Latest / Untraditionally Lala / Cheetah Sisters Forever

Transcript

Cheetah Sisters Forever · Untraditionally Lala

0:00
Speaker 1: Hello, Gorgeous, It's Lala Kent. Welcome to Untraditionally Laala. Hello, gorgeous,
0:07
Speaker 1: it is la La Kent. Welcome back to the bonus
0:09
Speaker 1: episode of Untraditionally Lala. If you grew up in the
0:12
Speaker 1: two thousands, the chances are you were doing the Cinderella
0:16
Speaker 1: Dance in your living room. You were being just like me,
0:19
Speaker 1: watching the TV, being like what I would give to
0:22
Speaker 1: be a Cheetah girl. And today I have one of
0:25
Speaker 1: the original Cheetah girls right here in front of me.
0:29
Speaker 1: I mean, my my little self is freaking the out.
0:36
Speaker 1: And when I saw it, there was like and worry
0:39
Speaker 1: about I was like, I posted about it. I added
0:41
Speaker 1: the song. I played that song for my daughter, she's five.
0:45
Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't even know, you don't even know.
0:47
Speaker 1: I'm about to change your life Ocean. She's like, play
0:49
Speaker 1: it for me, mom, And we listened to the you know,
0:52
Speaker 1: we're Cheetah Girls, Cheetah sisters. Oh my god.
0:56
Speaker 2: It has been a wild ride and it's I it's crazy.
1:01
Speaker 2: I can't I the people that have reposted. You've got
1:05
Speaker 2: so many people. I met Meghan Trainer recently at I
1:12
Speaker 2: Heart Event, Love It, Love It. We went to some
1:15
Speaker 2: of the Wango Tango, which has been around forever. I went.
1:18
Speaker 2: I grew up in Orange County and used to be
1:20
Speaker 2: at the Angel Stadium. She comes out of nowhere, she's
1:25
Speaker 2: on the red carpet and goes she literally says these words,
1:29
Speaker 2: You're the reason why I'm a pop star.
1:31
Speaker 1: I just got chills all over my mom.
1:34
Speaker 2: Now body and that is like someone saying that, And
1:37
Speaker 2: I was like, like it was so hard to not like,
1:40
Speaker 2: I know, I'm thinking about.
1:42
Speaker 1: It right now.
1:42
Speaker 2: Like Megan Trainer, I'm like, girl, are you like, oh
1:47
Speaker 2: my gosh, I can't even And she was like, I
1:49
Speaker 2: used to be Derinda when I played it, and I
1:51
Speaker 2: was just like I looked at my husband and just
1:54
Speaker 2: was like, did that literally just happen? Likely ow?
1:58
Speaker 1: I mean that movie did change everything. It did just
2:05
Speaker 1: you know, four girls from very different backgrounds and talking
2:09
Speaker 1: about you know, your how your spots are different. But
2:13
Speaker 1: you guys are sisters. Like I remember watching that and
2:16
Speaker 1: just wanting to be all of you and wanting to
2:19
Speaker 1: find my little Cheetah sisters. I swear to god, you're
2:22
Speaker 1: gonna laugh. We had I had a group of friends
2:25
Speaker 1: that would come over and each of us would be.
2:28
Speaker 1: And you know, everyone wants to be who they relate to, right, sure,
2:31
Speaker 1: And we were the best part of form and record
2:33
Speaker 1: on one of those big things with the tapes. I
2:35
Speaker 1: think I still have the tapes. If I go back
2:37
Speaker 1: to Utah and my mom's storage unit, I could probably
2:39
Speaker 1: find them us dressed like you guys, totally performing doing
2:43
Speaker 1: the whole thing and that.
2:45
Speaker 2: Like you said, there was four of us. We were
2:48
Speaker 2: all different. We had different personalities, We had different talents
2:52
Speaker 2: that came to building. Like I was the dancer, right,
2:55
Speaker 2: I was choreographing. That was my my thing eventually, Like
2:59
Speaker 2: Kiely was the design like you know everyone Raven, you know,
3:03
Speaker 2: she was the songwriter. You know. There's just like so
3:07
Speaker 2: many things that like anyone could look and you could
3:10
Speaker 2: go like I want to be Drinda today, but tomorrow
3:13
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be Chanel, right, you know, like you all,
3:15
Speaker 2: there was so many things for people to latch onto
3:17
Speaker 2: totally and see themselves, right And the biggest thing that
3:21
Speaker 2: I will I have zero regrets when it comes to
3:25
Speaker 2: the choices that I've made in my career is like
3:27
Speaker 2: being a part of something that inspired young girls. There
3:30
Speaker 2: were so many girl groups out at that time. Yeah,
3:33
Speaker 2: but we had an amazing opportunity to have storylines that
3:37
Speaker 2: girls could really relate. Like it wasn't just because we
3:40
Speaker 2: were out there and singing songs, but like our songs
3:44
Speaker 2: had meaning, they came to a storyline and it just
3:46
Speaker 2: like the ability to like inspire girls the way we
3:50
Speaker 2: got a chance to do was so unreal.
3:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was all about girl empowerment.
3:56
Speaker 2: Yes it was, and it still is. You know, I
4:00
Speaker 2: think the movies because my podcast we rewatch all these
4:04
Speaker 2: Disney Channel movies.
4:05
Speaker 1: What a Dream?
4:06
Speaker 2: And I know that's like my homework is to watch
4:10
Speaker 2: these movies Brink, Johnny Tsunami, the ones I grew up
4:14
Speaker 2: with a smart house, like all these amazing Disney Channel movies,
4:19
Speaker 2: and like some of them don't sit and stick. They
4:24
Speaker 2: don't really they're not relevant. But you watch the Cheetah
4:26
Speaker 2: Girls of Time, and you watch the Cheetah Girls in
4:29
Speaker 2: those messaging and like everything that we go through, it's
4:31
Speaker 2: like they still Like I watched them and was like,
4:36
Speaker 2: I know, for a fact, if I had never been
4:37
Speaker 2: a part of this, this is what I would want
4:39
Speaker 2: my daughter to be watching, to be watching. Yeah, and
4:43
Speaker 2: she does, and.
4:43
Speaker 1: She what does she think? About it. Does she think
4:45
Speaker 1: that that's just like the coolest thing on the planet.
4:47
Speaker 2: So this I really haven't had a chance to do
4:51
Speaker 2: a ton with her until the last like year or so.
4:54
Speaker 2: I took her to Disney Channel Night. That was wild
4:57
Speaker 2: for her because it was the first time that Channel
5:00
Speaker 2: Night is legitimately like basically cosplay. They there was so
5:03
Speaker 2: many Cheetah girls there. There was Chirls and Lizzie McGuire,
5:07
Speaker 2: all high school musical fans, and everyone shows up can
5:10
Speaker 2: possible outfits, like shows up in the outfits and it's
5:13
Speaker 2: literally Disney for them, like the whole There's there's photo ops,
5:18
Speaker 2: there's different foods. It was such a cool night at Disneyland.
5:22
Speaker 2: And she's sitting there watching She's seen the first one.
