1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast. Welcome to and that's what 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: you really missed today we have I've been so excited 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: about this. We have an icon, a living legend, someone 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: who has shaped the very core of who we are. 6 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 2: D d Con frenschie from Greece and Greece too, among 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 2: a plethora of other stage and TV and film project 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 2: She has just had the most incredible career and she 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 2: is the kindest. I had a chance to meet her 10 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 2: in person in her life a couple months ago, and 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: so I was very much. 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 3: Looking forward to this conversation to actually get into the 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 3: grease of it all, because I was too scared to 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: ask her when I first met her. So, without further ado, 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: this is the icon de Dcon. Okay, did he thank 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 3: you so much for doing this? 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: Of course? Of course, my pleasure. 18 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So obviously I met you a couple 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: a few weeks ago, two months ago. Whenever it was 20 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: because you and my boyfriend Austin did a movie together, 21 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: that's right, that I am very excited about. And every 22 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 2: day he would come back and just tell me how 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 2: obsessed he was with you. 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: Well, Austin is not only gorgeous, gorgeous. 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: He's not so bad. 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's he's such a sensitive, I mean, beautiful 27 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: inside and out person. And I mean he's a revelation, 28 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: that guy. This is like, all of a sudden you think, wow, 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: what a wonderful actor, so handsome, and then he sings 30 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: and then he composes, and he's just he's fabulous, beautiful man. 31 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: That is very sweet of you to say. I I 32 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: you know, I'm biased, so I agree. So on this 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: podcast today it's just me. But Jenna and I have 34 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: been watching musical some of our favorite musicals because we 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: watched all of Glee. We finished that and we're like, well, 36 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 2: let's keep watching musicals. And we wanted to go start 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: with things that we were obsessed with growing up that 38 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: you know, informed us, that made us who we are, 39 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: and obviously Greece is one of those things. We had 40 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 2: very Pearl on a couple of weeks ago. 41 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: Good, yeah, good, and. 42 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 2: Like, what a sweet sweet man. And his memory is crazy. 43 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: Oh I know, well he goes back to what bye 44 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: by no not by b Yes, yes, yes, Oliver, he 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: was in Oliver. 46 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 2: It was Yes. His career is absolutely insane, and you know, 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: having not to compare Glee to Greece, I'm not trying 48 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,639 Speaker 2: to do that, but having a small taste of being 49 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: a part of something that changed our lives, that meant 50 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: so much to us as well as other people. And 51 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: I know how fun it was for us inside of 52 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: just making it. Even if nobody watched it, we had 53 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: the best time making it. And when we met briefly 54 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago, you like very quickly alluded to that, 55 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 2: and it has stuck with me, and so I wanted 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: to just talk to you about, like, how did this 57 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: journey happen for you? Where did How did Grease find you? 58 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: Oh? 59 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: How did Grease? Well? I was in la I had 60 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 1: already I had made the film You Light Up My Life, 61 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: and then I was also on a series with Danny Thomas, 62 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: and then I did a movie called Almost Summer, and 63 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: my agent said, they want to see you for a 64 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: Greece do you know a show? And I had seen it, 65 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: but I don't really remember it, you know, And then 66 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: they said, but you have to come looking like the part. Oh, 67 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: And I said, well, what's the part? She said, Well, 68 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: she wants to be she wants to go to beauty school. 69 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: She wants to drop out. Oh okay, So ever since 70 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: I can remember, I wanted to be in show busy. 71 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: You know, I was a dancer when I was younger. 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: Then I remember going to dancing school every Saturday with 73 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: my friend Paula. And then when we were about fifteen, 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: she stopped going. So we had to go from Brooklyn 75 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: to Manhattan and we had to get off of Bloomingdale's 76 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: and she just shopping getting boyfriends. And I said, hmm, 77 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: maybe if I stop dancing, I'll get boyfriends too. Well. 78 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: I was always acting. I was always making up acting, 79 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: making up stories, know, doing all the plays in high 80 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: school and all that stuff. Anyway, I could relate to 81 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: Frenchie's career drive that she wanted to go to beauty school. 82 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: And as as luck would have it, I went to 83 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 1: Western Costumes, got a fifties outfit, you know Western Costumes. 84 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: Every floor they have a different period of clothing, a 85 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: you know, a little outfit. And now this is really 86 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the stars were aligned. I'm driving 87 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: home and I'm thinking, you know, I better get my 88 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: hair done. It's like this is not French. Have a 89 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: big do. Some reason, I ever thought about getting a wig. 90 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: But on the way home, I had been in La 91 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: that point four or five years, went a different way, 92 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: and what do I see Frenchie's beauty parlor? 