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- 0:00Speaker 1: I Am all In.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Fowles you.
- 0:16Speaker 3: I Am all in with Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
- 0:24Speaker 4: alone Productions, iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, iHeart Podcast. I Am all In
- 0:29Speaker 4: Again begins now, Season one, Episode one, the pilot Air
- 0:35Speaker 4: date October fifth, two thousand. This is the Amy Sherman
- 0:40Speaker 4: Palladino written, Leslie Lincoln Gladder directed, and I am joined
- 0:45Speaker 4: by none other than the very woman who stole this episode.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Emily Carota played missus Kim.
- 0:57Speaker 5: iHeart Podcasts.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Listen on the iHeart Radio app. Thanks for joining us
- 1:03Speaker 1: and welcome.
- 1:04Speaker 2: Thank you, Scott. Good to be here. Nice to revisit this.
- 1:08Speaker 1: It is right. Yeah, So I watched the pilot again
- 1:13Speaker 1: last night. It's maybe the third time I've seen it.
- 1:19Speaker 1: You know what I noticed about it, other than it
- 1:21Speaker 1: being incredibly perfect every way, it had a little bit
- 1:28Speaker 1: of a slower pace, didn't it. It breathed a little
- 1:31Speaker 1: bit more than you know, the episodes. As we went
- 1:35Speaker 1: on in those seasons, everything got faster and faster and faster.
- 1:39Speaker 1: This seemed to breathe a little bit and it again,
- 1:44Speaker 1: it's kind of felt like a film to me, really
- 1:48Speaker 1: great camera angles, terrific pacing, and it got fast when
- 1:53Speaker 1: it needed to get fast. Yeah, one thing I noticed, Well,
- 1:57Speaker 1: what did you notice about it?
- 2:00Speaker 2: I agree with you.
- 2:01Speaker 3: I think, you know, I was wondering maybe that that
- 2:04Speaker 3: had something to do with it being picked up by
- 2:06Speaker 3: Warner Brothers, because, you know, because we did take our
- 2:10Speaker 3: time in developing the characters and the audience would know
- 2:13Speaker 3: who we are and and I don't know, Yeah, I
- 2:18Speaker 3: like that pace.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Actually it got crazy after a while.
- 2:22Speaker 1: It did, right, It seemed everything seemed to speed up,
- 2:24Speaker 1: and I think for the benefit of the audience. But
- 2:27Speaker 1: this particular episode, this is my favorite episode of the
- 2:34Speaker 1: entire library of Gilmour episodes. Obviously, it's just so perfectly
- 2:41Speaker 1: crafted and Lauren just cuts through this thing beautifully. It
- 2:46Speaker 1: really was, you know, the coming out party for an
- 2:50Speaker 1: emergent star. Yeah, because she just handled everything with such
- 2:55Speaker 1: finesse and ease, and you know, hard to fall in
- 3:00Speaker 1: love with her in that role in that in that episode,
- 3:05Speaker 1: just a terrific coming out party for a lot of people,
- 3:08Speaker 1: but I think especially for her. And I thought I
- 3:10Speaker 1: thought you in particular stole the show. And the one
- 3:14Speaker 1: thing that almost made me fall out of the couch.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I will say now at this early juncture was when
- 3:20Speaker 1: you when you told Rory, boys don't like funny girls.
- 3:32Speaker 5: Oh god, all right, So anyway, so we uh, we
- 3:38Speaker 5: begin with this great camera shot of Lauren walking down
- 3:40Speaker 5: the street and into the diner with.
- 3:42Speaker 1: That wonderful song, and we start off with a bang,
- 3:47Speaker 1: her begging for a cup of coffee, and Joey arrives.
- 3:53Speaker 3: Amy Brooke a lot of conventions, you know, because she
- 3:57Speaker 3: was doing a yeah. So I really appreciated it.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Very funny lines, Oh so soon, and she's sixteen by
- 4:08Speaker 1: you know, take a hike. And I loved how that
- 4:15Speaker 1: relationship began with mother and daughter where it was a
- 4:18Speaker 1: little bit you know, Rory was being a little bit
- 4:20Speaker 1: rebellious and she was quippy with her mother about having
- 4:23Speaker 1: so much makeup. And and of course we have the
- 4:27Speaker 1: Luke Lorelei moments where we can't really read Luke very well.
