Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me. All about that
Speaker 1: high school drama, Girl drama, girl, all about.
Speaker 2: Them high school queens.
Speaker 3: We'll take you for a ride, and our comic girl
Speaker 3: sharing for the right teen drama queens up girl fashion, but.
Speaker 2: Your tough girl, you could sit with us.
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Speaker 4: I respect the brevity of this week's synopsis. I like
Speaker 4: it that we're like, let's not even bother, let's just
Speaker 4: say it hits the fan.
Speaker 5: It is the perfect way to start this episode. Ladies
Speaker 5: and gentlemen, you're here with us. We are on season eight,
Speaker 5: episode eleven, Darkness on the Edge of Town air day,
Speaker 5: December seventh, twenty ten, and the blessedly short synopsis that
Speaker 5: Rob is talking about reads, thus a storm strikes Tree Hill,
Speaker 5: putting everyone's life in danger the end.
Speaker 3: It's really just so short, it is.
Speaker 4: I was so excited. If you get to the synopsis,
Speaker 4: I just I dissociated.
Speaker 3: I wonder if the person that had to write it
Speaker 3: was like, you kind of got to see it to
Speaker 3: believe it.
Speaker 4: I give up, Yeah, yes, because if you wrote it,
Speaker 4: you'd be like, and then this person has head trauma,
Speaker 4: and this person also has head trauma, and this person
Speaker 4: gets stabbed, and this it would just be it would
Speaker 4: be a mess. We are also joined by the lovely,
Speaker 4: the psychotic, massively talented Amanda Schule. Hi High Poal, Hi buddy,
Speaker 4: you were great in this episode.
Speaker 2: In this episode, so many layers.
Speaker 4: This episode was not my best work, but I got
Speaker 4: to say the three of you crushed it.
Speaker 6: I thought you were great.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I've been told my off camera presence is almost better
Speaker 4: than my on camera presence.
Speaker 3: I just think it speaks to who you are as
Speaker 3: an actor that in every scene that Quinn called Clay,
Speaker 3: you were really on the phone for Chantal. It's like
Speaker 3: you really are a team player. Rob, You're a good dude.
Speaker 4: Thank you for seeing you that.
Speaker 5: That is something that you don't think about often when
Speaker 5: you're watching a TV show that an actor may be
Speaker 5: talking to another character on the phone, and often they're
Speaker 5: just reading with somebody off camera, usually script supervisor or
Speaker 5: an ad or something as reading the other person's lines.
Speaker 5: But on our show, our guys figured out how to
Speaker 5: get the get everybody on the phone. So even if
Speaker 5: Rob was out grocery shopping, you know, you just step
Speaker 5: to the side and jump on the phone for the
Speaker 5: scene so that Chantal could actually hear his voice, and
Speaker 5: we would a lot of us would do that for
Speaker 5: each other. It's it's a really nice little addition to
Speaker 5: our situation.
Speaker 6: I've only had that once that somebody was actually on
Speaker 6: the phone with me, and I am terrable with pretend
Speaker 6: phone calls. Absolutely terrible, So well done your people for
Speaker 6: figuring that out.
Speaker 3: It's so awkward. At least if your script supervisor reads
Speaker 3: with you, like the off camera person, at least you're
Speaker 3: having a conversation. But when you're just doing the dialogue
Speaker 3: and you're like, hey, honey, what time did you say
Speaker 3: you'd be home? And then you're like be be me.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so you might get there before me, And
Speaker 3: you just feel so stupid because you're like, am I
Speaker 3: waiting long enough for this person to actually say the
Speaker 3: thing that I know they're shooting next Wednesday? Is it
Speaker 3: even going to matter? And then you feel nuts and
Speaker 3: basically just I don't know. At least for me, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm questioning every choice I've ever made in my life
Speaker 3: in this moment.
Speaker 2: It's so awkward.
Speaker 5: I also feel like it can be really awkward if
Speaker 5: the person reading like really wants to do a good job,
Speaker 5: and so then they start acting out the part for
Speaker 5: you off camera, not the other actor, just like a
Speaker 5: stand in or ad or whoever you know, been given
Speaker 5: the job of reading your sides, and they're really trying.
Speaker 5: But then I'm like, it's really throwing me off because
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't I really don't actually want you
Speaker 5: to act. I want you to just say words, please.
Speaker 3: Please don't. Can I tell you?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 3: The most awkward example I have of this that is
Speaker 3: truely one of my favorite days I've ever had on set.
Speaker 3: I was working on a show and also shooting a
Speaker 3: movie which like what a blessing? What a curse? And
Speaker 3: that there was a week where the travel didn't line
Speaker 3: up kind of at the end of the movie. Between
Speaker 3: me and this like actor I've looked up to my
Speaker 3: whole life, like one arguably probably the most famous actor
Speaker 3: I've ever worked with. I'm like so excited to be
Speaker 3: on set with him. We've had the best time, and
Speaker 3: no one has told me on this day that I'm
Speaker 3: on set and he's not, And I'm like, what but
Speaker 3: what do you And they were like, yeah, we're going
Speaker 3: to shoot a bunch of your coverage because we got
Speaker 3: to get you out for your show. And he's going
Speaker 3: to do this other thing, and so his double's going
Speaker 3: to work with you and he's done. You know, he
Speaker 3: does this. They're very well practiced at this, because you know,
Speaker 3: he has this big career. I'm like, okay, all right,
Speaker 3: the double's been great. He's really nice. You know, he's
Speaker 3: on set. They're doing all this stunt coordination whatever. But
Speaker 3: nobody tells me that this lovely man's lovely double doesn't act.
Speaker 3: He does the stunt stuff, but he doesn't do any dialogue.
Speaker 3: So we are rolling and this amazing, like most entertaining
Speaker 3: person on set, young scrip supervisor. We have this chick
Speaker 3: from Argentina who makes everybody laugh every day. I look
Speaker 3: at this actor's double, I deliver my line and from
Speaker 3: like eighty feet away here.
Speaker 4: You gotta call the d we know where the drugs
Speaker 4: are coming from.
Speaker 3: And I was like, and I just had to like
Speaker 3: do a take with this woman from like way far
Speaker 3: away screaming and this lovely man like doing all the
Speaker 3: physical action, looking at the ground and not speaking. To
Speaker 3: me and they cut and the director was like, honestly,
Speaker 3: you guys are so amazing, Like the way you can
Speaker 3: just do that together, no one would ever know. And
Speaker 3: I was like, bro, I didn't know. I didn't know,
Speaker 3: and like honestly, I watched the movie and I was like,
Speaker 3: you'd never know, So maybe we shouldn't be self conscious
Speaker 3: about anything.
Speaker 4: Ever, I just can't believe that Scott Beao did that
Speaker 4: to you, I know.
Speaker 3: In charge of what rob.
Speaker 5: I wish that I could somehow be a fly on
Speaker 5: the wall inside your mind. Like there's so many times
Speaker 5: when you I feel like you're just sitting listening quietly,
Speaker 5: and I've had conversations with you just across the table
Speaker 5: and you're so good at listening. You really check in.
Speaker 5: You're like right there along with But I just want
Speaker 5: to hear the narration that's rolling behind the behind is
Speaker 5: still dropped in this there's definitely a script running well.
Speaker 2: It feels like you.
Speaker 3: Have a whole team of SNL like joke writers just
Speaker 3: up there all the time being like, oh, if she
Speaker 3: pauses here, I got it. Nope, she's pausing there, I
Speaker 3: got it now, Like it's so good.
Speaker 4: The script is usually like what's what's for lunch?
Speaker 6: What do I have?
