Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me,
Speaker 1: Tommy di Dario. I have interviewed many people throughout my career,
Speaker 1: but today's guest is one that I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: chat with for quite some time because I am such
Speaker 1: a fan of her work. Jennifer Love youw It joins
Speaker 1: me today and you know and love her from starring
Speaker 1: in Party of Five, the I Know What You Did,
Speaker 1: last summer films, The Client List, Ghost Whisper, Heartbreakers, which
Speaker 1: is one of my all time favorite movies, and currently
Speaker 1: the TV series Nine to one one. But now she
Speaker 1: has a brand new memoir out titled Inheriting Magic, which
Speaker 1: chronicles her journey through grief and joy and celebrating and
Speaker 1: making everyday magic. What a gift this book is. It
Speaker 1: is a gift because it will reconnect you to that
Speaker 1: beautiful wonder you once had as a kid, that wonder
Speaker 1: that sometimes fades as the chaos and craziness of life unfolds.
Speaker 1: The wonder that we all have inside of us, that
Speaker 1: is just waiting to pour out of our souls. And
Speaker 1: today we are celebrating Jennifer's incredible career. We dive into
Speaker 1: her gorgeous book, and we chat all about her new
Speaker 1: movie in brand, The Holiday Junkie, and we just have
Speaker 1: so much fun. We have a whole section where we
Speaker 1: talk about all sorts of different projects of hers, including
Speaker 1: Let's Go Bang, one of her early albums that I
Speaker 1: was obsessed with. And let me tell you, whoever said
Speaker 1: never meet your heroes, they never met Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Speaker 1: So let's see if today we can get Jennifer to
Speaker 1: say something that she has never said before. Jennifer Love Hewitt,
Speaker 1: how are you, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: It is so good to see you looking festive and cheerful.
Speaker 1: It's on brand.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. You know when I tried and
Speaker 2: give a little a little glitter this.
Speaker 1: Morning, well you look fantastic. I am so excited to
Speaker 1: be talking with you today. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: your team has or hasn't told you, but you have
Speaker 1: been one of my number one interviews throughout my entire career,
Speaker 1: like dead serious, and I'm may youres and hundred and
Speaker 1: hundreds of people, but I'm like, I need to interview
Speaker 1: Jennifer Love Hewett because so nice man. Growing up as
Speaker 1: like a small town kid from New Jersey who was
Speaker 1: figuring out who I was and was going through some
Speaker 1: difficult times. Your art brought me so much joy throughout.
Speaker 2: My life and so much thank you.
Speaker 1: It really did. I started with I note you did
Speaker 1: last summer as a teenager, and my cousins and I
Speaker 1: were we all got into that, and then it's just
Speaker 1: you know, I followed your career ever since, and I
Speaker 1: just think you're one of those rare artists that have
Speaker 1: this beautiful, long career doing art that really connects with
Speaker 1: who you are as a human. And I think that's
Speaker 1: why it resonates with so many people who do follow
Speaker 1: your career. So I'm like just thrilled. I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: thinking now, like Heartbreakers is one of my favorite movies. Know,
Speaker 1: the whole movie from Back to Front. I thought I
Speaker 1: was Paige growing up, like all of it.
Speaker 2: I wanted to be. He was much cooler than me.
Speaker 1: Me too, me too. Well, it is, like I said,
Speaker 1: such a joy, and I'm really excited to have you
Speaker 1: on the show. We have a lot to celebrate today, Yes,
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about today because your new memoir,
Speaker 1: Inheriting Magic is out. Now, are you just pinching yourself?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wild. It's like I'm trying to stay present
Speaker 2: in it. But we've been talking about it so much,
Speaker 2: and you know, obviously trying to get it out there
Speaker 2: for people been sort of going by so quickly, and
Speaker 2: then I've been sitting with it for so long that
Speaker 2: it's like and like, is this really happening right now,
Speaker 2: Like it's actually out for people to read and hopefully enjoy,
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm just I just don't want it to
Speaker 2: go by so fast. I'm trying to hold onto the
Speaker 2: moment a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's a beautiful book. I mean I smiled,
Speaker 1: I got emotional in certain parts. I love that you
Speaker 1: open up about your family. But then it's fun. There's recipes,
Speaker 1: there's DIY inspiration, there's prompts to you know, like self
Speaker 1: health prompts to just kind of get your brain thinking
Speaker 1: in a really positive direction. So there's so much goodness
Speaker 1: in this book. Why did you want to write it?
Speaker 2: You know? I think it started off for me as
Speaker 2: eleven years after my mom passing, realizing that I had
Speaker 2: never read said anything about her and her passing. And
Speaker 2: I think it was just because I didn't have the words,
Speaker 2: Like I just sort of needed to maybe grow into
Speaker 2: my grief a little bit and understand kind of what
Speaker 2: was happening and what I was feeling about her. And
Speaker 2: I became a new mom not too long after she
Speaker 2: had passed, and so that's a whirlwin, and I just
Speaker 2: kind of needed time. And so it really started as
Speaker 2: me just sort of writing thought pages about who she
Speaker 2: was and how magical she was to me. And I
Speaker 2: do remember after she passed, like this odd thought kind
Speaker 2: of came up for me, like about three days after
Speaker 2: she passed, where I feared that all the magic I
Speaker 2: had known in my life was gone because I thought
Speaker 2: she was the only soule carrier of that magic. And
Speaker 2: then kind of sitting in our living room with my
Speaker 2: new husband and our new little girl that first Christmas,
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't I can't not have magic,
Speaker 2: and so I have to find it somehow. And I
Speaker 2: think her little gift to me that Christmas was to say,
Speaker 2: it's in here, and you have it, and you've inherited it,
Speaker 2: and you can take it with you now and make
Speaker 2: it your own and be inspired by it. And so
Speaker 2: it really became I think what got me out of
Speaker 2: that maybe sad dark place that Christmas and allowed me
Speaker 2: to sort of find hope and joy and become a
Speaker 2: magic maker for my family. And it's been just like
Speaker 2: the most beautiful gift from her.
Speaker 1: And in the beginning of the book you so beautifully
Speaker 1: dedicate it to your kids and your husband and your mom,
Speaker 1: of course, and you say that she was the one
Speaker 1: who taught you that magic was even possible. What do
Speaker 1: you mean by that?
Speaker 2: You know, people know magic is cauldrons and spell books
Speaker 2: and wands and Harry Potter, and you know all of
Speaker 2: those things. My mom's magic was different. It was really
Speaker 2: like an intention that she set. If she was throwing
Speaker 2: a dinner party, or making Christmas or going to a
Speaker 2: restaurant with her friends. It was never just simple. She
Speaker 2: was extra in like the best way possible. And that
Speaker 2: extra quality in her just people to her. I mean,
Speaker 2: we would go into a restaurant, even at the height
Speaker 2: of things for me, we would go into a restaurant
Speaker 2: and people would care less about who I was for
Speaker 2: that five minutes. They wanted to know who my mom
Speaker 2: was and why they were so drawn to her. And
Speaker 2: she made everybody that she met feel important and special
Speaker 2: in some way, and that was her magic. And for
Speaker 2: me growing up, I believed I could do anything, that
Speaker 2: anything was possible, and that the world was limitless, and
Speaker 2: that to me is magical for a kid. And because
Speaker 2: of that, I said, here, you know, almost thirty six
Speaker 2: years later, in a job that I love and I
Speaker 2: believed I could do that. I believed I could reach
Speaker 2: for it and get it because she instilled that magic
Speaker 2: in me to kind of do that, and so it
Speaker 2: was very special.
