October 4, 2024 • 28 mins
Kerry Butler, aka therapist Claudia, is a HUGE fan of Gilmore Girls and was super excited to be part of A Year in the Life.
Kerry tells us how she manifested meeting Amy Sherman Palladino and continues her friendship with her today.
Plus, she shares the one thing her daughter won’t do with her when it comes to watching Gilmore Girls.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Am all In.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Everybody Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one eleven productions, iHeartRadio,
iHeart Media, iHeart Podcast. One on one interview with the
one and only Carrie Butler. Here's a Gilmore Girls fact.
Carrie portrayed therapist Claudia in two episodes and a year
in the Live Spring and Summer. Let me tell you
a little something about Carrie very impressive resume. Carrie is
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an actress and a singer, known primarily for her work
in theater. She is best known for originating the roles
of Barber Maitland and Beetlejuice the musical, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray,
Various roles and Mean Girls the musical goal Cleo and
Kira and Xanadu, the latter of which earned her a
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Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress
in a Musical. She has also appeared in TV shows
One Life to Live, The MINDI Project, Law and Order,
S For You, The Marvelous Missus masl and her most
recent role, Ryan Murphy's FX series American Sports Story. Aaron
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Hernandez Kerrie, welcome, very excited to get to.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Talk to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We enjoyed your performance. Had no idea until this morning
that you were such a decorated and accomplished musical theater artist.
So let's take it from the beginning, because this was
nine years after the series. The original series, it airs
before you auditioned for the role of Claudia. When tell
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us about that audition process and how you got the audition?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So it's a very funny story. I am a humongous
Gilmore Girls fan, like I'll obsessed with it. So when
I was doing Xanadu on Broadway, I heard that Amy
and Sherman Paldino was doing a sitcom in Brooklyn, and
I started I never read the book The Secret or anything,
but I started manifesting meeting Amy because I'm like, this
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is my my dream would be to like work with
her because I was obsessed with Gilmore Girls. So one
day my agent says to me, so, you know, I'm sorry,
but there's this producer that wants to meet you. She's
seen the show nine times, she's a big fan. Would
you mind meeting her afterwards? And I was like, oh,
of course, yeah, and I was like, yeah, who is it?
And they were like Amy Shearman.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Palladino, Oho, what wow?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I met her, We became friends, and she knew what
a psycho fan I was, and she actually said, I'm
going to write a part for you on the show.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is that right? She said that to you? What did
that feel like? Eh?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean just the whole thing was dream. I got
to go on that little park, I got to walk
to this gazebo, and I was also on with Sutton Foster,
who's another huge Carolyn also Amy loves her, so the
two of us were there together and fangirling the whole time,
just at the set and everyone we were so excited.
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I was definitely pinching myself when she called me and said,
can you work it out in your schedule? Because I
think I was. I think I was in a show
at the time. And she even worked my shooting like
on Mondays my day off.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right, right, Wow, that's terrific. So tell us about the
first day on set. What was it like? I mean,
I remember who did you meet? Who do you remember meeting?
And what was it like? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I remember just going on this set and seeing all
Miss Patty's dance studio, all those places and just dying
and I took pictures everywhere, and then I got to
meet Lauren, who was amazing. And I think all of
my scenes were pretty much with Lauren.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Uh, I don't Kelly.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, But I didn't have any other
scenes besides the ones in the Oh no, no, I
had the fun scene where I actually sang, so she
would even put singing into the show. On fact, Dan
wrote the song that I sang in the show.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That was a terrific show, that was so funny.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That was actually my favorite parts so far the Netflix
episode is that that musical, The Stars Hollow Musical, was
the most brilliantly written, the most the funniest thing I
have seen on that show in.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
A long time. And I thought Sutton killed it. I
thought she just killed it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, really tremendous fun And I bet you Dan had
a blast writing it too, because the lyrics were hysterical.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah. He ended up giving me a copy of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh really yeah, Wow, that's that's very special. So you're
sitting across from the two of them, we're talking about
Kelly Bishop and Lauren Graham, and you're just going back
and forth with a Quick Dial.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Did it make you nervous at all?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now, coming from a musical theater background, I always found
those actors to be really mindful of hitting their cues,
and they just seem to be have a heightened awareness
when they're on an acting set, you know, knowing the
real basic nuts and bolts of what it is to
you know, timing, comedic timing, and it's like, you guys
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are really on it. Did you find it difficult to
fit in or with the pace of the show because
it didn't seem like it at all.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I felt it difficult to not laugh at the two
of them because they were so funny. Those scenes were
so funny, and to just act like I was annoyed
with them.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And right, right, right, what? So what? What are your
fondest memories of filming that?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think? Honestly, it was watching the two of them together.