93 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 2: Oh? 94 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I went there and there was little friends, 95 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: she with a big hair. I didn't tell her because 96 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: I wanted to just talk to her about beauty school 97 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: and getting into the It was amazing, because. 98 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 2: Now that is crazy. 99 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: And she told me all these stories about how she 100 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: always wanted to be a beautician and all her dolls. Look, 101 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: the hair is a cut, all all this guy and 102 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 1: and what school was much more about not only color 103 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: and cuts, but psychology and etiquette. I mean, who know 104 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: these things? Then the next thing was to pick up 105 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: my script, and I went to Paramount to get it. 106 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,479 Speaker 1: And you drive up to Paramount and hard and he 107 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: hands you, you say your name, hands you an envelope. Well, 108 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: this envelope was so skinny, and I said, wait a minute. 109 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: I looked and there was one page and it said 110 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: men are rats worse than that, So what does this 111 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: have to do with anything? And then I saw that 112 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: he had fatter envelopes on his desk, and I said, 113 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: excuse me, And any chance that that there's a whole 114 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: script in one of those. He said, pull over, pull over, 115 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: So I went pulled over, came up, and sure enough 116 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: he had one whole script. I had to go under 117 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: his desk and read up to that because I want 118 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: to know what happened before, you know, Yeah, well I 119 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: found out. I found out Rizzo was a better part. 120 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: But that was just you're looking looking with Fred. But 121 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: but then I saw what happened, that she had befriended 122 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: Sandy and you know, and that that he had, you know, 123 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: disappointed her. And so then I went to the audition 124 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: and I walked in and they just, I don't know, 125 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: they say that they I opened my mouth and I 126 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: got the part. I remember them sitting there. There was 127 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: a little office and Alan Carr and the casting agent 128 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: Joel Thurm, and the choreographer Pat and Randall Claisa director, 129 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: and they said, well, what do you think of the script? Script? 130 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: And I just told them the story I just told 131 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: you was the better part. They said no, no, And 132 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: actually at that point they hadn't found a Rizzle. They 133 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: wanted Lucy Arnez, but her mom wanted her to not 134 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: to do a screen test. They wanted her to do 135 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: a screen test and really, yeah, so that was But 136 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: then it was a regular audition, babe. We had to 137 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 1: come in there with like two hundred people, you know, 138 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: and learn the stroll a dance, which I also was 139 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: screwing up like crazy. And Kelly Ward, who ended up 140 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: playing Putsy, he said I would take a break because 141 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: they would have. We were in a sound stage and 142 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: hours of b were on a bleachers and I don't know, 143 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: I just every time everybody's going this way, I'm going 144 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: this way. And I asked him. I kept getting it wrong, 145 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: and I thought, well, that's the end of that. And 146 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: then they did something I didn't like. Honestly, kept down 147 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: and said, oh, you can go, you can go, you 148 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 1: can go. 149 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: Yeah. 150 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: I don't like that. 151 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate when that happens, but. 152 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: In front of each other. You come next day or 153 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't like. Yeah, But then we you know, 154 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: later on we came back and they got us into 155 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: groups of you know, there were several groups of pink 156 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: ladies and tea birds. And then when they got it 157 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: down to the final ones, we didn't know where the 158 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: final ones. We just kept improvising and playing with each 159 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: other and wow, we had to sing Happy Birthday, I think, 160 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: but you know it's fun about I screwed up when 161 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: we were shooting the dance sequence right and they lining 162 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: us up for the shot and the camera was on 163 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: the stage looking out at all of us, and Pat 164 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: comes up to me. He said, remember what you did 165 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: at the audition. Everybody was going this way and you 166 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: were going that way. Said, well, you saw that. She 167 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: said do that, Mary, and I did that. Everybody's going 168 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: this way and we're going She wanted it to look real, 169 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: we're real kids, and she was brilliant. She got the dancers. 