Speaker 1: And what I love about the book too, is it's
Speaker 1: not just about the big moments in life, right like
Speaker 1: the Amazing role You book or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: a work accomplishment in any field, it's making the most
Speaker 1: of the little moments and enjoying those for what they are.
Speaker 1: And throughout this book you talk about how you make
Speaker 1: these bestive occasions or seemingly ordinary day extraordinary, right Like
Speaker 1: It's just really a beautiful mindset that I think is
Speaker 1: such an important reminder for everybody right now. And I
Speaker 1: so connect with you on that. Like even something that
Speaker 1: came in to mind for me is during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: my husband and I we got engaged in Paris years ago.
Speaker 1: We've been married for going on nine years, and it
Speaker 1: was such a dark time and when that date rolled around.
Speaker 1: I just turned our living room into a Parisian cafe.
Speaker 2: I love that you know that that's what it's about.
Speaker 2: That really is what it's about. And I do think that.
Speaker 2: I think that's my biggest hope for the book is
Speaker 2: that people will because I've talked to people who are like,
Speaker 2: I am not a magical person, Like I just don't
Speaker 2: get it, and I'm like, but you can be a
Speaker 2: magical person because it really is just an intention that
Speaker 2: you said. It's like you taking that moment and going
Speaker 2: in all the darkness of the world today, I'm going
Speaker 2: to create light for me and my loved one. And
Speaker 2: that is so tangible, and it's more tangible than we
Speaker 2: think that it is. And it doesn't have to be expensive.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be months planned. You can literally
Speaker 2: wake up on a Thursday and go, you know what,
Speaker 2: dinner is going to be weird tonight, Like we're going
Speaker 2: to make it weird, or we're going to make it special,
Speaker 2: or we're going to put Christmas lights up in June
Speaker 2: for no reason. You know, We're going to do whatever
Speaker 2: it is that we need to do to create magic
Speaker 2: in the space that we have on this planet. For
Speaker 2: the short amount of time that we're here, and it
Speaker 2: makes it so fun life. I'm so proud of you
Speaker 2: for doing that. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you have to enjoy those little
Speaker 1: moments in life. And I think this it's so cool
Speaker 1: about this book. It's going to really encourage people to
Speaker 1: do that. It's also cool because I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people have a difficult time opening up about grief.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a very it's an odd topic
Speaker 1: to talk about because you never know how it will
Speaker 1: make someone else feel. You don't know how it's going
Speaker 1: to make you feel. And I feel like there's kind
Speaker 1: of a stigma around talking about grief still when in reality,
Speaker 1: we all go through it, we all experience it, so
Speaker 1: there shouldn't be And you talk about grieving your mom
Speaker 1: in the book as well, So what's your relationship today
Speaker 1: like with grief?
Speaker 2: For you, it's a it's a good one, oddly, I
Speaker 2: really I think writing this book, doing the movie and
Speaker 2: her honor and sort of. I mean, I've definitely had
Speaker 2: good days in this press process and not so good
Speaker 2: moments where like I have to remind myself at the
Speaker 2: end of the day because I've talked about it so
Speaker 2: much that like, that's my mom that we're talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, And so it's like definitely hit me a
Speaker 2: few times in the last week for sure that I've
Speaker 2: just been like, why is she not here for this?
Speaker 2: I've been so frustrated, you know, or really sad that
Speaker 2: she's not here to see all this. But then I
Speaker 2: remind myself that she's watching. You know, she's probably gonna
Speaker 2: have like the biggest watch party ever in Heaven's Barnes
Speaker 2: and Noble. It's going to be selling out of that book,
Speaker 2: you know, in two seconds. So you know, she would
Speaker 2: be love. I mean, like I said, she was extra,
Speaker 2: she'd be loving all of this about her and sort
Speaker 2: of in her honors. So that kind of brings me joy.
Speaker 2: But yeah, grief is something I mean, I think the
Speaker 2: biggest thing that I learned about grief, and I tell
Speaker 2: this to people all the time, whether they've been through
Speaker 2: it yet or they're going to go through it at
Speaker 2: some point, is that it's not an event. It is
Speaker 2: a life after that like it is. It is just
Speaker 2: a thing that comes up any time it feels like
Speaker 2: it when it wants to however it wants to, and
Speaker 2: you can't prepare for it, but you have to let
Speaker 2: it wash over you or wash in you, and then
Speaker 2: you have to let it back out again and like
Speaker 2: move forward. And so it is, you know. I think
Speaker 2: I thought, like in the early days of her passing,
Speaker 2: that it was going to be this moment in time
Speaker 2: and then I would be healed and that would be it.
Speaker 2: And you know, next June will be thirteen years and
Speaker 2: I'm still in it. So I think that my relationship
Speaker 2: with it now is that it is a it's a
Speaker 2: weird friend that I have that comes to visit me sometimes,
Speaker 2: and I'm oddly happy to see it when it does,
Speaker 2: because it's a new level of letting go of something
Speaker 2: or feeling closer to her, maybe in that moment that
Speaker 2: I hadn't taken time to feel close to her that day.
Speaker 2: And then I wish it well and pack its bags
Speaker 2: pretty quickly and say see your next visit. You know.
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a healthy relationship with it now,
Speaker 2: I would say, but definitely different than it was in
Speaker 2: the beginning.
Speaker 1: And I think you're so right to acknowledge it and
Speaker 1: in a weird way honor it, but then allow yourself
Speaker 1: to say, okay, we're good now, see you next time.
Speaker 1: I think that's right.
Speaker 2: Thanks for visiting, right right?
Speaker 1: So important, it truly is, yea, and a part of
Speaker 1: your story that you write about. And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give too too much away throughout this book, but
Speaker 1: this one part I think is so important for people
Speaker 1: to read and hear. And if there's anything that might
Speaker 1: persuade someone to say, let me pick this up, because
Speaker 1: I really needed to hear that. This was a moment
Speaker 1: that I think is so so critical, at least in
Speaker 1: my perspective. And you talked about how when your mother
Speaker 1: did pass you left and you went away to travel,
Speaker 1: and she wanted you to go, and you had a
Speaker 1: commitment and it was unexpected, right, and you were away
Speaker 1: suddenly and you weren't there, and you were kind of
Speaker 1: beating yourself up for not having the goodbye that you
Speaker 1: thought you should should have until you then realized, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we did actually have our time and
Speaker 1: it was the perfect goodbye that she would want. Can
Speaker 1: you talk to me about that a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we on that day, my gut was
Speaker 2: like very very much screaming at me, do not go
Speaker 2: on this trip. But my mom couldn't travel at the time,
Speaker 2: and she loved to travel, and I was going to Monica,
Speaker 2: which is a place we had been together, and she
Speaker 2: was like, I need you to do this, you know,
Speaker 2: for me, and so I went and in that day
Speaker 2: we did a lot of things. You know, we talked
Speaker 2: about my now husband and you know, sort of had
Speaker 2: that relationship conversation. There were a lot of things that happened,
Speaker 2: but one of the things we were doing was planning
Speaker 2: her big party for you know, sort of how she
Speaker 2: was going to come out on the other side of
Speaker 2: all of this and celebrate with her friends and you know,
Speaker 2: then travel again and you know, sort of do all
Speaker 2: of those things. And when that didn't happen and I
Speaker 2: didn't get that goodbye, I was very angry and it
Speaker 2: stayed with me for a while until I realized that
Speaker 2: for my mom and I, what we did best was
Speaker 2: magic and joy, and we had that that day in
Speaker 2: sort of the hopefulness of her being okay and what
Speaker 2: that was going to be. And the truth is, I
Speaker 2: don't know that my mom and I would have known
Speaker 2: how to say goodbye, and so I do ultimately feel
Speaker 2: like our goodbye was what it was supposed to be
Speaker 2: and it was supposed to be her letting me go
Speaker 2: from a distance and me letting her go from a distance.
