Speaker 1: Still the Place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith and.
Speaker 2: Daphne's Aniga an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Hi guys, Hi, hie you too, that's funny to see you.
Speaker 1: Oh guy.
Speaker 2: Your natural habitat Well, I'm visiting on the East coast now,
Speaker 2: as you know, the next couple are going to be
Speaker 2: East Coasters, so this is not my natural habitat, but
Speaker 2: it's a friend's habitat and who's very nice sighting.
Speaker 3: It's incredible.
Speaker 2: I went sailing yesterday and it's just beautiful to see
Speaker 2: all the green and it's warm.
Speaker 3: It's been. The wedding of.
Speaker 2: My stepdaughter was this last weekend, which was amazing, so nice.
Speaker 2: Her father, you know, they usually walked down the aisle.
Speaker 3: My husband brought her in on.
Speaker 2: A boat, a little whaler, to a floating raft where
Speaker 2: the minister was with her groom and everyone. The rest
Speaker 2: of us were on the dock. It was so because
Speaker 2: it was on island, it was amazing.
Speaker 3: So cool, so cool.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's magical.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I texted Laura, I was like, where where are you?
Speaker 2: We're having a pickleball tournament like the day before you
Speaker 2: should be here.
Speaker 3: Did you play dad?
Speaker 1: No, do you play pickleball, Laura, I do Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't cool.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't kind of play on.
Speaker 3: Well, I just I just play. She's so young and cool.
Speaker 3: It's just so fun. I am neither of those things.
Speaker 3: But I played pickleball with women of my similar age
Speaker 3: and we just have a blast.
Speaker 1: It is it fun.
Speaker 3: We claim to be good at it.
Speaker 1: We should do a show from the pickleball court.
Speaker 3: It's fun. I'll try not to be amiliating, but it's hilarious.
Speaker 3: We could so funny.
Speaker 2: I'm really a tennis fan, so I have a little
Speaker 2: bit of you haven't advantage of the Actually.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, probably hit it too hard, but you
Speaker 3: do at first and then you figure it out. But
Speaker 3: this week, I'm so excited about what we're doing. This week,
Speaker 3: not having a regular recap episode even believe it, we
Speaker 3: get to have Josie Bezet, a favorite cohort, as our
Speaker 3: guest yeat. She played Jane Mancini, sister of my character.
Speaker 2: We've been seeing her leading up all these episodes have
Speaker 2: had so much good, meaty stuff for her, and we've
Speaker 2: all like said, how wonderful le She's doing those scenes
Speaker 2: and I'm really excited to ask her how that's how
Speaker 2: that was. If she has memories about.
Speaker 1: That, you know, I bet she was another one who
Speaker 1: was there from the very very beginning. So I'm so
Speaker 1: curious to hear about her audition process and what that
Speaker 1: was like for her and her very beginning memories.
Speaker 3: Well, let's bring it in.
Speaker 1: Let's bring her in.
Speaker 3: Josie, Josie, Yes, Josey, come in, come in.
Speaker 1: We got youhind me gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Where are you, Josie? Where are you?
Speaker 4: Washington, Washington?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you camping or do you not have Wi Fi
Speaker 2: at home?
Speaker 3: Or are you off the grid?
Speaker 4: We are not off the grid, but we're up there.
Speaker 4: And as I was driving out, my brother's driving and
Speaker 4: my mom and dad were like, Josey, do you mind
Speaker 4: if we have a huge broach sale at your house?
Speaker 4: I'm like, what all still in my art?
Speaker 1: Perfect timing? Then you get out right before the mess?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, we've been talking about you so much. Yes,
Speaker 3: we have questioning for you. You know, we're just having
Speaker 3: so much fun doing this podcast, and we get to
Speaker 3: watch your face all the time and that is lovely.
Speaker 3: And then we've just been talking about you and looking
Speaker 3: forward to having you here so much.
Speaker 1: So many of the beginning episodes are you trying to
Speaker 1: get Michael's attention and we're all like has he not
Speaker 1: seen her?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: What is she blind? You know?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
Speaker 4: I vaguely remember. I mean it was so long ago,
Speaker 4: but I was a baby, Like I was a baby. Yeah,
Speaker 4: aren't you twenty one? I was twenty one? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you turn twenty one on the show or did
Speaker 3: you come in twenty one?
Speaker 4: No? I came in twenty one. My birthday is October.
Speaker 4: And then Rob and I got married on that Friday
Speaker 4: prior to the show starting. That's right on Monday. Yeoh,
Speaker 4: you plan a wedding way in advance, and so I
Speaker 4: didn't know I was going to get the show, and
Speaker 4: so you know, we didn't have a honeymoon and all that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was like, okay, we got married and
Speaker 4: then I'm off and I was in the first scene
Speaker 4: of the first day of work with Thomas like the show.
Speaker 3: You must have met, like you guys must have did
Speaker 3: you meet before coming to the.
Speaker 1: Sut you did an audition with him?
Speaker 4: I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Oh, I did not know what was your audition process?
Speaker 3: Like, do tell us.
Speaker 2: We've asking everyone you've been listening.
Speaker 3: I'm so curious.
Speaker 4: I know it's been great. Okay. So I was up
Speaker 4: for two other projects. One was a movie that I
Speaker 4: actually got and I it was to play Robert de
Speaker 4: Niro's daughter, and I can't even remember the name, but
Speaker 4: it was a small part, but it was like a
Speaker 4: big deal to play Roberto's daughter. And then it was
Speaker 4: another it was a Fox series that I got as well,
Speaker 4: but I think it wasn't picked up. And then I
Speaker 4: had those two like book like offers. So when I
Speaker 4: did Melrose, there was kind of like, oh, she's got
Speaker 4: these other two offers. And I remember I think I
Speaker 4: did my first interview and then I met Aaron and
Speaker 4: Duke I think too, and Duke that was it part
Speaker 4: then yeah, yeah, that's right, and then I got the job,
Speaker 4: like I got the job, and so then it was
Speaker 4: like it was kind of like one of those They
Speaker 4: probably thought, Oh, she's wanted these other places, so she's
Speaker 4: who knows, but you, like you guys have been saying
Speaker 4: Aaron knows what he's doing, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: she's the one for Jane, And so I didn't read
Speaker 4: any further and Melrose was picked up I think for thirteen,
Speaker 4: remembering dirrectly and then the movie was like well who knows?
Speaker 4: And then the other one. So I'm so glad I
Speaker 4: picked Melrose, Like that was.
Speaker 2: So your audition you said you auditioned once and did you?
Speaker 3: Was that in front of Aaron.
Speaker 4: No, so it was the casting director, I think the
Speaker 4: very first first one. And then she brought me to
Speaker 4: Aaron and Duke.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I remember that office. We keep talking about
Speaker 1: the office and the cigars. Remember he was always smoking
Speaker 1: a cigar.
Speaker 4: I remember, well, I remember his house because when I
Speaker 4: we can talk about this later. But I did leave
Speaker 4: the show for that one year, and I went and
Speaker 4: talked to him about it before I told anyone else
Speaker 4: that I wanted to leave the show. He was amazing.
