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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, and I want to know are

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Speaker 1: you a Charlotte? You guys Mario Cantone is here.

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting. It's so exciting.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said when I texted him, Hey, do

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Speaker 3: you want to be on the podcast?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I hope. So I've been waiting for you to

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Speaker 2: ask me.

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Speaker 1: But my feeling was in my mind when I agreed

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Speaker 1: to do the podcast to rewatch, which I hadn't rewatched,

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Speaker 1: you know, since it originally came on. I thought, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go chronologically and in order.

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Speaker 2: But it's too.

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Speaker 3: Hard to wait.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it is too hard to wait. And so funny.

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Speaker 2: I caught myself because I saw that we were going

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Speaker 2: to recap this episode, and I was like, why aren't

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Speaker 2: we doing an episode? I'm in that we and she

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Speaker 2: was and I went, oh, wait a minute, Okay, you're

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Speaker 2: doing one at a time. You're doing a chronological.

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Speaker 1: Correct I said, so great, And well you're just you're

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Speaker 1: just such a joy that I have to have you now.

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Speaker 2: I needed to be here. I know he was.

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Speaker 3: He was not messed around. He was like, well, I

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Speaker 3: was waiting.

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting. I know.

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Speaker 3: We came all the way to lovely San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: I know, I talk to you and we're in beautiful

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Speaker 2: Marinecome it's very beautiful, beautiful. I mean, wow, There's there's

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Speaker 2: a lovely little town that I'd say at once in

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Speaker 2: a while called Bolinas, which is like hidden. The locals

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Speaker 2: ripped the signs down. Don't know how to get there

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Speaker 2: unless secret, guys. Beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So here is Mario, the fantastic Mario Cantone. Now what

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Speaker 1: I want to do with you? Let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the beginning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I want to ask you. Okay, what year did

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Speaker 3: you get cast? And how did it come about? On

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Speaker 3: Sex and the City.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I started I in the eighties. I was

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Speaker 2: doing stand up with Michael Patrick King at them at

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Speaker 2: the forty fourth Street and ninth Avenue, the original improv

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Speaker 2: divorced it. Bud got the one in la and Silver

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Speaker 2: got the one in New York. She passed me. I

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Speaker 2: met Michael. He was in a comedy theme at the time,

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Speaker 2: Wow King and Mende, and then he ended up stand

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Speaker 2: up on his own right. I remember one time Joan Rivers'

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Speaker 2: to preface it, so she goes, you're Joan Rivers, You're

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Speaker 2: on a cruise and get just died. You're grieving, you're

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Speaker 2: getting over it. Go I would have to like improv

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Speaker 2: like Melissa, how are you? Can I sit down, Let's

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Speaker 2: have some breakfast and we're doing better today? Wait? Just

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Speaker 2: could I get some eggs? Exit? Yeah, we would, And

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Speaker 2: it went on and on, and then I ended up

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Speaker 2: This is the eighties. So I was doing an off

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Speaker 2: I think it was early two thousand and I he said,

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Speaker 2: I wrote you something. So he wrote it for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he read.

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Speaker 2: The Crumple Zone, which did very well, ran for six

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Speaker 4: This episode and I went, oh no, it wasn't what

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Speaker 2: It was one episode that.

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Speaker 2: And then there was another scene in the back of

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Speaker 2: the Vera Wang in this kind of little area yep,

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Speaker 2: and I was fitting you and you were getting very

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Speaker 2: kind of looked at each other. That scene got cut

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Speaker 2: Luckily they cut it because it was almost like an

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Speaker 1: Oh, so it might not have gone well. So if well,

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Speaker 1: they probably wanted to keep you. They probably knew already.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Noll.

