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

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  Speaker 1: I am all in you. I am all in with
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  Speaker 1: Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast. Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I
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  Speaker 1: am all in Podcast one eleven productions. iHeartRadio, Art Media.
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  Speaker 1: iHeart podcasts. One on one interview with Vanessa Branch, who
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  Speaker 1: played Bobby for two episodes Gilmore Girls. This is season seven,
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  Speaker 1: episode five, The Great Stink, and we will get back
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  Speaker 1: to Vanessa after these messages. Vanessa, Hello, Hi, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Really appreciate the time. We
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  Speaker 1: had a very good time watching your scenes. They were iconic,
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, in the in the Gilmour universe,
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  Speaker 1: those were that was Those were iconic scenes that that
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  Speaker 1: That scene you did in the restaurant was absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: And after I saw it, I said, how did this
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  Speaker 1: girl not become a star? Oh did you wonder that yourself?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not out of conceit, but you have so
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  Speaker 1: much to offer that I was stunned that you you
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a bigger career. Was it because you chose
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  Speaker 1: not to pursue it with real ferocity? You had other
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  Speaker 1: things going on?
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  Speaker 2: Or you just Oh no, I mean I I pursued it.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the past seven years I have not been acting.
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  Speaker 2: That was a choice because I had a little man
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  Speaker 2: who's my dream man, and I wanted to be able
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  Speaker 2: to spend a lot of time with him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How old is he's seven?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, another feeling. I have a nine year old son,
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  Speaker 1: so I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and every minute you don't want to miss a minute,
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  Speaker 2: Like I just now that he's this age, now I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I could go back to work and actually
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  Speaker 2: just started. She asked last week have my first audition
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  Speaker 2: that I've had in god knows how long, right, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to have that, you know, I want to
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  Speaker 2: have that time to save it. It's too fast.
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  Speaker 1: It's too fast. Yeah, isn't it crazy? My guy is
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  Speaker 1: going to be ten in June, and it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: just like a blink of an eye and another blink
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  Speaker 1: of an eye is going to be off to college.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they're a little bit of a different person,
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  Speaker 2: and you go through a little bit of a grieving
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  Speaker 2: process and no one really tells you that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. What I do is that my phone is
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  Speaker 1: filled with videos for when he was two and three
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  Speaker 1: and four and five. I watch them all the time
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  Speaker 1: I do. I actually, when I'm on the road, I
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  Speaker 1: watch these things incessantly. He's sick of me at this
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  Speaker 1: point because I you know, I FaceTime him five times
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  Speaker 1: a day. He goes, Yeah, Dad, what's it? What's up?
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, so you're an actress in a model you're
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  Speaker 1: best known for you were the Orbit Gum gal from
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two to two thousand and ten, eight
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  Speaker 1: years of Orbit Gum gigs. That is a great thing
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  Speaker 1: to snare.
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  Speaker 2: You were a lot forty five commercials.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah wow, wow wow wow. Yeah, residuals, too residual.
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  Speaker 2: So I was under contract, which was actually a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: A lot better. Yeah, that's nice. And you were gaelling
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  Speaker 1: the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Hello, so you did
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  Speaker 1: do some big stuff. All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Orbit Gum stuff. Those
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  Speaker 1: commercials were iconic. What was it like working on that
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  Speaker 1: campaign for so long? Tell me how you got it.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that's really cool about that campaign, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you how I got it was that it's
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  Speaker 2: a really funny story. Actually is that you know, depending
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  Speaker 2: on what you watch as far as TV shows go,
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  Speaker 2: and there's so many TV shows nowadays or films. There's
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  Speaker 2: so much out there, but depending on what you watch
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  Speaker 2: depends if people know who you are. But that Orbit
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  Speaker 2: campaign was everywhere and everybody knew. It's one of the
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  Speaker 2: best selling campaigns in history. And so it was funny
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  Speaker 2: because in person, people don't recognize me because I speak
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  Speaker 2: with the British accent in those as I did on
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  Speaker 2: Gollmer Girls, and I actually am British, but I was
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  Speaker 2: raised back and forth. So for me, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like being bilingual. It's hard to explain to people that
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  Speaker 2: you can switch like that, but with an accent we can,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, it would be neat for me.