Speaker 4: He was amazing. I'll just tell you now. He was
Speaker 4: like so the sixth I think it was, yeah, the
Speaker 4: end of the fifth season. In my real life, I'd
Speaker 4: had a miscarriage, and I was really that point, like
Speaker 4: feeling really tired because poor Jane, like she went through
Speaker 4: so she was a door mat. I mean, she went
Speaker 4: through so much right, and I felt like, I, you know,
Speaker 4: I had to cry a lot and it was just
Speaker 4: and it was exhausting. It's exhausting to do that as
Speaker 4: a person right in an actress, and also so new
Speaker 4: at it, so I hadn't done it a lot. So
Speaker 4: there was the nerves and feeling getting comfortable in my
Speaker 4: own skin and all of that. Yeah, And so then
Speaker 4: I miscarried. I was really feeling like, okay, I was
Speaker 4: ready to start that part of my life and I
Speaker 4: was super bummed. And so I was like, I just
Speaker 4: need a break and I want to leave the show,
Speaker 4: but I didn't know how long the show would go
Speaker 4: in case I wanted to go back. So I went
Speaker 4: and made an appointment and went and talked to Aaron.
Speaker 4: I think it was that same room with those books
Speaker 4: or whatever, like you know, and he books or scripts,
Speaker 4: and he was just like, oh, Josie, you know, I understand,
Speaker 4: but I don't want to kill you because if you
Speaker 4: want to come back and want you to come back,
Speaker 4: and I was like okay, And so that's how it happened,
Speaker 4: and so I took that year off and then I
Speaker 4: was back on this last season.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet that he said bet you that he
Speaker 1: had that yeah, so that he didn't get that he
Speaker 1: didn't take it personally. He left the door open. I
Speaker 1: love them.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And you're trying to have your own personal
Speaker 3: life and you had that totally know what you were going.
Speaker 4: For and really getting married, like I look at my
Speaker 4: own kids now, I'm like, oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you came into the show you had just gotten married,
Speaker 3: but you'd also been so like previous to Melrose and
Speaker 3: all these other job offers you had, you'd been a model,
Speaker 3: you'd worked as a model, you'd done some other a
Speaker 3: couple of other things, and you were Were you on
Speaker 3: another show, Hogan's Family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, The Hogan Family, And that was a
Speaker 4: sitcom with Jason Bateman Sandy Duncan, and I played the
Speaker 4: girlfriend of one of Jason's brother I think it was.
Speaker 4: And I was just like a recurring like, oh, I
Speaker 4: think I became No, I think I became a regular. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was really fun. But I did that and then
Speaker 4: some TV movies started out young like you're right, Laura
Speaker 4: in working as a model in Seattle and then went
Speaker 4: to Japan. And then in Japan, my roommate was from
Speaker 4: Santa Monica. She was like you should come, you know,
Speaker 4: like come stay with me and see if you like
Speaker 4: it here, and you know, try to work. And I
Speaker 4: was like, okay, well I got to finish high school
Speaker 4: first because I had left high school. My teachers, I was,
Speaker 4: my mom, I asked anytime I asked my mom and dads,
Speaker 4: they were always like, well, if you can figure it out,
Speaker 4: you can do it. Like I wanted a pet monkey.
Speaker 4: If you can figure out how to get a monkey,
Speaker 4: you can have one.
Speaker 2: Did you get one?
Speaker 3: Did you do that?
Speaker 4: I called every pet store and watch and they weren't allowed. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I went to all my teachers. They gave me all
Speaker 4: my homework like let me you know, let me go,
Speaker 4: and then I came back. So I did my senior
Speaker 4: year this summer prior to my senior year. So I
Speaker 4: graduated year early and then went to LA started modeling
Speaker 4: and then starting commercials, which, as you know, it's like
Speaker 4: such a segue into into the world, like I would.
Speaker 4: I remember seeing people at commercials auditions like reading scripts
Speaker 4: and like, okay, well, you know. Then I had a
Speaker 4: boyfriend who had an agent, got me with his agent,
Speaker 4: and then I just got stuff. And I think I
Speaker 4: just got stuff because I didn't realize that. It's like
Speaker 4: a really hard business. I did no clue. It was like, well,
Speaker 4: I'll try that thing to do this had I known,
Speaker 4: like you know, like I just didn't know. But I
Speaker 4: feel like we also got lucky, like right place, right time, right,
Speaker 4: you know, like why why Melrose, why did that go?
Speaker 4: Versus all the other pilots that most of them don't
Speaker 4: go right right. There's just just all of that to
Speaker 4: be said in our journey, I think also as actors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just lightning in a bottle and it's so
Speaker 1: so rare. And the other thing is you're talking about
Speaker 1: being tired at the end of the show. We've been
Speaker 1: talking a lot about We did thirty three episodes a year.
Speaker 1: Now they do eight or twelve. Yeah, insane. The workload
Speaker 1: we had, and we were young and we could do it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have anything outside of it. But it
Speaker 1: was just like work, learn lines, go to sleep, get up,
Speaker 1: work out, and then you'd get home at like six
Speaker 1: or seven am on Saturday morning because you'd work all night, right,
Speaker 1: and then Saturday Sunday you'd wake up, learn your lines
Speaker 1: to go back to work at five or six on Monday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to understand, I remember I heard you say one
Speaker 4: of them that we just did it. We were like,
Speaker 4: h no, now we didn't. I mean not remember complaining,
Speaker 4: although I do remember remember how hot it got out
Speaker 4: out there in Santa Clarita. Yes, yes, I remember like
Speaker 4: really being wanting to be done with that day and
Speaker 4: like wanted to get home for something or whatever. I remember,
Speaker 4: like Laura, you might remember super together most but like
Speaker 4: I would change the bottom half of.
Speaker 3: Me, because it would you always changed while they were setting.
Speaker 4: Up, while they were checking up for my close up,
Speaker 4: which was the last shot before I left. I would
Speaker 4: get already, turn on my air conditioning in the car,
Speaker 4: change my lower half. I can eat my top.
Speaker 3: And it's like you mean, like she had one foot
Speaker 3: out the door at the end of the day, always
Speaker 3: like she knew, like, Okay, the wide shot is done.
Speaker 3: They don't need to see the lower half of me.
Speaker 3: I'm putting on either my PJ pants or my ort
Speaker 3: or whatever. Like she was that much closer to getting
Speaker 3: out the door for the last shots that the camera
Speaker 3: had moved and tighter, and all they needed to see
Speaker 3: was that heart. And she did that all the time.
Speaker 3: She'd be in like either fuzzy slippers or big flip
Speaker 3: flops or something in your tennises and the like the
Speaker 3: top half of the dress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, and you often went home in your
Speaker 1: costume remer because I was good friends with Kathleen, our costumer,
Speaker 1: and I remember chose to work closed up. Now, you
Speaker 1: were such a pro. You always brought them back so
Speaker 1: she didn't have to worry. But it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: there goes like yeah gone, like a shot, like oh
Speaker 1: there goes your car, like you.
Speaker 4: Goe ye, oh my god, like jewelry, like that must
Speaker 4: have been stressful. Now I get like that's stressful for wardrobe,
Speaker 4: but I did always bring it back. Oh.
Speaker 1: They trusted you. She totally trusted you. But it was
Speaker 1: we're gone so fast.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you didn't want to take the time to
Speaker 3: take it off. So you're like, I'm just gonna wear
Speaker 3: I'll bring it back and they're like, okay, well, because
Speaker 3: it was so far.
Speaker 2: It was twenty six miles out there, so at least
Speaker 2: from where I lived in LA at the time.
Speaker 3: I think Santa Monica or.
Speaker 2: Something, but it was so far and you're just I
Speaker 2: totally understand.
Speaker 3: I've done that a lot.
Speaker 2: They're like, who wants to wait to sign out? Sign
Speaker 2: up for me, I'm out, you know.