Speaker 4: What snacks do we have? And then occasionally it's like
Speaker 4: Scott Bay, it would be funny here, say Scott baa, yeah,
Speaker 4: in the same vein as you. So I have an
Speaker 4: incredibly awkward story from one it's like my first big
Speaker 4: show and uh doesn't Yeah, And Lipstick Jungle ad sex
Speaker 4: like every episode of Lipstick, right, and I'm like, I
Speaker 4: came in late in the pilot got picked up. So
Speaker 4: then we go to New York, right, And one of
Speaker 4: the scenes we have to reshoot is a bedroom love
Speaker 4: making scene. They didn't have the room for it, so
Speaker 4: they built three quarters of a bedroom in the middle
Speaker 4: of a high school gymnasium.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And my my love interest on the show, Kim Raver,
Speaker 4: had just had her child, so they had a double
Speaker 4: for her. And they had also told me like two
Speaker 4: days prior, like, hey, you're gonna have to wear a
Speaker 4: modesty triangle.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: They actually they just sent a rider to my like
Speaker 4: to my contract, to my agents, and I just saw
Speaker 4: a modesty triangle and something deep in my core was like,
Speaker 4: this is not good. It's not good.
Speaker 6: Gang.
Speaker 4: For those of you who don't know all show the
Speaker 4: YouTube audience. It's like at this tiny triangle of fabric
Speaker 4: with a second piece sewn on the bottom, and you
Speaker 4: basically just like put yourself in this triangle and there's
Speaker 4: there's topstick tape on the top of it, and it
Speaker 4: essentially turns you into a kendle like, Oh, I would
Speaker 4: rather be naked than wear this thing.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I would rather be dead.
Speaker 4: Like I wish that were the most embarrassing part. But no,
Speaker 4: So I show up high school gymnasium. This set ain't closed, right,
Speaker 4: there's people everywhere. Wait wait, wait what well I should
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's big, so it's closed, but like.
Speaker 2: But people are walking around.
Speaker 4: Well, there's no wall exactly, Like it was hard to
Speaker 4: create privacy.
Speaker 6: Well how did they didn't make a wall? Like, they
Speaker 6: didn't hang a curtain of some sort.
Speaker 4: No, they had they had a couple of the walls, right,
Speaker 4: This was the early adds exactly. And they put video
Speaker 4: village like on the other side of the set obviously,
Speaker 4: so they were completely out of the eye line. They
Speaker 4: trod in a gal and they go like, Hi, this
Speaker 4: is Carly. She's gonna be Kim's double I'm like, Okay, hey,
Speaker 4: it's nice to meet you. I'm rob. They're like, great,
Speaker 4: d robe I have?
Speaker 6: I have?
Speaker 4: So then she literally lays down and I'm like, it's
Speaker 4: nice to meet you. As she's in just pasties.
Speaker 3: So you did love actually the real.
Speaker 4: The real scene and oh, I'm so she's in just pasties.
Speaker 4: I'm in a modesty triangle and like literally like how
Speaker 4: do I make what is this appropriate small talk in
Speaker 4: this situation? Like hi, is your dad going well? And
Speaker 4: then they give me an eye line that's the headboard
Speaker 4: and then they're like action and as we're doing it,
Speaker 4: our producing director is shouting from across a gymnasium, all.
Speaker 7: Right, Robbie, all right, now you're just your love making.
Speaker 7: It's a spartan it's a now you love her, Now
Speaker 7: you love her. Now you're climaxing. Now you're climaxing. It
Speaker 7: was like having your creepy uncle in.
Speaker 4: The closet while you lose your virginity. It also happened
Speaker 4: in that moment was I realized I've actually never paid
Speaker 4: attention to the face I make in some of those moments,
Speaker 4: and I'm my brain was as quickly as it could
Speaker 4: going Holy what is the face we make? What is
Speaker 4: an appropriate face to make? Oh my god, this is
Speaker 4: a nightmare and I think it's blacked out for the
Speaker 4: rest I.
Speaker 6: Geel so sick right now. I feel physically, Yeah, that
Speaker 6: is that.
Speaker 4: Is a unique Yeah yeah, no, my god, did I
Speaker 4: just bring the podcast to a screeching home.
Speaker 3: So, by the way, I'm so glad you've told this
Speaker 3: story because the number of people over you know, all
Speaker 3: the years of all of our careers who've done this
Speaker 3: to me and no doubt to you. There's always someone
Speaker 3: you know who pulls you aside and goes like, okay,
Speaker 3: but what's it really like to shoot a love scene?
Speaker 3: Like is it ever kind of sexy?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: And you're like no, no, flat out no, never, not ever.
Speaker 3: It's awkward, it's it's I hope this gives people the
Speaker 3: pink behind the curtain that they may be never wanted.
Speaker 2: The non curtain that didn't exist for.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I had to make bedroomids at a
Speaker 4: piece of green tape laying on top of a poor
Speaker 4: strange gal.
Speaker 3: You're a really good sport and she's a good sport.
Speaker 3: I hope someone sent that woman flowers.
Speaker 2: Carly.
Speaker 3: If you're out there.
Speaker 4: I know that's not your real name, whoever that's standing.
Speaker 3: You know, it's okay. She knows if she hears this,
Speaker 3: she's going to know we're talking about her. But her
Speaker 3: code name shall forever more be Carly.
Speaker 4: You're a real one, Carly Well.
Speaker 2: Stunt doubles is a good way to get into this episode.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: There really is so many people that had to jump in.
Speaker 2: We had a big.
Speaker 5: Stunt team on this episode. I think, so, yeah, let's
Speaker 5: let's get started.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have a question to dive in because we
Speaker 3: get this cryptic, you know, musical end to the episode
Speaker 3: leading us here with you Amanda and a I was like,
Speaker 3: great singing voice I never knew. Be the the drive
Speaker 3: into town and the weatherman and the storm. It almost
Speaker 3: felt like an old radio play setting up this, you know,
Speaker 3: big terrible thing that was going to happen. What was
Speaker 3: it like when you got this script and read that
Speaker 3: this was going to be the culmination of the Katie
Speaker 3: storyline or had they told you, you know, an X
Speaker 3: amount of episodes you're going to come back like, did
Speaker 3: you know? Or was it a complete surprise that you
Speaker 3: were going you know, American Psycho.
Speaker 6: Almost I don't remember knowing. Okay, obviously we had hints
Speaker 6: that she wasn't firing with all cylinders.
Speaker 4: I guess done diplomatic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so obviously we knew that. I don't remember. I
Speaker 6: didn't in any hints about that. Joy's episode was the
Speaker 6: first the one you directed, was the first time I
Speaker 6: came back as the other person, And I think I
Speaker 6: knew I had a said amount of episodes, but I
Speaker 6: didn't know exactly what her journey was going to be.
Speaker 2: Well, you had a lot to do. You really got
Speaker 2: to show up.
Speaker 5: And I loved all the different just all the different
Speaker 5: layers of the cat and mouse and you having fun
Speaker 5: being so insane. And I could see all of the
Speaker 5: feelings that she was experiencing, all of the trouble, all
Speaker 5: of the hatred and anger and yet the desperation. And
Speaker 5: that's a lot to keep track of while you're running
Speaker 5: through well you're soaking wet, running through a house and
Speaker 5: running through rain, and it's a lot.
Speaker 4: All of you get a gold star.
Speaker 2: Well, I sat in the car, but.
Speaker 6: You know for sure you got out of the car.
Speaker 6: You got out of the car.
Speaker 4: Let's stick with the Quinn and the Katie of it
Speaker 4: for a moment, because I will say in an episode
Speaker 4: of Just Highest Stakes Hijinks, the one thing I turned
Speaker 4: my head out and went really was at the beginning
Speaker 4: when Katie's hair is dripping and so water is dripping
Speaker 4: on the floor, Quinn just grabs a bowl and puts
Speaker 4: it on the floor and doesn't even bother to see
Speaker 4: where the leak is coming from.
Speaker 2: Wait, she didn't look up. I thought she looked up.
Speaker 6: You know, she looked up for a second, but she
Speaker 6: doesn't investigate the source.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'm saying, in the middle of the monsoon, Yeah,
Speaker 4: your roof starts leaking, it's not her house. You're not
Speaker 4: gonna You're not gonna investigate.
Speaker 6: Ah, it is not her responsibility.
