June 12, 2025 • 56 mins
To fans of “The Vampire Diaries”, Candice King was Caroline Forbes, but to Tanya… she’s her “stepmom savior”! Candice is in the O.R. and ready to share some guidance and some ice cream recipes.
Candice opens up about her relationship and how an invisible string tied them together!
Plus, find out why Candice’s new show “We Were Liars” is going to be HUGE on BookTok!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya rad and iHeartRadio
and two time People's Choice Award winning podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello everybody, we are scrubbing in and it is a
very exciting day. Do you know why? Tell me one
of my favorite people will be joining us in ther Do.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know she has been on Scrubbing In twice, two times.
She's a third time returning guest.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Third time People's Choice Award winning podcast guest.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, she's coming for a third time in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We love her so much. You may have known her well.
I grew up watching her on The Vampire Diaries and
then we became just close friends. And she's here promoting
her new show, We Were Liars, which is going to
be out on Prime very very soon on June eighteenth.
So please everybody welcome Candace Key.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We're so happy to have you back on Scrubbing In.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I am so excited to be here.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
This is truly I'm like, I mean, I'm excited to
be part of the show, but I think I just
filmed the show so I would have a reason to
do pr and come here and hang out with you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Let's be on it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I missed you. I miss you, guys. I haven't seen
you since we went to Nashville. We were there for
Ben and Jess's wedding. So what year was that? Twenty
twenty three, one, twenty one, Oh my gosh, yeah, twenty one.
A while the sum I saw, No, you came here
one other time. I've seen you one other time since, yeah,
but still long distance, I know, far away in like miles,
(01:34):
but always close to my heart, always close.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Well, that's the beauty of social media is I can
always be like, I know exactly what you guys are
doing all the time.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I know watching all the time that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Too, I know, like I know what you're up to.
I'm following your social media.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I know. The last time we had.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You on it was over Zoom, but I think we
talked about social media and you were just like.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't know what I'm doing here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'm just like, well, she's crushing it, doing all the trends.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm really trying.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I do work with someone who helps me, because otherwise
I even just like I truly had to have a conversation.
Was like, Mallory, but how do you make the words
like pop up and then disappear like that? I'm on
like that level of figuring it out. The green screen
thing was like mind blowing it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I can't even do the green screen myself, So you
want to step ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you have to realize, like, all of a sudden,
it was expected that we're all just editors.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know, and I've I've always loved.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Editing videos, so it was I just once I learned
how the apps worked. But I'm like, this was not
a fair thing to throw onto people that all of
a sudden, we're supposed to be able to film.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Direct, produce and edit our videos.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Yes, and then also like be clever enough to be
like funny with the video.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Funny.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's a very stuff, but you know, we're all in
it together. And and I like to give credit where
credit's due. But I do work with someone awesome in Nashville,
and her name is Mallory and so she she is
the to my my yang.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, Okay, so you were here because you have a
new show called We Were Liars. We're going to jump
into it, but I want to talk about last time.
I feel like last time you were on our podcast,
I met you and I was like freshly dating my
now husband, and you were so sweet to me, and like,
I think you gave me your number because I reached out,
(03:23):
So either I like hunted it down somehow or you
gave it to me.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
We I think it was even before that.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
We sat down at like that, like there was like
a luncheon or something, and we might have even wore
the same outfit.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, bring your bestie, and we were.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Like sitting next to each other and we talked about
like especially being in a relationship or dating someone, or
the when you were potentially dating someone who has kids,
and I was like, call me, yeah, and it's a
different you know, It's just it's nice to have someone
who understands because it's a whole new thing to navigate.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I can't even explain to you, Like I call you
my stepmom savior. She did say that, yeah, because you
don't realize when you're like newly in that phase of
life you and none of your friends, Like you go
to your friends for guidance, but none of them you
can't really understand unless you've been through it and you've
done it. And so it's like I was getting guidance
from my friends, love them all, but like you not helpful,
(04:20):
and I feel like you really took the time and
like you were so helpful with me and just shared
so much, and like I will literally never forget it,
and I always want to be that for somebody else. Now, well,
thank you for saying that.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And I really like you know, I we were saying
before we got on it, just like it's I feel
like I've been watching like on social media and all
these exciting things. I'm just so happy for you. And
and it's funny, it's like you don't especially at the beginning,
it's kind of a hard thing to navigate and dance through.
And then now especially I've got, you know, having had
(04:53):
children of my own, and then you know, seeing my
you know, step children become adults and realizing like, oh
a lot of it just also takes time. And then
we think that, you know, when you do have like
a child that you've known since birth, you have this
like patience and understanding, and it kind of it's a
different process, like we expect to fall in love with someone,
(05:14):
like with a partner's children, the same a rate at
which you fall in love with your partner, and that's
just not how it works. Like you have to make
space and time to build a different relationship with their
children as well, for both parties, not just for the children,
but for you as well. Yeah, and but it's just, uh,
it's a really you know, unique and magical experience when
(05:35):
you have the time to experience at all. So I'm
just I'm just so happy for you. And that's also
very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
To say no, Like I honestly like want to be
that for anybody that I come in contact with, Like
I offer my phone number to anybody and say, like,
if you have any questions, I'm here, because it was
so helpful, especially in the beginning when you like have
no idea what you're doing. And so I just like,
I love you, and it's like so crazy because I've
loved you. I was a fan of Vampire Diaries, so
(06:01):
I was like, oh my gosh, Like it was was
like and now she's giving me like step mom advice.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then I've like watched you go through so much
in life and like you're newly engaged. So I feel
the same way about you. I just love you, and
I will support everything, like I will watch We Were
Liars on repeat and I'll just have it, thank you,
I'll have it refeeding on my TV even after we
finish watching it, just to support you because I just
love you so much.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well in life, I feel like you kind of need
like unless you're in it, it's hard. Unless your friends
are in it. You need that kind of camaraderie community,
like whether someone's experiencing grief or whether someone's experienced like
you know, if someone is watching Secret Lives of normal
wives and someone else is not, you are not having
the same conversation, like you need to be in that
world together to really get it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you watch it?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
So?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yes? Of course I do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh man, season is so good.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You're watching it?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I just started the second season, but I never watched
the first season.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Oh, I know that's a hard jump in.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, I feel like I brought your whistle in the
first season. That is, you're in the deep end his
ice cold water.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Did I get here?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's how cool Ton.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah. So it's a lot, it's a lot right now.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I I yeah, Well, I'm here for you in that space.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm curious about jumping into a new show. Do you
be cause you are so beloved from being on the
Vampire Diaries, and I've always had I've always wondered as
an actress, obviously, being on a long running show is
like dream and the goal, right if you're acting in TV.
But at a certain point, is there that feeling of
like I'm ready to move on and be known as
(07:34):
someone different, as a different character, or is there that
part of you that is just like, that is what
it is and this is just my new project.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I think if you would have asked me ten years ago,
I would say, I want to be known for something else,
in a different character. And now I'm so happy that
like to be part of a character in a series
that people that they kind of hits that point in
a lot of people's hearts, because I have shows and
I have characters that are like that for me, and
and I would be devastated if someone was just like, oh,
(08:04):
it's so annoying you know that someone would associate me
with that, and and and so I love it. I'm
fine if someone wants to call me Caroline till the
Sun comes up. I love that the show has meant
so much to other people, So it doesn't like I'm
thrilled to have been part of.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That well, and I also think it it has spanned
generations like it was like Tanya's favorite show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I was like a teenager and now and then
it was.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
My younger sister's favorite show when she was a team.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And I'm actually trying to rewatch it with my husband
because he's never seen it, and I'm like, I think
he liked it, but it's been so long since I've
watched it that I like, don't know, But.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I mean you can't. You never know when you're on
a show like.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That, is it going to spand the test of time?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
And it has stood the test of time. I stood
the test of time. I think there's also the shift
in this industry, like the way that we consume entertainment.
It looks very different, you know. I think had this
show come out in the nineties, I think it would
have a different feeling right now.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But this is.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Something that came out where people were watching it every week,
and then suddenly when it was able to be streamed,
there was a global pandemic and the world shut down,
and everyone was home watching TV and either rewatching shows
that they loved yeah or made them feel sudden yes,
or suddenly we're old enough and wanting to watch it
rewatch it with their own kids, or watch it with
(09:27):
new friends, and it kind of took on a life
of its own in a whole new way in the
pandemic to the point where I feel like I get
recognized more now. I do more like fan conventions now,
like it feels like there is a relevancy around the
show more. Yeah, and there was then it is very.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And Julie's Plack, right, she created the Vampire Diaries.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Yes, she So, Julie Plack and Kevin Williamson created the Vampire.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I remember her name like it was like very prominent
on all the yes, yes, all the intro. So the
name like for me as a fan, like it out
and she did. She created We Were Liars.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
So Julie Pleck and Kreena McKenzie co created We Were Liars.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And so Rina was a.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Writer a relationship with her from back then that she
was like, I want to do something else.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
At D And Karina was a writer on the Originals.
So I've known Karna forever. So they and they've they've
wanted to bring We Were Liars to the screen for
like ten years, but it's just been happenstance for maybe
like the book was already optioned and then fell through
and then the book got reoptioned and then fell through,
so they truly uh and then they got the option
(10:33):
and then there was a strike, you know what I mean.
So this has been We had this lovely dinner that
they hosted. It was this big lobster dinner in Nova
Scotia where we filmed, and and truly when they made
you know, Julie made a speech and Karina also made speeches,
and there's like we we've wanted this for like a decade,
(10:53):
like this means so much to have everyone here, and
Emily Lockhart as well, who with the book has like
wanted to see the story come to life. And so
it's really it's just I think this is just exciting
for all of it. But I mean I told them
I would come. I just was excited that what they've
been chasing after to like put onto the screen actually
(11:14):
is like made it to the screen. I would have
done catering if they if that was like what I
got to do on the show. I was going to
come visit them and bug them anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That's so cool. So have you read the books?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, the goal would be that there's multiple seasons per book,
is it?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
We would love to have multiple seasons of this show.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is there a lot of pressure doing a TV show
or a movie that's based off of a book where
it has such a huge fan base, Like, do you
feel the you know, because when you do something off
you know as a viewer or reader, when you see
the movie and it totally strays from the book where
it's an opinion.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, everyone has.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
An opinion, but the book, the book world has a
lot of opinions, and especially when it's a book like
this where there's like a cult following.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Did you feel any of that going on?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes? Is there a books that I've said, Like I
remember reading Something Borrowed in a day and like being like, so,
being like this was my like book and I want
to now it's a movie, and like I had it
in my mind a certain.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Way to live up it.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
It did. It was you know what I mean, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Don't read much, but Something Borrowed I read. I read
that whole. It was like something borrowed, something blue, something whatever,
something something. Yeah, And so I was a big fan.
And I remember watching the movie adaptation and I was
like the book, they didn't live up to them.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
It didn't live up to the book from in my opinion,
Gone Girl, I think crushed the book because I read
Gone Girl. In my opinion, reading Gone Girl, I remember
when the when the flip happened and I was on
a plane and I like audibly gasped, and I was like, oh,
I am in because everyone said give it one hundred pages.
