December 1, 2022 • 37 mins
The fabulous Brooke Theiss aka Lindsay Sumner is here!
There is so much to discuss in regards to the character of Lindsay Sumner...and we're digging in to all of it.
After she left the Alpha Omega sorority she went right back to Beverly Hills...the BH Hotel that is!
Find out what Brooke is up to today.
(And, if you're wondering ...yeah...that's her in Nightmare on Elm Street 4 and Just the 10 of Us)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nine Genee with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. So
today our guest on nine oh to one on one
is none other. They're in uh Brooke thee who played
Leslie Sumner years through total of nine episodes. She was
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the head of the Alpha Omega sorority where all the
girls went, how can you short? Sassy blonde hair? Cute?
Our ladies? Are you? Tori is sick and so you
got with me, but she very disappointed not to talk
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to you. It's so good to see your face though. Nice.
It's such an honor to be on your show. I
was listening to it. It's way too much fun. Are
you reverse age? What in the world? No, I'm being
super serious. Is that because you know the art of massage?
This is true? We should okay for anyway that doesn't know,
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you are a massag a licensed masseuse. Yeah, so I
became a board certified massage therapist. How old my daughter fourteen?
So twelve years ago? Wow? Yeah? And I work at
the Beverly Hills nine and oh my good? First of all,
is that that the best part? She works at the
bh Hotel? Wow? Oh my gosh? Okay, so wait, you
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massage people at the h Hotel do it? Does anyone
ever say this is weird? But I feel like I
know you or no, I feel like I've seen you here.
Do you know it really hasn't happened because I looked
very I got my hair is pulled back, I'm in
my uniform and all of that good stuff. But I've
recently recently hired a few new people and they're like
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horror fans, so asked because I'm part of the Nightmare franchise,
and and my it was really our new manager walked
in and he'd been there for a week and then
he found out and he's like, I can't, I can't
talk to you. I gotta go wait with Were you
in Nightmare on Elm Street? Yeah, so it's Nightmare Elm
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Street four? Oh my god, did you get murdered by Freddie? Yes?
I did. Oh my god, first of all those movies.
Tori is going to be so pissed. She's missing that.
She's a huge fan. You're gonna have to come back.
It's gonna be so much wait, oh my god, So
was that before nine out two one out? I can't Yes,
it was, Yes, I was. It was eighteen when I
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did nine excuse me when I did Nightmare four and
I was twenty three and twenty five when I did
nine O two one out because I right, you did
how many episodes total? You know we got to I
m dB. I think, I think, yeah, it's nine episodes,
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I've something, not O nine, I think, and we've seen
about four okay, four or five? Okay? Yeah, because I
know I was listening to the one with p J
and he was like, I was twenty two and they're like,
you're so wrong, and that's what I've been saying. I
was laughing. I wasn't really. I love that you called
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him called Paul p J. P J was that's what
he went by. Do you remember that ny likes? I
think that's all I kind of knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
now that you say it, I wish I had known
that before I did the interview. I probably couldn't called
him p J. Oh. He probably doesn't go by p
J anymore. But I don't know why he wouldn't find that.
But I have the funniest story about p J. Because
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it's not a funny story, it's not long, but um,
I lived in Burbank and he must have lived in Burbank,
so I would always see him like on on auditions
and then of course, you know, we did the show together.
And then I'd always be like Bob's Big Boy or
Pattings or something like that, and there would go p
J and it's convertible and he had this huge great
Dane and all you saw was this enormous great Dane
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sitting in the back with the lockdown and he would
drive around with the top down on this confortible with
his roommate Brad Pitt. Yeah, right, sitting next to the
I didn't know he had a giant great Dane. He did.
It was it was Actually, it was just so funny
because you didn't notice. I didn't notice him or the car.
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I would just see the great dance. That's b J
go down. Real funny. When did you do just the
Ten of Us? Because I loved that show? So Just
the Ten of Us was? Uh? So I was night
nineteen to twenty one, so we did three seats maybe
it was eighteens excuse me, one degree of separation of
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Nightmare in Elm Street on the ten of Us. So
Heather Landing Camp Landing Camp, Yes, the original, the iconic
night Marion Elm Street Girl Amograma to like a week ago.
I'm still like dear friends with everybody from just a
toid of us. I actually just organized a huge year
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reunion at the Hotel um and I organized the whole thing.
It was last Yeah, it was really really fun and
everybody was like, I can't believe you pulled this off.
It started with like, let's all get together for lunch
like five years ago, and then of course life takes
over and we had a couple of tragedies in with
within the cast and um, so it got put on
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the back burner and then COVID hit and then we
had one of our dear directors passed away, and I
was like this, I'm doing this now before we start
losing people, because you know those people more forties and
fifties and you know, late eighties. So I was like, yeah, no,
I gotta do this, so good for you, and Heather went.
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Heather was supposed to go, and unfortunately she her sister
in law passed away, and yeah for Heather, I so
glad to give her grandma. How many of the ten
of us were there, So it was myself, Deborah Harmon,
who played my mother and um Heidie Ziegler who played
the little sister, and then joe Anilette. We had a
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whole Zoom thing, so Joanne Wilette joined via Zoom and
uh and Bill Kirkeenbauer the father who lives in Thailand
because his son moved to Thailand, and they were like,
we're moving to Thailand, We're never going to see her son.
So we had like this really kind of weight. So
it was really just the three of us and then
two but wait, fun fact, just the ten of Us
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was a spin off from Growing Pains, right, yeah, and
this is all pre nine oh job, yeah, nineteen. I
think I was nineteen one because then I did a
series with Terry Garden Margaret Whitten when I was twenty two,
and then I did a series with Matthew Perry and
Dan Schneider when I was twenty three use us one
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degree nine O two one. Oh, because Matthew Perry did
nine O two one Oh. He I have the funniest
story about him too. So I went to n y U.
So I was there. My roommate was from California, and
I didn't watch any television because I have like severe
dyslexia right, and I was like so excited to actually
get into college. And I was like, okay, my blinders
are on. And anyhow, our suite mate gets a television
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and my roommate Robin goes, we gotta watch. We gotta
sit down and watch the show. Is my friend from
high school is on. His name's Matthew Perry, And I
was like, okay, so we watched. I watched his show
every Friday night. And then when I did Just The
Ten of Us one day, was sitting across the table
the table read and I went right over to him
and I was like, oh my goshars, I watched your
show on Friday nights, and so we hit it off
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right away. So it was really fun. Did either of
you make the book? Matthew Perry told a lot of
tales in that book. Oh yeah, no, yeah, we kind
of like lost. I lost. I lost connection with him
after I did the series right before nine or two
right before um um, friends, Okay, I have another question.
I have two more things I have I liked. Two.
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One is you've been married forever forever? Whoever, how when
did you get married? How old were you? So? I was?
I know right, I was twenty four when I got
married and was still married. But this is me comparing
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was he an actor? Is he an actor? Was he
an actor? Yeah? So he was an actor. We got
put together by our mutual publicist. Oh my god, they
still around. Who is it, Brenda Feldman? Of course I don't.
Oh my god. She was like, she showed me his
head shot, and then she showed him his my head shot,
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and then she kept having us do like publicity events,
and I kept seeing him at these publicity events, and
then finally he would always pull up on his hog
and he was all leathered out. God, I'm like, I
like these like true like cheerleader goody two shoes, and
I was like, can I go for a ride on
your motorcycle? And he's like yeah, And that was that.