Speaker 3: As opposed to waiting, signing out, undressing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Court, like you were saying, how I don't remember
Speaker 4: being I mean, remember it's doing the double ups and
Speaker 4: all that. But I think because we had such a
Speaker 4: large cast, I just felt like it was divvied out
Speaker 4: nicely and I never felt like crazy overworked, unless it
Speaker 4: was like a really intense episode that was just about
Speaker 4: Jana River, which was hardly ever, Like I feel like
Speaker 4: in the beginning, I didn't remember, but Court, you worked
Speaker 4: a ton, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the beginning I did did. And then it
Speaker 1: was funny because they new people would come in and
Speaker 1: they go, are you jealous of new people? The more
Speaker 1: the merrier, because it's just got a little bit, especially
Speaker 1: for double ups, like let's have a cast of forty
Speaker 1: people for Double Edge, because I remember Laura one double up,
Speaker 1: you had like a really intense storyline going on, and
Speaker 1: you were going back and forth in Santa Clarita it's
Speaker 1: Ox Snart, Yeah, and you were just remember I may
Speaker 1: have told this, it was so funny. I remember you
Speaker 1: turning to me one day and saying, I've been here
Speaker 1: so long. I had to pluck my eyebrows again.
Speaker 4: So funny. That's a long stretch.
Speaker 2: Josie, did you ever show up the wrong location during
Speaker 2: Double ups? Somewhere you're supposed to be an OX star
Speaker 2: but you because that happened to me, I don't know
Speaker 2: if that happened to you.
Speaker 4: I have Yeah, I don't recall though, but so.
Speaker 1: Just a reminder of people who didn't hear it before
Speaker 1: Double Up. So we did so many episodes that twice
Speaker 1: a year, we had two crews and we were shoot
Speaker 1: two episodes at once for six episodes.
Speaker 3: So the actors were appearing in all the episodes, but
Speaker 3: there was this whole separate crew, so they could shoot
Speaker 3: two at the same time, right right from one. Ad Okay,
Speaker 3: you're getting cross the Blue, yeah on this set at
Speaker 3: this time, but yeah, you know you might have to
Speaker 3: be on the other crew at this time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember the first time they did it and
Speaker 1: they were like, this will never work. It's ridiculous, and
Speaker 1: they were just doing it to sort of placate the network.
Speaker 1: And then it worked and we were like, oh no.
Speaker 3: It am and then we were doomed.
Speaker 1: Now we may we made a fortune, right, because you
Speaker 1: make six episodes worth in a month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was nice, So that was good.
Speaker 2: I think that was spelling Aaron getting wanting to get
Speaker 2: to syndications sooner, which is the.
Speaker 3: Episodes or something, and then he gets a ton more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, our reruns didn't do well because it was a serial.
Speaker 1: It's not like a sitcom where you watched the same episode.
Speaker 1: So they knew that when we had to rerun, the
Speaker 1: ratings dropped. So they wanted us to have so we
Speaker 1: had to keep up, right. We started, We started before
Speaker 1: other shows, some in the can, and then they wanted
Speaker 1: to have new episodes because our waitings just built and
Speaker 1: built and built when they had a new episode.
Speaker 2: I'm curious of going back to the early days how
Speaker 2: you felt playing Jane, if that felt or even later,
Speaker 2: like just your journey of playing that character. Was it
Speaker 2: fun for you? Was it she's very different from you?
Speaker 2: Was it taxing?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Like for you, I think that you know who
Speaker 4: I was then? Was I mean, I think it worked
Speaker 4: because I was. I mean, I was so new to
Speaker 4: it that I also felt like when I was acting,
Speaker 4: it's so it's so hard to watch yourself anyway, right,
Speaker 4: I felt like I was just saying lines like when
Speaker 4: I watch it because I was like, I really did
Speaker 4: like working with Thomas though, because you know, as like
Speaker 4: shitty as his character was, he he was fun to
Speaker 4: work with because he was so I don't know, spontaneous,
Speaker 4: even though we couldn't change lines, he was just he
Speaker 4: was easy for the most part, and so that made
Speaker 4: me feel comfortable. And but I in hindsight, you know,
Speaker 4: I would have maybe played a little bit of different note,
Speaker 4: but I did what I did because it was who
Speaker 4: I was at that point.
Speaker 1: And I understand what you're saying. It is hard to
Speaker 1: go back and watch and obviously you were looking at
Speaker 1: hindsight is twenty twenty. But what we keep talking about
Speaker 1: in watching your scenes is the vulnerability you brought to
Speaker 1: that character. Like I don't know what you're seeing, but
Speaker 1: what I'm honesty, Yes, the honesty. My heart just breaks
Speaker 1: with that character. So, yeah, you're seeing something different than
Speaker 1: what we are seeing. I think audiences, I'm so madd
Speaker 1: by you. You just keep bringing it back down to
Speaker 1: the sweetness.
Speaker 4: I think it's the only way for it to work,
Speaker 4: because if she wasn't, who would be with someone that
Speaker 4: kept doing that?
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I think Jane always hoped for like a great marriage
Speaker 4: and had a vision of what it could be and
Speaker 4: what it should be and didn't really understand I guess
Speaker 4: the doctor's life maybe wasn't you know, wasn't understanding that
Speaker 4: he's not going to be home much. And I think
Speaker 4: we moved together to a new place and that was scary.
Speaker 4: And then of course when she gets pregnant. I did
Speaker 4: like that episode. I mean, that was a lot that
Speaker 4: was like kind of heart wrenching too, because I know
Speaker 4: how that feels now, like when I got pregnant, when
Speaker 4: I miscarried, even though it was only for a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's amazing how you just like click
Speaker 4: that mode of this is what my life's going to
Speaker 4: be like, especially if you're wanting it. And so yeah,
Speaker 4: I liked that. It was it was a lot for
Speaker 4: her to go through, and it was just telling to
Speaker 4: see his reaction and what is she going to do
Speaker 4: with that knowing he doesn't want it and all of that.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you had to make any all
Speaker 2: like change how you played her or how you thought
Speaker 2: about Jane when it went from the phase we're in now,
Speaker 2: which is everyone getting along and we're talking about how
Speaker 2: they felt as a group of friends and too when
Speaker 2: it became this serial of just this devious backstabbing and
Speaker 2: you know, cause you the character changed. I feel like
Speaker 2: everyone had to change. Did that was that weird for
Speaker 2: you or was that liberating?
Speaker 4: Or well they did try, I don't. I think it
Speaker 4: was season four where they kind of worked on giving
Speaker 4: her more of a backbone. I don't love playing bitchy characters.
Speaker 4: It's not I'm not. I don't feel like I'm very
Speaker 4: good at it and I and me myself, I'm just
Speaker 4: a super nice, kind person. I'm always That's just how
Speaker 4: I am. And of course it's easier to play I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know anyone that plays a bit better than Heather,
Speaker 4: Like she is so good at it, like.
Speaker 3: And yet she's also not know, she's so super nice
Speaker 3: and honey.
Speaker 4: And I think there was enough that on the show
Speaker 4: that we didn't need to take me down that path.
Speaker 4: But important too, because that's how how characters and people evolved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So do you remember like the time when the
Speaker 3: dynamic with Jane and Michael started to shift, Like do
Speaker 3: you remember that time? And like, was that was that
Speaker 3: a welcome shift in the storyline, Like, Oh, let's let's
Speaker 3: kind of stir it up and like, see, let's challenge
Speaker 3: this relationship because I think the first thing, and we're
Speaker 3: not quite there yet in our recaps, is the first
Speaker 3: thing they challenged the relationship with I was obviously the
Speaker 3: baby and they're they're like sort of differing points of
Speaker 3: view on it at that moment. But then yeah, also
Speaker 3: I think we're going to have the infidelity question come up,
Speaker 3: and that was the challenge is the relationship that starts
Speaker 3: to rock? Do you remember that shift? And like, yeah,
Speaker 3: what was that feeling?
