Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me. We all about
Speaker 1: that high school drama.
Speaker 2: Girl drama girl, all about them.
Speaker 3: High school queens.
Speaker 4: We'll take you for a ride, and our comic girl
Speaker 4: shared for the right teen drama.
Speaker 3: Queens je up girl fashion, but your.
Speaker 2: Tough girl, you could sit with us.
Speaker 4: Girl Drama, Queen drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama Drama, Queens Drama, Queens.
Speaker 1: We have a guest today that Joy snagged that I
Speaker 1: am pumped about.
Speaker 5: This is what we do, you guys. We just text
Speaker 5: people until they relent, and we finally did it. Joy,
Speaker 5: you hooked the big one, one of our old time favorites.
Speaker 1: Tell them who we got.
Speaker 2: We've been chasing you forever, Miss Kelsey Spial. Guys, this
Speaker 2: is Gigi. It's gg.
Speaker 1: The cutest. No, thank you all for having me.
Speaker 3: It really means so much to me to be here.
Speaker 6: We keep thinking about you, especially the you know you're
Speaker 6: shown up on the show in and Out. We were
Speaker 6: on season six now, as you know, because you just
Speaker 6: watched the episode and you really it's so fun to
Speaker 6: see these characters like you who who came in, made
Speaker 6: a dent and then disappeared and then came back and
Speaker 6: made another big splash. The consistency, the heartwarmingness of it.
Speaker 6: If that's a word, it's not, but I'm going to
Speaker 6: pretend it is heartwarminginess.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a word. Sure, Yeah, for sure, I'm going
Speaker 1: to make I love that word. Kelsey. The like biggest thing.
Speaker 5: That we have talked about over the years is this
Speaker 5: mystery of how old you were when you asked, because babe,
Speaker 5: like we were all old playing teenagers and you were
Speaker 5: a real teenager, but we didn't know if you were
Speaker 5: like a.
Speaker 7: Preteen, Like how old were you?
Speaker 3: I was thirteen, Oh my god, yeah, and y'all were
Speaker 3: like these beautiful like because you're twenty four. I think
Speaker 3: when when I started.
Speaker 1: Oh we're like years older than you, I think, oh
Speaker 1: my god, and.
Speaker 2: You were thirteen.
Speaker 1: That's my bra For the audition, you stuffed your bra.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I had to, and I thought I remember, I thought
Speaker 3: I was auditioning for a cheerleader, so I borrowed my
Speaker 3: friend's cheerleading outfit and they were like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: this is the school nerds hysterical way.
Speaker 2: You went into the audition with a cheerleading uniform.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, I like brought it on the set
Speaker 3: like with me because I didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 3: I had no idea. I mean, it was my first job,
Speaker 3: so I uh, it's like stuttered my way through the audition,
Speaker 3: and obviously, like the nerd, it was a better fit.
Speaker 2: You did not tell them you were thirteen, though.
Speaker 3: I think I don't think I lied.
Speaker 1: Maybe I of omission.
Speaker 3: Maybe I just wasn't in there. Yeah, they didn't ask
Speaker 3: you those days, Kelsey.
Speaker 1: I have a child that's turning fourteen, and the idea.
Speaker 5: Of yeah, carrying the weight the responsibility of a role
Speaker 5: like what you were playing like is horrified to me.
Speaker 6: On a show with a bunch of adults. Maria just
Speaker 6: turned thirteen last week, it's the same thing, like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'll text you photos.
Speaker 2: It's insane. Oh my god, you're right, Hillary, the weight
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know at all what I was doing, and
Speaker 3: I was just so happy to be there. I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe my luck that I just I do remember getting
Speaker 3: the note like to stop smiling. You know. I was
Speaker 3: just so happy to be there. And yeah, so it
Speaker 3: was such a learning lesson. And you know, because I
Speaker 3: was so young, my mom and I would drive up
Speaker 3: because I'm from Columbia, South Carolina, which is like three
Speaker 3: hours away. Yeah, and so we drive up together and
Speaker 3: you know, we'd get per diem and get to stay
Speaker 3: at the Hilton, so we like would get service and
Speaker 3: I think, you know, those are some of my favorite
Speaker 3: memories is just getting to spend that time with her.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think my first day, I like started
Speaker 3: the scene before action, and poor Le Norris, sweet sweet
Speaker 3: Lee Norris, was so yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, you couldn't have had a better scene partner.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No. I was in really good hands because.