Speaker 2: And I know that it wasn't easy for her, and
Speaker 2: I definitely know that it wasn't easy for me. But
Speaker 2: I feel like our last moment was hopeful and was
Speaker 2: magical and was joyful and I get to keep that
Speaker 2: with me, and that means a lot.
Speaker 1: Wow, to be in a place to have that, you know, mentality,
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you had to work through a place
Speaker 1: to get there, you know, But what a beautiful feeling
Speaker 1: of peace I imagine that is. And I'm getting like
Speaker 1: a little choked up because I think so many people
Speaker 1: need to hear that and need to know that sometimes
Speaker 1: how things unfold or how they're supposed to, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe in coincidences. I don't believe
Speaker 1: in accidents. I think the universe takes care of you.
Speaker 1: That's just my mentality.
Speaker 2: Same, yeah, And I.
Speaker 1: Think that that's a really vulnerable part of you that
Speaker 1: you put in this book. That is, if there's any
Speaker 1: reason alone it's to read the book, it's for that.
Speaker 1: Besides all the fun stuff that you talk about as well,
Speaker 1: like the moon water, which, by the way, need to
Speaker 1: do immediately.
Speaker 2: Yes, you do. It's really fun. It's really fun, and
Speaker 2: it will get you to drink water, so it's simply
Speaker 2: for that purpose too. But there really is there, like
Speaker 2: there's a there's I feel like there's scientists and people
Speaker 2: that have come out saying that, like, you can definitely,
Speaker 2: you can definitely like infuse your body with intentions and
Speaker 2: good thoughts by you know, taping a word on your
Speaker 2: water bottle or whatever, and the kids and I just
Speaker 2: kind of took it to a new level adding the moon.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's really it's really fun. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: Those little tips and tricks are so exciting for people
Speaker 1: to live a truly magical life. I love that too.
Speaker 1: We live in New York City and I'm like, Geo,
Speaker 1: we need to go find the moon and put a
Speaker 1: water a Central park or something and make it.
Speaker 2: Out of it. Yes, well, maybe don't leave it out
Speaker 2: overnight in Central Park. Somebody might drink it and then
Speaker 2: you yeah, no, no, let's try to find a balcony maybe.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, fair enough, please, we'll work on that.
Speaker 1: We'll work on that. The holiday junkie is something that
Speaker 1: you've become synonymous alter ego. Yeah, is it is? And
Speaker 1: I believe you kind of launched that or started that
Speaker 1: concept back in like twenty thirteen, Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So what is the holiday Junkie?
Speaker 2: So technically I have to give credit to Instagram followers
Speaker 2: because they were the ones who initially called me a
Speaker 2: holiday junkie and it sort of stuck with me, and
Speaker 2: it really is. It is a total other mindset besides
Speaker 2: magic they go together, but the holiday junkie is truly
Speaker 2: like who I am? I I like for me and
Speaker 2: I put it in the book. There's a calendar to
Speaker 2: follow the holiday junkie, Like where's the normal people in
Speaker 2: the world? See five holidays? I see like twenty there
Speaker 2: are twenty possibilities to put up stuff, to decorate, to
Speaker 2: go there to like be extra have fun and celebrate
Speaker 2: not only life, but like you know things. And it's
Speaker 2: become this brand. I have a card line with these
Speaker 2: amazing women at twenty twenty one Co and we make
Speaker 2: holiday Junkie cards. It's expanding in this new year, coming
Speaker 2: up into sort of some consumer products that they're really
Speaker 2: excited about. It's been clothing, it's been you know it's
Speaker 2: it's a thing, but it's who my friends and family
Speaker 2: know me as and it is a it is a
Speaker 2: title that I wear so proud. And it's just like
Speaker 2: finding all of the little pockets of joy to just
Speaker 2: celebrate and just be happy. And it's I guess it's
Speaker 2: also a mindset and an intention. But yeah, happy to
Speaker 2: be the holiday junkie. And it's a movie that people
Speaker 2: can watch on the fourteenth, which is exciting.
Speaker 1: And you play like a decorator, right I do.
Speaker 2: I play a woman who essentially is hired to decorate
Speaker 2: for Christmas, but also plan a magical itinerary for a family.
Speaker 2: And then I meet a handsome house manager who also
Speaker 2: happens to be my really husband and we fall in
Speaker 2: love at Christmas. And I'm in grief at Christmas because
Speaker 2: I've just lost my mom and he's in grief because
Speaker 2: he was left at the altar.
Speaker 1: Oh what a t ease, right?
Speaker 2: You know? Yes, sign me only sad people at Christmas
Speaker 2: who just happened to kiss. It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that. That is so much fun. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I love that you've embraced the holiday junkie.
Speaker 1: And again, it's so on Brandon and theme to your
Speaker 1: book and everything that we're talking about today and enjoying
Speaker 1: all the little moments in life. I mean, why not
Speaker 1: with everything life throws you like, why not lean into that?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I talk about that a lot with my kids.
Speaker 2: We talk a lot about how you know, in our
Speaker 2: house with each other where supportive and we're always kind,
Speaker 2: and we really shore each other up inside our house
Speaker 2: because when you step outside, the world is going to
Speaker 2: do with you what it wants, and that's just the truth.
Speaker 2: And we can't protect each other from that, even though
Speaker 2: we want to. But we can start in our home
Speaker 2: with the intention of magic, the intention of good and
Speaker 2: shoring each other up and supporting each other the best
Speaker 2: that we can so that you know, when we walk out,
Speaker 2: it doesn't hit us quite as hard as it might
Speaker 2: hit others. And so we talk about that a lot
Speaker 2: with our kids, and we try to do that as
Speaker 2: much as we can. Sometimes we don't succeed, but we try. Well,
Speaker 2: you do the best we can, right, we try, We
Speaker 2: really try.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful environment to create in your home? And
Speaker 1: I noticed that throughout the book you have so many
Speaker 1: beautiful pictures that you show of your family, and your kids,
Speaker 1: And I do feel like it's probably one of the
Speaker 1: more personal moments in your life and career that you
Speaker 1: have gotten with your family, because rightfully so, you've you've
Speaker 1: protected them, you know, so much throughout your life. Why
Speaker 1: did you feel like this was the right time to
Speaker 1: start opening up a little bit more about your kids
Speaker 1: and your family?
