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Mystic Christmas · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm your former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Mystic Christmas, part of Hallmark's Countdown to
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  Speaker 1: Christmas series for twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Great time, and we're talking so fast because we cannot
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  Speaker 1: wait to get to the main event, which is to
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  Speaker 1: introduce our very special guest today, Keith Nielsen, costume designer extraordinaire,
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  Speaker 1: who not only was the costume designer for the movie
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  Speaker 1: we're discussing today, but he worked on A Biltmore Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: A Merry Scottish Chris and last year's A Holiday Spectacular Key.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for being here.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited now, mit too, I
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  Speaker 2: have like so many questions just about your process. How
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  Speaker 2: it could I know nothing about making movies, zero things,
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  Speaker 2: and so costume design is so cool, Like how did
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  Speaker 2: you get there? We'll get all into it.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's start with that. What was your path to
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  Speaker 3: costume design as.
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  Speaker 4: A job I'm doing. I've done everything I said I
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  Speaker 4: would never do, so never say never, And one of
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  Speaker 4: them was I never wanted to do costumes in college.
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  Speaker 4: I actually have a business degree from an art school,
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  Speaker 4: and there was a film program at my school, and
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  Speaker 4: when you go to film school you want to do
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  Speaker 4: like writing, directing, editing, like technical stuff. So once they
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  Speaker 4: did their one prerequisite of like costumes and production design,
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  Speaker 4: like anybody in any major could do it as like
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  Speaker 4: an extracurricular thing. So my friend Hannah and I would
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  Speaker 4: always do the clothes for fun. But I always said
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  Speaker 4: I'd never do it because it took me like so
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  Speaker 4: long to like always wanted to address people for like them,
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  Speaker 4: like as a person and make them look the best,
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  Speaker 4: not necessarily like the character, like I was worried about
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  Speaker 4: like them in their opinion and not like the character's opinion.
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  Speaker 4: And then one day something just clicked. And then after
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  Speaker 4: college I had the opportunitutunity to do an internship and
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  Speaker 4: I moved to New York in like a second, and
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  Speaker 4: then it really snowballed from there. I mean I was
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  Speaker 4: in the business probably for four years, and then I
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  Speaker 4: got my first costume design gig, and then I was
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  Speaker 4: like it also just kind of clicked, and I just
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  Speaker 4: like didn't look back because I didn't want to. And
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  Speaker 4: then now I say, I'm the King of Christmas Style.
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  Speaker 2: I love that hold that I'm writing that down.
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  Speaker 1: So you've worked in the past couple of years quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit on Hallmark. How did you break into the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark world?
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  Speaker 4: So in the pandemic, I had done a super indie
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  Speaker 4: low budge Christmas movie twenty eighteen nineteen maybe and hit
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  Speaker 4: it off with like a great group of crew. We
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  Speaker 4: film a lot in the Northeast. We filmed that in
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  Speaker 4: Connecticut and we all hit it off. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: this business is all even now, it's all word of mouth.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you can get a personal reference, it's
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  Speaker 4: like you can be in like that. And Facebook post
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  Speaker 4: came over about a movie filming in December twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: for Beet, and a friend from that movie tagged me
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  Speaker 4: and I ended up getting hired, and then we all
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  Speaker 4: really enjoyed working together, and that production company works for
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  Speaker 4: Hallmark a lot, so then they introduced me like the
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  Speaker 4: following season for Nextop Christmas, and then it kind of
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  Speaker 4: you know, went from there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's what's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I've been looking at a lot of the press sheets
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  Speaker 1: for the movies that are coming out, and some of
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  Speaker 1: them don't have a costume designer listed.
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  Speaker 4: So some do and some don't.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, oh, like all the ones that you're on have
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  Speaker 1: you listed, but of the most recent ones that you're
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  Speaker 1: not on have not listed a costume designer at.
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  Speaker 3: All, but they all must have one.
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah, totally. I mean it's I mean in all
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  Speaker 4: the movies I did this year, with the exception from
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  Speaker 4: Scotland because I was international where like full union production,
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  Speaker 4: so it was my whole department was every department was
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  Speaker 4: fully Union. So yeah, it's a real job and.
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  Speaker 3: It was bizarre.
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  Speaker 4: That's maybe it's just an oversight, so maybe they focus
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  Speaker 4: on it when they want to highlight the clothes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I'm there. I'm like super involved in like all,
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  Speaker 4: Like I just listened in on a lot of creative conversations,
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  Speaker 4: so like my name and positions kind of I just
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  Speaker 4: I make it all about the clothes.
