October 21, 2025 • 33 mins
What happens in Nashville... stays on the podcast! Jessica’s '9-1-1 Nashville' co-star Kimberly Williams-Paisley talks about what it’s like behind-the-scenes.
Plus, the 'Father of the Bride' reveals what it’s like to be at the epi-center of all the emergencies as Nashville’s 911 operator...and how she feared she might never act again after losing her voice for two years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Ludington,
an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello Call It.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Crew, and welcome to another episode of Call It What
It Is.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I feel like there are times when we have guests
and I'm doing the research, which makes me sound very intellectual,
but when I'm looking at all the things that are
possible to talk about with someone who's coming on the show,
and I actually have a moment of feeling like there's
just too much to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's funny you say that because I walked in here
and usually you guys, we get like a few, you know,
a few pages of like, you know, questions and info.
This is a book that I received. It's never been
this thick, which is very exciting because we have a
multifaceted guest.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes we do. Do you want to introduce your co star? Yes? Oh,
you already kind of gave it away to do a
lot of co stars.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I've been talking about one for a few episodes now
that you love and enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I love them, I love all of them.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I love you, of course, but my favorite is Kimberly
Williams Paisley Today Today.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hi, She's here, she's here.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm so happy I'm here. Thanks for having me. Oh yeah,
of course. I can't believe.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've been waiting for you to come on for a
long time, and we literally held off. We're like, let
the show debut so we can get you on, and
then we can pick your brain on all the questions
we have because we save them all for your interview.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I want to know what's in the book, so many things. Yeah, okay,
you're very interested. We better settle in. You're a very
interesting person and I learned.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, I just said she's my favorite, but I'm going
to add to that that even though she's my favorite,
and even though I have spent the past four months
really getting to know you and spending different ways of
time with you, whether it's at work or outside of
work reading the book, there are things that I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
What didn't you know? We'll get to them, all right.
I can't wait. There's things about you I didn't know until.
Did you do some research? No, I just just observations.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, you could share them here, some things that maybe
your audience doesn't know about you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Please love them all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yes, spill it all, spill it all.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
No, No, no, No, you go first. No, I was just
saying that.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I mean, well, so Camilla and I his friendship obviously
was born at Gray's anatomy. And people have loved knowing
because I do think it speaks to the possibility in
the world where sometimes you might not necessarily agree or
feel like you're differently minded than someone, or not get
off to a great start.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Smil and I did not like each other when we
first met. That is so funny to me. That's great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
That's also a testament to who you guys are that
you've overcome that or have you Wait, but.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Look at her face right now. We're still kind of
walking through it. But just on the podcast, Okay, how
long did it take? You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Here's what I love about her. She we ended up
at a dinner together and everyone dipped on us, was
just the two of us, and she apologized and and
I really think that it takes a lot for someone
to apologize. And she really told me how she was
feeling the day that she was a little bit meaning
to me. And from then on out, I swear it's
(03:42):
just been like.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
She's one of my besties.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Camila and I needed to repair and then once we
got off to the races and like that was done
with that completely aside, and then what we discovered was
that I love her like we were he our pants
over sushi. Yeah yeah, I know people at a table
(04:07):
for ten.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And like, do you think they're gonna cut?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You know what's fine, They're not coming. No one else is.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I love that, and you created a beautiful friendship and
we did, we did.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But she tells me I called Jess like one of
the first weeks she was working because I wanted to know,
of course everything and I know she's gonna tell me
everything and her vibes from everybody. You were the very
first person that she mentioned that. She was like, I
just love her like they just It was an instant
click for her. I can tell you that she really
said that, and so that's why you were the first
person we had to have here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh so my memory was that.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
We sat down just for the detail oriented people, we
sat down in hair and makeup on one of the
first days where it was definitely this production was throw
you into the deep end because there was a lot
of effor to have the two franchises come together and
have the original nine one one really be able to
send the people who had been doing it for such
(05:08):
a long time and understood the nuances and the and
the details of everything be available to help us start
this nine one one Nashville version.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And then there was you.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Know, there's there's logistics of start dates and everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So we started our show.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Probably a little earlier than maybe ye think we before.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We were ready, and we worked together on day one
of production. I mean, you shot in the rodeo though,
but that wasn't like official production, but like our first
official shooting day.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We worked together. Yeah, and we shot.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
We shot a scene from episode three.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Did you guys were shooting out of order?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
We sat down hair and makeup, as you do, and
I looked over at Kimberly and she was also working
with the makeup artist that you'd worked with before, and
they had the shoryte.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I was a little bit adrellas.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I was like, they already know each other and I'm
a stranger in astry, and it was it was, I
don't know, I think that there was a lot of it.
I think that we have we have similar energies and
and and desires and are moving towards the same thing
at the same time that also we were.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Moms. And I've now come to decide that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's my feeling, like I feel in my body that
I have two full time jobs at all time when
I'm working outside the house, because I never ever give
up my full time job as a mom. Yeah, and
I and then I have a full time job in
which someone else is my boss. And so I think
that we kind of and and and as with like
really like when people really get to know each other,
(06:43):
it's because you go straight to the stuff you don't
you don't have any you don't trifle with the small time.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, there's no small time. Yeah, and you were.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I call them babies, but they're not a baby's She
was about to send her son off.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
To Yeah, so I was in my feelings and you
had just left your kids to come to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So both of us were just like with that.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mom ache, you know, and we connected right away about
the mom ache. Yeah, of like wanting you want them,
you want them to live full, complete lives, and we
want ourselves to live full and complete lives. And sometimes
to do that it's painful.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You have to leave each other. And that's what's going
to happen.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
That's our role as mothers is to raise our children
so they can exist without us there.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And that is so hard. Why I don't understand. Yeah,
it's very confusing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So we bonded over that right away, we did, and
I remember us also bonding over the fact that we
felt that it was very important to say to our
kids while we are feeling these mom aches, we will
represent to you, even if it's stretching the truth little bit,
in any given moment, that we are happy to be
(08:04):
going off to work, that we have purpose going off
to work, that we feel good about going off to work,
and we also feel good about you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Going to college.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And you leaving, even though it's so hard and presents
so many different, yeah, challenges.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I think we do have a great time at work,
and you, especially anytime Jessica, I mean, you know this Camilla,
anytime she walks on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Set, it's like a bell has just entered the room,
like the energy changes. We're here to.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Have fun, Jessica has arrived, and you make it so
much fun, you really do. And I'm so grateful because
who wants to go to work every day and be miserable? No,
but it's a goal I think of yours. It is, yeah,
it is.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, you see and you promote and you put
on the socials and everything else, the success you put
on the like here we are and we're like, you know,
last week was so incredible because we were launching nine
one in Nashville and there's the funny tiktoks and the
fun and this. You don't promote the you know, I
mean truly tens, twenties, thirties, forties, maybe hundreds of auditions
(09:14):
that you tape and maybe don't even get feedback, you
know what I mean, Like, you don't talk about the
stuff that's so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah that gets you to the job that everyone's going like.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh it's so shreat So I do feel that when
you know, especially when you're working on something that you
really enjoyed, that you have this responsibility to actually to yourself,
to the woman that was in the basement recording that audition,
you have a responsibility to be.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Like I got the job, and I'm here and let's go.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well, the older I get, the more I just am
so grateful that I'm still working in this business and
still get to and now more than ever, because I
just went through a health issue for like two years
where I lost my voice. I really thought I was
going to act again, and I was trying to come
to peace with that. I was like, Okay, well this
is there's nothing I can do about it at this point,
(10:07):
So what else am I going to do with my life?