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  Speaker 2: In person. People wouldn't recognize me, but people would be
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. People were dressing up as me at Halloween,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and I liked being anonymous. I loved
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  Speaker 2: that people would like be talking in the grocery store
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  Speaker 2: line about like how much their boyfriend loved the Orbit
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  Speaker 2: gum girl and they didn't feel threatened by her because
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  Speaker 2: they loved her too, And I was like, I know,
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  Speaker 2: she's so cute, right, Oh, I love that girl, And
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  Speaker 2: so it was really cool to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: something like that that, you know, it's kind of part
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  Speaker 2: of pop culture, you know, right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when when you go back to London or England,
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  Speaker 1: do you speak with a British accent?
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  Speaker 2: No, although it's very hard for me to not switch
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  Speaker 2: into it, so sometimes I will. It's it's a weird
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  Speaker 2: it's a weird thing because it is. The minute I'm
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by it, I want to, you know, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of do switch. But then I think, right, well, I've
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  Speaker 2: been speaking this way for a while, and I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little weird, right, But it's easy to slip
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  Speaker 1: in and out of it, right, Yeah, no problem, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the commercials are very clever. What was the craziest
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  Speaker 1: thing he had to do on those commercials?
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  Speaker 2: We actually did a lot of crazy things. We shot.
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  Speaker 2: We shot them all over the world. We would go
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of places, and we did one with an
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  Speaker 2: Ostrich and one with a whole thing of penguins. But
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  Speaker 2: like literally I was in the penguin pool and penguins
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  Speaker 2: bite and they were like swimming all around and I
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  Speaker 2: had boots on a pie. But the crazier one was
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  Speaker 2: with the Ostrich because you know Ostrich can be kind
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  Speaker 2: of dangerous. And there was supposed to be an Ostrich
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  Speaker 2: running towards my back, like straight into camera, and the
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  Speaker 2: guy said, don't worry, I'll stop the ostriche before I
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  Speaker 2: don't freak out though, because ostriches, you know, can be dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: And he was the Ostrich wrangler, and that's a job,
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  Speaker 2: an ostrich wrangler. And I was looking at the camera
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  Speaker 2: and I can see the reflection in the back of me,
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  Speaker 2: and the Ostrich comes kind of like charging towards me,
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  Speaker 2: and the guy misses when he went to kind of
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  Speaker 2: grab the Ostrich, and the Ostrich is still like running
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  Speaker 2: straight in my head like full force, and they're big,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember thinking, like, just stay still, just stay still.
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  Speaker 1: They said he's still.
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  Speaker 2: And then some other guy came out like just before
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  Speaker 2: it got to me and tackle the Ostrich and it
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  Speaker 2: was hilario was hilarious my camera.
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  Speaker 1: But don't don't they have a claw that's like three
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  Speaker 1: or four inches long that they can yep you gab
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  Speaker 1: you with. I mean, yeah, that's one of the boy
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  Speaker 1: do you still do people ask you to say the
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  Speaker 1: slogan at all all the time? What is the slogan?
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  Speaker 2: We refresh us, no pun intended. There there are a few.
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  Speaker 2: Fabulous is one of them. Of course it sounds every
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  Speaker 2: when I say it, you know, as the commercial goes
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  Speaker 2: dirty mouth and clean it up. Those were the Those
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  Speaker 2: were the slogan gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha? Do you still use Do they still send
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  Speaker 1: you orbit gum? You're still chewing it up?
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  Speaker 2: They don't still send the orbit gum.
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  Speaker 1: They don't send you anymore. Yeah, all right, So now
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  Speaker 1: let's get into good more girls. How'd you get the role?
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  Speaker 2: So it was regular kind of audition. I went in
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  Speaker 2: to did my audition for it and felt like it
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  Speaker 2: went really well, And afterwards heard from my manager. She said,
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  Speaker 2: they thought you were great, They loved you, but they
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  Speaker 2: felt that your British accent wasn't the right British act
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  Speaker 2: that it was supposed to be an Oxford educated British accent.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought a second. My parents were really sticklers
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  Speaker 2: for language and grammar, and my mother had had elocution
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  Speaker 2: lessons and that's the exact accent that I have. And
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  Speaker 2: it's hard if you're American. You don't know the difference
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  Speaker 2: between these things.
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  Speaker 1: Right, You can't I do I do? I do? You
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  Speaker 1: you nailed it. Yeah, No, that was Oxford. It was Oxbridge,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, and.
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  Speaker 2: So and so I said to my manager, I said, Flee,
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  Speaker 2: will you please call them back and ask them to
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  Speaker 2: see me again because I'm promising this is the right accent.