- 4:32Speaker 1: He seems to be obviously hiding some feelings or he
- 4:38Speaker 1: really feels like this woman is annoying. And I remember
- 4:45Speaker 1: seeing it the first time going ooh, you know, and
- 4:48Speaker 1: I don't like watching my own work. I don't know
- 4:49Speaker 1: how you feel about.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Watching I'm with you.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Yeah, do you really you just despise it? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah.
- 4:57Speaker 1: It makes me very uncomfortable. And when I saw this
- 4:59Speaker 1: the first time, I I was like, ooh, I overplayed
- 5:01Speaker 1: this and he's he's a little too edgy right there.
- 5:03Speaker 1: But it kind of worked out.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Oh it was perfect, Scott, Are you kidding?
- 5:07Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it was best. And I remember making
- 5:10Speaker 1: that choice, like, don't show a thing. In fact, go
- 5:13Speaker 1: the go the other way with it and take that
- 5:17Speaker 1: risk because it's gonna pay off, and you know it's
- 5:19Speaker 1: gave you that journey, right exactly. But anyway, wonderful opening.
- 5:25Speaker 1: An hour at the end and Michelle's on the phone
- 5:27Speaker 1: wall flipping through the mail and we're thinking, who's this guy? Right?
- 5:31Speaker 1: And yeah, like what a great way to introduce all
- 5:35Speaker 1: of these characters and another another character you just do
- 5:42Speaker 1: not expect that he's going to be, you know, this
- 5:46Speaker 1: moody and this negative and this condescending and snobby and
- 5:52Speaker 1: ill tempered and you just love him right away. How
- 5:57Speaker 1: does Amy know how to create characters? I know? All right?
- 6:02Speaker 1: So now we're Rory and Lane, and this is when
- 6:06Speaker 1: I especially noticed the pace when Rory and Lane were
- 6:10Speaker 1: walking outside starts hollow and they're walking to school. The
- 6:15Speaker 1: pace was slower, it was different, it was more relaxed, right, yeah,
- 6:20Speaker 1: And she explains that they have a date, establishing that
- 6:27Speaker 1: they're best friends, and that Lane has you know, a
- 6:34Speaker 1: nightmare mom in how Rory defines things in her terms.
- 6:43Speaker 1: And she's being set up on a date with the
- 6:46Speaker 1: doctor and going on a hay ride, which is what's
- 6:48Speaker 1: wrong with that? And isn't an interesting how young everybody looks.
- 6:54Speaker 2: It was decades ago.
- 6:55Speaker 1: It was decades ago. We're pushing we're like into the
- 6:59Speaker 1: middle of the third decade of being past this thing,
- 7:02Speaker 1: so I should be surprised. One of the funniest bits
- 7:05Speaker 1: of the whole thing is Alex Borstein, who was originally
- 7:11Speaker 1: cast as Suki. She's pushing a harp, a giant harp
- 7:18Speaker 1: into the fourier, and she's telling people rudely, guests to
- 7:22Speaker 1: get the heck out of the way, big harp coming through,
- 7:25Speaker 1: you know. And so Laurlai, this is how we Madrella.
- 7:31Speaker 1: So Laura I rushes into the kitchen after hearing pots
- 7:35Speaker 1: and pants crashing. Now, Suki, as originally written, was hell
- 7:44Speaker 1: bent for leather if you will. She was going to
- 7:47Speaker 1: injure herself in every single episode. I wonder why. I mean,
- 7:52Speaker 1: as I recall, she got more coordinated and less a
- 7:57Speaker 1: danger to herself as the series went on. Right, But
- 8:00Speaker 1: this was one of the gags right away.
- 8:03Speaker 2: I loved it.
- 8:04Speaker 3: And I didn't know whether, you know, Amy, you put
- 8:06Speaker 3: that in for alex Or because they're friends, right, And
- 8:10Speaker 3: if they adjusted it for Melissa.