170 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: All of them were phenomenal, and they looked like real people, 171 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: but they were phenomenal, and each pair had a whole 172 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: autobiography who they were, and their names are on with 173 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: their character names area on the film too. Yes, really 174 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: she's the best. 175 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,440 Speaker 2: I mean you can feel all of that. I think 176 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 2: having gone through like a casting process like that, you're 177 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 2: sort of, for lack of a better phrase, like trauma 178 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 2: bonded because you're all going through this and saying thing 179 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 2: where people are getting cut in front of you, wow, 180 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: And it's horrifying, Yeah, because you just feel like bad 181 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: for yourself if you're the one getting cut. You feel 182 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 2: bad that the other people that are getting cut in 183 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 2: front of you. It's a very surreal experience. But to 184 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: make it out of that, Yeah, and then you know 185 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 2: them saying that they knew you were Frenchy as soon 186 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 2: as you walked in the room. It's such a skill 187 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 2: that I don't think people necessarily think about from the 188 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 2: other side of the table when you're casting about looking 189 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 2: for those individualistic qualities of people that aren't necessarily written 190 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 2: on the page, right, and being able to like put 191 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: people together that seemingly somehow like fill out this puzzle. Yeah, 192 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 2: and you all sort of get along. And you know, 193 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 2: speaking of pat you just mentioned the choreography in this. 194 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: When you're watching something and you can take for granted, yeah, 195 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 2: something like the choreography, because it feels so obviously everyone 196 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 2: is so skilled and you're seeing like incredibly that clean 197 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: choreography and blocking and staging. But it only happens with 198 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 2: someone who has the ability to do that to make 199 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 2: it fit on everybody's bodies. 200 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. Well she let everybody improvise and find their expression. 201 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 2: That's magical. 202 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, she was really she's great, She's really Yeah, she's really, 203 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: really great. 204 00:12:55,559 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: You said that Rizzo was the better part, something that 205 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 2: Jenna and I both felt when we watched this a 206 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Was obviously as a kid growing up, 207 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 2: everybody loves Frenchy, like Frenchie is the most universally liked character. 208 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 2: I feel like that. But watching it now as an adult, yeah, 209 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 2: I think french she's the lead of this movie. 210 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: Wow. I'm so I don't know. I mean, I feel 211 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: so blessed because, you know, we had the license to 212 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: bring things to it, you know, like I'm always I 213 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: was always. I always had a calm. I was always 214 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: fixing everybody all the time, things that weren't in the script. 215 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: I wanted everybody to be the best. And Olivia was 216 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: very nervous, you know, because she had made a movie 217 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: before and she didn't like the way it came. So 218 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: she did a screen test with John and there was 219 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: instant chemistry. So she was happy about that. But her 220 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: first scene was walking onto the campus of Rydell with me, 221 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god, and she was like, you know, all 222 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: over and I looked at her and I said, oh, Sandy, 223 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I've got a friend from Australia, 224 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: Sidney Austra tell me about us, and she looked at 225 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: me like this is in the script on what's going on? 226 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: But she caught on and she started telling me that 227 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: in high school she had to wear gloves and the 228 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: girls when the boys were set and she got right 229 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, Randall said action, we were right in, 230 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, just walking on and she always thanked me 231 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: for that, but it was just because that's what we do, 232 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: you know, we just play. 233 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: And that seems zero percent surprising watching this movie and 234 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 2: you saying that it's like that is frenchy. Oh, like 235 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: I think like the connection between like Frenchie has relationship 236 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 2: chips with all of the characters. Like Frenchie is liked 237 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 2: by everybody in the film except. 238 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: From Saint Bernadette. 239 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 2: You'll like me, Yeah, nobody. That's different the people we 240 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 2: really care about, you know, but that makes so that's 241 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 2: so nice to hear because that makes so much sense 242 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 2: with your personality and the way, like Frenchie showed up 243 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: in every single scene. 244 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: But you know what, everybody was older than the characters. 245 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: So we actually happened that once we were in makeup, 246 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: I was we didn't call each other there by our 247 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: real names. We were in character, and that gave us 248 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: the license to be you know, horny and goofy and silly. 249 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 1: Yeah whatever. 250 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: I noticed you did that on the movie with Austin. 251 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 2: Is that something you have used like throughout your career. 252 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how helpful that was on that film. 253 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: Actual nobody's because when we had so little time to 254 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: shoot and just coming onto a set where you're going 255 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: to be all day, all day and all night and 256 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: everybody calling me Joyce, it just kept me in Joyce. Yeah, 257 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: you know off oft times people that you know, I 258 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: love that movie or I love this set. I used 259 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: to watch Shining Timestation, or when guys come up to 260 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: me and say you were my first crush and that means, 261 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: you know, what will you do it to that? So 262 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: this way could just totally stay in a world that's 263 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: being created in that moment. Rehearsal, you know, really one 264 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: one rehearsal, one read through. 