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Speaker 1: I Am all in.

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Speaker 2: You. I Am all in with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am All in Podcast. One

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Speaker 1: on one interview with Melaura Harden. This is brought to

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Speaker 1: you by One eleven Productions, iHeartRadio, iHeart Media, iHeart Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: and Melaura Harden portrayed Carolyn Bates. Carolyn was set up

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Speaker 1: with Christopher by Emily and Richard at Friday Night Dinner.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about Malaura Harden. Who she is.

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Speaker 1: She's an actress best known for roles as Jan Levinson

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Speaker 1: on NBC's The Office, Trudy Monk on The USA Networks Monk,

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Speaker 1: and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Videos Transparent, which she

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Speaker 1: received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about that too, How that felt, How you found out.

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Speaker 1: Malaura has been in many many feature films, including Hannah Montana,

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Speaker 1: the movie seventeen Again, Thank You for Smoking, Absolute Power,

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Speaker 1: opposite Cleanewood and Gene Hackman, and What a Scene That

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Speaker 1: Was with Gene Hackman and twenty seven Dresses. She stars

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Speaker 1: in the first one woman movie ever made a Golden Vanity,

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Speaker 1: as Mabel Montgomery, an iconic child star Alla Judy Garland.

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Speaker 1: The film is currently being submitted to festivals. Malaura Hardened welcome.

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Speaker 1: So excited to talk to you and to meet you. You.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: First of all, how'd you get this role on Gilmore Girls?

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Speaker 1: They just make an offer. I can't imagine they made

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Speaker 1: you audition, but they just offered it to you, right,

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Speaker 1: Please say they offered it.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember, I think so, yeah, I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: I mean Amy Sherman Palladino and I are You've known

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Speaker 2: each other for a really long time because we used

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Speaker 2: to take ballet together at the same ballet studio as

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Speaker 2: little girls. So I've known her like since we were

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Speaker 2: really young, like maybe twelve or thirteen, I mean that

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Speaker 2: long ago. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they just

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Speaker 2: they offered it.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, Okay, here come the questions. What was

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Speaker 1: she like as a twelve or thirteen year old? Go on,

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Speaker 1: cough character?

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Speaker 2: Isn't she? I remember really liking her. I mean she's

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Speaker 2: I still really like her. We get along great. You know,

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Speaker 2: she's she's really fun too. She's so smart, and she's quirky,

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Speaker 2: and she's so her own person, and you know, yeah,

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Speaker 2: she's she was always I think. I mean, I remember

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Speaker 2: just as a little girl just liking her. Just I

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Speaker 2: don't remember like we weren't like super close friends. I

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Speaker 2: just remember liking her and we would always say hello

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Speaker 2: at dance class, and she was always friendly to me,

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Speaker 2: and we were friendly to each other. And it was

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Speaker 2: really only later that we, you know, we like kind

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Speaker 2: of hung out as girlfriends a little bit. I think

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Speaker 2: it was after the Gilmore Girls thing. I think it

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Speaker 2: was like we went to lunch a few times. She

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Speaker 2: came and saw me in Chicago on Broadway. I played

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Speaker 2: roxy Heart and she came saw me, and we went

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Speaker 2: out to dinner and like had a whole like girls

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Speaker 2: hang and like we've done a few kind of days

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Speaker 2: like that where we've just hung out as girlfriends.

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Speaker 1: You know that's nice. That's very nice. Yeah, So you

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Speaker 1: saw no indication at that time that she was going

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Speaker 2: And she's such an incredible I don't think people really

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Speaker 2: I saw it in this episode watching this episode again

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Speaker 2: on marvelous, Miss Maisl is unbelievable, I mean, really really inspired.

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Speaker 1: You know, Oh, you were there, you were I was

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Speaker 1: there that night. Yeah, I saw Amy and Dan that night.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know, wasn't that great?

