Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and thanks so much for joining us, and
Speaker 1: yet another park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind every week
Speaker 1: every week now, I say it, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: I know, because we get the good ones.
Speaker 3: We are so lucky on this podcast to get these
Speaker 3: amazing actors that had a huge start at the Channel.
Speaker 1: It's just incredible with these amazing stories of how they
Speaker 1: got there and how they got their career.
Speaker 4: And man, today is going to be no different. I
Speaker 4: don't even want to wait anymore. I don't want to
Speaker 4: waity more.
Speaker 1: I just have to say Pixel Perfect, go figure, just
Speaker 1: Disney Channel all over the place. Can you please help
Speaker 1: us welcome because wait to you hear just what it's
Speaker 1: like to learn how to play hockey in three weeks.
Speaker 4: Tanya Ganadi, Hi.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 5: Yes, I am so excited.
Speaker 6: So Okay, honestly, I've been like creepily stalking you.
Speaker 5: Guys last one month.
Speaker 6: I feel like I know a little too much and
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh my god, I have now to have
Speaker 6: a creepy stalker.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then before we ask you any questions, did
Speaker 1: you want to interview us and figure out what's going on?
Speaker 5: Yes, you know what I want to know.
Speaker 6: There's something that I think the audience don't know yet.
Speaker 4: Which is?
Speaker 5: Which is?
Speaker 6: How about we start with you tell us a secret
Speaker 6: that no one ever ever knows about yourself.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, jeez.
Speaker 5: I was like, tell us something so juicy.
Speaker 6: Oh juicy, secretive, maybe maybe embarrassing.
Speaker 4: I don't, let see what would be a you see,
Speaker 4: I don't. I feel like I live my life in
Speaker 4: the open. So I'm trying to think of what people
Speaker 4: don't know about me.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have one, will I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure I have much. I'm just trying to this interview.
Speaker 3: It'll pop in my head out I'll have to take
Speaker 3: a break from it and tell you guys when it happens.
Speaker 1: Well, Sabrina knows that I had never seen cheetah girls
Speaker 1: before she and I met.
Speaker 4: That's not that's no secret. So that one.
Speaker 6: I even I found out. I also know you don't
Speaker 6: like musical and likes music.
Speaker 1: That's true, that is very true. I'm trying to get better.
Speaker 1: I am trying to get all right. Sometime during this interview,
Speaker 1: I'm going to think of something. Yeah, I can tell you.
Speaker 2: Telling you it's going to pop in I just can't
Speaker 2: do on the spot things.
Speaker 4: You see a secret.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've just.
Speaker 3: Done so many interviews and I've just built, like you know,
Speaker 3: I'm like an open book, like it's like.
Speaker 4: Okay wait. In the third grade.
Speaker 1: To impress a girl at camp, I did a break
Speaker 1: dancing show. Oh, I mean, with the parachute pants and
Speaker 1: the Nike jacket spinning on the cardboard, the whole.
Speaker 3: Thing who swears to the high heavens he doesn't have
Speaker 3: a dance bone in his body, that is true.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: I did a break at I can't even remember the
Speaker 1: name of the campus with my friend Paul Matthews. And
Speaker 1: it started as that we had a toga party that
Speaker 1: night and we were the only people that went there
Speaker 1: dressed in togas, and the only sheet I had was
Speaker 1: a fitted sheet, and so the whole thing looked ridiculous
Speaker 1: and I was about to cry, and my camp counselor said,
Speaker 1: why don't you just go back to put on regular clothes,
Speaker 1: But instead I got full breakdance regalia and went and
Speaker 1: break danced in front of everybody.
Speaker 4: So there's mine.
Speaker 5: Did that go well? Though?
Speaker 2: Or was it did?
Speaker 4: Actually? It did? The girl who wouldn't even talk to me.
Speaker 1: Spent the whole night talking to me wondering how I
Speaker 1: learned how to break dance.
Speaker 4: All it was, it was a career. I could have
Speaker 4: gone with it. I could have gone with her crew.
Speaker 2: We're a liar this full time. Oh my gosh, oh
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us here.
Speaker 1: We are so excited because this is a rare opportunity
Speaker 1: where not only are we having an actor come on,
Speaker 1: who has been in two huge movies so far.
Speaker 4: On the channel, but both that we've already.
Speaker 2: Covered, yes over both of them.
Speaker 1: We are so excited that we know everything about the
Speaker 1: movies that you've been in, and we cannot wait to
Speaker 1: hear how you went from you know, being in a
Speaker 1: rock band to figure skating or ice skating, back and
Speaker 1: forth hockey the cool band. But we always started the
Speaker 1: same place, which is, how did you decide to become
Speaker 1: an actor?
Speaker 4: What is your origin story in the acting world?
Speaker 6: Okay, well mine is let's see, it was an accident
Speaker 6: kind of so I was working. Okay, So first of all,
Speaker 6: I'm from Indonesia, so I didn't speak English until I
Speaker 6: got a green card.
Speaker 5: I got a green card, lottery.
Speaker 6: And when I want a lottery, my mom said, well
Speaker 6: you're going to America.
Speaker 5: Now you got to speak English.
Speaker 6: I was like I was learning when I was fifteen
Speaker 6: and then anyway, so when I got to the States,
Speaker 6: I brought two hundred dollars and I thought I was rich.
Speaker 6: Get in Indonesia, two hundred dollars is three million. And
Speaker 6: then after like a week, I ran out and my
Speaker 6: brother said, well, you need to get a job.
Speaker 5: And I was like, but I don't know what a
Speaker 5: job is.
Speaker 6: Because I was living in Indonesia as like a middle class,
Speaker 6: so I didn't have to work, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, one hundred dollars is rich, like I was
Speaker 5: like living great, you know.
Speaker 6: And so I my brother hooked me up to work
Speaker 6: at Pizza Hut. Okay, And because I used to be
Speaker 6: a boss, like you know, and a teenager in Indonesia.
Speaker 5: I had no idea what to do with serving or
Speaker 5: like counting money or cooking food or things like that.
Speaker 6: And literally my first job, I was like a customer
Speaker 6: service relation picking up the phone. And because I didn't
Speaker 6: understand English, I can only read English.
Speaker 5: So after I say welcome to Pizza Hut, home with
Speaker 5: the Bigfoot and then they started ordering and I had
Speaker 5: no idea.
Speaker 6: I was just like pressing buttons and so then I
Speaker 6: got demoted within one week cook and then again I
Speaker 6: don't know how to cook, so I don't know what
Speaker 6: pepperoni or sausage.
Speaker 5: I just put things.
Speaker 6: And I got demoted again and we needed to wash dishes,
Speaker 6: and then I had no idea. They said you have
Speaker 6: to use hot water, so I wash it with my
Speaker 6: bare hands and burned.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 6: The manager's like, here's the red clombs. And so finally
Speaker 6: on the fourth week, I the only job I have
Speaker 6: was cleaning bathrooms.
Speaker 5: But I was very happy.
Speaker 6: So I was very cheery, you know, because I was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, I'm in America and all. And then
Speaker 6: someone said to me, hey, if you are so cheery
Speaker 6: cleaning bathroom, you should audition for a Disneyland commercial.
Speaker 5: They're having like an open call looking for cheery girls.
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, that's me.
Speaker 6: And I had no idea what audition is or like
Speaker 6: that it's in Hollywood and I was in Monterey Park.
Speaker 6: But the guy said to me, but it's five hundred
Speaker 6: dollars and at the time I was only making like
Speaker 6: seven fifty an hour. And so I took the bus,
Speaker 6: went to this open call audition, no idea what I
Speaker 6: was doing, and I booked it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and all I had to do was like screaming and.
Speaker 6: Like yeah and pretending I was in the roller coaster.
Speaker 6: So then I booked at Disneyland commercial for three days.
Speaker 5: They picked me up in a limbo.
