January 9, 2025 • 15 mins
Emily Kuroda and Ted Rooney join us from behind the scenes at Warner Bros.
Hear why Emily felt she needed no prep when acting with Keiko Agena.
And, the incredible story on how Ted almost missed out on becoming Morey.
Plus, a connection between Sally Struthers and Ted that goes WAY BACK!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all in again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh, I am all in again with Scott Patterson an
iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
iHeart Podcast, iHeartMedia. One to eleven productions. One on one
interview live at Warner Brothers Studios on the day of
the big event, December eighteenth, live podcast in front of
thousands of super fans, and I am joined by the
illustrious Emily Carota. Missus Kim is in the house. How
(00:48):
are you, Emily, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you for inviting me, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Excited, You're very welcome. Excited. Can you feel the energy
here today?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, it's crazy, It's like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Great.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So tell us about, if you don't mind, your first
introduction to Gilmore Girls, the script. Do you remember getting
the script, reading the script, your reaction to it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes. When I read.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
When I got the script, I thought I really liked
missus Kim because she wasn't stereotypical. But yeah, I thought,
I'm so used to like using an accent and everything.
So when I went in to meet Amy, I did
my Korean accent. She goes, wait a minute, what are
you doing, And I said, uh, Korean accent? She goes, no, no, no,
she didn't have an accent.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Really, and yeah, because it was great.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
So Amy was like breaking all the stereotypes from the
get go, right, I was right, I said, this is
a good show.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Why so, but you got the accent in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
No, the accent as actually, she goes, but but you
do kind of talk like a general.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay, so it wasn't really an accent, no, so it
was removed it and purposes, gotcha, gotcha, that's how her
mind works.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Right, sure, sure, short short.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Working with Amy, right, dream come dream you know that right,
being directed by her saying her words, Dan's words. Yeah,
I mean really special, right, we got very lucky.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
And really fast and word perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They asked me all the time if I well, how
much we got to improv?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And I just laugh. I said, what's that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, when you have somebody that good writing, you don't
need to improv, you know, but you can.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Kind of tell because the product was so good.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, and I think it was because she had such
strict standards.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Right, So let's get into that.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Why do you think it has stood the test of
time the way it has and continues to grow.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It's one of the best shows around. I don't know
exactly was it's because it's based on reality too. I
think it's not catering to Oh, I think the audience
will like this. It's it's real stories that comes from
it all started from her, her heart, and I think
we all felt that, and I think the audience feels it, right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, very personal stories that she lived or can relate
to and wanted to write about. She must have had
an interesting upbringing in the valley, huh. I tell you
those that Sherman clan, you know, be a fly on
the wall there. I understand her father, Alan Sherman was
(03:26):
was a top comedian. Oh, that's right, and the house
was filled with all of the leading comedians of the day,
you know. So she developed a sense of humor in
that way. And boy, it's just what a sense of
humor that is. I mean, the wit, and that's what
I love about the show so much. Tell us about
(03:46):
your experience watching the episodes. You watch the episodes, what's
your what's your behavior towards the show? Do you actually
consume the show?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, it's a there's always a little things that I've
missed the first time, and you catch the second time,
you know, right. The humor was interesting because we couldn't
sit on it. We couldn't you know. Amy would just say,
just barrel through it, you know, so you couldn't do
normally like in a sitcom. You'd pause and you'd say
the gagline and then it would get a response. But
(04:17):
the style of the show was so different because we
would just barrel through and either the audience gid it
or they didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, I don't care, right, right, right?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Who'd you love working with the most? Not that I'm
asking you to pick a favorite, but what I mean,
working with Keiko must have been a real pleasure. I
find her one of the most unsung, underappreciated actresses in
this town. I thought she was just incredibly skilled. Yes, uh,
and she worked very deep, Lee and Uh tell us
(04:51):
about working with Keiko.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, Keiko is a dream.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
By the second season, I didn't have to work because
we had built this like for her wedding or when
I kicked out of the house.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
You know, I just I was so moved. I didn't
have to do any preparation.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Because she became like a daughter to me because everything
she does is so honest and real right yeah, not
pushed right yea.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And working with Lauren what was that?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Like? I love Lauren, She's so quick. Yeah. One time
I was late. They said we're ahead of schedule. So
I came in and I found out they had rehearsed
without me. So we get so, I, you know, get
through a makeup and everything, and then I show up
on set and she goes, just shoot it. Emily's got it,
and we did and then I went home. But she
(05:39):
was like she had total trust in all of us,
I think, and brilliant.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What's what's your impression of Adam Brodie? I know you
worked really great scenes with him.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah, here, I don't know. He was one of my favorites.