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That was just my nineties teen dreams are just coming
through with that. And twenty eight years later, yeah, twenty
so we have two kids, twenty eight. I keep her house,
my son. He's twenty seven, dated for six years, so
two thirty three, thirty four years. And are you all
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just kind of living your Follywood lives like you all
were sort of like young Hollywood at the time, right,
I know, it's all the Pacha stories, you know, just
hanging and you know, just like just yeah, exactly going
out all the time and having fun and yeah, it
was fun. It was really fun. We Jenny, should we
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talk about massage or Leslie Sumner? I mean, I don't
know which direction? Okkay, then that's three things. Hold on, okay,
let's talk about we already kind of talked about massage
because you know, one fast question, Okay, go ahead, because
Kristen Bell has gone so viral for her mouth massage.
She got do you know what I'm talking about? It
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had a whole name, so she talked about it on
I think she did on our Instagram, and then she
talked about on Kelly Clarkson and basically it's like it
has a name that I don't know the name, but
Kristen Bell knows it and your massage the phase and
then she said, I love glove are to do a
lot of matt Like would you want to do that back?
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I would not be doing it. I more like like esthetician,
like you know the facialists might do that, which they
do a lot of that. Yeah, because that's like going
in like that's a different category. I mean, honestly, that
sounds more like TMJ issues. That's what she said. But
she said, oh yeah, because there's a tension in the jaw. Yeah,
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that Kelly Clarkson had t MJ. We should we should
get that. It was a lot of hands, all right.
I have worked on somebody's mouth inside, you know, a
regular client that I said, you know, or you'd be
comfortable with doing this, and I really you know, so
I have done it one time, but not so much
for like you know, um um wrinkles and things like that.
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So it was it was more working with the TMJ
and all in there two things I couldn't recommend more
highly at the Beverly Hills Hotel the chicken salad sandwich
in the diner which they will bring up to the pool,
and the pigs in the blanket and yes, yes, what
about the McCarthy salad of course yes, And if you
if you David Spade style and add the celery he
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adds to it, and it's like, oh he does you
know celery and cucumb or something else. You guys are
making me hungry, I know, right, I really like going
to the Campana cafe that's my favorite, or sitting outside. Yeah,
best I feel like I'm in Charlie's Angels, Like in
any minute, I'm gonna get a call and they're gonna
bring a rotary phone up and I'm gonna five down there.
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I love it. It's beautiful. Another thing I want to
talk to you about is I saw on your Instagram,
Um that you flew the trapeze. You did the trapez
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Oh gosh, yeah, so I did. Um. I didn't do
the trapeze. I wish I did, but it was similar.
It was the motorcycle with the kind of trappeez underneath,
and we did spinning and like on Circus of the Stars.
I'm wait, so you wrote a motorcycle on a high
wire and then did flips underneath of it hung from
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So we had the motorcycle and then there was the
wire and then I was on a trap piece underneath,
so kind of like kind of square like this, So
and I would hang from the bar do all these
crazy stuff and then we would spin like this. And
I remember, Um, I did it with Ernie Rance Jr.
From like the Turtles, And I remember when we did
it really low for a month and then when they
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set it up like the night before they moved it
and it was so high and Ernie is up on
the motorcycle and he looks down because there's a look
fucking hard and Charlotte, he was a crazy mutant ninja turtle.
You are you were in good hands at least at
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least yeah, exactly exactly, but that was really fun. I
actually became friends with the guy who ran the whole
trapeez thing and had it in his backyard. I went
to that guy, did you Yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy
with the trappee and his backyard, like in in the valley.
Where was that north Bridge a dent? Yeah, I think
it was in north Bridge. And I probably blanking on
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his name because I'm still friends with him. Um, it'll
come to me in a minute. But I want you
to remember. Yeah, I remember I got pregnant and I
was flying on that trapeeze and I didn't know and
so I went into my O B G Y and
I was like, okay, so I drank a little bit
and I've been flying on a trapeez have I just
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kind of looked on me like that was before, Like
you know, we can do that now? You know. It's
it's it's a little more common to go flying on trapeez,
Like I think people do it as like team building
and yeah, but it's a great it's a great skill
to have. It's a great skill to help you. Guys.
Put that on your resumes. You like have forties seven
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million acting. This is my talents, hobbies, talent, special skills.
To ask about Leslie Sumner for a minute, because here's
what I find shocking about your trajectory. First week, we
like you were like we like Leslie Sumner. Then she's
so ghastly like, oh my god, your your gross Leslie Sumner.
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But then we're back when we love at you again,
Like it was like you should have got canceled, but
somehow you stayed in the sorority and you stayed friends
with everybody and you're just pool side flirting with Steve Megan,
Celeste al Mad Like what, yeah, you're troublemaker. I know.
I was like wow, Like I was surprised I didn't
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get canceled because that whole episode it was almost just
like let's just ignore that that just happened, and it
was it was really like important, the message even so
important today, like yeah, Aaron Spelling sort of ability to
see the future was just crazy because it made as
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much sense and was terrible. Yeah, man, as it is now,
but then you just recover from it. Yeah, like, yeah,
that wouldn't happen today. The funny thing is I was
actually thinking about my character and thinking about what was
going on with her. And of course, when I was
I'll be honest, when I was twenty four, I was like, okay,
oh yeah, so I'm kind of final, all right whatever,
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So you know, I was like, you paid me, got
me a check, all right, I'm good. Um So, but
I'm looking back now and I'm like, Wow, with the
anti Semitic messages that are out there today, I can't
believe how relevant that was. And I'm thinking about her,
and I was thinking, you know, she looked like she
fit in, but she did it. So she wore this
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mask and she and it was almost like maybe she
had a lot of Maybe she was bullied when she
was younger. I mean, there's so many things that could
have happened to her. Why she was like we just
this is on the d L. You know, we don't
really flaunt this. We can kind of admit we're Jewish,
but you know, I'm blonde and blue eyed. I don't
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look like it anything funny. I found out that I
did my d n A in two thousand twenty and
I found out I'm Jewish. Oh my god, I'm so
happy my son's bearing a Jewish girl. And I'm like,
oh my god, got some bloodline in there. It is
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fully fascinating. That was a very important storyline. Yeah, it
was just sort of like it kept getting buried. It did. Yeah, yeah,
it did. It was kind of. It happened and was
addressed quite well in the show by Andrea Poofed. It
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was like, yeah, well, I think also too. I wasn't like,
I think if it was maybe more of one of
the series regulars, it might have been you know, maybe
for Andrea to take it further, it might have been
something good. The other girls just join up, join this, right,
just join it, curb her going in, Yeah, you'll be fine, Andrea,
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and then your character continues. But that is really never
mentioned again, no, because she goes on to run the
Rose Parade thing and all of that there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know right that season six. So you did see
you flirt and your flirt with my Steve Sanders, Yeah, yeah,
you Steve. I was hoping, but it didn't flourish. Okay,
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So if Steve was your type, was was your character's type?
Who of the guys was your like? Which who did
you like? Probably Luke? I like the bad guy, A
very different. I love that you called it a hog. Yeah. Wait,
does he still write a hog? He rode one for years,
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and then when my daughter was four, he got an
other one and he literally sold it in six months.