Speaker 3: This observation is actually what proves to our listeners that
Speaker 3: we are adults now, whereas when we made this show
Speaker 3: we were basically still college students. Because now we're all homeowners,
Speaker 3: and it's like the minute there's water and it's raining,
Speaker 3: you're in a full panic running around figuring out where
Speaker 3: it's coming from your in attic. And yeah, she just
Speaker 3: looks up and goes a leak and gets a bowl,
Speaker 3: And it's like, oh wow, that really it does show
Speaker 3: our youth sometimes the things we just didn't know yet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then and I may just I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: To me, this did not seem like a normal thing
Speaker 4: to do. But would you just not cut the apple
Speaker 4: in the kitchen and then bring the sliced apple into
Speaker 4: the bedroom.
Speaker 6: I was really upset that the apple was going to
Speaker 6: be cut on a plate, because that dolls your knives,
Speaker 6: and so I was frustrated that she wasn't going to
Speaker 6: use a cutting board.
Speaker 5: But she knew she was going to use the knife
Speaker 5: because she was She knew as soon as she left.
Speaker 2: The room that you were there and that she was
Speaker 2: going upstairs.
Speaker 6: But she had gotten the knife, placed it on the plate,
Speaker 6: and then went off and did a couple of things,
Speaker 6: checks on the car, came back, did the tea and
Speaker 6: blah blah blah, And it was like there was no
Speaker 6: cutting board out at any point, and it was dressing
Speaker 6: me out. And then and I realized that she was
Speaker 6: going to take it into the kitchen after that, but
Speaker 6: I didn't see a cutting board on the horizon, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it was interesting because you know, there's so
Speaker 3: much that's fantastical about an episode like this, And I
Speaker 3: thought everybody really grounded into it, and even I don't
Speaker 3: know even some of those details. While they certainly bumped me,
Speaker 3: what was fun for me as an audience member was
Speaker 3: when I realized when you go in the bedroom and
Speaker 3: pull the covers back and the pillows are there, I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 3: she's in on it. She's in on it, okay. And
Speaker 3: then suddenly some of what bumped me felt more like
Speaker 3: her playing along. So I don't know, maybe maybe she
Speaker 3: was never going to dull the knife, maybe she was.
Speaker 6: Who knows she was going to dull the knife, But
Speaker 6: I know I think for yes, there were all of
Speaker 6: these not all most of these storylines were fantastical. This
Speaker 6: was sort of just this was the horror movie element storyline, right.
Speaker 5: And we hadn't done something like that in a very
Speaker 5: long time on our show, Like we've over the seasons
Speaker 5: had spots where it's like the horror movie element of it,
Speaker 5: you know, with the Psychoederic and Anny Carrey. Anny Carrey,
Speaker 5: there's always like a little something every once in a
Speaker 5: while just to keep the audience on their toes and
Speaker 5: feeling like things are super dramatic.
Speaker 6: So we were due for this, But you know what
Speaker 6: was interesting about it though, So this is the horror story.
Speaker 6: Brooks storyline could have been horror story also, But somehow
Speaker 6: this being heightened made this seem much more grounded and
Speaker 6: therefore made me more anxious watching you, Sophia. You know,
Speaker 6: it was like I played watching one and then I
Speaker 6: tensed watching the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And the fact that you didn't lean into the horror
Speaker 6: of it all with the live wire bouncing around, You
Speaker 6: just kind of looked at it, clocked it. Yep, Hey,
Speaker 6: so how do you spell? You know, it was it
Speaker 6: was much. It didn't it didn't feel as heightened. It
Speaker 6: just felt like a ticking clock.
Speaker 4: And that live wire was a great device because I
Speaker 4: kept looking at that going oh no, no, And then
Speaker 4: that wasn't even the threat.
Speaker 6: That wasn't the threat. I know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a really really smart way that in the
Speaker 3: writer's room they chose to misdirect, especially because and you
Speaker 3: know we've all seen it, even with last year's incredible,
Speaker 3: incredibly large hurricane that hit North Carolina and you know,
Speaker 3: devastated Ashville. We went through so many hurricanes when we
Speaker 3: were there. Down power lines are so common because of
Speaker 3: how many trees fall, and even having the tree fall
Speaker 3: at the beach and block Quinn from being able to
Speaker 3: escape with Katie. It tracked even though we were watching
Speaker 3: two separate incidents. It tracked what was happening across the
Speaker 3: city in a really smart way. And to your point, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I kept thinking, oh my god, what what if these
Speaker 3: people get electrocuted in the middle of this? And there
Speaker 3: really is something I think about grounding the Brook, Julian
Speaker 3: and Jamie of it all with Jamie as a kid,
Speaker 3: you have to you got to keep calm when kids
Speaker 3: are scared, because if they see how scared you are,
Speaker 3: they get even more scared. And so there was this
Speaker 3: really interesting it was in a really terrifying scenario, but
Speaker 3: watching it back, some of the stuff with me and Jackson,
Speaker 3: the Brook and Jamie of it all felt almost like
Speaker 3: a buddy comedy in a you know, environmental disaster, and
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, this is a smart way to
Speaker 3: toggle back and forth between exactly what you're saying, this
Speaker 3: heightened terror and then this other energy.
Speaker 4: It was cool.
Speaker 2: Have we done a storm episode before? Like, did it
Speaker 2: really take us eight seasons to do a big storm?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: We've done big ones.
Speaker 4: We did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we did a really big one in season three,
Speaker 3: we did the big hurricane.
Speaker 4: We had a stormy night when you guys do the
Speaker 4: pop brownies.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a stormy night. That's right, yep.
Speaker 3: And then even in season one when Haley and Nathan
Speaker 3: have that big, like iconic first kiss, it's in the rain.
Speaker 2: It's in the rain.
Speaker 5: We did a lot of rain, but like a proper hurricane.
Speaker 5: I don't remember us doing, which surprised. It surprised me
Speaker 5: on the opening because I was like, wait, of course,
Speaker 5: I mean this happened so often. This was a part
Speaker 5: of our daily I mean our you know, yearly life
Speaker 5: out there. I'm surprised we haven't done more of this.
Speaker 5: But maybe I just forgot.
Speaker 3: I can't remember what the season three episode is, but
Speaker 3: I remember because the big industrial fans that made the
Speaker 3: wind the wind and water whip sideways. There's a big
Speaker 3: scene where Brooke and Lucas get in a fight, like
Speaker 3: out on some road, and we had to loop the
Speaker 3: whole scene because they couldn't hear us. It was just
Speaker 3: fun noise, and I remember being like, oh, this is insane. Well,
Speaker 3: they don't even have a guide track because nobody knows
Speaker 3: what anybody's saying. Because there's no sound, so we kind
Speaker 3: of had to like guess as to where the dialogue
Speaker 3: would fit and.
Speaker 4: Try the very first shot, it's of the center kind
Speaker 4: of console or dash of the car with the clock
Speaker 4: and the time, but it's tilted vertically, and at first
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell because I was watching it on my
Speaker 4: phone if that was a formatting thing, and I thought, like,
Speaker 4: what happened here? But then when the car crashes the
Speaker 4: clock so that was just foreshadowing, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I didn't know that that's what it
Speaker 5: was at the time. I just thought it was a choice,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: Being a little on guard.
Speaker 4: I got to say I had a moment in watching
Speaker 4: that whole sequence of Brook Saving the Day where I
Speaker 4: actually went, holy shit, Sof's a star. Yeah it was.
Speaker 4: I was so on board and invested and enjoying it.
Speaker 4: I was like, I could watch this for ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So obviously we already know that you're pretty darn good
Speaker 4: at this craft, my friend, but I actually had a
Speaker 4: moment of even knowing you and knowing you work, I
Speaker 4: was like, she's a star.
Speaker 5: I had that too when you were It was it
Speaker 5: was kind of a benign moment you were just running
Speaker 5: from one car to another, but it was the first
Speaker 5: time because you did several times going back and forth.