265 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, so did that the you know calling you by 266 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: your character name? Was that the first time you had 267 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: done it on Greece? 268 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, I'm doing I'm doing a series now 269 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:14,719 Speaker 1: with called Best Medicine. Yes, semi regular thing, and I 270 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: wish everybody just called. You know, but what can they do, 271 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: you know when it's as everybody has to do it 272 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: or work. But I was so happy that Alex told 273 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 1: everybody for I even came to call me Joyce and 274 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: it was it just helped me sync in to just 275 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: the name. Even it was right, you. 276 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: Know, especially when you don't have time. It's like an 277 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: expedited way of just living that as much as you can, 278 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 2: you know, going. 279 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: Back to Greece. Something people don't realize with that, unlike Glee, 280 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: which is so many of the cast members were in 281 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: the Broadway show or in one of the national companies 282 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 1: playing it eight hundreds of time, so they not only 283 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: knew them, but they were greasy, you know, they swear. 284 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: In fact, Jamie Donnelley, who played jan she had played 285 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: that and when we were doing the sleepover scene, they 286 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: had Loretta Young. We were watching TV and there was 287 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: a Loretta Young show and she's coming down the staircase 288 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: and it's like, what, we wouldn't be watching this, you know, 289 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: that's not our style, you know, yeah, Jamie, and Jamie said, 290 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, I pretended to be Bucky Beaver at one point, 291 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: got a big laugh. During lunch that day, they found 292 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 1: that Bucky Beaver commercial and that went on there. So 293 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: that came from her doing that show and knowing where 294 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: the jokes were. 295 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 4: You know. 296 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes such a big difference. We've watched other 297 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 2: things too, like and I think that applies to everything, 298 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,160 Speaker 2: like especially if you're lucky enough to have people who 299 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 2: have been in the show yeh, to know all of 300 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 2: that stuff, and then you have a musical is tried 301 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 2: and true that has been worked out on stage. You 302 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 2: know the music is good, like you know where it fits, 303 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 2: you know, the story is good. 304 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: You know where it is in your body. 305 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 2: Yes, it's such a I think there's a really big 306 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 2: difference when you see musicals that have that coming into 307 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 2: it in musicals that don't have it, you can feel it. 308 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: And I think what, you know, it's what enhances the 309 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: you know, like Travalda never played Danny, but he played Duty. 310 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 1: He played you know, he knew the world and he 311 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: and he also Jeff Conaway was Danny and he saw 312 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: Jeff do it. I think he's so Richard Gear do it. 313 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: And of course you know he just took the original 314 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: guy who did it, very boss wick, you know, so 315 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: he just took the best of everybody, he'll see. Yeah, 316 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: and it just became his dan, which was so great 317 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: all of you. 318 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 2: I watched it with Austin, and Austin was like, it's 319 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 2: crazy how in every single frame of this movie, every 320 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 2: single actor is You can watch every like just one 321 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 2: actor in each scene and it's going to be so 322 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 2: good whether or not they have any lines or they're 323 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 2: the main focus, because everybody is so in it, in it. 324 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 2: The attention to detail, and then the sets themselves, every 325 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 2: single frame was so rich, Yeah, with material and with 326 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: the things of the time, the time period, and it's 327 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: like a visual feast to watch it where it's obviously 328 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 2: you know, like I know, for the songs and all 329 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 2: of your storylines and all of that, but when you 330 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 2: really step back and pick it apart, there's so much 331 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 2: depth to it. 332 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's true. But that was also pat you know, 333 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: assigning these partners and each one came up with you, 334 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: I said, a whole relationship, and it's you see it 335 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: in their dancing, if they liked each other, they didn't like, yeah, 336 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,719 Speaker 1: arguing with each other or they you know, it was 337 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: everything had you know, was waight to it. Yes, yeah, No, 338 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: it's true. It's true. 339 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 2: So after that first scene with Olivia, how was the 340 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 2: experience of the rest of filming, because how long did 341 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 2: it take to film the movie? 342 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 1: Six weeks? 343 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 2: That feels very quick. 