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Speaker 1: It was great? It was a funny evening. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: you played kron therapist being set up at Christopher emmeilin

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Speaker 1: Richard's Friday night dinner. Do you think your character had

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Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah, she totally did. I mean, I think what

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the things we just discussed. Do

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Speaker 1: you think that as a therapist you overstepped your bounds

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Speaker 1: a little bit in that you know, backseat therapy session

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Speaker 1: with Laurel I kind of advocating for her to do something.

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Speaker 1: Is that Is that something that you read in the

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Speaker 2: Do you think that, Well, I don't know, I don't

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Speaker 2: know how many therapists would have a therapy session in

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Speaker 1: You gotta suspend, you got to you gotta suspend your disbeliever.

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Speaker 2: You're a set up date in this like tiny little

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Speaker 1: The reality is a bit skewed there, So I guess

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Speaker 1: that you can accept anything exactly excellent point. You know,

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Speaker 1: It's like, what's we throw a flag on the play?

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Speaker 1: Uh So those are iconic dinner scenes. Those those Friday

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. What was it like working with everybody?

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Speaker 2: Really great? Really great? I remember. I mean for me,

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Speaker 2: And I had such fond memories of him. He was

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Speaker 2: Ed just you know, just reconnecting with him and yeah.

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Speaker 2: But but everybody was perfectly nice to me. I don't

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Speaker 1: So at nine years old, here you are.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, started acting when I'm six.

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Speaker 1: Professionally, You're from Houston.

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Speaker 2: I was born in Houston. I was raised here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so they didn't your your parents didn't move here

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Speaker 2: Well, my parents are both actors, so they here for

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Speaker 2: The reason I was born in Houston, Texas is because

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Speaker 2: they were like, oh, oh my god, this crazy business,

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Speaker 2: with all this rejection. We'll let her go on ten auditions.

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Speaker 1: Were you were you a child star? Did you go

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Speaker 2: I didn't go on the talk shows. I still haven't

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Speaker 1: Really, So you were never on like Lenno or Carson

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they don't like beautifulest directally funny people that

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know, but no, but it's been,

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Speaker 1: Right anyway, let me ask you played a really integral

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Speaker 1: You personally, Laura Harden, this is your life.

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Speaker 3: I think it's always good to push people to if

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Speaker 3: I think it's great to push through that so that

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Speaker 3: that requires pushing the boundaries. Sometimes it requires being.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it requires you know, just shutting up and wearing beige,

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Speaker 2: and other times it requires pushing through so that you

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Speaker 2: you don't have like a static television in the background in.

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Speaker 1: Your actually actually can be very toxic, right, So you've

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, well, I don't think you can really get

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Speaker 2: We are resillions and we are creative being, yes, and

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Speaker 2: It'll be really interesting to see if it can make

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Speaker 1: No, that's what it says here. It's only thirty years. Sorry, Laura,

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Speaker 1: I was no, stop it, stop it, No, you're thirty five.

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Speaker 1: This is two thousand and six, this is eighteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: Well they you know, they they reached out for my availability.

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Speaker 1: We have to Okay, So that's Golden Vanity, which is

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Speaker 2: we won the I won Best Act. And then we

437
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Speaker 2: took it to the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival where

438
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Speaker 2: I won Best Actor and we won the Audience Award.

439
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 2: And we also were in the Saint Augustine Film Festival,

440
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Speaker 2: and we were in the Women's Independent Film and Television

441
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Speaker 2: Festival were we won Best Narrative Feature. At Saint Augustine.

442
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Speaker 2: We got was that one's not a competition one, that

443
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,120
Speaker 2: one's not a competition festival. Anywhere everywhere we went we won,

444
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: We won awards. I didn't even we didn't even apply

445
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 2: for the big Vibes because I just didn't. I just

446
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 2: was I was really needed to not wait around anymore

447
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 2: because this was a movie that was first time filmmakers,

448
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 2: first time writers. It took forever to get the post

449
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 2: done on this movie, to land on a cut that

450
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 2: was satisfactory, get the color correction, pay for the score,

451
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 2: the sound rights and the music rights and so forth.

