Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to you, and that's what you really miss podcasts.
Speaker 3: This is an extra special, very special episode.
Speaker 2: I'm Jenna, I am Kevin, and today we are joined
Speaker 2: by the Beast herself, the one and only Dot Marie Jones.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I want to cry every time I
Speaker 2: just see Dot because she's an angel, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: there's nothing like it, and gives the best hugs and
Speaker 2: her family are just the most wonderful kind people, and
Speaker 2: I feel so lucky that we get to talk to
Speaker 2: her today in the middle of her She's a busy day,
Speaker 2: she's on a drive drive.
Speaker 3: She texted us two hours ago and was like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to pull on the Silo road to talk to
Speaker 3: you guys, and that's exactly what she did. So Dot
Speaker 3: Marie Jones everyone, Hello, Dot.
Speaker 4: My baby, how are you so good?
Speaker 2: My face hurts already just from looking at me, smiling
Speaker 2: so hard.
Speaker 1: It's good to see you.
Speaker 2: You've got damn ray sunshine baby. Thank you for stopping.
Speaker 2: Dot isn't a car right now driving home and has
Speaker 2: pulled over safely, not currently driving, and because that's how
Speaker 2: important we are to her. She pulled over to talk
Speaker 2: to us.
Speaker 5: She did love Oh honey, I do anything for you too, No,
Speaker 5: we do anything for you baby.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome.
Speaker 3: It's good to see you see this podcast so that
Speaker 3: we can see our friends.
Speaker 4: I love it. How have you been, I've been good.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We just were and Marrow Bay for two days with
Speaker 5: Bridget's aunt and uncle. Or drove out from Kentucky. So
Speaker 5: now we're all caravan and back to our house for
Speaker 5: the night.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, so sweet.
Speaker 1: Well we all hold you up for too.
Speaker 4: Long Thenney, It's okay. They're good.
Speaker 2: Dot. You know, we look up everybody's like bios to
Speaker 2: see like what everybody with the official like, we know you,
Speaker 2: we know you emotionally. Yes, you don't need a bio.
Speaker 2: But then when you read it in black and white,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, no big deal. Dot was nominated for
Speaker 2: three Emmys three years in a row. And it's just
Speaker 2: it's when you see that, you're like, that's damn right.
Speaker 2: She was like, are you kidding me? Because I think
Speaker 2: we forget all the craziness that we all experience together
Speaker 2: and the love we all have for each other. Right,
Speaker 2: you also just casually get nominated for Emmys back to
Speaker 2: back to back.
Speaker 1: Casually.
Speaker 4: Casually. That's right.
Speaker 1: So you did.
Speaker 3: You did the pilot that Ryan had talked about. We
Speaker 3: got to see pretty Handsome with sweet John Roth, and
Speaker 3: it was wonderful. It's such a fantastic pilot and I
Speaker 3: wish more people could have seen it.
Speaker 1: Was that the first time that you worked with Ryan.
Speaker 5: No, I had actually done a few nip tug and
Speaker 5: then I did the pilot, and then of course ran
Speaker 5: into Brad and told him to write me.
Speaker 4: Something for real?
Speaker 1: Is that how it happened.
Speaker 4: That is a true story.
Speaker 5: I ran into him at a grocery store and I
Speaker 5: hadn't seen him since we did the pilot.
Speaker 4: A pretty handsome and so when you do it?
Speaker 5: He said, We're just wrapping up the first season of Glee,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, come on, man, write me something.
Speaker 4: I want to work with you guys again. He said,
Speaker 4: do you sing?
Speaker 5: And I was like, shit, I'm no Mariah Carey, but
Speaker 5: I can carry a tune.
Speaker 1: You're like, yes, yes, I sing, Yes, sure, it's.
Speaker 4: Just shower count.
Speaker 1: Yes it does.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of singing and locker room showers in Glee.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Amen, and on camera and off camera. Right.
