Speaker 1: Hi, is this Michelle Trachtenberg. I'll never tell, but Georgina
Speaker 1: Sparks will. So welcome back, listeners to your one and
Speaker 1: only source into all things Gossip Girl. You know you
Speaker 1: love it. XO x O. Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: XO XO. I'm Jessica's door and you are in for
Speaker 1: a treat today, you guys. This is one funny girl
Speaker 1: who coincidentally played one of the Evil's characters, Georgina Sparks.
Speaker 1: Michelle Trachtenburgh is on the podcast today. Michelle has been
Speaker 1: acting since she was very young, I mean, from Buffy
Speaker 1: to Pete and Pete to six ft Under. In fact,
Speaker 1: she didn't even audition for Gossip Girl. They just asked
Speaker 1: her to be on the show, which is so dope.
Speaker 1: But even so, she came on to the set, you guys,
Speaker 1: with no ego, no judgment, and she fit right in.
Speaker 1: And she has this nice blend of being professional and
Speaker 1: getting the job done but also creating a vibe, which
Speaker 1: she most certainly did with Georgina Sparks. You love to
Speaker 1: hate that character. Michelle is an absolute riot. Every time
Speaker 1: I talked to her, you guys, she has some crazy
Speaker 1: as story to tell. Like she broke both of her
Speaker 1: ankles or for some reason, there's a goat in her
Speaker 1: living room. A goat, I mean, it's always the wildest
Speaker 1: stuff and I'm pretty sure it could only happen to her.
Speaker 1: And I mean that in the best way. I really
Speaker 1: love seeing what she's up to, and she's always got
Speaker 1: great things going on. Let me just show you what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Get ready for some serious entertainment from
Speaker 1: the very talented Michelle Trachtenberg. What's up, girl? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: so good to hear your voice. Oh more importantly than anything,
Speaker 1: Who's the best mil from the world. You're very, very sweet.
Speaker 1: And the fact that I have a baby now is
Speaker 1: like wild to me. Still every day I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: this is the best thing in the world and so crazy.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine, because I have a fur baby
Speaker 1: that my helps rescued for me during COVID, but it
Speaker 1: was surprised as I came home to a tiny, little,
Speaker 1: brand new kitten, and every three seconds I still check
Speaker 1: to see if he's alive. So I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1: What an actual movie. What's your Baby's name? Because I
Speaker 1: love it? It's the best. Well, first of all, he's
Speaker 1: um long hair, um tuxedo cat. So he's black and
Speaker 1: white and his name is Mr Martini. It's after James Bond,
Speaker 1: and James Bond likes his star Martini done and when
Speaker 1: he would like to pick the olives out of my Martini's.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm probably guilty of getting my fur baby
Speaker 1: drunk at an early age. How cute and how old.
Speaker 1: Um we think he's just shy now of two years. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe a little less because he was so teeny tiny.
Speaker 1: He can fit in the palm of my hand. Um,
Speaker 1: and he's for a rascal like his money. Um all
Speaker 1: was this trouble ate a shoe the other day that
Speaker 1: did not go well for him? Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: didn't know cats did that. I thought that was like
Speaker 1: a dog thing. Oh he does everything names something paper, plastic,
Speaker 1: a chair, metal, It's just like, oh my gosh. Actually,
Speaker 1: what's funny is Bowie literally puts everything in her mouth.
Speaker 1: And she's a little ten month old baby girl. But
Speaker 1: and it's not even when she teas just everything. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: she's going to have like my appetite, like constantly wanting
Speaker 1: to eat the food is literally life. Oh and though
Speaker 1: Mr Martini plays fetch. Don't worry about it, Okay, He's
Speaker 1: basically a dog, That's what Jake calls him. Jay is
Speaker 1: very sports and athletic e and so he taught our
Speaker 1: fur baby to play spots of course. Oh my god. Wait,
Speaker 1: So we were actually talking about this on another episode
Speaker 1: the other day about how many fur babies were at
Speaker 1: work when we were filming Gossip Girl. Like, when you
Speaker 1: would walk into the make up trailer, can you explain
Speaker 1: to anyone listening so that they know I wasn't being
Speaker 1: overly dramatic when you walked into the makeup trailer how
Speaker 1: many fur babies were up in that trailer? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I would say at least eight nine. And that's like
Speaker 1: on a day that probably not everyone brought their dog.
Speaker 1: There was so ginormous dogs right then. Blake's dog was
Speaker 1: like miniature, like Mr Martini My dog at the time,
Speaker 1: my friend she you know, she's just strong, chunky little friend.
Speaker 1: She um. Layton's dog that was tiny was trick Cie.
Speaker 1: I forgotten Crudy. Trudy is so close, so close, But
Speaker 1: it's also been so long since we've seen all these dogs.
