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One on One: Vanessa Marano · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just do more. I am all in with Scott Patterson,
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  Speaker 2: an iHeartRadio podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all in podcast, one
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  Speaker 3: of them productions iHeart Radio. I'm gonna be a Columbus
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  Speaker 3: Galaxy Con in Columbus, Ohio December second and third, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: So everybody come on out. Let's do a Saul thing,
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  Speaker 1: Let's do a Gilmore thing, and just celebrate. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's December two and three, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Galaxy Con.
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  Speaker 1: Hope to see everybody out there. Today's one on one
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  Speaker 1: interview with none other than Vanessa Morano, who portrayed April
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  Speaker 1: Nardini for thirteen episodes from two thousand and five to seven.
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  Speaker 1: First appeared in season six, episode nine, Prodigal Daughter Returns.
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  Speaker 1: Last appearance season seven, episode twenty Laurele Laurele. April discovered
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  Speaker 1: she was the daughter of Luke Danes after testing the
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  Speaker 1: DNA of three different men, which she only did a
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  Speaker 1: DNA test to win a science fair. April and Luke
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  Speaker 1: have grown to like each other at Luke's insistence, and
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  Speaker 1: she has endeavored to introduce Luke to new things like
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  Speaker 1: going to target stores. Let me tell you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about Vanessa. She started her acting career in the
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  Speaker 1: theater when she was seven years old, performing in numerous
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  Speaker 1: plays at Act and Agora Hills, California. She began her
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  Speaker 1: professional career with several national commercials. She is most recognized
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  Speaker 1: for her roles as April Mardini, the daughter of Luke,
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  Speaker 1: in the highly popular show Gilmore Girls two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: for the role of Francesca, the daughter of the Emmy
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  Speaker 1: Award winning Lisa Koutro in the HBO original series The
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  Speaker 1: Comeback She Starts and Scoundrels, playing a scheming school skipping
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Virginia Madison. She had recurring roles on shows
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  Speaker 1: including Dexter, Without a Trace, Trust Me. Her guest starring
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  Speaker 1: critics include Parenthood, Medium, Ghost, Whisper, Past Life, Sixteen Under
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm in the Middle of Grounded for Life. Her first
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  Speaker 1: film was an animated hit, Finding Nemo two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: followed by the independent films Easy two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: The Click two thousand and eight, Stopping Power two thousand
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  Speaker 1: Dear Lemon Lima two thousand and nine, and most recently,
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  Speaker 1: The Secret Lives of Dorks two thousand and thirteen. I
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  Speaker 1: give you the brilliant, the talented, the nessa Morano. How
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  Speaker 1: you're doing? Nice to see ya. Tell us April. How
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  Speaker 1: old were you when you got the role of April?
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  Speaker 2: I was thirteen?
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, right, I thought you were a little tad
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  Speaker 1: older than the character, but not my well.
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  Speaker 2: I was a tad older than the carecharacter when I
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  Speaker 2: auditioned for it. And then I believe they made her
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  Speaker 2: closer to my age.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: She was supposed to be like more I believe when
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  Speaker 2: I auditioned, like closer to eleven. And then now that
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  Speaker 2: one that one works.
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  Speaker 1: Had you seen the show before you auditioned?
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  Speaker 2: I was obsessed with the show before.
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  Speaker 1: I Oh really okay, I was obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember getting the breakdown and they didn't give
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  Speaker 2: much information in the breakdown. They just said, quirky preteen
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  Speaker 2: will have storyline with Luke is all they said. And
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  Speaker 2: I was obsessed with the show. And I knew the
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  Speaker 2: way you had left the last season was you proposing
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  Speaker 2: to Laura. I so I was like, oh, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to give him a daughter. She's going to break them up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so mad, But also I must be her, I
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  Speaker 2: must be this person, and I was like, I went,
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  Speaker 2: I went hard. I got glasses because it's quirky. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what the entertainment industry means when they describe anything
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  Speaker 2: as quirky. And here we are.
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  Speaker 1: So here you are. You're twelve years old, you get
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  Speaker 1: to sell audition. Were you in LA with your mom
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  Speaker 1: and your sister?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because I was raised, I was born.
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  Speaker 1: Are you okay? So you were not out of town? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Were you going to school or were you homeschooled?
