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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know me. We all about
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our comic girl drama Queens, Girl Fashion. But you'll tough girl.
You can sit with us. Girl Drama, Queens Drama, Queen's Drama,
Queen's Drama Drawn, Queen's Drama Queens. You guys, welcome to
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another one of our totally sweet, totally random bonus episodes
where we just answer a fan questions. Um, we all
just sent out a tweet that we wanted your questions
because we're all getting together and like hopping on the
phone joys in an airport. Honestly, I just love our commitment. Yeah,
I'm just flying across the country, but I'll still be
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there at eight am. It is very early today everyone,
So rather than send a question, someone just sent us
an article from sixteen that says, let's discuss this insane
One Tree Hill fan theory about Chris Keller and Dan Scott.
What have you heard about this nook For the tweet,
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there's so many questions, it says. One of the most
nauseating characters on the show besides Dana debb was Chris Keller.
People are suggesting that he's another one of Dan Scott's
illegitimate sons. No, how could this be? Oh? Also, when
he met Dan, Dan said he reminded him of himself. Interesting. Interesting.
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I don't know, guys, I don't know if I buy
that theory. It's a small town, but I think I
think um, the the king of the small town having
to children with people other than his wife might be aggressive.
Although I don't know. Mari Poe, which has been on
the air for a real long the whole the father
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it's like a paternity test every week. Also, Chris Keller
was supposed to be older than us, So does that
mean the Dan was skirting around like as a sophomore
in high school? Maybe? Mm hmm wild. I don't know, guys. Anyway,
that was a fun way to kick off this bit.
I love like a news headline. I'm such a sucker.
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What questions do we got? Baby? You know what? I
think was actually really sweet. Somebody just asked, oh my god,
they're coming in so fast, I'm starting to lose them.
Hold on, hold on, Okay, well I've lost it in
the in the feed. But somebody said was there a
character that you would have liked to end up in
a couple with mm hm is essentially the question, Um,
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are you going to answer that? I mean, look, we
all know who our characters and games are, and that's great.
We watched it exists. But I think it's no secret,
especially as we're re watching seasons one and two, that
I am an enormous fan of the would be relationship
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between Brooke Tavis and Marvin McFadden. Oh, I love it,
I love it. Continuing, I think she's going to co
sign all that answer, UM, don't you think? Yeah, we're
reading O our tweet questions Joy, what airport are you?
And I'm at L A X and Tom Bradley Terminal.
Can you guys hear me? Because I've got my headphones on,
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but there's no I'm just using the computer speaker. Yeah,
you actually sound pretty great, great okay? And you look
cool to know. I'm like, how does your hair do that? What?
It looks awful? What are you talking about? Every time
we get on zoom, I'm like, what is how just
how last week you looked like you rolled out of
the seventies. Today you're like mess him at the airport
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and I'm like, if that was my mess, I'd be thrilled. Oh,
I love you guys. I I'm still trying to put
myself together this morning, but you know what I have
to say, my hair is sort of the one super
fun constant in my life. But I can always like
you know, you know what I mean. It's like I
could always change my look. It's fun. It's been playing
with hair anyway. What are you guys talking about? What's
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going on? Well, Sophia just asked a really good question
from we're reading the fan questions and there I was
just saying, the tweets are coming in so fast, I'm
actually like losing them in the thread. But somebody asked, um,
if if your character could have ended up with any
other character, like aside from your endgame couple, who would
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it be? And we gave the disclaimer No one's allowed
to get mad that we're not rooting for our endgame.
This is this is for fun. And I was just saying,
especially given the episodes that we're watching, I mean the
time capsule, I just would have loved to see a
broken mouth yea like fun? Oh yeah, I love that.
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Did you have one? Hillary? I haven't answered yet, but
you know mine as skills. Damn, I was thinking about skills.
I don't know We're going to have a week, going
to have a love triangle with skills. Honestly though, I
would watch the spiral that Peyton like always goes on.
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I feel like skills has the capability to pull her
out of her bowls and be calm down, don't be
an idiot, relax. Well, if you get skills that I want,
I want, you could just sing together all all the time.
We just like live a life of musicians, travel and
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raised babies, never wear shoes. You guys would just be
like playing guitar and tapping your feet. Okay for it.
We're onto something. Get are so are you? Guys? Like
on Twitter scrolling through Sorry every sorry everybody out there.
If it's sounds, can you hear that high pitched deeping?
I can try and mute it, but I'm in the airport.
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It's actually it's ambiance because now everyone at home feels
like they're in the airport with you and we're all
just we're on a layover together. Baby from the Tom
Bradley Germinal. I like it because this is usually what
happens when the three of us are on FaceTime like always,
one of us is in that little FaceTime square running
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through something. So Hilary's got like five plates and just
feeding children and goes like it's the last time set
like stebbing food in her mouth. They're like calling for her,
and she's like, but I'm here talking to my friends,
like hold on, just one second, just one The last
time I sent you guys a video, it was in
the school pickup line getting Gus and I was in
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a rental car, so he didn't recognize me, and I'm like, Gus,
God damn it, Gus, I'm over here. I could have
like hit pause on the video. Whatever you hated the
world that day? Man, Oh my god, I was gonna
fiss like everything. So okay, so I have a good
one here, do it because it's super relevant to the
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episodes were in the midst of now. Um Marie son
is asking, since Joy was touring, how much did she
know about the storyline Because you guys were out on
the road, did you have any idea what the rest
of us were doing back home? No idea, no idea.
In fact, you know, I was just watching a little bit,
uh of the last episode and the whole Jake and
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Jenny thing. I mean I knew that there was Jake
and Jenny and that Nikki, like I knew that was
happening around Peyton, but I didn't really know that storyline.
I completely forgot that Brook moved and with Karen it
took over Lucas, which is so cool. Um, yeah, totally
forgot about that, and uh and the thing I just
I mean I knew it happened, but I didn't actually
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watch any of this stuff. Um and oh when this
whole thing about Lucas finding like cash and ledgers and
dance like doing Superspy stuff and dance motors like no,
and I never saw anything about what Nathan was doing
when I wasn't on the road. I mean they sent
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me the scripts. I think I was just I mean
Tyler and I were out touring. I think I was
just kind of like, well, if I'm not in it,
I'm not going to read it, which is dumb of
me at your antine thing of you to do it.
But now I will do that now. But I'm trying
to remember if they even emailed us the scripts, Like
did we get scripts emailed to a certain we get
hard copy that hard copies. Remember, we had leaks all
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the time, so also did we have email back then.
I remember, remember this is actually a crazy thing I
haven't thought about in years, guys, when when the show
was on, we had so many leaks happening and and
hacks happening. People were hacking into email accounts of producers
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on our show, which, by the way, just disclaimer, so inappropriate,
Like if you have to hack somebody's account, just don't
you supposed to be there, like respect boundaries. Rude, It's
very rude. People were stealing scripts and so they remember
they started giving us scripts on red paper because your
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rocks red paper, and all these weird security measures we
were going through, they were like sides. I feel like
that started with the Nathan and Haley marriage. That when
it was like the big surprise that they got married,
and that's when that was reda just started it. I
haven't thought about that and so long, I just have
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being like what dork is like, I'm gonna I'm gonna
ruin this surprise like a Marvel movie or something. I
was like, if you're a hacker, like, don't you want
to go I don't know, work for the government to
do something cool like I want to code like the
next spaceship. What are you doing? Be a whistleblower man,
not a ruiner. Hello, I have a good one. Guys,
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this is funny. Okay, Elevator, pitch your characters go, come on,
that's so funny. I know my elevator pitch on. Peyton
grumpy cheerleader with lots of dead mothers and relationship and
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boundary issues. But good taste in music, Dad great, Um,
Haley James overachiever, super um sweet, kind of repressed and
um and uh the girl next door. I don't know,
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I'm boring you. Oh that was gentle and like loving,
we love Haley. I was funny. I was going to
use Girl next Door for Brooke as well, I do.
I think she is the popular girl next door who
has grown up with absentee parents, learned to validate herself
with all the wrong things men, money, etcetera, and is
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coming into her own learning to replace external validation with
internal conflicts. What a journey, What a journey meaningful? That's
where we're at currently. Okay, speaking of characters, though, Sammy
wants to know silly question, but which Disney characters do
you think you're o t H. Characters are most like,
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what's surprise for been Chanted? Oh? Yeah, dude, isn't wait?
Isn't Chanted a Disney movie? Yeah? An idiot? Yeah, Amy
Adams an Enchant? It's definitely a Disney Um, what's the
one in uh? In Hercules? Who's the really grumpy chicken that?