Speaker 4: Like I think there was so much infidelity, right, Like
Speaker 4: didn't he change Jane all the time all the time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, eventually it just went I mean there was no
Speaker 3: way the words was yeah, the words couldn't betrayals, double
Speaker 3: up his affairs? Yeah, how do.
Speaker 2: You play a woman? Like you said, why would someone stay?
Speaker 3: But you had to play the woman who did?
Speaker 4: Did it?
Speaker 2: I mean, were you just like I'm just going to
Speaker 2: read these lines I would never still be here? Or
Speaker 2: did you have to do some mental kind of justification
Speaker 2: and I get it why she hasn't left them?
Speaker 4: Or you know, you went to acting school and all
Speaker 4: of that daff and I don't know, I I think
Speaker 4: I just play like the raw real what the script like,
Speaker 4: what's happening? It says this, he's doing this? How would
Speaker 4: I feel about that? And I just play that. I don't,
Speaker 4: I don't think. I think beyond it. Then the script
Speaker 4: I get and what she would be going through, what
Speaker 4: I would really be feeling, is all I knew I
Speaker 4: could do.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, well, and I think, you know, we
Speaker 3: all have to be reminded by watching the episodes, because
Speaker 3: none of us can actually remember. But when we get there,
Speaker 3: it's like she ultimately she didn't stay for like they
Speaker 3: did split up and it became just like this back
Speaker 3: and forth, like she can't really get rid of him
Speaker 3: in her life because an ex is sort of like
Speaker 3: always an X and it's always this baggage and whatever.
Speaker 3: And then also the introduction of Sydney, who's your sister,
Speaker 3: who then gets involved with your ex, and like it
Speaker 3: was messy forever. But and then so like that, I mean,
Speaker 3: when I think of my time on Milro's, I think
Speaker 3: of working with you, you and all the stuff we
Speaker 3: had together, because like we you know, we constantly had
Speaker 3: to be fighting or whatever. And yet I don't know
Speaker 3: what your recollection was about it, and I'd love to
Speaker 3: hear my recollection was just like you were my friend
Speaker 3: and we had a blast together and we laughed and stuff,
Speaker 3: but we always had to be mad at each other.
Speaker 3: So like, what do you have for about that time
Speaker 3: about like playing with that storyline and how that went on.
Speaker 4: It's so funny, Laura, because I feel the exact same
Speaker 4: way when I think about it. I have great thoughts
Speaker 4: even about Jane and Sidney, even though you're right we
Speaker 4: were always although we did Bury Richard together, so we
Speaker 4: were we were.
Speaker 2: Such a great say, well, you guys brought a great
Speaker 2: comedy to that stuff and other scenes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of my favorite storylines because we
Speaker 4: were together on it. Finally was so cute, right, and
Speaker 4: yeah that was sweet, But I do you know, memories
Speaker 4: are funny. We did have so much fun and we
Speaker 4: had some really good laughs where we couldn't stop laughing,
Speaker 4: which wasn't funny to peep, but other people are waiting,
Speaker 4: can you guys stop laughing? The scene She's gotta go,
Speaker 4: you had to.
Speaker 1: Write, I'm thinking, Okay, we have to bring her back
Speaker 1: for the Michael cheating left back for the bearing we have.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the grandma and ammonia sink. Yeah, that was the
Speaker 4: worst laugh I've had ever.
Speaker 3: Well, we had to take a whole crew break.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So the lie the scene was that Grandma
Speaker 4: or Grandma passed away.
Speaker 3: She was very ill.
Speaker 4: She had pneumonia, right, And I was on the phone
Speaker 4: with with Graham. Yeah. I was on with my mom,
Speaker 4: our mom, my mom mom. So yeah, and she was
Speaker 4: like Graham and Graham's sick, YadA YadA, I'm hearing this.
Speaker 4: And I get off the phone and I'm like, look
Speaker 4: at Sydney. She's like, what's wrong. I'm like, Graham has
Speaker 4: ammonia and she was like, really, is it under the
Speaker 4: kitchen sink?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We just couldn't stop laughing. And then you know, when
Speaker 4: you can't say the line again, then.
Speaker 3: You had to go and try to get it right.
Speaker 3: And there's no getting it right after that every single time,
Speaker 3: and the crew is so irritated.
Speaker 4: Yeah bad too, because the crew also has been there
Speaker 4: longer than everybody, and so we.
Speaker 3: Just want to tell them can we loop it?
Speaker 2: You're like, can we please just loop it?
Speaker 3: Just can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Laura ended up leaving for my close up
Speaker 4: and script supervisor record line.
Speaker 2: It is so funny. Yeah, that's a good, good solution.
Speaker 1: You had to be separated.
Speaker 3: That was maybe the worst, but there was I mean separated.
Speaker 3: That was the constant sort of expectation I think of us,
Speaker 3: Like the crew was like, oh no, this day, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so fun So yeah, I guess we did fight
Speaker 4: quite a bit, but yeah, that's not the I don't
Speaker 4: look back thinking that, you know.
Speaker 3: No, that was like we'd be normal and doing that
Speaker 3: and then like okay, now we need to fight on camera.
Speaker 3: And that was the hardest part is because like, wait
Speaker 3: a minute, I just have the giggles, like I.
Speaker 4: Don't I know. That wedding scene still is one of
Speaker 4: my favorite scenes where the pool we're fighting about the
Speaker 4: wedding dress the pool scene, and I think you guys
Speaker 4: touched on a little bit Laura that we had to
Speaker 4: do it in one take and oh my god, because
Speaker 4: the dress would have to be dried and we only
Speaker 4: had one dress and there's a camera in the pool
Speaker 4: waiting for us to go in. And if you watch
Speaker 4: the scene, you can see a little, tiny, iced, tiny
Speaker 4: smile on my face, Like if you look for.
Speaker 3: It, really you're gonna have people like slow motion. I'm
Speaker 3: freezing it. Now I'm gonna do that right because we'd fallen.
Speaker 4: It's like slow motion and I was just like, it's happened. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but anyway, it was awesome. It was a great scene.
Speaker 2: Those are such pressured moments when the whole crew is
Speaker 2: around and you know, the lights called, the cameras are set,
Speaker 2: everything's covered with plastic for the water.
Speaker 1: And yeah, everyone went to see sense what the big
Speaker 1: scenes would be like. It's almost like things didn't go
Speaker 1: viral then, obviously, but they knew. I remember the intensity,
Speaker 1: seeing the intensity around Marsha taking the wig off, the
Speaker 1: intensity Billy and Allison's first kiss, Like they knew and.
Speaker 4: You felt, right, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, they knew. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that wig one was good, so good, so good.
Speaker 2: And I love that the three of us, you, Laura
Speaker 2: and me got to work together a few years ago.
Speaker 2: But wasn't it fun to get back together and do
Speaker 2: that Fantasy Island.
Speaker 4: It was amazing.
Speaker 3: For all these.
Speaker 4: Years, it was amazing. Yeah, yeah, remember that cat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're such a taker. Okay, such a rescuer.
Speaker 4: Think about that cat, I like should have kept it.
Speaker 4: I hope it's okay.
Speaker 1: So what happened? Tell the story?
Speaker 3: Okay, So We were shooting an episode of Fantasy Island,
Speaker 3: a Fox show, and they needed, you know, the gifts
Speaker 3: to come. We were three middle aged women having our
Speaker 3: what were we having a birthday fiftieth were celebrating our
Speaker 3: fiftieth together something, and so we got cast as three friends,
Speaker 3: you know, going to do this fiftieth thing on Fantasy Island.
Speaker 3: And and she's in Puerto Rico. So we were in
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico together. The three of us got to spend
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks in Puerto Rico, I mean, too
Speaker 3: bad for us. Yeah, And but one of the days
Speaker 3: we went, I went walking.
