“Drinkin' The Soda” (w/ Brittany Snow)

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Oh, and look over there. Wow, is that culture? Yes.
Goodness. Wow.
Las culturistas.

Speaker 1 Ding-dong. Las culturistas calling.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 you have come from an interesting event. Oh, that's right.
Yeah. I was just with Manon, Sophia, Daniela,

Speaker 1 Yunche, Megan, and Sophia.

Speaker 1 Did I repeat some names? You might have sent me a nice. Lara, I said, Lara, Lara, of course.
I'm like, Lara Raj. How can I forget? No, that's the power of Sophia.
She gets mentioned twice

Speaker 1 Sophia you go girl you go girl I was with cat's eye dancing with them I was not dancing with them but I was shooting a video that should be out by now by the time this comes out but God those girls are truly incredible they have a great bounty of talent a great fortune they have a great fauchin

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Speaker 1 anthony fauci

Speaker 1 who wait what did you read

Speaker 1 i said bounty and fortune at the same time and it came out

Speaker 1 of it is actually really powerful Well, it's actually real culture number 60. When you say bounty and fortune at the same time, you get fountain.

Speaker 1 Well, those girls of Kat Sai have a great fountain of beauty and talent. Youth and talent and work ethic.
And they're so sweet. They're funny as hell.
I mean, that EP, Beautiful Chaos, excellent.

Speaker 1 I mean, obviously, we're like the last people telling people to stream. They're like machines.
As are you, my friend. My dearest friend.
My friend. I'm one of the most famous dancers now.

Speaker 1 That's not true.

Speaker 1 not true. Don't challenge me.
Well, I flopped on this dance, I must say, because the choreo that Cat's eye does is... Was it difficult? Incredible.
Like, you have no idea.

Speaker 1 We got to talk to our guest about choreo because I want to know what Adam Shankman made this icon do. Our guest has hit the step for decades.
Absolutely. It's actually Ruler Culture number 50.

Speaker 1 Gritty Snow has hit the step for decades. And it was a lot of fun.
Check it out. It comes out Halloween.
They do fun Halloween stuff, these girls. I bet they do.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 because you're gonna love this halloween thing really is that like a special at this point it's out so they got dogged online because at the vmas on the red carpet a lovely correspondent on bill uh from billboard asked them we're celebrating mariah tonight what is your one by one let's go around one by one your favorite mariah video And these girls, they're young.

Speaker 1 They don't know. They're babies.
It's a little bit before. Babies don't necessarily know about Mariah.
It's actually real coach or number 15. Babies don't necessarily know about Mariah.

Speaker 1 So they were stumped. And then, of course, like the, you know, a certain millennial

Speaker 1 sect of gay men, especially

Speaker 1 kind of was like, oh, these girls, you know, opened the schools. These girls don't know.
And so for their Halloween thing this year, they are all dressed up as their favorite Mariah video look.

Speaker 1 I love that. They paid respects.
They pay respects and there's a great. broad sort of gamut of Mariah looks that I think will please a lot of people.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure the millennial gays will now put their weapons down and leave the girls alone. But

Speaker 1 like I was talking to the girls and they were like, we love her. We love her so much.
We just like, we couldn't think of like any videos. And, like, we watched all of them and like, they're so cats.

Speaker 1 I come on the show. Katsai come on the show.
We'll gab. You're invited.
We'll gab. We'll gab.
All right.

Speaker 1 Well, speaking of if they open the schools, I believe that our guest is in all the textbooks in the schools because she actually is an incredibly part, big part of pop culture.

Speaker 1 In so many different lanes and ways and verticals, I'll say. I remember when I first saw the guest.
When? On television. Oh.
There was a preview for a new show called American Dreams.

Speaker 1 And the star of it was this absolutely gorgeous ray of light. And I remember being young gay.
And I said, that's a star. That is a superstar whose name we will know.

Speaker 1 I believe she even got one of those, like, and introducing Britney Snow. She got an introducing.

Speaker 1 She did. She's making a face that would suggest.
I'm wrong. But in my mind, it was American Dreams and introducing Britney Snow.
Oh, that sounds so right. It hits the ear perfectly.

Speaker 1 She's the star of the cultural phenomenon that is the Hunting Lives. Murdoch Murder

Speaker 1 is on Hulu now. So much more.
I said Sophie. Sophie was the name of her character, different from Sophia.

Speaker 1 Right. But let's say Sophie twice, just to make it fair.
Sophie. Yes.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I guess I could say on Lost Culture Recess and now, and introducing

Speaker 1 Britney Snow.

Speaker 1 Yes, it is a phenomenon that you're here. No, it's, I'm just so delighted and honored.
It's not a phenomenon. I was going to come here regardless.

Speaker 1 Whether you wanted me here or not, no, for us, it's a phenomenon. We want you here.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's a personal phenomenon for us. Oh, no, no.
It's, I mean, this is the most lovely introduction, though. I do not feel like I'm in this category whatsoever, but thanks.

Speaker 1 Was it an introducing Britney Snow?

Speaker 1 It might have been. If it was for you, then that's.

Speaker 1 I just remember, like, that's a huge deal, though. Like, you're, you're, I guess you'd been acting since you were a kid kid.
A kid kid, like a baby. A Tampa kid.
A Tampa kid.

Speaker 1 My mom put me into those commercials when I was a baby. And so I have known no different.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just living the, living the life, the hard life of a Tampa child actor.
It was hard.

Speaker 1 What was the hardest part? The driving.

Speaker 1 The driving to Orlando, Florida.

Speaker 1 The 5 a.m.s, like getting in the back of my mom's van. She gets me one Dunkin' Donut on the

Speaker 1 strawberry glaze. Come on now.
And I am in the audition at like 8.30, 9 o'clock in the morning. And I have to be on.
I've got to be cute.

Speaker 1 Pigtails always. Of course.
Pigtails was the look.

Speaker 1 Well, around like six or seven, yeah.

Speaker 1 A braided pigtail? No, like two

Speaker 1 really annoying. Pippi long stocking vibes.
Pippy long stocking vibes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But does part of you, look, I wasn't even at all near this like sort of channel between Tampa and Orlando or anywhere in Florida feeding into central Florida.

Speaker 1 It just felt like such a 90s thing, like this aspirational 90s thing for kids, for people our age, where it was like, oh my God, well, you can like get your start in Orlando. You could go to Orlando.

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 And it was even worse that we were in Tampa. Like I was a Tampa kid.
I was born and raised there. So it was almost like.

Speaker 1 required that I was a part of dance and singing and stuff like that because there was pop stars coming out of Florida and and everything was very nikki related and um and so yeah I had no choice.

Speaker 1 So you were a Tampa kid who longed to be an Orlando kid. I did actually especially because in my teenage years, Orlando had teen clubs called the Groove.
Teen Clubs in Orlando.

Speaker 1 The Groove was my mecca. I would leave high school and go right from like high school Friday to Orlando and spend the weekend with my friends in Orlando.

Speaker 1 And I would be at the teen clubs with like a cowboy hat and like

Speaker 1 this sounds heavenly honestly that was exactly what on Long Island I pictured it being yes but like no social media no phones we're just at the teen club like um in your cow in your stetson's yeah what was like that big um you minimum

Speaker 1 fun the loving feels so good

Speaker 1 and that's what takes me high

Speaker 1 oh wow then what are you what are you throwing back

Speaker 1 on is so wrong but so right so right but what are you throwing back Dye Coke. Fruit tissues.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Well, this was a time when there was no limits on soda. Now they've banned soda.
It's almost like you can't even say the words sprite. You can't even say the words full-fat coke.
They'll come for you.

Speaker 1 They'll come for you. They'll come for your kids.
It was freedom back then. We really had it made.
I just remember being that and being like young and just watching.

Speaker 1 My Nickelodeon and knowing that everyone on my television was at Universal Studios Florida filmed before a live studio audience. And I would run around in a circle just drinking soda

Speaker 1 until I passed out. I had the energy for it and the ability to consume it.
And you just wanted to be at the groove so badly. Well, especially Tampa, you're talking about Tampa.
You aspire to Orlando.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like

Speaker 1 Long Island, you aspire to Tampa so that you can even get close. I know, I know, but Florida had a different image then.
It did. And I think because I've known, I know too much, you know,

Speaker 1 right. But here's a weird story: is then after I was in the teen clubs in Orlando, I made it to Hollywood.
You know, American Dreams is happening. I'm 15 when I do the pilot.

Speaker 1 And then it gets really dark because there's teen clubs in LA.

Speaker 1 Different flavor.

Speaker 1 It's a different flavor. Same fruit juice and same stuff, but there's different stuff in the fruit juice.
But there's different

Speaker 1 people in

Speaker 1 the environment. If you know what I mean.
Yeah. There was a teen like club that behind a door, there was like an A-list portion of this club.
Oh, no. It was at at Hollywood and Highland.

Speaker 1 And basically, if you were on like a CW show, but at the time it was WB, or if you were on any sort of like show like Lizzie McGuire or something like that, we were all back there in this room and we were all in this little,

Speaker 1 way smaller than this room together, just drinking soda.

Speaker 1 Drinking soda, quote unquote unquote, soda. Definitely soda.
Definitely soda.

Speaker 1 We were 15, 16 years old. So does that engender a kind of like, oh, I get it.
There's a hierarchy. There's a, there's a stratum.

Speaker 1 Or like, that's, that's, that's so, I mean, but I guess that happens everywhere, like in high school.

Speaker 1 You, you got to the head of the teen club line if you were on a show, which was already so bizarre, but somehow we just knew that we go to the front of the line. Sure.

Speaker 1 So you're talking about this is like you and Hillary Duff drinking soda in the back,

Speaker 1 Lindsay,

Speaker 1 Rachel Wood, all the kids that were ever on Seventh Heaven. You know,

Speaker 1 Miss Beal. Miss Beale was never there.
It was just, it was david david

Speaker 1 who wasn't into david kingdom hearts with me that's why that that's what i was gonna you know i'm gonna ask you about kingdom pointed to bow and yang and say kingdom hearts because you said i want my video game credit you want the official so i've had the florida portion go ahead take the kingdom hearts portion this is a first for me I have nothing specific prepared for you in the way of questioning.

Speaker 1 What would this, this is weird. What would you like to be asked about Kingdom Hearts? What can we ask? Truly anything, because I do not remember doing Kingdom Hearts.
You don't remember doing it?

Speaker 1 I think I was 16, and I knew I was doing a video game, and I knew it had to do with Disney. Yep.
And that's all I knew. Sure.

Speaker 1 So I remember the only thing that I remember about that time is that the guy who was like the sound editor was really familiar with Christina Aguilera because he had just done Milan and she sang

Speaker 1 famous. Yes.
And I wanted to know everything about Christina Aguilera. And so I just pumped him for information.
But other than that, no clue. Lovely.
That's my one message.

Speaker 1 That's how it is in the booth.

Speaker 1 And let's get real about the industry. Sometimes when you go into the vocal booth for these things, you go, sure, I'm playing a cat named Gary.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And I have no memory of it. I was in the vocal booth today.
And do you remember anything you did?

Speaker 1 You just told us. I remember.
Using my voice in all kinds of ways for an animated character. I'll blackout ask me again in 25 years.
Sure.

Speaker 1 Thank you guys for making me feel better about that. No, No, of course, you shouldn't feel any

Speaker 1 way about the Kingdom Hearts of it all. Thank you for being honest about it, but I will let you know how important your character, nominate, is.
Oh, that's so great. You never played it? No, I don't.

Speaker 1 I've never played the game. I don't even know what I do.
Okay, so you play. So in the world of this game.
It's terrible. Not terrible.
Oh, please, not terrible.