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What's her name? Do you know what I'm talking about?
What she's like? Don't talk about the Yeah, if there's
a price for rotten judgment? Yeah? Yeah, megaa whatever? Man?
That was me? Um? Yeah, you know, super grump really
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might be more like mo Wanna. I think actually she
had Disney Princess. I guess she is technically yeah, love
was Brooke. I don't know who is Brooke. Brooke is
the blonde chick from Princess and the Frog who Sean
and the Buff who's like catching Bigne's. Honestly, even in
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an animated world, all I ever want to eat is
a vigne So that feels right. I took us to
New Orleans when that movie came out, and we went
to a restaurant and he ordered I'd like some man
catching Beignet's. Oh my god, he's Disney. I don't know
who would you say? So? Do you get to see
many Disney movies? No, it's been a minute since I
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watched a Disney movie. I mean, I don't know all
my favorite songs to singer from the Little Mermaid, But
that's probably just because of nostalgia. Brooke Davis never sang
so yeah what else? Yeah? But Brooke Davis wants to
be more than just a princess of the ocean. She
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wants adventure. She finds her voice, Brooke ariel Ael. It
makes me feel very emotional. Okay, I have a good one,
especially because on our on our elevator pitch you talked
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about Payton's love of music, so it feels lightly tied together. Um,
it's not quite jumping the shark. To move on to
this next one. If Vic wants to know, if you
guys had a song that represented your character, what would
it be and why? And especially because your characters were
so rooted in music, was there a song or or
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did you, like every season feel like you had a
song that represented Hailey or Peyton. Oh man, that's tough.
I'm gonna go into my I Tunes library right now.
We house for a second. I don't have any that
come to minds. You know what song I sang in
my head all the time while we were filming. You know,
I was like a huge Donnie Darko fan, and that
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song Mad World, you know, like I find it kind
of funny. Yeah, which I'm dying or the best I
ever had. Like those lyrics were so Peyton Sawyer to me,
and like, there there's a Donnie Darko element to Peyton
Sawyer where she's just always right on the brink of
making like terrible choices. Um made world, Mad World is
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beauty in that world? Is Brooke looking for the heart
of a Saturday night? Yeah, what's your vibe? Brook? God?
I don't know what I um what I do for
every project, I always make a soundtrack for a character
so that so that I have just something to immerse
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myself in that puts me in a mood. Um. And
we did our show for so long that I made
so many I feel like every year I would make
a new playlist. But I think, um, the one that
always comes to mind first for me, ah is that
song from the Breakfast Club, because we did that in
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later years where they like, you know, our our director
purposefully wanted me to do that eighties Molly Ringwall dance,
but do it really badly, and it's become like such
a funny thing for people, become an iconic. Yeah. I
remember when it first happened. We were like, Wow, you're
not a good dancer. I was like, this is on purpose,
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this was this was a choice. You're a damn good actor.
I'm an actor. Um. Yeah. That that kind of really
gets me, especially because our show has become a sort
of iconic coming of age story, and that's how I
felt as a young actor about The Breakfast Club. It's
it's the movie that I have watched probably more than
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any other coming of age story movie. So it feels
fun to have like a little yeah, yeah, that was
super freaking cute. Joy. What's your song, honey? I'm gonna
go with Pageant Material by Casey Musgrave, Yes, because I
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think that fits for Haley. You know, she's like she's
in a small town. She really wants to please everybody,
and she wants to do what's right and be liked
and fit in. But at the end of the day,
she's just like, I don't know how to tell you.
I ain't pad to material like you, just I am
who I am. About her. Did you ever do pageants?
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Never know? Did you? I did one as a joke.
I did one as a joke. Senior year in high school.
My job I was like school president, so I had
to read the morning announcements every morning, and so I
read this morning announcement that was like contestants for the
Miss Loudon County Pageant meet after school on Thursday, and
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I was like, Miss Loudon County Pageant, I'm for sure
doing this. And so I gothed out, like wore the
black dress and a lot of heavy eye makeup and
went and was like kind of a dick about it.
But I ended up placing third huz um and that's
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like my big claim to fame. I used to put
that on like resumes and stuff. Is like a joke.
Third runner up in the Miss loud County padget so much.
Hillary's so grumpy thinking about when you say that is
the excerpts that you showed us that you people's yearbook
from high school, and I'm like the tracks, it's so good.
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There's a picture after life with a roar, like a fierceful, run,
straight ahead roar, Like that's how you tackle life, and
apparently how you've always been doing it, and I just
love it's the small town thing where it's just like, oh,
we're so bored, We're so bored. What are we going
to do this weekend? Well, we could pee on the
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fifty yard line at the football field, or we could
go do a pageant. I love it make poor choices kids. Um,
you guys, we should do a pageant. We should do
they they're only for young girls. Why don't we host
a forty and fabulous paget forty flirty for what's our forty? Yeah?
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Fabulous and uh forty and feisty fabulous, fisty done. What
are the questions do we have? Um? Oh, this is
a funny one, especially when we think about timing of
things like email and high school pageants. Sarah wants to
know when we see cast members using phones and scenes,
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are those your actual phones or prop phones? It depends.
They're usually props, but sometimes your phone will fit the
same case as the set phone, and then you can
switch it out and use your real phone. Oh my god,
I could not. You're distracted, but you just turn it off.
I mean, there's just so much sitting around. You end
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up for like a you know, half hour in between
setups and stuff sometimes and it's nice to be able
to have your I find just people get in less
trouble now on sets, I think because of phones, because
before we just used to have to like talk to
each other and like make out and make terrible choices.
And now you can retreat into your world and like
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talk to your friends or your manager or like someone
that's going to keep you out of a predicament. Now
not as isolated. M hm, you know, we were very isolated.
Part though. I don't like having phones on sets, to
be honest. It's it's I feel like I much prefer
reading a book or talking to people because it really
drives me crazy when people are disengaged, because it is
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it's a major distraction. You just get on your phone
and then like whatever the text message was that you've
just received when you're trying to do the scene, that
the person is still thinking about or I you know,
if I've got my phone, I'm still thinking about what
I've got to do when I get off the scene.
When I get done with the scene, to get on
my phone. So I don't like, I don't like bring
it to set. If I can help it, you know
what I'm thinking about that piano, that ragtime music that's happening.
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I'm trying to mute it. I'm sorry you don't. Is
that an actual piano player or is it? No, it's
just like coming from the speakers somewhere in the airport.
I'm gonna walk, so you guys talking, I'll just keep
this rolling. I personally was enjoying it. I'm waiting for
Joy to get up and sing along with it and
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my um. Okay, So here's a question from Courtney. She says,
if y'all could have chosen any guest star to have
been on the show like full time, who would that
have been? Man Um? I mean that's a hard question
because we loved, loved, loved our guest stars. Yeah. Yeah,
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there's so many avenues, like if we're thinking about mentors,
you know, I go back to thinking about Gerald McCraney,
thinking about you know, other women we wish we'd had
for longer, obviously Danielle Along. So there's I think Sharon Lawrence,
Oh god, how fabulous was Sharon Lawrence? I think if
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you do a show for as long as we did, yeah,
it gets hard. It's like asking I mean, I imagine
it's like kind of like asking your parents to pick
your favorite child. You're like, but I love him all
all my favorites died yea Robbie Jones right, like how
great would he guest star? Oh? I felt even real life,
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but Cheryl Lee was like so dear to me and
loved her so much playing Ellie. Um Colin Ficus, who
is one of my dearest friends in real life, who
lives up here in the Hudson Valley, Like, what what
a layer it would have added to the show to
have him from the pilot till Jimmy Edwards death. Maybe like,
let's not kill him? How about that? I think Colin
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added such a good layer to our show. And then yeah,
Robbie Jones, Like, guys, everybody leaves or dies, you will
always leave. Oh there's a question, Joy, do you have somebody? Sorry?
I saw another question on Twitter? Or not go go
for it? So this is interesting on the tropic of
leaving God. I don't know why I'm in the mood
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for a pun this morning, but I got girl, your
segways are to today something happening to me. I didn't
sleep much last night anyway. Um Tessa is asking what
do you think Peyton and Lucas would have done if
they had stayed in Tree Hill? Well, the only thing
that happens when you're like happily ever after on a
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TV show and you stay is they have to break
you up, um like to cause drama relationships. So there's
drama for the show. Yeah, how can we destroy you guys?