5:25
Speaker 2: She understands the track suit and then I went to
5:28
Speaker 2: the bathroom and I put one on. I put my
5:31
Speaker 2: orange track suit. Guys, I had orange. That's always been
5:35
Speaker 2: a thing for me. I haven't gotten over it. Clearly
5:38
Speaker 2: I had to be orange. It's fine because the ones
5:40
Speaker 2: that happened is more of like a nectarine color. I'm
5:43
Speaker 2: trying to make it better. It's not anyway well being forward,
5:46
Speaker 2: But I put on the tracksuit, and when I came out,
5:48
Speaker 2: she was just like it's like she's not really quite
5:52
Speaker 2: understanding the difference right just yet. But then she's seen
5:56
Speaker 2: all these girls come out wearing these outfits and literally
6:01
Speaker 2: that they can't help but go back to when they
6:04
Speaker 2: were younger and craking out united. They want pictures. They're
6:07
Speaker 2: grabbing me and Monroe's just holding my hands so tight,
6:10
Speaker 2: like what is going on? So it was very it's
6:14
Speaker 2: like it's clicking now with.
6:15
Speaker 1: Her that it starts clean because she's my daughter's age five.
6:18
Speaker 2: Yes, and have you gotten to take her to anything
6:21
Speaker 2: really cool? Like we just got to go to the
6:23
Speaker 2: premiere for Descendants wondering and she was looking around like
6:30
Speaker 2: and she's like mind blowing. My mom got me like
6:33
Speaker 2: and she told everyone, so she's starting to understand. But
6:35
Speaker 2: I'm also trying to say, like we don't have to
6:37
Speaker 2: talk about it that much, like pull it back a
6:40
Speaker 2: little bit. You don't have to tell mommy. Your preschool
6:43
Speaker 2: teacher doesn't need to know mommy's a cheap girl.
6:45
Speaker 1: Like don't see, I'd be like, go tell your preschool
6:47
Speaker 1: teacher that mommy is a che's a girl.
6:50
Speaker 2: It's so weird, like I'm visiting all of this again,
6:53
Speaker 2: but as a mom, and it's different.
6:56
Speaker 1: It's different because you and I grew up in a
6:58
Speaker 1: time where like I understand the people coming and freaking
7:02
Speaker 1: out and wearing, you know, their track suits, because I
7:06
Speaker 1: remember watching Disney Channel and it was such a build
7:09
Speaker 1: up of like the Cheetah Girls premiere is on blah
7:14
Speaker 1: blah blah day, Like there was such a build up
7:16
Speaker 1: of all Now everything's streaming and easy access on the phone,
7:19
Speaker 1: Like you planned your life around when these shows were going.
7:24
Speaker 2: To air on Disney Channel, And when the Cheetah Girls
7:27
Speaker 2: came out, it was during an era of the channel
7:30
Speaker 2: that there it was the Disney Channel original movie of
7:33
Speaker 2: the month. Yes, so it was like you were running
7:36
Speaker 2: home to see it on Friday after school on Friday.
7:40
Speaker 1: It was always on a Friday or.
7:42
Speaker 2: Hearing out like four or five, right, and then for
7:45
Speaker 2: the next month almost.
7:47
Speaker 1: It was just on then you can yeah, you can
7:50
Speaker 1: turn it it fourteen times already.
7:54
Speaker 2: And I do empathize with the parents that used to
7:57
Speaker 2: come up to us during that day, being like, do
7:59
Speaker 2: you know how many times I've listened to Cinderella? My
8:01
Speaker 2: kid doesn't listen to anything, and now I do, because
8:03
Speaker 2: I'm like everything is they want to perfect princess all
8:08
Speaker 2: the time, like all day, all night. My daughter is
8:11
Speaker 2: listening to this new Descendant song like she just loves it.
8:14
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like when we're in the car.
8:16
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like, I'm so sorry for all the parents
8:21
Speaker 2: that had to listen to the gas now we know.
8:23
Speaker 1: I'm like, if I have to listen to apt by.
8:26
Speaker 2: Oh, then what's the one that oh h O T
8:31
Speaker 2: T O g Oh?
8:32
Speaker 3: What is that?
8:35
Speaker 2: Oh?
8:35
Speaker 1: Okay, she hasn't coming not to go. Oh, she hasn't
8:38
Speaker 1: come in contact with I don't think I want.
8:39
Speaker 2: To know either, because it's it's different too when there
8:43
Speaker 2: are movements that go through And.
8:45
Speaker 1: So she's in the backseat in her car.
8:46
Speaker 2: Seat h O T T O g oh, and she's
8:50
Speaker 2: like performing it, and I'm like, and then I can't say.
8:53
Speaker 1: Mom when we get home, I gotta get.
8:55
Speaker 2: You and tell me Mommy phil me. I'm like, oh
9:00
Speaker 2: my gosh, we have this on recording so many times. Girl,
9:03
Speaker 2: you got it, we got it, we got it.
9:05
Speaker 1: She's a little performer. Yeah, she's you.
9:08
Speaker 2: She and she looks so much like me when I
9:11
Speaker 2: was little, Like I have like a little mini me.
9:13
Speaker 2: My family watches her and when she does certain mannerisms,
9:16
Speaker 2: like they all just like lose their mind. And then
9:19
Speaker 2: my son is a replica of my husband, so we
9:21
Speaker 2: have one of each.
9:22
Speaker 1: That's great. I'd say that's very well rounded family. I
9:29
Speaker 1: have two girls. One of my kids is conceived via
9:33
Speaker 1: sperm donor. Okay, so I get to just say, she's
9:36
Speaker 1: all me me ready.
9:39
Speaker 2: I love her and my sister all four of her
9:42
Speaker 2: kids are sperm donors. Really yeah, she's she's gay, got it?
9:47
Speaker 1: So that was the only way and the same donor
9:50
Speaker 1: for all the kids.
9:50
Speaker 2: Yes, wow, and they've even one thing you're I would
9:54
Speaker 2: love to hear more of your process, and I know
9:56
Speaker 2: you've talked about it on your podcast. But one of
9:59
Speaker 2: the things that was very cool while her and her
10:02
Speaker 2: wife were going through the sperm donor process was realizing
10:07
Speaker 2: it's not just picking the person. Then you're in this
10:10
Speaker 2: like community. So they connected with another couple who also
10:14
Speaker 2: used the same sperm donor, and they were just pen
10:18
Speaker 2: pals via like you know, wanting to know. They're like,
10:21
Speaker 2: can we just kind of open it up of like
10:23
Speaker 2: how you're going to explain things later? Like the kids
10:26
Speaker 2: are babies right now, but like at one point like
10:28
Speaker 2: how are you going to explain certain things? And they
10:31
Speaker 2: did it for like, uh, medical reasons of wanting to
10:34
Speaker 2: you know, if there was ever an issue. But they
10:37
Speaker 2: became great friends and then they their families like like
10:43
Speaker 2: my nephew will call their son and daughter like brother
10:48
Speaker 2: and sister.
10:49
Speaker 1: That is so cute.
10:49
Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, they've they've really And it was crazy
10:52
Speaker 2: to be like I didn't realize thinking about other families
10:55
Speaker 2: like do you open it? Do you is it open?
10:57
Speaker 2: Is it closed? Is it open? At eighteen? All of
11:00
Speaker 2: these things that my sister went through. It was very
11:03
Speaker 2: fascinating to go through it on the outside of her. Absolutely,
11:08
Speaker 2: it was very cool journey.
