Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to and that's what you really miss the podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome back for part two. It's Diana Week again. I mean,
Speaker 3: who doesn't want more Diana. There's so much more to
Speaker 3: talk about. There may even be a Feybury mention.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: So you know some people have Shark Week, we have
Speaker 2: Dana Aground Week.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: This is what we're doing, So get into it. Turn
Speaker 2: up the volume and get ready for the sweet sounds
Speaker 2: of Dana Agron's beautiful voice. This is part two with Dana.
Speaker 2: The Unholy Trinity was one of the best parts of
Speaker 2: the show. And your bond with like on camera and
Speaker 2: off camera, with Heather and Nya and like you and
Speaker 2: Iya obviously from the very beginning, Yeah, formed a bond
Speaker 2: just because of exclusion. Yeah, and obviously that didn't last
Speaker 2: long the exclusion. No, but that the relationship between the
Speaker 2: three of you, and I think you know, the success
Speaker 2: of the show, like you mentioned earlier, a lot of it,
Speaker 2: I think, or some of it was due to the
Speaker 2: fact that we all did naturally love each other and
Speaker 2: have great chemistry. And the three of you also had
Speaker 2: like your own special chemistry amongst each other. It's like
Speaker 2: those cheerio uniforms and that high pony really did something
Speaker 2: on camera together. But what like do you have any
Speaker 2: you know, memories or thoughts about just like the three
Speaker 2: of you, the unholy trinity, working together and doing so
Speaker 2: many good numbers.
Speaker 4: So I I those musical sequences like obviously we said
Speaker 4: say a little prayer, but.
Speaker 1: What was it you and never get one? Oh no,
Speaker 1: that was the tree of Us. But I love that
Speaker 1: one very much.
Speaker 4: Songs you Yeah, I just think there was something I
Speaker 4: was not a cheerleader in high school. I was definitely
Speaker 4: the ballet theater girl, yearbook staff.
Speaker 1: You know that that was my role. But it was
Speaker 1: very fun to step into this kind of very typically.
Speaker 4: American high school experience in that form and play this
Speaker 4: you know, trio that just really gets to sit in
Speaker 4: their power in the moments where they are powerful.
Speaker 1: It did all quite stunning to try on that hat,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then all three of us became, you know,
Speaker 4: expressed all versions of vulnerability, and you know that was
Speaker 4: They didn't sit in that queen Bee triangle for very long.
Speaker 4: But I do think there was something quite fun about
Speaker 4: the sisterhood of us and that kind of triangular form
Speaker 4: when it did express itself on set, and that.
Speaker 1: The costumes for all of us.
Speaker 4: I mean, I remember very distinctly Ryan talking about his
Speaker 4: creative decisions the sets and the wardrobe and him saying, yes,
Speaker 4: this show takes place in Ohio, but this doesn't look
Speaker 4: like Ohio. The colors are more saturated, there's not and
Speaker 4: be more expressive. We don't need to understand why they
Speaker 4: are able to afford this, it's just magical realism that's
Speaker 4: coming through a little bit where this is kind of
Speaker 4: both like their reality and the dream version of them.
Speaker 4: So like, let's give them that lift. And I think
Speaker 4: that is showcased in every thing that Ryan does. It's
Speaker 4: if you're gonna make something that's hyper real, then you
Speaker 4: have to adhere to those codes.
Speaker 1: That was what our show was.
Speaker 4: And even with Lou wonderful Lou trying on what was
Speaker 4: the exact skirt and length and color coms, how that
Speaker 4: worked at the high ponytail and all of those things
Speaker 4: that we really looked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bay, I had an envision might have looked when
Speaker 1: I read the.
Speaker 2: Pilot and tailored to perfection.
Speaker 1: I just I.
Speaker 4: Loved the worlds that we inhibited in those ways our character,
Speaker 4: and then I loved when we got to do Rocky
Speaker 4: Were a picture show and oh yeah, Danna what we
Speaker 4: were able to wear and how we were able to
Speaker 4: express ourselves in those numbers. To me, anytime we went
Speaker 4: really you know, much farther into the performance aspect, to me,
Speaker 4: that was big joy.
Speaker 2: You know, it was particularly fun to watch you do
Speaker 2: those things too. You could sound the joy, oh my god,
Speaker 2: like radiating through our entire body. Whenever we got to
Speaker 2: like play dress up even more you that camera came on,
Speaker 2: you were doing all kinds of crazy and it was amazing.
Speaker 1: Great favorite.
Speaker 4: I think Rocky Horror in particular, that to me was
Speaker 4: dreaming one of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 1: To make for sure, and.
Speaker 5: Just watching all of us the way we looked at
Speaker 5: episode in just the camp aspect of those songs in
Speaker 5: which we performed them.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I were to go and watch one
Speaker 4: episode tonight, that would.
Speaker 1: Be the one.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: It's a perfect episode. Yeah, it's so good. It also
Speaker 2: felt like because that was the first time we did
Speaker 2: something like that where it felt like we were actually
Speaker 2: in school and we're doing something special. Because it was
Speaker 2: so out of our normal routine.
Speaker 1: Yes, so true. Yes, that's very very.
Speaker 2: Just one of those times where it really mimicked. It
Speaker 2: felt like it was mimicking real life, which was Yeah.
Speaker 2: You also got to work with Jane so much from
Speaker 2: the very beginning, and we.
Speaker 1: I know, and so lucky.
