Speaker 1: Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington,
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. Well, Hello, Hello, hello everybody, Hello, Call It.
Speaker 2: Crew, and welcome to a really.
Speaker 3: Special episode of Call It What It Is with Kyler Lee.
Speaker 2: I just right off the bat.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we'll tee it up and we'll
Speaker 1: be like, but this is just an episode with Kyler Lee.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy you're here.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy that you asked me to be here.
Speaker 1: I'm live in person to look at your beautiful face
Speaker 1: in so long.
Speaker 3: I know, we get to me for the first time,
Speaker 3: and fans the reason why I'm geeking out, we'll talk
Speaker 3: about this, but I'm a fan of you for a
Speaker 3: million years. And then when I got on the show,
Speaker 3: everyone has always said that Lexi and Joe would have
Speaker 3: been really fun friends, and we never got to play
Speaker 3: on screen together.
Speaker 4: And so even when I came back as a little dead, like.
Speaker 2: Yes, I still I was not allowed on that beach.
Speaker 3: And and so to get to see you right now
Speaker 3: is like, it's very strange for me, like I'm fangirling,
Speaker 3: but it feels like I know you too, and it's
Speaker 3: just very cool.
Speaker 1: And I am it's funny. I just saw you outside
Speaker 1: and then now sitting with you, I mean we did.
Speaker 5: We did.
Speaker 1: We've not just done one show together.
Speaker 5: We've done two shows together.
Speaker 4: Yes we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's crazy. Like forever, a really long time
Speaker 2: we were I know this. You guys want the practice
Speaker 2: together too. For how many seasons I did one, Well,
Speaker 2: there was there was we can, we.
Speaker 1: Can, we can, we can put it in a little
Speaker 1: and it's not it'll never be a SoundBite, but the
Speaker 1: quickest way that I would. So I came onto the
Speaker 1: practice I think season six, and then I believe you
Speaker 1: came in towards the am I making it up? You
Speaker 1: came in towards the end of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, as this as a guest star. We were
Speaker 5: both sort of like these like full of.
Speaker 1: Moxie younger you know, because the show had lawyers that were,
Speaker 1: you know, in one age range and they were starting
Speaker 1: to have kids and be adults, and we were kind
Speaker 1: of like a younger generation.
Speaker 5: We came in and then my memory was that we.
Speaker 1: All got taken to New York City for upfronts, which
Speaker 1: is like the big marketing branding you know, sell ad
Speaker 1: dollars type thing, and we all got.
Speaker 2: Pulled out onto the stage.
Speaker 4: We did the whole thing, the show, the whole thing,
Speaker 4: and then and then we went to.
Speaker 5: The restaurant and do you remember what was in the basement.
Speaker 4: It was a shooting range in the restaurant. It was
Speaker 4: was phenomenal Italian restaurant. We went, We had like seventy
Speaker 4: four courses. It was insane and it was and then
Speaker 4: afterwards like a come along like drinking. Yeah, well I
Speaker 4: didn't because I was pregnant. Yeah she was pregnant.
Speaker 2: You were pregnant.
Speaker 1: I don't think there was a ton of drinking, but no,
Speaker 1: it was a club because it definitely felt like it had.
Speaker 5: A member's vibes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so yeah, so.
Speaker 1: We finished our seventeen course meal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then what and then and then we go
Speaker 4: downstairs and we just let it rip for a little while.
Speaker 5: And shooting range, then range, but then guns.
Speaker 4: But then we was did we go to leave the
Speaker 4: next day? I remember being in the cab and with
Speaker 4: with my manager at the time and getting the phone
Speaker 4: call and they were like, so listen, the show is
Speaker 4: going to be renewed for another season. However, we're going
Speaker 4: to be letting six I think it was six characters go.
Speaker 2: That were in New York City that we literally were
Speaker 2: just up fronts.
Speaker 4: We were just on the stage like him excited about
Speaker 4: the new season. Oh my god, it's going to be amazing,
Speaker 4: like I don't know. Twelve hours later in the car going.
Speaker 5: What yeah, yeah, like six of us go yeah.
Speaker 4: They're like they're like, thank you so much, really appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Why did I come then? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was yeah that it was wild and I ended up
Speaker 1: somehow staying and I just kept hearing about and I
Speaker 1: remember my cell phone died, and I remember going to
Speaker 1: this one place to to like not that they have
Speaker 1: them anymore, but it was a payphone. I went to
Speaker 1: the one I knew, and I remember calling Marla Sokoloff
Speaker 1: and saying, what is going on? Like I don't understand,
Speaker 1: like there's I'm hearing these things, but I'm getting these
Speaker 1: messages on my cell phone died, what's happening? And she
Speaker 1: told me, and I was it was pretty gosmacked. And
Speaker 1: that was when the practice ended up then turning into
Speaker 1: Boston Legal, which.
Speaker 2: Was a show that remember it, Yeah, see that's where
Speaker 2: we first met. But I remember being young and fun.
Speaker 1: And I just remember that we were.
Speaker 5: I just did, like I just always always.
Speaker 1: I think people say this, and maybe it's too broad
Speaker 1: away to say it, but I think that, like, especially
Speaker 1: in our business, there's this idea that actresses are a
Speaker 1: certain way, or that they're like gamy, or that they're
Speaker 1: looking over their shoulder, or there's some competition that's implied
Speaker 1: to being in business together. And I never felt that
Speaker 1: in my own life, and so I never felt it
Speaker 1: with you. And I always remember coming you coming in
Speaker 1: and they're being like a real like it gives me goose.
Speaker 1: It's like a sister ship and like a taking care
Speaker 1: and all that. So then when I ended up then
Speaker 1: coming to grays and you were there, it was.
Speaker 2: Like, wait, what here we are? You had the job
Speaker 2: and I was a guest star and there we.
Speaker 4: Were in your in your Heelings.
Speaker 1: Ye in my Little Heelings for my three episode guest star.
Speaker 4: But it was adorable. It was pretty cute. No thing,
Speaker 4: no you're you coming in was so iconic. That whole
Speaker 4: relationship with you and Soda like that was just yeah,
Speaker 4: it was good love.
Speaker 3: It was really good. When I started the show, I
Speaker 3: heard that because you had just left right so you
Speaker 3: so the we don't want, we don't like to talk
Speaker 3: about the plane crash episode because everyone's traumatized. But I
Speaker 3: came on after and I thought, this is a crazy
Speaker 3: way to come on because we're losing such iconic characters
Speaker 3: from the show.
Speaker 2: This is a little bit scary.