Speaker 1 No, because this is going to be thrilling. Paint the picture.
Well, first of all, you have a stacked cast. Well, I'll get to that later.

Speaker 1 But in the world of Kingdom Hearts, the crossover game from Disney and Square Enix, famous, one of the best video game sort of distributors and companies of all time, Final Fantasy, it's their sort of mashup.

Speaker 1 And so Haley Joel Osmond plays Sora, Hayden Panateer plays Kairi, and David plays Riku. Anyway, the three of them start off on this island.
They get...

Speaker 1 dispersed when the heartless come and corrupt the soul of their planet.

Speaker 1 Now, in the process of getting your heart corrupted, you get a vessel of yourself, a copy of yourself comes into the world named a nobody.

Speaker 1 Yes, I do remember saying so you are Hayden Panetier's nobody. You are Hayden Panetier's nobody.
I mean, wasn't the first time.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. She was like, I wanted to save the world and be the cheerleader.
Definitely. At that time, hell yeah.
Of course, but that was the role of American Dreams.

Speaker 1 Do you want to know some interesting facts? Yes. Hayden Paneteri and I have known known each other since I was 12 years old.
She played my little sister on a soap opera. No, kids.

Speaker 1 Was it Guiding Light? Guiding Light. Wow.
You were on Guiding Light? Yes. That was one of my first jobs.
And

Speaker 1 she was my little sister. And we knew each other very well.
Yes. We did a lot of scenes together.
And so, and she was like a baby person when we were on Guiding Light. I don't know.

Speaker 1 The difference between eight and 12 is so vast for some reason. Absolutely.
And so I just was so downed to her. And then when she was on Heroes, I was like, oh, she's like a human.

Speaker 1 So when we did Kingdom Hearts, I did feel like, oh, this makes sense. Like, we're playing connected again.
So it makes, yeah, I'm a shell. No, I'm the nobody.
No, no, no. I'm the shell of the person.

Speaker 1 You are Kyrie.

Speaker 1 Kyrie.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. This is this is no.
I'm about to give one last. I won't, I won't dwell too much on this.
I just, I've always wanted to tell you like how I complained about it. It's thrilling watching you.

Speaker 1 Thrilling watching. Because now I feel like I really learned.
So Kyrie is so special. So these three kids, Sora Riku and Kyrie, are very special and so kairi gets turned into a heartless

Speaker 1 and so then she turns back to a human but then namine your character enters the world and because she is kairi's nobody she has the special power to rearrange people's memories yes and you are and namine gets recruited by the bad guys to basically like refabricate Sora, Haley Jolasman's memory.

Speaker 1 And it's, it's a profound thing. This is, I mean, kind of ironic that you're speaking of memory because that jolted my memory.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I remember having to do a scene about that, about how I got his memory back. Yes.
Wow. Haven't thought about that in a

Speaker 1 minute. This is a big part of Boen Yang's formative podcast.
Oh, no. And there's still a very, very active community of people who adore that.
It's a formative, formative piece of pop culture history.

Speaker 1 And video game. It's one of the most pop cultural, like video game items ever.
And so, and then Haley Joe Osmond's nobody is played, is Roxas is played by Jesse McCartney.

Speaker 1 It's like it was, it was such, it was

Speaker 1 who of the stars of it was kids who were in the A-list of the LA clubs. It was, it was all the soda drinkers.
Yeah, we were back there drinking soda. Yeah, a lot of these names were drinking the soda.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Absolutely.
Drinking the soda might be title of it. Drinking the soda.
What was your order? Do you remember? I mean, I just remember being so excited to go back in this room

Speaker 1 that like, I don't even know if I drank soda.

Speaker 1 I think I was just looking around like i too could one day be on the wb you know like right that's that was the pinnacle for me absolutely school nbc american dreams i know i wanted to be with the frog whoa

Speaker 1 but speaking of we were just talking um before we started about how like when you're in florida and you're because This was also the time of Mickey Mouse Club.

Speaker 1 Like that was something that you wanted, but were just a smidge too young. Yes, that was, I aspired to be, that's all I wanted was to be on the Mickey Mouse Club.
I would practice.

Speaker 1 I would tell my mom what I was going to do in my audition. And yeah, I was too young.

Speaker 1 Just think of where I could have been. But then you booked Prestige TV.
There you go. I mean, not, not right away.
Oh, you mean American Dreams?

Speaker 1 I think American Dreams, like, I just remember watching it with my family and it being like so dramatically potent. I would be so curious to go back and watch it now.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Your older brother and that was hot. It's weird to say he was.

Speaker 1 This is a memory. I just jugged my own memory of it.
I was like, I think he was one of my first like crushes. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I think he might have been one of my first things of like, hmm, like when like when a dog sees something, like sees when a dog realizes it's gay.

Speaker 1 You know, when a dog realizes it's gay because it sees the older brother for American Dreams. That was kind of me.
That was you.

Speaker 1 It was very that. It was very that.
The ears.

Speaker 1 One of the best things about that show was one of its features, one of the things that made it serrated, was that a different guest star would come in and play a guest star from American Bandstand.

Speaker 1 And we were just talking about a couple, like Ashanti was Deion Warwick. Like, you know, I had Kelly Clarkson was Brenda Lee.
I think in one of the first episodes. What? Yes.

Speaker 1 In like the third episode, she played Brenda Lee. We talk about it every time I go on the show.
I'm like, can you believe that that was one of your first jobs? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, she had just won American Idol.

Speaker 1 So, do you have any memories of like particular people coming through? Do you have a favorite memory of someone?

Speaker 1 Because at the time, you're like fully the star of the show, but also like a kid who's got idol worship. Usher came on and was Marvin Gaye, and that was really cool.
He was so lovely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he like danced a little bit. And I remember that that was really cool.
I also, everyone was so lovely. There was like two people that I won't name.
Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That broke my soul because they were sort of mean. And I was like, you're getting to play an iconic person.
Like, this is a cool little job.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Who wasn't mean, though, who I just sat behind at the VMAs, which is a bizarre sentence to say, was Paris Hilton played.

Speaker 1 She was a Barbara

Speaker 1 from I Dream of Genie. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, Barbara Eden. Barbara Eden.
Thanks, Doug.

Speaker 1 I was like,

Speaker 1 yeah. I think he just perked up like a dog over there about Barbara Eden.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a good one. Yeah.
Yeah, she was lovely, actually. Like, really lovely.

Speaker 1 I mean, you were getting this like pretty cool glimpse, like on maybe not a weekly basis or whatever the cadence was, but like you get this glimpse into like how like

Speaker 1 different case studies on like how fame works or how it affects certain people, depending on like who comes in, right? Definitely.

Speaker 1 And at that time, there was no social media, which I think was sort of a detriment to the show because I think if it was in a different time, people with that sort of following would have blown the show up because everybody who was coming on the show would have wanted to, you know, gram about it and tweet about it or whatever.

Speaker 1 But back then, it was just like, oh, coming next Sunday, get to see Usher being Marvin Gay, you know?

Speaker 1 And so you really got to see who the inner workings of their team was and how they conducted themselves on set because they were only there for such a short period of time

Speaker 1 that you saw such like a glimpse into who they were. And then they left.
And we were always sort of like. Wow, that was a surreal thing.

Speaker 1 And much like what we were doing on the show, we were sort of meta in that way of being real American bands and audience members being like, oh my God, there's these icons. Totally.

Speaker 1 Do you think that grounds you? I feel like, because like, I think the feature that I sort of, not the feature, I mean, I don't want to talk about you in that term.

Speaker 1 You can talk about me while I'm sitting here for sure. Okay, but sure.
It's like,

Speaker 1 I'm always so struck by how grounded you are. Like,

Speaker 1 there's something so

Speaker 1 really just, I don't know, so stoic but warm. But, you know, I think that is a pretty remarkable thing.
Every time it's

Speaker 1 hold the center.

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Speaker 1 It's my little me moment, like make time for a Diet Coke break, you know? Exactly. Diet Coke is the perfect companion for all break moments.
Diet Coke, this is my taste.

Speaker 1 I have to say, like, just to speak about, like, the next, like, thing that happened was, was hairspray before or after Pitch Perfect? It was before.

Speaker 1 After John Tucker. John Tucker was first.
John Tucker was...

Speaker 1 And then you get to really act with Ashanti. I really acted with Ashanti.
I love Ashanti. Her laugh is exactly the same.
It's so like perfect. It's like a little cute cackle.
And I just adore her.

Speaker 1 And she, at the time, was just starting to date Nelly, which talk about a cultural phenomenon. Bingo.
We were at dinner one time and I could barely keep it together. I was just like.
Yeah, it's Nelly.

Speaker 1 But no, it was a really, it was a really great time. But I think to go back to.

Speaker 1 I guess the original question was that I went through like a lot of these types of movies really early on, but I always was sort of like struggling with something at the time or went really up and down and had all these different obstacles going on in my personal life that I never really was present with what was going on and or like saw it for what it really was.

Speaker 1 And so in hindsight, it actually made me really grounded because I couldn't get my head up. in the clouds or see it from another macro view.
I was too busy just trying to keep my shit together.

Speaker 1 So yeah.

Speaker 1 It doesn't bring it down, but I don't know if it's bringing it down at all.

Speaker 1 Especially because like a lot of the things that I think well, for example, John Tucker and then Pitch Perfect, you're around a lot of, you're in great ensembles with people that are close to your age.

Speaker 1 So I would imagine that that's like kind of cool because you can make friends and get in touch with people, but you're also all kind of have the same POV on this thing that's happening to us.

Speaker 1 So that has to be like a little bit like.

Speaker 1 Definitely. It's always really helpful.
And I think something that I've innately had about me since I was a kid is that I'm pretty perceptive and self-aware almost to a fault sometimes.

Speaker 1 So I do see like what other people are taking in and how they're reacting to what the movie's doing or what they're getting from things.

Speaker 1 And I just, yeah, and then I sort of like go about what I want to do. Yeah.
If that makes any sense. Totally.
But having that sort of

Speaker 1 duality of knowing that someone else is doing something over here and I don't necessarily need to has always been really helpful for me.

Speaker 1 Being like, we're just going to let them go there.

Speaker 1 You're right, though.

Speaker 1 It is, it is this thing that

Speaker 1 either is discombobulating or really grounding the duality that you're talking about, which is like being an ensembles of people close to your age, including up until now, up until Huntingwives. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, it's actually really nice.

Speaker 1 I mean, it kind of makes me believe that people want me to see, like, see me in movies that have to do with like female friendship or like community or that I'm always in a group of people.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's better than just me playing like, I don't know, a castaway character and just being alone in all my movies and people being like, I don't really want to see her interacting with anybody you know i like that i'm always around other people in all these movies it's shows that maybe i'm friendly i feel like what also the thing is like i believe it was like tina fe who once said like you need a really nice person to play a really mean person that's why you were such a good amber von tussel is because it was like you did it so well but like you and the seats weren't snapped out of the movie and like it because it it wasn't that deep but like you were so and also like she does get a little no she doesn't get redemption in the movie she gets redemption in the broadway musical musical.

Speaker 1 She does get a little bit, not redemption, but I think she has a change of heart towards the end. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because she sort of, without the power struggle of her and her mom, she sort of sees it from a new, and it's so slight. I mean, it's at the very end of the movie.
It's like you can't stop the beat.

Speaker 1 Like, maybe Amber's having a different perspective. And then the movie's over.

Speaker 1 So, because did they cut in the movie, did they cut when you and when Amber and Velma sing in You Can't Stop the Beat, or is it they cut that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, see, I knew they cut it because because in the musical, it's this like moment where the von Tussels like kind of fully get brought over to the other side.