And I did all these other things, and I wrote
some more, and I you know, learned about myself and
I got healthier and all these things. But now the
fact that I am working and it's ten minutes from
my house.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Dream insane. I have never I have never worked closer
to where I live in my career. It's true. And
you come with that energy.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I mean she literally comes to set with like, oh,
I just picked up some honey sticks on my way
to work at my local.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, my brother's on me. He lives down the
street for me as well. She gets to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
By the way, I have family in Nashville. I absolutely
love Nashville. I've always said to my husband it's his
family in Nashville, that the one other city I'd want
to live in is there.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So hopefully at some point I know I got to
move on. No, you're definitely are you kidding? You're definitely coming.
You would love it.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, there's so many things to talk about, but I
think we should, Yeah, because you know, we just had
our second episode air and obviously, you know, to launch
a show, we do all the interviews, and we do
all the things, and we let you know all the
exciting things you're going to see. But then other people
focus on the things that are going on in the
lives of the people that are on the show. And
(11:24):
I thought it was very interesting that you did an
interview with People magazine and of course someone brought up
your husband and Brad Paisley, and they said, or they
asked you if he would ever come on as a cameo,
and you quote said, perhaps we could put him in turmoil.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'd like to see him torture, I think.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
She said, and then she ended it with and let
me save the day please as.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Cammy nine one one operator extreme. So I just say
a little more about that.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Would like to dangle him off a very high cliff,
tell everyone what to do to save him if they wish.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fantastic, I can see this happening.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I mean, there are so many possibilities, so many places
to dangle him from. Yeah, you know what I mean,
I think I think it's got to happen at some point.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Absolutely, will he get to sing while he's dangling? I mean,
I don't know what I'm doing. Any single? Does anything enough? Yes? Okay,
you know great, weld need it anymore? We're just kind
of just a dangle. Well, yeah, I do too.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And then Kim also put together a launch screening for
the premiere episode, and she house, she and Brad brought
everyone in and they all got to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Watch the I was not there. Did you hear about
the fail though? At that party? What happened with fails?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So it was a launch party, and I thought it'd
be really cute to at a cake with a fire
engine on it, obviously, you know, like a nine to
one one themed. So I got it from public who
normally orders a fire truck cake a six year old? Right,
So how I asked them to put on the cake
(13:18):
happy Lunch Week, and they misunderstood and wrote happy Lunch
Week on the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's super really funny.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Did publics think that you were going to put that
whole cake in someone's lunch?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Maybe there's like lunch week themes in the elementary schools
around here.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh, so see, she has the best intentions and she
brought everyone together and everyone was so happy.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I didn't so fun. We missed you so much.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I was very sad to not be here, but I
heard from everyone that it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I have a question.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm going to act like a fan because I am
a fan, so I do have some fan questions. But
I want to know, before you saw the first episode,
were you nervous? You guys are in the pilot of
this brand new, huge show that's part of a.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Brand, like a massive franchise. Did you have that like?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Who?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Because I still get that way when our show errors.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Do you I wasn't that nervous. Maybe I should have
been more nervous. But again, like I'm just pinching myself
all the time. I just felt so grateful and I
just I feel like it's a good show, and so
I think I was more excited. I think I might
be more nervous for the ones coming up because I
have more to do in those than I did in
the first couple. It's really weird being in the call center.
(14:36):
I had to get that because I'm acting with like
an ad who's across the stage like shouting the lines
and reading.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I literally wanted to ask you about this because people
don't understand I actually think that obviously, you know, Jess
is like kind of wandering around with horses, looking very glamorous.
I'm not sure her job's so hard, so you think
from the pilot, you know what I mean, And then
the firefighters are having a tough time. Those actors are
in it, right, Yeah, but I really find it hard
(15:09):
as an actor to be on the phone because what
people don't understand is, of course that actor isn't actually
calling you, it is someone reading across from you. And
so I thought last night, I was like, Okay, what
do I want to ask her? And I was like,
you have one of the hardest jobs on that show
because you're constantly working with non actors.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, it is really hard.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And the other thing is when we're in the call center,
they truncate all these episodes together, so I'm filming like
three episodes at once, of all the emergencies. It's highly dramatic,
and so it's hard to keep them all straight too,
like talk about like, Okay, what has happened? Where am
I feeling today? Like what other things are going on?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So when we get to work, We get in our trailers.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We get a packet of paper sides that have all
of the day's work, you know, stapled together, so that
we have it as like a quick reference.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And a script, a miniscript. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah, So I come in one day and I'm in
the first scene and then I leave and the rest
of the day is.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You and it's like twenty pages.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
And I pick up my sides and I'm like, this
isn't Did we get a new script?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Her sides because you know, it's these snippets of call
Center are like truly forty pages of dialogue that she's
dipping in and out of and then she's looking at
the screen, which, by the way, sorry, I think we
do need to pause for this.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is there a special light that is.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Emanating from the screen that makes you look like you're eighteen?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And the most like is there? Is it the call center?