11:09
Speaker 1: It's I cannot explain, I mean. And I asked the
11:14
Speaker 1: cryobank that I went through, I said, you know, how
11:16
Speaker 1: many people come to you guys in my situation because
11:18
Speaker 1: I know, you know, if a woman she doesn't have
11:22
Speaker 1: viable eggs, you know, or a man his sperm doesn't work,
11:27
Speaker 1: stormers ain't working sperm donor couples in same sex marriages. Yeah,
11:32
Speaker 1: they were like, for you, it's like a very very
11:35
Speaker 1: small percentage like women coming in and it being like
11:39
Speaker 1: single mother by choice, so I haven't. Oddly enough, I
11:43
Speaker 1: have one friend who was going through it, but her
11:46
Speaker 1: gay best friend is the donor. Okay, I couldn't get
11:49
Speaker 1: my gay best friends. They were like, I would feel
11:51
Speaker 1: too guilty leaving. I feel guilty leaving ocean. She's not
11:54
Speaker 1: even mine. I'm like, okay, I get it. Yeah, but
11:57
Speaker 1: my biggest thing was like picking a donor first and foremost,
12:00
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna already have a lot to explain, and
12:03
Speaker 1: Los Angeles is very inclusive, right, I don't worry about here,
12:08
Speaker 1: but the outside world. I've seen the comment sections I'm
12:10
Speaker 1: a big, big sinner. I have done my child dirty
12:13
Speaker 1: by not having a dad. Got it. It's like the
12:16
Speaker 1: one thing that I'm like so confident in my decision
12:18
Speaker 1: that there's not much you can say to me.
12:20
Speaker 2: People realize the amount of decisions you have to make
12:23
Speaker 2: during that process that when you go through it, you
12:26
Speaker 2: are so confident. You're so confident, you're so I mean
12:29
Speaker 2: the books that we you go, you take it from
12:32
Speaker 2: the donors and and the questioning that they do. They
12:36
Speaker 2: don't just do their mom and dad. It's like eat
12:39
Speaker 2: their dad's mom and dad. Oh, their mom's mom and dad.
12:41
Speaker 1: Level of testing that I had to go through. Yeah,
12:44
Speaker 1: the genetic testing. I had like a panel of five hundred.
12:47
Speaker 1: He was like, you didn't get the full one. I'm like,
12:49
Speaker 1: there's more. I like passed out because they took so
12:51
Speaker 1: much blood. I was like, I don't think I can
12:52
Speaker 1: go back there.
12:53
Speaker 2: It don't maybe go back wow.
12:55
Speaker 1: But what I didn't realize, like your sister was saying,
12:58
Speaker 1: like the questions and how you explain is this is
13:00
Speaker 1: what I'm facing right now with my kids, because we
13:03
Speaker 1: already like there's already this weird thing of Ocean growing
13:08
Speaker 1: up with her dad being a movie producer and all that,
13:10
Speaker 1: Like she sees very a very crazy life. People run
13:13
Speaker 1: up to her and they're like, oh my gosh, Ocean. Yeah,
13:15
Speaker 1: so there's that aspect that we already live in, like
13:17
Speaker 1: a pretty different world which you can relate to. But
13:22
Speaker 1: with Sosa, this is what you're gonna die of the story.
13:25
Speaker 1: I'll make it quick. So I tell Ocean that she
13:28
Speaker 1: can go in when her sister's up, she can go
13:30
Speaker 1: keep her company in the crib. Okay, and for a
13:33
Speaker 1: period of time, Sosa, my youngest, my donor baby mm hmm,
13:38
Speaker 1: kept saying daddy to everybody. And I hear my daughter
13:41
Speaker 1: Ocean say no, so say you don't have a daddy.
13:45
Speaker 1: You don't have a daddy? No, And I was like,
13:48
Speaker 1: oh fuck, I did not think this one through. So
13:52
Speaker 1: we're walking through downtown Palm Springs and Sosa says daddy
13:58
Speaker 1: and Ocean goes into you don't have a dad. Well,
14:00
Speaker 1: then I get protective of Sosa, right, I go, I
14:03
Speaker 1: know she doesn't have a dad. Isn't she so lucky
14:05
Speaker 1: all of her stuff is in one place. She has
14:07
Speaker 1: to be with mom all the time. And my brother
14:08
Speaker 1: Easton looks at me and goes, please do not fuck
14:12
Speaker 1: up your other child while trying to protect Sosa. And
14:14
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shit, I did not see this coming.
14:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's so you have to find ways to
14:23
Speaker 2: explain stuff, but not you.
14:25
Speaker 1: Know, traumatize both of them while trying to protect the other.
14:29
Speaker 2: Or just and kids are just they just ask a
14:31
Speaker 2: lot of questions and it can be very overwhelming. My
14:36
Speaker 2: daughter was with our friend and his fiance and they're
14:41
Speaker 2: his child who he has, you know, and she has
14:45
Speaker 2: two mommies And Monroe's like, what's going on here? Yeah,
14:49
Speaker 2: why don't I get two mommies, and I'm like, because
14:54
Speaker 2: her mommy and daddy didn't stay together? Well why, okay,
14:58
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have to sometimes just like.
15:01
Speaker 1: Dad is that's why?
15:05
Speaker 3: But like these questions that you're just like not ready
15:09
Speaker 3: to explain, and how to explain it without putting someone
15:15
Speaker 3: else down sometimes to explain stuff right like, she I go.
15:20
Speaker 2: Isn't she lucky she gets two mommies that love her?
15:22
Speaker 2: And she goes, yeah, but why don't I get that?
15:25
Speaker 2: And I'm like, because I'm all the love unique girls, why.
15:29
Speaker 1: Does Susie get two Christmases and I get one?
15:33
Speaker 2: Right there? You go, It's so hard to explain. Sometimes
15:37
Speaker 2: you just and you start mumbling, and you as much
15:40
Speaker 2: of a confident adult as you are, they can really strike.
15:44
Speaker 1: They school you, humble you.
15:47
Speaker 2: Mommy, that's not appropriate. Or something comes on the TV
15:51
Speaker 2: and I have to be so careful because she just
15:53
Speaker 2: she'll stop doing what she's doing, coloring or automatically. And
15:57
Speaker 2: also she's looking and I'm like, oh my gosh, I
15:59
Speaker 2: forgot the show, isn't you know? I'm sorry? Girl?
16:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, please don't tell your preschool teacher.
16:05
Speaker 2: They know everything they do true and I know that
16:08
Speaker 2: because my husband's mom is one, and so she tells
16:11
Speaker 2: me all the funny stories that these kids come to shit.
16:13
Speaker 1: Well, she's got the experience. Yeah, oh my gosh, what
16:18
Speaker 1: I now that should be the reality show because preschool
16:21
Speaker 1: teachers and what they hear. Oh yeah, they would dig that.
16:24
Speaker 1: Oh do you get worried because it sounds like you're
16:27
Speaker 1: your daughter's a little performer? Would you say you were
16:30
Speaker 1: a child star?
16:31
Speaker 2: No?
16:32
Speaker 1: Because how old were you when Cheetah Girls came out?
16:34
Speaker 2: Eighteen? The Cheetah Girls was my first job that I
16:38
Speaker 2: had without my parents. One of my parents on set
16:41
Speaker 2: with me. Okay, and I turned eighteen like the second
16:46
Speaker 2: day of rehearsal, so I was legitimately like the first
16:50
Speaker 2: time we went to Toronto. I went to Toronto by myself.
16:53
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I was in college. Okay, so you're
16:57
Speaker 2: playing a fifteen year old, yes, yeah, freshman in high school.
17:13
Speaker 1: Does it scare you because you've been in the industry.
17:17
Speaker 1: If your daughter does decide to like take the path
17:19
Speaker 1: that you took, is there like a rule that you've
17:22
Speaker 1: set up where if she when she hits a certain age,
17:24
Speaker 1: if she's still into it, you will help her in
17:27
Speaker 1: that direction.
17:28
Speaker 2: She's asked about it a lot. The crazy part is, no,
17:33
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be scared. I feel like I watched my
17:35
Speaker 2: parents do it the right way, and I was around
17:39
Speaker 2: other child actors whose parents did it a way that
17:42
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I wouldn't say the wrong way, but the
17:44
Speaker 2: way I wouldn't want to do it, okay, And I
17:48
Speaker 2: really loved that there was always it was always known
17:53
Speaker 2: if I just woke up one day and didn't want
17:55
Speaker 2: to do it anymore, that I didn't have to. There
17:57
Speaker 2: was no pressure, no even I mean, it was such
18:00
Speaker 2: a big deal even in high school. I came home
18:03
Speaker 2: actually from my freshman year of high school in tears
18:06
Speaker 2: almost every day because I felt like I was missing
18:09
Speaker 2: out on opportunities and auditions because I had to go
18:11
Speaker 2: to school. Wow. Yeah, And my dad was like, I
18:16
Speaker 2: love you, and I don't care that you are trying
18:20
Speaker 2: to grow up too fast. Wow, I want to He
18:23
Speaker 2: always said, I want to take a picture at your
18:26
Speaker 2: senior prom together and not because you're going with someone
18:29
Speaker 2: else at your senior prom. Like, that's what I want
18:32
Speaker 2: for you. I want you to work as much as
18:34
Speaker 2: you we can, but also have a different life. So
18:38
Speaker 2: I was always able to segregate like work life and
18:41
Speaker 2: then come home and be like a normal kid. Be
18:43
Speaker 2: a normal kid, yeah, play soccer or be a dancer.
18:46
Speaker 2: And it wasn't until I actually joined my dance team
18:49
Speaker 2: at school that I finally found like a purpose, Like
18:54
Speaker 2: I felt like I really loved being a part of school.
18:58
Speaker 2: I got to be a part of the school commune
19:00
Speaker 2: versus feeling like I felt like I was like a
19:02
Speaker 2: commuter because everyone would go after school and hang out.
19:05
Speaker 2: I was either going to dance class, or I was
19:07
Speaker 2: coming up to La to do acting, or I was
19:09
Speaker 2: coming up for jobs or you know what I mean.
19:11
Speaker 2: I was doing all that and not because of my parents.
19:14
Speaker 2: My parents would have loved for me to not to
19:16
Speaker 2: be like I don't want to do that. My dad
19:18
Speaker 2: was like, you know, why don't Why don't you be
19:21
Speaker 2: like any other career like you could, you could do
19:25
Speaker 2: whatever you want. He didn't necessarily want me in the industry.
19:29
Speaker 2: He was they was. They were scared about it. They
19:31
Speaker 2: made me. I was a background actor for a long time.
19:35
Speaker 1: Okay, I did dance.
19:37
Speaker 2: I was a dancer in the industry, so I did
19:39
Speaker 2: you know again, the there was a principal character, and
19:43
Speaker 2: I was dancing in the background and doing things like
19:45
Speaker 2: that because my parents kept thinking, you're going to get
19:48
Speaker 2: bored on set because set is actually very boring for kids,
19:51
Speaker 2: very boring, true word. But kids have the extra have
19:57
Speaker 2: to go to school for three hours exactly. That makes
19:59
Speaker 2: it really not fun because they're just basically doing homework
20:04
Speaker 2: for three out. They're not learning a lesson. It's with
20:06
Speaker 2: the set teacher who has a fourth grader, a fifth grader,
20:09
Speaker 2: a second grader, so they're just basically doing busy work.
20:13
Speaker 2: My parents kept thinking if I was a part of it,
20:15
Speaker 2: I was going to just get over it, and they
20:17
Speaker 2: didn't realize I was like just falling in love with
20:19
Speaker 2: it even more. Even more so, I would support Monroe
20:25
Speaker 2: and or Ledger if he wanted to. He's actually very funny,
20:29
Speaker 2: but it'd have to be I'd have to be able
20:32
Speaker 2: to do it the way that I did it with
20:34
Speaker 2: my parents. And my dad was a real estate agent,
20:36
Speaker 2: so he was able to be on set with me.
20:38
Speaker 1: Oh that's great, you know.
20:39
Speaker 2: And my mom did a lot of more of the
20:42
Speaker 2: like the paperwork and stuff like that at home, so
20:44
Speaker 2: she he would she would send me with my dad
20:49
Speaker 2: and he I felt took really good care of me
20:52
Speaker 2: on set, like, oh yeah, I never I never went
20:56
Speaker 2: anywhere where he couldn't see me. He protected me a lot.
21:00
Speaker 1: That makes me, yeah, really really happy for you. Yeah,
21:03
Speaker 1: because it can get dark.
21:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I will say when I was eighteen and
21:07
Speaker 2: given the opportunity to be part of the channel, like
21:09
Speaker 2: the Channel takes really good care of their kids. Like
21:13
Speaker 2: now when we interview for the podcasts that I do,
21:16
Speaker 2: and we talk to the new kids on Zombies and
21:17
Speaker 2: the new kids on Descendants, and I'm like, there's a
21:20
Speaker 2: whole world of like Instagram wasn't around when I was
21:23
Speaker 2: not at all, that whole part of being famous was
21:27
Speaker 2: not really a part of the gig. And you know,
21:31
Speaker 2: the channel gives the We talked to Malachi from Zombies
21:36
Speaker 2: talk to his mom and what it's like to have
21:39
Speaker 2: what's it like to have Malachi? Like holy, does.
21:42
Speaker 1: She control the Instagram?
21:44
Speaker 2: No? She she did for a long time, but he's
21:46
Speaker 2: eighteen now. I was like, what's that, Like, how did you?
21:49
Speaker 2: And she goes you know, I will say, I'll give
21:52
Speaker 2: it to Disney. They give them education on it. Oh wow,
21:57
Speaker 2: they help them with that. They helped that that aspect
22:00
Speaker 2: of teaching them how to not post when you're there,
22:03
Speaker 2: post after like all those things I feel like kids
22:07
Speaker 2: today don't think about. They get a lot of like
22:10
Speaker 2: help with that, which I think is magical. I think
22:13
Speaker 2: that's just so incredible. Disney's so hands on with that stuff.
22:16
Speaker 1: I love that too. Do they do they prep them
22:18
Speaker 1: for the comment section? Because we were talking about the
22:19
Speaker 1: comment section?
22:20
Speaker 2: She said they talked. They work with them on like
22:22
Speaker 2: mental health. That's a big, a big thing that they
22:25
Speaker 2: advocate for the channels. So and I will say I
22:28
Speaker 2: believe it one hundred percent because Disney was so hands
22:31
Speaker 2: on and so great they were. It was a really
22:33
Speaker 2: good company to work with, especially with that being my
22:37
Speaker 2: first Yeah, saying that I had to start doing stuff
22:40
Speaker 2: on my own without someone over my shoulder of some sort,
22:43
Speaker 2: so your protector, yeah, watching me and making sure, you know.
22:47
Speaker 2: And he was really great also about he would call it.
22:52
Speaker 2: He would say, let's you know, let's let's go through
22:56
Speaker 2: what happened today, because he wanted me to like talk
22:58
Speaker 2: through what happened with things on set, you know, good
23:01
Speaker 2: or bad? Good or bad? Yeah, you know, things that
23:04
Speaker 2: you saw that you might have not liked, so I
23:06
Speaker 2: didn't understand why so and so got in trouble about this,
23:09
Speaker 2: or I didn't like the way this person was talked
23:13
Speaker 2: to or whatever, or did you see how this person
23:16
Speaker 2: like dad, did you see them handle that scene? Wow?