344 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, two weeks rehearsal. You know, we did an interesting 345 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: thing right before principal photography began the day before in 346 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: a sound stage they did they set up bleachers and 347 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: picnic tables. For the opening number. They set up a 348 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: you know, a bedroom for my number set up I 349 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: mean beauty school and for Beauty School dropout they had steps. No, 350 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 1: actually we didn't do Beauty School drop because he didn't 351 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: come to that. But anyway, they up different big numbers, 352 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: especially Greece Lightning, and we performed it for for the 353 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: powers that be at Paramount and anybody else who was 354 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: around that day, performing it like you were on the stage, 355 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: and that really was great because we got that size 356 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: for us who had never done the show. We got 357 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: that in our you know, in our bodies. But you know, 358 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: Paramount they thought this is not going to do anything 359 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: because John was very it was a big star from Barberino, 360 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: but say Night Fever hadn't come out yet. He had 361 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: just made it. In fact, one day he said, you know, guys, 362 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: I did this movie and Brooklyn and would you like 363 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: to see it? You know, sure, So we went to 364 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: a screening room. He said, are you sure. You know, 365 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be much. He really had 366 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 1: no idea, and we saw that movie. Sho, this is 367 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: the most phenomenal theorem believing. And so when we got finished, 368 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: when we got to the scene of the carnival, everybody 369 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 1: wanted to do a sequel. You know. So when the 370 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: boys are throwing what are you pies and they miss, 371 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: he says, I'll see you in summer school. And that 372 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: was put in on the day to set equal and 373 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: we finished the film and their flowers would be a 374 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: param My said, no, this isn't going to do anything. No, 375 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: they pass. So of course, when My Fever came out 376 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: the film was such a success, then they wanted to 377 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: do it Grease too, but you know they were nobody 378 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: was available, and what I was available, I was I 379 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: was doing Benson then, so I was only available one week. 380 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 2: But oh wow, yeah, I know. I'm was like, we 381 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 2: watched Greece too. I was like, I want a whole 382 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 2: movie about Frenchie. I need a whole Frenchy movie. And 383 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 2: I'm not just saying that because of talking to you. 384 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: It was watching it. It was like frenchyat is sort 385 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 2: of like the Eyes and Ears. I feel like of 386 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 2: the viewer through that movie so relatable and the like 387 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 2: your like kindness really comes through and all of that, 388 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 2: and it just it seemed like all of you were actually, 389 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 2: you know, sort of falling in love with each other. 390 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 2: It's like, it seemed like. 391 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: It was a lot of real falling, a lot of 392 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: things going on, a lot of you know, those winnebagels 393 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: were rapping and rolling. 394 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: A lot happens. You're young, you're filming a movie, you know. 395 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: These things things happened. 396 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 2: I can't believe Paramount didn't. I feel like that happens 397 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: all the time when they never know what they have, 398 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: what they have, and then it just ends up being 399 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 2: the biggest grossing musical of all time last. 400 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: Year, making all that money. They don't know what they have. 401 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 1: When the DVD came out, they did a big press 402 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: for this international press pick came to Paramount. We had 403 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: we were on for over like almost two hours just 404 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: doing press. You know, people coming into the thing, and 405 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: Sherry Lansing looked at me, and she said, what the 406 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: I don't have first time movies with this kind of attention. 407 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: They like, they didn't know. And I had at that 408 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: time an idea for a way to make some have 409 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: grease give back, that we would all do this film 410 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: twenty years later and take faith, you know, whatever the 411 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: budget was for salaries, we'd take favored nations and our 412 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: money to our favorite charities. Yeah, you know, and I 413 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: had made this whole pitch we had anyway, So I 414 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: went up to Paramount and it looked like what's going 415 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: to happen? They hired writers, and then the writers didn't 416 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: listen because you know, I wrote a book for a 417 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: tenth of twenty then called a Frenchy Squeeze scrap Book, 418 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: which was a fundraiser for my son's school. Yeah, and 419 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 1: everybody told me what I said, what do you think 420 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: your character would be doing twenty years later? And I 421 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: got the greatest stories and I gave them to the writers. 422 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: They didn't want to use that. I don't know why 423 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: they didn't, And they came up with you know what 424 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: they came up with, and they saw a million dollar writers. 425 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: So I didn't play the game and let them go 426 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: on it just went on and on and on. I 427 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: just told the truth and then John and Olivia were 428 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: too busy, and yeah, a part, but I thought, you know, anyway, 429 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 1: I just thought we could do something. And now in 430 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: three years it's our fiftieth and we're going to do 431 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: a big fundraiser. Olivia has a cancer and wellness center. 