The Beginning (w/ Shelley Hennig)

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Hell are back now with me Hollen Roden
and I Hunt Radio podcast. So today we have our
first female guest on the podcast, Shelly Henning. Welcome, Welcome
to Tina. This is my first podcast, is it really?

(00:21):
It really is? Okay? So, and I only said yes
because it's you. Thank you. You're so sweet. It's I
feel weird. And I was even telling michaela our lovely producer.
She I was like, guys, I can't ask people for
favors and it's just it's hard for you. So it's
excruciating for me and isn't a favor though I want

(00:42):
to favor. We got this car, you broke some glass
on the way we're here. It's not a favor. We
love this show. I love you, but it's hard and
I want to start producing more. And I'm like, this
is my first baby step into producing. Is you have
to ask people for favors. It's weird. We really got
to get you okay with that? I know? So this
is my first. Um, so I'm starting with my friends

(01:04):
and it's really sweet that you said yes. I really
appreciate it. So I have a little gift bag for you.
I love it. It's in a seven eleven bag. It's
in a seven eleven bag because Shelly and I both
love seven eleven. It was one of our first conversations
on set. Actually, Oh my god, get me. So I
have a sandwich. My favorite, the triangle sandwich. The triangle sandwiches.

(01:26):
We love the triangle sandwiches. Do you do you marry me? Okay?
Wait wait what kind? What do you think it is? Tuna?
Shut up? I knew you you and I knew you
and I will know. Yes, God, I love this sandwich.
It sits in yours for like five years. I believe
we have tuna that we we that is still on
our bellies from when we shot Team like seven months ago. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:48):
we both love Triangle. We started last February March. Like
the show. Oh the show, Well I nine, isn't that crazy? Crazy?
You were doing Secret Circle. We'll get to that. Yeah,
So what else did you get me? I have some drinks.
You can dress. You can guess the drink um Celsius.

(02:09):
I'm giving her eyes right now. Yes, she brought a Celsius,
so she told me she was going to bring but
so I'll have that one tomorrow. I got to an
orange Celsis that's the only celsius I drink. Oh is it?
Damn it? No? No, No, that's okay, main go passion fruit.
And then I also brought you a sparkling lemonade. Here's
the thing. I've never tried those two really, maybe just
expanded my horizon. It's yeah. And then lastly I got you. Um,

(02:36):
I didn't remember what chips. She's not a sweet, sweet
people person. So a sweet person. So I love you.
Now I have dinner for tonight. I learned my friends
in with drunk food. I love it. Yeah. We always
would order tuna fish sandwiches. Um on set. This is

(02:57):
it's really exciting. That's your first podcast. Can do mr.
You can do a SMR. I can eat the tuna.
TA was smacking destroy people. Okay, all right, we're back.
We're back. So you were born in Louisiana, and what
was your earliest memory. We're going to get to teen Wolf,

(03:18):
but what was your earliest memory of Louisiana? Oh that
no one's ever asked me that. We've got a lot
of good questions coming. You know, I am like the
gift of questions. So thought, um, I love that about you.
My first memory For some reason, my brain went to
the first time I touched snow. It doesn't really snow

(03:40):
that often, but it did when I was like four
or five, maybe even younger, and I just remember I
came This doesn't make any sense, but like why my
parents would have me barefoot in the snow. But I
remember like the grass coming up from the snow and
poking me and hating it. So I think my point
is Louisiana is not known for snow. I am not
a ski beach girl, sports person. I'm a beach girl,

(04:03):
swamp girl. Yeah, so for me, it's always about the weather.
That Diana's made me just like a warm blooded I
was going to say, that's so insightful that that's your
first memory. I don't know, that's just like it was
an aversion almost because you are such a beach like
that is synonymous with you, is like is definitely a
warm weather Okay. Interesting. And then you got into the

(04:24):
business in an interesting way, which I know you've talked
about before, through the Miss Tinuous a competition that you won.
I do you know this was your first pageant you
were entered. I believe I did a couple of like
local like dancing kind of pageant stuff, but not like
a parach not like a Miss teen USA or Miss

(04:45):
teen Louisiana. Absolutely not my dance teacher. It was something
she had grown up doing and it brought her a
lot of opportunities. So she just kind of swooped in
and was like, I think you can get something out
of this. So is your dance teacher with my dance?
I thought it was your mom. I don't know what
I thought that. No, it was my dance teacher. There
was like a family tragedy, and my dance teacher kind

(05:05):
of stepped in and pretty busy in a good way,
and so she she helped me do that. I mean,
my mom was happy to help, but she didn't know
anything about this. So very last minute I bought you know,
ninety dollar dressed from David's Bridle, and uh it was
it was it like a bridesmaids dresses actual, like it

(05:28):
was not um but you so nervous or like what
did What were your thoughts like walking into your first pageant?
I thought I don't belong here in this sense. Uh,
looking at it the way you know you grew up,
you you watch movies about pageants, you and I definitely

(05:48):
felt uncomfortable because my outfits weren't as expensive or that
a big part of it. Yeah, that's a huge part
of it. People have been coached. I didn't do that stuff,
but I was a former I was a dancer, and
I was comfortable with people, so I just brought that.
It's really hard to think back to like what the
funk was I doing? Like the fact that I just

(06:08):
walked in there. Honestly, I think often about sixteen year
old Shelley and I'm like, wow, right, impressive, impressed that
we actually got here and had the courage we had,
the older we get we know better, Like we know better. Yeah,
but I just went in blindly. I don't know, I
just kind of followed. Did it feel like high school?

(06:29):
Were you like scared to make friends or you just
like keep your head down and it's okay if they're
not nice to you? Like or did that not? Even
that wasn't even in your headspace. I'm such a people person,
So that's really all I had. And that experience was
getting to know the contestants and yeah, and I'm actually
still friends with one of the girls. But yeah, no,
I I made friends, and I that was probably my

(06:51):
favorite part about it. Um, did you did you room
with another girl? Yes? And I'm trying to remember her name.
I loved her so much. It's just been so long
and obviously we lost touch, but she's out there. If
I saw her, I would know who she was. Psychologically.
It's so it's similar to acting, but it's like so
it's different obviously, but it's it's got like a lot

(07:12):
of common ground. I feel like, yeah, I don't know
what I was doing there though, because it's not like
like acting is like we're passionate about it right, like
we like the craft, we like what we do. It's
not like beauty pageants are just they are weird to
me now to think about it, like, what is it?
And if for for me, it was to get opportunity

(07:33):
and perhaps get me out of Louisiana because at the
time it just seemed it was my dance teacher's idea.
I hadn't thought of it. But she's like, I see
you other places you know interesting, But have you thought
about acting prior to Hell No, no, not even to
acting school. I didn't know who Meryl Streep was. So
I went for opportunity. Um, a lot of people go

(07:55):
to have the platform for charity, and that's something that
came later. Once I one Team Louisiana. They sat me down,
they were like, so, what's your platform? And I was like,
I looked over at my mom and I was like,
what's a platform? I don't know what that is? Like
what charities do you? And I was like oh oh.
And so then I was exposed to the other side,
the great side about and when you when you win,

(08:18):
how quickly do you transition to New York and you
get a scholarship? Well, this is so I'm talking about
Team Louisiana. Right, So then you have to compete, right, Oh,
so you are automatically entered you have to go then compete, Yes,
And I didn't know that. I thought it ended at
Miss Team Louisiana and I was not expected to win
that I didn't even invite, Like I think it was

(08:40):
just like my mom, dad and like a couple of friends.
I don't think anybody was training process from Louisiana to
ten USA. I mean it was like I forgot there's
two levels beauty pageants for dummies. I mean, I didn't
know what I was doing. I don't know what I
wish we could have made the documentary. Back then, I
wish I had my camera and I went from Texas
and somehow knew year to like, I know, another little

(09:00):
southern girl to see the road. Yeah, it was six
months a year, it was two two pageants, probably like
nine ten months. So then you got like schooled hardcore
I mean or not really. I avoided it. So one week,
would you have like a coach or no. I did
not do that. There was like a few dress fittings.