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Speaker 2: I remember running into Michael and he said, do you

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Speaker 2: know how much great feedback we got on you? I said,

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Speaker 3: I vaguely remember. They'll tell you what I remember most

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Speaker 3: I think was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and we're you know, I had already tried on

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Speaker 1: like thirty five actual Vera Wang dresses to see what

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Speaker 1: And we're there and it's going very late, as was

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Speaker 2: Very late, very late. He got out of four in

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Speaker 1: Then exactly, and so the executive from HBO, Michael Hill, came,

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Speaker 1: But I don't remember that other scenes, I really, I mean,

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Speaker 3: So asdorable? You're still I was pretty happened?

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Speaker 2: But you know, I remember it's so funny because I

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Speaker 3: I tried to protect you from such things.

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Speaker 1: Well I think it also just doesn't happen that you

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Speaker 2: And also you know with within, just like that, there's

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Speaker 2: Well you know, when Charlotte did get formed, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: the the sequel here and just like that. What I

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Speaker 1: But I got to tell you something, there is no

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Speaker 1: first season. That's all I can think of when I

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't know you.

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Speaker 1: I can't say it, you know, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: But also I wasn't even worried about where it was going,

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Speaker 1: like like I was more just trying to pull off Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: And Charlotte was so underdeveloped, like Michael told me when

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Speaker 1: And then Jenny Banks came on, which was so great

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Speaker 3: Did Thank god? So it came together. But what I

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Speaker 1: About you, and then we're going to talk about you,

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Speaker 1: because we're here to talk about you, my friend. So

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Speaker 1: what I want to say is that the success that

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Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, We're lucky that we

439
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,880
Speaker 1: even get the chance to do anything.

440
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,760
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Exactly right, let's pause, let's

441
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 3: back up in time. Do you remember meeting Willy?

442
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,320
Speaker 2: Yes, it was that first day, the first day, I'm sorry,

443
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,960
Speaker 2: not the first day. It was my second.

444
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,720
Speaker 4: Episode when we're at that fashion show, the fashion show, which.

445
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,440
Speaker 2: Was really fun.

446
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,520
Speaker 3: I remember being really fun.

447
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,880
Speaker 2: I remember that day. I remember because I remember walking

448
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 2: into that the aisle of the fashion.

449
00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was big too, it was big, Remember how

450
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,480
Speaker 1: big it was. And remember we weren't the main story, sir,

451
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,760
Speaker 1: Jessica walking and falling. Heidi Klum and Kevin A. Kwan

452
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,359
Speaker 1: was there, so we were just having fun. Yeah, we

453
00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 1: were just having good time.

454
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:56,920
Speaker 3: Me and Will.

455
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,160
Speaker 2: Right away, I got who he was. I adored him.

456
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 2: He's hilarious, his storytelling is phenomenon. He's just a great

457
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 2: it's just a great person to be around. It was,

458
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 2: it was just so much fun. And I yeah, we

459
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 2: hung out and here and there and you know, I

460
00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:20,840
Speaker 2: remember when he first adopted his son and all of that. Yeah, Nathan,

461
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 2: So it's yeah, I I it's fascinating because who knew

462
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 2: we were going to get married eventually? I know. And

463
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 2: what did you think of that? I thought I thought

464
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 2: it was good. I think I think it was great.

465
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 2: I think things happened. You I mean, I've met people

466
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm totally not attracted that I don't

467
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden it flips. That's that

468
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 2: that happens all the time in life.

469
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 1: I still and I can't really separate this from actual life,

470
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: you know, because we didn't uh, you know, we didn't

471
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 1: know that he was sicking the obviously, we really didn't

472
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 1: think it was going to be as bad as it was,

473
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 1: as quickly as it was.

474
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 3: We had to really shift gears with your storyline. I mean,

475
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 3: how'd you feel.