432 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, Barry was telling us about that. 433 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 1: Millions four and my son is living in a community 434 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: that's amazing for mostly for people who have very fragile 435 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: illnesses and wheelchairs and you know, twenty four to seven care. 436 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 1: But there is an autistic community as part of Center 437 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: for Discovery. It's called and now they're building a for 438 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: the future. It's called a I get so emotional thinking 439 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: about it. It's TLC Transitional Living Community for the Yeah 440 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: it's thirty three, you know, so it's for the future. 441 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: For the fiftieth big fundraising. But I'm seeing like something 442 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: really great, like having sleepovers, you know, people sponsoring sleepover contests, 443 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of So I'm beginning to coordinate 444 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,159 Speaker 1: with Olivia's with with the Livy Newton John Cancer Wellness 445 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: Center and send a Discovery. And I spoke to John 446 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: about it once his foundation, in his son's honor to 447 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: be a part of it. So his three years is 448 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. 449 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 2: Very fast, and those things take a long time to coordinate. 450 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 2: But I think also the strength of you know, everything 451 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 2: that you guys created is that people will show up. 452 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: Yeah and fun. People love to dress up. They love 453 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: to do it. I mean, I hosted a Greece single 454 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: long in June eighteen thousand people and everybody dresses see 455 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: all this pink hairs and know the guys of the 456 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: slip back and everybody gets a prop bag and it's 457 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: and even John show it up. 458 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 2: That's amazing. 459 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: We have a visitor, my baby, Hi, Henny. I've been 460 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: talking to Alex. He's very happy, he's. 461 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,479 Speaker 4: I've talked to him a couple of times. I'm so 462 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 4: excited to see you. What we made about you? 463 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you are the best, sweetie pie. 464 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 2: So good to. 465 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: See you you okay, oh yeah yeah now, but I 466 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: want to turn the tables and hear about you guys. 467 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 4: And. 468 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 2: You're much more interesting than us. 469 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, it's just been around longer. That's 470 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 1: but I just had a great, it's really very deep 471 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: experience on the film. I did. After our film, I 472 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: did a film called Little Man. And if there ever 473 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: was a gift to me to do this film, because 474 00:29:54,240 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: it's about Mark. Wohlberg plays a dad truck driver who 475 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: has a brilliant autistic son eleven years old, who has 476 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: lots of tics, lots of you, I can't do this, 477 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: can't do that, he can't hear this. And the father 478 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: just loves him, but he can't relate to him, and 479 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: so he takes more and more truck driving jobs and whatnot. 480 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: And his wife is Vera Farmiga's gorgeous. But anyway, the 481 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: movie is about how this father and son bond and 482 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: it's so beautiful. And the grandma, Mark's mother, he called mommy, 483 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: helped me mommy. Oh my god, he's called me mommy. Anyway, 484 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: it was, it was it was such a you know, 485 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: being a mother of an autistic child, a young man, 486 00:30:53,360 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: now you know, you you want it's hard, very hard 487 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: to communicate what you feel. It's very hard to be 488 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: with that person because if they're all over the place, 489 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: you have to have a certain huge amount of patience. 490 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: And you know, and I know my husband loves Danny 491 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: and it's just so hard for him. He's an intellectual. 492 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: He's you know, things that he reads he can't share 493 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: with Danny. 494 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 4: Know. 495 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: Well, in this movie they find a way to bond 496 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: through sports, through basketball actually, and I have one good 497 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: scene with the grandson where I tell him that that 498 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: my father must have been autistic but we didn't know 499 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: what it was, but how much I loved him, and 500 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: it's just was so like, wow, I guess so lucky 501 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: to get that part. So that to me was was 502 00:31:55,240 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: great A lot of gifts. Yeah, yeah, I was so 503 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: wonderful too. So we'll see. I don't know if it's 504 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: going to be on Apple or it's just produced by Apple. 505 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 2: That yeah, we're lucky to have you, because I feel 506 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 2: like I'm hoping people who listen to this interview too 507 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 2: can just like get your then they will like your 508 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 2: joy and your spirit and how like wonderful you are 509 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: to be around, and like how lucky that movie is 510 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 2: and that your guys movie is to be able to 511 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 2: have you. 512 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: And well we'll see, Austin, you. 513 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 4: Have this superpower where you bring out the best in people. 