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  Speaker 1: So the clothes are a character in these movies, even
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  Speaker 1: in and we're going to talk about Mystic Christmas. But
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  Speaker 1: this is not a movie like a Biltmore Christmas or
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  Speaker 1: a holiday spectacular where your brain's like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: a costume movie. They're right dressed like everyday people. But
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  Speaker 1: I have thoughts on the costumes. Do you have a
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  Speaker 1: favorite era to style a favorite style to style?
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  Speaker 4: No, but I really really want to do Victorian and
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  Speaker 4: like Turn of the century.
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  Speaker 3: Asian a tiny bit this movie, didn't you do it tiny? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? But that was like costume yeah yeah, yeah, which
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  Speaker 4: was also like cute, and I wanted it to like
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  Speaker 4: make it like a combination of things that they might
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  Speaker 4: have had in their closet and yeah, a couple of things.
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  Speaker 4: And I wanted to be like they went and bought
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  Speaker 4: like some crazy costume that was like totally out of reach,
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  Speaker 4: And I thought, like, this impressed photo is out there.
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  Speaker 4: I think they look so cute and they're like bright
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  Speaker 4: colored front codes. I love anything and all eras. I
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  Speaker 4: mean once I kind of like get the call for one,
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  Speaker 4: I like deep dive into it, especially like I'd love
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  Speaker 4: to do something like I don't know anything about like
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  Speaker 4: or want to learn more about, like I'd love to
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  Speaker 4: do like Jacobean or I love the Renaissance. I love
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  Speaker 4: like religious renaissance. Are I mean yeah, I don't really
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  Speaker 4: have a favorite. I think there's something interesting and like
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  Speaker 4: creative about like all eras and stuff. But the farther
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  Speaker 4: you go back, the harder it is, like technically.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to source things without.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was significantly harder than the fifties,
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  Speaker 4: and that was just like a ten year jump.
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  Speaker 2: You're sourcing the clothing, but do you any of it?
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  Speaker 2: Like are you sewing?
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  Speaker 4: I have it? I don't. So in film you rarely
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  Speaker 4: usually get to build things. I do have a tailor
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  Speaker 4: on staff on all of my movies, just because I
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  Speaker 4: think by personalizing, I mean in your life and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: I always say like tailoring is the key, just like
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  Speaker 4: doing proper hems on sleeves and pants and things built more.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't do any full builds, but we did some
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  Speaker 4: like altered builds. But then, like Mystic was interesting because
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  Speaker 4: that movie didn't really have like the dress moment. It's
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  Speaker 4: just the way it was outlined. It just didn't have that,
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  Speaker 4: which is like fine, and was different, so it was
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  Speaker 4: kind of finding like a different There was like different
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  Speaker 4: creative events in there, like you mentioned like the Lantern tour,
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  Speaker 4: so like that was kind of like a moment because
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  Speaker 4: there was like a little bit of romance there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean Lacy's dress in Scotland built that was built
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  Speaker 4: in literally like thirty six hours. Thank you, Claudia.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. So it just depends. I mean a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it depends on timing. I love the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to build something just because I like things that one
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  Speaker 4: creates come from me and it's a collaboration with the actor.
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  Speaker 4: But also I like that it can't be generally accessible,
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  Speaker 4: like it's special to that film and that character.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah they're not getting it gap Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well I DM Keith because there was like really cute
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  Speaker 2: sweater in Oh my Gosh, where are You Christmas? And
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  Speaker 2: he's like Ann Taylor and I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: thank God, Like can I.
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  Speaker 6: I can have it?
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  Speaker 3: Can I go out and buy that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's weird. I don't know why and how
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  Speaker 4: I remember like so much of where it's from. But
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  Speaker 4: like I got a DM about ADDIE's coat from that
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  Speaker 4: and they were I was like, well, you can probably
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  Speaker 4: find it at the outlet, but I also completely rebuilt
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  Speaker 4: it so that it doesn't really exist in that shape.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I have a question for you. You had said
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  Speaker 2: when we did our like pre interview stuff, you said
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  Speaker 2: that I'm quoting you, costumes are so much more than clothes.