Speaker 1 And I remember truly one of the moments in culture for me was seeing that Broadway musical and just Laura Bell Bundy on the high harmony of that. Psycho.
Right. Psycho.
Like crazy, crazy, crazy.

Speaker 1 Incredible. Did you see that? Yeah, I've obviously seen her, but you know, Laura, talking about guiding light, Laura played my aunt.
Wow. Guiding light, yes.
Laura Bell Bundy did. Yes.

Speaker 1 And Laura and I are very dear friends. And so getting to take over,

Speaker 1 you know, or passing the baton in a way to meet her to do the movie was sort of really, really nice. And she gave me her full blessing, which was huge because I can't sing like Laura Belle Bundy.

Speaker 1 Like she's unbelievable. You're a wonderful singer.
I'm not. But I, but like Laura Belle Bundy is like.
a Mariah Carey of Broadway. Of course.
Laura Belle is,

Speaker 1 I'll never forget that sound. Yes.
Because it was the first time I heard like live.

Speaker 1 I think it might have been my first or second Broadway show. And just them absolutely, her launching that high harmony, I think, like changed something about my life.
It was another, it was another,

Speaker 1 but it was like, again, it was the dog realizing he was gay. You know, when a dog hears Laura Bell Bundy do the high harmony method and realizes it's gay.

Speaker 1 But yeah, that. We have to point out something, though.
Guiding light and just soaps in general, it's like

Speaker 1 the longer I like absorb knowledge about this business, the more I'm convinced that that is where like the flames that forge these actors is like no other flame in the world.

Speaker 1 What a weird metaphor, but it's like you, but it's like catching on fire, yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, you and Hayden and Laura, but also like you talked, we had Lisa Renna on earlier and she's like obviously a soap queen and like our friend Sarah Sherman was on General Hospital and she's just like, it's that thing where like if you ask a soap star to cry, they ask which eye.

Speaker 1 Yes. You know, it's like.
Do you know the which eye thing? I can't do it out of which eye, but I can cry. Of course you can.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Every scene in Hunting Wives, we turn, our house just turns to each other and goes,

Speaker 1 Brittany motherfuckers.

Speaker 1 No. So no, there's a million things to talk to you about, but like, let's just talk about Hunting Wives because it's getting ordered.
Yeah. So also I have some bones to pick up.
Okay, so.

Speaker 1 Do you want to pick a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a start with the bones? Well, when I listened to the Snow Bunnies episode,

Speaker 1 Brittany Snow Bunny. We are a hot popic.
Which I will put on my tombstone.

Speaker 1 I did notice that at first, you

Speaker 1 you love yeah you were unsure of the macros and rebecca and i talked about this uh uh during the emmys because i i will say rebecca katie lowe's britney snow malin ackerman uh chrissy matt's like you you were the bells of the ball yeah and you and i did have a really i thought poignant conversation about how like it was so interesting to be at one of those parties from the perspective of because you were like i've been at these parties when it is really weird if like you get asked like what are you working on you're like oh i'm just kind of yeah it's like weird to be in that space and like that's just like the whole industry writ small in that space right it's like that's like the broader scope of like this business it's like well if you're in between stuff it's it's a little weird to like communicate that and you're not sure how to feel about this but anyway rebecca and i kind of talked it out and i was like thank you for letting me like come to that understanding and that realization realization in in real time for myself on the podcast because i was like i don't know what this is nobody's right i think a lot of people had that reaction but i think the terminus is pretty broadly and generally like, oh my God, this show is bonkers camp.

Speaker 1 Like it's

Speaker 1 good nutritional value, I think. Yes, it is.
I'm not sure it's nutritional, but it's definitely.

Speaker 1 And you know what's funny is that, and Rebecca will attest to this, we weren't necessarily trying to do like high, high camp. Sure.
We were, it was sort of somewhere in the middle.

Speaker 1 And then as we were kind of doing the show, I sort of like realized it was sort of like when, you know, like a beautiful mind, when things start like coming into view, where I was like, oh, we're not really making big little lies, are we?

Speaker 1 No, but you know what? You playing it like it was,

Speaker 1 is why it works because you again hold the center.

Speaker 1 Well, that was a conscious choice. And sometimes it didn't work out.
But I did feel like if I lose, if I lose the plot, if I'm sort of over the top in a way, then you don't have a groundedness.

Speaker 1 at all.

Speaker 1 But sometimes I do wish that I pushed it a little bit. But I think that that's what next season is for.
A little bit is because now you're going to crack after what happened in the finale. Yeah.

Speaker 1 She's crazy. She's not.

Speaker 1 This is a woman who's, you know, almost 40 and she's like, I must keep myself caged. And if I don't, then everything will unravel.
That's why I have a lot of people. I have the capacity for hysteria.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I have the capacity to really go off the rails.
And so I have to keep myself really small, which is why I played it pretty like small in general. And then I would have these big moments.

Speaker 1 But then without them, you're kind of like, she's just sort of small.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Honestly, though, it kind of makes the voicemail scene jump out even more.
Yeah, that's that's probably true. Because it's an excellent, because that's an excellent scene.

Speaker 1 I, I, I loved that because we've all left that voicemail, yeah, or we wish we did, yeah, truly. I sometimes will record it and send it to a friend.

Speaker 1 I recently, yeah, yeah, yeah, I recently had a gnarly thought I wanted to tell someone because I found out someone did something and I recorded the voicemail.

Speaker 1 I've recorded a voice memo and sent it to our friend Jared just to try it out. And he was like, I didn't know what the context was and thought you were talking to me.

Speaker 1 And I listened to the first five seconds and had to lay down. He was like, now I understand.
You cannot send this. I was like, oh my God, I'm sorry.
You should have read the other text.

Speaker 1 I was like, this is not to you. Wait, that's really great.
Hindsight, or not hindsight, but like foresight to send it to somebody first. I don't have that within me.
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I probably, it probably was a little bit like too much of it to just cold send it to Jared. But honestly, have me having like put it out there,

Speaker 1 it did something for me. Yes, so pro tip.
That is a therapy tactic. But you're supposed to do that where you exercise and you get it out, but you don't really necessarily send it.

Speaker 1 I don't always subscribe to that. Like the writing it down, but you don't actually send it to them.

Speaker 1 No, I want the forcefulness of them reading it.

Speaker 1 I wanted to ask about like Hunting Wives, obviously, a little bit more, but just because you talked, you're talking about this, like, I wanted to ask about Love is Louder. Yeah, so

Speaker 1 that's still ongoing. I don't work with Love is Louder anymore.
No, I founded it in 2010 with a friend of mine and then it kind of became a different thing in 2000 and

Speaker 1 2020.

Speaker 1 But I have a new charity that I started with a friend of mine called September Letters that I started in 2020 that is sort of in the same way where it's like a therapeutic letter writing experience where speaking of writing it down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, writing it down.

Speaker 1 But we do all sorts of different types of letter writing, but it comes from the idea that I actually read an article when I was going through a really hard time when I was a teenager.

Speaker 1 And that article gave me sort of like the hope that I needed that someone else had what I had.

Speaker 1 Because in the 90s, when you're a teenager, no one's talking about depression, eating disorders, anxiety, anything like that. And in a fitness magazine, this girl was talking about it.

Speaker 1 And so I ripped out that article and carried it in my back pocket as like a symbol that I was going to be okay.

Speaker 1 And then later, when I got a lot of recovery, I did a magazine article. And the magazine article had come out.
And I had talked about how that article really infused my recovery.

Speaker 1 And this girl at a coffee shop saw me and she turned around and started crying and she was holding my article in her back pocket.

Speaker 1 And so September Letters was worn out of the idea that you sharing your story might just be really small to you, but it might be the story that someone needs to feel like there's hope.

Speaker 1 So that sounds amazing. That's why you got to write it down.
Well, or at least share it in a way that makes someone else feel seen, I guess. That's so important.

Speaker 1 But you're just amplifying the power of sharing by, like within that story. Like you have like this nesting doll thing where it's like, someone else shared a story.

Speaker 1 So I'm gonna share mine yeah and then and then this girl at the coffee shop has your your sort of version of that that is like encased in this other person's

Speaker 1 yeah it was a true like pay it forward chain mail type of moment where yeah you think you're doing this one little small thing and it turns out to be really helpful to somebody that you might not even know down the line um yep so that's that's what i i continuously work on as well september letters yeah beautiful gosh chain mail being like being the thing that your parents would do over email.

Speaker 1 Like that was like the

Speaker 1 online behavior that your parents would partake in where you go, oh, mom, no. But now it's like sharing an article about how, like,

Speaker 1 you know, we're all doing chainmail, really. We're all doing a version of chainmail that is,

Speaker 1 yeah, a little, a little fucked. Wait, we're, I do want to go back to hunting wipes.
Yeah, mine. I want to open the floor before we ask you more about hunting wipes and the question.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, what was your other bone? What are your, what, what are your other bones? And also TikTok things that are maybe

Speaker 1 getting at you. Right.

Speaker 1 I'm throwing a lot at you. Yeah, yeah.
All the things that are annoying.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 You were never knowing about Haunting Wives. I was actually in agreement with

Speaker 1 a lot of the things that you said. I'm on board.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, first of all, it's fun.

Speaker 1 That's why it's so great is because it's fun and it's like so committed to. Like, I felt so safe in every episode because I'm like, these women are tearing it up.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you, I am such a fan of everyone. In particular, I want to shout out Katie Lowe's.
Katie Lowe's rocks, man.

Speaker 1 And I, when she came in with that hair blown out, like, and she was just, it's, it's behind her eyes, like she is in it. And for her last line after she shot in the chest to be you once,

Speaker 1 it's the best way to die. Come on.
I was like, that's when I was like, this is the best show. It's the best show.
Like, come on. And, but now I'm just upset because so many of the women are dead.

Speaker 1 I know. And Katie Lowe's and I got very close.
And I just think she's the most special human. I mean, all of the women are, but I'm very, very upset that she's dead.
Can she come back?

Speaker 1 Like, I feel like the Hunting Wives is a show where she could have a twin. She could have a twin.
We've already talked about that. I don't think that's a possibility, but we do.

Speaker 1 We were like, what would her name be? Jill? Nell? Jell.

Speaker 1 Jell, her evil sister. It's me, Jell.
That's, I want to be in the room. I do think that

Speaker 1 my pitch for Hunting Wives season two is that Jamie Ray Newman's character in with her new show comes on Las Culturistas and we play ourselves and she gets us to be right-wing. Yes.

Speaker 1 Wait, I just got chills. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And now I kind of like ruined it, but literally, it's, it's, it's like, you ever see

Speaker 1 Monster, the Lyl and Eric Menendez thing? Yeah. So you know the oneer with Cooper Koch when he's like doing the thing.
I think it's that, but it's Lost Cult.

Speaker 1 It's a 90-minute episode of Hunting Wives, which is Jamie Ray Newman playing her character and us as Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

Speaker 1 And by the end, you see how powerful she is because she got lost coach to be like, yeah, for sure. To fully go right.
I mean, I feel like she could do that. She's really good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 She's a really good. No, not only is she an amazing actor, but like that kind of child.
The character. Oh, yeah.
And she pegged her husband in the butt.

Speaker 1 So don't tell me about the show being, you know, like, like when I heard the dildo come out of the butt, you know, we rewound it 15 times. I remember listening to that.
You guys break that down.

Speaker 1 We fully did it. We re-folied it.
We were in P-Town and it was the the most graphic anal sex either of us experienced. And we were in P-Town when we watched it.
I'm not taking it out. I'm winning.