Speaker 1: Wait, so then they called you and they said we
Speaker 1: have something for you. How did it happen?
Speaker 5: Oh, like I told I told Brad, I said, I
Speaker 5: said tell Ryan because I'll tell him. And I said okay,
Speaker 5: And like literally like two or three months, my at
Speaker 5: that time agent called me and said that they asked
Speaker 5: my availability starting in July that they were writing me something.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: So and I actually signed.
Speaker 5: It was just I mean not just but it was
Speaker 5: a guest star of my first four seasons on the show.
Speaker 5: But it was parentheses, like where it said the role
Speaker 5: of when I signed my first contract because I didn't
Speaker 5: have Beast's name yet.
Speaker 4: It was just they were writing this character. So I'm like, hell, yeah, man,
Speaker 4: wow wow.
Speaker 2: Respect and being loyal to their word, you know, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, we live in a town where people say
Speaker 2: a lot of things. Sure, it's nice to actually come through,
Speaker 2: but I think it's if anyone you and see how
Speaker 2: talented you are and how sweet you are, it's like,
Speaker 2: of course they would.
Speaker 4: Kevin, I still don't know what I'm doing do any
Speaker 4: of us?
Speaker 2: Do you know? So we're we're about a third of
Speaker 2: the way through season two, watching season two and all
Speaker 2: I think about is our first week together. You and
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time together because I was
Speaker 2: joining the football team. You were new, and being on
Speaker 2: the football team was new to me, and Chord was new,
Speaker 2: and Chord to us was the funniest thing in my
Speaker 2: entire world. And you and I I just remember out
Speaker 2: late on those on the football field and he would
Speaker 2: say some wild shit and you and I would find
Speaker 2: each other from across the field and burst out laughing
Speaker 2: and run to each other and like, wait, did we
Speaker 2: just did he? Just? Who is this person.
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 4: Gary Busey? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: I love It's very good.
Speaker 2: It was so good. I felt like I would then
Speaker 2: go back and could report to the rest of the
Speaker 2: Glee kids, like, Yo, this Chord can do all these impressions.
Speaker 2: But also Dot is incredible. You got to hang out
Speaker 2: with Dot. It was the best I because you know,
Speaker 2: we were around the same people all the time. We're
Speaker 2: in the Glee club every day. And for me to
Speaker 2: do anything else and then have it be with you,
Speaker 2: I don't know why we were together. I felt like
Speaker 2: a lot those first few years of season two we
Speaker 2: were and I just clung to you. You know, you
Speaker 2: can feel it when somebody's good people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, between you and Corey, it was like and then
Speaker 5: Cordo Chord came on, When night came on, it was like,
Speaker 5: it's like a dream.
Speaker 4: And then just getting to be around the other kids,
Speaker 4: because I mean.
Speaker 5: Like Jenna and I finally got to do things with
Speaker 5: them over time, and it was so much fun, so
Speaker 5: much fun.
Speaker 3: I remember the first time you came, you got to
Speaker 3: sit in the choir room and the boys perform that
Speaker 3: number for you, stopping the Name of Love. It was
Speaker 3: it was really fun to just have another like cool,
Speaker 3: cool adult that everybody loved.
Speaker 1: And you know, we got to but we didn't.
Speaker 3: Really get to like work together a ton, but I
Speaker 3: remember they're just so the memories are so vivid in
Speaker 3: my mind, Like the when we did shake it Out
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say that I still hear that
Speaker 5: song and it makes me cry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you had a lot of acting to do
Speaker 1: and that.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, was this your first time? Also, like working with Jane.
Speaker 4: I have a funny Jane story. I don't even know
Speaker 4: if you guys know this.
Speaker 5: Jane and I We had actually met a couple times
Speaker 5: at a party prior to at someone's house before this,
Speaker 5: but I was like so excited to like work with Jane.
Speaker 4: And so my first episode season two.