Speaker 3: And everybody talked about how truly incredible you were as
Speaker 3: a cast member. And we're talking about, like crew always
Speaker 3: know crue on TV shows, like your reputation really sits
Speaker 3: with the crew because they see you every day. Not
Speaker 3: every actor sees you every day, but the cameraman does
Speaker 3: your makeup, artists, like everyone just could not say like
Speaker 3: they just were in love with you and so.
Speaker 2: Sad that you were leaving. And one thing that I
Speaker 2: kept being told always.
Speaker 3: Which we just talked about, is how incredible you were
Speaker 3: both comedy and drama on the show, and how you
Speaker 3: were just there was nothing that those writers wouldn't want
Speaker 3: to write for you. It's like I felt in the
Speaker 3: early days and I was having to, like, you know,
Speaker 3: like just I was so desperate for any storyline and
Speaker 3: it just felt like you were always an actress that
Speaker 3: they adored. And so one of my questions is going back.
Speaker 3: I know it's a long time ago, but when you
Speaker 3: think about the show, did you know how loved you
Speaker 3: were on set?
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, I did. I definitely felt that. I
Speaker 4: hope to answer that without it sounding like no, no.
Speaker 2: No, no, but no, we like on this on our show.
Speaker 3: We liked to we like to own all our stuff,
Speaker 3: so you can be like, yeah, I rocked it, like
Speaker 3: everyone loved me on the show.
Speaker 4: ID Yeah, No, I just I loved being there. I
Speaker 4: loved the opportunity unity. We had so many wonderful people
Speaker 4: that we were working with. It was stressful, it was exhausting.
Speaker 5: You were babies.
Speaker 4: I was having babies, and yeah, I was probably the
Speaker 4: whole fifth season of the show. I had Annie ten
Speaker 4: days after we wrapped Wow, and it was just like
Speaker 4: so coming back with her. She was only I think
Speaker 4: nine weeks old by the time I came back.
Speaker 1: I remember the trailers just she would always be there.
Speaker 2: No, it's hard having baby's the only show for Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, But I know I I appreciate that. I really
Speaker 4: appreciate that, especially with the crew, because I mean, we're
Speaker 4: nothing without our crew, and I genuinely like I will
Speaker 4: always go like above and beyond to tell our crew
Speaker 4: and let them know that it's so important. Yeah. So
Speaker 4: when Yeah, when I when I went to leave, it
Speaker 4: was it was bittersweet. I mean, for sure it was
Speaker 4: a family to at the time.
Speaker 2: Is there any part of you now the wishes that
Speaker 2: you had stayed for longer or do you feel like
Speaker 2: it was still like the right moment.
Speaker 4: I feel like it was the right Yeah. And when
Speaker 4: when I had had the conversation with Shonda about about leaving,
Speaker 4: we were just trying to figure out a really great
Speaker 4: way for it to happen and for for Lexi to
Speaker 4: go and reading it was like any part of.
Speaker 3: You the wishes that she hadn't died, because like, you know,
Speaker 3: Jessica had left a show and she's come back on
Speaker 3: the show, and it would have opened kept the door
Speaker 3: more open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there any part of you?
Speaker 3: But I mean it was such an iconic moment and
Speaker 3: awful but amazing and drama and sad, So it's hard
Speaker 3: to think.
Speaker 4: I kind of got that redemption during the whole COVID
Speaker 4: situation for Meredith and like kind of coming back for
Speaker 4: that moment. And when I got reached out to for
Speaker 4: to come back in that episode, I was filming Supergirl
Speaker 4: in Vancouver, yes, and it was legit COVID, and so
Speaker 4: weeds started filming on the show again, but no one
Speaker 4: could leave Canada.
Speaker 2: Like you heard, it was tough to get you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really tough because I was filming NonStop,
Speaker 4: like every day. But then the issue was if I
Speaker 4: went across the border and then came back, I would
Speaker 4: have to quarantine to two weeks, and it was like,
Speaker 4: there's no way that we could do it. So everything
Speaker 4: that I filmed was on my own in a totally
Speaker 4: different sound stage with like the blue screen behind me.
Speaker 4: So I'm pushing Meredith on like a an invisible Meredith.
Speaker 4: And I never felt so ridiculous.
Speaker 2: In my whole life having.
Speaker 4: To just do I mean, and granted, look, I was
Speaker 4: working on a superhero show, so it's like you already
Speaker 4: can feel pretty ridiculous. This was right up there. This
Speaker 4: was right up there. But I'm glad that it touched people,
Speaker 4: oh that it was really well received, and I felt
Speaker 4: like it was a nice bit of closure for me,
Speaker 4: you know, all this year ys later to be able
Speaker 4: to come back in a really lovely way, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I was really greatful.
Speaker 1: And during a time where people were really looking for
Speaker 1: something to look forward to and to see that felt
Speaker 1: cozy and familiar and that they loved. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember when I was there, we would have table reads
Speaker 1: where we would read, you know, the new script, and
Speaker 1: I remember that as much as I knew that it
Speaker 1: was a lot on you, and I knew for myself
Speaker 1: when it was when you were in every day, it
Speaker 1: was exhausting and stressful and everything else, but you always
Speaker 1: wanted the as an actor, you wanted the best storylines,
Speaker 1: and I remember you getting the best storylines, and it
Speaker 1: was because again, you were equally fastile at comedy and drama.
Speaker 1: And also I kind of remember that, like, was every
Speaker 1: guy in the hospital in love with you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Did you?
Speaker 5: Did you actually see?
Speaker 2: Were you also in love with her? At some point?
Speaker 5: I only had eyes for kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but truly.
Speaker 4: Uh. Well, when I first came on the show, the
Speaker 4: very first episode, which then led into the second episode,
Speaker 4: I was hitting on on MC dreamy in the at
Speaker 4: a bar for a funeral and I came in it
Speaker 4: and everybody, I mean, they called me the worst. Like
Speaker 4: I was. I was like mc fluddie, I was like everybody.
Speaker 4: They hated me because I was the girl. Remember it
Speaker 4: was in the beginning. I mean they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: she's trying to get you know, she's a home wrecker,
Speaker 4: trying to get in between you know, Meredith and Derek.
Speaker 4: And and then the next episode.
Speaker 2: Was I'm Lexi, I'm your sister, and I was like, whoa.
Speaker 4: It was crazy. And then yeah, after that, I started
Speaker 4: as a regular on season season four. But it was
Speaker 4: wild because before coming on the show, I mean, I
Speaker 4: came in the last two episodes of season three and
Speaker 4: that's when a lot of all the crazy shit went down.