And I thought that the movie did the same thing.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But so you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I mean, as far as for this book, I think
there's more pressure. And I say this with great li
of there's definitely more pressure on the writers.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And I think that like they wanted to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Serve not only the book lovers, the og book lovers,
because there's like this viral thing on book talk and
a lot of people, a lot of the readers of
the book will post a video of them crying when
the book is over, and so it's a whole thing talk. Yes,
it's very big in book talk, and so they there
(13:25):
is definitely like a very passionate community behind this book
that you know, of course all of us hope that
they're happy with it. And there's also characters that are
expanded upon. I mean, the character I play best, Sinclaire,
is you know, not as prominent in this book as
she is in you know, the second book, but you
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get to know the the other family members a little
bit more than you would But the core of the book,
as like someone who did read the book, is very
much there.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
If you had a summarize, if you had to kind
of say.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Like elevator, elevator, elevator culture.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Which but yeah, if somebody who has never read the
book doesn't know what it's about, how would you like
blank meets blank.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It is a.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's a story about the story within a story.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I know, my elevator pitch is so hard for this
to me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What you did last summer?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Well, did you read the book or did you watch
the whole thing? Okay, so it's it's a little There
is a psychological thriller element to this story. It's about
this family, the Sinclair's and the Sinclairs or if you
think of like you know, Kennedy esque, murdoch esque and
of wealth, very very old money, wealthy family. And they
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escape their cities and go to their private island, Beechwood Island,
every summer and that's where everything is perfect and magical
and there is not a towel unrolled, There is not
a you know, muscle not wait or a oyster not
waiting to be you know, eaten, and a whine not
waiting to be sipped. Everything is just perfect there of
this perfect family and their perfect children, and there is
(15:08):
a summer in which something really bad happens, and so
the story goes back and forth between the summer before
the bad thing happened and the summer after the bad
thing happened, because no one will say what the bad
thing was, and our central character, Kaden Sinclair, is trying
to figure out what happened to her and why she
was left alone on a beach to wake up by herself.
(15:30):
So it's a lot of secrets, it's a lot of
family history, and it's also this beautiful young love story
where she's trying to figure out was it my family,
was it like my first love, my boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Was it this?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
And and it's all set in this insanely gorgeous backdrop.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I mean, it's kind of like the summer I Turned
Pretty meets a perfect couple. Well, a little bit of that,
a little bit of that meets I Know what you
did like summer. I don't know, I keep going back.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I think that's a slasher movie and yeah, I know
you did.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Last Summer is a slasher movie, and I'm not gonna
I feel like we're not closed to give spoilers. But
it's not a slash It's not a slasher movie. There
is no man dressed up in a Fisherman outfit with
a hook.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Every time she kept singing and I'm like picturing, I'm
like listening to the wrong movie.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
So it's like Summer Retern, Pretty meets the Exorcis. The
era's tour needs Taylor Swift. Sure, Yeah, we've got crazy
Abrams singing in one of our trailers.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
So yeah, it's a summary turned pretty thriller meets happy.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Gilmore me.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, I watched the trailer and at first I was
like oh, and then I go oh, I love something
with like a twist or trying to get.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think I'm going to be very into this.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
It's very I like the book I read very very quickly,
and the show I got a sneak peek and I
pinched it very quickly, even though we were already there
filming all of it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But how many episodes? Is the first eight eight seasons
and they're all great to be episodes episodes.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And they're all coming out at the same time, so
they'll be able to be benched. Yes, do you like
a binge worthy show or do you like to saber
a week week drop? You know, like, if you're watching
a show, what do you prefer?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I prefer a week.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
A week, But I also think that that's really hard
with spoilers. I like the one episode a week for
like a like the Studio I've loved for like one
episode a week, and Hacks I think is great. But
with this kind of show, I think it's really hard
for spoilers. And I do just kind of want to
live in the world like a good book and just
kind of like make that my main focus.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Like the Mormon Housewives, it all comes.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Back, you have range, comes back to mom talk. That's
how they say it. I'm interested because you're you're an actress.
So when you watch shows or movies, is there a
feeling of I know that they're acting?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Like you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Is it hard to watch like reality shows?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Sometimes I'll garden, which is me getting high, and I'll
watch the show and I'm like, I feel like I
know that they're acting, but I'm like, is this how
actors feel watching a scripted show, nonscripted show.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, I mean I think that we all know that
they're acting. I want to hang out.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I want to garden with you and watch some TV.
I this sounds and this could be a whole show
in itself that I would watch. I No, I mean,
I think the hope is that you feel people can
get lost enough in the entertainment that they don't feel that.
I think inevitably in all TV shows. You're like, you know,
when I was watching Hot Frosty over the holidays, I
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was like, oh, he is acting like a snowman. Believe.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I believe all of it. I literally believe all of it.
And then whenever I'm watching something, I think I see
these people in my real life. So I'll like be
at like the coffee shop, like our local coffee shop,
and if I'm watching like Breaking Bad or something, I'll
be like, Tuco's here, Tuco's uncles here, And my husband's like, no,
he's not like you think every you think you see
everybody from every show that you're watching. I'm like, yeah,
(19:30):
it's like.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
A man with a mustache and You're like, I know
who that.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Is, La, right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You know, like that's always the crazy.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
That's why I thought was so weird about living here,
is just like because that's how my brain works too,
Like I'm never like, oh my gosh, that's uh, like
I would always think it's like the character from the
show always yeah yeah yeah. But then that's the fun
thing about like seeing Housewives out in the wild, because
I'm like, oh, that really is Lisa.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Van Yes, right, like I know her.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I yes, yeah, well that's what I'm That's what I
was gonna ask. Is it more fun for you to
watch reality television because it's almost just like so far
off from your world?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I think that I think that the way like the
storytelling in reality TV now is really it's so good,
like it is. These are not like obviously it is,
these are such reality but like you know, these players,
these women predominantly are just there come in to work
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and give story serve storylines, and but even the way
that they are edited is just I mean, it's really
it's it's a good storytelling. And I stand by that.
I stand by that so firmly.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm just laughing because I tried to watch the Mormon
Mormon Wives the first season, and I was like, I
can't get past the fact that they know that they're
being filmed and being produced.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
To ask these crazy questions.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like I can remember the first episode they sit down,
they just had like sat down, they hadn't.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Seen each other, and she's like, so have you had
a threesomes?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Like to act given the people what they want?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
So you've but you've also.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Seen behind the curtain. You know what I mean, you've
seen behind the curtain. You've done interviews like that where
and like that's where like I have to block that out.
Like of course I know that they get to get
like all the trips are coordinated by action. We know that,
Like you know, even on like the Valley, we know
Kristen Doty's just coming up in there being like, oh,
(21:40):
well you take your wedding ring off.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
We need a storyline this week.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I just have to say I'm very impressed with your
like it's embarrassing no versatility and your plethora or what
is your your range? Do you watch everything and and
you watch book talk and like you read all these
books and I'm just like, like, I'm just very impressed
with all of it. You Thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I think you're the first person to use the word
impressed and my fiance is like a little like concerned.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
He's like blink twice, like you don't know where you are?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Because does he secretly like it? No, No, I've gone
him into a few of them, like what he loves traders,
like give me give Alan Comming every award. We should
just make up awards to give him at this point.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And uh.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
And then my kids and I love shows to we'll
do we do movie jars. So that's where just for
like anyone who's like, what about the scripted? Uh, we
watch a lot of movies, like I love a movie
jar with the kids where we'll pick a you know,
something that they haven't seen.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
And uh.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
But for TV we do like the Masked Singer, and
we do Dancing with the Stars, and we like Vote.
We get very very into it. So he, you know,
he's also gotten into those a little bit. He's like,
Mass Singer is a pretty entertaining show. I'm like, yes,
it is, sure is.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Who would have thought a bunch of so I've never
ran it, but I've been wanting to feel a show
I would love.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
But I just want to go on record to say,
whoever makes the rules they change every season, I don't
understand them, but God love you.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I am in Like there is always.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Like a very show that I would like and none
of it makes sense. I Like every time he's like, well,
why who are these characters now, I'm like, I don't know,
but they're a whole new group of people this week
and he's like, well, they're from two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's like, I don't know about the mess singer. Yeah,
they changed the rules on the I watch it now in.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
A couple of years in a row.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
And every season there's like a new twist of like
a lucky duck or like a competition, like we're bringing
this back from five years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well yeah, but canvas they have to keep the audience,
like guessing, I Love Island does that too? Yeah, Like
they're always adding in like these new things. I'm like
that you did not do that last season.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Yes, but I'm in mita now I'm in so I'm
locked in.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wait, I do want to Okay, So I you mentioned
your fiance. I didn't know, so I knew you were
dating somebody for a long time, and like you told
me his name and it just loo was in one
of year out the other, Like I didn't even connect
the dots. And then I was in my pilates class
and I was talking to Mary, our mutual friend, and
she was telling me that he's the guy from Yellow Jackets,
(24:16):
and I was like.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
I love that guy, Coach Bensah, I love him, do
you too.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't know him personally, but I love him in
the show, and I love how happy you are, and
I just I'm so so happy for you that you're
just like thank you showing the things.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
And his joke is that this is just my long
game as a fan girl, because I too love Yellow Jackets,
and so he So Stephen worked on The Originals, which
was a spin off of The Vampire Diaries. So there
were times when we probably lived on the same block
or we're in the same rooms and would just say
like oh hi, But no, never had a conversation. Did
(25:00):
not register who he was. He was very much in
his you know world. I was in my world. And
it truly wasn't until a couple of years ago and
I just had gone to a convention and our mutual
coworkers were like, oh, yeah, Krueger's coming to dinner and
and I was like who, and then and I was
(25:22):
just like yeah, I'm single and on a trip and
just like trying like hanging catching up with friends. Definitely
not single and ready to mingle, but just like was
there and I was just like who And then he
he gets there and he like everyone's talking to him
like I should know him too, and then suddenly they're
asking him about this show where he's on this island
and I finally was like, you're coach Ben and he's
like yeah, and we also like worked together and were like.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
But also your coach Ben.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But it wasn't until another year or two where we
ended up going on our first date and kind of
got to know each other better.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Whilst you like an invisible string.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
There's very much and the invisible string was very invisible
until it was very visible.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, it happens like that. It really like whacked you
in the face.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
It was like home alone, like tripping over the string
and it was like set up by Kevin McAllister back
in the day. The string was like couldn't see it
like a ghost like Casper.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, does he have the same story or he sees.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
That we've met.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
He remembers multiple times, but he like, you know, I
was married. He he also was in long term relationships
and so there truly.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Was no recollection.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But he's like, you know, I remember meeting you like
a read through and like in the hallway work being
like o hey, and I'm like, yeah, no idea, you know,
but I'm like the.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
You were just focused, very busy, but yes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
And it wasn't until yeah, uh, you know, just getting
to know each other later and then being like huh,
it's funny though, when the light turns on.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's just there.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
The moment of how did I'll reconnect? Was it text?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Was it a d dinner? It was just it was
a different dinner. Oh, totally different dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I got to do more dinners.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
It was, yeah, just a dinner that you forget, like
if you've especially friends that need. Even at that point,
I wasn't trying to like it was very much. I
was very happy and in my own world and I
was just like and yeah, I was like huh. And
I told her mutual friend. I was like, you know,
I'm so happy I'm never dating again, happily. Yeah, my
(27:30):
my ventures into dating was just like one comic relief
moment after the next, and I just.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Was very hard.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Yeah, I somehow set my like when I like tried
online dating, I somehow sent set up my account as
like mail for mail, and so I kept like looking
on the first day being like man like, like dudes
are really into like short shorts, these like cut off
dead him. It's really like popular right now, How did
you do that?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And it took it twenty four hours to like fix
and caliberry because I swiped on a few.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Of them and I was like, oh, quite flat, like
they're like oh I I was just like all my
pictures were like me and like sensible trousers and like
my friends like you have to post a bikini photos
Like I cannot do that.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I'm not a bikini photo gal.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, what were your prompts? What were your like dating app?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh god, I didn't have anything, Like I didn't even
write anything because I was too scared to like say anything.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
So it was just photos and it was like smile
and love.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, like sensible leather trousers, you know me and like
like a caftan like you know, a giant moomoo holding
a glass of wine, you know. And yeah it was
not I did not get many swipes on on that,
so yeah, I quickly deleted them and was like, I
(28:52):
think I just need to heal myself and not like
be searching too much, and that was much better. And
then I ended up at dinner and was like the
lights turned on and I was like, well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, well, I when you go through something publicly, like
obviously going through you, you have to announce the process
of splitting up, and it's you were with someone who
is in the industry you can't like prepare for how
did you navigate that of going through that and having
to like share it because it's one of those things
that if you're going to move on, people need to
(29:24):
know that one chapter has ended so that you're moving
It's a clear cut of like.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, now you're moving on to the next. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
There wasn't really much of an announcement. I think that
I think that this is something that we all have
to deal with, is that we've all done to ourselves
for the most part, because we you know, between social
media and even if you aren't on Instagram, I'm sure
you're probably on a Facebook page. It's very rare that
someone's just not on anything right right, and so beyond
(29:52):
just like you know, experiencing that process for yourself. I
think we, you know, so many have experienced, you know,
having to have some sort of like how do I
navigate this in this like you know, online world that
we're all living in. And I don't think that there's
necessarily one right answer, except that we're all kind of
(30:13):
this guinea pig generation figuring out how we navigate, you know,
whether it's like jobs or relationships or friendships or you
know that we put on that people are like watching
and when there is like a change that happens, and.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's like the best advice because I feel like everybody,
like everybody's so quick to you know, say somebody is
doing something wrong, or like you should do this and
you should do that, and it's like you should just
you're so right. There's no right or wrong way to
really handle anything. And I feel like I discovered that
so much in this in my like current relationship, because
I was such like a what's right and wrong and
(30:51):
like I need to do everything the right way, and
I'm like, there's really not. It's like everything's like a
blur of just like what feels right to you, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, I mean I often I feel like the big conversation.
