Speaker 1: It's with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling today. You guys,
Speaker 1: we are excited. We're going to have a guest on.
Speaker 1: Amy is so excited we have Rebecca Hurts with us. Um.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows Rebecca. She's been a soap actress for a
Speaker 1: long long time. She's been in everything. But you know,
Speaker 1: I love myself General Hospital about it, Oh my gosh, celebrate.
Speaker 1: It's her twenty five year coming up right General Hospital.
Speaker 1: But General Hospital has spent on sixty years. Oh my god. Well,
Speaker 1: she is a beloved star of that show, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And the best part is she was on our show
Speaker 1: a long long time ago, on an episode that we
Speaker 1: just recently watched, perfectly perfect in season three, episode more.
Speaker 1: And we're so excited to do a little rewind and
Speaker 1: have a chat with her. It's so iconic, And I
Speaker 1: wonder if you damaged her. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask her.
Speaker 1: It's my being to her affected anything long term? Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm trying to figure they are beautiful. Hi.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I just want to say I'm sorry
Speaker 1: the way my character treated you right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: I just want you to know I'm sorry, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I forgive you. I was worried that she might have
Speaker 1: scarred you for like you were so young. You were
Speaker 1: so young, and I was so mean. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wasn't mean, Kelly was really me. That's right. No, I
Speaker 1: actually I'm used to that with Maybe it was a
Speaker 1: good preparation for you to like be able to go
Speaker 1: into the all the storylines that you've had to cover. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had a few people be mean to me, So
Speaker 1: it's okay. It's nice question. And for you when you
Speaker 1: were on the show, Um, do you remember them telling
Speaker 1: you not to look any of the cast in the eyes? Oh? Um?
Speaker 1: Was that? Oh? No? Was that a thing? Um? Jessica Alba,
Speaker 1: who is so nice and so great, But there was
Speaker 1: a story when we first started doing the podcast that
Speaker 1: came out that she when she was young, it was
Speaker 1: her first job, I think on nine two one oh,
Speaker 1: that she was told and not by us, to someone
Speaker 1: to not look the cast in the eyes and it
Speaker 1: was scarring to her. So wow, yeah, I could see
Speaker 1: how that would be a little traumatizing. Um. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I've never experienced that. Everybody I remember everybody was really nice. No,
Speaker 1: were you a fan of Antuna before you came on,
Speaker 1: or were you excited to get the part? Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: I had on auditioned several times for different roles. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I have no idea. I cannot remember that
Speaker 1: far back. Um. I auditioned a lot as a kid,
Speaker 1: So it's kind of you know, once you're out of
Speaker 1: that room, you just don't remember anything, and you're what
Speaker 1: did you start acting? I was six, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I was little. I was little as little. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I started doing a lot of commercials as a kid,
Speaker 1: and then like guest spots here and there, and but
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't really remember a lot
Speaker 1: of it, just because it was so much of my
Speaker 1: like daily going on auditions and then I'd come home
Speaker 1: and I used to be an ice skater and I
Speaker 1: go to the ice rink, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: just like a busy life that I don't remember a
Speaker 1: whole lot of the auditions. So no, I don't remember
Speaker 1: the roles, but I had been in quite often for
Speaker 1: different roles, and then I was super excited to finally
Speaker 1: be on your show. Were we saw it were like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we totally recognized you, and it was
Speaker 1: like we know. Wait. I was like, I know her,
Speaker 1: I know her, and um wait, it's like sliding doors.
Speaker 1: What if you had gone on to be a professional
Speaker 1: ice scare You weren't professional, right? I was not a professional? No,
Speaker 1: I was no. Um. I started ice skating when I
Speaker 1: was My mom put me on the ice when I
Speaker 1: was three, and then I stopped competing when I was
Speaker 1: about fifteen. Well, to me, competing means professional. So oh,
Speaker 1: but you were like training, did you have to do that?
Speaker 1: Like five am? Yes, I would get up and two
Speaker 1: hours before I would skate for two and a half
Speaker 1: hours before I go to school. I'd go to school.