- 8:12Speaker 2: I don't know, But yeah, I kind of missed it.
- 8:14Speaker 2: I thought it was hilarious.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was hilarious too. It really gave it.
- 8:20Speaker 1: I mean, it was one of the most clever devices
- 8:22Speaker 1: I saw on the pilot. Is this poor woman who's
- 8:28Speaker 1: so gifted, a chef who's who's just gonna and she
- 8:33Speaker 1: bumps her assistant in the head. Fine, it was like
- 8:39Speaker 1: watching an episode of The Three Stooges. Almost all right,
- 8:41Speaker 1: Now we get to where the rubber really meets the road.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Kim's antiques. All right, So Lane and Rory go into
- 8:51Speaker 1: your antique store home slash home. You shout from the
- 8:56Speaker 1: back that everything is half off as the girls try
- 8:59Speaker 1: to find you in the store. So Rory thanks missus.
- 9:05Speaker 1: Kim hates her. Lane tells her she doesn't like Laura
- 9:09Speaker 1: I because she doesn't trust unmarried women. Tell us about
- 9:15Speaker 1: those scenes that you played with Lauren and what it
- 9:20Speaker 1: was like.
- 9:21Speaker 3: You know, it was really weird because we never really
- 9:24Speaker 3: had to rehearse it.
- 9:27Speaker 2: It just came naturally.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Lauren was just so easy to work with and so quick,
- 9:35Speaker 3: so it just it just happened and we navigated. I mean,
- 9:39Speaker 3: the set was crazy because they actually had stats and
- 9:43Speaker 3: stacks of chair that was kind of kind of dangerous
- 9:46Speaker 3: and paths that we and the cameras on a city camp.
- 9:50Speaker 3: But we found the little holes to talk through and
- 9:53Speaker 3: it just Lauren.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Didn't you think Lauren was just a dream to work with.
- 9:58Speaker 3: It was like intuitive, yeah, and there was a mutual
- 10:02Speaker 3: respect well you know me hating her.
- 10:16Speaker 1: All right, So now you ask the girls how school
- 10:20Speaker 1: was Roy jokes about a student glowing from pregnant because
- 10:24Speaker 1: your line was, no girls got pregnant today. You know,
- 10:28Speaker 1: you've formulated your opinions of American high schools and behavior obviously,
- 10:35Speaker 1: and that's when you delivered the great line. Can you
- 10:40Speaker 1: deliver that line for us, please? It's better if you
- 10:43Speaker 1: do it.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Okay, boys don't like funny girls. They don't they don't.
- 10:54Speaker 1: Give me your overall impression of the pilot. Do you
- 10:56Speaker 1: remember when you first saw it?
- 10:59Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I was so proud to be a part
- 11:04Speaker 2: of it.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
- 11:07Speaker 2: It was magical. I think she how she could set
- 11:12Speaker 2: up this the groundwork for the series, you know, with
- 11:19Speaker 2: each character.
- 11:22Speaker 3: And like with you, you know, it started off rough, but
- 11:24Speaker 3: then she planted that seed towards the end of the
- 11:26Speaker 3: episode where you look good. She planted the seed that
- 11:29Speaker 3: you know, it's gonna something's going to grow from that.
- 11:32Speaker 3: And the mother daughter relationships were so powerful. Yeah, so
- 11:40Speaker 3: it was clearly how much they love each other, which
- 11:43Speaker 3: is why how much, which is why they hated each
- 11:45Speaker 3: other so much sometimes, you know, And it was so rich.
- 11:50Speaker 2: So I was so pleased.
- 11:52Speaker 3: And I think after seven years, I think there was
- 11:55Speaker 3: only one recast that we had to do. But Amy's
- 11:59Speaker 3: intuition about Buddha casts it was brilliant, I think, because
- 12:04Speaker 3: everybody's instinct seemed to just click with the characters and
- 12:09Speaker 3: we all work together so well. It was magical, I thought,
- 12:13Speaker 3: And I think that's why it's lasted so long.
