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July 17, 2023 37 mins

In solidarity with the SAG strike, the Drama Queens are taking a temporary break from episode recaps and diving into more fan questions! Hear how they got their big breaks, what songs can change their mood, favorite pizza toppings and the details of their ultimate girl’s trips! You’ve asked all the right questions and now you're getting the answers!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
All about that high school drama. Girl drama girl, all
about them.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
High school queens. We'll take you for a ride, and
our comic girl sharing for the right teams.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Drama, queens up girl fashion, but your tough girl, you
could sit with us.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Girl drama, queens, drama, Queens drama, Queens drama, drama, queens
drama queens.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hey, everybody, we are back. We're back. We're still here,
and we are here to talk all things except one tree.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Hell.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
We're going to talk all things SAG strike with you
because it's really important to us and our community, and
so are you and you as an audience showing up
for us every week. We love you, guys, and we
want you to know what's going on. We want your support,
and so here we are. Let's talk about lots of things.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, dude, we had a text chain yesterday, so we
record our episodes a couple of days in advance, and
so for you, you guys at home, you're hearing this
on Monday. But we're dealing with this over the course
of you know, a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday, and
our union went on strike, which I think we all
support and we're all fully backing that.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
But what that means is that.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
There is a lot of gray area about whether or
not you can promote a show that was a SAG
after a contract and one tree who was for us?
I mean, this was the show that got all of us.
I mean not all of us, but it got me
into the Union. You know, were you in the Union already?

Speaker 6 (01:36):
I was, Yeah, because I had done a commercial early
in high school and so I got into commercial. Yeah,
that was how I got into SAG. And it was
like such a cool thing. I remember my dad being like,
you're going to have healthcare when you're eighteen, Like.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Credit a commercial?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
What was the commercial?

Speaker 6 (01:56):
So I was in a KitKat commercial?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh my god?

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, where is that on the internet?

Speaker 6 (02:02):
Oh my god, you guys. It was chic. It was
like a full coffee paste of clueless. Me and my
friend Keana from school. We're in it with this girl.
I can't remember the other girl's name. We met her
on set that day. I still can't eat caickut bars
because I ate so many of them that weekend. But
we were so cute, and yeah, that was how I

(02:22):
got into the Union.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I love it. I got mine from a commercial too.
But I was twelve and the hospital where my dad
worked was doing a commercial and they so I went
and I had to walk a dog in a circle.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
Did that dog eat a heart?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
That was the dog? Later? No, but that was it.
It was very exciting though, because the whole thing with
the SAG card is you can't really get SAG work
until you have a SAG card, and you can't get
the you can't have a SAG card without getting the work.
So it's really exciting when you get that one job
that's going to get you in the door.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Well, people talk about your big break, you know, it
really is the moment that you are able to join SAG.
It's like, oh, I have a line, I have a
job that is part of a union, and it's such
a big deal to an actor.

Speaker 6 (03:11):
Yeah, it is a really big deal, and I think
it's an important thing to touch on, you know, when
we talk about being part of a union, when we
talk about the fact that the union is how we
have protections on set, it's how we have healthcare, it's
how we have all these things. There's a lot of
misnomers in the world about what we do, about what

(03:32):
performers do about what our lives look like. You know,
you hear the top line for like the five most
famous people on earth and how much money they make,
and you think everybody makes money like them, and it's
just not true, unfortunately. And I think it's a really important,
a really important way to frame it is to let
you know our friends at home that if you are

(03:55):
in sag Aftra, in order to qualify for healthcare, you
have to make as a performer twenty six thousand dollars
a year, and eighty seven percent of the sag after
membership does not qualify for healthcare. That's eighty seven percent
and not one cent less, not one cent less. Eighty

(04:16):
seven percent of working actors do not make twenty six
thousand dollars a year from acting or performing, so they
don't even have access to the health benefits that our
union helps us afford. And so this idea that it's like, oh,

(04:37):
it's a bunch of whiny rich people who just want
more money. Know the CEOs of the studios that make
two hundred million dollars a year and are currently vacationing
together on a super yacht while they're telling all of
us that our protections that we're asking for our quote unrealistic.
Those are the rich people who we should all be

(04:58):
sort of fised out. Yeah, but I think it's really
it's really important that we start to unpack some of
the reality of this because look like you guys see
us either on TV and shows that are edited and
sound mixed and color timed beautifully, or you see people
at award shows. But to be clear, award shows aren't
actually parties, their work events, and everyone's wearing barge that