And so that's why I was kind of content just
to piece out. I don't think there's a chance in
hell that Peyton would have stayed at Tree Hill. I
could see Hayley staying, and I could see even Brooke
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like becoming a really like a pillar member of the
community and really investing and just be you know, like
falling in love there and getting area to building a
life um and or doing her business out of Tree Hill.
But Peyton, Yeah, I mean Peyton had the same thing
that you have, Hillary, which is what I was just saying,
like running at life full speed with a roar. That
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that's that was in Peyton too, because you gave that
to her, And I just I don't think there's any
circumstance that would have kept her in Tree Hill. I
can't imagine. It was so weird. We were talking the
other day about how our parents totally disengaged because like
either production didn't want to pay them or they didn't
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think it was important. And for me, thinking about Peyton
as being an adopted kid who's last remaining parent, like
adopted dad doesn't come to her wedding, doesn't walk her
down the aisle, doesn't come to see her baby. It's
set such a bad example for adoption. And I think
it's like not realistic adopted parents. You know, that's a
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really sacred thing, and I think most people take it
very seriously and we did not depict that well. Um,
And so it feels like rejection, do you know what
I mean? And so I feel Hayden a big town
full of rejection, right, Yeah, it's a big down full
of just like country song in there somewhere girl, it
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feels big and sad and I can't wait for you
in Greenberg to sing that song together. I could see,
I could see Peyton coming back. But there's something about
her knee, Yeah, like she could come back and as
an adult or like find something new to love and
appreciate about the champ And at that age, at that stage,
she had to get out, she had to Yeah, I
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think there's also something um it feels like something of
a hero's journey for her, with this set of experiences
that she had and this belief. You know, when we
think about her art, people always leave and then she
has that, but sometimes they come back peace. It's like,
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I feel like Peyton needed to leave to see something
else aside from the pattern that her life had shown her,
you know, to take that control, to to change her
own fate too, to become you know, the captain of
her ship. And then yeah, if if there's a time
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that leads her back, you know, to Brooke and Haley,
who are waiting patiently. There was a question that I
saw in here that was like specifically about the three
of us in real life coming back to Wilmington's and
how that feels because in the same way our characters
either experienced trauma or good memories in Tree Hill, the
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three of us also experienced all, you know, the highs
and the very lows in Wilmington's. And I know when
we go back for conventions, I always feel a little
bit wiggily about it. I'm like, oh, who am I
going to see? Where am I going to know? Because
it could be awesome or it could also be incredibly awkward.
Do you guys feel that way? Yeah, I do a
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little bit. I've never I mean, I think it's mostly
because I was so kind of in my own world.
I mean I knew our crew and and like are
all of us that were in that little bubble, But um,
I didn't make a lot of friends in town because
I think I was mostly just on set or at
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home by myself, because I just didn't want to be
super social. I was already social all day on set
and being introverted, it was like a lot for me.
So sometimes when I go back to Wilmington's, I see
a lot of people who know who I am and
there and they've had the interactions with me at some point,
but I don't remember, or like we didn't I didn't
spend enough time investing in the friendship or relationship where
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I really it was just like maybe somebody that worked
at a cafe or I mean whatever, And I feel
really like, oh my god, I know your face, but
I can't remember your name, and I don't remember what
we talked about when we talked. And so if that's
always feels a little like I don't know, it makes
you self conscious. It feels subconscious because I want people
to feel seen and known, and if I feel like
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I'm in a position where I can do that or
make them feel the opposite, I always feel like I
have just feel horrible if I can't always remember. We
also were working eighteen hour days. Joy like eighteen hours
a day. It was. It was a lot, yeah, And
I mean, look, I think that is one of the
things that can be weird about what we do is
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the the sort of uneven seesaw of someone's awareness of
who a person is from their favorite show versus what
anyone's normal awareness might be of Like I don't know
somebody who they see once a week at the grocery
store when they grab something, who you high too, but
you don't. You don't necessarily know where their kids go
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to school or whatever. And so I have that too,
that feeling of like I should be better at this,
And then I'm like, well, there's no way I can remember.
A brain can't remember like two thousand people perfect there
were so many nights out in downtown. How could one remember?
But I will say it was it was cool to
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find the friendships that we did, Like you know, Jane
and tricky, especially open the whole world for me. And
so when I think about you know, Aaron and Cody
and Mary, George and all like all my my local
friends there who I still see whenever we go back,
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um it it feels really special. But yeah, when I, like,
you know, run into somebody at the co op who's like, hey,
I haven't seen you a while, I'm like, oh no,
oh no, oh no, no, I'm sorry, dude. I just
kissed so many waiters in town when were And I
remember coming back when I was I met with Gus,
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when I was pregnant with Gus. You, I mean, the
show was still in the air. You guys were still
doing it. And I went to the Basics, which was
my favorite restaurant downtown. Oh God, I love that place.
And I'm like there with my family and this boy
that I had, like you know, been kissing the year
before walks in and it's like, hey, what's up. And
I stood up and he was just like oh. And
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that feeling of like, yeah, you've been gone, but you've
come back and things are very very different now. Um
is always kind of how I feel. It's like the
world's moving so fast that every time we check back
in with Wilmington's. Like everything's changed, so but it remains
a touchstone. It's a good place to to check in with.
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One of the things I will say that I love
is because we've stayed tethered to it, unto each other.
I feel like we have done physically with Wilmington's what
we've done emotional with our podcast. We've we've gone back
and kind of like done the dishes. We continue to go.
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We love the places we love, and every time we
go back, I feel like I love it more and
like I have less of a tremor of what was unpleasant. Yeah,
that's right, all right, we got we got a question
from Lindsay. This is yeah, I guess that's true. So
Lindsay says, when it comes to shooting car scenes, how
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does that work? Where's the person filming stand when you
see cars in the background? Is that real or fake?
Like interstate driving? That's a good question. We weren't in
this business, but we wouldn't know that either. Um well, Lindsay, Uh,
there's lots of different ways to shoot a car scene.
One of them is to actually put a car on
(31:57):
a on the on a It's like a flatbed it's
called a process trailer. Process trailer, that's right, Yeah, And
you just put the car on that and then the
cameras kind of like sit on either side of the
They just move the camera around the car and then
they pull like a truck pulls the car and you
just look like you're driving. Or you can put the
car actually on the road and the and the cinema
(32:20):
to cinema talking about the camera cameras. Camera sit sit
behind you in the back seat and they filmed from behind,
shooting the road ahead of you. And then they'll do
they'll also do so the car will be on the trailer,
which basically looks like a big raft, and the car
sits in the middle of it, and the crew is
around the sides with railings to protect them. Um, they'll
(32:40):
put crew in the car with you and the car
is driving, and then they'll also, Um, there's two other
kinds of rigs that are pretty cool. So the car
will be on the road and you'll really be driving.
And then um, they have there's this like famous car
that some stunt company owns. Um it's a blacked out
(33:01):
suv and I think they have three of them now
and they cost an absurd amount of money, and they
have a techno crane on them that's also blacked out,
and so that car can drive next to you and
the crane can maneuver the camera from the back of
the picture car, which would be the one one of
us would be driving like through through you know, down
the side, around the front, over the top. It's like
(33:24):
a whole crazy That's how they did for to be
Ferrari because that movie blo I know, there was drone shots,
and I know there was like you know, some some
of it was people on another car, but that was like, yeah,
we that's how we used to do like all of
our high speed chases in Chicago. And so locating with
that car, you can do some pretty insane things if
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you have really good drivers. And then the other thing
that they'll do too is you'll be on the road,
um driving and they'll have like a like a extra
a wide um kind of technically outfitted pickup truck that
almost has like a stair step on the back of
it that a bunch of cameras can sit on, and
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that'll be in front of you, so they can shoot,
you know, from the from the hood through the windshield.
So a driving scene. You know that might be four
minutes long, could take all day because you've got to
be on the trailer, off the trailer, in the wide shots,
in the close ups, or cars on the highway, and
(34:30):
you are all picture cars because the thought, right, what
is it? Lar? You do it? You say it? Are
you trying to? We just cheat it in the studio
and tell all the lights. Oh my god, that's the worst.
Listen you guys. Joy and I had to do a
scene in the comment inside of the studio. So they're
(34:52):
like the driving scenes at night. Okay, it's dark outside.