Speaker 6: They took me to Disneyland and I had like three
Speaker 6: days of fun. Fifteen hundred dollars later, I was like,
Speaker 6: I called my mom and I said, Mom, I finally
Speaker 6: have a dream.
Speaker 4: After Oh wait, how long How long had you been
Speaker 4: here by the time that you got that commercial?
Speaker 5: Probably like eight months?
Speaker 4: Oh how old were you?
Speaker 5: No, maybe like a month. But you know it's very
Speaker 5: close because I got demoted so fast.
Speaker 2: Were you above eighteen? Were you here on your own?
Speaker 5: I was barely eighteen. So my god, My my sister
Speaker 5: was a very smart, smart girl.
Speaker 6: So she got a sponsorship from USC and so she
Speaker 6: was here and then she saved money to sponsor my brother.
Speaker 5: But when it comes to me, they all gave up
Speaker 5: on me, and they're like, is just gonna she doesn't
Speaker 5: do great?
Speaker 4: I can't with this.
Speaker 2: This is so good, wow, amazing.
Speaker 6: My gosh, because in Indonesia you have to have one
Speaker 6: person to stay with your parents to take care of
Speaker 6: them when they're older.
Speaker 5: OK, let's just put Tanya there.
Speaker 1: Geez.
Speaker 4: Now wait, you meant you mentioned something that that's really interesting.
Speaker 4: What what exactly is a green card lottery?
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 6: So this was like a long long time ago Green
Speaker 6: Guard Lottery was like this. Nowadays it's all online. But
Speaker 6: in the past, every country in the world can submit
Speaker 6: to the unit to the US via envelopes, and you can,
Speaker 6: you know, submit a lot and then they will put
Speaker 6: it in the I don't know, a bucket or something,
Speaker 6: and somebody will pick up the name and so they
Speaker 6: would allocate like for example, okay, if you are from Spain,
Speaker 6: you can get like maybe I don't know, two hundred
Speaker 6: winners and then Indonesia ten winners, or like if you're
Speaker 6: from France, maybe three thousand winners, you know. And however,
Speaker 6: at the time, you are allowed to send as many
Speaker 6: envelopes as you want. Oh wow, Okay, So in Indonesia,
Speaker 6: a lot of my neighbors they are like very rich, right,
Speaker 6: so they would send literally ten thousand envelopes. Whoa but
Speaker 6: each envelope it costs like expensive to go to get
Speaker 6: the posted right, And so my mom said to me,
Speaker 6: you know, there's no chance for you, Like you know,
Speaker 6: She's like, but you know what your sister forced me.
Speaker 6: We'll just send one envelope and then we'll call it done.
Speaker 4: And it's they said, one envelope and you got picked.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that is.
Speaker 3: Well that just shows you it was meant to be,
Speaker 3: Like it was meant to be for you to come,
Speaker 3: for you to get this amazing opportunity on to do
Speaker 3: a Disneyland commercial.
Speaker 2: How fun for you. That's just so awesome. And then
Speaker 2: from from there, where did you go? So you had
Speaker 2: you got?
Speaker 3: Did you just find yourself an agent? After that is
Speaker 3: what ended up happening.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, when that happened, I thought I was like,
Speaker 5: you know, hey, my first audition I booked hid this
Speaker 5: is so easy. It was like telling everybody. I'm like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, like you know, fifteen hundred dollars is
Speaker 5: like so easy. I can get it in one day
Speaker 5: and limosine coming to my house. So I started like.
Speaker 6: Auditioning literally for one maybe like I don't know, nine
Speaker 6: months to a year. I couldn't even get a single
Speaker 6: callback yeah, really bad. And then I met another actor
Speaker 6: and the actor said, Tanya, do you know that your
Speaker 6: English is really bad? Like I barely understand you. And
Speaker 6: he's like, and acting is not just screaming on a
Speaker 6: roller coaster. You have to say lines. And he said, so,
Speaker 6: how do you say the lines when you get sides?
Speaker 6: I said, I don't know, I.
Speaker 5: Just read it. And he's like, no, honey, you got
Speaker 5: to take an acting class. It's this is not you know.
Speaker 6: And so I I took like acting classes four times
Speaker 6: a week. I went to get voice coach, like dict coach,
Speaker 6: and I was like working literally twenty four or seven.
Speaker 6: I was just like so consumed by it. And then
Speaker 6: I realized, I'm like, oh, I said, this is what
Speaker 6: it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5: And I was so excited. And then I got the
Speaker 5: Even Stevens was my very first acting job.
Speaker 4: Wow with my with my good friend Christy Carlson.
Speaker 2: Yes, we love, weally love Christy.
Speaker 5: She's so cute.
Speaker 4: Christie's my bud.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think I saw will you and Christie did
Speaker 6: something a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: You were doing the Kim Possible.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did Kim Possible together for years.
Speaker 1: So then we you know, for whenever we could get
Speaker 1: back together, do you conventions or any of the fun stuff,
Speaker 1: we would we would continue to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's one of my favorite people in the world.
Speaker 5: Have you guys ever did it or no?
Speaker 1: No, No, we're both you know, both kids from Connecticut
Speaker 1: and both became just friends. But no, she was, especially
Speaker 1: when we met, she was a lot younger than me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, you look.
Speaker 5: Super young right now. So I have no idea. I
Speaker 5: can't tell.
Speaker 4: Oh, I appreciate that I'm I'm I always say. My
Speaker 4: wife doesn't like how I say it, but I always
Speaker 4: say I'm almost fifty because I am almost fifty. I'm
Speaker 4: forty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're almost thirty five.
Speaker 1: Oh that well, that's very And this is why we'd
Speaker 1: like to announce Tanya is our new co host on
Speaker 1: pod Mets on pod Meets.
Speaker 4: World on a Magical rewind.
Speaker 1: We've now got Tanya here because she's gonna constantly tell
Speaker 1: me that I look like I'm thirty five.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Well take it.
Speaker 4: Then, most of your career, especially at the beginning, was
Speaker 4: all Disney.
Speaker 6: Yes, so okay, I always say to people that I
Speaker 6: feel that Disney is a company like I am their
Speaker 6: number one fan. Like if I talk about Disney, I
Speaker 6: can literally cry because I feel like, I feel like
Speaker 6: Disney is like the genie, you know, like who grant
Speaker 6: me wishes, because like my first dream was you know,
Speaker 6: it was because of the Disneyland. And then my first
Speaker 6: acting job was even Stevens. And then Disney gave me
Speaker 6: a chance to you know, like audition for that go
Speaker 6: figure and fix out perfect and my English was not great.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I had to like take all the script to the
Speaker 6: voice coach for like literally two weeks, you know, to
Speaker 6: be able to speak so that people can kind of understand.
Speaker 5: But I just love that Disney would.
Speaker 6: When I was auditioning for it, you know, I had
Speaker 6: not gone to the voice coach yet, right, but they
Speaker 6: gave me a chance and the opportunity, and ever since
Speaker 6: then until now, I think once a year at least
Speaker 6: I would audition and get something Disney oriented, whether it's
Speaker 6: voiceover or things like that, or you know, like a
Speaker 6: show like I was on Girl Meets World.
Speaker 2: I know you were.
Speaker 5: I think I saw you at the time. I don't
Speaker 5: know if if it was just my imagination or you
Speaker 5: went to the set one day.
Speaker 4: It's possible.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they went crazy, like they're like I was like,
Speaker 6: and you were like, you were like surrounded by you know,
Speaker 6: people all the time.
Speaker 4: So that no, it's possible. I would go and I
Speaker 4: would visit that set. But I saw that girlment where. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you have had a storied Disney career absolutely. Now, as
Speaker 4: a kid, when you were in Indonesia, did you watch
Speaker 4: anything Disney growing up?
Speaker 6: So Disney did not come to Indonesia until around the
Speaker 6: year two thousand. Okay, we don't have Disney or Transformers
Speaker 6: or anything everything.