Speaker 4: So I came in the act left to uh and
Speaker 4: they didn't tell anybody that I was coming in as Lexi.
Speaker 4: So the thing was as you know, it's like the scripts.
Speaker 4: You didn't read them until you got to the table,
Speaker 4: so everything was cold, so you had no idea what
Speaker 4: was happening. And and some people would just be like
Speaker 4: killed off and you find that out, like and you
Speaker 4: sit there and you feel, you know, it's not many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not funny. It has changed now now
Speaker 3: we get them ahead of time. But when I started
Speaker 3: this was the same. It was terrifying. That's good, And
Speaker 3: there was when I started I remember there being a
Speaker 3: rule where you couldn't even like sit with your script
Speaker 3: and quickly go through and look for your stuff. No,
Speaker 3: that was like a to me, that was like a
Speaker 3: I was told that was a no no wow, that
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Even you die essentially, Yeah, but I remember a couple
Speaker 1: times sitting next to you, and you and I having
Speaker 1: such young children and are being pregnant and are being
Speaker 1: pregnant with young children. We werely equally thrilled to have
Speaker 1: the work and also maybe not have the work.
Speaker 2: Right when you were working, you loved your storylines.
Speaker 1: You were so excited, but then also when you weren't
Speaker 1: in a script so much, you were like, this could
Speaker 1: be great. Yeah, I could sleep, I could sleep and
Speaker 1: that would be good. Okay, the love interest, let's go,
Speaker 1: because well, the big joke on this on the in
Speaker 1: this dialogue when we talk about Grays is that I
Speaker 1: really do have a good memory, but evidently not so
Speaker 1: much for Grace and Animated.
Speaker 2: This is the backstory.
Speaker 3: She'll have a memory, she'll be like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: that episode that I wasn't in that, and then the
Speaker 3: fans will pull up that she was the main It
Speaker 3: was like a standalone episode with Arizona, and so her
Speaker 3: memory is novel.
Speaker 2: Anyways, So your love interests were, who were they? Know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Well that more than one there was.
Speaker 4: There was a moment where Lexi was absolutely like in
Speaker 4: love with love with George. Yeah that's my thought, okay,
Speaker 4: and then also going Alex krav.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody loves Lexi.
Speaker 3: I remember, remember now you know, it's a good thing
Speaker 3: we weren't on the show at the same time.
Speaker 2: Friends, maybe we wouldn't have George.
Speaker 5: Alex.
Speaker 2: Who did you have to make out with on the show?
Speaker 2: Do you remember George?
Speaker 4: No? I never kidd no, we just like did I
Speaker 4: think I kissed him on the mouth like.
Speaker 2: Like a pack like a pack? Yeah, not a makeout.
Speaker 4: No, made out with.
Speaker 7: Alex.
Speaker 4: And then of course so rude, I know somebody else
Speaker 4: I thought there was maybe because remember didn't you cheat
Speaker 4: on Mark with someone Alex?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: That was that makes sense?
Speaker 2: That would make sense organically that Alex is the person
Speaker 2: that you tee with.
Speaker 4: Yea is that on brand? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, again my memory is you know what it is.
Speaker 1: I just remembered that the season that you knew that
Speaker 1: Lexi was going to die, I was on the plane
Speaker 1: as well, and it was my contract negotiation, my contract negotiate,
Speaker 1: contract negotiation here, and my head.
Speaker 4: Was on the chopping black. Oh my gosh, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, A terrible expression.
Speaker 4: But I was.
Speaker 5: I was in I was.
Speaker 1: It was I had been told that my character was
Speaker 1: in limbo and that like they were going to figure
Speaker 1: out contracts and money and and maybe I would come
Speaker 1: back and maybe. So when the plane crash episode left
Speaker 1: us in the woods, you did.
Speaker 5: I'm laughing through your death.
Speaker 1: I'm really not meaning to laugh, but you did die,
Speaker 1: and I might die.
Speaker 5: I could have died. Oh god, instead I lost my leg.
Speaker 4: You lost your leg?
Speaker 2: Have you watched that episode since it aired?
Speaker 4: I watched it when it aired and then I never
Speaker 4: watched it again.
Speaker 2: Was it super traumatic to watch it?
Speaker 4: It was super traumatic to film it, and then to
Speaker 4: go back through it was like I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: that's I'm I'm good. We're good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: If you could go back for LEXI, would you still
Speaker 3: pick McSteamy for her?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You feel like they were a good fit.
Speaker 4: I feel like they were. I feel like they really were.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fans are gonna I can just hear them ying.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know they I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Well because it was just that it was that yin
Speaker 1: and that yang. It was a completion, there was a
Speaker 1: each one rounded out the other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 4: When you okay.
Speaker 3: So Jessa's talked about this many times where she auditioned
Speaker 3: multiple times.
Speaker 2: For the show before she came on the show.
Speaker 3: So for people that don't know, how did you end
Speaker 3: up as Lexi Gray on Gray's Anatomy?
Speaker 4: I had just had my daughter, so Tailan, she's eighteen no, wow, yeah,
Speaker 4: wild Well my son is twenty one?
Speaker 5: Yes on the practice, Yes, I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty one and fifteen Yeah Annie Annie.
Speaker 1: Who I had no But how old were you when
Speaker 1: you had Noah?
Speaker 4: Was twenty one when I had Noah?
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So okay, that was on the practice. That's the babies.
Speaker 4: That's insane, babies having babies, Yeah is what it was.
Speaker 4: So I had just had Taylan, so she was only
Speaker 4: like a few months old, and I got a call.
Speaker 4: I was, this is funny, I'll try top. I was
Speaker 4: living in Alaska, Okay, because that's where my kid's father's from.
Speaker 4: Ok So we were up there. I had Taylan. I
Speaker 4: get a phone call from my manager because I was
Speaker 4: taking some time off Oka and I get a phone
Speaker 4: call from my manager at the time and she's like, hey,
Speaker 4: holy Rob Corn. So one of our executive producers I
Speaker 4: had worked with on another show and had said that
Speaker 4: show it was called Boys, Girls Club Girls, and so
Speaker 4: he's he had talked to Shonda about me because they
Speaker 4: were looking for the Lexi Gray character and and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And so he ends up calling my manager saying, hey,
Speaker 4: we'd love to have Kyler come and meet Shonda and
Speaker 4: meet Linda Lowie and then meet Krista Vernoff. And no, no,
Speaker 4: at the time, it was Betsy Beear's. It wasn't it
Speaker 4: wasn't Christa, and so they just wanted to do a
Speaker 4: general meet. And I'm thinking, this is Craze anatomy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like what yeah, yeah, And and to be honest, like
Speaker 4: I'd only seen like a few episodes of it, so
Speaker 4: then it was like but I knew that it was
Speaker 4: like everything. So then I started binge watching everything and
Speaker 4: then I'm going, oh my god, Okay, I'm gonna go down.