Speaker 1 I'm not taking it out. No, no.

Speaker 1 Let Brittany react to that.

Speaker 1 Come on. I believe you.

Speaker 1 At what point did the Beautiful Mind moment happen for you while you were making the show where you were like, wait a minute? It was pretty early on.

Speaker 1 I mean, it was really, I mean, once you see Katie Lowe's and

Speaker 1 everybody's, you know, Malin and the wit, you know, it was sort of immediate, but in rehearsals and stuff,

Speaker 1 not aware. Not aware.
Once we got on set and I was sort of seeing the shots and the color, I was like,

Speaker 1 yes. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I know what we're doing. This is why.
Are you someone who watches dailies or do you do you watch like playback, like like what's on the like, do you watch what's on the monitor? Not really.

Speaker 1 I do think I sometimes it's helpful to just know at the very beginning, but I'm not a person that is micromanaging myself because I'll go and say it. Of course, same thing.

Speaker 1 And I always think I can do better. So there's never a time that I'm going to be like, nailed it

Speaker 1 right so I always want to go again of course yeah but I but I think I do think that's helpful just to get the

Speaker 1 it does inform like the you know the screen picture of it kind of just informs the tone as an actor you're like gotcha I can lock into what this is but I do think from the very beginning there was a very clear understanding of the

Speaker 1 of what we were making in terms of like the women that were on the show, what kind of women we were going to be

Speaker 1 that were like not 20 years old and were having these sex scenes. Like we're in our late 30s, 40s, and we're going to be like powerful and this is for the woman gaze.

Speaker 1 And we're going to like go for it. That was never a question.
We were never like shy about, oh, I wonder if this is going to be too much.

Speaker 1 Like, I wonder if we can pull back this scene when we get to it. I won't raise anything now, but I might be a little uncomfortable.
No, you guys have to be going for it.

Speaker 1 We knew going into it and we signed up for that. And I think that that's something that we're proud of.
That should be. Oh my God, those are amazing.

Speaker 1 Hollywood wants to kind of disregard women after the age of 32 for sex scenes,

Speaker 1 specifically nudity and things that are sort of like women coming into their own sexual like promises.

Speaker 1 And I think that this was just like, no, we're going to still have this be very prevalent in a, in a woman's life, even after she's of a Hollywood age of, you know, meanwhile, they're the most sensual,

Speaker 1 sexy sex scenes i've ever seen like y'all y'all eating box is like the craziest most that it's the horniest i've ever found i'm so mollin when she eats box like come on baby like you know what i mean like the way that she ah baby

Speaker 1 like the way that she i know it's it's trust me wait that was really hot no i'm malin and that's just the truth oh my god i'm like i'm moving i have to meet her because i know i'm her

Speaker 1 i know i know you ever see someone and you're like I'm them, so I have to meet them. For me, it's Malin and Kate Hudson.
Yeah. That is a really good comic.

Speaker 1 No, the three of us need to have the filthiest martinis that you guys would never leave. I feel.
We wouldn't. We would try to be.
I want to be there, but then I feel like I'd leave after a while.

Speaker 1 You would get tired, and it's just because that conversation would come up that you'd be like, I'm not getting into this with you. No, I'd probably get too drunk and just want to take a nap.
I know.

Speaker 1 We're so the same. Brittany and I are so the same.

Speaker 1 You really are. Bowen is the king of like

Speaker 1 But I'm going to rage until I get tired. For sure.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 1 That was my like MO on the Pitch Perfect set. It's like, you guys, we're young once.
We got to rage.

Speaker 1 So you were the ringleader? Oh, I was definitely the ringleader. Really? Yeah, especially in Pitch Perfect 1.
I was like, we're all 25. We're doing a movie about singing and dancing.
We're going out.

Speaker 1 We got to go. We're going on.
Are you guys still in touch? Yeah, we're all very close. Let me ask.
Is there a Pitch Perfect group chat? I feel like that's the most like news question.

Speaker 1 I'm allowed to say that because they're not, they don't exist.

Speaker 1 R.I.P., yes. Well, I loved them while they were here.
Yeah, there is a group chat. Yeah.
How active is it? It's pretty, it's died off like in the past couple months.

Speaker 1 It's died off since the second sequel. Yeah.
No, no. Over the past couple of months.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's pretty recent. Yeah, pretty recently.
And not on purpose. I think everybody's just older now.
I'm trying to think, what happened a couple months ago? Did anything go down?

Speaker 1 No, nothing went down. Skylar had a birthday recently.
I saw. I love Skylar.
Oh, yeah. I love Skylar.
i don't know him recent

Speaker 1 birthday

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Speaker 1 You are a picture. You are a part of us.
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Oh, my God. You can join.
That'd be great. Maybe give resurgence to the whole universe.

Speaker 1 Wait, Islam Bowen's here. He's here.

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Speaker 1 Oh, I wanted to ask you about Adam Shankman too. So

Speaker 1 I was on set with Adam working on this thing and he was like, oh, Brittany's the best.

Speaker 1 And he told the story about how you auditioned for a hairspray. Yes.

Speaker 1 It was a process. It was a process.
I actually told this on like a talk show or something like that, but it was

Speaker 1 the audition for hairspray. This is sort of like in very indicative of who I am, but I'm a pretty anxious auditioner.
I've had to go to much hypnotherapy about auditioning.

Speaker 1 I want to ask about your hypnotist. I love my hypnotist.
Okay, I need to know. She saved my life.
Okay, we're getting into that right now. I love her.

Speaker 1 But, um, but auditioning for me, it's not the fact that I am not a bad auditioner. And it's not even, there's something that happens with the pressure.
Bad test taker.

Speaker 1 I'm just really bad at like the battle of my mind. That's like, you have one chance to do this.

Speaker 1 If you, you know, so that audition, I was only like 20 years old i i bombed the the audition like i really really did badly i got in my head and i knew i could do it and i knew i was right for the role and laura bell already gave me the stamp of approval um and i had gone to a um a psychic two years before when i was filming john tucker must die and the psychic told me that i was going to play the daughter of the iconic blonde woman who was very famous and she was like it's going to be two years from now and i was like that's so specific well they're real

Speaker 1 I mean

Speaker 1 here I have something to say about psychics in a second but then I put that away I write it down and I put it away and then the this audition comes up uh Adam calls me because he had directed me in pacifier the pacifier so

Speaker 1 yeah we won't get into that and um and um and so we were already friends and he called me and he was like you know that just wasn't your best.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I know, I'm sorry, I let you down, you know, and he was like, it's okay.

Speaker 1 Like, I still love you, but it's really sad because Michelle Pfeiffer just signed on to play Velma, and she's so iconic. And you guys look so similar.
And I was like, iconic.

Speaker 1 And then I was like, wait a second. I need to go back to my journal.
And I looked up. And by the time that hairspray would have come out, it would have been two years.
Wow.

Speaker 1 So I called Adam back and I said, I know this is crazy, but a psychic told me that I was going to play the daughter of an iconic legendary blonde woman. And it's too weird for this not to be true.

Speaker 1 Can I just audition again? One more time. And he was like, you're the craziest human being alive.
You've either lost your mind or this is going to be a really funny story one day.

Speaker 1 I'm going to let you audition again. And so he let me audition again and I nailed the audition.
And you know why? I nailed it.

Speaker 1 It's because I had that sort of like talking in my head, that voice in my head, psychic or not, that was like, this is meant to be. You already have it.

Speaker 1 You have that subconscious underpinning where you're like. It's fine.
But this is the perfect.

Speaker 1 This is why I love this story, though, because I did see that interview and it blew my mind where you told the story.

Speaker 1 It's the perfect marriage of like, okay, it's whatever, it's predestined, but also you had to pick up the phone and call them back. So you needed to

Speaker 1 keep that information. You were like, I'm going to take this into my own hands.
It's like free will and predeterminism.

Speaker 1 And that's why, like, when people have heard that story and they're like, I don't believe in psychics, you're, you're promoting, you know, and I'm like, whatever.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter if you believe in psychics or not. Who cares? What really goes to show is that what really helped me was the fact that I wanted to take a chance on myself.
I knew I could do it.

Speaker 1 And I just needed another opportunity. And I needed to be my own like biggest cheerleader and to do it again.
And I think that everybody going into something like an audition with the

Speaker 1 foresight that it's already in your hands, you just have to take it is so

Speaker 1 that's the recipe for doing well in any sort of pressure situation. If you need us to pretend to be a psychic anytime you're in doubt, I am one.
No. Really? No.

Speaker 1 But I do think I have like something.

Speaker 1 I bet you do. I have something.
What do you see? What do you see for Brittany?

Speaker 1 Greatness. I was going to say greatness.
That's crazy. Wow.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. I'm telling you, there's something here.
Literally, if Mollin was here, this would be even more of a turnup. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Because I see greatness in our future episode with her, too. Oh, absolutely.
Well, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's all cooking. Wait, but tell me your thing about psychics.
Like, what additionally? Like, you said you said you want to say something about psychics. Oh, no, that was my thing I was going to say.

Speaker 1 Oh, what? But I do love psychics. I am a psychics.

Speaker 1 I think that it really obviously depends on the one, but okay, I'm going to share this. I saw one that used to be my writing teacher in college.
Like he was at Tish.

Speaker 1 He was my dramatic writing teacher. Like he was like a craft of writing teacher.
And we knew that he was also like, he speaks to spirit.

Speaker 1 like in some way he's like um like a more of a reader he wouldn't use the word psychic

Speaker 1 he's like a medium yes that's yeah it. Yeah.
So

Speaker 1 years have passed. It's been, I don't know how long since we were in college, like 13 years? 13 years.
I finally like, I'm like, I'm going to look him up and I'm going to get a reading with him.

Speaker 1 I look him up. His, it's like an eight month waiting list.
Oh. And I'm like, okay.
So I get on the waiting list. Literally eight months later, I've forgotten about it.
I get an

Speaker 1 extra time. This is like three months ago.
And he goes, and I sit down with him and he goes, where do I know you from? Oh. And I was like, you actually were my teacher in college.

Speaker 1 I've been waiting years to have a reading with you he was like oh my god i was he was like how are you i was like i mean he was like how's it going i was like i mean i guess i don't want to tell you too much right um but like

Speaker 1 but he was like you tell me how he's tasting so he goes you're right you're right don't say anything don't say anything so he starts going etc he's like you are successful he's like i was like yeah i mean like i kind of like am doing it in the entertainment industry, et cetera.

Speaker 1 I'm proud to tell you that. I kind of got like a little emotional.
And so then he was like, you are single and that's what you're, that's what you want to talk to me about. And I was just like, yeah.

Speaker 1 And he goes, September. He goes like small

Speaker 1 blonde. He's coming in September.

Speaker 1 I don't know this story, but I might have my jaw has dropped because it has

Speaker 1 to happen. I figured that was.
And he goes, and well, he was, he's like, he's like, you're the petite blonde, no?

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 But that, that, I didn't tell you that, but I haven't been saying it out loud. That's the first time I I was incredible.
I know. I may have even said too much, but like, that's really good.

Speaker 1 And I've had them before. When you said that, I was like, I want to get into this because I do believe that there are people with extra senses.
I mean, we had Tyler Henry on this show.

Speaker 1 We had Tyler Henry on the show. Talk about your hypnotist.

Speaker 1 I do love my hypnotist. I mean, I'm, you know, I feel like this is so like woo-woo

Speaker 1 that I, that I really do believe in, though.

Speaker 1 Especially hypnotism, I think, is, is the way that she described it to me, which I thought was kind of interesting, is like, cause she does it where you listen to it every night as you go to bed.