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  Speaker 2: It's visual communication, and when building pieces from the ground up,
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  Speaker 2: it can be very personal, And so I wondered what
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  Speaker 2: that's like. We're collaborating with like the filmmaker, if they
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  Speaker 2: have a vision and you have a vision, Like, how
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  Speaker 2: does that come together? How do you compromise.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really lucky that I've worked the teams that I've
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  Speaker 4: worked with on all of mine have somewhat remained similar
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  Speaker 4: the same. So I'm really really lucky that my producers
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  Speaker 4: really trust me, and that if I'm happy and the
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  Speaker 4: network's happy and the director's happy, everybody's happy. But I
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  Speaker 4: mean it starts with like I get the scripts and
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  Speaker 4: then I usually have like a costume meeting, And I
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  Speaker 4: always like to point out when I talk to the
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  Speaker 4: team at the network and the director, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: think there's somewhat thing different in all of these movies,
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  Speaker 4: even though it might be slight like and mystic. It
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  Speaker 4: was like, we're actually set in Connecticut and we're down
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  Speaker 4: by the seashore and there's a seal, so it's like,
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  Speaker 4: how does and there isn't like a ball gown moment,
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  Speaker 4: so like how does that change things? Versus like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a period movie like Builtmore. It's super collaborative. Usually I
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  Speaker 4: just pitch my ideas and then I source things, and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you source them and that can completely change the trajectory,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I'm like, oh, I found this and it's
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  Speaker 4: totally speaking to me for like this, and it normally
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  Speaker 4: starts with like one piece. I always really start with jackets,
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  Speaker 4: just because when I'm filming off season it's harder to find.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm like, I need to find a jacket, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm scrolling for hours and hours and hours because I
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  Speaker 4: want to find something different, and especially when I do
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  Speaker 4: these back to back, I'm like I did four back
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  Speaker 4: to back this year, and I was like, I needs
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  Speaker 4: to be a different coat, like we need to mix
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  Speaker 4: it up. And then the fitting. Sometimes you walk into
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  Speaker 4: a fitting and you're like you look at the rack
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  Speaker 4: and you look at the rack and you're like, it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be great, Like it's gonna be great, especially if
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  Speaker 4: you've worked at the actor before, like when I did
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  Speaker 4: Lindsay's fitting, like her second her fitting for Where Are You?
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  Speaker 4: Because we did Next Stop together. It was a home
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  Speaker 4: run because like she's like, we worked well together the
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  Speaker 4: first time she trusted me. It was like bottoming bottom
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  Speaker 4: Boom and Dustin our director who did Next Stop and
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  Speaker 4: he also did Where Are You? And Scotland we've worked
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  Speaker 4: together before, so he trusts me and he's like, whatever
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  Speaker 4: works work, So it's lucky. It's fortunate in that way.
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  Speaker 4: But there are some people not in any of the
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  Speaker 4: ones that we're talking about today, but like I have had,
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  Speaker 4: you know, people that are way more interested in clothes
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  Speaker 4: versus others, which is fine. It just it depends on
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  Speaker 4: the film. But overall, we do have meetings, like tone meetings.
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  Speaker 4: We do have some collaborative platforms we use similar to
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  Speaker 4: like Google groups and stuff, but I think they're better,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody puts all their visual stuff in there, so
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  Speaker 4: I'm able to look at like locations and production design
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  Speaker 4: and like graphics. So like on Where Are You, I
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  Speaker 4: saw the locations pictures and like the house like was
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  Speaker 4: very beige so like I texted our production designer. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, hey, are you painting any walls? And he's like,
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  Speaker 4: we can't at this location. I was like, good to know, So, like,
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  Speaker 4: don't put anybody in beige against a beige wall.
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  Speaker 2: How far in advance are you guys working on the
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  Speaker 2: film before actual shooting date.
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  Speaker 4: I'm usually like two and a half weeks?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? Wow?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: I'm always typically waiting on casting just because it's weird.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you know way in advance, like they can get
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  Speaker 4: casting it. Sometimes it's last minute. But like, I mean, luckily,
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  Speaker 4: walking into Mystic, I knew I had Chandler and Jesse
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  Speaker 4: and Chandler I had dressed before and so that was fine.
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  Speaker 4: But like Biltmore, I mean I fit some people on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday that worked on that Monday.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah. I always like when I see things online,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, if you only knew the truth, They're lucky
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  Speaker 4: they have pens.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any this is coming from a person with
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  Speaker 1: body issues? Is there any communication with the actors where
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  Speaker 1: they're like, I trust you, but also can we be
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  Speaker 1: aware of like these facets of my body when we're dressing.