Speaker 1: And then Taylor had to I had a dog at
Speaker 1: one point, and yes, Jen's dog was a big rottlaler.
Speaker 1: I mean it was huge. Yeah. I literally remember walking
Speaker 1: into the to the room and being like, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I'm in a pet store. It's true. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. We had it full of a million nail
Speaker 1: polishes that we got to pick. Uh, like actually like
Speaker 1: a ginormous like five ft tall makeup nail polish area
Speaker 1: and all the makeup, and I don't know, sometimes I
Speaker 1: would steal some stuff whatever. You're like, I'm just taking
Speaker 1: it with me. Um. That was a really fun place
Speaker 1: to like hang out in. But you coming and joining
Speaker 1: the cast and being a part of this like crazy
Speaker 1: journey of just how the show hit, how people received it,
Speaker 1: how much fun it was to all be together in
Speaker 1: New York filming. How did it come about for you?
Speaker 1: Because I know you were born in New York. You
Speaker 1: were living in l A at the time that you
Speaker 1: booked Georgina though, correct. Yeah I was. I Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was in l A. And I had wanted to move
Speaker 1: back to New York, but I didn't really have a reason.
Speaker 1: So I was looking for TV shows and I was
Speaker 1: at a big agency at the time, and somehow it
Speaker 1: got to me that someone involved, either Josh or Stephanie
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, had heard about this small guest star
Speaker 1: and it wasn't It was an offer. I think they
Speaker 1: might have gone to, you know, one orship people before,
Speaker 1: which is very common. Um, but obviously it was waiting
Speaker 1: for the perfect bitch to walk correct. Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: was like, believe me, I am very comfortable with playing evil.
Speaker 1: I do it in my life all the time. I
Speaker 1: actually had some sort of feeling I couldn't remember. I
Speaker 1: don't remember everyone's story of coming on because it's been
Speaker 1: so long. But I actually this morning when I was
Speaker 1: like thinking about talking to you you because I was so excited,
Speaker 1: and like I actually kind of remember or somewhere in
Speaker 1: like a haze in my mind, like I do think
Speaker 1: she was just offered this, which is also like awesome
Speaker 1: as an actor. That says a lot that they were
Speaker 1: just like, hey, we're gonna like trust you with this
Speaker 1: role that's gonna come and like mess up a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on the Upper East Side. No, it's really great.
Speaker 1: I mean I think Josh Short short Ephanie Savage a
Speaker 1: million times over. Yeah, and I believe now that I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what fifteen years ago. Ten I can't count anymore. Um,
Speaker 1: what day is it? The phone call sort of went like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to come on this show that people
Speaker 1: hadn't fully fully heard of, but still because it also
Speaker 1: stopped airing, right, it's sort of the middle because it
Speaker 1: was the writers straight, Oh, I haven't seen it. I
Speaker 1: just finished this film and like, okay, well what's the
Speaker 1: character about. Well, we can tell you she's an evil bitch.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, and okay, you had me at evil.
Speaker 1: Let me just play this clip real quick. You are
Speaker 1: you drugging Serena? Gee? Oh boy, it was Chris. You
Speaker 1: can try again later. It's okay, I'd like to propose
Speaker 1: a toast. Okay, Kevin, you basically don't give her an
Speaker 1: option other than to hang out with you this evening,
Speaker 1: and then you go and you drug Serena. I remember
Speaker 1: reading this in the script and being like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then it's just the more crazy stuff comes on
Speaker 1: and comes on and comes on with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: you baked being gossip girl. You tell Dan that he's
Speaker 1: the father of your child. I mean, you did some
Speaker 1: scandalous stuff. Thank you. I can't really take credit for it.
Speaker 1: That was you know, the team of g G and
Speaker 1: they're amazingly brilliant writers. And the directors came on, like
Speaker 1: do you remember Amy Heckerlan directing? Yes, so cool, and
Speaker 1: I just sort of yeah, I had always predominantly played
Speaker 1: the good girl, and I was so over that. Oh great,
Speaker 1: I have to smile every day and give people flowers
Speaker 1: and chocolate. I'm like, na, let me screw something up
Speaker 1: in here. So that was just fun. And I was
Speaker 1: I think I was twenty three or twenty four, and
Speaker 1: I was really looking for a role that brought me
Speaker 1: over that you know, child star kind of phase. It
Speaker 1: was that, and it was sexy and it was strong,
Speaker 1: and it was a woman that, maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: too much, knew what she was doing and had every
Speaker 1: intention of doing it. She was rather unapologetic, which I
Speaker 1: think is very fun for an actor to play. Are sure?