So what they do is they have one grip with
like two flashlights run at us like it's headlines. You
just get like and then they like circle back and
then they came back again and it's just like start
going back with a red light so it looks like
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the break lights in front of you off. And then
there's someone else. Then there's greens shaking the bush, taking
the cars. There's everyone's they'll be like trees shaken that
you're driving past. But yes, and there's a fan. There's
fans in your windows open. You gotta have fans. And
then someone will shake the car to there's somebody like
(35:33):
just leaning on the back of the car shaking it.
So Joy and I were doing this scene one night.
It wasn't even night. It was the middle of the day,
which is why we were cheating it inside of a big,
huge studio. And I'm used to like driving, and I'm
trying to make it seem believable. So I'm doing all
the things with my hands, and I'm looking in the
rear view mirror and I'm like using my feet on
(35:54):
the pedals like one would And because it's a vintage car,
it's like very delicate. And when Peyton goes to break,
you know, they do this thing where they like rock
the car. So Joy and I both like, you know,
lean forward, like we're breaking really hard, and I actually
hit the brake, which would turn the tail lights on,
(36:15):
and you hear from the back of the car Dacious
yelling don't mash the break, don't mash the break, and
everyone's thinking he's saying, don't masturbate, and everyone's like what
he's saying to these girls said, oh my god, oh
my god, I totally forgot about that. For years. For
(36:36):
years they'd be like, Hillary, don't mash the breake. Don't
mash the breake whatever. But Jo and I we're just like,
go out and drive. That's ridiculous. We could just get
this done in ten minutes. Yes, tonight, just drive the
car to a stage. You know what I always love
to spot two is in older shows when they clearly
(36:57):
shot the scene inside on a green screen of course,
and then they just put non thescript city footage in
in post and everyone has that little black like pencil
outline around them, Dad, and you're just like, why didn't
you go outside and just do this on a street?
They turned the car and then the street behind them
turns like a half second. No one will notice. Man,
(37:23):
that's a good question if there had been a Dawson's
Creek O Teach crossover episode. I mean, they're kind of was.
Chad and I were both Dawson's together, and James Vanderbyt
came on our show. Yeah, James came on our shot. Guys,
(37:44):
the world is just so syncd up um. Which characters
do you think would have had chemistry love interests with
each other? Well, that's fun. I was very dry on
Too Busy Phillips when I did guest star on Dawson's Creek.
(38:04):
She's she's got strong, big dick energy. She's a powerful, fun, fun,
fun girl. And Peyton would have totally been swept up
in her for sure because she's she's fun, she's like
a fun magnet. Yeah, totally, And I think Peyton would
have would have seen her. I was like, look at
(38:27):
all that light. I want that. Yeah, let me in
Lucas and had a good, good chemistry. They're both broody
and moody and yeah, torture, well that would have been nice.
I as soon as you read that question, I was like, man,
(38:47):
and look, I will confess I didn't watch Dawson's Creek
all the way through, but in the early days when
I did, I my brain immediately thought, oh, Pacy's kind
of like the male Brook Davis, Like yeah, yeah, I
think with teachers and Pasty what was his last name, Pascy?
What was his name with something I don't know, well whatever,
(39:12):
uh whatever, jah, Josh Jackson, Can I say that name?
I think? I think, yeah, Pascy and Brooke would have
had like very pacy witter here it is. I think
they would have had some great chemistry and laughs and
like definitely gotten arrested and in real life Josh is
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such a wonderful man. He's such a committed activist, like
the number of like underground, let's work on stuff and
really make sure. Um, you know, when there are elections
or social issues happening, there's groups of us that are like, Okay,
how do we help um? And and he's always first
(39:55):
in that, in that group with me, and so it's
really sweet. Every once in a while, you know, we'll
be at like a protester and organizing meeting and we're
just like, man, I remember what deep little kids we
used to be. Now we get out of the world
a better place. Um So, so I I feel that
there's a real foundation there. I would have liked Yeah, yeah,
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you guys have been dreaming it was Haley. Who was
Haley dreaming too? I don't know. I mean, I guess
Haley probably would have liked Casey too, because I was
the only other option really is Dawson And I don't
know who else what other guys were on that show
because I didn't watch it long. Karl Smith was a babe,
but he didn't like girls, right, didn't he come out? Yeah?
Yeah that's right? Yeah? But did he come out right away? Yeah?
(40:40):
Try that sounds like something Haley would have attempt. That
does sound like something Haley would have done, because Dawson
feels like it would have been too much, too similar.
I think Dawson is too similar to Lucas, like the
same side of magnets. You'd be like, yeah, exactly, exactly.
That was a fun question. I liked that one a lot.
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All right, we got time for one more. Let's one
more hit us did. Oh, this is kind of fun.
Andreas says. Whenever you GIRs did scenes on camera with
a rival, in an argument or a fight scene with
another actor, is there any pre briefing conversations of I
hope you know I love you and I don't mean
anything of what I'm about to say or do. It's
really cute, like Meryl Streep did with the films that
(41:25):
did with vant Hathaway before Devil wors Brought Us started.
Have you heard this story? She said her down. They
went out for a drink and she was like, I'm
going to treat you very badly for the next three months.
I just want you to know. Don't take it personally.
But yeah, that's really that's really smart. Um No, I
(41:46):
don't think we had We never did have those because
we all just hung out. You know, we all kind
of liked each other and we're nice to each other.
So I don't I think that's just part of the business.
You just kind of grow up. No, I mean that
you're just doing the work. You don't take it personally.
I think more than anything, at least, I know, I
do this like if I have to fight with one
(42:06):
of you or even on you know, good Sam, like
me and Sky have had to have these you know,
ram smashing sort of scenes all year and every time
we do the rehearsal and then we have to actually
you know, set up the scene right after rehearsal. My
go to is always, oh, I don't like this. I
don't like yelling at you. I don't like you. You know.
I think there's a natural inclination with your friends to say, like,
(42:31):
this feels weird. But it's also our job. Rehearsal is
a big important part of it though, I mean, yes,
because you're actually working together to solve the puzzle. So
and the audience that's just that's right. Yeah, the audience
is just seeing the final they're just seeing a fight
with the two characters that they love. But that's our
job is to go in and piece everything together, so
(42:53):
you're really working with the other person to choreograph this moment.
So it's actually, in a weird way, you don't feel
like you're fighting at all. You feel like you're dancing,
You're you're doing something together. You know, well, not always.
I don't know. Have you guys ever been on the
other side of it, where like the other person's the
alpha on the set and you're the one that's like
(43:14):
getting yelled at and they don't do that thing of okay,
this is hey, do you want to talk in between setups?
They're just like okay, go back to your corner, and
you're like, yeah, I have I don't like that. It
doesn't feel good. I won't say what job it was,
but boy, did it suck. I'm gonna tell you later.
(43:34):
I'm you tell us after this podcast. Yeah. I think
for whatever reason, my brain is also thinking now as
we talk about this, about when you have to do um,
not just arguments but actual physical fights, how important rehearsal
is to figure out how you're going to do that,
how you're going to take care of each other. God,
(43:55):
I wish I knew were the outtakes were hill. Was
it season three where we gotten fight on Payton's front lawn?
Oh my god when you got hurt. Yeah, we did
it over and over and over again. And you know
those season four season four soul you know we were
we were fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting and
screaming and crying and doing all these things together. And
then it was just one take where like, I don't know,
(44:17):
we twisted the opposite way we twisted the sixteen time
before it, and it was your elbow in my skull
and it was a whole moment and I just remember
like falling over and you falling on top of me,
going oh no, no, no, no, no no. That was
really scary. It was scary. But I there's something that's
also so sweet about the immediate stop and hold and
(44:40):
hug and like, oh my god, are you okay? Are
you okay? That actors you for each other, um, because sometimes, yeah,
sometimes you'd get hurt and it's not obviously on purpose. Um.
Remember when I was making the Hitcher with Sean Bean
and he was like literally trying to murder me and
in the middle of I mean, he would be like
(45:01):
literally beating the crap out of me throwing me around
like a rag doll, and I would never know when
it was coming. But in the middle of a scene
he'd always paused, and you know, he had it was
like really gravelly, formable American accent voice, and then he
would pause and go, oh you okay, darling, you're right, okay,
okay to three, and then he'd like snap, my, you know,
(45:22):
my face in a different direction, and I was like, God,
what a gentleman you are. It's funny to think that
the people at home never get to see, you know,
those little moments we get to the sweetness. It's all sweet,
joy catcher Plane. That was fun. Thanks he safe tracking
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(00:27):
another one of our totally sweet, totally random bonus episodes
where we just answer a fan questions. Um, we all
just sent out a tweet that we wanted your questions
because we're all getting together and like hopping on the
phone joys in an airport. Honestly, I just love our commitment. Yeah,
I'm just flying across the country, but I'll still be
(00:49):
there at eight am. It is very early today everyone,
So rather than send a question, someone just sent us
an article from sixteen that says, let's discuss this insane
One Tree Hill fan theory about Chris Keller and Dan Scott.
