WEBVTT - Call It With Chyler Leigh 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.840 Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington, 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:21.000 an iHeartRadio podcast. Well, Hello, Hello, hello everybody, Hello, Call It. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.680 Crew, and welcome to a really. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:29.080 Special episode of Call It What It Is with Kyler Lee. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.440 I just right off the bat. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.400 A lot of times we'll tee it up and we'll 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.760 be like, but this is just an episode with Kyler Lee. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:37.919 I'm so happy you're here. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.280 I'm so happy that you asked me to be here. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.320 I'm live in person to look at your beautiful face 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:46.720 in so long. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.640 I know, we get to me for the first time, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.639 and fans the reason why I'm geeking out, we'll talk 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.440 about this, but I'm a fan of you for a 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.920 million years. And then when I got on the show, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.280 everyone has always said that Lexi and Joe would have 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.000 been really fun friends, and we never got to play 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:04.920 on screen together. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.199 And so even when I came back as a little dead, like. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.959 Yes, I still I was not allowed on that beach. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.720 And and so to get to see you right now 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.720 is like, it's very strange for me, like I'm fangirling, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.200 but it feels like I know you too, and it's 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.000 just very cool. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.080 And I am it's funny. I just saw you outside 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:32.160 and then now sitting with you, I mean we did. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:32.840 We did. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.959 We've not just done one show together. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.000 We've done two shows together. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:37.640 Yes we have. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.039 Yeah, and that's crazy. Like forever, a really long time 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.520 we were I know this. You guys want the practice 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.640 together too. For how many seasons I did one, Well, 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.919 there was there was we can, we. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.680 Can, we can, we can put it in a little 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.840 and it's not it'll never be a SoundBite, but the 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.400 quickest way that I would. So I came onto the 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:06.840 practice I think season six, and then I believe you 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.880 came in towards the am I making it up? You 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:09.799 came in towards the end of that. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.920 Yeah, yes, as this as a guest star. We were 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.639 both sort of like these like full of. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.400 Moxie younger you know, because the show had lawyers that were, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.200 you know, in one age range and they were starting 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:22.960 to have kids and be adults, and we were kind 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.160 of like a younger generation. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:29.919 We came in and then my memory was that we. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.240 All got taken to New York City for upfronts, which 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.120 is like the big marketing branding you know, sell ad 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.919 dollars type thing, and we all got. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.280 Pulled out onto the stage. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.799 We did the whole thing, the show, the whole thing, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.079 and then and then we went to. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.680 The restaurant and do you remember what was in the basement. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:58.840 It was a shooting range in the restaurant. It was 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:05.080 was phenomenal Italian restaurant. We went, We had like seventy 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.040 four courses. It was insane and it was and then 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:13.680 afterwards like a come along like drinking. Yeah, well I 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.280 didn't because I was pregnant. Yeah she was pregnant. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:15.760 You were pregnant. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.400 I don't think there was a ton of drinking, but no, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.360 it was a club because it definitely felt like it had. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:22.440 A member's vibes. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:23.639 Yeah, okay, so yeah, so. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.400 We finished our seventeen course meal. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.680 Yeah, and then what and then and then we go 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.280 downstairs and we just let it rip for a little while. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.120 And shooting range, then range, but then guns. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.720 But then we was did we go to leave the 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.240 next day? I remember being in the cab and with 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.320 with my manager at the time and getting the phone 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.280 call and they were like, so listen, the show is 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.200 going to be renewed for another season. However, we're going 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.400 to be letting six I think it was six characters go. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.880 That were in New York City that we literally were 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:57.560 just up fronts. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.760 We were just on the stage like him excited about 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.360 the new season. Oh my god, it's going to be amazing, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.960 like I don't know. Twelve hours later in the car going. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.160 What yeah, yeah, like six of us go yeah. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.560 They're like they're like, thank you so much, really appreciate you. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.520 Why did I come then? Yeah? 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.040 No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.440 It was yeah that it was wild and I ended up 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:28.200 somehow staying and I just kept hearing about and I 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.919 remember my cell phone died, and I remember going to 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.680 this one place to to like not that they have 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.560 them anymore, but it was a payphone. I went to 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:42.160 the one I knew, and I remember calling Marla Sokoloff 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.960 and saying, what is going on? Like I don't understand, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.800 like there's I'm hearing these things, but I'm getting these 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.440 messages on my cell phone died, what's happening? And she 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.080 told me, and I was it was pretty gosmacked. And 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.000 that was when the practice ended up then turning into 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.039 Boston Legal, which. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.960 Was a show that remember it, Yeah, see that's where 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.640 we first met. But I remember being young and fun. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.640 And I just remember that we were. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.800 I just did, like I just always always. 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.680 I think people say this, and maybe it's too broad 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.839 away to say it, but I think that, like, especially 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.599 in our business, there's this idea that actresses are a 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.479 certain way, or that they're like gamy, or that they're 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.320 looking over their shoulder, or there's some competition that's implied 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.560 to being in business together. And I never felt that 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.720 in my own life, and so I never felt it 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.760 with you. And I always remember coming you coming in 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.000 and they're being like a real like it gives me goose. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.360 It's like a sister ship and like a taking care 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.320 and all that. So then when I ended up then 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:41.240 coming to grays and you were there, it was. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.800 Like, wait, what here we are? You had the job 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.920 and I was a guest star and there we. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.960 Were in your in your Heelings. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.600 Ye in my Little Heelings for my three episode guest star. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.360 But it was adorable. It was pretty cute. No thing, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.839 no you're you coming in was so iconic. That whole 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.280 relationship with you and Soda like that was just yeah, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:04.520 it was good love. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.039 It was really good. When I started the show, I 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:15.080 heard that because you had just left right so you 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.440 so the we don't want, we don't like to talk 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:23.240 about the plane crash episode because everyone's traumatized. But I 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.640 came on after and I thought, this is a crazy 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.000 way to come on because we're losing such iconic characters 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:29.440 from the show. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:30.599 This is a little bit scary. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:37.160 And everybody talked about how truly incredible you were as 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.440 a cast member. And we're talking about, like crew always 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.960 know crue on TV shows, like your reputation really sits 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.280 with the crew because they see you every day. Not 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.680 every actor sees you every day, but the cameraman does 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.600 your makeup, artists, like everyone just could not say like 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.600 they just were in love with you and so. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.680 Sad that you were leaving. And one thing that I 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.680 kept being told always. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.680 Which we just talked about, is how incredible you were 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.240 both comedy and drama on the show, and how you 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.960 were just there was nothing that those writers wouldn't want 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.520 to write for you. It's like I felt in the 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.520 early days and I was having to, like, you know, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.560 like just I was so desperate for any storyline and 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.360 it just felt like you were always an actress that 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.960 they adored. And so one of my questions is going back. 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.320 I know it's a long time ago, but when you 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.520 think about the show, did you know how loved you 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.840 were on set? 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.000 I mean, yes, I did. I definitely felt that. I 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:45.680 hope to answer that without it sounding like no, no. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.920 No, no, but no, we like on this on our show. 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.679 We liked to we like to own all our stuff, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.400 so you can be like, yeah, I rocked it, like 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.600 everyone loved me on the show. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:59.280 ID Yeah, No, I just I loved being there. I 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.800 loved the opportunity unity. We had so many wonderful people 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.480 that we were working with. It was stressful, it was exhausting. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:07.520 You were babies. 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.000 I was having babies, and yeah, I was probably the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.360 whole fifth season of the show. I had Annie ten 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.520 days after we wrapped Wow, and it was just like 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.080 so coming back with her. She was only I think 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.400 nine weeks old by the time I came back. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.720 I remember the trailers just she would always be there. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.160 No, it's hard having baby's the only show for Yeah, yeah. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.560 Absolutely, But I know I I appreciate that. I really 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.960 appreciate that, especially with the crew, because I mean, we're 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.120 nothing without our crew, and I genuinely like I will 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:48.080 always go like above and beyond to tell our crew 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.400 and let them know that it's so important. Yeah. So 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.480 when Yeah, when I when I went to leave, it 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.319 was it was bittersweet. I mean, for sure it was 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.079 a family to at the time. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.840 Is there any part of you now the wishes that 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.360 you had stayed for longer or do you feel like 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.560 it was still like the right moment. 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.680 I feel like it was the right Yeah. And when 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.880 when I had had the conversation with Shonda about about leaving, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.520 we were just trying to figure out a really great 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.880 way for it to happen and for for Lexi to 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:26.600 go and reading it was like any part of. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.319 You the wishes that she hadn't died, because like, you know, 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.200 Jessica had left a show and she's come back on 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.800 the show, and it would have opened kept the door 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:34.440 more open. 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:35.920 Yeah, is there any part of you? 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.160 But I mean it was such an iconic moment and 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.560 awful but amazing and drama and sad, So it's hard 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:42.000 to think. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.800 I kind of got that redemption during the whole COVID 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.360 situation for Meredith and like kind of coming back for 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.120 that moment. And when I got reached out to for 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.680 to come back in that episode, I was filming Supergirl 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:59.120 in Vancouver, yes, and it was legit COVID, and so 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.600 weeds started filming on the show again, but no one 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.000 could leave Canada. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.319 Like you heard, it was tough to get you. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.319 Yeah, it was really tough because I was filming NonStop, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.000 like every day. But then the issue was if I 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.000 went across the border and then came back, I would 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.560 have to quarantine to two weeks, and it was like, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.240 there's no way that we could do it. So everything 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.840 that I filmed was on my own in a totally 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.120 different sound stage with like the blue screen behind me. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:33.120 So I'm pushing Meredith on like a an invisible Meredith. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.160 And I never felt so ridiculous. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.839 In my whole life having. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.760 To just do I mean, and granted, look, I was 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.360 working on a superhero show, so it's like you already 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.880 can feel pretty ridiculous. This was right up there. This 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:53.320 was right up there. But I'm glad that it touched people, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.480 oh that it was really well received, and I felt 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.360 like it was a nice bit of closure for me, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.120 you know, all this year ys later to be able 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.280 to come back in a really lovely way, and yeah, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:05.840 I was really greatful. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.960 And during a time where people were really looking for 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.880 something to look forward to and to see that felt 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.080 cozy and familiar and that they loved. So yeah, I 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.360 remember when I was there, we would have table reads 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.200 where we would read, you know, the new script, and 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.520 I remember that as much as I knew that it 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.160 was a lot on you, and I knew for myself 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:28.840 when it was when you were in every day, it 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.080 was exhausting and stressful and everything else, but you always 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.120 wanted the as an actor, you wanted the best storylines, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:42.080 and I remember you getting the best storylines, and it 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:47.400 was because again, you were equally fastile at comedy and drama. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.079 And also I kind of remember that, like, was every 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.440 guy in the hospital in love with you? 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.560 Yeah? Did you? 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.480 Did you actually see? 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.360 Were you also in love with her? At some point? 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.360 I only had eyes for kids? 0:11:59.400 --> 0:11:59.559 Yeah? 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.800 Yeah, yeah, but truly. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.920 Uh. Well, when I first came on the show, the 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.560 very first episode, which then led into the second episode, 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.520 I was hitting on on MC dreamy in the at 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.559 a bar for a funeral and I came in it 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:24.160 and everybody, I mean, they called me the worst. Like 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.400 I was. I was like mc fluddie, I was like everybody. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:32.200 They hated me because I was the girl. Remember it 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:38.160 was in the beginning. I mean they're like, oh my god, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.959 she's trying to get you know, she's a home wrecker, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.360 trying to get in between you know, Meredith and Derek. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.480 And and then the next episode. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.360 Was I'm Lexi, I'm your sister, and I was like, whoa. 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.520 It was crazy. And then yeah, after that, I started 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.720 as a regular on season season four. But it was 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.880 wild because before coming on the show, I mean, I 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.120 came in the last two episodes of season three and 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.960 that's when a lot of all the crazy shit went down. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:18.160 So I came in the act left to uh and 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.920 they didn't tell anybody that I was coming in as Lexi. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.160 So the thing was as you know, it's like the scripts. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.440 You didn't read them until you got to the table, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.720 so everything was cold, so you had no idea what 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.760 was happening. And and some people would just be like 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.640 killed off and you find that out, like and you 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:41.720 sit there and you feel, you know, it's not many. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.839 Yeah, it was not funny. It has changed now now 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.840 we get them ahead of time. But when I started 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.160 this was the same. It was terrifying. That's good, And 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.600 there was when I started I remember there being a 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.560 rule where you couldn't even like sit with your script 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.600 and quickly go through and look for your stuff. No, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.920 that was like a to me, that was like a 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.360 I was told that was a no no wow, that 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:04.120 I couldn't. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:11.320 Even you die essentially, Yeah, but I remember a couple 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.280 times sitting next to you, and you and I having 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.920 such young children and are being pregnant and are being 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:21.760 pregnant with young children. We werely equally thrilled to have 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.840 the work and also maybe not have the work. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.480 Right when you were working, you loved your storylines. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.280 You were so excited, but then also when you weren't 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.760 in a script so much, you were like, this could 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.080 be great. Yeah, I could sleep, I could sleep and 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:50.160 that would be good. Okay, the love interest, let's go, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.400 because well, the big joke on this on the in 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.600 this dialogue when we talk about Grays is that I 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.160 really do have a good memory, but evidently not so 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.320 much for Grace and Animated. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.400 This is the backstory. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.600 She'll have a memory, she'll be like, oh my god, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.840 that episode that I wasn't in that, and then the 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.920 fans will pull up that she was the main It 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.520 was like a standalone episode with Arizona, and so her 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:12.680 memory is novel. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:22.440 Anyways, So your love interests were, who were they? Know 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.080 what I'm saying, Well that more than one there was. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.440 There was a moment where Lexi was absolutely like in 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.520 love with love with George. Yeah that's my thought, okay, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.840 and then also going Alex krav. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.360 Yeah, everybody loves Lexi. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.720 I remember, remember now you know, it's a good thing 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.040 we weren't on the show at the same time. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.920 Friends, maybe we wouldn't have George. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:46.600 Alex. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:48.720 Who did you have to make out with on the show? 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.240 Do you remember George? 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.840 No? I never kidd no, we just like did I 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.320 think I kissed him on the mouth like. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.280 Like a pack like a pack? Yeah, not a makeout. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.720 No, made out with. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.040 Alex. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:08.320 And then of course so rude, I know somebody else 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.880 I thought there was maybe because remember didn't you cheat 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.960 on Mark with someone Alex? 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:14.880 Oh? 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.080 That was that makes sense? 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.120 That would make sense organically that Alex is the person 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:19.760 that you tee with. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.120 Yea is that on brand? Yeah? 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:28.760 Yeah, again my memory is you know what it is. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.600 I just remembered that the season that you knew that 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:39.240 Lexi was going to die, I was on the plane 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:44.440 as well, and it was my contract negotiation, my contract negotiate, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.000 contract negotiation here, and my head. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.080 Was on the chopping black. Oh my gosh, that's. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.000 Right, A terrible expression. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:52.920 But I was. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.360 I was in I was. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.120 It was I had been told that my character was 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.800 in limbo and that like they were going to figure 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.760 out contracts and money and and maybe I would come 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.720 back and maybe. So when the plane crash episode left 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.879 us in the woods, you did. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:12.240 I'm laughing through your death. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.760 I'm really not meaning to laugh, but you did die, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.560 and I might die. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.240 I could have died. Oh god, instead I lost my leg. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:22.280 You lost your leg? 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.639 Have you watched that episode since it aired? 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.040 I watched it when it aired and then I never 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:29.760 watched it again. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.719 Was it super traumatic to watch it? 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.199 It was super traumatic to film it, and then to 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.639 go back through it was like I was like, Okay, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.600 that's I'm I'm good. We're good. Yeah. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.200 If you could go back for LEXI, would you still 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.320 pick McSteamy for her? 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:49.480 Yeah? 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:51.440 You feel like they were a good fit. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.080 I feel like they were. I feel like they really were. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.040 Oh my god. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.800 Yeah, the fans are gonna I can just hear them ying. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:00.239 I know. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.280 Yeah, I know they I know, I know, I know. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.640 Well because it was just that it was that yin 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.040 and that yang. It was a completion, there was a 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.480 each one rounded out the other. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.960 Yeah, yeah, oh. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.000 When you okay. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.760 So Jessa's talked about this many times where she auditioned 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:21.960 multiple times. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.440 For the show before she came on the show. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.160 So for people that don't know, how did you end 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.240 up as Lexi Gray on Gray's Anatomy? 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:40.080 I had just had my daughter, so Tailan, she's eighteen no, wow, yeah, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:45.320 wild Well my son is twenty one? 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.080 Yes on the practice, Yes, I did. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.680 Yeah, twenty one and fifteen Yeah Annie Annie. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.040 Who I had no But how old were you when 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:53.600 you had Noah? 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.000 Was twenty one when I had Noah? 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.240 Oh my god. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.200 So okay, that was on the practice. That's the babies. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.000 That's insane, babies having babies, Yeah is what it was. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.640 So I had just had Taylan, so she was only 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.840 like a few months old, and I got a call. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.639 I was, this is funny, I'll try top. I was 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.680 living in Alaska, Okay, because that's where my kid's father's from. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.919 Ok So we were up there. I had Taylan. I 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.879 get a phone call from my manager because I was 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.880 taking some time off Oka and I get a phone 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.840 call from my manager at the time and she's like, hey, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.040 holy Rob Corn. So one of our executive producers I 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.320 had worked with on another show and had said that 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:44.520 show it was called Boys, Girls Club Girls, and so 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.080 he's he had talked to Shonda about me because they 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.800 were looking for the Lexi Gray character and and whatnot. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.240 And so he ends up calling my manager saying, hey, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.479 we'd love to have Kyler come and meet Shonda and 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.040 meet Linda Lowie and then meet Krista Vernoff. And no, no, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.879 at the time, it was Betsy Beear's. It wasn't it 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.080 wasn't Christa, and so they just wanted to do a 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.240 general meet. And I'm thinking, this is Craze anatomy. Yeah, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:14.000 like what yeah, yeah, And and to be honest, like 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.159 I'd only seen like a few episodes of it, so 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.040 then it was like but I knew that it was 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.840 like everything. So then I started binge watching everything and 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.800 then I'm going, oh my god, Okay, I'm gonna go down. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.040 So I was meeting and I sat in the room 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.000 with them for like I don't know, maybe forty five 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:30.880 and he knew it. 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:31.840 Was for a gray. 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.840 No, oh, you did not. I didn't know anything. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:36.959 Okay, okay, okay, I had no idea. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.359 It was just like, you're not even reading. 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.280 No, God, Okay, see, this is why I'm jealous of her, 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.639 to see what she gets cirved now. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.600 It was so I So we sat and we just 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.520 talked about life. I talked to them about like I 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.879 just had my daughter and and I'm living in Alaska, 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.560 and they were just kind of like, who are you? 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.080 And I was like, I don't know, just me. And 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.480 so then I go and I drive back to where 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.960 my manager was, and on the drive they called and 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.160 said that we want Kyler to come in. We want 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:14.520 to bring her in for the last two episodes of 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.560 season three as a guest star only, but then we 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.200 want to have her as a regular starting episode one 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:22.440 season four. Okay. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.760 I just want to point out to people listening that 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.240 this is highly irregular. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:33.320 Highly irregular. This does not it doesn't happen. No. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.560 Normally, you would be asked to come in for a 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:40.879 castinger to first, and then maybe you'd make it to 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.560 the producers, and then you would hopefully make it to 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:46.400 the showrunner, and then they would ask for the studio 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.040 and the network to look at you and a lot, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.040 and then they would bring you on for the couple 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.760 episodes and then if you'd worked out, then you might 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.359 be offered a regular role. 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.159 So you got all this I've never heard, I've never 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:03.200 heard of casting story on this on this Yeah, it was. 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.359 It was. It was extremely overwhelming and wild, and I 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.400 couldn't tell anybody. And so when I came in on 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.360 the show for that table read, for my very first 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.240 table read, everybody's like, oh, it's nice to meet you. Yeah, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:16.400 it's so great, and I'm glad. 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:18.479 At that point you knew that you were. 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:19.960 I knew you. 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:24.159 They didn't know. The did not nobody. 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.160 My last I think the last scene that I had 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.800 on that season finale was me saying, you know, I'm Lexi, 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.719 Lexi Gray. And then that's when, like, you know, I remember, 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:40.440 I remember Ellen looking over going. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:46.560 I was like, hi, guys here for a while. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.520 Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was insane, and I couldn't 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:55.359 tell anybody for yeah, like through four or five months, 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.280 I couldn't say anything to anybody because you were like sworn, 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:00.800 like you know, oh. 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:04.960 There's a definite seriousness to like your responsibility is at grace. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:06.760 It's like you do you take it very seriously what 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:07.560 you say. 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:12.080 Oh yeah, so I realize and I recognize how like 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:16.040 astounding that is, Like I I will always be grateful 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.600 for that, no matter what. Of course. Yeah, and it's 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.960 it doesn't happen. I'm glad that you said that, because yeah, 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:31.760 it was. It was very Kismodi University meant to be 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:33.200 that whole thing. 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:34.919 Okay, I'm just grateful to watch you on it. 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:36.359 I know I can't say it. 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.160 I have I have fangirl questions. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.760 What was your favorite and least favorite storyline on the show? 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.600 For Lexi, I just. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:45.000 Thought of one. 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:48.679 I thought of one to break the penis storyline? 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:50.040 Is your favorite? 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:55.720 No, no, no, it twas not my favorite. 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:57.800 And I remember having. 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:01.040 To read at the table rate no idea it was coming. 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:03.119 You had no idea what was happening. You're reading it, 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.160 and I remember shrinking in my chair and it stri 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.359 going up in front of my face because it was 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:12.000 like a fire ris bloodbread. Yeah yeah, yeaheah. It was mortifying, 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:19.160 absolutely mortifyed geez like favorite, Oh that's tough. 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:20.520 Or favorite moment on the show. 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:22.280 I woulden diaper we're in the diaper for the really 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:23.160 long st The. 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:25.680 Diaper was really great. Also, another thing that I did 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:29.600 not appreciate was having because I was pregnant, we had 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.639 to explain why Lexi was gaining weight. So we all 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:35.520 of a sudden made the storyline that I remember nervously ate. 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.639 Yes, I had every time she got stressed. Yeah, I 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.280 feel like that wouldn't happen now. No, it wouldn't happen now. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:42.520 I don't think that happened now. 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:44.000 It shouldn't happen then. 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:49.119 No, but it was what it was. Yeah, and so 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:51.560 that was That was a little rough, but I did. 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:56.800 I understood. I got it. But I had to eat 0:24:56.840 --> 0:25:02.040 seventeen Reese's peanut buttercups what in a scene? Because it 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:05.479 was during the scene. I couldn't spit back. 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:08.000 Oh no, you had to flat. Oh you had to eat. 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:08.919 The seventeen of them. 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.000 So, just so we're clear, gross, Jessica Kepsha would have 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:13.760 found a loophole in this. 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:15.840 Just so we're clear, Kyler Lee would not. 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:22.120 Because Kyler Lee is a committed actress. I wouldn't figure out, 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:27.040 I'm gonna like, I'm gonna see. No, Kyler would never 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.080 have done that you were also, so I talk about 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:35.400 how Chandra and also Sarah Drew are like low key 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:37.480 annoying to me because they're always. 