Speaker 1: And you did it so well? Um, when you were
Speaker 1: coming to do it at this point, like you were
Speaker 1: saying like people knew about the show but didn't know
Speaker 1: exactly what it was all gonna do. Did you ever
Speaker 1: have a feeling about that like it was going to
Speaker 1: hit the way it did? And if so, what was
Speaker 1: that for you? Or were you just like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go do my job, kill it and we'll see what happens. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I had been on Buffy, and I knew
Speaker 1: the c W machine um, even though it's called something
Speaker 1: else back then because I don't know um and so exactly.
Speaker 1: And I knew that they would put a juggernaut of
Speaker 1: publicity machine behind it. That was always their formula and
Speaker 1: they were very good at it. And I knew that
Speaker 1: the books were popular with you know, the I don't
Speaker 1: know what you call the millennials, teenage girls. I'm a
Speaker 1: grant um. But it would just build momentum. And I
Speaker 1: actually think the writer's strike possibly helped it to not
Speaker 1: be canceled because more people were watching while nothing new
Speaker 1: was being created. So I think it was just the
Speaker 1: spiral of like wild events. Uh. I loved the writing.
Speaker 1: I thought it was obviously sassy and and witty and
Speaker 1: respected the audience and didn't you know, play down like
Speaker 1: a you know, cheesy goofy one of the other network
Speaker 1: shows that I'm not going to say because maybe they
Speaker 1: want to give me a job someday. Um. And it
Speaker 1: was great, it was fun, and I I knew about
Speaker 1: the fashion and you know, I've always been the fashion
Speaker 1: like obsessed girl, and just walking into Eric Damon's like
Speaker 1: magical emporium for the first time, that was epic, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, oh, this is serious and you
Speaker 1: immediately got the sex in the city vibes because Eric
Speaker 1: is a you know, disciple of um pet Field. So
Speaker 1: it just all felt right and I got to I
Speaker 1: really really really sparkly jewelry and a lot of it.
Speaker 1: You did, you looked awesome. Try to steal things from
Speaker 1: the magical closet of Eric Damon's imagination. Let's let's try
Speaker 1: to break down when you walk in what that looks like,
Speaker 1: because it keeps coming up on every episode. This was
Speaker 1: the closet of every character on our show, you guys.
Speaker 1: So you walked in and there was Georgina's, Serena's blairs
Speaker 1: all in this one room. How would you explain it well?
Speaker 1: And to act that everything is labeled very specifically. And
Speaker 1: also there's the huge section of only borrowed, meaning not
Speaker 1: all of our costumes almost a lot of them, um
Speaker 1: were not purchased. They were samples from the designers. So
Speaker 1: there was like they do not enter section unless you're
Speaker 1: allowed to you would walk it. The entire wardrobe team
Speaker 1: would be busy to the right getting everything together, all
Speaker 1: the look books, pulling in looks. There was constant messengers
Speaker 1: coming in with massive bags of shoes and jewelry. But
Speaker 1: then you look around and you're at this like, wasn't
Speaker 1: it too tier, Like massive metal racks, huge warehouse type thing.
Speaker 1: And then we had the little fitting room which made
Speaker 1: into an entire clauge of each character's on the walls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and saying like this is the inspiration for Vanessa, this
Speaker 1: is the inspiration for Georgina. And the jewelry would be
Speaker 1: floor to ceiling with everything in the clutches and the shoes.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was crazy. You could always tell whose spinning.
Speaker 1: It was like you always had the color for colors.
Speaker 1: Obviously blair head the floor florals, I obviously had all black.
Speaker 1: So Vanessa had all the patterns and colors. It's great.
Speaker 1: It was a great time. The genormous bags and the
Speaker 1: necklaces that weighed fifty pounds, and I think like the
Speaker 1: boys was sort of take bits like pretend to care,
Speaker 1: like how much bigger could my jewelry get? Because they're
Speaker 1: like they don't make it like that you you grew
Speaker 1: up in New York, do you feel like it was
Speaker 1: so far fetched? Because it is entertainment and we did
Speaker 1: a lot of things for the shock factor, but were
Speaker 1: we real far off? Or how is the Upper east
Speaker 1: Side growing up? Well? I so I was born in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: raised in Brooklyn, so I was arguably more your character
Speaker 1: and stuff, taking the train to audition every day since
Speaker 1: I was three years old. And so the first time
Speaker 1: I was seeing like the Upper east Side and and
Speaker 1: you know, West Village and everything and all that stuff
Speaker 1: was in my teens. And then later in the early twenties,
Speaker 1: I didn't know a lot of people that were very
Speaker 1: similar to the Gospel characters and involved in that world,
Speaker 1: and some were actually more scandalous than the show portrayed.