Speaker 5: He was also a child actor and so understanding kind
Speaker 5: of like you're a part of the team, but you're
Speaker 5: also still a kid in a grown up world. He
Speaker 5: really understood how to navigate that. And I think he
Speaker 5: was really nervous, you know, for all the men for
Speaker 5: you to get paired with on the show, Lee Norris
Speaker 5: was like the best and safest place to be.
Speaker 1: Had you been doing theater, Like, what was your background
Speaker 1: that led up to.
Speaker 5: This teen drama splash my awkward.
Speaker 3: Years on TV? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Forever?
Speaker 3: I you know, I did school plays and I remember
Speaker 3: I did my first community theater spot and I remember
Speaker 3: that being such a pivotal moment, because you know, you
Speaker 3: have people who work nine to fives who are coming
Speaker 3: in because they really love it, and and that kind
Speaker 3: of passion, learning that kind of passion at such a
Speaker 3: young age was so special. And so I got local
Speaker 3: agent and this audition came my way, and I mean,
Speaker 3: never in a million years, you don't ever think it's possible.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it still kind of blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Gosh, wait, so had you ever kissed a boy in
Speaker 1: real life? Or was One Tree Hill?
Speaker 5: Like yeah, this is terrible, Okay, so we're diving in,
Speaker 5: Go Go Dark, Go Dark.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So my first kiss was on One Tree Hill was
Speaker 3: with James in that scene.
Speaker 5: Oh god, wait what your first kiss is James Lafferty?
Speaker 1: Oh god, it was poor.
Speaker 6: Like every other man you date from that point forward
Speaker 6: when your child.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, it was it was I remember I
Speaker 3: was so incredibly nervous, like kissing my hand, not eating
Speaker 3: the shrimp speeper that day.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm been gum.
Speaker 3: I remember talking to Sophia and being like, do you
Speaker 3: kiss during rehearsal?
Speaker 1: Like I don't do you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: And the worst part is is that in that scene
Speaker 3: I jump him and kiss him and I and I
Speaker 3: have braces, and so when I tell you that I
Speaker 3: jumped this poor man and punched his face with my face,
Speaker 3: you can hear the smack and.
Speaker 1: His teeth.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was the worst kids of my life,
Speaker 3: of his life. Yeah, I should issue an apology. So
Speaker 3: so sorry.
Speaker 7: Wait, which scene was this? I'm so confused.
Speaker 2: Why do I not remember this? Was it on the
Speaker 2: basketball court or something?
Speaker 3: No, it's when we're reenacting all of Naley's moments.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, at your engagement party?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was season.
Speaker 6: Wock okay on the stage?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Was the season three season? God, that's so hilarious. Listen.
Speaker 5: I had so I had such a bad kissing scene
Speaker 5: with James in season one that they made us reshoot
Speaker 5: it twice because they were like, they're like, you guys
Speaker 5: just look like you're hurting each other. So Kelsey, frankly,
Speaker 5: I'm happy that you really gave him the what for
Speaker 5: because payback's a bitch.
Speaker 3: Well, that's hilarious. Got much better, I don't know. They're
Speaker 3: always still awkward to you.
Speaker 6: Know, they're so awkward, especially having your first real kiss
Speaker 6: on camera.
Speaker 2: That is that's tough.
Speaker 6: I had to do that in a pilot that I
Speaker 6: did when I was fourteen. It was the same thing,
Speaker 6: and I just didn't I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6: It was fine, like I had. I think I had
Speaker 6: probably kissed a boy at summer camp, you know, like nah,
Speaker 6: kind of a kiss, but not a real I mean
Speaker 6: it was supposed to be making out on a couch
Speaker 6: with a boy. What And my dad walks in. Paul
Speaker 6: Servino was my dad, and he walks in. He's like,
Speaker 6: who gets mad at us? Gina Phillips was playing my
Speaker 6: older sister, and I remember corraling her in my dressing
Speaker 6: room and being like, you have to tell me what
Speaker 6: to do. I do not know what to do. Do
Speaker 6: I stick my tongue down his throat? Do I just
Speaker 6: like keep my lips together? Do I open my mouth?