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Again, it wasn't supposed to necessarily be that.
Speaker 2: But as I started writing about my mom and our
Speaker 2: connection and her being a magic maker and sort of
Speaker 2: passing that on to me and wanting to pass that
Speaker 2: on to my children, Brian and I both were kind
Speaker 2: of like, how do we not include them? Like how
Speaker 2: does this not become about them? And then in sort
Speaker 2: of writing it and realizing what my mom had left me,
Speaker 2: the book really became a chance for me to show
Speaker 2: them what I'm leaving them, you know, so that one
Speaker 2: day when I'm not here, which hopefully won't be until
Speaker 2: I'm like one hundred and twenty, I'm gonna look scary,
Speaker 2: but I'm really dry for one hundred and twenty. But
Speaker 2: you know, when I'm not here, they'll have it and
Speaker 2: they'll be like, oh, that was her magic and what
Speaker 2: she left us behind. And I do say in the
Speaker 2: book that I think that's our job as magic makers.
Speaker 2: Like people who who can sort of wrap their head
Speaker 2: around that mindset and that intention are our goal should
Speaker 2: be to pass that on and leave that for people.
Speaker 2: And so it really just became a love story that
Speaker 2: started with my mom and ended with my kids and
Speaker 2: my husband, and you know, we talked to them about it.
Speaker 2: We asked them if they were okay with, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of putting all this out, and of course they
Speaker 2: were like, yes, we've been waiting. We need the world
Speaker 2: to see us. We're wonderful. They were hilarious. My daughter
Speaker 2: was like, yes, can I be on the cover. I'm
Speaker 2: like okay, So you know, they were ready. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it took us a minute to kind of wrap our
Speaker 2: heads around it. And again, I think it also felt
Speaker 2: like a safe space because it was me writing about us,
Speaker 2: it wasn't other people writing about them, and it was
Speaker 2: us sort of being able to control what we showed
Speaker 2: and what we talked about and what we didn't. And
Speaker 2: it's been really positive so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautifully done, truly, truly beautifully done. And I
Speaker 1: couldn't help but think, you know, while reading your story
Speaker 1: in your background. I know you credit so much of
Speaker 1: the magic in your life now to your upbringing with
Speaker 1: your mom and being the holiday junkie. But from me,
Speaker 1: when I think about some of the things that I
Speaker 1: do today, I think about how as a kid I
Speaker 1: didn't have those moments sometimes, And I wonder for you,
Speaker 1: as a working actor as a child, right, did you
Speaker 1: miss out on some of those magical moments in life
Speaker 1: because of your career that now you want to make
Speaker 1: sure you know your kids don't miss out on those,
Speaker 1: and you don't et miss out on those, Like is
Speaker 1: there anything connected to that being so busy so young?
Speaker 2: Oh? One hundred percent. I mean, I think part of
Speaker 2: the holiday junkie magical part of mine is that kid
Speaker 2: in me that didn't have a chance to do those things,
Speaker 2: you know, that was busy trying to be a professional
Speaker 2: and I was surrounded by adults. I mean, I wasn't.
Speaker 2: The first high school party I ever went to was
Speaker 2: a movie called Can't Hardly Wait. I had never been
Speaker 2: to a high school party or a party at all
Speaker 2: that wasn't like, you know, the Golden Globes or something like.
Speaker 2: It was very random, So I didn't get to experience
Speaker 2: those things. I didn't sort of get to have those things.
Speaker 2: And you know, my my daughter says it to me
Speaker 2: a lot, and so does my my Atticus. I'll always say, Mommy,
Speaker 2: you're kind of like a kid, and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: am because there's a part of me that didn't get
Speaker 2: to be And so I do have fun now with
Speaker 2: my kids sort of being that way and tapping into
Speaker 2: that part of myself that maybe didn't get to sort
Speaker 2: of let go as much or experience some of those things.
Speaker 2: And I do think that, you know, my mom made
Speaker 2: magic for me in the ways that she could, but
Speaker 2: in sort of the career taking off the way that
Speaker 2: it did, and you know, that's a train that just
Speaker 2: kind of moves without you at some point. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of that that I didn't get to do.
Speaker 2: So I am doing it now with my own kids,
Speaker 2: and it's fun.
Speaker 1: And that's so funny to think about. When you mentioned
Speaker 1: can Harley Waite, like you had no idea what a
Speaker 1: real high school party was. No.
Speaker 2: The whole time we were filming and I was like, guys,
Speaker 2: is this really what high school parties are like? And
Speaker 2: they would laugh at me and be like no, No,
Speaker 2: I mean maybe like the best one you've ever been
Speaker 2: to ever, But yeah, I mean those were all the
Speaker 2: things I've never been. I've only been to a I'm
Speaker 2: on a TV show. All the things that I did
Speaker 2: at those times like I was doing them as my character,
Speaker 2: so I felt like I was doing them, but they
Speaker 2: weren't my own experience. So it's really funny to now
Speaker 2: go back, and I think about that a lot. With
Speaker 2: my kids. I think a lot about like, wow, like
Speaker 2: they're going to go to prom and I'm going to
Speaker 2: be like, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: Well, you clearly have to be the chaperone at the prominance,
Speaker 1: right that would be fun?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: You showping a big ball gown.
Speaker 2: They're like, Mom, can you imagine to really get out
Speaker 2: of here? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's super interesting And what a what a
Speaker 1: wild perspective that I could see, you know, I could
Speaker 1: see why you want to bring that magic to life
Speaker 1: for anybody who didn't have something in their in their
Speaker 1: youth right that they didn't experience for whatever reason, and
Speaker 1: now wanting to really go hard and to make sure
Speaker 1: that not only the people around you but yourself, like
Speaker 1: you get to really enjoy something as well. So that's
Speaker 1: that's super cool. Another super cool thing is all the
Speaker 1: recipes you share, so many delicious things throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this book. I'm like, oh my god, what am
Speaker 1: I going to make first? Like, what is what is
Speaker 1: the number cottail? I was going to say, what's like
Speaker 1: the number one must have?
Speaker 2: I mean, his Christmas cocktail is so good. We only
Speaker 2: have it that time of year or this time of year,
Speaker 2: so I'm really excited about it. I'm going to beg
Speaker 2: him to make me one later since it's a Friday
Speaker 2: night that I love. The Megan's cookies are delicious. Nana's
Speaker 2: apple pie I just made for the first time actually
Speaker 2: holding the book and using it for my daughter's birthday
Speaker 2: because that's what she wanted, is her birthday cake. So
Speaker 2: we did that. I mean, they're so good. My Grandma's
Speaker 2: chicken and dumplings are amazing. It was really funny. Somebody
Speaker 2: the other day was like, why are there none of
Speaker 2: your recipes in there? And I was like, because that's
Speaker 2: not who I am. Like I am like the Pinterest
Speaker 2: Instagram girl who's like, somebody else tell me how to
Speaker 2: cook this and I'll do it great. I love to cook,
Speaker 2: but I'm not like I don't come up with things
Speaker 2: on my own sort of person. And they're like, well,
Speaker 2: didn't you just want to put that in the book,
Speaker 2: And I was like no, because then somebody's gonna ask
Speaker 2: me how to make that. I'll be like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was like, but I'm surrounded by all these amazing
Speaker 2: people who have these great recipes, so I put theirs
Speaker 2: in instead. It was very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's enough options for everybody.