He said, it's so different writing because of smartphones. He said,
I'm gonna die. Good for him, good for you. I'm
guys not writing anymore. Yeah, I mean yeah. I was like,
I couldn't say no because I was like, well, if
I wanted to do something, I wouldn't want him to
tell me. I couldn't. So I was like, look, you know,
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it's just all the life and short. That's how you
last twenty eight years. Yeah, I guess I literally learned
a little something about marriage from you. Thank you so much.
Have your kids watched you on nine? Uh? Not? I
don't think nine, You know I should. I gotta I
gotta show my daughter because she's fourteen. She would like
this the show now, but she get I know, right. Yeah,
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So I've taken her to they were showing Nightmare in
Elm Street um at on Grammans, which was really cool,
like the original film with the original and so it
took her there. I took her to see that and
a couple of episodes of Just the Ten of Us.
But you know, she's a gen z er all. She's like,
it's an not fast, she's out. You know, it's like,
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well she can she can do. Like my kids, they
watch it, but they also have their phones in their hands,
so they're like watching four things at once. Yeah, talk
about multitasking it. Do you ever find yourself like, I
don't know if it's on or you stumble on it somehow,
like what sort of you're feeling about it when you
watch it now? It's well very nostalgic obviously, and I
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have actually stumbled across it because some people will text
me go, oh my god, your episode is on or
whatever and whatever you know network it might be playing on.
Remember it was on soap that's hopped around. It popped around, yes,
and then I'll pop on and yeah it was. It
was a fun time because I had just gotten engaged
and so I have a lot of like I remember
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I remember the phones, like the big giant knew, but
they were flipped and all you guys had them. And
I remember I had just gotten when I was like, yes,
I got the right flip fall or not flip fall.
But it was like you know the cell. Remember who
your false friend was, like when you showed up on set?
Who you like made friends with? Like first, you know what?
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Who I made friends with was? Luke? Yeah? Yeah, I
mean you hear that. I know you hear so many answer.
So he I was in the makeup trailer. I was
looking over my lines and he bounces in to the
trailer and he goes, hey, Broke, He goes, how are you?
He goes, do you remember we did a soap reading together.
I was the guy reader, so I had I had
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tested for something, so I can't I can't even remember.
And he was the reader and I I want to say,
did he get the part? Or did they I think
they just called him in to read. I think he
must have been friends with the casting director or something.
I don't know if they weren't, I don't know if
he was, are the character was already on the show
or they haven't cast him? But he read with me
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and then he's like, and I'm really good friends with
Bill Kirkenbauer, who plays your dad on Just the Ten
of Us. So, um, so it was in media connection
and he was just very lovely. So yeah, yeah, we
hear that a lot from everybody. Of course, it makes sense,
I know, right, And so it's a it's heartbreaking. All
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of that's heartbreaking and it's shocking. So and I'm sure
I have no idea how you guys took the news
when you found that out of a deer cast member,
it must have been really hard. It's really hard to
lose people. And as we all get older, that's it
seems more and more common and you see it happening
to other people and other casts, you know, and it's
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because it's like your family totally. And when you worked
that along with someone, yeah, you guys did ten seasons.
That's it's incredible. And yeah, when you lose somebody, it hurts. Yeah,
loss is hard mm hm. When you were on, it
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was really the height. So this was really as the
show was. It had build, built building, it's just at
its height. So did and you did a lot of episodes,
I mean seven nine is a lot of episodes were
you recognized as Leslie Sumner immediately once it started airing. Now,
the funny thing is, I don't know. I've always tried
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to be kind of a chameleon in my characters and
my roles, and I rarely get recognized, so like, like,
even just like just The Ten of Us with the
big poofy curly hair and um um nightmare on Elm Street,
I wore a wig. I looked like I was forty one.
You did not look forty I did. Jenny is so
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much nicer than me. You look younger now, I'm gonna
say it, you look younger now. I did. So I
really have like I have this like kind of It
was kind of cool. And then and my mother sometimes
didn't recognize me. She began, oh my god, I'm watching
this show. And I'm like, I didn't recognize you, but
I heard your voice, and I was like, oh, that's good.
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I'm accomplishing what I lot. Good. That's nice to be
able to just go live your life and not to
worry about that. Yeah. I mean, obviously, probably just The
Ten of Us was the most that I got recognized
when I was that age, because I looked probably the
closest in my real life to her. But everything else
I looked very different. So I kind of like that
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were you plumped when you got nine o two and
oh so excited? Especially that was so I have this
is my funny story. So I do. I do season four,
which I know that's where we're on, and I won't
talk about six, but go and get married, get pregnant.
And my agent calls me. She goes, they want to
bring you back for season six, but it's like literally
like you're still going to be pregnant. I'm like, look
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me me and if baby is coming early? And I
swear to God, I willed that baby to come two
weeks early, week after I gave you no to three
weeks after on nine or two one. I remember going
inside Diane Young's office because she hit cast me in
just the ten of us. Um she I was like,
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I introduced her to my baby. It was three weeks old.
Oh my gosh. I was like, book me, I'm doing
this and she's like, what you're pregnant. I'm like, I
won't be watch gosh, your way I love you is.
I don't want to like the kind of call you
would get like from you know, I guess your agent
where you like scream oh my god, you know, like
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you get so excited. Yeah, when you book a show
like that, an iconic show that's so like you said
in the height, yeah, it's pretty exciting. And the fact
that it was reoccurring and not just you know, episode
was really exciting. Really really, why why did you stop acting? Yeah? What?
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What the heck? Why did you stop acting? You like
did a whole her real shift to Rooney. I turned forty.
It's the typical story. I turned forty and I had
like three auditions a month, and I was like, this
is a numbers game and I'm not going to book
anything and I'm bored. And I was like, my husband
had gotten hurt on a film, really really hurt, like
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life changing hurt. And um he he said, I'm not
going to take any drugs because I'm going to get
addicted because he was in so much pain for a
very long time, and he sage chiropractic and accupunt and
he would come home from his massage and I visually
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remember him sitting on the couch going, I'm not in
any pain right now, and so I don't know. I
was like, I'll always be an actor and I'll go back.
I'm on a long term hiatus, but I was like,
I want to do something different. I want to go
back to school. I just wanted to. I wanted to change.
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So I did and I and I didn't even mean
for it to become what it was. But when I
got the job at Beverly Hills Hotel, I love working there.
I love what I do. I love meeting all these
people from all over the world, and um, I'm very
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gratified there. And so it's a cool place. I bet
it's considered one of the cream of the crop, because yeah,
it's like when I got I had worked in it
a spa locally where I live, and I was like,
I kept telling my husband, I said, I want to
work five star. I'm gonna work five star hotel. That's
what I want to do it and he's like okay.
So I would cold call and I had heard that
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you couldn't work um at five star hotels until you
have at least five years under your belt, like they
will ask you. And I was like, I don't care.
I'm I'm working five Star and I'm I'm like had
like a year in and I started started. I would
co call like five tells. I went online I was like,
all right, who charges the most firms sage those We've
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got to be my hotel. Oh my god, you found it.
I did so. I did it like it was my
third time doing it, and I remember you could never
get to a director, you could never get through to anybody.