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  Speaker 2: I was homeschool at that time, so I went to
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  Speaker 2: like regular elementary school. I started professionally acting when I
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  Speaker 2: was eight. I started doing children's theater before that. My
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  Speaker 2: mom owned a theater when I was around six. Is
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  Speaker 2: when I started doing theater professionally eight and so I
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  Speaker 2: was working quite a bit, which was wonderful. It was
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  Speaker 2: driving my mom crazy because she had a full time
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  Speaker 2: job and she did not want to drive me on
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  Speaker 2: the four or five. But say LEVI yeah, And so
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  Speaker 2: I started being homeschooled in middle school just because the
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  Speaker 2: auditions were a little bit crazy. Right. My sister, on
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  Speaker 2: the other hand, never was homeschooled. She was like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to not go to regular school. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I hate teenagers, so meeting homeschooled was a really good place.
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  Speaker 1: For what's your beef with teenagers?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Scott, you've met teenagers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So you kind of did realize the
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  Speaker 1: impact of your character would have on the show at
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  Speaker 1: the time before you when you were auditioning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew. I don't think I knew how how
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  Speaker 2: hated she was going to be, all right, right, I
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  Speaker 2: knew it was going to be an upsetting storyline, but like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Jess broke up Dean and Rory and
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  Speaker 2: no one seemed to hate him.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about the blowback you got from fans
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  Speaker 1: when you were out in public. I mean, tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the most severe cases, good or bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't good. It wasn't great. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when I was out in public, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: anyone said anything too horrible. I think when you do
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  Speaker 2: see a person in person and they're a child, you
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  Speaker 2: have a little bit more of a filter. But people
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  Speaker 2: would say like very veiled things like oh, well, you're
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  Speaker 2: more okay than I thought you would be. That sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing. But the online backlash. Oh yeah, crazy. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, thankfully this was before Instagram and Twitter and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff, but there were still like blogs and
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  Speaker 2: like television without pity and and really actually like publications
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  Speaker 2: too that were reviewing TV shows that were just horrible
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  Speaker 2: and like hating me, hating my performance, hating my voice,
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  Speaker 2: hating the way I looked.
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  Speaker 1: It was just.
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  Speaker 2: Awful, awful, awful, awful. However, I'm very grateful for it
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  Speaker 2: because it made me at that time, especially because it
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  Speaker 2: was my favorite show. So I was like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: the creators of this show, Amy and Dan, who I
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  Speaker 2: like value and like look up to, think I'm good
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  Speaker 2: and keep using me, but the rest of the world doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: So like what opinion matters more in this moment and
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  Speaker 2: really kind of put into perspective like you can't please everybody,
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  Speaker 2: and like, are you just proud of the work that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing. Years and years later, when I ended up
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  Speaker 2: on a show called Switched at Birth, which was a
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  Speaker 2: show that I was a lead of, and I was
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  Speaker 2: like one of the youngest people on that show, and
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  Speaker 2: that was right when Twitter and Instagram were starting to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up being the person who was like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: don't look at the comments. It will drive you crazy,
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  Speaker 2: like all of a sudden, an eighteen year old telling
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  Speaker 2: people who are like in their late twenties being like, no,
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  Speaker 2: trust me on this one. From personal experience.
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  Speaker 1: About yeah, so as.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, you know, about two years ago, I opened
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  Speaker 2: up my phone, and you know there's news articles things
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  Speaker 2: that are going on in the world. Two years ago
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  Speaker 2: there was a pandemic. There was a BuzzFeed article that
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  Speaker 2: came up that said most hated television characters ever. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: my face, my face, Scott. I beat Jeoffrey from Game
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  Speaker 2: of Thrones.
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  Speaker 1: Oh jeez man, which is.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit like a point of pride. Now now
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  Speaker 2: it's like a badge.
