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One on One: Mädchen Amick · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in, kiss you more, I am all
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  Speaker 1: in with Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast. We're here with
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  Speaker 1: Majin Amck. One of the great, one of the great
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  Speaker 1: talents that this town has ever produced. She's obviously know
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  Speaker 1: from Twin Peaks. Um. There was a two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: seventeen revival uh. She had the pivotal role of Wendell
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  Speaker 1: Mead on e R. She's also currently a series regular
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  Speaker 1: on Riverdale as Alice, and that's been since two thousand seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: She directs, she writes, she produces, she does everything. She's
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  Speaker 1: got a wonderful organization um dealing with mental illness that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to a little bit later. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: I give you the one only makes your naming. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show. How are you? Thank you? I'm good
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  Speaker 1: and I have so applaud to you for saying my
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  Speaker 1: name correctly. I always knew your name. I always knew
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  Speaker 1: how to say it correctly, and before you came on,
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  Speaker 1: our team coached me on it. They kept sending me
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  Speaker 1: like it's a long a it's here. I said, like, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know her, you know, I know I know.
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  Speaker 1: So even back in back in the day, did it
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  Speaker 1: give you trouble? Ear no German and you knew that
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  Speaker 1: this is the way it's pronounced. Yeah, I'm well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm part German, so I know I know this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know these things. Yeah. And it's just such a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful name. It's it's so fun to say. It makes
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  Speaker 1: your name. I just love that name. I have a
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  Speaker 1: story about my name. Do you do? Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 1: lay it on us. So my husband and I went
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  Speaker 1: to Zurich, I don't know before pre pandemic. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the life that we had before pre pandemic that one
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  Speaker 1: and the general manager you know, of the hotel out
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  Speaker 1: I would we would come and go and as you passed,
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  Speaker 1: they were always very gracious, Hello, David, have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: And they would say hello, mrs have a good day. Untry, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happened. So as we were checking out,
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  Speaker 1: the general manager was like, I am so sorry. I
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  Speaker 1: just want you to know that I can't call you
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  Speaker 1: by your name. And I was like, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It goes because it's so disrespectful. I would be calling
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  Speaker 1: you girl, like, Hi girl, because it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like Maiden, it's it's girl in German. So he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know what's your name, but I just
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  Speaker 1: can't call you that. Okay, Well, hey, at least they
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  Speaker 1: were honest. I want to just jump right in um
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  Speaker 1: and uh and get to it. You played Shelly, Christopher's
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  Speaker 1: girlfriend eventually became his wife and mother. Did g tell
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  Speaker 1: us about how the audition process and all that, how
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  Speaker 1: you get the wall? Um? Actually, I UM tested a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of times and got really really close to
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  Speaker 1: getting Laurel and um and just at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, like the Studio Network, they're like, oh, it
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't feel right for whatever reason. Right, it's like
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  Speaker 1: who knows why people, But I was just I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited. I was like, oh, I love
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  Speaker 1: this script and I love Amy UM. So I was heartbroken,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lie, but then I was really excited that
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  Speaker 1: Amy just invited me back to play. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of cookie character that came in and I
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  Speaker 1: guess tortured everybody. She was she was interesting. How many
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  Speaker 1: how many auditions? How many tests did you go through?
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  Speaker 1: I think at the Laurel eye roll. Oh. Um, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, it's like the normal. Like I
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  Speaker 1: probably went in straight to producer session because I had
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  Speaker 1: you know, done twin at that point and a few
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  Speaker 1: other things. Um, and so I probably went into producer session.
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  Speaker 1: And then I think I might have gone in again
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  Speaker 1: just to like tweak stuff and have Amy give me
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  Speaker 1: notes and things like that, and then I went straight
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  Speaker 1: to getting the test offer. But then you go through
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  Speaker 1: rounds in front of this the studio, and then if
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  Speaker 1: you make it past that, will go through rounds and network.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it is a tortuous torture situation for for
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  Speaker 1: for for our for our listeners who don't know the
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  Speaker 1: process of getting a role like that. Um, if you
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  Speaker 1: go straight to producers, it's considered out of perspect that
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to go in at the casting director
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  Speaker 1: level because of your resume. So you go right into producers.
