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Speaker 1: All Everybody Scott Patterson one on one interview with Sarah Forrett.
Speaker 1: She played the role of an a fair child for
Speaker 1: one episode two thousand and four. It's their only appearance
Speaker 1: season five, episode ten, but not as cute as Pushkin
Speaker 1: her characters Anna. She's currently a student chi Chilton who
Speaker 1: head Master Charleston asked Roy to show her around Yale
Speaker 1: and boy does she get shown around a little bit
Speaker 1: about Sarah. She has known for a role as Sophie
Speaker 1: Curran Beautiful People. Her first on screen appearance was a
Speaker 1: role as Tina Paulson an episode of the police Procedural
Speaker 1: television series New York. In two thousand and five, she
Speaker 1: joined the cast of the ABC Family show Beautiful People
Speaker 1: as Sophie Kershy. Appeared in two two thousand and six films,
Speaker 1: Carla and Pope Dreams and one two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: film American Crew. She also appeared in episodes of the
Speaker 1: Hard Times of R. Jay Berger and Zach Stone Is
Speaker 1: Going to Be Famous, as well as Criminal Minds. She's
Speaker 1: an episode of that Supply and Demand. She had guest
Speaker 1: roles on television shows Gilmore Girls, Clubhouse, Moonlight, and The
Speaker 1: Mentalist and Ladies and Gentlemen. Here is Sarah for it. Sarah, welcome.
Speaker 1: Tell us how you got into acting.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I got on an airplane and moved to LA.
Speaker 3: Always knew it was something I wanted to do. I saw.
Speaker 2: Andrew Lloyd's Weberfan of the Opera when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: and just watching these people on stage. My mom took
Speaker 2: me and I just remember seeing them live like they
Speaker 2: were in another moment right in front of me, And
Speaker 2: it was just always something I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And so you came to LA from where?
Speaker 3: From Texas? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I came from, but Louisiana originally all
Speaker 2: throughout the South.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you were seventeen. Were you giving any advice
Speaker 1: coming to Hollywood at such a young age. You came
Speaker 1: with your mother and your father. I just came with
Speaker 1: your mother. You came at seventeen by yourself.
Speaker 2: With their blessing too. I can't believe it. I was
Speaker 2: a lucky one for that.
Speaker 1: Wow. So this was your second role in Hollywood. What
Speaker 1: do you remember about your audition for Gilmore Girls?
Speaker 2: I remember Jamie Rudowski and Mark Casey were amazing casting directors.
Speaker 3: Shout out to them. I remember going on to the
Speaker 3: Warner Brothers lot.
Speaker 2: For that audition and my note for the callback was
Speaker 2: keep everything, just be faster. So yeah, I just remember
Speaker 2: a really inviting room and that just continued on through
Speaker 2: my whole experience with Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1: Had you watch the show when you got cast?
Speaker 2: No, you know, I was like so busy and working
Speaker 2: my day job and acting class. I wasn't a big
Speaker 2: TV watcher at the time, but I certainly knew that
Speaker 2: it was a beloved show. Yeah, so I watched it
Speaker 2: in syndication since become a fan.
Speaker 1: Do you watch it a lot? They still watch it?
Speaker 3: No, I mean whenever it's on.
Speaker 2: I love to hear the sound of those familiar voices.
Speaker 2: They you know, the creators were so incredible at making
Speaker 2: a world that you just want to immerse yourself in,
Speaker 2: and so it's like familiar and I'll leave it on
Speaker 2: in the background for sure.
Speaker 1: So you played a giddy high school student seeing college
Speaker 1: for the first time, visiting Yale? Was it easy to
Speaker 1: get back into the headspace of a seventeen year old?
Speaker 1: By the way, how old were you when you got
Speaker 1: the role?
Speaker 2: Oh, I was probably about nineteen or twenty.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, so question applients.
Speaker 3: It was so easy.
Speaker 2: I played myself in that role so much just getting
Speaker 2: to watch Alexis and everybody. It was just like a masterclass.
Speaker 2: And I was in awe and that character was so
Speaker 2: enthusiastic and bright eyed and bushy tailed in NII, which
Speaker 2: is close to home.
Speaker 1: So how'd you like working with Alexis? Tell us about that.
Speaker 2: You know, she was it was as if it was
Speaker 2: a neighbor that I'd known forever. She was so comfortable
Speaker 2: and welcoming, and I remember she would get her she would,
Speaker 2: you know, get to the set for rehearsal and she'd have,
Speaker 2: you know, like three pages of monologues and she would say, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stand here and i'm gonna hit here, and
Speaker 2: i'm gonna I'm gonna say this, and she disappear and
Speaker 2: then she'd come back and it was just effortless.
Speaker 3: It was just it was it was.