Speaker 1 So you're in that sort of like Peter Pan, not asleep, not awake, like dream state. And so when someone, you know, says something to you, you're more susceptible to what it's saying.

Speaker 1 So you start believing it because you don't have your conscious voice saying. I don't think that's true.
Wow. So then after a while, you start to just take it in as fact.

Speaker 1 Like when you're falling asleep and you're sort of half awake and there's football on the TV and all of a sudden you're having a dream about football, but you don't know anything about football.

Speaker 1 Right. Like that is sort of this mechanism in your brain that sort of rewires your, like, your subconscious.

Speaker 1 And so after a while, you're, you're listening to it as you're, as you're dreaming. And so your subconscious starts to take it in.
And that's what really worked for me.

Speaker 1 It was like going into places and just not having any sort of like fear about what the outcome was going to be, but just like actually having fun in the moment. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that completely rewired my, it sounds bad to say rewired, but it, but it made me take a new thought pattern in terms of like what, what I thought was going to be true. That's a rewiring for sure.

Speaker 1 If it is calming you down on like a somatic level, like going into these situations where you would feel an amount of pressure, you're not feeling that.

Speaker 1 That's that's incredibly, that that is something that's happening up here entirely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I, I do feel like it was whether or not, you know, and maybe it's through osmosis of, I don't know, like it could be nothing over time either way, but does it matter?

Speaker 1 You're doing something like, I don't know if it matters necessarily as well as it's like helping you and you feel better. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 I think also it's just like, it's, it's what you want to get out of it. Yeah.
You know what I mean? Like, like, I, I,

Speaker 1 I think it's a, did you go for something specific or it was for, so, I mean, God, this is such a downer conversation, but I took a break from acting from 23 to 25. It was in that period?

Speaker 1 It was, I, and I had to get my shit together. It was like, you know, I'd been a kid actor for so long that I really needed to like rework some stuff in terms of getting better.

Speaker 1 And then when I was 25, I was going back to auditioning again and the pressure was too much for my brain because I was like, you had your career at 23. Can you get it back?

Speaker 1 And I didn't know if I could. And so I developed this really fun anxiety disorder where I couldn't speak in public.

Speaker 1 And so I would go to speak in auditions and I would actually not be able to like make, it would like stop.

Speaker 1 my body would just like take over and I would be so nervous that I couldn't speak and so I went for that so I could and now I walk into auditions or I walk into like public speaking or the Emmys presenting at the Emmys right I mean when I was 25

Speaker 1 that would not have been able to happen you know and it's it's really due to that I think when you think about like what what about it made you nervous was it just like the things I say are gonna get me are gonna be listened to and then judged or is it just like the idea of being in front of people yeah it was the it was the idea that i was going to mess it up that i was going to mess up you're going to mess up you're going to mess up you're going to mess up you're going to mess up and then i would but if i just took that voice away then i just am present and i'm not thinking that but i had to yeah it was work 25 you know what a time what a time yeah yeah i mean i just i i think i think i said it on the pod like Ewan Mullin was the highlight of the Emmys for sure.

Speaker 1 And I cannot believe, I was like, they found out they were going on stage to present like in the middle of the show.

Speaker 1 And they didn't know what their copy was until like 10 minutes before they, they walked out on stage. We wrote that copy.
You wrote that copy?

Speaker 1 We, yes. I'm chills

Speaker 1 because I couldn't walk in my dress. You kept saying that all night.
You're like, I can't move. I can't move.
And I couldn't. You were standing on the red carpet.
I couldn't move.

Speaker 1 And I was, I was panicking. It was a beautiful

Speaker 1 Vader Haft. Yes, exactly.
Oh, gorgeous.

Speaker 1 And I was freaking out because I thought it was going to be fine if I'm just sitting down. You know, I don't have to walk anymore.
But the minute they said we're presenting, I was like,

Speaker 1 I have to walk in front of all these people and in front of

Speaker 1 this dress. So we get backstage.
We have like 30 minutes till we have to present. There's nothing written.
They're giving us just sort of boring copy.

Speaker 1 And I said to Mala and I was like, I can't walk in my dress. We have to make this a bit.
Yeah. Or else people are going to be like, why is she walking so weird?

Speaker 1 And so I said, it's going to take me a while to come out. It's going to take me a while to come out.
I'm coming out. I'm coming out.
And she was like, okay, okay, I get it.

Speaker 1 Like, maybe I could be excited that you got out. And I'm like, yes, you've been waiting for me to come out.
And so, and then we just were like, we got it.

Speaker 1 And so that was 10 minutes before we walked on that. It was such a perfect tour.

Speaker 1 I don't know. This is geeky.
Like, I like watched it back so many times just to study your face acting, your face journey in that.

Speaker 1 It's really funny. Like, you're so like, it's the perfect amount of titillation.
Like, and like mom's just like being hot and like

Speaker 1 standing there and like holding it. She can do absolutely nothing and it's hot.
No, but both of you, I'm like, God, they're really good. Like, you guys are incredible.

Speaker 1 Like, it truly, I watched it back so many times. I was like, Brittany, motherfucking snow.
Were you already friends? We weren't, but we had known of each other.

Speaker 1 And she was always somebody that I knew of in terms of like, oh, she's a cool girl that everyone has always talked about that we would get along. Like people have said to me.

Speaker 1 That have worked with her? That have worked with her. They're like, have you met Amal and Ackerman? Like she, you guys just seem like you would be on the same page about a lot of things.

Speaker 1 Like the Swedish thing. It's like, yeah,

Speaker 1 she's just so cool in terms of when we were doing naked scenes or any, you know, intimate scenes, I'd be like, oh man, I don't know. Like, this is, you know, big.

Speaker 1 And she'd be like, honey, you're a babe. Like, you're beautiful.
Like, let's get it. Like, and I was like,

Speaker 1 okay. You know, it was, it was very calming.
I love just, and also,

Speaker 1 I have to say,

Speaker 1 we had a friend who kind of stepped in it with Malin because he was like, what are you guys going to do about the wig next season? And she was like, she was so graceful. She was like, you know,

Speaker 1 I had like this

Speaker 1 health issue. And, you know, my hair was not its best.
And so we got this wig out and we just kind of ran with it. And I was just like, oh my God.
Like Malin Ackerman.

Speaker 1 Everyone making fun of that and it being like an actual thing. An actual thing.
And she was like, so

Speaker 1 and I even texted her like after the fact. I was like, hey, and like, like, thank you so much for being so graceful in that moment.
She was like, oh my God, no, what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 Like, she doesn't care. She doesn't give a fuck.
She does not give a fuck.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's the cool thing about like all of us on this show is like, we really are just having the best time and we just don't care.

Speaker 1 Like, we're just like, we're just excited, but people can love it, hate it. We had a blast.
I don't like that they did Chrissy Metz like that. She didn't even get to see that.

Speaker 1 When we found her crumpled on the floor, I know. When we found Chrissy,

Speaker 1 she nominated Chrissy Metz. And then we nominated Chrissy Metz.
was crumpled on the ground. We didn't even get to see

Speaker 1 shots fired. I asked her that at the the Netflix party, which was a show.
I was like, Do you think that they could, you could come back and we could film the death scene?

Speaker 1 Because maybe that could be like in season two. Yeah.
I feel like she deserves that scene. I think she deserves a little bit more than what she got for sure.
Like, at least let's see the showdown.

Speaker 1 Because the whole time we had been waiting for the show to show down, not me critiquing the show, but

Speaker 1 that I love.

Speaker 1 We had a good friend in college on the show, on the pod, and she went out for that role. And we each had a fun line read turn auditioning

Speaker 1 the Chrissy Metz line of. Oh, I love that.
Y'all better get back out there and find who out.

Speaker 1 Kill that fucking daughter.

Speaker 1 Y'all better get out there. Find out who killed my fucking daughter.

Speaker 1 There's so many ways you can do it. You can be frightening.
You can be angry. You can be urgent.

Speaker 1 I saw the tears well up in both of you guys.

Speaker 1 You better get back.

Speaker 1 Find my fucking daughter. It's really good.
Wait. It's a great line.
You could have been great at that part. He's amazing.
I'm saying I'm pitching us for the show. I know, I know.

Speaker 1 Because we could definitely cry during the episode. Oh, yeah.
I feel like Jamie Rae could get us there. She could get anyone there.
Which I. Which I quit right.

Speaker 1 Okay. We have to ask you the question.
Yes, we are. Sorry.
Yes. No.
Oh my God. Don't apologize.

Speaker 1 We should apologize. We need to ask you, Brittany, Snow, what is the culture that made you say culture is for me? You have a great answer.

Speaker 1 So when I was a little girl, I strictly watched Meg Ryan movies on The Loop.

Speaker 1 They were my favorite. I've seen all of them.

Speaker 1 And Meg Ryan specifically to me as a little girl was like the pinnacle of an actress that I wanted to be, which was, she's inherently cute.

Speaker 1 She just looks the way that she looks. So, you know, there's nothing that she can do about that.
She's adorable. But she never played her roles as like a ditzy blonde with short hair.

Speaker 1 She always was the smartest person in the room. She always had a point of view.
She always was like a really strong presence in all of her movies.

Speaker 1 And I love that dichotomy of like, you don't have to be a ditzy, cutesy, adorable girl that like doesn't know where she's going in the movie. She knew everything in every movie that she was ever in.

Speaker 1 So I aspired to be that. And I just remember watching as like a, you know, eight-year-old being like.

Speaker 1 If I could only be Meg Ryan, yeah. But this makes so much sense to me that like you would connect with her on that level.

Speaker 1 And that I feel like you have, you have sort of like brought that Meg Ryan archetype as if you can call it that into like the present. I feel like you

Speaker 1 have always really occupied that very like sharp, that sharpness in the acting and the technique, but also in that in this like in the look of like a blonde person, a gorgeous blonde person that belies this depth like that actually like is has always been there.

Speaker 1 I feel like that is what you guys share.

Speaker 1 Very nice. Thank you.
But like, you know, between, God, like back, we were really eating back then. Like between Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts, like we...
Because they made those those movies.

Speaker 1 Because they made those movies, but I just remember as a kid watching those movies being like, those are

Speaker 1 the beautiful, smartest, funniest movies.

Speaker 1 Julia Roberts, Claire Danes, who I just worked with. I mean, just the most elegant.
Reese would follow right after. Reese.

Speaker 1 I mean, just also like approachable and smart, and you weren't watching them fall over themselves and being like, I wonder what's going to happen next. You know, they were.

Speaker 1 taking charge of the movies for sure. Yeah, they were the heroines.
I feel like for me, my favorite Meg Ryan is 100 Met Matt Sally. Always.
It's one of the most movies.

Speaker 1 I think it's actually one of the best movies ever.

Speaker 1 I agree. If Letterbox came to me and was like the four, Harry Matt Sally is in there for sure.
That's one I have always forgotten about in that context. But yeah, it's up there.
It's competitive.

Speaker 1 It's a perfect movie. And speaking of Nora Efron, and you've got mail, it is kind of the perfect, it's such an elegant thing of like.

Speaker 1 Okay, it's new, the new way of sort of like flirting and sort of the new way of courtship in like the, you know, millennium or late 90s.

Speaker 1 But like paired with like the fact that it's like, oh, it's, there's a used bookstore and it's like meeting in the park. It's like, it's like the perfect tension of like old and new in that rom-com.

Speaker 1 It just feels, and like Sleeping's in Seattle, where it's like, it's like, there's just, she was able to do all these very innovative things in rom-coms.