Like a beautiful is the place to be? I'm gonna
be honest. It is like a gle center.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Screen in front of you at all times. It's a
bounce light.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Ye I would like love it? Maybe? Okay? Would I
give up the wardrobe for the call center? Street give
it up for the call center. I don't know, you're.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Pretty attached to that wardrobe. Doesn't she rock those outfits?
My gosh, Yes, this is what people might not know
about you. One of the things I noticed about you
right away is you have no problem wearing heels all day.
You are fully committed. And you said, well, Blithe wears
heels as she does. By the way, I'm not that actor.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I'm so happy you say this, because she walks
the stress, whatever city in she can do it in heels,
and it's so annoying.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm an hot and I will never be that person,
never in me. The second I can the second they cut,
my shoes are off.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't care what shoes I'm wearing. I'm wearing crocs.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, I do hit a limit. Yesterday we were filming
a very big scene with all the characters.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
So we had one of.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Those days, Camille, you know them, We're like everybody's at
work and all the cast chairs are there and it's
so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And I was wearing heels, and I was wearing them
all day long, and I do hit a point. And
we started at seven thirty am, and I think it
was it. It was like four forty five PM that
I was like, there might be internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They we want to save my feet, like feet, yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, So then I and then I begrudgingly took off
my heels and put my feet into those little you know,
they look like little sleeping bags.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
That's the first time I've seen you do that. And
we're more than halfway through the season. It's true, So respects.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Respect. Can I start asking all these fan questions.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Talk about Blythe's relationship with Cammy because we have not
seen it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We do see in the pilot.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We see it in episode two, thinking face no, yeah,
do you have good relationship on the show or is
their tension Okay? I think when I'm just going to
go out a lamb, when the producers saw us together
and saw our natural chemistry, they were like, oh my gosh,
(19:10):
Blithe and Cammi are friends. Yeah, and so they're writing
to it and it's been so fun.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yes, and they even I mean, well, I guess it
probably always existed. But there's also a family there is, Okay.
So they do talk about that in the pilot because
they referenced you. The Sun references you as aunt am
I Crow, So.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Do you understand what it's like to work on twelve
episodes at a time.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I just this is why I'm asking as a fan,
because I am watching. So, so what is what is
the connection? I've only seen the pilot? What's the connection?
I'm ready for episode two?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yes, And I'm so glad I'm on your good side
because I would not beware.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I would not want to.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Be on blinthe this bad side, because I've seen how
that goes. I'm just like happy to be along for
the ride to hook in arms with live.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What do you think of Dixie Boy?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, we've been talking about Dixie.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I will say, Leanne Rhymes is such a professional. She's incredible.
Last night she did this thing. Don't give it away,
I won't. She had to do something that was like
a hundred times when I had to do the equivalent
of what I had to do, you know what I'm
talking about, and she did it without complaining in me
when I.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Had to do it, I was like, I'm only doing
this once.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's only one aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes, and then she also, I mean she has references.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
But but you all can look forward to it as
fans of the show, is that you cannot have Leanne
rhymes without I mean taking advantage, not advantage without.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You cannot have Leanne rhymes in.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
The show without celebrating her incredible gift as a singer,
as a musician, and so I we can definitely tease
out that that well, the eagle has landed, it has arrived, but.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You all will be a part of it. Okay, she's incredible.
That boy is amazing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, do you know what my secret is for my character?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I think I should tell you because I haven't told
you yet. Oh my god, Yes, you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Know there's a rivalry between Blithe and Dixie. H Emmy
is secretly a Dixie Bennings fan. This is incredible. I'm sorry,
but I I had to admit it.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think she really you know what, two things can
be true? Okay, you can be a Dixie.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Bennings fan and my sister in law and I can
love you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Wait, no, I don't want you to love each other.
I actually want this to be revealed on the show.
And there's another there's a new rivalry in town.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh, I can't take another ride.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, Like she's secretly a Dixie Bennings fan, and
I'm like, no.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This is what that actually could happen. This is where
it stops. You did to me?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
True?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh that out yet?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
She?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, I mean we got a look, there's many facets
to so much that can happen.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How did you feel.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
About the fact that so many viewers picked up on
the I don't know what the right word is, honky
hot whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Suns that blue shows, the Smoke Shows, the hat Aston
Smoke Show. Yeah, Michael, has Michael gotten a name? The
Smoke Shows? Super social for.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Sure, and they're so different in their hotness, right like,
they're very they appeal to different.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
People. There's something for everyone. Yeah you're saying, yes exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
They're incredible and they're really good actors too, and delightful humans.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Delightful humans.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Again, we were all together yesterday and just the most
it was funny. I was leaving work last night and
it was one of those long days where you just
it's a lot of work, and yesterday I had a
lot of words and there's a lot of peace people
and so just a lot. Yes, it was a long
day and right when I thought it was all over,
my next full time job came and I got a
phone call from Eve and I was like, of course,
(23:10):
like race to answer it. I would get into the
car and we're facetiming and we're talking about her day
and all the things and the upsides, the downsides and
the all sides. And Hunter was coming out of his
trailer and he looks completely different as Hunter than he
does as Blue.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh really, yeah, if you watch him.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
On Instagram, he's got a whole vibe, the tank top,
the sunglasst Brouck, He's just got this whole like vibe,
and his tank top that night happened to be like
his flesh color. And so when he was like, where
are you going, and I'm like, I'm leaving, and she goes,
(23:50):
what's going on around?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Like she said what else is everybody doing? Or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I said, oh, well, there's Hunter he's leaving, and I
flashed the camera towards him and she goes, is he naked?
And I was like no, no, no, no, no, no,
Hunter is not naked in the parking lot next to
my car.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why would Hunter be naked?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
And the not beyond the realm of possibility if you've
seen his Instagram, like he's a bodybuilder's shirtless from time
to time.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It is. But it was interesting because the image was
juxtaposed to the fact that then when I saw him,
he like motioned for me to roll my window down.