514 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 4: I think that's your greatest gift. 515 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: Oh oh, thank you, Well that was that's say that 516 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: that comes from old French old French. 517 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: No, that is that's like when we were watching it, 518 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,719 Speaker 2: we're like, how did we not realize this as kids? 519 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 2: That like, Frenchie is the star of the best one. 520 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 2: She's the best one, She's the best of all. 521 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 1: Guys, I love you. 522 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 2: On Smoke And I think that's like after hearing what 523 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: what makes even more true? I think is hearing your 524 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 2: stories of how you got that part and then how 525 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 2: you were in that part. Yeah, yeah, himself to that 526 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 2: and seeing that on screen and you all do that 527 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 2: in your own way, but now knowing you for a 528 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 2: little bit a fraction of how Austin knows you, this 529 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 2: makes even more sense. 530 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 531 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 4: I was going to ask you if they if Hollywood 532 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 4: decided to do a remake of Greece, who would you 533 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 4: want to see reprise the role of Frendsheet. 534 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: Oh? Well, what's the name? Car Carly Ray? She did 535 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: she played? 536 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 2: Actually did She did a great job. 537 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, she did a great job. She's so sweet. We 538 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: both cried when we saw each other. I was like, 539 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: that's my daughter, that's my little thought I never had. 540 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 1: I love her so much. 541 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 2: I know if you've ever seen it, but gleeded a 542 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 2: lot of Greece. Yea, one of my favorite humans in 543 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 2: the world. Did the whole beauty school dropout number, and 544 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 2: she was and her name is Vanessa Lenngi's and you 545 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 2: two looks so similar. 546 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was. 547 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 2: Freaking all of us out. And then again watching Greece again, 548 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 2: I was like, that's been. 549 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: Oh how can I see that? 550 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the freakiest. It was like their faces 551 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 2: are the same, and her personality is so similar to yours. 552 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: Whow like both just like the warmest daughter out there. 553 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 2: Oh you absolutely, Like I think I would combust seeing 554 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 2: you two in the same room. There has to be 555 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,760 Speaker 2: some like have you guys meet at some point? 556 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: All right, Well that's wonderful. 557 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 2: And I wish like, for our sake we got to 558 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 2: do even more Greece on the show because she was 559 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 2: Frenchy through like her character on the show was like 560 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 2: a mean version of Frenchie but eventually became Frenchie. But 561 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 2: I just have to I have to show it to you. 562 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 2: I'll send it to you after this so you can 563 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 2: see it. 564 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: But oh, I'd love to see it. 565 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 4: You know. 566 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: One of the things that at one point I was thinking, 567 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: you know, when when all these these shows were coming out, 568 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: you know, like you know, what do you call them? 569 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:28,840 Speaker 1: The reality shows? 570 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:29,040 Speaker 4: You know? 571 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, I thought to myself, well, the very first 572 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: makeover the show is Greece because she says, Frenchie, can 573 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: you help me? And we go and then she's transformed, right, 574 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,439 Speaker 1: So I thought, well, how about that? How about how 575 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: Frenchie can you help me? And then the characters come 576 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: like like duty. I had this idea that duty comes 577 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: and out of the newspaper I found this is true 578 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,439 Speaker 1: instant An Island. If you are a man and you 579 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: want to see what it's like to be a woman 580 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: for a night, you can go to this guy's house. 581 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: It was a whole article. I have the article. You 582 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,080 Speaker 1: can go this guy's house in Staten Island and he 583 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 1: has up to size fifteen high heels, and he'll dress 584 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: you and you go to this bar and you have 585 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: a night as a woman. And I what off duty 586 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: comes to me? You know, he's like at my house, 587 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: I have wigs and I see him trying on a wig. Oh, 588 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: and I tell him about this place. So it would 589 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:40,279 Speaker 1: be like fantasy of us characters, but the reality of 590 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,440 Speaker 1: a guy who really does this kind of stuff. 591 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 4: I love this idea it'lliant. 592 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: And so I brought up to one of the producers 593 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: and he says, you don't want to do reality, but 594 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:56,280 Speaker 1: I like this. It's fun, right, went down the toilet. 595 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 2: How do you think seeing all that? There's been so 596 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 2: many things with Greece, either you know, whether it's like 597 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,319 Speaker 2: the musical, like stage show, or it's like when it 598 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,280 Speaker 2: was done live with Carly ray Ye the Pink Lady's 599 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 2: TV show, Like how does it feel seeing all those 600 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 2: different iterations of Greece? 