I mean, they are just such masters at that that
writing and the comedy and and and also there were
really heartfelt moments, like Lauren uh had this amazing monologue
that was, you know, very heartfelt, and so I just
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felt like I was watching two masters at work. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you have a favorite episode in the Netflix episodes.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Did you watch all of them?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Of course, of course I watched all of them, but
I would say, you know, the first the first section
before I was on is More my favorite. Like I
loved when when Rory was little and all the going
to the prep school, all that stuff from the very
very beginning was was my favorite.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Mm hmmm, So again I think we we touched.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What was your reaction when you finally saw Stars Hollow
the musical?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I thought it was hilarious and really well done, and
I was just so excited to be a part of it.
And the funny thing is, I'm sure you know this
that Gilmore Girls has this incredible life now with all tweens,
and I have a thirteen year old, so now I'm
suddenly the cool mom again because all of her friends
are like, I saw your mom on guilm Girls. Yeah,
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and my daughter has Gilmore Girls pajamas, and it's like
I always dreamed that I would get to watch the
Gilmore Girls with my daughter. The only thing is she
doesn't want to watch with me.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She watches friends.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's disappointing.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Oh my god, we do.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But whenever fall comes around, I feel like it's time again,
we have to start watching Gilmore Girls again now.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you've never watched the show with your daughter ever.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I forced her to watch with me a few times.
She loves it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I told her.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She was very excited that I was doing this podcast
with you today, as I was. But she doesn't want
to watch with me for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So just as she gets together with her friends and
they just watch.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It, or they're watching it at the same time, and
you know, like texting each other, you know about it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What is it about this show?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You know? You know going through these episodes, you know,
because I never saw it, and that was the premise
of the podcast. That's what I pitched. I just never
like watching myself. I didn't want to watch the show. Yea, yeah,
you know, I think most actors are like that, and and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So I never really saw it. I saw the I
saw Winter at the.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Premiere because I was forced to sit there with a
captive audience. But that's the only thing I ever saw.
I saw the pilot episode, which I liked, but I
never saw any of the other one hundred and fifty
two episodes. And I never saw the three other Netflix episodes.
So that's basis of the podcast. And finding out how
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darn funny this thing is.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I never I look.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I was in all the table reads, I was in
a lot of the scenes. I know it's funny. I
know it's high quality. You know it's sophisticated comedy. These
are very very witty people, Amy and Dan very well read,
various studie people, and this humor is really sophisticated, and
it's coming at you. Not only is it coming at
you fast and furious, but it's coming at you in
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groups of ten great lines.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I mean, it speeds by so fast.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And this is the reason why people continue to rewatch it.
It's a lot of things, but I think the primary
reason is the level of humor. You get the level
of great jokes, the unexpected one liners, And it doesn't
matter how many times you've seen it. You can't remember
all of the singers, and it's always a surprise, so
it always seems fresh. Do you find that as well
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when you're watching these episodes?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
One nd percent? And even when I watched it, you know,
the first time, I thought, oh, they must be theater writers,
because they would have very obscure theater references in there.
So yes, I always thought it was hilarious. But also
I just there's just it's like comfort food. It's so
loving and refreshing to see that relationship between a mother
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and a daughter. To see you know, her love affair
with your character, it was just so sweet and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have to tell you the experience of this now,
the way that it continues to grow and capture younger
and younger audiences. Every generation is discovering this show. I
just how can you envision twenty five years ago that
something would be have such staying power and that it
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would continue to grow in popularity. I mean, it's it's
absolutely bizarre. It's a real phenomenon in the industry.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It really really is.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's timeless the show because it's well written.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It's timeless, right, It's going to stand up forever. Yes,
because of the quality of the writing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, I agree. I mean these two really really accomplished
something special. There's a there's a there's a sort of
an honorary Emmy in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Store for these two, I guess. I mean I think
there has to be.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I would be so upset every Emmy season, like, how
is everyone not getting Amy in this show? I mean,
even because the acting quality was just phenomenal, you know,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think the critics didn't know what to make of it.