And then I finally, third time around, I called the
hotel bel Air, which is Beverly Hills Hotel sister Spaw.
They're part of the Dorchester collection. And I got through
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and I was like, oh my god, I can't even
believe I'm talking to somebody. And she's like, yeah, well,
you're supposed to apply online, but I totally need a
massage therapist. When can you come in? I'm like today, No,
I did so. I was like, oh, how about Thursday?
You know? And then the rest is history. And I
worked for an amazing team there. Our director is amazing
and I'm very happy there. What what I'm just curious
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for all the people listening, what does a massage at
the Beverly Hills Hotel cost? So I think we are
a ninety minute is almost three dollars, it's around there.
I think it's a little in the two Friday Saturday offensive.
If you do an in room ninety minute. I think
you're at five hundred dollars. Yeah, It's like when I
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first started working there, I was like, I remember I
asked one of the front desk people. I was like,
don't you like hand over the bill? Like, oh god,
I'm so sorry. And now I'm like thousand bucks not
when two massage is done. You know, it's so weird that, like,
you know, I remember when one of our trainings, we
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were told that the Beverly Hills Hotel caters to the
top one of the ten percent most wealthiest people. So
it's kind of a crazy world to live in. Okay,
So have you ever gotten somebody that comes into the
to get a massage and you're like, I don't want
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to touch this person. I can't do it. Once in
a while, I was gonna ask if you get lots
of celebrities, which I bet you did, so I do,
but I'll tell you off camera. Yeah yeah, yeah, you
can't read what I get in trouble. I don't know.
I'm sure I can, but just in case, it's like
it's like a therapist. You can't reveal your like if
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they're in the hotel. I definitely can't say. But I
don't know who's in the hotel this week because I
haven't been to But yeah, I'm happy for you. Yeah
it's fun, but I'm happy. Yeah, I'm at sixty. I'm
going to retire from massaging and I will go back
to acting part time. So somebody wants to give me
a job, that's great to do it now, because you
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look good everything. I need to be a weirdo. But
like what I mean, at sixty, she's not gonna look
good enough. Well, I'm just saying, like carpet dim Yeah,
it's so hard. It's a really hard juggle because I'm
full time status there and I have to maintain certain
hours and I can't. I don't have flex ability of
you know, I used to. And I also have a
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fourteen year old daughter and I kind of just I
have my little blinders on. And once she goes to
college and I'm gonna go retire someplace and just like
you know, see what happens. Yeah, yeah, open that door.
My friend Heather laning Camp, you know who, Um, she
had some horrible tragedy in her life and and I'm
still friends with her, like I said, And I think
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it was a year ago or maybe two years ago,
we were sitting at the beach. She told me about
her secret beach at Malibu. So I always go and
like I'm down here, come on, and so she'll come
down and and I remember she was talking and she said,
you know, my daughter is getting married and I'm finally
ready to open the door to acting again. And then
she booked an amazing show on Netflix. So you know
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when you open the doors that you know, you manifest ups.
That's pretty cool. Then the Midnight Club on on on Netflix.
She just booked. You see her, she you always see
her from time to time, and she's definitely recognized her.
I don't know if it was because she terrified me
and I literally had to slip through my parents bed
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for a month, like it looks the same, yeah, Neber
that gray, Yeah, the gray. She woke up one morning, like,
you know, with the freaking streaty. Have you ever seen
him on Elm Street, Jenny, I don't know, honestly, I
wouldn't know. If you're like, is that the one where
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he stands you like this in the shower, Psycho, I'm
so bad with dad literally gets like sucked into a bed. No,
I never saw that, but I saw the one with
Kevin Bacon. That's a different one. Tremors. No, no, uh yeah,
he's that one. Kevin Bacon. Bacon was original and yeah, wow,
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I didn't know that. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Um.
The nice thing about the I thing about horror movies
for actresses, which I still like to color us actors, um,
but is there are the female is always the heroine.
We know, you know, it's it's always been that way
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since the seventies, and I think it's like the only
genre where the women get to be have always gotten
to be strong five the powerhouse, and it's really kind
of cool. And I think that's also why horror has
such big fans, because you have a lot of female
fans out there that love watching strong female characters. And
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there has always been, you know, from Jamie Lee Curtis
to yeah, strong female roles in horror. Well, maybe that's
why they like Leslie Sumner have a second chance at it,
because you're like cool. They're like, we can't get rid
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of Brook yet you're too fun to have around. We
made Leslie suck, but maybe will give her a side.
We'll just pretend she didn't do any of that. Do
you remember how does well, I guess you, how does
she leave the show? Do you leave? Like, does something happen? No?
I was like in the sixth season I was doing.
I think what happened was just the kind of the
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whole Rose Parade and Rose Bowl kind of you know,
it came, it ran its course, and then they just
didn't need me to kind of run that anymore. So
they didn't really ever get rid of me. So, hey,
have a good I could see her being a lawyer
or I never had an exit, so you know, yeah,
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we're calling you up for your sixty there. So so
great to talk to you and catch up. It's a
really long time. It's very sweet for you guys to
have me on such an honor. Like I said, police,
tell Tori, I hope she feels better, and I wanted
to tell her. The funny thing is is um her
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Dad's shows have always been a part of me because
in Nightmare on Elm Street, one of my classic lines
that people want me to write all the time is
it was homeworker Dynasty and Dynasty one like her loved
Dynasty and I used to like bribe my bestie in
the movie to do my homework for me, and she's like, Dad,
get a VCR. I love Dynasty and I gotta go
(35:29):
rewatch Nightmare st four. Now I have to watch. Yeah,
I have to start enny watching it at night. The
first one is super scary and then they get campy,
and maybe the second one is still scary, but the
three and four, they especially four because Renny Harland directed
that and he was all about them. Yeah, really a
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great director. He brought us all together and I really
owe him. He really brought that whole cast together to
make us. We used to go to barbecues before we
started shooting, so by the time we started shooting, we
were all friends. So yeah, it was smart, smart direct. Yeah, well,
i'd I'd love to have a barbecue with you. I
would love to have barbecue you ladies. Have you guys
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also look so lovely And I follow you on Instagram
and I follow Shannon and you and Tori, and you
guys have really blossomed into beautiful women. And I appreciate
you right back at you now, I really do, because
you guys were in a time where you know, you
guys want to bubble yourself and it wasn't I remember
I'd always be walked from the set from a body
(36:38):
with a Barty guard and I'd be like, I don't
I don't know. While you're walking me, and I know
I walk everybody. I was like, Oh, that's it's intense.
That's an intense time. And you guys were young and
you have handled it really well and I really do
admire you. Thank you. That's really nice of you. Yeah,
but anyhow, we gotta come back with tories here. Yes, yes, yes,
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I would maybe on when the six season starts, when
you show up again. Yeah, definitely. Hello and thank you
ladies so much for having me on your podcast. Is awesome,
Thank you all right, having great great to see you
It's nine Genee with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. So
today our guest on nine oh to one on one
is none other. They're in uh Brooke thee who played
Leslie Sumner years through total of nine episodes. She was
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the head of the Alpha Omega sorority where all the
girls went, how can you short? Sassy blonde hair? Cute?
