WEBVTT - A Sprinkle of Drama • EP 816 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.520 First of all, you don't know me well. 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.840 All about that high school drama, Girl, Drama Girl, all 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.360 about them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.480 and our comic girl shared for the right team. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.479 Drama Queens, Jaylie's go off Girl Fashion, but your tough girl, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.600 you could sit with us Girl Drama, Queen Drama, Queens Drama, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.319 Queens Drama, John McQueen's Drama Queens. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.760 We're gathering for season eight, episode sixteen. I think I'm 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.720 gonna like it here. Our original air date was February 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:37.680 twenty second, twenty eleven. That's my friend Cammy's birthday, Robert, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.199 would you like to read our synopsis for the Girls? 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.440 Would love to? As the girls plan a surprise baby 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.800 shower for Haley, The guys participate in tryouts for Jamie's 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.560 baseball team. Meanwhile, Brook and Julian pursue adoption, and Mouth 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.960 gets Milicent ready for her first day at work. I 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.520 was directed by Stephen Goldfried and written by Rachel Spector 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.160 and Audrey What show. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:00:59.960 I think that's correct? 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.160 Yeah, the best. Rachel and Audrey are so great, and 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.200 you feel their sort of spirit and their playfulness and 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.000 their sense of humor in the whole episode. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:10.679 I think it. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.360 Feelt kind of flat for me. I gotta be honest, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:18.679 it's pretty bored. I'm sorry, it is pretty bored. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.160 I mean, maybe I was enjoying the pace of it 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.600 because I was also making lunch while I was watching 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.840 this episode, So maybe it was the perfect thing to 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.440 have on while I was also doing something. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.920 Yeah, I don't mean to take away from Rachel and Audrey. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.160 I think they're both incredibly talented writers and wonderful women, 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.760 and we really enjoyed having them on the show. And 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.520 you never know what's going on behind the scenes and 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.440 what's being rewritten outside of their names and what is 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.080 what the parameters are on people that are writing things, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.840 So it's never really any reflection on the writers. It's 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.200 just I couldn't And I think possibly the combination of 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.520 Steve Goldfred directing, who was a very novice director and 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:04.440 probably just didn't have the expand he didn't have I 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:10.520 don't know that his depth of history spending time with 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.400 a lot of women around each other was comprehensive, and 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:20.960 so it felt like there was a lot of stiffness 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.600 and sort of falseeness in that not in we were 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.000 doing the best we could with what we had, and 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.280 there were a lot of scenes with a lot of people, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:35.280 so that's also a big heavy lift to pull. But 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.680 all the pieces just felt clunky to me. They didn't 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.639 quite all stick together. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.720 One thing I will say to that point is it 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.600 felt so I feel like it's hard to service an 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.720 ensemble cast in forty four minutes, you know, like when 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.640 you actually break it down, when you have like eight 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:57.080 main characters, everybody's getting like five and a half minutes 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.480 of screen time, so it's very hard to tell stories 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.000 for everyone. So I feel like most episodes, everything it's 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.200 like this scene's in here because we have to get 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.040 that point. This scene is in here because we have 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.720 to do it. This episode kind of felt the opposite, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.639 where it was like these three scenes are going to 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.639 be for this thing, and like there was a lot 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.960 of stuff that felt stretched out as opposed to like 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:20.960 we're going to get into the scene as late as 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:22.880 possible and leave as early as possible. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.720 I think that's what I liked though, was I finally 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.280 felt like we were watching people live a life. I 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:36.040 didn't feel like the scenes were racing. To make a point, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.600 I guess like there were certain things I really liked 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.080 where the callbacks took a while to come around, Like 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.000 you have that great sequence in The Morning Joy, when 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.320 it's Haley and Jamie and you walk in in the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.840 Jamie's mom jersey and he's like, Mom, there's no whistles 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.400 in baseball. And then it comes up so long later, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.600 like halfway through the episode. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.000 And Daphney walking in after you just got over done 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.800 talking with you about prison, but it was way earlier 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.200 in the episode totally. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.760 So it's like I liked that that there was a 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.200 weight and then a reward because I didn't see it coming. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.920 Sometimes I think when they're trying to do exactly what 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.640 you're talking about, Rob where like you've got to get 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.279 everybody's episodic point in. I'm like, there's literally no reason 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.040 for this scene. You just needed me to know that 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.800 this was going to happen to Brook and Julian or 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.800 Quinn and Clay so that in the next episode it 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.640 could and this whole sort of sequence of events. Maybe 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.599 because it was just this you know, seven hour period 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.200 of one day, I was like, Oh, I actually get 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.080 to watch people talk to each other and sometimes it's 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:36.800 awkward and sometimes it's funny, and. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.440 Yeah, it's more of a narrative style. More of a 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.880 narrative style. I don't think. I don't know that there's 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:47.000 anything really wrong with it. It just for me. I 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:51.360 I don't tend to love those types of stories anyway, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.000 where you're just sitting in a moment of someone's life. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.400 There are some films and TV shows where I really 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.320 love that, but it's done a certain way that is 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.680 appealing to me personally. But I like when we do 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:08.680 things that are really there's there's an objective in every scene. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.080 Every character has a motive, there's something that they're moving toward. 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.440 There's a purpose in the scene, and we're waiting to 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.080 see these things achieved throughout. And this one didn't feel 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:20.720 like that. It was much more narrative. It was much 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.200 more like, how are we feeling and discussing new things 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.680 with each other that are coming up, and Austin sharing 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.400 that or Julian sharing that he's going to be a dad, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.480 and how the guys are reacting to that. You know, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.640 those are It's not that it's not a story worth telling. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:36.919 Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, and 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.120 it could just be as simple as. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.599 Yeah, yeah, And I think kind of like to So's point, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.040 it's like it's not it's it's neither a good nor 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.720 a bad thing. It's just sort of like it's the 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.720 change up pitch. This show thills a lot of fastballs 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:55.719 and curveballs and then So comes. But you know, like 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.800 that that was the thing. It's like, I think we've 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.440 come to expect a certain pacing on this show, and 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.680 this one was just different, you know, correct? But I okay, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.159 I I love the opening song because I will the 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.920 opening montage was, yes, but it worked because of that song. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.520 I thought like it was I was very happy with it. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.680 That's actually a good, good point that the opener was 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.239 slow and kind of setting us up for the pace 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.760 of what everyone was about to enter into for the show. 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.560 Yeah, what what I thought was sort of interesting about it, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.520 Like the very first note that I have is that 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:38.599 Hayley's baby shower actually has everyone almost on their heels. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.880 Everyone's back in their nostalgia. People are thinking about the past, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.960 they're thinking about how it relates to the future. And yes, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.719 I think the song set the pace and what was 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.680 nice for me, I caught myself kind of take a breath, like, oh, okay, great, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.160 I don't have to be ready for the trauma. This week, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.200 I remembered that it was going to be nice, and 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.560 yeah it is. It's funny. You're right. I think it's like, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.120 how's your energy level? What do you need? You know, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.680 I've like got a thing of laundry going and I'm cooking, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.440 and I'm like perfect. This is gonna be an easy episode. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.800 Nobody's gonna die. I love this. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.080 That's great. 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:19.520 It's like rom com energy. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.400 It wasn't for the viewer, it's not. It's not a 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.440 challenging episode either, Like you doesn't require a lot of 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.240 attention span or deduction. It's like, just sit back, we're 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.320 gonna spoon feed you some fun plot stuff. Yeah, everyone's 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:34.080 gonna be okay. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.200 You're just gonna enjoy yourself today. 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.320 One of my first note was I just love Lisa Goldstein. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.720 Oh, I love her too. She should I have on here. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.480 Lisa needs her own TV show. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.640 Yes, when she was putting on lifstick in the mirror, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.440 it's such a simple thing, but she told like a 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.600 whole story in it, and because we know what's going on, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:08:01.360 she killed that. She's just fantastic criminal underused. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.600 Well and to do a scene particularly one where the 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.000 camera is in motion, you know, it's one maybe two 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.680 shots because it's part of a teaser montage, and two 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:18.920 without saying a single word, communicate the absolute bitter sweetness 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.080 of a moment in your life. Like I felt like 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.480 I knew every single thing she was thinking about, being 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.640 proud of herself and nervous that it was going to 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.440 hurt her relationship and scared of you know, upsetting mouth 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.600 and then having imposter syndrome. I watched it all on 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.520 her face and it was so beautiful. I agree. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:45.920 The uh, Haley coming in all kitted up with the 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.160 Jamie's mom jersey, the hat, the whistle. It was so 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:50.920 much fun. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.520 Yeah, that was just like pure Lucia Ball inspiration for me, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.040 just being a total goofball. It was really fun. I 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.160 always loved doing ses with Jackson where we just got 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.200 to play and be goofy. You know, it's a great 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:04.880 day at work. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.120 Yeah, and to dress up with a kid always heightens it, 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:13.040 and it works for Haley. It was such a great choice, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.800 you know, for the character, for the wardrobe department, the 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.400 whole thing, everything being embroidered and customed in all of 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.000 it because they gave you that line. I've got all 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.600 these new terms to learn and things to you know, cheers, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.280 all the things. It's like, you have something to be 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.480 really excited about and it's thematic. So to make it 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.520 essentially a theme party and have a costume was like 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:37.520 Chef's Kiss. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.600 Was there a specific reason that Haley wasn't going to go? 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.320 I feel like she just walks in the room and 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.720 just says, hey, are you sure you don't want me 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.440 to go? But did I miss something or was that 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:47.400 just I. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.440 Think that's just the exposition of why I wasn't going 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.840 to be in that storyline because I have another storyline. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.160 Because you had a bibbish However. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.120 Yeah, You're like, well, I wish I could be there, 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.480 but I have to be in a b story with 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.599 some other characters. Jamie, good luck making the team. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.720 But where was I wasn't going to Is it his 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:04.400 first game? 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.359 Tryouts? 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.439 Oh, tryouts? 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:08.319 Auditions? 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:09.559 Right? 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:14.760 It was great Julian auditions. So and why did I 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.120 guess I missed this too? I mean Kellerman, why did 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.560 he meet you guys out at the little league field? 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.480 I was confused as to why he met you out 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.439 there when you had been waiting for him. Someone else, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:26.560 I didn't really get that. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.400 Well, he stood us up. So my only thing is 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.400 like that was just him eventually catching up with us. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.760 Yes, yeah, I kind of assumed that, but it wasn't 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.360 clear to me. Yeah, he's just so suddenly nice with 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.440 this kid. Oh, I'm sorry, Rob, I didn't mean to 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.400 throw you off. You look like you're ready to go somewhere. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.600 Well, because there was something a very specific question I 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.280 have for Sophia before we get into that part of 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.840 the episode. So there's the really sweet scene of Brooke 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.960 and Brook sort of talking to camera, she's rehearsing her 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.560 adoption speech, and then Yah Julian, and then it goes 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.440 into the bedroom where Brooke is jumping on the bed 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.000 and he in Julian kind of comes in like a 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.920 faux dad and is like, no jumping on the bed. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.720 It gets it gets cute, and then there's a moment 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.720 where you jump off the bed into Austin's arms and 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.880 I had to watch it three times because it really 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.720 looked like a stunt, like you run cables, But there's 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.719 no way in hell we'd bring in cables for that, right, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.160 Like that was just you jumping. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.720 Right, it was just me jumping but I jumped far. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.959 Dude, go back and watch it. I watched it three 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.880 times because I was like, I think, am I seeing 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.800 this right? And then there's a weird thing where after 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.480 you guys fall onto the bed, you're kissing canoonling, and 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.040 then he goes to like when he goes to vault 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.040 himself up onto the bed. Watch that again. It's like 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.000 a superhero vault where he kind of just looks like 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.360 he gets yanked off the bed. And I was like, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.480 did we use cables for this? No, way, we use cables. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:59.880 We did see, but. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.680 I actually really appreciate that you were like, hold on 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.560 because the whole point obviously was to be really giddy. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.160 He calls Brooke, you know, your little tiggery thing, saying 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.920 she's got like tigger energy from Winnie the Pooh. So 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:21.160 I was bouncing very purposefully really high and like doing 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.240 the spin, you know, up in the air and the 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.560 whole thing. And you guys know this. But for our 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.440 friends at home, we've talked about this a little on 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.960 the episode. Sets have to be like extra large rooms, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.679 so you have room for two to three cameras and 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.480 the Dolly equipment. The cameras go on, so the rooms 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:43.680 are big, they're oversized, and I remember I was like, 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.360 oh my god, I had to make it look like 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.080 I just leapt off the bed but sort of cheat 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.559 into almost a running start to make it from the 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.680 mattress to where Austin was standing, which was like a 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.640 solid eight feet away from me by the door of 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.000 the outstretched room. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.440 That's great, and so it's like it. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.839 It's a really silly scene, but it actually did require 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.680 like a lot of strange physicality from us both. So 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.040 thank you so much for picking up on it. And no, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.680 I didn't need me Kible's rob I was just good 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:17.160 at my job. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.960 Oh my gosh, Sophia Bush does her own stunts. And 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.040 then I do want to report a crime. Later in 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:29.520 the scene, don't know if you noticed, Julian is wearing 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.600 his boots in the house, which first of all, oh 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.720 the bed god, But then when he decides to jump 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.160 on the bed with you, he's still wearing his boots. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.160 Yeah, outside shoes do not go into the bedroom, let 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.679 alone on the furniture. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:49.400 No, what you can tell it's moments like this where 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.800 you can tell we were all in our twenties. Yeah, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.040 because if a foty year old was shooting the scene, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.839 they'd be like, Oh, there's no way in hell I'd 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:56.439 ever have my. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.840 Shoes on the yes in my house. Yeah. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:13:59.600 Yeah. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.440 Director at this Steve at the time I think was 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.959 probably in his really youngs early thirties. Yeah, like probably didn't. 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.520 None of us. Well we owned homes, I guess, but 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.359 did we were we renting. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.200 Either Either way, it's still just like. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.600 You can't walk into my I don't walk into my 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.280 my bedroom carpet with shoes on, let alone climbing no head. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.400 That's just this insane. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.880 But it's exactly that thing. We talked about it whatever 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.680 episode it was where remember you might have called it 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.760 out Robert, you were like, why does Julian have his 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.120 shoes on the couch of his napping It's the same thing, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.400 and it's it's the it's the greatest indicator that those 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.680 are wardrobe shoes and you're walking to set in your 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.640 slippers and then putting your shoes on on set and 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.000 they've literally never touched dirt, so you're you're unconscious of 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:47.120 the fact that they're they're supposed to be an actual shoe. Yeah, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:47.920 it's so silly. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.520 What what was Steve's position on our show. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.240 He was an assistant for one of the producers, gotcha. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.400 Yeah, and then and then worked his way up and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.880 started shadowing and started producing, and then I think this 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.880 was his first year getting to direct an episode. Maybe 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.080 pretty cool. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:16.600 Well done. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.840 Chantell crushed the physical comedy again, as she always does. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.680 In that moment of her I think when she's made 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.920 it to Brooks. Yeah, I think it's in Brooks for 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:33.400 her and she just like a baby deer, runs across 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.160 the room, dives over the couch, falls on the ground. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.600 She just always commits to that stuff. And it's so funny, 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.120 especially given the fact that she does she has long limbs. Yeah, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.680 so when you play goofy and like uncoordinated, it's so 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.600 damn funny. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.440 It's incredible. And what I liked about it too, is 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.920 it really kept the baseball metaphor going. And I don't 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.080 know if that was intentional on her part, or her 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.160 and Steve disgusted or how they came to it. She 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.440 dives like she's sliding into home plate. And so you 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.400 go from the baseball field with all the kids and 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.360 then into you know, brook and Julian's house with Quinn 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.560 going for this dive It's like, I really liked that 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.080 a lot of those things felt like they were connected, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.080 even even in this little slice of a day. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.600 It was cool to see Levin make her appearance. I 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.840 didn't remember what she did on the show, Levin Ramblin, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.920 who plays Chloe. Yeah, but when she came to the door, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.920 I was like, Oh, this is how you fit into 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.280 the puzzle, okay, because I didn't remember who the parents, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:36.960 you know, were going to be. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.160 I thought she was on the show before. I didn't 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.800 realize that she came in so late, but I do 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.120 remember her being there, and I remember her getting Hunger Games, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.280 like a few months later. It was pretty fast. She 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.120 was getting a lot of work all of a sudden. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.080 She's exciting that we that we got her early on 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.120 when we did Yeah. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.320 And she's just so good and it's you know, I 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.720 was thinking about it a lot watching her because we 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.919 had such a good time working together. But to have 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:10.399 distance from it and watch the episode back. She comes 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.720 in so raw, but she's not pushing, you know, she's 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.960 not overdoing anything. She manages to just have so much 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.399 going on right under the surface, and to be able 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.840 to do that in a storyline like this eight seasons 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.119 in when our fan base wanted Brooke Davis to have 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.520 a happy ending, you know, to have her great love story, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.320 this fairytale moment so badly to come in and literally 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.360 be the crux of that. And I don't know, I 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.720 was so impressed with her then and watching her now, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.200 I'm just I'm like, my breath is taken away by 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.840 how seamlessly she slides into this world and then brings 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.960 such a life to it, you know, and represents this 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:05.560 this incredibly emotional and vulnerable experience that you know now 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.479 Again to your point, we were in our twenties then, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.560 I didn't know anyone who had adopted. Then. Now it's 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.159 like I've I've had every friend I know become a parent, 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.560 every friend who wants to anyway, in like the most 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.240 incredible ways. I've watched people go through fertility. I've watched 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.400 people go through IVF I've watched people go through adoptions. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.960 I've watched like it's I don't know, it's so it's 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.080 so important to do it right, and she just did 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.000 it so beautifully. And I'm like, I'm even more impressed 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.000 now than I was in real time back then. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.440 Yeah, she's a really grounded performer. 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.320 Yeah, yes, that's exactly what I was going to say, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.920 is that there's there's a lot of noise around her, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.320 her character. There's a lot of big things going on 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.520 with Brooke, and there's it's high energy, right, I think, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.840 especially as a guest star man, it's very easy to 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.879 come in and just get swept up in the current 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.040 of everything happening around you. But because she's so grounded, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.359 and it made because she read the room and realized, Okay, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.680 everyone around me is big, I'm going to go small. Yeah, 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.320 and it becomes so much more interesting when you do that. 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.919 But either way, yeah, I agree that she played it 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.800 very subtle and it was really effective. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.000 Yeah, so real. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:16.040 It is beautiful too. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.199 There were a lot of shenanigans happening around, especially at 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.000 the party when everything ELT's coming up and Lisa's like 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.680 talking about I'd have to start doing cocaine again to 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.040 keep up with it, Brooke your unemployment line, and then 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.280 Daphne walks in talking about prison. I mean, the whole 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.200 thing was just it was just one hit after another, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.760 and she did stay very grounded in the middle of it. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.400 She didn't play into that's actually a really difficult thing 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.720 as an actor when you're in a room and everyone 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.919 else is playing a certain energy. It's one of my 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.280 pet peeves about auditioning. Actually, when you are reading with 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:51.920 and we've talked about this, you read with the casting 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:53.960 director who's throwing a certain energy at you that feels 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.680 completely wrong for the scene, and you have to somehow 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:01.240 maintain what you believe the character is actually experiencing and 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.560 not play off of their energy. So for her to 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.320 be in a room full of people, all of all 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:08.960 of us were doing a little wild kookie, like over 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.879 the top stuff, and just to be completely solid, it's impressive. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.679 Yeah, And a great choice I thought Steve made was 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.960 he stayed in the wide that has Brooke in the 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:27.520 foreground when Victoria enters. So it's so perfect because you 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.639 don't need to be tied on Victoria because she's so big, 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.679 and she just enters the room and shouts about prison. 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.320 It was so smart of him to stay in that 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.200 shot and just watch it all happen. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.879 Yes, she didn't even say a word, She just walked 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.520 in the door and made some sound. And you, Sophia, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.920 you just shut your eyes completely. You just like an exhaled. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.240