I didn't know I was on FaceTime with Eve, and
I rolled my window down. I said, I'm on the
phone with Eve. And he looked at the camera and
he looked at her. And this is the hunter part.
He looks at her the FaceTime. This is so self
serving this story. By the way, Sorry, it's happening. It's
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already the ship has left. He looks at her and says, Eve,
do you know how awesome your mom is? And she's
like yeah, and he goes, my whole day was made
by the light that she brings into the room and
how much fun we had and we were in a
really tough scene with a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And she's just great and you're just so lucky.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And I was like, I did not pay him to
say that.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is so sweet.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, she was also feeling like missing me, so I
think she was also a little like, yeah, great, glad
she did that for you.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh God, she's so awesome for you. What do you
say about me?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It was just about me in that moment.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Cassl What do you love best about playing Cammie so far?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Mhmm, that's a fan question. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh see what do I like best? I like that
they made me look like a superhero. Yeah, because people
are in like the most unimaginable situations.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Sometimes on kits, like the kite.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
The kite scene, if you didn't see the pilot, there's
a little girl who gets a kite as a gift
and she gets pulled up into the sky by this
mighty A lot of people don't realize how dangerous kites are,
and hopefully that episode was a PSA for people considering
think before you buy, Think before you buy.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
By the way, I have to tell you that scene
cousmonn entire commerce started an entire conversation because my husband
and I watched the same time and we were trying we
were debating if that could really happen. So I do
need to understand if it could.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It was based in truth.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I mean everything they say that everything that happens on
the show comes it's like this seed of something or
the true thing is the seed, and then they take
it and they they highlight it, and you know, put.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It in the Streetsville size. Yeah, so that's what happened.
I don't know. I mean love how like calm she
is under pressure? Yeah, so I like that she's commoner
pressure and I like that she knows what to do.
Do you know that? I went to the nine one.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
One call center in Nashville before we started filming, and
I met this woman, e Vet, who's been at the
call center for twenty seven years. She's incredible. You get
the sense that she's completely unflappable. But I actually saw
her today. I saw her this morning because she always
has on her console. They have huge consoles that are
actually bigger than our consoles, and there's like six different screens,
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and she always has this actor l Royce Hawkins.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Do you know who that is? On Chicago p D.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
She always has l Royce Hawkins looking over her like
a guardian angel. So this summer when I went to
the call center, I noticed that, And when we were leaving,
I was with Marissa, our producer, one of our producers,
and I was like, we've got to get in touch with.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The Royce Hawkins.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
And so it took months, but Linda in makeup in
the trailer had worked on Chicago p D. She knew
the makeup department. She reached out to the makeup department.
They got l Roy's to sign two photographs for Yvette
and we went and surprised her today and it was amazing.
She was always see what we're dealing with here? And
then I got her a Christmas gift and then takings
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jumped out of the gift bag.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Jesse, You's on competition. She is well liked. Question, when
you were in the call center, were you able to
hear the calls as well?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yes, as a as A as not Cammy as kimberly listening.
Was it very overwhelming?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I have so much respect for what they do, and
the turnover rate is very high in that job. It
is a hard job and that's why I'm so blown
away by event, because she's done it for twenty seven years,
which is almost unheard of. And I asked her if
she's ever cried, you know, I said, how do you manage?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And overwhelmed by that? Ye, how do you survive this?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And she said, I leave my work at work and
I don't think about it once I get home. And
she said, I've only cried twice. From this job in
twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Will it makes me sad?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
She didn't tell me specific She said one had to
do with an infant and one had to do with
an elderly person. But that's all I know cam on
the show. I mean it's nine to one one Nashville.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I mean from like one of the calls that you get. Yes,
I mean, yes, Cammy.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
But there will be things that will be revealed about definitely.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, challenging.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah, but I but I love that that she gets
to be like represent these real life superheroes.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I really do love that about the character. To get
back to answering your question.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Okay, what will we ever find out what happened to
Cammy's husband?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I think we will. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, the reason why she's the answer to my son
is because her husband.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh we say yeah, I was gonna say, be crowdvel.
I know, I don't remember what's revealed.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Well, she married my brother. Yeah's how she shared your brother.
But fans want to know because there's a little mystery
sort of going on.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
We haven't seen him yet. We will find out. We
will find out.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Okay, she's getting over lost. I think we know that
her husband passed away.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, great, then there you go. I think we know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Myde was married to Ammy, and so both of us
are dealing with that loss.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, it's fairly recent.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yes, okay, which cast member is most likely to crack
up during a serious rescue scene or or any hooting?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Who do you think is sitting right next to me?
She's the worst? Actually the best? You what Chris does
when I do? He does not like it? Oh no, Jessica,
true that is coming out?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Tell me how do how does Chris react when you
inevitably laugh and Ruina take.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I've actually never word. I mean, I'm being challenged in
a way that I think is good. There should be
some growth here, which is there's a lot of work
to do.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
To be fair, there's a lot of work to do,
and he is very professional, hion, And so I realized
pretty early on that uh that and I just want
to send your antics.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Basically he does not have time for.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
And so when when it happened the first time, well,
I think that in fairness to me, I just have
never been with someone or been working with someone who
didn't find, you know, a crack up here and there
like a little charming.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Not working on Chriss.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
He likes you a lot, though I think you guys, you.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Know what it's like kind of does it kind of
add to the married couple dynamic though.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Maybe he definitely he has a way of getting me
in line a little quicker than others.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
When I crack up, he just gives me or he'll
just keep going and he doesn't crack he really doesn't.
He just keeps going. I never seen him no laugh.
Oh no, I mean I also know sometimes like there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Will be a little bit more flexibility, like when we're
in the you know, in a part of the day
that's going well and like we're making our time. But
he has got a really great awareness, like a situational
awareness of where we are in the day and like
how things are going, and so like if there's room
for a little snany in Max.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I don't, Yeah, I respect for it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Or if we're like we're losing the light and I
crack up, he will be like, and then I get
on line.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
In your defense, you're not shooting a movie, right, You're
shooting a network show eighteen episodes from months and months
and months, and a lot of this is very serious.
