Speaker 1: Wind Down with Jane Kramer and I'm Heeart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: All Right, so this week I'm very excited because we
Speaker 1: have to tell you Alan might get upset about this. Actually,
Speaker 1: uh oh, we have a little juicy detail. So there
Speaker 1: is a new season of Bridgerton out, season three. It's
Speaker 1: on Netflix. And I was like, babe, I did so
Speaker 1: I'd truth be told. I did not watch. I watched
Speaker 1: season one. I did not watch season two because I
Speaker 1: don't know how they could top season one? Did they?
Speaker 1: And yet they do? They did. Yeah. So but I've
Speaker 1: just I've obviously heard a lot about season three and
Speaker 1: it's everywhere and I'm like, oh, it's just it's like
Speaker 1: pulling my heart strings back right. But also I'm like
Speaker 1: season one is just so incredible that I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just don't think it's going to beat that. So I
Speaker 1: haven't yet watched. But the other day I saw it
Speaker 1: again on the Netflix and I was like, hey, Pipe,
Speaker 1: do you think that you would watch? Maybe because we're
Speaker 1: trying to find a new show and the shows that
Speaker 1: we've been watching have been like heavy, like we watched
Speaker 1: my word, there's so many of them. We watched Baby Reindeer.
Speaker 1: Is that what it's called Yeah the Rede Yeah Baby Reindeer,
Speaker 1: which was heady, very dark. Uh. And then we just
Speaker 1: finished a show called Eric and that was also heavy,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we just need something light. Meanwhile, we're
Speaker 1: watching Tires What's Up? And Girls five Ever? I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, still haven't seen it, but Tires
Speaker 1: is like a comedy. It's like very much like The Office,
Speaker 1: but it's done in like a kind of on the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've passed that. I don't know. We're all in Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that's what we need to be watching because everything's
Speaker 1: just been so dark. So I'm like, why don't we
Speaker 1: watch Bridgist And he's like no, and I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, fine, I guess I'll just start it. But
Speaker 1: then I kept thinking again. I was like, Babe, I
Speaker 1: really think again. You know, I kind of signed up
Speaker 1: to watch Eric with you. You know, it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: my first my first pick. Where did I just go, really, Son,
Speaker 1: that ain't gonna be my first pick, my first pick
Speaker 1: because I was like, that's not going to be my
Speaker 1: first pick, so this would be my pick. But I
Speaker 1: would want to start from the beginning with you, like
Speaker 1: I want to watch properly the first season. Do you
Speaker 1: sometimes forget things too, because I sometimes for I'm like,
Speaker 1: I need a recap. Yeah, so I would forget some
Speaker 1: of the Charlotte's And I just I'd like to start
Speaker 1: from the beginning so that he also can start like
Speaker 1: we did. For example, I was the Morning show. I
Speaker 1: already watched the first few seasons, but he wanted to watch,
Speaker 1: so I rewatched it all with him because I also
Speaker 1: was like, I actually don't remember half of it. Yeah. Same,
Speaker 1: So but you guys, I think I got him with
Speaker 1: a I'll try one. And then he was in and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, we haven't started yet, so I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm kind of tiptoeing to go. All right, babe,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think tonight's tonight. Tonight is definitely because
Speaker 1: we have Daniel Francis coming on the show, who's in
Speaker 1: season three, and so I just think that I'll be
Speaker 1: you know, I can be like, Babe, I just talked
Speaker 1: to you know, Daniel, he's on there. Let's start from
Speaker 1: the beginning. So I have I got a A one,
Speaker 1: so I think I'll be able to hook him. Heids
Speaker 1: a hookable. He doesn't like time piece kind of shows.
Speaker 1: But you know what she's she does really well. Shanda
Speaker 1: does this really well. I think with everything she kind
Speaker 1: of merges all those worlds together. I would agree, And
Speaker 1: that's what I was trying to tell you. The classical music, yes,
Speaker 1: we do not like that and like it's it's just
Speaker 1: it's so modern. But yet not because I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit like Alan, I wouldn't be as into if it
Speaker 1: feels like docuseries, like very like very historically the Queen
Speaker 1: or any of those. Queen Charlotte is so good. You
Speaker 1: have to watch you, especially because we're hopeless romantics. I mean,
Speaker 1: it will just have you moved to tears. My goodness. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I do want to start from the beginning again, but
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have him on. But before where we
Speaker 1: do catch me up? How is how is Lion's first birthday?