I think they didn't know what to make of it.
I think, is this a drama? Is it a comedy?
We know it's funny, it's dramatic, it's a drama, but
I just never understood it myself.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And to have a show of it's actually.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Kind of a unique category to be in because there's
plenty of great actors and great performances, great productions that
never got nominated for anything. I mean, if you go
through the list, it's like, wait a minute, how but
she don't even get nominated for what this guy or
Meryl Street or whomever, or Kate Blanchette and everything she does.
You know, it's amazing how often great things in this
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business are completely overlooked. So you gotta wonder what's going
on behind the scenes. You know, it's like who's carrying
the brain's what's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Now? Do you know Sutton Foster? Did you know?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Do you know her from your brother? So it's a
small community of people, right, and so you know her.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sutton actually understudied me in Lee Miss when she was
like eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Is that right. So she was kind of a phenom
coming out of high school.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yes, yes, yeah, she didn't go to she went straight
to Broadway.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, are you kidding me? From high school?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
What elite?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Where? Now? Where is she from? Is she from the Northeast?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Her brother is Hunter Foster and I had already or
I did a show with her brother too. I did
Little Hearts with mm hm.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's in the blood. It's in the blood in
that Foster family.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah. Yeah, wow, what a talent. And she was also
a huge fan of the Gilmore Girls. So both of
us were like.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There, now isn't Amy doing something with Sutton now on Broadways?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That she writing in a musical.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The Mattress Once Upon a Mattress. I think that's what
it's called. Yeah, yeah, it's a limit okay? And Amy
wrote it and Sotton's in its the star.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So so after the episode you filmed for Amy for
Gilmore Girls their revival, she brought you in for a
role in mysell and the Marvelous Missus myself. Uh, what
was the role? What was it like working with her again?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well? This time I feel like last time she didn't
direct the show or this time, you know, it was
just there's so much going on in our episode was
one day where they were just shooting this scene with
a million different things going on, a huge restaurant, tons
of extras, and so it was really exciting to see
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her in her element as the director and just how
everybody loved her and just getting everything, putting all the
pieces together, getting everything done. So that was exciting. And
we've stayed friends all of this time, so she's always
looking for parts for me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh that's great. So you see her, you go to
lunch for her. Do you live do you live in
the city.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, well I moved out to New Jersey, but I
did live in the city forever.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's yeah, that's great. All right, So let's talk about
this Aaron Hernandez thing which took over the headlines for
a while. So you've done plenty of drama and now
with your episodes just mirroring the in the Ryan Murphy
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American Sports story. Aaron Hernanz, which do you prefer working
on musicals or drama?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I think I prefer musicals. I mean, it's great to
stretch that muscle, and obviously it's fun to be on TV.
But like I'm doing. I created this show with my
friends girl. Now we're going we just did it in
la like two days ago, and we're going to have
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an off Broadway run. And it's just there's just something
so magical about being in front of the audience and
hearing the act right there, like having the palm of
your hand. And this show I do with my friends,
which is even more fun, and we created it. So
it's just there's just noing like live theater.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, there is nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
More vital than live theater when it's done well, I agree, nothing,
nothing comes close to it. So you're saying, is you
prefer the live theater experience that you're used to to
portraying characters in a psycho sports, murder, documentary styles serious
limited series, you would prefer to be on stage with
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your friends, singing and dancing, magazine laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Go exactly exactly. If you choose, like what I'm going
to put out into the world, especially now, I think
I choose joy and maybe laugh and bringing people together.
Not that there is a place for the other.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There's always going to be a place in people's hearts
for psycho sports murders, dramas.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There's absolutely an audience, and by golly, I'll be tuning
in just to catch your performance. I'm curious to see
what you did. What did you do in that? What
did you do in that?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I played Urban Meyer's wife. Oh okay, yeah, so old person.
And who played Urban Meyer Tony Yasbeck, who is also
a huge Broadway star, big, big dancer, and this was
his kind of big break for TV.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And he's, oh, that's you, guys. You go, there's something
about you too. That said to Ryan Murphy, I gotta
bring him in for the sports psycho murder thing, you know,
gotta have them.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, this one, this one I did have to audition for.