Speaker 2: Jane is, obviously, you know me a legend and icon
Speaker 2: and the anchor of this show. What was that like
Speaker 2: stepping onto set and you had so much to do
Speaker 2: with her?
Speaker 4: I know, I've I've been blessed with many things in
Speaker 4: my career, and I think the women that I've had,
Speaker 4: and Jane first and foremost, that have been kind of my.
Speaker 1: Guideposts in.
Speaker 4: Duo relationship over time, has just been incredible. And with Jane,
Speaker 4: I was such a fan of her work, especially I
Speaker 4: mean her comedy.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching Lucille.
Speaker 4: Ball and to me that was I was just mesmerized
Speaker 4: by that kind of comedy.
Speaker 1: And Jane, to me, is our contemporary version of.
Speaker 4: Somebody like Lucille Ball, so to walk or make choices
Speaker 4: in front of me, okay, and just the dryness to
Speaker 4: her delivery and I mean those lines that she had,
Speaker 4: and especially when you could understand where it was being
Speaker 4: ciphered from like everything that you kind of knew was Ian, yes,
Speaker 4: exactly through j.
Speaker 1: But and just the warmest you know. I think that
Speaker 1: was the thing too. Every single cast.
Speaker 4: Member that we had, both in our you know, stable
Speaker 4: of like our core cast and then our guest stars
Speaker 4: were so generous in the way that they could be
Speaker 4: a rock and an anchor for us in scenes and.
Speaker 1: Not make us feel inhibited.
Speaker 4: You know, we really I think we're so supported by
Speaker 4: every member of cast and crew that have been.
Speaker 1: Doing it for so much longer than we had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. We were very lucky. I feel like
Speaker 2: it's so rare you have that many big stars guest
Speaker 2: stars come on the show and have big names like
Speaker 2: Jane on a show and nobody sucked. It's like everybody
Speaker 2: was great. Everyone was so nice and excited to be there. Oh,
Speaker 2: Ricky Martin's ugly and so unkind, so unkind.
Speaker 1: No, but truly it.
Speaker 4: You would think there would have there would have been
Speaker 4: an awkward moment with somebody, but no, no.
Speaker 1: No, And again I think that speaks to casting.
Speaker 4: And you know, Ryan and Brad and Ian and Robert
Speaker 4: really understanding what was going to play well in the
Speaker 4: landscape and hand picking those people.
Speaker 1: But I do have.
Speaker 4: Extreme pleasure points, like watching Kristin Chenowith with the watermelon
Speaker 4: between her life. There are just moments that really ping
Speaker 4: to me, as just like wanting to cry of laughter
Speaker 4: having that done in front of you, like when it's
Speaker 4: in character, as like when she was teaching outside of
Speaker 4: you know, not singing, as like singing class and dressing
Speaker 4: after hysterical, hysterical and historical figures. Yes, well, you know,
Speaker 4: I just I I so appreciate the kind of play
Speaker 4: we were able to.
Speaker 1: Have and kind of what was being explored on that show.
Speaker 4: And you know, some things didn't work as well as others,
Speaker 4: but there was just gold.
Speaker 2: Tomic two episodes. You know it's not going to win
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, seven hundred musical numbers can't can't get them all, right, just.
Speaker 4: Like the little digs, the little like quips, there were
Speaker 4: so many, even pet bird like hype in man Hands, you.
Speaker 1: Know so good.
Speaker 2: One of the best things on this show ever, is
Speaker 2: the fight between you and Aya.
Speaker 1: Tighten your pony before you head back to class.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, do you remember filming that.
Speaker 1: By you do?
Speaker 6: Because I remember it was the first time I had
Speaker 6: had kind of a physical combative scene and not wanting
Speaker 6: to hurt my friend, but wanting it to look real,
Speaker 6: and also having the sense of like, didn't like.
Speaker 4: Push me, you know, and she's like, we'll push me real,
Speaker 4: and so trying to find that line of of being
Speaker 4: you know, really real.
Speaker 2: It looked.
Speaker 1: Her and then you know, Matt Morrison coming in, break
Speaker 1: it up, Break it up. Oh but I mean I
Speaker 1: had been slapped on that show.
Speaker 4: I've slapped people, and then I mean when I slapped
Speaker 4: Leah in the bathroom during the wrong episode, she was
Speaker 4: very adamant that I must slap her. And and you know,
Speaker 4: being slapped is one thing because you think, oh, I
Speaker 4: can take it.
Speaker 1: That slab thing somebody else is.
Speaker 4: A whole different ceiling because you're gonna you know, it
Speaker 4: just doesn't feel.
Speaker 1: Right, it doesn't sit right.
Speaker 2: You don't want to hurt somebody.
Speaker 1: No, but then you.
Speaker 4: Want to look really And I guess that's the thing
Speaker 4: with acting, is everything that you do. I mean, I
Speaker 4: did this psychological thriller where in the script there were
Speaker 4: so many things like she eats the raw egg, she
Speaker 4: hangs out of the building, she does this stuff, and
Speaker 4: the director was like, oh, Dana, you can't actually do that.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get like a prop egg, raw egg, and
Speaker 4: if that's not gonna look real, and you know, our
Speaker 4: like wonderful props member comes up and shows this like
Speaker 4: very weird composed of it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Look real, and like, I'm just gonna swallow the raw
Speaker 1: egg and she was like, well, then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to split it spit out. I was like, but then
Speaker 1: you're not gonna see me swallow.