Speaker 1: It was epic, It was great. We got you know
Speaker 1: what I love most about us. One of the things
Speaker 1: I love most about us is we always make sure
Speaker 1: to get home as fast as we can. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great. So we just had the wind Down tour, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, people that came to Nashville, Detroit, Chicago,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for spending time with us, flying
Speaker 1: to come see us, hey, hogging us. Yeah, it was awesome, incredible,
Speaker 1: But the night of Chicago, this is what we do. Well. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: if we can get home quicker to see our babies,
Speaker 1: we're all going to go home. But I like that
Speaker 1: all three of us are in on that because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people I know that don't operate that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or it'd be like it stresses them out to change
Speaker 1: the travel, whereas me, I'm like, I find it exciting, exhilarating,
Speaker 1: and like, let's give it a go. So I didn't,
Speaker 1: but then I married the male version of you, and
Speaker 1: so now I'm so used to it that I was like,
Speaker 1: of course we're changing plans. I feel like I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good about it. Yeah. I actually I had texted Mike
Speaker 1: because he's like, hey, what time do you get home tomorrow?
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, actually I got home last night
Speaker 1: because there was a later flight. He goes, of course
Speaker 1: you did. Yeah, I mean, well, yeah, if I could
Speaker 1: nominate anybody eligible for a private jet, it would be us,
Speaker 1: like get us home. But yes, so we found a
Speaker 1: later we found the last flight out of Chicago. We
Speaker 1: got home and it only ended up being a one
Speaker 1: night sleep, one night away sleep, which is incredible, perfect.
Speaker 1: And then I got to get up and organized life
Speaker 1: for Lion's big first birthday and she had cmafest with Data.
Speaker 1: He played at the Riverfront stage, so we got to
Speaker 1: go down. It was her first show. Oh, it was perfect,
Speaker 1: and she went out on stage and the whole place
Speaker 1: saying happy birthday, and I was emotional. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just really special and easy. There's just something about the
Speaker 1: pace of life right now that just feels really like good. Well,
Speaker 1: we were kind of talking about that because someone had
Speaker 1: asked you the question again was what is my dream?
Speaker 1: What is your dream? And you said that you were
Speaker 1: in a way struggling to am And then you know,
Speaker 1: as we were walking the streets, which I love us
Speaker 1: in Chicago because we just You're my favorite travel buddy.
Speaker 1: I just we just we like to be out and
Speaker 1: walking around, and we found water, even though it was
Speaker 1: just a fountain, but it was beautiful. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1: And in that moment too, I'm like, we're kind of
Speaker 1: living the dream. We've got healthy babies. I feel it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: contentment is so high for me right now and I've
Speaker 1: never felt that, like I've always I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: sit next to Regis. I've always maybe you're my reach. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I've always had like big you know, I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to be on Saturday Night Live, like all these huge,
Speaker 1: monstrous dreams. And now I'm like, I still think that
Speaker 1: they're in there and tucked away. But I just also
Speaker 1: just love and know how fleeting the season is that
Speaker 1: I'm in right now. Babies don't keep I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: unsure how she's one year old already, so I just
Speaker 1: don't want to miss anything. And I think I'm so
Speaker 1: anchored in like keeping us a family. And because Data
Speaker 1: is so busy, I mean, Preston's career is crazy, to
Speaker 1: start their own record label, they're like out with Kane Brown.
Speaker 1: This season it's just or this season. Everything's a season
Speaker 1: Bridgerton terms. But I just feel like there's so much
Speaker 1: busyness and I'm just like, it's less busyness and more fullness,
Speaker 1: I guess. But it is weird because she asked me
Speaker 1: that question and I didn't have like a like I've
Speaker 1: been writing, which I love to do well. I think
Speaker 1: people look down on the word content, like contentment and
Speaker 1: it's like it's actually though it can be bad, like
Speaker 1: I should in relationships if you're just have that like,
Speaker 1: it can be, but there's a there can be positive
Speaker 1: forms of it as well. Yeah, you're just content and
Speaker 1: that's okay and you're happy. Like that's kind of like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not doing I'm not on a TV show
Speaker 1: that I would love to be on, and I'm doing
Speaker 1: all the things, but I'm also very happy and content
Speaker 1: where I'm at at in this moment in my life.
Speaker 1: I just kind of wonder, that's okay. Is this forties maybe,
Speaker 1: but I just I think it's we can still dream
Speaker 1: and hope. Yes for sure to have to be on
Speaker 1: the SNLS and have you know, the shows and stuff.