Speaker 1: After school, I'd do auditions. If I didn't have auditions,
Speaker 1: I'd go back to the rink. And that was my
Speaker 1: life for a while. But then when I got into
Speaker 1: high school, managing high school and friends and audition need skating,
Speaker 1: It's something had to give. And I liked acting more
Speaker 1: than I enjoyed skating. Like that was, I was done.
Speaker 1: I was ready to be done with that. And I'm
Speaker 1: not a real big like, I don't like to compete.
Speaker 1: So I loved ice skate. I hated competing. You were
Speaker 1: literally a triple threat. Oh god, I was just busy.
Speaker 1: I'm just busy. How long have you been on the
Speaker 1: show that you're on? I just celebrated my twenty year.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe you've been on there twenty five years
Speaker 1: because you don't even look twenty years old, which is
Speaker 1: crazy to look. I mean, you looked so young. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know you were when you were how old when
Speaker 1: we started that show? I was twenty, you know, I
Speaker 1: was twenty. How old were you when you were on sixteen?
Speaker 1: And I had to look that up because honestly, I
Speaker 1: just I didn't remember quickly this morning, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what year was that? So? Yeah, that was four? I
Speaker 1: think it? Or um, Rebecca. I asked this question to
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but I really really want to know.
Speaker 1: How come I mean, obviously you've been an actress your
Speaker 1: whole life, but how come soap stars don't age? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you guys don't age, And I just I don't understand it. Well.
Speaker 1: I think it might just be it's an illusion because
Speaker 1: we're in your house every single day, and we all
Speaker 1: age gradually together. It's not like you're watching for one
Speaker 1: season and then there's this huge break and people come
Speaker 1: back and they look a little different in order. You know,
Speaker 1: we've over the years, you've you've aged, I think because
Speaker 1: we're in the house and every single day you don't
Speaker 1: see it. It's like you don't see you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't. I don't. I look at my husband
Speaker 1: and I don't see that he ages. He ever look
Speaker 1: at him everything right, And that's the beauty of being
Speaker 1: in a long term situation because I think about that too,
Speaker 1: because like you know, I'm aging and my husband never notices,
Speaker 1: like he doesn't see those things, which I'm like, right,
Speaker 1: I don't notice it. I don't think you age. M h.
Speaker 1: Speaking of your husband, you this is so good. You
Speaker 1: married a co star from the show, yes, right, and
Speaker 1: you're still married to Higether. Yeah. We've been married for
Speaker 1: a little over twenty one years. And we worked together.
Speaker 1: Um we were in the kids storyline because we were
Speaker 1: He clearly was not a kid. Um I wasn't a
Speaker 1: kid either, but we were in the kids storyline and
Speaker 1: we worked together for about a year and a half
Speaker 1: before we started dating, and then we got married and
Speaker 1: the rest is history. Now we have three kids. Three kids.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is like, yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 1: it was a soap opera. See Out of the Soap Opera.
Speaker 1: I love it so much. I know with stories that
Speaker 1: work out. Wait, did people know you were dating at
Speaker 1: first or did you guys hide it on set? No?
Speaker 1: We yeah, we kept it pretty quiet for we're both
Speaker 1: private people, and you know, it's not it gets There's
Speaker 1: a whole soap world behind what you see on camera.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of dramas. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: girls know it just from being on a show for
Speaker 1: so long, and so we were we were not wanting
Speaker 1: to bring everybody into our relationship. So we dated for
Speaker 1: a while nobody really knew, and then he left the
Speaker 1: show and that's when it was like, oh, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: now that's fine, we're dating. And then literally six months
Speaker 1: later we got married. How old are your kids? My
Speaker 1: baby just turned twelve, you will always be my baby.
Speaker 1: And I have an eighteen year old daughter and almost
Speaker 1: twenty one year old boy. I know you guys have
Speaker 1: a lot of kids too, don't you a lot of kids? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of kids between the three of us.