(09:21):
It was really uh. I was getting acquainted with having
the platform. And that part was tricky for me because
my brother died in a drinking and driving accident. So
that was sort of what was pressed upon me. Not
I don't mean pressed as and it was forced. I
welcomed it, but it was time, the natural progression. It

(09:41):
made sense. But looking back, if I'm honest, I would
not have used that as the platform. I was too young.
It was still too fresh, and when you were you
like barely could drive. At that point. I didn't drive,
couldn't drive. It didn't even like I got my license
when I was eighteen, because I was one of the
last ones. I was scared, probably for obvious reasons, not

(10:02):
that I thought i'd be drinking and driving, but just um,
but yeah, it definitely I remember feeling deeply uncomfortable with
giving speeches about that part of my family's life. And
it's like therapy on stage, and it created some you know,

(10:23):
just looking back, like I would have done that differently,
but hopefully I spoke to some kids at some school
and they thought twice and didn't drink and drive. I
don't know. You were doing conventions from a very young age. Basically, girl,
I had to show up in a freaking crown and
a sash at like all boys schools, and like this

(10:43):
is the good breeding ground for Hollywood. It's like the
things we had to do. It's so I've never taught
I mean, I obviously no shell, but I've never talked
to like you about like pageants in detail. The pageants
were what brought you to So then I win Miss
teen Essay somehow, and and I think it was my
being naive, like I only knew how to be a teenager.

(11:07):
I caught on very quickly that I'm not going to
have all the right answers to these questions that they're
asking me. I'm I think that's what, yeah, and what's
funny actually, especially that we're in this building we were
talking earlier. This is where they cast these Our Lives
while one of my judges was actually Alison Sweeney knows

(11:28):
you know, she's the face of Days of Our Lives,
one of them. Yeah, so cut to you went an
acting scholarship and I'm New York Conservatory and Dramatic Art. Yes,
and I saw that just as what my dance teacher
told me, which is like a way out, like away
somewhere else. So but I never acted in a school

(11:49):
play like nothing, knew nothing, never had memorized lines. No.
I just watched Save by the Bell and that was
basically it was that your favorite show growing up? Yes,
how awful is that? No? I love to say, by
the Oh my gosh, I named everybody. I loved all
the menaces like Zach Morris, Steve Urkel was never a
slater girl. I was all about the Zax And then

(12:10):
what's um? Did you ever feel like you were Kellypowski?
Like were you ever heard for Halloween? Because you had
like alive skin and long bray with her? When they
did this Save by the Bell pop up here, I got, yes,
there was the same By the Bell Pop up and
you can hang out at that what's the Max. It's Max, yes,
and you can eat food. When it was here a
few years ago, I definitely dressed my best nation, but

(12:32):
I'll never be her. Take pictures of this. I have
it somewhere on my phone. Yes, oh my gosh, if
you're ready, we can we can surface. Yeah, it's it's somewhere.
But I didn't have a Zach Morris um. But yeah,
so you get the acting scholarship, and no one had
really taken the two year program. A lot of the

(12:53):
former beauty queens they're never doing just the summer program,
which makes sense because you're getting all these opportunities. William
Morris wants to meet with you, but La, I met
with William Morris and I literally asked them, why do
you why are you meeting with me? I have no talents, like,
I don't do, I don't act, I don't host. And
they were like, well, let's pick one. Oh my god,
you're going to die. They had me go and practice hosting.

(13:16):
This is like ancient times, like it's not like I
don't even know if there was YouTube yet. I guess
there was, but there was actually to this five YouTube
started so this like two thousand, so like I didn't
even know like how to learn how to host. So
they had this he's he's an actor and a singer,

(13:38):
Tyler Hilton. They had me and my mom go to
the House of Blues in New Orleans and and like
ask this guy questions on my old like whatever recorder
I had, and I have this footage somewhere and it's
the most embarrassing. I'm like messing up my I don't
know what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm asking.

(13:58):
And to this day I think of him his dad often.
What I They were so kind and they like coached
me through this process. But anyway to shout out to
Tyler Hilton, Tyler Hilton, wherever you are, I gotta find
him and tell him thank you, thank you for your
patience and thank you for making me realize hosting is

(14:19):
not my thing. So I took the acting scholarship and
I didn't sign with any agency and I just did
like commercial and no other contestant had done the to
year program. Are you the first team USA to do
I think I'm the first one to do any and
complete it. Yeah, it's not for everybody. I I was
not ready for the world, the entertainment world. I wanted

(14:41):
to really focus on one thing, and I chose the
acting because that was what was free and that's what
was handed to me. And I just and you lived
in Manhattan as like a young girl Brooklyn Heights. Um. You?
So you move from the Upper West Side with Miss
USA and Miss Universe to a dorm in Brooklyn Heights,

(15:01):
and this part I kind of know, like I remember you.
I've asked you like how is because I've never done
the New York thing and I so kind of disappointed
in myself that I didn't. But it just like snuck
away from me. And now I'm and I had thirties
and it's like I'll have a show or you know,
we'll say you're a good friend of yours just moved there.
And so I've been vicuriously like dmng her on Instagram,
be like what how is it? Um? But but were

(15:24):
you excited for Manhattan? Like did you understand how big
of a city that was when you first moved there?
I did not. Um. I also didn't understand again back
to weather, Uh, you know, I see grounds and the
amount of times I bust in my ass or like
my first night there. They drop you off in your
apartment and I'm like seventeen and they're just like okay,
good night, And I was like, wait, where's Where's I

(15:46):
don't have food in here, so like, oh, there's a
there's a grocery store. Just let me just walk and
you get your own groceries. And I was like okay.
So I walked to the grocery store late at night.
They were like, there's a free delivery service. I go.
I get because the fridge only had like, um all
healthy stuff because Miss USA and Miss Universe, you know,
they know what they're doing. And I was a little
Louisiana seven eleven girl. But I go to the store

(16:07):
to get things they didn't have, and um. I go
to the register and I'm like, so, how do I
do the delivery service? And they're like, oh, it's past
past eight or whatever. You have to there is no
delivery service. This is late and I just had to
carry like ten bad is this like September drop off?
I can't let's see this was actually yeah, it was

(16:28):
like yeah like summer. Um. So I just remember walking
like ten blocks, like you just don't do that. I
didn't grow up in the city like that. Were you overwhelmed?
We're just like, were just like confused, You're confused. I
was just I just felt stupid. I was just like,
I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm doing it.
It was it was cool, but you know that was

(16:49):
when you were Yeah. And my favorite thing is that
when I gave up my title when it was over,
because that's only a year. It's a year, and it
was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which I thought as cool
that they chose, you know, my home state. And at
the end, I just remember sitting on the ground in
the parking garage. Your your story is always in parking garage.