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  Speaker 1: You read they love you. Let's let's make a test
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  Speaker 1: deal for them and then bring them in for the studio.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, so your agent and the studio
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  Speaker 1: are negotiating a six year contract for you, and your
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  Speaker 1: agent keeps calling you saying, well, this is how much
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  Speaker 1: they're offering first year, second year, third year, and are
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  Speaker 1: these are the bumps. So you know, when you go
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  Speaker 1: into that first UH network or studio audition, it's a
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  Speaker 1: callback that if you get this thing, you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: really rich. There's a lot of pressure that actors put
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  Speaker 1: on themselves because, yeah, this is the moment. Now it's real.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know that you're in the hot seat. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're working your tail off to get to
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  Speaker 1: prove the audition. Yeah, they and they keep layering on
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  Speaker 1: more elements per tests, like now do it with a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see you coming next week and see what you do
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  Speaker 1: with these notes that we give you. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a really long, UH nerve wracking process. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and and then yeah, and then then the your agents
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  Speaker 1: usually know because they're talking to somebody right there, talking
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  Speaker 1: to like the casting directors, or maybe they've gotten in
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  Speaker 1: with the producers, or maybe they have an in at
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  Speaker 1: the studio and they're like, oh, you're their first choice
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  Speaker 1: or you're their second choice. If you go in and
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  Speaker 1: nail it, you might get it. Or they kind of
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  Speaker 1: put you in last last minute, so you know, you
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  Speaker 1: just have a good shot. So you have this like
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  Speaker 1: going in and then you show up and you're all
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  Speaker 1: waiting in the hallway, you know, at some studio, some
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  Speaker 1: office building, so you see all of your competition, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then you see them go into the room and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you just hear all these laughters and everybody is
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  Speaker 1: getting along so great, and then you yes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're just like m M, I don't know if that
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  Speaker 1: one went well. That actor's way to each other too,
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  Speaker 1: is they come out sometimes like, oh, man, nailed it,
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  Speaker 1: nailed it. I think I got it. I think I
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  Speaker 1: got it. Oh my, it's totrous. It's absolutely it really,
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  Speaker 1: it's exhilarating and exciting. But yeah, it's uh, it's a
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  Speaker 1: long way to find out if you won the lottery,
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  Speaker 1: because it's like when in the lottery, it is it's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely something. It's really lightning in a bottle to even
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  Speaker 1: get a job. Uh. And then it's it's another lightning
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  Speaker 1: in a bottle that it's actually a series that gets
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  Speaker 1: picked up past a pilot and then if it goes
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  Speaker 1: more than a half a season or a season, you're golden.
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  Speaker 1: You're just golden, you know. Um, And and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was it's hard. It's hard. It's right, You're right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's I I luckily I've got David Lynch as
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  Speaker 1: a mentor. And there have been many moments in my
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  Speaker 1: career because I've been doing this for thirty five years now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not that much older myself, but um
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  Speaker 1: uh that I go to David and just like I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing, Like I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I'm ever going to work again. I don't do I stop,
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? And he always gives me this
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  Speaker 1: great simple advice every time, Magkin, I told you, actors
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  Speaker 1: are um not working and you're lucky if you get anything,
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  Speaker 1: and you just gotta hang in. If this is what
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  Speaker 1: you want to do, you just gotta hang in. So
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  Speaker 1: I just kept hanging in Since nineteen, I've just been
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  Speaker 1: hanging in. Do what you can do other things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you can get your mind off it, and you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: stay open, stay creative, keep that, keep your vessel open,
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  Speaker 1: right creatively speaking, there are other things you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't always have to be acting. And I always think,
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  Speaker 1: and I always say, you know, I left home at
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  Speaker 1: sixteen from Reno Nevada and came to l A, which
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  Speaker 1: just a singular focus. Um, and so I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any other skills. I'm just I'm stuck. So this is
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  Speaker 1: what I gotta make it work. So but I always
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  Speaker 1: and I give people advising time is find that other
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  Speaker 1: thing that you can do, that you know you can
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  Speaker 1: do at least to pay the bills, or maybe you
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  Speaker 1: love doing it, maybe it's in a creative outlet. But um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you if you put all your eggs
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  Speaker 1: in one basket in this business, it's just really hard
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  Speaker 1: and stressful. And you know I can if you look
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  Speaker 1: at my resume like, oh wow, she's been working for
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  Speaker 1: thirty five years, she's wrote, you know, she's rolling, she's
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  Speaker 1: got no worries And no, it's not true. In between jobs,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know when the other job it's going to come,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you you hopefully put a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of to get It's so but that's why I'm starting
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  Speaker 1: to direct now, right. But it is rather amazing with
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  Speaker 1: so much of the movie film and film talent going
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  Speaker 1: into television with all of these uh, I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: like five shows and it's still hard to get work.