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  Speaker 2: And she did, and to their credit, they said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's bring in and meet the producers because we really
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  Speaker 2: liked her. We just weren't sure. And then when I
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  Speaker 2: came in, the producers were like, she's the one that's
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  Speaker 2: define and I was so sweet that to their credit,
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  Speaker 2: the casterders, they were so nice afterwards. They actually said
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  Speaker 2: to me like, we're really sorry. We you know, we
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  Speaker 2: apologized for that. That just didn't And I was like, God,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. Thank you for believing in me enough to
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  Speaker 2: bring me back in after after you know you were
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  Speaker 2: sure about that.
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  Speaker 1: But that was the part of the character that made
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  Speaker 1: her so lethal. Was that was that that accent. And
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  Speaker 1: you just knew exactly where she was from, you knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly where she went to school. Yet she still had
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  Speaker 1: this side of her where she was this like stunning
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  Speaker 1: woman who could stand up and end a meeting and
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  Speaker 1: know that that would be effective to close the deal
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  Speaker 1: and talk about contrasting Rory. I mean, you gave off
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  Speaker 1: such a cosmopolitan, worldly vibe, knowing vibe, and Rory was
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  Speaker 1: just crushed underneath the weight of that. So the scene,
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  Speaker 1: that's what was so great about that scene, that can't
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  Speaker 1: contrast of it.
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  Speaker 2: We watched it. I rewatched it today. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: be talking about it. And you know, you don't, you don't,
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  Speaker 2: you're not often rewatching yourself all the time stuff that
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  Speaker 2: you do. And it was really fun. It was so
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  Speaker 2: fun because I remember that part was so fun and that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting being able to be because you know,
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  Speaker 2: she was she was Bobby was obviously not really a threat.
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  Speaker 2: She was really nice, but just the fact that oh.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, she was a threat? Are you kidding me? Well,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Not in Bobby's eyes, maybe in Rory's eyes, but in
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  Speaker 2: hurt right, And it was fun. It was fun seeing that,
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  Speaker 2: remembering portraying that, you know, that kind of two sided thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was, you know, it was a it was film.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, once in a while that show gets
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  Speaker 1: in does it gets a filmic thing going? That was film.
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  Speaker 1: It was that was good film. What do you remember
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  Speaker 1: about that? Shooting day.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it was super late. You know, the guys
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  Speaker 2: were really fun, the other guys who were on it
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  Speaker 2: as well, and everyone was incredibly nice. Alexis is a
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  Speaker 2: really I actually ended up doing another job with her
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  Speaker 2: shortly thereafter, on a film called Postgrad and she's and
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  Speaker 2: she's a really very down to earth, you know, kind
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  Speaker 2: human being. And you know, you meet some great people
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  Speaker 2: in LA but not everyone that way, and she was
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  Speaker 2: I remember her really being specifically. You know, we talked
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  Speaker 2: a lot and I liked her a lot. Right, and
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  Speaker 2: the fast talking everyone, of course, right, that's I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that's constant fast talking. You know how fast you got
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  Speaker 2: to pick up, pick up the pace, don't leave any spaces,
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  Speaker 2: all of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only note we ever got. We didn't get
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  Speaker 1: any other notes, sure, because we always knew what the
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  Speaker 1: director was going to say. Right, you want it faster, right, faster?
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  Speaker 1: Got it? It's four am. I can't do it faster.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go home. So when we recapped the episode,
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  Speaker 1: we were a bit torn on that scene. If Rory
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  Speaker 1: should have reacted the way she did when she found
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  Speaker 1: out that you were a female colleague of logans Logans,
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  Speaker 1: What What are your thoughts about that? Did you think
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  Speaker 1: it was the right dynamic for the for the show.
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  Speaker 2: I kept wondering how he managed to not ever say
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  Speaker 2: she that's a tough one, right.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about it, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been tough. But do I think, look,
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  Speaker 2: I get it from a young woman's perspective, totally get it.
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  Speaker 2: Why maybe that would be that way? And so I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it made sense, although I don't think he
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  Speaker 2: was at fault, Like I didn't think he needed to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that there was any reason for him
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  Speaker 2: to specifically say, oh, she's a girl or she's a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, right right, right right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We we went back and forth on that for a
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  Speaker 1: little while. All Right, so you've also been in three
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  Speaker 1: of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. What was it
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  Speaker 1: like working in those all those films? And what do
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  Speaker 1: you think of it? It's controversy now that I think
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Bruckheimer wants to distance himself from Johnny,
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  Speaker 1: from Johnny Depp for some reason. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: about all that? First of all, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: it was like working on it.