Even that happens with a lot of my friends right now,
especially in Nashville as are like older kids get older
and having nine year olds is like what about phones?
What about technology? And how do we have these kids
be you know, how do we introduce them to technology?
Keep technology away from them, you know, the young generation.
(31:23):
And I think we also have to look at ourselves.
And you know, we've kind of been this like our
own guinea pig of announcing things, which it used to
be like you do an announcement in the paper, you
know what I mean, people, or you send out like
a happy card every once in a while. But we're
really keeping everyone up to date, not just professionally, but personally.
(31:43):
And we also started all of this when you would
put all personal. I mean I remember on the Vampire
Diaries we had contracts that would say you don't take
one photo or post one photo of behind the scenes.
You don't like do any nothing. Whoa yes, so it
is complete, completely flip flopped.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So yeah, just I want you to do that.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Social media was like personal, let's get to know you,
and now it is like professional, like we want all
the behind the scenes content. Make sure you're taking pictures.
I mean even going into filming. We were liars last summer.
It was just it was just I had to giggle
to myself where they were like, we want you guys
to just take as many videos and photos as you want.
You could just be videoing everything like and save it for,
(32:26):
you know, to next year, because you're gonna want something,
which is so true. You're gonna want to like post
and like celebrate and remember it and share it with people.
But it is just so fin I have to remind
myself that wasn't that long ago, when like social media
was just a different vehicle than.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is now.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, I think we're all figuring.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, it's so true though, Like I watched people now
and the way that these younger in their like early
twenties go and just talk about their breakup and talk
about things that they're going through. They come out there's
like this confidence of like their mentality is like we're
on this tiny spec on this on this earth, and
we're we're gonna be gone. Who cares? And I'm like
(33:08):
I don't have that at all. I care about everything.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
No, I am still like Paris filter check, like let
me make sure everything is spelled right, let me name
everything I'm doing, and like, let me record ten videos
just to say like.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Hey, I can't stop.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I can't stand on the side.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I can't stop.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I can't either.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I literally like we're doing we have the big premiere
for We Were Liars next week, and I was like, fitting,
I'm getting real fancy with a stylist. She's going glam
and and I was like, I need you guys to
tell me how to stand, Like how do people hold
hands now? Because now they do? Like was it this
Selena Gomez?
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Like you put this?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Everyone does this.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
That's that's hard.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
That's a hard yeah in Korea from South Korea.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Discovered this like two days ago.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
I went to Soul and I remember everyone was doing this.
I was like, do we need a tip?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
And I was like no, it's just the heart symbol.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
So I've been noticing the pose everyone's standard, but like with.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
A limp hand, like a delicate it's like if your
hold the hands with someone, you hold hold your hands
in front of you. That's like, this is the new move.
Not not that this was our move. This is move
Like was you you do this and you poke it
out and then you do a little red tilt collar
bone and head tilt. Skinner and head tilt is what
we called it back in the early.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Ons and now and now it's.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
The you clutch, a tiny a tiny limp wristed clutch. Yeah,
it's good, it's good. Good word, really good.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
We obviously your ring is so beautiful. Thank you you
announ So you got engaged? Did you was there any
expectation of that coming?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Did you have any idea?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Well, yeah, I'm an adult. We definitely talked about it.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I hope the proposal.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
No, I will say I think right though anyone el
says I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I did not talk about, Oh did y'all talk about
getting married? I'm talking about did you have any idea?
When he surprised?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Yeah, he surprised me. I'll leave it at that. He
definitely surprised me. And it's been nice. We've had we've
had we had some time before like I posted anything online,
So it was a good like month and a half
almost two months.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So do you know what I'm not going to ask
you when you're getting married or how you're getting married
and who you're inviting?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Why?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Because that was my biggest pet peeve.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Because it becomes your whole. It becomes like and I
like talking.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I loved talking about it, but it was I just
didn't know, and so anytime somebody would ask me would
make me feel like I don't know, and so then
I would feel like I'm behind, Like I always feel
like I was behind on the planning because I just
didn't know.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Well, I mean, I would have no answers for you anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
See, yeah, it's very easy answer.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It's a very easy answer.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
But no, we're just we're It's been nice to enjoy it,
but it was also nice to have some I know,
I had a girlfriend just take some pretty pictures. So
it's been you know, just but yes, he surprised me,
but it was not a surprise coming. I think everyone
should at least have a conversation and not be totally surprised.
Not that I'm your mother and you should listen to me,
(36:44):
but I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
How has it been because you stepped into the step
parent role? How has it been watching your fiance step
into a role?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It's been great? Yeah, I mean and again, like everyone,
it's just such a unique experience to each family and
it's really. You know, it's a personal and unique experience
to each family. There's a different dynamic for everyone, just
like kids have completely different dynamics. Yeah, you know, my
oldest like lives in like gym shirts and T shirts,
(37:17):
and I mean she did get dressed up for Harry
Potter last night. She was very excited and like is
obsessed with linage, and my.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Four year old like what's lineage?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
That like lip masks, it's all the tiny thing.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
And my four year old wants to only wear like
sparkles and princess dresses. And you know, it's like every
every kid is different, every situation. But it's been it's
been really great and special, and you know that's one
of the things.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's the one thing I get asked all the time, like, oh,
I haven't met as kids and it's been three weeks.
I'm like, girl, I've had nine months of that. So
like it's like everybody has their own Every relationship I
feel like has its own like time timeline, and like
there again, there's literally no right or wrong. It's whatever
is like right for you. And I feel like that's
(38:06):
like there's so much like beauty and freedom in that.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yes, it's so true, have your kids process because the
well I'm assuming the nine year old that you are
a celebrity and in the industry.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Does she get it?
Speaker 6 (38:17):
My nine year old gets that. They're like, there's people
know who I am. My four year old is like,
I think, just starting to get it. Usually everyone's pretty
chill and so it's not too obvious. But there was
someone who, like, not aggressively, but it was like a
mom and daughter I think, who like followed us in
a parking lot and while I was like walking my
kids to the car, and my four year old was
(38:38):
very confused, like why because you know what what just happened?
And I usually when I'm with my kids, I politely go,
you know, I'm in mama mode. It's so nice to
meet you, not right now. But so my nine year
old thinks I'm very mean. Yes she she's I say that, Yeah,
she's told me. She was like, you know how you
(39:00):
like Taylor Swift, Well, to some people you're like meeting
it's like them meeting you is like you would be
you meeting Taylor Swift, and it's just really sad that
you won't even take a picture with them, and you
don't even like say, hi to them, and I'm like,
mommy takes pictures of people, but when I'm with you,
Mommy's in mama mode and Mom's a mama bear, and
(39:23):
like I'm not.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
It's funny that she's able to like.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Process, Yes, she she just doesn't like when people are
like filming when I've asked, like, yeah, she that weirds
her out appropriately too, But again it doesn't happen very often.
My running joke is that everyone usually that everyone usually
recognizes me when I'm ovulating, like there's just something about
like I'm extra sparkly and I'll just get stopped all
(39:49):
day long and I'll check my app and be like, yep, yeah,
it's just those pheromones.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Because it's the fan pheromones.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
There is something too that I know, Yeah, you're like
peak are when you're like flowing and.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Apparently just looks super Caroline Forbesy that day.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
When you go to the fan conventions, is there anyone
that you.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Get to see that you don't normally see from the
cast or the you know, working in the because I
know a lot of those fan conventions.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
There's different shows, Like we did one and it was
all like.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A First Responders, But I don't know for y'all, is
it just just the Vampire Diaries and the Originals to.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Be The European ones are usually a lot of different people. Okay,
so there's like European comic cons where a lot of
us go and it's a whole bunch of different people
and usually a few cast mates. And yeah, there was
like there was one that I went to and it
was like a lot of people from a Viking show
and so every once in a while you just hear like, ah,
like these chants and I think like someone had like
(40:49):
one of the actors like cut his ponytail off and
like wave it around, and I was just like.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Ooh, I can't imagine.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
There was a little interesting time. And then a lot
of the ones here locally are more geared towards like
just usually the Vampire Diaries or Originals, and yeah, and
Legacy's crew. But there is a fun one that happens
like where we used to film in Covington, and I
think they're doing it in Conyer's later this fall. But
(41:17):
it's wild because it's like back where we were filming,
and everyone goes and so usually there's like a big
dinner and it's it is really nice to see everyone
because we don't see each other that often to live
all over the place, but where we were together for
eight years, so we pick up just like family, and
we all know, like you know, it truly feels like
we're all cousins. And there's always that like one crazy
(41:39):
uncle where you're like, ah, there you are, you know,
and we just it's it's really fun to see everyone.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Well, I was gonna say, because you you do.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
A show like that and you're all you're young, you're
in this like kind of just not trapped together, but
you're it's a work.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
I called it the traveling circus that never traveled anywhere.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Traveling circus.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
So obviously when there's that many people, there's and be
like little dramas and whatever. But at this point now
when you'll see each other, is it just like all
that's behind you and everyone just like is happy to
catch up and get along.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
Yeah, we're all grown ups and we're all there working
as well, but it is just yeah, it's nice to
just be able to kind of giggle and hang out
and it really is lovely to see everyone.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, those are long days. I know,
it is. It is always tough. The dinner is always
really really fun.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
That's where we all get to like actually catch up
because in between you're just I mean, it is fun
to be there with fans of the show. Because it
was eight seasons, people usually have like rebinge it or
have watched it multiple times. And so the other funny
thing is you'll go to like a lot of these
panels and these meet and greets and with like smaller
(42:49):
groups of people, and they be asked all these questions
that like you have no idea what the answer is. Yeah,
where they're like why in episode fourteen of season three
did you put the moonstone here and not here? And
I'm like it's time.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
I'm like, we had I mean, we were all babies.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
I was twenty one when.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
I got that job, so it took crazy just before.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
My thirtieth birthday, so we all really came up together
and and a lot of we were in Atlanta, Georgia
for nine months out of the year.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
We would you know, we would.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Film all day on a Friday and wrap at midnight
and all as a crew as well, about probably like
fifty to seventy five of us usually go to like
a wine bar and all hang out and.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Decompress from the week and be like see Itt four.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Am on Monday. You know, we hung out all the time.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
So cute, so cool.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Do you have any like in terms of next projects?