Speaker 1: I remember meeting some trust fund kids and going to
Speaker 1: an event and being like, oh, dear, oh, this is
Speaker 1: your life. This is wild filed. So I actually think
Speaker 1: and also because it was you know, I just thought, back,
Speaker 1: this is really before HBO, Netflix, all of the streamers
Speaker 1: were allowed to do anything scandalous. So even though I
Speaker 1: come in and I do fake cocaine off a table
Speaker 1: and then tape Serena having sex and then sell it allegedly.
Speaker 1: That was pretty docile compared to what's happening now. What's
Speaker 1: wild is they did such a good job, like you
Speaker 1: were saying, with marketing, when all the parent groups were
Speaker 1: coming out saying, oh my god, we're showever, they were
Speaker 1: using those quotes, putting it on billboards and putting it
Speaker 1: all over I remember seeing it. I'm like, wow, you
Speaker 1: guys are actually like playing it back on everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like like lecky sexy time in the back of a
Speaker 1: keptor something. I'm not you and Nate archivalt yes. And
Speaker 1: so we love Chase so much. For any of you
Speaker 1: listening that don't know, he is like the sweetest, nicest, real,
Speaker 1: low key funny by the way, um, such a fun
Speaker 1: person to be around. Let's talk about how much fun
Speaker 1: we had Offset Girl, Like, New York City was very
Speaker 1: very nice to the Gossip Girl crew and cast, Like
Speaker 1: if you wanted a reservation boom, any restaurant, any concert.
Speaker 1: I think everyone kind of wanted to have their place
Speaker 1: in the show, whether was a store or a restaurant.
Speaker 1: They were very very nice to us, and we I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say we took advantage, but we definitely
Speaker 1: were in our twenties having fun like oh yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: try this restaurant. Oh yeah, we'll go see this concert.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll go to Brooklyn and go try out
Speaker 1: this new venue or sounds good. Um yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: It was wild times. And also, um, your listeners are
Speaker 1: going to be like, what is this no camera phone thing?
Speaker 1: But we barely really had social media or cameras in
Speaker 1: the beginning, so it was a lot more private ur
Speaker 1: not a word, uh, to to do more fun things
Speaker 1: without being inhibited by like someone taking a video of
Speaker 1: you uploading it to you know, the Instagram and and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. It was really more the beginning of
Speaker 1: that time, and it was it was great. We had
Speaker 1: a ton of fun. We would go out as as groups,
Speaker 1: probably cause some sort of ruckus and I loved it
Speaker 1: and the New York at heart. I mean, the only
Speaker 1: scenes that were really challenging is doing cobblestones in like
Speaker 1: six inch plain yeah. Yeah, Or like when you're doing
Speaker 1: a spring scene and you're filming it in the winter
Speaker 1: and it was so cold and you couldn't have a
Speaker 1: coat during the scene, but yet you could see your breath.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how are we going to work around this.
Speaker 1: You could literally see my breath and I'm like in
Speaker 1: a T shirt. Yeah, those were always hard, but yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, but we Yeah, we had a really
Speaker 1: really good time. Um, So who was the first person
Speaker 1: you worked with? Because when I came on, like, I
Speaker 1: didn't meet Layton and Blake for the first week. It
Speaker 1: was only working with Penn for the first little bit,
Speaker 1: right right. And you guys, that's what's funny about when
Speaker 1: you watch a show. Sometimes people can be on a
Speaker 1: full season and not have one scene with another series
Speaker 1: regular main cast, which is so crazy to me, but
Speaker 1: it happens all the time, all the time. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I think must have been Blake that I've met first,
Speaker 1: because most of my scenes were with her in the beginning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like trying to come in and screw up her life.
Speaker 1: Um and then actually Pustle might have been Chase or Ed.
Speaker 1: I think Layton came a little later. Um right, that's
Speaker 1: a parent you know. Didn't meet Kelly Rutherford or um
Speaker 1: darrenda um um first for a long time, and Pen
Speaker 1: finally eventually because you know, I guess he was more
Speaker 1: hanging with you and I was like, let's be in
Speaker 1: gowns and drink champagne in this scene, right, and you
Speaker 1: Pen and Layton were all childhood actors kind of in
Speaker 1: l A or in and out of Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: know either of them before? Because it really is kind
Speaker 1: of a small community. Once you live in l A
Speaker 1: or in that world, it's kind of like it becomes
Speaker 1: smaller and smaller, I think. But did you know them
Speaker 1: at all? Or no? I didn't, which is funny because
Speaker 1: I always thought that Laton and I would be either
Speaker 1: auditioning together run into each other at events. But I
Speaker 1: didn't move to l A. I was still in New
Speaker 1: York until I think I was ten, eleven, twelve. Okay,
Speaker 1: those were a lot of ages. But um, we went
Speaker 1: back and forth for a while, and um, I think
Speaker 1: Layton was more auditionally for l A stuff and I
Speaker 1: was filming in Toronto a lot for different stuff. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a small, small circle. But I didn't meet
Speaker 1: them until until set. And obviously you know how well
Speaker 1: Late and I got on. Yeah, we had to be
Speaker 1: separated at times because they're like, no, no, we called action.