Speaker 6: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: You were leaps and bounds ahead of me. Wasn't even
Speaker 3: wondering the open mouth. I should have talked to you before,
Speaker 3: hid No.
Speaker 6: But apparently I did it badly because whatever I did
Speaker 6: when they said cut, the guy was.
Speaker 2: Like, uh, are you okay? That was kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm
Speaker 2: so sorry.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: These are my favorite kinds of stories about work, because.
Speaker 1: People forget that, like you personally aren't always caught up
Speaker 1: to what your character does.
Speaker 5: I had to play so many drug addicts when I
Speaker 5: left One Tree Hill, and y'all know I've never done drugs,
Speaker 5: like I'm not a drug girl, and just trying to
Speaker 5: fake it like yeah, I guess, yeah, I way.
Speaker 1: We listen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so bad.
Speaker 5: They maybe had you start off as like the square chick.
Speaker 5: You were still always way too pretty, but then they
Speaker 5: turned you into like.
Speaker 2: Loo, Yeah, what a progression did they?
Speaker 3: I think they tried.
Speaker 1: They did, they did.
Speaker 2: It succeeded, but it was strange.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was curious about your take on it,
Speaker 6: which I don't know if you want to talk more
Speaker 6: about that in the episode or now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what we were watching was just like, well.
Speaker 3: But yeah, because the five year jump, it I feel
Speaker 3: like it caught up to y'all closer, closer to y'all's
Speaker 3: real age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was further away, further away. Yeah, So wait,
Speaker 1: how old were you when we were playing the jump?
Speaker 3: I think I was sixteen?
Speaker 6: Holy christ, yea, oh god, they made you say that
Speaker 6: stuff and you were sixteen years old.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I am so. I'm thirty two and I
Speaker 3: still don't know how to flirt. Oh my god, watching
Speaker 3: the episode just now, being like, is that you talk
Speaker 3: to men? Like?
Speaker 2: We had that discussion two podcasts ago. We're like, does
Speaker 2: it with Austin?
Speaker 7: We're like, do what actually?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Is this ever happened to you? Appearly? Sometimes it does,
Speaker 2: but it's rare.
Speaker 3: I wish I had the balls, but oh I know
Speaker 3: so Yeah, I was faking it, faking it till it was.
Speaker 8: Making Were your parents shocked?
Speaker 6: Were your parents like I don't know about this content
Speaker 6: or were they How did you approach acting and storytelling
Speaker 6: from a point of where you're comfortable with that at
Speaker 6: that age?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, my my parents throughout my parents were so wonderful.
Speaker 3: My dad was really Chinese about it, where he was like, look,
Speaker 3: if you make good grades, you can do.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: It's an experience.
Speaker 1: She's on honor roll.
Speaker 5: Who cares if she's on a news desk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't so happy about the time jump, but
Speaker 3: being a nerd at the gym is tope was totally
Speaker 3: and my dad and my mom was so I mean,
Speaker 3: I got to thank my mom because she really was,
Speaker 3: so she's always given me the gift of possibility. It
Speaker 3: was like, why not, why not take a leap? And
Speaker 3: why couldn't this happen? Why couldn't you be on TV
Speaker 3: or or you know, whatever I wanted to do? And
Speaker 3: so I think and he was always with me on set,
Speaker 3: but I think, you know, navigating the time jump too
Speaker 3: was difficult because you know, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 3: she was she's a liberal woman. She was in California,
Speaker 3: and she went to school in California in the seventies,
Speaker 3: so she's she's I remember her like she was watching
Speaker 3: The Sopranos when I was growing up, and I'd always
Speaker 3: sneak in to watch it with her, and so she
Speaker 3: kind of like was always okay with all of that
Speaker 3: stuff as long as we could talk about it. And
Speaker 3: she was such a protective force, you know, like.
Speaker 1: Did you run lines with your mom?
Speaker 3: But I did I run lines?
Speaker 1: Like who did you run these lines?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: These lines?