Speaker 2: We're good, you know we have I'm fine, I'm fine,
Speaker 2: I make the party, who makes the food?
Speaker 1: There? We go? There, we go. Well now, and the
Speaker 1: spirit of mixing up recipes, we're gonna do a little
Speaker 1: something called mixing up questions with you. Oh okay, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do all sorts of fun, little random questions
Speaker 1: to touch on some highlights of Jennifer Love Hewett. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: are you ready?
Speaker 2: I'm I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: First one, nine one one. The show you're on. People
Speaker 1: love It went from Fox to ABC. Ratings are stellar.
Speaker 1: People can't get enough of it. It's coming back in March.
Speaker 1: I believe there's gonna teas that you've been kidnapped in
Speaker 1: the show. Is there anything you can tell us about
Speaker 1: your arc for the second half of the season.
Speaker 3: It is the craziest thing I've ever done on nine
Speaker 3: on one. All I can say the audience is not ready.
Speaker 3: I was not ready. I was not ready.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my voice like if I don't know if you
Speaker 2: can tell, but my voice is like kind of out.
Speaker 2: It has been this way since we filmed it.
Speaker 1: Really, And did you know this storyline was coming or
Speaker 1: just totally not?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wild, but it was so fun. Oh, I
Speaker 2: can't wait for people to see it. It was so fun.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good tease. That's a good teas we're
Speaker 1: ready for it. And another thing when I announced it
Speaker 1: was my guests people were writing and they love your
Speaker 1: dynamic with you know, your brother on the show, buck
Speaker 1: and they think you guys are so much fun. How
Speaker 1: is playing that for you?
Speaker 2: It's great, it's great. I love ol of our We
Speaker 2: have a great time. And I just think Mattie's a
Speaker 2: really good sister. I love that she's like sort of
Speaker 2: his mom ish but all so his cysts and Bucket
Speaker 2: is such a fun character. He's been through so much
Speaker 2: and goes through so much and you know, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's really fun for me. I love it.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of speculation out there on that
Speaker 1: dark web that you think his character might have a
Speaker 1: little crush on Eddie.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Well, I had to feed into it because everybody wants
Speaker 2: it to happen, and so I was like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be that person who feeds into this a little
Speaker 2: bit so that people will go crazy. And they did,
Speaker 2: and then everybody got mad at me because they're like,
Speaker 2: don't feed into them.
Speaker 1: You were stirring that pot, was.
Speaker 2: Stirring it right up. Well, it's fun to stir the pots.
Speaker 1: All right, fair, sometimes you have to.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen with them, but
Speaker 2: I mean I wouldn't. I would be all for it
Speaker 2: if it happened to me. Just say that there're gonna
Speaker 2: be worse things to see on TV.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. That's true. That's really funny. You were
Speaker 1: seeing it and just totally acted off of it. You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn the conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was. I mean, I'm a forty five your
Speaker 2: old mom of three. Sometimes I gotta do something fun, right,
Speaker 2: Like I want to be in the conversation. So I
Speaker 2: got in the conversation a little bit, but then people
Speaker 2: got mad at me because then they were like, well,
Speaker 2: it didn't happen yet. So she lied to us, and
Speaker 2: I was like, guys, can't I just drink my morning
Speaker 2: coffee and stirts hot?
Speaker 1: Hello, I'm here for it. I'm here for good, good,
Speaker 1: good good. You know you said like an Italian. If
Speaker 1: I didn't know better, I think you were like fully italiant,
Speaker 1: always wanted.
Speaker 2: To be Italian? Can I be like an honorary Italian?
Speaker 2: Is that a thing that people do?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: All right, absolutely, okay, brilliant. I love that answer. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about Heartbreakers for a second.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I actually met Sigourney Weaver. My friend
Speaker 1: is Barbara Strausgan's tour director, and he had like a
Speaker 1: little after party. I mean, who says that, Like I
Speaker 1: just threw up after saying that myself.
Speaker 2: On let me just put that make me jump the floor.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like I really just say that. I did. But
Speaker 1: she was at the after party and we weren't talking,
Speaker 1: and I said, I have to tell you Heartbreakers is
Speaker 1: one of the all time greatest movies, and she goes,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think so too. With a big
Speaker 1: smile on.
Speaker 2: Her face, she said that we had a good time.
Speaker 1: It was such a good movie. I feel like at
Speaker 1: one point there was a rumor that you might be
Speaker 1: interested in adapting into a television series. Is there a
Speaker 1: truth to that? Is there still interest?
Speaker 2: So there is. We actually went out with it a
Speaker 2: bunch for a television series, and then sort of the
Speaker 2: business fell apart with the strikes and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: So it's still out there. We do have a great
Speaker 2: script for it and a pitch for it, and it's
Speaker 2: still my goal at some point to do Heartbreakers the
Speaker 2: TV series.
Speaker 1: Okay, remind me when we're off this, because I have
Speaker 1: someone I need you to talk to.
Speaker 2: Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that just came into mind. Okay, good, So
Speaker 1: there's hope for that. Love it. Where do I want
Speaker 1: to go next? Okay, let's hit a music question. Oh fine,
Speaker 1: let's go Bang was like my album of my adolescence.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for you, and this clearly was.
Speaker 1: And this was when I thought I was straight even
Speaker 1: sorrier for you, blasting it in my sky blue Toyota
Speaker 1: camera being like yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, That's how I felt. About it too well.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're saying it, because I loved
Speaker 1: that album. I listened to it on a rebeat back
Speaker 1: back in the day when CDs were a thing. I love.
Speaker 1: I love a good CD, and I would play it
Speaker 1: repeatedly driving around the streets of New Jersey. I think
Speaker 1: it's time for a follow up to some of your albums. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fair Naked of course is a fan favorite, so like,
Speaker 1: what do we gotta do to get a new album?
Speaker 1: I know you released songs here and there, beautiful songs
Speaker 1: like you what are you keeping us waiting for?
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like it was a weird time
Speaker 2: because when I came out with music, I mean it
Speaker 2: was the time of Britney Spears and Avril Levine and
Speaker 2: Michelle Branch and like, you know, all these people. When
Speaker 2: I kind of did Bear Naked, it was like such
Speaker 2: a such a rush of these incredibly talented people, and
Speaker 2: I feel like there was a lot of like we
Speaker 2: just wanted to go back and cry on TV, like
Speaker 2: why is she doing music right now? Except for the
Speaker 2: people who loved it, which I appreciate you being one
Speaker 2: of those and my grandmother, but you know, I would
Speaker 2: love to go back to it. I really would. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't tour or do any of that stuff because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm in my forties and i'd probably throw my back
Speaker 2: out and I have three kids. But I would love
Speaker 2: to make I honestly have thought about this, and I
Speaker 2: think it's why I'm kind of putting out little songs
Speaker 2: here and there, just to sort of see what the
Speaker 2: temperature is. I'd love to do like, you know, six
Speaker 2: or eight songs on a little album and just kind
Speaker 2: of like sneak it out and see what people think
Speaker 2: of it, so you know, maybe it's coming hopefully.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think the world is ready.