Speaker 1: We called action. We are trying to roll, guys, let's go. Um.
Speaker 1: At this point, had you come to be in New
Speaker 1: York for a couple of months. Did you know you
Speaker 1: were just doing a couple of episodes. I think they
Speaker 1: had just said it would be either two or four
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. Maybe I'm terribled with
Speaker 1: exactly how many. And that was supposed to be sort
Speaker 1: of it. There was no like going to keep coming
Speaker 1: back at every beginning end of of every season. Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess you know. The character had such a huge
Speaker 1: hit because it was shocking and because she was so
Speaker 1: scandalous and evil and became a fan favorite, which is delightful. Um,
Speaker 1: they were like, you know what, that worked, Let's do
Speaker 1: that again. But I was also then, I think in
Speaker 1: the second or third season, I started um as a
Speaker 1: regular cast on a different show on NBC UM that
Speaker 1: I played a nurse. So there was a massive amount
Speaker 1: of negotiations because the nurse show wouldn't let me back
Speaker 1: on Gossip Girl, and I was like, oh, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. If I have to go through five hours
Speaker 1: of medical lessons where Hello Kitty scrubs every day, I
Speaker 1: get to have a few episodes wearing my black leather
Speaker 1: and my you know, crazy costing jewelry, my heels. So
Speaker 1: it was an emotional balance that every party agreed to absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad they did that, and I'm sure every
Speaker 1: fan that watched and tuned in is happy too, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: how you played it and what you did and what
Speaker 1: you brought there was just so many OMG moments just
Speaker 1: with your character alone. Can we talk about can we
Speaker 1: talk about Milo? Oh? My goll I actually genuinely forgot
Speaker 1: about that whole little arc, and then I had read
Speaker 1: somewhere that Milo makes an appearance in the New Gossip Girl.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of friends tell me that I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, but apparently I'm photoshopped into a bunch
Speaker 1: of photos with a bunch of like really bad men
Speaker 1: like oligarchs and basically every terrorists in the world, and
Speaker 1: I'm like in the new in the New Gossip Girl, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a friend of mine said, I guess when he's
Speaker 1: sitting at the desk, and I didn't see it, just
Speaker 1: like behind him is like a like a shrine to
Speaker 1: all the evil men I've met, which is highly highly amusing. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I had I had the baby Milo when
Speaker 1: we were doing original Gossip Girl, and that was wild because,
Speaker 1: as your viewers probably don't know, when you have babies
Speaker 1: on set, you have to have twins so that one
Speaker 1: can film the few hours, then you switch out the
Speaker 1: other baby and then you feed it. And the thing
Speaker 1: that always made me laugh about that is you have
Speaker 1: to go quiet on set they're bringing get off your phone,
Speaker 1: and then you call action and we're full volume amongst
Speaker 1: the what why were we just quiet? And now we
Speaker 1: can yell yeah, that such a cute little baby too.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you now, being a new mom,
Speaker 1: I give parents credit that we'll do that with their
Speaker 1: babies because there's a lot that goes into that. If
Speaker 1: Bowie was like getting ready for her nap and had
Speaker 1: to like go and be in a scene, I'd be like, sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: she's got a nap. We'll be in the trailer. And
Speaker 1: that's hard to do on a set because you know
Speaker 1: how time is on a set, It's it's like precious
Speaker 1: and very crucial. So it's like, when the baby's walking
Speaker 1: on if that baby is tired, what do you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, you just shoot the scene? Well, original baby, yeah,
Speaker 1: original baby. Milo he Um, one of the twins, was
Speaker 1: very very cranky that day, and I had this huge
Speaker 1: monologue to get through, Um, when did I not I
Speaker 1: have the huge monologue? Girl? When did you not? For real?
Speaker 1: I don't still think my eyes can see straight from
Speaker 1: them and it would literally be well, my outtakes were
Speaker 1: always quite particular, but it would be handed the baby.
Speaker 1: We can we can mention that in a minute. And
Speaker 1: I'm getting through. I'm like litter really down the bottom
Speaker 1: of the page in my head, like memorizing saying my performance,
Speaker 1: doing my eyebrow. I have three words left, and he
Speaker 1: starts waking up and he looks at me and he's
Speaker 1: like oh, and then he rips the earring out of
Speaker 1: my ear and then threw up breast milk onto me.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to laugh, girl, but that did you
Speaker 1: have to redo the scene? Well, technically I finished that
Speaker 1: scene at take and then handed the baby back nicely
Speaker 1: and slowly, and it was like, okay, can we switch
Speaker 1: out the baby? Please get this breast milk off me? Now?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you imagine what her hair and
Speaker 1: makeup team's face was like, I have to wipe off
Speaker 1: like milk off my face and chest and everything. We
Speaker 1: did get another take, and I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: one we used. It was like that's again, and the
Speaker 1: poor mom got so upset and I was like, it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's also you're like looking at this little innocent baby.
Speaker 1: They can't help it, so it's like you can't even
Speaker 1: really be mad. But also did you ever work with
Speaker 1: a doubt? Like did they ever which in the babies
Speaker 1: with a doll when it was in the strollers but obviously,
Speaker 1: like you know, when I'm holding it in the close up,
Speaker 1: they want up. Yeah. And also baby dolls on sets
Speaker 1: are just very very creepy. I agree, And it is
Speaker 1: creepy for sure. How did my loog get cast? They
Speaker 1: sit a baby and a stroller and see if they
Speaker 1: don't cry for thirty minutes, and they're like, this is it?
Speaker 1: This baby can get through scenes like how do you
Speaker 1: do that? They're not acting right? That's what I would
Speaker 1: always used to hear, like they would meet the parents,
Speaker 1: um and you know, gauge them for how crazy they are.
Speaker 1: They would you know the babies for a little while.
Speaker 1: They have experienced babies. And probably a requirement for me
Speaker 1: was that the baby said blue eyes. But they put
Speaker 1: girls in for boys and boys and for girls who
Speaker 1: are some of your favorite designers And did you wear
Speaker 1: them on the show, because that was another big obviously
Speaker 1: character in the show. Oh, of course I wore a
Speaker 1: ton of Marquesa gowns because I was friends with Funny enough,
Speaker 1: the designer's name is actually Georgina. Georgina. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: Georgina sweet um. Yeah. So I wore a lot of
Speaker 1: gowns because also when we would come back from Jetus,
Speaker 1: or I would come back from you know, not being
Speaker 1: part of the mid season just at the end, they
Speaker 1: just knew my sizes and and you'll understand that it's
Speaker 1: just very important for a few gowns that you needed
Speaker 1: within a day or two to be sent over pre
Speaker 1: knowing the actress sizes because there's no alterations, there's no
Speaker 1: o this. So I did a lot of that. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of um ericson Beamon Jewelry. Uh. The
Speaker 1: shoes are on the gun round the Gamut from YSL
Speaker 1: Philip Limb ragon Bone. I'm trying to come back every
Speaker 1: leather jacket on the planet um for her. We were.
Speaker 1: We also tried to mix and match, like super high end. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: this is looks like having a baby Martini down. Martini down.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's he's very frustrated right now, this
Speaker 1: is his Oh you were talking about hours, this is
Speaker 1: his treat time. Um, no, there was there was a ton.
Speaker 1: I think there was sometimes some good she's thrown in.
Speaker 1: We try to not do everything everything crazy expensive, but
Speaker 1: there was a lot in there, right, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone you just list, I'm like, so good,
Speaker 1: so good, so good. But yes, I always liked with Vanessa.
Speaker 1: They would you know, be in DVF and then she
Speaker 1: would have a pair of jeans from Urban Outfitters, And
Speaker 1: I think I like that because that's realistic. A lot
Speaker 1: of people cannot afford a handbag and you know, four
Speaker 1: thousand dollar leather jacket. Um. I think for all, for
Speaker 1: the show, for the purpose of the show, it was
Speaker 1: amazing and great, but realistically, sometimes I'm like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that she has like a forty pair of jeans
Speaker 1: on eighty dollar pair of jeans. Um, because that's also
Speaker 1: my style. I like high end, but I'm also very
Speaker 1: very into vintage and like mixing you know, a nice
Speaker 1: purse with like some cheap jeans. Oh I do, I do,
Speaker 1: I do the same thing. Um. You know, we also
Speaker 1: wore like a lot of are and stuff. But remember, um,
Speaker 1: the the furs. Anytime any wore anyone wore a fur,
Speaker 1: it was a fake fur. So that's always something i'd
Speaker 1: like to have. That's a little fun fact. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And the all the coats in the winter were just
Speaker 1: so beautiful and amazing. I feel so many of them.