Our ladies? Are you? Tori is sick and so you
got with me, but she very disappointed not to talk
(00:48):
to you. It's so good to see your face though. Nice.
It's such an honor to be on your show. I
was listening to it. It's way too much fun. Are
you reverse age? What in the world? No, I'm being
super serious. Is that because you know the art of massage?
This is true? We should okay for anyway that doesn't know,
(01:12):
you are a massag a licensed masseuse. Yeah, so I
became a board certified massage therapist. How old my daughter fourteen?
So twelve years ago? Wow? Yeah? And I work at
the Beverly Hills nine and oh my good? First of all,
is that that the best part? She works at the
bh Hotel? Wow? Oh my gosh? Okay, so wait, you
(01:36):
massage people at the h Hotel do it? Does anyone
ever say this is weird? But I feel like I
know you or no, I feel like I've seen you here.
Do you know it really hasn't happened because I looked
very I got my hair is pulled back, I'm in
my uniform and all of that good stuff. But I've
recently recently hired a few new people and they're like
(01:58):
horror fans, so asked because I'm part of the Nightmare franchise,
and and my it was really our new manager walked
in and he'd been there for a week and then
he found out and he's like, I can't, I can't
talk to you. I gotta go wait with Were you
in Nightmare on Elm Street? Yeah, so it's Nightmare Elm
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Street four? Oh my god, did you get murdered by Freddie? Yes?
I did. Oh my god, first of all those movies.
Tori is going to be so pissed. She's missing that.
She's a huge fan. You're gonna have to come back.
It's gonna be so much wait, oh my god, So
was that before nine out two one out? I can't Yes,
it was, Yes, I was. It was eighteen when I
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did nine excuse me when I did Nightmare four and
I was twenty three and twenty five when I did
nine O two one out because I right, you did
how many episodes total? You know we got to I
m dB. I think, I think, yeah, it's nine episodes,
(03:08):
I've something, not O nine, I think, and we've seen
about four okay, four or five? Okay? Yeah, because I
know I was listening to the one with p J
and he was like, I was twenty two and they're like,
you're so wrong, and that's what I've been saying. I
was laughing. I wasn't really. I love that you called
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him called Paul p J. P J was that's what
he went by. Do you remember that ny likes? I
think that's all I kind of knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
now that you say it, I wish I had known
that before I did the interview. I probably couldn't called
him p J. Oh. He probably doesn't go by p
J anymore. But I don't know why he wouldn't find that.
But I have the funniest story about p J. Because
(03:49):
it's not a funny story, it's not long, but um,
I lived in Burbank and he must have lived in Burbank,
so I would always see him like on on auditions
and then of course, you know, we did the show together.
And then I'd always be like Bob's Big Boy or
Pattings or something like that, and there would go p
J and it's convertible and he had this huge great
Dane and all you saw was this enormous great Dane
(04:11):
sitting in the back with the lockdown and he would
drive around with the top down on this confortible with
his roommate Brad Pitt. Yeah, right, sitting next to the
I didn't know he had a giant great Dane. He did.
It was it was Actually, it was just so funny
because you didn't notice. I didn't notice him or the car.
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I would just see the great dance. That's b J
go down. Real funny. When did you do just the
Ten of Us? Because I loved that show? So Just
the Ten of Us was? Uh? So I was night
nineteen to twenty one, so we did three seats maybe
it was eighteens excuse me, one degree of separation of
(04:54):
Nightmare in Elm Street on the ten of Us. So
Heather Landing Camp Landing Camp, Yes, the original, the iconic
night Marion Elm Street Girl Amograma to like a week ago.
I'm still like dear friends with everybody from just a
toid of us. I actually just organized a huge year
(05:18):
reunion at the Hotel um and I organized the whole thing.
It was last Yeah, it was really really fun and
everybody was like, I can't believe you pulled this off.
It started with like, let's all get together for lunch
like five years ago, and then of course life takes
over and we had a couple of tragedies in with
within the cast and um, so it got put on
(05:40):
the back burner and then COVID hit and then we
had one of our dear directors passed away, and I
was like this, I'm doing this now before we start
losing people, because you know those people more forties and
fifties and you know, late eighties. So I was like, yeah, no,
I gotta do this, so good for you, and Heather went.
(06:00):
Heather was supposed to go, and unfortunately she her sister
in law passed away, and yeah for Heather, I so
glad to give her grandma. How many of the ten
of us were there, So it was myself, Deborah Harmon,
who played my mother and um Heidie Ziegler who played
the little sister, and then joe Anilette. We had a
(06:21):
whole Zoom thing, so Joanne Wilette joined via Zoom and
uh and Bill Kirkeenbauer the father who lives in Thailand
because his son moved to Thailand, and they were like,
we're moving to Thailand, We're never going to see her son.
So we had like this really kind of weight. So
it was really just the three of us and then
two but wait, fun fact, just the ten of Us
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was a spin off from Growing Pains, right, yeah, and
this is all pre nine oh job, yeah, nineteen. I
think I was nineteen one because then I did a
series with Terry Garden Margaret Whitten when I was twenty two,
and then I did a series with Matthew Perry and
Dan Schneider when I was twenty three use us one
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degree nine O two one. Oh, because Matthew Perry did
nine O two one Oh. He I have the funniest
story about him too. So I went to n y U.
So I was there. My roommate was from California, and
I didn't watch any television because I have like severe
dyslexia right, and I was like so excited to actually
get into college. And I was like, okay, my blinders
are on. And anyhow, our suite mate gets a television
(07:30):
and my roommate Robin goes, we gotta watch. We gotta
sit down and watch the show. Is my friend from
high school is on. His name's Matthew Perry, And I
was like, okay, so we watched. I watched his show
every Friday night. And then when I did Just The
Ten of Us one day, was sitting across the table
the table read and I went right over to him
and I was like, oh my goshars, I watched your
show on Friday nights, and so we hit it off
(07:53):
right away. So it was really fun. Did either of
you make the book? Matthew Perry told a lot of
tales in that book. Oh yeah, no, yeah, we kind
of like lost. I lost. I lost connection with him
after I did the series right before nine or two
right before um um, friends, Okay, I have another question.
I have two more things I have I liked. Two.
(08:14):
One is you've been married forever forever? Whoever, how when
did you get married? How old were you? So? I was?
I know right, I was twenty four when I got
married and was still married. But this is me comparing
(08:35):
was he an actor? Is he an actor? Was he
an actor? Yeah? So he was an actor. We got
put together by our mutual publicist. Oh my god, they
still around. Who is it, Brenda Feldman? Of course I don't.
Oh my god. She was like, she showed me his
head shot, and then she showed him his my head shot,
(08:56):
and then she kept having us do like publicity events,
and I kept seeing him at these publicity events, and
then finally he would always pull up on his hog
and he was all leathered out. God, I'm like, I
like these like true like cheerleader goody two shoes, and
I was like, can I go for a ride on
your motorcycle? And he's like yeah, And that was that.