Speaker 5: Were riding to the set and we're on the back
Speaker 5: of the the golf cart. Yes, we're on the back
Speaker 5: of the golf cart, facing backwards, and we're just sitting
Speaker 5: next to each other and I said something.
Speaker 4: She didn't answer me, and I'm like, don't tell me,
Speaker 4: she's going to be like this, you know, I'm thinking,
Speaker 4: oh shit.
Speaker 5: So then I said something else and she didn't even
Speaker 5: acknowledge that, say anything, and I'm like, son of a bitch,
Speaker 5: what And then all of a sudden, Jane, you know, Jane,
Speaker 5: she goes, did you say something?
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. I'm totally deaf in this here.
Speaker 2: She just didn't hear me, and.
Speaker 8: I said, oh, thank god, I thought you were being
Speaker 8: a total bitch.
Speaker 4: And we just died laughing.
Speaker 8: And so she was so cute because then when we
Speaker 8: worked together, she I walked in a few times and
Speaker 8: she was changing our chairs so that I was on
Speaker 8: her right side.
Speaker 1: She'd always do that, she'd like come to my other side.
Speaker 4: I love her so much. Oh my god, it was
Speaker 4: so damn funny.
Speaker 2: Oh god, you had so many scenes with her, did
Speaker 2: you ever break because.
Speaker 5: Oh god, yeah, that's what we're supposed to do. That
Speaker 5: was the funnest part. Oh yeah, some of our stuff.
Speaker 7: It was just you couldn't help it, I know, especially
Speaker 7: in the teacher's lounge when I had to eat three
Speaker 7: thousand pounds of rotisserie chicken.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, God, the chicken for real.
Speaker 5: Well, there was this one episode where they wanted me
Speaker 5: to just keep shoving it in my face and talk
Speaker 5: as I'm doing it, and I like spit like chicken,
Speaker 5: and that made us laugh.
Speaker 4: And then.
Speaker 5: I just kept oh my god, And so I'm talking
Speaker 5: with my mouth full, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 5: because they wanted me to get the lines out with
Speaker 5: steal my mouthful.
Speaker 4: But I kept like spitting food across the table.
Speaker 3: And then once you start doing it, you gotta do
Speaker 3: it for every take like that exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yes, And they kept bringing in cut up chicken to
Speaker 5: stick in the place on this chicken where I'd taken
Speaker 5: it from.
Speaker 2: It was funny. We've talked to a couple of people
Speaker 2: who were not in nearly as many episodes as you.
Speaker 2: But they were in a lot and they were guest
Speaker 2: stars for the first bit, and they were saying, how
Speaker 2: you know, you could just sort of be left not
Speaker 2: knowing when you're coming back what your storyline was going
Speaker 2: to be, and then all of a sudden you show
Speaker 2: up and you're in an episode out of nowhere?
Speaker 4: Right, What was I mean?
Speaker 2: You were in almost fifty episodes you were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in forty some Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you Was that like that for you? Or because
Speaker 2: you were such I think as a regular character, you
Speaker 2: were there all the time. Like once you were in,
Speaker 2: you were in, did you Yeah? But did it feel
Speaker 2: like that or no?
Speaker 5: From year to episode or season to season. Rather, I
Speaker 5: didn't know how many I was going to do. Like
Speaker 5: the first season, I think they guaranteed me six guest
Speaker 5: star spots and I ended up doing like eleven, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: and then each year it was the same thing until
Speaker 5: the last season they made me irregular.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But as far as episodes, I didn't know what
Speaker 4: I was doing. I mean, Ryan, God.
Speaker 5: Bless him, called me in when I had to do
Speaker 5: the domestic violence episode. That one was a tough one,
Speaker 5: and he called me in and he just asked me
Speaker 5: if I was okay with it and if I would
Speaker 5: be okay with it, and I'm like, absolutely I would.
Speaker 5: And he said of all the characters, he thought that
Speaker 5: mine could handle it. So I mean that meant a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but then yeah, but then go from that to the
Speaker 5: final season six with the transitioning, that was heavy, right. Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did he call you for that too?