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  Speaker 2: Working on those films was literally like a dream, because
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  Speaker 2: when you're on a set with that kind of budget
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of creativity and perfection. The first I
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  Speaker 2: was in the first three, and then they did a
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  Speaker 2: ten minute short film, Disney'd a ten minute short film
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  Speaker 2: just about me and my partner in it, about our characters,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the prequel to the first film, which cost
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars that short. And the first movie was
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  Speaker 2: shot in la and then second the third we shot
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Vincent in the Caribbean. And I remember the
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  Speaker 2: first day of shooting in the Caribbean and we'd be
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  Speaker 2: taken by boat to they had this huge bay that
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  Speaker 2: they had literally there was nothing modern there. You couldn't
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  Speaker 2: see anything other than you know, beautiful beach and palm trees,
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  Speaker 2: three gigantic, authentic pirate ships, and this whole town, Tortuga,
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  Speaker 2: which they had created impeccably. And you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: early sun rising, and they'd take us on this other
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  Speaker 2: little speedboat to enter this bay which we hadn't seen yet,
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  Speaker 2: and we're pulling into it and the sun is rising
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  Speaker 2: over this as if we're entering, you know, a seventeenth
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  Speaker 2: century village, so authentic. And I thought, if I told
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  Speaker 2: my eight year old self that I was going to
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  Speaker 2: get to do this one day. I wouldn't have believed that.
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  Speaker 2: I always remembered that moment just because it was so mesmerizing.
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  Speaker 2: It was an amazing moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's the top of the food chain in the film business.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't get bigger than that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I made some great friends on it. And
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  Speaker 2: Gore Verbinski was the director of the ones I did,
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  Speaker 2: and he was so awesome to work with, and we
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  Speaker 2: all would get to hang out. We're on this island.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, there's not very many of us
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  Speaker 2: working together, and it was it was tons of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It would be up plate.
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  Speaker 1: Did you stay on the island?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Wow. So what was it like working with Johnny?
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  Speaker 1: Did you get to work with Johnny? And he?
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  Speaker 2: I can all I can say from my personal experience
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  Speaker 2: with him is that he is the loveliest human being.
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  Speaker 2: He was kind to every single person on set, whether
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  Speaker 2: they were working on the set or they were you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean anyone from the island who was there, anyone
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  Speaker 2: who was doing background, anyone who was doing craft service
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  Speaker 2: to everyone, and we would be you know how you
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  Speaker 2: know what long hours you work with things. It was
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  Speaker 2: ninety five degrees out. We had on authentic wool costumes
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  Speaker 2: that were killing us. He was, I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: like you were drenched. We'd be like in the blazing
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  Speaker 2: sun doing these scenes, and he was just he was lovely.
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  Speaker 2: And we'd all hang out as well, you know, at
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  Speaker 2: different times, and so you got to you know, see
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  Speaker 2: each other other times. And I only ever knew him
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  Speaker 2: to be the nicest man.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I always wondered because so many top musicians'
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  Speaker 1: top bands embrace him. He's like, he's like friends with Aerosmith,
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  Speaker 1: and he did an album with Jeff Beck. If you
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  Speaker 1: can even imagine doing an album with Jeff Beck. He
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I went to you know, Patty Smith and
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  Speaker 1: I go back to the mid seventies and I went
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  Speaker 1: to see her when she came out in LA a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and Johnny was there too, and
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  Speaker 1: he played a song or two with her on So
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  Speaker 1: he's like, so you can't be a bad guy and
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  Speaker 1: be welcomed by that range of people in that business,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because they're extra sensitive about who they led
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  Speaker 1: into their worlds because those are really exclusive worlds. So
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  Speaker 1: he just always was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I didn't this is just my personal opinion.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't know Amber ever, but I felt like
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  Speaker 2: if there was falsehood there, to me, it seemed it
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  Speaker 2: was on the opposite side. But you know, life is weird.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows. But that was my you know, my personal
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  Speaker 2: experience with him was that he was always intelligent, interesting
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  Speaker 2: and kind.
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  Speaker 1: Soft, very fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: I think about that with my I have a boy
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  Speaker 2: who's a gentle boy, and Johnny was a gentle boy, right.