23:19
Speaker 2: What a bad ass. Yeah, you know, so we got
23:21
Speaker 2: to go through and he would He loved for me
23:23
Speaker 2: to be able to kind of say it to me
23:26
Speaker 2: because when I was going home, I wasn't going home.
23:29
Speaker 2: I didn't have a friend group of actors, people that
23:33
Speaker 2: up to playing soccer. I had friends that were baseball
23:36
Speaker 2: or you know, or didn't didn't have an outside activity
23:39
Speaker 2: from school. You know, I had people that like couldn't
23:41
Speaker 2: understand like the LA life totally and the work, And
23:45
Speaker 2: they couldn't understand why I was wanting to work. They
23:47
Speaker 2: didn't understand that.
23:48
Speaker 1: When you could chill like you got your whole life
23:49
Speaker 1: to work.
23:50
Speaker 2: Yes, they could not understand that, and so they couldn't
23:54
Speaker 2: understand that I loved it. I just loved it.
23:56
Speaker 1: Right, that's where you were thriving. You knew that you
23:58
Speaker 1: wanted to be in that environ at all times. Yeah,
24:01
Speaker 1: so when you you obviously came to LA, you auditioned
24:04
Speaker 1: for the Cheetah girls you auditioned in LA or no
24:06
Speaker 1: self tape? No was there self tape back then?
24:10
Speaker 2: There were for people like that were like in Texas.
24:13
Speaker 2: Texas was a pretty big place for kids.
24:16
Speaker 1: I feel like, send in like an actual tape for like,
24:23
Speaker 1: why am I having this memory of a friend sending
24:26
Speaker 1: in like a real life tape.
24:27
Speaker 2: They might have, I mean you, But like it wasn't
24:31
Speaker 2: as common LA. Everyone was auditioning.
24:34
Speaker 1: Like, if you wanted to audition for movies, you need
24:36
Speaker 1: to move to Los Angeles.
24:38
Speaker 2: I would say, that's what kids do. There's a there
24:41
Speaker 2: used to be a thing, and I think it's probably
24:43
Speaker 2: still relevant where it was called pilot season and it
24:46
Speaker 2: would be like the month the months of January, February,
24:51
Speaker 2: maybe like March, and people would move to LA and
24:57
Speaker 2: live in oh Man. Will would tell me, I forget.
25:00
Speaker 2: There was like a certain condo area that everyone who
25:05
Speaker 2: lived that was out of town would live in this
25:07
Speaker 2: apartment complex and you would just be there strictly to
25:13
Speaker 2: come an audition for three months or whatever your parents
25:16
Speaker 2: could do, and hopefully book a pilot. And if you
25:19
Speaker 2: booked a pilot, then you filmed the pilot and then
25:22
Speaker 2: it got picked up or it didn't you.
25:24
Speaker 1: Talking about this puts a pit in my stomach because
25:27
Speaker 1: I remember being in Utah and wanting to be an
25:30
Speaker 1: actress and it was me and my friend and she
25:31
Speaker 1: was much more driven, and she would come out for
25:34
Speaker 1: pilot season and I remember like wanting to do that
25:40
Speaker 1: because I needed to do it, but it felt very
25:43
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for me and coming out during pilot season and
25:47
Speaker 1: not really grinding like my friend was grinding, and feeling
25:49
Speaker 1: guilty that I didn't have the drive and the grind
25:52
Speaker 1: that she had. She ended up moving full time and
25:55
Speaker 1: missing high school. I ended up staying back as my
25:58
Speaker 1: parents were.
25:58
Speaker 2: Like, we really need you to just be a kid.
26:02
Speaker 1: And I was like that that when you say that
26:04
Speaker 1: to me, the pit leaves my stomach. Yeah, that I
26:07
Speaker 1: can do.
26:07
Speaker 2: I'm glad you had those opportunities to do that, because
26:12
Speaker 2: I feel like the kids that that don't they There's
26:17
Speaker 2: at some point like I feel I just feel like
26:20
Speaker 2: what goes into my work now and now I'm doing
26:22
Speaker 2: like podcasting and stuff. All the experiences that I had, right,
26:25
Speaker 2: it was that age, right, Yeah, And then of course
26:27
Speaker 2: the experience when I had when I booked the Cheetah
26:30
Speaker 2: Girls and I mean, but it it was tough and
26:33
Speaker 2: not This is my part point going back to Monroe.
26:36
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's an age, but it will
26:38
Speaker 2: be something that I need to make sure she has
26:43
Speaker 2: the tough skin to be able to do what it
26:45
Speaker 2: is that kids do in the industry and audition and
26:49
Speaker 2: take the nose because you get a hundred nose before
26:51
Speaker 2: you get a callback, and then you get a hundred
26:54
Speaker 2: callbacks before you get a second callback and the screen
26:59
Speaker 2: testing to be able to go. They didn't. It could
27:03
Speaker 2: be as simple as they want a redhead. They don't
27:05
Speaker 2: want to they don't want a brunette. Right, It's as
27:07
Speaker 2: simple as that they want brown eyes and they don't
27:09
Speaker 2: want blue.
27:10
Speaker 1: Like I can put in contacts, I can change my
27:11
Speaker 1: hair color.
27:12
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you're like, wait what, I'll change myself right, Like,
27:15
Speaker 2: but like to not let to not let those nose
27:17
Speaker 2: affect you. And she's too little for me to know
27:21
Speaker 2: if she's that total or not. And until I know
27:24
Speaker 2: and feel confident that she can take a no and
27:27
Speaker 2: it not affected me, I was like, you're bad. Yeah,
27:33
Speaker 2: I would have been great for this role, like I
27:35
Speaker 2: had that kind of Yeah, I'm like, there was it
27:40
Speaker 2: was just and my dad would say when I'd get frustrated,
27:43
Speaker 2: because like, go back to pilot season. There was the
27:46
Speaker 2: year before I booked The Cheetah Girls, I was in
27:47
Speaker 2: three pilots that didn't get picked up. Wow. Yeah, I
27:51
Speaker 2: was in Bold and the Beautiful. I had a recurring role,
27:54
Speaker 2: but my character didn't get the contract. My girlfriend's character did.
28:00
Speaker 2: And to take those hits and there's a time where
28:02
Speaker 2: you know, I like again, I had really great open
28:05
Speaker 2: communication with my parents and my dad was like, Sabrina,
28:08
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I can feel it. It
28:11
Speaker 2: feels like there's a train approaching us and it's just
28:14
Speaker 2: gonna take that one yes for you to just ride
28:18
Speaker 2: and go. And I was like, okay, Like on the
28:21
Speaker 2: days that I'd get frustrated, and I get us that
28:23
Speaker 2: because there were roles that I really wanted, you know,
28:25
Speaker 2: and you don't get those roles all the time. So
28:28
Speaker 2: when the Cheetah Girls came out and this character Derinda
28:31
Speaker 2: and I auditioned for all four. So that's what they
28:33
Speaker 2: did with the Cheetah Girls. Oh, they came in.
28:34
Speaker 1: You auditioned for all you.
28:36
Speaker 2: Everyone auditioned for all four and was praying for obviously
28:40
Speaker 2: wanting to get Galleria because it was the lead, but
28:43
Speaker 2: I really felt like Derinda was mine.
28:47
Speaker 1: Really.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was one of those I'm like, I could sing,
28:50
Speaker 2: I could dance, I could put me in a room.