Speaker 5: When we were growing up, we have to watch Indonesian things.
Speaker 4: Like state run television something like that, I think, And
Speaker 4: maybe you're all right, maybe back then though, that's what.
Speaker 5: It was back then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then there is like a revolution things like that,
Speaker 6: and then now it's you know, it's a free country.
Speaker 4: So what I mean, were you watching children's programming of
Speaker 4: any kind when you were growing up? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So we own a video store and cool.
Speaker 6: Okay, So we actually own a video store at the front,
Speaker 6: but in the back it's an illegal.
Speaker 5: Video store where we get.
Speaker 6: Animations from Japan and then we record it all the
Speaker 6: way in the back near my room legally and then
Speaker 6: if the police came, my mom would have to like
Speaker 6: put the curtain and put my bed in front of it,
Speaker 6: pretending I'm like, I know, this is a horrible story.
Speaker 4: You know, it's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding your So you're bringing like like what
Speaker 1: was called the japan animation at the time or that
Speaker 1: kind of so like Akira and the old school kind
Speaker 1: of movies things like that, you were you were dubbing
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 5: We were we were not dubbing, we were just recording it.
Speaker 6: Okay, somebody already put like an Indonesian subtitles and then
Speaker 6: they go to our store and we have like a
Speaker 6: bazillion like you know, tapes and like recording record and
Speaker 6: then we would rent it out. It's uh, that is
Speaker 6: Japanese animation, Okay.
Speaker 4: Oh I loved that stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, man, was that because the same situation like
Speaker 3: that wasn't allowed into the country. So this is the
Speaker 3: only way they could see anything else besides what was
Speaker 3: available at Indonesia.
Speaker 6: Yes, and yeah you have to watch in the back,
Speaker 6: you know, And you're like, and then we also have
Speaker 6: like a lot of a Chinese kung fu and so
Speaker 6: and so those are the things that I watched literally guys,
Speaker 6: and I was like, wow, TV shows are different.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't.
Speaker 1: I just love the idea that you're you're recording and
Speaker 1: showing people just animation and Chinese kung fu movies that
Speaker 1: they're not normally allowed to see. You're bringing people entertainment
Speaker 1: they normally would have wouldn't have been allowed to have.
Speaker 4: That's so cool to me.
Speaker 2: My god, Oh, I love that your first big guest
Speaker 2: starring role, right was even Stephen?
Speaker 4: Yes, So what was shooting that? Like?
Speaker 5: Oh, that was amazing.
Speaker 6: It was my first time ever, you know, like finally
Speaker 6: speaking English words, you know, instead of just the Disneyland thing.
Speaker 5: And it was just an amazing time shooting it because,
Speaker 5: like you know, Shaya was.
Speaker 6: Like everyone was already jelling, right, I'm sure that's what
Speaker 6: it is with you guys, Like when you are in
Speaker 6: a movie or show where you're already jelling and you're
Speaker 6: doing the third movie or the season three, so as
Speaker 6: a guest star, you are like, hey, you know, and
Speaker 6: so you kind of I learned so much because I
Speaker 6: learned to be like, Okay, how do I not be needy?
Speaker 6: And I have to be like focused on my own work,
Speaker 6: you know, and not yet it's just all these things.
Speaker 6: It's hard to explain. But I think after I did
Speaker 6: even Stevens, actually, after I do every project, I always
Speaker 6: feel like I learned to be a better person. Like
Speaker 6: the thing that I learned the most is that the
Speaker 6: more I care about how people think about me, it's
Speaker 6: actually making my work bad because then I'm concerned about
Speaker 6: how I was perceived. And so I always like, okay,
Speaker 6: so I became like the nerd on set that I
Speaker 6: just focus on my lines and I practiced with the
Speaker 6: and after a while, nobody cares. They just they just think, Okay,
Speaker 6: there's a weird girl over there, and I'm used to it.
Speaker 5: I'm actually happy about it.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is hard to come on a set,
Speaker 3: you know, of a TV show that they're filming every week.
Speaker 2: You know they're working, they've been doing it for a
Speaker 2: long time. They've got that camaraderie and you got it come.
Speaker 2: And you were also a little bit older than the
Speaker 2: cast of.
Speaker 5: I was the only one eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they were all like younger, so they're going
Speaker 3: through totally different things too. Write like you're you're a
Speaker 3: grown up in like living here out of the country
Speaker 3: that you were raised in. I mean, you've got like
Speaker 3: all this world experience and they're really just like a younger, right.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of hard in general as well.
Speaker 6: Yes, And you know what's crazy though, these kids, all
Speaker 6: of them from even Stevens and like go figure picks
Speaker 6: up perfect, they're all bazillion times more mature than me
Speaker 6: because because no, I was, like I was, was very sheltered,
Speaker 6: like in Indonesia, you know, like I only do the
Speaker 6: same thing every day. You go home from school, you
Speaker 6: put all these illegal movies, you watch them all, you know,
Speaker 6: and then you play bicycle and you eat all kinds
Speaker 6: of food and then you do it again the next day.
Speaker 6: I was not like exploring anything. I have no clue about,
Speaker 6: like cultures, arts and all that. In fact, when I
Speaker 6: was a kid, my dream like all I want, I said,
Speaker 6: all I want is to work in a bank. And
Speaker 6: you know why, because I had never experienced AC in
Speaker 6: my house. So I and when I go to the bank,
Speaker 6: I see the teller and I see AC underneath her.
Speaker 6: And so I always tell my mom and God, please
Speaker 6: let me be a bank teller so I can experience AC.
Speaker 4: That was it.
Speaker 1: Geees.
Speaker 5: So when I see these.
Speaker 2: Kids you know, like.
Speaker 5: Jordan and everybody everyone's talking like they are like mature, And.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is that?
Speaker 4: What is that? Yeah? Reach out?
Speaker 1: Well that's the thing is we just we just spoke
Speaker 1: to Jordan not too long ago, and she was like
Speaker 1: thirteen when she did Go Figure.
Speaker 2: She felt really young compared to everyone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the idea that you even thought like even
Speaker 4: at thirteen, she was more mature than you were.
Speaker 5: She was the one telling me her and Leah Leah Pipes.
Speaker 6: Jordan would be like, Okay, Tanya, you know, because I
Speaker 6: have no idea what should I do? Like I feel
Speaker 6: like she was older than me and everyone was older
Speaker 6: than me, because it's like they were all like telling
Speaker 6: me what to do, and I was like, hey, what
Speaker 6: are they?
Speaker 5: It was really fun though.
Speaker 4: Oh man, so what so? Then the which one?
Speaker 1: This is what I was trying to figure out and
Speaker 1: I'd never like to look things up if I can
Speaker 1: avoid it. Which one was first, Pixel Perfect or go Figure?
Speaker 5: You know what I thought you would ask, So I
Speaker 5: actually researched that.
Speaker 4: I love how you have notes about your own career.
Speaker 4: I did picks up perfect first Pixel Perfect was first?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're in a in a rock band.
Speaker 3: You're in the Zeta Bytes and this kid has created
Speaker 3: an AI hologram singer.
Speaker 6: Yes, and by the way, let me just I just
Speaker 6: want to say something real quick, Sabrina, you are so cute.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you guys a quick secret?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Please, I haven't told you what my creepy is talking
Speaker 6: Sabrina before.
Speaker 4: Right. Oh, I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay. So my mom is a ballroom dancer doing that.
Speaker 5: That is like her number one thing. She's a teacher.
Speaker 6: She has her own studio in Indonesia. She's the first
Speaker 6: teacher actually who opens her own studio in my city.
Speaker 5: And so when Dancing at the Stars came.
Speaker 6: On again, we cannot watch it, and she can. I
Speaker 6: was already in America and she cannot watch it in Indonesia.
Speaker 6: But she heard about the show.
Speaker 5: Right, you must record it, you know, and then send
Speaker 5: it to me so I can look at all the
Speaker 5: most And.