Speaker 1: But and also I would I think I finally got
Speaker 1: into a place where I'm okay if I don't like,
Speaker 1: I'm still happy and I don't feel like a failure
Speaker 1: or that I that I didn't get there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think like I definitely want to be like a best
Speaker 1: selling author someday. I still have that I love to write,
Speaker 1: but I also am just so I don't know, I
Speaker 1: have like great rich friendships. It's just a really sweet
Speaker 1: spot are you wearing an amber necklace? No? Oh, looks
Speaker 1: like nelaces. I was like, do this work. I've never
Speaker 1: done that because I was afraid of joking. Well, because
Speaker 1: I did put one on his wrists, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is just I can't do this. I would pay
Speaker 1: to see a bracelet on Romans little meaty wrist. I
Speaker 1: love him so much. Yeah, I've got to really proud
Speaker 1: of us. It's just a fun season. I talked to
Speaker 1: Sarah Bryce about this too, and she was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like we all love being home. We've created
Speaker 1: safe places. Yeah, our bed. There's nothing better than being home. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to travel. I've got some insane travel
Speaker 1: coming up the next month. And though it gives me anxiety,
Speaker 1: it does give me a lot of anxiety actually because
Speaker 1: I just love being home. But I also want to
Speaker 1: enjoy those moments too. Yeah, and I don't want it
Speaker 1: to steal that. I don't want to want those moments
Speaker 1: to get stolen because I'm anxious of being far. I
Speaker 1: just I do just love being home. I do too,
Speaker 1: But I also think one thing too that we have
Speaker 1: is that we have a home inside of a person too.
Speaker 1: So I kind of feel like, like you said, can
Speaker 1: I share your New York story, which one you're a
Speaker 1: little nappy, my little nappy in the park story. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah sure, because that's like not a very Jana thing
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, like an old Jana. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the Janna. I always knew it exists. But like
Speaker 1: you were telling me, I mean, you probably sit more
Speaker 1: romantically because it's your story. But I just thought it
Speaker 1: was sweet. You and Alan were in New York and
Speaker 1: you took a time out and you went to the
Speaker 1: park at Central Park, and you both you just laid
Speaker 1: down in the grass and took a nap on each other.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that to me is the epitome
Speaker 1: of like having a home in someone just feeling safe. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it just felt I've never done that. I've never
Speaker 1: I've I've I mean I lived in New York and
Speaker 1: I I would sit there, but I've never actually felt
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to just lay down in the grass with
Speaker 1: no worry. No, you know, even though Alan tried to
Speaker 1: lay his shirt, I was like, I don't need I
Speaker 1: don't need your sweater, Like I'm good. I just like,
Speaker 1: let's just and just we both fell asleep in the
Speaker 1: middle of a crazy city, you know, and it was
Speaker 1: beautiful and it was it was it was very calming,
Speaker 1: like he's he is a very safe place. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love him. What a fun season of life? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I get catastrophic. And this is why I'm a
Speaker 1: therapist because well, like, am I gonna almost die? Is
Speaker 1: because when you say that and you're like, well beat it. Well,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, well, what's next? Then there's where's the
Speaker 1: big shoe dropping? Because that's where my brain always goes.
Speaker 1: This is also why we were friends catastrophic friends. You
Speaker 1: night hands is basically said I either have a brain
Speaker 1: tumor or MS. So I'm like, what is going on
Speaker 1: with me? Or always a third option? Or I like
Speaker 1: to tell you and Preston there's always a third option
Speaker 1: and the third option should start. Was day off a Google? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say, doctor Google tells me different? Sure does. Oh anyways,
Speaker 1: wind down was incredible and I love your people. You're
Speaker 1: the best thing, our people, and I just know, I'm
Speaker 1: just so appreciative because it's just so nice to get
Speaker 1: out there and talk and connect and it's fun for
Speaker 1: us too. They had really great questions. It's fun for
Speaker 1: all of us to like, I mean, we had real
Speaker 1: breakfast out on the road, hot eggs. I know Kat's
Speaker 1: kind of used to that because she's in a different
Speaker 1: season of motherhood, but she is you and I are like, wait,
Speaker 1: we can have a warm breakfast and someone will serve us.
Speaker 1: Sign me up. I know. It's pretty great. But so
Speaker 1: thank you for everyone that came out and for those
Speaker 1: watching Bridgerton. Let's get a little inside scoop from Lord
Speaker 1: Marcus Sodaddy tuned. Hi, thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: onto the show. We're very excited to have you. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you get the audition for Bridgerton. Did you just
Speaker 1: go like, oh my gosh, I have to get this,
Speaker 1: like this is this is a huge or did you
Speaker 1: or did you just austraight get an offer?
Speaker 2: No? No, I auditioned. I auditioned. I am that the tape
Speaker 2: came through, and I've got to be honest. I was
Speaker 2: doing a show called what was it? A Wheel of Time?