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  Speaker 4: Me a million percent? I say, tell me everything because
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  Speaker 4: if you don't tell me, then we're gonna walk in
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  Speaker 4: with a fitting and we're all gonna walk out feeling
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  Speaker 4: like not great. Yeah, like tell me. Like I've had
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  Speaker 4: actors when I've gotten sizes, they're like, I hate my arms,
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  Speaker 4: I hate my legs, and I like a high collar. Great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know your parameters, that didn't play within
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  Speaker 4: those parameters and make it the best you can. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I talk, and especially with period movies, I do talk
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  Speaker 4: a lot about under garments just because that does affect
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  Speaker 4: the shape of vintage garments. So I do like provide
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  Speaker 4: a lot of different undergarments for period stuff. I also
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  Speaker 4: do it for contemporary if people want it. But I
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  Speaker 4: also encourage actors I work with to bring their own
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  Speaker 4: like shape we're in undergarments because you know it's somewhat
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  Speaker 4: molds to your body and you're comfortable in it, and
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  Speaker 4: if it makes you feel better, then like great that
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  Speaker 4: comes across on camera for sure. I love the more
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  Speaker 4: I know, the more I can help you. And that's not.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, you're being difficult thing when I'm like, please,
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  Speaker 1: let's not accentuate whatever.
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  Speaker 4: No, totally, because then if you're honest about that, then
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  Speaker 4: i'n intell, like that's a point for you that's going
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  Speaker 4: to show on camera. So that also helped me and
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  Speaker 4: doesn't help you. It doesn't help anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, Okay, we're going to talk Mystic Christmas
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  Speaker 1: before we get into the details of the movie. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about what working on this movie
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  Speaker 1: was like for you?
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  Speaker 4: This one was fun because we did Actually Where Are
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  Speaker 4: You and Mystic right after one another, so we kept
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the same crew. So it was like
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  Speaker 4: a really really awesome working environment because we were like
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  Speaker 4: comfortable with each other and we knew the flow and
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  Speaker 4: we like shoot really fast, and that's just like so rare,
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  Speaker 4: Like normally I'm showing up to a job with like
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  Speaker 4: one hundred strangers and you're like, hope it works, hope
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  Speaker 4: it's long. But this was awesome. Also, I'm from Connecticut,
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  Speaker 4: so it was really cool. Like I went to the
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  Speaker 4: aquarium in the village when I was in like elementary school,
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  Speaker 4: and like when they did the lantern tour, like I
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  Speaker 4: have a picture on the boat that's in the background
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  Speaker 4: like when I was a kid, So it's like a
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  Speaker 4: cool full circle thing. And also it's cool to be
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  Speaker 4: like close to like family and like my storage units
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  Speaker 4: here too, so like around things. But yeah, and I
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  Speaker 4: was excited too because so many of these movies are
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  Speaker 4: set and you know, a coastal town and or a
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  Speaker 4: Connecticut town, so it kind of is like a love
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  Speaker 4: letter do Mystic because we have filmed a bunch down
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  Speaker 4: in the shoreline too, So I'm really excited for especially
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  Speaker 4: like the locals to see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, people get super jazzed about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're like, that's my spot, Like that's so
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  Speaker 2: so funny.
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  Speaker 4: Story about that. I after Scotland had gone down to
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  Speaker 4: London and I had seen a show and I ended
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  Speaker 4: up at the hotel bar after and I was this
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  Speaker 4: mom and daughter came down and sat next to me.
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  Speaker 4: Crazy enough, they live in Mystic and came to watch
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  Speaker 4: this film Mistic Christmas. I was like, what are the
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  Speaker 4: chances of that?
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  Speaker 3: So funny?
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  Speaker 2: That's what a small world, That's fun I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm dying to talk about this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, are you ready for a synopsis?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, all right.
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  Speaker 2: An animal expert answers a call for help from an
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  Speaker 2: old friend, and that puts her in the path of
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  Speaker 2: an X At Christmas Stars, Jesse Shram, Chandler Massey, and
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  Speaker 2: Patty Mirren.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's time for first impressions. Keith ran to
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  Speaker 3: let you go first.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how do I have a first impression? I know
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  Speaker 4: what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I read my first impression after I've seen the whole movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like my like one liner thought about the movie.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was like a great classic Hallmark Christmas
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  Speaker 4: movie that wasn't like over the top Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Mine is Jess and Chandler are dynamic together, and I
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  Speaker 2: would love a sequel to this movie.
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  Speaker 4: Oh really, yes, I'm not mad.
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  Speaker 1: Mine is never judge a movie by its poster, because
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  Speaker 1: had that been my one piece of information, I would
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  Speaker 1: have skipped this movie.