What have you heard about this nook For the tweet,
(01:11):
there's so many questions, it says. One of the most
nauseating characters on the show besides Dana debb was Chris Keller.
People are suggesting that he's another one of Dan Scott's
illegitimate sons. No, how could this be? Oh? Also, when
he met Dan, Dan said he reminded him of himself. Interesting. Interesting.
(01:38):
I don't know, guys, I don't know if I buy
that theory. It's a small town, but I think I
think um, the the king of the small town having
to children with people other than his wife might be aggressive.
Although I don't know. Mari Poe, which has been on
the air for a real long the whole the father
(02:02):
it's like a paternity test every week. Also, Chris Keller
was supposed to be older than us, So does that
mean the Dan was skirting around like as a sophomore
in high school? Maybe? Mm hmm wild. I don't know, guys. Anyway,
that was a fun way to kick off this bit.
I love like a news headline. I'm such a sucker.
(02:26):
What questions do we got? Baby? You know what? I
think was actually really sweet. Somebody just asked, oh my god,
they're coming in so fast, I'm starting to lose them.
Hold on, hold on, Okay, well I've lost it in
the in the feed. But somebody said was there a
character that you would have liked to end up in
a couple with mm hm is essentially the question, Um,
(02:50):
are you going to answer that? I mean, look, we
all know who our characters and games are, and that's great.
We watched it exists. But I think it's no secret,
especially as we're re watching seasons one and two, that
I am an enormous fan of the would be relationship
(03:11):
between Brooke Tavis and Marvin McFadden. Oh, I love it,
I love it. Continuing, I think she's going to co
sign all that answer, UM, don't you think? Yeah, we're
reading O our tweet questions Joy, what airport are you?
And I'm at L A X and Tom Bradley Terminal.
Can you guys hear me? Because I've got my headphones on,
(03:32):
but there's no I'm just using the computer speaker. Yeah,
you actually sound pretty great, great okay? And you look
cool to know. I'm like, how does your hair do that? What?
It looks awful? What are you talking about? Every time
we get on zoom, I'm like, what is how just
how last week you looked like you rolled out of
the seventies. Today you're like mess him at the airport
(03:55):
and I'm like, if that was my mess, I'd be thrilled. Oh,
I love you guys. I I'm still trying to put
myself together this morning, but you know what I have
to say, my hair is sort of the one super
fun constant in my life. But I can always like
you know, you know what I mean. It's like I
could always change my look. It's fun. It's been playing
with hair anyway. What are you guys talking about? What's
(04:16):
going on? Well, Sophia just asked a really good question
from we're reading the fan questions and there I was
just saying, the tweets are coming in so fast, I'm
actually like losing them in the thread. But somebody asked, um,
if if your character could have ended up with any
other character, like aside from your endgame couple, who would
(04:36):
it be? And we gave the disclaimer No one's allowed
to get mad that we're not rooting for our endgame.
This is this is for fun. And I was just saying,
especially given the episodes that we're watching, I mean the
time capsule, I just would have loved to see a
broken mouth yea like fun? Oh yeah, I love that.
(04:56):
Did you have one? Hillary? I haven't answered yet, but
you know mine as skills. Damn, I was thinking about skills.
I don't know We're going to have a week, going
to have a love triangle with skills. Honestly though, I
would watch the spiral that Peyton like always goes on.
(05:21):
I feel like skills has the capability to pull her
out of her bowls and be calm down, don't be
an idiot, relax. Well, if you get skills that I want,
I want, you could just sing together all all the time.
We just like live a life of musicians, travel and
(05:44):
raised babies, never wear shoes. You guys would just be
like playing guitar and tapping your feet. Okay for it.
We're onto something. Get are so are you? Guys? Like
on Twitter scrolling through Sorry every sorry everybody out there.
If it's sounds, can you hear that high pitched deeping?
I can try and mute it, but I'm in the airport.
(06:05):
It's actually it's ambiance because now everyone at home feels
like they're in the airport with you and we're all
just we're on a layover together. Baby from the Tom
Bradley Germinal. I like it because this is usually what
happens when the three of us are on FaceTime like always,
one of us is in that little FaceTime square running
(06:25):
through something. So Hilary's got like five plates and just
feeding children and goes like it's the last time set
like stebbing food in her mouth. They're like calling for her,
and she's like, but I'm here talking to my friends,
like hold on, just one second, just one The last
time I sent you guys a video, it was in
the school pickup line getting Gus and I was in
(06:47):
a rental car, so he didn't recognize me, and I'm like, Gus,
God damn it, Gus, I'm over here. I could have
like hit pause on the video. Whatever you hated the
world that day? Man, Oh my god, I was gonna
fiss like everything. So okay, so I have a good
one here, do it because it's super relevant to the
(07:09):
episodes were in the midst of now. Um Marie son
is asking, since Joy was touring, how much did she
know about the storyline Because you guys were out on
the road, did you have any idea what the rest
of us were doing back home? No idea, no idea.
In fact, you know, I was just watching a little bit,
uh of the last episode and the whole Jake and
(07:32):
Jenny thing. I mean I knew that there was Jake
and Jenny and that Nikki, like I knew that was
happening around Peyton, but I didn't really know that storyline.
I completely forgot that Brook moved and with Karen it
took over Lucas, which is so cool. Um, yeah, totally
forgot about that, and uh and the thing I just
I mean I knew it happened, but I didn't actually
(07:53):
watch any of this stuff. Um and oh when this
whole thing about Lucas finding like cash and ledgers and
dance like doing Superspy stuff and dance motors like no,
and I never saw anything about what Nathan was doing
when I wasn't on the road. I mean they sent
(08:14):
me the scripts. I think I was just I mean
Tyler and I were out touring. I think I was
just kind of like, well, if I'm not in it,
I'm not going to read it, which is dumb of
me at your antine thing of you to do it.
But now I will do that now. But I'm trying
to remember if they even emailed us the scripts, Like
did we get scripts emailed to a certain we get
hard copy that hard copies. Remember, we had leaks all
(08:37):
the time, so also did we have email back then.
I remember, remember this is actually a crazy thing I
haven't thought about in years, guys, when when the show
was on, we had so many leaks happening and and
hacks happening. People were hacking into email accounts of producers
(08:57):
on our show, which, by the way, just disclaimer, so inappropriate,
Like if you have to hack somebody's account, just don't
you supposed to be there, like respect boundaries. Rude, It's
very rude. People were stealing scripts and so they remember
they started giving us scripts on red paper because your
(09:20):
rocks red paper, and all these weird security measures we
were going through, they were like sides. I feel like
that started with the Nathan and Haley marriage. That when
it was like the big surprise that they got married,
and that's when that was reda just started it. I
haven't thought about that and so long, I just have
(09:42):
being like what dork is like, I'm gonna I'm gonna
ruin this surprise like a Marvel movie or something. I
was like, if you're a hacker, like, don't you want
to go I don't know, work for the government to
do something cool like I want to code like the
next spaceship. What are you doing? Be a whistleblower man,
not a ruiner. Hello, I have a good one. Guys,
(10:04):
this is funny. Okay, Elevator, pitch your characters go, come on,
that's so funny. I know my elevator pitch on. Peyton
grumpy cheerleader with lots of dead mothers and relationship and
(10:26):
boundary issues. But good taste in music, Dad great, Um,
Haley James overachiever, super um sweet, kind of repressed and
um and uh the girl next door. I don't know,
(10:50):
I'm boring you. Oh that was gentle and like loving,
we love Haley. I was funny. I was going to
use Girl next Door for Brooke as well, I do.
I think she is the popular girl next door who
has grown up with absentee parents, learned to validate herself
with all the wrong things men, money, etcetera, and is
(11:13):
coming into her own learning to replace external validation with
internal conflicts. What a journey, What a journey meaningful? That's
where we're at currently. Okay, speaking of characters, though, Sammy
wants to know silly question, but which Disney characters do
you think you're o t H. Characters are most like,
(11:36):
what's surprise for been Chanted? Oh? Yeah, dude, isn't wait?
Isn't Chanted a Disney movie? Yeah? An idiot? Yeah, Amy
Adams an Enchant? It's definitely a Disney Um, what's the
one in uh? In Hercules? Who's the really grumpy chicken that?