Speaker 2: I'm working on it.
Speaker 1: Love to hear it. Would you ever do Broadway?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I would love to do Broadway.
Speaker 4: I'm terrified to speak in public, really, yes, And I
Speaker 4: have been offered stuff before, and I'm the singing part
Speaker 4: I could totally do.
Speaker 2: But the idea of standing in front of an audience
Speaker 2: and having to like say words, I think I would
Speaker 2: pass out, Like I would be the first person opening
Speaker 2: night to pass out on Broadway.
Speaker 1: But you're on a set with like three hundred people
Speaker 1: staring at you.
Speaker 2: I know, and I don't know what it is. There's
Speaker 2: just something about like famously literally like when I would
Speaker 2: go and do like announcements on award shows and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, I always they would try to get me
Speaker 2: to do it by myself, and I would always have
Speaker 2: to walk on stage with someone and literally right before
Speaker 2: you walk out on the American Music Awards or something,
Speaker 2: I would be like, dude, I amrified, Like you got
Speaker 2: to hold my hand or I have to squeeze your
Speaker 2: arm or slat because I was petrified, Like I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is or why. Maybe something happened to
Speaker 2: me in another life on a Shakespearean stage perhaps, but
Speaker 2: I am really scared. If I could get over it,
Speaker 2: I would love to do Broadway. I really would.
Speaker 1: But I always thought, Actually, my cousin and I both think,
Speaker 1: because we love theater, we love musical theater, we think
Speaker 1: you'd be an Amazingnessa and wicked.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, thank you m hm, so really.
Speaker 1: Nice, just like leaving that one there for you in
Speaker 1: case Nessa.
Speaker 2: Have lara ingitis and not be able to talk.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're rewriting the show, but okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I'll be fine, yeah, yeah, but let's just say we'll
Speaker 1: leave that one there, and maybe you'll feel inspired to
Speaker 1: reach out to casting.
Speaker 2: Give me in the Clash Menagerie where I don't saying.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we just sit there. We have some
Speaker 1: things to work through for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: We're gonna work through it for training, and then it'll
Speaker 2: be fine.
Speaker 1: Okay. To be continued on that front. To be continued,
Speaker 1: Let's do two more fun ones. Let's see is there
Speaker 1: a movie and a television show of yours that when
Speaker 1: it comes on you have to watch it or you
Speaker 1: sometimes feel nostalgic and are like, I want to put
Speaker 1: it on.
Speaker 2: Got Whisper for sure, such an easy watch. Love that show,
Speaker 2: And yes I am that person who will watch herself
Speaker 2: in the Ghostwhisper. If I'm flipping channels, then it's on.
Speaker 2: Movie wise, Heartbreakers probably only because it was like such
Speaker 2: a swe Heartbreakers to me still feels like a thing
Speaker 2: that didn't actually happen. Like the whole time that I
Speaker 2: was on that movie, I felt like I was a
Speaker 2: person who had entered like one of those random contests
Speaker 2: on the radio to like win a part in a movie,
Speaker 2: right because I would like look around and there would
Speaker 2: be Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta and Sigourn me, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, what am I doing here in no clothing? Like?
Speaker 2: Why am I here? What is happening? Why is my
Speaker 2: butt gonna be like giant on a screen? In like
Speaker 2: the first ten minutes of the movie, Like the whole
Speaker 2: thing just felt not real. And so whenever it's on
Speaker 2: or like somebody's like, hey, I want to watch Party,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, me too, same because I have to
Speaker 2: remind myself that I actually got the chance to like
Speaker 2: be in that like I was invited to be in
Speaker 2: that movie. It was such a wild experience.
Speaker 1: And you know what's so interesting about that movie. There's
Speaker 1: so many there's so much dialogue and so many different choices,
Speaker 1: both you and Sigourney and everyone makes that I feel
Speaker 1: like when you watch it, you see different things for
Speaker 1: the first time, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because we had all of our you know,
Speaker 2: common like personas, I guess that we had to Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was, it was. It was wild.
Speaker 1: All I know is after I watched that movie, I
Speaker 1: was walking around saying, may I grab your nuts and
Speaker 1: salty like on repeat?
Speaker 2: Sing it was my favorite thing to say to my
Speaker 2: mom and grandmother. It makes them really uncomfortable. My grandmother
Speaker 2: and my mom. By the way, we're there the day
Speaker 2: that I was attached to Raleiota's crotch for twelve hours,
Speaker 2: No oh oh yeah, I mean just to make it
Speaker 2: worse for me. Yeah, it was why my grandmother was
Speaker 2: like she had this big, big Texas I just She's
Speaker 2: just like, sweetie, now, what exactly is happening in this
Speaker 2: part of the movie. But I'd be like, uh, yeah
Speaker 2: it was. Oh that movie was wonderful. It really was
Speaker 2: so fun.
Speaker 1: How do you I mean, I know it's your job
Speaker 1: and you're an actor and this is like what you do,
Speaker 1: but when you go to a shoot like that and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, like for twelve hours, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be attached to other actors crotch, Like, yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you prepare for that?
Speaker 2: I mean I think I had to like not even
Speaker 2: think about it because I was I was only twenty
Speaker 2: two or twenty three when we to that movie. But
Speaker 2: I will say, like, if you're gonna have to do
Speaker 2: that with anyone, it should be Rayle Leota because he
Speaker 2: was the most wonderful, extraordinary man, like just made me
Speaker 2: feel so comfortable, was so kind, made all of the
Speaker 2: right jokes about it to like just dissolve the situation.
Speaker 2: But also it was like, you know, checking on me
Speaker 2: and making sure that like mentally I was good physically
Speaker 2: I was like, it was just you know, and it
Speaker 2: was so funny with like my mom and my grandmother
Speaker 2: and you know, apologizing in person and for that being
Speaker 2: our day of work. He was just great. So you know,
Speaker 2: I think he had a lot to do with how
Speaker 2: easy that was. But yeah, I think I just that
Speaker 2: whole movie. I was just like, I can't even think
Speaker 2: about what I'm doing right now. It's just wild.
Speaker 1: Well, another brilliant performance. We love to see it. And
Speaker 1: the last mixing it up question, I think you know
Speaker 1: what's coming.
Speaker 2: M hmm, I think you do. I think you do.
Speaker 1: So let's see how we handle this one. Okay, Internet detectives,
Speaker 1: the sleuths if you suse, we have seen that I
Speaker 1: know what you did last summer has begun production.
Speaker 2: It has.
Speaker 1: They have also seen that Freddy Prince Junior has been
Speaker 1: on set. Yeah, it has released some stories saying he's
Speaker 1: finished filming, which have come into question if they are
Speaker 1: real or not. Stories. Also, my own sleuth thing has
Speaker 1: detected that you have went from You've gone from shorter
Speaker 1: hair to longer hair, looking a little bit more like
Speaker 1: Julie James. Oh interesting, and you have a little time
Speaker 1: off before going back to nine one one, So are
Speaker 1: you possibly preparing to be Julie James again?