(05:21):
they can't afford.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Oh my god, I could never afford anything I've ever
worn anywhere.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Never.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
It's important to us that, like, we have full transparency
with you guys, because we have reached out to our
union rep because what we've been told as actors is
you're not allowed to promote anything that was a sag
after job. And because our show currently is still streaming
even though we filmed it twenty years ago, is doing

(05:49):
a rewatch podcast considered promotion for a sag after job.
So we've called our leadership and they're inundated with other
people with similar questions, and so while we wait for
a clear answer from them, uh huh, this actually like
works in our fans' benefit because we're just going to
answer like all the questions that you guys have been

(06:11):
sending in because it is important to us that.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
We honor you.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
You've been along with us for this ride for two decades. Now,
you know we're coming up on our twentieth anniversary. And
it's also important that our show specifically, which was an
ensemble show, is standing by and fighting the good fight,
not just for like the core five kids on the show,
but every single one of the actors that came and

(06:35):
did guest spots.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
On our show.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
These are the people that we're fighting for. These are
the people that really deserve all of our support.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
And just so you guys know, when we talk about
what questions we have for our union reps, you know
you probably have seen that there's been guidelines published. There's
some stuff that, to Hillary's point, is just a gray area. Yeah,
like they've said you can't promote past or present projects.
But does that mean projects that have come out and

(07:09):
are no longer airing new episodes, or does a past
project mean you know, the Netflix show that you shot
two and a half years ago that's premiering this November,
so technically it's a past project, But it's still going
to be new to streaming, like nobody really knows what
it means yet, and we just don't want to air

(07:30):
anything that could potentially go against our own union and
our own support of them, So we won't have a
new episode this week.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
But like we said, we're going to answer all your questions.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
What you're saying, Sophia is so true because a lot
of the issue is with streaming and the fact that
you know, we as actors, you used to be able
to get syndication fees, so when your show was on
and then it would re air like we were on
soap Net.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Oh my god, soap Net was a great great paychecks,
isn't it great?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yes, And that was for years and years. Even commercial
actors used to get residuals that people would put their
kids through college and just doing one commercial. And so
now what's different is the studios are just selling these
properties off to the streaming networks, and the storytellers who
poured their heart and souls into these shows, who showed
up every day for work, they don't get anything from that.

(08:23):
It's like a one and done and you invest years
and years and years of your life and something like
that and so that's been That's one of the things
that's important that we are able to hold the line
on with our union, and we just want to be
respectful of that. That's one thing among many others.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
We've got a question from someone named Maria that ties
into that Joy really well because she asks, she says,
how are actors compensated for work done in the early
two thousands prior to streaming? Do you get any benefits
from your episodes on streaming? And I just want to
point out that when our contracts were negotiated in two
thousand and three, streaming wasn't even a feasibility.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
It was alien. You can't negotiate for something that doesn't exist.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
This is when Netflix was still mailing you DVDs in
your actual post mailbox and you would pull the DVD
out and watch it. That's all Netflix was.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Yep, it's so crazy to think about, and it is interesting,
you know, to the point of what Joy's saying, it's
a weird feeling, guys, to have made something, to have
dedicated your life to making something. Also, frankly, all of
our first big jobs, so it's not like any of
us had good quotes. We weren't making a bunch of

(09:44):
money by any means. We were all like trying to
figure out how to pay our rent. And your show
goes on to become this hit, this cult classic, and
it keeps getting sold.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Oh, they make so much money off this show.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
They make so much money off the show, you guys,
And we haven't seen a penny of it ever. And
it's our faces and our stories and our bodies and
our work that they're selling. And it feels it feels
really bad. And I think part of the reason it
feels bad is because people who were in better quote

(10:20):
unquote power positions did get protections for eventual changes to
things like Tom Cruise is making money every time his
movies play on any network, you know, TV, streamer or whatever,
but like, we don't. And that's that's a hard pill
to swallow, to know that there is just not a
fair standard. And that's that's why we're on strike.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
I mean, the AI thing is what breathes me out
because we couldn't have negotiated for that, Like and do
you guys remember we just had one one taste of
what that was, like it was maybe second or third season,
and they used our life.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
You gonna say caress.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yes, I'm so mad about it.