(11:56):
What's her name? Do you know what I'm talking about?
What she's like? Don't talk about the Yeah, if there's
a price for rotten judgment? Yeah? Yeah, megaa whatever? Man?
That was me? Um? Yeah, you know, super grump really
(12:19):
might be more like mo Wanna. I think actually she
had Disney Princess. I guess she is technically yeah, love
was Brooke. I don't know who is Brooke. Brooke is
the blonde chick from Princess and the Frog who Sean
and the Buff who's like catching Bigne's. Honestly, even in
(12:42):
an animated world, all I ever want to eat is
a vigne So that feels right. I took us to
New Orleans when that movie came out, and we went
to a restaurant and he ordered I'd like some man
catching Beignet's. Oh my god, he's Disney. I don't know
who would you say? So? Do you get to see
many Disney movies? No, it's been a minute since I
(13:05):
watched a Disney movie. I mean, I don't know all
my favorite songs to singer from the Little Mermaid, But
that's probably just because of nostalgia. Brooke Davis never sang
so yeah what else? Yeah? But Brooke Davis wants to
be more than just a princess of the ocean. She
(13:25):
wants adventure. She finds her voice, Brooke ariel Ael. It
makes me feel very emotional. Okay, I have a good one,
especially because on our on our elevator pitch you talked
(13:48):
about Payton's love of music, so it feels lightly tied together. Um,
it's not quite jumping the shark. To move on to
this next one. If Vic wants to know, if you
guys had a song that represented your character, what would
it be and why? And especially because your characters were
so rooted in music, was there a song or or
(14:10):
did you, like every season feel like you had a
song that represented Hailey or Peyton. Oh man, that's tough.
I'm gonna go into my I Tunes library right now.
We house for a second. I don't have any that
come to minds. You know what song I sang in
my head all the time while we were filming. You know,
I was like a huge Donnie Darko fan, and that
(14:33):
song Mad World, you know, like I find it kind
of funny. Yeah, which I'm dying or the best I
ever had. Like those lyrics were so Peyton Sawyer to me,
and like, there there's a Donnie Darko element to Peyton
Sawyer where she's just always right on the brink of
making like terrible choices. Um made world, Mad World is
(14:59):
beauty in that world? Is Brooke looking for the heart
of a Saturday night? Yeah, what's your vibe? Brook? God?
I don't know what I um what I do for
every project, I always make a soundtrack for a character
so that so that I have just something to immerse
(15:20):
myself in that puts me in a mood. Um. And
we did our show for so long that I made
so many I feel like every year I would make
a new playlist. But I think, um, the one that
always comes to mind first for me, ah is that
song from the Breakfast Club, because we did that in
(15:42):
later years where they like, you know, our our director
purposefully wanted me to do that eighties Molly Ringwall dance,
but do it really badly, and it's become like such
a funny thing for people, become an iconic. Yeah. I
remember when it first happened. We were like, Wow, you're
not a good dancer. I was like, this is on purpose,
(16:03):
this was this was a choice. You're a damn good actor.
I'm an actor. Um. Yeah. That that kind of really
gets me, especially because our show has become a sort
of iconic coming of age story, and that's how I
felt as a young actor about The Breakfast Club. It's
it's the movie that I have watched probably more than
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any other coming of age story movie. So it feels
fun to have like a little yeah, yeah, that was
super freaking cute. Joy. What's your song, honey? I'm gonna
go with Pageant Material by Casey Musgrave, Yes, because I
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think that fits for Haley. You know, she's like she's
in a small town. She really wants to please everybody,
and she wants to do what's right and be liked
and fit in. But at the end of the day,
she's just like, I don't know how to tell you.
I ain't pad to material like you, just I am
who I am. About her. Did you ever do pageants?
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Never know? Did you? I did one as a joke.
I did one as a joke. Senior year in high school.
My job I was like school president, so I had
to read the morning announcements every morning, and so I
read this morning announcement that was like contestants for the
Miss Loudon County Pageant meet after school on Thursday, and
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I was like, Miss Loudon County Pageant, I'm for sure
doing this. And so I gothed out, like wore the
black dress and a lot of heavy eye makeup and
went and was like kind of a dick about it.
But I ended up placing third huz um and that's
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like my big claim to fame. I used to put
that on like resumes and stuff. Is like a joke.
Third runner up in the Miss loud County padget so much.
Hillary's so grumpy thinking about when you say that is
the excerpts that you showed us that you people's yearbook
from high school, and I'm like the tracks, it's so good.
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There's a picture after life with a roar, like a fierceful, run,
straight ahead roar, Like that's how you tackle life, and
apparently how you've always been doing it, and I just
love it's the small town thing where it's just like, oh,
we're so bored, We're so bored. What are we going
to do this weekend? Well, we could pee on the
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fifty yard line at the football field, or we could
go do a pageant. I love it make poor choices kids. Um,
you guys, we should do a pageant. We should do
they they're only for young girls. Why don't we host
a forty and fabulous paget forty flirty for what's our forty? Yeah?
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Fabulous and uh forty and feisty fabulous, fisty done. What
are the questions do we have? Um? Oh, this is
a funny one, especially when we think about timing of
things like email and high school pageants. Sarah wants to
know when we see cast members using phones and scenes,
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are those your actual phones or prop phones? It depends.
They're usually props, but sometimes your phone will fit the
same case as the set phone, and then you can
switch it out and use your real phone. Oh my god,
I could not. You're distracted, but you just turn it off.
I mean, there's just so much sitting around. You end
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up for like a you know, half hour in between
setups and stuff sometimes and it's nice to be able
to have your I find just people get in less
trouble now on sets, I think because of phones, because
before we just used to have to like talk to
each other and like make out and make terrible choices.
And now you can retreat into your world and like
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talk to your friends or your manager or like someone
that's going to keep you out of a predicament. Now
not as isolated. M hm, you know, we were very isolated.
Part though. I don't like having phones on sets, to
be honest. It's it's I feel like I much prefer
reading a book or talking to people because it really
drives me crazy when people are disengaged, because it is
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it's a major distraction. You just get on your phone
and then like whatever the text message was that you've
just received when you're trying to do the scene, that
the person is still thinking about or I you know,
if I've got my phone, I'm still thinking about what
I've got to do when I get off the scene.
When I get done with the scene, to get on
my phone. So I don't like, I don't like bring
it to set. If I can help it, you know
what I'm thinking about that piano, that ragtime music that's happening.
(20:50):
I'm trying to mute it. I'm sorry you don't. Is
that an actual piano player or is it? No, it's
just like coming from the speakers somewhere in the airport.
I'm gonna walk, so you guys talking, I'll just keep
this rolling. I personally was enjoying it. I'm waiting for
Joy to get up and sing along with it and
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my um. Okay, So here's a question from Courtney. She says,
if y'all could have chosen any guest star to have
been on the show like full time, who would that
have been? Man Um? I mean that's a hard question
because we loved, loved, loved our guest stars. Yeah. Yeah,
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there's so many avenues, like if we're thinking about mentors,
you know, I go back to thinking about Gerald McCraney,
thinking about you know, other women we wish we'd had
for longer, obviously Danielle Along. So there's I think Sharon Lawrence,
Oh god, how fabulous was Sharon Lawrence? I think if
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you do a show for as long as we did, yeah,
it gets hard. It's like asking I mean, I imagine
it's like kind of like asking your parents to pick
your favorite child. You're like, but I love him all
all my favorites died yea Robbie Jones right, like how
great would he guest star? Oh? I felt even real life,
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but Cheryl Lee was like so dear to me and
loved her so much playing Ellie. Um Colin Ficus, who
is one of my dearest friends in real life, who
lives up here in the Hudson Valley, Like, what what
a layer it would have added to the show to
have him from the pilot till Jimmy Edwards death. Maybe like,
let's not kill him? How about that? I think Colin
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added such a good layer to our show. And then yeah,
Robbie Jones, Like, guys, everybody leaves or dies, you will
always leave. Oh there's a question, Joy, do you have somebody? Sorry?
I saw another question on Twitter? Or not go go
for it? So this is interesting on the tropic of
leaving God. I don't know why I'm in the mood
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for a pun this morning, but I got girl, your
segways are to today something happening to me. I didn't
sleep much last night anyway. Um Tessa is asking what
do you think Peyton and Lucas would have done if
they had stayed in Tree Hill? Well, the only thing
that happens when you're like happily ever after on a
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TV show and you stay is they have to break
you up, um like to cause drama relationships. So there's
drama for the show. Yeah, how can we destroy you guys?