Speaker 2: Dad? Can you come run these lines exactly?
Speaker 3: Can you be mal Oh?
Speaker 1: God, you know, I don't remember.
Speaker 7: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I remember, Like I also remember y'all being so wonderful
Speaker 3: and protective as well, especially when yeah, we were shifting
Speaker 3: gears and she was getting more sexy, you know, like
Speaker 3: having to take my shirt off and I and I
Speaker 3: remember being really nervous about all of that and not
Speaker 3: knowing what I was supposed to do. And I remember
Speaker 3: Sophia specifically being like really protective of like, all right,
Speaker 3: so we're wearing a tube top ye above her shoulder,
Speaker 3: you know, which I really appreciate because it's it's scary
Speaker 3: navigating all of this and you don't know, you don't
Speaker 3: know that you can say no, no.
Speaker 5: You don't until you see someone else do it. Yeah, right,
Speaker 5: do you see another chick.
Speaker 1: Do it and her world doesn't fall apart.
Speaker 5: You're like, oh no, I guess I'll just make myself
Speaker 5: fit into this position. And I think I thought you
Speaker 5: were fifteen and that was shocking, and you telling me
Speaker 5: that you were thirteen and then like six team doing
Speaker 5: this is just.
Speaker 1: Blowing my mind, like as a hard time, your level
Speaker 1: of professionalism.
Speaker 5: You know, you were tricking the girls who were already
Speaker 5: like in the fight, we were already the ones who are.
Speaker 1: Like this is bullsh you can't do this, And you
Speaker 1: came in and you were like, I am totally composed,
Speaker 1: and I am going to make the best of this situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a level of professionalism you wouldn't expect from like
Speaker 1: a kid.
Speaker 3: You were a kid, but listen, I had so much
Speaker 3: support through y'all and through the crew because I grew
Speaker 3: up also with the crew, like from I think thirteen
Speaker 3: to seventeen when I was on the show, So I
Speaker 3: did feel I always felt really protected in that way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you brought so much good energy in Like it
Speaker 5: makes sense that everyone was like protect her at all times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like little sister energy. We did want
Speaker 6: to protect you, especially because you were so beautiful. We
Speaker 6: saw the content that was coming your way. We knew
Speaker 6: the person who was writing it and the person who
Speaker 6: was like putting you in those positions, and yeah, I
Speaker 6: think we all were feeling protective and wanting to just
Speaker 6: make sure that you're okay, like just hanging around on
Speaker 6: set a little longer when you had your scenes and
Speaker 6: just making sure that you were comfortable. I remember having
Speaker 6: one conversation with you. I can't I don't know when
Speaker 6: it was, but it wasn't a long conversation, but it
Speaker 6: was just like a check in, like are you comfortable
Speaker 6: with all?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: Is all? This okay.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure you had those conversations with probably Hillary
Speaker 6: and Sophia too, but yeah, we were talking about it
Speaker 6: behind the scenes and making sure you were good because
Speaker 6: that's just such an uncomfortable position for thirteen sixteen.
Speaker 2: And Barbara too. I remember Barbara also being like is
Speaker 2: she okay?
Speaker 1: Everything all right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. We were like orcas.
Speaker 5: We would all just kind of like circle over, so
Speaker 5: whether or not you could see us, the Orcas are there, yeah,
Speaker 5: ready to flip boats.
Speaker 3: They also needed help with just like the girl like
Speaker 3: you know, of like I remember I had to dance
Speaker 3: in one scene, which is all so terrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a comfortable know how to deal with.
Speaker 3: This or like you know, yeah, it was a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of growing up and navigating, you know.
Speaker 5: But we also had this cool pack of younger girls
Speaker 5: on the show at this point, like you, I think
Speaker 5: we're the youngest of them.
Speaker 1: But we had Kate Vogel who was there.
Speaker 5: We also had Ashley Ricords who was there, and all
Speaker 5: of a sudden, I'm.
Speaker 3: So happy because I think, I think because I don't
Speaker 3: know if Kate and I ever crossed, but Ashton I did,
Speaker 3: and I was like thank god.
Speaker 1: There's another one.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, but but it was kind of like Peyton
Speaker 5: and Brooke all over again. Because if you're the Brook
Speaker 5: and you're the slutty one taking her shirt off, and
Speaker 5: she's the angry Peyton one who's climbing out of windows
Speaker 5: of being grumpy, you know, like that that's fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's incredible in this episode too.
Speaker 6: I'm curious just from an acting standpoint, because you weren't
Speaker 6: given too much meat on the show, you know, you
Speaker 6: you it was pretty fluffy material and you always were
Speaker 6: just so sincere and you made the most out of
Speaker 6: I think just because you were kind of so in
Speaker 6: your body and you maybe because you were so young,
Speaker 6: you weren't really quote unquote acting, You were just being
Speaker 6: there and present. But it is the material was just
Speaker 6: sort of a certain surface level. And to see the
Speaker 6: progression of your career and the kind of performances that
Speaker 6: you have given now you know what I have seen
Speaker 6: you do on Yellowstone, which has blown my mind so
Speaker 6: many times.
Speaker 1: My husband doesn't believe that I know you.
Speaker 5: Jeffy's always like, you don't know her, Hillary, No, She's
Speaker 5: like important, you don't know her.
Speaker 3: Tell him I can't believe. I know you.
Speaker 5: Don't know her, but no, you're a beautiful dramatic actress.
Speaker 3: Y'all got to come to Montana because we got one
Speaker 3: more season left.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 5: Joy has been talking about being on Yellowstone for years.
Speaker 1: If you don't put her on a horse, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Should be in the background.
Speaker 3: We're not gonna put in the background. Enjoy going right
Speaker 3: front and center.
Speaker 6: Please, I'll just ride a horse through the background. But anyway,
Speaker 6: I'm just curious about your your progress as an actor.
Speaker 6: How you went from this sort of surface and then
Speaker 6: you're on a Disney show. And it's really unusual, I
Speaker 6: think for actors who start out in that tier to
Speaker 6: move into something that's so well respected and really the
Speaker 6: quality of your work is so so, so excellent and nuanced,
Speaker 6: and it can be hard to, I think, to drop
Speaker 6: into that place when you're used to sort of doing
Speaker 6: the jazz hands show stuff. How did you make that transition?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry if that made no sense. Didn't make sense.
Speaker 5: No, It's like when Michelle Pfeiffer did Grease Too, and
Speaker 5: then she did you know, Scarface right after that. You know,
Speaker 5: like it's making the jump from the giggly to super
Speaker 5: serious work.
Speaker 4: Oh that it.
Speaker 3: Means so much, first of all. I mean really, I
Speaker 3: think me at thirteen, they couldn't believe that I'm sitting
Speaker 3: here talking to you all, like you should be over
Speaker 3: the moon right now. So it's so special. I yeah,
Speaker 3: I think when I was on one trail, I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe I was there. I was just lucky to be there.
Speaker 3: And so you kind of and you're taking in as
Speaker 3: much information as you can because you're learning how sets work.
Speaker 3: And I think that is, first off, such a valuable lesson.
Speaker 3: Just it really is. You learn so much by doing so.
Speaker 3: I think watching you guys and watching You'll navigate a
Speaker 3: set was so incredibly helpful and such a great foundation.
Speaker 3: And then and the Disney Show as well. Was I
Speaker 3: love doing that show because I think the American sitcom
Speaker 3: is like it's such a beautiful medium because it combines
Speaker 3: TV with film and so we had all these kids
Speaker 3: and if a joke doesn't land, we go.
Speaker 2: In and we try again, and so fun and you're.
Speaker 3: Playing dress up. It was. It was so wonderful and
Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, to this day, I I
Speaker 3: feel like I'm pulling the wool over for once.
Speaker 2: I So you didn't do any dramatic training or anything.
Speaker 1: I think I need to.
Speaker 3: I really should I need something?
Speaker 1: No, don't you know we all do.
Speaker 3: We just wear sponges. We just try and pick up
Speaker 3: as much as we can from our fellow actors and
Speaker 3: and trying new things and and and what's really fun too,
Speaker 3: is I mean your relationship with the work changes constantly.