And plus he played the guitar so well.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh did he? I did not know?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, oh really he's a guitar player.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Okay, got a lot of musicians on this show.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Huh Yeah. So what are you working on now?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I'm doing a workshop in New York in a couple
of weeks and then a show in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh great, great, Greg, Well, good luck with that. Listen,
thanks for stopping by, And I think it's time to
get ready to go out on stage. We're getting We're
getting pretty close there. The troops are gathering out there.
There's thousands of them. My god, I just walked from
the diner to here, which is you know this used
to be the old cake shop, right, Wasn't this a
(06:35):
cake shop set?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So it was like a mob scene out of just fantastic.
It's fantastic. The fans are great. Anyway, thanks for coming by.
I'll see you out on stage in a minute.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Okay, Thank you, Ted Rooney.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, Maury is in the house. What's your
favorite food?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh boy, a Dues fast food on Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.
This is my second plug. Three years ago on your show,
I plugged Dues and the owner thanked me so much.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Tell us about your first experience with Gilmore Girls. You
got the script you read it? Was it an audition
and an offer of what happened? How'd you get the show?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
How did we get to fall in love with more?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
My goodness. I read my one page that I got,
which was it says Maury plays the piano. Okay, so
that was me my preparation for the audition was to
play the piano, which I'm a hack, and so I
came into the room with no lines and they laughed,
and I think that's what booked it, because they saw
me standing next to Sally Struthers and they laughed, and
(07:48):
then they sat me down to the piano and I
played a little bit and they said say this and
say that, and I said this and that, and that
was it. I walked out of there and I went
to Mexico's one week tour of Mexico, and back then
didn't have cell phones. My pager went off and I
went to a phone and they said, we've been calling
(08:09):
you for two days. Man, you've got to come back
up here and shoot an episode of And so I
left my three week tour of Mexico and shot the
first episode I was in, and flew back down and
finished the vacation.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Great story.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You know, there's a movie like that where the guy
goes away and everybody starts in the business starts calling
and we've lost several messages.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We really need to talk to you. We'd love to
make it able to get amped up as the messages go.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
To tell you did you get more money as a
result of that you have a little more clout going
into the negotiation.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I was just happy to be there, Scot. I was
hired from my you know, my skinny build and my height.
I'm glad to have done it. I'm so lucky to
just show up in my you know, with my hat
and my sunglasses and stand there next to Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I always envied you because you got to work
with Sally all the time, right.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, Sally and our friends and we actually went to
the same high school in Portland or right yeah, Grand
High School, and she was the big star because of
all in the family in the seventies when I was
still a kid, she was the big star that came
out of Grand High School. So the first day on
the set was kind of special because I sat down
next to her in the director's chairs and I said
something about she said something, oh, it's so hot here,
(09:25):
and I'm like, yeah, I know now, like the summer
is in Portland. She goes, h are you at Rooney's son?
And that was her favorite teacher in high school, my dad,
So he had my dad. She had my dad in
math class, and she remembered she put Rooney together and
she realized at Rooney's son. Yeah, so tell us what
it's like working with her. I just think she's brilliant.
I think she's the best actress out there. Oh well,
(09:47):
she can do anything. She's amazing. She's got the energy
and the humor. But she also was kind of my caretaker.
She kind of looked after me and made sure that
I you know, yeah, she's real sweetheart. You needed looking
after I did well. I would always forget to put
my glasses on, and so she in my mind at that,
and actually no, she actually.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Was like, take your glasses off.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Your eyes are so beautiful, don't they won't notice?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Take your glasses off?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And then some way to come by, Ted, could you
put your glasses on? Please?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So it's always positive with her, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's just like super sunny and great and laughter and
she just lots of stories.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
She makes you happy to be.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
She's a bit of that, you know. Uh, comes from
that old school in vaudeville kind of training and lots
of stories, So lots of Hollywood stories. There was always
some good story I could get.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What's your most memorable guild more moment.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
With because for a couple of reasons, but because me
and Babbett were on It's It's early on, and we
have a little romantic moment on the steps there and
in front of our house, the house they built for us,
and they finished the interior and everything amazing thing. We
had a little moment, a little romantic moment, and Sam
Phillips wrote the music specifically for that moment. So when
(11:02):
I met Sam Phillips at the Christmas party that year,
she said, I wrote that for you guys, And I
was like, because she had been one of my favorite
singer songwriters for twenty years and it was phenomenal to
have a writer like that. Right, the backs led the
sound for a little kiss moment like that. Yeah, so
that was very special.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Right? Who else did you love working with the most?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Every once in when I'd see Sean and we would
talk about theater, you know. Yeah, by the way, I'm sorry,
I'm not Kirk. I wish I could be here. But
where is Sean? Why he shot that Walmart commercial with
you guys?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, where is he? Sean?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's off in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, like Marvel movies. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Well we were both two kind of oddball, skinny guys,
and so I think we kind of hit it off right.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, yeah, two eccentric characters delivering the humor for the
fan base. You get recognized a lot. It is weird
us about that. It is so weird.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well, on the plane over, my son is so is
with me. He was so embarrassed because this woman just
stood there. I don't know where she came from, but.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Are you Ted Rooney?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yes? And so she was, you know, gushing there and
stopping traffic in the island. One of the one of
the attendants had to make her sit down, and she
while she was focused on was me and the fact
that she was going to be here too at the event.