You know, you're you're filming disasters, and tornado, all these
crazy things like you need a little chuckle.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well, that's what I that's what I like. I agree,
joss the spot and take in a tet
Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Ludington,
an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello Call It.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Crew, and welcome to another episode of Call It What
It Is.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I feel like there are times when we have guests
and I'm doing the research, which makes me sound very intellectual,
but when I'm looking at all the things that are
possible to talk about with someone who's coming on the show,
and I actually have a moment of feeling like there's
just too much to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's funny you say that because I walked in here
and usually you guys, we get like a few, you know,
a few pages of like, you know, questions and info.
This is a book that I received. It's never been
this thick, which is very exciting because we have a
multifaceted guest.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes we do. Do you want to introduce your co star? Yes? Oh,
you already kind of gave it away to do a
lot of co stars.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I've been talking about one for a few episodes now
that you love and enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I love them, I love all of them.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I love you, of course, but my favorite is Kimberly
Williams Paisley Today Today.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hi, She's here, she's here.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm so happy I'm here. Thanks for having me. Oh yeah,
of course. I can't believe.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've been waiting for you to come on for a
long time, and we literally held off. We're like, let
the show debut so we can get you on, and
then we can pick your brain on all the questions
we have because we save them all for your interview.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I want to know what's in the book, so many things. Yeah, okay,
you're very interested. We better settle in. You're a very
interesting person and I learned.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, I just said she's my favorite, but I'm going
to add to that that even though she's my favorite,
and even though I have spent the past four months
really getting to know you and spending different ways of
time with you, whether it's at work or outside of
work reading the book, there are things that I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
What didn't you know? We'll get to them, all right.
I can't wait. There's things about you I didn't know until.
Did you do some research? No, I just just observations.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, you could share them here, some things that maybe
your audience doesn't know about you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Please love them all.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yes, spill it all, spill it all.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
No, No, no, No, you go first. No, I was just
saying that.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I mean, well, so Camilla and I his friendship obviously
was born at Gray's anatomy. And people have loved knowing
because I do think it speaks to the possibility in
the world where sometimes you might not necessarily agree or
feel like you're differently minded than someone, or not get
off to a great start.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Smil and I did not like each other when we
first met. That is so funny to me. That's great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
That's also a testament to who you guys are that
you've overcome that or have you Wait, but.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Look at her face right now. We're still kind of
walking through it. But just on the podcast, Okay, how
long did it take? You know what?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Here's what I love about her. She we ended up
at a dinner together and everyone dipped on us, was
just the two of us, and she apologized and and
I really think that it takes a lot for someone
to apologize. And she really told me how she was
feeling the day that she was a little bit meaning
to me. And from then on out, I swear it's
(03:42):
just been like.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
She's one of my besties.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Camila and I needed to repair and then once we
got off to the races and like that was done
with that completely aside, and then what we discovered was
that I love her like we were he our pants
over sushi. Yeah yeah, I know people at a table
(04:07):
for ten.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And like, do you think they're gonna cut?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
You know what's fine, They're not coming. No one else is.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I love that, and you created a beautiful friendship and
we did, we did.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But she tells me I called Jess like one of
the first weeks she was working because I wanted to know,
of course everything and I know she's gonna tell me
everything and her vibes from everybody. You were the very
first person that she mentioned that. She was like, I
just love her like they just It was an instant
click for her. I can tell you that she really
said that, and so that's why you were the first
person we had to have here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh so my memory was that.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
We sat down just for the detail oriented people, we
sat down in hair and makeup on one of the
first days where it was definitely this production was throw
you into the deep end because there was a lot
of effor to have the two franchises come together and
have the original nine one one really be able to
send the people who had been doing it for such
(05:08):
a long time and understood the nuances and the and
the details of everything be available to help us start
this nine one one Nashville version.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
And then there was you.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Know, there's there's logistics of start dates and everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So we started our show.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Probably a little earlier than maybe ye think we before.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
We were ready, and we worked together on day one
of production. I mean, you shot in the rodeo though,
but that wasn't like official production, but like our first
official shooting day.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We worked together. Yeah, and we shot.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
We shot a scene from episode three.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Did you guys were shooting out of order?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
We sat down hair and makeup, as you do, and
I looked over at Kimberly and she was also working
with the makeup artist that you'd worked with before, and
they had the shoryte.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So I was a little bit adrellas.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I was like, they already know each other and I'm
a stranger in astry, and it was it was, I
don't know, I think that there was a lot of it.
I think that we have we have similar energies and
and and desires and are moving towards the same thing
at the same time that also we were.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Moms. And I've now come to decide that.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It's my feeling, like I feel in my body that
I have two full time jobs at all time when
I'm working outside the house, because I never ever give
up my full time job as a mom. Yeah, and
I and then I have a full time job in
which someone else is my boss. And so I think
that we kind of and and and as with like
really like when people really get to know each other,
(06:43):
it's because you go straight to the stuff you don't
you don't have any you don't trifle with the small time.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, there's no small time. Yeah, and you were.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I call them babies, but they're not a baby's She
was about to send her son off.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
To Yeah, so I was in my feelings and you
had just left your kids to come to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So both of us were just like with that.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Mom ache, you know, and we connected right away about
the mom ache. Yeah, of like wanting you want them,
you want them to live full, complete lives, and we
want ourselves to live full and complete lives. And sometimes
to do that it's painful.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You have to leave each other. And that's what's going
to happen.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
That's our role as mothers is to raise our children
so they can exist without us there.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
And that is so hard. Why I don't understand. Yeah,
it's very confusing.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So we bonded over that right away, we did, and
I remember us also bonding over the fact that we
felt that it was very important to say to our
kids while we are feeling these mom aches, we will
represent to you, even if it's stretching the truth little bit,
in any given moment, that we are happy to be
(08:04):
going off to work, that we have purpose going off
to work, that we feel good about going off to work,
and we also feel good about you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Going to college.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
And you leaving, even though it's so hard and presents
so many different, yeah, challenges.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I think we do have a great time at work,
and you, especially anytime Jessica, I mean, you know this Camilla,
anytime she walks on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Set, it's like a bell has just entered the room,
like the energy changes. We're here to.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Have fun, Jessica has arrived, and you make it so
much fun, you really do. And I'm so grateful because
who wants to go to work every day and be miserable? No,
but it's a goal I think of yours. It is, yeah,
it is.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, you see and you promote and you put
on the socials and everything else, the success you put
on the like here we are and we're like, you know,
last week was so incredible because we were launching nine
one in Nashville and there's the funny tiktoks and the
fun and this. You don't promote the you know, I
mean truly tens, twenties, thirties, forties, maybe hundreds of auditions
(09:14):
that you tape and maybe don't even get feedback, you
know what I mean, Like, you don't talk about the
stuff that's so hard.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah that gets you to the job that everyone's going like.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Oh it's so shreat So I do feel that when
you know, especially when you're working on something that you
really enjoyed, that you have this responsibility to actually to yourself,
to the woman that was in the basement recording that audition,
you have a responsibility to be.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Like I got the job, and I'm here and let's go.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well, the older I get, the more I just am
so grateful that I'm still working in this business and
still get to and now more than ever, because I
just went through a health issue for like two years
where I lost my voice. I really thought I was
going to act again, and I was trying to come
to peace with that. I was like, Okay, well this
is there's nothing I can do about it at this point,
(10:07):
So what else am I going to do with my life?