Speaker 4: And we're constantly finding the ways in which you know,
Speaker 4: how many times do we get slush sheet?
Speaker 1: I think I only got slusheed once.
Speaker 4: But people got slusheed a lot, and you just have
Speaker 4: to do the thing, yeah, you know, and if it's
Speaker 4: not gonna kill you, then you know, and if.
Speaker 1: It's only mildly dangerous, then.
Speaker 2: It feels exciting because it's like you're getting permission to
Speaker 2: like be that little kid playing dress up and using
Speaker 2: your imagination like excuse to eat eat egg now? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna get paid for it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Whole debate was like, well you can get salmonilla.
Speaker 4: I was like that if I was a bodybuilder like
Speaker 4: Arnold Schwarzenegger, I would will you be doing them every
Speaker 4: day and she was like, there was was that a rumor?
Speaker 1: I was like, no, people do that.
Speaker 4: They eat raw eggs, we eat raw fish, we eat
Speaker 4: raw a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you eat the rye?
Speaker 4: I had to swallow like three of them and then
Speaker 4: it was like, oh, now we need to do a
Speaker 4: different angle. So I think at the end it was
Speaker 4: like six raw eggs. And our director was so upset
Speaker 4: about it. I was like, you wrote it in the script.
Speaker 4: I She's like, but I didn't want you to actually have
Speaker 4: to do it. I was like, well, you wrote it.
Speaker 1: I did it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she's probably please, I'll let Diane get sick.
Speaker 1: I'm just not the next day like green, holy sick. Honestly,
Speaker 1: we've done crazier things.
Speaker 4: AG.
Speaker 1: That's just well.
Speaker 2: And also we've worked through being sickly, so it's well.
Speaker 4: Never have I ever been more sick than when we
Speaker 4: were filming Thriller.
Speaker 1: Thriller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the super Bowl episode got all of us.
Speaker 1: Never forget it.
Speaker 4: I was had the flu and I had.
Speaker 2: I'll forget it.
Speaker 1: We just have all the rhyming things and a fellow
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2: I don't forget that too, because what.
Speaker 4: Were we going to do postpone and like that location,
Speaker 4: all those extras.
Speaker 3: There was one time that Kevin was so sick on
Speaker 3: the field. It was like one of those four days
Speaker 3: that we were filming. It wasn't the overnight one, but
Speaker 3: he's in his football outfit and I'm standing next to
Speaker 3: him and we're doing a scene and I looked down
Speaker 3: and it's not Kevin.
Speaker 1: Oh who had a standing like maybe it was j
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was a body double that they had found was
Speaker 3: like just close enough to Kevin's build that they put
Speaker 3: him in a helmet and just put him.
Speaker 7: Next to me because he was sleeping in the trailers.
Speaker 2: I was so mad. I was like, you're really going
Speaker 2: to make me drive down the long beach of one
Speaker 2: hundred and two and a half fever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did it. Yeah, and then ride yourself back.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I was so happy that day. I was sad you
Speaker 2: were sick. But they're like, Okay, now Dana has tonsilightest,
Speaker 2: We're going to take it in turns in Like thank you, Diana. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just taking one for the team.
Speaker 4: So sick, But guess that was the thing about working
Speaker 4: that many hours. You just stop one tumble cast. You
Speaker 4: just sometimes you're going to be sick. And I mean,
Speaker 4: I definitely know. There were so many moments where they
Speaker 4: were as you mentioned, like put somebody else in, try
Speaker 4: to navigate around it, try to minimize the amount of
Speaker 4: hours that you were on set to you know, be
Speaker 4: kinder to the situation. But then there's only a certain
Speaker 4: amount of strategy to that, and then sometimes you're just
Speaker 4: gonna yeah, put your best happy face on it. Just
Speaker 4: don't get work, make it work, sir.
Speaker 7: One of my favorite mashups we ever did was I
Speaker 7: feel pretty unpretty.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I still listened to it.
Speaker 7: Often expends me joy and oh, oh good. Did you
Speaker 7: like recording in the studio?
Speaker 3: Oh was that something that you knew or were familiar with,
Speaker 3: because it was brand new to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was branded too.
Speaker 4: I had never done it before in my life, and
Speaker 4: and the very first time was was for say a
Speaker 4: little prayer.
Speaker 1: And I remember because as you.
Speaker 4: Can hear in my speaking voice, my natural register is
Speaker 4: low and I definitely wasn't speaking like that as Quinn.
Speaker 4: I guess this makes sense that you know you're a
Speaker 4: younger person, you're playing younger characters, and also probably I
Speaker 4: just wasn't as comfortable speaking in you know, this voice,
Speaker 4: and so because she's spoke very high and had this tone,
Speaker 4: that's how she's sang as well. And I don't know
Speaker 4: how it was for you guys that Adam Anders. I
Speaker 4: did not record with Adam and the pilot.
Speaker 1: Did you guys record with Adam? Was Adam a part
Speaker 1: of Okay?
Speaker 2: Like the first thirteen I recorded with Adam a lot.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kay, Yeah, yes.
Speaker 4: So it was just such a learning curve because it
Speaker 4: was so much higher than I anticipated singing. And then
Speaker 4: just understanding, you know, how to make your voice work
Speaker 4: to the best of its ability, when you swallow, when
Speaker 4: you take a breath, when you do these things, and
Speaker 4: like if there's too much moisture in your mouth, what
Speaker 4: that sounds like. There's a whole art of learning to
Speaker 4: sing in a recording studio, and I did not know
Speaker 4: any of that. So I think that it was a
Speaker 4: very quick learning curve. But I went home from that
Speaker 4: first recording recording session thinking, oh, no, I'm really bad
Speaker 4: at this and I'm just not gonna sing again in
Speaker 4: the show. They'll just make Quinn kind of music.
