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One on One: Patrika Darbo · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in. I am all in with Scott
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  Speaker 1: Patterson and I heart radio podcast. Everybody's Scott Patterson, I
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  Speaker 1: am all in. We've got a little bonus episode here
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  Speaker 1: with Patricka Darbo, who appears as the waitressing help Wanted
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  Speaker 1: season two episode twenty. She is an actress with a
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  Speaker 1: very impressive resume. You know, she's been on Days of
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  Speaker 1: Our Lives forever for twenty four years. She's worked with
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  Speaker 1: John Malkovich and Clin Eastwood in a Line of Fire.
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  Speaker 1: She's been in many many things. She also appeared in
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  Speaker 1: another Clin Eastwood film, I Think Beyond the Garden of
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  Speaker 1: Good and Evil I Think is the name of the film.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna bring her on now, so excited to
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  Speaker 1: talk with her. She's very distinctive, very funny, very talented actress.
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  Speaker 1: Let's bring her on, wo Patrica Darbo is well known
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  Speaker 1: and beloved actress behind the character of Nancy Westerl and
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  Speaker 1: the popular and credit lungs running soap opera Days of
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  Speaker 1: Our Live. So thanks for coming on as how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Oh our pleasure? Um, I want to get
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  Speaker 1: into so many things. You have a varied resume here,
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  Speaker 1: very deep resume. Clint Eastwood The Line of Fire. John Malkovich,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that scene. What a terrifying scene. Oh my god, Uh, Rosanne,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things. So let's get into the uh
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  Speaker 1: the Gilmore thing. You are seen as the hungry diner
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  Speaker 1: waitress in this episode. How did you get the role? And? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Did you audition for the waitress or was it another
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  Speaker 1: role or they decided to that I had to audition.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the room with my checkbook and offered
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  Speaker 1: to pay for That's that's what I did to you.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, Amy Ladino said, um, somebody views that we
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  Speaker 1: ever watched her here, it's like this, um. And so
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  Speaker 1: I auditioned and then they were so later they Callden said,
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  Speaker 1: I got the part. I was so. I was just
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  Speaker 1: very excited because I was a big fan. I watched
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. I listened to the town uh,
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  Speaker 1: Sally Strutters and all these characters, so that I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember everybody's name because I'm an old dog, so if
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  Speaker 1: you please forgive me. But we had the strolling inflow
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, it's just it was just it
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  Speaker 1: was something you tuned in because they were all family
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  Speaker 1: that you you watched that show and you became very
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  Speaker 1: involved in it because, oh my god, in the episode
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  Speaker 1: just for mine, Um, you know, she's got a broken
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  Speaker 1: arm and everybody's upset with the here I forgetting names.
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  Speaker 1: Um who was just on This is Us helped me
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  Speaker 1: something recommended leigli Um. You're talking about Rory. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: when Rory got her broke and arm from the car accident,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's you know, blaming j and it just was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But for me to be the waitress when they want
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  Speaker 1: coffee and all I have is a regular diner room cup,
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  Speaker 1: but I just I just remember thinking, I'm with the
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore girl. They want coffee and I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: big enough It's a good bit. It was a very good.
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  Speaker 1: But so what do you remember about working on on
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  Speaker 1: the show. It was very fast. Uh, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: did my scene and I think we did mine and
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  Speaker 1: just after lunch we came in. I came in earlier
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  Speaker 1: to get ready and then we went to lunch and
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  Speaker 1: then we we found it a little bit of like this.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was like that. Her Amy kelle is crisp writing
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  Speaker 1: and stuff and her husband that worked together collaboratively. There.
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  Speaker 1: It's just an amazing show and she still got things
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  Speaker 1: going on? Your character uses this high pitched voice. Is
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  Speaker 1: that something that you put on? And if so, why, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know it was an actress choice at this point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I could have been. I think she was
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  Speaker 1: very like everything was for me. My choice for the
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  Speaker 1: character was that everything is a character. And how are
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  Speaker 1: you in coming in and today? Specialist? Do you want? Okay? Fine,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean? You want? A cup? A boat,
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  Speaker 1: a bowl of coffee? What you know? Suddenly things shot
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  Speaker 1: her and she's out of there. But was my choice
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  Speaker 1: becauld feel like something my cheerful and everything he's wonderful. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So talking talk about the food? Was it real? People
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  Speaker 1: want to know they like this these little details? Was
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  Speaker 1: the food? The food is real? If you watch that,
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  Speaker 1: I only starved coffee. Nobody was eating in my scene.
