WEBVTT - 303: Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington w/ Cynthia Stevenson 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.240 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:29.720 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:27.720 Scams and Katie. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:37.560 G k Gee. The strike has is over. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.840 The strike is over, and the deal has been ratified. 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.040 We are free to go and be thesbians again. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:50.680 Wesian are available for employment, and we are available to 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:57.000 talk about more and more scam Toolbox but also which 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.800 we already know because we're on episode three, but it 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.440 can never be discussed enough because we're fucking stoked. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.280 Thank god we have Unpacking the Toolbox because now I 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.520 don't see you on the strike lines, I know, and 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.640 this is where I see your sexy face. Yes, hey, hey, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.039 what's up baby? Second season of Unpacking the Toolbox, which like, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.679 thank god, what are you wearing today? 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.880 Honey, I'm wearing a T shirt with an angry black cat. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.039 See him? He's cool? Huh. I don't know what the 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:29.039 words is. Oh, that's good. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.959 Yeah, the sag actors did not rebel because we ratified 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.080 the contract. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:37.280 That's right. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.040 Also, I'm still looking at your adorable faith with the 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 nose ring that you have, and I still really want 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:43.600 to get it. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.280 Oh, dude, let me know. I'll take you me and 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.640 Katie live eight minutes away from each other, and I 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.320 found this amazing tattoo slash piercing place and he's like 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.960 a master piercer. It didn't hurt at all. I'm the 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:55.640 biggest chicken. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:55.840 Shit. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.040 I have a ton of tattoos and they've all hurt. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.800 But the septum piercing did not hurt at all. So 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.360 if you're ever down to get it and look and 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.480 then you can make it. We forget a job which 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:12.640 you and it's gone your booge stupid. Yeah, I can't 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:13.959 do it right now, but yeah. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.400 That in my life. I've never called it that in 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.560 my life. I'm disgusted with myself. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.160 Look and now it's gone. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.520 See and you can feel weird? 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.480 No, not at all, you don't even feel it. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.400 What'd you eat today? What'd you eat today today? 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.640 For breakfast? I had a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.320 cheese because my stomach has been a little bit, a 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.200 little bit upset these last few days, so I didn't 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.560 want to do my normal celery and parsley and lime 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:40.360 juice every morning. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.480 I just need to lay down a layer of carbs. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:43.280 Well. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.840 For breakfast, I had just a power bar, which is 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.000 pretty lame. I've been in a rush children at the 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.280 time of this recording. It's the holidays and everything is insane, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.000 but life stops for the guests that we have today. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.480 Uh, one of my favorites, one of my favor guest 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:05.040 stars in episode three oh three, she shines her light 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.679 for us, and she's just amazing. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.760 She's just a tried and true journey woman of an actress, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.919 like she just has been on everything, comedies, dramas, film, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.840 TV shows, you name it, maybe some horror movies. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.480 What what was that again? 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.880 She's amazing and she so lovingly has agreed to come 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.799 on and be our guest today for episode three or three. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:33.840 It is the one, It is the only. Yes, Steve, Yeah, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.960 First of all, it's amazing to see you again. I 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.240 am such a fan. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.640 I don't I don't think either one of us worked 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.240 with you actually in person in the episode except for 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:45.680 Caring right. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.280 Yeah. It was so weird that I didn't get to 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:53.920 connect with you guys, because you you know, when you're 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.440 doing that part, like that emotional part, like. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.720 When you're like the guest star of the episode and 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.160 the entire story revolves around you. A lot of times 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.400 you have more heavy lifting than the lead actors do, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.560 Like you're the entire episode. You work every day and 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.960 have to go through all these emotional huge swings. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.440 Oh my god, kiddie. And also you know, because we've 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.680 done it, Like when it's your family, it's your show, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.240 it's your show, You're like, yeah, it's the weird an. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.200 You had to be invited to the wedding. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.520 You always feel like you have to prove something right 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.800 as the guests start, You're like, I gotta be the 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.200 best and be off book. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.960 Intruding somehow. I'm like always feel like, oh I'm talking 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.240 too much or oh I'm talking too little. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.440 Oh me too. We all do that shit. But you know, punning, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.320 don you killed it in this episode? 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.000 Killed it the bomb strap to you. I want to 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.080 hear about Wait was there an audition? We have so 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.520 many questions and listeners, we've already jumped into this. It's 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.240 just like you, how is your scandal paced? Do you 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.839 remember having to do talk really quick on this? 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.360 Who's terrifying? So in the last part of that episode, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.120 there was a lot there was a little not a monologue, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.560 but like some dialogue that they cut out because I 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.240 think I wasn't doing this fettle face. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.400 No, oh my god. No, you know how many monologues 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.000 and pieces that we had that they cut out. It's 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.080 mostly for timing or just didn't you know, work with 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.839 the story. We had shit cut out all the time. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.240 You don't even know how many times Tom Veriko would 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.599 come to work and say, just delivered the episode and 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.159 it's eighteen minutes over. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.080 Like no, no, yes, yes, because you guys could not 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.840 have spoken any faster your whole rhythm. So you must 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.120 have been so exhausted at the end of this run 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.400 because you're on a treadmill at highest speed all the time. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.960 And all the emotional journeys you guys took, none of 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.720 them are casual. None of them were like this episode 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:46.640 what you guys were going through. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.800 You know what it was, Cynthia. The worst part after 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.440 finishing with this series, when the series ended is we 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.119 me and Katie spoke at least I know because Katie's 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.880 talked about it too. We just talked so fast that 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.000 our next auditions and our next projects that the direct 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.600 would be like, you need to slow down, and we're like, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:03.320 what are you going down? 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:04.480 Yeah? 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.960 I still have that problem I do too. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.760 Yeah, funny you got tightened up internally like you're nervous, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.640 is yes? No, I totally get it. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.400 Yeah, for all of you listeners, just to catch you up. Obviously, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.520 it already feels like me, Cynthia and g our family 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.640 the last three minutes and it feels like forever in 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:25.760 a good way. I hope that came out. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.560 I feel like a good aim, of course. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.720 But we are going to read real quick that we're 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:36.279 talking about episode three oh three, which was entitled Wow, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:37.760 I think cultivated. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:43.600 It was entitled to shit. It was titled and entitled Yes' 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.080 character was definitely a title. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.359 Missus Smith Goes to Washington, which aired on October seventeenth 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.719 in twenty thirteen. It was written by. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.760 Maddy Bird and directed by Janeaul's Wark, who is one 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.960 of our one of our directors who who directed a 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:00.920 bunch of episodes. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.080 Yes, he directed a bunch of episodes, and he's directed 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.440 a bunch of Gray's Anatomis too, and I believe Private Practice. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.560 He's a Shondaland All star and a real character, a real. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.600 Character, and he directed Jaws two f y. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.040 Put that in your pipe and smoke it. The episode 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.240 is guest starring the one and Only Cynthia Stephenson as 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.680 Mary ness Bit who we have? It was also starring 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:31.160 Mark Moses as Congressman Jim Struthers and Ernie Hudson Yes Wow, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.600 as FBI Commander Randolph Bowles. Cynthia, do you want to 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.960 take a Do you have this synopsis up in front 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.160 of you? If you don't, I wish that's okay. I'm 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.240 like you, grandmother, You're most Look, most people have never 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.200 done any of them before. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.600 We've been doing this for so long, and I still 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.360 will text Katie and be like Katie, can you like 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.720 send me that link? I don't know what to do. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.920 Also, we had like Deborah Mooney on. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.720 Who played Judge Brenda Thornton on the show, and she 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.560 her camera was like just like from her eyes and 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:04.760 her forehead and that was it. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.120 And she was doing the episode. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.160 But she was amazing. She was great, all right? So 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:13.960 should I give it? Should I start it off? 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:14.480 Yeah? 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.120 Rock it out, be a little dirty, but not too dirty. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.200 You're welcome, Hulu. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.720 As most of the OPA team takes on a new client, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.640 a mother seeking justice for her murdered son, Huck has 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.080 see I already screwed it up. Take two, as most 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.800 of the OPA team takes on a new client, a 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.320 mother seeking justice for her murdered son. Huck has a 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.800 mission of his own track down and kill pop a Pope, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.280 but two twists interrupt everyone's plans. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.839 The grieving mother plans to blow up part of the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.640 White House, and Eli Pope knew Huck was coming. Oh shit, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.520 Oh yeah, yeah, we did not getting highed. We're not 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.160 getting hired. The grieving mother plans to blow up part 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.880 of the White House, and Eli Pope knew Huck was 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.920 following him. Olivia gets herself in the middle of Olivia 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.880 gets herself in the middle of the hostas negotiation over 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.520 an ultra high security dot that leads to a tragic ending. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.439 You know what, we wouldn't have booked the job. You 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:07.360 wouldn't have. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.360 Booked, But give us a couple of minutes reading that over, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.120 we would have had it down. We would have had 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:12.520 it down. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.880 So, Cynthia, can you take us into had you seen 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:21.000 scandal before? Did you audition for the part where you 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.040 offered the part because you fancy tell us how you 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:24.840 got here? 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.920 So this was so funny to me. Every summer we 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.760 go to this cabin way up in northern California in 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.160 the woods. My grandparents built it in the fifties. It's 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.960 a little red cabin with yellow shutters. It's like walking 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.160 into a story book. It's so great. And there's no 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.400 internet there, so whenever we go, you're just fully unplugged. Right, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.680 So it does jealous, I know, it's so heaven. So 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.920 we're there or at the river, and we do have 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.040 a landline and the phone or whatever. The phone rings. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.320 I'm like, oh, what is that? 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.480 What is that? 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.880 The dairy? 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.560 So I answered it and it's my manager, God love him, 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.000 sweetest mallin earth, Kelly Garner, the greatest guy. And he goes, Cynthia, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.560 I'm sending you something. And I said, I'm at the river. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.080 He goes, I'm sending you something and you have to 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.720 get in your car and I have to drive four 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.240 miles to get internet. Right, He goes, get in your 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.400 car and drive to the it's called the dry yards. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.280 Get to the dry yards and read this thing that 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.719 I sent you. And I go, what is it? He goes, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.680 I'm not telling you. I want you to just open 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.000 it and read it. So I go, but I'm at 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.679 the river. He goes, just get in a car. So 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.200 I four miles to the dryards. I opened it the 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.680 link and I had I have watched the show. I 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:32.640 was a huge. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:37.800 Mantain, oh nice, I have. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.400 Goosebumps while I'm telling you this. So I start reading it, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.920 and you know what it is. I'm reading it. I'm like, 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.080 oh my god, oh my god, this is a huge 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.280 Oh my god. When I get to the end, he 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.160 burst out crying. I start just crawling. What And so 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.199 then I'm alone in my car and I go, I 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.400 don't think I can do that. Har they made a mistake. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:58.920 It was an offer, and I'm. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.480 Like, it's oh my god. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.880 No. At the time, this is your magical realm of 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.920 Shondaland had already been a guest on her show Off 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.120 the Map, so I'd done yes, Yeah, and an episode 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.160 of Grays and a private practice, then Scandal, and then 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.080 after Scandal, I went to do How to Get Away 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.160 with Murder a little arc on that. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.400 So, oh my god, Aynthia, you are yes, you are 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.600 a beloved. You are part of the shop. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.320 The team right, like they're just so wonderful. Yeah. I 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.280 call him for myself and I go and I said, Kelly, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.280 I don't know. You just shut your mouth and if 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:35.960 you don't get your ass back down to town, I'm 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.360 gonna drive up there and I want to. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.880 I love your manager's so great. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.480 Did you have to cancel your trip? 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.680 I think we cut it short a little bit, and 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.360 that's why he was like, oh, well you have to 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.720 leave the river jut down here. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.320 Isn't that old, doesn't it? That always happened. I remember 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.520 being Inwai in Hawaii for one of my best friend's 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.760 weddings and I had to leave early because I booked 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.320 like a Law and Order episode. That that's been like 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.640 our lives so. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.760 Long, right, just like okay, yeah, all the actors listening there, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.520 it's like book a trip, book a job, like no 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.600 one will want you in the minute you actually spend 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.040 money to leave town and do something else is when 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.000 Hollywood will get It's because I need a. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.839 Job, yes, is yeah in the universe is like. 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.120 Hey, cool guy, Hey cool girl, here's your job. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:22.720 Yes. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.720 So do you remember like you're fitting with Lynn Pollo 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.960 or like first coming on too Saturday to prepare for 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:30.760 the role, were you nervous to work with Carrie? 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.040 Like tell us all of them, I'm always I literally 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.679 am the most If you know what HSPs are I 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.680 highly sense to your person. I'm like, my son, is 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.840 that tweeked up to the max? So I'm always like, 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.280 oh god, what's happening. It's just so much craziness. So 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.640 and everybody's so lovely. And the other thing about your 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.800 show is that season three, right, so everyone's comfortable. Yeah, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.880 you guys were all the cool people at the reunion. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.920 betting super casual. And then the prop guy came in 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.200 to the wardrobe fitting and here prompt man was so 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.320 sweet and he was so excited about that best right, like. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.160 It was probably George George. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.000 It had to be George, and George props, he's the 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.160 bast You've taken so. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.320 Much pride in it, and it was incredible. So he 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.240 came into the wardrobe fitting to see how it fit 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.280 over the blouse, and yes, they were all excited about it, 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.360 and so I'm like, that was super cool. And then 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.000 I remember in the makeup and the hair and makeup, 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.640 I think Carrie wasn't there yet, the Bellamy, who had 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:32.480 never met before. So here comes this amazing angel person 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:38.800 and she's like, yeah, I was all my nervous craziness 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.680 just disappeared in an instant. She was like, you're got 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.040 kill it. You're killing you crazy weirdo. You're gonna be 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.320 like with that ball of just kindness and amazing, you 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.079 can't be nervous anymore. But I don't think I met Carrie. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.960 I don't think i'd met her until Oh, I guess 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.640 it was our little thing in your office, in the office, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.720 the scene in the office, and that was oh so 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.839 much to do. And I remember she kept carrying around 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:04.920 her huge blinder. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.800 Oh yeah, oh my god, we even talked about that 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.560 yet on this podcast. Yeah, Carrie Washington's nerd ass binder. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:14.800 I looked at her blinder and I actually got a 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.439 stomach ache. I was like, oh god, I remember what she. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.640 Would be memorizing lines for like the next episode while 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.080 she was memory while she was doing the scenes for 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.320 the episode we were shooting. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.960 She would take down an entire tree of post it 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.760 notes through the binder, color coded what was shooting, what 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.920 she had memorized, what she hadn't learned yet, what the 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.520 long like, how things connected to each other. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.760 Crazy. We'll be right back guys. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.720 Now, you've been a lead of so many shows. What's 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.760 so amazing about you is like you are so versatile 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.240 in I mean, you carry sitcoms. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.840 Really quickly too. I love horror movies and I had 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.120 not ever seen a horror movie that that Cynthia had 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.080 had been in called Jennifer's Body, and I just watched 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.480 it like last night. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.120 This is Ghermo Diaz six Degrees of Horror. Every episode 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.680 we relate some shit to horror. We got. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.080 Cynthia Stevenson was in one of the best freaking horror 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.840 movies written by Diablo Cody, who was an amazing writer. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.440 That writer was gonna was in the midst of writing 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.840 Madonna's script about her life that Madonna's gonna direct, and 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.440 then something happened and she has a different writer. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.960 Now Giermo's life has two lanes horror, yeah, Donna, yes. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.120 And so Diablo Cody and Cynthia Stevenson are meeting at 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.440 the crux of horror and this is big for Gharamo. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.320 And Cynthia plays Chip's mom who provides him with a 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.240 spray that says something pink on it, which he uses 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.040 or the other character uses to spray like the woman 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.560 that's possessed by all this devil stuff. Anyway, you were 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.760 so funny, so lovely, in that movie, and the movie 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.320 was so good. But then today this morning, I watched 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.080 A thirty nine, which is another horror movie that Cynthia's 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.280 in with Renees Eliger and Bradley Cooper. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.320 Cynthia, see, I have a hard fast rule. I do 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.400 not watch horror. I do not like it. I only 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:13.040 hear about it all. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.800 And thank goodness, like in all of those things that 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.280 you're referencing, I didn't have to do the horrory part 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:18.560 of it. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.480 You didn't, Yes, for those of you listening and that 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.280 don't have a computer in front of you to know 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.520 every single thing that Cynthia has been in, which is insane, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.320 and of course why you would get a straight offer 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.520 on Scandal and be on every single Chondalin show. But 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:37.640 it's like, it's unbelievable. It's like my talk show, Bob 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:43.440 Hope and Gloria Oh Baby, Robert Altman's film The Player, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.680 Forget Paris Home for the Holidays, Air Bud Golden Receiver. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.280 I mean, come on, Agent Cody Banks, dead like me, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.680 Men and Trees. I mean, your career is ridiculous, and 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.560 you're so versatile between comedy drama, Like there's really movies 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.320 film like the TV. There's nothing you can do. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.920 And hey, what about IMDb, you guys, I gotta say 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.960 I go on IMDb for a million years now and 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.200 it says my tashow various episodes. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:10.760 Are you kidding? 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.439 Yeah, it won't change it. And it says I'm sixty. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.920 It says you're six feet tall. What fucking forty two? 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.440 I'm forty one. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.240 It brings up it actually says I'm younger. So I'm 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.080 not mad at IMDb, but I'm mad that it says 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.720 that I was born and raised in New Jersey. Now 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.560 that's worse than being six feet tall and being forty two. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.639 It says I'm from fucking Jersey. No, no offense from Jersey. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.960 I do love Jersey Jersey. But you're from fucking watching Manhattan. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.560 Yeah, and it's culturally such a huge part of who 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.720 you are. That's so muched up. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.160 But you're right, Cify, it's so hard to get things 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:51.919 changed on the it's ridiculous. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.959 You can't, guys. So you say this, look what your 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:54.760 show gave you. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:59.040 Best friend, right, Yes, yes, that's so true. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.640 One of the greatest of all time. And I will 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.080 say this that so many people could not have done, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.159 never could they have done your roles? Going back to 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.800 you sang listen to your silvers, you too, come on. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.320 Your storylines were insane, and. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.320 You were so they were insane, amazing, We were so lucky. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.120 When did I feel like you were outside of it? 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.880 You just you can't or you can't do it. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.000 Yeah, but that's the way I felt watching this episode 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.080 with you. I was like, I could not imagine anyone 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.760 else doing that part. You were so emotionally available, and 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.720 you talked a little bit about being that person that 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.639 sort of feels everything, and so I'm sure that helped 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.480 playing this character. You were just so there. Man. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.200 In real life, I have one son, so of course 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.120 I was using. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.240 Oh my god, I was going to ask, how did 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.800 you prepare? Like what do you do for that stuff? 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:49.760 Do you guys do this? So when I was reading 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.520 it in the dry yards way back and like I'm 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.360 at the river, I was reading it and I knew 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.719 immediately she's a single mother. The husband had left many 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.159 years before. She raised her son alone, and she I 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:00.480 don't know why the song him to me in a 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.280 giant flood. And she's a home ch teacher, she taught 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.679 home ex she was just a teacher. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.440 She's just oh my god, I'm chilled Midwest. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.480 Woman and her whole life was her son. That's all 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.640 she had and that was enough. And so when that happened, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.000 I remember saying, as that character, I can't live with it. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.600 I can't, So I don't. I didn't know it's the character. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:20.720 I was going to do what I did at the 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.120 end of the episode until I get the news from Carrie. 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.600 But it's like my whole was done. Yeah, it was heartbreading. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.960 So that was a good place to go all during 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:31.879 the episode when you have to stay in that place, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.320 right and it it made me go insane. Remember when 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.840