Speaker 6 (11:03):
Still remember that.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yeah, Okay, tell everybody at home what happened.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
I still though, you guys. One of the ways that
if you are on a show locked into a six
year deal for very little money, as we all were,
that you stand to maybe make some money if your
show becomes a hit, is you might get an endorsement deal,
so you might become the face of a brand.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Like and like.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
But every girl on every other show had like Nutrigas
was doing kids.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Remember Kristen Bell when she was doing Cutie Veronica Mars
and she was doing Nutrigina with her perfect little chin.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Like.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
People had opportunities to do these things.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
I was begging for it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
Man, we were like cool, we were ready, let's go
do something neat. And the WB sold the three of
us photos.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
Of us to caress our likeness.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Yeah, and they said, are you a Brook, a Paytent
or a Haley And they said no, no, we sold Brooke,
Peyton and Haley. They got the endorsement money, y'all. The
network made the money and we didn't make a penny.
So we were on billboards and in magazines as the

(12:24):
faces of this you know, skincare brand, and we made nothing.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
And it knocked us out of the running for anything else.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, that's right, yep.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
Because it ruins your exclusivity. So then we could never
do another beauty deal.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
You'll remember driving by those billboards.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Matter than deceiving.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
I had steam coming out of my ears, and it's
like a It's a really crazy thing, especially as a
young woman, when someone sells your face and body oof
and doesn't have to ask you about it. And this
is the new argument that we're having with AI. You know,
if you're paying attention watching any of the videos we've
all been sharing, our SAG president and some of our

(13:03):
reps got up to talk about you know this quote
unquote groundbreaking AI proposition from the studios, and the studios
literally said, well, when background actors come in, we'll scan
them and then we'll own their likeness to be reproduced
in any manner we choose forever, forever. Imagine like they

(13:23):
could put you in porn, they could put you in
a movie about Nazis, they could put they could do
anything that goes against your moral compass. They could recreate
you ten thousand times and you would have made eighty
dollars for one day working background and gotten a free lunch.
Get theff out of here?

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Did they watched Terminator? I watched Terminator like every day
growing up. Get out? Know how bad this is gonna go?

Speaker 6 (13:49):
We got to get out. Yeah, so they're taking advantage
of old contracts. Well, they're taking advantage of old contracts.
They're also taking advantage of the most powerless people in
our union. But they're taking advantage of people all the
way up the line.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
So much greed.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
It's so much greed. And I think, you know, people
will say when they think about some of their favorite
actors who you know, make the big ticket money that
they read about in the trades, and they'll be like, well,
you know, why are we supposed to listen to these people?
They're not hurting for anything. I think it's really worth
letting you guys know that part of the reason we
fight for equity as actors is because that's how our

(14:27):
livelihoods are made. When we eat, a whole team full
of people eats if we make money. If we if
we get a job for one hundred dollars, our agent
gets ten dollars, our manager gets ten dollars, our lawyers
get five dollars. Our publicists, depending on what their annual
salary is, make from like three to five of that

(14:48):
one hundred dollars, you're paying forty dollars in taxes you're
paying you're paying another ten bucks to an accountant.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Then you have rent and groceries and your family.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
But what I'm saying is, out of the one hundred
dollars that you hear somebody's making, we probably keep twenty five, yeah,
and the rest of the money goes to the government
and goes to our team. Like I don't make much more.
I don't make much more money than my agent makes
at the end of the day because of how many
people I pay. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud

(15:20):
that when I book a job, an entire team of
people and their families also book jobs. But this idea
that people in our industry are like, you know, greedy
or whatever is is simply not true. And it's really
frustrating when again, executives at studios that are making one
hundred million, two hundred million dollars a year and bonuses

(15:43):
and are flying around on their private jets are saying
that us asking to not be owned by AI machines
is unrealistic. It's like, come on, what do we do?