Speaker 3: And I even found you know, I found auditions just
Speaker 3: horrible and I couldn't stand it. And then with the
Speaker 3: self tapes and stuff, I finally just thought, you know what,
Speaker 3: this this is part of the job too, and like,
Speaker 3: how can I make this moment just really fun? And
Speaker 3: and and and bring in the parts that I love
Speaker 3: about the job into it. So, I don't know, I'm learning,
Speaker 3: and hopefully I'm a better actor, you know now than
Speaker 3: I was then, and I'll keep evolving.
Speaker 5: But well, you can see the level of seriousness that
Speaker 5: you brought to Gigi, because she could have just been
Speaker 5: a punchline. And when she's hurt by mouth, when she's younger,
Speaker 5: and when there's like this validation she's seeking from him,
Speaker 5: there is a level of sincerity there that's not on
Speaker 5: the page. That's something that you infused into the character
Speaker 5: and made her very human and very girlish and likable.
Speaker 5: And you know, even if she's trying to seduce poor
Speaker 5: Millie's boyfriend.
Speaker 1: She's likable.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you can't be mad at her. You did that?
Speaker 3: Oh well, bless you, Troy.
Speaker 1: I tried.
Speaker 3: I think it was being in high school. You just
Speaker 3: you know, I was saying, ear like, you just feel
Speaker 3: everything exponentially, So it was so easy to kind of
Speaker 3: put all those raging feelings into this. I think that's
Speaker 3: why people connect with this show. So my sister was
Speaker 3: so young when she she never she's eight years younger,
Speaker 3: so she didn't watch it when it came out. Wow,
Speaker 3: watched it from start to finish.
Speaker 1: It's so funny like.
Speaker 3: Seeing these new generations watching the show, how it really
Speaker 3: resonates with them. I mean, my sister was like, the
Speaker 3: next convention, oh my god, yeah, that way, I'm inviting myself.
Speaker 1: Bring her ring her.
Speaker 2: Do you still get recognized from ASGG.
Speaker 3: The fans to this day are the best fans of
Speaker 3: any project I've ever been.
Speaker 1: On the fact that you the fact that the.
Speaker 3: Fans remember my lines, when I'm just a blip on
Speaker 3: the show is unbelievable. So yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 3: that was why I was in a bar and someone
Speaker 3: came up to me and said one of my lines,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't believe it. But they are going to
Speaker 3: those basketball games and seeing for the charity basketball games. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the fans come from all over the world. I mean,
Speaker 3: it must have been so crazy for y'all, like such
Speaker 3: a wild experience.
Speaker 1: Well, the fans have questions for you.
Speaker 5: We just put out a query last night on social
Speaker 5: media and there was a flood because the everybody.
Speaker 1: Is attached to your character. If Peyton Sawyer.
Speaker 5: Had thrown herself at someone's boyfriend, she would have been
Speaker 5: philified and was. But when Gigi does it, she's a
Speaker 5: doll baby. Everybody loves Gigi.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, somehow you manage that, you managed to like get
Speaker 6: your wege yourself into one of the favorite fan relationships
Speaker 6: mouth and Millie and still people just love Gigi.
Speaker 2: How did you do it?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: I was watching last night being like this is not okay,
Speaker 3: Oh my god. And yeah, I really fell for Millie.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry that she was It was really against me.
Speaker 3: Kelsey's wilts.
Speaker 1: So we'll tell her, We'll tell her that you said that.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, So Carly wants to know did you relate
Speaker 5: to Gg's character at all?
Speaker 1: Or is she just like the complete opposite of yourself?
Speaker 3: I think I am. I may be more comfortable being
Speaker 3: the school nerd versus being the second two point.
Speaker 1: Zero, the fembot. Well, I don't know if.
Speaker 3: I was quite so you know, poorn me as Gg?
Speaker 3: I know? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What was her deal?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's see.
Speaker 6: Carolyn wants to know if you could have created your
Speaker 6: own storyline for Gg, what would that have been.
Speaker 3: I think I would just want to be in more
Speaker 3: scenes with y'all, to be honest.
Speaker 1: A girl time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, why didn't we ever get like a Gigi, sam
Speaker 6: uh Mia, peyton Brook and Haley weekend?
Speaker 5: Because they knew that we would tell the younger girls
Speaker 5: run That's.