28:52
Speaker 2: I will outdance anyone that else comes in, Like I was.
28:55
Speaker 2: I just like felt like this was my role and
28:58
Speaker 2: I was going to prove that it was my Like
29:00
Speaker 2: I just had that vibe right And then but I
29:04
Speaker 2: auditioned for Chanel and Aqua didn't. I think I might
29:08
Speaker 2: have gotten a callback maybe when I went in and
29:11
Speaker 2: I probably I think I auditioned for Channel and Derinda
29:14
Speaker 2: on the callback, okay. And then this was the fourth
29:17
Speaker 2: callback was when there's this Burbank building for the Channel
29:22
Speaker 2: that used to have everything and the top floor, like
29:25
Speaker 2: the floor twenty one is where the auditions happened. Okay,
29:30
Speaker 2: and you get out of that that elevator and it's
29:33
Speaker 2: like the whole time. I just was there and literally
29:36
Speaker 2: in forty A just was there, like and I got
29:38
Speaker 2: the stomach bubbles going the elevator because this was when
29:42
Speaker 2: you got to that floor that was where the decisions
29:45
Speaker 2: were made. Oh my gosh, and you'd be in a
29:46
Speaker 2: room and hard racing. You're just telling the story. Most auditions,
29:50
Speaker 2: you're in a room with everyone that looks like you
29:52
Speaker 2: if you're when you get to callbacks, like, it's everyone Derinda.
29:55
Speaker 2: They didn't know what ethnicity they wanted. They didn't know
29:58
Speaker 2: because she was a foster child. At that point, Raven
30:01
Speaker 2: was already in the room. This was like the final
30:03
Speaker 2: callback where they were starting to put us together. Uh
30:07
Speaker 2: Beyonce's little sister.
30:09
Speaker 1: So long, don't even get we started on. Sele comes through.
30:13
Speaker 2: I'm sitting in the chair and she comes through, and
30:15
Speaker 2: I'm like.
30:16
Speaker 1: Did you die?
30:16
Speaker 2: I would have died, but I had kept it cool.
30:20
Speaker 2: So I feel like this was my face, which I
30:22
Speaker 2: thought was probably as good as I could get.
30:24
Speaker 1: And I was like, were you intimidated as it?
30:28
Speaker 2: Yes? Then Adrian by Alone comes back. Oh yeah, one
30:32
Speaker 2: of the most gorgeous girls I'd ever seen. She looked
30:35
Speaker 2: like she had no makeup on, just like some some blush.
30:38
Speaker 1: Yeah she probably didn't.
30:41
Speaker 2: Her hair was like curly, but like in a like
30:44
Speaker 2: backpas stunning And I was.
30:46
Speaker 1: Like, okay, see that's the worst. I'm like, I wish
30:51
Speaker 1: I had had a battle in our own little boxes
30:53
Speaker 1: so that I can't see the competition, because then I'm
30:55
Speaker 1: like that, but I knew.
30:57
Speaker 2: I was like that, she's that girl's going for Schanelle.
31:00
Speaker 2: Like new heard from one of the other girls that
31:03
Speaker 2: came out that Raven was in the room, and I
31:05
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this is They're looking for just Derinda
31:07
Speaker 2: Like this is so at that point I think they
31:09
Speaker 2: had they had at least in their mind who the
31:13
Speaker 2: rest of the three girls where they were just looking
31:15
Speaker 2: for my part. And I just remember being like, okay,
31:21
Speaker 2: you got this, please love God get this, Like this
31:25
Speaker 2: is it right? And we went in and then they
31:28
Speaker 2: I did a scene. I had a dramatic scene for
31:31
Speaker 2: the movie where I was explaining none of my friends
31:34
Speaker 2: knew I was a foster child. Yeah, that's the scene
31:36
Speaker 2: I auditioned with.
31:37
Speaker 1: Oh I got chills again.
31:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I was not performing the scene as dramatic
31:43
Speaker 2: as what we ended up filming. And the director Oz
31:47
Speaker 2: Scott was like, I feel like you could give me more.
31:50
Speaker 2: I want to see what it would be like to
31:54
Speaker 2: for you to not have the parents that you have.
31:57
Speaker 2: What how would you think this girl would be what
32:00
Speaker 2: would she be going through? And I went okay, and
32:03
Speaker 2: me and Adrian I swear we did the scene almost
32:05
Speaker 2: exactly the way we filmed it in.
32:07
Speaker 1: That so she was in me and that is who
32:09
Speaker 1: you were auditioning with.
32:10
Speaker 2: And he was like, go there, let me see you
32:12
Speaker 2: go there. You can do it.
32:13
Speaker 1: I can, I can tell you can do it. I
32:15
Speaker 1: was like, okay, And you know, that's always such a
32:18
Speaker 1: good sign. I remember my very first acting class. They
32:21
Speaker 1: were like, if someone in the room, like the director
32:24
Speaker 1: tells you to redo it, it's not because you did
32:28
Speaker 1: a bad job. It is because they know you have something.
32:32
Speaker 1: You're tweakable and mouldable.
32:34
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yes. And that was my audition. And
32:37
Speaker 2: then I got to dance, and that's when and.
32:40
Speaker 1: That's when you thrive. You broke it down, little girls.
32:43
Speaker 2: I'll show showed everything I could do.
32:47
Speaker 1: What song did you audition to? Do?
32:49
Speaker 2: You remember I had a couple. I had Broadway song.
32:52
Speaker 2: I was more Broadway trained than I was pop star trained.
32:56
Speaker 2: I didn't work on like Britney Spears songs or Sineaguilera.
33:00
Speaker 2: I'd come in with like a Broadway side or a
33:02
Speaker 2: Disney song like river What's the River Bend from Pocahontas
33:07
Speaker 2: was a song belt in it and I loved the belt.
33:11
Speaker 2: And then there was a Liza Minelli's song I Forget
33:16
Speaker 2: but pretty pretty city Lights and she hits this really
33:20
Speaker 2: high note in it. So that's what I would try
33:22
Speaker 2: to do, is show my range. And so I came
33:25
Speaker 2: in probably with Pocahontas, and then I did that song
33:27
Speaker 2: and and.
33:28
Speaker 1: You were like, but then.
33:32
Speaker 2: Like's and this, and you opened your eyes to just
33:40
Speaker 2: exacts like that was great, like wow, okay, so I
33:46
Speaker 2: didn't move anyone. Okay, They're like in the room with
33:50
Speaker 2: hearing over and over these songs of kids, you know,
33:52
Speaker 2: like a weather around the road, and what was well,
33:58
Speaker 2: I will say I remember is was always the worst
34:01
Speaker 2: of going into and having to be a dancer and
34:03
Speaker 2: them just putting on a track and going okay, like
34:06
Speaker 2: let's see you more.
34:07
Speaker 1: So with the dancing, they picked the song they would.
34:10
Speaker 2: Just put on a track, or you could bring a
34:12
Speaker 2: song that you would like, but I didn't really care.
34:15
Speaker 2: You could put anything.
34:15
Speaker 1: On the worst because I go straight into the fizzle face.
34:21
Speaker 2: Now, oh I.
34:21
Speaker 1: Get it right.
34:24
Speaker 2: Most you'd be the what most kids do. They're learning
34:26
Speaker 2: TikTok dances, and that's the face that you do in
34:28
Speaker 2: a TikTok.
34:29
Speaker 1: These kids don't know that face is mac dre. Let
34:34
Speaker 1: me tell you so, yeah, why don't. I'm obsessed with
34:38
Speaker 1: everything you just want.