476
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,639
Speaker 2: Oh, I was. Well, first of all, he told me

477
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 2: while we were filming BIG's funeral. I didn't know. That's

478
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 2: when we all kind of found out. I already knew,

479
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 2: you knew. I didn't know, and that was a hard

480
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,639
Speaker 2: John Belfie was running around and he was something like,

481
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,160
Speaker 2: what's going on? And I sat down on the bench

482
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: with Willy and he told me, and he turned his

483
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 2: head and I thought he was laughing because I thought

484
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 2: it's a joke, and then he wasn't, and so we

485
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,400
Speaker 2: both will crying, and he said he has to leave

486
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:30,720
Speaker 2: the show, and I don't know what's going to happen,

487
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,159
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry, I'm like what it was? It was

488
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 2: mind blowing. It really was horrible, and you know, I

489
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 2: was like, wow, whatever happens for me? I was like, whatever,

490
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 2: you know? I mean? And so Michael came to me

491
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 2: and said, look, because he had a write on the

492
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 2: fly for me, because all that stuff.

493
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 3: I remember what you had, which.

494
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 2: He did brilliantly. Of course he just did, but you know,

495
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 2: and he I remember him saying to me, you know,

496
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need you now more than ever, and you know,

497
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 2: I started crying. It was just it was a lot, uh,

498
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 2: and then Willie was gone. And I always this story

499
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 2: about when we were going in to see Lily's recital

500
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: that first that first episode, and we filmed the argument

501
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,479
Speaker 2: out in the front when you were coming in and

502
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,679
Speaker 2: we went in, and then we filmed the interior like

503
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 2: three weeks later, and he couldn't make it, and that

504
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 2: scene was rewritten that morning by Michael And I remember

505
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 2: that day. So I was, you know, the court gesture

506
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 2: and trying to be funny and keep it all light.

507
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 2: You know. Michael was always throw out with Betty Davis

508
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 2: say so I will you know, but it was it

509
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 2: was we all just kind of held on and kept

510
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 2: moving forward. But it was it was rough. But you know,

511
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 2: here we are.

512
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 3: Can you do? It is really shining, still shocking.

513
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 2: And cancer my whole family's there's so many of my people,

514
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 2: my mother and my father, a lot of you know

515
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 2: a lot of people have gone from cancer. My family, cancers.

516
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 2: It sucks, It sucks. I mean I just feel like,

517
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: why isn't it cure yet? Where's the fix? I agree,

518
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 2: this money making thing, where's the fix? At least? What

519
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: I don't? I mean, look, I know it's the things

520
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 2: that have gotten better. It's also this also treatments that

521
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: aren't available and we don't know about that are available

522
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: in Germany.

523
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 3: Or for some reason is the place. Yes, it's interesting.

524
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 2: Mostly a cancer vaccination there that they make for you

525
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: according to your cancer that really supposedly.

526
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 3: Helps well, listen up everyone.

527
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Peter Gabriel is doing it. Yes, Okay, so

528
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 2: you know, let's go.

529
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 4: Doctors, doctors. We're not non medical advice, no, but interesting, interesting, right, yeah, yeah,

530
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 4: I mean I wish we could go back in time.

531
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 4: I wish we could go back in time. It is strange.

532
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 4: When I first started the podcast, I had to go

533
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 4: back and rewatch the pilot, right, And I haven't seen

534
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 4: any of these things since you know, the beginning, right.

535
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 3: I used to really hate.

536
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,920
Speaker 1: To rewatch because I just felt, I don't know, weird

537
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: about it, like I didn't want to spend my time

538
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: in the past, I guess. But because we're here together

539
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,919
Speaker 1: and talking about it is a connecting. The podcast is

540
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 1: a way to connect, you know, and because so many

541
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: people I'm sure you experienced this talk to me about

542
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: it throughout the day. You know, you're moving through the

543
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: world and different things strike different people. Differently, right, And

544
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 1: they'll come up and say, oh, I remember blah blah blah,

545
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: I remember blah blah blah. And you know, it's so

546
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: so amazing, like the way that you can touch touch

547
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: people or be part of something that touches, and.

548
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: How they know the material better than we do.

549
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 3: We forget it yet.

550
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember the big storylines, but so many

551
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,920
Speaker 1: things I didn't remember a line, right.