Speaker 5: The first time you ran to the car and you
Speaker 5: were checking on the kids, and I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 5: she is so in her element because you're so naturally athletic,
Speaker 5: and I think you just really you know, physical tangible,
Speaker 5: like getting into getting into things with your hands. And
Speaker 5: I could feel like how right it felt for your
Speaker 5: whole body to be engaged in something rather than the
Speaker 5: talking heads that we often have to do, sitting still
Speaker 5: and emoting everything through our face.
Speaker 2: You know, it was like, Wow, this is it. She's
Speaker 2: in her element. It was great.
Speaker 6: It was really the perfect amount of action and I
Speaker 6: don't want to say acting, but you weren't acting the scene.
Speaker 6: You know, you were living within it and making realistic
Speaker 6: choices rather than being like I see somebody climbing through
Speaker 6: the window and hoisting open the windshield. It wasn't it
Speaker 6: wasn't overly dramatic. It was exactly how you took us
Speaker 6: with you, as opposed to us being much more peripheral
Speaker 6: and not buying into it. And that made the moments
Speaker 6: with Jamie so much sweeter. Also, you know when you
Speaker 6: realize that why he threw the spelling bee and you
Speaker 6: and rather than you know, making a little uh not
Speaker 6: a dig, but a little tease, you said you had
Speaker 6: a little smile on your face, that sweet little smile,
Speaker 6: and then you said why you know, it was it
Speaker 6: was just it was it was adorable in a in
Speaker 6: a really horrible situation. I really was on board with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting because the well, first I'm going to
Speaker 3: say next time I'm in like a self doubt spiral.
Speaker 3: I'm calling the three of you.
Speaker 4: So thank you.
Speaker 3: But there was so much that was so physically taxing
Speaker 3: about that whole sequence. And I remember so much of
Speaker 3: that because it was February, it was freezing.
Speaker 2: How many nights did you shoot that in?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I don't even know.
Speaker 5: It was days and you were shooting splits right, yeah,
Speaker 5: night So splits are night shoots. Yeah, those of you
Speaker 5: who don't know you show up to work at about four.
Speaker 5: They do your makeup as soon as the sun goes down.
Speaker 5: You get although with being soaking white, you probably didn't
Speaker 5: have too much hair and makeup too, but you had
Speaker 5: to keep showing up to set and getting soaked. Yeah,
Speaker 5: before you even walked into anything.
Speaker 3: And it was about forty degrees out in February.
Speaker 6: So and those the wind the rain machines are not
Speaker 6: warm water.
Speaker 3: No, they're freezing cold water. And so it's it's just tricky.
Speaker 3: And you know, obviously Amanda, you and Chantal had to
Speaker 3: do so much of it as well, and like, I
Speaker 3: remember how hard it felt, and so it was really
Speaker 3: sweet to watch it back and to be like awe
Speaker 3: watching the Brooke and Jamie dynamic in the car. You know,
Speaker 3: him talking about his crush, her being with this little
Speaker 3: boy and having this experience of telling him about this fight,
Speaker 3: and they're kind of reflecting on their versions of family
Speaker 3: together and it's such a sweet dynamic. And yeah, to
Speaker 3: your point, it was a really interesting thing to feel
Speaker 3: emotional warmth in a dangerous scenario. And it was fun
Speaker 3: to be reminded of that because all I remember is like,
Speaker 3: oh god, that hurricane episode, we were all so fucking cold,
Speaker 3: Like I forgot how sweet it was. It was nice
Speaker 3: to see it.
Speaker 6: Also water work, I don't know whether you did the
Speaker 6: car stuff. Was that in a tank?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: The underneath the water stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's yeah, awful and scary.
Speaker 5: And so hard to hold to be in that position
Speaker 5: without letting any bubbles out, Like there are things that
Speaker 5: people don't understand how actually difficult it is to hold
Speaker 5: that physically.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's horrible. And I was really knowing
Speaker 3: how hard it was for us. Watching you girls go
Speaker 3: into the pool, I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 3: can't imagine, because for me, we had to do all
Speaker 3: the stuff on the bridge, which was really long and hard,
Speaker 3: and I remember how how important it was to be,
Speaker 3: you know, the most dead weight, and it works when
Speaker 3: when Julian's pulling Brooke out of the water, like I
Speaker 3: do look like a corpse. What got hard was on
Speaker 3: the bridge. You know, he's supposed to be pumping my
Speaker 3: chest doing CPR and pumping hard enough to make it
Speaker 3: look real. And you know, most most of the time
Speaker 3: when people get CPR, their ribs break.
Speaker 2: And that's hard.
Speaker 3: He had to do it hard enough that it looked
Speaker 3: like he was exerting physical pressure. It couldn't be so
Speaker 3: hard that it was slamming my head into the ground,
Speaker 3: which is what happened in the beginning. And then I
Speaker 3: remember the director walking over and being like, your face
Speaker 3: is scrunched up, and I was like, yeah, I'm getting
Speaker 3: hit in the face with frozen rain that's falling from
Speaker 3: sixty feet in the air, like it hurt. So I
Speaker 3: was trying to not react to the water.
Speaker 4: And that was the.
Speaker 3: Thing that I that I was like, oh, that actually
Speaker 3: looks the hardest. But it was three stages. It was
Speaker 3: the bridge, then it was a tank on stage where
Speaker 3: the car was in the river and they could flood
Speaker 3: it with these huge They basically had these trap doors
Speaker 3: and they'd come down and water would flood in, and
Speaker 3: then we had to do the full underwater close ups
Speaker 3: when the car is flooded, and those we did on stage.
Speaker 3: In Nathan and Haley's pool, they took a car seat,
Speaker 3: They took a seat out of a car, sunk it
Speaker 3: in the pool, put black duvetine fabric around the pool
Speaker 3: so you couldn't see what it was. And then I
Speaker 3: had to put scuba weight belts in my lap and
Speaker 3: sink to the bottom of the pool on stage so
Speaker 3: they could film us.
Speaker 6: And then with someone next to you doing the and
Speaker 6: then taking it away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had a regulator for me. And this is
Speaker 3: why I can't scuba dive. I've tried, and I've had
Speaker 3: two panic attacks underwater and I'm like, I'm good, it's
Speaker 3: a no for me.
Speaker 4: I have a science question. If the way Julian was
Speaker 4: breathing into your mouth, I mean, that's carbon dioxide, though,
Speaker 4: so does that work?
Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 4: Does that actually work?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think to sustain life a little longer? Yes,
Speaker 3: because what you're trying to do is stop your brain
Speaker 3: from dying from a lack of oxygen, and so you know,
Speaker 3: carbon dioxide is COE two. I don't know how quickly
Speaker 3: that would fail, but you're getting something. You're getting some
Speaker 3: oxygen back. I did, honestly though, watching it, I was
Speaker 3: like this, I caught myself holding my breath the Amanda
Speaker 3: you were talking about how stressed you felt watching the episode,
Speaker 3: I was holding my breath and I was like, why
Speaker 3: am I doing this? I know I live, I know
Speaker 3: you guys live. Like what am I so stressed about?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: Oh, how Monster episode? I'm just so impressed. It's just
Speaker 5: so much work, and shooting those are it's hard. You
Speaker 5: get the script and the closer you get to the day,
Speaker 5: you're like, oh man, this is going to be a
Speaker 5: beast and you just go in and then you have
Speaker 5: you the first time and you're like, thank God, it's over,
Speaker 5: except I have to go back and do it again tomorrow,
Speaker 5: and then I have to go back and do it
Speaker 5: again the next day. And it's just a lot, especially
Speaker 5: when you're cold. It's a lot of stress to put
Speaker 5: your body through and psychological stress even just the like
Speaker 5: the pool stuff you're talking about. I remember the first
Speaker 5: time I saw Nathan Haley's pool and we had to
Speaker 5: shoot in it. And I don't remember if it was
Speaker 5: us as the sisters or if Nathan and Haley were
Speaker 5: in the pool.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was, but.