Speaker 2: Hiking, and I went hiking in the jungle. There's like
Speaker 2: one of the one of the few rainforests of the
Speaker 2: entire world is right there. So I went with our
Speaker 2: director hiking and to this watering hole and we're walking
Speaker 2: out and I hear just little miow And we turn
Speaker 2: around and there's this tiny little white cat with the
Speaker 2: the gray paws and tail and so vulnerable in this
Speaker 2: huge jungle.
Speaker 3: So it kept following us and we were just like,
Speaker 3: we can't leave it here. It won't survive.
Speaker 2: So we brought it back, brought it back the hotel,
Speaker 2: ran out and got supplies and food and was like,
Speaker 2: he can stand my room and try to get him home.
Speaker 2: And we were shooting and she's like my cat, the
Speaker 2: cats in there, and uh, and it would not to
Speaker 2: get him home.
Speaker 4: It would not come out by the end. I had
Speaker 4: it like up purring.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was.
Speaker 3: But it's leeping in your suitcase, right, didn't you like
Speaker 3: open up your suitcase and.
Speaker 2: With all but Josie weren't there there were rules about
Speaker 2: from Puerto Rico to it.
Speaker 4: Would have had yeah, exactly. So it was my stand
Speaker 4: and I think that was able to take it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, she took it. She showed us pictures too.
Speaker 3: But it's kind of like the monkey story because I
Speaker 3: think that you were like, if I can figure this out,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take this cat home. We did everything
Speaker 3: to try to figure it out. You made all those
Speaker 3: calls and I tried to figure it, and you ruled
Speaker 3: everything out until you decided it wasn't happen.
Speaker 2: You had Tom, you had your husband working on it,
Speaker 2: calling the government help that.
Speaker 4: We have a new one right now at our house.
Speaker 4: So Maya and Mason, these are my kids. Maya is
Speaker 4: twenty two and Mason's twenty five. They're both out of
Speaker 4: college now, so they're both home now. It's so weird,
Speaker 4: like they went and then how fast they go right
Speaker 4: and now they're back. It's like it never happened.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Hey, us life is lessie.
Speaker 4: She got a call she has two cats. So Tom
Speaker 4: turned me on the cats. There's always dogs, promt a cat.
Speaker 4: I'm like cats. I don't know about cats like, and
Speaker 4: then Maya got wanted to get him a cat for Christmas.
Speaker 4: On her way back, it was like in Portland or
Speaker 4: something to hour drive she fell in love with this cat.
Speaker 4: Cut to a couple of years. We're like cat people.
Speaker 4: Now she has three. I have three in Atlanta. And
Speaker 4: then anyway, so the other day she got a call
Speaker 4: from a friend was like she worked at Michael's Toyota
Speaker 4: in city of Bellevue if you know, Washington, and there
Speaker 4: was a prius and there was two kittens found in
Speaker 4: the front and back trunk. O the cutest of anyway,
Speaker 4: we've got one, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: What do you mean found in the trunk?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, I still don't know, like how how long
Speaker 4: was it there? Who heard it? Like? Did it all
Speaker 4: up under?
Speaker 2: But of course you and your family have one of them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love cats. Now I have lots.
Speaker 2: Don't share you most of the time now because when
Speaker 2: we worked, you were in Atlanta, you were centered there.
Speaker 3: Are you back in Washington?
Speaker 4: I was trying to be I mean I was a
Speaker 4: little bit. I would say I'm more in Atlanta. I
Speaker 4: don't know, because I've been here for a month. And
Speaker 4: then I was just in I just shot a little
Speaker 4: movie here, which is why I'm here, and I've never
Speaker 4: filmed in my hometown, so that was weird. I kept
Speaker 4: thinking I was in Canada for the like while I
Speaker 4: was filming, you know what I mean, or somewhere because
Speaker 4: this looks I don't know, you guys, I just feel
Speaker 4: like I live out of a bag, to be honest. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because there's always something at one in the other. With
Speaker 4: the kids coming from college, I need to get room
Speaker 4: switched around to have them back. And then filmed here,
Speaker 4: and then I've got three step kids in Atlanta and
Speaker 4: of course my husband and they've got full lives.
Speaker 3: Wow busy. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's full time there and then but right
Speaker 4: now after Melrose and then after Melrose, I did a
Speaker 4: show called The Secret Life of the American teenager. And
Speaker 4: I did that for five years, and I did that
Speaker 4: from Washington, and I would fly every other week to Bourbank.
Speaker 2: I remember you making the move to Washington.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: So Mason and Maya were one and three. I wanted
Speaker 4: to raise them here where I grew up, and I
Speaker 4: have such a big family and they're all here and
Speaker 4: all other cousins would school together, and yeah, I always
Speaker 4: knew that I'd want to raise them where, just in
Speaker 4: a different environment that was more family Warrington for me,
Speaker 4: since my.
Speaker 3: Fav we're very family based.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you have you have an older sister, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and a younger brother two years apart. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That was what I recalled, was that your sister in
Speaker 3: real life was older, and that you are a younger sister.
Speaker 4: And then yes, she might look younger though, that's what
Speaker 4: my nephew just told me, that she looks younger.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, nephew. Yes, always, it all goes so fast,
Speaker 3: you know, because here we are, we were we can
Speaker 3: still talk about, like shooting this television show together, but
Speaker 3: we're sorry we're middle aged women now.
Speaker 4: Just the fact that our show is still talked about
Speaker 4: three something years later, and that we're here together talking
Speaker 4: and that I mean, we're so blessed, and it's just
Speaker 4: incredible that we had such an iconic show and an
Speaker 4: amazing experience together in our chemistry on the show, even
Speaker 4: though we didn't really hang out a side, you know,
Speaker 4: outside of the show, which people always ask me if
Speaker 4: we were working and we were starting families.
Speaker 3: Well, you were pretty young.
Speaker 2: I remember you were the first to get married as
Speaker 2: far as.
Speaker 3: I know, you got very young. Yeah, but there wasn't
Speaker 3: an we weren't a cast with drama.
Speaker 1: No, Doug was, Yeah, Doug was. He was the first
Speaker 1: to have kids.
Speaker 3: So much happened, like Joe's, you were juggling a mar
Speaker 3: your marriage in real life, you're juggling a television show
Speaker 3: that had become a hit, and juggling all those things,
Speaker 3: and like the natural progression of what you want to
Speaker 3: do in your twenties and as your marriage is then
Speaker 3: you want to think about starting to have kids, like
Speaker 3: all those things that you're juggling doing your real life,
Speaker 3: but also having this like really really consuming television show
Speaker 3: at the same time. Like you were one of the
Speaker 3: characters that was on from the beginning of all the
Speaker 3: four of us in this screen right now. You were
Speaker 3: the only one who was there at the beginning.
Speaker 1: And at the end, right and.
Speaker 3: You know, for most of it in between, So you
Speaker 3: really saw the evolution of all the different stages of Melrose,
Speaker 3: and like, what's your take how that evolved? Like how
Speaker 3: it changed over time? Like where it started? What do
Speaker 3: you think of as like the the you know, the
Speaker 3: height of it whatever, and then like how did it
Speaker 3: evolve over time?
Speaker 4: I was just like cracking up at how innocent it.
Speaker 4: It was like, I you forget because the show really
Speaker 4: became a dramaedy and that's what made it great, and
Speaker 4: I did. I forgot, like, oh my gosh, it was
Speaker 4: like the dance scenes around the pool hilarious, Like.