Speaker 2: To being a recording artist.
Speaker 4: Totally and now, I mean it's it's fun understanding. Like
Speaker 4: recently I've been doing some work in the recording studio
Speaker 4: that's singing, not you know, because as actors, I mean
Speaker 4: talk about how wild for a slight diversion that we
Speaker 4: never had to do a dr because of Brilliant.
Speaker 1: We had Philip on the podcast and.
Speaker 4: A master because you know, typically you would have to
Speaker 4: do all that all the time. But but yeah, recently
Speaker 4: I've been doing music in the recording studio and then
Speaker 4: and it makes me feel proud that we learned so
Speaker 4: much on this show. Oh, I mean we cut our
Speaker 4: teeth in every aspect of storytelling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dancing and singing, the.
Speaker 4: Langurs, everything ethic, Yeah, yes, so many hours and like
Speaker 4: learning camera work and movements at what kind of drive
Speaker 4: storylines forward? It is just it really was a masterclass
Speaker 4: in how to be a participant in a very vivid
Speaker 4: and larger than life world, how to take that into
Speaker 4: the real world and to communicate what your authenticity is.
Speaker 1: Who you are. Also, how wild that we were discovering
Speaker 1: who we were.
Speaker 4: Publicly so unfacing and such age Like we really had
Speaker 4: a lot to handle those regards.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't think we I didn't at least realize
Speaker 2: like that was the period of our life that we
Speaker 2: were in. Yes, and then you all of a sudden
Speaker 2: have success. We're making more money than we've probably ever
Speaker 2: made before, and people know us, and so it's a
Speaker 2: very strange, Like we were all very safe with each other.
Speaker 2: I think that's also probably why we were so close,
Speaker 2: because we could find that commonality amongst ourselves. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it was so strange to like view each other like
Speaker 2: what would happen outside of our little group, you know,
Speaker 2: like who people are dating, or like even like where
Speaker 2: are you going on vacation? Like everything felt like who
Speaker 2: are we now? Outside of each other because the people
Speaker 2: we were before the show is very different well situation,
Speaker 2: like we're in a completely different part spot in our lives. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it was I felt like we were so lucky
Speaker 2: to have each other and that to grow together.
Speaker 3: God bless. I can't imagine doing that alone or doing
Speaker 3: that as a solo artist of some sort.
Speaker 2: Right, So I would think about that a lot during
Speaker 2: that show. I was like, I am so happy. It
Speaker 2: is such a large.
Speaker 3: Cast, But we were such kids and we thought we
Speaker 3: were fully independent young adults.
Speaker 1: Yes, we did so in our minds.
Speaker 3: We were fully functioning adults in that place. But really
Speaker 3: now looking back at it now, I'm barely learning who
Speaker 3: I am and accepting all of that. To look back
Speaker 3: at that time and go, oh my god, we were
Speaker 3: looking for all of this external praise and you know,
Speaker 3: acceptance in addition to our just figuring out who we
Speaker 3: are without all of that, you know, or people do
Speaker 3: that at that formative time.
Speaker 1: But thank god we had each other.
Speaker 3: I just remember we were at our first TCAs and
Speaker 3: we were at Ruby Foo's and we were talking about
Speaker 3: we went around the tables like saying what.
Speaker 1: We were for.
Speaker 7: We love to do that, We love to go around
Speaker 7: the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And the paparazzi was so crazy, right, and we
Speaker 3: were like, we're just gonna hold hands and freak them
Speaker 3: out and make them think we're really weird. And we
Speaker 3: walked into the hotel holding hands in linked arms and.
Speaker 2: We were really weird. We No, That's the thing, the.
Speaker 1: Sweetest thing I think I've ever.
Speaker 3: It's like one of us very fond memories I have
Speaker 3: of being like we are in this together and we're
Speaker 3: gonna freak everybody else out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, Yeah, I'm still weird.
Speaker 2: Just getting weirder. We're just getting weirder over here.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just choking itself into different forms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I I I.
Speaker 1: Think that's maybe. Additionally, why.
Speaker 4: When anyone sees more than one of us together in
Speaker 4: real life it feels charming because it is one kind of.
Speaker 1: I guess you would hope for for people who have
Speaker 1: worked together that intensely retain a love in a friendship.
Speaker 4: And and it's I mean talk about when we were
Speaker 4: traveling in group form. Uh, yes, that was some of
Speaker 4: the wildest.
Speaker 1: I've never been grabbed so many times by mothers. It
Speaker 1: was always mothers.
Speaker 2: Yes, the continues today, you're grabbed by that mother.
Speaker 1: That's right. I know. It was a gentle.
Speaker 3: Changed yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, I just hum.
Speaker 1: We were kind of this phenomenon situation airport. That's when
Speaker 1: I really remember the most nuts.
Speaker 2: There's nowhere to.
Speaker 1: And I doing the airport. Would be so wild to
Speaker 1: see a whole cast at some thing TV walking through
Speaker 1: the airport at the same time together.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I would be freaked out too if I
Speaker 2: saw that, I would show I loved you, like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, you're all the.