Speaker 5: There were It was a night time, so there were
Speaker 5: lights in the pool and I had never shot anything
Speaker 5: in water with electricity before.
Speaker 3: You're like, is this how people get electrocuted in their bathtubs?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is this safe? Like it is? There is some real
Speaker 2: psychological uh wall you.
Speaker 5: Have to break through to get into a pool where
Speaker 5: there are multiple lights with cords in the water and
Speaker 5: you just step into the pool then trust that you're
Speaker 5: not going to die.
Speaker 4: They're using a toaster as a bounce card. You're like,
Speaker 4: that just doesn't seem safe by.
Speaker 2: I think that's a no.
Speaker 6: But just to Joy's point, like, I don't think people
Speaker 6: realize that how much faith we put in our departments
Speaker 6: that they know what they're doing and that all of
Speaker 6: the safeguards have been put in place, and that we're
Speaker 6: going to be okay and we can do our jobs
Speaker 6: because everyone's done their job really well. And if you
Speaker 6: don't trust the people to do their jobs really well,
Speaker 6: when you need to be in what appears to be
Speaker 6: a life threatening situation, it often can be a life
Speaker 6: threatening situation. I've been on set for things when I've
Speaker 6: felt really unsafe and questioned departments and then afterward come
Speaker 6: to realize I had good reason to question departments.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, thank god. We were in such great hands
Speaker 5: on our show. Our teams were just amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because otherwise they're not going to get your work
Speaker 6: from you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, because you're all kind of frozen and unsure.
Speaker 4: I thought it was a great counterbalance Throughout the episode,
Speaker 4: the whole Nathan and Haley dynamic. There were just so
Speaker 4: many great moments. There was one that really so One
Speaker 4: of my biggest pet peeves as an actor is when
Speaker 4: I'm driving the car and I will invariably every single
Speaker 4: time I will get the note, Yeah, can you just
Speaker 4: move your hand around a little more so that the
Speaker 4: audience believes you're driving. Watch the first shot of Haley
Speaker 4: and Nathan driving on that road. James clearly got the note.
Speaker 4: And for those on YouTube, do this on a straightaway
Speaker 4: wet road and you're even like, be careful, it's raining outside,
Speaker 4: and he's like, it's cool. I got it covered, Like.
Speaker 2: Is your lineup that far off?
Speaker 4: It was funny, but I mean there were so many
Speaker 4: good parts.
Speaker 6: There was a.
Speaker 4: Line that Haley had that was so savage and out
Speaker 4: of pocket. It's when at the spelling Bee, Jamie wants
Speaker 4: to go with Chuck and Madison and Miss Lauren and
Speaker 4: he's like, oh, come on, Chuck's Chuck's getting to go,
Speaker 4: And without skipping a beat, you just go, Chuck's mom's
Speaker 4: an alcoholic. Of different reasons. You could have explained that
Speaker 4: to just assassinate the character of that poor woman's really weird.
Speaker 5: We needed to understand why Chuck's mom wasn't driving her home,
Speaker 5: driving them home. Yeah, I think that's it. That's the
Speaker 5: only reason that existed. But yeah, there was no other
Speaker 5: way to play it as far as I could see.
Speaker 5: It just sort of had to get spat out.
Speaker 3: You were just trying to move on from the line.
Speaker 3: But I agree, Rob, it's it's so One of the
Speaker 3: things that was so great is, you know, Quinn and
Speaker 3: Katie are in a horror movie. Brooke and Chu and
Speaker 3: Jamie are essentially in a natural disaster movie. They're in
Speaker 3: the Day After Tomorrow. It was nice to see a
Speaker 3: family doing what most families you hope do in a storm,
Speaker 3: just driving and talking and figuring it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the audience needed to breathe.
Speaker 3: Well, the audience needed to breathe. And it also speaks
Speaker 3: to the fact that you really never know. You could
Speaker 3: have a normal night and you could have the worst
Speaker 3: night of your life, you know, in these sorts of scenarios,
Speaker 3: and especially you know, again, we just made reference of
Speaker 3: it earlier, the like superstorm that hit from Florida to
Speaker 3: North Carolina last year, Hurricane Heleen was insane. Like, I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is about being in this time
Speaker 3: period where sadly we're experiencing more of these things in
Speaker 3: the world that made this episode feel more relevant to
Speaker 3: me than ever. But you know, there's plenty of people
Speaker 3: who unexpectedly get hit hard in something like that, and
Speaker 3: there's plenty of people who have a mostly normal but
Speaker 3: slightly inconvenient night, and you really never know what your
Speaker 3: roll of the dice is going to be. And it
Speaker 3: was kind of cool to have you guys serve as
Speaker 3: comic relief but also in a way fill out the
Speaker 3: whole spectrum of experience in the episode because you're pregnant,
Speaker 3: and you know, you really were, so they didn't want
Speaker 3: to put you in the cold for any longer than
Speaker 3: they needed to. And it makes sense that Nathan's gonna
Speaker 3: get out and tell his pregnant wife to stay in
Speaker 3: the car, and he's being sweet and it's like it's inconvenient,
Speaker 3: but it's no big deal. And the humor when Haley
Speaker 3: kicks the can over with all the lug nuts, You're
Speaker 3: just like, oh my god, and it's perfect and it's
Speaker 3: sweet and it's you know, like an average rough night
Speaker 3: in a storm and I don't know it. It was
Speaker 3: a cool juxtaposition to be entertained by and to understand
Speaker 3: what the device was too, you know.
Speaker 4: And what's so great about it was that I could
Speaker 4: see the fact that Nathan Haley were still friends. They
Speaker 4: weren't just husband and wife like they enjoyed each They
Speaker 4: are enjoying each other's company, they are having fun together.
Speaker 4: And I love to see that right where it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: yeah they married, they married their best friend. Like you
Speaker 4: had that funny comment where you're like he's working and
Speaker 4: you're just like, hey, if I wasn't pregnant, we could
Speaker 4: have sex in the back seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, I love I love that. That is
Speaker 4: such like like I still have like I still dig
Speaker 4: my partner banter, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, and to see their sense of humor
Speaker 3: and and you're like, well this kind of sucks.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't this be fun?
Speaker 3: And he's like yeah, that that makes it suck more.
Speaker 3: He's like now I'm really down on the rain, and
Speaker 3: you're like, god, I gotta got it. And the yeah,
Speaker 3: you're throwing it back at each other. And to be
Speaker 3: that many years into a relationship and still love to
Speaker 3: crack jokes, it's fun to see.
Speaker 5: I just loved watching him go well, I guess I
Speaker 5: got a tired to change. There was no like ho
Speaker 5: humnus about it. There was no complaining. It was just
Speaker 5: like all.
Speaker 2: Right, life, here we go. Yeah, let's get after it.
Speaker 5: Like what a relief just even in the context of
Speaker 5: a relationship that there's no there's no drama around it.
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, this is just what we do.
Speaker 2: I appreciated seeing that.
Speaker 5: And for Nathan, like, his character just keeps showing up
Speaker 5: as the great, this great sort of redemption story out
Speaker 5: of a really tempestuous household that he grew up in
Speaker 5: and so much struggle that he worked through as a teenager.
Speaker 2: And I just really love watching his character development.
Speaker 4: And he's so soulfulware like when first of all, the
Speaker 4: whole bit with him not knowing how to spell entrepreneur
Speaker 4: at the start, he gets all copy because he thinks
Speaker 4: he thinks Jamie's won it, and it's because he does
Speaker 4: not expel the word. And then he's like, yes, I
Speaker 4: love that. He sits down and he he does a
Speaker 4: Dan Scott and Jamie goes, you're doing Grandpa Dan, and
Speaker 4: he goes yeah, and then he gives like the awesome
Speaker 4: dad response.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: It was like, oh man, he's growing so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so funny, sweet, Okay, let.
Speaker 4: You wind a little bit more. The first scene with
Speaker 4: Brooke and Julian felt real hot to me. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was just odd because I've seen the previous episode.
