WEBVTT - Marla Sokoloff Meets World 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.919 I am super excited about our guest today. Um. We 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.279 follow each other on Instagram and she sent me a 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.200 d M in reply to a story that I had 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.320 put up, and I was so excited to see her 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.640 name in there, and I was like, Hi, Oh my gosh, thanks, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.880 And then I got so freaked out. I was like, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.839 oh gosh, is this where I take my opportunity to 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.720 ask her to be a guest on pod Meats World? 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.239 Or do I not do that? I'm always so awkward 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.680 about asking people to do things. But I knew how 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.320 badly we wanted her on as a guest, and so 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.960 I was like, I'm not going to miss this opportunity. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.519 And so I said, any possibility, maybe you'd like to 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.199 be a guest on pod Meats World and she was like, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.120 are you kidding me? I'd be honored. I don't know 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.200 if that's true or not, but I was so excited 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.000 and I am. It was nice enough. It made me 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.080 so happy. I immediately texted the two of you and 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.920 I was like, Marla's suckle Off, So let me please 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:10.680 introduce Marla suckle Off. Guys. Oh my gosh, We're so 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.400 happy you're here. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.520 for having me? Are you kidding? I just told the 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.280 story about how this even came about, that you sent 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:21.880 me a d M in reply to a story, and 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.960 I got so nervous, Just so you know, I got 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.520 so nervous to ask you because I thought, what if 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.000 I asked her to be on the pod Meats World 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.400 And she's like, um no, I really know. I wish 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.280 I wouldn't have applied to dear story. That was my thought. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.800 But then you wrote back so quickly that you would 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.679 be happy to do it, and I immediately texted the 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.319 guys and we're just so happy you're here. Yes, I 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.400 was so excited that you message that to me because 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.400 I actually got when you guys talked about me on 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.400 the podcast, like seven seven thousand d ms about you guys. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.560 So I went back and listened and I was like 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.760 that it like brought a tear to my eye. It 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.880 was just so thoughtful and sweet. So it really meant 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.440 a lot to me. Well, it's funny. It's because it's 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.840 a legendary episode, you know what I mean, Like you 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.160 were a part of this big thing. But then we 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.519 also like I knew you like two years before you did. Boy, 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.320 Meets World, Like we went all the way back to 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.680 the oak Wood days, Um explaining that, So I didn't 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.720 know that by the time she was on Boy Meats World, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.040 you guys already knew each other. Yeah, we had been well, okay, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:23.320 so Marley, you're from northern California originally, right, you're from 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:29.800 so we do like Bruce Detta manager coach acting class. Yeah, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.440 so there was a contingent of us, like northern California 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.200 kids that would all come to the oak Woods for 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.760 Pilot Susan and we all kind of knew each other 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.560 and I would roller blade around. I don't remember if 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.160 you roller bladed, and we would like to hang out 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.120 at each other's apartments and hang out by the pool, 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.359 and like there's a group of us, I mean, like 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.280 one of the one of the guys I don't know 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.400 if you remember an actor named Sean Fox who was 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.200 in three Ninja's Um Sean Fox. Sean Fox, he's still 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.600 my best friend. He's he's an economist now it teaches 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.359 in at the University of Bristol in England, so completely 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.960 left the industry. But yeah, it's like, dude, and like 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.600 Jessica Bowman was an actor's who was also the world 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.720 later and she was like a friend of yours. I remember, Yeah, anyway, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.760 there's just it was like a summer camp vibe that 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.359 something even funnier. I saw you and l miss like, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.760 oh that's crazy, that's so fun. Well, for anyone who 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.120 doesn't know already, Marla played Page in the episode Coreries 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.079 Alternative Friends, which was season one, episode four of Boy 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.720 Meats World. It was such a legendary episode for you know, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.480 writer feels like that's the episode where he really he 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.240 got really introduced to the show and took on all 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.839 of the third character friends lines. Um. It's also the 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.520 infamous episode of how I ended up becoming to Pango 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:53.640 Lawrence and um, Marla, you and I mean, going back 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.960 through your career, you are like a T G I 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:03.760 F ABC family sitcom. There is not It is not 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.760 a single amazing show you were not a part of. Yeah, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.200 it was pretty It was a wild time. I mean, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.640 the the full house of it all is the weirdest 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.360 because it was you know, we came to the oak 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.240 Wood for one month and my mom was like, you 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.279 get you know, you're gonna try this pilot season thing. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.320 I don't know what it is. But we're not staying 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.159 too long. And then I got Full House like the 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.640 first week, which you guys know that doesn't happen. That 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.680 never happens. So it's like, oh, this it's easy, like 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.240 talking about talk to us about full House and who 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.360 you played and you obviously then you you came back 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.960 for Fuller House. Talk to us a little bit about that. Yeah, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.919 So it was I was such a huge fan of 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.560 the show, like loved the show, as you know, all 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.960 kids our age did. And I remember I got the 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.719 audition and um, the casting director came out and told 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.640 my mom. She was like she's great, but she just 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.000 she's too sweet, like her face is so sweet or 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.760 you know something, which is so not true. I mean, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.600 nobody has a bigger RBF than I do. But so, um, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.240 my mom was like okay. And then I turned around, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.760 like as we were leaving, and I said, can I 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.200 come back? I have an idea and she was like, 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.480 I mean, I guess, but you're just not right for it. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.880 And my mom and I went to the good Will 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.000 and I got a denim vest and Doc Martin's and 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.440 then she had me come back for producers and she 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.800 came out and I I don't know where this like, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.960 you know, confidence or you know, even level of hootzbuck 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.800 came from. But I was in character and she was 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.720 like Marlon. I was like what And I went in 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:35.839 the yeah, and I got the parting what great? And 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:41.400 that was that that's how old were you? Twelve? Of course? 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.159 Of course to have that kind of confidence as an 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.360 actor twelve of course, but it's also to dumb luck, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.760 Like I didn't know how you were supposed to really 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.120 be at a professional auditions. You know, I didn't go 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.880 to a ton and you know, in northern California, we 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.880 did like mainly commercial work, right, like it was like 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.480 that kind of stuff. Um, So I think it's just 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.040 just like I don't care attitude that was so probably 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.320 refreshing to some people, but I miss that. Where is 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.480 that girl that would be so amazing but does not care? 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.400 You know? Well, you were also on an episode of 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.039 Step by Step. You were in an episode of Home Improvement. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.080 What would you do on Home Improvement? What did I do? 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:23.840 I think I was, um zach Tayebrian's girlfriends right a party. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:33.320 Maybe I don't really remember blooded together. It's just we've 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.880 also talked a lot on this podcast about how much 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.400 like making out there was on shows, and so if 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.760 you did make the rounds in the nineties on Guest Show, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.279 it's like, it's pretty much like I was probably kissing somebody. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:48.640 I was probably like somebody's girlfriend or boyfriend. That's ms 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.719 off to the side watching us, like I'm sitting in 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:56.240 the stands. So weird awkward times smoking that I did 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.800 on Full House, it's like that would not pass today, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.680 you know. In fact, I actually made that TikTok, the 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.400 the teenage Dirtbag one and I put a picture of 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.400 me smoking on it and I got taken it got 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.560 taken down for inappropriate contents. Right, really, well, I mean 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.320 you also waited till twelve to smoke, so you're already 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.400 starting late. Will was an old and old he had 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.120 already been doing it for a few years by then. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.960 But you were also on the Emmy winning show The 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:31.120 Practice for seven seasons. Yeah. Yeah, I remember seeing you 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.440 doing that and being like, man, that looks so fun 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.800 and so cool. Yeah, and talked about a transition from 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.880 sitcom to like real drama like harding. Yeah, such a 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:45.960 great Yeah, there was a lot of years in between. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.440 I would say the sitcom component and moving on to 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.720 like the practice. I think, you know, we all go 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.240 through that like awkward stage in high school where you know, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.120 I wasn't working as much. And then I decided I 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.280 wanted to go to normal school. You know, I felt 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.360 like I really got cheated, And so I went to 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.160 a normal high school for a few years. And did 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.080 you stay or yeah, yeah, we stayed here. At the time, 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.320 my parents had already separated, so we never went back. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.640 Um and yeah, so I went to a high school 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.680 called Laxa, the l A County High School of the Arts. Yeah, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.120 then I got the practice. And so were you acting 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.320 in high school? Then? Were you doing like theater and stuff? Really? 