601 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 1: Well, oh, you know, I mean it's at the point 602 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: now in my life that it's really a blessing, you know, 603 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,400 Speaker 1: It's really I really feel like, wow, this was a 604 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: blessing to do. To do that, to have it means 605 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: so much to so many beings. I mean, if I 606 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: was in like Psycho or something where I played like 607 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: killing people, see to like talk to you, but people 608 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,360 Speaker 1: that makes them happy, grease. You know, everybody has a 609 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: story they were dressed up as this, but they did 610 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: this in school. So it's definitely a blessing. And it's 611 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: I've had experiences because of it, like doing an ice 612 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: skating show England and meeting these friends that I made. 613 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: I mean so scared to ice skate. But I had 614 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: the greatest partner in Lukash, like he was it just that. 615 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 1: So I've had so many really wonderful experiences because of it. 616 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,520 Speaker 1: We're talking because of it. 617 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 2: It's so surreal, like it was such a Greece has 618 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaker 2: always been a part of my life, Like that was 619 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 2: my way into musicals really, Oh yeah, absolutely, because it 620 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 2: didn't feel like a standard musical, Like I wasn't someone 621 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 2: who had really access to like go to the theater 622 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 2: or anything like that. 623 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 1: I grow up where, oh. 624 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 2: My mom was obsessed with Greece, and so I became 625 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 2: obsessed with Greece and I had that that soundtrack memorized 626 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 2: front to back. I watched the movie all the time. 627 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,839 Speaker 2: Texas outside of Dallas. 628 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,560 Speaker 1: Because we go to We've gone to San Antonio a 629 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,480 Speaker 1: few times for autograph signing. We'll got big turnout. 630 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,319 Speaker 2: I've never been to San Antonio. 631 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,479 Speaker 1: Oh yes, I've never. 632 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, I still need to. But yeah, I don't think 633 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 2: there would have been Glee without Grease. That's one of 634 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 2: those maybe. 635 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: Yeah. 636 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,960 Speaker 2: Fully, I think it was a way to make it 637 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 2: accessible to like a new generation of you know, there 638 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,080 Speaker 2: were sort of like pre Grease musicals. I think we're 639 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,919 Speaker 2: a bit more Rogers and Hammer Sign are unapproachable. 640 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 641 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 2: Because all the all your characters were so real and 642 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 2: fun and not perfect. They were all imperfect in their 643 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 2: own way. And also these songs individually, on top of 644 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,400 Speaker 2: a great story were hits. Hits. Yeah, you listen to 645 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 2: that soundtracks like, oh, this sounds like the greatest hits album. 646 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's because of Olivia is a guy who 647 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: wrote John Farah, who wrote You're the one that I 648 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,600 Speaker 1: Want and hopelessly devoted. 649 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,439 Speaker 2: And oh I was so we did we did You're 650 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 2: the One that I Want on Glee. I was in 651 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,800 Speaker 2: it and I got sent photos they filmed at the 652 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 2: school you guys filmed at really, yes, and they were 653 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 2: sending me pictures of everybody on the bleachers. I was 654 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,839 Speaker 2: just like, I was so mad, like the one day, 655 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,840 Speaker 2: like you know, we were working at fifteen sixteen hours 656 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,959 Speaker 2: a day for years. The one day I had off, 657 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,879 Speaker 2: oh doing the Grease number, like the one number I'm 658 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,399 Speaker 2: not in. Oh, that so mad. But I did get 659 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,239 Speaker 2: we shot at that school for something else too, so 660 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 2: I did get to see it eventually. 661 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 1: But what what was your favorite song to do on Glee. 662 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 2: Oh oh god, I mean for sentimental reasons, probably the 663 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,319 Speaker 2: Queen song Somebody to Love. 664 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 1: Oh oh, send that to me too? Will you send 665 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:07,799 Speaker 1: that to me too? You will? Good? Good? Oh? I 666 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: love you guys. I hope you got a good podcast. 667 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for spending this much time with 668 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,720 Speaker 2: us and talking, sorry to grill you about Greece. 669 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm happy, you know. And Lennyway, you know 670 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,040 Speaker 1: when something's really wonderful, like the two of you and you, 671 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,280 Speaker 1: Kevin and everybody you know. We say in the movie Grease, 672 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:48,839 Speaker 1: we say, Kevin, oh. 673 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 2: Bo, you're the sweetest love you both love you. Ah. 674 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 2: She's the best. Thank you d D for doing this, 675 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 2: for coming on. I could talk to her for hours. 676 00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,799 Speaker 2: Thanks for You're welcome. To you for the connection to 677 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 2: When Austin told me he was working with d D, 678 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:09,000 Speaker 2: I got very very excited because you know, this gay 679 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,840 Speaker 2: boy has always been obsessed with Greece. Thank you, de D, 680 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,719 Speaker 2: Thank you so so much. Thanks Austin for hopping on 681 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,360 Speaker 2: here and that's what you really missed. Thanks for listening 682 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,200 Speaker 2: and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you 683 00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,520 Speaker 2: really miss pod. Make sure to write us a review 684 00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,719 Speaker 2: and leave us five stars. See you next time.