34:40
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever gone that dove that far
34:43
Speaker 2: into that whole thing. But anyway, for you and you
34:47
Speaker 2: hear nothing, nothing. Months go by, Audish agent hasn't heard anything.
34:54
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm off to college. I'm at Chapman
34:57
Speaker 2: and I'm in the dorm like.
34:59
Speaker 1: Living normal, like mom and dad wanted yev.
35:02
Speaker 2: And then I got, you know, a job at a
35:04
Speaker 2: tanning salon, like like one does.
35:06
Speaker 1: Wow in college disorients, I was saying.
35:10
Speaker 2: And I then Debah Martin Chase, the producer, called me,
35:13
Speaker 2: and I was at my tanning salon and my phone rang,
35:15
Speaker 2: you know, and it was where it was probably should
35:17
Speaker 2: have had it, but at my phone rang and Debra's calling,
35:19
Speaker 2: and I like looked at my managers, like this is
35:21
Speaker 2: the movie from the Cheeta Girls, that thing I told
35:23
Speaker 2: you I filmed. She's calling me and she's like hey,
35:26
Speaker 2: and she goes, what does it feel like to be
35:28
Speaker 2: like a double platinum artist? And I was like, guys,
35:32
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what does that mean? And she goes
35:35
Speaker 2: I mean, your guys' album just went double platinum, Sabrina,
35:39
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, like.
35:42
Speaker 1: You've rolled back up to the person you were like,
35:44
Speaker 1: So I'm quitting because this doesn't make it. I can't
35:47
Speaker 1: be double platinum and then checking people in for their
35:49
Speaker 1: spray tands. No, ball, I actually want to test your
35:52
Speaker 1: Disney knowledge with our rapid fire.
35:54
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
36:08
Speaker 1: Favorite Disney Channel show that wasn't yours?
36:10
Speaker 2: Okay, favorite Disney Channel movie would be Johnny Tsunami.
36:16
Speaker 1: So good.
36:17
Speaker 2: He was so hot and I love love Brandon. He's
36:19
Speaker 2: still the sweetest. We got to interview him, you know
36:23
Speaker 2: he you know what his main job is right now?
36:25
Speaker 2: He is a plea.
36:28
Speaker 1: He's a surf instructor. No, wouldn't that be amazing? No?
36:32
Speaker 2: He what is it called? He marries people? He's oh
36:35
Speaker 2: he's an efficient Yes in Colorado? Wow, could you imagine
36:40
Speaker 2: if you had Johnnysunami?
36:42
Speaker 1: Yes, I can. I'm doing it. I don't know who I'm.
36:49
Speaker 2: I was a huge fan of The Mickey Mouse Club,
36:52
Speaker 2: like I'm talking justin Timberlake day. Yes, Brittany Christina so good. Gosh,
36:58
Speaker 2: so many really.
37:00
Speaker 1: Do make dreams come true, don't they? Favorite Disney movie
37:04
Speaker 1: of all time?
37:06
Speaker 2: Ooh, man, I really loved Cinderella with Brandy. Do you
37:12
Speaker 2: remember that Roger Hammer sign and Winney Houston?
37:15
Speaker 1: Watching that, I thought it's my gosh. And George Costanza,
37:21
Speaker 1: he plays the whatever. Let me tell you. I remember.
37:24
Speaker 1: I thought my mom was going to surprise me with
37:25
Speaker 1: the movie. She didn't come home from Hollywood Video with it,
37:29
Speaker 1: and I remember hitting her. I was, where is my
37:34
Speaker 1: Cinderella movie?
37:36
Speaker 2: Promised? Man?
37:38
Speaker 1: Then I had to work to earn it all right,
37:41
Speaker 1: But you know what I did.
37:42
Speaker 2: I would say definitely top five. I don't know if
37:46
Speaker 2: I can like nail it down. I really am digging
37:49
Speaker 2: the movies. I love Moanna. I haven't seen the live
37:52
Speaker 2: action so good. I don't care what anyone says. You
37:56
Speaker 2: don't talk to me about the rocks, uh Wig, don't care.
38:00
Speaker 1: I don't care.
38:01
Speaker 2: Maui he's he's Maui and he's the rock.
38:05
Speaker 1: He's nothing without his I can't wait.
38:07
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that yet, but I bet you that
38:09
Speaker 2: will probably be Ocean.
38:10
Speaker 1: Just found out that her name is Mowanna in Hawaiian
38:14
Speaker 1: and she tells everybody. Do you have a favorite Disney villain?
38:18
Speaker 2: Ooh? Always loved the one Dalmatians Duella, and then.
38:31
Speaker 1: I like the old lady with a war on her
38:33
Speaker 1: nose and snow White. Snow White's scary. She's terrifying, scary,
38:38
Speaker 1: She's so.
38:38
Speaker 2: Scary on the ride Disney Disneyland. Have you been on
38:41
Speaker 2: it in a while. Yes, they've redone it and they've
38:43
Speaker 2: made her terrifying. It's crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. I
38:47
Speaker 2: can't go.
38:48
Speaker 1: I can't watch No White because it terrifies.
38:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
38:50
Speaker 2: The Pinocchio ride is even worse though.
38:51
Speaker 1: But Disney Princess, favorite Cinderella, Okay, favorite Disney Channel theme
38:57
Speaker 1: song that.
38:59
Speaker 2: Is so hearn ooh, Mickey mouse Club again.
39:04
Speaker 1: I really liked the Kim Possible and Proud Family. That's
39:08
Speaker 1: when I felt in love. Was so launch because if
39:09
Speaker 1: you remember, on Disney Channel, they would show you the
39:12
Speaker 1: making of the songs and they'd show the girls in
39:14
Speaker 1: the studio making the Proud Family theme song. Wow, she
39:19
Speaker 1: did it with Beyonce, she did it with Disney's Child.
39:23
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I don't think I ever knew that.
39:25
Speaker 2: I can't wait to say that on my own podcast.
39:28
Speaker 1: Yeah take it. If you could voice any Disney character,
39:32
Speaker 1: who would it be?
39:34
Speaker 2: Wow? Probably Ariel. Really, yeah, I love that that movie
39:41
Speaker 2: I loved so much.
39:42
Speaker 1: I'd want to be the seagull. Oh yeah, al.
39:49
Speaker 2: Whoa what a swim?
39:55
Speaker 1: Which Disney Channel character would be your best friend? Los
39:59
Speaker 1: Siena guy Boulevards from Brown Family? I love her?
40:05
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah. Oh, I think I think Daisy
40:11
Speaker 2: seems like a rider die.
40:13
Speaker 1: I think the duck Duck looks like she's a rider
40:17
Speaker 1: die Like she's okay, she did this answer?
40:21
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that she she would really jump in
40:25
Speaker 2: front of something for Minnie Mouse, like she'd jump in
40:27
Speaker 2: front of a bus for Minie Mouse.
40:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mickey Mouse is kind of a narcissist. I feel
40:34
Speaker 1: like my Disney like ears are raining.
40:37
Speaker 2: I can't believe you said that about Mickey.
40:39
Speaker 1: Oh dare you? I give a lot of unpopular opinions.
40:56
Speaker 1: We're so happy by the way of this reboot, I'm
40:59
Speaker 1: what is it called a reboot? What do you call?
41:03
Speaker 2: So what it's going to be doing is really it's
41:05
Speaker 2: going to introduce a whole new group of Chetah girls.