Speaker 1: Kettle well here, Yeah, yeah, I get that. I get that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of all the success of the show and like
Speaker 2: how we dealt with it, Another thing lesson I think
Speaker 2: I learned from you is you are really good with people.
Speaker 2: You're excellent with people. You're in like work settings that
Speaker 2: can feel sort of gross and schmoozy and what like
Speaker 2: an obligation as opposed to finding some joy in it.
Speaker 2: You really walk the line in those situations of you know,
Speaker 2: so like, yes, this is all silly and whatever, but
Speaker 2: also finding like real connection in that with people, and
Speaker 2: you get I mean, there's not a person that doesn't
Speaker 2: like you, like you get along with everybody, And I
Speaker 2: think that's such a It's not you're not putting it on.
Speaker 2: You are just genuinely extremely nice and likable. But I
Speaker 2: think being able to have someone like you in our
Speaker 2: group to watch move through those situations was a huge
Speaker 2: bonus for us because it's taught us those things by example.
Speaker 4: That is such a kind thing to say, especially hearing
Speaker 4: it from two people that I find to be the
Speaker 4: kindest people and assmates ever.
Speaker 1: So I would like to return that compliment to the
Speaker 1: book of you.
Speaker 4: I think that's I think that's how you have to
Speaker 4: be though in this industry, you have to really understand that,
Speaker 4: like kindness is key, and you will continue to work
Speaker 4: with different people at different chapter's life and you don't
Speaker 4: always know when it's going to happen, but why not
Speaker 4: do it? Which is great leadership and participation and like
Speaker 4: make everybody feel good at work.
Speaker 1: That doesn't everybody want to do that right to work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean like sometimes you know, like we'd
Speaker 2: be tired, or like you never had a moment really
Speaker 2: where you slipped, you know, or like I would have
Speaker 2: a day I've.
Speaker 1: Had some moment before I've slipped on the floor.
Speaker 7: I just I can't Diana just flopping forward.
Speaker 1: It is just so hard and I am so.
Speaker 2: That was so rough.
Speaker 4: I just remember it so vividly because I just wanted
Speaker 4: to get there. I was so tired, and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh you want us on stage?
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. I'm running And then I ripped
Speaker 1: on that carpet and I had a huge rug burns
Speaker 1: her dress.
Speaker 7: She face flopped forward, I saw her hands go.
Speaker 1: Never forget that that moment.
Speaker 3: It was like after a full day of filming like
Speaker 3: sectionals or regionals, and they wanted us on stage for
Speaker 3: her fall and we were like, please, let us just
Speaker 3: go home.
Speaker 6: Go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now Dan has injured herself.
Speaker 1: Tripped, she stripped. Some of those long beach nights were
Speaker 1: so late, and you are just let me go home.
Speaker 2: I was like, we should not be allowed to drive
Speaker 2: home right now.
Speaker 7: No, no, it's not safe.
Speaker 1: Safe.
Speaker 2: One of the best parts of doing this podcast surprising,
Speaker 2: but I guess unsurprising, especially with the new cast members.
Speaker 2: We've learned so much about how Corey played this like
Speaker 2: leadership role quietly with people, like taking time outside of
Speaker 2: work to like grab sit down with coffee with people
Speaker 2: or just make sure everybody's feeling safe and whatever. And
Speaker 2: it's been really beautiful to hear. You got to work
Speaker 2: with Corey a lot in the beginning. What was your
Speaker 2: experience like with, you know, working with him and just
Speaker 2: being his friend through all of this.
Speaker 4: He was a teddy bear, and I mean that in
Speaker 4: a way of just his kindness and groundedness.
Speaker 1: In himself was so perfect. I just and he was
Speaker 1: this tall, big brotherly.
Speaker 4: Presence in all of our lives, and he was a
Speaker 4: few years older than us, and he just felt so
Speaker 4: safe and so equally excited about what he was getting
Speaker 4: to experience. With his character, and his character had a
Speaker 4: leadership position in the show as well. And I just
Speaker 4: there was not an ungenerous bone in his body.
Speaker 1: And I remember this one time that.
Speaker 4: He was having people swim in his backyard and my
Speaker 4: brother had come down to San Francisco and he said, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, you're squinting a lot. Do you not have
Speaker 4: a pair of sunglasses or something like that. He was like, oh, no,
Speaker 4: I don't. And it was like, you know what, come
Speaker 4: with me, and he took him into his room. He's like,
Speaker 4: these are all my sunglasses. Just take a pair. He
Speaker 4: was like, oh no, okay, well I'll give him back
Speaker 4: to you. And he's like, no, I want you to
Speaker 4: take a pair that you want to take a comb
Speaker 4: and now you have a pair of sunglasses. I just
Speaker 4: that's who he was, always, always.
Speaker 1: It was so amazing to have I just Chris bumps
Speaker 1: on my arms. I just I it's hard to.
Speaker 4: Think of our loved ones from the show not being
Speaker 4: with us anymore because they feel so present in my heart, body, mind,
Speaker 4: sold all of it. Yes, And I think that the
Speaker 4: tenderness that I feel and the memories that I have
Speaker 4: and who you know, both Corey and Nya and Mark
Speaker 4: were as people, as cast members, as our friends and family.