Speaker 7: Uh uh?
Speaker 5: He's he at the hundredth episode party that we had,
Speaker 5: he said, I have big plans for your character next
Speaker 5: year and me to do that and drop it, but
Speaker 5: me not knowing, I didn't know at that time. I
Speaker 5: was coming back and I said, I, you know how
Speaker 5: like you blurt something ount and you're like oh, And
Speaker 5: I just said, well, I got nothing to lose, I said.
Speaker 5: He goes, I have big plans for your character next
Speaker 5: season and I just said it better be series regular. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and he goes, what And I said, you heard me,
Speaker 5: it better be a series regular.
Speaker 4: And he was so cute. He goes, well, if that's
Speaker 4: what you want, then that's what it'll do.
Speaker 6: What wo?
Speaker 4: But you know, you never know? I mean, god, they
Speaker 4: have so many people.
Speaker 5: And then they came back and gave me that. But
Speaker 5: the transitioning thing. No, that was his big plans, and
Speaker 5: I didn't know it until I got the script.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, wow, wow wow. How did you approach that?
Speaker 2: How did that feel for you? To tell me?
Speaker 5: That's a huge That was the first time I played
Speaker 5: a trans character. And Alexandria Billings who was in Transparent
Speaker 5: and she's fabulous Broadway actress and played my wife, and
Speaker 5: so Alexander and I that was the first time we
Speaker 5: had met and worked together, and I just love her
Speaker 5: so much, and she was so available because I told her,
Speaker 5: I said, I'll play any character, but I will never
Speaker 5: disrespect who I'm playing, right, And so my thing was
Speaker 5: his Planet trans character. I asked her everything. She said,
Speaker 5: ask me anything you want. I said, I just want
Speaker 5: to do it justice. And that's exactly what I wanted
Speaker 5: to do in season six is you know yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: They couldn't have given that storyline to a better person. YEA, yeah, baby,
Speaker 2: you can handle that emotional like depth and the care
Speaker 2: for doing something like that.
Speaker 5: Kevin, I never cried more in my life when when
Speaker 5: they had And a lot of people don't know this
Speaker 5: is that there were two hundred the quiet when I
Speaker 5: come in and sing with Alex, who was amazing and right,
Speaker 5: and you.
Speaker 4: Know, I just got chill bumps. And there was the
Speaker 4: two hundred choir members.
Speaker 5: Not everybody knows that every single one of them were
Speaker 5: trans men and women.
Speaker 2: Wow, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was a mess.
Speaker 5: I would I drove home and I think the whole
Speaker 5: way home I bawled.
Speaker 4: And I got home and I.
Speaker 5: Was just crying. And Bridget was like, what's wrong? And
Speaker 5: I said I couldn't even to try and explain. It
Speaker 5: was overwhelming, you know, experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 5: It really was, because I mean that could have easily
Speaker 5: gone a different direction, you.
Speaker 3: Know, had Yeah, you had some heavy ship, like in
Speaker 3: all of the seasons, like your your stuff was not
Speaker 3: just like being some fun football coach, which was also
Speaker 3: really fun to watch you do.
Speaker 1: But but then you got.
Speaker 3: To sing too, which Ryan obviously asked if you or
Speaker 3: Brad asked if you could do.
Speaker 1: I think your first solo is Julie, right, That actually.
Speaker 5: Was my only solo, and I didn't know it until
Speaker 5: until I got the script. I didn't know until and
Speaker 5: I'm like, wait a second, what, But it was it
Speaker 5: was amazing.
Speaker 4: It was so much.
Speaker 3: Fun, so you had fun with it. Were you nervous?
Speaker 3: Were you nervous going in the recording studio? Like, what
Speaker 3: was that for you?
Speaker 5: Well, the boys at the recording studio, you guys know,
Speaker 5: they're just amazing and so patient.