(17:11):
I know. I almost got arrested in parking garage ones
for doing a public pee. Glad that didn't happen because
then I would have never been Miss tin Usa. Um.
But I just been being on the floor and being like, wow,
it really is over. There was no car to pick
me up, like they just it's just done. Like at
that night, it's over with. You need to go on
the show alone on the History Channel. That's you, that

(17:34):
is your show. I am not adventurously fortunately, don't think
I could hack it like I'm watching it recently. But
you know, I talked about you often and your van
living and also just like your trips to the jungle
by yourself, and there's been a few, but that's so
wild to me. It is funny though, that we all
as actors are just so transplanted, like we're taken out

(17:56):
of our environment and we're like dropped in, you know,
Manhattan as a team manager, and these are not normal
experiences looking back on it, like how young we were.
You don't feel young when you're seventeen eighteen, but looking back,
oh my lord, it's insane. I mean the ex that
I had to and the fact that I didn't like
take advantage of, like I could have gotten in a

(18:18):
lot of trouble like I did. I I was. I
was seventeen when I rented my first apartment on Craigslist.
I don't think you know this, Yeah, and um, and
I I drove out to Los Angeles in my Z
three that had eighty five thousand miles on it, and
my dad was supposed to drive with me and he's
a doctor. And at five am, I had packed my

(18:38):
tiny little two seater like even in like the soft top,
like you know, put clothes in the back. I didn't
even have a suitcase, so I could like maximize each
amount of space. And I had just room in the
passenger seat for like my you know, jolly Lee figured
father UM to sit in the front seat of this
tiny car. And it's like four fifty five. I'm like, Dad,

(18:59):
you're ready to go. It's ah, no, I have a surgery.
I can't go. So I drove across the United States.
I was seventeen, Yeah, in my Z three and oh yeah,
it went down. It was crazy. Um, yes, I got
it was I don't know how you would describe that. Um,

(19:19):
I've never told this story. It was at a gas
station full on Texas chanin saw massacre style. I was like,
you know, like an off brand. I was out of
gas and so I had to stop and I get
out and I go get the gas. I'm getting my snag.
I go to the bathroom. I come out and I'm
checking out and this guy comes up behind me and
he puts his arm around my neck and its knee

(19:39):
kind of into my lower back but like kind of
holding me up. And the cast register guy um gives
me this like look of like do you know this
like it's sort of all like was in SloMo in
your brain. And I went to this all girls school
and I kind of thinking, like the all boys school
that we have friends at, but this is you know,
stayed away. I'm like, oh, what what? Boys playing a
trick on me? Was like like the first thought of

(20:00):
my brain. And then I very quickly realized, like, you're
not in Dallas. What's happening. I see the look on
the red the catch orders a person's face, and I
was just like and I just scream and and and
then he lets go and he's like, oh, I'm so sorry.
I thought your our girlfriend. And the girlfriend proceeds to
exit the bathroom, and the girlfriend looks the exact opposite

(20:23):
of me in every every shape and form and hair
color and the height and the whole thing. And so
that was my first experience. And I remember my mom
being livid that my father bailed on me with the
surgery that he had to go do and he wouldn't
he wouldn't dry with me. So so yeah, I remember,
you know, and then getting to Los Angeles and not
having enough money and yeah, so it was I had

(20:45):
gone out there for a screen test. Um I had
gone on tape from a Texas agency didn't have headshots
and they had called me out and I was like
I'll be there right or shine, and I'm like what,
Like it's like I just got in the car that
Z three with like a week's notice and look at
us now. But oh no, I I lived with a

(21:08):
lit assistant from w n W William Morris the time,
and just just a lot of weird stuff went down,
Like it was one bedroom that ended up not being
a full Yeah, it was one of those person near
the grove and grove. I don't think I've been properly
built yet um or it was engine construction, but it
was the farmer's market and yeah, so I mean I

(21:30):
get it like when we were teenagers and you're just
like set free. But oh I got into way too
much trouble. I only lasted a month. Um wait wait
till I went back to Texas. I went back to Texas,
did not book the Fox pilot. And Elizabeth Harnois got it.
We'll never get that point pleasant she was twenty eight
playing a teenager and I never said the chain. Yeah, yeah,

(21:53):
it was so no, I remember like these these moments
as a teenager in a huge city. Yeah. I had
a guy follow me into an elevator in New York
and I was actually there because I had fly back,
so I had gone on a vacation to l A.
It was actually to watch the Miss USA pageant. They
like invite you every year. And while I was there,

(22:15):
I got a last minute random audition for Days of
Our Lives. Yeah, was it through the conservatories. Actually the
US goes back to the hotel in danger Um. But
the founder of my school, Um jonesy r I P.
She was really really special to me. Uh. She she

(22:38):
saw how bad I was my first you know, day
and first year of acting, and I probably because I
had so much room to grow. She saw that, like
in my Shakespeare final whatever the hell it was. She
was like, oh, Shelley's like she can attrogress it. So
I told her I was going to l A for
a spring break. She said, you know, you really should

(22:59):
meet Royce Steinberg. And I was like, who's roy Steinberg?
And and he was the supervising producer on Days Our
Lives at the time, and She's like, you should just
go and have a meeting with him. She's like, call
this number when you land. I call him and he's like,
can you be at NBC in like an hour, Um,
I want to we're testing apart and I want to
see if you can, you know, read the sides with me.