Speaker 1: Right, I guess that's true. Block that number on your phone. Run.
Speaker 5: No. We did have a good time though at the
Speaker 5: hundredth episode party you were there?
Speaker 1: Were you?
Speaker 5: It was that that was the party where everyone was
Speaker 5: all dressed up?
Speaker 1: Was that some party?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we had a big party that you were at,
Speaker 5: because I remember you showed up with a couple of
Speaker 5: the other girls. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think it was that boathouse restaurant, like one hundredth
Speaker 6: episode party.
Speaker 3: Right on the at the beach.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean I remember going to the season three wrap
Speaker 3: party and you know, like wearing the ugliest dress that
Speaker 3: I thought was gonna.
Speaker 1: Be so cute.
Speaker 2: We all regret our fashion back then and don't feel bad.
Speaker 5: A lot of those Empire waste like bubble dresses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the bubble dress. Half of what we talked about
Speaker 2: on this show.
Speaker 1: Why did we wear that?
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, that would have been fun to have an
Speaker 5: all girls thing. I know Peyton needed an intern, peydon't
Speaker 5: have an intern. I frankly, I'm really jealous that, like
Speaker 5: Lee had not only an intern, but she was so
Speaker 5: popular she had a going away party.
Speaker 6: Like yes, well, actually, speaking of that, keV wants to
Speaker 6: know what your favorite memory is from working with Lee.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, my favorite memory? Well, okay, this one is
Speaker 3: so this one's so funny because it's like, I'm so
Speaker 3: lame in this story, but I remember it was. It
Speaker 3: really has to do I think with kind of what
Speaker 3: we were talking about before, of like how kind and generous.
Speaker 3: Lee was like knowing that I was so young, and
Speaker 3: then also and just being like so welcoming and protective
Speaker 3: and patient and so for his birthday, I remember I
Speaker 3: got him. I mean this really dates me, but I
Speaker 3: bought him iPod socks.
Speaker 7: Ah, my pod socks?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 3: Apple had just released iPod socks in like multiple colors.
Speaker 6: And I got these socks that have iPods on them
Speaker 6: or are they socks that you put your iPods in?
Speaker 3: It were like socks your iPod And I thought it
Speaker 3: was gonna be really cool. And I like, it's the
Speaker 3: lamest gift ever.
Speaker 1: And I was thoughtful, making me.
Speaker 3: Feel like I had gifted him a round. It was
Speaker 3: just so he was like this is so cool, thank
Speaker 3: you so much. Like he was such a sweetie about it.
Speaker 3: Like I think back on it and thank god he was. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was so way too generous of a response for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, iPod socks are like a thing that should be
Speaker 5: like we should have like iPhone socks.
Speaker 1: I don't have an iPhone sock. If someone brought that.
Speaker 2: To me on set, I would use an iPhone sock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I keep your screen all fresh and clean, girl, Yes,
Speaker 5: sounds great.
Speaker 3: My other favorite memory of him is probably seeing him
Speaker 3: at the convention now, because this was when I was
Speaker 3: I was probably like twenty five or so, and I
Speaker 3: brought my mom and my sister and you know, just
Speaker 3: being like old enough to like grab a drink and
Speaker 3: just hang out.
Speaker 5: Really, had you watched him on like Boy Meets World
Speaker 5: or you were Were you even alive when that.
Speaker 7: Show was on?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah, of course he was like yeah,
Speaker 3: big Minks fan. So it was like really bonkers to
Speaker 3: be working with him.
Speaker 5: Hold on, I need to go off on a tangent
Speaker 5: question here, because it's dawning on me that, like you
Speaker 5: were our target demographic when the show was on the air,
Speaker 5: and so before you joined the cast, were you.
Speaker 7: Like a Lucas girl? Were you a Nathan girl?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 7: Who did you as like a girl have a crush of?
Speaker 3: It was very easy for me. I was completely a
Speaker 3: Nathan girl.
Speaker 6: And you got to kiss James your first out scrape kiss.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's such a crush on James too.
Speaker 1: So then like it was he's so nice, yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: My gosh, so nice and so yeah, oh god, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was cruel, the whole kiss thing.