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  Speaker 1: Of the right, right right, right, right right, gosh. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta you know, we just reviewed the episode. Yeah, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just reviewed. I forget the name of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: But you come into the diner with that helmet on,
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  Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you of all the scenes that
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  Speaker 1: I have done in that show up to this point,
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  Speaker 1: those two scenes that we did together, the one at
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  Speaker 1: the science fair and the one when I meet you,
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  Speaker 1: two of my favorite scenes all to of my absolutely
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  Speaker 1: my favorite scenes. And and I don't think. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: I don't think fans understand is how difficult it was
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  Speaker 1: for an adult with lots of experience off Broadway on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway in the film and TV business to come onto
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  Speaker 1: that set with lots of dialogue like you had. You
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  Speaker 1: had chunks and chunks and chunks of dialogue and spit
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  Speaker 1: them out that quickly with a weathered, experienced cast that
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  Speaker 1: had no problem with any of that stuff. And we
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  Speaker 1: would see those people just freeze and melt down and
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't do it, and we, you know, of course
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  Speaker 1: we'd help them, and they just couldn't relax sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: you have to get them to relax. You came in
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  Speaker 1: from the first rehearsal nailing it, nailing and nailing it,
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  Speaker 1: no problem nailing it, and we were all like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 1: what do we have here? You know, we never saw that.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see that. We saw people coming in like
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  Speaker 1: you know, justifiably a little bit intimidated, right, and thought
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  Speaker 1: that they were prepared. But then when they got up
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  Speaker 1: to speed or what they thought was their speed, it
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  Speaker 1: was like, you gotta go faster, you gotta go faster,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go faster. And they'd look at me, and
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  Speaker 1: they go, I don't, No, I can't do it any faster.
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  Speaker 1: What am I going to do in there, buddy? But
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  Speaker 1: you just came in and crushed it, crushed it, And
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  Speaker 1: the fans need to understand, they're listening right now, how
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  Speaker 1: difficult that is to do. And the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: were thirteen when you came in and did it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And just I don't know that. I've never been that
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  Speaker 1: impressed with anyone in my entire career. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you deserve to get all this backlash, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it should stop. And it does. Listen, doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: how strong a person you are, how much you bat
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  Speaker 1: it away, it's still going to affect somebody negative. So
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  Speaker 1: let's be kind out there, people. Vanessa is an incredibly giving, generous, loving,
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  Speaker 1: talented person. So let's just get off her back, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and let's just let's let's look at how gifted she
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  Speaker 1: is and how hard working she is, and she she
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  Speaker 1: achieved her goals. And you know, for me, you're an
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  Speaker 1: inspiration and I think you should be an inspiration for
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  Speaker 1: all people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be on this podcast all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go. I don't I never liked the backlash.
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  Speaker 1: I never I never bought into it. I couldn't stand it.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought it was so mean.
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  Speaker 2: It was I mean, look at the time, it was
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  Speaker 2: very mean, I will say like nowadays. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I just did a fan fest a little while ago,
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  Speaker 2: Oh did you? Yeah, I did, And it was really
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  Speaker 2: nice because to see everybody in person see what this
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  Speaker 2: show means to everybody. And I mean, that's why the
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  Speaker 2: backlash happened, is because it was so beloved, and your
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  Speaker 2: two characters together were so beloved that all these years later,
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  Speaker 2: it was really really nice to connect with people in
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  Speaker 2: person because you know, you know what the show means
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  Speaker 2: to people, and to be actually a part of that
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  Speaker 2: and get to cannect with people, it definitely takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that that meanness away, or that anger way
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  Speaker 2: it's oftentimes rooted to just sort of like a lack
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  Speaker 2: of control, right because you're watching something that you want
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  Speaker 2: to see go a certain way, not go that way. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I think now, especially where we are as a society,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's gotten so much worse with social media,
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  Speaker 2: the everyday person experiences that backup socially media. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just performers, and I actually think there's a lot more
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  Speaker 2: grace right now and a lot more honesty about talking
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  Speaker 2: about Hey, we should be very careful about how we
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  Speaker 2: speak about people online, because it's a lot easier behind
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  Speaker 2: a screen to say something horrible than it is to
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  Speaker 2: say somebody's face. And that's things like anybody I've met
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  Speaker 2: in person, especially now, Like in person now it's been
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  Speaker 2: nothing but lovely and supportive, which is crazy because it
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  Speaker 2: was not that way back in the day at all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, people need to keep in mind that the Internet
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  Speaker 1: is permanent. You write something, it stays. So anyway, let's
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  Speaker 1: shift gears a little bit. Tell us about the first
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  Speaker 1: day on set. What was that like for you? What
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  Speaker 1: do you remember about it? Your first day.
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  Speaker 2: I had a disposable camera and I was running around
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  Speaker 2: just taking pictures of stars, hollow, not like just the set.