(23:20):
I have like fifty dollars in cash. This is before uber.
You're at Elliott I'm well yes, and well no, I'm
at my hotel at this point, and that's like downtown
and now I've got to figure out a way to
get to here NBC literally in the building we are
basically yeah, that's actually we met at the stadio the studio. Yeah,

(23:43):
it doesn't matter, but uh yeah, next thing I know,
I was testing for That's how it happened. Yes, I
thought you like properly auditioned through like the conservatory or
after the conservatory, like a year. I was two years in,
almost years in. I had a few months left and
I had done one under five roles what they called

(24:04):
it at the time, on a soap opera in New York,
and that was through my commercial agents, like I had
a commercial agent, but there was really no time to audition.
I was doing the school. But Jones C sent me
up with Roy Steinberg. He read with me. He said
it was he was intrigued, and he was like, I
need you to test tomorrow if that's all right. He's like,

(24:25):
don't get me wrong. He's like, we're looking for a
redhead with blue eyes because we're replacing somebody. But I
want to get you on camera just for the future.
There might be other roles, but I was like I don't.
He's like, to have your lawyer or your agent, and
I was like, I don't have either. I have like
a commercial agent and he's like, I don't want to
tell you the test at seven, Amen, tomorrow, good luck?
And did your commercial agent called my commercial agents and

(24:48):
it's like now eight or nine PM. I can't reach him.
I don't have his like home number. And I went
to bed not knowing if somebody was going to do
my contract. And I woke up and John Shay told
me the next morning the commercial agent and he's like,
let's do this and for for for I think in
on Smart List, which is one of my favorite podcasts,

(25:10):
they say, like Tracy's the aunt in Connecticut. That doesn't
So when you test at the level of an audition
for Tracy and Connecticut, um, you have to send the
contract before you go to your test. You're signing money
you're going to make before your last audition. So I'm
signing a four year contract essentially, um where they can
fire you at any time. UM. But you you, you

(25:31):
owe it to them to be there. And I booked it.
But it was the actress Marybeth evans Um, who's iconic
on Days our Lives. She's been there since the eighties.
She's such a beautiful human. I tested with her and
she could tell I was extremely nervous, and she like
squeezed my hand and she said, honey, you were beautiful
inside and out, and I just went for it. Tyler

(25:53):
Hilton Roy Steinberg running, Yeah, that's pretty well. I will say.
I tested for Days of Our Lives. Remember I don't
remember the rule I tested for, but oh I do

(26:14):
remember who directed our test, and that was Alison Sweeney. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and uh And I remember, out of everything I've done
to this day, I'll never forget how stressful it was.
Like it gives me chill, like testing for a soap
opera is what for at least for me, the most

(26:35):
stressful thing I did ever ever to this day, it
was to put you on the state on the studio
in the make of the hair that you go through.
And then like for some reason, I was a wreck,
like before I tested for that and I didn't book it,
but I remember just yeah, it was one of the

(26:56):
most scary things I've done. It was one of my
I don't know why, but it was yeah. And then
like on my first day, I had to like cry,
and I remember thinking, Okay, the scenes coming up, the
scenes coming up, how am I going to cry? I
don't learn is the next school? I don't know? And
then I got myself so worked up that I started
there rying because I was just nervous, and that's how

(27:17):
I did. And it then it just became like a
nature because you have to cry as a female on
and then you're like, I'm doing comedy from here on out.
So why do you think I love comedy so much?
Because for four years I just had to be tortured.
It was really very privileged, but it was very difficult
I get it. So I never knew that. I thought
you somehow got the agent and did more of the

(27:37):
traditional route, but it was just because of Jones c
saying call it Roy Stein. So then I just had
a commercial agent throughout those four years, and I didn't
really audition for anything. And then you moved to Los
Angeles because Days of Our Lives was shot here, literally finished,
so I couldn't finish the school. So I flew back
for my graduation. They had me just fill out a
piece of paper about my experience filming and you're working. Yes,

(27:58):
so my parents around the hotel. I'm walking back to
the hotel and this guy jumps. I could feel him
following me, and he jumps in the in the elevator,
last minute, and in New York, in New York, and
I just booked it out of the elevator and just
yelled hew, and that was your this is my time
to leave New York. Yeah. Moving to l A was

(28:19):
like the best day ever. I was like, this is it,
This is it, Sunshine. I could drive a car, like
what part of town did you live in? My first
apartment was North Laurel Avenue with Tammy Ferrell, who found
me miss team to say friends all along the way.
For me, it's always been about the people like I.
You cannot convince me that's that's what was so cool

(28:42):
about Team Wolfe is it was an offer to do
a guest star, so I didn't have to do the
audition process for that one. My life isn't always Is
that your first offer? Um, That's what was one of
my questions for you about that, Like the first offer
you took them at least because you had done Secret
Circle the show. I think you're right. It might have

(29:03):
been my first offer, and it's because I had done
a show with Bo Burnham Zack Stone on MTV, where
so MTV casting was familiar with me. So Wendy O'Brien
was just like, oh, Shelley would have fun doing this,
this is this? Would you know? You did? You did
Secret Circle, then zack Stone during the same time. Actually
the time were supposed to be series regular for zack Stone,

(29:24):
but they changed it so that I co occurring and
then series okay, series regular and Secret Circle Wow? And
then what was the time jump between zack Stone and
Teen Wolf? I couldn't tell you. Probably like a year
or six months or something, at least a year. I remember, Yes,
what I got to test dribe the set of Teen Wolf,
essentially by doing the guests star say. When Jeff called

(29:46):
and asked if I wanted to stay as a series regular,
I was. I was oblivious to the success that you
guys had I. I'm usually oblivious to most things in
our industry. I don't don't know. And I will say,
like a year in this industry, which is a blessing
and a curse, is like two months in the real world. Yeah,
like a year can pass by and like that's not
a big deal, and somehow you have to figure out

(30:08):
how life works for that whole year because season change,
casino weather as I call it, Oh my gosh, that's yeah,
she loves Los Angeles. Yeah, you never know what what
if it's day or night, you never know what season
it is here. Yeah. So so you so casting called
and said, hey, come on, that's a two stride, and
I what again. I was naive to the success and

(30:30):
and I hadn't really seen the show yet, and so
for me, it was saying yes to the people. Yeah,
And then I got the lifetime Yes. I knew Dylan
through a friend and had briefly met me with Meley, Yes, Yes,
and I just hit the jackpot. Everything else after that

(30:51):
it was like, yes, I chose for the people. And
then it was like, and you had a fun character too,
and I know you like well. I talked to Jeff
about that a lot of opinions about it because I
wanted to do comedy, and that my hesitation with joining
the show. I again very naive, like why would I
hesitate right? Looking back, but I was looking after my
health at the time, and I was just like, I
don't want to be crying every day, even if somebody

(31:12):
is paying me to do it. And so Jeff and
I had a good talk about making my character funny,
and he's like, are you funny? And I was like,
I remember you saying yes, we'll find out. I remember
saying that too. Yes. But back to more of the hustle.
I think it's important. Let's throw in how it's not
always been this easy peasy. But there was a period
of time in between Secret Circle, Zack Stone and Teen

(31:35):
Wolf where I would get so close. You know, we
talked about this. You and I are very familiar with
each other's um. It's a lot of things that like,
I don't know if there's enough conversation about behind the
scenes that you know. I attribute it to a company
where you have the CEOs that are the brad Pitts,

(31:56):
I guess of the world, and then you have you know,
I guess you'd call the janitors that are like the
U five's, and then you have everybody in between, and
it's like there's like junior executives and then you know
the people that are not partner but their executives, and
it's like so much of this industry is privileged and successful,

(32:17):
but it is it is still hard. And that's where I,
you know, people like assume it's easy for people that
are serious regulars or jump short of show, and it's
just not. It's not. Stress is not. But but we
we've been very, very lucky, but we've also you and
I are we you know, we work hard, you know, um,
but there was a period of time where I just