Speaker 6: Still I would record and I would say, right, a
Speaker 6: season after season, and then Sabrina, you came on the show,
Speaker 6: Mom and I we fell in love, like we were like,
Speaker 6: oh obsessed. So I had never voted before, but when
Speaker 6: you came on, I voted like a psychotic person, you
Speaker 6: like Sirina, and I was so excited, right, and my
Speaker 6: mom was like, she one time took one of your
Speaker 6: recording and she did it for the anniverse. She followed
Speaker 6: you and even like made address that you were similar,
Speaker 6: and she performed that for the school's anniversary.
Speaker 5: I don't think she credited you. I think she and
Speaker 5: she yea.
Speaker 2: Which do you know which routine it was? Do you remember?
Speaker 5: I was trying to find the video, but I find it.
Speaker 5: It was so funny. And then when you left, we
Speaker 5: were so upset. I actually boycotted. I did not watch
Speaker 5: Dancing with the Stars for years.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, until my mom begged me and said,
Speaker 6: can you I have no more routines?
Speaker 1: Can you?
Speaker 5: Anyway? That was my story with you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Oh that's the best thing ever. No, you have to
Speaker 4: come and just be on every episode because you got
Speaker 4: to keep telling Sabrina that she's an amazing dancer and
Speaker 4: you love her and that I look like I'm thirty five.
Speaker 4: This has been the best episode I've ever done, only
Speaker 4: thirty six. There you go. I love it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love the.
Speaker 3: Dance community is amazing and I don't I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know if the loss have changed, but I know
Speaker 3: they have Dancing with the Stars and so much any countries.
Speaker 3: So if they don't have one in Indonesia yet, I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's coming because that that whole brand enfranchise for
Speaker 3: them is just huge, and they've been I mean, they're
Speaker 3: in India now, they're I mean, they're in I think Argentina,
Speaker 3: they're really everywhere.
Speaker 4: Your mom should try to bring it to Indonesia and
Speaker 4: be one of the judges. She should, she should should
Speaker 4: be great.
Speaker 5: I'm sure she's already, like she knows all these things.
Speaker 5: I think we stopped.
Speaker 6: Literally that year after you left, I lost all the
Speaker 6: like because you know, when you were like rooting for
Speaker 6: one person and then like and then after that you're like,
Speaker 6: oh I know.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: And honestly, seriously, that first season when we did leave
Speaker 3: early with that early elimination, the love that I mean
Speaker 3: I had during Cheetah Girls, you know, it was the
Speaker 3: Disney audience and those girls and boys and everyone that
Speaker 3: watches the channel. They're just such incredible fans. But like
Speaker 3: there were no fans like my dancy with this. Our
Speaker 3: fans pissed doing boycotts, doing like writing up to the
Speaker 3: I mean, you.
Speaker 4: Came in second right and people were kind of up
Speaker 4: in arms.
Speaker 3: No I got I got eliminated like week six, and
Speaker 3: they they were they were at the time saying that
Speaker 3: they thought I was like a front runner too, yeah,
Speaker 3: be in the final and when I when I left
Speaker 3: super early, I mean they were trying to get signatures
Speaker 3: to try.
Speaker 2: To get me back on. It was like, wow, I'm gone,
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 3: But I but we did get to do the tour after,
Speaker 3: which was great because then we got to meet the
Speaker 3: fans and you know, they were really amazing. But yeah,
Speaker 3: those Dancing with the Stars fans, they were like a
Speaker 3: mighty team. They were. They were so beautiful and amazing
Speaker 3: to me. I'm always just I was so appreciative. I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe that my story and journey like affected so
Speaker 3: many people on that show, because I was always very,
Speaker 3: very sad, but their support made it like just wow,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like my first just like oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: why I can't believe someone cares so much about out me,
Speaker 3: Like that's so crazy, you know.
Speaker 6: So you know, I have to say, though the fans
Speaker 6: are like that, it's it's because of you because you
Speaker 6: are like making us feel like you know, you are
Speaker 6: like beautiful, amazing, passionate's funny, and we were all like,
Speaker 6: you know, it was you always became like rabbit fans.
Speaker 3: Yes, I I I'm so appreciative of that, and it
Speaker 3: was It was great too because my partner Mark, that
Speaker 3: was his first season on the show too, So I
Speaker 3: was glad that we did get that support, just because
Speaker 3: you know, the the pros on that team or on
Speaker 3: that show aren't always guaranteed to come back that next year.
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh my gosh, like I just
Speaker 3: got eliminated. I know Mark so well. I want him
Speaker 3: to do well with his career, and oh I just
Speaker 3: ruined it for him, you know, That's what it felt like.
Speaker 3: But the fans made it sure that that did not happen.
Speaker 3: He came back and won with Chris Yamagucci that next year.
Speaker 3: He did fine, he was don't worry spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of singing and dancing, so you get Pixel
Speaker 1: Perfect and you're in a band in the movie, are
Speaker 1: you actually a musician?
Speaker 4: Do you sing and dance as well?
Speaker 6: So here's another thing that I mentioned about Disney being
Speaker 6: a genie, right when I was in high school.
Speaker 5: My dad is like the best dad. So this is
Speaker 5: how I grew up.
Speaker 6: Even we are middle class, right, middle class in Indonesia
Speaker 6: means that you're not wealthy, but you have enough to live.
Speaker 6: And my dad lets me do whatever I want, Like
Speaker 6: I'm changing hobbies NonStop.
Speaker 5: I want to learn guitar, I want to learn violin.
Speaker 6: I want to learn He's like, yeah, you can quit
Speaker 6: any time, start anything anytime. And my mom is amazing.
Speaker 6: She said, do not ever do chores. Okay, all you
Speaker 6: need to do is have fun. So all my life
Speaker 6: was like just you know, bicycling and doing all kinds
Speaker 6: of like extra activities.
Speaker 5: Like usually it's all musical instruments related.
Speaker 6: So drumming was something that I actually took lessons and
Speaker 6: I absolutely love playing the drums.
Speaker 5: But it is the most expensive thing the room and stuff.
Speaker 6: And I remember one day people say to me like, hey,
Speaker 6: you know what, You're wasting your parents' money. What is
Speaker 6: this drumming skill ever gonna do to you? Like you
Speaker 6: will never this will be useless forever and ever. So
Speaker 6: when I got an audition for the Fixed Out Perfect,
Speaker 6: so we did the audition and the callback right the
Speaker 6: final callback they wanted to see the final girls, see if.
Speaker 5: They're lying like like I kind of light and go figure,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
Speaker 6: Later maybe, or if they can actually play the drums.
Speaker 6: And so I said, I can play the drums. So
Speaker 6: they sent the director and the producer to a place
Speaker 6: of your choosing to show that you can play the drums.
Speaker 6: So I went to Burbank rehearsal studio and I brought
Speaker 6: you know music and I actually played the drums an
Speaker 6: Indonesian song that I learned with my dad's money, and
Speaker 6: I played it like really loud, and it was so exciting.
Speaker 5: And I booked the job that day.
Speaker 3: Wow wow man, because there to be honest, I mean,
Speaker 3: think about how many kids, especially I mean in you know,
Speaker 3: how many girls like are the drums isn't something that
Speaker 3: a lot of girls always play.
Speaker 2: So you were like a perfect gem for them that
Speaker 2: you were able to because so many people on.
Speaker 3: Their resume we talk about it all the time, and
Speaker 3: a lot of the interviewers we do were like, okay,
Speaker 3: so when it says fording.
Speaker 2: Could you really horse that ride or was that just
Speaker 2: on your resume?
Speaker 3: Everyone said they couldn't force back ride because it's like yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm sure I can get on a horse. I'm figuring.
Speaker 4: You just figure it out later. You lie and you
Speaker 4: just figure it out. Can I fly a plane? Sure,
Speaker 4: I can fly a plane. Of course I can't all
Speaker 4: figure it out.