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  Speaker 1: It's like even harder now because a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: film people have pushed the TV, the traditional TV people
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  Speaker 1: out of the business almost and made them somewhat irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: So if you if there's if you're not a crossover talent,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not doing both film, uh, TV and film,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have those relationships, it's hard to sort
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  Speaker 1: of get in TV now because it's all film people.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna kind of go with those people that they
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  Speaker 1: have those relationships with. Yeah, and I'm sure, I sure
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, we're maybe somewhat similar and aged about
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight now, right, is that how how old we are? Um?
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  Speaker 1: But we remember back let's go with that. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, Um, there was this real taboo
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  Speaker 1: that it was very separate, like you're either a film
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  Speaker 1: actor or a television actor, and it was always said
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  Speaker 1: that those film actors don't go into television or you've
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  Speaker 1: turned in your film card, never to be invited back
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  Speaker 1: into the party again. And I would I would always like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a really dumb role. That doesn't seem to make sense.
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  Speaker 1: And I just kind of didn't that I could. But um,
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  Speaker 1: but now, like you said, all all of our films
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  Speaker 1: have now gone to television. All of our good films
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  Speaker 1: are limited series on streaming and you know, all of
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  Speaker 1: those premium cable networks, and we've lost a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our middle ground films. They've either gone to the row together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as much money as you possibly can to
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  Speaker 1: just barely squeak out of film independent or over the
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  Speaker 1: moon budget with five people that they'll have star in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for millions, and it's become a Disney ride,
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  Speaker 1: Like those are the big action movies that you know,
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  Speaker 1: they turned into video games and Disneyland rights and that's it,
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  Speaker 1: Like we lost our middle ground of film. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: I think independent film has truly gone independent where people
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  Speaker 1: are just financing their own stuff. I mean, studios aren't
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  Speaker 1: putting money into independent film any longer or or less
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  Speaker 1: and less. But I mean the old studio bosses, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they would pluck a television talent out of the series
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  Speaker 1: very early so that audience didn't get used to seeing
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  Speaker 1: them for free on television because that was their fear.
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  Speaker 1: So if it's like if, if, if they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how long was Pierce Broston on Remington Steel?
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  Speaker 1: How long was that run? Was that four or five
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  Speaker 1: six years or um, because they plucked him, they got
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  Speaker 1: him out of that series, and you're gonna do movies.
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  Speaker 1: You know. This is because you're charming and great and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Um. Yeah, that doesn't apply anymore. That
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  Speaker 1: just does not apply anymore. But I always think it's
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  Speaker 1: an advantage, you know. I think the film people actually
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  Speaker 1: have a big advantage. All right, so let's let's do
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  Speaker 1: a little uh gilmore stuff. Your introduction was as surprised
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  Speaker 1: at Rory's Chilton debate, audiences are rooting for Christopher and Laurel,
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  Speaker 1: we get back together. How was it being the character
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  Speaker 1: that was preventing that? Um, it was kind of the
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  Speaker 1: usual for for characters that I've done. Um, I sing
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  Speaker 1: you so during during twin Peaks, Shelley Johnson was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: a victim but had a little naughty side, and um,
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  Speaker 1: I started getting really weird attention from that I had.
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  Speaker 1: It was very and I and I learned really quickly
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  Speaker 1: that when you played victims on film or television, UM,
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of get targeted to, you know, by
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  Speaker 1: not well meaning fans, um that look at you as
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  Speaker 1: a victim. It's a very weird psychological thing. So I
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  Speaker 1: made a very conscious effort to start playing very strong
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  Speaker 1: female roles from that point on. So then the next
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  Speaker 1: thing I did was dream Lover, and I played real
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  Speaker 1: film fatale James Spader. So I kind of like I
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  Speaker 1: kind of got known for that for a bit. So
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  Speaker 1: and and I really avoided those like just just being
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  Speaker 1: the hot girl on the action guy's arm, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I just I wanted like more interesting roles. So
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  Speaker 1: I seemed to started doing all of these like really
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  Speaker 1: like causing trouble and you know, so it was it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of normal for me. But what I liked
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  Speaker 1: about her is that she was innocent in it all.