Speaker 1 It's like, it wasn't that she like was just thrown into the rom-com genre or that she like helped invent it.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's just that she like, pushed the boundaries of it in that time when it really blew up as a genre.

Speaker 1 And I think she also was, was, I think people forget how good she was at physical comedy too. She was, she had these mannerisms that I always, I feel like I sort of like emulated on accident.

Speaker 1 There's like this really kind of, it's sort of okay movie called Addicted to Love with her and Matthew Broderick. And she is like this biker chick with like eyeliner.

Speaker 1 And that's how you know she's a rebel is because she wears eyeliner. And she just like moves like her body very cool and spastically.

Speaker 1 And I just think that it's, it's something that she just really cornered the the market of like adorable all around right I mean where was the Oscar nomination for when Harry Met Sally because the orgasm scene the fake orgasm scene that's that's the that's the peak physical comedy it's literally and also just

Speaker 1 it's so

Speaker 1 it's so lived in like it's like you but you also believe that because she had established a character that like would do that right you know what i mean because on the page like obviously incredible script but that is a leap on the page that it's gonna go that far and that way.

Speaker 1 Right. But you buy it, especially in a movie that's been so grounded and been so in reality.
That moment is so kind of wild and crazy, but you do, you receive it as fact when it's when she's doing it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I think that surprising element of all her characters is something that I really love too, is that she can play someone really, really grounded, but also the element of surprise is always there.

Speaker 1 She can always do something like that. That's sort of just like out of the box.
And you're just, you feel for her. You like her.
Yeah. Um, and

Speaker 1 yeah, I like, I like that. What was the standard loop? Like, was there, were we like, what was the rotation? Yeah, what, what, how did it work?

Speaker 1 Did you guys know about this movie called French Kiss that she did with Kevin Klein? I heard about French Kiss. Were you like, was it Joe versus the Volcano too?

Speaker 1 That was the one Joe versus the Volcano. Um, but French Kiss was really my like

Speaker 1 in rotation. Addicted to Love was in there.

Speaker 1 Um, I mean, Top Gun, she's in, of course.

Speaker 1 I was so mad when they didn't bring her back. That was so disrespectful.
I know. She's

Speaker 1 beyond disrespectful. I know.

Speaker 1 But this movie called French Kiss, it's sort of like there's this part where she's on the train. She's eating a bunch of cheese and she realizes that she's lactose intolerant.

Speaker 1 And it's one of those like orgasm moments where it's super big, but it's sort of adorable.

Speaker 1 And she's sort of like. dressed like Diane Keaton.
The whole movie. It's sort of that like androgynous wardrobe that's so great.
And I just, I ate that shit up when I was a kid. I loved it.

Speaker 1 She also took some cool risks at the end of that.

Speaker 1 You could tell that she probably got like a little tired of what was happening with her in the romantic comedy sphere because she had maybe a little typecast. In the cut is a full Jane Campion movie.

Speaker 1 Like she's

Speaker 1 giving it to you in that. Right.

Speaker 1 See, it's so funny that I've seen it in the cut. And you know what? It's a blind spot of mine.
This is crazy. Sleepless in Seattle.
It's unacceptable.

Speaker 1 You know, it's, it might not.

Speaker 1 Her response is, you know,

Speaker 1 it's just because I feel like I'm, I'm older. So it just, it makes me feel like that was such a part of my zeitgeist of like, it was even, it was even old for me.
Like I'm, I was too young for it.

Speaker 1 It was, it was a little, it was a little before our time, slightly. And it's hard.
It's a hard sell now just because like the leads are never in the same scene.

Speaker 1 Also, I don't know if you guys have noticed this about 90s movies, but there's a lot of commonality or like a common theme is like stalking. Right.

Speaker 1 Like there's all these people who are like, it's so romantic that they show up. No, say anything.
It's like, get out of there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Basically stalking this girl.

Speaker 1 And the girl is like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 He loves me. Yeah.
And it's like, you're in trouble. Yes.
You're in trouble.

Speaker 1 Love bombing. There was a lot of that

Speaker 1 in 90s movies for sure. No, totally.
But I mean, you put it, you put it all, you put the film gloss on it and it's great. You know what, though?

Speaker 1 In a movie, you're only seeing the beginning of the love bombing, which is so good. You know what I mean? So

Speaker 1 movie where it ends with them kissing, they're just manic, and you don't see the next movie, which is like a full crash, but we don't want to see the crash now.

Speaker 1 No, no, it's we know, we know we know where it's going, but also, like, 90s movies, they didn't care, yeah, they didn't care at all,

Speaker 1 like, how to lose a guy in 10 days. The fact that they kissed at the end of that, and it's like euphoric.
I'm like, wow, you guys are going to be the worst toxic and like impatient.

Speaker 1 Like, you, you both had it there, like, it's it's you both nuts. In a straitjacket.
Yeah. Definitely.
Um, Caden Leopold, too, was like, I think the last member of

Speaker 1 that was like the one of the births of Hugh Jackman. Yes, yeah.
Hugh Jackman's first roles, but it was just like another like innovation.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, well, and then that trend kind of caught on those types of movies. Yeah.
About like, wasn't he just coming back from, isn't he like in the past? He's in the past.

Speaker 1 Some sort of colonial. Yes.
No, no, he's a prince. There's like a rich.
He's a prince.

Speaker 1 Well, it was colonial. Colonial.
He's old. He's not old in time.
It was old in time.

Speaker 1 But I love a time travel-y thing because Lake House also did that with Sandra Bullock. I loved Lake House.
I loved Lake House. I loved everything Sandra Bullock was into.
She's queens.

Speaker 1 And she was her, like, slightly more sarcastic cousin. That's right.
Yeah, a little bit darker. Did you guys ever see that movie with Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock? It was called Forces of Nature.

Speaker 1 Forces of Nature, and she's so hot in that movie. She's incredibly hot.

Speaker 1 I mean, when she comes out in Miscongeniality after she's had, after they put her through the car wash or whatever the fuck, like it just is so good

Speaker 1 she looks

Speaker 1 unbelievable like 8ators. Yeah.
And like it's, it's the dress like mustangs out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like sort of like a blue. It's like a lavendery blue color blue.
And it's sort of that stretchy material that is not used for clothes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. But like dog toys have that same material.

Speaker 1 Break a bath. I can chew on both.
Yeah. Break it back.

Speaker 1 There's there's a dog theme that's strung through this episode. Are you a dog person? Oh, I love.
My dog is my everything. Describe the dog.

Speaker 1 A very cute, ugly. Like more.
Yeah. It's like she's sort of has eyes that go different directions.
And so that makes her really cute, but her personality is just the best. She's a rescue.

Speaker 1 She's five pounds. She's

Speaker 1 five pounds.

Speaker 1 She would sit right here and she'd sit the whole time. She wouldn't move.
Really? She's just the most chill. We balance each other out.
Is it just the one dog? Just the one dog. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You can't really have like another dog when the one dog is that small. She takes, she goes everywhere.
She's a set dog. She was the mascot of the Hunting Wives.

Speaker 1 She was with us all the time, every day on set.

Speaker 1 There was even a scene at the Jed's mansion where she was like going to be in the background. And then she heard me yelling at one point.
And then she started barking.

Speaker 1 So we had to throw her out of the scene. Wait, what's her name? Charlie.
Charlie.

Speaker 1 Spelled like Charlie X-C-X, our regular. No, Charlie with a E.
Yeah, unfortunately. I know.
We can't always. Can't wait a moment.

Speaker 1 She doesn't have a hot girl summer or like anything

Speaker 1 related. No, it's fine.
It's okay. She's chilling.
She's a dog. Yeah.
Dog. It's fine.
Is Meg Ryan doing? Like, is she? Because I remember there was a comeback rumor or something.

Speaker 1 I think she's directing now. She's directing.

Speaker 1 She's done some roles, I think. Yeah.
We're friends with Jack. Jack's the best.
Her son. Yes, of course.
Who has all

Speaker 1 the star quality of his parents combined? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's so effortless. Really, truly.
I know. He's great.
Do you know him? I don't, actually. You should.
You should do something together. Yeah, get on that.
We'll get on that. We'll produce.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll produce. Lost Coach is, we're going to be producers.
We're going to be producers.

Speaker 1 We're going to produce our way into Hunting Wife Season 2. You already did, and I love it.

Speaker 1 I think it's a good idea. But now that,

Speaker 1 I don't know. What? I kind of did the whole episode in my mind already.
That was my anxious thought. I thought of it and then finished it.
What is Sophie doing during this time?

Speaker 1 I think she's not in that one, Boo. No, we need a Sophie scene.

Speaker 1 you can direct that episode if you have any interest in directing i directed a movie a couple years ago you did yeah what we're so sorry that we oh that's okay you guys have done enough on the britney snow world um no i mean like we're not real snow buddies if we don't know about your directorial depending on i know you went to gaither high school

Speaker 1 that's crazy yes gaither high school

Speaker 1 that's true oh god there's a lot on wikipedia that's not true though well you're at pisces like me i am a pisces oh you're a pisces

Speaker 1 he's a scorpio scorpio this is very good this is a very good day. Oh, don't do it.
You just leered at me. You don't want to do it.
No, I just love it.

Speaker 1 I love Scorpios. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just didn't realize that you were a Scorpio. No, he is the Scorpio.
He doesn't suffer fools. It's not that.
You know what I identify most now recently as a Scorpio?

Speaker 1 And this is going to sound so like eye roll because it's like, it's about what people do to me.

Speaker 1 But it's

Speaker 1 a lot of people project stuff on the Scorpios. They're like,

Speaker 1 or they think they project things about me.

Speaker 1 Like they,

Speaker 1 he's right. They do.

Speaker 1 They'll assume things about me that are just obviously informed by like what the person is thinking. Whatever.
We don't have to get into it. Well, that's what people do for Pisces, too.

Speaker 1 They just assume that I'm sensitive and emotional and about to cry. They're right.
You're right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Literally same. I'm a Pisces too.
March 5th is my birthday. March 9th.

Speaker 1 Should we have a joint birthday party one year? Maybe we should. March 7th, huge day for us.
Oh, yeah. Two days after mine.
Two days before yours. Just saying.

Speaker 1 Just you know who's blowing me up right now and I don't know why. Jared Freeder.
You know Jared. Oh yeah.
Yeah. And that's how, wait, because of Liz, Jared and Liz are so close.

Speaker 1 And that was the Muna concert. Yes.

Speaker 1 Because you were in Someone Great. I was in Someone Great.
Yes, which is another classic. And that's how I met you is because of Jen.
It was because of Jen. Robinson.
Jen Katen Robinson.

Speaker 1 And then Liz Elder and Lee went to my high school. Yeah, they went to high school together.

Speaker 1 Liz was best friends with his sister Yang. Yeah.
Isn't that weird? Wait, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 I didn't know how that all came to be, but that makes sense. No, yeah.
So you're a Muna fan. Of course.

Speaker 1 Of course, who is?

Speaker 1 It's kind of burr.

Speaker 1 It's kind of lesbian of you to be in Hunting Wives and be a Muna fan. People are projecting things onto us, the Pisces.

Speaker 1 We're used to it. Yeah, we are.

Speaker 1 And they're always right. Yeah, they are.
Now I am going to cry. I'm crying right now.

Speaker 1 I almost did during my

Speaker 1 performance as Christine. You did.
You did. I saw that.
And you see, he went more to anger. Of course.

Speaker 1 Of course. I love that.
It's just kind of, it's where we go.

Speaker 1 No, nothing. I'm signing because

Speaker 1 speaking of, just, I'm thinking of Brittany Snow crying and, and that makes you cry? No, it makes me cry. I'm not good at it.