Speaker 2: It was really amazing how she was really gentle spirited
Speaker 2: in nature, but she would really command that set as
Speaker 2: such a leader. Really nice watching her.
Speaker 1: So is there a scene that you did that stands
Speaker 1: out the most to you?
Speaker 2: I remember the library scene, walking around that that library,
Speaker 2: and uh, I was I thought Matt was the cutest
Speaker 2: guy I'd ever seen.
Speaker 1: You got zukereed away.
Speaker 3: You were right?
Speaker 1: He as matter of fact, he did it to me.
Speaker 1: I fell to when I saw.
Speaker 3: Those Yeah, and just watching him in Alexis was so fun.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, their chemistry was palpable. Even just didn't rehearsing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I left that set. Uh, their their their
Speaker 2: dorm room was really fun walking around. Those were probably
Speaker 2: the standouts.
Speaker 1: Where did you actually shoot that stuff? On?
Speaker 2: The Warner Brothers lit on the stage.
Speaker 1: So they built all of those on the sound stage.
Speaker 1: I thought you were out at U C. L A
Speaker 1: Or Chaplain College or Loyal or someplace like that, but
Speaker 1: you were. They built a set on a sound stage
Speaker 1: all that stuff. That's fantastic. So you later got cast
Speaker 1: his main character on the show Beautiful People. What was
Speaker 1: your experience on that show?
Speaker 2: Well, that was the same casting directors Amy and Maara
Speaker 2: really really changed my life.
Speaker 3: And that was shot. Now are you Canadian?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, you're just working up in Canada now, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: So we filmed in Canada, So We went up to
Speaker 2: Toronto for two seasons of that, and that was in
Speaker 2: a lot of ways that had an essence of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 2: It was a mom and two daughters, and so there
Speaker 2: was I think a connection to that, but it was
Speaker 2: an ex It was a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1: So that's great. They hitch up for another gig. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1: So your last on screen credit was twenty thirteen. Did
Speaker 1: you retire from the business or what's going on?
Speaker 3: No, retirement was never the word, but you know, I was.
Speaker 2: I had been an adult woman playing teenagers for quite
Speaker 2: a bit and then I found myself kind of caught
Speaker 2: in that woman child space and I didn't quite.
Speaker 3: Know how to kind of present myself.
Speaker 2: It was I needed to go live a little bit
Speaker 2: of life, and not that I was consciously aware of that,
Speaker 2: but it happened, and I stepped away and fell in
Speaker 2: love with my now husband and had two children.
Speaker 1: Oh wonderful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, And we looked away for his work and
Speaker 2: then found an opportunity to come back to la and
Speaker 2: here I am.
Speaker 1: So you're so you're back pursuing it once again. Oh
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. Well, good luck with me.
Speaker 4: Thanks tell Us a little bit about your training back
Speaker 4: in Louisian or Texas or what kind of theater you
Speaker 4: involved in or classes.
Speaker 1: I mean, were you studying back then before you came
Speaker 1: to LA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was always on a stage. It was a
Speaker 2: ballet from three on.
Speaker 3: And then I.
Speaker 2: Broke my foot and just had a friend who was
Speaker 2: auditioning for a local theater show and said, you want
Speaker 2: to do this. It was Westside Story and I auditioned,
Speaker 2: and from then on I was hooked.
Speaker 3: It was theater, and I.
Speaker 2: Was in Little Rock, Arkansas at the time, and I
Speaker 2: had a fantastic public school program with gifted and talented
Speaker 2: program with different schools that the Clinton's and Mary Steain
Speaker 2: Virgin had poured a lot of money and time and
Speaker 2: care into building. And so I got really involved in
Speaker 2: those programs and just did a lot of theater and graduated.
Speaker 2: Knew I wanted to graduate early and pursue acting in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Now. My parents gave me their blessing, I
Speaker 2: think because they knew that there was no stopping me.
Speaker 2: You're saying no until I came out here and just
Speaker 2: hit the ground running. Got into an audition class here
Speaker 2: and met my manager and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: So people when you were growing up were going saying
Speaker 1: to your parents, you know, she's she's very good. She's
Speaker 1: a real natural with this. You should encourage her. She's
Speaker 1: she's really So did you separate yourself from the crowd?
Speaker 1: In other words, were you Were you really so talented
Speaker 1: that it was it was obvious, and so you just
Speaker 1: sort of kept going.
Speaker 2: You know, that was not my thought process ever.
Speaker 3: It was just the love of.
Speaker 2: For me, I feel so seen, I feel so free
Speaker 2: when I watch something and I see myself. I feel
Speaker 2: less alone, right, I feel my pain lights. And so
Speaker 2: for me, it was always about watching those things. And
Speaker 2: then it's like the most selfish and generous thing I
Speaker 2: have ever experienced, absorbing all of the stories and films
Speaker 2: and plays and books and everything, and then also getting
Speaker 2: to be a part of the storytelling and helping people
Speaker 2: to feel less alone and.