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  Speaker 1: She was very um hi hi, you know, so good
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  Speaker 1: to meet you. Having no idea that that the entire
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  Speaker 1: town and and social group, you know, looked at that
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  Speaker 1: character as like getting in the way, you know, how
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  Speaker 1: how dare she? Well that's yeah, that's what it has
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  Speaker 1: to deal with. And Gilmore Nation, you know, they want,
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  Speaker 1: they want what they want, and if they don't get it,
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  Speaker 1: it's like look out. Uh they're very determined bunch. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely had a presence and you were quite the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of Laurela. How did you prepare for this role?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of preparation did you do mm hmm, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Amy's Amy's writing. It is so specific and um,
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  Speaker 1: which is like a really really testament to her because
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of known for UM. I kind of like
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  Speaker 1: to play with with dialogue and I'd like to play
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  Speaker 1: with what's written and push the envelope and keep trying
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  Speaker 1: to find something and and for the most part, I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm kind of allowed and respected to do that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but what with her material, it's it's it
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  Speaker 1: has such a rhythm to it um that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to I just you don't mess with it like
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  Speaker 1: you just do it. So it's really full and just
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  Speaker 1: really leaning in and um. And there's even that like
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  Speaker 1: that fast timing and there's like such a cadence to it.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was challenging for me. Obviously it's not
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  Speaker 1: the way I talked, but it's this very syncopated you know,
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  Speaker 1: so that I just really focused on trying to get
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  Speaker 1: the right feel and the right rhythm. You know. I
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  Speaker 1: think the character stood for itself, you know, I understood it,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't have to prepare too much on that.
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  Speaker 1: It was just more like I want to honor um
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  Speaker 1: the style of the show, and I want to do
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  Speaker 1: the character right, and I want to do the writing right,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to be able to fold into the
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  Speaker 1: main cast. You guys had done such a beautiful It
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  Speaker 1: was this great orchestration of all of you and how
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  Speaker 1: you came together and how you wove this this rhythm
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  Speaker 1: in and I wanted to come in and honor it
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  Speaker 1: and not come in and disturb anything. So I just
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  Speaker 1: was behaving and trying to trying to hang on and
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  Speaker 1: follow you guys. You know, I speaking of rhythm and cadence,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it was almost Iambic. It was almost
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  Speaker 1: Shakespearean and rhythm there's very few and she does it
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  Speaker 1: really well, right, David, I had I remember exactly exactly, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean talk about I am yeah, yeah, oh, very
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  Speaker 1: very specific. Yes, wonderful to watch actors do. Maam at
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  Speaker 1: really well. He has his you know, his Joe Montaigne
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  Speaker 1: is and he's got his people that he goes to,
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  Speaker 1: William H. Macy people like that. But um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I found coming off of seven years of Gilmore, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and I did another series right away, and I just
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what I was doing because the rhythm
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  Speaker 1: was completely different, and it was it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: a comedy and it took a little while to adjust
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  Speaker 1: to it because I was just every time you get
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  Speaker 1: these great scripts and there were hsterically funny and then
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  Speaker 1: you try to act them and it was like whoa.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like they were depending too much on
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  Speaker 1: me to fill it right. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't used to that. I was. I was used
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  Speaker 1: to just sort of memorizing dialegue, getting the rhythm, nailing
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  Speaker 1: it as fast as I could, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: whole different gay anyway, Um, what was do you remember
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  Speaker 1: your first day on set and what that was like
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  Speaker 1: for me? Um? I think it was that that the
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  Speaker 1: scene where I arrived to be introduced to Laura Lay
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  Speaker 1: and then I think we sit down on a couch.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there was if I'm by the
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  Speaker 1: way I'm you can already title this podcast makes an
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  Speaker 1: Am the worst podcast guest ever, because what are you
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  Speaker 1: talking about? No? No, no, no no, that's just because yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're great. What are you talking about? Thank? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Because because obviously in my thirty or five years, I've
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  Speaker 1: done a lot of things, and I remember the people
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  Speaker 1: they meet their stories, the crew. I remember those connections
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  Speaker 1: and when you talk to me about like you know
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  Speaker 1: what the character did, I'm like, I don't know. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to watch that. No, but I think my
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  Speaker 1: first I think very I think my first day on
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  Speaker 1: set was I was sitting down on the couch and
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  Speaker 1: living room and I don't know if I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to Lorelei, Lorelei or UM. Yeah, I don't know. Or look,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about your foundation. Okay, let's do that. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us tell us a little bit about what you're doing
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  Speaker 1: and what the foundation is all about. Yes. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just over ten years ago, UM my son's freshman year
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  Speaker 1: at college at UC Irvine. UM, he witnessed a very
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  Speaker 1: really traumatic event which now we can see and look
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  Speaker 1: back that it was the trigger that UM exposed his
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  Speaker 1: genetic predisposition to a mental illness. He eventually got a
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  Speaker 1: diagnosis of bipolar disorder. UM, but what we went through
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  Speaker 1: in those first couple of years was so heart wrenching
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  Speaker 1: and full of despair and finding him the right diagnosis
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  Speaker 1: and the right treatment and UM, it just hit our
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  Speaker 1: family out of nowhere. I've I met my husband back
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  Speaker 1: in seven we've been together forever. We have two kids,
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  Speaker 1: son and a daughter and just very very tight knit
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  Speaker 1: fly because you know, band of Gypsies. He was a singer, songwriter,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: recording artist, and I'm an actress. His name is David Alexis,
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  Speaker 1: and he's worked with great people like Sliding, the Family
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  Speaker 1: Stone and two May Asked for instance, and all these
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  Speaker 1: you know, really great r and b um. So it
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  Speaker 1: just hit our family out of nowhere. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: you think that you are, you know, enlightened and you
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  Speaker 1: know everything and you're open to everything, and ma'am, this
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  Speaker 1: came out of nowhere and we had no no clue
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  Speaker 1: how to navigate it and speaking to how bad our
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  Speaker 1: mental health care system is and the support services and
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  Speaker 1: the guidance and everything that you would need to navigate
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  Speaker 1: through was not there. So we went through through that.