Speaker 2: And you guys were closer in age too.
Speaker 3: You don't want to get what you want for you know, Well,
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 5: The horror of having like a childhood crush and then
Speaker 5: actually kissing that person on camera.
Speaker 1: Oh no, horrifying.
Speaker 6: I couldn't ever, that's an actual nightmare you'd wake up
Speaker 6: from and go I hope that never happened.
Speaker 3: It didn't like six different ankles being back on it. Now,
Speaker 3: why did you did we need that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: God, too many times that he probably had to ice
Speaker 3: his mouth.
Speaker 1: Oh honey, those are just love bites.
Speaker 2: This is fine, Yeah, fine love brace lesions. Oh it's
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 1: Fine, he's healed, he's healed, He's fine. I don't worry
Speaker 1: about him.
Speaker 2: Okay. Do you typically watch the work that you do?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you have you watched Yellowstone?
Speaker 6: Are you a fan of Obviously you're a fan of
Speaker 6: the show, you're on it, but like, do you watch
Speaker 6: it all?
Speaker 2: Or are you like I can't watch my work?
Speaker 3: I oh, I think I'm I love watching, like even
Speaker 3: rewatching this episode today. I love seeing I love seeing.
Speaker 1: All of you.
Speaker 3: I loved watching the show. Yet it felt so good
Speaker 3: I could skip over my thoughts. What's up a little
Speaker 3: too much. I was like texting my sister and was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, Hey, this is so.
Speaker 6: It doesn't get better. We're six seasons in and I'm
Speaker 6: still like, oh god, I'm on screen.
Speaker 3: Doors are brave for what for?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like it's painful. You're all so much better actors.
Speaker 5: No, babe, you honestly, if somebody else could have come
Speaker 5: in and really made all of that stuff just loathsome
Speaker 5: you know, and you Gigi always has a twinkle in
Speaker 5: her eye even when she's saying hainish, and there's this
Speaker 5: element of mischief and like, I'm just gonna see if
Speaker 5: I can push this boundary and what I can get
Speaker 5: away with. And yeah, it's not great for poor Milly,
Speaker 5: but I don't know another actress who could have made
Speaker 5: it likable.
Speaker 1: You know, you handled that.
Speaker 6: I totally agree, Yeah, somehow it was still wholesome. Well,
Speaker 6: you were like, let's have sex and your girlfriend doesn't
Speaker 6: need to know.
Speaker 1: She's so likable because she's a child.
Speaker 3: Oh god, oh god, it's so Yeah.
Speaker 5: Did boys at school think that you were fast because
Speaker 5: you were playing a fast character on TV?
Speaker 2: Fast?
Speaker 3: Fast?
Speaker 7: That's my old timy word.
Speaker 3: That's such a good question. I mean I do remember
Speaker 3: one of my one of my best friends moms being
Speaker 3: like why, like to my mom, like, what are you
Speaker 3: letting her do this? Say these things television?
Speaker 1: And what control would your mom have? Like who is
Speaker 1: she going to say?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: You know, like exactly like it was so my gosh no,
Speaker 3: but I think that my mom just kind of let
Speaker 3: that roll off, or she was like, but I do
Speaker 3: the the boys thing. I mean, I was so not fast,
Speaker 3: so very.
Speaker 1: Slow, same glacial over here, so good.
Speaker 3: Those are the things. It's like, Yeah, it's like when
Speaker 3: I had the I had to grind up on some
Speaker 3: boy in an episode. I was like talking to my
Speaker 3: best friends being like, okay, let's get up on the table, like,
Speaker 3: you know, show me what I'm supposed to do. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
Speaker 1: Your friends coached you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, your fast friends, your fast.
Speaker 3: Friends, My fast friends.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I want to beat your fast so good.
Speaker 6: Hey Gina, you're fast, come on over here, Shelly, so good.
Speaker 6: I like best friends, oh friends. On this note, we're
Speaker 6: going to ask you to tune in. Next week. We've
Speaker 6: got another episode with Kelsey Asbial. We're going to talk
Speaker 6: about episode twelve from season six and super excited to
Speaker 6: have her back with us. You can hear lots lots
Speaker 6: more from her coming up.
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