Speaker 3: Just so sweet and innocent in this. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But and then of course, like Heather came in and
Speaker 4: then once once the writers found that sort of like
Speaker 4: the hook of make it a dramaedy. Mm hmm. I
Speaker 4: feel like everything changed and storylines changed, the show took off,
Speaker 4: and then like I said, and then Rob came on,
Speaker 4: so that was a different aspect for me, but he
Speaker 4: was on. I think he came on when I left,
Speaker 4: and then the sixth season, when I look at who
Speaker 4: was in the sixth season. I'm like, where's what happened
Speaker 4: to all you guys? And I kind of forgot because
Speaker 4: I feel like a different.
Speaker 2: Show because I've watched all those and it looked like
Speaker 2: a different I mean different.
Speaker 1: Totally in the last season. Who was on from the
Speaker 1: original cast?
Speaker 4: You? Thomas, Thomas, Heather?
Speaker 1: Is that it?
Speaker 4: What about Grant?
Speaker 3: Did he leave?
Speaker 1: He left after five?
Speaker 3: He left after five? Okay, Yeah, so it really did
Speaker 3: go into like a whole other version. But it's so
Speaker 3: interesting that you were you gone for all of season six?
Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, so you really left at the end
Speaker 3: of five, along with a lot of the original cast members,
Speaker 3: So I see what you're saying, Like so that when
Speaker 3: you did come back, it was a real shock that
Speaker 3: it must have had just a difference, just different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, however, I was still working with Thomas the most,
Speaker 4: so that kind of felt just like all times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you sure hung on to him no matter
Speaker 2: what he put you through.
Speaker 4: God, you know, your first love you just can't let go,
Speaker 4: you get rid.
Speaker 1: Of Did you guys get back together for that last season?
Speaker 4: Well? I know that. Okay, so the remake.
Speaker 2: Rob who played Kyle, But you have but then you
Speaker 2: have an affair with your ex and you have you're
Speaker 2: pregnant with Michael's baby.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, we get so much to get we get there,
Speaker 3: Yeah because.
Speaker 4: Even yeah, that is right. So yeah, I'm with with
Speaker 4: Rob at the end, and I was five months pregnant
Speaker 4: for real, which was so cool, you guys, because I
Speaker 4: didn't have to make like the choice to leave a
Speaker 4: show or anything. I got to, you know, just as
Speaker 4: I was getting big worked out till show ended, and
Speaker 4: then you know, give birth to Mason, and I felt
Speaker 4: so complete with like that part of my work that
Speaker 4: I could really be present right and and be a mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what a gift to be able to do that
Speaker 3: and just go seamlessly into that next part of it. Yeah, great,
Speaker 3: that is a gift.
Speaker 1: Have your kids watched those last two seasons. I was
Speaker 1: super excited to watch them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 3: They have not watched it. They haven't watched the show,
Speaker 3: none of it, none of the ancient ones and none
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 4: None of it. No, but yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 4: start putting it on though. Yeah, they just they haven't asked,
Speaker 4: They don't have a lot of interest. It doesn't seem
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 3: So that's consistent with what everyone else is saying about
Speaker 3: their kids that you know, are our kids aren't interested either.
Speaker 3: I mean the only thing that's sort of brought it
Speaker 3: to our kids' attention now is just this podcast in
Speaker 3: this this idea of rewatching something. But at the time,
Speaker 3: you know, they just didn't have any like motivation to
Speaker 3: go back and look at it, and they weren't watching
Speaker 3: it either. They weren't around or whatever. But even even
Speaker 3: other stuff like it's so weird, like children.
Speaker 4: They don't want that interested. Yeah, they don't want to
Speaker 4: see me being someone else. They think it's weird, and yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know. Yeah, they're just not Yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe the shows I do it's not their type. Like
Speaker 4: Maya loves horror, loves like thrillers, murder mysteries, she wants
Speaker 4: to be a forensic nurse. Yeah, and Mason likes like
Speaker 4: slapstick com Like we all three have such different tastes
Speaker 4: in what we watch. So but I know that they
Speaker 4: don't love watching They don't love watching rob either, just
Speaker 4: because they just it's like that's my mom and dad
Speaker 4: on there, and they're not who are they?
Speaker 3: It's weird? It's weird, like if you were to do
Speaker 3: a horror film, it would probably be one that Maya
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to watch, you know, like she just wants
Speaker 3: to watch a horror film. She doesn't want to watch
Speaker 3: her mom.
Speaker 1: We're so there, mom, and then to see us doing
Speaker 1: something else. It's not funny because it's almost like us
Speaker 1: watching ourselves and how uncomfortable it is. When Jack's friends
Speaker 1: were talking about Two and a Half Men and they
Speaker 1: thought it was so funny, so we wanted to watch it.
Speaker 1: We're about two minutes in and I looked at him
Speaker 1: and he looked so peeved, and I said, is it
Speaker 1: not fun watching mommy as a drunken whore?
Speaker 2: No, it was not.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he wasn't objective. It wasn't like, look
Speaker 1: at the funny lady was like, oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can't separate it. Yeah, of course not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so funny. I hadn't really thought about that.
Speaker 4: It's funny too, because even my family they started watching
Speaker 4: more because we had this time where I was on
Speaker 4: the phone with my mom. I said, I think I said, like, oh,
Speaker 4: the season premiere of the Secret Life of the American
Speaker 4: teenagers coming on tonight, right. Oh, I could hear them
Speaker 4: hang up, but she didn't hang up that she tried
Speaker 4: to hang up, but she didn't and my dad. I
Speaker 4: heard my dad go, what's she doing?
Speaker 3: Honey?
Speaker 2: We have our fans. We don't need our family to be.
Speaker 3: Family.
Speaker 1: My parents watched everything I did, and I remember when
Speaker 1: I finished on my rest place, my dad was like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank God, I can't watch you go through that anymore.
Speaker 1: They can't quite separate that it wasn't me going through that.
Speaker 1: Intellectually they know, but emotionally there's I mean, your parents,
Speaker 1: Jose had to watch you cry every week and be
Speaker 1: in this difficult marriage, and they're just like.
Speaker 3: And put up with the sister.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you have that horrible sister, no offense Laurable.
Speaker 4: And the other scene I Love Laura that I caught
Speaker 4: the other day was when, oh, it was a point
Speaker 4: where I'd cut my hair super short, like no, I
Speaker 4: was like so short, short and white that you pushed me.
Speaker 4: I was I was paralyzed or something.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't remember how that's familiar.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to get to that stuff because I
Speaker 3: can't remember.
Speaker 4: But there was some well it's so good because you
Speaker 4: to do the dream sequences because you pushed my wheelchair
Speaker 4: and you had all control over me, and you're you're
Speaker 4: hitting the wheelchair against things, and I'm like, and then
Speaker 4: you pushed it out and a huge truck came and
Speaker 4: then ran over the wheelchair and me the dummy, and
Speaker 4: and then that was just her vision, right, And then
Speaker 4: we cut to me going Sydney, Sydney.
Speaker 1: So whatever happened?
Speaker 2: Do you remember that, Laura the wheelchair?
Speaker 4: And do you remember?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I just I remember of it. But like literally my
Speaker 3: recollection was having to do all this crazy stuff, but
Speaker 3: like Josie and I having a blast doing it, Like
Speaker 3: working with you was like it was just so fun
Speaker 3: all the time, and like that stuff. We were always
Speaker 3: trying to find like the ways to be funny with it,
Speaker 3: but like you know, you had to play the melodrama
Speaker 3: of it and the soapy drama. But I always thought
Speaker 3: that it was an opportunity for Sydney to be a
Speaker 3: little funny, and so it was fun to be that
Speaker 3: kind of funny with you.