Speaker 4: I'll go with patient for me, same God bless him.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 5: When I went to the recording studio, they just made
Speaker 5: it so much fun. And and you know me, I'm
Speaker 5: a big five year old, so I just had a blast.
Speaker 1: Hm hmmm.
Speaker 2: What an iconic song like you got that's like one
Speaker 2: of the greatest songs of all time, right, You're just
Speaker 2: like coming in hot with like, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 5: And somehow word got back to me that actually Dolly
Speaker 5: Parton liked it.
Speaker 4: So the fact that, yeah, that somebody in the recording.
Speaker 5: Said that, yeah, Dolly had heard it and liked it,
Speaker 5: And so I was like, I'm good, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Good talking out just like that makes sense. Though. I
Speaker 2: feel like nothing, none of her catalog or anything is
Speaker 2: used without her having personally OKAYDD and listen to me.
Speaker 2: I feel like that tracks to me absolutely.
Speaker 4: Miley Cyrus version of Joline is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love that kid, big fan. When you
Speaker 2: got nominated for the first Emmy as someone who has
Speaker 2: never been nominated for an Emmy.
Speaker 4: What does that feel like, Kevin?
Speaker 5: I was found out I was nominated when we landed
Speaker 5: in Australia. What that's yeah, because remember we went to Australia,
Speaker 5: you and Harry and Ashley and I.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: When we landed, I had a text from Max Adler
Speaker 5: saying congratulations, babe, You're nominated. And I was like, I
Speaker 5: looked at Bridget because Bridge went with me, and I
Speaker 5: was like what And I just was like, oh my god, wow. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but that's how I found out when it was a
Speaker 5: minute ago. That was twenty eleven. That was twelve years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Crazy.
Speaker 2: We got right off tour and I went straight to Australia.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 4: I'm tired, right, And neither did they?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah no, And then you got nominated twelve thirteen.
Speaker 1: Does it get old?
Speaker 5: It still feels pretend because it's like something I never
Speaker 5: in my life.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not a spring chicken, but I didn't
Speaker 5: start acting till I was twenty seven. So for me,
Speaker 5: it's something I never thought was going to be an
Speaker 5: option or an opportunity, and to get that nominated into
Speaker 5: you know how people say it doesn't matter if you
Speaker 5: want to lose the fact that you're nominated it's incredible,
Speaker 5: that's totally true.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, whatever, it'd be nice to win, but
Speaker 4: then you just got to do good or and get
Speaker 4: something better.
Speaker 1: That's right. No, they're not doing gooder in your world.
Speaker 1: There's done the best.
Speaker 4: Baby.
Speaker 3: The fact that you didn't start acting till twenty seven,
Speaker 3: I mean, it feels like you should have been acting
Speaker 3: for forever. But it also tracks and makes sense because
Speaker 3: you're such an openly available and emotional and vulnerable human
Speaker 3: and an angel person that like, it makes sense how
Speaker 3: your acting comes through, your personality comes through and your
Speaker 3: acting and your you know just again.
Speaker 1: Availability of like all of your emotions. But why And
Speaker 1: I know you were back in the day doing all
Speaker 1: your cool wrestling and bodybuilding and chuck pudding.
Speaker 3: And goods And how did you turn How did you
Speaker 3: get into the business.
Speaker 5: Well, it's crazy because in college I was a shot putter.
Speaker 5: That's why I got to go to college because I
Speaker 5: got a scholarship and I would have probably never gone
Speaker 5: to a four year college had I not i've been
Speaker 5: able to, I wouldn't have financially been able to.
Speaker 4: But I was competing.
Speaker 5: I started competing in I started lifting weights in as
Speaker 5: early as eighth grade because I grew from five six
Speaker 5: to six to one in seven months. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 5: my back was so screwed up that I just started.
Speaker 5: The coach there and my brother's, like one of my
Speaker 5: brothers said, you know, you got to start strengthening your
Speaker 5: back and all this stuff, because my legs were fine.