Speaker 2: And I had prosthetics on and shape up on my
Speaker 2: facial hair and I kind of put on wait for
Speaker 2: the character, and I did not feel sexy. It was
Speaker 2: not it was not bridgeton. It couldn't be further away
Speaker 2: from Bridgeton. And so when it came through, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh god, this is I'm really good audition for this
Speaker 2: because this is not my world, right, And and and
Speaker 2: then the actress Kareema McAdams, who I was working with,
Speaker 2: a phenomenal actress, and she was like, damn of course
Speaker 2: and and so I read it and it kind of
Speaker 2: forced me to really because you know, you see a
Speaker 2: description that says he's charismatic and he lights up every
Speaker 2: room that he goes into, and that instantly just makes
Speaker 2: me go, you know, I kind of how do you
Speaker 2: how do you play charisma? Right? Like you can charm people?
Speaker 2: But you know so? But but it also it kind
Speaker 2: of it forced me to, I guess, really focus on
Speaker 2: the character and the relationship dynamics, which is what you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do anyway, right, and to move away from
Speaker 2: the aesthetics and just kind of find who he was
Speaker 2: as as a as a man and what he's yeah,
Speaker 2: what his real intentions were as well.
Speaker 1: So sure, did you watch the show before you auditioned?
Speaker 2: No? But my mom and sisters were fans. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: when I told them and them about the audition and
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen the show.
Speaker 1: Well, we stopped telling our parents about auditions. I stopped
Speaker 1: telling my parents and I auditioned, I mean years ago,
Speaker 1: because they'd be like, well, how is that. I'm like, Mom,
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm never gonna I'm gonna get one
Speaker 1: out of five hundred, so just stop asking. So I
Speaker 1: just stopped telling.
Speaker 2: It's exactly that, right, So they only found out once
Speaker 2: I got the part, and then and once once I
Speaker 2: got it, then they were just like what and everyone,
Speaker 2: I think everyone, you know, I knew it was I
Speaker 2: knew it was a big show, but I think everyone
Speaker 2: who had watched it knew the scale of it more
Speaker 2: than me, And I think it didn't really dawn on
Speaker 2: me until you know, you kind of get the sense
Speaker 2: of it when you go on set, obviously, because you're
Speaker 2: amazing amazing locations like these are the kind of jewels
Speaker 2: of the Crown of British real estate, right, and so
Speaker 2: you get a sense of it when you're feeling at
Speaker 2: Hampton Court where Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got to go see that. It was in the
Speaker 1: first season when and it was in the courtyard. I
Speaker 1: was walking around England and I got to see that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well that's pretty cool, but it
Speaker 1: just it's just so rich and beautiful and I mean,
Speaker 1: like again, the landscape is just so beautifully there in England.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so we got to utilize that, which was
Speaker 2: which was amazing, and then you realize the scale of
Speaker 2: the show. And then it wasn't until I got to
Speaker 2: New York for the premiere that you realize, oh damn,
Speaker 2: this is this is huge, you know, and so yes,
Speaker 2: it's been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me. I'm a big wardrobe costume girl.
Speaker 1: Tell me when they're putting you and suiting you up?
Speaker 1: You handsome lord? You? What? How did? How? How are
Speaker 1: things fitting? Are things uncomfortable? Are you watching all these
Speaker 1: women in corsets? Are they taking breathers?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Give us inside scoop? Is everyone on a water diet
Speaker 1: because there's no room for anything?
Speaker 2: No? Do you know what? The team? The team, And
Speaker 2: I'm going to sound like I'm just kind of just
Speaker 2: bragging on everyone, but it's it's such a it's such
Speaker 2: an amazing team. So everything's obviously custom made and so
Speaker 2: you go in and you get fitted and they know
Speaker 2: exactly what they're doing, right, So you know, if you've
Speaker 2: got a little bit of lumps here or a little
Speaker 2: bulgin there. Then you know they not to to make
Speaker 2: you look all smooth, so it's it's a it's a
Speaker 2: butt when you put them on. You know if you
Speaker 2: as genre right, like as you as you know that
Speaker 2: that kind of experience of of prepping as an actor
Speaker 2: and then when you finally then put on the costume,
Speaker 2: it gives you that extra lift and puts you into
Speaker 2: the world. That moment when when you put on the
Speaker 2: bridge and costumes is just just.
Speaker 1: Kidding and you would imagine how fun like that's like,
Speaker 1: that's my dream is to do one of those like
Speaker 1: Pride and Prejudice, like those eras, like because you said,
Speaker 1: like just done in costume the whole the war. It's
Speaker 1: such a different world that it must just be as
Speaker 1: an actor just so fun to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It is that their detail is special,
Speaker 2: you know, so like very little imagination needed.