Speaker 4: That's just so vivid and that will never dissipate for
Speaker 4: me ever. And I think there's beauty in that, and
Speaker 4: I think it's it's I just I could replay memory
Speaker 4: after memory after memory. There's so and I in some
Speaker 4: ways I feel bad because sometimes you could tell me, oh,
Speaker 4: and then we shot this scene in this scene in
Speaker 4: this episode here, and I wouldn't be able to tell
Speaker 4: you that I remember that at all. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: that speaks to the volume of the work that we
Speaker 4: were doing. And even I I rewatched the finale because
Speaker 4: I know you guys aren't getting to the end because.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember of us do you.
Speaker 4: Opinion most of it? But that's not why I don't
Speaker 4: remember it. I just there are so many fuzzy details.
Speaker 4: But I'm so pleased, and it feels so pleasurable that
Speaker 4: there are no fuzzy details as it relates to.
Speaker 2: Yes beautifully said, Yes, that's exactly right, Yes it is,
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think we're all very fortunate. Those memories
Speaker 2: are just stamped in there. It's like what number we
Speaker 2: did on what day?
Speaker 1: Who knows?
Speaker 7: Ye, Like I'll never forget Lucy kaboozy.
Speaker 4: Oh I remember that little moment to what what is
Speaker 4: your transition?
Speaker 2: Jenna?
Speaker 4: Here she goes, because her popularity is on the line again,
Speaker 4: she must overcome.
Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't mean to swatch like that, but
Speaker 3: I truly it's just you're so versatile in your life
Speaker 3: and as Quinn, and it's so as Diana, and.
Speaker 7: The way I know you and we know you, and you.
Speaker 3: Just you are just such a beautiful soul of like
Speaker 3: no abandon like you just live where you are with
Speaker 3: like such freeing energy and it's something that I've always
Speaker 3: admired about you. And so with Quinn, all these things
Speaker 3: you just took them with such grace and you just
Speaker 3: went and committed so hard with these, you know, questionable
Speaker 3: moments sometimes that you know, we all had with.
Speaker 1: Our characters who were like, what what do I have
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Okay, great, I'll make it work. And it's just so
Speaker 3: it really does just speak to who you are and
Speaker 3: what you gave to everybody.
Speaker 7: As one of the most requested guests on this show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, We're like we need Diane, we need her her.
Speaker 1: We're like, well, we need her. I need her.
Speaker 3: I always need her, but we need her. And it's
Speaker 3: just a testament to like what you gave to our
Speaker 3: fans and our listeners and all the people out there
Speaker 3: who you know, love the show and love your character
Speaker 3: so deeply.
Speaker 1: This is I. I feel so.
Speaker 4: Loved right now by the two of you, and I
Speaker 4: really and I love you both so very deeply. And
Speaker 4: I didn't understand I was going to receive so many
Speaker 4: flowers to take this.
Speaker 1: I feel learn yet balance. I just want to now
Speaker 1: go into each of them.
Speaker 3: You're going to sit there and take it, take it,
Speaker 3: take it, Okay you thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but so generous.
Speaker 4: I I really I feel very loved and cherished by
Speaker 4: the two of you, and I just hope that you
Speaker 4: know how deeply loved you both are in my heart, body, mind, soul,
Speaker 4: all of it.
Speaker 1: I just wow, it's okay, I get it. It's hard
Speaker 1: to take.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we do this weekly and we just don't on
Speaker 3: our guests because we have to.
Speaker 1: People here us all the time.
Speaker 3: But they need to hear the testament to which we
Speaker 3: speak about everybody and speak about the show. It is
Speaker 3: nice to have you, guys as the test of walking testimonials,
Speaker 3: like we're not making this up. It's not just Kevin
Speaker 3: and Jenna making this up. Like everybody who comes on
Speaker 3: speaks so such loving words about their time and about
Speaker 3: the family and about what we built together. So we
Speaker 3: are grateful that you guys come on and share your
Speaker 3: experience and that it's it resonates and it feels like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: we weren't crazy.
Speaker 1: Kevin and I weren't like the crazy one.
Speaker 7: Sitting in the background like this is all great.
Speaker 2: We definitely well, we weren't always saying that no, no.
Speaker 1: We've been honest.
Speaker 4: But it's really beautiful that you've set the groundwork and
Speaker 4: hold the space and can sew cleverly and beautifully articulate
Speaker 4: the experience and really go through the ins and outs
Speaker 4: it with so many different people on our show, because
Speaker 4: I think that is how you build the landscape of
Speaker 4: understanding is talking to people in front of the camera,
Speaker 4: behind the camera.
Speaker 1: This was a group of people.
Speaker 4: But that's why I love making film and TV so much,
Speaker 4: is you come together as a unit of people who
Speaker 4: all are bringing their experience to the table and cares
Speaker 4: about making something. To me, the making of the thing
Speaker 4: is the best time you'll ever have. Yeah, if it
Speaker 4: goes out into the world and it is well received. Sure,
Speaker 4: that's a bonus that the making of a show is there.
Speaker 1: Is no feeling like it and less doun alignment.
Speaker 4: But if it is a line everybody is joining together
Speaker 4: in that kind of you know, grand and wonderful way
Speaker 4: in which we did, then.
Speaker 1: You can't even explain it.
Speaker 4: You can't come home from set and give people the feeling,
Speaker 4: even as descriptive is just you have to be there
Speaker 4: and you have to experiencing it on the ground and
Speaker 4: and that is just a huge life joy to be
Speaker 4: a storyteller.
Speaker 2: I need you to be in a leadership role on
Speaker 2: the set.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's slowly coming together.