(32:38):
kept getting so close to things that would have been
game changers and I'm not and I you, I know
you would agree to this for yourself. I think we
just want respect and we want to continue to work.
We want to draw security longevity, and so I try
and make decisions based on, well, I feel uncomfortable if
I say yes to this, or does this does it's
like a relationship, like does this fit in line? Would

(33:00):
I rather not have money for you know, a year
or whoever two years, three years and ten years, or
like what is it worth to you and teen wolf
worth it where we are doing movie like many years later?
And have you done though some UCB though you did
u c B? Yes, did you ever do Grownlings? I?
Did you see the audition for Grownlings? Got in never

(33:22):
never never forward, never moved forward. I might have had
to go somewhere else had you done that simultaneously with
team before before you had you had like your heels in.
Oh wow that early. Yeah, because that's why book sax Stone.
I think, wow, yeah, oh that's interesting. So that that
you ceb lad to zack Stone. Yeah, potentially, I think

(33:45):
you CBS an improv troup, yes, and improv school that
also has their own professionals that they're just unreal. Improv
is what they're really known for, and they just put
on these unreal show is that are so funny, but
their goal is not to make you funny. What winds

(34:05):
up happening is it expands your horizons to see more
humor in everything. So I would then read a script
and be like, oh, I see way more humor in
this than I would have previous too doing UCB. And
then obviously it makes you better at improv, which sometimes
asked in comedy auditions. But it was Whendy O'Brien, casting

(34:25):
director of teen Wolf. When I went to test for
the Lion game. That was my first big test and
that was a dramatic like role, and Wendy was laughing
and the audition and so she was like, you're really funny,
She's like, and I was like, I didn't know that,
and so she called my manager room was like, this
girl needs to be doing more comedy. So and then

(34:48):
I wound up testing for line game. Didn't get it,
but it was Whendy O'Brien that really saw that. So
then on top of that, I started doing UCB to
just help. That was my manager's idea. Wow, and I
love Wendy came back around for Zack Stone as well
as teen Wolf. Yeah, she's been very like key people
in your life. It's like a very like clean thread almost.
I've been very very lucky to have. Again, it always

(35:10):
goes back to the people Wendy's there's some not so
nice casting director. I had one tell me I was
aggressive once. I didn't like it. I didn't like how
like very like the character was and I was like,
I'm gonna go in and play or like all punk
and weird. I don't know why. I guess I just
wasn't capable at the time of like being soft like

(35:31):
in that time in my life that was pre therapy UM,
and now I can access all the different emotions. Before
I only had, like, you know, an edge. Trying to
think of my worst audition I had once a casting
director for a very big director who only uses this
casting director UM order Chinese food during my audition and

(35:53):
like full on, like the whole order UM asking for
options a role. That's what she ordered come from chicken,
UM and broccoli, and then she proceeded to call my
agent and tell UM them that I will never audition
for her again. And she was saying things that I
wasn't doing in my audition, so she literally confused me

(36:16):
with another person. I said, no, no, she was ordering
Chinese food during my audition and uh yeah, true story.
It was very bizarre and I had one of those
I have not auditioned for her since I despise this
will change your name just for those great things. I
had a guy, a male UM casting director. I wasn't
prepped that it was a pre read, and at this

(36:38):
point in my career so pre read is before they
it's the first time when when you're really not known,
you're new to the city, and they don't film you
doing the tape. So I walk in and I'm like,
where's the camera and they're like, oh, honey, this is
a pre read and I was like, oh, that would
like to myself, I'm like, that would have been totally fine.
I don't have an ego about this, but I was

(36:58):
not prepped for that, and now I feel stupid it.
I completely bombed on his computer and like and not
looking at me, and then the reader was just like
getting frustrated with me. I kept forgetting the lines, and
I eventually just excused myself and then I went into
it's a long walk, so I had worn heels in
the audition, was switching my tennis shoes, and I remember

(37:19):
I got in trouble. I didn't have a head shot,
so when I went back into the waiting room, I
bent down and switched my shoes and they didn't see
that I was still there, and they go, we don't
need to find that girl's head shot. Yes, And then
I got up and I go, I'm so sorry, I'm
still here. I'm so sorry, and I left and I
was bawling. I was sure, you'll always explain yourself or

(37:42):
still make it known, you're always like, by the way,
I'm gonna make it more awkward because I'm here. I
had to get out of there. I couldn't just like
just in here five minutes later. And the switching into
the flats moment is such a demeaning moment. It is
such the walker shame. And you've to watch another actress
bring her shoes in or switch the shoes. It's like

(38:04):
such a moment no one talks about, like like SmartLess
needs to talk about how they need to switch. But
they're all men, so I don't know. Maybe Sean Hayes
has had that moment, having to switch shoes out of
your slutty to you know, you're already in a slutty
outfit to the sluttiest you can get to get to
get into the read and then de slit yourself as
you gotto. It is the walk of shame. It's such

(38:24):
a weird feeling. The few months later, I got a
straight to producer session for a different sitcom and I'm
I wound up testing for it, and I see, actually
it was a straight to uh yeah, test and I
go in and it's the same casting director, but I

(38:46):
skipped the audition process and he was probably like so
confused because he saw me bomb. So he's just like
I wonder what his brain. But he at the end
of it was like like winked to me and he goes, hey, Shelley,
good job today, basically saying because I'm seeing you be
really bad. No, but it's interesting. Yeah, We're gonna hopefully

(39:08):
have Wendy on at some point in this podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
we're gonna have executives on and like Carly makeup artist. Yes,
she's lovely and managed, like I've got a whole career
like conversation for her. I want to talk about have
you seen any of the movie yet? I have seen
none of the movie. Don't worry, guys, this is actually

(39:28):
a team of podcast. We are going to get to that.
We did this with Jeff two like we wanted. I
really wanted to know his origin story. From the beginning.
We talked about Connecticut and his college experience. He was
an I T administrator at the Fox Studios, really he was.
But teen Wolfe was going to be premiering in three days.

(39:49):
It's funny paramount. Plus we'll like post something and I
just repost that's getting through line. Um, I haven't seen
any movie, have you seen? Well? I guess I just
know if you had like a lot of ad are
trying to sink My A d R was quite quick
because I was in town for only a day and Russ, Oh,

(40:10):
did you go to that amazing house though, like nineteen
twenties house in East Hollywood? Is that what you did
your a d R. We did it at this very
cool house. Um, I'm trying to remember. It was some
iconic director's home and we went in and I there's
been a couple of versions of a big scene I
I do about styles, yes, and so I was very

(40:31):
curious to see the version that they went with, and
I only got to see like a snippet of it
that I was hoping I was gonna have to, Well,
you kind of hope you don't have to redo your
big scene in a d R. So I was like
a cursing at a It was a bitter sweet moment
because I was hoping I could see the scene so

(40:51):
I could be prepped before it came out. Thankfully, though
I saw a snippet, so they took whatever original audio,
but I don't know the version they chose. Interest That's
what I'm my main A d R um, which a
d R tracy is where you go in for you
out there out there. I think it's Sean hays Um
cousin or aunt it was, it's for you dub. Yeah.