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.480 Right about stuff street to know. 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.560 Like they're always like, oh, continuity, like you got to 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.280 do the thing that you were doing last time, Like 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:46.679 your hair doesn't look the same or. 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:50.600 What Jessina doesn't care about contuity. 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:56.040 Or whatever we're paying attention to that I'm not being 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:56.480 do my job. 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:01.040 It is true, It's true, very true. Okay. Favorite moment 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:02.800 on the show. 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:11.560 One of my favorite moments was early on when George 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:15.239 and Lexi were gonna move into an apartment together in 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:18.320 a non romantic way she thought it was. And so 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.600 all of a sudden, you know, Lexi decides, well, we've 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:24.040 got to spruce this place up. So I want to 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:26.359 find like things to put into the apartment, but had 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:29.520 no money, so started stealing things from the hospital, so 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:33.040 stealing potted you know, flowers that someone had left in 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:38.160 the room, or like literally like medical supplies, paintings off 0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:40.359 the wall. Like it was one of the moments that 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.240 they gave me like run with it, like half none 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.120 of it. And I feel like that for me kind 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:49.440 of opened me up a little bit more to feel 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:54.840 more confident being there and among such amazing people in 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:57.680 this massive show, because so much of it, I'm just 0:26:57.680 --> 0:26:59.400 sitting here and like, what am I doing here? 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:00.199 That's how I fun? 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:02.600 Why did they pick me? What am I doing here? 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:03.320 Yeah? 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:05.600 And so it didn't. It took me a while to 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.720 not think that I was going to be fired every episode. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.560 I think that's a common I think that everybody, A 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:11.640 lot of people report. 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:13.040 I mean, I think it's just. 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.040 It's such an established show and everyone had been on 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:20.320 for so long, and it just felt it felt very 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:21.199 intimidating to me. 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:23.760 Yeah, but I think there were also there were people 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:24.840 that were let go. 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:27.160 Yeah, well, I. 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:29.560 Mean that's do you know that it could happen. You 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:33.480 remember there being a whole thing about getting a chair? 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:35.920 You know that there were some people that bought like. 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.760 Yes, yeah, Chandra had a chair, and so did Sandra 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:40.880 had a chair? 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:42.200 What do you mean a chair? 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.679 Like getting their own cast chare. 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:47.679 Oh with the name on that's like the more the 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:48.760 so like it's like. 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.880 But the ones that have like the little yeah, yeah 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:52.480 you can't. 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:54.680 Do that because yeah, yeah you. 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:59.199 I heard well listen listening. There are legends when you 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:02.320 come on our show. There are like myths right that, 0:28:02.520 --> 0:28:06.800 like if you come on and you buy your own chair, 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:09.000 that is the. 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:11.720 Okay, I'm going to say it, so yes, I think 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:14.120 the last person that bought a chair was. 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:17.440 Like, oh, you don't have to say who it is, but. 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.880 Yes, she was let go. And so everybody was like. 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:24.880 Yes, yes, don't buy the chair. 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:27.359 And she had just bought the chair, and Trulie like 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:29.840 had just come in there and they're they're sorry, just 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.840 to be clear, they're personal expenses. You would buy an 0:28:33.960 --> 0:28:36.120 up Yes, there would be an up charge for really 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:39.120 nice chair, probably like five hundred and six hundred bucks. 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:40.560 And yeah, she bought it. 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:42.720 And then she was says, why I don't decorate my 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:46.840 trailer my trailer. I took over Eric's Eric Danes trailer 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:50.720 when I started, and it is the same trailer from 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:54.440 thirteen years ago, and I have not decorated it and 0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:57.280 made it all fancy because I hear that when you do. 0:28:57.320 --> 0:29:01.120 That, that's, you know, could also be a kiss of death. 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:09.320 It's a case of death, Yes, vowels divorced, it's that. 0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:09.920 It's that. 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:15.520 Yeah, okay, mm hmm, yeah, no, I get it. 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:17.080 I mean there was there was. It was. 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.760 It was just such a it was such a popular show. 0:29:20.960 --> 0:29:23.800 It was there was so much happening. Yes, there were 0:29:23.840 --> 0:29:28.360 a lot of like that. The stakes were high, and 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:30.400 I think then because people started watching it on the 0:29:30.400 --> 0:29:34.320 streaming it it literally never let go of its hold. 0:29:47.920 --> 0:29:50.880 Do you find that you're still approached NonStop for the 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:55.120 show more than anything because you've worked solidly, like for 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:57.760 so long, more than anything. 0:29:58.560 --> 0:30:03.720 It's grace and and it would be probably Supergirl, Supergirl, 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:05.080 not another teen movie. 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:09.040 Okay, yeah, finally it finally gets to Finally I get 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:13.320 my time to shine, you guys, because as we were 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:16.560 sitting here, Jessica was like, don't even like save it 0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:20.520 because I was geeking out Kyler before she was on Grays. 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:22.880 How old were you when you did not another teen movie? 0:30:23.400 --> 0:30:23.840 Eighteen? 0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:27.920 It is Halen's age, you guys. It's the fucking best. 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:29.200 So it is. 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:30.000 I'm not kidding. 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:35.680 It's it's so fucking funny, and it's it's still amazing. 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.000 I watched it. I've watched it in the last couple 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:38.400 of years. 0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:39.040 Oh my god. 0:30:39.360 --> 0:30:42.880 It makes fun So for people that don't know this movie, 0:30:42.920 --> 0:30:47.240 it makes fun of like all those teen two thousands movies. 0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:48.600 What was it? 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:48.920 Is it? 0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:49.719 What is it? 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:53.040 She's all that, She's all things I hate about you 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:54.720 and you. 0:30:55.840 --> 0:30:58.400 The best part is that Kyler was cast as the 0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:01.480 typical nerdy girl who was actually just really hot and 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:05.680 had glasses. But you were so funny in that movie. 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:08.720 Was that your first big role? And how? 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:12.040 Because that was a big studio movie, right. 0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:17.560 We filmed it took us forty eight days to film it. 0:31:18.040 --> 0:31:20.960 A lot of us. It was like our first big thing, 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:26.280 especially for Chris and I Evans. Chris Evans, So let 0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:28.480 me tell you about auditioning for that though, Okay, I 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:32.760 want to hear nine times thank you? Really more and 0:31:32.840 --> 0:31:36.440 more and more and more, people like I think we 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:38.760 auditioned for people that weren't even anything to do with 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:40.560 the movie. I thought, get it by that by that 0:31:41.480 --> 0:31:46.239 auditioned nine times together, because they didn't. They just we 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.280 were unknowns, yeah, you know at that point. And originally 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:52.040 I had actually I went in and read for the 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:55.560 character that Lacey Shaver ended up playing. Oh yes, so 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:57.240 it was only supposed to be like so. 0:31:57.240 --> 0:32:01.720 Lacey ends up playing basically she had an incredible like 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.960 teen movie where she walks in She's like the teen 0:32:04.040 --> 0:32:07.320 princess and yeah, but yeah, so she Lacey got that role, 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:09.120 which is kind of funny because they had worked together 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:09.560 in the past. 