Speaker 1: And are your kids you used to have? Both of
Speaker 1: you have little ones orbies always. My youngest is five
Speaker 1: and my oldest is twenty five, so we have that's
Speaker 1: our range, anything between five and yeah exactly. We got you. Yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: we are Producer Amy. I don't know she prepped you
Speaker 1: for this. She would like to not. I wasn't prepped
Speaker 1: for anything, Amy. Amy loves a good reenactment scene, and
Speaker 1: she would like to do the re enactment of your
Speaker 1: scene from back in the day. Can just take you
Speaker 1: back in time, you can just observe it if it
Speaker 1: brings back memories. For some reason, I can't totally remember.
Speaker 1: I think you had like a line or two, But
Speaker 1: where are they? We don't have them. First of all,
Speaker 1: I'm in I'm in the streets of Berkeley, and a
Speaker 1: garbage truck drive by every time I have a moment.
Speaker 1: But I am ready to play the part of Kelly,
Speaker 1: and Tori has agreed to be the part of Jackie,
Speaker 1: and Jenny will be the theme. Can't somebody where where
Speaker 1: Rebecca's lines? I think I said something to the effect
Speaker 1: of I'm sorry, I didn't like goes like. I feel
Speaker 1: like you could fully ab lib it. I feel like
Speaker 1: we're ready, Jenny, would you mind taking us back and
Speaker 1: setting the scene? Okay, do you remember doing this. No,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you don't write you don't know. I know.
Speaker 1: I just watched it recently and I don't remember doing it,
Speaker 1: and I was mortified how rude my character was to you.
Speaker 1: But she was really going through some stuff. So this
Speaker 1: scene takes place. What was she going through? I don't
Speaker 1: even know. When Kelly comes home and finds people, prospective
Speaker 1: buyers going through her closet in her Okay, that's the scene,
Speaker 1: and are we ready? Okay everybody? Okay? Am I supposed
Speaker 1: to say something? Because I I know you just can
Speaker 1: add anything in front of me. You just add lib
Speaker 1: what's at the very end? Can you just pretend you're
Speaker 1: going through her closet? Oh? Sure? Nice? Nice, nice action? Okay, Kelly,
Speaker 1: what are you doing home? Gee? I thought I still
Speaker 1: lived here. This is our house, isn't it? Mom? Yes,
Speaker 1: but maybe not much longer. This is a beautiful house
Speaker 1: and we're selling it real cheat, So why don't you
Speaker 1: just take it? Take everything while you're here? Get some
Speaker 1: new jeans, new shoes, new underwear. Why don't you just
Speaker 1: help yourself to my closet? Kelly? Oh, I'm so sorry. No,
Speaker 1: what you like? This sweater? Not your underwear? You like
Speaker 1: the sweater, take it it's yours. Okay, that's enough. How
Speaker 1: about some new CDs? A new life? Why don't you
Speaker 1: take my boyfriend? We're not getting along that well anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know what? Yeah, I'm so sorry man.
Speaker 1: Did you really give it your all? Amy? I love
Speaker 1: that about you. I gave that. I really wanted to.
Speaker 1: Did you rehearse? I just want to know, like I
Speaker 1: started last night, whenever I put into whenever I went
Speaker 1: into the text, can I have that scripped again? Wait?
Speaker 1: So poor Rebecca had to be treated poorly when she
Speaker 1: was sixteen and now again now today, this is terrible.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Rebecca. It's okay. I'm I'm actually having a
Speaker 1: great time. And I'm super nervous generally for interviews, but
Speaker 1: you girls have made feel very comfortable. Okay, Rebecca, wait
Speaker 1: before I go to ask, like, it really was an
Speaker 1: iconic scene that you were in because Kelly, this prominent,
Speaker 1: huge character, just lost her right. So it's like, is
Speaker 1: there any other memories you have of like or did
Speaker 1: Jenny hug you after anything? To just be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I just went crazy. All I remember is that.
Speaker 1: And because I had been acting for so long. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like my first rodeo with somebody yelling at me
Speaker 1: and knowing that there's a there's a difference between the
Speaker 1: character and the person. I just remember it being so quick.
Speaker 1: It was like we got into this aty bitty little
Speaker 1: room and and we did it and we were done.