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  Speaker 1: Who you unique was over there with him? Well? I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't in my station, not my job. Nice safe,
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  Speaker 1: good one. Um, So we can't have you on and
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk about the soap operas. Tell us about how
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  Speaker 1: you got the soap opera and your experience on that. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I was asked by fran Bascom, who has since passed away.
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  Speaker 1: She was a very famous casting director. She saw me.
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  Speaker 1: We were at a party together, and she said, Patrica,
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  Speaker 1: would you do a soap? Well, in my mind's eye
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  Speaker 1: for me, I'm not your normal soap character, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: of course I would, thinking I'm coming on too serpeanuts
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  Speaker 1: or beer or coffee. Uh. So I get there and
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  Speaker 1: I find out I have this gorgeous soap opera husband.
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  Speaker 1: And my first thought was, they don't know who I am.
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  Speaker 1: They've made a mistake like this. Um. But I ended
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  Speaker 1: up being called the full figured bitch goddess of daytime
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  Speaker 1: because my husband and I were stinkers. Um and uh
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  Speaker 1: it blossom from that. I think that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the audience could. Was it hard to live through a
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  Speaker 1: size too? I am assize to but my zeros on
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  Speaker 1: one side, whereas Christian Alfonso, who was our leading lady,
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  Speaker 1: was on the other side. Um. And then it blossomed
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  Speaker 1: into me having a daughter, um, and it just on
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  Speaker 1: and on, and then having another daughter to say that
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  Speaker 1: daughter's life who got leukemia? So it was um and
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  Speaker 1: right now and um back on the show. And at
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  Speaker 1: this point, my husband of thirty five years has just
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  Speaker 1: told me that he's gay and needs a divorce. And
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  Speaker 1: that's as far as I can tell you right now,
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  Speaker 1: because that's all. It's sad, but it's uh. My grandmother
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  Speaker 1: called it her stories. She watches those. Um. We come
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  Speaker 1: into people's lives every single day, so we're uh and
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  Speaker 1: some family you don't want to talk to. We worked
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  Speaker 1: kind of one of those. H I've enjoyed it. It's
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  Speaker 1: the hardest work that I've ever had to do. So
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  Speaker 1: much memorizing. Uh. Your script comes and there's probably if
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  Speaker 1: if you're in the story on that script, you may
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  Speaker 1: have thirty to forty pages to memorize movie script a day.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas you're doing episodic, you make shoot five pages and
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  Speaker 1: you're out when that when the close up the medium
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  Speaker 1: shot close up shot. UM, and your five pages takes
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  Speaker 1: all day. We go in there. Here's your rehearsal, which
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  Speaker 1: is walk in the door, and you go to hair
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  Speaker 1: and makeup, and then you're on the stage and you
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  Speaker 1: better have your line to memorize because of maam bam,
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  Speaker 1: thank it man. That's a real proving ground, you know, wow,
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  Speaker 1: um and that haven't done so far fests before and
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  Speaker 1: they're not aware that you can't go cut. What was
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  Speaker 1: this so you generally have maybe maybe two takes if
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  Speaker 1: you're lucky. Um, but it's very fast because they have
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  Speaker 1: to get through a movie scripted. Yeah. So um, going
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  Speaker 1: down your resume. Uh, you know you were in the
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  Speaker 1: Line of Fire, A Line of Fire Cling Eastwood directed,
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  Speaker 1: starring John Malkovich. You had a pivotal scene with Malkovich
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  Speaker 1: in the bank, and then when you caught him in
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  Speaker 1: the lie Uh, he visited upon you at your apartment
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  Speaker 1: with your roommate and did terrible things. Um. I have
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  Speaker 1: to say as a as an acting student in New York, Um,
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  Speaker 1: Malkovich's star was on the rise in theater. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: I you know, everybody went to see him and burn
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  Speaker 1: this the Lanford Wilson play on Broadway. Um. And everybody
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  Speaker 1: was also aware of his work with Gary Sinise in
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  Speaker 1: the Sam Shepherd True West that was American Playhouse actually
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  Speaker 1: filmed it and released it on video because the live
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  Speaker 1: performance was so legendary. So, you know, in New York
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  Speaker 1: acting circles at that time, that was the late eighties,
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  Speaker 1: Malkovich was was truly a god. And every single acting student,
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  Speaker 1: male acting student was doing John Malkovich scenes from either
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  Speaker 1: True West or branness, and it was like, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: stand going to acting class anymore because I was going
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  Speaker 1: to see another bed John Malcovitch imitation from somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the class. So but you got to work with the
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  Speaker 1: legend himself. What was that like? Uh? First of all,
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing because if I kind of go back
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  Speaker 1: to the end of it, he made sure when we
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  Speaker 1: were working with the stunt director that we all knew
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  Speaker 1: that like he was going to kill me on one
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  Speaker 1: to three, that was how he was going to kill me.