Speaker 4: I know how it ends, and it's like the scene
Speaker 4: opens with both of you at an eleven yeah, and
Speaker 4: Brooke being like, you always wanted me to sell the
Speaker 4: company so you could get me back to LA And
Speaker 4: I just found myself going, like, what what what do
Speaker 4: I miss to get us to this spot? Because it
Speaker 4: was kind of it was very unlike Brooke to be
Speaker 4: saying these things. I don't think Julian's done anything to
Speaker 4: make it seem like that's the case. So I was
Speaker 4: I was a confused, Like.
Speaker 5: Little drop drops of that in the past, like two
Speaker 5: or three episodes, like little tense moments leading up to
Speaker 5: this would have been I would have been helpful.
Speaker 3: And I do remember sitting and really wanting to understand
Speaker 3: why it was written this way, why they wanted it
Speaker 3: to be that way, the sort of I remember it
Speaker 3: really clearly. Weirdly, the feedback was sometimes when you're really angry,
Speaker 3: you say a bunch of shit you don't mean, which like, okay,
Speaker 3: fair people do that. Also, they wanted the fight when
Speaker 3: we first started trying to play it a little more normal,
Speaker 3: I would say. The response was, we don't think she'd
Speaker 3: storm out of the house to go for a drive
Speaker 3: to cool down, unless it was really really hot, and
Speaker 3: so then what it had to be was, Okay, well,
Speaker 3: we're not going to get more of the fight, we're
Speaker 3: not going to see the inciting incident, because they want
Speaker 3: to get to the action. They want to get to
Speaker 3: Quinn Katie, they want to get to the bridge, they
Speaker 3: want to do all this. So if we're coming in
Speaker 3: in the middle of it, if it's so hot that
Speaker 3: you're like, WHOA, what happened here, maybe we can kind
Speaker 3: of sell it. But what bugs me about it, and
Speaker 3: we've talked about this before, is when you have to
Speaker 3: justify it to be like, well, all this stuff happened
Speaker 3: off camera to get us here so we can get
Speaker 3: to the next thing. I always look back and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I got talked into it, and I don't think I agree.
Speaker 3: I didn't agree, and I still am annoyed about it,
Speaker 3: But you know what I do, right, Like you just
Speaker 3: kind of have to do the thing. But I do
Speaker 3: remember having that feeling. And you bring up the line
Speaker 3: rob of when she says, now it makes sense you
Speaker 3: wanted me to lose the company so you could move
Speaker 3: us back to LA. It's so ridiculous, but it also
Speaker 3: kind of it became the thing where I was like,
Speaker 3: if I can be so upset about my partner wanting
Speaker 3: me to leave my home, feeling like I've already lost
Speaker 3: enough and now I'm going to lose this, and maybe
Speaker 3: this was your grand plan all along, Like if I
Speaker 3: can make Brooke spiral that way, I can buy like
Speaker 3: I'm being insane and I need to just get out
Speaker 3: of the house and go for a drive. I need
Speaker 3: to cool down. Yeah, so I had to lean into it,
Speaker 3: but I did have to talk myself into it.
Speaker 4: Also, yeah, you guys sold it. It was just clunky
Speaker 4: because there were no seeds planted. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was no sprinkle of this issue in episode
Speaker 3: eight ten.
Speaker 4: They were just huge accusations that came out of left field.
Speaker 4: There was no foundation for him, so it just kind
Speaker 4: of left me going like wait what Yeah, even.
Speaker 5: If there was something about him saying like moving back
Speaker 5: to La or Sylvia saying like, well, you know, he
Speaker 5: still got a life back in La, you guys could
Speaker 5: even if it was just a little something in the
Speaker 5: previous episode that would have been helpful.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, yeah, decided to sell all of her assets like
Speaker 4: she made an integrity move. She was coerced into that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And that was part of it for me
Speaker 3: where I was like, I chose my choice. Yeah, Why
Speaker 3: am I accusing him of choosing my choice for me?
Speaker 3: He wasn't even in the room exact The guy with
Speaker 3: the pen was in the room, not.
Speaker 2: The guy with the pen, who took the pen back?
Speaker 4: Who took the.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a little pivot.
Speaker 5: I do want to ask Amanda, when you guys were
Speaker 5: filming this stuff. First of all, when you went into
Speaker 5: the pool, this is you two or.
Speaker 6: Stunts falling in with stunts, okay.
Speaker 2: And then once you and then you both had.
Speaker 5: To get in where they're Oh, I feel like I
Speaker 5: can't the episode is a little bit of a jungle
Speaker 5: because I saw it yesterday. Were there shots of the
Speaker 5: two of you struggling in that pool cover in the
Speaker 5: water or was it just shot you getting out and
Speaker 5: Chantelle laying in the water.
Speaker 6: I don't think you there is a fight that happens
Speaker 6: in the water. No, No, there's there's a scramble.
Speaker 3: Right, like a struggle in the pool cover. But I
Speaker 3: don't think we see your faces. I don't think, right,
Speaker 3: I don't think they would let you do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, are you.
Speaker 4: Sure there's a struggle, because I'm pretty sure it's that
Speaker 4: you guys just go in and you just see her
Speaker 4: lifeless up, seemingly lifeless because she's not Do we not struggle? No,
Speaker 4: you didn't. You both you struggle to get there. She
Speaker 4: runs back, tackles you over. You fall in the pool.
Speaker 4: But then when you see Katie kind of you kind
Speaker 4: of come too. You turn around and look back and
Speaker 4: her legs are just yeahah yeah. And then you get
Speaker 4: out of the pool.
Speaker 3: There is a kicking around when they hit the water,
Speaker 3: when the doubles hit the water, and like arms and
Speaker 3: legs are going yeah. Then it cuts away.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's a full on knockdown drag out.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I think they were very smart with stunts, with you
Speaker 3: guys knowing you know, liability, safety, et cetera. They were
Speaker 3: going to let them fall in and kick around for
Speaker 3: a for a second to look like they were fighting.
Speaker 6: And then we just climbed it. It was that.
Speaker 3: Stop, like stop, stop, stop, are you okay?
Speaker 6: We did do That was probably until that point the
Speaker 6: most in interior the fight stuff that we did. That
Speaker 6: was the most actual action. I've done stunts, did you
Speaker 6: know most of it obviously, But I do have a
Speaker 6: shoulder injury from that. When what happened, I'm holding the
Speaker 6: knife in my hand and she hits my hand like this,
Speaker 6: and I didn't know any better to like brace my
Speaker 6: shoulder against the wall, you know, and so seant shantell
Speaker 6: we're not. No one was like And I didn't raise
Speaker 6: any alarms about it either. My shoulder was getting like
Speaker 6: yanked back like that. So I do have still.
Speaker 3: Like a rotator cuff thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lid a gate, lid a gate. Yes, let's get
Speaker 4: let's get you some shoulder money.
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 5: So how much of that was on the beach property?
Speaker 5: Like you guys were out at the beach.
Speaker 6: That was the whole thing, the whole thing, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Didn't shoot it, didn't they create Quinning Clay's beach house
Speaker 2: on stage.
Speaker 6: I never did anything on stage.
Speaker 4: No, No, we'd have to go out the top sail.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all of that and watching that fight stuff like
Speaker 6: that was a sloppy, messy fight. They did a good
Speaker 6: I mean that looked like two people. But you know
Speaker 6: when you watch a fight sequence and you're like, oh,
Speaker 6: punch right, dodge and it's like a full on choreography. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so really sloppy, you know, like like two people really
Speaker 6: were kicking and scrambling and scratching, and I think they
Speaker 6: did a really good job with the choreography. And then
Speaker 6: the Sun performers as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I love that you even feel that because you
Speaker 3: acted it as if you were watching it. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: they they look like real people. It doesn't look like
Speaker 3: stunt doubles who know how to fight. You guys look
Speaker 3: like two terrified, enraged women scrambling. And I love that
Speaker 3: because it made me believe that it was you and
Speaker 3: it was her. I'm kind of shocked to hear that
Speaker 3: stunts did so much of it. I really thought you
Speaker 3: guys did it.