- 12:16Speaker 1: We Yeah, isn't it such a treat that after almost
- 12:22Speaker 1: two and a half decades now the show seems to
- 12:26Speaker 1: be and continues every year to grow and get larger
- 12:31Speaker 1: and get a new generation of fans as they discovered
- 12:36Speaker 1: on Netflix and download and binge. It's just an extraordinary experience.
- 12:42Speaker 1: Did you know? And I'll throw out a little factoid
- 12:45Speaker 1: that from September two to September eighth, the Nielsen ratings
- 12:51Speaker 1: came out as they do every week for streaming shows,
- 12:55Speaker 1: which are downloadable shows. So basically they're talking about all
- 12:58Speaker 1: the streaming platforms because it's well, anybody does anymore? And
- 13:04Speaker 1: the number eight show in the world Gilmore Girls, and
- 13:12Speaker 1: we've been off the air since two thousand and seven,
- 13:15Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy six million viewer minutes in that
- 13:20Speaker 1: week alone, placing us number eight. And that was the
- 13:25Speaker 1: real highlight of the headline from the trades is that
- 13:30Speaker 1: I think Nicole Kidman and Leave Schreiber's the perfect couples
- 13:33Speaker 1: number one with I don't know one point five or
- 13:37Speaker 1: six billion viewer minutes. And it's a wonderful ROMP eight
- 13:43Speaker 1: episode limited series. And it's true. Have you seen it?
- 13:45Speaker 1: It's Oh, it's wonderful. It's just so beautifully written and
- 13:49Speaker 1: beautifully acted. But to be on that list continue to
- 13:56Speaker 1: be in the top ten. It's just it's wild to
- 14:01Speaker 1: even think about it. So anyway, Yeah, each year that
- 14:08Speaker 1: goes by, the luckier I feel that I was a
- 14:11Speaker 1: part of this, and it's just, you know, it's just
- 14:15Speaker 1: hitting you every single day. Yeah, yeah, we got pretty lucky.
- 14:23Speaker 1: So lucky. I mean, just think of all the shows
- 14:30Speaker 1: that you know, I think of all the work I
- 14:34Speaker 1: did before I got Gilmore Girls and where I could
- 14:37Speaker 1: have ended up, and the things that I was going
- 14:40Speaker 1: for and was so disappointed that I didn't get, you know,
- 14:43Speaker 1: because I was in the running for, oh my god,
- 14:45Speaker 1: so many things and how a career goes and you know,
- 14:49Speaker 1: I was it was between me and Michael Madsen for
- 14:53Speaker 1: Mister Blonde and Reservoir Dogs, and imagine what that could
- 14:56Speaker 1: have done for a career, right, And it just you know,
- 15:01Speaker 1: I really believe that you get the thing that you're
- 15:05Speaker 1: ready for, you know, you really do. And I don't
- 15:09Speaker 1: think I was ready for that role. I think Madsen
- 15:11Speaker 1: was the better choice, right, I mean, I was probably
- 15:15Speaker 1: would have been a good choice, but Madsen is a
- 15:17Speaker 1: much better choice. He had the resume, he had the experience,
- 15:22Speaker 1: and he had the look that, you know, it was
- 15:24Speaker 1: all kind of perfect. So it's got to be perfect, right.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Casting is so ultra specific, and that's what I think
- 15:32Speaker 1: you're talking about with Gilmour Girls, is just how specific
- 15:36Speaker 1: everything is and how each character tailors and conforms to
- 15:42Speaker 1: Amy's vision of what that character should be and how
- 15:47Speaker 1: she sees it in her head. So that's how it
- 15:50Speaker 1: works for her. And when you walked into the room
- 15:52Speaker 1: and did your thing, Bam, no questions asked. That's missus, Kim.
- 15:59Speaker 1: She's the same thing with me. She did the same
- 16:01Speaker 1: thing with everybody. Everybody like he knew, she knew and
- 16:08Speaker 1: she and that was a time when uh, you know,
- 16:13Speaker 1: film stars were jumping over into TV and that was
- 16:18Speaker 1: becoming a thing in two thousands. You know, it was
- 16:20Speaker 1: like so when I got this script, I don't know
- 16:23Speaker 1: how you felt, but I read this script and I thought,
- 16:26Speaker 1: this is just too good to be. You know, I'm
- 16:29Speaker 1: not going to get this, uh, And that's part of
- 16:32Speaker 1: the reason I got it, because I just threw it away.