I know that you're you have this show coming out.
Do you have any dream castmates like opposite of you
that you would love to work with?
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Oh? Man, I mean usually I know I never have
a very good answer for this, but I'd love to
just be around funny people. But then i'd have to
be Maybe I could just be like a pa on
a funny set. I don't know if across from a
funny person, but I could get them coffee and laugh
at all their jokes really really well.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
I'd love to see you in a rom com.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
I would love to do a rom com.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
D give me Kate Hudson how to Lose a Guy?
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
My dream is just to be in any Emily Henry
movie that's coming out, because I know all of her
books are going to be turned into movies.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
Like I love Book Lovers.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
It's one of my favorites. And like you know, Happy
Place I know is already coming. I love It's a
funny story. I just finished reading not that long ago,
and it's so good.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
I really don't I really don't read that much.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
To me, I haven't.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
Overwhelmed with the amount of books.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I'm like, I am so behind Candice right now.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
No, I don't sleep, like it's a real problem. It's
funny coming here. I knew I had to sleep. So
I was at the store. I was like, oh, I
should get something to help me sleep, but I want
like a vitamin, even though those don't like in my brain,
I'm like, oh, they don't work. You know, I'm doing
air quotes for those who can't see me.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
And so I got melatonin and I was like, well,
I got it. Just so I got the.
Speaker 6 (45:21):
Mega one and that's like ten milligrams. I guess that's
a big deal. I don't know that just popped and
I finally slept.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh let me sleep works really well too? Yeah, not
sponsored just a fan.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Are you not sleeping? Because do you never like you've
never slept?
Speaker 6 (45:51):
I do. I did ever since I had kiss a
vampire I am a vampire obviously, and ever since I
had kids. I think I always have that little voice
that's like I have to be prepared so somewhat conscious,
somewhat conscious, like always listening for like the cry on
the other end of the of the wall or something,
but uh if someone wakes up. But I yeah, and
(46:12):
I just want like my time, like a TV's my
best friend. I want to hang out with her at
night and and then if I can't sleep, I should
pick up a book and and then you know, and
then yeah, too much, too many things.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Okay, what's your favorite Housewife season? If someone's never watched
a Housewife.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
Oh, if you've never watched it, I would do I
would do I would do Salt Lake City or Potomac.
Oh wow, oh wow, expected, unexpected. I would do Salt
Lake City because it just comes out the gate running
with like Mary Cosby, you know, and in Genshaw when
we know what's come in a couple. Genshaw getting arrested
(46:51):
is like a perfect hour of television. It plays like
an hour of twenty like an episode of twenty four.
And I would love for anyone to try to argue
me that it's not like Emmy words television just saying perfectly.
Speaker 5 (47:03):
Like no notes. And then Potomac it just it also
like the.
Speaker 6 (47:08):
First like four seasons are crazy like the season I
want to say, like season three four gets really really good.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Are you still watching The Bachelor at all?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (47:17):
I know, I feel like I just like there's too
much and and I was like, come along. I feel
that's where my daughters I watched, Like that's the TV
they replaced that time.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I see you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, your family TV.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah, I took over.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
We have.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
Yeah, we do do other things.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
I promise we eat meals without any televisions. I cook
a lot, We go on family walks, we go to
the playground, we went.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
To the theater last night. Cookies, we make ice cream.
Stephen time and a day there is Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:53):
He's obsessed with the Ninja Creamy. Do you guys known
about this Ninja creamy?
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Like no, sure, creamy dog.
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Yes, that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
It's this whole world of people that like love the
Ninja creamy. And this is not sponsored by Ninja Creamy,
but I would love to be sponsored by Ninja Creamy.
And and he like goes on deep Reddit threads to
find new recipes and ice cream.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Yes, but you can make it like super healthy, so
you can.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Use your homemade almond milk.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Yes, yeah, and it tastes like real ice cream, so
my kids think that they're having this like crazy decadent
treat and then like it's just like Steven in the
corner being like, yeah, nailed another recipe. Ninja creamy yes,
dates and almond milk yes yes, and like protein powders,
but like, oh yeah, he's obsessed, Like he keeps like
a catalog of the flavors.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
He's rating them, he's trying different, Like you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Different, something up my alley.
Speaker 6 (48:49):
I think you'd get into it, Yeah, get into it.
But there's a serious Yeah. The TikTok of the Ninja
creamy community is they're no joke.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
No, That's That's what has almost got me into it
because I'm like, I think I could do this with
the help of the TikTok community, but I didn't know
there were subreddits.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes, I haven't gone that deep. Careful.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
Apparently it's a slippery slide.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
After I was on The Bachelor, I had gotten on
Reddit and before the season aired, people were so nice.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
Oh my gosh, beca.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I think because they had already seen spoilers that I
made it further, so they were.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
Already so nice to me.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
By the end, of the season, I was like, I'm
never getting on Reddit again, because you know, if they
were rooting for someone else, they just automatically didn't like
didn't like me if they were rooting.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
For someone else.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
So far, so Reddit has been I've stayed off Reddit
since my Bachelor days.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
I mean, I can't do the Reddit. The Reddit stresses
me out. I've never been on Reddit. I don't, I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
I don't recommend it.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
Yeah, I know, even with the show coming out next week,
everyone was like, the fans will really jump in on Reddit.
So Reddit community, if you're listening, friend, I love you,
I will make you Ninja creamy ice cream. Yes, I
support you, I'm rooting for you. Yes for me.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
But to be honest on something like that, obviously you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
Read things like that.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
I don't feel like anyone who's a part of the
show should read things, but someone should be reading it
because when it's a show or something, any attention that's
going to get people to watch it is good.
Speaker 6 (50:21):
Well that's why I know, there's always like the worst
thing that anything can be as and anyone can feels
indifference like you want them to love it or.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, passion.
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Yes, And I will say like.
Speaker 6 (50:31):
There is no indifference to the to the storytelling and
this show like you you're going, it's going to make
you feel one way or the other. And I think
again the viral book talk videos like say it all
like you will have a feeling, it.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
Will make you will have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
Wow, are there any.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
Site list from on the show that are different from
the book?
Speaker 6 (50:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Oh, there are no, no, not that I can remember.
Speaker 6 (51:02):
I know that. I feel like I should probably fudge
that answer and like you never know. Yeah, but no,
if you're a reader of the book, I truly feel
that the things that are different are just that, you know,
some logistical things that but really it's just that you're
(51:23):
expanding upon characters and maybe finding out some of the
things you would have learned about certain characters and later
on you kind of get to know them a little
bit better early on. But other it's really, you know,
it's I don't know. I have a good feeling that
the readers of the book will feel good.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
I'm so excited show. So I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
So it's called We Were Liars. It is coming out
June eighteenth, and you can watch it on Prime yep.
Speaker 6 (51:51):
All at once, all and then you can watch it again,
and you can watch it again.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
I will watch it again. I'm one of those people
like I if there's anybody that I love, I will rewatch.
They're like, I'll just have it on. I'll watch it
once and like actually pay attention, and then I'll just
have it on the TV for the support it.
Speaker 6 (52:08):
I will say it is a beautiful like it's also
a very it's a very fun show to watch. It's
like it grips you. And then I've obviously I'd watched
many I'd watched the episodes a handful of times before,
and so when we got the screeners to watch them again,
I just found myself still being like, man.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
It's so pretty there, gosh, Like I want to be there.
I want to be running on that beach.
Speaker 6 (52:31):
And I was like, I did do that, but I
want to go back and do it again. Like it's
just so it is just esthetically this like magical dream world,
and the escapism is real and it's not just like
the whole thing is also it's an escapism for the characters.
They kind of run off to their own island, but
as a viewer. You kind of get to go on
that journey with them and escape like life, and escape
(52:54):
from your couch and just be like, I want to
be drinking wine next to this family and listen to
them just crazy.
Speaker 4 (53:02):
Did you how long were you filming?
Speaker 6 (53:04):
We filmed for five months in Nova, Scotia.
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Oh my gosh, that's far away for a long time.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (53:11):
I road tripped up there.
Speaker 6 (53:12):
I brought my car and like just packed it all
up and road tripped up there. I got this like airbnb.
It was this old it used to be an old
bed and breakfast from the eighteen hundreds. Like it was
like by the water, and it was close to a
lot of the locations and just kind of like had
this whole little summer life that was just And my
kids came up for a few months too, which is great.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, that's so nice.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Idea of driving your You drove your car up there.
Speaker 6 (53:40):
It was, it was.
Speaker 5 (53:40):
It was very nice.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
It was nice to like have those I'd never done
a road trip like that by myself and I live
in Nashville, so it's quite it's quite a drive, but
it was it was nice to kind of quiet the
mind especially was like, I don't know, I'm a working parent.
It's and there was of course like inevitable mom guilt
that I have and you know, the oh, you're leaving
your children. I was like, well, now if I'm providing,
(54:06):
thank you. But yeah, it was nice to kind of
be able to collect my thoughts, and I think it is.
I think as women, it goes often like a box
unchecked that we for us to prioritize time for us
just to be alone and adventurous and curious and quiet
and weird and just like in that mode a little bit.
(54:29):
I think we always have like a trip plan with
friends or like a couple's thing or like something that's
always like structured. But just to kind of get in
your car and be alone with yourself for a few
days is intimidating and then also really healing on the
other side.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
I love that interesting.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
We love you so much.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
You're beautiful, you're kind, you're so talented, you're literally everything.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
Yeah, you're just you've got it all.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
I'm like the ninja Creamy, the subreddit ninja Creamy have
all of the recipes.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, we love you so much. Everybody, everybody please binge
we relyars on Prime June eighteenth, binge it again and
again and again more seasons.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
And where can everybody follow you? On social media?
Speaker 6 (55:17):
Yep, I'm on Instagram at Candace King, and on TikTok,
I'm at It's Candace King.
Speaker 4 (55:28):
Jill's trying to get that blue check mark on the
tick tack wonder you're still trying to get it.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Yeah, Oh my gosh, they're they're very it's tough over there. Yeah,
I'm in the I'm in process. They're just making sure
I'm making it's yes, yes, apostrophe, it's Candace yeah, Cannis King.
Speaker 7 (55:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Well, thank you for stopping by you and thanks for
coming back and scrubbing in
Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya rad and iHeartRadio
and two time People's Choice Award winning podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello everybody, we are scrubbing in and it is a
very exciting day. Do you know why? Tell me one
of my favorite people will be joining us in ther Do.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know she has been on Scrubbing In twice, two times.