Speaker 4: I agree, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: And now you think that's why it works so well
Speaker 1: because you think of sisters, right, and you're either at
Speaker 1: each other's throat or you're laughing, and that's what made
Speaker 1: that relationship so real. And when we first started talking
Speaker 1: about doing the podcast, we watched the first episode that
Speaker 1: we were all in so that we could get a
Speaker 1: sense of it. And I remember seeing the two of
Speaker 1: you and thinking how completely I bought the sisters, Like
Speaker 1: I really you looked alike, you had even similar mannerisms.
Speaker 1: I bought it one hundred percent. And I think it's
Speaker 1: this exact relationship that even when you're yelling at each other,
Speaker 1: you loved each other so much and that yally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could see like there was history or or whatnot.
Speaker 4: So you're saying you when you watched the first episode
Speaker 4: where we were all in together, I.
Speaker 1: Think it was nineteen, it's the first one we were
Speaker 1: all in. Yeah, when I first when you first appeared,
Speaker 1: and right away you could buy their life. I think too,
Speaker 1: that's why the show works. It was such high melodrama,
Speaker 1: but we really got along. I think if we had
Speaker 1: actually hated each other yea, then it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Like you could see that we were
Speaker 1: having fun even in the serious, crazy drama. We were
Speaker 1: having so much fun with it, and not that played through,
Speaker 1: which is why it was fun as an audience member.
Speaker 4: That's kind of what I mean about, you know, right place,
Speaker 4: right time, and chemistry and characters like who they cast,
Speaker 4: and that everybody got along and worked well together. I
Speaker 4: think that's kind of uncommon.
Speaker 3: I don't know, yeah, but it is like lightning in
Speaker 3: a bottle. We actually got to have that experience. We
Speaker 3: were so lucky that it all worked out like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and watching from the beginning jokes. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're seeing this, but you can see the episodes
Speaker 1: when it gels like we just did the bungee jumping
Speaker 1: episode and it was the same with all the guys
Speaker 1: together and you're like almost really friends, Like you could
Speaker 1: see them actually become friends in real time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was cute too. Yeah, and Andrew was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just dive.
Speaker 4: He was so natural. It's so natural everybody like in
Speaker 4: Grant too, Like even though he was pissed off all
Speaker 4: the time, he's really really good, Like right like and
Speaker 4: Andrew with not having me, you know, acting experience, he
Speaker 4: was just just a darling.
Speaker 3: So do you remember do you remember that when I
Speaker 3: first came in as a guest and do you remember
Speaker 3: that I had zero experience? Do you remember those scenes
Speaker 3: like I didn't know about like matching or any of
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 4: Like I don't remember you not. I don't think I knew.
Speaker 4: I assumed you had experience. I was new too, I
Speaker 4: mean I did the Hogan family, Like, yeah, like you
Speaker 4: didn't seem that way to me. I mean I just
Speaker 4: looked up to you.
Speaker 3: I was like always just relying on you to like
Speaker 3: make sure I didn't totally screwzings up. Like No, you
Speaker 3: were just the person I completely looked up to to,
Speaker 3: you know, help me figure it out.
Speaker 4: Oh, really so sweet?
Speaker 3: How's sister late?
Speaker 1: That'sdorable.
Speaker 2: You know, stuff like that, Laura, stuff like that really
Speaker 2: bleeds into the Yeah, into the performances, even if we
Speaker 2: don't try to. That really probably added to your sister
Speaker 2: the energy, you know that came across on the screen
Speaker 2: of you being the young the sister because.
Speaker 3: You were the younger sister.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it felt like what you're describing right now.
Speaker 4: That's remember your first scene and you were smoking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right smoking. The character was supposed to be smoking,
Speaker 3: so it's actually smoking the cigarette whatever. And then when
Speaker 3: Mary the script supervisor told me that I needed to
Speaker 3: match like it had a cigarette to my lips on
Speaker 3: the same beat of the dialogue, so that if you
Speaker 3: wanted to cut, Yeah, and so it was like manically smoking,
Speaker 3: just like, oh my god. But that was the quality
Speaker 3: that quickly, Yeah, they put that one.
Speaker 1: Up because you got too dizzy.
Speaker 3: It's like too much smoking. He no longer smoked by
Speaker 3: take three.
Speaker 1: You're just like we thought.
Speaker 3: It was a good idea, but then a lot of
Speaker 3: for Laura. Please, yes, I have something to show you.
Speaker 3: It's an envelope. I riped the heck out of it
Speaker 3: to open it up, but I've saved it all these years.
Speaker 3: You wrote me a note at the end of season five.
Speaker 3: I think you were leaving on an airplane.
Speaker 4: I know when we were bawling, both of that, like
Speaker 4: we were really.
Speaker 3: Is this from the scene, you guys? The scene was
Speaker 3: that she was her character was leaving on an airplane
Speaker 3: and Geene and Sidney had to have a goodbye.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was really leaving the show.
Speaker 3: It was a real goodbye. But yeah, like you, Josie
Speaker 3: gave me this in my trailer as a goodbye, but
Speaker 3: you labeled it to sid Oh and I'm going to
Speaker 3: read you the note because I've saved it all these years.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, oh, oh my god, I remember that notepad.
Speaker 4: My gosh.
Speaker 3: Okay, sid Hi, I am having fun in Chicago, feeling
Speaker 3: very free. I thought you might like this shirt. It's
Speaker 3: always reminded me of you, the strong one I love
Speaker 3: and miss you. Love Jane.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, what shirt?
Speaker 3: You gave me a shirt too?
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest. I don't dress. I don't have
Speaker 3: the shirt because I mean, I'm a sentimental person. So
Speaker 3: I kept the note for sure, but the shirt has
Speaker 3: disappeared over the years. I have three daughters who have overtime,
Speaker 3: like Pilford everything, so I could have ended up anywhere.
Speaker 3: But I've saved this note, and I love that you
Speaker 3: can remember the paper in the writing.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Lord, that's.
Speaker 3: So send my special things box.
Speaker 4: Will you take a photo of it and send it
Speaker 4: to me?
Speaker 3: I will.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: I keep the sentimental stuff and the small stuff that
Speaker 3: fits in a box.
Speaker 4: Otherwise are you to get rid of stuff?
Speaker 3: I mean, did you take anything from did you have
Speaker 3: any like pieces of clothing.
Speaker 4: Or I think I had given it to my mom
Speaker 4: and then it ended up probably at a garage sale.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure, but like it's gone. No, like there
Speaker 4: was that like letter letter min jucket or something that
Speaker 4: was cool. Yeah, I don't have anything. I Oh, I
Speaker 4: have a shooter's hat shooters baseball shooter's hat.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4: M Yeah, in my little drunk trunk of stuff I keep.
Speaker 4: I might have more, yeah, Joe, So is.
Speaker 2: There anything that you want to share with like that
Speaker 2: you've watching the show again and listening to podcasts that
Speaker 2: you thought, Oh, I want to tell this to the fans.
Speaker 4: Of course, it was longo rewatching It is great. I
Speaker 4: mean it's just a journey, right, What a beautiful journey
Speaker 4: that we've got to go on together. And that also
Speaker 4: our fans have followed us through which is our demographic
Speaker 4: and such a nostalgic time the nineties, and I missed
Speaker 4: those times. I miss that times where people would get
Speaker 4: together and you know, you didn't stream and watch every
Speaker 4: single episode. Anyone stops me. It's one of the things
Speaker 4: they always say, is we watched that in Nurse Rority
Speaker 4: or we always got together. And so I think that's
Speaker 4: why people have such great memories of Melrose, not just
Speaker 4: really the show coming together at the community, the people
Speaker 4: meeting up. I just don't think people do as much anymore.