(41:15):
But yeah, how was your a d R? I mean,
do you get to see like I saw my ass? Oh?
I was gonna say that was one of my questions.
Is is Team Wolf the most naked you'd have been
on TV up to that point? I think so because
I've um now shown us like not just the top
of it, from the whole butt from behind. Funny story
how this happened. So you know we shot Team Wolf

(41:36):
and what April March April two thousand twenty two in Atlanta,
Great time. Hollan and I had a blast stories on
that later. Uh we do that. I get sick my
last day. I mean I'm sick the whole last week,
but I just keep coming to work. I'm testing negative
for God, but it was negative. So but on my

(41:57):
last day, I couldn't. When Carl went to do my makeup,
it hurt for her. I remember how sick. You've never
been that sick in my life. I go to my trailer.
Joe comes to see me, our executive producer, and he
takes one look at me and he's like, you gotta
go home. So I did not do my sex scene
with UM. I can't give it away right, well, actually

(42:17):
you can kind of whatever. I still won't give it away.
But there's a sex scene form leiah or just like
a it's insinuated, but I'm naked and um. Fun fact though,
my boyfriend filmed you doing that. Yes, he was the
second unit uh director photography the DPS and I was like,
this is a first for me. He's going to go

(42:38):
fill my friends. Yeah, it's kind of sex scene, kind
of heavy situation. So because I got sick, all that
we got to record was me running naked, which is
super vulnerable, like things are moving, they're bouncing up. And
he said that in between takes he looked down and
didn't know he looked away. It was like he wasn't
even there. But that's how Hollywood works. It's very funny.

(43:01):
You know, there's times where you have to make out
with your friend's boyfriend on a television show or a
movie and but you know, we've all been doing that.
It's like you're making out with your brother's half the time.
The amount of times I've had to make out with
like really good feels like a brother. Um, But we
do it. UM. So you're probably, well, you are one
of the most naked people on the team off movie. Yeah, possibly,

(43:23):
I don't know. Everybody else's nudity situation is up there.
But I couldn't do the rest of the scene. That's
what we hadn't finished, so cut too. I I am
now working on my new show Obliterated for Netflix. Plug
that in there, but I'm in Albuquerque now and one

(43:45):
of my co stars gets COVID, so we have to
shut down for a week. Because we shut down for
that week is the only reason I was able to
go back and finished That's right movie's which were very
important scenes that I hadn't done yet. Because I was saying, so,
I fly to Atlanta while everybody else gets a week off,
and I'm doing the scene with so and so you

(44:06):
will find out in a few days, and Russell's directing,
and I had also been prepping for another nude scene
that was coming in a week in Albuquerque. So it
all worked out. So I asked Russell. I saw that
he was showing Ryan's ass, and I got a little like,
why isn't he showing mine? So right before we did
my coverage, I saw the the camera shot and they

(44:30):
were not showing my butt, and so I went to
Russell and I go, we showed my butt? Please? No.
I was like, why didn't you ask me in the
first place? And He's like, you want to show you?
And I was like yes. I was like, it'll be
good practice for next week because the ship I had
to do the next week was even more i'm sure,
very intense, very intense. So I wanted to kind of
get comfortable with that. And so Russell's like, all right,

(44:52):
so they showed my ass. I saw it an a
d R. I did not have to make button noises
in my mouth. And I don't know why we're talking
about a d R. I thought about my ass, but
that's that's the scene I had a e d R.
And that's a big that's a that's a moment you
mus see the first time you like see your naked
body on the screen, because we're naked, like usually with
a thong and pasties for the crew shooting the show,

(45:12):
but it was all insinuated and then no no paramount.
Plus it goes there. Yeah, so you see my full
ass from behind um and they did a great job
lighting it. It's fun, it's I'm sure it feels liberty.
I've never I've never done any yet. Like the character Malia.
You know, it's like she's so comfortable nude because Farrell's

(45:33):
her thing. He's just Ferrell. So it's it was fun
playing like a Ferrel human. It's got to be fun.
It's so easy for me. It's a great it's a
good role. I have a few nicknames. Last year it
was Hurricane and are yourself me myself? Yeah, I started
getting Ferrell and I think if I see this as
a compliment, it's definitely Malia's nickname. I was always you know,

(45:55):
I was miss Tino say. I had to keep it together.
I had to like I had like, you know, one
foot in front of the other because unpacking of the
last five years. Yeah, just like let loose a little bit.
Thirties is more freeing. It's more free. It is so
much more free because we are the same age essentially,
I'm like four months older and I forgot Shelley's birthday,
and Coulter reminded me like it was really not okay.

(46:19):
She's January second, which is a tough birthday, and she's
even talked about how it's a tough birthday. You're a libra.
I'm a libra. I'm getting are you October October? But
I just don't know the day? Seventh? The seventh? Yea?
Um so yeah, teen Wolf the movie? Are there any
regrets anything you didn't leave that on the on the

(46:39):
garage floor? Um? Regrets with the movie? I don't know
anything that you like, wish you would have approached and
he just didn't or do you feel pretty happy with everything?
I have no regrets. Definitely not. I'm also just there
at that point in my life like it's hard to
regret something because I used to regret a lot because
I was a control freak. I'm way less of a

(47:01):
control freak. And it's like it is what it is.
Like I missed a lot of the pr for for
the movie. So like fans like on Twitter, like we
see you paramount, plus you're not giving Shelley any like
promo time and whatever, and I this here's my chance
to say this. I was very very ill the day
that the promos were happening, or and and the photo

(47:21):
shoots and the and the interviews, all the ePK oh.
I don't any ePK um. I'm trying to remember. That
would be that would be my regret, is that I
didn't get to like, oh, that's why it was the
last week of shooting. He was. That's right, that's right, okay,
And I was so so so sick. So um. That
would be my only So I guess I guess I

(47:42):
regret going to Miami on the weekend and getting covid. Um. Yeah,
no regrets. Do you have any regrets? I'm trying to think.
I always regret not being a little healthier on sets.
I get into like second meal and I need to
it is. It has been my ongoing goal. And I'll
let y'all know in the course of this podcast if

(48:03):
I if I I'm on a project that I actually
succeed where yeah, I just I wish I eat healthier
because I ate healthier because my brain fog I get
with all of the junk food on set is really
not healthy from me. It's over stimulating being on set.
It's it can be stressful, you know, it's our characters
are emotional. We have to go through our bodies and brains.