Speaker 2: But do you think so deeply and passionately about all
Speaker 2: facets of filmmaking behind and in front of the camera
Speaker 2: that hearing you speak about these things, that just makes
Speaker 2: me want to see, like, what is a Diana production
Speaker 2: you know, well.
Speaker 1: Direct that we're putting together.
Speaker 4: Now that it's been right, you know, it's like, I'm
Speaker 4: that's been a couple of years in the making, because
Speaker 4: sometimes things take a while to write and get and.
Speaker 1: Do these things.
Speaker 4: But I really have been having so much fun building
Speaker 4: things from the ground up.
Speaker 1: And writing and producing.
Speaker 4: Things, and I've done in short form, not in long form,
Speaker 4: and I just realized that I was so crave the
Speaker 4: opportunity to do something that I had a hand in
Speaker 4: the storytelling that wasn't a script that was coming to me,
Speaker 4: and a couple of years ago I understood what that
Speaker 4: story was and we built it.
Speaker 1: I'm super proud of it. It's a really big film.
Speaker 4: It's a very big, ambitious landscape and film that's a
Speaker 4: psychological thriller is very thrilling to me. Oh thanks, I
Speaker 4: do think I'm writing something right now. I just finished
Speaker 4: something that we're sending out to producers right now and
Speaker 4: they're all very tonally different.
Speaker 1: Uh. It was a rom.
Speaker 4: Calmly, very British rom column that I just finished with
Speaker 4: a friend of mine. This thing that I'm writing on
Speaker 4: my own, it's like I'm writing it as a I'm
Speaker 4: trying to write it as a book first and then
Speaker 4: adapt to us weekly because I had so much to
Speaker 4: say that I to build it out in a way
Speaker 4: that felt honest and true. But I did realize in
Speaker 4: the last couple of years that in order for me
Speaker 4: to experience all the facets of joy that are within
Speaker 4: me as a storyteller.
Speaker 1: I couldn't just wait for the on set experiences.
Speaker 4: And honestly, I mean you days, Remember I always had
Speaker 4: a camera on set.
Speaker 1: I was always filming things together.
Speaker 4: Do this.
Speaker 1: I see the.
Speaker 4: World in frames, and I just again, I think back
Speaker 4: on what I learned on Glee, and when I think
Speaker 4: about Ryan as a visual storyteller that is so specific
Speaker 4: with his references and tone and just gets it right.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a reason Ryan is able to do
Speaker 4: what he does with such success. And I think cultivating
Speaker 4: what those things are in your artistry is so fun
Speaker 4: and so important because once you kind of start going
Speaker 4: further into that lane, it's it's just intoxicating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, this is why we need you.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. She loves it, she loves it all,
Speaker 3: she loves it deeply. You with that before we won't.
Speaker 3: We don't want to hold you for too long, we know,
Speaker 3: but where we ask everybody who comes on who's been
Speaker 3: a part of the show, what is the feeling that
Speaker 3: Glee leaves you with or left you with or continues
Speaker 3: to leave you with.
Speaker 1: I just have such tenderness for that show. It's a really.
Speaker 4: Glee opened the doors to everything I've been able to
Speaker 4: do in my creative life, absolutely everything. There would be
Speaker 4: no path without that, And so it's just so delicate
Speaker 4: and tender to me. It feels like the exact thing
Speaker 4: I was searching for given to me at such a
Speaker 4: young age. To be able to do that show with
Speaker 4: all of you and find our family in that is
Speaker 4: just it's joyful, it's tender, it's gleeful, it's you know too.
Speaker 1: I just I really and the older I get, the more.
Speaker 4: Kind of like protective I feel about our show because
Speaker 4: I think that there have been so many opportunities for people.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're the only ones that really know what
Speaker 1: it was like.
Speaker 4: And I think that again, meeting people on the streets
Speaker 4: who have to just light up and want to at
Speaker 4: the base level just tell you that they love the
Speaker 4: show or your character or whatever, and at a more
Speaker 4: in depth level, really want to share with you a
Speaker 4: specific reason why.
Speaker 1: And we had that then and the fact that we
Speaker 1: still have that now. There aren't always experiences that you
Speaker 1: have as a storyteller that dig so deeply into people's hearts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 4: I may not ever have a project that people feel
Speaker 4: that strongly about that people lead to tether these these
Speaker 4: like heart strings too and wrap them up tightly.
Speaker 1: And I think that's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you can have one, two, three, but
Speaker 4: if you have one that sits at the top this
Speaker 4: with this amount of strength, yes, amazing because some.
Speaker 1: Well don't have that.
Speaker 4: Imagine we're just doing other projects that people are like.
Speaker 1: I love the stunts that looked really hard, like yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's fun and.
Speaker 4: Thrilling too, But like the emotional connection that people have
Speaker 4: the amount of time somebody's come up to us with
Speaker 4: tears in their eyes.
Speaker 1: Really have changed my life. Yeah, yeah, it's wild to me.
Speaker 4: But I had that feeling that that's what the show
Speaker 4: is going to be when I read that pilot. That pilot,
Speaker 4: I had goosebumps. When I finished it, I just hands
Speaker 4: I knew if we were given the chance. I can't
Speaker 4: believe they let you see footage and I love it delicious,
Speaker 4: And I just it was that overhead angle of him
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: She couldn't have shown.
Speaker 4: Me a better clip totally, because there was something about
Speaker 4: the sweetness and vulnerability that Finn, you know, his release
Speaker 4: in that moment, his pure joy, I mean the soap
Speaker 4: bar in his hand.