I didn't get it just because I'm friends.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Now, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You had to.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You had to earn that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, not saying you wouldn't earn if you got the offer,
but that's amazing. Okay, so extensive theater work.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Most TV stuff I auditioned for.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, TV's tough is tough. It's a tough crowd. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And you now teach a class called Breaking into Broadway
and it's a digital course for musical theater performers. What
is your number one advice for someone wanting to make
it on Broadway. Let's say, at my age, I came
to you and said, listen, I'm sixty six. Now I've
never been on Broadway. I'd like to try it.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
As a matter of fact, I was considered for the
lead role in Chicago, the New York production of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Sure that couldn't well.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
For now, you broadly be lucky to have you so,
but sim you so you hadn't had this amazing career.
Then I would say, find the thing that makes you special,
like find your special sauce. You do that nobody else
can do. And like I could say, for you, it's
that kind of like dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know, like oh, I was going to say skiing,
So I was.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Gonna say, I'm grumpy but lovable.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, people lovable, right, And then.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like you know, just go into your auditions with that
and lead with that, and the parts will come to
you that you have.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Hopefully Amy and Dan will write me a Broadway musical
and I can start it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Get out there. You got to do the secret like
I did. Yeah, it's gonna happen all right.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
But you you have to do it with me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, I need you there, you guess I'm gonna like
text Amy, guess what, Amy?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, the old guy wants to do Broadway music. Yeah,
that'll give her a real thrill.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We'll have a most fun ever, like you would love
doing all. All people who come over are like, oh,
it's just crazy fun.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I no, no, I wanted to do Chicago. We just
couldn't work it out in the schedule. But I really
it was like, Wow, what an opportunity, you know, And
I'm sure with all the rehearsal and all the professionals surroun,
they're not gonna let you fail, right, They're going to
make sure that you're going to give a performance.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You probably wouldn't get that much parsal, have I I
because you probably.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How much rehearsal do you think you get?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think maybe maybe two weeks or maybe three weeks,
that's what That's what I would guess.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So what do you think the most challenging part is?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It is like getting the voice in shape, right, getting
getting your voice in shape and getting it used to
really belting out these songs, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Guess, or doing the dance moves, or just the stamina
of doing like the eight shows a week.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh my, goodness, what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You can do it?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I believe you think I can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I do.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We're gonna play a little game called rapid fire, and
there's there's no pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
To answer these questions quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's really I don't know why they call it rapid fire,
but I just want to take the pressure.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh? I actually don't drink coffee, So that's how you
like your coffee?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
With no coffee? You like an empty cup? Or tea?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Tea? I'll take tea.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We've got Are you team Logan, Team Jess or team Dean?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh? Gosh, Oh that's a hard one. I'm gonna I'm
gonna say teen Dean Dean.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Love them all. I loved all them.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Who's your favorite Gilmore Girls couple? Luke and Laura? Are
Emily and Richard?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Luke and Laura?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I of course that's but Emily and Richard great couple.
That's a funny question, as if.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Right, I mean, come on, would you rather work with
Michelle or Kirk Kirk?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Kirk Kirk, the zany Kirk?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah? What would you order? Gary?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
What would you order if you happen to find yourself
one day, one glorious morning in Luke's Diner.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Mmmm, well, this is tough because the burgers are the staple. Right,
I'm vegetarian. Do you think Luke's Diner like has moved
into vegetarian burgers.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I believe that Caesar could whip one up for you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's what I think. That's what I have to go for.
Then I have to get in the price.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You got it? You got it? Uh? Who would you
rather hang out with Paris or Lane?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Lane?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
How can you imagine hanging out with Paris? That's that
would be like? Whoa Harvard or Yale? Or would you
drop out live in the poolhouse? Actually, I don't like
that part of the question. Just Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Harvard?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Okay? Why isn't isn't that?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Did Worry go to Harvard or did she go to Yale?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She went to Yale.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
She always dreamed of going to Harvard. But Richard is
you know it would make her a legacy because Richard
loved went to Harvard, I mean to Yale.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Sorry, Oh I really don't have a reason.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Why Just Harvard? Right? Okay? Just because you like you
like the way it looks on a sweatshirt. I got you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Both in Boston, so that was like, that would have
been my main thing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
But right, okay, would you rather attend a da AR
event with Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That's a very easy easy. That's the wrong answer.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Why because you have to sit in that tent all
day in one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You know, at least they're interesting. Oh but when you
film it.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That's so interesting when you're shooting it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
No, no, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's all good. Only one hundred and thirty degrees in there,
so big, and you're wearing winter clothes and hats and
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's not a problem. It's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Then I have like fans and stuff. Were you all?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I want to lose ten pounds today.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Not a problem. You know what they do? You know
they have those big yellow tubes.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh, pump in the ac. Sometimes it would work, sometimes
it wouldn't. But you know, hey, at least you were there, right,
at least you were in Gilmore Girls. So I'll just
shut up Gilmourger's character.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That you would want as a roommate moral I duh, duh,
I mean who my best friend there? You go right?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
See that's her show. It's her show, Something in your life.