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  Speaker 2: I was a nerd. I was just like just using
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  Speaker 2: a set, like literally like the gazebo, Taylor Docie's Market,
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  Speaker 2: like all of that was like so amazing for me,
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  Speaker 2: But it was really really this is the first day
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  Speaker 2: was the scene where I pull your hair right right,
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  Speaker 2: right right, which I believe you said to me, like
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  Speaker 2: you could go a little softer. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Did you grow did you grow in there?
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  Speaker 2: I was like, if we're doing this, we're doing this now.
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  Speaker 2: But it was I mean, it was so great to
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  Speaker 2: finally like, you know, you go through so many auditions
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  Speaker 2: and doing the thing and doing the thing, and to
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  Speaker 2: actually be able to do it and and Gilmore Girls
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  Speaker 2: was so much like a play with all the actual
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  Speaker 2: you know, steady cam and moving around blocking and it
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  Speaker 2: was crazy. But I mean, I was just I was
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. I Amy directed the episode that was the
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  Speaker 2: listening in the entire world. Getting to meet you was
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  Speaker 2: so cool and and what we had a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: I really really enjoyed our scenes because the ping ponging
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  Speaker 2: and being able to play off of each other I
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  Speaker 2: think was it was so it was it was you
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  Speaker 2: don't get a lot of opportunities like that as an adult. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: as a child. Right like up to that point, I
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  Speaker 2: had done, Like I said, I worked quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: and I've done some substantial things, but a lot of
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  Speaker 2: it was just like daughter shows up and is like, Daddy,
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  Speaker 2: don't understand me, and then like walks to the other room.
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  Speaker 2: There was no like monologue about like wanting to crush
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  Speaker 2: a kid at a science fair and when the pasta
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had some real I mean it was really
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  Speaker 1: just the great You had so many great lines. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you had the nice chunks. Tell us about that that
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  Speaker 1: head piece, that helmet was that? Did you? Was it complicated?
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  Speaker 1: You know you had to ride up on your bike,
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  Speaker 1: come into the diner, talk to me, then take that
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  Speaker 1: thing off. I mean did you have to rehearse that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And it didn't go well anytime. I was not
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  Speaker 2: a great bike rider. I'm still not a great bike
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  Speaker 2: rider to this day. And maybe we could all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: directly trace it back to Gilmore Girls. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things I had done prior to Gilmore Girls when I
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  Speaker 2: was eleven was a film that Chris Read actually directed,
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  Speaker 2: which was really cool to be a part of. And
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  Speaker 2: the character that I played gets into an accident and
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  Speaker 2: develops the same injury that that Christen, So she becomes
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  Speaker 2: a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. And so I
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  Speaker 2: had just done a bunch of stuff with paralysis and
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  Speaker 2: like having to wear something called a halo, which is
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  Speaker 2: where they like screw it into your head and like
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  Speaker 2: you know, put it on. I had to do multiple
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  Speaker 2: scenes like that. So when I showed up on Gilmour
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  Speaker 2: Girls and they showed me that helmet, it was literally
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  Speaker 2: designed the way a halo is for someone who So
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, actually know how to get into this,
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  Speaker 2: Like this is crazy, and they were like, perfect, wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're going to ride a bike with it on
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  Speaker 2: top of you. I was like, excuse me. And then
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  Speaker 2: it was the taking it off in the scene that
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  Speaker 2: was the hardest part because it was not the easiest
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  Speaker 2: contraption to take off. But yeah, years and years later,
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  Speaker 2: if they asked me to ride a bike on set,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, this isn't gonna go. Well, guys, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: good at hitting the marks. I only think about this
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  Speaker 2: heavy object that was on my head.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to adapt to the fast pace of
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  Speaker 1: the dialogue or did you just kind of cut really
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  Speaker 1: remember you got it?
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  Speaker 2: I kind of got it. And again, I think that
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  Speaker 2: came from watching it so much. I really like at
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  Speaker 2: that time, they were doing reruns on ABC Family every
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  Speaker 2: day at five, so like me and my cousin would
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  Speaker 2: watch it like at five like every day, so I
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  Speaker 2: knew the pace of the show, like really really really well,
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  Speaker 2: which I think ultimately is what helped me get the
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  Speaker 2: part is it was so ingrained in me and so
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  Speaker 2: well researched. I guess it's the only way you could
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  Speaker 2: describe it. Yeah, I never had I was one of
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  Speaker 2: the only people they never had to tell to go faster.