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  Speaker 4: I oh, the poster was weird.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, thels behind them, it's just a little I get it. Like,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I actually love the Seal, but the posters.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Didn't do it justice.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Free My list of likes is so long, so let's
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: jump into what we liked about this movie.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Keith.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: I liked the Seal.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I cried when they released that seal into the ocean.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I personally liked at all of the locations are like
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: real places you can go and visit and Mystic. So
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: you can go to Stiff Bakery, you can get that
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: chestnut croissant, you can go to Mango's Pizza. So I
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: keep telling people, if you want your Christmas little village,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: it's like cometimistic. I loved working with Patty Muhran just
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: because I was like, she was Anna and Frozen.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: She's awesome. I love her. I wish they had her
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: on Hallwark more.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that. That's a great positive for me.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Was this cast and yeah, I mean being employed. Great,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: that's a like for me.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Juniper's green coat, Oh my gosh, the blue wait, oh
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the plaide Are you taking the plaid one?
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: The blue and the green one?
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Oh so good?
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I guess it's so gorgeous.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: And I think because, like you said, this movie doesn't
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: have the dress moment, like she's in half the time,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: she's in like vet seals. Yeah, uniform uniform which actually
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: was quite well fitted.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, look, thank you, it's a very exciting.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I was like, they're so flattery.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, little coveralls, but that co I was like, oh,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: we don't get that big moment, but like she gets this.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I thought that was a nice she.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Had some great coats. It is also she's so tall
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: statue ass, so you can like pull off like a
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: long coat.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I loved that coat.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I think us being here in California, we don't get
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: to wear coats like that, so every time we see one,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: we're like, oh, I must have it just to look
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: at it, just to look, not to wear it, just
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: to hang in the closet and wearing a sweater and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: currently sweating ninety degrees today.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I loved this movie. Yeah, I love this I truly
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: am my.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I can't it's I'm shocked how much I liked it
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: for like a second weekend movie. I thought it was
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Chandler Massey and Jesse Shram were magical. They were both
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: fully at the top of their game. I loved the writing.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I agree, and I was a little nervous about it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I really liked it.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: The interns could have been so crazy, and they were
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: so good, all three of them, and each of them
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: had their own storyline that we got enough information about,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: like they got to be individuals instead of like clumb
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: of goofy characters that got in the way.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Agree, And that's a testament I think to the writing too,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: because sometimes they like they gave you enough of like
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the interns and like Brooke who works at the pizza shop,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: but like not too much, like overpower. It was a
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: good balance of like an ensemble cast.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I was trying to find the writer Nicole Dressmel online
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: because I wanted to send her message to let her
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: know how much I loved the writing in this truly.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: As I was writing my notes, I was like, she
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: needs to know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: She does not have a public facing Instagram or Twitter
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that is currently active.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: You have you have her phone number, Keith? Can you?
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I mean maybe I'll do some I can. I mean,
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I can text some people.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to rave. What did you like?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I have a question first before jumping into what I liked.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I noticed that Jesse and Chandler were color coordinated. Was
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: that on purpose?
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: And why do you? And why do you do that?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about anything thing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a thing. I don't know. I like,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I always was taught like look at the frame as
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: a painting, and I always also was taught. And then
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: like if you can't hear anything, can you make like
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: color connections?
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: More?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Like color is really important? So yeah, it's intentional. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: think I did it more here than I've done it
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: in the past. But I mean I did the same thing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: And next up Christmas. When Chandler's sweater matches like Lindsay's.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Dress, I'm gonna have to go back and watch and
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: see those details.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I love the color connections.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Message that they belong together.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: But they belong together, they fit together. Yet I loved
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: like the color story too that you picked. It was
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: like those blues and greens, so pretty.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: Of course it was intentional too, just because being like
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: by the water and like toasts, so I wanted to
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: have nautical but like not but also of Christmas. It
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: was like a balance game.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so nice. I didn't know how I was going
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to feel going into this movie. I was hung up
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: on Mystic Pizza, which is a movie from the late
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: eighties early nineties, and so I really didn't know what
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to expect. And how does this like homework Christmas movie?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: What's it have to do with a seal? Like, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: really didn't know. I was so pleasantly surprised how much
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I liked it, and at the end was like feeling
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: happy and you know me, I don't really like a
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: lot of these movies. So this movie just like blew
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Me Away.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I fully agree. I can't say enough good things about
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: this movie.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: The writing, like you said, there were some gems. There
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: was one the whole scene where she cancels the date
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and he gives like the thumb up emoji and then
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: they talk about it and I can't remember the character's name.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: It was the dad of the girl who was the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: intern in a row. He tells them he's like, he's like,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: there's a fine line between low key and passive aggressive,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: and I thought this was like I laughed out loud.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I thought some of the writing was really really great.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I have so many lines written down that I loved,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Like when they're talking about tradition and Juniper says, do.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: You do you like it? Or do you just remember it?