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, when you guys watch a show that has a
big star in it, for example, that person is getting
a huge paycheck maybe eventually, like eventually, yes, but I
mean in comparison, excuse me to what I'm trying to
say here, is that basically every other person on the show.
What the studios have started to try and do is

(16:16):
find all these loopholes, like taking a seasoned actor who
should be getting a series regular contract and saying, we're
going to bring you in as a guest star. Yeah,
for five thousand dollars an episode, but we want you
for ten episodes. We want you for eight days an episode,
and we want you for twelve hours a day. And
that's what for five thousand dollars for.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Guest star fee. You can't get a nanny to cover
you for that much?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah what? And these are actors who are I mean,
it doesn't matter. Anybody shouldn't be yeah, put in that position.
But yeah, that's just not right. It's not right.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Well, and again, when you think about the percentages that
come out of that money, you might be like, I'd
love a five thousand dollars paycheck for a week, and
it's like, well, yeah, but when you're giving sixty eight
percent of that money to other people, Yeah, like what
are you what are you living on? How are you
paying for your gas? How are you paying your mortgage
if you're lucky enough to have one in the first place. Like,
it's a it's it's really kind of wild, and it's

(17:13):
it's frustrating. None of us is stupid. It's frustrating when
studios are getting on their earnings calls with their shareholders
boasting about record breaking quarterly profits and then they're.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Telling us, ever you add of here?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
If there was ever a show to prep a fan
base for, like a good fight, I feel like between
Brooke Davis's fight with the Crab, Shack the.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
Lobster, I unionize those crabs still proud.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
Payton sort of like this record label bullshit you Like,
I think that our fan base has been primed for
a fight for like a long time now. So so
this question from simone, what is one song that can
immediately change your mood? I think to amend it, Like,
what's our fight song?

Speaker 6 (18:02):
I was just gonna say, we need a fight song?

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, what is our fight so honestly, we're striking in
this moment.

Speaker 6 (18:10):
I feel like the mood is very These boots were
made for walking. Yeah, like I'm rocking right out of work.
Call y'all, good guye bye bye?

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Who I mean you know that? I just go to
lay Miz for everything.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
You know.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
It's like the studio executives are like.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
You at the barricade, listen to this, no one is
coming to help you to fight, and here comes sag
and We're like, hey, bitches, let's ride.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, love it.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
It was a TV show called The Unit on Ages
ago and their theme song was like it was it
was the Marines, but it was put to it was
like a marine cadence, but it was put to some
real cool beats. I'm feeling it. I'll find it.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
Yeah, we need to find that. We can drop it
in a story.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm into it.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
We'll just play newsies.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Man.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Well, I like Chrissy's question because now that school's out
for summer, what are we doing?

Speaker 5 (19:09):
She's like, what are.

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Your favorite summer activities to do with your family and friends?
And I'm like, well, I didn't think I was going
to be home, but here we are, so.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, so here I mean, Jeff can't go to Comic
Con and I can't film my show anymore, and so
he and I are looking at each other this morning
just like, oh my god, like we get to just
be home with the kids, you know, like obvious, what
are you guys going to do on the farm?

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Who knows?

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Like at this point, George is so all consuming and
it's just like they had digit me. I think they
were doing fishing last night. I was traveling to come
home and they were all like fishing successfully. So I
feel like that's going to be the rest of my summer.
Is I love that baiting hooks, which that's fun.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I've never really been fishing. I would love to go.
I mean I've done it once or twice, but not
like out the whole morning, get up early. That'd be fun.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Honestly. Years ago, I set a goal for myself to
learn to fly fish really and yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
Remember her Instagram. We were all like where is she?

Speaker 6 (20:13):
You're like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm
just in Alasta, you guys. I love it, Like I
want to be the old lady and waiters who's just
like on a river with no cell service fishing like
that is my GM that is my future goal for myself.
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Sounds great.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I just love running around, especially with all these fireflies
and the summer heat, just watching the kids. We got
a little creek by our house, watching the kids run around.
It's so nice to just relax and enjoy the simple,
simple things in life. I feel those. I feel that
more in the summer, I think than the winter.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
I clocked the summers like I dawned on me at
the end of the school year that I was only
going to have X amount of summers left with my
son before he graduates and leaves, and it's not a
big number. And I was just like, oh, I panicked.
I totally panicked. And so now I'm overwhelming the out
of Gus and I'm just like, do you want to
watch a movie? Do you want to watch a movie?

(21:18):
Do you want to hang out with me? Do you
want to cook together? Do you want to go on
a walk?

Speaker 5 (21:20):
What do you want to do? So pestering my teenager?

