WEBVTT - Elisha Cuthbert 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:25.040 Cats buds. That's okayas no one here is. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.040 Welcome back to another episode of teen Beat. I'm Danielle Fischel, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.320 host of not only this podcast, but of the nineteen 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.720 ninety seven Disney World Easter Parade. It was hot and 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.479 I wore a big hat, but now I wear many hats, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.840 and this one has me sitting with interesting people who've 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.040 done interesting things every single week, tapping into their teenage 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:54.240 years to find the awkward and uncomfortable truths that connect 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.200 us as members of. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:55.960 The human race. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.960 Because even if you were on TV as a kid, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.440 like I was exposing every moment of your puberty to 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.520 millions of viewers looking back as a way to learn 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.400 more about who we've become today. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.640 I look at it this way. I gave you my childhood. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.120 It's time we hear yours. This week, I'm talking to 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.759 a pivotal piece of what I'm calling the Canadian invasion 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.440 of Y two K. Whether it was Ryan Gosling breaking 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.319 out from the Mickey Mouse Club, or Nellie Furtado flying 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.280 like a bird, Hayden Christiansen being cast as a young 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.920 Anakin skywalker, or Avril Levine wearing a tie over a 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.800 tank top. The Great North really was quite great, and 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.559 the all out attack also included a Calgary born, Montreal 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.720 raised actress who first found the spotlight as the young 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:47.560 co host of Popular Mechanics for Kids, arguably the oddest 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.560 magazine to ever become children's programming unless there was a 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.160 good Housekeeping for tweens show that never hit the States. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.480 She would stay in Canada for her first major role 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.280 in Air Speed alongside Joe Montaigna, and then the Gemini 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.640 Award winning Lucky Girl, leading her to Los Angeles in 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.680 two thousand and one, where her whole life changed when 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.120 she was cast as Kim Bauer, Keifer Sutherland's always in 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.280 peril daughter in the pop culture smash twenty four. She'd 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.560 also appear in classic movies like Old School and Love Actually, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.720 and then supply the Internet with thousands of beautiful gifts 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.360 from the movie The Girl next Door. But it's her 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.000 time on wildly underappreciated projects that interests me most, like 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.000 one of TV's funniest modern day sitcoms, Happy Endings, and 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.760 the two thousand and five MTV generation remake of House 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.760 of Wax, which was much better than it ever should 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.800 have been. Now she's returned to our screens after a 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.600 four year hiatus where she focused on being a mom, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.079 but now appearing as Sue Flork in the romantic drama 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:54.000 series Every Year After, currently available to stream in full 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.360 on Prime Video and today. As fellow members of the 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:02.200 Maxim FHM Complex magazine generation of Young Hollywood, we will 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.560 sit together and chat about what it was like to 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:05.960 grow up, both on. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:06.840 And off camera. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.639 Because even though in twenty thirteen she was crowned TV's 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.680 most Beautiful Woman, I think deep down she must have 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.680 some teenage embarrassment to share. Welcome to teen Beat. The 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.720 most famous Canadian to never appear on an episode of 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:22.560 De Grassy High. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.160 It's Alicia Cuthbert. Hi. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.119 Yeah, oh my gosh, that kind of made me want 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.119 to cry. You did that better than anyone I've ever 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:30.799 heard before. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:31.760 Oh thank you. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.560 I couldn't have given my career any better words than that. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.880 I mean, that was that was the whole kit and kaboodle. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.360 You know, sometimes it's just nice to hear all of 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:43.800 your incredible accomplishments. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:44.760 Redbat to you. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.560 I was getting a little teary eyed. They're like that, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.640 but I was also laughing. I was like, this is 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:53.040 all very accurate. And it's touching my heart. So thank 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:53.440 you for that. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.160 You are so welcome. Thank you so much for joining 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.560 me here on teen Beat. I know I joked about 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.080 it at the end of your intro, but I do 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.360 need to know. How did you not end up on Degrassi. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.280 I was just going to say, I mean, until you 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.800 just uttered those words. I realized that now I have 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.760 a little bit of a grudge, like, what the hell 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.200 happened that I didn't get to be on that show? 