Speaker 1: And it translates to the viewer. That's what I love
Speaker 1: so much, Like every you know, like I'm watching for
Speaker 1: details and hair and jewels and just the placement and
Speaker 1: everything is just so magical. I could watch it on
Speaker 1: mute sometimes and rewatch just to just have it in
Speaker 1: my you know, like it's so stunning. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: become Lord Marcus Anderson and you have beef with your sister,
Speaker 1: and do we get to find out about the beef?
Speaker 1: You don't, I know, there's no spoilers. I'm sure Shanda's
Speaker 1: got this very buttoned up. But it's bothering all of
Speaker 1: us because of course you're so dapper and you know,
Speaker 1: like everyone obviously you've peaud the interest of Lady Bridgerton,
Speaker 1: which is impossible to do. Her garden hasn't bloomed in decades,
Speaker 1: Daniel and so and so, now her garden is ready
Speaker 1: to bloom for someone like you. And I'm just wondering, like,
Speaker 1: this is just a I mean, it's just such a
Speaker 1: it's such a cool like moment. Or do we get
Speaker 1: to but then but then your sister doesn't like you,
Speaker 1: and it feels I don't, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: like it. We've earned the respect of her for three seasons,
Speaker 1: you know, no, but.
Speaker 2: This is this is the kind of the difficult thing
Speaker 2: coming in is that you've you know, you've got Lady
Speaker 2: Danbury and she's she is the she's the powerhouse, right,
Speaker 2: and so she doesn't approve. Then then you know you're
Speaker 2: kind of going uphill. But he's oblivious to to why
Speaker 2: she's like this. He thinks it's just to do with
Speaker 2: we'll discover this, so I don't want to spoil too much. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know there are certain things that are obvious from
Speaker 2: that time. He's younger than her. But but but being
Speaker 2: the firstborn son, as it were, the man get treated
Speaker 2: with favor in that time, right, so you know he
Speaker 2: has no idea what it's about, and so we get
Speaker 2: to find that out, hopefully, Fingers crusted as the.
Speaker 1: Well, you know something, I can see the twinkle in
Speaker 1: your eye want you to tell me, But then I
Speaker 1: don't want you to tell me anything. That's like why
Speaker 1: the first season when I'm the worst, I went straight
Speaker 1: to the end because I was like, I can't handle it. Literally,
Speaker 1: I literally could not handle it's the worst. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I had to read the back of the book first.
Speaker 2: So you're the reason why they've split it into two then, right, I.
Speaker 1: Had ye, because I mean I watched like the first
Speaker 1: four and I was like, this is giving me so
Speaker 1: much anxiety in my life, Like I need to know
Speaker 1: if they get together or they do not player. So
Speaker 1: I won't finish the last twenty pages of like a
Speaker 1: Beautiful Novel because I don't want it to end.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I'm on the last episode of Queen Charlotte and
Speaker 1: I'm halfway through, and I just haven't picked when I'm
Speaker 1: emotionally ready for this moment. But that was a beautiful
Speaker 1: series too. Shonda's just so talented. I love studying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know what to expect. Well, you know
Speaker 2: what to expect to Shonda, right, but but I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I had nothing, you know, no insights about the story
Speaker 2: or anything, and it just it just hits you so
Speaker 2: odd it was. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful. It brought me to tears.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I was sat there, I know, and.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait, I know these people. I just had
Speaker 1: lunch with them. We added girled cheese together. So okay,
Speaker 1: So that is one of my questions. So, like, obviously
Speaker 1: we don't we know what to expect with Shonda, which
Speaker 1: is always excellence to me, like everything her brain. If
Speaker 1: I could have by a day pass for just to
Speaker 1: sit inside her brain for a day, but then we
Speaker 1: have no idea what to expect, and we know we
Speaker 1: can expect that it's going to be great. So have
Speaker 1: you been in the room with her? Have you breathed
Speaker 1: her air?
Speaker 2: Briefly? Just okay, brief you know, I've only I've only
Speaker 2: mentioned the once, which is at the New York premiere.
Speaker 2: And it was a brief moment that I almost ruined
Speaker 2: with cookies and uh, with a mouthful of cookies and
Speaker 2: and and in this in this kind of moment where
Speaker 2: I was we were doing press with you know, we're
Speaker 2: doing press, moving down the line, speaking to everyone, and
Speaker 2: I was hungry. I didn't eat before before the event,
Speaker 2: and and the moment of peace and and and space
Speaker 2: that I got, I ran with my publicist and and
Speaker 2: and saw some cookies on the side of these you know,
Speaker 2: ornate and decorative bridgeton cookies and uh and stuff in
Speaker 2: my face. And then I look up and Shonda's looking
Speaker 2: at me. And we've never met before, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: there is no way that I meet in Shonda with
Speaker 2: a mouthful of cookies and then spin on her. It's
Speaker 2: just not happening. So so so I went, you know,
Speaker 2: washed it down, went and finally met her, and it
Speaker 2: was just you know, a brief moment before we had
Speaker 2: to go in. But she you know, she's she's she's
Speaker 2: an icon, she really is. And and and just to
Speaker 2: you can just feel her presence and her energy just
Speaker 2: from being in her presence.