Speaker 6 (21:26):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Yeah, there's only so many summers left, Okay.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Sarah wants to know what kind of toppics you put
on your pizza, which might feel like a weird transition.
But I actually think one of the things that I
like to do in the summer is do like pizza
nights with friends, you know, get all the dough and
get all the things they.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
Wait, girl, you do work.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
I love it. I love it, And I'm like, that's
the thing you could do with gus. You could be like, hey, kid,
let's to make pizza dough and then we can make
our own pizzas.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Give one of those little hooney pizza of it, right, Yes,
I have one of those little single ones and we
just throw them in there for three minutes and turn
them over.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
They're so cool.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well they just like gas powered.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll send you a link. So I
feel like we can answer Sarah's question, but we can
also plot like ways for you guys to make your
teenagers hang out with you guys.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
I feel like this question opens us.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
It opens me up because, okay, get I'm a Pineapple
pizza person and I'm not even embarrassed about it, Like
I just love it and I don't want to hear
anything about it. And I've loved it since I was
a little kid getting those little Caesars packages to tear
the paper open, I love.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Pineapple on pizza. It's wrong with that.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Because people pick on you. People really do.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
That is true. I don't like the ham either. I
don't want the ham. I just want the pineapple. Maybe
a little mushroom. Maybe a little pineapple mushroom green pepper.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
That gives me like.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
College flashbacks to like the little pizza place off of
Hoover Avenue in downtown at usc Oh my god, I
I've turned into one of those people who likes I
like like a weird, fancy Italian pizza. I ordered a
pizza last night with like fennel sausage and fresh mozzarella

(23:20):
and like caramelized onions.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
It was so good.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
We're going legit.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, pizza, Like, let's talk about a little more to Della.
Let's talk about like calibri and chili with honey and
that like pizza.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Give it to me, yes, yeah. So but that's the thing.
This is what I like about us is we can golices.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Of pizza here.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
Yeah. It's like it's my it's my fantasy trip to Tuscany.
Or it's like we're on the road in the RV
and we got to pull over at the gas station.
What kind of pizza. Are we getting at the gas
station and we're down. We're down for the whole gamut.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Remember Slice of Life in Wilmington and what a scene
that was at the end of the night, Like there's
no food at the end of the night. So you
would roll out of bars at like one thirty two
o'clock in the morning and Slice of Life Pizza is
where look, if you couldn't pick someone up there, you
were going home empty handed, like that was the last
call for food and people to kiss.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
They still they stopped.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
They just stop at the end of the night there
did they stop cooking, like twenty minutes before they even close,
because everything's just they're they're sold out. Everybody is flooding
their spot.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
I loved that place, such.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
A good memory of all the nights there.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
When I was still in California, there was a seven
eleven all the way at the end of my all
the end of my road, and I would go in
there and there was a woman in there once who
was picking up a pizza and I was like, seven
eleven makes pizzas so gross, like no thanks, And she
saw the look on my face and she goes, oh no, no,

(24:58):
you don't know I'm like, I feel like I no.
She goes, you don't know, So She's like, would you
like to try a slice? And I'm thinking no, but okay,
I mean I'll be nice. Guys, this was a really
good pizza. You have the jewel Box seven eleven making
good pizzas.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
I like a sneak attack.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, because you don't know who like the owner's owner
of the franchise's mom is, you know, I franchise.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
She could have had a knack for that.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Hey man, find the diamond on the rough. You gotta
find it.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
I love pizza parlor loyalty when you can just like
find your spot in a town, no matter how run
down or you know, back alley it is, you just
gotta stand by it.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Okay, Well this kind of goes well. This is a
question from Quinn what's your favorite rom com? Which made
me think of Mystic Pizza since we're talking about pizza.
But I actually haven't seen that in a really long time.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
It's been a minute. We might need to watch that.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
You do, Let's do a nineties rom com rewatch?

Speaker 6 (25:59):
Oh man, I would love that.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
If you guys have your DVDs, go find your DVD.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
I just finally watched Before Sunset. Interesting, you guys that
movie undid me really? Like, yeah, undid me in like
such a beautiful way, And I just went, what are
we doing? I just want to I just want to
make things like this. I just want to make projects

(26:31):
like this.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
It's so beautiful and simple.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
I mean, I find boys like that totally irritating. But
I think the fact that you can make a movie
about two people connecting with each other is a lost art, Like, yes,
we're not We're supposed to do big, huge superhero movies.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Now you know, it was just two people having a conversation. Yeah,
and and this this idea about you had this in
credible encounter with someone you were meant to see again
and then life got in the way and what happens
if you never really got over it? Like, oh my god,