(48:23):
Don't really know the difference at times, like you're out
there crying and then you cry eat, you know, like
out like it's really really hard. I gained a lot.
I gained fifteen pounds last year. Did you really? I
really did and set a lot last year. I was exactly.
But the days blend together and working sixteen minimum door

(48:46):
to door is your average day, You're working twice the
average day. Yeah, we were doing six day weeks on
obliterated and but what was what I was really proud
of myself, uh for doing, is going, Okay, I gained weight,
it's not the of the world. I'm playing a CIA
agent who's out on the field and beats people. It's
way more believable if I am a bigger person that

(49:09):
I can actually do this job. So I was able
to go, hey, that's where my body is right now.
I can justify that in my role. And um, there
is less pressure. I think as we get older, and
I do think gen Z and social media and like
BOS comes from within now it does. I think that
at least you know, there is no longer like the

(49:30):
nineties atmosphere that is like the al yeah, I got
called into Days of our Lives. I won't name the producer.
It doesn't really matter. Such a long time ago that
this is how things were handled. But I had gained
weight because I moved from New York where you walk
everywhere a and he called me in and he said,
you know you've you've put on some weight, and um,
My issue with that conversation how it continued was was

(49:54):
not actually him pointing that out, because he was in
a way trying to be helpful. He's like, you know
your new here, do you need like Jim recommendations whatever,
like whatever, I don't even care. Alright, cool, but he
pointed out a specific about my body and he said,
you're like me. When you gain weight, you gain it
in your face. Oh and it's that and it's old
ways when we started that are still sometimes with us.

(50:19):
But I'm so proud of gen Z and there's changed
and all that change. Not single person has pointed out,
you know where my body was last year. I think
we're I think we're slowly changing the business. I definitely
think yeah, and it's definitely always die hard of like
we're eighties babies, Like we're sort of that cusp of
of the gen Z mentality and like the gen X mentality,

(50:41):
we can kind of we go we swing both ways,
You and I swing both ways. Oh lord, you were
obviously offered team of what were reactions when when the
team will move the Where were you when you got
the call? I was very surprised. I was in a

(51:03):
very bad space. So the phone call obviously was like
God sent and um all I thought about was like, oh,
I'll be with family soon. Oh yeah, I was Yeah,
that's you. Was not a super I was very very
and it just felt right. Did I feel like weirdly?
Did you feel like you were living in a dream
a little bit? Because I just I never thought we

(51:25):
were going to do this. It was four years later.
I never even considered this as like an actually weird thing.
Usually when something is over, it's over totally, and it
was so Yeah. I talked to Jeff when we recorded
our podcast and he said, yeah, the fans were a
huge part of why we came back, and that season

(51:46):
seven wasn't a possibility, but the movie was, and the
process of acquiring the rights UM two paramount plus it's
like kind of an a lease and it was it
was really interesting to see like how these things come together.
And as actors, I always remind you know, very passionate
fans of Team wellf like we're not in the power seat,
we're the last on the totem pole to know anything. Yeah,

(52:08):
I was really surprised. I remember Colton hand told me
because he had run into Jeff and Jeff had told
him and so, Um, it's been really Crystal lives in
New York. She got to come back and do it
with us. Obviously big, obviously a huge part of the movie.
So I got to know her better. That's right. I
never really worked with her, so that was another plus.

(52:29):
You and I got to spend more time together. I
know we've talked about that. That was a highlight for me.
Um and Colton I were talking about that because we
had went to the show is the first time. No, no,
I didn't think it was unreal. Was it fun? Love
they have for this show actually shook Colton and I

(52:51):
Like we walked out on that stage and it was
like we got smacked in the face by the love
I've ever The Brazilian fans are special, so special. But
they played the trailer and Colton and I looked up.
We were in shock, like it looks so good. And

(53:13):
I was saying, yesterday, I forget to who But sometimes
you you know, we do this a lot, and we
did the show. You're in it like sixteen hour days.
You get desensitized, and I think, for me, the movie
is just reminding me what this show means to everybody.
And it's like I'm finally capable of processing what it means. Two,

(53:35):
it's so autopilot on the show, and we're also so stressed.
I think I'm really stressed at that time. And haired
we wanted it to be good. We wanted to do
a good job, you know, and the pressure of I
was so scared of what was posting Wolf. I remember
being very aware in the moment and not enjoying that
a moment enough. Um, And I was aware I wasn't

(53:57):
enjoying it enough on the show, but I was just
so I was such a nervous Nelly. Yeah, we've got
a really weird I was so nervous about like just survising.
And I think in my thirties, with certain life changes, yes,
building my van was one of them. Um and happy
that ever you cover always borrow the van. I pitched

(54:19):
the van podcast that did not go over well. So
they're like, you can do A team will function past
podcast man stories, you are wild. People realize that I
don't know. Maybe I don't know. I'm not that wild?
Are I wish my survival skills were much better? Anyway,
we won't go into van stories here anyway. Back to

(54:40):
teen Wolf, Um, you know, I think we were all surprised,
and Shelley is no exception. I'm no exception. I think
we can't really tell you much about the movie since
it hasn't come out yet, but at least you got
to know Shelley. You got to know why she's here.
Thank you, Miss tin Usa and Roy Roy Steinberg, Roy
Time Stanberg, Samantha's dance teacher. At all. Samantha started at all,

(55:09):
I guess my mom and dad, Kathy and Glenn, you
did great. Her mom is first of all, a tiny human.
I was like, how did you have? Like she's one?
Is she even? I was like, did she make it
to the five foot mark? You know she might be
five ft at this one? Her kids are like giants,
so tall and so I was really cute, like seeing
you next to your mom because she's like comes up

(55:31):
to your waist. It's hilarious. Um, I have got some
rapid fire questions, and then we'll let you go because
I know, um, we've taken a lot of time out
of her day. There's three things that you and I
have in common. So the first one is obviously dance. Yes, Um,
we both like grew up in dance halls. I think
you probably went further in your dance career. I was

(55:53):
always wanted to be a professional dancer, so I was
so excited I book to Bring It On that unfortunately
came a pool. It was fun. It was fun, you know,
not exactly an acting endeavor, but it was the dancing
endeavor that I always wanted. And absolutely so you think
you could dance, it just come out. So I got
to like relive it with a lot of the like
runners of those yes, absolutely bleeding over into Bring It

(56:15):
On franchise. So that was fun. So we both were dancers.
Have you done a dance movie yet? No? But I
booked one and I couldn't do it really for scheduling.
But that was really cool. Then also obliterated one of
our producers creators directors found out he was very curious

(56:36):
about everyone's skills, and they were still writing this season
while we were shooting, and he found out that I dance,
so he wrote, um, a very big scene where I
have to dance. And I was so piste off originally
in the first first season. Yea, in the first season.
It'll come out later two thousand twenty three, but I

(56:57):
was I remember just being like, that's so thoughtful of him,
but like it's so vulnerable, Like he thinks I'm this,
Like he probably thinks I'm like super capable, and I
used to be right, but it's different. I've been craving
the dance classes, but it's not like I had to
do like and pure wets and I found my way
in and it was one of the It was a

(57:18):
career highlight. Isn't it fun? It was so fun. It's
the longest take I start from, Like it's just there's
acting involved, there's dance. It's it was really cool and
so yeah, I finally got to like really dance moment.
I writ You'll dance again, You'll have it, You'll have
a dance moment. It's it's like a full feature, um

(57:38):
so dancing. We both hate singing, hate singing. Um, we
hate saying goodbyes. We both have that, and we cover
our cheat days of of of eating unhealthy food, which
is which has already been a solid triangle sandwiches. Check
them out, guys. So a few little rapid fire questions.