41:09
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So it'll be interesting to see if
41:13
Speaker 2: they grab onto these characters the way that they have
41:16
Speaker 2: for the the OG movies. Right right. I don't know.
41:20
Speaker 2: I would hope so I think the messaging, if it's
41:22
Speaker 2: the same, will still resonate with kids. But like, I
41:26
Speaker 2: feel like some of the fans are like, you know,
41:30
Speaker 2: what it seems like is that there's it's going to
41:34
Speaker 2: be interesting. I don't know. I don't know. I think
41:36
Speaker 2: you're any like nervous energy because I'm like I would
41:40
Speaker 2: hate for like, I want the fans to love whatever
41:42
Speaker 2: the Cheata Girls is going to be.
41:44
Speaker 1: I think they are because if you think about the
41:47
Speaker 1: kids who were watching you guys, for the most part,
41:50
Speaker 1: we've all become parents. Now it's going to be the
41:53
Speaker 1: new wave. Our kids are going to be obsessed with this,
41:57
Speaker 1: this new you know, Cheated Girls, and then we can say,
42:00
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this movie came out when we were kids,
42:04
Speaker 1: and then we can go back and watch like I'm
42:05
Speaker 1: on this kick right now where like Ocean as far
42:08
Speaker 1: as music goes, like we're listening from every like everything
42:11
Speaker 1: from like Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Appa, Tapa two, whatever,
42:15
Speaker 1: Yaba Dabadoo or Drake. She loves Janish Stfu. She's like, mom,
42:22
Speaker 1: that says bad word, I'm like ignore it, Like well, routed,
42:27
Speaker 1: and we're going back and watching Disney movies that came
42:30
Speaker 1: out when I was, you know, a young kid, so
42:33
Speaker 1: like The Smart House. She just watched Life Size for
42:35
Speaker 1: the first time with Tyra Banks. She's obsessed. Her sister,
42:39
Speaker 1: her older sister called me, who's stepsister? She was like,
42:44
Speaker 1: what is this movie? That ocean is talking about a
42:47
Speaker 1: Barbie that comes to life with a twin And I'm like, oh,
42:50
Speaker 1: Life Size a twin because we watched Parent Traps, so
42:52
Speaker 1: she thinks that that girl's actually a twin. So that's
42:55
Speaker 1: how I imagine it's going to go down. And I
42:57
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a huge freaking success, and it's
43:00
Speaker 1: going to be such a cool moment for people who
43:03
Speaker 1: watched the original to be able to say like, oh,
43:06
Speaker 1: just wait, I'm going to show you how it all started.
43:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're doing different they're also backing it up
43:13
Speaker 2: again with a whole round of touring. So when we
43:17
Speaker 2: were our move, like I said, Disney wasn't even expecting
43:20
Speaker 2: us to be like this like force of music, right, They,
43:27
Speaker 2: like I said, they didn't at first think they were
43:29
Speaker 2: doing a soundtrack, then they did. They learned a whole
43:31
Speaker 2: lot from it, and they came out with High School Musical. Right.
43:36
Speaker 2: Like I said, we did a tour for the for
43:38
Speaker 2: Christmas and we just did like a theater tour and
43:42
Speaker 2: sold that out. And so then after we were doing
43:45
Speaker 2: the second movie, it was like, you guys are going
43:47
Speaker 2: to go on tour and we're going to promote the
43:49
Speaker 2: movie and the album and do a whole tour. We
43:52
Speaker 2: did that tour for like seven or eight months. It
43:55
Speaker 2: was only supposed to be four months, but we sold
43:57
Speaker 2: our numbers were doing so well. They had us like
44:00
Speaker 2: going back and doing those like cities again and it
44:04
Speaker 2: was like they saw touring was like just so successful, right.
44:09
Speaker 2: And the parents. What's great about the touring for us
44:12
Speaker 2: was you've got parents who have one kid or two kids,
44:16
Speaker 2: and now this is getting to be their first concert
44:19
Speaker 2: and the parents are getting the bandana and the glow
44:23
Speaker 2: stick and the our merch records were just going razy
44:27
Speaker 2: because they're getting it for them.
44:28
Speaker 1: Like, by the way, I need a Cheetah Girls shirt.
44:31
Speaker 1: I love me a merch shirt.
44:33
Speaker 2: I'll see if I can find one.
44:35
Speaker 1: Oh, if you can send it my way, I will, I.
44:38
Speaker 2: Will, I'll see if I can find one. What's cool
44:41
Speaker 2: now is they're doing these records like albums.
44:43
Speaker 1: Like like a throwback, like the ones that.
44:45
Speaker 2: Go on like the record a vinyl thinking they've got
44:50
Speaker 2: vinyls now for the first movies. So then they went.
44:53
Speaker 2: But what we were doing is it was a Cheetah
44:55
Speaker 2: Girls tour and a high school musical tour. Miley said,
44:58
Speaker 2: you want to hear something crazy? I just can't. The
45:01
Speaker 2: Jonas Brothers were our opening opening act on our Christmas tour.
45:07
Speaker 2: They were driving did you watch their doc Holli? They
45:09
Speaker 2: drove around and like a twelve person van. They were
45:13
Speaker 2: in that van like going behind like our tour bus.
45:16
Speaker 2: Al was our open So they opened for Ali and
45:19
Speaker 2: aj who opened for us. Isn't that crazy? That was
45:23
Speaker 2: before they had really that was like kind of part
45:26
Speaker 2: of their beginning into getting into the channel.
45:28
Speaker 1: Wow.
45:29
Speaker 2: Why Miley Cyrus opened for that second tour for us.
45:32
Speaker 2: Vanessa Hudgens opened for us, an artist who was so adorable.
45:37
Speaker 2: Jordan Pruitt opened for us. We had this great talent
45:41
Speaker 2: coming and opening for us and then going on their
45:44
Speaker 2: own tour. So all the tours were segregated. Now they're
45:47
Speaker 2: doing these like World Collide, so you can go, I'm
45:51
Speaker 2: going to take Monroe if you want to go in, Okay,
45:54
Speaker 2: tell me one. I want this Sibby Monroe's first concert.
45:57
Speaker 2: It's gonna be camp Rock three Kids, Descendants Kids and
46:01
Speaker 2: Zombies Kids, and they do full blown shows. They'll have production,
46:04
Speaker 2: they'll be amazing, they'll be my gosh, we're going.
46:06
Speaker 1: You are going. But I have the time of my
46:09
Speaker 1: life talking to you. I'm going to go home tonight.
46:11
Speaker 1: I'm making popcorn with my daughter with Eminem's in the bed,
46:16
Speaker 1: just because I told her we're doing it on a
46:19
Speaker 1: night that I can make the popcorn. We do popcorn
46:22
Speaker 1: in the bed like every night, and I was like,
46:23
Speaker 1: I need a little break from the popcorn in but
46:25
Speaker 1: tonight's the night.
46:28
Speaker 2: But it is always there in the morning, and you're
46:30
Speaker 2: like rolling around in the right.
46:33
Speaker 1: That's exactly how it is. So I very much appreciate
46:36
Speaker 1: you coming on Traditionally.
46:38
Speaker 2: This was so incredible. When I got the call, I
46:41
Speaker 2: couldn't believe it, and I was like, when and.
46:43
Speaker 1: Where, when and where and here we are. We brought
46:45
Speaker 1: her all the way from the O C right. I'm
46:48
Speaker 1: so grateful you guys, Thank you for listening to another
46:51
Speaker 1: episode of Untraditionally. La La I'm gonna catch you guys
46:53
Speaker 1: next week. Bye.