Speaker 6: I saw one section because they did let us do
Speaker 6: a lot, and I think at one point Chantelle might
Speaker 6: have even worn a brace and I kicked her.
Speaker 2: M that's so great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, in the ribs when you were standing over
Speaker 3: her and kick her, that's you, guys, for sure.
Speaker 6: So that's definitely not us. A lot of it was us.
Speaker 6: There's one part where one of us is up against
Speaker 6: the wall and the other one comes around and there's
Speaker 6: an interaction and a throwdown, and that was that was
Speaker 6: definitely stunts because I remember watching that off camera and
Speaker 6: trying to get the physicality of it and being really
Speaker 6: impressed by the two women that that's so cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty seamless. I mean, those women looked
Speaker 5: really did a really great job.
Speaker 6: Editing was great, wasn't it. I could only tell from
Speaker 6: one angle it's a it's a lower angle, and I
Speaker 6: could see that it wasn't my hair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would not have noticed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so impressed. The thing that gave me
Speaker 3: chills and made me feel the delicious as you know,
Speaker 3: part of the fan that made this show was you
Speaker 3: in the kitchen going boo. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 3: she did it so perfectly.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: It was like spicy and naughty and scary, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, And it made me want to ask you,
Speaker 3: like how you'd obviously had to do a lot of
Speaker 3: wild shit as Katie, but how did you prepare for this?
Speaker 3: How did you figure out your way into the cat
Speaker 3: and mouse? Like I'm going to enjoy this. Were there
Speaker 3: movies you were watching or was it a conversation you
Speaker 3: had or did you just get inspired when you read it.
Speaker 6: I truly don't remember details of it. I just remember
Speaker 6: unlike maybe Brooke going out in a category four I do,
Speaker 6: I don't. My storyline was breadcrumbed. I'm going with that
Speaker 6: that she was getting increasingly more unhinged, and I, at
Speaker 6: that point in my career I for the most part,
Speaker 6: really was cast as being the cuckoo. I often was
Speaker 6: the murderer or it's like crazy, So, but that was
Speaker 6: probably the most unhinged I had ever played. And like,
Speaker 6: how often do we get something that imbalanced? Like that's fun,
Speaker 6: that's really fun, And if you're not going to have
Speaker 6: fun doing it, then what's the point if we hear
Speaker 6: doing this for a living, if we don't get to
Speaker 6: step into the skin of people, will never know and
Speaker 6: so and you know, the truth is like I do
Speaker 6: do a whole like meditation, and I do before I
Speaker 6: walk out on set always, but I also do a
Speaker 6: lot of work as the character and try to live
Speaker 6: like through pivotal moments and why that person is that way,
Speaker 6: And it's really fun to get to figure out why
Speaker 6: somebody is that way and then for twenty minute blocks
Speaker 6: live as that person and then take that skin off
Speaker 6: and become a little bit, hopefully more hinged. And then
Speaker 6: so I do like the opportunity. I don't remember details.
Speaker 6: I definitely didn't watch any movies, but it was sort
Speaker 6: of just like, she's here for payback and it's going
Speaker 6: to be sweet.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's so inspiring. I also love hearing you say
Speaker 3: become more hinged to get that lightly.
Speaker 4: The moment when Quinn is about to leave the house
Speaker 4: like on foot, it's when I think you say I'm
Speaker 4: your storm. We Initially I was like, what's happening because
Speaker 4: as Quinn's to go to the front door, Katie starts
Speaker 4: walking the opposite direction. I'm like, why in the hell?
Speaker 4: And then I realized, Oh, because she's so confident that
Speaker 4: she can find Quinn again and that she has control
Speaker 4: over this game that she doesn't even need to chase her,
Speaker 4: which was such a boss move.
Speaker 5: So good.
Speaker 2: And also after this is after Quinn.
Speaker 5: Sorry to interrupt you, but this is after Quinn shoved
Speaker 5: a knife in your leg and then ran away from
Speaker 5: you left you with the knife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't Is this right after that moment?
Speaker 6: She good things? She missed my femoral but yeah, because
Speaker 6: I guess there are more in the kitchen in that block.
Speaker 6: I don't know, she wasn't going to like take the
Speaker 6: time to like.
Speaker 2: Relive it with a weapon.
Speaker 6: I actually about when I got stabbed. When I watched that,
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, that's right. Because the morning after
Speaker 6: shooting that, I had to put myself on tape for
Speaker 6: something and I had my sides on my lap and
Speaker 6: I hadn't been able to get all the blood off
Speaker 6: my leg My god, and so when I was holding
Speaker 6: my sides up, I remember there being like crusted fake
Speaker 6: blood all over my sides. And I think it was
Speaker 6: for the audition, was for Nikita, if I remembering correctly,
Speaker 6: and I was perfect, Oh, this is definitely going to
Speaker 6: get me the roll.
Speaker 4: It didn't like, but it didn't hurt.
Speaker 6: No, I might have I don't know.
Speaker 4: The question I have though, is the last bit, which
Speaker 4: is a just it's a lovely payoff for the audience.
Speaker 4: It's Quinn's like hoorah moment where she walks up to
Speaker 4: Katie on the stretcher and whispers in her ear, I'm
Speaker 4: your storm. And I just found myself going if I
Speaker 4: had a lethal killer of a stalker who is still alive,
Speaker 4: would I choose to taunt them as the last thing
Speaker 4: before they go away to prison. It just doesn't seem
Speaker 4: like it's the smartest move to like poke that bear.
Speaker 4: That bear doesn't need poking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the bear, the bear will be poked, regardless of
Speaker 6: whether you do it or not. I don't know. Ten
Speaker 6: maybe Katie comes out.
Speaker 3: But that's really the that's like, that's the action hero lot.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. It's the payoff she deserved.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she needs to have earned that, Like if Quinn
Speaker 5: had really kicked her ass, then I feel like maybe
Speaker 5: she would have earned that line, but she didn't.
Speaker 3: I also love the woman who plays Quinn's sister saying
Speaker 3: that being like Lizzle, little sis, you're getting a little
Speaker 3: big for your breeches.
Speaker 2: Sorry, this was not a fair fight.
Speaker 5: Katie won every fight, every moment except for the last
Speaker 5: one when Quinn turned around and shoved her off the
Speaker 5: balcony and then she did shoot her, I mean, and
Speaker 5: then and then she came back and shot her at
Speaker 5: the very very end. But like the whole rest of
Speaker 5: the episode was just Quinn getting her butt kicked. So
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, I agree with you up, maybe it's
Speaker 5: like an affirmation.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I did like the way that Chantelle
Speaker 6: delivered it. So I like you because she looks as
Speaker 6: as beautiful as she is for somebody that beautiful, she
Speaker 6: looks wrecked, you know, in the most stunning of ways.
Speaker 6: And it's just it's not it's not intense. It's just
Speaker 6: kind of like a guarantee. Yeah, you know, it's a whisper,
Speaker 6: but it's not like it's not trying too hard, you know,
Speaker 6: It's just it's a matter of fact, it's on your storm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a really interesting thing, I think, because you
Speaker 3: have to kind of play against the soapy nature of
Speaker 3: some of it. And I think her the way I
Speaker 3: took it was more you think this know it about me,
Speaker 3: like this, this is what you think of yourself, but
Speaker 3: really it's me. And it felt to me like she
Speaker 3: she felt ready to kind of flip the table. And
Speaker 3: because of the way she delivered it, the last action
Speaker 3: in the episode made sense to me. Everyone's recuperating. We
Speaker 3: see the family of three in bed together. We see
Speaker 3: Brooke sleeping in Julian's lap and he's up vigilant, and
Speaker 3: we see her she wakes up not in her bed
Speaker 3: but on the couch and then like throws open the
Speaker 3: doors in the windows to let the day in, and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, yeah, she's really taking her power back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with that. Also, I just want to
Speaker 6: defend Katie for a second, because Katie she because Quinn
Speaker 6: says only I'm not going to leave you here for
Speaker 6: twelve hours, only a psycho would do that. Katie thought
Speaker 6: that she killed them, so she wasn't leaving them for twelve.