She's a third time returning guest.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Third time People's Choice Award winning podcast guest.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, she's coming for a third time in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We love her so much. You may have known her well.
I grew up watching her on The Vampire Diaries and
then we became just close friends. And she's here promoting
her new show, We Were Liars, which is going to
be out on Prime very very soon on June eighteenth.
So please everybody welcome Candace Key.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We're so happy to have you back on Scrubbing In.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
I am so excited to be here.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
This is truly I'm like, I mean, I'm excited to
be part of the show, but I think I just
filmed the show so I would have a reason to
do pr and come here and hang out with you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Let's be on it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I missed you. I miss you, guys. I haven't seen
you since we went to Nashville. We were there for
Ben and Jess's wedding. So what year was that? Twenty
twenty three, one, twenty one, Oh my gosh, yeah, twenty one.
A while the sum I saw, No, you came here
one other time. I've seen you one other time since, yeah,
but still long distance, I know, far away in like miles,
(01:34):
but always close to my heart, always close.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Well, that's the beauty of social media is I can
always be like, I know exactly what you guys are
doing all the time.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I know watching all the time that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Too, I know, like I know what you're up to.
I'm following your social media.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I know. The last time we had.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You on it was over Zoom, but I think we
talked about social media and you were just like.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't know what I'm doing here.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'm just like, well, she's crushing it, doing all the trends.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
I'm really trying.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I do work with someone who helps me, because otherwise
I even just like I truly had to have a conversation.
Was like, Mallory, but how do you make the words
like pop up and then disappear like that? I'm on
like that level of figuring it out. The green screen
thing was like mind blowing it.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I can't even do the green screen myself, So you
want to step ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, you have to realize, like, all of a sudden,
it was expected that we're all just editors.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
You know, and I've I've always loved.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Editing videos, so it was I just once I learned
how the apps worked. But I'm like, this was not
a fair thing to throw onto people that all of
a sudden, we're supposed to be able to film.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Direct, produce and edit our videos.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Yes, and then also like be clever enough to be
like funny with the video.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Funny.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
It's a very stuff, but you know, we're all in
it together. And and I like to give credit where
credit's due. But I do work with someone awesome in Nashville,
and her name is Mallory and so she she is
the to my my yang.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, Okay, so you were here because you have a
new show called We Were Liars. We're going to jump
into it, but I want to talk about last time.
I feel like last time you were on our podcast,
I met you and I was like freshly dating my
now husband, and you were so sweet to me, and like,
I think you gave me your number because I reached out,
(03:23):
So either I like hunted it down somehow or you
gave it to me.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
We I think it was even before that.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
We sat down at like that, like there was like
a luncheon or something, and we might have even wore
the same outfit.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, bring your bestie, and we were.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Like sitting next to each other and we talked about
like especially being in a relationship or dating someone, or
the when you were potentially dating someone who has kids,
and I was like, call me, yeah, and it's a
different you know, It's just it's nice to have someone
who understands because it's a whole new thing to navigate.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I can't even explain to you, Like I call you
my stepmom savior. She did say that, yeah, because you
don't realize when you're like newly in that phase of
life you and none of your friends, Like you go
to your friends for guidance, but none of them you
can't really understand unless you've been through it and you've
done it. And so it's like I was getting guidance
from my friends, love them all, but like you not helpful,
(04:20):
and I feel like you really took the time and
like you were so helpful with me and just shared
so much, and like I will literally never forget it,
and I always want to be that for somebody else. Now, well,
thank you for saying that.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
And I really like you know, I we were saying
before we got on it, just like it's I feel
like I've been watching like on social media and all
these exciting things. I'm just so happy for you. And
and it's funny, it's like you don't especially at the beginning,
it's kind of a hard thing to navigate and dance through.
And then now especially I've got, you know, having had
(04:53):
children of my own, and then you know, seeing my
you know, step children become adults and realizing like, oh
a lot of it just also takes time. And then
we think that, you know, when you do have like
a child that you've known since birth, you have this
like patience and understanding, and it kind of it's a
different process, like we expect to fall in love with someone,
(05:14):
like with a partner's children, the same a rate at
which you fall in love with your partner, and that's
just not how it works. Like you have to make
space and time to build a different relationship with their
children as well, for both parties, not just for the children,
but for you as well. Yeah, and but it's just, uh,
it's a really you know, unique and magical experience when
(05:35):
you have the time to experience at all. So I'm
just I'm just so happy for you. And that's also
very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
To say no, Like I honestly like want to be
that for anybody that I come in contact with, Like
I offer my phone number to anybody and say, like,
if you have any questions, I'm here, because it was
so helpful, especially in the beginning when you like have
no idea what you're doing. And so I just like,
I love you, and it's like so crazy because I've
loved you. I was a fan of Vampire Diaries, so
(06:01):
I was like, oh my gosh, Like it was was
like and now she's giving me like step mom advice.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I was really crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And then I've like watched you go through so much
in life and like you're newly engaged. So I feel
the same way about you. I just love you, and
I will support everything, like I will watch We Were
Liars on repeat and I'll just have it, thank you,
I'll have it refeeding on my TV even after we
finish watching it, just to support you because I just
love you so much.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well in life, I feel like you kind of need
like unless you're in it, it's hard. Unless your friends
are in it. You need that kind of camaraderie community,
like whether someone's experiencing grief or whether someone's experienced like
you know, if someone is watching Secret Lives of normal
wives and someone else is not, you are not having
the same conversation, like you need to be in that
world together to really get it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Do you watch it?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
So?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yes? Of course I do.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh man, season is so good.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You're watching it?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I just started the second season, but I never watched
the first season.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Oh, I know that's a hard jump in.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, I feel like I brought your whistle in the
first season. That is, you're in the deep end his
ice cold water.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Did I get here?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
That's how cool Ton.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah. So it's a lot, it's a lot right now.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I I yeah, Well, I'm here for you in that space.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm curious about jumping into a new show. Do you
be cause you are so beloved from being on the
Vampire Diaries, and I've always had I've always wondered as
an actress, obviously, being on a long running show is
like dream and the goal, right if you're acting in TV.
But at a certain point, is there that feeling of
like I'm ready to move on and be known as
(07:34):
someone different, as a different character, or is there that
part of you that is just like, that is what
it is and this is just my new project.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I think if you would have asked me ten years ago,
I would say, I want to be known for something else,
in a different character. And now I'm so happy that
like to be part of a character in a series
that people that they kind of hits that point in
a lot of people's hearts, because I have shows and
I have characters that are like that for me, and
and I would be devastated if someone was just like, oh,
(08:04):
it's so annoying you know that someone would associate me
with that, and and and so I love it. I'm
fine if someone wants to call me Caroline till the
Sun comes up. I love that the show has meant
so much to other people, So it doesn't like I'm
thrilled to have been part of.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That well, and I also think it it has spanned
generations like it was like Tanya's favorite show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
When I was like a teenager and now and then
it was.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
My younger sister's favorite show when she was a team.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And I'm actually trying to rewatch it with my husband
because he's never seen it, and I'm like, I think
he liked it, but it's been so long since I've
watched it that I like, don't know, But.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I mean you can't. You never know when you're on
a show like.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
That, is it going to spand the test of time?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
And it has stood the test of time. I stood
the test of time. I think there's also the shift
in this industry, like the way that we consume entertainment.
It looks very different, you know. I think had this
show come out in the nineties, I think it would
have a different feeling right now.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But this is.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Something that came out where people were watching it every week,
and then suddenly when it was able to be streamed,
there was a global pandemic and the world shut down,
and everyone was home watching TV and either rewatching shows
that they loved yeah or made them feel sudden yes,
or suddenly we're old enough and wanting to watch it
rewatch it with their own kids, or watch it with
(09:27):
new friends, and it kind of took on a life
of its own in a whole new way in the
pandemic to the point where I feel like I get
recognized more now. I do more like fan conventions now,
like it feels like there is a relevancy around the
show more. Yeah, and there was then it is very.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And Julie's Plack, right, she created the Vampire Diaries.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Yes, she So, Julie Plack and Kevin Williamson created the Vampire.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I remember her name like it was like very prominent
on all the yes, yes, all the intro. So the
name like for me as a fan, like it out
and she did. She created We Were Liars.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
So Julie Pleck and Kreena McKenzie co created We Were Liars.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And so Rina was a.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Writer a relationship with her from back then that she
was like, I want to do something else.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
At D And Karina was a writer on the Originals.
So I've known Karna forever. So they and they've they've
wanted to bring We Were Liars to the screen for
like ten years, but it's just been happenstance for maybe
like the book was already optioned and then fell through
and then the book got reoptioned and then fell through,
so they truly uh and then they got the option
(10:33):
and then there was a strike, you know what I mean.
So this has been We had this lovely dinner that
they hosted. It was this big lobster dinner in Nova
Scotia where we filmed, and and truly when they made
you know, Julie made a speech and Karina also made speeches,
and there's like we we've wanted this for like a decade,
(10:53):
like this means so much to have everyone here, and
Emily Lockhart as well, who with the book has like
wanted to see the story come to life. And so
it's really it's just I think this is just exciting
for all of it. But I mean I told them
I would come. I just was excited that what they've
been chasing after to like put onto the screen actually
(11:14):
is like made it to the screen. I would have
done catering if they if that was like what I
got to do on the show. I was going to
come visit them and bug them anyway.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
That's so cool. So have you read the books?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yes, the goal would be that there's multiple seasons per book,
is it?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
We would love to have multiple seasons of this show.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is there a lot of pressure doing a TV show
or a movie that's based off of a book where
it has such a huge fan base, Like, do you
feel the you know, because when you do something off
you know as a viewer or reader, when you see
the movie and it totally strays from the book where
it's an opinion.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, everyone has.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
An opinion, but the book, the book world has a
lot of opinions, and especially when it's a book like
this where there's like a cult following.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Did you feel any of that going on?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes? Is there a books that I've said, Like I
remember reading Something Borrowed in a day and like being like, so,
being like this was my like book and I want
to now it's a movie, and like I had it
in my mind a certain.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Way to live up it.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
It did. It was you know what I mean, Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Don't read much, but Something Borrowed I read. I read
that whole. It was like something borrowed, something blue, something whatever,
something something. Yeah, And so I was a big fan.
And I remember watching the movie adaptation and I was
like the book, they didn't live up to them.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
It didn't live up to the book from in my opinion,
Gone Girl, I think crushed the book because I read
Gone Girl. In my opinion, reading Gone Girl, I remember
when the when the flip happened and I was on
a plane and I like audibly gasped, and I was like, oh,
I am in because everyone said give it one hundred pages.