And I did all these other things, and I wrote
some more, and I you know, learned about myself and
I got healthier and all these things. But now the
fact that I am working and it's ten minutes from
my house.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Dream insane. I have never I have never worked closer
to where I live in my career. It's true. And
you come with that energy.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I mean she literally comes to set with like, oh,
I just picked up some honey sticks on my way
to work at my local.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
You know, my brother's on me. He lives down the
street for me as well. She gets to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
By the way, I have family in Nashville. I absolutely
love Nashville. I've always said to my husband it's his
family in Nashville, that the one other city I'd want
to live in is there.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So hopefully at some point I know I got to
move on. No, you're definitely are you kidding? You're definitely coming.
You would love it.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, there's so many things to talk about, but I
think we should, Yeah, because you know, we just had
our second episode air and obviously, you know, to launch
a show, we do all the interviews, and we do
all the things, and we let you know all the
exciting things you're going to see. But then other people
focus on the things that are going on in the
lives of the people that are on the show. And
(11:24):
I thought it was very interesting that you did an
interview with People magazine and of course someone brought up
your husband and Brad Paisley, and they said, or they
asked you if he would ever come on as a cameo,
and you quote said, perhaps we could put him in turmoil.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I'd like to see him torture, I think.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
She said, and then she ended it with and let
me save the day please as.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Cammy nine one one operator extreme. So I just say
a little more about that.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Would like to dangle him off a very high cliff,
tell everyone what to do to save him if they wish.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Fantastic, I can see this happening.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I mean, there are so many possibilities, so many places
to dangle him from. Yeah, you know what I mean,
I think I think it's got to happen at some point.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Absolutely, will he get to sing while he's dangling? I mean,
I don't know what I'm doing. Any single? Does anything enough? Yes? Okay,
you know great, weld need it anymore? We're just kind
of just a dangle. Well, yeah, I do too.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And then Kim also put together a launch screening for
the premiere episode, and she house, she and Brad brought
everyone in and they all got to.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Watch the I was not there. Did you hear about
the fail though? At that party? What happened with fails?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
So it was a launch party, and I thought it'd
be really cute to at a cake with a fire
engine on it, obviously, you know, like a nine to
one one themed. So I got it from public who
normally orders a fire truck cake a six year old? Right,
So how I asked them to put on the cake
(13:18):
happy Lunch Week, and they misunderstood and wrote happy Lunch
Week on the.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's super really funny.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Did publics think that you were going to put that
whole cake in someone's lunch?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Maybe there's like lunch week themes in the elementary schools
around here.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh, so see, she has the best intentions and she
brought everyone together and everyone was so happy.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I didn't so fun. We missed you so much.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I was very sad to not be here, but I
heard from everyone that it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I have a question.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm going to act like a fan because I am
a fan, so I do have some fan questions. But
I want to know, before you saw the first episode,
were you nervous? You guys are in the pilot of
this brand new, huge show that's part of a.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Brand, like a massive franchise. Did you have that like?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Who?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Because I still get that way when our show errors.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Do you I wasn't that nervous. Maybe I should have
been more nervous. But again, like I'm just pinching myself
all the time. I just felt so grateful and I
just I feel like it's a good show, and so
I think I was more excited. I think I might
be more nervous for the ones coming up because I
have more to do in those than I did in
the first couple. It's really weird being in the call center.
(14:36):
I had to get that because I'm acting with like
an ad who's across the stage like shouting the lines
and reading.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I literally wanted to ask you about this because people
don't understand I actually think that obviously, you know, Jess
is like kind of wandering around with horses, looking very glamorous.
I'm not sure her job's so hard, so you think
from the pilot, you know what I mean, And then
the firefighters are having a tough time. Those actors are
in it, right, Yeah, but I really find it hard
(15:09):
as an actor to be on the phone because what
people don't understand is, of course that actor isn't actually
calling you, it is someone reading across from you. And
so I thought last night, I was like, Okay, what
do I want to ask her? And I was like,
you have one of the hardest jobs on that show
because you're constantly working with non actors.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, it is really hard.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
And the other thing is when we're in the call center,
they truncate all these episodes together, so I'm filming like
three episodes at once, of all the emergencies. It's highly dramatic,
and so it's hard to keep them all straight too,
like talk about like, Okay, what has happened? Where am
I feeling today? Like what other things are going on?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So when we get to work, We get in our trailers.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We get a packet of paper sides that have all
of the day's work, you know, stapled together, so that
we have it as like a quick reference.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And a script, a miniscript. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Yeah, So I come in one day and I'm in
the first scene and then I leave and the rest
of the day is.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You and it's like twenty pages.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
And I pick up my sides and I'm like, this
isn't Did we get a new script?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Her sides because you know, it's these snippets of call
Center are like truly forty pages of dialogue that she's
dipping in and out of and then she's looking at
the screen, which, by the way, sorry, I think we
do need to pause for this.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Is there a special light that is.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Emanating from the screen that makes you look like you're eighteen?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
And the most like is there? Is it the call center?