Speaker 4: So I was meeting and I sat in the room
Speaker 4: with them for like I don't know, maybe forty five
Speaker 4: and he knew it.
Speaker 2: Was for a gray.
Speaker 4: No, oh, you did not. I didn't know anything.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, I had no idea.
Speaker 5: It was just like, you're not even reading.
Speaker 1: No, God, Okay, see, this is why I'm jealous of her,
Speaker 1: to see what she gets cirved now.
Speaker 4: It was so I So we sat and we just
Speaker 4: talked about life. I talked to them about like I
Speaker 4: just had my daughter and and I'm living in Alaska,
Speaker 4: and they were just kind of like, who are you?
Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't know, just me. And
Speaker 4: so then I go and I drive back to where
Speaker 4: my manager was, and on the drive they called and
Speaker 4: said that we want Kyler to come in. We want
Speaker 4: to bring her in for the last two episodes of
Speaker 4: season three as a guest star only, but then we
Speaker 4: want to have her as a regular starting episode one
Speaker 4: season four. Okay.
Speaker 1: I just want to point out to people listening that
Speaker 1: this is highly irregular.
Speaker 2: Highly irregular. This does not it doesn't happen. No.
Speaker 1: Normally, you would be asked to come in for a
Speaker 1: castinger to first, and then maybe you'd make it to
Speaker 1: the producers, and then you would hopefully make it to
Speaker 1: the showrunner, and then they would ask for the studio
Speaker 1: and the network to look at you and a lot,
Speaker 1: and then they would bring you on for the couple
Speaker 1: episodes and then if you'd worked out, then you might
Speaker 1: be offered a regular role.
Speaker 3: So you got all this I've never heard, I've never
Speaker 3: heard of casting story on this on this Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was. It was extremely overwhelming and wild, and I
Speaker 4: couldn't tell anybody. And so when I came in on
Speaker 4: the show for that table read, for my very first
Speaker 4: table read, everybody's like, oh, it's nice to meet you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's so great, and I'm glad.
Speaker 2: At that point you knew that you were.
Speaker 4: I knew you.
Speaker 2: They didn't know. The did not nobody.
Speaker 4: My last I think the last scene that I had
Speaker 4: on that season finale was me saying, you know, I'm Lexi,
Speaker 4: Lexi Gray. And then that's when, like, you know, I remember,
Speaker 4: I remember Ellen looking over going.
Speaker 2: I was like, hi, guys here for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was insane, and I couldn't
Speaker 4: tell anybody for yeah, like through four or five months,
Speaker 4: I couldn't say anything to anybody because you were like sworn,
Speaker 4: like you know, oh.
Speaker 1: There's a definite seriousness to like your responsibility is at grace.
Speaker 1: It's like you do you take it very seriously what
Speaker 1: you say.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so I realize and I recognize how like
Speaker 4: astounding that is, Like I I will always be grateful
Speaker 4: for that, no matter what. Of course. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 4: it doesn't happen. I'm glad that you said that, because yeah,
Speaker 4: it was. It was very Kismodi University meant to be
Speaker 4: that whole thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just grateful to watch you on it.
Speaker 5: I know I can't say it.
Speaker 2: I have I have fangirl questions.
Speaker 3: What was your favorite and least favorite storyline on the show?
Speaker 1: For Lexi, I just.
Speaker 5: Thought of one.
Speaker 4: I thought of one to break the penis storyline?
Speaker 2: Is your favorite?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it twas not my favorite.
Speaker 2: And I remember having.
Speaker 4: To read at the table rate no idea it was coming.
Speaker 4: You had no idea what was happening. You're reading it,
Speaker 4: and I remember shrinking in my chair and it stri
Speaker 4: going up in front of my face because it was
Speaker 4: like a fire ris bloodbread. Yeah yeah, yeaheah. It was mortifying,
Speaker 4: absolutely mortifyed geez like favorite, Oh that's tough.
Speaker 2: Or favorite moment on the show.
Speaker 5: I woulden diaper we're in the diaper for the really
Speaker 5: long st The.
Speaker 4: Diaper was really great. Also, another thing that I did
Speaker 4: not appreciate was having because I was pregnant, we had
Speaker 4: to explain why Lexi was gaining weight. So we all
Speaker 4: of a sudden made the storyline that I remember nervously ate.
Speaker 1: Yes, I had every time she got stressed. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like that wouldn't happen now. No, it wouldn't happen now.
Speaker 2: I don't think that happened now.
Speaker 5: It shouldn't happen then.
Speaker 4: No, but it was what it was. Yeah, and so
Speaker 4: that was That was a little rough, but I did.
Speaker 4: I understood. I got it. But I had to eat
Speaker 4: seventeen Reese's peanut buttercups what in a scene? Because it
Speaker 4: was during the scene. I couldn't spit back.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you had to flat. Oh you had to eat.
Speaker 4: The seventeen of them.
Speaker 1: So, just so we're clear, gross, Jessica Kepsha would have
Speaker 1: found a loophole in this.
Speaker 5: Just so we're clear, Kyler Lee would not.
Speaker 1: Because Kyler Lee is a committed actress. I wouldn't figure out,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like, I'm gonna see. No, Kyler would never
Speaker 1: have done that you were also, so I talk about
Speaker 1: how Chandra and also Sarah Drew are like low key
Speaker 1: annoying to me because they're always.
Speaker 2: Right about stuff street to know.
Speaker 1: Like they're always like, oh, continuity, like you got to
Speaker 1: do the thing that you were doing last time, Like
Speaker 1: your hair doesn't look the same or.
Speaker 2: What Jessina doesn't care about contuity.
Speaker 4: Or whatever we're paying attention to that I'm not being
Speaker 4: do my job.