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  Speaker 1: He roommate and he she this was her first acting
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  Speaker 1: job in film. He's a wonderful singer, stage actress. This
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  Speaker 1: was her first stage thing and she spent all the
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  Speaker 1: morning being slammed into that mantelpiece and killed by him. Um,
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  Speaker 1: then it was my turn in again. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: he was wonderful. So I have to tell you that
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  Speaker 1: when I found out I was working there, I was
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  Speaker 1: also doing a play in Burbank and one of the
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  Speaker 1: young girls who was a student at u c. L
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  Speaker 1: A Theater and she said like this, if we don't
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  Speaker 1: get to keep me John Macovich, I'll kill you. Oh
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  Speaker 1: I can ask, I can add and um, they were
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  Speaker 1: gracious enough to let me ask her to come with
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  Speaker 1: me to set, and John Malkovich spent the time they
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  Speaker 1: were setting set up talking to her about theater. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: here's a young college student and a consummate theater actor
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  Speaker 1: who took the time to do that. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: ever said I would never say. I would defend him
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  Speaker 1: to the end because I thought he was He was
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  Speaker 1: wonderful to me as to make sure I wasn't hurt
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  Speaker 1: and to marry Van r still in my roommate at
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  Speaker 1: the time. But he spent all this time talking to
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  Speaker 1: her at this and he didn't have to do it
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  Speaker 1: with all of us as actors. He wasn't in his
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  Speaker 1: dressing room. Um, he was great. Um. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: my publicists things like this. Part of the leading for
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  Speaker 1: me is you shouldn't have been from Minneapolis, so um.
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  Speaker 1: But I can only speak very well of that. I
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  Speaker 1: have to say that the scene in the bank was
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  Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood's favorite scene between the Natural reportang going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, and he asked me to be in Midnight
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  Speaker 1: a Garden of good and evil character in that one.
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  Speaker 1: So if I could say anything to young actress would
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  Speaker 1: be nice to everybody, because it just comes back to
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  Speaker 1: you absolutely. Um. Yeah, what was it like working with Clint?
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  Speaker 1: Did you audition for Clint? Or did did you go
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  Speaker 1: on tape and chose your tape into auditions? Thinking he
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  Speaker 1: knew who I was, Um, I got the part and
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  Speaker 1: then he said I want you to do X, Y
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  Speaker 1: and Z, and I went, um, mysteries, which should I?
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  Speaker 1: He goes, it's Clint little Darwin and so he was
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  Speaker 1: very nice and stuff like that. So we did something
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  Speaker 1: else and then he said you should do this and
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  Speaker 1: I said, but if I do that, I won't be
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  Speaker 1: able to be in the center and stuff. He goes
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  Speaker 1: thinking after here, thinking he was, I mean, my experiences
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  Speaker 1: have been wonderful. I I give out what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get back and it comes back to me very nice,
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  Speaker 1: very very very nice. Um, So you have done how
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  Speaker 1: many episodes getting back to Days of Our Lives? Um?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how many episodes you've done with Days
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  Speaker 1: of Our Lives? Have you counted them? I think when
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  Speaker 1: I first started Night, then we run episode seventy thousand
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  Speaker 1: or seven thousand, and now I'm at fourteen thousand something. So,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, the show has been on because nineteen
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  Speaker 1: six five. Um, there's only four soaps left that the
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  Speaker 1: days of our lives, General Hospitals with both and The
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful and Young and the Restless. Um. Uh, so all
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  Speaker 1: the networks are virtually uh, we're all very high. I
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  Speaker 1: think both in The Beautiful just got celebrated their thirty
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  Speaker 1: fifth year, so they're long running stuff. But when I
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  Speaker 1: first started in there were still soaps in New York.