Like a beautiful is the place to be? I'm gonna
be honest. It is like a gle center.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Screen in front of you at all times. It's a
bounce light.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Ye I would like love it? Maybe? Okay? Would I
give up the wardrobe for the call center? Street give
it up for the call center. I don't know, you're.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Pretty attached to that wardrobe. Doesn't she rock those outfits?
My gosh, Yes, this is what people might not know
about you. One of the things I noticed about you
right away is you have no problem wearing heels all day.
You are fully committed. And you said, well, Blithe wears
heels as she does. By the way, I'm not that actor.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
And I'm so happy you say this, because she walks
the stress, whatever city in she can do it in heels,
and it's so annoying.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm an hot and I will never be that person,
never in me. The second I can the second they cut,
my shoes are off.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't care what shoes I'm wearing. I'm wearing crocs.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Yeah, I do hit a limit. Yesterday we were filming
a very big scene with all the characters.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
So we had one of.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Those days, Camille, you know them, We're like everybody's at
work and all the cast chairs are there and it's
so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And I was wearing heels, and I was wearing them
all day long, and I do hit a point. And
we started at seven thirty am, and I think it
was it. It was like four forty five PM that
I was like, there might be internal bleeding.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They we want to save my feet, like feet, yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, So then I and then I begrudgingly took off
my heels and put my feet into those little you know,
they look like little sleeping bags.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
That's the first time I've seen you do that. And
we're more than halfway through the season. It's true, So respects.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Respect. Can I start asking all these fan questions.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Talk about Blythe's relationship with Cammy because we have not
seen it.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
We do see in the pilot.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
We see it in episode two, thinking face no, yeah,
do you have good relationship on the show or is
their tension Okay? I think when I'm just going to
go out a lamb, when the producers saw us together
and saw our natural chemistry, they were like, oh my gosh,
(19:10):
Blithe and Cammi are friends. Yeah, and so they're writing
to it and it's been so fun.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yes, and they even I mean, well, I guess it
probably always existed. But there's also a family there is, Okay.
So they do talk about that in the pilot because
they referenced you. The Sun references you as aunt am
I Crow, So.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Do you understand what it's like to work on twelve
episodes at a time.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I just this is why I'm asking as a fan,
because I am watching. So, so what is what is
the connection? I've only seen the pilot? What's the connection?
I'm ready for episode two?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yes, And I'm so glad I'm on your good side
because I would not beware.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I would not want to.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Be on blinthe this bad side, because I've seen how
that goes. I'm just like happy to be along for
the ride to hook in arms with live.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What do you think of Dixie Boy?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, we've been talking about Dixie.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I will say, Leanne Rhymes is such a professional. She's incredible.
Last night she did this thing. Don't give it away,
I won't. She had to do something that was like
a hundred times when I had to do the equivalent
of what I had to do, you know what I'm
talking about, and she did it without complaining in me
when I.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Had to do it, I was like, I'm only doing
this once.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's only one aspect of it.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yes, and then she also, I mean she has references.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
But but you all can look forward to it as
fans of the show, is that you cannot have Leanne
rhymes without I mean taking advantage, not advantage without.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You cannot have Leanne rhymes in.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
The show without celebrating her incredible gift as a singer,
as a musician, and so I we can definitely tease
out that that well, the eagle has landed, it has arrived, but.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You all will be a part of it. Okay, she's incredible.
That boy is amazing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, do you know what my secret is for my character?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I think I should tell you because I haven't told
you yet. Oh my god, Yes, you.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Know there's a rivalry between Blithe and Dixie. H Emmy
is secretly a Dixie Bennings fan. This is incredible. I'm sorry,
but I I had to admit it.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think she really you know what, two things can
be true? Okay, you can be a Dixie.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Bennings fan and my sister in law and I can
love you.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Wait, no, I don't want you to love each other.
I actually want this to be revealed on the show.
And there's another there's a new rivalry in town.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh, I can't take another ride.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Yeah, yeah, Like she's secretly a Dixie Bennings fan, and
I'm like, no.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
This is what that actually could happen. This is where
it stops. You did to me?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
True?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Oh that out yet?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
She?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yeah, I mean we got a look, there's many facets
to so much that can happen.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
How did you feel.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
About the fact that so many viewers picked up on
the I don't know what the right word is, honky
hot whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Suns that blue shows, the Smoke Shows, the hat Aston
Smoke Show. Yeah, Michael, has Michael gotten a name? The
Smoke Shows? Super social for.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Sure, and they're so different in their hotness, right like,
they're very they appeal to different.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
People. There's something for everyone. Yeah you're saying, yes exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
They're incredible and they're really good actors too, and delightful humans.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Delightful humans.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Again, we were all together yesterday and just the most
it was funny. I was leaving work last night and
it was one of those long days where you just
it's a lot of work, and yesterday I had a
lot of words and there's a lot of peace people
and so just a lot. Yes, it was a long
day and right when I thought it was all over,
my next full time job came and I got a
phone call from Eve and I was like, of course,
(23:10):
like race to answer it. I would get into the
car and we're facetiming and we're talking about her day
and all the things and the upsides, the downsides and
the all sides. And Hunter was coming out of his
trailer and he looks completely different as Hunter than he
does as Blue.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh really, yeah, if you watch him.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
On Instagram, he's got a whole vibe, the tank top,
the sunglasst Brouck, He's just got this whole like vibe,
and his tank top that night happened to be like
his flesh color. And so when he was like, where
are you going, and I'm like, I'm leaving, and she goes,
(23:50):
what's going on around?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Like she said what else is everybody doing? Or something
like that.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
I said, oh, well, there's Hunter he's leaving, and I
flashed the camera towards him and she goes, is he naked?
And I was like no, no, no, no, no, no,
Hunter is not naked in the parking lot next to
my car.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why would Hunter be naked?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
And the not beyond the realm of possibility if you've
seen his Instagram, like he's a bodybuilder's shirtless from time
to time.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It is. But it was interesting because the image was
juxtaposed to the fact that then when I saw him,
he like motioned for me to roll my window down.
I didn't know I was on FaceTime with Eve, and
I rolled my window down. I said, I'm on the
phone with Eve. And he looked at the camera and
he looked at her. And this is the hunter part.
He looks at her the FaceTime. This is so self
serving this story. By the way, Sorry, it's happening. It's
(24:36):
already the ship has left. He looks at her and says, Eve,
do you know how awesome your mom is? And she's
like yeah, and he goes, my whole day was made
by the light that she brings into the room and
how much fun we had and we were in a
really tough scene with a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And she's just great and you're just so lucky.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And I was like, I did not pay him to
say that.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That is so sweet.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, she was also feeling like missing me, so I
think she was also a little like, yeah, great, glad
she did that for you.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Oh God, she's so awesome for you. What do you
say about me?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It was just about me in that moment.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Cassl What do you love best about playing Cammie so far?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Mhmm, that's a fan question. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh see what do I like best? I like that
they made me look like a superhero. Yeah, because people
are in like the most unimaginable situations.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Sometimes on kits, like the kite.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
The kite scene, if you didn't see the pilot, there's
a little girl who gets a kite as a gift
and she gets pulled up into the sky by this
mighty A lot of people don't realize how dangerous kites are,
and hopefully that episode was a PSA for people considering
think before you buy, Think before you buy.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
By the way, I have to tell you that scene
cousmonn entire commerce started an entire conversation because my husband
and I watched the same time and we were trying we
were debating if that could really happen. So I do
need to understand if it could.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
It was based in truth.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I mean everything they say that everything that happens on
the show comes it's like this seed of something or
the true thing is the seed, and then they take
it and they they highlight it, and you know, put.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
It in the Streetsville size. Yeah, so that's what happened.
I don't know. I mean love how like calm she
is under pressure? Yeah, so I like that she's commoner
pressure and I like that she knows what to do.
Do you know that? I went to the nine one.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
One call center in Nashville before we started filming, and
I met this woman, e Vet, who's been at the
call center for twenty seven years. She's incredible. You get
the sense that she's completely unflappable. But I actually saw
her today. I saw her this morning because she always
has on her console. They have huge consoles that are
actually bigger than our consoles, and there's like six different screens,
(27:16):
and she always has this actor l Royce Hawkins.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Do you know who that is? On Chicago p D.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
She always has l Royce Hawkins looking over her like
a guardian angel. So this summer when I went to
the call center, I noticed that, And when we were leaving,
I was with Marissa, our producer, one of our producers,
and I was like, we've got to get in touch with.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The Royce Hawkins.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
And so it took months, but Linda in makeup in
the trailer had worked on Chicago p D. She knew
the makeup department. She reached out to the makeup department.
They got l Roy's to sign two photographs for Yvette
and we went and surprised her today and it was amazing.
She was always see what we're dealing with here? And
then I got her a Christmas gift and then takings
(28:00):
jumped out of the gift bag.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Jesse, You's on competition. She is well liked. Question, when
you were in the call center, were you able to
hear the calls as well?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yes, as a as A as not Cammy as kimberly listening.
Was it very overwhelming?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
It was incredible.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I have so much respect for what they do, and
the turnover rate is very high in that job. It
is a hard job and that's why I'm so blown
away by event, because she's done it for twenty seven years,
which is almost unheard of. And I asked her if
she's ever cried, you know, I said, how do you manage?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
And overwhelmed by that? Ye, how do you survive this?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And she said, I leave my work at work and
I don't think about it once I get home. And
she said, I've only cried twice. From this job in
twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Will it makes me sad?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
She didn't tell me specific She said one had to
do with an infant and one had to do with
an elderly person. But that's all I know cam on
the show. I mean it's nine to one one Nashville.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I mean from like one of the calls that you get. Yes,
I mean, yes, Cammy.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
But there will be things that will be revealed about definitely.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, challenging.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah, but I but I love that that she gets
to be like represent these real life superheroes.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I really do love that about the character. To get
back to answering your question.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Okay, what will we ever find out what happened to
Cammy's husband?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I think we will. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well, the reason why she's the answer to my son
is because her husband.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Oh we say yeah, I was gonna say, be crowdvel.
I know, I don't remember what's revealed.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Well, she married my brother. Yeah's how she shared your brother.
But fans want to know because there's a little mystery
sort of going on.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
We haven't seen him yet. We will find out. We
will find out.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Okay, she's getting over lost. I think we know that
her husband passed away.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, great, then there you go. I think we know.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Myde was married to Ammy, and so both of us
are dealing with that loss.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Yeah, it's fairly recent.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yes, okay, which cast member is most likely to crack
up during a serious rescue scene or or any hooting?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Who do you think is sitting right next to me?
She's the worst? Actually the best? You what Chris does
when I do? He does not like it? Oh no, Jessica,
true that is coming out?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Tell me how do how does Chris react when you
inevitably laugh and Ruina take.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I've actually never word. I mean, I'm being challenged in
a way that I think is good. There should be
some growth here, which is there's a lot of work
to do.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
To be fair, there's a lot of work to do,
and he is very professional, hion, And so I realized
pretty early on that uh that and I just want
to send your antics.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Basically he does not have time for.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
And so when when it happened the first time, well,
I think that in fairness to me, I just have
never been with someone or been working with someone who
didn't find, you know, a crack up here and there
like a little charming.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Not working on Chriss.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
He likes you a lot, though I think you guys, you.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Know what it's like kind of does it kind of
add to the married couple dynamic though.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Maybe he definitely he has a way of getting me
in line a little quicker than others.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
When I crack up, he just gives me or he'll
just keep going and he doesn't crack he really doesn't.
He just keeps going. I never seen him no laugh.
Oh no, I mean I also know sometimes like there.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Will be a little bit more flexibility, like when we're
in the you know, in a part of the day
that's going well and like we're making our time. But
he has got a really great awareness, like a situational
awareness of where we are in the day and like
how things are going, and so like if there's room
for a little snany in Max.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I don't, Yeah, I respect for it.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Or if we're like we're losing the light and I
crack up, he will be like, and then I get
on line.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
In your defense, you're not shooting a movie, right, You're
shooting a network show eighteen episodes from months and months
and months, and a lot of this is very serious.
You know, you're you're filming disasters, and tornado, all these
crazy things like you need a little chuckle.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well, that's what I that's what I like. I agree,
joss the spot and take in a tet
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