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  Speaker 1: Our son got better, he got a good diagnosis, he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: got good medication and um and then he destabilized again
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  Speaker 1: in the summer with the manic episode. And he has
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: um uh psychosis when he goes into mania, which is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: pretty common. And so we were thrown back into you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: ten years earlier, and the mental health care care system
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was worse. Yeah, and we had been talking all on
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you know, and we had become big advocates since that happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for ten I would I was I am
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Closes, Bring Change to Minds first global ambassador, so
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  Speaker 1: I was helping get the word out and sharing our story.
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  Speaker 1: But um, it got to a point when we saw
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: how bad things were um during that summer that we're like,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: all right, that's it. We kept talking about, you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: one day we want to start a foundation, we want
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to make a change. And it was like, all right,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: gloves are off, we're doing it. We're gonna do what
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  Speaker 1: we can. So we found it don't mind me, don't
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  Speaker 1: mind me. That's the don't mind me dot org. Go ahead, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: And uh so we obviously use you know, I'm able
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  Speaker 1: to use my platform, and we have a podcast, don't
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  Speaker 1: mind Me podcast. My daughter and I host that, and um,
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  Speaker 1: so we do everything we can for our advocacy pillar.
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  Speaker 1: But um, what we're really proud of is we're one
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  Speaker 1: of the few that have direct impact. So we use
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  Speaker 1: our funds and the fundraise so that we can scholarship
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  Speaker 1: people into treatment that wouldn't otherwise be able to whether
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they can't afford it or they can't find it. UM.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: So that's that's really been a big part of my focus.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Obviously finishing up the last year on Riverdale, I've been directing,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I've corrected feature UM. But since I just didn't have
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: much to do, decided to, uh start a foundation, a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: nonprofit foundation. What are you doing with five minutes per week?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You have spare time, you know, yeah, leaped or you know, exercise,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: but no, let's let's do something else. Well, good on
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  Speaker 1: you for for starting this organization. And I hope your
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: son is doing better. Yeah, he's doing really well now
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and he's working in patient advocacy UM and wants to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: eventually become a case manager. And he really involved in
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the foundation because I mean he's his boots on the ground.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: He knows, he knows what's smack. So everybody, so everybody listening,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: everybody downloading, go to don't mind me dot org and
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just check it out, you know, and if if you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: want to get involved in somewhere or spread the word
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: or donate, just go ahead and do it. UM. Anyway, UM,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing that and wish you all the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: best with that. Than you really really admirable. We're gonna
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: do rapid fire. We're going, We're going from the sublime
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: to the ridiculous. Here we go, ready for rapid fire.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: How many cups of coffee you have in a day?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: What are you Team Logan, Team Jesser, Team Dean. Who's
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: your favorite Guilt? Why? I don't know. He's good dude.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: He's good dude. Not that the other two aren't, but
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: he's He's really a dude. Who's your favorite Gilmore Girl's character?
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Grory mind too? What would you order at Luke's Diner?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Coffee and terry pie if you have it? Of course
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: we do, Of course we do. You're welcome anytime. Would
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you rather go on a road trip with Taylor or
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Michelle Taylor? Why? It's rapid fire. You gotta keep moving. Wait, man,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: finish the lyric and where you lead, I will follow
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• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Prepper Stars? Hollow Hi, Hollow, Hi, amazing. It's been really
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: great catching up with you. You're gonna have to come
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: back on You're gonna have to come back on. We're
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: gonna have to do a longer interview. Let's do it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I mean we didn't even get to, you know, third
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of the questions that that we had for you. But
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on. You were a delight.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You're a massive talent with a big heart. With your
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: organization don't mind me dot org ladies and gentlemen makes
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  Speaker 1: your name and all the best to you. Thank you, hey, everybody,
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