Speaker 4: It's just the pain was all in my lower back. Right.
Speaker 4: So all of my.
Speaker 5: Family had done sports in school, so and plus I
Speaker 5: love sports. So I did volleyball, basketball, and track through
Speaker 5: high school. And then I got offered several silly but
Speaker 5: I got offered like several scholarships for basketball because I
Speaker 5: was a good ballplayer back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah it must have been quite good, guys. I was
Speaker 2: scholarship offers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, basketball and track scholarships.
Speaker 5: Some universities wanted me for both, like even like West
Speaker 5: Point Stanford all them.
Speaker 4: But I didn't want to run anymore. I hated running.
Speaker 5: I was fast, very fast for my size, but I
Speaker 5: just thought I wanted to do well in.
Speaker 4: Track and field because shotput was my deal.
Speaker 5: And it's funny because at that time, you know, you
Speaker 5: set your goals for yourself, and as a kid, you
Speaker 5: don't know if they're attainable until you keep either progressing
Speaker 5: or declining. Right, And there wasn't women's basketball in the Olympics,
Speaker 5: and my goal was I wanted to make the Olympics.
Speaker 5: So I stuck to track and field, and I did
Speaker 5: go to the Olympic Trials in eighty eight and ninety
Speaker 5: two and I placed seven, six or seventh and eleven,
Speaker 5: so only the top four go to the Games.
Speaker 4: But still had a blast of the trials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not a bad showing.
Speaker 5: One of the bodybuilders, I met Shirley Eeson, who I'll
Speaker 5: never forget. She and her husband, they lived in Bakersfield
Speaker 5: and I was still in Fresno. I was working juvenile
Speaker 5: probation after college. And Shirley was a bodybuilder and I
Speaker 5: would see her at her shows because I was doing
Speaker 5: the deadlifting stuff. And then she got on as an
Speaker 5: alternate on American Gladiators, and so one day Shirley she
Speaker 5: played sky on American Gladiators, and so Shirley calls me,
Speaker 5: she said, Dot, they're putting together a new show and
Speaker 5: they're kind of like American Gladiators, but it's going to
Speaker 5: be medieval, and they're looking for more big, strong girls.
Speaker 5: And I said, what the hell, I have nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: So she gave me.
Speaker 5: The casting lady at the time was Carol o'larry, who God,
Speaker 5: I bless her. I don't know where she's at, but
Speaker 5: I'll never forget her, and so I called found out.
Speaker 5: All the information went down to LA. The first day
Speaker 5: was like physical agility and stuff, which for my size,
Speaker 5: I was probably sixty five and at that time I
Speaker 5: was still tall because before the authritis said, and I
Speaker 5: was still six ' four, and so I was really
Speaker 5: good with the physical agility stuff. It went really well,
Speaker 5: and they said we'll call you by eight or eight
Speaker 5: thirty tonight to come back tomorrow to do a cold read.
Speaker 4: And I was like, what the hell's a cold read?
Speaker 5: And so I'm like, okay, it's warriors. Are we going
Speaker 5: to be reading in some place cold? That's all I
Speaker 5: could think of. I had no idea what it was.
Speaker 4: So they called that night.
Speaker 5: They said, well, we'd like you to come in tomorrow
Speaker 5: for a cold read, and I said okay, because I
Speaker 5: didn't want to sound that naive, but I said, what
Speaker 5: would somebody where did that? And they said, well, just
Speaker 5: wear your best warrior outfit and I'm like, what the
Speaker 5: hell is that?
Speaker 6: So I just wore some workout pants that I had
Speaker 6: that had like zebra stripes and cut up a I
Speaker 6: went and got a sweatshirt, cut it up and wore
Speaker 6: like a red tank top under it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a very sexy picture, let me tell you, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, definitely picturing.
Speaker 1: What How did this cold read go?
Speaker 4: The cold read it was?