- 16:34Speaker 1: I mean, I worked on the audition. I went and
- 16:36Speaker 1: I gave a good audition, but I was giving a
- 16:38Speaker 1: good auditions every day, three times a day, and I
- 16:40Speaker 1: just stopped caring. I was like, it doesn't matter, or
- 16:43Speaker 1: just throw it away. You know, you're not going to
- 16:45Speaker 1: get the offer, but you're you know, this is your
- 16:49Speaker 1: time to develop a fan base amongst the casting community,
- 16:54Speaker 1: which is what it takes, you know, because they all
- 16:57Speaker 1: talk and said, you know, he came in for me
- 16:59Speaker 1: a couple of times and he's really doing a good job.
- 17:02Speaker 1: Maybe you should hire him, and let's bring him in
- 17:04Speaker 1: for this, and you know, he's just so so there,
- 17:07Speaker 1: ready to go. And you know, I think that's a
- 17:09Speaker 1: very common experience for people who you know, finally break
- 17:12Speaker 1: through with the right thing. And yeah, I think this
- 17:18Speaker 1: was the role for me. And I think I got
- 17:22Speaker 1: it because I was ready for it, because I had
- 17:24Speaker 1: that you know that what do they call it, the
- 17:28Speaker 1: dumb courage of the truly burnt out. Yeah, it's good.
- 17:35Speaker 1: I just didn't care anymore because I knew what the
- 17:38Speaker 1: answer was going to be. At the end of the day.
- 17:40Speaker 1: You know that I loved you, but it's just going
- 17:43Speaker 1: another way. I mean, how many, Emily, how many times
- 17:46Speaker 1: have you gotten that phone call? Yeah?
- 17:50Speaker 3: Right, but it's good to go in like like, well,
- 17:53Speaker 3: what the heck you know, and not caring that much
- 17:55Speaker 3: and just.
- 17:57Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think that helps.
- 18:00Speaker 2: In a way because you're relaxed. I was relaxed. It
- 18:03Speaker 2: was like another one. I'm just kind of whatever.
- 18:06Speaker 1: You know, right, Is that is that how you approached
- 18:08Speaker 1: it too? Oh yeah, I just didn't care anymore. I
- 18:12Speaker 1: mean I was respectful. I was happy to be there.
- 18:16Speaker 1: I liked everybody in the room. You know, Gavin was there,
- 18:19Speaker 1: Amy was there, Leslie Lincoln Glotta was there. Casting person
- 18:22Speaker 1: was there. It wasn't it wasn't the people that were
- 18:24Speaker 1: casting season two through the end. It was another casting team.
- 18:29Speaker 1: They were there, and I remember I read for them
- 18:31Speaker 1: and then they brought me to producers and I was saying,
- 18:33Speaker 1: oh great, Yeah, so that's when I met Amy the
- 18:36Speaker 1: first time. And uh yeah. I just remember it being
- 18:42Speaker 1: you know, pretty relaxed and I like them. You know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: you can feel people, right, so I just like, oh,
- 18:48Speaker 1: these these are these are kind of my people. I
- 18:51Speaker 1: kind of feel these people. You know. Other times you
- 18:54Speaker 1: walk in rooms and you're like, wow, there's a wall
- 18:58Speaker 1: up and it's like, I this is not right, this
- 19:01Speaker 1: doesn't feel right. But I think I think the brave thing,
- 19:04Speaker 1: the courageous thing for Amy to do for everyone in
- 19:07Speaker 1: the cast was she had options that had main value
- 19:11Speaker 1: attached to them for every single role. And I bet
- 19:14Speaker 1: you every big agency in town, you know, the three
- 19:18Speaker 1: biggies C A, I, C. M. And William Morris and UTA,
- 19:24Speaker 1: four biggies who weren't being biggie at the time, but
- 19:26Speaker 1: now they are. We're throwing all their top clients at
- 19:31Speaker 1: the script. You had to figure that, right, I mean,
- 19:35Speaker 1: and you feel that when you walk into most rooms
- 19:38Speaker 1: that European they don't want you. Let's just get through
- 19:43Speaker 1: this because I have to get back to the office
- 19:46Speaker 1: and try to close this deal for the star name
- 19:50Speaker 1: for this role. So they don't even want to be
- 19:53Speaker 1: there half the time when you walk in because like
- 19:55Speaker 1: who you know, who are you? And how are you
- 19:57Speaker 1: going to make my life better? You're not all right?