Speaker 1: Less What are some of your favorite films?
Speaker 2: Oh, give me a Paul Thomas Anderson any Yeah, and therefore.
Speaker 3: Daniel day Lewis. But you know, I will eat up anything.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big comic book person, but I like
Speaker 2: all genres. I mean, Kate Blanchette is one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: The Queen. She's I think she's the most extraordinary talent
Speaker 1: to come along, and there years absolutely, I don't think
Speaker 1: I think she's there's There are a couple of actresses
Speaker 1: that I might put up there with her, but it's
Speaker 1: I think she's reigned supreme. I think Miranda Richardson is
Speaker 1: way up there. I think Olivia Williams is what I mean.
Speaker 1: There's obviously people that no one's ever heard of, you know,
Speaker 1: that are working on the stage, that are also brilliant,
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about, you know, people that came from
Speaker 1: the stage and they they occupy the film space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she keeps doing that, and I think that's
Speaker 2: why she stays so relevant, so unpredictable.
Speaker 1: She's very involved in theater back in Australia with her husband,
Speaker 1: her I think her husband and her there are artistic
Speaker 1: directors of the Australian National.
Speaker 3: Theater right exactly.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, just doing amazing work all the time. It's
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. Uh Yeah, she's setting the bar really high.
Speaker 1: And and so it was there So you mentioned seeing
Speaker 1: Andrew Lloyd Weber and being struck by what the actors
Speaker 1: were experiencing right in front of you. This alternative reality
Speaker 1: that you wanted to climb into because they made it
Speaker 1: so vital and thrilling. You know, live theater, When live
Speaker 1: theater's done, well, there's nothing more vital or exciting. I mean,
Speaker 1: there just really isn't. So you got caught up in that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the scene? Do you remember the actor?
Speaker 1: Do you remember a particular moment in that production that
Speaker 1: sort of you know, the switch went on and said
Speaker 1: that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was certainly Christine. It was the role
Speaker 2: of Christine. You know, I think as a young girl
Speaker 2: watching a young woman, and it was the music and everything,
Speaker 2: but like I said, it was just seeing someone on
Speaker 2: stage that I knew I could touch, and they were
Speaker 2: right there, but they were so immersed in a different
Speaker 2: moments that I escaped with them, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean that's a that's a not a new story
Speaker 2: for an actor to to love to escape into stories.
Speaker 3: But that's what did it for me.
Speaker 2: Was just just taking me out of my current moment
Speaker 2: and being in another world completely submerged.
Speaker 1: So that love of acting or singing or whatever, dancing,
Speaker 1: that that act of performing, the love of performing, that's
Speaker 1: what made you pursue it as a career. That's what
Speaker 1: made you and and and you knew from a young
Speaker 1: age that it really was just about, you know, acquiring
Speaker 1: a set of skills that people were going to pay
Speaker 1: you for.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that came later, but yeah, it was it
Speaker 2: was it was just the story telling. It was just
Speaker 2: the I'm an only child. I come from a very
Speaker 2: small family. Uh, you know, we never had a lot
Speaker 2: of money, but we always had rich imaginations and and
Speaker 2: you know, like my mom saved a lot for those
Speaker 2: tickets the Phantom of the Opera and going to just
Speaker 2: just it immediately, I knew immediately that there it's a
Speaker 2: whole world of artists. That that show opened me up
Speaker 2: to what the world of artists is. And it's such
Speaker 2: a warm, welcoming world full of different kinds of people
Speaker 2: from all kinds of personalities, backgrounds, flavorings, whatever, what have you.
Speaker 2: And as an only child is kind of a lonely childhood,
Speaker 2: that world always welcomed me and made me feel like
Speaker 2: I felt like I belonged. And I think that that
Speaker 2: just fed my desire to learn more about about it
Speaker 2: and in every way, you know, and I think my
Speaker 2: real respect and appreciation for the craft actually came after
Speaker 2: walking away and coming back.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like a brand new actor now.
Speaker 2: I was really naive and and enjoyed. I played the
Speaker 2: kids really well. As a young woman, I played I
Speaker 2: played younger roles, and now coming back, it's like it's
Speaker 2: this absolute respect for the craft and the people who
Speaker 2: who want to teach, that want to be a part
Speaker 2: of learning more of it that turn me on.
Speaker 1: Now here's a question. So you're back in the business.
Speaker 1: You're back in the game. Yeah, you're a mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot more life experience to draw from. Wow,
Speaker 1: your heart has grown exponentially because you have two children.