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And I felt as a Christmas lover if you very
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: called out, I was like, oh no, do I.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Just remember it? Is that why it's important? Or do
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I actually like the truth?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I thought that was a moving moment there.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And so when Sawyer is at the aquarium because Peppermint
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: is sick and he's waiting around and Juniper comes out
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and says, you can go home, and he goes, are
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: you sure I can stay and do more nothing?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: There were just so many I could have written the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: entire scripts down it was.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I think that's the scene where he wears this shirt.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I think you're right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I'm such a cheesy person. I was like, I'm gonna
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: go get Chandler's shirt out of storeage.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I love this. I notoriously hate children in Hallmark movies.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I loved Louisa. I loved her because she wasn't like precocious.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: She was just like a regular kid with like her
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: crazy adult teeth coming in like. She was just adorable.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Am I brong?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: No?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I loved her.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I felt very protective of her as soon as she
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: came on screen because Wendy hates kids, and so I
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: was like.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Certainly she can't hate this one, and she didn't.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: She was so cute.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, she's friends with sea lions, come on, so cute.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: She loves to read. She's like a little me.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I thought she were finding me a lot of your daughter,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to be honest.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: The argument that Sawyer and Juniper have is so amazing
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and again well scripted, where you know she says to him,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: people in small towns assume that people who travel can't
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: make connections. And he's like, well, you people who are
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: traveling assume people in small towns like you look down
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: your noses at us. It was an argument that had
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: such depth and was so well communicated, and again was
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: next level and wasn't unlike some other moments since we've
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: based on a miscommunication.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Well, they had a deep history. I mean that email
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: situation from ten years so they were both fest starting
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: on that for a while.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad he looked in his draft.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, surely there's a record, like, why have
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: we not looked to be to prove myself and immediately.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Well, in my head and I know this is so
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: not Hallmark and you can cut this, but in my head,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: their night that they had spent together, like they had
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: spent the night together. That's that's what I thought.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So much, like, of course, what they're up all night talking? Yeah,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, Please, they don't need a costume
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: for that. I thought it was very sweet when she
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: calls her mom for advice. Yeah, and her dad immediately
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: calls because her mom reached out and let him know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: And I thought that sent the message home.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: They're talking about like, hey, the assumption that people who
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: are always on the go can't make connections. And look she,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: her mom and her dad all are doing their own thing.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: They're all out in the world, but look at the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: connection they still have to each other.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: And that's where she gets it too. They're both on
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: the road.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Let's talk what we wished for? Okay?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Can I go first here?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, I love when Hallmark can sometimes pull off a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: teachable moment, and I wish here they would have talked
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: little bit more about seal conservation. But that's because I'm
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: a nerd, and so I would have loved a little
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: bit like why they I know, the seal was sick
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and that's why she was there to help like rehabit,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to get back into the ocean and all that, but like,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: why was the seal sick? Like was there you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Wanted more like backstory like storry? Yeah?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how are the humans at play here?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I did like how she was like, you know, we
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: need to limit our interaction with the seal so they
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: don't become dependent on us and they're able to be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: re realleased. I was shocked how realistic the seal scenes
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: were because we saw that behind.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: The scenes picture. No, oh wait you saw what? Uh?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: We watched an older movie over the summer where there
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: was like a turtle conservation situation and it was straight
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: up like stuffed turtles that they're like moving.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: It was terrible bad.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: So the seal was so good. Tell me about the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: behind the scenes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Oh no, there's a photo going around on Twitter with
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Brandon Hunter who works in the production office, with like
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: a statue of a seal, and it like went around
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: a lot. But that was like the stand in for
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: when we didn't have the real seal. You never see
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: it in the cut, but the seals they're talking real
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: like yes, like Peppermint is real. There's like a shot
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: with like the seal and then like the four of
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: them with the interns, like they are in that enclosure together.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: When they release Peppermint, do they like race back in
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the ocean to get her?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: How does that? How did that happen? She goes into
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: the ocean?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Instagrams, I don't know, this can't be cgi wait Pepperman, Yes,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they release Peppermint into the ocean.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Oh well, do you want the truth?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: The truth?