Speaker 1 It makes me, I'm filled with awe because in the previously on Hunting Wives clips, they would always constantly play the clip of Sophie going, she died.

Speaker 1 Like, it's we actually, Devis, do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 1 We were doing a contest about who could do the best.

Speaker 1 She died.

Speaker 1 no stop it

Speaker 1 what what is that from it's from when sophie tells say the story of the first accident of the accident oh my god when i'm in the green dress yeah and i

Speaker 1 oh my god when you're when you're at the lodge yes i know what you're talking about

Speaker 1 the accident

Speaker 1 I'm literally like, it was just

Speaker 1 the reason why the reason why we were doing it is because they were showing it in the previous season a lot.

Speaker 1 Also, I'm not proud of that performance. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you, it's so good.

Speaker 1 Sorry. It's just, it's just because I, at that moment, I didn't realize that it like cuts to Katie.

Speaker 1 And she's like, oh my God, you know, like, I could have like done so many different things, but you're right. I was like,

Speaker 1 no, it was perfect. No, but you're right.
I, I, I feel like I. You can't watch playback.
No, I can't. No.
But also, like, I, I get what you're saying.

Speaker 1 Um, it was like a strange, it was like a strange thing to have constantly go back. And we had to remember, I love the previous

Speaker 1 video. Can I say previously is one of my favorite parts of a whole episode.

Speaker 1 You know, sometimes when I, when I think to, when I wasn't working and I was thinking to myself, like, one day I'll be on a TV show. And I would say to myself, like, previously.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like so cool to say it. Did you do the voiceover? Did you get to do it? Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 1 So cool. You're like, wow.
I'm really on a TV show now. I got to say that.
I've never even been on a thing that has a previous show. No, I've never said previously.

Speaker 1 I want us to say previously. You will.
You can.

Speaker 1 I did get to say in a secret deodorant commercial wicked for good in theaters november 21st that felt cool yeah yeah i'm sorry that's that just sounds like a brag i'm sorry no

Speaker 1 um but wicked for good is in theaters november wicked for good is in theaters november 1st oh don't you know i know it yes oh wait i need to ask because you you alluded to this earlier so you you think you could have done the she died scene better but you you you had other moments you you said there were other moments throughout the season where you were like i could have done that better would you like to put those out there now i think i always think i can do better it really, it bothers me because I'm pretty hard on myself.

Speaker 1 And I always watch, when I watch things back, I'm like,

Speaker 1 I could have done better.

Speaker 1 Or you're like, I did it better. And that wasn't the take.
100%. Literally always.
Always. Always.
And that's why I. I used that one.
I know. I always think that.

Speaker 1 But then I just keep reminding myself, like, it's because it was better holistically. I have to trust the experts here.
Also, maybe the one I'm thinking wasn't the one.

Speaker 1 Maybe it would have looked odd after her line. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's, but I have the same thing where I'm like, yeah, that track.

Speaker 1 Well, to go back to the fact that I have directed before, I directed my own movie that I wrote and I have been on that side where I had to edit. And I was in the editing room for four months.

Speaker 1 And I do know that that thought, which does come into play when I watch myself of like, I've been on the other side where.

Speaker 1 the best take isn't always the one you're going to be able to use because her hair was on the wrong side or there was something that we couldn't get out of the frame or whatever it is, you know, a lighting thing or, or just little minute things that you're not thinking of.

Speaker 1 And so I do take that into consideration, although it does suck. Yeah, of course.
Yeah. Whenever you don't, is that a Pisces thing? We're not really controlling.

Speaker 1 But that's not even a controlling thing. It's a sensitive thing.
It's a sensitivity. Yeah.
Like, oh, I want people to think I did the scene really good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And just, maybe that's the controlling of it is that I know that I can do better. And so there's this sort of like sensitivity to, to,

Speaker 1 I guess that's controlling. Yeah.
No, it's, it's a sensitivity to just emotion. Yeah.

Speaker 1 thing. That's Pisces.

Speaker 1 You're getting a read on like these micro moments or something. Yeah, sensitivity based on emotional portrayal.

Speaker 1 Lots of Pisces there. Creative.

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Speaker 1 You ever just stop in the middle of a crazy day and realize, wow, I needed a break. It literally happened to me yesterday.
I cracked open a Diet Coke, sat back for five minutes, total reset. Right?

Speaker 1 There's something about the crispy, refreshing taste of an ice-cold Diet Coke. It just hits.
It's my little me moment, like make time for a Diet Coke break, you know? Exactly.

Speaker 1 Diet Coke is the perfect companion for all break moments. Diet Coke, this is my taste.

Speaker 1 You know what's creative and we are in control of? I don't think so, honey. It's time for honey.
It is time for the segment.

Speaker 1 So this is our 60-second segment where we take just exactly that amount of time to

Speaker 1 rip something in culture apart. You have been thinking about it.
So we heard your two. We told you, we weighed in.
We said we think one is the one. We're going to go first and you can ruminate on it.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
I have one. I've been moving apartments in LA

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 I have one. Okay.
This is Matt Rogers. I don't think so honey.
His time starts now. I don't think so, honey.
Dust. Oh.
I just found out you're mostly my own skin.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, honey. Almost 50% of all that in the corner.
Bitch, that's your own skin. Those are your dead cells.
I'll say it again. Dead cells all up in the dust.

Speaker 1 When you go to a corner, it's horrible. Any room you're in right now, go to the corner.
It's terrible. I'm telling you, you need to call the cleaner.

Speaker 1 Please let this this be, let this be not just that, I don't think so, honey. It's a reminder.
You need to clean or call the cleaner. Get someone or you yourself.
Get the supplies. The dust is you.

Speaker 1 You are all about it. It's like soil and green up in here.
I'm telling you. It's really bad.
And bitch, I have to tell you about your air filter. It's so bad.

Speaker 1 It is so bad. Get the dust out of there.
You're going to die. If you suck in this dust, you're going to die.
I'm telling you. Then talk about dust mites.
Don't try to give it a cute name, you bitch.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, honey, this. You are not going to call it a dust mite.
A dust bunny, it's an insult to bunnies. I don't think so, honey.
It's my own skin. It's not a bunny which I want to pet.

Speaker 1 It's my skin which I either want to keep or never see again. I don't think so, honey.
And that's one minute. The only bunnies we want?

Speaker 1 Snow bunnies.

Speaker 1 I am terrified. Why? Because that was so great.
Yes. Oh, bunnies.
And also, you, like, I'm going home to immediately start dusting. No, you got it.
You got, I'm telling you. You have to.

Speaker 1 No, but I bought an old house and it's really dusty. I know, especially, and that's also the thing about the unfortunate drawback to like, oh, this house gets great light.

Speaker 1 It's going to get amazing dust. Get two air purifiers.
Yeah. Oh, no, I've got two.
One upstairs, one downstairs. British now has two.

Speaker 1 Yes. The dust bunnies are, you know, not a part of the club and they're everywhere.

Speaker 1 Everywhere. And I'm telling you, the one great thing, I'm so happy to be leaving my apartment in LA and going somewhere else.
It got so much dust like two days after. I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's something about it, but it's terrible.

Speaker 1 And like, I

Speaker 1 found a lot of it hiding in one place, and I just couldn't believe how big the ball was. This is really nasty.
Well, you did you take a picture? I didn't. I didn't because Melissa was freaking out.

Speaker 1 She was like, stop touching it.

Speaker 1 We were like kind of playing with the dust. We were high.
It's the dryness. It's the dryness.
Yeah, it was, it was not good. But, anyways, we're happy moving to Studio City.
Woo!

Speaker 1 To be closer to Jared, actually.

Speaker 1 my bestie oh my god i didn't know that oh yeah we dated for a year

Speaker 1 hot

Speaker 1 very cute at the time very much so yeah better as friends though i get that yeah

Speaker 1 not because of him just because like i've been in that situation yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah sometimes you're just better as friends all right what do you think um but i don't think so i have something okay it's also an it's also another like house thing but i i think it's really important work okay so this is bowen yangs i don't think so honey his time starts now.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, honey. Light switches, you have to press.

Speaker 1 Give me an actual rocking mechanism. I don't care if it's the little nub.
I don't care if it's the full. You want to flick? I want to flick because guess what these dimmers do?

Speaker 1 They go slow. They take their time.
And sometimes I need it to be lights out like that.

Speaker 1 And some, and most of the time with these pressed light switches, you go to a hotel. Oh, it says in this this nice? 30 seconds.
Wait a minute. The light switches are

Speaker 1 nonsensical.

Speaker 1 I'm pressing a button and

Speaker 1 I got to count 10 clock ticks for this to fully go black. 15 seconds.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to go to bed. Meanwhile, I'm standing at the threshold between the closet and the bathroom waiting for the light to go.
Down

Speaker 1 so that I before I can tuck myself in. Honey, there's no time.
I'm busy. And that's one minute.
You know, I've done one very similar about when you go to a hotel.

Speaker 1 Like, if you ever spring on like a nice hotel, you can't use one thing. It's impossible to use.
You want to turn on the TV? You can't. You can't.
You can't.

Speaker 1 Because the remote's something from outer space.

Speaker 1 Do you want to turn on the light in your bathroom? You can't. And my classic thing, hotel trash cans.
Fat chance. Fat chance.
It's tiny. It's a little canister.
They're getting worse.

Speaker 1 Soon it's going to be a button all the way over there to open the trash can over here. Don't even talk to me about a button that says all.
Oh, I was just supposed to go there.

Speaker 1 I hate that. Why do you like I press all and everything goes black? I can never find the button again.
Everything you have to run to the bed.

Speaker 1 You have to run to the bed. I'm definitely going to fall over.
You're tripping over stuff.

Speaker 1 You'll be killed. Definitely.
I have killed by all lights.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 They make it so difficult. Like, my parents are in Greece right now.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 They're in Greece. It's their second time ever leaving the country.
And I was like, I wanted them to go into, like, have a a nice trip and go in nice hotels.

Speaker 1 And then, after I sent them, I was like, oh no, are they going to know how to like turn on the coffee thing? Because it's fucking Rubik's Cube. Oh, like it's, it is crazy to turn on a light.
Toilets,

Speaker 1 you know, they have those fancy bidets like in the toilet. No, you'll be there for 45 minutes trying to figure it out.
And then when you do, you'll never leave.

Speaker 1 But sometimes I get to them some of those bidets and I'm like, I'm not leaving.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, you know. No, I know.

Speaker 1 I'm getting a blood clot.

Speaker 1 I'm staying.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 my.

Speaker 1 Britney

Speaker 1 Snow.

Speaker 1 Okay, are you ready? I think so. This is.

Speaker 1 What a sentence. Oh, my God.
Thank you so much for coming. I am having the best time.
Me too. I don't want to leave.

Speaker 1 Okay. This is

Speaker 1 a date with the other blonde. Oh.
This is Britney Snow's. I don't think so, honey.
And her time starts now.

Speaker 1 I don't think so, honey. Okay, hospital shows.
Wow.

Speaker 1 Let me tell you something people i know some people that it is their comfort to after a long day you're working traffic you're a person that's got kids you're taking care of old people and then you go home at the end of the night and you want to curl up with a nice glass of tea and a blanket and you're going to put on the most high stakes drama of people dying who actually really die in real life these are real stories that happen and then now your comfort show

Speaker 1 gray's anatomy

Speaker 1 the pit also noah wiley um call me i will do season three. I love him.
Also, Noah Wiley, side note, is a doctor.

Speaker 1 If I was on a plane and there was somebody that, like, if I was going down and there was like, is there a doctor in the plane?

