WEBVTT - I Am All In…Again: Rory is Going Away (Season 3 E3 “Application Anxiety”) 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:09.600 I Am all in Again, I. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.320 Am all in Again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.800 Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all in podcast. Actually 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.280 that's the I Am all In Again podcast is a 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:35.440 second go round water Leven Productions. iHeartRadio Media, iHeart Podcasts. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.320 We are going to break down Season three, Episode three, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:50.400 Application Anxiety with Stacy or Astano. Hi, Stacy, how you doing? 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.080 Let me let me thanks for coming. You're an actress, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.840 part of a year in the life Fall. You're portrayed Ali, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.520 one of the ladies Lorli meets on her Wild Journey 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.200 might also or from her Rolla's Mindy Riggins on the 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.800 television series Friday Night Lights and starring on ABC's Families 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.360 butN Heads as Truly Stone. She also had a guest 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.640 starring roles in Grace, Anatomy, Shameless, and Bull. You can 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.959 also catch her recently on the Netflix series Kaleiscope. Stacey Welcome, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:17.640 How are you? 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.640 I'm good? Thanks? That As a rundown, I like it. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:26.600 They were you are well ensconced inside the the the 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.360 Amy Sharn Palladino universe. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.800 I couldn't be happier to be in it. 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:38.200 And just grateful to have you. Rory and her mother 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.479 seek advice on filling out an application of Harvard. Lane 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.240 falls for a guy who answers her advertisement for a musician, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.320 the One and Only Adam Brody, and Taylor urges Luke 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.480 to open a soda fountain. Directed by Gail Mancuso and 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.120 written by Daniel Palladino, There's a lot to cover here. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.560 Rory gets her Harvard application in the mail and she 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.240 and Laura l are are going over it like it's 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.160 like it's no big deal. Actually they were. It was 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.040 like a big deal. So you think Rory and Laura 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:14.959 La I are now starting to realize how hard it 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.880 might be to thrive in the real world outside of 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.600 stars Hollow. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.720 Gosh, thrive in the real world. And then also the 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.400 reality of like, oh, this is a thing, this thing, this, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:27.800 this is a thing that might happen. I do have 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.320 to tell you, when I first started watching last night 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.520 this episode, I put it in and it was this 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.840 this episode and they got the application, and then like 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.440 when Netflix, I guess jumped and all of a sudden 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.880 it was like she was just meeting Dean and we 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.840 were just meeting the mother, and I was like, this 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.920 feels weird because I've watched Gilmore Girls like eight hundred 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.840 times and I was like and I was like, oh, okay, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.280 I get it. Noe. So I had gone back to 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.440 the pilot like Netflix had, and so I had to 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.560 go back and I was like, Okay, this feels much 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.560 more like calm, and I understand where we are right now. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.440 So then I was like back into the world and 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.519 I'm like, no, okay, everybody's where I need them to be. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.639 I'm going to Harvard. I'm back in I can't. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.280 And Paris and Rory air holding a seminar on applying 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.600 to college, and the advisors are sharing mistakes Africans make. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.280 They get Rory worried because she was going to do 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.800 exactly what they mentioned not to. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.799 I would write an essay on Hillary Clinton. I love 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:27.399 I do say. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:27.760 I love that. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.520 Paris says that when she first started writing her her 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.360 first trial essay at twelve, because of course Paris would 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:33.720 do that. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.040 Right, right, right. And Emily's trying to get involved in 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.160 Rory's college application. Rory arrives late Friday night dinner, freaking 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.440 out that she isn't getting in because she's become a 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.600 I guess in her eyes a cliche to the admissions 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.440 office at Harvard, and Laurel I starts to freak out too. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.080 You know, that scene in the in Richard's office was 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.960 really great. It was one of the It was one 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.200 of the more fun scenes I've seen those two do 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.880 what they're freaking out about. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.960 Any anytime you get them on screen. I do. I 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.800 want to know what I'm stuck on Paris. I want 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.760 to know what Paris's essay is about, Like, who's she 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.359 writing about? What of her thirty essays? Who is she 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:18.000 writing about? 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.360 I don't know who was who was she? I don't 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.599 know that they revealed that there's so many places you 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.760 could go. I mean, should we speculate? 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.120 Oh my god, I'm not that smart. That's the thing. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.760 Who do you think she's? Who do you think she 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:34.479 looks up to? 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.360 It? She wants to he's so obscure. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.600 Or Tom Stalin? 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.479 Who somebody like that? Or in the most charming way, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:46.960 it's herself, but like in a way that is perfect. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.640 Lizzie Borden who Reilly? 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:52.760 You know? 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.320 Laurela meets with Headmaster Charles and he passed along Harvard 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.440 alumnus contact and they go to Darren Springsteen's house to 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:04.240 have lunch. Wh this was this was pretty good. One 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.400 of the Springsteen kids isn't on the Harvard bound conveyor belt. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.640 You think Rory recognizes her? What was her name? Mary? 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.520 I think Mary as someone similar to her own mother 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.600 when she meets her, putting on her bunny costume. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.560 Mother mother and a little bit herself too, like in 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.760 a weird way, because she gets the funny the funny references, right, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.360 Is it okay to say creepy? The brother and the 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:39.720 sister coming in from tennis were a little creepy, creepy. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.000 And they play that game at lunch. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.360 You know, I can't fathom. I was thinking about if 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.680 I was at that lunch, how awkward I would be. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.040 I can do it? 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.839 Yeah, yeah, that's that was something, all right. Now Dean 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.160 gets insecure about him only going to junior college, and 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.960 this is is this the beginning really of the destruction 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.840 of Dean? It's the first Is this the first time 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:08.640 we've seen Dean really start getting a little whiny because 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:13.240 I haven't. He's been great so far, right, and then boy, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.920 he really just goes down, down, down, suggests that they 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.840 break up if she goes off to college. Rory convinces 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.880 him she won't. They brush it off and they continue 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.920 their date. But she's really like she's a little startled, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.200 isn't she. She's like, Wow, where did that come from? 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.720 Where did that big dose of insecurity coming out of Dean? 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:40.040 It seems early to have that talk too, Yeah, going 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.960 to Harvard yet, Like, what would that be that? Where 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.000 are we in the timeline? It's still like what the 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.000 beginning semester of schools? 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.200 Buddy, you gotta calm down, you know. And I think 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.360 how you know her fix? Well, I'll study during the 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.719 week and then I'll come home. I think I think 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.560 her fix for that was completely unrealistic, which is why 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.120 we have that scene. You know, she's not going to 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.320 do that. She's not going to come home every weekend. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.000 She won't be able to. She'll make friends, she'll be busy, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.800 she'll be in clubs, she'll be doing a lot of 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.800 reading and a lot of homework over the weekend. It's 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.600 the only time she probably can do it. So, Yeah, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.520 he was seeing the handwriting on the wall. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.640 He just wanted to God bless him, Like maybe he's. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.400 Not wrong, but he's not wrong, But it's like, not 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.960 the way to play it. I guess tough for a kid, right. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.960 And then there's more red flags with Dean, but you know, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.760 he brings up their relationship status when she leavesn't and 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.760 to suggest they break up. I mean this is to 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.080 even bring that into the universe. I think it's not 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.840 the smartest thing in the world. But I guess he 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.000 trusts her and he wants to talk openly about it 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.320 and it's on his mind and he feels comfortable with her, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.920 and why not, right, I mean, the difference in priorities 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.080 is a recipe for disaster coming. Why do you think 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.720 Rory continues to anr the red flags with Dean? 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.040 Oh gosh, because when you're that age, you don't see 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.240 them as red flags, right, You just it's popularve and 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.920 you love the boy and he's very very cute and 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.120 he's very very sweet, I think. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:15.160 Is right. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.840 He's like he's he's like the perfect boyfriend. Is he's 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.800 acting like a mature man in an an evolved adult 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.560 relationship and being great and he's a kid and he's 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.640 doing it. That's really not the time to do it, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.000 is it. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.600 It's impulsive, impetuous. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:36.920 And really. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.240 Elene is looking for a bandmate, and she places an 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:58.960 ad for a bandmate. She's being particular about her influences. Uh, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.800 She's getting phone calls at Rory and Laurel's house. And finally, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:09.560 Dave Rigalski Okay leaves a messaged and and he and 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.480 he approaches her Lane at the town after a town meeting, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.160 and she's very impressed with him. He lets her listen 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.320 to a demo of his band and she lets slip 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.640 out that she loves him. So she's finally following through 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.600 on her musical dreams. How do you think she's pulling 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.600 this off from missus Kim? I mean, she's hiding all 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.280 this from her mother. How's she doing that? 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:36.080 This Lane's musical taste is so impressive? And this is 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.920 how I know that Dan Dan Sherman Palladino wrote this 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.079 episode because I can hear his voice and his musical 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.880 influences in it. But like Lane listens to a lot 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.880 of music that her mother never finds out about. It's 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.559 actually really impressive. But then, of course, like has Adam 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:58.040 Brodie ever not been completely adorable? Like he's he's very 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:58.760 very good at that. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:06.400 Mm hmm right, I love him right, Well, there's instant 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.400 sparks between the two of them, and I think we 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.280 know what your first impression of him is. Yeah, he 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.360 just came on and killed it and uh, you know, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.720 became that character that they wanted to retain. But I 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.120 think the o c scooped him up before the Warners 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.319 had a chance to to sign him to a deal. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.480 I guess you know, it's all those young guys. They 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.920 all left the show, right, They all tried, They went 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.960 off to bigger and better things, left us all holding 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:40.680 the bag. You know, here we are. We'll just take 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.040 it from here. Guys, thanks a lot, Thanks for coming. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.560 All right, so now we can deal with Luke and 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.400 the building next door. Lucy's Taylor taking photos of the 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.200 building next door, which Luke's own. I thought that was 0:10:55.200 --> 0:11:01.640 particularly funny when when together, isn't that just one. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.559 It's just he's so great, He's so funny. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.160 Isn't Taylor just the best? And when he gets caught 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.920 when he sees me spying on him, he just stands 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:11.480 straight up. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.720 So good two are good foes together. That's a good 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.640 head to head match. I do love that Luke knew 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.280 what what was it? A chocolate phosphorus was but not 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.360 an egg cream or a black cow, or maybe Luke. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.959 Was just chocolate phosphate. That is it a phosphate or 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:30.719 a phosphorus. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:31.800 I've never heard of it. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.400 You think Taylor's being too harsh about the soda shop, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:40.000 you think he's being too persistent. It's Taylor, Yeah, that's Taylor, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.360 right maybe, but also now I think both of them 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.200 are a little harsh, right, which makes it work. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.760 So well, that's a hard headed man against a hard 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:50.360 headed man. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:54.520 Right exactly. And you know, these kids come in start 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.360 ordering these you know, throwback soda drinks, and Kirk comes in, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.840 he orders a soda fountain drink, and then it comes 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.880 to the diner, and then Luke catches on finally, so 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.000 he confronts Taylor about it, and Taylor tries to convince 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.200 him to open a soda shop, and Luke says, no way. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:12.880 Great scene. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.079 By the way, yeah, that's when we first find out 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.880 that you own that right space, right right? 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.480 Yeah? Yeah, I don't know why he's so upset about it. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:25.559 He owns the space, it's empty, rented out. What's the problem. 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:31.600 It's because it's Taylor. Anybody but Taylor, anything but that. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.199 Yeah, And then we get the town meeting. That was 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.040 a good town meeting. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.840 I love the town meeting. I think about it if 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.319 I was in the show, how much I would love 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.480 to film those, although I bet they were probably like 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.199 also not fun at the same time, just having everybody in. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.880 The Why do you think they weren't fun? 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.560 Because it's a lot of people and a lot of 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.360 just sitting, right, like a day of shooting. Way to 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.320 do that in the football stands and Friday night lights 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:59.160 and it was just like the stands forever, everybody's together 0:12:59.240 --> 0:12:59.959 in the same place. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.440 But you're it's a nighttime. You're usually filling Friday night lights. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.800 It's all in the nighttime, full like full nights in 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:07.280 the morning. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:12.680 Right, So it's so it's cold, right, it's cold at 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.640 night in Texas, right, it can be. It can be. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.560 So you're sitting there all night doing those all those crowd. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.400 Scenes, reaction shots. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.600 Reaction shots all. Yeah, it takes forever. It takes forever. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.280 The thing about the thing about the town hall meetings 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.640 is it's it's intensely hot in there because they you know, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.520 they shoot during the day and they shoot all day, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.000 so they tint it off and it's you know, it's Burbank. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.080 It's one hundred degrees. You're in winter clothes. It's it's 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.160 one hundred and twenty one hundred and thirty degrees in there. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.319 It's really it was really like, yeah, a lot of tissue. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.000 They're going through a lot of tissue, just dabbing people. Yeah, 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.760 blooding everybody, all right, And now we get to this uh, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:59.160 this wonderful Darren Springsteen arc. He leaves a message for 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.720 Rory saying she is the perfect candidate and that she 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.840 is basically in Harvard, and it's this this last beat 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.600 Rory and Laurla I start to realize she's she's gonna 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.200 leave it, and how will her being away from college 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.240 affect their dynamic? And there's that that Laura l after 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.440 the town hall meeting looking after a daughter, and Dean 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.200 walking into Luke's and realizing she's going to be gone. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.840 So it's a nice moment. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.520 That's the through line of this episode. It's like jan 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.400 realizes and then Jackson wants to use her room and 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:35.760 put his tools. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.480 In there, and like, oh my god, like it's so 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.800 pick too. I like to put my my ancient hose 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.760 and shovels and picks in. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.320 Your like the heavy. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.520 Can I store them in Rory's room? Well you're not 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:49.000 going to need it? 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.800 God, yeah, put my rusty old tools in your. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:15:00.240 Daughter's mister sensitive. Right, Thanks a lot there, Jackson. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.680 Parking. Theme of this seems to be like everyone is 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.840 starting to realize, like is going to go away. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:13.280 Huh. But that's a Dan Palladino episode. I love his episode. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:19.600 It's Dan Palladino episode. Dan used to on. Buttheads loved 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.280 to give me a list and it was just a 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.640 list of whatever. Like one time it was a list 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.680 of news anchors or a list of like things that 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.400 I loved, and it would be half a page. And 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.120 he told me that he did it because it made 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.360 him laugh to see me try to like memorize it, 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.240 and like that was his that was his thing that 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:38.600 he would do with me. So I would get a 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.280 script and I'd be like, oh, God, here we go. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.400 What am I doing? What am I doing? This time? 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.600 Dan just loved to like throw lots of words. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.480 Well you you went to college, right? Uh? And you 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.280 went you went to college in the UK? 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:53.680 Right? 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.560 I did it? Went to a University of Manchester. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.480 You remember all about the application process? What was that? 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.160 Like? I did a lot of application process in America 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.560 because I assumed that's where I was going, So I 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.320 did a lot of the essays and the sets and 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.840 all of that. But I did this Thespian Convention audition 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.960 and I won first place in a scholarship and from there, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.000 the dean of the Acting Center at the University of 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.720 Manchester asked me if I wanted to maybe go there, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.280 and I said no because it sounded like really scary 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:25.800 and I was going to go to TCU with all 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.160 my friends and my dad was like. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.680 No, You're going to go really really And what was 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.800 that like? Going to Manchester, UK? 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.960 Terrifying? I'm from Texas and I like never left Texas 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.080 and right, yeah, I'd definitely never been out of the country. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.680 But big culture, huge culture shock. But it took me 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.120 two weeks to completely fall in love with the people 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.920 and the style of acting and everything that I was 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:53.440 doing there. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:17:03.920 I didn't want to, right. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.080 So You're a part of Year in Life, Laureli heads 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.639 Off in the Wild and you renewed reunited with Amy 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.720 Palladina after being part of the main cast of Bunheads. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:21.280 How did it feel to join the Gilmour universe I. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.960 Remember going to that table aid and I am such it. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.840 So when I first got onto Bunheads, do you remember 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.159 like years and years ago when actors would have generals 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.600 with casting directors, Like we would have a general meeting 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.400 and it wasn't like an audition. You would just meet 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.359 with a casting director in chat. Then a casting director 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:44.800 for Bunheads was like, hey, so there's this show coming up. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.440 It's like Amy Sherman Palladino and it's about ballet. And 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.600 I was like, you just said two of my favorite things. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.040 Then later she brought me in for the audition for 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.679 Bunheads and she was like, oh, also Sutton Foster and 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.960 I was like, stop saying things that I love doing 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.639 that show was amazing. And then so going to the 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.920 table read for Gilmour Girls, which was like two or 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.280 three years after that, I was fan girling out because 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.480 I was such a fan. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.400 Oh wait, so you were in that room. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.280 Yeah, in the table raid for what was it? 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.680 Autumn was the one that I did, So that were you? 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.000 So it was in the it was in the uh 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.400 you know, you came to the executive suites and went upstairs, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.480 went in that conference room. Wasn't a huge conference room, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:30.160 but it was big enough. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:31.720 It was there was a lot of people there. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:36.120 That was the initial table read seeing you and oh 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.400 okay okay. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.240 And all of these people that I loved, And I 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.920 clung onto Kelly Bishop with all of my mc because 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.800 she was the only person in the room that I knew, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.439 and I loved it with all of my heart. And 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.439 I was like, I was like, I don't know what 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.800 I'm doing in Shi goes Stacy, you belong here, And 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.320 I was like, oh my god, I was fan girling 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.120 the entire time. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:57.280 Is so cool. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:57.760 It was. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.680 Uh yeah, that was a nice That was a nice 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:06.560 table read. That was like fancy table reading. All right, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.080 So it's the twenty fifth anniversary Gilmore Girls this year. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.320 Have you watched all of. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.440 The series at least five times over. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.000 At least five times? 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.480 Go This and West Wing are my my go back 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.639 comfort shows, Like I mean, you need something that you 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.359 know really well and the world is a little too 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.840 much and you just want to like get cozy. Yeah, 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:28.280 I'm fan. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.680 And you were also on Friday Night Lights, another iconic show. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:37.080 You were Mindy. That is another like you know, super 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:43.000 fan driven show. So let's compare which fans are more dedicated. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.520 Friday Night Lights fans are Gilmore. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.520 Girls fans girls fans. Yeah, yeah, Friday Night Lights fans 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.600 are super cool and chill and it's just like a 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.720 head nud like hair, like the show. I really like 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.200 Friday Night Lights. But like you More Girls fans, they 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.399 go to the like festivals and they I want to 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.760 like meet your guys and like they're they're in it. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.680 They had you guys for so much longer too. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:06.840 We went around. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:08.000 We weren't around that long. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.720 How many How many seasons did you shoot? To that 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:11.320 show live? 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.760 But we got struck by the writers strike the second season, 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.160 so the rest of our seasons were only sixteen episodes. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.920 Okay, wow, how often do you get recognized as mindy. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.600 Less and less? Because I'm older? But when I'm around 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.960 my best friend Derek Phillips, who played my husband Billy Riggins, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:35.480 when we're together, you recognized more. Right, Oh, you know 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.600 what I get A lot like this is what I get. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.480 I know you did we go to high school together? 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.760 And I don't know, probably not, but I never wanted 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:44.840 to be like I was on. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.200 I'm like, no, no, no, Well, Gilmore Girls was able to 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.200 come back for revivals. Do you think you'd be open 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.320 to the same thing for Friday Night Lights? Is there 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:56.920 any talk of it? 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.399 We talked about it a lot. There was this script 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.720 floating around of the like the same crew coming back 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.399 and we're sort of to split into two camps of 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.040 yes and a no. And as much as I couldn't 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.359 turn down the job, I don't want to tell any 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.000 more of that story. Our series finale to me was 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.160 perfect and it's a perfect ending, and I think that's 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.960 it for that story. I don't think anyone needs to be. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:32.600 Told right right right now. You're also a podcaster. It's 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:37.240 called Clear Eyes, Full Heart, Friday Nights, Friday Night Lights rewatch. 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:41.760 What was it like going through all that? Again? 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.760 I do not watch anything that I'm in, so we 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:51.680 share that I never watched Friday Night Lights. And Derek, 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:53.840 who plays my husband, my best friend. We got offered 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.520