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  Speaker 1: Because hot, you know, you go on a talk show
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  Speaker 1: and you're that quiet, that reserved, yet your presence is
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  Speaker 1: such that nobody can take your eyes off you, but
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  Speaker 1: their eyes off you and you're hysterically funny at the
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: same time by just holding everything back. I mean, that's it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: It's a superpower.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: And he also is I mean, talk about sexy that man.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: If I like, if there is, if there is star quality,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember the first time I met him,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I like, you know, and I'm not one who's ever
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: been starstruck by much, you know. I I've always been
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: pretty grounded, and that was that was the first time
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I saw trying not to droll all over myself.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: All right, So here's a few other fun facts about you, Vanessa.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Why fun fact you were Miss Vermont in nineteen ninety four.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Let's just so crazy when I figure about it out,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And I did it. I actually won on a dare.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I'd never like done pageants before ever, never even thought
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: about it. I was modeling though through college to make money,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: and my modeling agent had said to me, why don't
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: you do Why don't you do the Miss Vermont pageant
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: because you can win scholarship money to pay back school owns.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what are you talking about? No way,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: like I meet because I'm totally a durpball. I've always
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: been a durpball. I'm like not the girl to like
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: brush your hair and put on makeup. I just did
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: it especially for you. I like, like, you know, I'm
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I'm out playing with boys. When I was a girl,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I was a tomboy. Like I'm just not that. But anyway,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: she she one of my best friends. The morning of
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the Miss Vermont pageant said to me, I doubled triple
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: dare you. And we'd been it was my senior year.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: At the end of all the like that the last
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: week of partying, we'd been up all night long. We
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: sat in this disgusting bathroom. She painted my nails and
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I went into the pageant, and I thought a fluke one.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: So you you went on to the So if you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: won Miss Vermont, you were in the Miss America pageant, right, yeah?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And so what happened Miss America.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't win, you know if I won, right, But
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: it was a really it was actually a fascinating experience,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: A fascinating experience to see behind something like that and
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: to see, you know, there's you have all sorts of
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: images of what these women are like and who they are,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and and to be very honest, it was an incredibly educated, interesting,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: accomplished group of women. They all definitely wore more makeup
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: when we're cleaner than I was. But they were a really,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: really amazing group of woman. One of my best friends
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to this day I made she was Miss Tennessee and
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: we still, you know, see each other multiple times a
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: year and nice. Yeah, it was a really fascinating experience.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: App And you speak Mandarin Chinese, I speak Chinese and frenchship.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: So you've been to China. You picked it up there,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: you studied it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: In college or I studied it in college, and I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: studied there when I was in college, and then I've
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: worked there quite a few times. I've done a few
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: films in China for the Chinese market. I modeled in
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Taiwan right after college.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah wow. So acting was just a natural
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: progression from what you were doing before.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: No, I always knew. I knew at the age of
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: three I wanted to be an actress. Okay, always my thing.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: It was always what I did. I went to I
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: went to Middlebury College in Vermont, and I had a
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: double major of Chinese in theater. Okay, So I always
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: knew that's what I that's what I wanted to do.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. So now you're going to get back into it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You're excited, you get in some meetings, and is your
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: agent excited?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I haven't. I didn't officially do it. It just kind
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: of happened. I've been working on something else that's a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: true passion project of mine that's about to launch in
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a few weeks. And it's taken me years to get
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: this finished. And that's what I was working on, apart
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: from being with my child, and I just recently thought,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I think it's I think I'm going to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: be ready. This is going to launch and I'm going
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to be ready to do that. And I literally had
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: just had that thought and she called like three days later.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: What is the passion project? Can you talk about it?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called Fabulous Fit Pregnancy and it is a
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: subscription website for pregnancy fitness that I've shot all over
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the world, really beautiful locations, because when I was pregnant,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I wanted to stay healthy and in shape and do
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: it was the right thing. And it was really hard
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to find things that weren't super boring or shot in
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: someone's living room, or they weren't kind of modifying things
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I thought safely, and so I created it. And it's,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: like I said, shot and all sorts of places, takes
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you every single day through pregnancy and then post pregnancy.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: There's a whole like nutrition plan. It's twenty bucks a month.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: It's really inspiring. You talk about different things about being
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: a mom and this kind of gorgeous transformation that happens
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And that's going to come out as.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: It's it's a website.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: It's it's not true.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: It's a yeah, so you can.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It's you're launching a business basically.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Okay doing and I've done and I've done literally, like
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: all parts of it, so it is taken an enormous
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: amount of time. But yeah, so that's it.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That's exciting. What's it called.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Again, Fabulous Fit Pregnancy.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And it's going to be Fabulous Fit Pregnancy dot com. Yeh,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Fabulousfitpregnancy dot com. Yeah, make sure everybody check that out