Speaker 1 And there was another doctor and then there was Noah Wiley, I would pick noah Wiley. Trust him.
He knows everything. Of course.
But that's not the point.

Speaker 1 The point is, I don't think that these shows are good things to watch because they don't give anybody comfort. I don't want to go to a hospital.
Does anybody like going to the hospital?

Speaker 1 Why am I willingly going to the hospital? People who love more than 100%.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, keep going. But like, we don't, do you like going to the hospital? When I'm visiting people in the hospital, I want to get the fuck out of there.

Speaker 1 And then now we are willingly willingly putting ourselves into the hospital. And it's like dramatic.
I don't think so, honey. That's what I made it.
That was perfect. Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Really good. And also, this is speaking to something in the culture that needs to be addressed, which is why do we like these things? It's just, it's literal pain, blood, and more.

Speaker 1 And I will say something.

Speaker 1 What, what

Speaker 1 is the thing with

Speaker 1 like people being like, wow, now I really know what that experience is like. It's like, it's like, why did anyone need to know what they go through?

Speaker 1 I get it.

Speaker 1 Personally, for me, I get it. Being in a hospital, working in like an emergency room, it sounds awful.
Not for entertainment. But let me just say.

Speaker 1 To play the devil's advocate to my own, I don't think so, honey, I do think that it's highlighting people in those roles that have the

Speaker 1 most horrible hard times. Absolutely.
I don't give one fuck about actors who are like, oh my God, I'm so tired. I hate my job.

Speaker 1 It's like, no, you go to a hospital and those people are allowed to complain about being tired because they're saving lives. But then also, yes, we're highlighting those jobs.

Speaker 1 But at the same time, I don't want to have any enjoyment in that or comfort in the fact that you just saved a child from like their arm getting cut off or whatever.

Speaker 1 Like that to me is not something that I find to make me like. ready for bed now.
You're right. She loves the pit.

Speaker 1 And we are noted Grey's Anatomy stands, but I don't even know if I could re-watch it because now as an adult, I'm super sensitive to pain. To pain.
Like human pain.

Speaker 1 Did you ever do, did you ever do a hospital show? No one has ever thought that I could play a doctor.

Speaker 1 No, or you were on Grey's Anatomy? No.

Speaker 1 Why am I creating that you were like a patient on Grey's Anatomy? I was a

Speaker 1 bipolar girl who killed someone on SVU. That's why.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Pretty.

Speaker 1 Which is the exchange rate is

Speaker 1 you were a doctor on Grey's Anatomy on a hospital procedural. Yeah.
No, I can't do those the langu the language, like the wording of no.

Speaker 1 I need 10. I actually wrote a Grey's Anatomy spec script in college and I, it's just all the hospital jargon.
I, I, I was just gonna put in the dialogue like in parentheses, like hospital jargon here.

Speaker 1 Well, that's what I mean. The doctor was like, I know, but my teacher was like, no, just write it.
And I was like, I need 10 CCs of penicillin. And it's like, what is that?

Speaker 1 But the writer, the actual writers on Grey's just go, just go medical, medical, like brackets, medical, medical, medical.

Speaker 1 So legitimately, that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 Actor, that is my nightmare.

Speaker 1 Like, The reoccurring nightmare that I have is that I show up to do Grey's Anatomy or whatever, and they're like, you got the medical jargon, right?

Speaker 1 They know it just came in last night. And you're like, what medical jargon?

Speaker 1 And they're like, the paragraph of medical jargon that you don't know, that is an actual nightmare that I have on the regular. Amazing.
Specific actor jargon. Specific, very like action.

Speaker 1 That is so specific to just actors. It's like, what if I show up to Grey's Anatomy and I don't know the medical jargon?

Speaker 1 Humiliating. Humiliating.
And I'm nude. I'm agreeing with everything you're saying, Brittany.

Speaker 1 When you asked who likes going to the hospital, this is, this is, this is, I'm going to say a Canadian thing,

Speaker 1 which is when you have socialized medicine,

Speaker 1 especially if you're a kid growing up in Canada, like, like, like I was,

Speaker 1 I broke my arm twice growing up in Montreal. Going to the children's hospital was the funnest time.
Yeah, because he broke his arm twice because he could go back.

Speaker 1 I was talking about a different medical system.

Speaker 1 But like the children's hospital in Montreal was a happy place. A happy place.
The walls were colorful. There's play places, books everywhere.
And they were fixing your arm.

Speaker 1 And they were fixing my arm. And the doctors were so nice and so happy.
The nurses were just. Noah Wiley there.

Speaker 1 There was a Noah Wiley S-Man, pediatrician. I mean, come on.

Speaker 1 I think the appeal of The Pit is you're watching Noah Wiley be Noah Wiley. Oh, definitely.
And there's nothing better. Oh, my God.
And he just,

Speaker 1 I mean, did you see him at the party during the Emmys? Of course. He and his wife, the most gorgeous couple.
He was the most gorgeous couple. They had to be the bells of the ball.

Speaker 1 They were the bells of the ball. And I love that for them.
It was the pit and hunting wives. Two vastly different experiences.
I want that cross-charge.

Speaker 1 Me and Mullin are like 500 cc's. Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 100%.

Speaker 1 Baby, let me get that scalpel baby.

Speaker 1 Come on. I'm never gonna do that.
I don't know. Something happens.

Speaker 1 Wait,

Speaker 1 this is my mullin. Ready? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Offer me a tampon. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think I have a tampon. Oh, I can't use that.

Speaker 1 Oh, I can't use that. Oh, I can't use that.

Speaker 1 I can't use that.

Speaker 1 Wait. Okay, before we go,

Speaker 1 you guys both told me that you had like questions about the show because you were like, if this person does that and that person is that and that guy, it was, yeah, what are the questions? Okay.

Speaker 1 My question is,

Speaker 1 how will Sophie reckon with what she's done? How will she get out of this one? I have theories that are completely not based in any facts. But let's hear them.

Speaker 1 Because we're all pitching. Because I don't know.
I don't know this to be true at all, but I do think that this puts them on an even playing field.

Speaker 1 And I do think that that she's smarter than people think she is.

Speaker 1 And I would like to see her have having done stuff already to like lay the groundwork for like, she's got some shit on Margo that she could drop, you know, on the drop of a hat and turn everything around if Margo figures out that she killed Kyle.

Speaker 1 But I think no one's going to figure out about Kyle for a long time. Wow.
I think she took that phone for a reason.

Speaker 1 I think she took the phone for a reason. You don't think that Malin knew it was her at the end?

Speaker 1 I think she did.

Speaker 1 I don't think so. I'm not sure.
Okay.

Speaker 1 We played it both ways. It's funny how it went in the show.
But they did tell me to take the phone for a reason. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. There are so many ways to interpret the show.
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 As I'm an example of. I'm telling you, like it, we

Speaker 1 were in P-Town, like ostensibly a lot of fun things to do there. No.
All we wanted to do was be in the house, watching the show. It was the highlight of every moment of the trip was watching the show.

Speaker 1 And the Dune Store was good. The Dune Store was good, but we didn't really go out.
I liked that one. I liked the Red Inn too.
We had good cocktails there.

Speaker 1 But other than that, it was the Hunting Wives. You.
I am just so honored by that. Truly.

Speaker 1 Thank you for that was my one week off the entire summer. Thank you for.
No, it really. No, thank you.
Oh my God. I'm glad.
I spent

Speaker 1 escapism. We did all together.
Yes. We escaped.
And you have two shows coming up. I do.
Two shows. One on Hulu that's called Murdoch Death in the Family.

Speaker 1 And I play Mandy Mattney, who is the real reporter that the podcast, Murdoch Murders, her character,

Speaker 1 she's the person that sort of like spearheaded the whole fight to get this guy, Alec Murdoch, behind bars and figure out what was happening with that story. So she is.
a badass.

Speaker 1 So she sort of comes in and is like, we have to get the truth. We have to get the truth.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And she was the first person to actually kind of sense that this was a bigger story at play, that it wasn't just this guy who was up to no good.

Speaker 1 There was something that was way, way more insidious with the story. And she just followed that lead and nobody took it seriously.

Speaker 1 And so as it was happening, she was the one that was sort of the person that knew before anyone else and was really sort of this gnat in their family in terms of like making sure that the stories broke, that somebody was always watching them, that the story was actually getting told.

Speaker 1 And so, yeah, it was up to her that this all happened.

Speaker 1 And hospital shows are too gruesome for you. Yeah.
Meanwhile, you're out here with all this murder. Well, I know the murder.
There's so much murder in all your shows. I know.

Speaker 1 I've been really murdered. I've got a bad message to the kids.
I'm sorry. I love you.

Speaker 1 The kids love you. You're in every murder show on television.
I will be in more also. Well, hear that kid.
Hear that kid. Is the second show a murder show? It is.
There you go.

Speaker 1 It's called The Beast in Me. It's called The Beast in Me.
What?

Speaker 1 Kids.

Speaker 1 Kids have the kids out there.

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 Not everything I do is for the children. Mostly.
That's fair. No, you are feeding the children.

Speaker 1 Yes, gay guys speak. Gay guys speak.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Yeah, it's really good.
When you feed the children, that's good. I figured out.

Speaker 1 Beast and me. Beast and me is,

Speaker 1 there are no children in the beast and me, but it is about also murder. My husband is being

Speaker 1 murdered. No.
No, but

Speaker 1 he might have murdered

Speaker 1 his ex-wife, and I'm the new wife, but it's sort of like the jinx in the way of like he's sort of this tycoon and billionaire, and you don't really know what's going on in terms of his murder past because he's he might not have murdered her at all.

Speaker 1 Not everyone in the show is as they seem because Claire Daines, he she plays um, this writer that's doing a book on Matthew Rees, my husband.

Speaker 1 I know, oh, wait, Matthew Reese and Claire Danes, yes, so it's gonna be a phenomenon. It is the same people who did Homeland.
Oh, so it is. Stop.
We're familiar.

Speaker 1 Claire Danes is going back with Homeland People. Yeah.
Oh, this is too much. And I'm there too.

Speaker 1 I know. Who would have thought? This is crazy.
It's going to be very cool. We met her at SNL 50.
She's, she lists, she listens to the podcast. She says she listens to the pod.
Somehow.

Speaker 1 I don't, that's, that was too much. It was too much.
She's so fucking cool. Yeah, she's the best.
She's the coolest. Best actor ever.
She's the best actor. She's the best person.

Speaker 1 Her and Matthew Reese are truly.

Speaker 1 I mean, I loved working on that show every day because of how they conducted themselves on set. And then we all became friends.

Speaker 1 And I was just like, I love when people are that good at what they do and they're also that good in real life as people. Claire just wanted to hang out.

Speaker 1 She just wanted to know things about me and she really listens. She's just

Speaker 1 the best. The best.
So rad. This was so fun.
We're obsessed with you. We love you.
We love you. We have to hang out with you.

Speaker 1 When they said that they spent so much time with you at the Emmys, like you and all my friends, I was just like, I have to be there. But now we're going to do something.
We're doing it. We're going.

Speaker 1 We're going to hang out. We're going to hang out.
We're going to be like real, real friends.

Speaker 1 Catch us in the streets. In the streets.
All right. Okay, ready? What? Yeah.
We had every episode with the song. I'm trying to think, what's the song? The new girl in town.
No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I wish I knew the words.

Speaker 1 I can hear the

Speaker 1 dumbass.

Speaker 1 If you want to hear that and more, listen to the Hairspray Original Cast soundtrack.

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Speaker 1 Executive produced by Anna Hosnier and produced by Becca Ramos. Edited and mixed by Doug Boeing.
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