Speaker 2: I am possibly preparing for that. The hair change had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with that. I just needed something new.
Speaker 2: I get very bored with my hair very quickly, and
Speaker 2: because of some things that are going to be coming
Speaker 2: up on nine on one, it felt like a good
Speaker 2: time to sort of change it up. So that's what
Speaker 2: the hair change is for. I am so close to
Speaker 2: being able to say something that's exciting, but it has
Speaker 2: been very hard to do. And I want to clarify
Speaker 2: this because so many people have been like like literally
Speaker 2: the line in the movie, what are you waiting for?
Speaker 2: Like what is happening right? And it has only been
Speaker 2: scheduling and then me trying to make sure that if
Speaker 2: I go back to the franchise, I just don't want
Speaker 2: to be the ghost of like nineties past. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like oooh I am you know, she like dissolves
Speaker 2: off and like I really want to do something and
Speaker 2: I want to be there for Julie James fans, and
Speaker 2: so we have just been trying to figure it out,
Speaker 2: and I think we're really close to figuring it out,
Speaker 2: and I will be really I will be as excited
Speaker 2: as everyone else if I can, if I can say
Speaker 2: that officially very soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that makes sense. You want something like juicy
Speaker 1: worth going back for Yeah, I just I.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to like matter, you know, and not even
Speaker 2: for like the new fans that I know you did
Speaker 2: last summer, but for the moms who will be paying
Speaker 2: for those tickets to take their kids because they loved
Speaker 2: it the first one. I just want it to feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, if she comes back, then it means something.
Speaker 2: But what do we think about this hair? If I
Speaker 2: did come back, do we feel like this is a
Speaker 2: good like evolved twenty seven years later.
Speaker 1: Julie, I think the hair is perfect for new Julie James.
Speaker 1: I do, Okay, I really do.
Speaker 2: The first thing with this hair that you were the
Speaker 2: deciding factor.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh wow, I love it. You know what I think.
Speaker 1: I think it's perfect. And what I will say, the
Speaker 1: last thing I'll say is, presumably with these conversations going on,
Speaker 1: and you want to come back, if there's a juicy
Speaker 1: reason to come back.
Speaker 2: Four.
Speaker 1: I think it seemed to say in the script, perhaps
Speaker 1: truly is already in there.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yep, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I know I can't get much more
Speaker 1: out of you. We're going to leave it at that,
Speaker 1: but we're leaving on a hopeful note.
Speaker 2: With this very hopeful.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say is, just like your
Speaker 1: song in the first one, how do ideal we need?
Speaker 1: We're going to need another one.
Speaker 2: So if that's what I said, it needs to come
Speaker 2: as another song. I know I'm working on that too.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: It must be fun for you to hear how excited
Speaker 1: people are and all the curiosity around you returning. I mean,
Speaker 1: that movie really does mean so much to people. So
Speaker 1: aside from like I'm sure always hearing about how people
Speaker 1: want you to come back, it must be fun to
Speaker 1: go through this again.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's amazing. It's amazing. And I said
Speaker 2: that to them when they came and even talked to
Speaker 2: us about it, Like what an honor it is twenty
Speaker 2: seven years later to even be thought of to come back,
Speaker 2: Because the truth is they could do it without us.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't, but they could do it. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: And it's really nice that they don't want to, you know,
Speaker 2: so I appreciate that, and I really appreciate that it
Speaker 2: matters to the fans so much, because that's truly the
Speaker 2: only people I care about in the circumstance, and so
Speaker 2: I really want to give them. I want to give
Speaker 2: them the answer that they want and that I want.
Speaker 2: And we're yeah, we're very hopeful at this point.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait, I have just one more on this. Okay,
Speaker 1: have you heard anything about possibly Randy returning?
Speaker 2: I have heard that, yes, Okay, Because they were besties
Speaker 2: in the movie, I had to remind myself, if I'm
Speaker 2: being totally honest, I had to go through both movies
Speaker 2: and remind myself who had died and who had it
Speaker 2: because I'm in my forties, so I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: can that person come back? And then no, oh no, no,
Speaker 2: oh yeah no that was that one was bloody. But
Speaker 2: I was like because my first thought was we have
Speaker 2: to have Jack Black, and then I was like, oh no,
Speaker 2: he died. Yeah, so yeah, I had to go. I
Speaker 2: had to run through real quick and just make.
Speaker 1: Sure something you just can't come back from, like Jack Bike.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it just can't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are a little mixed on.
Speaker 2: But she's I mean, she was frozen and nice. My
Speaker 2: head was off. I mean it's pretty I don't know
Speaker 2: that we can be I don't know we can be
Speaker 2: confused about that one. But but yes, And then I
Speaker 2: just heard that there's this whole thing where they think
Speaker 2: that Sarah and I were fighting or something. Have you
Speaker 2: heard this? Really? All these things out there? And I
Speaker 2: was like yeah, and that, like, yeah, it's been really fun.
Speaker 2: I've I've really enjoyed going and like trying to read
Speaker 2: the stuff now and be like, what are people saying
Speaker 2: about when we did the movie before? You know, now
Speaker 2: all of that stuff and there somebody somebody the other
Speaker 2: day was like, yeah, I think Julie made sure that
Speaker 2: she was killed because girl actresses don't like to work
Speaker 2: with girl And I was like, what are you I
Speaker 2: was eighteen, they were not taking script notes from me. Guys,
Speaker 2: Like what are you talking about? There were probably friends totally,
Speaker 2: I mean all of us were like in that experience
Speaker 2: together kind of you know, figuring it all out and everything,
Speaker 2: and I root for her and Freddie and like, I
Speaker 2: think it's the cutest thing in the world that they've
Speaker 2: been married for one hundred years and have kids and
Speaker 2: it's like adorable. So yeah, no, it's just been really
Speaker 2: funny to see all of the stuff that people think.
Speaker 2: But yes, I have also heard the Brandy murmer and
Speaker 2: and yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a lot of good information. All I
Speaker 1: know is if you're not in a little crop top
Speaker 1: running around.
Speaker 2: Again, oh god, there will not be a crop top
Speaker 2: that can. I tell you the funniest story, honestly, my
Speaker 2: son Atticus when thought it was the most innocent sweet thing,
Speaker 2: but it killed. It was like I was dead, Like
Speaker 2: it was really funny. He was watching the movie and
Speaker 2: he came running out and he was like, Mommy, I
Speaker 2: just saw the weirdest thing. He was like, there was
Speaker 2: this stuff up here, and I was like, sweetie, that's
Speaker 2: where mommy's boobs used to be. Good.
Speaker 1: Stop. Stop.
Speaker 2: It was like it was so innocent. So so he
Speaker 2: was so worried about what was up there because he's
Speaker 2: so used to them being lower. Because I'm in my
Speaker 2: forties and I sped three children. So I made the
Speaker 2: joke the other day. I was like, guys, if this happened,
Speaker 2: like we're gonna have to tie him up over my
Speaker 2: ears and invite him back up.
Speaker 1: For the next movie.