And I thought that the movie did the same thing.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
But so you never know.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I mean, as far as for this book, I think
there's more pressure. And I say this with great li
of there's definitely more pressure on the writers.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
And I think that like they wanted to.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Serve not only the book lovers, the og book lovers,
because there's like this viral thing on book talk and
a lot of people, a lot of the readers of
the book will post a video of them crying when
the book is over, and so it's a whole thing talk. Yes,
it's very big in book talk, and so they there
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is definitely like a very passionate community behind this book
that you know, of course all of us hope that
they're happy with it. And there's also characters that are
expanded upon. I mean, the character I play best, Sinclaire,
is you know, not as prominent in this book as
she is in you know, the second book, but you
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get to know the the other family members a little
bit more than you would But the core of the book,
as like someone who did read the book, is very
much there.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
If you had a summarize, if you had to kind
of say.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Like elevator, elevator, elevator culture.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Which but yeah, if somebody who has never read the
book doesn't know what it's about, how would you like
blank meets blank.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
It is a.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
It's a story about the story within a story.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I know, my elevator pitch is so hard for this
to me.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
What you did last summer?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Well, did you read the book or did you watch
the whole thing? Okay, so it's it's a little There
is a psychological thriller element to this story. It's about
this family, the Sinclair's and the Sinclairs or if you
think of like you know, Kennedy esque, murdoch esque and
of wealth, very very old money, wealthy family. And they
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escape their cities and go to their private island, Beechwood Island,
every summer and that's where everything is perfect and magical
and there is not a towel unrolled, There is not
a you know, muscle not wait or a oyster not
waiting to be you know, eaten, and a whine not
waiting to be sipped. Everything is just perfect there of
this perfect family and their perfect children, and there is
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a summer in which something really bad happens, and so
the story goes back and forth between the summer before
the bad thing happened and the summer after the bad
thing happened, because no one will say what the bad
thing was, and our central character, Kaden Sinclair, is trying
to figure out what happened to her and why she
was left alone on a beach to wake up by herself.
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So it's a lot of secrets, it's a lot of
family history, and it's also this beautiful young love story
where she's trying to figure out was it my family,
was it like my first love, my boyfriend?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Was it this?
Speaker 6 (15:45):
And and it's all set in this insanely gorgeous backdrop.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I mean, it's kind of like the summer I Turned
Pretty meets a perfect couple. Well, a little bit of that,
a little bit of that meets I Know what you
did like summer. I don't know, I keep going back.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I think that's a slasher movie and yeah, I know
you did.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Last Summer is a slasher movie, and I'm not gonna
I feel like we're not closed to give spoilers. But
it's not a slash It's not a slasher movie. There
is no man dressed up in a Fisherman outfit with
a hook.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Every time she kept singing and I'm like picturing, I'm
like listening to the wrong movie.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
So it's like Summer Retern, Pretty meets the Exorcis. The
era's tour needs Taylor Swift. Sure, Yeah, we've got crazy
Abrams singing in one of our trailers.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
So yeah, it's a summary turned pretty thriller meets happy.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Gilmore me.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, I watched the trailer and at first I was
like oh, and then I go oh, I love something
with like a twist or trying to get.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think I'm going to be very into this.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
It's very I like the book I read very very quickly,
and the show I got a sneak peek and I
pinched it very quickly, even though we were already there
filming all of it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But how many episodes? Is the first eight eight seasons
and they're all great to be episodes episodes.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
And they're all coming out at the same time, so
they'll be able to be benched. Yes, do you like
a binge worthy show or do you like to saber
a week week drop? You know, like, if you're watching
a show, what do you prefer?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I prefer a week.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
A week, But I also think that that's really hard
with spoilers. I like the one episode a week for
like a like the Studio I've loved for like one
episode a week, and Hacks I think is great. But
with this kind of show, I think it's really hard
for spoilers. And I do just kind of want to
live in the world like a good book and just
kind of like make that my main focus.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Like the Mormon Housewives, it all comes.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Back, you have range, comes back to mom talk. That's
how they say it. I'm interested because you're you're an actress.
So when you watch shows or movies, is there a
feeling of I know that they're acting?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Like you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Is it hard to watch like reality shows?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Sometimes I'll garden, which is me getting high, and I'll
watch the show and I'm like, I feel like I
know that they're acting, but I'm like, is this how
actors feel watching a scripted show, nonscripted show.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, I mean I think that we all know that
they're acting. I want to hang out.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
I want to garden with you and watch some TV.
I this sounds and this could be a whole show
in itself that I would watch. I No, I mean,
I think the hope is that you feel people can
get lost enough in the entertainment that they don't feel that.
I think inevitably in all TV shows. You're like, you know,
when I was watching Hot Frosty over the holidays, I
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was like, oh, he is acting like a snowman. Believe.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I believe all of it. I literally believe all of it.
And then whenever I'm watching something, I think I see
these people in my real life. So I'll like be
at like the coffee shop, like our local coffee shop,
and if I'm watching like Breaking Bad or something, I'll
be like, Tuco's here, Tuco's uncles here, And my husband's like, no,
he's not like you think every you think you see
everybody from every show that you're watching. I'm like, yeah,
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it's like.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
A man with a mustache and You're like, I know
who that.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Is, La, right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
You know, like that's always the crazy.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
That's why I thought was so weird about living here,
is just like because that's how my brain works too,
Like I'm never like, oh my gosh, that's uh, like
I would always think it's like the character from the
show always yeah yeah yeah. But then that's the fun
thing about like seeing Housewives out in the wild, because
I'm like, oh, that really is Lisa.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Van Yes, right, like I know her.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I yes, yeah, well that's what I'm That's what I
was gonna ask. Is it more fun for you to
watch reality television because it's almost just like so far
off from your world?
Speaker 6 (20:10):
I think that I think that the way like the
storytelling in reality TV now is really it's so good,
like it is. These are not like obviously it is,
these are such reality but like you know, these players,
these women predominantly are just there come in to work
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and give story serve storylines, and but even the way
that they are edited is just I mean, it's really
it's it's a good storytelling. And I stand by that.
I stand by that so firmly.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm just laughing because I tried to watch the Mormon
Mormon Wives the first season, and I was like, I
can't get past the fact that they know that they're
being filmed and being produced.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
To ask these crazy questions.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Like I can remember the first episode they sit down,
they just had like sat down, they hadn't.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Seen each other, and she's like, so have you had
a threesomes?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Like to act given the people what they want?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
So you've but you've also.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Seen behind the curtain. You know what I mean, you've
seen behind the curtain. You've done interviews like that where
and like that's where like I have to block that out.
Like of course I know that they get to get
like all the trips are coordinated by action. We know that,
Like you know, even on like the Valley, we know
Kristen Doty's just coming up in there being like, oh,
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well you take your wedding ring off.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
We need a storyline this week.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I just have to say I'm very impressed with your
like it's embarrassing no versatility and your plethora or what
is your your range? Do you watch everything and and
you watch book talk and like you read all these
books and I'm just like, like, I'm just very impressed
with all of it. You Thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
I think you're the first person to use the word
impressed and my fiance is like a little like concerned.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
He's like blink twice, like you don't know where you are?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Because does he secretly like it? No, No, I've gone
him into a few of them, like what he loves traders,
like give me give Alan Comming every award. We should
just make up awards to give him at this point.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
And uh.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
And then my kids and I love shows to we'll
do we do movie jars. So that's where just for
like anyone who's like, what about the scripted? Uh, we
watch a lot of movies, like I love a movie
jar with the kids where we'll pick a you know,
something that they haven't seen.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
And uh.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
But for TV we do like the Masked Singer, and
we do Dancing with the Stars, and we like Vote.
We get very very into it. So he, you know,
he's also gotten into those a little bit. He's like,
Mass Singer is a pretty entertaining show. I'm like, yes,
it is, sure is.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Who would have thought a bunch of so I've never
ran it, but I've been wanting to feel a show
I would love.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
But I just want to go on record to say,
whoever makes the rules they change every season, I don't
understand them, but God love you.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I am in Like there is always.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Like a very show that I would like and none
of it makes sense. I Like every time he's like, well,
why who are these characters now, I'm like, I don't know,
but they're a whole new group of people this week
and he's like, well, they're from two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's like, I don't know about the mess singer. Yeah,
they changed the rules on the I watch it now in.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
A couple of years in a row.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
And every season there's like a new twist of like
a lucky duck or like a competition, like we're bringing
this back from five years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well yeah, but canvas they have to keep the audience,
like guessing, I Love Island does that too? Yeah, Like
they're always adding in like these new things. I'm like
that you did not do that last season.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Yes, but I'm in mita now I'm in so I'm
locked in.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Wait, I do want to Okay, So I you mentioned
your fiance. I didn't know, so I knew you were
dating somebody for a long time, and like you told
me his name and it just loo was in one
of year out the other, Like I didn't even connect
the dots. And then I was in my pilates class
and I was talking to Mary, our mutual friend, and
she was telling me that he's the guy from Yellow Jackets,
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and I was like.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
I love that guy, Coach Bensah, I love him, do
you too.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I don't know him personally, but I love him in
the show, and I love how happy you are, and
I just I'm so so happy for you that you're
just like thank you showing the things.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
And his joke is that this is just my long
game as a fan girl, because I too love Yellow Jackets,
and so he So Stephen worked on The Originals, which
was a spin off of The Vampire Diaries. So there
were times when we probably lived on the same block
or we're in the same rooms and would just say
like oh hi, But no, never had a conversation. Did
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not register who he was. He was very much in
his you know world. I was in my world. And
it truly wasn't until a couple of years ago and
I just had gone to a convention and our mutual
coworkers were like, oh, yeah, Krueger's coming to dinner and
and I was like who, and then and I was
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just like yeah, I'm single and on a trip and
just like trying like hanging catching up with friends. Definitely
not single and ready to mingle, but just like was
there and I was just like who And then he
he gets there and he like everyone's talking to him
like I should know him too, and then suddenly they're
asking him about this show where he's on this island
and I finally was like, you're coach Ben and he's
like yeah, and we also like worked together and were like.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
But also your coach Ben.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But it wasn't until another year or two where we
ended up going on our first date and kind of
got to know each other better.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Whilst you like an invisible string.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
There's very much and the invisible string was very invisible
until it was very visible.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah, it happens like that. It really like whacked you
in the face.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
It was like home alone, like tripping over the string
and it was like set up by Kevin McAllister back
in the day. The string was like couldn't see it
like a ghost like Casper.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, does he have the same story or he sees.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
That we've met.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
He remembers multiple times, but he like, you know, I
was married. He he also was in long term relationships
and so there truly.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Was no recollection.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
But he's like, you know, I remember meeting you like
a read through and like in the hallway work being
like o hey, and I'm like, yeah, no idea, you know,
but I'm like the.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
You were just focused, very busy, but yes.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
And it wasn't until yeah, uh, you know, just getting
to know each other later and then being like huh,
it's funny though, when the light turns on.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
It's just there.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
The moment of how did I'll reconnect? Was it text?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Was it a d dinner? It was just it was
a different dinner. Oh, totally different dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I got to do more dinners.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
It was, yeah, just a dinner that you forget, like
if you've especially friends that need. Even at that point,
I wasn't trying to like it was very much. I
was very happy and in my own world and I
was just like and yeah, I was like huh. And
I told her mutual friend. I was like, you know,
I'm so happy I'm never dating again, happily. Yeah, my
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my ventures into dating was just like one comic relief
moment after the next, and I just.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Was very hard.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Yeah, I somehow set my like when I like tried
online dating, I somehow sent set up my account as
like mail for mail, and so I kept like looking
on the first day being like man like, like dudes
are really into like short shorts, these like cut off
dead him. It's really like popular right now, How did
you do that?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And it took it twenty four hours to like fix
and caliberry because I swiped on a few.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Of them and I was like, oh, quite flat, like
they're like oh I I was just like all my
pictures were like me and like sensible trousers and like
my friends like you have to post a bikini photos
Like I cannot do that.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I'm not a bikini photo gal.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, what were your prompts? What were your like dating app?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Oh god, I didn't have anything, Like I didn't even
write anything because I was too scared to like say anything.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
So it was just photos and it was like smile
and love.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, like sensible leather trousers, you know me and like
like a caftan like you know, a giant moomoo holding
a glass of wine, you know. And yeah it was
not I did not get many swipes on on that,
so yeah, I quickly deleted them and was like, I
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think I just need to heal myself and not like
be searching too much, and that was much better. And
then I ended up at dinner and was like the
lights turned on and I was like, well, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah, well, I when you go through something publicly, like
obviously going through you, you have to announce the process
of splitting up, and it's you were with someone who
is in the industry you can't like prepare for how
did you navigate that of going through that and having
to like share it because it's one of those things
that if you're going to move on, people need to
(29:24):
know that one chapter has ended so that you're moving
It's a clear cut of like.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, now you're moving on to the next. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
There wasn't really much of an announcement. I think that
I think that this is something that we all have
to deal with, is that we've all done to ourselves
for the most part, because we you know, between social
media and even if you aren't on Instagram, I'm sure
you're probably on a Facebook page. It's very rare that
someone's just not on anything right right, and so beyond
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just like you know, experiencing that process for yourself. I
think we, you know, so many have experienced, you know,
having to have some sort of like how do I
navigate this in this like you know, online world that
we're all living in. And I don't think that there's
necessarily one right answer, except that we're all kind of
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this guinea pig generation figuring out how we navigate, you know,
whether it's like jobs or relationships or friendships or you
know that we put on that people are like watching
and when there is like a change that happens, and.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That's like the best advice because I feel like everybody,
like everybody's so quick to you know, say somebody is
doing something wrong, or like you should do this and
you should do that, and it's like you should just
you're so right. There's no right or wrong way to
really handle anything. And I feel like I discovered that
so much in this in my like current relationship, because
I was such like a what's right and wrong and
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like I need to do everything the right way, and
I'm like, there's really not. It's like everything's like a
blur of just like what feels right to you, you know.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, I mean I often I feel like the big conversation.