And so that's why I was kind of content just
to piece out. I don't think there's a chance in
hell that Peyton would have stayed at Tree Hill. I
could see Hayley staying, and I could see even Brooke
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like becoming a really like a pillar member of the
community and really investing and just be you know, like
falling in love there and getting area to building a
life um and or doing her business out of Tree Hill.
But Peyton, Yeah, I mean Peyton had the same thing
that you have, Hillary, which is what I was just saying,
like running at life full speed with a roar. That
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that's that was in Peyton too, because you gave that
to her, And I just I don't think there's any
circumstance that would have kept her in Tree Hill. I
can't imagine. It was so weird. We were talking the
other day about how our parents totally disengaged because like
either production didn't want to pay them or they didn't
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think it was important. And for me, thinking about Peyton
as being an adopted kid who's last remaining parent, like
adopted dad doesn't come to her wedding, doesn't walk her
down the aisle, doesn't come to see her baby. It's
set such a bad example for adoption. And I think
it's like not realistic adopted parents. You know, that's a
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really sacred thing, and I think most people take it
very seriously and we did not depict that well. Um,
And so it feels like rejection, do you know what
I mean? And so I feel Hayden a big town
full of rejection, right, Yeah, it's a big down full
of just like country song in there somewhere girl, it
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feels big and sad and I can't wait for you
in Greenberg to sing that song together. I could see,
I could see Peyton coming back. But there's something about
her knee, Yeah, like she could come back and as
an adult or like find something new to love and
appreciate about the champ And at that age, at that stage,
she had to get out, she had to Yeah, I
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think there's also something um it feels like something of
a hero's journey for her, with this set of experiences
that she had and this belief. You know, when we
think about her art, people always leave and then she
has that, but sometimes they come back peace. It's like,
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I feel like Peyton needed to leave to see something
else aside from the pattern that her life had shown her,
you know, to take that control, to to change her
own fate too, to become you know, the captain of
her ship. And then yeah, if if there's a time
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that leads her back, you know, to Brooke and Haley,
who are waiting patiently. There was a question that I
saw in here that was like specifically about the three
of us in real life coming back to Wilmington's and
how that feels because in the same way our characters
either experienced trauma or good memories in Tree Hill, the
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three of us also experienced all, you know, the highs
and the very lows in Wilmington's. And I know when
we go back for conventions, I always feel a little
bit wiggily about it. I'm like, oh, who am I
going to see? Where am I going to know? Because
it could be awesome or it could also be incredibly awkward.
Do you guys feel that way? Yeah, I do a
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little bit. I've never I mean, I think it's mostly
because I was so kind of in my own world.
I mean I knew our crew and and like are
all of us that were in that little bubble, But um,
I didn't make a lot of friends in town because
I think I was mostly just on set or at
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home by myself, because I just didn't want to be
super social. I was already social all day on set
and being introverted, it was like a lot for me.
So sometimes when I go back to Wilmington's, I see
a lot of people who know who I am and
there and they've had the interactions with me at some point,
but I don't remember, or like we didn't I didn't
spend enough time investing in the friendship or relationship where
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I really it was just like maybe somebody that worked
at a cafe or I mean whatever, And I feel
really like, oh my god, I know your face, but
I can't remember your name, and I don't remember what
we talked about when we talked. And so if that's
always feels a little like I don't know, it makes
you self conscious. It feels subconscious because I want people
to feel seen and known, and if I feel like
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I'm in a position where I can do that or
make them feel the opposite, I always feel like I
have just feel horrible if I can't always remember. We
also were working eighteen hour days. Joy like eighteen hours
a day. It was. It was a lot, yeah, And
I mean, look, I think that is one of the
things that can be weird about what we do is
(28:33):
the the sort of uneven seesaw of someone's awareness of
who a person is from their favorite show versus what
anyone's normal awareness might be of Like I don't know
somebody who they see once a week at the grocery
store when they grab something, who you high too, but
you don't. You don't necessarily know where their kids go
(28:56):
to school or whatever. And so I have that too,
that feeling of like I should be better at this,
And then I'm like, well, there's no way I can remember.
A brain can't remember like two thousand people perfect there
were so many nights out in downtown. How could one remember?
But I will say it was it was cool to
(29:17):
find the friendships that we did, Like you know, Jane
and tricky, especially open the whole world for me. And
so when I think about you know, Aaron and Cody
and Mary, George and all like all my my local
friends there who I still see whenever we go back,
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um it it feels really special. But yeah, when I, like,
you know, run into somebody at the co op who's like, hey,
I haven't seen you a while, I'm like, oh no,
oh no, oh no, no, I'm sorry, dude. I just
kissed so many waiters in town when were And I
remember coming back when I was I met with Gus,
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when I was pregnant with Gus. You, I mean, the
show was still in the air. You guys were still
doing it. And I went to the Basics, which was
my favorite restaurant downtown. Oh God, I love that place.
And I'm like there with my family and this boy
that I had, like you know, been kissing the year
before walks in and it's like, hey, what's up. And
I stood up and he was just like oh. And
(30:24):
that feeling of like, yeah, you've been gone, but you've
come back and things are very very different now. Um
is always kind of how I feel. It's like the
world's moving so fast that every time we check back
in with Wilmington's. Like everything's changed, so but it remains
a touchstone. It's a good place to to check in with.
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One of the things I will say that I love
is because we've stayed tethered to it, unto each other.
I feel like we have done physically with Wilmington's what
we've done emotional with our podcast. We've we've gone back
and kind of like done the dishes. We continue to go.
(31:11):
We love the places we love, and every time we
go back, I feel like I love it more and
like I have less of a tremor of what was unpleasant. Yeah,
that's right, all right, we got we got a question
from Lindsay. This is yeah, I guess that's true. So
Lindsay says, when it comes to shooting car scenes, how
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does that work? Where's the person filming stand when you
see cars in the background? Is that real or fake?
Like interstate driving? That's a good question. We weren't in
this business, but we wouldn't know that either. Um well, Lindsay, Uh,
there's lots of different ways to shoot a car scene.
One of them is to actually put a car on
(31:57):
a on the on a It's like a flatbed it's
called a process trailer. Process trailer, that's right, Yeah, And
you just put the car on that and then the
cameras kind of like sit on either side of the
They just move the camera around the car and then
they pull like a truck pulls the car and you
just look like you're driving. Or you can put the
car actually on the road and the and the cinema
(32:20):
to cinema talking about the camera cameras. Camera sit sit
behind you in the back seat and they filmed from behind,
shooting the road ahead of you. And then they'll do
they'll also do so the car will be on the trailer,
which basically looks like a big raft, and the car
sits in the middle of it, and the crew is
around the sides with railings to protect them. Um, they'll
(32:40):
put crew in the car with you and the car
is driving, and then they'll also, Um, there's two other
kinds of rigs that are pretty cool. So the car
will be on the road and you'll really be driving.
And then um, they have there's this like famous car
that some stunt company owns. Um it's a blacked out
(33:01):
suv and I think they have three of them now
and they cost an absurd amount of money, and they
have a techno crane on them that's also blacked out,
and so that car can drive next to you and
the crane can maneuver the camera from the back of
the picture car, which would be the one one of
us would be driving like through through you know, down
the side, around the front, over the top. It's like
(33:24):
a whole crazy That's how they did for to be
Ferrari because that movie blo I know, there was drone shots,
and I know there was like you know, some some
of it was people on another car, but that was like, yeah,
we that's how we used to do like all of
our high speed chases in Chicago. And so locating with
that car, you can do some pretty insane things if
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you have really good drivers. And then the other thing
that they'll do too is you'll be on the road,
um driving and they'll have like a like a extra
a wide um kind of technically outfitted pickup truck that
almost has like a stair step on the back of
it that a bunch of cameras can sit on, and
(34:09):
that'll be in front of you, so they can shoot,
you know, from the from the hood through the windshield.
So a driving scene. You know that might be four
minutes long, could take all day because you've got to
be on the trailer, off the trailer, in the wide shots,
in the close ups, or cars on the highway, and
(34:30):
you are all picture cars because the thought, right, what
is it? Lar? You do it? You say it? Are
you trying to? We just cheat it in the studio
and tell all the lights. Oh my god, that's the worst.
Listen you guys. Joy and I had to do a
scene in the comment inside of the studio. So they're
(34:52):
like the driving scenes at night. Okay, it's dark outside.