Speaker 3: Could kill it because that drumming is not something I
Speaker 3: think you could just fake on camera and it actually
Speaker 3: look yeah right, I mean will dies When we do
Speaker 3: some of these other ones and there's a guy playing
Speaker 3: the guitar, he's like, he is not playing the guitar.
Speaker 4: It's like this weird drum thing. It's like you're not
Speaker 4: even faking playing the guitar. Good.
Speaker 3: So, I mean the drums the same thing, Like you
Speaker 3: can kind of move your arms, but if you don't,
Speaker 3: like if you're able to do the beat, that's like
Speaker 3: such a different thing.
Speaker 2: That's so cool. Wow.
Speaker 5: And you know what Disney did, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: When we went to Utah to film it, and we
Speaker 6: were all I think we arrived maybe a week or
Speaker 6: two weeks before the filming, and they put all the
Speaker 6: cast because four of us, like, you know, to see.
Speaker 5: If we can play as a group.
Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, I was the only one so in the
Speaker 6: because they were thinking, do we need to get a.
Speaker 5: Double and you have to fake a few of them.
Speaker 5: And the director or the producers was so nice. They
Speaker 5: set us up in the rehearsal room and they said, okay,
Speaker 5: so you.
Speaker 6: Have a driver, right, you are welcome to learn as
Speaker 6: much as you want or as little as you want.
Speaker 6: We just gonna we just want to see a few
Speaker 6: clips of you playing and guitar and bass and all.
Speaker 6: And I took that opportunity because we had to learn
Speaker 6: four songs. Literally, I did not socialize for that two
Speaker 6: weeks I was in that rehearsal room.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, they gave.
Speaker 6: Me like an instructor, and I finally learned for the
Speaker 6: first time to do the drummings to an actual notes
Speaker 6: read music.
Speaker 5: Yeah, only learn it with my eyes, like okay, you
Speaker 5: go over here and go over here. We didn't even
Speaker 5: have any notes, you know.
Speaker 6: And it was so fun, you guys, like when we
Speaker 6: were filming it, I was actually playing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah good, that is awesome. That is so great.
Speaker 3: Was the rest of your bandmates where they also playing
Speaker 3: their own instruments pretty well or.
Speaker 6: I think like Leah Leah probably learned one of them
Speaker 6: the intimate song, but the others I think they turned
Speaker 6: down the volume on some of them. I don't know
Speaker 6: because the drums is hard to mute it right, So
Speaker 6: I actually told them I can do it.
Speaker 5: You don't have to mute it. I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4: And it was so.
Speaker 6: When a dream come true, because like I would never
Speaker 6: be in a band, but at least I have a
Speaker 6: movie where I'm in a band.
Speaker 4: Exactly. Now, is your family in Indonesia when these when
Speaker 4: these movies are coming out, are they able to watch
Speaker 4: your films in Indonesia?
Speaker 5: You know how I know how to Reford.
Speaker 2: That's how they had to watch their daughter on the
Speaker 2: Disney Channel.
Speaker 4: This is so cool. So you film this movie, this
Speaker 4: is your first Disney Channel movie, and when it comes out,
Speaker 4: we always ask does your life change right away when
Speaker 4: you have a new movie that just comes out or
Speaker 4: people recognizing you places and all of a sudden it's like,
Speaker 4: wait a second, I'm in kind of a popular Disney
Speaker 4: Channel movie here.
Speaker 6: You know, yes, I kind of forget like exactly how
Speaker 6: it went. But I think because everyone everything was kind
Speaker 6: of close to each other.
Speaker 5: The even Stevens go figure and makes out perfect. But
Speaker 5: I do remember, like what you said, Sabrina the.
Speaker 6: Kids, the fans that are kids, they're so sweet, right,
Speaker 6: and they're like and it was really fun and you're right,
Speaker 6: Like sometimes I think when I was outside or like
Speaker 6: having lunch and people come up to you, and it
Speaker 6: just feels so humbling to be a part of it
Speaker 6: and to realize, you know, how big the Disney Channel
Speaker 6: is and like, I don't know, it's just like an
Speaker 6: experience that is it's hard to explain. Like I'm very
Speaker 6: appreciative of it. Yeah, it changed the trajectory of my
Speaker 6: career for sure.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sure, yeah, definitely. Oh that's so cool. So
Speaker 4: now this movie comes out, it does very well, and
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden you are asked if you
Speaker 4: can figure or hockey skate And I'm wondering what you
Speaker 4: told them when they asked you if you can skate.
Speaker 5: Next one.
Speaker 6: It's a story that my agent said to me that
Speaker 6: he has said this to for every interview he has
Speaker 6: with a new actor. So apparently so again for the
Speaker 6: Oh for the go Figure, my character Mojo is like
Speaker 6: she's kind of like a crazy and spiritual is a
Speaker 6: better word, and she has like she would do like
Speaker 6: you know crazy, uh oh, incense and age, Yes, so
Speaker 6: I studied that, you know, and then I went to
Speaker 6: my acting coach and we worked on it. And then
Speaker 6: I said to my acting coach, I kind of want
Speaker 6: to bring something like crazy.
Speaker 5: And he's like, don't do that. I highly do not
Speaker 5: recommend that, you know, don't do it.
Speaker 6: And so I'm like, okay, fine, And then I went
Speaker 6: to the Disney Channel for the callback callback or audition.
Speaker 5: I forgot and I remember there.
Speaker 6: Was Judy, Judy Taylor and Michelle and all these people,
Speaker 6: right but on my way up outside there was this
Speaker 6: beautiful lush greeneries and like branches and leaves, and I.
Speaker 5: Just couldn't help it.
Speaker 6: And I grabbed a couple of them and I put
Speaker 6: them on their branches and I took one and put
Speaker 6: it in the back and then I use it.
Speaker 5: For the you know, audition like a sage.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They actually loved it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 4: That was all You've stood out. I mean you stood out.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, there was four hundred people coming in
Speaker 2: for that role. You're the only one that had the
Speaker 2: guts to put branches in your hair and use one
Speaker 2: for a sage. It's perfect.
Speaker 4: Such a good idea. I really.
Speaker 5: I thought it was amazing. And then so they called me.
Speaker 6: I think two days later, my agent called me and
Speaker 6: they said, like he said, like this, Tania, So they
Speaker 6: want you to come in for a callback. Can you
Speaker 6: ice skate?
Speaker 5: I said yeah? I said, yeah, I I skated all
Speaker 5: the time when I was in high school.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 6: Okay, no, no, so I so he's like, okay, all right,
Speaker 6: I did not know. My agent said, name is Glenn.
Speaker 6: It's like, I thought, you're in Indonesia.
Speaker 5: You guys have like, you know, ice, like snow, you know, Like, yeah, oh,
Speaker 5: what do you mean ice? I said, you know the
Speaker 5: one with the four wheels, you.
Speaker 4: Know, skating roller skating.
Speaker 6: Oh honey, that is not ice skating. Ice skating is
Speaker 6: totally different. It's like, so you don't know how to
Speaker 6: ice skate?
Speaker 2: Right, No, I can do it.
Speaker 5: I said, by when? And then Glenn's like, by when,
Speaker 5: by tomorrow?
Speaker 6: Just tell me the time I'll be there and I
Speaker 6: can ice skate. Do not take me out from this callback.
Speaker 6: It's like, okay, but if you cannot ice skate, they
Speaker 6: do not want to see it. I can ice skate tomorrow.
Speaker 6: And I contacted the Pasadena Ice Rink and I hired
Speaker 6: the instructor.
Speaker 5: I said, I need to learn one on one for
Speaker 5: two hours. I came in that evening.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you guys, there's no way. Ice skating
Speaker 6: was so hard. First of all, it was really cold
Speaker 6: and I have no idea.
Speaker 5: I was like, what is going on? And then there's
Speaker 5: like blades.