Speaker 1: You understand and the meaning of life now right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So who do you want to work with? Name your
Speaker 1: top male star, top female star, top director. If you
Speaker 1: could do a film, and you had one film you
Speaker 1: could do, that's it. Who would your director? Who would
Speaker 1: your co star be? Malee? Who would you co star
Speaker 1: female be?
Speaker 2: Okay, after you, after I get you and I out
Speaker 2: of the way, uh I then, so you know what,
Speaker 2: I fell into a blackbird hole and I got so
Speaker 2: obsessed with Paul Walter Hauser.
Speaker 3: Did you see that? Did you see Blackbird?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Let me sign me up for Paul Walter Hauser and
Speaker 2: let's see, let's put Lady Kate in it while we're
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: So we got Paul Houser, We've got Kate, and then
Speaker 1: who's the director, who's directing you?
Speaker 2: Let's see, My gosh, let's do some pta.
Speaker 3: Why not. Let's dream? Okay, go for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna be in bed tonight at two am,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to have a list of like seven
Speaker 2: d nine answers for all.
Speaker 3: Of these and I'm good.
Speaker 1: What about Tarantino, he's doing his last film? Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 3: He's doing Get me in there, man.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I actually okay. I have a fun story. I got
Speaker 2: registered for voting while on the set of Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 3: Right, Danny Strong, who I had.
Speaker 2: Was obsessed with because I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Speaker 2: came up to me and was like, are you registered
Speaker 2: to vote? And I'm like no. I was eighteen nineteen
Speaker 2: years old at the time, and he registered me to vote.
Speaker 2: And then I'm listening to this interview with Tarantino and
Speaker 2: he goes, Danny.
Speaker 3: Strong, I used to go I used to work in a.
Speaker 2: Blockbuster and Dan Strong used to come in and he
Speaker 2: was a little kid and checked out all these movies
Speaker 2: and things, and we talk about all kinds of storylines
Speaker 2: and everything, and so yeah, let's there. There's Queen Tarantino. Sure,
Speaker 2: and Danny Danny Danny Strong. Let me have a script
Speaker 2: with Danny Strong.
Speaker 1: We'll see what we can do. All right, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna play a little game now called rapid fire. It
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily have to move quickly. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: ask you a bunch of Gilmour related questions and there
Speaker 1: are no wrong answers, so the pressure is off. All right, Ready,
Speaker 1: here we go. How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 3: Black?
Speaker 1: Are your team? Logan Jess or Dean.
Speaker 3: Logan?
Speaker 1: Who is your favorite Gilmore girls couple? Luke and Lorelei,
Speaker 1: Lane and Zach, Emily and Richard.
Speaker 3: There's no other answer.
Speaker 1: That is the right answer. There, I lied to you.
Speaker 1: That is the right answer. Thank you very much. What
Speaker 1: would you order at Luke Steiner?
Speaker 3: Do you have an omelet coming right up? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Jackson or Taylor for town selectmen?
Speaker 3: Jackson?
Speaker 1: Really? Okay? How would you rather listen to hef Alien
Speaker 1: or the Troubadour's cover songs?
Speaker 3: The Troubadour cover songs.
Speaker 1: Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 3: Yale?
Speaker 2: Why because I went and followed Rory around all to
Speaker 2: heaven to bid at Yale.
Speaker 1: What's Rory's bigger mistake? Crashing the car her boyfriend built
Speaker 1: for her or sleeping with her ex who was married.
Speaker 2: Let's not judge Rory here, Okay, let's we all make mistakes.
Speaker 3: Scott and.
Speaker 2: I just want you to know, Rory, I'm a loyal
Speaker 2: friend through and through.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask the judges that we will accept that
Speaker 1: as your answer.
Speaker 3: Thank you. No wrong answers, there.
Speaker 1: Are no wrong answer. Who from Gilmore? Girls? Would you
Speaker 1: not want to be stuck on a desert island with.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, with all due respect, on a desert island?
Speaker 1: You said? Okay, who do you not want to be
Speaker 1: stuck on that island?
Speaker 2: Love me some, Liza, but I think Paris and I
Speaker 2: might be too neurotic for one island.
Speaker 3: So I have to say Paris.
Speaker 1: Something in your life. You are all in on the moment.
Speaker 1: It has been wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 3: Oh the pleasure was mine. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: And we wish you all the best, Sarah and good
Speaker 1: luck continued success. Uh say hello to your family for us,
Speaker 1: and and you know, start scoring some jobs. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's so easy to get a job, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It's just so easy. You just you just got to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I need a job. Oh there it is.
Speaker 3: Even though this wasn't a week ago. You never know
Speaker 3: what you.
Speaker 1: Never know, right anyway, all the best and thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on. We really appreciate it. Okay, all right,
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