So what they do is they have one grip with
like two flashlights run at us like it's headlines. You
just get like and then they like circle back and
then they came back again and it's just like start
going back with a red light so it looks like
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the break lights in front of you off. And then
there's someone else. Then there's greens shaking the bush, taking
the cars. There's everyone's they'll be like trees shaken that
you're driving past. But yes, and there's a fan. There's
fans in your windows open. You gotta have fans. And
then someone will shake the car to there's somebody like
(35:33):
just leaning on the back of the car shaking it.
So Joy and I were doing this scene one night.
It wasn't even night. It was the middle of the day,
which is why we were cheating it inside of a big,
huge studio. And I'm used to like driving, and I'm
trying to make it seem believable. So I'm doing all
the things with my hands, and I'm looking in the
rear view mirror and I'm like using my feet on
(35:54):
the pedals like one would And because it's a vintage car,
it's like very delicate. And when Peyton goes to break,
you know, they do this thing where they like rock
the car. So Joy and I both like, you know,
lean forward, like we're breaking really hard, and I actually
hit the brake, which would turn the tail lights on,
(36:15):
and you hear from the back of the car Dacious
yelling don't mash the break, don't mash the break, and
everyone's thinking he's saying, don't masturbate, and everyone's like what
he's saying to these girls said, oh my god, oh
my god, I totally forgot about that. For years. For
(36:36):
years they'd be like, Hillary, don't mash the breake. Don't
mash the breake whatever. But Jo and I we're just like,
go out and drive. That's ridiculous. We could just get
this done in ten minutes. Yes, tonight, just drive the
car to a stage. You know what I always love
to spot two is in older shows when they clearly
(36:57):
shot the scene inside on a green screen of course,
and then they just put non thescript city footage in
in post and everyone has that little black like pencil
outline around them, Dad, and you're just like, why didn't
you go outside and just do this on a street?
They turned the car and then the street behind them
turns like a half second. No one will notice. Man,
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that's a good question if there had been a Dawson's
Creek O Teach crossover episode. I mean, they're kind of was.
Chad and I were both Dawson's together, and James Vanderbyt
came on our show. Yeah, James came on our shot. Guys,
(37:44):
the world is just so syncd up um. Which characters
do you think would have had chemistry love interests with
each other? Well, that's fun. I was very dry on
Too Busy Phillips when I did guest star on Dawson's Creek.
(38:04):
She's she's got strong, big dick energy. She's a powerful, fun, fun,
fun girl. And Peyton would have totally been swept up
in her for sure because she's she's fun, she's like
a fun magnet. Yeah, totally, And I think Peyton would
have would have seen her. I was like, look at
(38:27):
all that light. I want that. Yeah, let me in
Lucas and had a good, good chemistry. They're both broody
and moody and yeah, torture, well that would have been nice.
I as soon as you read that question, I was like, man,
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and look, I will confess I didn't watch Dawson's Creek
all the way through, but in the early days when
I did, I my brain immediately thought, oh, Pacy's kind
of like the male Brook Davis, Like yeah, yeah, I
think with teachers and Pasty what was his last name, Pascy?
What was his name with something I don't know, well whatever,
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uh whatever, jah, Josh Jackson, Can I say that name?
I think? I think, yeah, Pascy and Brooke would have
had like very pacy witter here it is. I think
they would have had some great chemistry and laughs and
like definitely gotten arrested and in real life Josh is
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such a wonderful man. He's such a committed activist, like
the number of like underground, let's work on stuff and
really make sure. Um, you know, when there are elections
or social issues happening, there's groups of us that are like, Okay,
how do we help um? And and he's always first
(39:55):
in that, in that group with me, and so it's
really sweet. Every once in a while, you know, we'll
be at like a protester and organizing meeting and we're
just like, man, I remember what deep little kids we
used to be. Now we get out of the world
a better place. Um So, so I I feel that
there's a real foundation there. I would have liked Yeah, yeah,
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you guys have been dreaming it was Haley. Who was
Haley dreaming too? I don't know. I mean, I guess
Haley probably would have liked Casey too, because I was
the only other option really is Dawson And I don't
know who else what other guys were on that show
because I didn't watch it long. Karl Smith was a babe,
but he didn't like girls, right, didn't he come out? Yeah?
Yeah that's right? Yeah? But did he come out right away? Yeah?
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Try that sounds like something Haley would have attempt. That
does sound like something Haley would have done, because Dawson
feels like it would have been too much, too similar.
I think Dawson is too similar to Lucas, like the
same side of magnets. You'd be like, yeah, exactly, exactly.
That was a fun question. I liked that one a lot.
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All right, we got time for one more. Let's one
more hit us did. Oh, this is kind of fun.
Andreas says. Whenever you GIRs did scenes on camera with
a rival, in an argument or a fight scene with
another actor, is there any pre briefing conversations of I
hope you know I love you and I don't mean
anything of what I'm about to say or do. It's
really cute, like Meryl Streep did with the films that
(41:25):
did with vant Hathaway before Devil wors Brought Us started.
Have you heard this story? She said her down. They
went out for a drink and she was like, I'm
going to treat you very badly for the next three months.
I just want you to know. Don't take it personally.
But yeah, that's really that's really smart. Um No, I
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don't think we had We never did have those because
we all just hung out. You know, we all kind
of liked each other and we're nice to each other.
So I don't I think that's just part of the business.
You just kind of grow up. No, I mean that
you're just doing the work. You don't take it personally.
I think more than anything, at least, I know, I
do this like if I have to fight with one
(42:06):
of you or even on you know, good Sam, like
me and Sky have had to have these you know,
ram smashing sort of scenes all year and every time
we do the rehearsal and then we have to actually
you know, set up the scene right after rehearsal. My
go to is always, oh, I don't like this. I
don't like yelling at you. I don't like you. You know.
I think there's a natural inclination with your friends to say, like,
(42:31):
this feels weird. But it's also our job. Rehearsal is
a big important part of it though, I mean, yes,
because you're actually working together to solve the puzzle. So
and the audience that's just that's right. Yeah, the audience
is just seeing the final they're just seeing a fight
with the two characters that they love. But that's our
job is to go in and piece everything together, so
(42:53):
you're really working with the other person to choreograph this moment.
So it's actually, in a weird way, you don't feel
like you're fighting at all. You feel like you're dancing,
You're you're doing something together. You know, well, not always.
I don't know. Have you guys ever been on the
other side of it, where like the other person's the
alpha on the set and you're the one that's like
(43:14):
getting yelled at and they don't do that thing of okay,
this is hey, do you want to talk in between setups?
They're just like okay, go back to your corner, and
you're like, yeah, I have I don't like that. It
doesn't feel good. I won't say what job it was,
but boy, did it suck. I'm gonna tell you later.
(43:34):
I'm you tell us after this podcast. Yeah. I think
for whatever reason, my brain is also thinking now as
we talk about this, about when you have to do um,
not just arguments but actual physical fights, how important rehearsal
is to figure out how you're going to do that,
how you're going to take care of each other. God,
(43:55):
I wish I knew were the outtakes were hill. Was
it season three where we gotten fight on Payton's front lawn?
Oh my god when you got hurt. Yeah, we did
it over and over and over again. And you know
those season four season four soul you know we were
we were fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting and
screaming and crying and doing all these things together. And
then it was just one take where like, I don't know,
(44:17):
we twisted the opposite way we twisted the sixteen time
before it, and it was your elbow in my skull
and it was a whole moment and I just remember
like falling over and you falling on top of me,
going oh no, no, no, no, no no. That was
really scary. It was scary. But I there's something that's
also so sweet about the immediate stop and hold and
(44:40):
hug and like, oh my god, are you okay? Are
you okay? That actors you for each other, um, because sometimes, yeah,
sometimes you'd get hurt and it's not obviously on purpose. Um.
Remember when I was making the Hitcher with Sean Bean
and he was like literally trying to murder me and
in the middle of I mean, he would be like
(45:01):
literally beating the crap out of me throwing me around
like a rag doll, and I would never know when
it was coming. But in the middle of a scene
he'd always paused, and you know, he had it was
like really gravelly, formable American accent voice, and then he
would pause and go, oh you okay, darling, you're right, okay,
okay to three, and then he'd like snap, my, you know,
(45:22):
my face in a different direction, and I was like, God,
what a gentleman you are. It's funny to think that
the people at home never get to see, you know,
those little moments we get to the sweetness. It's all sweet,
joy catcher Plane. That was fun. Thanks he safe tracking
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Please keep them. This is fun. Yeah, all right, we'll
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