(09:19):
That was just my nineties teen dreams are just coming
through with that. And twenty eight years later, yeah, twenty
so we have two kids, twenty eight. I keep her house,
my son. He's twenty seven, dated for six years, so
two thirty three, thirty four years. And are you all
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just kind of living your Follywood lives like you all
were sort of like young Hollywood at the time, right,
I know, it's all the Pacha stories, you know, just
hanging and you know, just like just yeah, exactly going
out all the time and having fun and yeah, it
was fun. It was really fun. We Jenny, should we
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talk about massage or Leslie Sumner? I mean, I don't
know which direction? Okkay, then that's three things. Hold on, okay,
let's talk about we already kind of talked about massage
because you know, one fast question, Okay, go ahead, because
Kristen Bell has gone so viral for her mouth massage.
She got do you know what I'm talking about? It
(10:22):
had a whole name, so she talked about it on
I think she did on our Instagram, and then she
talked about on Kelly Clarkson and basically it's like it
has a name that I don't know the name, but
Kristen Bell knows it and your massage the phase and
then she said, I love glove are to do a
lot of matt Like would you want to do that back?
(10:43):
I would not be doing it. I more like like esthetician,
like you know the facialists might do that, which they
do a lot of that. Yeah, because that's like going
in like that's a different category. I mean, honestly, that
sounds more like TMJ issues. That's what she said. But
she said, oh yeah, because there's a tension in the jaw. Yeah,
(11:07):
that Kelly Clarkson had t MJ. We should we should
get that. It was a lot of hands, all right.
I have worked on somebody's mouth inside, you know, a
regular client that I said, you know, or you'd be
comfortable with doing this, and I really you know, so
I have done it one time, but not so much
for like you know, um um wrinkles and things like that.
(11:30):
So it was it was more working with the TMJ
and all in there two things I couldn't recommend more
highly at the Beverly Hills Hotel the chicken salad sandwich
in the diner which they will bring up to the pool,
and the pigs in the blanket and yes, yes, what
about the McCarthy salad of course yes, And if you
if you David Spade style and add the celery he
(11:54):
adds to it, and it's like, oh he does you
know celery and cucumb or something else. You guys are
making me hungry, I know, right, I really like going
to the Campana cafe that's my favorite, or sitting outside. Yeah,
best I feel like I'm in Charlie's Angels, Like in
any minute, I'm gonna get a call and they're gonna
bring a rotary phone up and I'm gonna five down there.
(12:18):
I love it. It's beautiful. Another thing I want to
talk to you about is I saw on your Instagram,
Um that you flew the trapeze. You did the trapez
(12:40):
Oh gosh, yeah, so I did. Um. I didn't do
the trapeze. I wish I did, but it was similar.
It was the motorcycle with the kind of trappeez underneath,
and we did spinning and like on Circus of the Stars.
I'm wait, so you wrote a motorcycle on a high
wire and then did flips underneath of it hung from
(13:03):
So we had the motorcycle and then there was the
wire and then I was on a trap piece underneath,
so kind of like kind of square like this, So
and I would hang from the bar do all these
crazy stuff and then we would spin like this. And
I remember, Um, I did it with Ernie Rance Jr.
From like the Turtles, And I remember when we did
it really low for a month and then when they
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set it up like the night before they moved it
and it was so high and Ernie is up on
the motorcycle and he looks down because there's a look
fucking hard and Charlotte, he was a crazy mutant ninja turtle.
You are you were in good hands at least at
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least yeah, exactly exactly, but that was really fun. I
actually became friends with the guy who ran the whole
trapeez thing and had it in his backyard. I went
to that guy, did you Yeah, yeah, yeah, the guy
with the trappee and his backyard, like in in the valley.
Where was that north Bridge a dent? Yeah, I think
it was in north Bridge. And I probably blanking on
(14:09):
his name because I'm still friends with him. Um, it'll
come to me in a minute. But I want you
to remember. Yeah, I remember I got pregnant and I
was flying on that trapeeze and I didn't know and
so I went into my O B G Y and
I was like, okay, so I drank a little bit
and I've been flying on a trapeez have I just
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kind of looked on me like that was before, Like
you know, we can do that now? You know. It's
it's it's a little more common to go flying on trapeez,
Like I think people do it as like team building
and yeah, but it's a great it's a great skill
to have. It's a great skill to help you. Guys.
Put that on your resumes. You like have forties seven
(14:50):
million acting. This is my talents, hobbies, talent, special skills.
To ask about Leslie Sumner for a minute, because here's
what I find shocking about your trajectory. First week, we
like you were like we like Leslie Sumner. Then she's
so ghastly like, oh my god, your your gross Leslie Sumner.
(15:16):
But then we're back when we love at you again,
Like it was like you should have got canceled, but
somehow you stayed in the sorority and you stayed friends
with everybody and you're just pool side flirting with Steve Megan,
Celeste al Mad Like what, yeah, you're troublemaker. I know.
I was like wow, Like I was surprised I didn't
(15:38):
get canceled because that whole episode it was almost just
like let's just ignore that that just happened, and it
was it was really like important, the message even so
important today, like yeah, Aaron Spelling sort of ability to
see the future was just crazy because it made as
(15:58):
much sense and was terrible. Yeah, man, as it is now,
but then you just recover from it. Yeah, like, yeah,
that wouldn't happen today. The funny thing is I was
actually thinking about my character and thinking about what was
going on with her. And of course, when I was
I'll be honest, when I was twenty four, I was like, okay,
oh yeah, so I'm kind of final, all right whatever,
(16:21):
So you know, I was like, you paid me, got
me a check, all right, I'm good. Um So, but
I'm looking back now and I'm like, Wow, with the
anti Semitic messages that are out there today, I can't
believe how relevant that was. And I'm thinking about her,
and I was thinking, you know, she looked like she
fit in, but she did it. So she wore this
(16:45):
mask and she and it was almost like maybe she
had a lot of Maybe she was bullied when she
was younger. I mean, there's so many things that could
have happened to her. Why she was like we just
this is on the d L. You know, we don't
really flaunt this. We can kind of admit we're Jewish,
but you know, I'm blonde and blue eyed. I don't
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look like it anything funny. I found out that I
did my d n A in two thousand twenty and
I found out I'm Jewish. Oh my god, I'm so
happy my son's bearing a Jewish girl. And I'm like,
oh my god, got some bloodline in there. It is
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fully fascinating. That was a very important storyline. Yeah, it
was just sort of like it kept getting buried. It did. Yeah, yeah,
it did. It was kind of. It happened and was
addressed quite well in the show by Andrea Poofed. It
(17:48):
was like, yeah, well, I think also too. I wasn't like,
I think if it was maybe more of one of
the series regulars, it might have been you know, maybe
for Andrea to take it further, it might have been
something good. The other girls just join up, join this, right,
just join it, curb her going in, Yeah, you'll be fine, Andrea,
(18:12):
and then your character continues. But that is really never
mentioned again, no, because she goes on to run the
Rose Parade thing and all of that there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know right that season six. So you did see
you flirt and your flirt with my Steve Sanders, Yeah, yeah,
you Steve. I was hoping, but it didn't flourish. Okay,
(18:34):
So if Steve was your type, was was your character's type?
Who of the guys was your like? Which who did
you like? Probably Luke? I like the bad guy, A
very different. I love that you called it a hog. Yeah. Wait,
does he still write a hog? He rode one for years,
(18:57):
and then when my daughter was four, he got an
other one and he literally sold it in six months.