452
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 2: And I literally woke up January last year and said, guys,

453
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 2: do we have all the rights in place? Can I

454
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 2: take this the reins on this and just submit to festivals.

455
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 2: I just want eyes on it. Really, that was my was.

456
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: I just wanted people to see it because it's a

457
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 2: real tour to force performance by me. It's a really wonderful, amazing,

458
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 2: little quirky, fabulous, fresh movie that I just wanted people

459
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Speaker 2: to see. So now we're trying to sell it in

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Speaker 2: twenty two.

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Speaker 1: All Right, it's called Golden Vanity starring Melaura Harden. Check

462
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Speaker 1: it out when it's available for downloads, or if it

463
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: hits your little theater or it gets on a streamer,

464
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: check it out. But I want to talk about Gene

465
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Speaker 1: Hackman Clint Eastwood Absolute Power, riveting scene. Tell us about

466
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 1: this if you don't know the scene and Absolute Power.

467
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Speaker 1: The Melaura plays the mistress of the President, the President

468
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Speaker 1: of the United States, which is portrayed by the Great,

469
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Speaker 1: the Great Gene Hackman, and Clint Eastwood is a cat burglar,

470
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Speaker 1: a high end cat burglar who was in that house

471
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Speaker 1: because it's not the president's house. It's the billionaire super

472
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Speaker 1: pac guy who's funding his campaign. Let it allowing Gene

473
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Speaker 1: Hackman to have his dalliance with Melaura Harden. And Clint

474
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Speaker 1: Eastwood is robbing this man's master bedroom safe which is

475
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Speaker 1: behind mirrors, and he's getting off with cash and jewels

476
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. And then Melaura Harden and

477
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States waltz into the room

478
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Speaker 1: and start kind of getting down down, and so Clint

479
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: can't leave, and he stays and he watches he sits

480
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: in that chair and he watches, and he watches you

481
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Speaker 1: get murdered right by the president of the United States

482
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: because he wanted it rough and he likes it rough.

483
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: And he smacked you and you smacked him back, and

484
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: then it got and then it got bad, and then

485
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: the bad thing happened. And what a heart wrenching scene.

486
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: Tell us about that. I mean, God, how did you

487
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: get it? How'd you get it? Did you audition what

488
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: I did?

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00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: I did audition for it, and actually it was It's interesting.

490
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: Phillis Huffman was the casting director who was a family

491
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: friend because David Huffman, her her late husband, actually was

492
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 2: a really close friend with my father. They had done

493
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 2: a movie together and become very close friends. And Phillis

494
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: called me in for it. And actually, when I first

495
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 2: read it, it was written completely naked. The whole time.

496
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,679
Speaker 2: She was just nude from like start to finish, and

497
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Speaker 2: I just I just felt like, well, I'll go in,

498
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 2: but you know whatever, I'm not gonna I'm just not gonna.

499
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to do like such a sexual scene

500
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: that becomes such a violent scene completely naked. I just

501
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: wasn't going to do that. So basically, I went in,

502
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 2: I did my reading and I told Phyllis that I said,

503
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 2: you know, just so you know, like I think this

504
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: is great. I love it. I love it. I would

505
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 2: love to work with Clinticeod of course and Gene Hackman

506
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,119
Speaker 2: and you know, but I'm not I'm not going to

507
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 2: do this completely naked. So like I'm just letting you know.

508
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 2: She's like she's like okay, yeah, I mean, good to know,

509
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 2: you know. And so apparently, you know whatever, Clint liked

510
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 2: it and chose me, and she told him and and

511
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 2: and he was He's like, okay, well just ask her

512
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 2: if she'd be okay if it was like a very

513
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 2: short skirt, and if she could be wearing like a

514
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 2: like a bra underwear that we could expose. And I

515
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, absolutely, that's fine. And when I.

516
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: Went Clint's directing this movie as well, directed yeah, right

517
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: there you go.

518
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. So when I went in for my fitting, you know,

519
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: you know, I went in and got fitted for this

520
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 2: beautiful dress that they made for me, and you know,

521
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: beautiful bra and underwear a thing. And he was just great.