So she was so thrilled about it. And that's it's
just a little weird. On a red eye to Chicago,
(12:41):
it was two in the morning and I was finding
some place to sleep out of sleeping bag and three
Australian girls come out of nowhere. The place is empty
and there they're rabid fans. You know, I've the Australian girls.
They come in three.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What is that? What's going on with that? I've had
extra nights you deean, you two.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It's always always always a strands in threes usually yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Ah, yeah, it's good to take advantage of the opportunity. Yeah,
smart guy.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Does that mean we have a hecklor off stage? He's
actually been loving and speaking here.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Got in Uh yeah, what placement.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'll look at that. Yeah, I got one. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
This is a gift to the cast about twenty years
gifts every year. You know, I thought i'd wear that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I used to wear that stuff to the gym, the
hoodies and all that. I didn't care i'd get laughed at.
But then I you know, I dropped the weights on
my foot and leaving tears, you know that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Kind of thing. Ted, it's been a blast. We got
to get back.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Out on the live stage now to do that. I
think they're you know, they're giving us the signal.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I did want to mention tell Yes, twenty one Theater, Portland,
Oregon is my theater company that I started up three
years ago. We're thriving and we do great work. And
I just had to mention that I live in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Thank fantastic.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Go see Ted at the twenty one to ten Theater.
He's a fantastic guy, a fantastic actor. Thank you for
your time, my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
On Stuy see out there, buddy, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Everybody off again.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
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and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.
I am all in again.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh, I am all in again with Scott Patterson an
iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
iHeart Podcast, iHeartMedia. One to eleven productions. One on one
interview live at Warner Brothers Studios on the day of
the big event, December eighteenth, live podcast in front of
thousands of super fans, and I am joined by the
illustrious Emily Carota. Missus Kim is in the house. How
(00:48):
are you, Emily, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you for inviting me, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Excited, You're very welcome. Excited. Can you feel the energy
here today?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yeah, it's crazy, It's like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Great.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
So tell us about, if you don't mind, your first
introduction to Gilmore Girls, the script. Do you remember getting
the script, reading the script, your reaction to it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yes. When I read.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
When I got the script, I thought I really liked
missus Kim because she wasn't stereotypical. But yeah, I thought,
I'm so used to like using an accent and everything.