He said, it's so different writing because of smartphones. He said,
I'm gonna die. Good for him, good for you. I'm
guys not writing anymore. Yeah, I mean yeah. I was like,
I couldn't say no because I was like, well, if
I wanted to do something, I wouldn't want him to
tell me. I couldn't. So I was like, look, you know,
(19:19):
it's just all the life and short. That's how you
last twenty eight years. Yeah, I guess I literally learned
a little something about marriage from you. Thank you so much.
Have your kids watched you on nine? Uh? Not? I
don't think nine, You know I should. I gotta I
gotta show my daughter because she's fourteen. She would like
this the show now, but she get I know, right. Yeah,
(19:42):
So I've taken her to they were showing Nightmare in
Elm Street um at on Grammans, which was really cool,
like the original film with the original and so it
took her there. I took her to see that and
a couple of episodes of Just the Ten of Us.
But you know, she's a gen z er all. She's like,
it's an not fast, she's out. You know, it's like,
(20:02):
well she can she can do. Like my kids, they
watch it, but they also have their phones in their hands,
so they're like watching four things at once. Yeah, talk
about multitasking it. Do you ever find yourself like, I
don't know if it's on or you stumble on it somehow,
like what sort of you're feeling about it when you
watch it now? It's well very nostalgic obviously, and I
(20:24):
have actually stumbled across it because some people will text
me go, oh my god, your episode is on or
whatever and whatever you know network it might be playing on.
Remember it was on soap that's hopped around. It popped around, yes,
and then I'll pop on and yeah it was. It
was a fun time because I had just gotten engaged
and so I have a lot of like I remember
(20:45):
I remember the phones, like the big giant knew, but
they were flipped and all you guys had them. And
I remember I had just gotten when I was like, yes,
I got the right flip fall or not flip fall.
But it was like you know the cell. Remember who
your false friend was, like when you showed up on set?
Who you like made friends with? Like first, you know what?
(21:08):
Who I made friends with was? Luke? Yeah? Yeah, I
mean you hear that. I know you hear so many answer.
So he I was in the makeup trailer. I was
looking over my lines and he bounces in to the
trailer and he goes, hey, Broke, He goes, how are you?
He goes, do you remember we did a soap reading together.
I was the guy reader, so I had I had
(21:30):
tested for something, so I can't I can't even remember.
And he was the reader and I I want to say,
did he get the part? Or did they I think
they just called him in to read. I think he
must have been friends with the casting director or something.
I don't know if they weren't, I don't know if
he was, are the character was already on the show
or they haven't cast him? But he read with me
(21:52):
and then he's like, and I'm really good friends with
Bill Kirkenbauer, who plays your dad on Just the Ten
of Us. So, um, so it was in media connection
and he was just very lovely. So yeah, yeah, we
hear that a lot from everybody. Of course, it makes sense,
I know, right, And so it's a it's heartbreaking. All
(22:12):
of that's heartbreaking and it's shocking. So and I'm sure
I have no idea how you guys took the news
when you found that out of a deer cast member,
it must have been really hard. It's really hard to
lose people. And as we all get older, that's it
seems more and more common and you see it happening
to other people and other casts, you know, and it's
(22:32):
because it's like your family totally. And when you worked
that along with someone, yeah, you guys did ten seasons.
That's it's incredible. And yeah, when you lose somebody, it hurts. Yeah,
loss is hard mm hm. When you were on, it
(23:02):
was really the height. So this was really as the
show was. It had build, built building, it's just at
its height. So did and you did a lot of episodes,
I mean seven nine is a lot of episodes were
you recognized as Leslie Sumner immediately once it started airing. Now,
the funny thing is, I don't know. I've always tried
(23:24):
to be kind of a chameleon in my characters and
my roles, and I rarely get recognized, so like, like,
even just like just The Ten of Us with the
big poofy curly hair and um um nightmare on Elm Street,
I wore a wig. I looked like I was forty one.
You did not look forty I did. Jenny is so
(23:51):
much nicer than me. You look younger now, I'm gonna
say it, you look younger now. I did. So I
really have like I have this like kind of It
was kind of cool. And then and my mother sometimes
didn't recognize me. She began, oh my god, I'm watching
this show. And I'm like, I didn't recognize you, but
I heard your voice, and I was like, oh, that's good.
(24:12):
I'm accomplishing what I lot. Good. That's nice to be
able to just go live your life and not to
worry about that. Yeah. I mean, obviously, probably just The
Ten of Us was the most that I got recognized
when I was that age, because I looked probably the
closest in my real life to her. But everything else
I looked very different. So I kind of like that
(24:33):
were you plumped when you got nine o two and
oh so excited? Especially that was so I have this
is my funny story. So I do. I do season four,
which I know that's where we're on, and I won't
talk about six, but go and get married, get pregnant.
And my agent calls me. She goes, they want to
bring you back for season six, but it's like literally
like you're still going to be pregnant. I'm like, look
(24:53):
me me and if baby is coming early? And I
swear to God, I willed that baby to come two
weeks early, week after I gave you no to three
weeks after on nine or two one. I remember going
inside Diane Young's office because she hit cast me in
just the ten of us. Um she I was like,
(25:14):
I introduced her to my baby. It was three weeks old.
Oh my gosh. I was like, book me, I'm doing
this and she's like, what you're pregnant. I'm like, I
won't be watch gosh, your way I love you is.
I don't want to like the kind of call you
would get like from you know, I guess your agent
where you like scream oh my god, you know, like
(25:36):
you get so excited. Yeah, when you book a show
like that, an iconic show that's so like you said
in the height, yeah, it's pretty exciting. And the fact
that it was reoccurring and not just you know, episode
was really exciting. Really really, why why did you stop acting? Yeah? What?
(25:56):
What the heck? Why did you stop acting? You like
did a whole her real shift to Rooney. I turned forty.
It's the typical story. I turned forty and I had
like three auditions a month, and I was like, this
is a numbers game and I'm not going to book
anything and I'm bored. And I was like, my husband
had gotten hurt on a film, really really hurt, like
(26:18):
life changing hurt. And um he he said, I'm not
going to take any drugs because I'm going to get
addicted because he was in so much pain for a
very long time, and he sage chiropractic and accupunt and
he would come home from his massage and I visually
(26:38):
remember him sitting on the couch going, I'm not in
any pain right now, and so I don't know. I
was like, I'll always be an actor and I'll go back.
I'm on a long term hiatus, but I was like,
I want to do something different. I want to go
back to school. I just wanted to. I wanted to change.
(26:59):
So I did and I and I didn't even mean
for it to become what it was. But when I
got the job at Beverly Hills Hotel, I love working there.
I love what I do. I love meeting all these
people from all over the world, and um, I'm very
(27:22):
gratified there. And so it's a cool place. I bet
it's considered one of the cream of the crop, because yeah,
it's like when I got I had worked in it
a spa locally where I live, and I was like,
I kept telling my husband, I said, I want to
work five star. I'm gonna work five star hotel. That's
what I want to do it and he's like okay.
So I would cold call and I had heard that
(27:44):
you couldn't work um at five star hotels until you
have at least five years under your belt, like they
will ask you. And I was like, I don't care.
I'm I'm working five Star and I'm I'm like had
like a year in and I started started. I would
co call like five tells. I went online I was like,
all right, who charges the most firms sage those We've
(28:05):
got to be my hotel. Oh my god, you found it.