(27:08):
it just I just thought it was so beautiful. And
Julie Delpy is so incredible in it because she's so
funny one minute and then she's totally freaking out the next,
and then she's like, I don't know why I'm telling
you any of this. It's just so present and fun
and yeah, I mean, you know, Ethan Hawk's character is
like a little annoying puppy dog.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
But at the time in the nineties, boy oh yeah,
feely he was a writer. Oh my god, he was
Lucas Scott.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Got I loved the movie. I just loved it. So, yeah,
take me back to a good rom com any day.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
We were really lucky that we came up in an
era where like the rom com was the thing, Like now.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
I feel like scary movie.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
These are the things that people go see on dates
and like highs go see.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
Can we say the thing like, are we lucky that
we grew up in the rom came era? Because isn't
that why we dated so many ding dongs for so long? Girl,
I think I.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Was destined to date ding dongs no matter what.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Like I could have been Relection, I could have been
Joy and I were watching black and white movies.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Doris Day, all of that. Like, that's that's what my
rom com problem was. Was was not Meg Ryan and
Julia Robertson from.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Yeah, No, I was in love with Rock Hudson. You
know that was never going to work out. No, Sandra
Bullock was from my hometown. She's from like the next
county over, and so knowing that as a middle school
girl and a high school girl, and just being so
fixated on this person's ability to get out and create

(28:47):
a life for herself.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
Like I was just so into it, and Hope Floats
still to this day, I don't. I don't watch things
over and over again.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I'm not that kind of personality. I like new things,
and I think that's why I like Doc Manory because
I feel like I'm learning something constantly. Hope Floats is
the only thing that I watch over and over and
over again.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I'm obsessed with it.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
That's so sweet.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
I love that makes me want to go back and
watch it. It's wonderful. Harry Connick Junior, what.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
A babe, and Forrest Whitaker directed it, Like that's the
thing to people forget.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Yes, I didn't know that. Yes, it's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Because it is time to go to the library and
rent a DVD. We all need to go buy a
new DVD player, new Slash old I french Man, French Kiss,
I think is just always on the top of the
list for me, Like I love the Proposal, I love
Pretty Woman. You know those are all great, but it's
just hits my personality, right, French Kiss. I love that one.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Kevin Klein is so hot in that movie, really rgeous.
That's the one with him and Meg Ryan and they
have to like go and try to make her ex
boyfriend mad because he's proposing to someone else.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Right, yeah, exactly, But then he's stolen something and so
then she's like in on this weird caper that she
doesn't want to be a part of, and then they
of course fall in love. It's wonderful.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
That's when her haircut was at its like most perfect.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh so biggy, short, little haircut.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
It was so good.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
I wish I had a head for pixie cuts.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
What are you talking about? You do?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
No, I don't. My head's too small for a pixie cut.
But also I have one of those dents you know
when your doctor pulls you out and there's a thumb
dent in the back of your head.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
I have a big one, you guys talking about.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
Wait, there's a thumb debt.

Speaker 6 (30:35):
Oh, I have a huge deck here, I.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Have a big one. I definitely couldn't do that. Like
when Natalie Borman shaved her head for v for vendett
I was but I was.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Just gonna say, I was like could have never done
VI for Vendetta. Nope, absoluely not.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
My skull comes to a weird point in the back.
Ah man, you guys insecure.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Gold, What about this one? Where would you want to dream?
Girls trip? You got a girl's trip? You got what
you have? Five, six, seven, ten days? Ten days? It's
a lot, maybe like ten days long time.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
I have Greece on my bucket list. I've never been.
I really want to go.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah, I do too. It's great.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
I like history.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh that's why I did. When you took Maria there?

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, I did a couple of summers ago. I took
her over there. We went to Paros, which is beautiful.
It's just a tiny little island that not a lot
of people know about, but it's stunning. I have a hole,
I got a whole travel right up on it. I'll
give it to you. Paros it's beautiful.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
I remember thinking like we were going to live there
for a second because we're friends with a guy that
runs the film commission in Greece, and Jeff and I
are like, what.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
If we just go there? Like, what what does that
look like?

Speaker 3 (31:50):
You look good with the tan? Hillary Man?