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: because I've seen Vanessa's Instagram page account and yes, she
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: was all over the world, and it looks like a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: very well involved endeavor. It looked like there was a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: budget behind it. It was very professionally done, very professionally shot.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You had, you know, stylists and make up people and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: hair people and I mean you really it was quite
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a production.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted it. I wanted women to feel like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: they had an escape because sometimes that's the time when
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: you're you know, you're a little more homebound, and it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: nice to feel like you can get out and do
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: some things, you know, be inspired by what's around you.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Well, that sounds great that I wish you had a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: lot of luck with that. Okay, now we're going to
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: play a little game called rapid fire, which doesn't mean
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you doesn't mean you have to answer anything quickly. Okay, good,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you just call it rapid fire because it's Gilmore girl.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: All right, Okay, how do you like your coffee?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I don't coffee. I only drink tea.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: What's your favorite tea?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Actually, there is one that is a Twining's black Current
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: black tea. I also love iced tea, but anything that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: a black tea with fruity flavors. And I'm a kind
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: of a connoisseur. In China, they have these shops that
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: are like wine like we have here with wine that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you go in and do tea tastings, but there the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: walls are covered with different types of teas. When you
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: delve into the world of tea, it's kind of like
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: being the world of wine, Like there's so much to
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: learn and it's really oh.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. Who is your favorite Gilmour Girls couple?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Luke and larel I or Emily and Richard.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Luke and Laurele I?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, correct answer? Would you rather work with Michelle
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: or Kirk?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Michel I could speak to him in French them a
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: little bit exactly.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: What would you order at Luke's diner?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Bacon is one of my favorite foods, so it would
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: probably be a simple bacon and eggs.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Who would you rather hang out with? Paris or Lane? Hmmm,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think I know the answer to this. I think
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I know the answer to this. I think Paris or Lane.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I think Paris.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Really, I think so. I wouldn't have guessed that. No, No,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: because you kind of have this sort of zen quality
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: about you, and I think Lane is a little more
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: zen than Paris.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's only It's funny. People frequently have that feeling
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: with me. Not that I am not calm, I am,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: but uh yeah, I also get super goofy and silly
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: and wild.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Well, then I guess Paris would be the one. Harvard
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: or Yale? Or would you drop out and live in
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the poolhouse?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Could I go to Yale and live in the poolhouse?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say yeah, I'm going to say yeah, yeah, sure.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Would you rather attend d a R event with Emily
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: or a town meeting with Taylor?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Remind me what a DR event is?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Daughters of the American Revolution?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Uh oh? A town meeting?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Uh? Gilmore girl's character that you would want as a roommate?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You may why me what?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You're totally a fox who didn't know you on the show.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Me as a roommate, totally but in like not as
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: a Okay, listen, you don't even have to fill out
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: an application something in your life. You're all in on.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Oh I think we know, we know what that is there,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you go, I know.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Love affair there.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: And you know they have all different personalities, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: so they can sometimes. I know that there's certainly some
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: more difficult ones that come out, but I got a
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: really easy, like great one, and I feel very lucky
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: with that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Are you are you? You're in la Or are you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: in New York? Where are you?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: No, I'm in Florida right now?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Oh you're you live in Florida.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Well kind of temporarily. We've been been here like the past,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: back and forth the past two years. Yeah, oh that's interesting.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: It's a super long story. But both my parents were
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: here even though they were book British and they passed
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: they both passed away a few it's been a few
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: years but and it was kind of during COVID. It
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: was a lot easier to be here and I had
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to deal with the houses and anyway, so long story,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: so yeah, we've been here a lot, although we're very
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: kind of by.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Coastal, so right, okay, Well, listen. Thank you for your time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best with your new business,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and tell us your website.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Again, Fabulousfitpregnancy dot com.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: It's fabulous. For weeks in fours, look out for Fabulous
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Fit Pregnancy dot com. Vanessa Branch. She's bringing it to you.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: She's gonna have a classy website with all kinds of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: great stuff in it for pregnant women. So check it out.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Fabulous Fit pregnancy dot com. You're amazing. That scene was amazing.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You know, you prove the maxim There are no small roles,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: there are only small actors, and you own that saying
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: God Man. That was fantastic, just fantastic, so much fun.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I wish you all the best, and look also look
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: out for on your TV screens and your movie screens
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: because she's getting back into the game, so look out everybody.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Vanessa Branch, thank you so much. Thank you.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, and to forget follow us on Instagram at
• 29:20
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• 29:25
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