Speaker 6: I was so afraid and it was really bad, and
Speaker 6: the coach said, yeah, there's no way you can, like
Speaker 6: I escape by tomorrow. I said, okay, listen, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: hire you again tomorrow for two more hours, and you're.
Speaker 5: Gonna make me. I need to be able to go
Speaker 5: because my agent said they're gonna want to see that
Speaker 5: you can go around one time. Okay, all you need
Speaker 5: to do is to teach me to go around one time.
Speaker 6: And so I learned that, and the next day, guys,
Speaker 6: I was like literally crying and so afraid.
Speaker 5: I fell a thousand times. It was a very difficult sports,
Speaker 5: very difficult. The next day, all the Disney people came
Speaker 5: in and three other girls came in.
Speaker 6: We had to audition one person at a time, and
Speaker 6: all I did was like, Okay, I'm just gonna rely
Speaker 6: on my acting and just gonna pretend that I.
Speaker 5: Can do it, and I just hope I will not die,
Speaker 5: and I did when.
Speaker 6: When the camera was rolling, I just pretended I can
Speaker 6: do it even though I was scared, and did one
Speaker 6: round and pretended like.
Speaker 2: I was not a friend.
Speaker 4: Here we go, oh man, and.
Speaker 5: They actually they voked me, and I was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, like my gosh, that's crazy. And then you
Speaker 3: end up being in a movie with like one of
Speaker 3: the top skaters of the world. To see Amagucci.
Speaker 2: Did you get to meet her at all?
Speaker 5: I was, Yeah, she was very nice.
Speaker 6: She was nice, and she well when we were all talking,
Speaker 6: you know, I think he was mostly hanging out with
Speaker 6: Jordan because Jordan was in the ice skating part and
Speaker 6: I was in the hockey part. So I only get
Speaker 6: to see Christy maybe during lunch one time. But I
Speaker 6: heard she was very very nice. Yeah, and she talks
Speaker 6: to everyone, you know, because all the we had a
Speaker 6: lot of Budy Doubles, right, and so the Buddy Doubles
Speaker 6: are fans of Christy, and she was very very nice
Speaker 6: to everyone. And I want to tell you though, what's funny,
Speaker 6: but go figure, is that we all had to come
Speaker 6: two weeks before and learn how to hockey with, you know,
Speaker 6: with the actual hockey team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even though the other cast members know how to
Speaker 5: ice skate. Guess what, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Speaker 6: Maybe, with the exception of Jordan, everybody after two weeks
Speaker 6: of learning and practicing hockey and August two weeks like
Speaker 6: eight hours a day. By the end of the two weeks,
Speaker 6: Disney hired body doubles for everyone.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's a great YouTube video that we
Speaker 1: just watched this morning of y'all kind of learning how
Speaker 1: to skate and being interviewed about learning how to skate.
Speaker 4: And all that kind of stuff. It's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, I will see there is, because guys, when
Speaker 5: you see it, when you see the actual hockey players
Speaker 5: do it, there's no way you're gonna learn that. Like,
Speaker 5: you know, I couldn't even find the what.
Speaker 4: Do you call that? Pup puck? Yeah, so I have
Speaker 4: to ask.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't mean to put you on the spot,
Speaker 1: put me on the spot, put you on the spot.
Speaker 1: Which of the two movies did you prefer shooting?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean, go figure, I have to take advil
Speaker 6: every three hours that the pixel perfect I prefer you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like right, up your alley and you've
Speaker 3: you had like so much confidence going into what you
Speaker 3: were going to be doing when it comes to like
Speaker 3: any musical aspect.
Speaker 6: Although I have to say the go figure. The one
Speaker 6: thing that is so special is that I became very
Speaker 6: close with. It was only stressful the first two weeks
Speaker 6: when you thought you have to actually act and try
Speaker 6: to find the puck and like the blades everywhere and.
Speaker 5: All these things.
Speaker 6: But then the moment they hired the doubles, Oh, it
Speaker 6: felt very like nice and you don't have anything, and
Speaker 6: when they call you, they just put you in the
Speaker 6: like what do you call that?
Speaker 5: Like they pull you and you're.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's like a rig kind of the Yeah, I
Speaker 4: forget what. It's like a steadycam kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a steadycam and you just hang out and you
Speaker 6: pretended like this yeah and carry you.
Speaker 5: Oh, And it was like it was the most fun.
Speaker 5: It became very fun.
Speaker 6: And at the time I was very close with all
Speaker 6: the coaches and all the doubles and the background actors.
Speaker 6: We hang out, I think almost every weekend together in Utah.
Speaker 6: And I want to show you something. They actually made
Speaker 6: me this.
Speaker 5: And I'm still in touch with three of them.
Speaker 4: We we're gonna ask if you you were still who
Speaker 4: are you still in touch with.
Speaker 5: With the go Figure.
Speaker 6: I'm still in touch with the background actors and the
Speaker 6: Doubles and the.
Speaker 5: Coach person Shawna.
Speaker 6: And with Pixel Perfect. I'm in touch with the wardrobe
Speaker 6: people and the Double as well.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: I want to show you this. I hang out with
Speaker 5: them like every weekend. They made me this. This is
Speaker 5: from the Double.
Speaker 4: Oh cool, your ball break a leg? That's great, so cute.
Speaker 5: One one thing, Oh my god, I'm geking no please,
Speaker 5: I love this stuff. This one is so memorable from
Speaker 5: Pixel Perfect.
Speaker 6: The wardrobe people were so nice. They all created a
Speaker 6: blanket for me.
Speaker 2: Oh cute.
Speaker 5: I only wear it like every now and then because
Speaker 5: I don't want it to go like.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: It is amazing.
Speaker 6: How about you guys when you are in Cheetahs and
Speaker 6: the Boy Meets World, are you guys in touch with
Speaker 6: the crew.
Speaker 5: Or most.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, with Boy Meets World, it's it's gotten a
Speaker 1: lot easier because we do a podcast called pod meets World.
Speaker 4: So we've brought everybody back.
Speaker 1: We get to see everybody again and hang out with
Speaker 1: everybody and and Danielle and Ryder are still my two
Speaker 1: best friends. So yeah, there's we're still in touch with
Speaker 1: basically everybody, yeah, which is good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And we've been able to do interviews with I mean,
Speaker 3: I was around so many of the channels, like you know,
Speaker 3: Corbyn Blue, and we've been able to really bring in
Speaker 3: a lot and then we've even brought in a director
Speaker 3: of the third movie and Keighley, one of the other
Speaker 3: Cheeater Girls, has come on. So this podcast has been
Speaker 3: awesome to kind of reconnect with a lot of people
Speaker 3: that I was around, like my early twenties for so
Speaker 3: many years. It's been fun to be able to reconnect
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: So it's been fun.
Speaker 3: It's a great I mean, I'm like you, and it's
Speaker 3: been awesome for all of the interviews that we do
Speaker 3: that everyone has such amazing memories working for Disney because
Speaker 3: they've got a great, you know, cast of people that
Speaker 3: are on set productions thing seem you know, say, I
Speaker 3: still am in touch with one of our wardrobe women
Speaker 3: as well, like Momenta May was just like she inspired
Speaker 3: me so much and she's gone on to do so
Speaker 3: many great things. And so I'm so glad that you
Speaker 3: had that same type of experience. That's what we keep
Speaker 3: finding out from everyone's that we interview. It's been we
Speaker 3: always we.
Speaker 1: Haven't interviewed a single person who's come on and said like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I had a really bad time working for Disney or
Speaker 1: the Disney channel, like it just you don't hear that.
Speaker 4: Really, it's been, it's been wonderful.
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, I do want to talk
Speaker 1: to you about something that's very near and dear to
Speaker 1: my heart, which is voice over acting. Yes, yes, because
Speaker 1: you know you and I were on the same show. Yes,
Speaker 1: so tell us. Tell us how you found voiceover acting?