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:19.360 But you know, the director, Kit Hood, he he was 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.880 one of the bigger like creators of that show, and 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.200 I ended up he directed me in a film, a 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.840 feature film in Canada, So I guess I could say 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.520 I have a little connection, but not actually on the show, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.240 but yeah, it was. It was a movie called Dancing 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.160 on the Moon. And you talk about embarrassment, I think 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.880 I had my first kiss on and it was on screen, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.440 so I was so nervous. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.400 And something else you can share. My first kiss was 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.080 on camera too. How old were you. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.800 Want to say? I was fourteen? Okay, yeah, weird. I 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.800 can't picture him. I'd have to go back and look, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:02.320 I can't picture like I can't. I was so petrified 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.280 and I was so out of my element that, like 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.520 you know when you have like a trauma experience and 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.640 you like walk it out like did that even happen? 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.720 Like I don't even know, but it's true, And I mean, yeah, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.960 that was so what was your? Was yours? How scary? 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:20.640 It was so scary, wasn't it? 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:21.240 It was scary. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.960 We had a live studio audience because it was on 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.159 a sitcom, so it was you know, live studio audience 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.360 and my grandparents and my parents. It was like everybody's watching. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.760 And we didn't kiss through the week, so we didn't 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:37.799 rehearse the kiss, so like the actual first time kiss 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.840 kiss was in front of you know, hundreds of people 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.080 and on camera. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.800 Oh my gosh. Yeah. No, we had and our we 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.279 had a crew, and it was so crazy. They they 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.479 it just ended up that it was scheduled for the 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.880 last scene of the night. And so I had just 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.479 stew on it like all night, all day and all 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.760 night like leading up to it, and I just I 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.720 had put it in my head like one I didn't 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.560 want to mess it up because I was like, I 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.320 don't know how to do this. So if like I 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.520 got to go in there, what if I like fumble 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.560 and like kisses nose or I don't. 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.000 Know, like I own my hands off. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.320 Oh my god, what if our teak link? I was like, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.760 I don't know what to do, but it ended up 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.440 happening and it was fine, and I was like, I 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:23.919 don't know why I made such a big deal of it, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.880 but I yeah, it was very scary, but yeah, that's 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.880 it's so funny, like you put yourself in these situations 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:35.040 on set that you know because you're you're acting and 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.640 it's not real, but yet I mean, obviously you're a 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.400 part of it and it's. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.520 Your physical body bringing it to life. So like it's 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.520 not a fake kiss. There may not be like sexual 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.560 tension behind it, but there's it's really happening. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:51.760 It's really happening. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.560 I want to go back to even earlier because I 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.359 know you started modeling at just seven years old, and 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.960 I want to know how did that come about? Because 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.599 I'm always interested in the moment you go from just 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:08.440 adorable child to adorable child model, Like were you discovered 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.080 in the Tim Horton's How did this? 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:11.240 How did it happen? 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.320 You know, it's so funny. My mom and dad would 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.400 get you know, pestered a lot, like when we were 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.320 out together when I was like a real infant, even 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.160 like I think my mom has a story you'd have 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.800 to tell, ask her, but like, I mean, there were 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.000 stories where people would come up and be like, oh, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.400 you should put her inmaddling, And it was just I 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.760 think fate was sort of aligning this path for me 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.520 way earlier than I even understood. And then at one 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:46.000 point a family friend was a casting director but and 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.240 she had mentioned to my parents about maybe having me, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.560 you know, just go and do some modeling stuff. And 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.200 so they finally relented and they were just like, Okay, 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.760 let's let's let's do this. And I mean, I was 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.760 so young, I didn't even and I just knew I 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.320 was having a good time. I didn't know that it 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.360 was like work per se. I just thought it was 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.240 really fun activity to do. But yeah, I would say that, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.920 like I look back on it, and it is mysterious 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.760 in a way that like not my parents or anyone 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.800 else that was in my inner circle where ever pushing 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.080 it was just things were sort of coming into my 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.160 path in a way that I can't even explain. It is. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.760 It is one of those mysterious things that I that 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.040 I still question and I go, well, obviously I'm on 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.560 the path that I should be on, and fate was 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.080 sort of leading me towards that. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.280 So yeah, yeah, that's another thing we share very similar 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:37.920 story paper. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.520 I feel that was going to happen everywhere we went. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.880 My parents were told, you should get her in you 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.600 need to get her in modeling, or you need to 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.040 get her in commercials. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:47.800 And it was and my parents were. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.800 Like, we don't know anything about this, like none, no 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.440 one in our family did it. They were like, we 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.160 don't know how to do it. And then when that 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.120 wasn't working, a girl I went to school with got 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.800 an agent and she just told me about it and 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.600 I went home and then was like, I want an agent. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.080 It was like the universe was like, all right, we'll 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.600 try all these different avenues until you land down the 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:07.800 path that you're gonna land. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.000 And I think too, I think our personalities. I mean, 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.640 I was not a shy child. I was always interested 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.880 in speaking to people, like you know, I with my son, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.240 particularly like you know, we work on like when we're 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.280 at a restaurant, like I try to encourage him to 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.880 order what he wants and not you know, kind of 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.800 step over that. And but of course he's he's timid, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.520 and he's shy, he's little, and but you know, I 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:35.800 do recall being younger and having this sort of fearless personality. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.079 I feel like I'm more shy now in my adulthood 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.800 than I was then. But I I agreed, right, And 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.280 I remember just being like ready to go to anybody 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.319 be like, hey, what's up totally? What's your story? 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.920 Yeah? Tell me more? What's that? What are you doing? 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.640 Yeah? How can I help you? Like? What what? 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:55.000 You know? 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.880 I'll have the cheeseburger with the you know. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.760 My son's like, yeah, I know, I know. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.400 I need to work on that too, because they both 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.920 my kids have when they're when they warm up, both 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.079 of them turn on these big personalities, but there's always 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.440 that moment where they have to decide, am I going 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:14.559 to do a dation a little? 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:14.920 Yeah? 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.360 So, like it's probably a smart idea right before you 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.600 walk into a place, to be like, let's practice what 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:20.079 we're going to do. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.920 We're going to walk into a restaurant, you're going to order, so. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.000 Let's pretend I'm the waiter, you know, like even just 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.360 to give them a practice run at it right before 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.080 it happens. But that's really smart that you're encouraging that 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.000 because people's skills are a lost start. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.560 For well, they're turning into a lot of star people 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.280 learning how to communicate. Is is dying out slowly. I mean, 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.520 it's so strange to see. But yeah, we really do 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.760 try to encourage the kids to be as independent as possible, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.760 and especially in those scenarios because you know, they have 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.840 to learn how to speak up for themselves at some point. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.559 And I may not always be right there at his 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.679 side or her side because we have an eight year 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.520 old daughter as well, where you know, I can you know, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.800 always like they can always fall back on. I want 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.480 them to, you know, have the skills to at least 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:06.040 order a. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.280 Meal exactly, at least be able to say you'd like 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.320 a cheeseburger. You know, you've got to be able to 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:16.240 do that exactly. Let's chat popular mechanics for KOOO. You 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.640 posted seasons one through four and it was based on 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:26.360 a magazine and you covered topics like animals, the human body, amusement, parks, electricity. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.680 Is there one lesson or something you learned from the show, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.320 like maybe a fact or a topic that is still 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.240 weirdly with you. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.480 You know, it's funny, there are there's plenty, and it's weird. 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:46.120 How like throughout my life they've helped me because it 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.360 was almost like another mini education for four years that 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:55.840 was so intense, and like, I find myself way more 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.880 handy than I ever should have been as far as 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.640 like I mean, I'll give you an example, like our 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.840 toilet was running the other day and I just you know, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.680 didn't even think twice, just lifted the lid, knew the 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.720 mechanics of it. Oh, the chain's off, the chain back bank, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.840 toilet's working again, And I'm like, wait, how did I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:16.320 just do that? 