(57:59):
What's one thing on your bucket list? Oh? Um, I
kind of want to go to like, um, like an
adult camp because I only went to adult summer camp. Yeah.
I've only done um one sleepaway camp when I was
like nine and it was for four and I come
to adult summer camp. So it does exist. It does.
We got we got to look back into it. But

(58:20):
I want to do that. That's on my bucket list
and it's not that adventurous. Katy Perry has this summer
camp where can be a counselor what Yes, she does,
and I don't want to be a counselor the camp ability. Um. So,
last two questions. What's your biggest purchase you've made as
an adult. Oh, well, it's about to be a house.

(58:43):
It's about to be a house. Yeah, it's about to
be a house, and that'll be the biggest purchase of
my entire life. You're gonna love it, though, I'm so excited.
She's for a year in a few months. So oh,
I did just get Um. This was a very kind
Christmas present from my mom AND's up dad, um because
they didn't have to pay for college or um. You know,

(59:04):
there was no uh debt from me. They got me
the Smeg latte machine. So fun. I am so excited.
We both love coffee, that is true. Um okay, but
I didn't buy it, but that was not fun that
I just wanted to. That's a nice purchase, though, and
I want you. I'll definitely I'll have I'll come over. Uh.

(59:28):
Last question, who is your crazy most interesting relative, because
you've got a family. My brother he is an amazing daughter.
Yes he does. And he's amazing and you've never met
anyone like him. He is. You know, he grew up
in like the suburbs that's not far from the city

(59:49):
of New Orleans. But he thinks he grew up like
in the country somewhere. But that's what I love about him,
is that he's always trying to get like as grounded
as he can, as dirty as he can. It's kind
of both of you, guys. Yeah, yeah, I I fluctuate
in and out. I can do both. So my brother
he's just you need like a translator. He's got this
accent and he's like, oh no, man says he's that.

(01:00:12):
He's like, yeah, what are you doing. It's but he's
a sweetheart. He's just he's hilarious without doing it on purpose,
and he's a good person. Shout out to the headaches.
I did bring a lot of my brothers to Malia.
I saw her as a very masculine, you know, and

(01:00:32):
just just their honesty. My brothers are that way and
sometimes the way that Malia stood. I would how she walked,
how she sat, how she talked, how she like moved totally.
I forgot about that. There you go, thank you. Of course,
it's funny how many uh family members we've actually all met,
except you've no one's ever met my family. I met.

(01:00:53):
Your mom is lovely and I forgot. We actually did
go to a very nice Brazil meal Brizilian mail is
you're definitely a Frazil Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I love
you know. The team of cast is pretty close and
we love that. Shelley, you've come on with the podcast
to Howard welcoming me. I appreciate it. Really. I was

(01:01:14):
actually thinking thanks for welcoming to season three, like because
I wasn't there from the beginning. No, technically weren't. But
and and we're so as you're on for this because
we're but we're doing rewatches for people that are in episodes.
So I'm going back through people's episodes and I was like, wait,
Shelley wasn't in it until season three. We have to
get around for the team for the movie The Big Banger.

(01:01:35):
So thank you thanks for having me. Of course, Honey,
what is next after this premiere? What is next career wise?
Career wise in your career. I just finished a series
for Netflix UM called Obliterated. I mentioned a couple of

(01:01:57):
times because I'm so proud of it. I've heard a
lot of stories. I'm excited you guys to hear about.
That's an action comedy. UM, the best cast, the best creators, producer, writers, directors.
It is genuinely hilarious. It kind of takes us back
to like early two thousand's humor, where there's really nothing

(01:02:19):
you cannot say or do on this show. And UM,
I think people are ready for it and it should
come out like Labor Day two thousand twenty three. UM,
I play a Cia a C I a field agent.
I beat the ship out of a lot of people.
Did you do research and like CIA stuff? I did
you know? I found this one video and I discovered

(01:02:42):
you know, CIA agents there their actors and that's I've
always wanted to play an actor on a movie or
a show. So that was the most exciting part for me.
I get I get to play so many different roles
on this because I'm undercover. And do you just speak
any like different languages differs? Breaking did girl? I had
to speak Russian? Yes, And the day I had the

(01:03:04):
most Russian for some reason, the Russian. First of all,
I didn't know I had a Russian teacher, so I
was like paying somebody, like some girl I met, like
on the side and literally and then one day they're like, oh,
the Russian teacher for the other actors, and I'm like,
what do you mean there's a teacher? Um, So then
I met her, but she didn't realize one of the
she and I did not realize that the day I

(01:03:27):
was supposed to do the most Russian and We're in
rehearsal and I flipped to the sides and I'm like,
oh fuck I literally and then they called for lunch,
like by the grace of God, and I ran to
my trailer and called this lady. I didn't even know
her name yet anyway, so I learned it at lunch.

(01:03:49):
But I did it pretty well. I think. Um, I
wish I would have known this ahead of time because
my cousin's Russian. Oh yeah, I know. And then on
the day because it was multiple days where I had
to speak Russian. But there's another day, I'm like. It
was filming in Vegas. It's the most the most rainy
Vegas has ever been. I'm in a bikini the one

(01:04:11):
bikini day. It's raining, it's it's freezing, and I've got
to speak Russian. You and your bikini story. I know
it's always something, but the show challenged all of us
in the best ways. We all get to do so
much in it, and it's freak and hilarious. The actors
you get to work with. You looked like you had
a lot of fun. You're unreal. You felt like I
was cheating on my team will family, But we can
all merge, we can all be I love your gym

(01:04:33):
photos of Instagram with you and another actor two teams. Yes,
I think it was Eugene. Yeah, yes, Eugene him, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I met him. So he's friends with Tammy crowed me
Miss Tina USA, and I met him in when I
was competing for Miss Tina. Say so I've known that guys.
That was like sixteen. Yes. So I get a call
from the a DS like giving me the cast list,

(01:04:54):
I can do the text and he's like, so we've
just got Eugene him, and like I'm sorry what And
and literally an hour later he's at her hotel now
reading yes because yeah, because yeah, so that was that's fun.
I didn't know that. Seriously, you need like one big
bonfire crossovers. That's funny. Obliterated, obliterated Out later two three

(01:05:19):
for Netflix. Shelly is one of the leads alongside your
co star. Yeah, we've got Nixana XO, Nixano and Shelly
like lead in the Path. We've got a whole, a
whole ensemble. Everybody's incredible, just like our little team Wolf families.
It does seem like a dream role for you, Like
every when I think of you, the role you're playing,
it definitely like you come to mind. Thank you, yeah,

(01:05:41):
thank you. Yeah. We got to do a lot of
stunts on teen Wolf, so obviously that helped with really
trains you well. Like Late Nights Wet Naked, I was
climbing rope for like ten hours, like actually climbing rope
in a harness. Was it so fun? It was so fun,
so challenging, so hard. I've never had to work out
so much of my life just to keep up with

(01:06:02):
what I was already doing on set. But yeah, you
wo have got me ready for that. Okay, guys, look
out for Obliterated on Netflix later this year. Thanks for listening.
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