- 20:00Speaker 1: Get through the reading, fine, bye, get out here. And
- 20:04Speaker 1: I know Amy and Dan were under the same kind
- 20:07Speaker 1: of pressure, but they fought for us. They fought for
- 20:12Speaker 1: every single person because I bet you the network was like, no,
- 20:16Speaker 1: we're gonna go with star name, We're gonna go with
- 20:18Speaker 1: this name, and Amy was like, no, these are the
- 20:21Speaker 1: right care these are the right actors for these roles
- 20:26Speaker 1: and she stood firm so fighting for us like that,
- 20:33Speaker 1: and I knew that was the case. I mean, you
- 20:37Speaker 1: talk about loyalty, oh my. And people wonder why people
- 20:43Speaker 1: love Amy and Dan so much. This is the reason. Yeah,
- 20:46Speaker 1: they fight for what they believe in. Uh, they fight
- 20:50Speaker 1: for their artistic choices. They are uncompromising and you better
- 20:55Speaker 1: believe they're uncompromising. And I know, but you have to
- 20:58Speaker 1: respect that, you really have And Smike Gilmour. Girls is
- 21:01Speaker 1: so great because two people or true artists, were under fire, uncompromising,
- 21:09Speaker 1: stood their ground, got the people that they wanted, got
- 21:13Speaker 1: the budgets they needed, and made magic comes down to
- 21:18Speaker 1: two people, and they made all those decisions in the beginning,
- 21:23Speaker 1: all the artartistic decisions. So they fought for it. I
- 21:30Speaker 1: mean they and continued to fight for it.
- 21:34Speaker 2: And I think that's that's why it lasted so long.
- 21:37Speaker 3: That's why the quality was unheard of in television, unheard
- 21:43Speaker 3: down to the flowers. Remember the flower, Amy said, no
- 21:47Speaker 3: fake flowers. Little things like that make a big different
- 21:52Speaker 3: difference in the field of the product. You know, Yeah,
- 21:56Speaker 3: we had to be word perfect, but it made a different.
- 22:09Speaker 1: I don't know if Amy will like this comparison. But
- 22:13Speaker 1: you know, I read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs,
- 22:19Speaker 1: who created Apple with Steve Wozniak, and the same kind
- 22:28Speaker 1: of personality, m super creative. Every detail of everything had
- 22:37Speaker 1: to be perfect, perfect, perfect, the way he wanted it
- 22:43Speaker 1: and envisioned it. It's like, this is the shape. You know,
- 22:48Speaker 1: you walk into the engineers and he'd say that that
- 22:51Speaker 1: you know the top people in the world, by the way,
- 22:53Speaker 1: who all have opinions, and he said, this is the
- 22:57Speaker 1: shape of this thing. Fix it, put it, make it work,
- 23:03Speaker 1: conform your engineering to this shape. And that's what Amy did,
- 23:08Speaker 1: said this is this is, this is what I want.