Speaker 1: What do you think the show does really well at?
Speaker 1: And then where what do you think that they should
Speaker 1: do something maybe different? Or is there something where you
Speaker 1: be like I would do this or I would maybe
Speaker 1: change this.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think if you change it's like
Speaker 2: what is it?
Speaker 1: Like? What would you add? Maybe?
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, if you say, like you know, with
Speaker 2: time travel, right they say if you went back and
Speaker 2: you changed something, then it would upset the future or
Speaker 2: if you went you know, And I think, well, not
Speaker 2: think it's clear they really know what they're doing, right,
Speaker 2: Like it's clear this season. I just saw the numbers
Speaker 2: on it and the viewership and it's just exceeded what,
Speaker 2: you know, what the previous seasons have done. And the
Speaker 2: fans fans love it and it's just hits and it's
Speaker 2: a completely different. I feel, it's a completely different energy
Speaker 2: from season one and season two. And so with Shondaland
Speaker 2: and Brown the showrunner, they've just done an amazing job.
Speaker 2: So I you know, I wouldn't change it. I won't
Speaker 2: change a thing, and especially given the fact that they
Speaker 2: well I put me in it more. That's that's that's.
Speaker 1: Season four is what I would like to do. List
Speaker 1: you had there's a chance at that, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're the love interest of a very main character.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to see where it goes.
Speaker 1: I we will.
Speaker 2: We'll have to see where it goes because it's not
Speaker 2: in the book, and so who knows, there's no destination
Speaker 2: or journey.
Speaker 1: So in the private in your private world, are you married, dating? Single?
Speaker 2: What? I keep my private life private?
Speaker 1: Wo extra lockow for you. That's something I wish I
Speaker 1: would have done, dearest gentle reader. Take advice here, Jenna, I'll.
Speaker 2: Grab that one. Yeah, and I just I just keep it,
Speaker 2: you know. I think I tried to just kind of
Speaker 2: do my work and let my work be the kind
Speaker 2: of offering to to the industry. And I need I
Speaker 2: kind of I need a private space, right like I need.
Speaker 2: I've always been like that, even even you know, before
Speaker 2: being an actor and outside of being an actor, I've
Speaker 2: always I'm kind of extroverted and introverted at the same time.
Speaker 2: So I get energy from both and so when I
Speaker 2: need to retreat and just kind of be in my
Speaker 2: safe space, I need that to be my safe space.
Speaker 2: So I just I've just decided to just kind of
Speaker 2: keep everything private.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like your dms would be going crazy
Speaker 1: after being on a show like this. I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to Everyone now gets access if you have Instagram,
Speaker 1: So I can only imagine, you know what that must
Speaker 1: be like, Yeah, we're getting a smile. Just I like
Speaker 1: that though. I think that's really handsome, yeah or shady.
Speaker 1: I can't quite tell, Danielle, but it feels handsome and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think for me, you know, the
Speaker 2: it's always it's always flattering, you know, like if people
Speaker 2: resonate with your character and and you know they don't
Speaker 2: know me as Daniel, right, Like, it's people are getting
Speaker 2: to know who who Daniel is. So so I'm also
Speaker 2: kind of grounded in that as well, that that it's
Speaker 2: you know, there's a there's an on screen character that
Speaker 2: people have kind of been taken taken by, right, and
Speaker 2: and so you know that's that's completely fine, and that's
Speaker 2: that's flattering, and and that is the offering to the
Speaker 2: kind of the bridget and fan base and my work
Speaker 2: and you know, and and and people you know. I
Speaker 2: also appreciate when people take the time to reach out
Speaker 2: because I go, look, we could there's so many different
Speaker 2: things that people could be doing, right, Like, there are
Speaker 2: so many things that people could be watching and spending
Speaker 2: their time, and so there is something there is. I'm graceful.
Speaker 2: I try to be graceful in that as well, because
Speaker 2: it's Yeah, we're humans at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: and that's important for me as well.
Speaker 1: You've been at acting for a really long time, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you've been doing this for I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're private about how old you are? How old
Speaker 1: are you, Daniel? Would you tell us or would you
Speaker 1: like to be ca Yeah, you look great. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have guessed forty one. But this is a I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a testament to like hard work and really
Speaker 1: refining a craft, because I know, just from being friends
Speaker 1: with Jana, like these auditions and everything you all go through.