Speaker 2: It is true, It's true, very true. Okay. Favorite moment
Speaker 2: on the show.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite moments was early on when George
Speaker 4: and Lexi were gonna move into an apartment together in
Speaker 4: a non romantic way she thought it was. And so
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you know, Lexi decides, well, we've
Speaker 4: got to spruce this place up. So I want to
Speaker 4: find like things to put into the apartment, but had
Speaker 4: no money, so started stealing things from the hospital, so
Speaker 4: stealing potted you know, flowers that someone had left in
Speaker 4: the room, or like literally like medical supplies, paintings off
Speaker 4: the wall. Like it was one of the moments that
Speaker 4: they gave me like run with it, like half none
Speaker 4: of it. And I feel like that for me kind
Speaker 4: of opened me up a little bit more to feel
Speaker 4: more confident being there and among such amazing people in
Speaker 4: this massive show, because so much of it, I'm just
Speaker 4: sitting here and like, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2: That's how I fun?
Speaker 4: Why did they pick me? What am I doing here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And so it didn't. It took me a while to
Speaker 4: not think that I was going to be fired every episode.
Speaker 1: I think that's a common I think that everybody, A
Speaker 1: lot of people report.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's just.
Speaker 3: It's such an established show and everyone had been on
Speaker 3: for so long, and it just felt it felt very
Speaker 3: intimidating to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think there were also there were people
Speaker 1: that were let go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 1: Mean that's do you know that it could happen. You
Speaker 1: remember there being a whole thing about getting a chair?
Speaker 1: You know that there were some people that bought like.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Chandra had a chair, and so did Sandra
Speaker 4: had a chair?
Speaker 2: What do you mean a chair?
Speaker 4: Like getting their own cast chare.
Speaker 2: Oh with the name on that's like the more the
Speaker 2: so like it's like.
Speaker 4: But the ones that have like the little yeah, yeah
Speaker 4: you can't.
Speaker 2: Do that because yeah, yeah you.
Speaker 3: I heard well listen listening. There are legends when you
Speaker 3: come on our show. There are like myths right that,
Speaker 3: like if you come on and you buy your own chair,
Speaker 3: that is the.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say it, so yes, I think
Speaker 1: the last person that bought a chair was.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, you don't have to say who it is, but.
Speaker 5: Yes, she was let go. And so everybody was like.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, don't buy the chair.
Speaker 1: And she had just bought the chair, and Trulie like
Speaker 1: had just come in there and they're they're sorry, just
Speaker 1: to be clear, they're personal expenses. You would buy an
Speaker 1: up Yes, there would be an up charge for really
Speaker 1: nice chair, probably like five hundred and six hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: And yeah, she bought it.
Speaker 3: And then she was says, why I don't decorate my
Speaker 3: trailer my trailer. I took over Eric's Eric Danes trailer
Speaker 3: when I started, and it is the same trailer from
Speaker 3: thirteen years ago, and I have not decorated it and
Speaker 3: made it all fancy because I hear that when you do.
Speaker 8: That, that's, you know, could also be a kiss of death.
Speaker 2: It's a case of death, Yes, vowels divorced, it's that.
Speaker 4: It's that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, mm hmm, yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean there was there was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was just such a it was such a popular show.
Speaker 1: It was there was so much happening. Yes, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of like that. The stakes were high, and
Speaker 1: I think then because people started watching it on the
Speaker 1: streaming it it literally never let go of its hold.
Speaker 2: Do you find that you're still approached NonStop for the
Speaker 2: show more than anything because you've worked solidly, like for
Speaker 2: so long, more than anything.
Speaker 4: It's grace and and it would be probably Supergirl, Supergirl,
Speaker 4: not another teen movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, finally it finally gets to Finally I get
Speaker 3: my time to shine, you guys, because as we were
Speaker 3: sitting here, Jessica was like, don't even like save it
Speaker 3: because I was geeking out Kyler before she was on Grays.
Speaker 2: How old were you when you did not another teen movie?
Speaker 4: Eighteen?
Speaker 2: It is Halen's age, you guys. It's the fucking best.
Speaker 4: So it is.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3: It's it's so fucking funny, and it's it's still amazing.
Speaker 2: I watched it. I've watched it in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: It makes fun So for people that don't know this movie,
Speaker 3: it makes fun of like all those teen two thousands movies.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: She's all that, She's all things I hate about you
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 3: The best part is that Kyler was cast as the
Speaker 3: typical nerdy girl who was actually just really hot and
Speaker 3: had glasses. But you were so funny in that movie.
Speaker 3: Was that your first big role? And how?
Speaker 2: Because that was a big studio movie, right.
Speaker 4: We filmed it took us forty eight days to film it.
Speaker 4: A lot of us. It was like our first big thing,
Speaker 4: especially for Chris and I Evans. Chris Evans, So let
Speaker 4: me tell you about auditioning for that though, Okay, I
Speaker 4: want to hear nine times thank you? Really more and
Speaker 4: more and more and more, people like I think we
Speaker 4: auditioned for people that weren't even anything to do with
Speaker 4: the movie. I thought, get it by that by that
Speaker 4: auditioned nine times together, because they didn't. They just we
Speaker 4: were unknowns, yeah, you know at that point. And originally
Speaker 4: I had actually I went in and read for the
Speaker 4: character that Lacey Shaver ended up playing. Oh yes, so
Speaker 4: it was only supposed to be like so.
Speaker 3: Lacey ends up playing basically she had an incredible like
Speaker 3: teen movie where she walks in She's like the teen
Speaker 3: princess and yeah, but yeah, so she Lacey got that role,
Speaker 3: which is kind of funny because they had worked together
Speaker 3: in the past.
Speaker 2: That was good that that's the role.
Speaker 4: I went in for audition interesting and then I read
Speaker 4: role yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and I read with Joel
Speaker 4: Gallen who is the director, and he looked at me
Speaker 4: and he's like, hm, I don't think this is gonna work.
Speaker 4: And I was like said, I was.
Speaker 7: Like, oh, I'm so sorry because no, no, no, no no, I
Speaker 7: want you to read for Janie and handed me twelve
Speaker 7: pages of you know, of our sides and I was like,
Speaker 7: he's like, can you come back tomorrow.
Speaker 8: I was like, you can't do it now. Janie says,
Speaker 8: you can't do that now. Yeahs okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So then I went in and auditioned and and then
Speaker 4: it was just we had just had to keep going
Speaker 4: in improve, proo, proof, proof, But then we got it
Speaker 4: and we were like, you guys, by that point we
Speaker 4: basically you had the whole movie, yeah, memorized.
Speaker 3: Yeah, essentially, And you said your son just watched this movie.
Speaker 4: He watched it like a year ago or something, and
Speaker 4: it just makes me go back and think of all
Speaker 4: the stuff that's in that movie, and I'm not appruved.