Speaker 1: You have no idea. I'm a code of like just
Speaker 1: hooeful show. You're like, I'm bringing them all to l
Speaker 1: A with me, whether I wear them or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're in storage. Actually I want to see this
Speaker 1: storage girl. Um, Okay, I want to play a quick
Speaker 1: quote game. I'm going to say a quote and you
Speaker 1: have to guess which character said it. Oh no, okay,
Speaker 1: But I let me preface this because I am very
Speaker 1: competitive by saying, you know, I never I never watched myself,
Speaker 1: so I only have seen bits and clips and pieces
Speaker 1: when doing like press, but I've never actually seen the
Speaker 1: show in its entirety. Okay, then you'll have to guess.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling you're gonna do just fine. Ready, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need your photographic memory and your passion for social upheaval.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, did I say that someone said it to you? Oh?
Speaker 1: Remember hearing photographic memory, which was why they always wrote
Speaker 1: me the monologues. Oh my god, it's either Blair Serena.
Speaker 1: See I've already failed at this game. You're fine, let's
Speaker 1: play it and see I need your photograph of memory
Speaker 1: and your passion for social upheaval? Was that pen? It
Speaker 1: was Dan? Yep. Okay, that's funny. All right. Next one,
Speaker 1: Haven't you heard I'm the crazy bitch around here? Blair? Right?
Speaker 1: Han't you heard crazy bit around here? You're right? Blair
Speaker 1: to Georgina. Okay, Um, now, if you excuse me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go get drunk enough to make you all seem interesting.
Speaker 1: Me and I you Harley class holding a champagne glass
Speaker 1: or something. I could have been. I could have been
Speaker 1: mixing um uh episodes, but yeah, I love that line. Now,
Speaker 1: if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go get drunk
Speaker 1: enough to make you all seem interesting. There you go. Um,
Speaker 1: good job, girl, very good. Can you talk about any
Speaker 1: of the projects you have coming up? I know so
Speaker 1: many things now you can't like talk about until it's
Speaker 1: like happening. True. But actually, um, I premier to show
Speaker 1: about a month ago. It's a true crime series called
Speaker 1: Meet Mary. Murder, which is obviously suiting for me because
Speaker 1: Murder UM host, narrate and executive produced the show it's
Speaker 1: streaming on to be and it's basically like you know
Speaker 1: all our real true murder mystery crime shows, but with
Speaker 1: a twist where you kill your spouse. Wow, And how
Speaker 1: did this come about? Was this like your idea? Did
Speaker 1: someone bring it to you? It was an existing show
Speaker 1: I believe in the UK that they wanted to do
Speaker 1: a spin on and have a female host and um
Speaker 1: update now to what you know our true crime shows
Speaker 1: look like. And one of the producers on it knew
Speaker 1: someone connected to me, and it all just sort of
Speaker 1: fell into into place. And being an executive producer, which
Speaker 1: I've I've done a couple of times before, is such
Speaker 1: like an amazing honorary feeling because I've been acting for weight.
Speaker 1: I'm thirty six, so like thirty three plus years. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's amazing, girl, And it feels like quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 1: So Meet May Murder will be streaming on two B
Speaker 1: for anyone that sees it. The bomber that right before
Speaker 1: COVID one of the I forgot if you knew that
Speaker 1: I'm a Writer's Guild so w g A and we
Speaker 1: had put together my film that I wrote that's a
Speaker 1: psychological thriller that I was actually going to direct for
Speaker 1: the first time and if I didn't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: go absolutely crazy play a role in it. So we're
Speaker 1: probably gonna go into development on that sometime mid next year.
Speaker 1: And um, I can't talk about this one yet, but
Speaker 1: just did a really crazy, amazing documentary that I was
Speaker 1: I'm very privileged to be a part of, which will
Speaker 1: you know, I'll let you know when it comes about
Speaker 1: about mental health awareness and and that's extremely important to me,
Speaker 1: and I'm I've always been a anti bullying advocate, so
Speaker 1: it was an honor to be able to voice someone
Speaker 1: struggle to you know, help at least save as one
Speaker 1: person to not have that same struggle. Absolutely, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm like so pumped for for all of these things.