Speaker 6 (31:53):
We could go make some shows there.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Why not? Yeah, if it worked for Meryl Streep and
Mama Mia, like we.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Could do this cute little expat rom coms. That's That's
kind of what I fantasize about. Honestly, is like, oh,
I if I was gonna say, let's go on a trip,
I just want to go to Italy and go to
I just want to go like take pasta classes with
old nonahs and like travel through Olive Groves and wait.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Is that why my algorithm?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Every day I wake up with cheap Italian villas dot
com email and me all these houses that are like
a super cheap.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
That's probably for me sending you that house I was
looking at in Deep twenty twenty when I was losing
my mind and thinking we needed to evacuate right right?

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Where are we going to go?

Speaker 6 (32:40):
What if we just went here?

Speaker 5 (32:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, but I.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Think that we're we're drawn to like romantic cultures. Joy,
where do you want to go?

Speaker 3 (32:50):
I'm taking a girl's trip. I'm going in a few
weeks to London just for fun, but oh fun, much
like I want to go.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
Haven't I been?

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I haven't been to rock but I don't.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Know Prog's amazing.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Yeah, I mean everybody says it's amazing. I mean du
Brevnika here is also amazing.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I'm sorry, I'm bouncing around the map, but I don't know.
Probably Italy too, I probably. I think I'm on the
same page. I probably would want to go to the
Mofy coast and like get a boat.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Does that make us basic girls? I don't care you
make fun of our kids. You can make fun of
our basic girl trip.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
Yeah. I could also see some like doing some Highlanders.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, Scotland.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Yeah, I've never been, guys, Honestly, I haven't been anywhere
because we started work. I started working when I was
right out of high school and then there was just
never a break. And then I had kids and they're
in school and shit, and so yeah, girls trip Scotland.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
Scotland's on my list. Maybe we should all go there.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'm down.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah, we'll take some waistcoats.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, well, could it buy some waistcoats there? That's what
we're gonna do.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
I'm ready.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Yeah, Joy will be out translator fantastic. All right, summer
cocktail of choice? Oh, Jack is asking, while we plot
all these things, what is our summer cocktail?

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Of choice.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I mean it's hard to beat a nice Negroni, like
a nice refreshing negroni A on an afternoon the little pizza.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
You guys, I am such a lover of an aperol sprits,
But have you had a Hugo sprits?

Speaker 5 (34:32):
What's Hugo sprits.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
It's basically like an apparol sprits, but instead of apparol
you use elderflower liqueur.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Oh yes, okay, with.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Prosecco, seltzer, lime mint. It is good. And you know
all I want to do all winter, Like the minute
it gets called out, I just want a whiskey.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Yeah, m But in the summer, yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Like sparkling citrus and prosecco. Get out of your all desk.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
It's not too sweet with a s Germain.

Speaker 6 (35:03):
No, there is no San Germain. It's just elderflower liqueur.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
That's Elderflower Liquors Aser Maine.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
Is it. Yeah, it's a brand of it.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Yeah, oh I guess yeah, there's other brands of course. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
When we do promotional stuff for MF Libations, we did
a we did a martini, but we traded out one
of our ingredients for an elderflower liqueur. And we used
our BlackBerry jin and it was like it's one of
those things where you're like, how's that gonna work? Work?

Speaker 5 (35:32):
Great work, great flowers, fruit and liquor. That's my combo.
That's what I want in any.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Drink, Botanical cocktails, man like aviation with a little crime
violette and some lemon. There's so many good things to drink.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
I'm so lazy.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
I just like finding those sodas that have like very
low sugar. Like there's a brand called Gus Soda that
I've always been partial to, obviously because the name. Yeah,
and so finding like fancy Italian sodas and love putting
gin in them is all I can handle.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Right now. I'm just like, I already get out of
my lab.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
I'm making my gin drake. Yeah, A two step cocktail
that sounds like a fancy that tastes like it was
done by a fancy mixologist is real nice.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
M hm. That's what I won't.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
That's what I want. Cheers, cheers, Well.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
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Speaker 3 (36:19):
Are we gonna do another Q and A later? Are
we gonna what's our plan for next week? Guys?

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Well, we're gonna hear from our union rep right like
once we get information from our representatives, will know whether
or not this is considered promotion for a streaming show.
And if it's not cool and we go back to
our regularly scheduled program. But if it is in conflict.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
We have lots of fun ideas.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
We've got a lot of creative thinking happening, and all
of it's very dishy and fun and lighthearted.

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