Speaker 4: My son, like whatever, it just hit me where it
Speaker 4: was like so gross said the same thing. He was like,
Speaker 4: He's like, Mom, I had no idea it was you
Speaker 4: until I saw the credits at the end, and then
Speaker 4: I felt really uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: There's an American Pie element.
Speaker 3: Now if you watch American Pie, it's like, so you
Speaker 3: can't believe that ever air?
Speaker 2: What got me?
Speaker 4: Why did that happen?
Speaker 3: It was no, I was seriously and you were so
Speaker 3: funny in that movie that I'm not surprised that you
Speaker 3: did comedy on very funny. You were very funny. If
Speaker 3: you could do one thing moving forward, because we're going
Speaker 3: to get to your project that you're on right now.
Speaker 3: But if you could do one thing, would it be
Speaker 3: another movie like that? Another comedy?
Speaker 4: I want to be a villain, man, you do. I
Speaker 4: want to be a villain like I want to play
Speaker 4: the bad guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I want to be a wish or like.
Speaker 1: Gap And you're very very cool, and I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I get it. I would buy it. I
Speaker 5: buy you as a villain. I honestly don't think there's
Speaker 5: anything you can't do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1: I actually had a front ro seat for a long time,
Speaker 1: just established so I'm I'm a big bully rid.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's anything you can't do.
Speaker 4: So great. I'm leaving this room feeling so.
Speaker 2: You should, honestly, because it's you.
Speaker 4: It's really real.
Speaker 3: Your reputation is like King Stellar. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 3: the project you're on now.
Speaker 1: Though, yes, Okay, we'll talk about my jealous later, be
Speaker 1: jealous lator.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you work with Andy Andy McDowell.
Speaker 4: Anny McDowell, who plays my mom on the show.
Speaker 2: That's good casting.
Speaker 4: By the way, I could see that she's like one
Speaker 4: of I've never met this women I've ever met and
Speaker 4: or worked with in my life. Like, she is so cool,
Speaker 4: and she's so quirky and eccentric and all these wonderful
Speaker 4: things that you want her to be, and she's just
Speaker 4: lovely and kind and like it's been it's been really
Speaker 4: wonderful for me to have her to talk to and
Speaker 4: to just kind of be able to have like that
Speaker 4: mom figure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The really wild thing about this show is that it
Speaker 4: is so much life imitates art and very cathartic for
Speaker 4: me in what way in the way that the character.
Speaker 4: So my character, I play Andy McDowell's daughter, and then
Speaker 4: I also play a mom, so I'm in the middle generation,
Speaker 4: and the two myself and my mom haven't spoken to
Speaker 4: each other after like a really terrible family tragedy happens,
Speaker 4: end up kind of like falling apart, falling away from
Speaker 4: each other for about twenty years. And I had the
Speaker 4: same thing with my mother, So I haven't spoken to
Speaker 4: or seen my mother in twenty years. And then I
Speaker 4: also have teenage daughters. So in the show, I have
Speaker 4: a seventeen sixteen year old daughter had gotten together with
Speaker 4: the father of our child as a teenager, essentially like
Speaker 4: a long time together. Yeah, Like there were just all
Speaker 4: these it was mirroring, like, yeah, synchronicities that were coming up,
Speaker 4: and I was like, wow, this is like that's kind
Speaker 4: of you know, it's kind of wacky. And originally when
Speaker 4: I first got called about it, because this was after COVID,
Speaker 4: everything was on tape, and it was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm the worst actor ever because when
Speaker 4: you try to self tape, yeah, and you look at
Speaker 4: yourself and it takes you four hours because you're just
Speaker 4: like I'm a piece of shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the reality.
Speaker 3: Now we have to like tape our auditions in our
Speaker 3: home and we'd get to watch it back, which is horrified.
Speaker 5: Oh god, I don't watch back.
Speaker 4: No, it's just awful. It's awful.
Speaker 3: You're like, how can I light my double chant? It's
Speaker 3: really exciting, That's how I feel.
Speaker 4: No, it's terrible.
Speaker 5: Are they going to notice just how much light is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just pumped it up a little bit?
Speaker 2: Balls yeah no, yeah, no, it's horrifying.
Speaker 4: No, okay, it was rough. And so I was submitting
Speaker 4: tapes and I was just like, I don't I don't
Speaker 4: think I'm ever going to work again. I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm awful. And then I get a phone call from
Speaker 4: my manager. My manager says, you know, hey, we got
Speaker 4: a call. We have an offer on the table for you.
Speaker 4: And I was just like, okay, like what are we doing?
Speaker 4: Tell me about and I'm back. And then initially I
Speaker 4: was she my manager says, Joni. She says, so hear
Speaker 4: me out, and I was like okay, okay, okay, where
Speaker 4: are we going with this? And she goes it's Hallmark,
Speaker 4: And initially my first thought was like okay, okay, like
Speaker 4: feed me a little bit more, like I, yes, I
Speaker 4: want to know, because all I really knew Hallmark for
Speaker 4: was the Christmas movie yeah, and like the hallwrite stuff,
Speaker 4: and I hadn't seen any of the series or anything
Speaker 4: like that, and I just didn't I didn't see Hallmark
Speaker 4: as like a series kind of network at that time.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, I was like, okay, all right,
Speaker 4: and Jonie was like, just trust me, Like this is
Speaker 4: like nothing you would know from Hallmark like ever, And
Speaker 4: so I want you to talk to the showrunners who
Speaker 4: happened to me Mother Daughter team and phenomenal. And so
Speaker 4: Jonie sends me, She's like, I'm going to send you
Speaker 4: the first two scripts. I want you to read it
Speaker 4: and then call me back right away because I really
Speaker 4: want to talk to you about it. And I was
Speaker 4: like okay. She seems like super hyped about this, and
Speaker 4: I was like okay, and I trust Jonie. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: so I read them and it was it was mind blowing,
Speaker 4: like reading it and going, wait, this is what like it?
Speaker 4: There was so much to it and it was so
Speaker 4: beautifully done and so beautifully written, and these characters were
Speaker 4: so rich, but it was like gritty almost it was.
Speaker 4: It was like raw, emotional, deep dark stuff, not pretty things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and for what people knew Homemark Bee, like you you
Speaker 4: knew you could always count on there being a heart
Speaker 4: behind it, right, There's certain things that there is sentimentality. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: there's certain things that we feel about Hallmark that yeah,
Speaker 4: you can sit and you know you're gonna be able
Speaker 4: to walk away and feel good.
Speaker 2: This is like, this is it.