Speaker 1: It was such a fast day. I just remember being like, wow,
Speaker 1: that was that was That was fast, nothing like I
Speaker 1: mean soaps are fast. That too, was was quick. Really
Speaker 1: that's cool to know that because you I've always heard
Speaker 1: that soaps move so quickly and you have to cover
Speaker 1: so much material every day. Like what's the most uh,
Speaker 1: like page count you've done on General Hospital? Well, we
Speaker 1: try to do about a hundred pages ago what, yeah,
Speaker 1: we do like seven eight? I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: We were on the same lot as Gray's Anatomy, And
Speaker 1: it's so funny, you know, like watching people walk around
Speaker 1: with their scripts and we're like, we know you have
Speaker 1: five pages done. Oh my god, I can barely remember
Speaker 1: a two page scene. That's insane. So like like twenty
Speaker 1: it just depends on On an easy day, it's like twenty.
Speaker 1: On a harder day, it's forty pages. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we we try to do one and done, like
Speaker 1: drink it out. You work with my friend, I think
Speaker 1: Cameron Oh Matheson, Oh he is so we absolutely love
Speaker 1: having him there. He's not been there that long, but
Speaker 1: his energy is beautiful. Yes, he's a special human being
Speaker 1: him there. Yeah he is, and I know he loves
Speaker 1: working there. Oh good, I'm glad. Well he's been doing
Speaker 1: this for a couple of decades too. Yeah, he's old.
Speaker 1: He loves it, he loves it. Well, thank you for
Speaker 1: Do you have any other questions? Because you love your soaps,
Speaker 1: tore and now's your moment, man, don't put me on
Speaker 1: the spot. M h. Do any of your families watch soaps?
Speaker 1: Did you guys grow up with soaps in your house
Speaker 1: or I did? So Here's the thing. I grew up
Speaker 1: watching NBC, not ABC, So I watched your Yes, But
Speaker 1: I then had a friend that was really into General Hospital,
Speaker 1: so I would switch. I would do Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: didn't love whatever one was on at that time, so
Speaker 1: I would do Days of Our Lives? Why would do CBS?
Speaker 1: I do Young and the Restless, and then I would
Speaker 1: do NBC for Days of our Lives and all my children, No,
Speaker 1: not all my children Another World, and then I would
Speaker 1: switch to ABC for General Hospital. That was my routine.
Speaker 1: Oh so, and then I would record it, which is
Speaker 1: super weird on VHS because that doesn't exist anymore. Um,
Speaker 1: so I could watch it when I got home from school.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love hearing stories like that. And yes,
Speaker 1: I get the most excited to um to talk to
Speaker 1: people on soaps because I'm such a huge fan. Literally,
Speaker 1: like it was always on in my house, like so
Speaker 1: I grew up since the time I was like five
Speaker 1: years old, was like soaps on in my house. So
Speaker 1: the stories, the stories, right, they were called stories Nanny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was little, she would always say, my stories
Speaker 1: are on, and I was just like I was just
Speaker 1: as like engaged my whole life. My grandparents watched One
Speaker 1: Life to Live and when we go see them, it
Speaker 1: was at one o'clock things but shut down because Vicky
Speaker 1: was on. My grands would call it Vicky for Erica's
Speaker 1: Plans act like that was his thing. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: get it. Before we go what's going on? Like, what
Speaker 1: are you up to? Other? Are you? Like? How long
Speaker 1: are you going to be on the show? Do you
Speaker 1: know what else you have going on? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: I just feel I'm super blessed to have been on
Speaker 1: a show this line. I mean, we all know how
Speaker 1: it works in the in this industry, it's kind of
Speaker 1: unpredictable and crazy, and I just I'm so grateful for
Speaker 1: every year that I get to be there. It's been.
Speaker 1: It's such a It's very conducive of having a family
Speaker 1: because I my out. I'm not there for eighteen hours
Speaker 1: out of the day. I'm not traveling out of town.