So when I went in to meet Amy, I did
my Korean accent. She goes, wait a minute, what are
you doing, And I said, uh, Korean accent? She goes, no, no, no,
she didn't have an accent.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Really, and yeah, because it was great.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
So Amy was like breaking all the stereotypes from the
get go, right, I was right, I said, this is
a good show.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Why so, but you got the accent in.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
No, the accent as actually, she goes, but but you
do kind of talk like a general.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Okay, so it wasn't really an accent, no, so it
was removed it and purposes, gotcha, gotcha, that's how her
mind works.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Right, sure, sure, short short.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Working with Amy, right, dream come dream you know that right,
being directed by her saying her words, Dan's words. Yeah,
I mean really special, right, we got very lucky.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
And really fast and word perfect.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They asked me all the time if I well, how
much we got to improv?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And I just laugh. I said, what's that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, when you have somebody that good writing, you don't
need to improv, you know, but you can.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Kind of tell because the product was so good.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, and I think it was because she had such
strict standards.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Right, So let's get into that.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Why do you think it has stood the test of
time the way it has and continues to grow.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
It's one of the best shows around. I don't know
exactly was it's because it's based on reality too. I
think it's not catering to Oh, I think the audience
will like this. It's it's real stories that comes from
it all started from her, her heart, and I think
we all felt that, and I think the audience feels it, right.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, very personal stories that she lived or can relate
to and wanted to write about. She must have had
an interesting upbringing in the valley, huh. I tell you
those that Sherman clan, you know, be a fly on
the wall there. I understand her father, Alan Sherman was
(03:26):
was a top comedian. Oh, that's right, and the house
was filled with all of the leading comedians of the day,
you know. So she developed a sense of humor in
that way. And boy, it's just what a sense of
humor that is. I mean, the wit, and that's what
I love about the show so much. Tell us about
(03:46):
your experience watching the episodes. You watch the episodes, what's
your what's your behavior towards the show? Do you actually
consume the show?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Yeah, it's a there's always a little things that I've
missed the first time, and you catch the second time,
you know, right. The humor was interesting because we couldn't
sit on it. We couldn't you know. Amy would just say,
just barrel through it, you know, so you couldn't do
normally like in a sitcom. You'd pause and you'd say
the gagline and then it would get a response. But
(04:17):
the style of the show was so different because we
would just barrel through and either the audience gid it
or they didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Right, I don't care, right, right, right?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Who'd you love working with the most? Not that I'm
asking you to pick a favorite, but what I mean,
working with Keiko must have been a real pleasure. I
find her one of the most unsung, underappreciated actresses in
this town. I thought she was just incredibly skilled. Yes, uh,
and she worked very deep, Lee and Uh tell us
(04:51):
about working with Keiko.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, Keiko is a dream.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
By the second season, I didn't have to work because
we had built this like for her wedding or when
I kicked out of the house.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
You know, I just I was so moved. I didn't
have to do any preparation.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Because she became like a daughter to me because everything
she does is so honest and real right yeah, not
pushed right yea.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And working with Lauren what was that?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Like? I love Lauren, She's so quick. Yeah. One time
I was late. They said we're ahead of schedule. So
I came in and I found out they had rehearsed
without me. So we get so, I, you know, get
through a makeup and everything, and then I show up
on set and she goes, just shoot it. Emily's got it,
and we did and then I went home. But she
(05:39):
was like she had total trust in all of us,
I think, and brilliant.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What's what's your impression of Adam Brodie? I know you
worked really great scenes with him.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Yeah, here, I don't know. He was one of my favorites.
And plus he played the guitar so well.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh did he? I did not know?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, oh really he's a guitar player.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Okay, got a lot of musicians on this show.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Huh Yeah. So what are you working on now?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
I'm doing a workshop in New York in a couple
of weeks and then a show in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh great, great, Greg, Well, good luck with that. Listen,
thanks for stopping by, And I think it's time to
get ready to go out on stage. We're getting We're
getting pretty close there. The troops are gathering out there.
There's thousands of them. My god, I just walked from
the diner to here, which is you know this used
to be the old cake shop, right, Wasn't this a
(06:35):
cake shop set?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So it was like a mob scene out of just fantastic.
It's fantastic. The fans are great. Anyway, thanks for coming by.
I'll see you out on stage in a minute.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Okay, Thank you, Ted Rooney.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Ladies and gentlemen, Maury is in the house. What's your
favorite food?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Oh boy, a Dues fast food on Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.
This is my second plug. Three years ago on your show,
I plugged Dues and the owner thanked me so much.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Tell us about your first experience with Gilmore Girls. You
got the script you read it? Was it an audition
and an offer of what happened? How'd you get the show?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
How did we get to fall in love with more?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
My goodness. I read my one page that I got,
which was it says Maury plays the piano. Okay, so
that was me my preparation for the audition was to
play the piano, which I'm a hack, and so I
came into the room with no lines and they laughed,
and I think that's what booked it, because they saw
me standing next to Sally Struthers and they laughed, and
(07:48):
then they sat me down to the piano and I
played a little bit and they said say this and
say that, and I said this and that, and that
was it. I walked out of there and I went
to Mexico's one week tour of Mexico, and back then
didn't have cell phones. My pager went off and I
went to a phone and they said, we've been calling
(08:09):
you for two days. Man, you've got to come back
up here and shoot an episode of And so I
left my three week tour of Mexico and shot the
first episode I was in, and flew back down and
finished the vacation.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Great story.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You know, there's a movie like that where the guy
goes away and everybody starts in the business starts calling
and we've lost several messages.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
We really need to talk to you. We'd love to
make it able to get amped up as the messages go.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
To tell you did you get more money as a
result of that you have a little more clout going
into the negotiation.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
I was just happy to be there, Scot. I was
hired from my you know, my skinny build and my height.