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  Speaker 1: Right, How many auditions did you have.
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  Speaker 2: A total of three?
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  Speaker 1: Three auditions?
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  Speaker 2: Great? Yeah, so there was just like regular casting and
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  Speaker 2: then like two with Amy and Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so you did two with Amy and Dan? What
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  Speaker 1: was that like?
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell you it was very cool. I mean obviously
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  Speaker 2: like Amy and Dan are such personalities, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But very warm and very welcoming.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Here's thing like again, it's such a different
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  Speaker 2: experience as a thirteen year old girl who's obsessed with
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  Speaker 2: the show, right, because you're just like I worship you,
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  Speaker 2: like I don't know how else to say it. And
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  Speaker 2: I believe they had changed the dialogue in between the
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  Speaker 2: two meetings, and so I did it the second time
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  Speaker 2: and they were like, oh, the lines are different. And
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I think what helped me get it is I went okay, cool,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: and I looked at it and then I was just
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: able to do it right, which again that's like theater training, right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: that's h.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: That's a skill set exactly.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But they were always really, really really great to me.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: And I remember I was such a musical theater nerd,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: and I would talk to Dan all the time about
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: musical theater. And then when I did the revival fir Sing,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Dan said to me, he goes, Hamilton. Are we talking
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: about Hamilton all day today?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: What did you think about your character, April? What did
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you think of her? Oh?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I loved her. I thought she was such a cool
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: character because she was so so herself at such a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: young age, and so weirdly obsessive with certain things, you
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like when I had that scene
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: at the diner with you where I decided to fill
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the salt and pepper shakers because I want to like
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: test the different quantities. Or I'm not a science person,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: so I barely understood what April was always excited about.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But I love that she was excited about those things.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: And I think Gilmore Girls as a whole was a
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: show for the smart girls, is the only way I
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: could say it. Like it made Even though April wasn't
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: quote unquote cool, she was never under confident in the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: fact that she was so smart or she was so
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: nerdy that she liked you know, science, same thing with Rory,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I always say, you know, it was one of the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: only shows where like the decision of which college she
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: went to was just as important as like which boy
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: she was dating. And so that was some that I
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: loved so much about the show, and getting to play
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a character like that that wasn't wasn't ashamed of herself,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: which you know, so many thirteen year old girls you
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: go through that uncomfortableness about yourself and figuring it out.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: But to see someone who was just so like confident
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: in their self at such a young age and did
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: not care that she was really really strange, you know
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: what I mean. She was a little little bit of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: an oddball. But I loved that about her. And as
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: an actor, that's more fun to play obvious.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So you must have got absolutely you must have gotten
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: some fans that were inspired by you.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Now now for sure, now there's a lot of young
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: women now who are like I was the science girl.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Like I loved that there was a science girl represent
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: on television. Like I said, back in the day, not
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: so much.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, but well, look good so you're getting
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: some positive feedback from this and and and proving to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: be uh an inspiration to people. That's that's great. Do
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you have a Do you have a favorite episode.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Of the whole series or of what I of the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: whole series? Oh that's hard, man, that's hard.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go from what you shot?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, from what? From what what I shot. I feel
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: like that first episode because there was so much writing
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: on it, you know what I mean?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I did also really like our our Bus episode, but
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: that one wasn't as fun to shoot because we were
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: in a bus and I had to sing the chemical
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: elements over and over and over again for what felt
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: like six hours.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Uh right, right, right, right right right?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that those two ring in my ear. And
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: then I do have my all time. My all time
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is moving Rory into Yale with the mattress going back
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: and forth. That's a great episode.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, cool? So what are you working on now?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: What have you been doing?