552
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: Isn't that crazy that people remember the lines?

553
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 2: Yes?

554
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think you know, to go back when

555
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,040
Speaker 1: I first watched the pilot, I had always remembered the

556
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: pilot being bad.

557
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 3: In my mind, it was bad because we didn't really

558
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 3: know what we were doing. We didn't really know. There

559
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,479
Speaker 3: was so much talking to the camera.

560
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: You know, it was very dark, which in my mind

561
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: had been bad. But when you look back on it,

562
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of bold and amazing and interesting and dark,

563
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: like not like television at the time at all.

564
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 2: Right, the season, yeah, very little different.

565
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: So the tone of the first season, Yeah, we didn't know.

566
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: We didn't know nothing in terms of what we're.

567
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 2: Doing of talking sometimes.

568
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 3: Which is fantastic.

569
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 2: Last night there was a lot of oh, yes it

570
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 2: was and I've never seen that I know because.

571
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 3: Michael does know.

572
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: He doesn't do that. No, no, no, he doesn't.

573
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 3: No, No, it's that sometime it's his, it's his pattern

574
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 3: that he writes.

575
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: But back when I first watched the pilot, you know,

576
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: I'm just in my bed, you know, the night before

577
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: the first podcast recording, watching it, and when they introduced Stanford,

578
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: it's just this super close up of Willie who already knew.

579
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: I knew Willy because I met him on the XBOU

580
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: set in like Vancouver, in an abandoned insane asylum.

581
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: Like super spooky.

582
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: But of course Willy makes any place fun, right, So

583
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: it was just a really good time.

584
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 3: He's telling stories and doing the whole thing. So I

585
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 3: already knew him, which was great.

586
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: And its just smash cut to Willi's face, his young face,

587
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: and oh, it hit me so hard.

588
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 3: It hit me so hard. But this is the joy

589
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 3: of film, that it lasts forever.

590
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: Right, And he made his mark in so many different shows,

591
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 1: is so many movies.

592
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 3: He worked a lot, so much.

593
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: Everyone knew him everyone everyone, everyone.

594
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 2: Knew him, and he worked with the lot of people.

595
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 2: He did a lot of works.

596
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 3: And now ask you.

597
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: This, do you feel when you think back is it.

598
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: Is it something where you can think about, Oh, I

599
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,959
Speaker 1: remember when you know, Willie and I were doing this

600
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,360
Speaker 1: and I was observing him and I learned this.

601
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 3: Or are you all just like soaking it up wherever

602
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 3: you go?

603
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 2: Just you know, you're just it's day to day. It's

604
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 2: a different an experience every time you're on that set.

605
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 3: Which is what I love about acting.

606
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: It's absolutely it's a different experience. You're feeling different things,

607
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 2: and you're you know, you're more anxious one day and

608
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 2: a little less anxious another day, and care too much

609
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: one day, and then one day you're like, I don't

610
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 2: have a cat today. I'm no, I don't.

611
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 3: I know you better than that?

612
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't, I don't never you know

613
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 2: what I mean? You feel different things?

614
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 3: Well, you have you have to.

615
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing is you have to manage

616
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: where you your personal self are that day, but then

617
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: you also have to manage yourself into where.

618
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 3: Your character is that day, right, which absolutely.

619
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: Like take some work sometimes does yeah, yeah, And you

620
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: have to figure that out as you go.

621
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 2: Because sometimes when not not that I mean, I don't

622
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: give a shit one day, it's like I I care

623
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: a little less, which relaxes me more. The same person

624
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: going through the day in the same way, but I'm

625
00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 2: a little bit more relaxed. You happened later and right.

626
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: But it's a great thing because you you don't need

627
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: to be as anxious as you are.

628
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, they make jokes about Charlotte's wedding.

629
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: Your wedding was, oh my gosh, my sisters, my real sisters.