I did so. I did it like it was my
third time doing it, and I remember you could never
get to a director, you could never get through to anybody.
And then I finally, third time around, I called the
hotel bel Air, which is Beverly Hills Hotel sister Spaw.
They're part of the Dorchester collection. And I got through
(28:25):
and I was like, oh my god, I can't even
believe I'm talking to somebody. And she's like, yeah, well,
you're supposed to apply online, but I totally need a
massage therapist. When can you come in? I'm like today, No,
I did so. I was like, oh, how about Thursday?
You know? And then the rest is history. And I
worked for an amazing team there. Our director is amazing
and I'm very happy there. What what I'm just curious
(28:47):
for all the people listening, what does a massage at
the Beverly Hills Hotel cost? So I think we are
a ninety minute is almost three dollars, it's around there.
I think it's a little in the two Friday Saturday offensive.
If you do an in room ninety minute. I think
you're at five hundred dollars. Yeah, It's like when I
(29:13):
first started working there, I was like, I remember I
asked one of the front desk people. I was like,
don't you like hand over the bill? Like, oh god,
I'm so sorry. And now I'm like thousand bucks not
when two massage is done. You know, it's so weird that, like,
you know, I remember when one of our trainings, we
(29:34):
were told that the Beverly Hills Hotel caters to the
top one of the ten percent most wealthiest people. So
it's kind of a crazy world to live in. Okay,
So have you ever gotten somebody that comes into the
to get a massage and you're like, I don't want
(29:55):
to touch this person. I can't do it. Once in
a while, I was gonna ask if you get lots
of celebrities, which I bet you did, so I do,
but I'll tell you off camera. Yeah yeah, yeah, you
can't read what I get in trouble. I don't know.
I'm sure I can, but just in case, it's like
it's like a therapist. You can't reveal your like if
(30:18):
they're in the hotel. I definitely can't say. But I
don't know who's in the hotel this week because I
haven't been to But yeah, I'm happy for you. Yeah
it's fun, but I'm happy. Yeah, I'm at sixty. I'm
going to retire from massaging and I will go back
to acting part time. So somebody wants to give me
a job, that's great to do it now, because you
(30:41):
look good everything. I need to be a weirdo. But
like what I mean, at sixty, she's not gonna look
good enough. Well, I'm just saying, like carpet dim Yeah,
it's so hard. It's a really hard juggle because I'm
full time status there and I have to maintain certain
hours and I can't. I don't have flex ability of
you know, I used to. And I also have a
(31:03):
fourteen year old daughter and I kind of just I
have my little blinders on. And once she goes to
college and I'm gonna go retire someplace and just like
you know, see what happens. Yeah, yeah, open that door.
My friend Heather laning Camp, you know who, Um, she
had some horrible tragedy in her life and and I'm
still friends with her, like I said, And I think
(31:25):
it was a year ago or maybe two years ago,
we were sitting at the beach. She told me about
her secret beach at Malibu. So I always go and
like I'm down here, come on, and so she'll come
down and and I remember she was talking and she said,
you know, my daughter is getting married and I'm finally
ready to open the door to acting again. And then
she booked an amazing show on Netflix. So you know
(31:47):
when you open the doors that you know, you manifest ups.
That's pretty cool. Then the Midnight Club on on on Netflix.
She just booked. You see her, she you always see
her from time to time, and she's definitely recognized her.
I don't know if it was because she terrified me
and I literally had to slip through my parents bed
(32:07):
for a month, like it looks the same, yeah, Neber
that gray, Yeah, the gray. She woke up one morning, like,
you know, with the freaking streaty. Have you ever seen
him on Elm Street, Jenny, I don't know, honestly, I
wouldn't know. If you're like, is that the one where
(32:29):
he stands you like this in the shower, Psycho, I'm
so bad with dad literally gets like sucked into a bed. No,
I never saw that, but I saw the one with
Kevin Bacon. That's a different one. Tremors. No, no, uh yeah,
he's that one. Kevin Bacon. Bacon was original and yeah, wow,
(32:54):
I didn't know that. That's crazy. I didn't know that. Um.
The nice thing about the I thing about horror movies
for actresses, which I still like to color us actors, um,
but is there are the female is always the heroine.
We know, you know, it's it's always been that way
(33:15):
since the seventies, and I think it's like the only
genre where the women get to be have always gotten
to be strong five the powerhouse, and it's really kind
of cool. And I think that's also why horror has
such big fans, because you have a lot of female
fans out there that love watching strong female characters. And
(33:38):
there has always been, you know, from Jamie Lee Curtis
to yeah, strong female roles in horror. Well, maybe that's
why they like Leslie Sumner have a second chance at it,
because you're like cool. They're like, we can't get rid
(33:58):
of Brook yet you're too fun to have around. We
made Leslie suck, but maybe will give her a side.
We'll just pretend she didn't do any of that. Do
you remember how does well, I guess you, how does
she leave the show? Do you leave? Like, does something happen? No?
I was like in the sixth season I was doing.
I think what happened was just the kind of the
(34:19):
whole Rose Parade and Rose Bowl kind of you know,
it came, it ran its course, and then they just
didn't need me to kind of run that anymore. So
they didn't really ever get rid of me. So, hey,
have a good I could see her being a lawyer
or I never had an exit, so you know, yeah,
(34:42):
we're calling you up for your sixty there. So so
great to talk to you and catch up. It's a
really long time. It's very sweet for you guys to
have me on such an honor. Like I said, police,
tell Tori, I hope she feels better, and I wanted
to tell her. The funny thing is is um her
(35:04):
Dad's shows have always been a part of me because
in Nightmare on Elm Street, one of my classic lines
that people want me to write all the time is
it was homeworker Dynasty and Dynasty one like her loved
Dynasty and I used to like bribe my bestie in
the movie to do my homework for me, and she's like, Dad,
get a VCR. I love Dynasty and I gotta go
(35:29):
rewatch Nightmare st four. Now I have to watch. Yeah,
I have to start enny watching it at night. The
first one is super scary and then they get campy,
and maybe the second one is still scary, but the
three and four, they especially four because Renny Harland directed
that and he was all about them. Yeah, really a
(35:54):
great director. He brought us all together and I really
owe him. He really brought that whole cast together to
make us. We used to go to barbecues before we
started shooting, so by the time we started shooting, we
were all friends. So yeah, it was smart, smart direct. Yeah, well,
i'd I'd love to have a barbecue with you. I
would love to have barbecue you ladies. Have you guys
(36:16):
also look so lovely And I follow you on Instagram
and I follow Shannon and you and Tori, and you
guys have really blossomed into beautiful women. And I appreciate
you right back at you now, I really do, because
you guys were in a time where you know, you
guys want to bubble yourself and it wasn't I remember
I'd always be walked from the set from a body
(36:38):
with a Barty guard and I'd be like, I don't
I don't know. While you're walking me, and I know
I walk everybody. I was like, Oh, that's it's intense.
That's an intense time. And you guys were young and
you have handled it really well and I really do
admire you. Thank you. That's really nice of you. Yeah,
but anyhow, we gotta come back with tories here. Yes, yes, yes,
(37:02):
I would maybe on when the six season starts, when
you show up again. Yeah, definitely. Hello and thank you
ladies so much for having me on your podcast. Is awesome,
Thank you all right, having great great to see you
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