Speaker 1: It's not easy and you don't often get something into
Speaker 1: land a role like this is a testament to like
Speaker 1: how talented you are. Is there anything my friend? She
Speaker 1: also just said, Hey, Daniel, you should check out Lifetime
Speaker 1: there's been a new movie on Lifetime just debut guess
Speaker 1: by your husband? Stop anyway, Well, I have to promote you,
Speaker 1: So tell me, is there anything that you miss? I
Speaker 1: will do like a BB we'll call it before Bridgerton
Speaker 1: because this as to have shaken up your life. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the scale of the show is just tremendous. So
Speaker 1: is there anything that you miss about? And this doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a negative because of the show. Just
Speaker 1: before Daniel became a lord, I.
Speaker 2: Was always internally, internally I always felt like a lord.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's why you identify so well with the character.
Speaker 1: I always feel like I'm a queen too, So where's my.
Speaker 2: Lords and ladies and kings and queens? You know, we've
Speaker 2: got to feel like that. No, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a it's a blessing. It's a blessing and and
Speaker 2: and so I just kind of I just see it
Speaker 2: like that, and I think I tried to live my
Speaker 2: life in this way that it's I have no regrets.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, what is it? So?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Definitely no regrets, no excuses if you don't do well,
Speaker 2: and no justifications if you succeed. It's just you know
Speaker 2: this is this is life, and we're just in the
Speaker 2: process of, you know, on a process of evolution, and
Speaker 2: that's so I'm just kind of going with that and
Speaker 2: going I have goals and aims and visions of where
Speaker 2: I kind of see myself and the things that I
Speaker 2: want to kind of give out into the world. But
Speaker 2: in terms of going backwards now, I literally it doesn't
Speaker 2: even come into mind, it really doesn't. I just go
Speaker 2: this is. I tried to stay in the moment, which
Speaker 2: is not always easy for me because I do future
Speaker 2: project and I plan a lot. I spend very little
Speaker 2: time in the past. Like I genuinely just minimize that
Speaker 2: past and then just try to stay in the present
Speaker 2: and while dipping into the future to ensure that I'm
Speaker 2: going in the right direction. But other than that, this
Speaker 2: is an absolute blessing. So I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1: I love that I'm forty two and Janna just turned forty,
Speaker 1: and I feel like there's some power once you get
Speaker 1: into the forties. There's just this contentment and power, like
Speaker 1: an empowerment. I should say, is there one piece what's
Speaker 1: your one piece of advice? If you had to give one,
Speaker 1: does it kind of go into that don't live in
Speaker 1: the past, like if you just had to give, like
Speaker 1: a life coach say, you're not a lord, You're just
Speaker 1: Daniel our homide kicking it well.
Speaker 2: The one that I've been living by, which has really
Speaker 2: served me actually recently more recently over the past few years,
Speaker 2: is I do the best I can where I am
Speaker 2: with what I've got. When I know better, I'll do better, right,
Speaker 2: And so it kind of it's learning to be kind
Speaker 2: of well, this is part of that kind of being
Speaker 2: kinder to myself in the process of evolution, right, and
Speaker 2: just saying that, look at every step of the way,
Speaker 2: I've done the best I could where I was with
Speaker 2: what I had, and now that I know better, if
Speaker 2: I know better, then I'll do better. And if I
Speaker 2: can just live with that, then it means that you know,
Speaker 2: as actors, you can be critical on your part performancies
Speaker 2: or you can you know, you can look at stuff
Speaker 2: and go, oh, I would have done that differently, and
Speaker 2: and I can honestly say that at that moment, I
Speaker 2: did the best that I was capable of doing, and
Speaker 2: as I evolved, then I'll do better. And so for me,
Speaker 2: that is the one thing. So if I if I
Speaker 2: you know, even in kind of interactions with people, because
Speaker 2: no doubt you're going to rub shoulders with people and
Speaker 2: butt heads or whatever. And as long as you, as
Speaker 2: long as people are willing to accept that you're doing
Speaker 2: your best. Those who can't accept that, then you know,
Speaker 2: so what it is they gotta go. And the ones
Speaker 2: that love you will kind of accept that. This is.
Speaker 2: As long as he's doing his best and I can
Speaker 2: accept him growing, he's committed to his own growth, then
Speaker 2: he'll do better when he can.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with that answer. I like, I literally I
Speaker 1: put myself inside of like fifty different situations as you
Speaker 1: as you were saying that, and I think something about
Speaker 1: that answer reminds like you don't you answer and live
Speaker 1: in that answer? You don't really have a choice but
Speaker 1: to stay in the present, which is also beautiful so true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that so much, Daniel, You're gonna come to
Speaker 1: Nashville and hang out with us and our husbands.