630
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: You don't really see as close to them, but you

631
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: see two women. I remember this down the island, both

632
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: my sisters, and one of them passed away in twenty nineteen.

633
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: She died a cancer. So yeah, but she got to

634
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: walk me down the aisle.

635
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 3: That sounds pretty great. With the swans and.

636
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 2: With the swans, and I always say, I always go

637
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: like this. I always say, I go up. When I

638
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: was like, I danced Chang the single ladies, and I

639
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 2: danced so high that I stamped on a swan and

640
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: broke its snack. It was an accent, and I was like,

641
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 2: who said, who has swans at their weddings? I didn't

642
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: have swans at my real wedding. My real wedding was

643
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: very I'm sure people on my roof. That was it.

644
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: And then we went to dinner, after.

645
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 3: Which you were in like a wedding by Michael Patrick King,

646
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 3: which is a situation. It was like a musical from

647
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 3: the forties.

648
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's set.

649
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 3: I know. It was huge with the water and the Swans.

650
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: We were all out in our trailers and you guys

651
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: were in there for days, and we'd all be like, hey, hey,

652
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: does anyone know what's going on in there? Does anyone

653
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: know what's going on in there? And then we would

654
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: walk in like, hey, you guys, what are you doing?

655
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: And it was like Eliza. It was Eliza Show was amazing.

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Speaker 1: So we would stand in the back and watch the

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Speaker 1: Eliza Show. And then it was the Swans and there

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Speaker 1: was a gay man's health course and that was you guys.

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Speaker 3: We were like, well, some someday they'll need us, and

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Speaker 3: the four of us was shot back out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the studio was very happy with us,

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Speaker 1: though they were a little annoyed.

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Speaker 2: Well, the show, it did well. It did, we did well.

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Speaker 2: It did. Both movies did well. It's true. Financially the

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Speaker 2: first movie did super great, super great.

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Speaker 3: Second movie we caused too much, but that's okay. We're

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Speaker 3: not here to talk about that it's okay, it's.

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Speaker 2: Not globally they all do well.

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Speaker 3: I know that's right, and we're lucky.

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Speaker 1: We are so lucky because theoretically, comedy and women are

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Speaker 1: not supposed to travel.

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Speaker 2: Ha oh no, it's a huge globe.

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Speaker 3: I know, baby Maria, what are you?

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Speaker 2: You are? Charlotte part of me is yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: I I like things in their place. I uh, I

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Speaker 2: like lovely things. I definitely have high anxiety. I definitely yeah,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, and I definitely have to like, you know,

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Speaker 2: control things. That's that's definitely do you love? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I do believe minutes happily married, haply married. And I'm

681
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Speaker 2: a lucky lucky man because I would marry me. But yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely I think I never thought of that. But

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Speaker 2: I think if I had to say which one I was,

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Speaker 2: because I'm not a Carrie, because you know, Carrie goes

685
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Speaker 2: through a lot of things that She's had a handful

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Speaker 2: of relationships during the show.

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Speaker 3: Right, really only two important one really only, But I

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Speaker 3: mean Charlotte has had a bunch.

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Speaker 2: Of because I'm always I always think about them, of course,

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Speaker 2: because she's you know, single now and I guess you know, uh,

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Speaker 2: I'm partly samantic because I'm a smart ass, and if

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Speaker 2: for sure, and I don't think, I don't think I'm

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Speaker 2: a Miranda.

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Speaker 1: Miranda, would you kind of do tell things like like

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Speaker 1: it is Miranda, that's true, it is.

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Speaker 2: I just think she's so such an intelligence about her

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Speaker 2: too so but you're intelligent sometimes. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of me and Charlotte, and I never

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Speaker 2: thought that. That's very interesting.

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Speaker 3: I keep forgetting to ask people the question.

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Speaker 2: It's a good question.

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Speaker 4: Why.

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Speaker 2: I know it's psychologically it's a great question.

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Speaker 1: You're joy, Thanks for being here, okay by everybody. Yes,