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Lea Thompson · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mario Lopez, Debora Mario Lopez joining me right now
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  Speaker 2: on Zoom. Actress Leah Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: How you been, Leah?
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  Speaker 2: Excellent?
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  Speaker 1: I'm excellent. I'm very good, very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to see. Where am I speaking to you
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  Speaker 2: from today? I am in New York, Okay? Is that home?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? On the beach. Oh nice. I'm on the beach
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  Speaker 1: with my new granddaughter and my daughter and my husband.
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  Speaker 1: It's really nice. I've been working in Canada for five months,
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  Speaker 1: so this is great.
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  Speaker 2: That is great. Congratulations on the granddaughter, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that's very thank you so much. Season two of your show,
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  Speaker 2: The Chicken Sisters on Homewark Channel just premiered.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: For those who may not be familiar with the series,
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  Speaker 2: what's it.
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  Speaker 1: About, Well, it's about Well, the first season was about
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  Speaker 1: these two chicken restaurants who ended up in a weird
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  Speaker 1: competition with each other. They've always been in competition for
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred years, these two rival chicken restaurants in
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  Speaker 1: this small southern town of Marnac, and they get caught
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  Speaker 1: up in the reality show which is pitting the two
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  Speaker 1: against each other. And so it's about it's about a
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  Speaker 1: small town It's about a family that's interconnected in really
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  Speaker 1: interesting ways, and mostly about these four women and how
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  Speaker 1: they navigate their lives, their family, their business, and their love.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen the trailers. It's pretty funny too. Now you
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  Speaker 2: can have there's different types of Southern accents, right like
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  Speaker 2: the North Carolina sounds different from Georgia, which sounds different
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  Speaker 2: from Louisiana in Alabama. Which which did you go with?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we kind of went with a more of a
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  Speaker 1: Texas accent where you hit the rs a little bit us.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned that one. Okay, yeah, that's right, not.
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  Speaker 1: The genteel one. So, and I've done this accent a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked a lot in Texas, Austin, Dallas, Houston, so,
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  Speaker 1: and our show run from Texas, so we kind of
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  Speaker 1: went with that one. Although one of the actresses is
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  Speaker 1: from Virginia, Skyler Fisk, and her mom is Sissy Spasic,
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  Speaker 1: who has the strongest accent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's cool. That's a cool connection right there.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're a director. Did you get to direct
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  Speaker 2: any of the episodes? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I directed the first two episodes, which was really fun
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  Speaker 1: because I'd be like, Okay, put the camera over here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, I think we're on a forty on
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  Speaker 1: this and a two shot over here then, and i'd
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  Speaker 1: go and action will I think you it'd be finer
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  Speaker 1: than a fox here if you behaved, that's great. But okay,
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  Speaker 1: how did that go? Oh? I like it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: So you flip? Do you flip flop? Back and forth?
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  Speaker 1: I like it? I like it flopped and it was
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  Speaker 1: it made everyone a little crazy. Now that's skills right there.
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  Speaker 2: I saw. You're also developing a new series for the
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  Speaker 2: USA Network called An a Pigeon, which you said was
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years in the making. What can you tell us
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I just came from shooting the pilot and
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  Speaker 1: the first episode, and so I'm editing right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: Ann a Pigeon. It's based on these books written by
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  Speaker 1: Nevada bar They're mysteries about a woman who works as
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  Speaker 1: a park ranger and she solves mysteries and murders. And
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  Speaker 1: so we have this amazing, amazing cast and this incredible actress,
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Sparadakis plays Anna Pigeon.
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  Speaker 2: And what was.
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  Speaker 1: Really fun about it was that the very first day
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  Speaker 1: of camera test, the author accidentally was in Calgary. Where
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  Speaker 1: we were shooting, so we got to take her out
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  Speaker 1: to dinner. And since I had owned the books for
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years and every year I was like, I promise you,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it made. Give me the rights again, give
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  Speaker 1: me the I was so happy to be like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: finally I did it. Okay, I did it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the best feeling ever right there. Congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 1: It was very It's a very I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's very cool. This is cool too. I saw your
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  Speaker 2: helping out in the search for the famous red guitar
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  Speaker 2: from Back to the Future, one which has been missing
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  Speaker 2: for forty year. I didn't realize it was missing that long.
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  Speaker 2: Have you guys had any luck recovering it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They've left me out of that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: hoping that they find it. I don't know. Probably if
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  Speaker 1: they do find it, someone's gonna want a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money for it.
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  Speaker 2: Right exactly. Then you got authenticated and the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And this is also pretty cool and funny. Your first
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  Speaker 2: movie was Jaws three D. I remember vividly watching that
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  Speaker 2: because I was like, oh, three D Jaws. It was awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and your character had a water skiing scene I heard
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  Speaker 2: you lied during the casting about being able to water ski.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I lied, And I also said I could swim.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't swim, but I did do all my stunts.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember the movie, I climbed up on a
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  Speaker 1: three tier pyramid of water skiers little little girl's shoulder. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: and two you know, like in two tier pyramid and
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  Speaker 1: I was at the top and they put it in
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  Speaker 1: the ocean and they and I did it. Wow. I
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  Speaker 1: was a stunt woman. That's how I started the suffering
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  Speaker 1: for your craft, like I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so nice to talk to you and hopefully you
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  Speaker 2: get to see you in person sometime soon. Meanwhile, everyone
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  Speaker 2: be sure to check out Leah in new episodes of
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  Speaker 2: The Chicken Sisters Sunday nights on the Hallmark Channel. Lea,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, it's so nice to see you, and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for having me. Oh you got it.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to see you too.
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez