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Speaker 1: I am all in, bless you. I am all in

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Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast. Hey everybody, Scott Patterson

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Speaker 1: one eleven productions. iHeart Radio, iHeart Podcasts, iHeartMedia. We're going

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Speaker 1: to speak with Rona Benson. Let me read off here.

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Speaker 1: She played Joni, a Yale Daily News student for eight episodes.

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Speaker 1: She's an actor and producer from New York. She graduated

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Speaker 1: UC Berkeley with a degree in cognitive science. She's known

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Speaker 1: for playing Yale Daily News student Jony on Gilmore Girls

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Speaker 1: eight episodes. She also appeared in Bones, Madmen, Jurassic Park three.

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Speaker 1: Roona has more recently appeared in the resident Matt Superese

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Speaker 1: Old show I'm Dying up here in a short film

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Speaker 1: called Seat twenty three. B Ladies and Gentlemen, I give

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Speaker 1: you Rona Benson. Rona, Hey, how you doing. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: just let's just let's just start. How'd you get your

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Speaker 1: role on Gilmore I got.

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Speaker 2: The role well, I did one of those casting director

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Speaker 2: like showcases where actors, you know, you got to pay,

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Speaker 2: and then you perform a scene and you hope that

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Speaker 2: casting directors are there to see you. And one of

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Speaker 2: the Gilmore Girls casting directors was there and based on that,

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Speaker 2: she called me in and then I booked it.

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Speaker 1: So, oh that's great. You must have been thrilled because

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Speaker 1: that's kind of of a long shot. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: a long shot anyway, Yeah, but especially doing it that way,

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Speaker 1: that's fantastic. You must have been thrilled.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was really thrilled and surprised, and that was

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Speaker 2: very cool.

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Speaker 1: And it turned into a pretty good stint. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you did eight episode, so that's man.

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Speaker 2: It did I know? And it wasn't It was originally

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Speaker 2: just a co star for one episode and then it

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Speaker 2: turned into four. So that was cool.

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Speaker 1: You were doing something right. That's a fun story. Did

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Speaker 1: you watch the show before you landed the role? You

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Speaker 1: were aware of the show.

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Speaker 2: I had never seen Gilmore Girls, so you know, I

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Speaker 2: get the audition the night before and I'm like, well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about the show. What the heck?

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Speaker 2: You know? And I had to scramble. And this was

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Speaker 2: try to find a snippet of it to watch and

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Speaker 2: find out about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Probably not so easy to watch it, Yeah, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: So you played a student for the Yale Daily News.

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Speaker 1: How was it being in the newsroom in Paris? Was

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Speaker 1: going through a breakdown as the editor of the paper?

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Speaker 1: What was that like?

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Speaker 2: It was really fun. I mean it was kind of chaotic.

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Speaker 2: She was kind of crazy. She went nuts, you know,

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Speaker 2: it really did. But you know, as an actor, I

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Speaker 2: was just so excited to be there and it was

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Speaker 2: You know, it was fun.

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Speaker 1: Those are fun scenes. I love those those newsroom scenes.

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Speaker 1: They're all fraught with so much going on. So Paris

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Speaker 1: made everybody in the newsroom where numbered caps?

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Speaker 2: He did?

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Speaker 1: I remember? And so was it? You think it was

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Speaker 1: more funny or more cruel? Well we'll get to that.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a So what's your favorite moment on

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Speaker 2: There was one day where you know, we just had

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Speaker 2: we kind of snuck off and were wandering around, like

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Speaker 2: we went to Luke Steiner, he went to all the

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Speaker 1: You were Taurus correct?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you? First of all, did you watch the

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Speaker 1: episode before he came on, and if you did, what

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Speaker 1: was it like watching it back after all these years.

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Speaker 2: I watched my scenes last night because I thought I

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Speaker 1: It was okay, right, right? Right? Do you get recognized rarely?

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Speaker 2: I could maybe count on my hands, maybe even one hand,

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Speaker 1: Know when they when they do recognize you, what's the reaction?

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Speaker 1: And when you inform them that, yeah, I was on

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Speaker 1: Right, So let's talk about how you got started in acting.

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Speaker 1: You have a degree from UC Berkeley and cognitive science.

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Speaker 1: How'd you go from science cognitive science to acting.

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Speaker 2: Well? I always wanted to act all like, since I

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Speaker 2: And then I went to school and did my school thing,

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, really, And how did the family react.

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Speaker 2: To that rebelled against my family? They I don't think

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Speaker 1: What did your what did your parents do?

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Speaker 2: It just that's just how it was, you know.

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Speaker 1: Right, right, right, So who'd you study with when you

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Speaker 2: I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts a

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Speaker 2: studied with someone named Richard Side s E y D. Fantastic,

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Speaker 1: What was it like working with with with Matt Zugreg

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I didn't inter It was those were

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Speaker 2: I remember he was nice and we were all just

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Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, more with Liza and Alexis gotcha.

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Speaker 2: She was really sweet. I think she's a shy person,

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Speaker 2: And Liza was really she was sweet. She was really

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Any other stories you want to share from your

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Speaker 1: memories of the set? What did you do you remember

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Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, it's just an interesting.

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Speaker 2: Because I don't know. Yeah, So it's funny because when

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Speaker 2: I watched the scenes yesterday, some of them, I'm like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And when you told do you remember the day you

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Speaker 1: told your friend? Was your family aware of Gilmore Girls?

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Speaker 1: And when you told them, what did they How did

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Speaker 1: made it, and like we were wrong and she made

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Speaker 1: eight episodes. It's a lot of episodes for Gilmore Girls.

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Speaker 1: I'll say, Rory, something in your life you are all.

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Speaker 2: In on I am all okay, this might sound a

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Speaker 2: little wou. I am all in on the truth, Like

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Speaker 2: and truth for whatever.

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Speaker 1: Living in the wrong times for truth. Nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: speak the truth I.

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Speaker 2: Know, but I do all the more because of that.

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Speaker 1: you for coming on, appreciate your time all the best

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Speaker 1: and we really enjoyed it. And thanks so much, Thank

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Speaker 2: Good luck with the podcast.

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