Even that happens with a lot of my friends right now,
especially in Nashville as are like older kids get older
and having nine year olds is like what about phones?
What about technology? And how do we have these kids
be you know, how do we introduce them to technology?
Keep technology away from them, you know, the young generation.
(31:23):
And I think we also have to look at ourselves.
And you know, we've kind of been this like our
own guinea pig of announcing things, which it used to
be like you do an announcement in the paper, you
know what I mean, people, or you send out like
a happy card every once in a while. But we're
really keeping everyone up to date, not just professionally, but personally.
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And we also started all of this when you would
put all personal. I mean I remember on the Vampire
Diaries we had contracts that would say you don't take
one photo or post one photo of behind the scenes.
You don't like do any nothing. Whoa yes, so it
is complete, completely flip flopped.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So yeah, just I want you to do that.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Social media was like personal, let's get to know you,
and now it is like professional, like we want all
the behind the scenes content. Make sure you're taking pictures.
I mean even going into filming. We were liars last summer.
It was just it was just I had to giggle
to myself where they were like, we want you guys
to just take as many videos and photos as you want.
You could just be videoing everything like and save it for,
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you know, to next year, because you're gonna want something,
which is so true. You're gonna want to like post
and like celebrate and remember it and share it with people.
But it is just so fin I have to remind
myself that wasn't that long ago, when like social media
was just a different vehicle than.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It is now.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
Yeah, I think we're all figuring.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, it's so true though, Like I watched people now
and the way that these younger in their like early
twenties go and just talk about their breakup and talk
about things that they're going through. They come out there's
like this confidence of like their mentality is like we're
on this tiny spec on this on this earth, and
we're we're gonna be gone. Who cares? And I'm like
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I don't have that at all. I care about everything.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
No, I am still like Paris filter check, like let
me make sure everything is spelled right, let me name
everything I'm doing, and like, let me record ten videos
just to say like.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Hey, I can't stop.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
I can't stand on the side.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I can't stop.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I can't either.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
I literally like we're doing we have the big premiere
for We Were Liars next week, and I was like, fitting,
I'm getting real fancy with a stylist. She's going glam
and and I was like, I need you guys to
tell me how to stand, Like how do people hold
hands now? Because now they do? Like was it this
Selena Gomez?
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Like you put this?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Everyone does this.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
That's that's hard.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
That's a hard yeah in Korea from South Korea.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Discovered this like two days ago.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
I went to Soul and I remember everyone was doing this.
I was like, do we need a tip?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
And I was like no, it's just the heart symbol.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
So I've been noticing the pose everyone's standard, but like with.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
A limp hand, like a delicate it's like if your
hold the hands with someone, you hold hold your hands
in front of you. That's like, this is the new move.
Not not that this was our move. This is move
Like was you you do this and you poke it
out and then you do a little red tilt collar
bone and head tilt. Skinner and head tilt is what
we called it back in the early.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Ons and now and now it's.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
The you clutch, a tiny a tiny limp wristed clutch. Yeah,
it's good, it's good. Good word, really good.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
We obviously your ring is so beautiful. Thank you you
announ So you got engaged? Did you was there any
expectation of that coming?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Did you have any idea?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Well, yeah, I'm an adult. We definitely talked about it.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I hope the proposal.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
No, I will say I think right though anyone el
says I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I did not talk about, Oh did y'all talk about
getting married? I'm talking about did you have any idea?
When he surprised?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Yeah, he surprised me. I'll leave it at that. He
definitely surprised me. And it's been nice. We've had we've
had we had some time before like I posted anything online,
So it was a good like month and a half
almost two months.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
So do you know what I'm not going to ask
you when you're getting married or how you're getting married
and who you're inviting?
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Why?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Because that was my biggest pet peeve.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Because it becomes your whole. It becomes like and I
like talking.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I loved talking about it, but it was I just
didn't know, and so anytime somebody would ask me would
make me feel like I don't know, and so then
I would feel like I'm behind, Like I always feel
like I was behind on the planning because I just
didn't know.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Well, I mean, I would have no answers for you anyway. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
See, yeah, it's very easy answer.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
It's a very easy answer.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
But no, we're just we're It's been nice to enjoy it,
but it was also nice to have some I know,
I had a girlfriend just take some pretty pictures. So
it's been you know, just but yes, he surprised me,
but it was not a surprise coming. I think everyone
should at least have a conversation and not be totally surprised.
Not that I'm your mother and you should listen to me,
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but I'm just saying.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
How has it been because you stepped into the step
parent role? How has it been watching your fiance step
into a role?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
It's been great? Yeah, I mean and again, like everyone,
it's just such a unique experience to each family and
it's really. You know, it's a personal and unique experience
to each family. There's a different dynamic for everyone, just
like kids have completely different dynamics. Yeah, you know, my
oldest like lives in like gym shirts and T shirts,
(37:17):
and I mean she did get dressed up for Harry
Potter last night. She was very excited and like is
obsessed with linage, and my.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Four year old like what's lineage?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
That like lip masks, it's all the tiny thing.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
And my four year old wants to only wear like
sparkles and princess dresses. And you know, it's like every
every kid is different, every situation. But it's been it's
been really great and special, and you know that's one
of the things.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's the one thing I get asked all the time, like, oh,
I haven't met as kids and it's been three weeks.
I'm like, girl, I've had nine months of that. So
like it's like everybody has their own Every relationship I
feel like has its own like time timeline, and like
there again, there's literally no right or wrong. It's whatever
is like right for you. And I feel like that's
(38:06):
like there's so much like beauty and freedom in that.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Yes, it's so true, have your kids process because the
well I'm assuming the nine year old that you are
a celebrity and in the industry.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Does she get it?
Speaker 6 (38:17):
My nine year old gets that. They're like, there's people
know who I am. My four year old is like,
I think, just starting to get it. Usually everyone's pretty
chill and so it's not too obvious. But there was
someone who, like, not aggressively, but it was like a
mom and daughter I think, who like followed us in
a parking lot and while I was like walking my
kids to the car, and my four year old was
(38:38):
very confused, like why because you know what what just happened?
And I usually when I'm with my kids, I politely go,
you know, I'm in mama mode. It's so nice to
meet you, not right now. But so my nine year
old thinks I'm very mean. Yes she she's I say that, Yeah,
she's told me. She was like, you know how you
(39:00):
like Taylor Swift, Well, to some people you're like meeting
it's like them meeting you is like you would be
you meeting Taylor Swift, and it's just really sad that
you won't even take a picture with them, and you
don't even like say, hi to them, and I'm like,
mommy takes pictures of people, but when I'm with you,
Mommy's in mama mode and Mom's a mama bear, and
(39:23):
like I'm not.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
It's funny that she's able to like.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Process, Yes, she she just doesn't like when people are
like filming when I've asked, like, yeah, she that weirds
her out appropriately too, But again it doesn't happen very often.
My running joke is that everyone usually that everyone usually
recognizes me when I'm ovulating, like there's just something about
like I'm extra sparkly and I'll just get stopped all
(39:49):
day long and I'll check my app and be like, yep, yeah,
it's just those pheromones.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Because it's the fan pheromones.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
There is something too that I know, Yeah, you're like
peak are when you're like flowing and.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Apparently just looks super Caroline Forbesy that day.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
When you go to the fan conventions, is there anyone
that you.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Get to see that you don't normally see from the
cast or the you know, working in the because I
know a lot of those fan conventions.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
There's different shows, Like we did one and it was
all like.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A First Responders, But I don't know for y'all, is
it just just the Vampire Diaries and the Originals to.
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Be The European ones are usually a lot of different people. Okay,
so there's like European comic cons where a lot of
us go and it's a whole bunch of different people
and usually a few cast mates. And yeah, there was
like there was one that I went to and it
was like a lot of people from a Viking show
and so every once in a while you just hear like, ah,
like these chants and I think like someone had like
(40:49):
one of the actors like cut his ponytail off and
like wave it around, and I was just like.
Speaker 5 (40:54):
Ooh, I can't imagine.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
There was a little interesting time. And then a lot
of the ones here locally are more geared towards like
just usually the Vampire Diaries or Originals, and yeah, and
Legacy's crew. But there is a fun one that happens
like where we used to film in Covington, and I
think they're doing it in Conyer's later this fall. But
(41:17):
it's wild because it's like back where we were filming,
and everyone goes and so usually there's like a big
dinner and it's it is really nice to see everyone
because we don't see each other that often to live
all over the place, but where we were together for
eight years, so we pick up just like family, and
we all know, like you know, it truly feels like
we're all cousins. And there's always that like one crazy
(41:39):
uncle where you're like, ah, there you are, you know,
and we just it's it's really fun to see everyone.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Well, I was gonna say, because you you do.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
A show like that and you're all you're young, you're
in this like kind of just not trapped together, but
you're it's a work.
Speaker 6 (41:54):
I called it the traveling circus that never traveled anywhere.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Traveling circus.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
So obviously when there's that many people, there's and be
like little dramas and whatever. But at this point now
when you'll see each other, is it just like all
that's behind you and everyone just like is happy to
catch up and get along.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
Yeah, we're all grown ups and we're all there working
as well, but it is just yeah, it's nice to
just be able to kind of giggle and hang out
and it really is lovely to see everyone.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, those are long days. I know,
it is. It is always tough. The dinner is always
really really fun.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (42:29):
That's where we all get to like actually catch up
because in between you're just I mean, it is fun
to be there with fans of the show. Because it
was eight seasons, people usually have like rebinge it or
have watched it multiple times. And so the other funny
thing is you'll go to like a lot of these
panels and these meet and greets and with like smaller
(42:49):
groups of people, and they be asked all these questions
that like you have no idea what the answer is. Yeah,
where they're like why in episode fourteen of season three
did you put the moonstone here and not here? And
I'm like it's time.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
I'm like, we had I mean, we were all babies.