Speaker 6: Voiceover well, you know after being an actor on TV
Speaker 6: and all I I again, you know, my brain is
Speaker 6: not like working like you guys like it's like it's
Speaker 6: a different dimension. I did not even realize until one
Speaker 6: day some like I was. I always like to watch cartoons,
Speaker 6: right and Maze and Japanese. Do you guys know that
Speaker 6: I had no idea that they were voiced by human beings.
Speaker 6: I just didn't understand, and I just thought those are
Speaker 6: speaking animals or something.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: My brain was not thinking.
Speaker 6: So one day I was watching cartoon and then my
Speaker 6: husband said, yeah, you know, honey, you should do voiceover.
Speaker 5: I said, what do you mean, what is that?
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, voicing, and I was like and
Speaker 6: then it's just like, oh my god, there's another area
Speaker 6: that I can try.
Speaker 5: And I literally lost my mind and he was like okay.
Speaker 5: And so I my commercial agent BBR was in the
Speaker 5: same office as Box.
Speaker 4: Okay, yep, voice of agent.
Speaker 6: And I had nothing nothing, and I went to BBR.
Speaker 6: I said, hey, can you introduce me next door? I
Speaker 6: really want to do voice over and then the agent
Speaker 6: said sure, come on in tomorrow. I came in and
Speaker 6: she walked me and introduced me to the CEO and
Speaker 6: the agent of Box and here's Tanyunai go ahead, and
Speaker 6: then so the CEO of tom and West from Vox.
Speaker 6: They thought that I am like amazing because I was
Speaker 6: introduced by.
Speaker 5: The head agency of BBR. So they were excited.
Speaker 6: They're like, so, Tania, how many voices can you do?
Speaker 6: And you do access, like what is your experience?
Speaker 5: Do you have a real I was like, I have
Speaker 5: none of that. I'm like, look, I only have one voice,
Speaker 5: this one. Okay. They said, how does it sound? They're like,
Speaker 5: can you at least speak with an American accent. I said,
Speaker 5: absolutely not, this is it. And they were like, oh
Speaker 5: but sweetheart.
Speaker 6: They're like, you know, there are other actors who can
Speaker 6: do accents and like standard American English.
Speaker 5: How are you going to compete with them? And so
Speaker 5: I said, but I don't have to compete with them.
Speaker 6: I said, I believe that I don't need a Brazilian
Speaker 6: voices too. But I said, I can only I can
Speaker 6: also just use my voice, my one voice, and I
Speaker 6: can play a bazillion characters like mushroom and animal and dolphin.
Speaker 5: I said.
Speaker 6: So, I said, you know what, why don't we just
Speaker 6: sign a contract and see how it goes. I said,
Speaker 6: let's just do it for one year and enough chit
Speaker 6: chat and talking nonsense.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Just get yourself signed.
Speaker 5: I love that, and they're like okay.
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, oh man.
Speaker 1: And then you're on one of the greatest animated series
Speaker 1: of all time in Transformers.
Speaker 4: You too, Yes, we were actually on the same show.
Speaker 4: You were on Prime right, Yes.
Speaker 5: I saw that, but we never get to see each other.
Speaker 1: I say it, Well, it's because my character Bumblebee didn't
Speaker 1: speak until the very last episode until Deadlock. So yes,
Speaker 1: so I and they brought me in after you guys
Speaker 1: had finished the series because they didn't want anybody to
Speaker 1: know who was doing Bumblebee's voice.
Speaker 4: So then I have finished that.
Speaker 1: So I did the last three episodes of Prime without
Speaker 1: anybody knowing, and then did the movie after that, and
Speaker 1: then rolled into Robots in Disguise. So it was you
Speaker 1: were you were with you know, Kevin, Michael Richardson and
Speaker 1: everybody else there, Steve Bloom and the whole crew.
Speaker 4: You're with everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh my.
Speaker 6: Gosh, that's what it was, because I remember they were
Speaker 6: talking about it, but we weren't.
Speaker 5: We thought it's gonna be frank. This was doing Bumblebee.
Speaker 4: Ye. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I literally found out only last week when I googled
Speaker 6: you and you know what I did. I was doing
Speaker 6: IMDb collaborations.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's when I found out.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god, there are five things
Speaker 6: if you were in together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, let's see.
Speaker 1: We did well, Girl Meets were Old it would be one, right,
Speaker 1: and then Transformers Prime, yes, and then Robots and Disguise.
Speaker 6: No, the Jetsons okay, we did the Jetsons, Avengers Assemble.
Speaker 5: Okay, DC Superhero Girls. You're Aquaman. I'm Lady Shiva.
Speaker 4: There you go. Okay, yes we have.
Speaker 1: We've worked together all the time and never actually met.
Speaker 1: That is the way the life of a voiceover actor
Speaker 1: was so.
Speaker 5: Crazy, and I was like, yeah, I was so excited.
Speaker 5: I was hoping that maybe one of these days you
Speaker 5: will go to a Transformers convention.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, they've asked, they've been.
Speaker 1: The cons have been a little I do a lot
Speaker 1: of conventions, so throwing on another one occasionally was was
Speaker 1: a little much.
Speaker 4: But I would love to do a Transformers convention.
Speaker 1: And I still think the cast of Transformers Prime is
Speaker 1: one of the greatest ensemble voice overcasts that has ever existed,
Speaker 1: with Josh Keaton and everybody. That's just it is such
Speaker 1: a good show all the way around that the idea
Speaker 1: that I got a chance to be on it at
Speaker 1: the end was to me was just because I was
Speaker 1: such a fan.
Speaker 4: It was really cool. Yeah, you're all just incredible.
Speaker 5: I've never seen the robots in disgust. How is that?
Speaker 5: Do you guys record together?
Speaker 4: Or what we did? Yeah? We did.
Speaker 1: It was so they they wanted a show in the middle,
Speaker 1: so Transformers Prime was for kind of older Transformers fans.
Speaker 4: It was a very real, kind of dark cartoon. And
Speaker 4: then they had.
Speaker 1: Rescue Bots, which was for the little kids, and so
Speaker 1: they wanted something right in the middle, so they created
Speaker 1: Robots in Disguise, which was which was in between the two.
Speaker 1: So Bumblebee has a new team on Earth and Bumblebee
Speaker 1: is the leader of the team.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It was, it's it's very it was. It was
Speaker 4: a lot of fun and I loved playing it. But
Speaker 4: ye never got a chance to meet to meet everybody.
Speaker 4: I mean I knew everybody except one or two people
Speaker 4: on the cast.
Speaker 3: But is there one you prefer do you Do you
Speaker 3: like voiceover work now more so than acting on screen?
Speaker 5: Or I love all of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Right, I know it's a tough question.
Speaker 6: I know, yeah, I mean, you know, if I could, like, honestly,
Speaker 6: I always say to my my husband since we first met,
Speaker 6: I said, if I can have a career for the
Speaker 6: entire life, working like Disney, oriented like for kids, is
Speaker 6: actually what I want.
Speaker 5: But you know, I mean I did like Corby. Your enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just gonna say, that's not quite curb.
Speaker 4: Your enthusiasm with Larry David is not Disney.
Speaker 5: It's not Disney. I feel like I love doing all
Speaker 5: kinds of things, but I think I just have like
Speaker 5: so much energy, Like I really wanted to like like
Speaker 5: I have excess energy. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 6: So I wanted to do like kids stuff because with
Speaker 6: the kids stuff, I can go like, oh out, I
Speaker 6: have to really tone myself down.
Speaker 5: And I did the curb you know really, Oh that
Speaker 5: is so fun? But you how about you will.
Speaker 1: I'm exactly the same way there there it's to me,
Speaker 1: I always say I don't have children, thankfully, but if there, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I did. When people always say do you prefer
Speaker 1: on camera acting or voice over acting? I imagine it's
Speaker 1: like asking which one of your children is your favorite? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I can't answer that because they're
Speaker 1: both wonderful for different reasons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the same with like singing, dancing and acting, Like, yeah, really,
Speaker 3: what I'm doing at the time, I always am loving
Speaker 3: it so much that that's what I'll sort of feel
Speaker 3: like I'm right now leaning towards this because you're you're
Speaker 3: also now writing a little bit, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, would you ever write a dcon?