Speaker 2: Push up true like Marionette's holding them up as I
Speaker 2: run through something. Oh my god, it was hilarious. It
Speaker 2: made me laugh so hard.
Speaker 1: It was that's pretty amazing, and then.
Speaker 2: Confused as to how they ended up this way. It
Speaker 2: was very funny.
Speaker 1: That might be the headline for the entire interview. Oh god, great,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know I'm serious. That's that's really
Speaker 1: really really cute. That's really cute. And going off of
Speaker 1: that and giving you some flowers for a minute. On
Speaker 1: a serious note, like I said earlier, you've been working
Speaker 1: your whole career and since you were a kid, and
Speaker 1: you've done so many different genres and categories and film
Speaker 1: and TV and music. Are you to point in your
Speaker 1: life and in your career where you can look back
Speaker 1: at everything you've done and say, like, man, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: proud of me, Like I've I've done it, like I've
Speaker 1: accomplished my dreams. Because it's so hard for all of
Speaker 1: us to do that, and not that we sit around
Speaker 1: doing that, but do you feel like you can look
Speaker 1: at all of that and say, wow, I genuinely am
Speaker 1: proud of me.
Speaker 2: I do. I do feel proud. I do feel proud,
Speaker 2: and I feel proud because I think along the way,
Speaker 2: if you had asked me a million different times, I
Speaker 2: would have said, I don't know, it might be over tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, Like I just have always been,
Speaker 2: you know, worried about that. And so it is really
Speaker 2: nice to sit now at forty five and be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I did that, Like I did what I wanted to do,
Speaker 2: and I'm still going and I and it's so fun
Speaker 2: for me that, like I still get nervous to go
Speaker 2: to work. I still get worried when things are going
Speaker 2: to come out, if people are going to like them.
Speaker 2: I still you know, care about Julie James and like
Speaker 2: how to make that great for people. And you know,
Speaker 2: I have not lost my love for this job, like
Speaker 2: even a little. And that is awesome and I feel
Speaker 2: like that is a success in itself. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: am proud of what I've been able to do and
Speaker 2: hope that I get to continue for a long time.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good to hear. I think it's always nice
Speaker 1: when you can reflect back and have a moment of
Speaker 1: praise for yourself because none of us do it enough?
Speaker 2: You know, I know, don't.
Speaker 1: We don't, we don't. I think that's super cool. Well,
Speaker 1: as we wrap up this conversation, oh boy, here we
Speaker 1: go the name of the show. Oh you know what's coming.
Speaker 1: It's called I've never said this before, And the show
Speaker 1: is born because I cover a lot of red carpets
Speaker 1: and junkets and you get like three minutes, maybe six
Speaker 1: minutes if you're lucky, at a junk get to talk
Speaker 1: to people. And I just saw this longing in people's eyes,
Speaker 1: wanting to talk about things a bit more substantial, right,
Speaker 1: and a bit more a bit more real life, which
Speaker 1: we've done a lot today already. But I'm wondering, is
Speaker 1: there anything that comes to mind for you that you've
Speaker 1: never said before that you wanted to say or share today,
Speaker 1: whatever that means to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it does sort of fit with what
Speaker 2: we have been talking about a little bit. I do.
Speaker 2: I think I've never said out loud before to anyone,
Speaker 2: maybe other than my husband, and that I have a
Speaker 2: real fear as a mom about the kind of mom
Speaker 2: I'm going to be when my kids are teenagers. And
Speaker 2: it kind of goes back into what we were talking
Speaker 2: about before in that I just don't have like I
Speaker 2: never went to high school, like walk down to high school.
Speaker 2: I mean I did the school work of high school
Speaker 2: and I graduated and I but I did it on
Speaker 2: a set. I never went to a high school party
Speaker 2: other than can't hardly wait. I haven't had those experiences.
Speaker 2: And right now I feel like I really thrive as
Speaker 2: a mom because the kid in me can throw a
Speaker 2: magical party and it can you know, make a magical
Speaker 2: movie theater moment or you know, whatever it is. And
Speaker 2: like the kid in me is thriving as a mom.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to being a teenager or a
Speaker 2: grown up, you know, kind of going into your grown
Speaker 2: up place as a I really worry, like it panics
Speaker 2: me a lot that I'm going to fail somehow because
Speaker 2: I don't have those life experiences. And thankfully my husband
Speaker 2: does and he was he lived a very normal teenage life.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to fail them that way, Like
Speaker 2: I really want to thrive and be there for them
Speaker 2: and do that and not like weirdly want to show
Speaker 2: up at the prom because I never about to go
Speaker 2: to one, Like I could just see myself like also
Speaker 2: coming down the stairs and She's all that moment and
Speaker 2: Autumn being like not now, this is not your time,
Speaker 2: you know, Like I just want to I just want
Speaker 2: to be there for them, and I want to I
Speaker 2: want to know all the things. But I don't have
Speaker 2: those life experiences, and it gives me a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 1: So how do you calm that? Or can you not?
Speaker 2: I can't. I mean, I think I just have to
Speaker 2: do my best. Yeah, Like I think I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: have to do my best. And and I think maybe
Speaker 2: I said it to Autumn the other day because she's
Speaker 2: eleven now, and you know, we were kind of talking
Speaker 2: about it, and she was like, what was it like
Speaker 2: when you were eleven? And I was like, oh boy,
Speaker 2: here we go. I was at auditions, like I have
Speaker 2: no I have no reference for her that's going to
Speaker 2: be helpful. But I told her how I felt inside.
Speaker 2: And so I feel like, maybe I'm just going to
Speaker 2: have to go with my gut and maybe I'm just
Speaker 2: going to learn a lot. Like I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe there's a part of me that's
Speaker 2: going to go and experience it, maybe for the first time,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to have to be okay with that.
Speaker 2: And maybe there will be something beautiful that comes out
Speaker 2: of it, but it makes me very afraid.
Speaker 1: Well, after reading your book and after talking to you
Speaker 1: for almost an hour, it's clear you know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and your family is very lucky to have you, and
Speaker 1: I think you know it's it's normal to feel all
Speaker 1: those things. But yeah, something tells me you're going to
Speaker 1: be just fine. Just don't show up in the prom
Speaker 1: ball gown. Please wait?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I won't. Maybe for my fiftieth I'll
Speaker 2: throw myself a prom How about that?
Speaker 1: Oh that would be so cute.
Speaker 2: Right you want to call me?
Speaker 1: Yes, I am a great you could come from. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love that so much, Jennifer, love you.
Speaker 1: What a pleasure this is been today. I could talk
Speaker 1: to you for four more hours. I just I am.
Speaker 2: I had such a good sign.
Speaker 1: Oh you're you're a brilliant artist. This book is brilliant.
Speaker 1: Inheriting magic is out now. Where can people grab it?
Speaker 2: Barnes and Noble, Amazon, all the all the places, I think,
Speaker 2: And I'm really really grateful, and I just hope that
Speaker 2: they love it so much.
Speaker 1: And Holiday Junkie is out.
Speaker 2: Yes on the fourteenth at eight pm. On Lifetime.
Speaker 1: Okay, so read the book, watch the movie, get in
Speaker 1: the festive spirit, and thank you so much for hanging out.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
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