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:10.720 That was good that that's the role. 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:14.280 I went in for audition interesting and then I read 0:32:14.640 --> 0:32:17.920 role yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and I read with Joel 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:19.520 Gallen who is the director, and he looked at me 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:23.080 and he's like, hm, I don't think this is gonna work. 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:25.040 And I was like said, I was. 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:28.720 Like, oh, I'm so sorry because no, no, no, no no, I 0:32:28.720 --> 0:32:32.200 want you to read for Janie and handed me twelve 0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:37.680 pages of you know, of our sides and I was like, 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:39.520 he's like, can you come back tomorrow. 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:43.560 I was like, you can't do it now. Janie says, 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:49.720 you can't do that now. Yeahs okay. 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:50.040 Yeah. 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.320 So then I went in and auditioned and and then 0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:54.960 it was just we had just had to keep going 0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:57.520 in improve, proo, proof, proof, But then we got it 0:32:57.560 --> 0:32:59.560 and we were like, you guys, by that point we 0:32:59.600 --> 0:33:02.080 basically you had the whole movie, yeah, memorized. 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.480 Yeah, essentially, And you said your son just watched this movie. 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:09.840 He watched it like a year ago or something, and 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.400 it just makes me go back and think of all 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:15.160 the stuff that's in that movie, and I'm not appruved. 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:18.200 My son, like whatever, it just hit me where it 0:33:18.240 --> 0:33:22.240 was like so gross said the same thing. He was like, 0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:24.160 He's like, Mom, I had no idea it was you 0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:26.479 until I saw the credits at the end, and then 0:33:26.520 --> 0:33:28.600 I felt really uncomfortable. 0:33:30.120 --> 0:33:31.640 There's an American Pie element. 0:33:31.680 --> 0:33:33.920 Now if you watch American Pie, it's like, so you 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:35.680 can't believe that ever air? 0:33:36.840 --> 0:33:37.440 What got me? 0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:40.240 Why did that happen? 0:33:40.360 --> 0:33:42.640 It was no, I was seriously and you were so 0:33:42.800 --> 0:33:45.840 funny in that movie that I'm not surprised that you 0:33:46.080 --> 0:33:49.400 did comedy on very funny. You were very funny. If 0:33:49.440 --> 0:33:53.040 you could do one thing moving forward, because we're going 0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:54.880 to get to your project that you're on right now. 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:57.200 But if you could do one thing, would it be 0:33:58.040 --> 0:33:59.960 another movie like that? Another comedy? 0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:02.960 I want to be a villain, man, you do. I 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.000 want to be a villain like I want to play 0:34:05.040 --> 0:34:05.560 the bad guy. 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:07.200 Yeah, for sure. 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:09.439 I want to be a wish or like. 0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:15.240 Gap And you're very very cool, and I'm thinking maybe 0:34:15.400 --> 0:34:15.680 I don't know. 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:17.320 I think I get it. I would buy it. I 0:34:17.400 --> 0:34:19.799 buy you as a villain. I honestly don't think there's 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:20.480 anything you can't do. 0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:21.799 Yeah, I've been. 0:34:21.840 --> 0:34:23.759 I actually had a front ro seat for a long time, 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:26.239 just established so I'm I'm a big bully rid. 0:34:26.640 --> 0:34:27.840 I don't think there's anything you can't do. 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.680 So great. I'm leaving this room feeling so. 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:34.360 You should, honestly, because it's you. 0:34:35.360 --> 0:34:36.200 It's really real. 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:40.959 Your reputation is like King Stellar. Okay, let's talk about 0:34:40.960 --> 0:34:41.960 the project you're on now. 0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:45.000 Though, yes, Okay, we'll talk about my jealous later, be 0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:45.680 jealous lator. 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:49.759 Okay, So you work with Andy Andy McDowell. 0:34:49.480 --> 0:34:51.759 Anny McDowell, who plays my mom on the show. 0:34:53.160 --> 0:34:53.920 That's good casting. 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:57.319 By the way, I could see that she's like one 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:01.279 of I've never met this women I've ever met and 0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:05.560 or worked with in my life. Like, she is so cool, 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:10.320 and she's so quirky and eccentric and all these wonderful 0:35:10.360 --> 0:35:13.359 things that you want her to be, and she's just 0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:17.320 lovely and kind and like it's been it's been really 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:23.400 wonderful for me to have her to talk to and 0:35:23.520 --> 0:35:25.600 to just kind of be able to have like that 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:26.520 mom figure. 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:26.920 Yeah. 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:30.520 The really wild thing about this show is that it 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:33.880 is so much life imitates art and very cathartic for 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:37.920 me in what way in the way that the character. 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:42.080 So my character, I play Andy McDowell's daughter, and then 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:47.080 I also play a mom, so I'm in the middle generation, 0:35:47.960 --> 0:35:52.360 and the two myself and my mom haven't spoken to 0:35:52.400 --> 0:35:55.160 each other after like a really terrible family tragedy happens, 0:35:56.560 --> 0:35:58.759 end up kind of like falling apart, falling away from 0:35:58.800 --> 0:36:02.680 each other for about twenty years. And I had the 0:36:02.680 --> 0:36:05.080 same thing with my mother, So I haven't spoken to 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:08.879 or seen my mother in twenty years. And then I 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:11.359 also have teenage daughters. So in the show, I have 0:36:11.400 --> 0:36:16.880 a seventeen sixteen year old daughter had gotten together with 0:36:17.200 --> 0:36:22.359 the father of our child as a teenager, essentially like 0:36:22.760 --> 0:36:25.680 a long time together. Yeah, Like there were just all 0:36:25.800 --> 0:36:29.759 these it was mirroring, like, yeah, synchronicities that were coming up, 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:31.799 and I was like, wow, this is like that's kind 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:34.279 of you know, it's kind of wacky. And originally when 0:36:34.320 --> 0:36:38.080 I first got called about it, because this was after COVID, 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:40.879 everything was on tape, and it was like, oh my god, 0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:43.440 I feel like I'm the worst actor ever because when 0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:45.319 you try to self tape, yeah, and you look at 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:47.120 yourself and it takes you four hours because you're just 0:36:47.160 --> 0:36:48.160 like I'm a piece of shit. 0:36:48.640 --> 0:36:50.719 Yeah, this is the reality. 0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:53.480 Now we have to like tape our auditions in our 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:55.880 home and we'd get to watch it back, which is horrified. 0:36:55.880 --> 0:36:57.080 Oh god, I don't watch back. 0:36:57.160 --> 0:36:58.640 No, it's just awful. It's awful. 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:00.879 You're like, how can I light my double chant? It's 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:05.440 really exciting, That's how I feel. 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:07.600 No, it's terrible. 0:37:08.640 --> 0:37:11.080 Are they going to notice just how much light is? 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:14.759 Yeah, we just pumped it up a little bit? 0:37:17.440 --> 0:37:19.800 Balls yeah no, yeah, no, it's horrifying. 0:37:19.840 --> 0:37:23.240 No, okay, it was rough. And so I was submitting 0:37:23.280 --> 0:37:26.040 tapes and I was just like, I don't I don't 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:27.920 think I'm ever going to work again. I feel like 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:30.400 I'm awful. And then I get a phone call from 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.960 my manager. My manager says, you know, hey, we got 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:36.799 a call. We have an offer on the table for you. 0:37:37.560 --> 0:37:41.879 And I was just like, okay, like what are we doing? 0:37:42.960 --> 0:37:48.080 Tell me about and I'm back. And then initially I 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:52.759 was she my manager says, Joni. She says, so hear 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:56.879 me out, and I was like okay, okay, okay, where 0:37:56.880 --> 0:37:59.840 are we going with this? And she goes it's Hallmark, 0:38:01.160 --> 0:38:07.319 And initially my first thought was like okay, okay, like 0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:10.239 feed me a little bit more, like I, yes, I 0:38:10.239 --> 0:38:12.440 want to know, because all I really knew Hallmark for 0:38:12.760 --> 0:38:14.960 was the Christmas movie yeah, and like the hallwrite stuff, 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:17.440 and I hadn't seen any of the series or anything 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:21.200 like that, and I just didn't I didn't see Hallmark 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:24.480 as like a series kind of network at that time. 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:27.839 And so I was like, I was like, okay, all right, 0:38:28.120 --> 0:38:32.719 and Jonie was like, just trust me, Like this is 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:36.960 like nothing you would know from Hallmark like ever, And 0:38:37.040 --> 0:38:39.680 so I want you to talk to the showrunners who 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:44.640 happened to me Mother Daughter team and phenomenal. And so 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:46.400 Jonie sends me, She's like, I'm going to send you 0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:48.040 the first two scripts. I want you to read it 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:50.680 and then call me back right away because I really 0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:51.759 want to talk to you about it. And I was 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:53.680 like okay. She seems like super hyped about this, and 0:38:53.719 --> 0:38:56.640 I was like okay, and I trust Jonie. Yeah, And 0:38:56.760 --> 0:39:02.360 so I read them and it was it was mind blowing, 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:07.640 like reading it and going, wait, this is what like it? 0:39:08.080 --> 0:39:10.200 There was so much to it and it was so 0:39:10.280 --> 0:39:13.799 beautifully done and so beautifully written, and these characters were 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:17.960 so rich, but it was like gritty almost it was. 