Speaker 4: It was heavy, it was intense, it's time travel, it's
Speaker 4: you know, these beautiful just profoundly deep relationships within the family,
Speaker 4: but just like brokenness, a lot of brokenness. And so
Speaker 4: I and I was like, this is absolutely fantastic, And
Speaker 4: so I called and I spoke to the showrunners and
Speaker 4: we had like an hour and a half conversation. They
Speaker 4: were just like, we really want to break the mold here.
Speaker 4: We really want to take this and have an opportunity
Speaker 4: to turn the network on its head for what it's
Speaker 4: most known for and show them what we're capable of.
Speaker 4: And it's just like it was awesome because it gave
Speaker 4: us a chance to kind of like really like flex
Speaker 4: our muscles and like what we can Almost initially started
Speaker 4: out what can we get away with? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: and you're kind of where we were pushing boundaries. We
Speaker 4: were doing, you know, these these largely emotional, like traumatic
Speaker 4: scenes that a lot of the people that had worked
Speaker 4: on you know, the other shows or the films and whatnot,
Speaker 4: we're going holy like this is, this is. I had
Speaker 4: someone and say like, did you just release some demons?
Speaker 4: And I was like, yeah, I think I did. Actually
Speaker 4: it was really great, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it just has been this beautiful journey of just pushing,
Speaker 4: pushing the boundaries and making things as real and authentic
Speaker 4: and not giving a shit what you look like when
Speaker 4: you're crying, because coming off of Grays, it's like it
Speaker 4: was such.
Speaker 2: A beauty show.
Speaker 4: Even though it was a doctor show, it was still
Speaker 4: like everybody looks We're walking around and everybody's ridiculously gorgeous
Speaker 4: and beautiful, and for me, in a sense, it was like, ooh,
Speaker 4: I have to maintain being pretty. I have to maintain that.
Speaker 4: And then I go on to a superhero show and
Speaker 4: it's like lots of makeup and like all this stuff,
Speaker 4: and I just had this image in my head where
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, like wait, they want
Speaker 4: me to just wear mascara and it's like some concealer
Speaker 4: and what I'm like, No, I'm gonna look horrible. So
Speaker 4: I had to really grow yeah inside, like my heart,
Speaker 4: my mind, my spirit, my soul had I had to
Speaker 4: do a lot of growing, and I had gained weight
Speaker 4: over the years. Like forty two, I hit perry menopause
Speaker 4: pretty fucking quick.
Speaker 3: We need to do Ale episode on paramenopause because I
Speaker 3: just heard about it and I turned forty.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, it's.
Speaker 4: Common, it's pretty, it's pretty rude, it's yeah, everybody's got
Speaker 4: their own stories whatever. But it started to hit and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I'm just this whole version of me.
Speaker 4: That's like what happened. And I felt like a foreigner,
Speaker 4: but I was able to. I was surrounded by so
Speaker 4: many people that just loved me and cared about me
Speaker 4: and didn't give a shit about any of that. Like
Speaker 4: it had no context. It was just no, just go
Speaker 4: and be you know, just be you, like, go and
Speaker 4: be you and be real and and watch what it
Speaker 4: does for you. Ah you just like and it like
Speaker 4: there was like a liberation that happened. And I still
Speaker 4: struggle with with you know, how I look and things
Speaker 4: change and you know, it's it is what it is,
Speaker 4: but but it gave me like this sense of h yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: like okay, I actually I feel good about who I
Speaker 4: am and who I'm growing to be, kind of almost
Speaker 4: having like a do over at forty two. Yeah, like okay,
Speaker 4: this is like there's a lot in here that I
Speaker 4: need to work on. But I feel like it was
Speaker 4: sort of like the the diving board for me to
Speaker 4: just enter this whole new part of my life. And
Speaker 4: so with this show, with the castmates, the work that
Speaker 4: we're doing really genuinely has been healing Kyler like me
Speaker 4: as a person and has helped me, you know. Also
Speaker 4: with I'm Able to do, it's like a little bit
Speaker 4: of comedy things here and there, like in the show
Speaker 4: like we keep it. It's also there's lighthearted moments of
Speaker 4: course because.
Speaker 1: Balanced right yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: But it really just gave me, like I don't know,
Speaker 4: some I'm gonna say some balls, like to just to
Speaker 4: just say, okay, I had the courage just live you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it gave me the courage. Gave you the courage, which
Speaker 4: was like a really big which this.
Speaker 1: Is so funny because I'm listening to you and I
Speaker 1: I think recently, I have been saying to myself and
Speaker 1: to others, like in my closest circle, why, in this
Speaker 1: time of your life that you're actually meant to be
Speaker 1: so secure and so set and so like you've earned
Speaker 1: all these things? How does this self doubt creep in?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: How does this like Oh I should look like.
Speaker 1: This, or I should look like that, or I should
Speaker 1: feel this, or I should have that or all these
Speaker 1: things that should any of the shoulds. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: you doubt yourself. You go, well, what am I if
Speaker 1: I'm not checking that box? And then you have a
Speaker 1: whole other piece of you sort of like turn on,
Speaker 1: which is your physiological being, Like what where you connect
Speaker 1: to your body and what your body's doing?
Speaker 2: Oh god, all the different things. So it's really it's
Speaker 2: it's really wild.
Speaker 1: We talk a lot about emotionally or in circumstances where
Speaker 1: we have this amazing community of people that we've just
Speaker 1: grown over the past, you know, six months since we
Speaker 1: started that call in and they call in with questions
Speaker 1: and and and situations and things, and we talk about
Speaker 1: them all and they're all so incredible, and they bring
Speaker 1: so much vulnerability and so much strength and so often
Speaker 1: a lot of the time, we will say it seems
Speaker 1: like it's time to hit the reset button and just
Speaker 1: like take all your factory settings and like just clear
Speaker 1: like clear the board, clear your mind, and get back
Speaker 1: into something that is different. And it sounds I mean,
Speaker 1: listen to you say it. It sounds like you were
Speaker 1: able to get into something different. And I love that.
Speaker 1: Joney I've known her since because I've known Carrie Russell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was Carrie Russell will talk about Jonny as
Speaker 1: a manager.
Speaker 4: I'd be like, Joni Bursteam, your manager.
Speaker 1: Does what your manager said.
Speaker 5: What I'm like, is this the smartest woman in the world, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, essentially, And then I saw her again because she
Speaker 1: was Patrick's manager and you're manager.
Speaker 4: So that's how I came to be with Jia.
Speaker 5: This is amazing. Oh my gosh. I feel like we
Speaker 5: need a part too with Kyler.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: I'm down. I'm so no.
Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm so captivated by what you're saying
Speaker 3: because I feel like there's so many people in so
Speaker 3: many different industries. There are women hitting our age.
Speaker 6: That's great, well, but we're being thrown in It feels
Speaker 6: like we're being thrown back into the deep end in
Speaker 6: so many different ways, paramenopause being one of them.
Speaker 2: Right, I didn't even know that term until this year.
Speaker 1: And I thinks it's getting a lot of airtime right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I truly mean that.
Speaker 5: I mean that because no, so many you know.
Speaker 2: It existed and it's coming.
Speaker 3: But my point is, I think, is that like to
Speaker 3: hear how powerful you feel and how you've taken the
Speaker 3: bowl by the horns is just so fucking inspiring and cool,
Speaker 3: and it's not easy to do. Like I know, it
Speaker 3: sounds kind of maybe silly to other people, like just
Speaker 3: wearing a scare and concealer, Like it feels really vulnerable
Speaker 3: on camera, especially when you're like us and you've worked
Speaker 3: very young and you can watch yourself back in twenty
Speaker 3: eight being on film, right, which gives you this beautiful
Speaker 3: filter and you're you know, you're not aged.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's hard, it is hardful.
Speaker 3: You're watching yourself age and then you're like, hey, strip
Speaker 3: that away and you get to be you and you're.
Speaker 2: Just gonna go out there with my scariot. Sounds silly,
Speaker 2: but like it's tough.
Speaker 4: It's very vulnerable, and it's very vulnerable and.
Speaker 2: To hear you feel so powered by this production that
Speaker 2: you're on.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing, and I think
Speaker 8: that Hallmark they're rocking it clearly by supporting their actresses
Speaker 8: like this.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a dream that really is it?
Speaker 4: Really? It really has been a wonderful last few years.
Speaker 4: So we just we finished season three and we're waiting
Speaker 4: to hear about a season four.
Speaker 8: It's so am you need to be picked up right away,
Speaker 8: please please.
Speaker 4: But also, we film in Toronto, and I love Toronto.
Speaker 4: I love it there, and like I lived in Vancouver
Speaker 4: for six years because that's where we filmed Supergirl, and
Speaker 4: I just love Canada. I feel like I am I am,
Speaker 4: I am now. So yeah, and and because I live
Speaker 4: in Nashville, so it's only a two hour flight nor yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, to Toronto. So that's also been a really
Speaker 4: fun part of it is Nashville, do you know.
Speaker 1: I've never been I love Nashville, never been to Nashville,
Speaker 1: and I really want to go, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: come to stay with you, okay. And I've also never
Speaker 1: been to Miami, but that's there. I can skip that, Okay, Well.
Speaker 4: Listen, just teenager, So much different vibes, So I don't
Speaker 4: know what it's like anymore, So I can't say that confidently.
Speaker 4: I kind of like semi compident.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, wait, hold on, we actually can't finish.
Speaker 4: It's done.
Speaker 2: You said it. We can't stop until we talk about
Speaker 2: the musical episode.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, we do okay, because again another.
Speaker 1: Reason number seventy Hey, dear diary, Reason number eight hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety five. Then I am jealous of Kyler. We
Speaker 1: get our musical assignments and Kyler is singing are album.
Speaker 2: She has an album released album. Jess could be your
Speaker 2: backup whisper. You can whistle, I could.
Speaker 4: She was a whistler and a half. I'll tell you
Speaker 4: what nobody can whistle. Kyler.
Speaker 3: Give me okay for the listen, give me one word
Speaker 3: to describe your feeling about being in the musical episode.
Speaker 2: One word.
Speaker 4: It's hard before or after? Before terrified?
Speaker 2: After terrified?
Speaker 9: I was gonna be I know, but I feel like
Speaker 9: I kind of went after him because I just feel
Speaker 9: like that the rock.
Speaker 4: And roll, the grit in his voice. Yeah, he definitely won.
Speaker 2: Does an impression of that now?
Speaker 4: On my god, it's so d.
Speaker 8: Okay, we have to wrap up. But before we do
Speaker 8: The Way Home? How can people watch it?
Speaker 4: What time? So The Way Home Season three will be
Speaker 4: airing on Hallmark Plus for streaming January second.
Speaker 1: Amazing, I'm watching all that a ten weeks in a
Speaker 1: row my times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you want.
Speaker 4: To have something to watch that? Because loving Andy, she's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: But if there's like a family thing that you did
Speaker 4: want to watch, it's a It's okay. I love it.
Speaker 4: It's a wonderful show.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't watch Kyl.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan for so long. I'm so happy. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for taking the time with us.
Speaker 4: But let's do this again. I mean, I live I
Speaker 4: live in Nashville, so it's like, okay, I mean, but
Speaker 4: if I'm in or we do it.
Speaker 3: We have We've had people who come in with us. Okay, great,
Speaker 3: you have you can do there always be a guest
Speaker 3: on the show. Yes, yes, you have a seat. Whenever
Speaker 3: you want you tell us yes.
Speaker 4: And then all I remember because I didn't watch the
Speaker 4: show after after yeah words, but that I guess I
Speaker 4: was eaten by wolves something like that. Really, like we
Speaker 4: could hear the wolves getting like getting after Lexi or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 2: My god, wait, why do I feel like that's it's okay?
Speaker 7: Thing?
Speaker 3: I think, is it someone's nightmare like they had they
Speaker 3: were calling something and they're.
Speaker 4: Feel No, I feel like it was Christina says that
Speaker 4: there's something that comes up, and Christina says, I could
Speaker 4: hear the.
Speaker 5: Wolves eating you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I need you to confirm if Lexi was eaten
Speaker 3: by wolves.
Speaker 4: I just want to know, because like wolves like like
Speaker 4: one of my spirit animals. So I'm like, I'm down
Speaker 4: with that. If you like that, you're in it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm just curious. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do you remember me being so pregnant and like screaming
Speaker 1: in the woods.
Speaker 4: I do remember, because it was freezing it was so cold.
Speaker 4: Big Bear. Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: Prayed with Poppy and then try by the way to
Speaker 2: Big Bear.
Speaker 5: I almost done.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 1: Actually, legitimately, that was the only time I've actually ever
Speaker 1: been afraid from my life, but I was. That must
Speaker 1: have been May and she was born on June twentieth,
Speaker 1: so truly like a month away from having Okay.
Speaker 2: Alright, alright, so every time where we.
Speaker 4: Call it okay.
Speaker 2: The end the episode