Speaker 6 (43:10):
I was twenty one when.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
I got that job, so it took crazy just before.
Speaker 6 (43:13):
My thirtieth birthday, so we all really came up together
and and a lot of we were in Atlanta, Georgia
for nine months out of the year.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
We would you know, we would.
Speaker 6 (43:25):
Film all day on a Friday and wrap at midnight
and all as a crew as well, about probably like
fifty to seventy five of us usually go to like
a wine bar and all hang out and.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Decompress from the week and be like see Itt four.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
Am on Monday. You know, we hung out all the time.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
So cute, so cool.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Do you have any like in terms of next projects?
I know that you're you have this show coming out.
Do you have any dream castmates like opposite of you
that you would love to work with?
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Oh? Man, I mean usually I know I never have
a very good answer for this, but I'd love to
just be around funny people. But then i'd have to
be Maybe I could just be like a pa on
a funny set. I don't know if across from a
funny person, but I could get them coffee and laugh
at all their jokes really really well.
Speaker 4 (44:20):
I'd love to see you in a rom com.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
I would love to do a rom com.
Speaker 4 (44:24):
D give me Kate Hudson how to Lose a Guy?
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
My dream is just to be in any Emily Henry
movie that's coming out, because I know all of her
books are going to be turned into movies.
Speaker 5 (44:38):
Like I love Book Lovers.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
It's one of my favorites. And like you know, Happy
Place I know is already coming. I love It's a
funny story. I just finished reading not that long ago,
and it's so good.
Speaker 5 (44:49):
I really don't I really don't read that much.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
To me, I haven't.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
Overwhelmed with the amount of books.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I'm like, I am so behind Candice right now.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
No, I don't sleep, like it's a real problem. It's
funny coming here. I knew I had to sleep. So
I was at the store. I was like, oh, I
should get something to help me sleep, but I want
like a vitamin, even though those don't like in my brain,
I'm like, oh, they don't work. You know, I'm doing
air quotes for those who can't see me.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
And so I got melatonin and I was like, well,
I got it. Just so I got the.
Speaker 6 (45:21):
Mega one and that's like ten milligrams. I guess that's
a big deal. I don't know that just popped and
I finally slept.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh let me sleep works really well too? Yeah, not
sponsored just a fan.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
Are you not sleeping? Because do you never like you've
never slept?
Speaker 6 (45:51):
I do. I did ever since I had kiss a
vampire I am a vampire obviously, and ever since I
had kids. I think I always have that little voice
that's like I have to be prepared so somewhat conscious,
somewhat conscious, like always listening for like the cry on
the other end of the of the wall or something,
but uh if someone wakes up. But I yeah, and
(46:12):
I just want like my time, like a TV's my
best friend. I want to hang out with her at
night and and then if I can't sleep, I should
pick up a book and and then you know, and
then yeah, too much, too many things.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Okay, what's your favorite Housewife season? If someone's never watched
a Housewife.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
Oh, if you've never watched it, I would do I
would do I would do Salt Lake City or Potomac.
Oh wow, oh wow, expected, unexpected. I would do Salt
Lake City because it just comes out the gate running
with like Mary Cosby, you know, and in Genshaw when
we know what's come in a couple. Genshaw getting arrested
(46:51):
is like a perfect hour of television. It plays like
an hour of twenty like an episode of twenty four.
And I would love for anyone to try to argue
me that it's not like Emmy words television just saying perfectly.
Speaker 5 (47:03):
Like no notes. And then Potomac it just it also
like the.
Speaker 6 (47:08):
First like four seasons are crazy like the season I
want to say, like season three four gets really really good.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
Are you still watching The Bachelor at all?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
No?
Speaker 6 (47:17):
I know, I feel like I just like there's too
much and and I was like, come along. I feel
that's where my daughters I watched, Like that's the TV
they replaced that time.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
I see you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, your family TV.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Yeah, I took over.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
We have.
Speaker 5 (47:32):
Yeah, we do do other things.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
I promise we eat meals without any televisions. I cook
a lot, We go on family walks, we go to
the playground, we went.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
To the theater last night. Cookies, we make ice cream.
Stephen time and a day there is Yeah.
Speaker 6 (47:53):
He's obsessed with the Ninja Creamy. Do you guys known
about this Ninja creamy?
Speaker 4 (47:59):
Like no, sure, creamy dog.
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Yes, that's the thing.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
It's this whole world of people that like love the
Ninja creamy. And this is not sponsored by Ninja Creamy,
but I would love to be sponsored by Ninja Creamy.
And and he like goes on deep Reddit threads to
find new recipes and ice cream.
Speaker 5 (48:18):
Yes, but you can make it like super healthy, so
you can.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Use your homemade almond milk.
Speaker 6 (48:22):
Yes, yeah, and it tastes like real ice cream, so
my kids think that they're having this like crazy decadent
treat and then like it's just like Steven in the
corner being like, yeah, nailed another recipe. Ninja creamy yes,
dates and almond milk yes yes, and like protein powders,
but like, oh yeah, he's obsessed, Like he keeps like
a catalog of the flavors.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
He's rating them, he's trying different, Like you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Different, something up my alley.
Speaker 6 (48:49):
I think you'd get into it, Yeah, get into it.
But there's a serious Yeah. The TikTok of the Ninja
creamy community is they're no joke.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
No, That's That's what has almost got me into it
because I'm like, I think I could do this with
the help of the TikTok community, but I didn't know
there were subreddits.
Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yes, I haven't gone that deep. Careful.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
Apparently it's a slippery slide.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
After I was on The Bachelor, I had gotten on
Reddit and before the season aired, people were so nice.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
Oh my gosh, beca.
Speaker 3 (49:21):
I think because they had already seen spoilers that I
made it further, so they were.
Speaker 4 (49:24):
Already so nice to me.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
By the end, of the season, I was like, I'm
never getting on Reddit again, because you know, if they
were rooting for someone else, they just automatically didn't like
didn't like me if they were rooting.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
For someone else.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
So far, so Reddit has been I've stayed off Reddit
since my Bachelor days.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
I mean, I can't do the Reddit. The Reddit stresses
me out. I've never been on Reddit. I don't, I don't,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
I don't recommend it.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
Yeah, I know, even with the show coming out next week,
everyone was like, the fans will really jump in on Reddit.
So Reddit community, if you're listening, friend, I love you,
I will make you Ninja creamy ice cream. Yes, I
support you, I'm rooting for you. Yes for me.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
But to be honest on something like that, obviously you shouldn't.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
Read things like that.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
I don't feel like anyone who's a part of the
show should read things, but someone should be reading it
because when it's a show or something, any attention that's
going to get people to watch it is good.
Speaker 6 (50:21):
Well that's why I know, there's always like the worst
thing that anything can be as and anyone can feels
indifference like you want them to love it or.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah, passion.
Speaker 5 (50:28):
Yes, And I will say like.
Speaker 6 (50:31):
There is no indifference to the to the storytelling and
this show like you you're going, it's going to make
you feel one way or the other. And I think
again the viral book talk videos like say it all
like you will have a feeling, it.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
Will make you will have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
Wow, are there any.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
Site list from on the show that are different from
the book?
Speaker 6 (50:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Oh, there are no, no, not that I can remember.
Speaker 6 (51:02):
I know that. I feel like I should probably fudge
that answer and like you never know. Yeah, but no,
if you're a reader of the book, I truly feel
that the things that are different are just that, you know,
some logistical things that but really it's just that you're
(51:23):
expanding upon characters and maybe finding out some of the
things you would have learned about certain characters and later
on you kind of get to know them a little
bit better early on. But other it's really, you know,
it's I don't know. I have a good feeling that
the readers of the book will feel good.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
I'm so excited show. So I'm very excited about this.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
So it's called We Were Liars. It is coming out
June eighteenth, and you can watch it on Prime yep.
Speaker 6 (51:51):
All at once, all and then you can watch it again,
and you can watch it again.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
I will watch it again. I'm one of those people
like I if there's anybody that I love, I will rewatch.
They're like, I'll just have it on. I'll watch it
once and like actually pay attention, and then I'll just
have it on the TV for the support it.
Speaker 6 (52:08):
I will say it is a beautiful like it's also
a very it's a very fun show to watch. It's
like it grips you. And then I've obviously I'd watched
many I'd watched the episodes a handful of times before,
and so when we got the screeners to watch them again,
I just found myself still being like, man.
Speaker 5 (52:27):
It's so pretty there, gosh, Like I want to be there.
I want to be running on that beach.
Speaker 6 (52:31):
And I was like, I did do that, but I
want to go back and do it again. Like it's
just so it is just esthetically this like magical dream world,
and the escapism is real and it's not just like
the whole thing is also it's an escapism for the characters.
They kind of run off to their own island, but
as a viewer. You kind of get to go on
that journey with them and escape like life, and escape
(52:54):
from your couch and just be like, I want to
be drinking wine next to this family and listen to
them just crazy.
Speaker 4 (53:02):
Did you how long were you filming?
Speaker 6 (53:04):
We filmed for five months in Nova, Scotia.
Speaker 4 (53:07):
Oh my gosh, that's far away for a long time.
Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (53:11):
I road tripped up there.
Speaker 6 (53:12):
I brought my car and like just packed it all
up and road tripped up there. I got this like airbnb.
It was this old it used to be an old
bed and breakfast from the eighteen hundreds. Like it was
like by the water, and it was close to a
lot of the locations and just kind of like had
this whole little summer life that was just And my
kids came up for a few months too, which is great.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fun.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, that's so nice.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Idea of driving your You drove your car up there.
Speaker 6 (53:40):
It was, it was.
Speaker 5 (53:40):
It was very nice.
Speaker 6 (53:41):
It was nice to like have those I'd never done
a road trip like that by myself and I live
in Nashville, so it's quite it's quite a drive, but
it was it was nice to kind of quiet the
mind especially was like, I don't know, I'm a working parent.
It's and there was of course like inevitable mom guilt
that I have and you know, the oh, you're leaving
your children. I was like, well, now if I'm providing,
(54:06):
thank you. But yeah, it was nice to kind of
be able to collect my thoughts, and I think it is.
I think as women, it goes often like a box
unchecked that we for us to prioritize time for us
just to be alone and adventurous and curious and quiet
and weird and just like in that mode a little bit.
(54:29):
I think we always have like a trip plan with
friends or like a couple's thing or like something that's
always like structured. But just to kind of get in
your car and be alone with yourself for a few
days is intimidating and then also really healing on the
other side.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
I love that interesting.
Speaker 4 (54:45):
We love you so much.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
You're beautiful, you're kind, you're so talented, you're literally everything.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
Yeah, you're just you've got it all.
Speaker 6 (54:53):
I'm like the ninja Creamy, the subreddit ninja Creamy have
all of the recipes.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah, we love you so much. Everybody, everybody please binge
we relyars on Prime June eighteenth, binge it again and
again and again more seasons.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
And where can everybody follow you? On social media?
Speaker 6 (55:17):
Yep, I'm on Instagram at Candace King, and on TikTok,
I'm at It's Candace King.
Speaker 4 (55:28):
Jill's trying to get that blue check mark on the
tick tack wonder you're still trying to get it.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Yeah, Oh my gosh, they're they're very it's tough over there. Yeah,
I'm in the I'm in process. They're just making sure
I'm making it's yes, yes, apostrophe, it's Candace yeah, Cannis King.
Speaker 7 (55:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Well, thank you for stopping by you and thanks for
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