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.080 Like I went super rogue and I was like, I'm 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.160 going to be in the music department. I don't want 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.200 to be, you know, in theater anymore. I just I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.480 think I was very burned out and I just didn't 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.959 see I was so new and experiencing like rejection and 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.200 it just got to me, you know. So I remember 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.600 I called my agents one day and I was like, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.360 I'm done. You don't need to send me out for 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.040 anything anymore, you know, I feel good. And how old 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.679 were you at that point? I was sixteen. Wow, and 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.360 how long had you been acting? I mean I professionally 0:08:55.480 --> 0:09:00.160 started probably when I was like nine ten something like that. Um, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.560 But doing theater and all that stuff wait earlier like seven. Um. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.200 But yeah, I just I think I just needed to 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.559 like go experience normal school and not be on set 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.640 doing school. You know. I just really felt that poll. Yeah, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.360 there's something like that. Everybody went through that at some point, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.880 Like I definitely did, you know for we all get 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.440 me off this TV show, which is you know, which 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.400 is hard to explain to people, like we talked about 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.400 it on this podcast. It's like it sounds like we 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.559 were ungrateful little brats. But the truth is like there 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.160 is this desire for like whatever the you know, especially 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.040 when you start at a young age. It's like, but 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.080 I just want like a little bit of a corner 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.040 of the world that's my own, and I wanted to 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.640 be quote unquote normal. It's it's an impulse I think 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.920 across the board. There's something strange about I've noticed so 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.760 many actors that are young. We're young actors started professionally 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.280 at the age of ten. I don't know what it 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.320 is with that number, but I was ten. You ten. Yea, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.319 it was Daniel and ten. If there's something about that 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.200 age and a bunch of young actors where they've started 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:08.280 at the age of ten. I don't know why. It's 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.320 just a weird coincidence, but I think that's a really 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.959 kind of formative year. I mean, I have a ten 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.440 year old and she it's like suddenly she's, you know, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.240 so much more mature and like has, you know, her 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.560 own ideas and her own self. And I think that 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.280 probably has something to do with it, right, Like you're 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.880 finally I do actually want to do this, and it's 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:37.920 not your parents pushing acting. Hell no souls and ten. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.880 I could see her doing it, to be honest with you, 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.080 but because of like our past and I feel and 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.079 it's I don't have a negative thought in my head 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.760 about it. I just feel like it's so important to 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.960 go to school and figure out what you want to 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.760 do and then I'll fully support it and help you 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:56.920 and do all that. But am I going to like 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.480 take you to auditions and like you know, you're leaving 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.360 the fifth grade? Yeah, when you say it out loud, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.080 like you've done it and you're saying out loud where 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.400 it's like, well, it's I'm ten, time to start work. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.400 It's like, oh, it's it's weird. It's weird. I love 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.400 that I did it, and I'm glad that I did it, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:25.000 but it's it is. It's strange, But it's one of 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.679 those things like the insanity of it also kind of 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.679 points to the fact that we all of us on 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:35.000 this conversation, in this conversation, we're probably so driven that 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.719 you might not have been able to stop us, do 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.240 you know what I mean? It might have been like 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.840 that's what my parents talked about, how it was just 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.559 so apparent that you were like, we can't writer is 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.280 going to do this thing, like he's going to get 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.280 up on stage and he wants to do it, and 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.080 we have to sort of follow. I mean, even Marloe 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.920 your story about being like can I come back? Let 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.520 me go get my denim jacket and like nail this part, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.120 Like that must be crazy as a parent to be 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.160 looking at your twelve year old do this thing that 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.960 you don't quite understand and be like, Okay, they've got 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:06.400 something going on. But it is also I think so 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.000 much about how um later than when the show ended, 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.800 when Boy Meets World ended, and I wanted so badly 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.200 to just like, I'm getting as far away from acting 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:16.800 as I can. I'm taking a break. I'm going to 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.640 jump into whatever normal life means for me. And then 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.560 you try to come back to it. Not necessarily because 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.760 oh wow, I feel the need to come back and 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.480 be a fantastic actor, but because all right, well, I 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.520 do need to make a living and this is the 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.120 only thing I know how to do. I don't I 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.520 don't know what else there is for me to do. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.000 And I didn't go to college right after Boy Meets 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.200 World ended because I thought I was going to act 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.080 for the rest of my life. And then when it's 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.439 hard to get an acting job and you go, wait 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.240 a minute, Wait a minute. I have not thought this 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.320 out very well because if no one will hire me, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.680 and I don't have an education, I mean I had 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.040 a high school education, but I didn't know what that 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.000 meant as far as like, so, now, what do I 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.280 want to do that involves a high school education? Do 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.480 I want to go to college? What do I want 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.040 to study? I know nothing about anything except this one thing. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.840 And so yes, Marla, from your perspective, thinking about a 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.040 ten year old taking them out of school already for 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.760 auditions in the in the afternoon, and and yeah, there 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.959 is there's like I always feel like a downer when 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.080 people say, what's your best advice for someone who wants 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.640 to get into the entertainment industry, And like my first 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.079 piece of advice is always like, know what you're amazing 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.640 Plan B is. You know what your Plan B is. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.880 That if you have to go to Plan B, you'll 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.240 be just as happy as if Plan A worked out. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.199 Because if you know that and you can pursue that 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.720 at the same time that you're also pursuing your dream, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.880 then there really is a safety net for you and 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.840 you're not just going to be flat on your face. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.880 I don't think there's anything more scary than when you 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.720 had to make money at that at this career, you know. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.720 I remember it was always like my mom saying, oh, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.240 that's going in your you know, savings fund or whatever, 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.360 and you know, and when like I got a car 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.080 when I was sixteen and all that was really exciting. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.520 And then I remember, you know, getting my first apartment 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.320 at eighteen, and it's like once that happens where it's 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.400 your your own responsibility and you need to like get 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.720 your hustle on that that was terrifying. And also you 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.679 just mentioned something very interesting that I think since we're 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.839 kind of talking about growing up as an actor and 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.800 making a living at it, you just mentioned your Cougan Fund, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.000 and I think there's something that that we haven't really 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.200 talked about yet. So Jackie Coogan was a child actor, 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.280 um and and had lost all his money. I think 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.160 his parents had investeds, had taken took it all. So 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.520 they created something where is it is? That? Is that? 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.040 What it is? So if you are under the ten 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.360 of your money is automatically put away and can't be 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.720 touched just so you can't finish this and somebody can 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.080 take it all. A manager can take it all, a 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.240 parent can take it all. So um yeah, I mean 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.320 it's something that's interesting that you have to think about 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.120 it thirteen that it's like, you know, this amount of 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.000 money is being saved or this amount of money is 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.840 being spent or it's a it's yeah, you're because not 0:14:54.880 --> 0:15:01.360 all parents are amazing, all are saying or savvy, right, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.600 and and it does there is this bizarre thing that 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.880 happens where your your parents, like you know, my mom, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.200 her life became my career. You know, in my brother's career. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.360 She was driving us constantly, and I think about the commitment. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.320 You know, she had a teaching job. She was teaching 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.840 and junior college. She quit her job. She would have 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.760 been running the nutrition department in a couple of years, 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.800 but she gave it up, you know, and job. Oh 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.720 my god, that's so crazy. So I could see how 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.840 a a a less a less scrupulous parent would just 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.960 be like, well, then that rationalizes me taking and all 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.880 the money. Oh you heard that, you you must have heard. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.520 We all heard that from certain people where it was 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:44.840 like and I'm not saying people on our set, but 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.440 from people we grew up with, or things like that. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.080 We heard actors where it was like, well, I drive 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.240 him around. I had to quit my job, so this 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.040 is my job now, so I get paid, you know 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.240 what I'm supposed to get paid. And it's like that's 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.400 your mom. You know. It's like and you you get 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.720 into this weird kind of gray area, which is again 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.240 I never had to deal with because both my parents 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.840 were lawyers and they're like, hey, we'll drive you to 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.960 the bus, but you gotta you gotta do you um, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.280 but your public transportation on the East Coast and yeah, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:16.080 somebody had to actually be. And by the way, when 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.840 a parent, especially a single parent, gives up a job 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.760 to be able to take there, how are they supposed 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.000 to make rent and pay for a car payment in 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.080 car insurance and all groceries? Like? There is you know, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.320 there is there are certain expenses that are that makes 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.120 sense for a child who is kind of taken over 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.280 the family's day to day responsibilities for them for some 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.000 of their income to supplement some of that, um, you know, 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.200 and then and then what is the appropriate amount becomes 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.920 a real gray area. Um. So yeah, I mean it is. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.000 There's so many things I think about that I think 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.960 it really is no surprise at all when it when 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.960 it doesn't go the way. It's when it doesn't go 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.880 right for a child actor in the entertainment industry, it 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.280 actually makes it's actually it's so rare that it go 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.720 the right way, because it's just it's it's too it's 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.480 too gray. People always ask you, guys, I would say, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.080 the biggest question I get, aside from like would you 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.320 put your children in acting? Which is very common, but 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.639 how did you escape? Because I think, like, you know, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.119 the four of us did okay, like we aren't you know, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.760 but we all know a lot of people who had 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.560 really rough roads and like got down the wrong track. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.480 So do you guys get asked that question a lot. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.080 I get it. I get it, not even in the 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:30.639 form of question. I get it as a sort of 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:36.440 like weird backhanded compliment, like you're so healthy that it's 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.920 like I think, okay, thank you. But yeah, it's also 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.880 there's something there's something very interesting about There's the mentality 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.879 too of you know, hey, I was on a long 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.840 running sitcom and then I went and did something else 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.120 with my life. It's not oh, man, you are awesome 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.080 and really successful as an actor and then decided to 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.920 do something else. It's oh you you couldn't work again 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.439 after that thing, right, Like that's that's what happened. And 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.640 it's not like no, no, no, I because we've got 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.520 like you talked about, uh, step by Step. Stacy Keenan 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.239 was in everything on Step by Step. She's like the 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.719 district attorney of Los Angeles now, so there's like I'm 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.200 a lawyer. Yeah, she's a lawyer. So it's nobody would 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.240 be like, oh, you're not you know, they didn't want 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.080 you in the business anymore. It's like, no, I didn't 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.920 want to do this anymore. And I was hugely successful 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.560 in the business and now I have found another love 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.399 and huge and successful doing something there. But there is 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.800 this stigma of you're a child actor and now you're 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.840 not working all the time. You failed, and it's like, well, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.960 it's an assumption of it's an assumption of like a 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.240 success ladder, like you know, I think when you start acting, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.400 there's like, especially as a kid, there's like you get 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.199 this job, and then you get this job, and then 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.879 you get this job, and it's like the end result 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.680 is what that you become an a list actor, winning 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.359 Academy Awards, and that is so that is like the 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.040 two percent of people who if that's the point one 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.919 percent of people who decided to be actors, and of 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.359 child actors that is even fewer. There's this pressure that 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.440 and I remember feeling it and talking about it constantly 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.440 that like, oh there, this is you know, Boy Meets 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.679 World is part of a progression that should continue, and like, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.280 I just wish I could go back and tell my 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.520 younger self, don't worry about it, man, just be where 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.199 you are right now and start figuring out what you 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:21.280 care about outside of this sort of need for fame 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.640 and success and money in this context, and like really 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.919 focus on those things because that you know, those are 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.360 the things that are always going to be there, that 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.800 that they're not out of your hands, because a life 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.520 in the arts is unpredictable and it has very little 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.919 to do with actual talent. It has everything to do 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.800 with timing. And you know, when we talk to the 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.880 casting directors for our show, it's like, oh my god, 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.600 it seems so arbitrary whether somebody actually gets cast in 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.080 something or not. Speaking of that, Marla, did you remember 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.919 so um did you audition for Ta Panga earlier in 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.280 the week before you auditioned to be Paige? Did you also? 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.639 I mean I was Paige and then I remember we 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.479 did a table read and there was I hope I'm 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.800