Speaker 5: I was so nervous because we did it in I
Speaker 5: think it was close to Hollywood Center Studios somewhere over there,
Speaker 5: and it was in a big sound stage and I
Speaker 5: couldn't see anybody behind this table.
Speaker 4: Because of the lights. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: And I did a read with Carol O'Leary and they
Speaker 5: had me do When I go in, they say, oh,
Speaker 5: the sides are on the table over there, and I said,
Speaker 5: oh okay, and I'm like they thank god there was
Speaker 5: only one stack of papers because that explained to me
Speaker 5: what the sides were.
Speaker 4: And so I got the.
Speaker 5: Sides and I memorized it and went in and then
Speaker 5: did the cold read and then they had me do improv.
Speaker 5: So I did that and then I left and they
Speaker 5: said we'll let you know. So cut to a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks later, I'm getting all right. I was still
Speaker 5: sleeping because I didn't have to. I worked at Juvenile Hall,
Speaker 5: so I was sleeping in and the phone rings and
Speaker 5: they said, hey, I'd like to speak to Don.
Speaker 4: I said, this is done, and I hear it. Oh Hi,
Speaker 4: this is Carol.
Speaker 5: O'Leary, and you know how like you're a sleep and
Speaker 5: you go, oh hi Carol, And I'm like, who the
Speaker 5: hell's Carol? And she goes, how would you like to
Speaker 5: be a warrior? And I said, oh my god, I
Speaker 5: just like I couldn't believe it. So then I wrote
Speaker 5: down all the stuff I had to do, and they explained,
Speaker 5: you know how you'll do a pilot and if the
Speaker 5: pilot sells, you know all that stuff and.
Speaker 4: Changed my life. I said, I'm in.
Speaker 2: Wow, camp in acting immediately, here's side, here's what a
Speaker 2: cold read is, figure out and improv.
Speaker 4: Wow. Wow, No, I just know in my heart of
Speaker 4: hearts this is what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: When we watched season two, the it was a scene
Speaker 2: with you and Matt and never Been Kissed where you
Speaker 2: start crying and m it's one of those things where
Speaker 2: the ability and I think to Jenna's point of the
Speaker 2: way you're so vulnerable, where you're playing this hard ass
Speaker 2: coach right yelling at these boys, and that's what we expect.
Speaker 2: That's all the coach is going to be one dimensional.
Speaker 2: This is what we're getting. But you can hire Dot
Speaker 2: to play one dimensional character because it's not possible. I
Speaker 2: think you we just had Romeian too, and the way
Speaker 2: you too, are similar in the way you wear your
Speaker 2: heart on your sleeve and are just so open for
Speaker 2: everyone all the time, and the way that I think
Speaker 2: as a viewer because now when we're watching this, it's
Speaker 2: been so long that it's the first time we're watching
Speaker 2: it a little less biased or in it as we
Speaker 2: were before, and less critical, yes yeah, and more just
Speaker 2: in awe of everyone and especially you the way stop
Speaker 2: it because you you like, you've had some really intense,
Speaker 2: heavy storylines, and the way you seamlessly transitioned to comedy
Speaker 2: to drama just tears within a single episode. They were
Speaker 2: handing you a grab bag of figure this out, you know,
Speaker 2: do this now and right, and you did it so
Speaker 2: well every time, and it like, I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: keep watching to like see where Beast is going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and even though I know, but I'm just excited to
Speaker 2: watch you because I mean, so far wherever we're in
Speaker 2: season two, it's every episode you your storyline is more juicy,
Speaker 2: and it's just we can see more of you and
Speaker 2: it's getting better and better. Damn, You're just good.
Speaker 4: I know. You guys are so sweet. You know. It's like.
Speaker 5: I've played every cop, biker, chick, coach, lesbian, prisoner cop,
Speaker 5: every billy badass that you could handle. And then to
Speaker 5: get Beast, who's this tough character but then as vulnerable
Speaker 5: as she can be, she can be as strong as
Speaker 5: she can be.