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Well, the truth is is mystic aquarium does have like
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: a big like rescue and rehab facility.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Well that's footage from some other release.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: It's a difference.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's thank you. I should have gotten there whatever.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I cried.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I cried Peppermint.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I was like, go Peppermint, go oh yeah.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I thought like did they go and be like come back?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: That's how compelling this was to me because obviously Peppermint,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the actor is not ready for.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Really was the actor good?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: This is a silly wish, but I thought Ken insisting
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: that Juniper take notes, Oh no, gross.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I was like, you don't make the woman even Sawyers
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: like I'll take notes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: He's like.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Before he's given her like five other jobs and there's
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a room full of people.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: It's such like leading dude giving.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: She's like, you know, I'm a I'm a little doctor.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: You take notes because your handwriting is nicer.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Which, speaking of doctor Jesse like went and like shadowed
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: like the trainers, so like for like days on end.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: So she really like got in there.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I love her.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I love her. I know we need her in more movies.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Right before I go on, what.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Did you wish for?
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Keith?
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, mine's like super basic. I wish for more
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: beluga whales and more penguin shots just because they're my favorite.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: At the aquarium shot with.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: They're setting up like the little Christmas scene.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: In there with Chandler in there with the penguins. Yeah,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: they actually put him in there. Like the aquarium was
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: like so awesome with us and like really getting like
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: actual shots and not like you know, using green screen
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and stuff. And I do wish the script had like
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: a dress moment, but that's just like me, but I
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: get it didn't really like fit and I have other
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: gowns this year, so I'll survive.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, look lazy in a Mary Scottish Christmas is
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the moment for me that plaid. I can't get over it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm having a movie obviously it is a.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Dress in builtmore that's like a moment for me that
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: it's out there, but it's like it's not the one
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: on the poster, but it can't wait. The movie within
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: a movie situation.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, Sawyer's a bad manager.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Sawyer's a bad manager. And I'll tell you why.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: They came up on this moment where Brook's like, you
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: have to let me be the manager because there's not
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: going to be one and he's still.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Like, I'll figure it out. No, dude, if you're a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: good manager, you have a contingency plan in place, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: that includes training your best employee to be the manager
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: for a case.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Just like this. All right, I don't know how I
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Sawyer has so much time in a day because he's
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: like helping the neighbors, he's bringing Louis running out rule,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: he's running the restaurant. And let me say, if you're
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: ever a missick, Mango's pizza's pretty bomb.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It looks good.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I know. I was wondering if that was was that
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: pizza that they were eating actually from Mango's or was
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: that they were.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Making it right there for us?
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love it?
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: And then what was awesome for us on the cruise
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: we got to eat it after.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I'd just like to.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Point out that these two are terrible communicators, Like if
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the entire conflict is based on like, you never emailed me,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but we had this amazing.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Room took a relationship.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And then the sister knows that they both loved that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: moment and they're like deadlocked, and then they have this
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: whole text message moment where she can't just say there's.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: A sixth seal.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm canceling, not because I have a flate
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: like y'll point vocabulary.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Pepperman is you know code read gotta go.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Not like not gonna make it funny. Okay, did you
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: see that I have one? Yeah, And maybe Keith can
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: give us some background here. There was a shot where
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: there look like there were seal trainers.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Who were training are dolphins.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Now there are seals, I know what you're talking about,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and they're like doing tricks in the background.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Is that like at a rehab place, it would be
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: interesting that they would have.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Interview aquarium so they have entertainment and they're safe.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Our local aquarium doesn't have like entertainment like that, like SeaWorld.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Well a mystic a Graham has like animals that can't
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: be released, Oh okay, live there, like the blugas and
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: the penguins, and like Peppermint can't the real Peppermint like
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: cannot be released and lives there. And then they have
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: a whole separate section that's all for rehab, which okay,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: like you're not allowed to film in.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Think of it, like the San Diego Zoo. The San
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Diego Zoo.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Has like a rehab Okay, I actually loved that little
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: background like you see them.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I know it was cool too.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: She's on the phone right, Yes, yeah, that was actually
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: fun to shoot because they were like running their news
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: show and then like comes out of the water. Yes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: My only did you see that moment is there's putting
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: up flyers and juniper sticks hers to burlap with tape.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, lady, you're a scientist, you have.