I'm glad to have done it. I'm so lucky to
just show up in my you know, with my hat
and my sunglasses and stand there next to Sally.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I always envied you because you got to work
with Sally all the time, right.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, Sally and our friends and we actually went to
the same high school in Portland or right yeah, Grand
High School, and she was the big star because of
all in the family in the seventies when I was
still a kid, she was the big star that came
out of Grand High School. So the first day on
the set was kind of special because I sat down
next to her in the director's chairs and I said
something about she said something, oh, it's so hot here,
(09:25):
and I'm like, yeah, I know now, like the summer
is in Portland. She goes, h are you at Rooney's son?
And that was her favorite teacher in high school, my dad,
So he had my dad. She had my dad in
math class, and she remembered she put Rooney together and
she realized at Rooney's son. Yeah, so tell us what
it's like working with her. I just think she's brilliant.
I think she's the best actress out there. Oh well,
(09:47):
she can do anything. She's amazing. She's got the energy
and the humor. But she also was kind of my caretaker.
She kind of looked after me and made sure that
I you know, yeah, she's real sweetheart. You needed looking
after I did well. I would always forget to put
my glasses on, and so she in my mind at that,
and actually no, she actually.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Was like, take your glasses off.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Your eyes are so beautiful, don't they won't notice?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Take your glasses off?
Speaker 5 (10:11):
And then some way to come by, Ted, could you
put your glasses on? Please?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
So it's always positive with her, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's just like super sunny and great and laughter and
she just lots of stories.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
She makes you happy to be.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
She's a bit of that, you know. Uh, comes from
that old school in vaudeville kind of training and lots
of stories, So lots of Hollywood stories. There was always
some good story I could get.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
What's your most memorable guild more moment.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
With because for a couple of reasons, but because me
and Babbett were on It's It's early on, and we
have a little romantic moment on the steps there and
in front of our house, the house they built for us,
and they finished the interior and everything amazing thing. We
had a little moment, a little romantic moment, and Sam
Phillips wrote the music specifically for that moment. So when
(11:02):
I met Sam Phillips at the Christmas party that year,
she said, I wrote that for you guys, And I
was like, because she had been one of my favorite
singer songwriters for twenty years and it was phenomenal to
have a writer like that. Right, the backs led the
sound for a little kiss moment like that. Yeah, so
that was very special.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Right? Who else did you love working with the most?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Every once in when I'd see Sean and we would
talk about theater, you know. Yeah, by the way, I'm sorry,
I'm not Kirk. I wish I could be here. But
where is Sean? Why he shot that Walmart commercial with
you guys?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yes, where is he? Sean?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He's off in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah, like Marvel movies. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Well we were both two kind of oddball, skinny guys,
and so I think we kind of hit it off right.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, yeah, two eccentric characters delivering the humor for the
fan base. You get recognized a lot. It is weird
us about that. It is so weird.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well, on the plane over, my son is so is
with me. He was so embarrassed because this woman just
stood there. I don't know where she came from, but.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Are you Ted Rooney?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yes? And so she was, you know, gushing there and
stopping traffic in the island. One of the one of
the attendants had to make her sit down, and she
while she was focused on was me and the fact
that she was going to be here too at the event.
So she was so thrilled about it. And that's it's
just a little weird. On a red eye to Chicago,
(12:41):
it was two in the morning and I was finding
some place to sleep out of sleeping bag and three
Australian girls come out of nowhere. The place is empty
and there they're rabid fans. You know, I've the Australian girls.
They come in three.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What is that? What's going on with that? I've had
extra nights you deean, you two.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It's always always always a strands in threes usually yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Ah, yeah, it's good to take advantage of the opportunity. Yeah,
smart guy.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Does that mean we have a hecklor off stage? He's
actually been loving and speaking here.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Got in Uh yeah, what placement.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'll look at that. Yeah, I got one. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
This is a gift to the cast about twenty years
gifts every year. You know, I thought i'd wear that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I used to wear that stuff to the gym, the
hoodies and all that. I didn't care i'd get laughed at.
But then I you know, I dropped the weights on
my foot and leaving tears, you know that.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Kind of thing. Ted, it's been a blast. We got
to get back.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Out on the live stage now to do that. I
think they're you know, they're giving us the signal.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I did want to mention tell Yes, twenty one Theater, Portland,
Oregon is my theater company that I started up three
years ago. We're thriving and we do great work. And
I just had to mention that I live in Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Thank fantastic.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Go see Ted at the twenty one to ten Theater.
He's a fantastic guy, a fantastic actor. Thank you for
your time, my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
On Stuy see out there, buddy, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Everybody off again.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
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