522
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 2: He was just like, you know, I went and met

523
00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 2: them on that day and he was so sweet, and

524
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: I met Jean, and Jeane was like, I'm a little

525
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: nervous about our scene. And I I said, don't worry, Jeans,

526
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: I'll take care of you.

527
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 4: And I was like thirty and he was like seventy two,

528
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 4: I'm not kidding, as old as my dad, and you know,

529
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 4: and it was just so cute, like it made.

530
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: It was so cute that he was vulnerable enough to

531
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 2: tell me that he was nervous and that I was

532
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 2: playful with him. He loved and he set a place

533
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 2: for me every single day next to him at lunch,

534
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: and it would always be me and Clint, Me and

535
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 2: Jean and his bodyguard who was also his stand in

536
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: and friend and like trainer and everything, and we would

537
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 2: just the three of us would always eat together. He

538
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: was such a gentleman to me. Every time my skirt

539
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 2: flew up and they'd cut, you always put my skirt

540
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 2: down when they'd cut. He always gave me his hand

541
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 2: to help me up. He was just he couldn't have

542
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: been more of a gentleman. And Clint too, and I

543
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 2: really felt like the two of them were just you know,

544
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 2: it was funny because when I finished, I was like, well,

545
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: if I ever was going to do a completely nude

546
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 2: scene from like for it's like a ten minute long scene.

547
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 2: To do a ten minute long scene completely nude, I

548
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 2: think Clint eastwooding Jene happened to prove themselves to be

549
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: the ones to do that with, you know, like because

550
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 2: they just were so there was just never anything lascivious

551
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: or distasteful or it was just like playful and warm

552
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 2: and respectful. And it just couldn't have been a better

553
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 2: working environment.

554
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: Man, that's fantastic. What a scene.

555
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great scene.

556
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: What a great director he is.

557
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: He's such a great director, and he's so funny. I

558
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: mean when he you know, in the scene where he

559
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 2: put in during the scene he punches me and I

560
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: and there's a you know a shot where Clint was

561
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 2: like they were down on the ground and I fall

562
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 2: into the shot like you know, just a very close up.

563
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: And the first time I did it, I fall into

564
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: the shot and I and we cut and I was like,

565
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: oh god, like I really I went down too hard.

566
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: I hit my head and Clint was like, Laura, you

567
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: just you can just you can just act it. You

568
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: don't have to do it, really do it.

569
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: It was it was.

570
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 2: I'm buying it. You don't have to. Don't hurt your head.

571
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: Wow, man, what a feather in your cap though. To

572
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: work with those two guys, I'm really just great for you.

573
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: What a scene. That's one of the most memorable movie

574
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: scenes because when they said Melaura Harden, I went, wait

575
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: a minute, I know her, Wait a minute. She was

576
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: in that scene, right, That was one of the great scenes.

577
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: I love that vivid.

578
00:31:54,080 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: Oh fantastic. All right, so we're gonna play a little

579
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: game now called rapid fire.

580
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: Okay, you ready?

581
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: Not really good luck? I hate rapid fire, but I'll

582
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: try good luck. Okay, I'm trying to wish you luck.

583
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: How do you like your coffee?

584
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: I don't drink coffee?

585
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: Thank you? Are you Team Logan, Team Jass, Team Dean?

586
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: You don't drink coffee? I get it. Who is your

587
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 1: favorite Gilmore Girls couple? Luke and LAURELEI, Emily and Richard?

588
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: Uh, Luke and larele I?

589
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: Correct answer?

590
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: Can I not say that when you're sitting here?

591
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: Correct answer? You don't drink coffee? Would you rather work

592
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: with Michelle or Kirk?

593
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: I don't know who? Should you tell me who?

594
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: You don't drink coffee, Michelle, that's always a that's a

595
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: safe no. No, no, Michelle, it's a safer choice.

596
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I don't if I like making the safe choice,

597
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 2: so I'll say I'll say.