Speaker 4: Hours, you know what.
Speaker 3: Totally fair point, valid, totally fairpoint.
Speaker 4: I'm just going to say, like, you know, what would
Speaker 4: be pretty great is like three seasons into the reboot,
Speaker 4: it would just be great if Katie showed up having
Speaker 4: totally worked on herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god. It was like a guidance counselor yes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, you know how like people who have
Speaker 6: the most issues end up being therapists.
Speaker 3: Not even a therapist, she's a vicvictim's advocate, like and
Speaker 3: you're like you.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I help people work through their storms. Like
Speaker 6: like her motto is Storm's be Gone.
Speaker 3: The tagline on her website storm breaker like a d
Speaker 3: and character incredible. I loved it. I also want to
Speaker 3: shout out one of the things I and we're talking
Speaker 3: about it in every way, right, How do you make
Speaker 3: things grounded in an episode that's so heightened. I loved
Speaker 3: and I had forgotten about it because we did this
Speaker 3: so long ago when we first started dealing with Brooke
Speaker 3: getting the kids out of miss Lauren's car and Alison
Speaker 3: Munn finally wakes up that she wakes up and like
Speaker 3: has that moment of sheer panic.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's so great in this too.
Speaker 3: She's so good, and you know, I get why miss
Speaker 3: Lauren couldn't come back, you know, to help, that's the
Speaker 3: whole idea. But I loved her whole energy in it
Speaker 3: and the panic out like where am I? And oh
Speaker 3: my god, and the kids and the whole thing. It
Speaker 3: all felt so real to me, and I don't know,
Speaker 3: I really I feel very proud of all of us, guys.
Speaker 3: I think it was great too.
Speaker 5: And that's a good good way to segue to tell
Speaker 5: you that we actually have else in mind coming up
Speaker 5: in an episode soon.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited that she's going to come talk with us,
Speaker 2: so we'll get.
Speaker 5: To hear all about being miss Lauren from her and
Speaker 5: how this episode went for her too, because she had
Speaker 5: a lot of that stuff, like being sideways laying in
Speaker 5: the rain with that stuff pelting on you. It's one
Speaker 5: thing standing up, but when you're laying down Like so
Speaker 5: I was just talking about, Yeah, that's really intense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're getting to hear from all our favorite blondes.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: We have a fan question, Oh, Rob, you want to
Speaker 2: read it?
Speaker 4: Yes. Wendy literally the girl from the fast food chain,
Speaker 4: asks how do you film scenes when someone is being
Speaker 4: revived from drowning. Drowning and water comes out of their
Speaker 4: mouth while laying down? Do they not choke while holding
Speaker 4: water in their mouth and coughing it out?
Speaker 2: Great question.
Speaker 3: I can speak to that, Yes you can in this episode.
Speaker 3: So what we had to do is, you know, Julian
Speaker 3: Carey's broke out laser down on the bridge the whole
Speaker 3: time we're pumping CPR. As an actor, I don't have
Speaker 3: water in my mouth. It would be incredibly dangerous. What
Speaker 3: happens is then they'll usually set up a special or
Speaker 3: they'll call a pause and literally say you know, pause,
Speaker 3: someone will run water into you. And I remember, we
Speaker 3: had to do a couple of takes because it is
Speaker 3: really scary to get to hold that much water in
Speaker 3: your mouth and your throat and then have someone push
Speaker 3: on you one more time, and so I think like
Speaker 3: the third take, I was like, let me just do
Speaker 3: it again, and I was basically about to choke. I
Speaker 3: got almost a whole bottle of water because I was like,
Speaker 3: if I've been underwater and my lungs have filled with water,
Speaker 3: it can't be like a little bit of water that
Speaker 3: comes out of my mouth. You know, I'm not throwing
Speaker 3: up where like you can see food and then I
Speaker 3: can hide it at the back of my head. A
Speaker 3: lot of water needs to come out. And so in
Speaker 3: the rain, everyone was really a good sport and Austin
Speaker 3: was a good sport and was like, I'll just like
Speaker 3: barely push on your chest this time, and we got
Speaker 3: that huge cough of water out. But it requires a reset.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's heavy, it's disgusting and horrible.
Speaker 2: Honorable mentions, Well, yeah, my honorable mention goes to our
Speaker 2: entire special effects crew for this whole episode.
Speaker 5: Sune special effects electricians, like everybody our crew worked harder
Speaker 5: than we did because they were there on you know,
Speaker 5: we only had to be there doing that stuff the
Speaker 5: days that we were shooting it, but they were out
Speaker 5: there every day, all day or night.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of work. So those guys really blew
Speaker 2: our mind, Amanda.
Speaker 4: Do you have an honorable mention?
Speaker 6: Yes, the honorable mentions. First of all, I think that
Speaker 6: Austin carrying you out of the water just like holy like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that was and hero moment. I'm not sure if it
Speaker 6: was there. There were a lot of good uses of
Speaker 6: slow mo, so hats off to the SloMo department well done.
Speaker 6: And the kids. I want to applaud the kids in
Speaker 6: this episode because they were all fantastic children working in
Speaker 6: a disaster type thing, especially the water work. That's really scary.
Speaker 6: That's really really scary, scary for adults. Hats off to
Speaker 6: those children.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna jump in because mine was going to
Speaker 4: be Chuck. When we first see Chuck on the highway
Speaker 4: when Brooke sees him, my first thought was like, what
Speaker 4: what the hell does this kid had some head trauma
Speaker 4: or something. And then I came to find out he
Speaker 4: was playing a city concussion. I was like, well, you
Speaker 4: freaking nailed it, buddy.
Speaker 2: He was great. He was always great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone everyone was so wonderful. I mean across the board,
Speaker 3: like you know, I think about it with all of you,
Speaker 3: I think, like what you, Amanda and Chantell had to do,
Speaker 3: I would give you know, my personal ones for keeping
Speaker 3: me seeing through it, to Austin and to Jackson, and
Speaker 3: then honestly, like our camera operators who were underwater with me,
Speaker 3: it was really scary to, you know, be sunk to
Speaker 3: the bottom of a swimming pool and trust that I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to die, even though I felt like I
Speaker 3: was dying. And there would be moments where, you know,
Speaker 3: one of our camera ops in a full wet suit
Speaker 3: and fins would just reach out and grab my hand
Speaker 3: off camera and give me a squeeze, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: we're all gonna be okay, okay. And it's it's those things,
Speaker 3: you know, to Joy's point about the crew that people
Speaker 3: don't see, but it really is make or break experience
Speaker 3: for us for shooting this stuff.
Speaker 6: So may I ask something, Sophia about the crews. Did
Speaker 6: you have your regular camera operators and crew or did
Speaker 6: they bring in people who were scuba certified?
Speaker 3: If I remember correctly, I believe Matt Dahl was scuba certified,
Speaker 3: and I think they brought in one more person.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Matt, because that's a whole other thing too.
Speaker 6: You have to have people who are scuba certified and
Speaker 6: who can go under the water, so you might not
Speaker 6: be working with your regular crew and that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt very lucky to have Maddie swimming around.
Speaker 3: He's like the best dad and the best co pilot
Speaker 3: on set. And so when one of your favorite working
Speaker 3: co pilots also gives you dad energy in a moment
Speaker 3: like that, you're like, bless you.
Speaker 5: This is such a great episode. Thank you guys, Thank
Speaker 5: you Amanda for joining us.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me everyone. This was so fun to
Speaker 6: be able to take a trip down memory lane.
Speaker 4: You rule.
Speaker 2: This episode.
Speaker 5: Season eight, episode twelve. The drinks we drank last night.
Speaker 2: We drank a lot of water. So thanks everybody, See
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