Speaker 1: It's so cute. It's the brush Cory.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, it's the dream. It's the dream, you know, the.
Speaker 2: So beautiful Justice For. I'm still standing in Quinn in
Speaker 2: a wheelchair?
Speaker 1: Are you guys?
Speaker 2: Justice For? Do you know the Internet? I know we're leaving,
Speaker 2: but I just need to know your thoughts on FABERI.
Speaker 2: Do you know what FABERI is?
Speaker 1: Yes, now I do. That is Leah and I's characters
Speaker 1: right together.
Speaker 2: People think you guys end up together or together?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What what the future? Yeah? What is your What are
Speaker 2: your thoughts if you have any on that?
Speaker 1: Well, then what happens to Jesse Saint James?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I'm into that?
Speaker 1: What a power couple? And then we both get directed
Speaker 1: by him? Oh we're a director? Yes, yes, Oh, we
Speaker 1: love this. We love it being more and more Emmy's
Speaker 1: and Tony's.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is taking over the world, and.
Speaker 4: Quinn is her and Jesse they're entertainment lawyer, and she's
Speaker 4: just really doing great deals for them, expanding their universes.
Speaker 1: What did she do with Yell? We don't know, we
Speaker 1: don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 4: But she's a.
Speaker 1: Power, that's for sure.
Speaker 4: She's in her power in the future in her throuble
Speaker 4: with Jesse and Rachel.
Speaker 1: We love to hear it if it were thea Barry
Speaker 1: What what was sa?
Speaker 2: I also forgot about Santana and Quinn's night together.
Speaker 3: A very special night in the hallway, and then having
Speaker 3: special nights.
Speaker 1: Toms kiss and make up. They said, I guess I was.
Speaker 2: Like, this happened on the show.
Speaker 1: So much that we don't remember there is much What
Speaker 1: would you say? What would you say?
Speaker 4: Is this one of the more silly, unimaginable thought twists
Speaker 4: that you pointed and this recap.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is cliche, and it's probably
Speaker 2: because we just watched it. What Sue Sylvester in this
Speaker 2: last season, Oh my god fully unhinged Jigsaw su jig
Speaker 2: Saw Su comes out Jigsaw from Saw going to a
Speaker 2: mini tricycle, locks curtain Blaine in an elevator because she
Speaker 2: wants them to make up.
Speaker 3: She has a hurt locker, which is like a storage unit,
Speaker 3: and she has a shrine, and she loves Clane and
Speaker 3: she wants them to get back together.
Speaker 2: And she also has like a murder board basically of
Speaker 2: all of us with you know, the yarn in between
Speaker 2: connecting that very unhinged.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then she's the president vice president of the
Speaker 4: United States.
Speaker 3: That's exact naturally, naturally, that's how that goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she marries herself, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she marries herself in a track sue as a concept,
Speaker 2: I think is the wildest part of the show.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think that is absolutely correct. Yes, so necessary.
Speaker 7: I must have, Yeah, I must have.
Speaker 2: I think we did it.
Speaker 7: I think we did it.
Speaker 4: I opisually don't want it to end looking at your
Speaker 4: beauty faces.
Speaker 2: Like, seriously, thank you so much for spending so much
Speaker 2: time with us.
Speaker 7: It's getting dark. We got to see the light the
Speaker 7: sunset behind you.
Speaker 2: Need to go out and have dinner.
Speaker 1: We love you so much. I love you both so much.
Speaker 4: I'm also freaked out by how unchanged your faces are.
Speaker 2: Now you kidding me, you're the most unchanged. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: must know.
Speaker 1: You better believe. I have a nice filter on.
Speaker 4: Oh, I have the filter all the way turned up
Speaker 4: on here, and your background is filtered.
Speaker 1: You've got a blur tunnel.
Speaker 2: But I also have my face is also blurred, not
Speaker 2: a single pore.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, have a great summer.
Speaker 2: We love you so much, So nice and hopefully I
Speaker 2: get to see you soon.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would love that very much. I r L
Speaker 1: love you. I love you.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much to Diana for spending so much
Speaker 3: time with us coming on the show.
Speaker 1: For all of you guys, it's so nice to hear.
Speaker 3: From her and also just to see her because I
Speaker 3: feel like we text sometimes with her, but like to
Speaker 3: actually see her in the flash is just.
Speaker 2: What a what a dream And we had to do
Speaker 2: it big of course, so we had to get her
Speaker 2: and it's she's so sweet and so kind for giving
Speaker 2: us so much at the time and talking to us
Speaker 2: about all of this, and it was nice for us.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't always talk about all things Glee
Speaker 2: when we're together.
Speaker 3: Right, right.
Speaker 1: That is a good point, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Times sometimes we'll like it'll come up, but we're like,
Speaker 3: not always.
Speaker 7: It's not like the main point of like why we're connecting.
Speaker 3: So it's nice to be in a an insular.
Speaker 1: Glee place, right.
Speaker 3: Okay, you guys, we have a few more Glee episodes
Speaker 3: left for you before we leave Glee behind. Not all
Speaker 3: of it, of course, but you know this this big part.
Speaker 3: So next up is our series overview. We're doing favorites
Speaker 3: from the entire show. Kevin, we have our homework.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, we we we've.
Speaker 1: Got it common and we're gonna we're gonna give it
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 7: So tune in and that's what you're reading this.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dana, thanks for listening, and follow us on Instagram
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