598
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: You did that scene, so that's not a safe choice.

599
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: What would you order at Luke Steiner?

600
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 2: Not coffee?

601
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: Everything else? But you know, I have a coffee company

602
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: and we'd like you, as our spokesperson would Who would

603
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: you rather hang out with? Paris or Lane?

604
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is hard for me. I'm not

605
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: a Gilmore Girls uber fan. Really, you're gonna have to

606
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 2: feed me some of these answers.

607
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: Because you'd rather hang out with Lan? Yeah?

608
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 2: Why?

609
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: Because you don't drink coffee. You need a lot of

610
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: coffee to deal with Paris, like copious amounts. You need

611
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: an IV.

612
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: I wish my daughters were here so they could, like,

613
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 2: you know, shout in my ear because they both have

614
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 2: watched the Gilmour Girls from like, you know, they've seen

615
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 2: it all. They've seen the whole thing, and I really haven't,

616
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 2: so they'd.

617
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: Be like, mom, that one, that one, Harvard or Yale?

618
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 2: Gosh, let's see, Well probably I would say Yale. Yeah

619
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: for me?

620
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: Okay, why well.

621
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: Because the you know, the Yale Drama School.

622
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: Is that's completely logical, Meryl Streep is why, I mean, right, Yeah,

623
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: would you rather attend a DAR event with Emily or

624
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: a town meeting with Taylor?

625
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 2: A town meeting? Yeah no, you'd rather, okay, d the.

626
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,240
Speaker 1: D very very hot and sweaty in those tents.

627
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Andy.

628
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: Degree all night. What you call it DAR? Daughters of

629
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: the American Revolution, I'd rather, oh, definitely that. Yeah, you

630
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: get the Yeah, you don't have to sweat my daughter.

631
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: It's over in like.

632
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 2: An hour, The Daughter's American Revolution when they were like

633
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 2: nine and seven.

634
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, okay, that's like a real thing.

635
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: It's cool.

636
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's a real Gilmore girl's character you would

637
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: want as a roommate. You natch uh something in your life.

638
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: You are all in on something in my life.

639
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: That I'm in your life that you are all in

640
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: on being a mom, being a mom. Fantastic, Melaura Harden.

641
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: You are fun and you're funny, and what a great career,

642
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: and keep on keeping on And I guess I'll maybe

643
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: hopefully one day work with you as an AI bot somewhere.

644
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: Well, no, let's not do it as ais let's do

645
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: it as real people. You want to do it as

646
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 2: real people, I think so it'd be more fun. I'm

647
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 2: much more energy that way.

648
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to the producers of this show.

649
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna I'm gonna get you on my show.

650
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: Okay, good, I love that idea. Let's do it.

651
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: I like I like it too, Yeah, let's.

652
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: Do it me. I'm not working right now.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I'm actually going to talk to them

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Speaker 1: after I get off. I'm gonna go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that idea.

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Speaker 1: I don't mess around.

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Speaker 2: No, let's not mess around. I don't know. There's no

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Speaker 2: time to mess around.

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Speaker 1: An I have no time, no, no time, I have

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Speaker 1: no time. So all the best. It was a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: You're a pleasure to thank you.

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Speaker 1: And uh, just good luck with the film, really good

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Speaker 1: luck with Golden with a Golden Vanity. Good luck with

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Speaker 1: Golden Vanity. And I hope it. I hope it blows

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Speaker 1: up for you.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, well, I don't you know what I at

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Speaker 2: this point, I just want people to see it. I

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Speaker 2: just want it to sell so people can see it.

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Speaker 2: Because it's a it's a quirky thing. It's not it's

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Speaker 2: not for everybody. It's it's you know, but I'm telling

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Speaker 2: you it's really good for people that want to sit

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Speaker 2: through it. If you want, I'll send you a link,

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Speaker 2: a private link. You can watch it.

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Speaker 1: And you tell me I think, yeah, I know, I

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Speaker 1: I want to see it. I definitely want to see it.

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all the best, Okay, bye, bye

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