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:23.520 It was like raw, emotional, deep dark stuff, not pretty things. Yeah, 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:27.000 and for what people knew Homemark Bee, like you you 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:29.120 knew you could always count on there being a heart 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:33.440 behind it, right, There's certain things that there is sentimentality. Absolutely, 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:37.080 there's certain things that we feel about Hallmark that yeah, 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:38.759 you can sit and you know you're gonna be able 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:39.719 to walk away and feel good. 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:42.160 This is like, this is it. 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:45.160 It was heavy, it was intense, it's time travel, it's 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:54.600 you know, these beautiful just profoundly deep relationships within the family, 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:59.160 but just like brokenness, a lot of brokenness. And so 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:03.080 I and I was like, this is absolutely fantastic, And 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:05.080 so I called and I spoke to the showrunners and 0:40:05.080 --> 0:40:07.279 we had like an hour and a half conversation. They 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:09.480 were just like, we really want to break the mold here. 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:14.040 We really want to take this and have an opportunity 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:16.200 to turn the network on its head for what it's 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:19.200 most known for and show them what we're capable of. 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:21.600 And it's just like it was awesome because it gave 0:40:21.680 --> 0:40:25.040 us a chance to kind of like really like flex 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:28.919 our muscles and like what we can Almost initially started 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:30.880 out what can we get away with? Yeah, you know, 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:33.239 and you're kind of where we were pushing boundaries. We 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:39.000 were doing, you know, these these largely emotional, like traumatic 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:42.880 scenes that a lot of the people that had worked 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:46.320 on you know, the other shows or the films and whatnot, 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:49.960 we're going holy like this is, this is. I had 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.240 someone and say like, did you just release some demons? 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:54.480 And I was like, yeah, I think I did. Actually 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:55.800 it was really great, thank you. 0:40:56.120 --> 0:40:56.319 Yeah. 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:01.320 And it just has been this beautiful journey of just pushing, 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:07.080 pushing the boundaries and making things as real and authentic 0:41:07.560 --> 0:41:10.440 and not giving a shit what you look like when 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:13.040 you're crying, because coming off of Grays, it's like it 0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:13.520 was such. 0:41:13.400 --> 0:41:14.680 A beauty show. 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:17.000 Even though it was a doctor show, it was still 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:20.760 like everybody looks We're walking around and everybody's ridiculously gorgeous 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:24.840 and beautiful, and for me, in a sense, it was like, ooh, 0:41:25.120 --> 0:41:29.440 I have to maintain being pretty. I have to maintain that. 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:31.200 And then I go on to a superhero show and 0:41:31.239 --> 0:41:33.400 it's like lots of makeup and like all this stuff, 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:35.399 and I just had this image in my head where 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:37.719 I was like, oh my god, like wait, they want 0:41:37.760 --> 0:41:40.560 me to just wear mascara and it's like some concealer 0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:43.600 and what I'm like, No, I'm gonna look horrible. So 0:41:43.640 --> 0:41:48.879 I had to really grow yeah inside, like my heart, 0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:52.839 my mind, my spirit, my soul had I had to 0:41:52.840 --> 0:41:55.080 do a lot of growing, and I had gained weight 0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:57.920 over the years. Like forty two, I hit perry menopause 0:41:58.120 --> 0:41:59.520 pretty fucking quick. 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:02.560 We need to do Ale episode on paramenopause because I 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:04.160 just heard about it and I turned forty. 0:42:04.239 --> 0:42:05.560 I'm like, oh, it's. 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:08.920 Common, it's pretty, it's pretty rude, it's yeah, everybody's got 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:12.239 their own stories whatever. But it started to hit and 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:14.319 all of a sudden, I'm just this whole version of me. 0:42:14.440 --> 0:42:18.880 That's like what happened. And I felt like a foreigner, 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:24.600 but I was able to. I was surrounded by so 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:28.520 many people that just loved me and cared about me 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:32.200 and didn't give a shit about any of that. Like 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:35.239 it had no context. It was just no, just go 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.279 and be you know, just be you, like, go and 0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:42.000 be you and be real and and watch what it 0:42:42.040 --> 0:42:46.920 does for you. Ah you just like and it like 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:50.319 there was like a liberation that happened. And I still 0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:54.160 struggle with with you know, how I look and things 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:56.480 change and you know, it's it is what it is, 0:42:56.560 --> 0:43:02.160 but but it gave me like this sense of h yeah, yeah, 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:07.120 like okay, I actually I feel good about who I 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:14.000 am and who I'm growing to be, kind of almost 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:18.360 having like a do over at forty two. Yeah, like okay, 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:20.319 this is like there's a lot in here that I 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:22.440 need to work on. But I feel like it was 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:26.680 sort of like the the diving board for me to 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:29.239 just enter this whole new part of my life. And 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:32.799 so with this show, with the castmates, the work that 0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:38.680 we're doing really genuinely has been healing Kyler like me 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:42.600 as a person and has helped me, you know. Also 0:43:42.800 --> 0:43:44.680 with I'm Able to do, it's like a little bit 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:46.560 of comedy things here and there, like in the show 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:49.160 like we keep it. It's also there's lighthearted moments of 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:50.040 course because. 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:52.560 Balanced right yeah yeah, yeah. 0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:56.040 But it really just gave me, like I don't know, 0:43:56.400 --> 0:44:01.279 some I'm gonna say some balls, like to just to 0:44:01.440 --> 0:44:05.600 just say, okay, I had the courage just live you. Yeah, 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:07.600 it gave me the courage. Gave you the courage, which 0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:11.120 was like a really big which this. 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:12.920 Is so funny because I'm listening to you and I 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:20.400 I think recently, I have been saying to myself and 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:27.719 to others, like in my closest circle, why, in this 0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:29.600 time of your life that you're actually meant to be 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:33.800 so secure and so set and so like you've earned 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:36.880 all these things? How does this self doubt creep in? 0:44:37.040 --> 0:44:37.120 Like? 0:44:37.200 --> 0:44:40.560 How does this like Oh I should look like. 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:42.800 This, or I should look like that, or I should 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.120 feel this, or I should have that or all these 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:49.439 things that should any of the shoulds. Yeah, and you 0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:53.160 you doubt yourself. You go, well, what am I if 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.319 I'm not checking that box? And then you have a 0:44:56.320 --> 0:45:00.600 whole other piece of you sort of like turn on, 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:05.240 which is your physiological being, Like what where you connect 0:45:05.280 --> 0:45:06.879 to your body and what your body's doing? 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:10.359 Oh god, all the different things. So it's really it's 0:45:10.520 --> 0:45:11.160 it's really wild. 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:14.279 We talk a lot about emotionally or in circumstances where 0:45:14.280 --> 0:45:18.120 we have this amazing community of people that we've just 0:45:18.200 --> 0:45:20.040 grown over the past, you know, six months since we 0:45:20.120 --> 0:45:23.840 started that call in and they call in with questions 0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:28.160 and and and situations and things, and we talk about 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:30.319 them all and they're all so incredible, and they bring 0:45:30.320 --> 0:45:32.880 so much vulnerability and so much strength and so often 0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:37.840 a lot of the time, we will say it seems 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:40.799 like it's time to hit the reset button and just 0:45:40.920 --> 0:45:45.440 like take all your factory settings and like just clear 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:49.120 like clear the board, clear your mind, and get back 0:45:49.160 --> 0:45:54.400 into something that is different. And it sounds I mean, 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:56.120 listen to you say it. It sounds like you were 0:45:56.160 --> 0:45:59.040 able to get into something different. And I love that. 