- 23:11Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. And she never gave an inch
- 23:15Speaker 1: to anyone. That's why audience out there you get to
- 23:21Speaker 1: enjoy these shows because you're dealing with two very very
- 23:25Speaker 1: special talents in Amy and Dan Palladino, giving of themselves
- 23:34Speaker 1: a two hundred percent every single day and fighting all
- 23:39Speaker 1: those fights to make sure that their quote unquote and
- 23:44Speaker 1: I hate to put it this way product is not
- 23:49Speaker 1: tarnished by any outside influences because they owned it, they
- 23:54Speaker 1: created it, it was theirs and they were going to
- 23:58Speaker 1: die on that Hill defending it, and they did, and
- 24:02Speaker 1: that's why, you know, we get some good episodes out
- 24:06Speaker 1: of season seven. There are some terrific episodes. And I
- 24:09Speaker 1: thought David Rosenthal did a very commendable job. But how
- 24:13Speaker 1: are you going to compete with that? You know, it's
- 24:16Speaker 1: an impossible task, an unenviable task. But thought he did
- 24:19Speaker 1: a great job, So I want to I love writers
- 24:24Speaker 1: so much. Writers to me are I don't know. I
- 24:30Speaker 1: think the true Creator is the most courageous of the
- 24:33Speaker 1: courageous because it's it's creating by themselves in a dark
- 24:40Speaker 1: room months on end, years on end. Well, at least
- 24:43Speaker 1: they had each other write Dan and Amy, but just
- 24:48Speaker 1: love writers. Got into the business because of a writer,
- 24:53Speaker 1: Patty Chefski. I loved his writing so much after seeing
- 25:00Speaker 1: Altered States and the hospital and network. I just that's
- 25:06Speaker 1: what made me want to be an actor. Is a
- 25:08Speaker 1: great writer wanted me to be an actor because I
- 25:11Speaker 1: wanted to say those lines. I wanted to say those
- 25:14Speaker 1: lines that William Hurt said as a young actor in
- 25:18Speaker 1: Altered States. I couldn't believe the dialogue that I was
- 25:21Speaker 1: hearing and that I was believing it, and that it
- 25:25Speaker 1: was sweeping me away and I was like, oh man,
- 25:28Speaker 1: I want to do that. Oh oh, that's just great.
- 25:33Speaker 1: So yeah, hats off to great writing. That's why this show,
- 25:37Speaker 1: Ladies and Gentlemen, is what it is and why it
- 25:40Speaker 1: delights you and heals you, and it goes around the
- 25:43Speaker 1: world and makes help the world spin on its axis
- 25:47Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, and makes a world a
- 25:50Speaker 1: better place. So anyway, it's been great having you. Final thoughts,
- 25:55Speaker 1: Emily Corota.
- 25:56Speaker 2: It was hard work making each and entry one of
- 25:59Speaker 2: those that's right.
- 26:01Speaker 3: And I remember Saturday morning at five am and Amy
- 26:06Speaker 3: going again, it's not right again, and Laura I say,
- 26:13Speaker 3: I'm so tired. I'm not a robot, and Amy says, no, again,
- 26:17Speaker 3: it's not right. And that's what made Gilmoorger such a beautiful,
- 26:22Speaker 3: perfect show.
- 26:24Speaker 1: That's right. Thank yeah, and I thank her for that. Yeah. Yeah,
- 26:28Speaker 1: that's what it takes. Sometimes you don't when you don't
- 26:32Speaker 1: have anything left to give, and they still get it
- 26:37Speaker 1: out of you.
- 26:37Speaker 3: They got Yeah, she got it out of all of us,
- 26:40Speaker 3: exactly what she needed for her vision.
- 26:43Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I think Lauren and Alexis experienced
- 26:48Speaker 1: that more than everybody on the cast. You know that
- 26:51Speaker 1: exhaustion that I just can't do it anymore. I can't
- 26:55Speaker 1: go on. I need to just go home, home and
- 26:59Speaker 1: go to bed right now. But now we need a
- 27:00Speaker 1: couple more takes, you know. I mean, it's that level
- 27:03Speaker 1: of dedication. And yeah, Amy demanded it, and she got it.
- 27:08Speaker 1: She got it, and she got it from everyone. I know,
- 27:12Speaker 1: she got it from everyone. Nobody said no, nobody said no. Anyway,
- 27:20Speaker 1: it was a pleasure watching this episode and Emily, always
- 27:24Speaker 1: great to see you, and the work is stunning, just
- 27:32Speaker 1: absolutely stunning, great, great, great character actress, Emily Carota. And
- 27:39Speaker 1: that's going to wrap it up here, everybody. We will
- 27:43Speaker 1: see you next time. Best fans on the planet. Thanks
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