Speaker 1: It's I'm like, what hat don't you wear? You're producing,
Speaker 1: You're doing a documentary, acting, writing, renovating my house, and
Speaker 1: you know, trying to not know COVID crazy. I think
Speaker 1: that's the biggest job. But stay safe and and vaccinated
Speaker 1: all that, But you know what, being busy has been
Speaker 1: my entire life and I'm very grateful, and I think
Speaker 1: the fans that's why, you know, I had not done
Speaker 1: any of the Gossip Girl or Buffy stuff in the past,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's you and you're amazing, and you're
Speaker 1: amazing on the show, and we have maintained a friendship
Speaker 1: all this time time and even after g endd you know,
Speaker 1: we'd run into each other the night before our party
Speaker 1: and you'd be like girl, I'd be like girl. It
Speaker 1: was like we never skipped a beat. And you know,
Speaker 1: when we live our lives and we are doing so
Speaker 1: many things and moving and growing as artists and you know,
Speaker 1: trying different things and entertainment, and then you know, the
Speaker 1: world shuts down. There's a lot going on. So to
Speaker 1: like just talk to you and feel like we haven't
Speaker 1: not seen each other in so long, because no one
Speaker 1: really has in this time really feels really good. Michelle, seriously,
Speaker 1: And you were always so sweet. You brought just a
Speaker 1: really you brought a really great character to life that
Speaker 1: obviously is a fan favorite, but just even how you
Speaker 1: were with everyone on set and felt like a part
Speaker 1: of the original cast from the get go, and I
Speaker 1: mean going back, taking this walk down memory Lane with
Speaker 1: you like brings me so many like laughs and like
Speaker 1: oh my god. In my head, I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this night, oh my god, this scene, and and I
Speaker 1: have to when when Josh and Stephanie come on, I
Speaker 1: really need to thank them too, because they really brought
Speaker 1: great years of our lives together, those memories in New York.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to tell Bowie about them one day.
Speaker 1: And my stepdaughter Lexi and I think we grow so
Speaker 1: much in our twenties, so not only like where were
Speaker 1: growing and learning about ourselves and then as actors, and
Speaker 1: then it was very new to most of us the
Speaker 1: way paparazzi followed us, the way people wrote about us.
Speaker 1: That was all a part of us growing as well,
Speaker 1: and that was like very weird and odd. And you know,
Speaker 1: the fans always phenomenal. The paparazzi were very, very very
Speaker 1: aggressive and not like the most kindest. I mean, we
Speaker 1: did each have to get bodyguards are individual bodyguards letter
Speaker 1: later on on the show because it was just scary
Speaker 1: and not all that's safe. But we all loved being
Speaker 1: on set so much. Knew that, you know, we had
Speaker 1: to walk down the street with a hundred dudes yelling
Speaker 1: at us and trying to get the scandalous shot, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But once we were we were all instead. It was
Speaker 1: copasetic um. All the rumors that existed about all this
Speaker 1: fighting just I never witnessed it. Um. We all got
Speaker 1: on great um and it was cool. They do love
Speaker 1: to like say something and see how far I can
Speaker 1: go and hit. I remember reading that. I'm like, who's
Speaker 1: not getting along? Is someone else not? Like? Is there
Speaker 1: something going on that I don't know about? There? To
Speaker 1: remember used to poke you guys all the time, Like
Speaker 1: in there, I'm like, hey, we're not a teddy bear
Speaker 1: like And there's like a picture of me poking at
Speaker 1: Layton like from a while back, and they're like Layton
Speaker 1: and Michelle in a fight. No, we were actually tickling
Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, I was probably tickling. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Although I do think I hold a record for f
Speaker 1: bombs on the show, I don't know you do, yeah,
Speaker 1: because all the monologues and I would that one line
Speaker 1: at the end like yeah, but you know, when you're
Speaker 1: like in it in a scene and you feel like
Speaker 1: it's going and then something happens where it has to stop,
Speaker 1: whether it's a light falls or someone honks or something
Speaker 1: happens and you have to start over. It is a
Speaker 1: little frustrating, but again, we were all such team players
Speaker 1: and it all it all worked out. I think, um,
Speaker 1: I think the show wouldn't have been the same without Georgina.
Speaker 1: For sure. You came in and made a lot of noise,
Speaker 1: and I want to thank you for just being so sweet.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. I know you're a fan favorite.
Speaker 1: And also, let's just leave it at the best part. A.
Speaker 1: We made a friendship, but be you made a human. Yes,
Speaker 1: she's a cute, cute kyote. I can't wait for you
Speaker 1: to meet her. And she'll love, love, love your little
Speaker 1: your little kitten. Yeah, it'll we We we grown girls now,
Speaker 1: I know we sure are. Girl. We've been through a lot.
Speaker 1: But thank you so much for coming on. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for all your projects. They sound awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you air hugs, Michelle. Thank you so much. Girl.
Speaker 1: You have such an awesome way of making the best
Speaker 1: of any situation, whether it's dressing up an elegant couture
Speaker 1: or having a baby throw up on you. I just
Speaker 1: want to keep talking to you can make me laugh, girl,
Speaker 1: What do you guys think should I try to have
Speaker 1: our back for another episode and maybe Mr Martini? All right,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening today, Until next time. X O x
Speaker 1: O x O XO is produced by Propagate Content and
Speaker 1: Met Jessica's Org. Our show is executive produced by Lnley.
Speaker 1: Our producers are Diego Tapia, Emily Carr, and Hannah Harris.
Speaker 1: Original music by Moxie and Lune, and the episode was
Speaker 1: mixed by Seth o Landsky