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  Speaker 1: But we lost all my children and asked the world
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  Speaker 1: turns all those shows that were there. Um, And it's
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  Speaker 1: a shame because the soap operas are what virtually supported
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  Speaker 1: the network. You know, back in the six every procer
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  Speaker 1: gambled fighting to see who was gonna do what show
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  Speaker 1: and all the types of things. So um, it's often.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time we now have all these
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  Speaker 1: screaming and uh podcasts, but web series that go on
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  Speaker 1: things like that, So it's it keeps going. Information tells
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  Speaker 1: me that you have done four hundred and fifty episodes. Damn,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of memorizing one of my Yeah, is
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  Speaker 1: it different doing uh? How much different was it doing
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls versus doing uh? Let's you know, some of
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  Speaker 1: your soap opera work just the sheer amount of dialogue
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  Speaker 1: because we had a lot of dialogue too, and we
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  Speaker 1: did ten pages a day, so so you're tim pages
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  Speaker 1: and I was like a half a page and I
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  Speaker 1: was in and I went out right, So it's a
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  Speaker 1: quick thing. Yeah. Now at six o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: I may not leave until six o'clock at night. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing a scene in the pub over here, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing a scene in my bedroom over here, so
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  Speaker 1: that I have to wait till the seat at the cameras,
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  Speaker 1: I'll move to the second stage. And when you're memorizing
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  Speaker 1: thirty things, or you're shooting more than one show, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we're shooting a piece of the show. So it's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot difference because even though you have ten
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  Speaker 1: days at fast, we're very fast. H m hmm. It's
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  Speaker 1: time for rapid fire. You ready to answer some questions
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  Speaker 1: very rapidly? Are you team Logan, Jess or Dean? Oh? Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know your
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  Speaker 1: team Jess. I can I can tell what's your favorite
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore girl's character? Oh, that would have to be Um Laurli.
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  Speaker 1: What would you order? Luke Steiner Hamburger. Would you rather
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  Speaker 1: go on a road trip with Taylor or Michelle? Taylor?
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  Speaker 1: Finish the lyric and where you lead, I will follow. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I'll go anywhere that you
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  Speaker 1: tell me too, was the correct answer, Jeff. But that
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  Speaker 1: was great. That was good. Uh, Jackson's Vegetables or Suki's
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  Speaker 1: Baked Goods. Would you rather listen to Drella's Harp or
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  Speaker 1: The Trooper Door? The Trooper Doors, Cover Songs, through the Door, Children,
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  Speaker 1: Prepper Stars, hollow High, Whoa, I went hollows High? Favorite? Yeah, favorite,
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girl's memory. Golly, I don't you know? I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's been and wats since I've seen the show.
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  Speaker 1: I just watched my episode, so that at least be
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  Speaker 1: intelligent in this conversation. I think probably um the episode
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  Speaker 1: where uh gosh, I'm gonna trying to think to download
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  Speaker 1: it just properly here. But when Lorie loses her virginity,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, m Alexis character loses what I'm a woman? Honey,
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  Speaker 1: Come on, all you know? No, no, no, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: what you know what I'm talking? Oh? From an episode?
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  Speaker 1: I see I haven't seen the episodes. Well, how can
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  Speaker 1: you talk to me, give me a record fire. I
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  Speaker 1: think you need to go in there. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: she loses her virginity. I'm gonna flip out. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: I think how it was handles and stuff and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I think people don't covering my ears. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm covering my ears. Boiler Oh my god, what a bombshell. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: it was a pleasure talking to you, Patrika. We uh,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta go. We got more more episodes
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  Speaker 1: to do. Wish I could talk to you further. You're fascinating. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your time and keep
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  Speaker 1: on keeping on and uh looking forward to seeing you
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  Speaker 1: in more films and TV shows. You're wonderful actress. And
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  Speaker 1: good luck with everything. Okay, hey, thanks for coming on
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  Speaker 1: very much. Talk to you all later. Okay, by hot
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