Speaker 4: And it was like that.
Speaker 5: It was it was honestly, it was some days we're
Speaker 5: just overwhelming.
Speaker 2: It was imagine, if you run into Brad in the
Speaker 2: grocery store again, can you.
Speaker 1: Just tell them to write some stuff for all three
Speaker 1: of us?
Speaker 5: Yes, I actually have something all three of us could
Speaker 5: actually do.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go get our friends, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Did you feel like the fame came from or were
Speaker 3: you recognizable before?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: What was there a huge contract.
Speaker 5: You kids had set such a precedent in season one
Speaker 5: that it was on fire. I can't even tell you
Speaker 5: the response I got because of the audience that you
Speaker 5: had all pulled in because I came in in season two,
Speaker 5: first episode that it was overwhelming, like the you know,
Speaker 5: back then Facebook was open to everybody, and I had
Speaker 5: like literally thousands of messages from people wow, and it
Speaker 5: was like it was ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, good god, this is going to
Speaker 4: be big. It was already big, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it did get bigger. It just got bigger.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have a huge part in the super
Speaker 2: Bowl episode, which is the most episode, the thriller.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, the shuffle that was oh right, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 1: What is what is the feeling that Glee leaves you with.
Speaker 5: So many gifts from you know, jobs being offered, but
Speaker 5: more importantly like you kids, I love you, and I
Speaker 5: feel like I've known you my whole life, and and
Speaker 5: and like the opportunity to you know, it's like the
Speaker 5: jobs I had done prior to Glee obviously nothing even
Speaker 5: Emmy nomination worth Wait what am I saying nothing worthy
Speaker 5: of an Emmy nomination? Which I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 5: it was bad work, but I'm not. I'm saying it
Speaker 5: was something that wasn't as acknowledged as what we did.
Speaker 5: And I say we as in all of us on
Speaker 5: Glee because it's it changed a lot of lives and
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: Hopefully a lot mostly for the better. Yeah, and just
Speaker 4: to be a part of that and to.
Speaker 5: I mean, I still will be somewhere and some of
Speaker 5: those like this weekend, some of you said, were you
Speaker 5: a coach at something something high school?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, not there, that's funny.
Speaker 5: Oh you don't even know. Were you a coach at
Speaker 5: such and such high school? At college?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 2: No, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well, we feel so lucky.
Speaker 3: We're all It was like again, like lightning in a bottle,
Speaker 3: but all of us two in a bottle.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: It's so nice to have family forever.
Speaker 2: And absolutely, and we love you and I think we
Speaker 2: got so lucky to have each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I always say sometimes your chosen family is a hell
Speaker 5: of a lot closer than some of your blood family, right.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Well that we love you and we're not from your
Speaker 3: drive anymore, but thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 1: Literally, bridget in the.
Speaker 2: Family as well.
Speaker 5: I'll tell her Bridget they said they love you.
Speaker 2: You too, love you, love you so so much.
Speaker 4: All right, give that baby a kiss, Jenna.
Speaker 1: I will love you.
Speaker 4: I love you kids.
Speaker 2: Well, so much. Love. It's all love. Is everyone sick
Speaker 2: of us just being obsessed with each other.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm sick of myself being obsessed with myself.
Speaker 2: Self. Love is important, Jenna, It is important.
Speaker 1: You can't love yourself, how the hell you're gonna love
Speaker 1: someone else?
Speaker 2: The gospel of the gospel.
Speaker 3: Well, she's like we said, she's the sweetest and Glee
Speaker 3: was so lucky to have coach Beast.
Speaker 2: Yes, and what a life like. Thank you for sharing,
Speaker 2: you know, a summary of your life with us, Dot,
Speaker 2: because she's got stories upon stories upon stories, and we
Speaker 2: were so lucky. Just get a little taste of that.
Speaker 2: Thank you Dot for joining us. Love you, Thank you
Speaker 2: everybody for listening.
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