Speaker 1: It's is as much as a like a nine to
Speaker 1: five job as possible, So I'm home with my family
Speaker 1: a lot. I'll be there. I mean, I'm probably I'm
Speaker 1: a lifer. I love I love what I do. I
Speaker 1: never I love the family there. I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: super happy. So on a typical way to be there,
Speaker 1: how many days do you typically work? It just depends
Speaker 1: on the storyline. Story line, it's a big storyline. Then
Speaker 1: you know, like four days a week. It's pretty rare
Speaker 1: that I'm there five days a week. So that's another thing,
Speaker 1: Like the schedule. Yeah, and what's like the lee'll stay
Speaker 1: in a day? Oh um, I mean we're late would
Speaker 1: be nine, nine o'clock at night. That's it's it's not
Speaker 1: always no no, And they tried a bunch your scenes
Speaker 1: together so that you're you know, you worked just in
Speaker 1: this block of time and then you get to go home.
Speaker 1: So I'm there on average anywhere from like four to
Speaker 1: eight hours and that's it. How do you ever take
Speaker 1: a vacation though? Because it's weekly, Like soaps don't shut down,
Speaker 1: they don't have well because we try to do seven
Speaker 1: or eight shows a week, so then we do have
Speaker 1: weeks off, okay, and we get like during the summer
Speaker 1: we have a three week break and during the winter
Speaker 1: we have a three week break, and then like spreadically
Speaker 1: sprinkled out through the year, we have you know, one
Speaker 1: or two weeks here and there, so and that's when
Speaker 1: all the vacations, I don't know, that's when all the
Speaker 1: school stuff gets done and the doctor's appointments and you know,
Speaker 1: like life gets done during those weeks. It sounds like heaven.
Speaker 1: Do they have a coming up for your best friend
Speaker 1: on the show? Um? Yeah, absolutely, I'll talk to Mark
Speaker 1: Kushner and will I Actually my character needs friends, so yes,
Speaker 1: you can come be my best friend. Are you still
Speaker 1: a nurse on the show? I am? I went on
Speaker 1: attorney leave and I came back a nurse. I was
Speaker 1: literally I think I was a waitress, and then I
Speaker 1: I got I went on a triney leaving, came back
Speaker 1: a nurse. Yeah, I know that's tru smart. Any of
Speaker 1: your kids act, no, no, no, only my little one
Speaker 1: has expressed interest. But he's also um really into soccer
Speaker 1: and his friends. So I've said, you know, if something
Speaker 1: you can't do it all and something will, you'll have
Speaker 1: to sacrifice being on a sports team and you might
Speaker 1: not be able to do like the fun play dates
Speaker 1: and not art camps or whatever if you're acting. And
Speaker 1: so he was like, yeah, okay, but I could see
Speaker 1: him getting into theater or doing something like that in
Speaker 1: high school. But my other two nope, we get it,
Speaker 1: you know which, I'm just fine, you know, I'm okay. Well,
Speaker 1: it was really super fun working with you twenties some
Speaker 1: years ago, and I'm so happy to reconnect with you. Yeah. Same,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me today, thank you
Speaker 1: for being here and for doing that impromptu re enactment
Speaker 1: for any sugarman. I'm sorry about hap. Yeah, that was funny.
Speaker 1: That was great. I have personally want to do that
Speaker 1: since this episode aired, so I'm not aired now. Now
Speaker 1: it's done, we can move on. Thanks Rebecca, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Thank you, thank you. Have a good day,
Speaker 1: greel bye. Oh my gosh, that was really cool to
Speaker 1: talk to her. She looks exactly the same age, exactly. Wow,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm telling you there's something in the water
Speaker 1: that soap starts drink. It's just I need to get
Speaker 1: some of that water delivered pronto. It's yeah, but she
Speaker 1: looked great. She's so cool. Um, that was really fun
Speaker 1: and we lost a but that was Amy's dream come true.
Speaker 1: She got to read it that scene, so I feel
Speaker 1: like we should probably recast her next time. She's getting
Speaker 1: far too much pleasure out of these reenactments, but she
Speaker 1: can't keep playing Kelly. Well, maybe she'll want to play
Speaker 1: play Kelly before. Yeah, I think she's always Kelly. I
Speaker 1: like her. I like when she does that. She it
Speaker 1: makes me so happy. Well, thank you guys, talk to
Speaker 1: you soon. E