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:02.520 Joney I've known her since because I've known Carrie Russell. Yeah, 0:46:02.640 --> 0:46:04.759 and I was Carrie Russell will talk about Jonny as 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:05.160 a manager. 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:08.360 I'd be like, Joni Bursteam, your manager. 0:46:07.960 --> 0:46:10.239 Does what your manager said. 0:46:10.239 --> 0:46:12.959 What I'm like, is this the smartest woman in the world, Like. 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:15.840 Yeah, essentially, And then I saw her again because she 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:17.960 was Patrick's manager and you're manager. 0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:21.600 So that's how I came to be with Jia. 0:46:22.280 --> 0:46:24.239 This is amazing. Oh my gosh. I feel like we 0:46:24.239 --> 0:46:25.360 need a part too with Kyler. 0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:27.880 Yeah. Are you kidding? 0:46:28.360 --> 0:46:29.880 I'm down. I'm so no. 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:32.399 I'm just like, I'm so captivated by what you're saying 0:46:32.480 --> 0:46:36.360 because I feel like there's so many people in so 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:42.759 many different industries. There are women hitting our age. 0:46:40.600 --> 0:46:49.680 That's great, well, but we're being thrown in It feels 0:46:49.719 --> 0:46:52.600 like we're being thrown back into the deep end in 0:46:52.680 --> 0:46:55.560 so many different ways, paramenopause being one of them. 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:58.240 Right, I didn't even know that term until this year. 0:46:59.040 --> 0:47:01.520 And I thinks it's getting a lot of airtime right now. Yeah, 0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:03.319 I mean, and I truly mean that. 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:06.640 I mean that because no, so many you know. 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:08.000 It existed and it's coming. 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:10.279 But my point is, I think, is that like to 0:47:10.400 --> 0:47:16.400 hear how powerful you feel and how you've taken the 0:47:16.400 --> 0:47:20.400 bowl by the horns is just so fucking inspiring and cool, 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:24.480 and it's not easy to do. Like I know, it 0:47:24.520 --> 0:47:26.319 sounds kind of maybe silly to other people, like just 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:29.759 wearing a scare and concealer, Like it feels really vulnerable 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:33.320 on camera, especially when you're like us and you've worked 0:47:33.440 --> 0:47:36.720 very young and you can watch yourself back in twenty 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:40.440 eight being on film, right, which gives you this beautiful 0:47:40.480 --> 0:47:42.800 filter and you're you know, you're not aged. 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:46.880 Yes, it's hard, it is hardful. 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:50.440 You're watching yourself age and then you're like, hey, strip 0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:52.640 that away and you get to be you and you're. 0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:54.400 Just gonna go out there with my scariot. Sounds silly, 0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:55.800 but like it's tough. 0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:58.319 It's very vulnerable, and it's very vulnerable and. 0:47:58.280 --> 0:48:01.560 To hear you feel so powered by this production that 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:01.920 you're on. 0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:05.799 I mean, yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing, and I think 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:09.839 that Hallmark they're rocking it clearly by supporting their actresses 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:10.160 like this. 0:48:10.280 --> 0:48:13.040 I mean, that's a dream that really is it? 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:18.000 Really? It really has been a wonderful last few years. 0:48:18.080 --> 0:48:23.600 So we just we finished season three and we're waiting 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:25.959 to hear about a season four. 0:48:26.000 --> 0:48:32.600 It's so am you need to be picked up right away, 0:48:34.120 --> 0:48:34.719 please please. 0:48:34.800 --> 0:48:38.640 But also, we film in Toronto, and I love Toronto. 0:48:38.880 --> 0:48:43.400 I love it there, and like I lived in Vancouver 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:47.120 for six years because that's where we filmed Supergirl, and 0:48:47.239 --> 0:48:49.319 I just love Canada. I feel like I am I am, 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:54.880 I am now. So yeah, and and because I live 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:58.160 in Nashville, so it's only a two hour flight nor yeah, 0:48:58.280 --> 0:49:01.399 you know, to Toronto. So that's also been a really 0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:03.600 fun part of it is Nashville, do you know. 0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:06.640 I've never been I love Nashville, never been to Nashville, 0:49:06.640 --> 0:49:07.880 and I really want to go, So I'm going to 0:49:07.880 --> 0:49:10.600 come to stay with you, okay. And I've also never 0:49:10.640 --> 0:49:15.760 been to Miami, but that's there. I can skip that, Okay, Well. 0:49:15.560 --> 0:49:19.520 Listen, just teenager, So much different vibes, So I don't 0:49:19.560 --> 0:49:21.960 know what it's like anymore, So I can't say that confidently. 0:49:22.360 --> 0:49:23.480 I kind of like semi compident. 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:41.400 Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, wait, hold on, we actually can't finish. 0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:42.120 It's done. 0:49:42.520 --> 0:49:44.879 You said it. We can't stop until we talk about 0:49:44.880 --> 0:49:45.840 the musical episode. 0:49:46.360 --> 0:49:52.040 Oh my god, we do okay, because again another. 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:56.240 Reason number seventy Hey, dear diary, Reason number eight hundred 0:49:56.280 --> 0:49:59.319 and ninety five. Then I am jealous of Kyler. We 0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:02.920 get our musical assignments and Kyler is singing are album. 0:50:03.120 --> 0:50:08.640 She has an album released album. Jess could be your 0:50:08.640 --> 0:50:14.240 backup whisper. You can whistle, I could. 0:50:14.880 --> 0:50:16.640 She was a whistler and a half. I'll tell you 0:50:16.719 --> 0:50:19.400 what nobody can whistle. Kyler. 0:50:19.840 --> 0:50:23.000 Give me okay for the listen, give me one word 0:50:23.120 --> 0:50:26.120 to describe your feeling about being in the musical episode. 0:50:26.800 --> 0:50:27.320 One word. 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:34.080 It's hard before or after? Before terrified? 0:50:34.280 --> 0:50:36.719 After terrified? 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:43.680 I was gonna be I know, but I feel like 0:50:43.719 --> 0:50:46.840 I kind of went after him because I just feel 0:50:46.880 --> 0:50:51.040 like that the rock. 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:53.560 And roll, the grit in his voice. Yeah, he definitely won. 0:50:54.480 --> 0:50:55.879 Does an impression of that now? 0:50:55.960 --> 0:50:57.960 On my god, it's so d. 0:51:01.760 --> 0:51:03.600 Okay, we have to wrap up. But before we do 0:51:04.160 --> 0:51:06.560 The Way Home? How can people watch it? 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:10.880 What time? So The Way Home Season three will be 0:51:11.120 --> 0:51:15.400 airing on Hallmark Plus for streaming January second. 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:18.040 Amazing, I'm watching all that a ten weeks in a 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:19.680 row my times. 0:51:19.760 --> 0:51:21.360 Yeah, yeah, yeah, do you want. 0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:25.839 To have something to watch that? Because loving Andy, she's phenomenal. 0:51:26.239 --> 0:51:28.480 But if there's like a family thing that you did 0:51:28.520 --> 0:51:31.399 want to watch, it's a It's okay. I love it. 0:51:31.400 --> 0:51:32.919 It's a wonderful show. 0:51:33.200 --> 0:51:35.239 I can't wait. I can't watch Kyl. 0:51:35.600 --> 0:51:38.160 I'm a fan for so long. I'm so happy. Thank 0:51:38.200 --> 0:51:40.000 you so much for taking the time with us. 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:42.480 But let's do this again. I mean, I live I 0:51:42.520 --> 0:51:45.040 live in Nashville, so it's like, okay, I mean, but 0:51:45.120 --> 0:51:46.880 if I'm in or we do it. 0:51:47.120 --> 0:51:50.080 We have We've had people who come in with us. Okay, great, 0:51:50.160 --> 0:51:52.200 you have you can do there always be a guest 0:51:52.239 --> 0:51:54.720 on the show. Yes, yes, you have a seat. Whenever 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:56.080 you want you tell us yes. 0:51:56.640 --> 0:51:58.600 And then all I remember because I didn't watch the 0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:04.120 show after after yeah words, but that I guess I 0:52:04.200 --> 0:52:07.880 was eaten by wolves something like that. Really, like we 0:52:07.920 --> 0:52:11.880 could hear the wolves getting like getting after Lexi or 0:52:11.920 --> 0:52:12.560 something like that. 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:16.200 My god, wait, why do I feel like that's it's okay? 0:52:16.239 --> 0:52:16.479 Thing? 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:20.200 I think, is it someone's nightmare like they had they 0:52:20.200 --> 0:52:21.480 were calling something and they're. 0:52:21.360 --> 0:52:25.080 Feel No, I feel like it was Christina says that 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:28.879 there's something that comes up, and Christina says, I could 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:29.319 hear the. 0:52:29.280 --> 0:52:30.919 Wolves eating you. 0:52:31.040 --> 0:52:34.720 Yeah, I need you to confirm if Lexi was eaten 0:52:34.760 --> 0:52:35.400 by wolves. 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:37.680 I just want to know, because like wolves like like 0:52:37.719 --> 0:52:39.600 one of my spirit animals. So I'm like, I'm down 0:52:39.640 --> 0:52:44.160 with that. If you like that, you're in it. Yeah, 0:52:44.320 --> 0:52:46.239 I'm just curious. I don't know. 0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:51.040 Do you remember me being so pregnant and like screaming 0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:51.800 in the woods. 0:52:53.680 --> 0:52:59.960 I do remember, because it was freezing it was so cold. 0:53:00.640 --> 0:53:02.719 Big Bear. Yeah, I was. 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:05.279 Prayed with Poppy and then try by the way to 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:05.640 Big Bear. 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:06.279 I almost done. 0:53:06.480 --> 0:53:06.600 Ye. 0:53:07.640 --> 0:53:10.000 Actually, legitimately, that was the only time I've actually ever 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:13.759 been afraid from my life, but I was. That must 0:53:13.800 --> 0:53:16.240 have been May and she was born on June twentieth, 0:53:16.880 --> 0:53:19.480 so truly like a month away from having Okay. 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:22.320 Alright, alright, so every time where we. 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:23.600 Call it okay. 0:53:23.920 --> 0:53:30.000 The end the episode