:20.080 That's incredible. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.040 It's a god I love that term, Like I trademarked 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.320 that term already because it's about synchronous city. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:26.200 That's uncanny. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.080 Yeah, a lot of those. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.800 So what great training ground to be on a sitcom, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.000 which is kind of like doing a live play, but 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.280 where you get to mess up and redo your lines 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.480 if you mess up. And that's so you did Too 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.520 Close for Comfort for six seasons, seven seasons. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.360 Six seasons, and then Ted died in this He died 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:45.080 in the sixth season. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:46.880 So I and I. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.560 Did five seasons full. We were negotiating to go in 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.600 the sixth. Ted then did something kind of weird, he said, 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.479 I want only well, I shouldn't say this on the year. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.600 I loved Ted, but he got rid of Nasty. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:17:59.920 You want to get rid of Nancy and you just want 0:17:59.920 --> 0:18:03.600 to have Jim Bullock and another family or something. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.359 I ran to Nancy and I went to lunch recently 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.800 she told me the whole story. So we're good. I 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.200 loved him, I've learned. I learned everything from him, how. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.040 To do his spit take, which is like, yeah, I 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.440 learned like every comedic. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.960 And also I got in a lot of trouble with him. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.480 I mean, at one point, really, I was standing. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.560 I couldn't look him in the eye because he made 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.000 me laugh or made me nervous. So I look about 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.840 him his forehead and he would yell, why is she 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:29.840 looking at my forehead? 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.439 He would yell at the booth. I'm like, I'm. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.840 But event Jody and I do that all the time. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.719 Yep, you guys too, Oh yeah, because we would make 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.040 each other laugh. We would have these stupid bits between 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.080 Stephanie and Kimmy that we'd have to do, particularly in 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.000 Fuller House, and we were all and so it would 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.440 be like just we'd be wearing some ridiculous costume or something, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.199 and I was like, just look at my forehead, like, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.720 don't look me in the eye, because if if you 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:53.879 look me in the eye. 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.760 Where it's all bad. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.440 So yeah, a forehead, the forehead is a great place 0:18:58.480 --> 0:18:59.560