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Well? I've been on strike, but I actually my mom,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: my sister and myself started moving into producing, which was
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: really really cool. He produced a film that my sister
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and I started called Saving Zoe that came out in
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. In twenty twenty one, we produced a film
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: for Netflix that just my sister starred in, she My
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Mom Myself, and I produced as well, called The Royal Treatment. Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: That was really really great. So we've been growing a
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: production company, getting more into that. I've been transitioning into directing.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I directed a music video for my sister that's on
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: YouTube called some Day.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And my.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Favorite directors well, I mean like Nancy Myers and Nora E.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: F Ron like love Love Love, obsessed with Obsessed. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: also love Mark Webb who did Five Hundred Days of
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Summer and you did the pilot episode A crazy ex Girlfriend. Like,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I think he's such a cool visionary and everything that
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: you see of him is very very clearly him. Yeah.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I think they're all fantastic. But that's when. Yeah, what
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I've been working on, I mean also acting as well.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I did a Christmas movie for Discovery Plus a little
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: while ago called One Delicious Christmas and Bobby Flay play
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the Food Critic, and that was hilarious. Fayre had just
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: come out and I was just like, so, like, do
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: you guys really call each other chef? Like do you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: really like call every much Ja, Yes, why is this
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: so interesting to you? And I was like, h obviously
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I've been candid. I have nothing else to talk about,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: so I want to talk about this.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Right right, right, right right. Okay, So we're going to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: play a little game now called rapid fire. Doesn't require
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you to answer these quickly. However, we just call it
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: rapid fire. We don't even know why. Ready, here we go.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: How do you like your coffee? Assuming you're a coffee drinker.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I am a coffee drinker. I use to like it
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: like with milk and sugar. I've now transitioned into black
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: coffee as I've gotten older.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Are you team Logan Team Jess or Team Dean Team Jess?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Logan? Get out of here?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I say, what really? Why tell us tell us your thoughts?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: OI, old rich boy, Old rich boy didn't.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Think didn't you think he was the smartest one of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the bunch?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Oh that's hard? Uh? He Jess and him are both
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: very smart. Jess is hard because like, Jess was a
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: teenager when we met him and not like turning into
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: an adult right then when Jess comes back, I would
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: say they're comparatively smart.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Who is your favorite Gilmore Girls couple? Luke and Lorelei
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: or Emily and Richard.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, Emily and Richard. I love Emily and Richard.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Would you rather work with Michelle or Kirk?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I did work with Kirk. I'm trying
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: to think here, Well, Kirk would be a better character
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: wise Michelle. That's hard. It seems like Michelle's been able
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: to keep the same job, so there's one would argue
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: he's a better worker by that logic, But from what
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you see on TV, Kirk seeds nicer.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Mm hm. Would you rather hang out with Paris or Lane?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I mean in reality Lane, in television lay on Paris
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: because she has some of the best scenes and the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: most entertaining moments ever. So like from if you're like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: if I was like trailing and like writing a book,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I would want to be following Paris because I feel
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: like the material you would get out of that would
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: be better.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, Harvard or Yale?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I mean Harvard, why if I'm going to go into
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the thing of the show, I don't like that she
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: kept inside the same legacy of the family story point wise,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: totally understand it gave more more room and more drama,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: but ultimately I think the reason she ended up dropping
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: out of Yale was because she put the pressure on
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: herself to do things exactly like how her grandfather did,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: whereas Harvard would have been her own person further away
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: from stars Hollow, which I think probably would have been
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: good for her because one could argue she had a
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: codependent relationship with her mother.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm. All right, Harvard, or drop out
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and live in a poolhouse Harvard.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: No one approves of the living in the poolhouse gap year.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I support I support the gap year. I do not
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: like that she just wasn't doing anything.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? Would you rather attend a dar event with Emily
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: or a town meeting with Taylor?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, town meeting with Taylor?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Uh huh? Gilmore. Girl's character that you would want as
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a roommate?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: A roommate ooh oh, that's tough. Who would be a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: good roommate? Probably Suki?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Suki is a roommate. Yeah, a mother of two children.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm assuming she's going through a divorce at that point.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: If she's getting.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: She's moving it. So you want Suki divorced with children.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I want Suki fighting for custody.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Gotcha? Okay, that might be the best answer we've ever
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: had on rapid fire something in your life. You are
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all in.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: On, all in on I mean the Real Housewives. I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: all in on the Real.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Housewives, gotcha?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, Vanessa Morano, thank you so much for your time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: It was a pleasure catching up with you, and I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: hope we can do this again. It's not too busy.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We'd love to have you back on. I think I
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: can speak for the group. You're always welcome here, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: good luck with everything and your producing career and your
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: directing career, and I know you're going to be a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: big deal and I'm going to need probably a couple
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: of parts, if you don't mind.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Done, there we go if I'm in the position.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Best to your mom, best to your sister. Okay, good
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: seeing you all right, Bye bye, everybody, don't again. Follow
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