Speaker 4: And so I'm so happy that we got to give
Speaker 4: that to people. And I'm so thankful and grateful that
Speaker 4: we still have, you know, a beautiful fan base.
Speaker 3: And in doing this podcast, we're we're hearing those stories
Speaker 3: all the time, Like you said, like we hear you know,
Speaker 3: just out in the world, but yeah, hearing it a
Speaker 3: lot with this podcast to people remembering watching it and
Speaker 3: then loving revisiting it, and we like to continue to
Speaker 3: encourage people to send us their questions and their thoughts
Speaker 3: or whatever. But also, like I was thinking, the people
Speaker 3: that they watched with, like sharing it with them, like
Speaker 3: you know, it's a great reason to like reach out
Speaker 3: and go, oh my god, do you remember this time
Speaker 3: that we watched the show together? Like you know, that's true,
Speaker 3: have that because I think people really remember who they
Speaker 3: were with and what that time was in their lives, and.
Speaker 4: Absolutely they do.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I've had so much fun watching it with
Speaker 4: you guys, even though I'm not with you, like hearing
Speaker 4: you guys talk about like the clothes and I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just wild to look at the fashions come back.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look as weird as I thought it would.
Speaker 1: It really looked pretty timely. Yeah yeah, well, we'll definitely
Speaker 1: have you back to do a reward. We want to
Speaker 1: watch an episode with you.
Speaker 3: I'd be great.
Speaker 2: I have one more question before we jump to that
Speaker 2: point of the wardrobe, because you always had such cool wardrobe,
Speaker 2: Joe says Jane. But did you have say in that
Speaker 2: and what you wore?
Speaker 4: It was always so well. I always wanted to be
Speaker 4: a fashion designer, so I was going to go to
Speaker 4: the Sales School of Fashion design after I got back
Speaker 4: from Japan. And how crazy is it that Jane was
Speaker 4: a fashion designer? What funny?
Speaker 3: It was so fun to see you out in the
Speaker 3: wilderness and like coming to on the podcast with us.
Speaker 3: We've been really excited to have you here.
Speaker 4: It's so good. Yeah, you guys tools were such a
Speaker 4: great job. But all of you, I just want to
Speaker 4: say that you're really funny and it's just it's just
Speaker 4: fun to watch.
Speaker 3: And listen to.
Speaker 1: Thank you genuinely enjoy each other.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Well, you'll be back. Yep, Well thanks for coming.
Speaker 3: Joe's rolling down the Hill and some exception to Tom
Speaker 3: and everyone will all right season, Thank you, love you soon.
Speaker 2: Hi. So we've had a fan question of what was
Speaker 2: your favorite thing to do in downtime on.
Speaker 3: The set court Did you say that you were a knitter?
Speaker 1: No, no, no. I used to knit on set all
Speaker 1: the time, and I think I started knitting on Alie.
Speaker 1: I don't think I started knitting on reading. I remember
Speaker 1: carrying great big that's and we had actual books. I
Speaker 1: remember just carrying great big books runks. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of time in our trailers, yeah, and decorating my trailer.
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time at Peer one getting
Speaker 1: pillows and because they say, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Candle in our trailers, Yeah, to make them a little
Speaker 3: bit more pleasant.
Speaker 4: Snatch.
Speaker 2: I remember going to local target and getting earthquake supplies
Speaker 2: after the earthquake we had out there, oh gosh, yeah,
Speaker 2: like nineteen ninety water and sleeping bags. I don't know,
Speaker 2: just going with someone there to get supplies, a supply kit.
Speaker 1: Really during work hours, during.
Speaker 3: You know, because we always had down days.
Speaker 2: I remember Thomas, like I don't know, wanting to get
Speaker 2: golf in or something like a couple because it would
Speaker 2: be all hours if you shot in the morning, A
Speaker 2: scene and then you had four hours, but you couldn't
Speaker 2: really go home.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Grant would have his golf clubs in the
Speaker 3: car just in case, you know, he'd get off early
Speaker 3: and could go swing by that there was like a
Speaker 3: nearby like nine hole, yeah, of course or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were really kind about that. Like I've worked
Speaker 1: on a lot of things and they won't let you
Speaker 1: go anywhere. They were like, yeah, you can go for
Speaker 1: two hours. They were really great about that. And I
Speaker 1: think that was even before cell phones, so they really
Speaker 1: trusted us to be back in two hours like that,
Speaker 1: and that was really amazing.
Speaker 3: And even the cell phones that we got, it wasn't
Speaker 3: like they wouldn't pass the time, Like we wouldn't sit
Speaker 3: on our phone. There was nothing to do on the phone.
Speaker 3: It was just the cell phones at that time were
Speaker 3: just like if you needed to make a call, but
Speaker 3: it wasn't like a way to pass the time.
Speaker 1: I remember hanging out in the production office between scenes,
Speaker 1: just going there were those couches and we'd just go
Speaker 1: hang out. And that's what was sweet about that time, right.
Speaker 1: We talked about the difference between then and now, like
Speaker 1: now people are on their phones, are doing business. We
Speaker 1: had nothing to do, so we would hang out. We'd
Speaker 1: all hang out in that production office and chat. And
Speaker 1: that's why we got so close to the crew. Or
Speaker 1: go into the wardrobe trailer and talk to Tony and Kathleen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hang out a lot, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was one season I had I had like
Speaker 3: bands and stuff in my trailer because I was rehabbing
Speaker 3: after a knee surgery that I had to do a
Speaker 3: knee surgery in between seasons. I remember, so yeah wow,
Speaker 3: and like yeah, I had my acl reconstruction in between,
Speaker 3: and then I got back after you know, it was
Speaker 3: a very short hiatus because we were doing so many
Speaker 3: episodes and I wasn't quite done with my rehabit. I
Speaker 3: was still really like the leg had really after feed
Speaker 3: and whatever. I was still working on building the muscle
Speaker 3: back and everything. And so that was the season that
Speaker 3: all the cast photos that we did for promos. At
Speaker 3: the beginning of the season, I was suddenly going from
Speaker 3: short skirts to long dresses because I had to cover
Speaker 3: I was wearing a knee brace, and so they switched
Speaker 3: Sydney's wardrobe into wearing long dresses and stuff to cover
Speaker 3: the knee brace. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, well, I remember that. I remember, I mean
Speaker 2: early early hours to answer this question. You know, if
Speaker 2: you're Seene was first up? I remember sometimes getting there
Speaker 2: before the local Starbucks, probably the first Starbucks in the
Speaker 2: like La County. Sometimes I would go, no, it has
Speaker 2: to be open, Like if I had to be in
Speaker 2: the chair, I think it opened.
Speaker 3: It I don't know, six maybe or five point thirty.
Speaker 2: And if I had to be there before that, I
Speaker 2: was so dreading it because I just want to quickly
Speaker 2: stop and get a Starbucks and bring that to the
Speaker 2: makeup trailer.
Speaker 3: Remember it took an like.
Speaker 2: Two hours to take you guys two hours make up.
Speaker 3: Getting ready process.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the time usually it took.
Speaker 1: I was an hour. I wouldn't. I was like, you
Speaker 1: can do as much as you can in an hour's
Speaker 1: really really, it's still my role. You can do as
Speaker 1: much as you can in an hour and then just
Speaker 1: good luck.
Speaker 2: That's a good rule.
Speaker 3: I would not like an hour and a half. Good life. Wow. Well,
Speaker 3: next week we'll be back to our recaps. We'll be
Speaker 3: on season one, episode six, Second Chances. Be sure to listen, subscribe,
Speaker 3: tune in next week, and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bye Bye, Bye guys.