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:17.800 I don't hate that. 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.880 It has to be something to do with all of 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.640 the mechanical education I had on that show. But we 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.040 also got to do some really cool things that no 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.080 one else had ever gotten to do. I mean, at 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:34.280 one point we were on invited onto an aircraft carrier 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.560 for three days and I mean just getting all the 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:44.400 information on how the whole craft ran, you know, getting 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.800 to be catapulted off the craft. I mean, I don't 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.720 think there was no other television crew up until that point. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.760 I mean I don't know about now, but up until 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.360 that point when we were there. It was the first 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.520 TV crew to ever be invited to film on an 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.920 aircraft carrier. So it was super top secret and it 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:05.360 was super yeah exclusive, and it was a really cool thing. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.880 So I remember like getting to like walk away from 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.480 those experiences and be like, there's no one else on 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.920 the planet that other than a military trained personnel person 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.199 would if that's what you call them. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.920 Yeah, yeah, that's the official title. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.120 Yeah that sounded official, but yeah, other than like people 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.720 that were trained to be there, you know. I was like, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.440 I we are so special, We're so lucky, and yeah, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.000 you learn like little things like you know, the the 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.280 flight takes off, like you go from zero to like 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.320 sixty and like two seconds to get catfolded off. That 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.640 it was like unbelievable. And yeah, so I mean in 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.160 the list goes on and on, I just yeah, as 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.480 far as like electricity goes and you know, hot air balloons. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.839 We were up in hot air balloons. I rode an elephant. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.240 I mean I got like I always say to my husband, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.839 I'm like, sometimes I feel like when I go back 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.400 and people ask me about the show, I feel like 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.400 that Doseci guy on the Comer. I feel like the 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.760 most fascinating because every you know, the best thing that 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.680 came away from it is that no matter where I 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.679 am at any dinner party or any sort of event, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.480 I can I feel like I can converse with almost 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.360 anybody on most topics. So it's it was a really yeah, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.960 like really amazing experience to have. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.840 What a great work experience, Like, yeah, it sounds so fun. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.000 Did you get to spend any of your popular mechanics 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.160 money did you have? Like what was the first thing 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:32.840 you treated yourself to as a kid. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.680 No, you know, I my parents helped me save it 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.440 all and I used it to uh move to Los 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:45.000 Angeles and get an apartment and you know, try to 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.239 make it in Hollywood. That's really where all that money. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.720 Went, yeah, which is an expensive endeavor. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.600 Yeah, it was. So I was like I was and 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.000 you probably know I was at the Oakwood apartment and 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:04.960 Boulevard right brothers. I was like feeling very uh you know, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.920 old Hollywood in that way, and it was it was 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.560 and you know, Jay Bearishall also moved in there. Another 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.160 actor we know, Andrew Walker, he's also a good actor. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.320 He was he was there at that every like they're 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.560 like generational groups of actors that sort of find themselves 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.520 at or if it's. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.040 It doesn't even exist anymore. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.160 No, well there you go. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.320 I know, I know it's it's a real time capsule. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.480 But we we we talk about it on Podmeats World 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.240 all the time because it seems as though everyone lived 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.320 there at some point. Everyone had their friends, their crew 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:40.160 that lived there. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.400 Uh. Yeah, it's it's quite it. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.720 It was. It was scary, but it was iconic, exactly. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.640 It was both of those things at the same time. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.800 Kind of like in general the teenage years. It's just 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.280 scary but iconic exactly. One thing I have to ask you, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.640 because it's a pretty famous story that Hillary Clinton saw 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.280 one of your reports and reached out to you to 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.800 meet at the White House. Yes, did you steal anything 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.360 to take it home? Don't worry, I think the statute 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:08.640 of limitations has passed. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.400 But I'm dying to know. Do you have any sort 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.360 of memento from your time at the White House. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.160 I was too I was too afraid to steal anything, 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.600 but I will say I will say that I got 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.360 to hold socks the cat. I don't know if you 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.160 remember they had a black piece, yes, And I don't 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.160 know if you're a cat person. But I remember seeing 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.160 the cat come down the famous corridor with the red 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.520 carpet and I was like, is that socks And they 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.080 were like, yeah, do you want to hold them? I'm 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.200 like yes. So I was like I got a chance to, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.160 you know, hang out with the cat, which was great. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.560 And you know, I ended up seeing Hillary Clinton again, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.840 like twenty years after the fact, and I knew I 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.880 was going to see her because she was speaking at 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.680 an event that I was at, and I thought, well, 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.640 if there's a chance that I could, you know, maybe 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.880 run into her, I should keep this. I snagged up 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.120 photo that we took together from twenty years ago on 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.399 my phone and I ended up getting to speak with 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.040 her and I said, I have I met you at 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.800 the White House and it was so amazing and I'm 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.000 sure because she's met a million horns two people, and 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.440 so I showed her the photograph and she loved it. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.120 She was like, look at my hair. I'm like, look 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.480 at my hair. We were just like laughing at the 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.600 fact that our hair was so hers hers was really short. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.280 It was really cute. She said she looked great, but 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:35.680 we were totally laughing like old girlfriends about her hairstyles 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.919 and what we were wearing. She goes, I remember that 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.879 pink suit. I'm like, oh my gosh, I said, I 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.240 don't know why I was wearing a man's blazer, but 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.920 I guess that made me feel official. But we were 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.199 dying and it was so funny, and yeah, it was 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.920 a really cool thing. We got to go into all 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.000 the different rooms and that we met in the we 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.080 had a meeting in the mapping room together. And she 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.560 just she loved Popular Mechanics for Kids because at the 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:02.360 time she was involved in educational programming in the US 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.560 and she was trying to get every broadcast station to 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.800 at least have one or two educational programs for kids. Yeah, 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.919 and so when she saw that Canada was doing Popular 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.760 Maccancs for kids, she ended up getting it syndicated through 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.600 the States. And yeah, she really liked it. So it 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:21.359 was really cool. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.399 That is so cool. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.600 Yeah, on a broader scale, what were you like as 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:28.000 a teen? 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.400 Were you boy crazy? 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:31.679 Not? Really? 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.040 Yeah, I love that for you. I was. I wish 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:35.639 I wasn't. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.800 I wish I didn't waste so many years of my 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:42.800 life just being obsessed with boys. So I just, yeah, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.640 I love that for you, Well, were you into. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.399 I think I was like an old soul. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:50.720 You know. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.000 I always thought that it's funny because it's so the 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.680 opposite of how my personal life turned out. But I 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:58.639 always thought that I wouldn't get married and that I 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.879 wouldn't have kids. And I was like dad set on 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:07.000 being a professional and wanting to just be this like 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:13.040 I don't know, Meryl Street. I was so driven and 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.479 I had like the horse blinders on and I I mean, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.840 I had a boyfriend in high school that I had 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.159 for many years and I didn't really yeah, I didn't. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.040 I didn't really have any others. And then it was 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.080 but I was really focused on my career and yeah, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.640 and it wasn't. And I was terrified about having children too. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.520 I felt like there's I was scared to, you know, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.040 be pregnant. I was scared to think that I could 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.760 be like a great mom because my mom was so amazing. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.200 And I was like, wow, I'm such a working person. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.200 I don't see how this fits into my life. Yeah, 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.680 but then you know, you meet the right person and 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:58.160 then those things become so clear, yeah, and so factual 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.840 and correct, and yeah, you can't imagine not doing it. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:02.640 So totally. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.000 Yeah, so that all shifted for me. But for many, many, many, 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:10.920 many many years, it was just all work driven, which 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.840 is crazy, right, And yeah. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:14.560 I really do though. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.200 I so appreciate that because it's the exact opposite of 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.919