Speaker 2: Let me know when I've never been to Nashville, so
Speaker 2: you know, as long as you guys have showed me
Speaker 2: Nashville Nashville properly that I'd.
Speaker 1: Love that will show you properly. I also am a
Speaker 1: bit nervous. You might be a bit busier than us currently,
Speaker 1: So why don't you let us know.
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Okay, So one more bridget in question about your lord Marcus.
Speaker 1: What did you bring to him that personally is part
Speaker 1: of you too? Because I feel like I've always tried
Speaker 1: to bring like one of my characters and like I
Speaker 1: had to bring a little peace of mind just to
Speaker 1: a little piece of me to either make her more
Speaker 1: lovable or to make her, like with Alex on Montree Hill,
Speaker 1: like people hated her, so I was like I got
Speaker 1: to soften her up, give her a little bit more heart.
Speaker 1: Like what have you done to like try to either
Speaker 1: whether it be your your part of your personality, but
Speaker 1: to bring the character that it felt the most authentic
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. I love that question. There's
Speaker 2: a few things. I guess. You know, it's that balance,
Speaker 2: isn't it, Because there's that thing of kind of going
Speaker 2: towards the character or bringing the character towards you and try,
Speaker 2: you know, I always try to find what that balance is.
Speaker 2: But certainly I think it's. Yeah, there's there's elements that
Speaker 2: were already written on the page, Like there's certain things
Speaker 2: like playfulness, which I tried to bring through. And then
Speaker 2: the thing that I guess it's more about the aspect
Speaker 2: of me that I wanted to explore more through Lord Anderson,
Speaker 2: like legitimately through him. So for example, and I think
Speaker 2: I can go further with this, and and I'm kind
Speaker 2: of looking forward to exploring this is his his sensuality,
Speaker 2: So he's been in the countryside for a long time.
Speaker 2: I'm a London boy. I'm a city boy, so my
Speaker 2: my sensitivity and my senses are tuned differently to how
Speaker 2: Lord Anderson's is, and so I was kind of really
Speaker 2: looking to try and explore with how he absorbs, say,
Speaker 2: for example, Violet, how he absorbs Lady Bridgeton, how he
Speaker 2: takes more time, My tempo is quick. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go. When I went to New York, I was like, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm in my element here because it's aggressive as fast
Speaker 2: as you know what I mean. Whereas he's been in
Speaker 2: the countryside. So really that sensuality that you know, his
Speaker 2: senses being alive and being kind of borous to people,
Speaker 2: to the environment, that that was something I wanted to
Speaker 2: kind of explore a bit more.
Speaker 1: I love that well, thank you for coming on. I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch the season. I have not started yet,
Speaker 1: so I'm pumped to start watching. It's so good. I
Speaker 1: know it's been on my ready to watch lists. So
Speaker 1: I hope we never have to break up with Bridgerton. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I want this to be and for you too,
Speaker 1: royalty wise, both both types of royalty actually, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to live forever it feels so it's so fun.
Speaker 1: I agree, Daniel. Thank you so much for coming on,
Speaker 1: and we cannot wait to watch the rest of season
Speaker 1: three coming up very soon.
Speaker 2: Amazing, absolutely pleasure to talk me with you. Thanks for
Speaker 2: having me.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Oh my lord, my lord. Bye. That
Speaker 1: was awesome, Thank you. He was great. It's crazy to
Speaker 1: be like I love your worlds. This is why I
Speaker 1: love this podcast because I love to hear like your
Speaker 1: peer to peer questions like I wouldn't know about merging
Speaker 1: characters with real life, but it's fun to hear you
Speaker 1: guys talk about that. And then then there's like mom
Speaker 1: stay at home mom question like tell me more about Violet,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's so neat to be I mean,
Speaker 1: what a set? Can I even imagine being on a set?
Speaker 1: Like that that was what a dream that would be.
Speaker 1: It's just so intricate and detailed, like I just can't.
Speaker 1: I would. I would even like run pastries to people
Speaker 1: just to be announcer. Can I just be like in catering,
Speaker 1: I'd be a great set pa, because I know what
Speaker 1: I would want. You'd also be great on the show.
Speaker 1: So let's work out. And I can't do an accent.
Speaker 1: I can barely mimic my soon to be husband's. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's some girl from America that comes over. We've done that.
Speaker 1: We've sent people to America, but we haven't gotten them
Speaker 1: back ru And if they if you're listening Shonda, she
Speaker 1: tunes in every Monday morning. A girl can help oh Man,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, see you next week.
Speaker 2: By