Speaker 2: You should write? Did he come original? You should do it?
Speaker 6: I think writing was just a one like it was
Speaker 6: like another accident thing. I don't everything seems to be like.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 6: The writing was so difficult. It took me two years
Speaker 6: to write one script. I do not want to write, honestly, Okay,
Speaker 6: that happened, But what I really want is to produce.
Speaker 5: That is like my dream.
Speaker 4: So I have.
Speaker 6: I produced a couple of short films and when I
Speaker 6: did them, there was like a feeling that you can't describe,
Speaker 6: because every time I want set as an actor, the
Speaker 6: one thing that I love is to watch how things unfold,
Speaker 6: and I'm like one of those nerves, like when I
Speaker 6: get the call sheep. I would make guesses, Okay, on
Speaker 6: this scene, we're gonna do two and a half hours.
Speaker 5: They're gonna do medium shot, they're gonna do this, this, this,
Speaker 5: and then I bet.
Speaker 6: I said, they're gonna start here and they're gonna be
Speaker 6: laid on this, They're gonna do this. I organize things
Speaker 6: in my head and I would make guesses on like
Speaker 6: budgeting and all these things.
Speaker 5: I just love the producing part, but I never had
Speaker 5: an opportunity.
Speaker 6: So last year when I won the writing it was
Speaker 6: a writing I wanted because of my writing but the
Speaker 6: price is I get to follow passion Elwis, who's a producer,
Speaker 6: follow him for five days at Sun Dance and learn
Speaker 6: how to produce and learn everything about it. So when
Speaker 6: I hang out with him that five days, he was
Speaker 6: negotiating deals, doing foreign sales, everything about movies for five
Speaker 6: whole days, talking to bankers, talking to marketing and fixing
Speaker 6: problems and guys.
Speaker 5: I last year I was like this, lord, please, this
Speaker 5: is what I bought.
Speaker 6: I feel like I feel like that would be my
Speaker 6: next thing that I would love to explore. So I'm
Speaker 6: I'm producing it right now with Cassian, and I look
Speaker 6: forward to see how it unfolds.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to go find a writer then if
Speaker 1: you don't want to, because your life story of winning
Speaker 1: the lottery after sending in one thing coming instantly, then
Speaker 1: the whole Pizza Hut thing, and then being on Disney, that's.
Speaker 4: A d com. It's a full on d com. You
Speaker 4: can sell that to the channel in a pitch meeting
Speaker 4: because it is a wonderful story and we're so happy
Speaker 4: that you came on and you joined us so much,
Speaker 4: and will you will you come back again and talk
Speaker 4: to us more?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, we should play games. I love that
Speaker 6: Disney games like things like you know.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great idea. We're gonna do that
Speaker 4: because we've talked about the Disney Channel games and the
Speaker 4: games that you have to play.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play though, because the Disney Channel games they've
Speaker 1: canceled those. They need to bring them back, and until
Speaker 1: they do, we're gonna need to do some magical rewind
Speaker 1: Disney Channel games. We'll get some of the original team
Speaker 1: members back and we'll come up with some new stuff,
Speaker 1: and we'll watch Sabrina lose badly as everybody else wins
Speaker 1: around her, which is much like what happens.
Speaker 6: We have to do that before we go, though, Sabrina,
Speaker 6: did you find a juicy secret yet?
Speaker 2: No, I've been trying. I have been racking my brain trying.
Speaker 2: That's not all not already out.
Speaker 4: There, you know, or going to get you arrested. There's
Speaker 4: that balance, there's that balance. Yea. I will get it
Speaker 4: out of her at.
Speaker 1: Some point, and I will email you with whatever she
Speaker 1: comes up with, because it'll be good.
Speaker 5: Well, you are not on Instagram. I couldn't find you.
Speaker 1: I'm not No, I don't I don't social media is
Speaker 1: not my thing, so I have never been a social
Speaker 1: media guy. I tried it for a little while and
Speaker 1: it just made me anxious and it was like it
Speaker 1: was a little.
Speaker 4: Lucky to me. So I decided never to do a
Speaker 4: social media again. I do. I do real face to
Speaker 4: face stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so with the cons so fun.
Speaker 1: So if you'd like, I can just every day, I'll
Speaker 1: just send you pictures of my lunch. If that'll make
Speaker 1: you lunch, pictures of my dogs, stuff like that. That's
Speaker 1: no problem. Just randomly send you photographs brushing my teeth
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Yes, perfect, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: They're quite entertaining.
Speaker 4: You are the best.
Speaker 1: This has been an absolutely enjoyable hour talking to you,
Speaker 1: and please come back and we are that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: We are absolutely going to do uh some sort of
Speaker 1: Disney Channel games and we're going to get you involved.
Speaker 1: We're going to be But I'm telling you talk to
Speaker 1: your producing partner because your life is a d com.
Speaker 4: It is wonderful and you should do it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on all your success.
Speaker 3: Yes, Disney Channel, the voice over, how amazing you've got.
Speaker 4: Everything's awesome.
Speaker 2: You've done it. It's so great, So congrats.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: I mean, both of you are so humble and kind
Speaker 6: and beautiful and amazing and so supportive.
Speaker 5: Thank you for all the time. And I am so
Speaker 5: glad I get.
Speaker 1: To do it with you guys, us too. And yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna come back. You're gonna be I'm already calling you.
Speaker 1: You're on my team for the Disney Channel games. I'm
Speaker 1: already calling it.
Speaker 4: I need I need to pep, I need to thank
Speaker 4: you guys. Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Uh Oh sweet.
Speaker 4: She's such I could talk to her. Oh, I couldn't
Speaker 4: get the smile off my face just from her.
Speaker 1: Her energy is infectious and her instantly starting with like
Speaker 1: tell me a secret about yourself.
Speaker 4: Oh god, what a fun hour that was.
Speaker 3: She's obviously talented, but just talk about like the idea
Speaker 3: of being at the right place at the right time.
Speaker 2: Over and over. I'm telling you, I have the crappiest
Speaker 2: luck you talk about.
Speaker 3: I would be the person that spent twenty kajillion dollars
Speaker 3: with those ten thousand ticket ones and not even get anything.
Speaker 4: Sent in one came to America. A month and a
Speaker 4: half later, she's the actress on TV. It's like that's awesome, man,
Speaker 4: I love my country. Yeah, no, it's it's great.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you everybody for joining us. That was that
Speaker 4: was a fun holt. It really was totally totally cool.
Speaker 1: And join us next time where we were gonna be well,
Speaker 1: there's nothing, no two ways to say it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be jumping in finally, Corbyn Blue, you're you're, you know,
Speaker 1: friend of the pod and best dancer ever Corbyn Blue.
Speaker 4: And I think didn't he tell us about this? Is
Speaker 4: like it's a jump roping movie. Yes, okay, so this
Speaker 4: is kind of these are what these are those movies.
Speaker 1: That are right in my wheelhouse, These kind of like
Speaker 1: niche things that all of a sudden become awesome.
Speaker 2: I remember when this one came out and it was
Speaker 2: a big deal.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone was really excited because he was in
Speaker 3: high school musical, but really was the first movie he
Speaker 3: doesn't have a giant role in it, right, and this
Speaker 3: is a movie like after he was on Hannah Montana,
Speaker 3: now high school music and he's got this just like
Speaker 3: this is his movie, which is just so awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope we get him back to talk to
Speaker 4: him about it.
Speaker 5: I do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so join us next time as we jump in
Speaker 1: and thank you so much Tanya for joining us. That
Speaker 1: was a ton of fun and we'll see you all
Speaker 1: next time.
Speaker 5: Bye.