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  Speaker 3: To know that. Like women in stem, this is not
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  Speaker 3: gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even notice well, and then Sweyar comes up and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, I got a stayler, Oh I got that.
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  Speaker 2: We missed that. I have never seen the sign the flyer.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Keith?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if I have a Do you see that?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you were there, so you're like I know everything.
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  Speaker 3: I saw it all.
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  Speaker 8: I mean normally I have like I know, like like
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: in Next Stop, I always get roasted because there's a
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  Speaker 8: pair of pants that are hemmed too short, But I
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  Speaker 8: feel like really won like that in this we.
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  Speaker 3: Have roasted some costuming, but never yours.
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  Speaker 2: Never yours, never yours, your Stef's always There was a.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Tragic white Sandal moment that Wendy still can't get over.
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  Speaker 4: In a Christmas movie summer movie Sandal at Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: All right, out of five stars, what did you rate
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  Speaker 3: this movie?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I'm at like a four point five too?
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  Speaker 3: What senergy?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Look at that?
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I can't get over. I love this was cute.
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  Speaker 3: It was super cute. Watch a hit. I think I'm
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: so excited to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm excited for I get to be out
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  Speaker 4: out and I want to. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 4: do well. I hope it does.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be one of the surprise
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: hits of the season. Okay, yeah, and we watch a
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  Speaker 3: lot of movies.
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  Speaker 4: Until Biltmore comes to school bosh it.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think that. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be fantastic. But everyone's expecting that to be great.
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  Speaker 4: Right, And it's also a different kind of great because
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: the Mystic Christmas is all contemporary and also when we,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: like I said before, like when we made it like
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: it was about like highlighting real mystic and like real location.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just a different vibe.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have room in my heart for many great
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies. Well, Keith, tell everybody where they can find you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm at Keith Underscore Costumes on Instagram and Twitter. I'm
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: mostly active on Instagram. I'm Keith Costumes dot com. It's
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: all about the branding Keith Costumes. Which it's funny. That's
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: a funny story. Is my what My assistant I work
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: with a lot laughs at me every time I call
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: myself Keith Costumes. But it came about because in this business,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: like we're always meeting people, so it's like, hey, what's
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: your name? And like, hey, I'm Keith, and it's like
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: the second question is, oh, what are you do? So
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: it became Keith Costumes, and then on Instagram on the
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Iconic Keith Costumes, and then now because I went to Scotland,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: the Iconic International, so we just keep adding.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: You know, work, How was Scotland?
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: So we filmed a lot in Ireland. I'm ready to
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: move there, but the people are amazing.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Where in Ireland did you film?
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: We were based in Dublin, but we were constantly commuting
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  Speaker 4: like forty five minutes to an hour outside. I learned
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: that castle life is not for me. I lived in
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: one of the castles we shot in a little drafty No,
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  Speaker 4: it was mainly there was like the only thing around
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: there was the castle and the only seat was the
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: restaurant that like closed at like eight o'clock, So.
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  Speaker 3: Not a whole lot of city life.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And then we went over to
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  Speaker 4: Scotland for a couple of days, which was stunning. But
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I mean these castles were made back in the day
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: and like that's the only thing there on like five
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: thousand acres. But I mean it's awesome and I'm so
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: grateful for the opportunity to go and do it. And yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: I mean we were all over. You know, we have
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: built more North Carolina Red leg Falls and where are
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: you Christmas Mystic? And then Scotland.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like we did not give Patty me your injustice.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We briefly talked about her, but she was a star
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in this movie. I just feel like I need to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: restate she was awesome in this movie. Did you ever
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: see Frozen on Broadway?
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  Speaker 4: I did with her, And it's so funny because when
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: she got cast, I texted Jenna Claire and I was like,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: I'm doing a movie with Patty and She's like, she's
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: the best to today. You'll have a great time, And
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: I was like, do you think she wants to build
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: a snowman?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: My god, you're so cute.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I know I loved I. I didn't love I thought
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: she was fantastic, but I didn't love Frozen on Broadway.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I agree with you because I could be wrong. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: wanted like the movie on stage, yes, and I feel
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: like they changed a little too much, so.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Much of it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: My daughter's doing a Frozen production right now and they're
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: like practicing the hooga song.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, it's cute. But I was like, that's
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: not it's not Frozen.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: They lost me and that's ok.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: It past two lines, y'all, Like he doesn't need a
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: whole dance number. All right, they've gone off the rails. Keith,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. We are
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  Speaker 1: in a full season of Christmas movie reviews, so be
• 35:31
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you next time.
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