You are all in.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
On my dog.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Your dog? What kind of a dog do you have?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I have a mutt and I actually got him. There's
this event called Broadway Barks that Bernard Peter started and
we tricked my husband into going there because I had
to like perform there, and we fell in love with
my dog. And I am one of those crazy people
now who just like sends pictures all the time and
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just right my dog when I go away.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, I want to get my son a dog. He
really wants a dog, and I want to get him
a dog. I want to surprise. I want a dog.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So fun.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Carrie Harry Butler. Ladies and
gentlemen check her out in the Gilmore Girls the Year
in Life episode as Claudia the Therapist. And you also
did get a chance to do a scene outside the
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therapist office by the gazebo when you were auditioning for
the Musical Stars Hall of the Music and you were
very excited.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And now that now that you know me, you can
see that's right now, I recognize it. I was really
acting as the therapist.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, absolutely, and great job, by the way, great job.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But you definitely, you know, the real you came out
in the older scene. But it's been a pleasure getting
to know you a little bit, and good luck with everything.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And I hope to one day meet you and to
see you on Broadway. I would love we're.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Gonna be on Broadway together.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It let's do it. You be, you be roxy Heart,
I'll be uh, what's his what's his name? Doctor Detroit? No,
it's not doctor. What's the guy's name? That's why to
get the part, I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Billy billy, billy, right right right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
All right, anyway, all right, all the best. It was
a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Thanks so much, and good luck with everything, and best
your daughter and your dog and your husband and everybody.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Take care, okay, thanks all right, bye
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Everybody, and also again, follow us on Instagram at I
Am all In podcast and email us at Gilmore at
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I Am all In.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's just you. I Am all In with Scott Patterson
an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Everybody Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one eleven productions, iHeartRadio,
iHeart Media, iHeart Podcast. One on one interview with the
one and only Carrie Butler. Here's a Gilmore Girls fact.
Carrie portrayed therapist Claudia in two episodes and a year
in the Live Spring and Summer. Let me tell you
a little something about Carrie very impressive resume. Carrie is
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an actress and a singer, known primarily for her work
in theater. She is best known for originating the roles
of Barber Maitland and Beetlejuice the musical, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray,
Various roles and Mean Girls the musical goal Cleo and
Kira and Xanadu, the latter of which earned her a
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Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress
in a Musical. She has also appeared in TV shows
One Life to Live, The MINDI Project, Law and Order,
S For You, The Marvelous Missus masl and her most
recent role, Ryan Murphy's FX series American Sports Story. Aaron
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Hernandez Kerrie, welcome, very excited to get to.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Talk to you.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We enjoyed your performance. Had no idea until this morning
that you were such a decorated and accomplished musical theater artist.
So let's take it from the beginning, because this was
nine years after the series. The original series, it airs
before you auditioned for the role of Claudia. When tell
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us about that audition process and how you got the audition?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So it's a very funny story. I am a humongous
Gilmore Girls fan, like I'll obsessed with it. So when
I was doing Xanadu on Broadway, I heard that Amy
and Sherman Paldino was doing a sitcom in Brooklyn, and
I started I never read the book The Secret or anything,
but I started manifesting meeting Amy because I'm like, this
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is my my dream would be to like work with
her because I was obsessed with Gilmore Girls. So one
day my agent says to me, so, you know, I'm sorry,
but there's this producer that wants to meet you. She's
seen the show nine times, she's a big fan. Would
you mind meeting her afterwards? And I was like, oh,
of course, yeah, and I was like, yeah, who is it?
And they were like Amy Shearman.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Palladino, Oho, what wow?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I met her, We became friends, and she knew what
a psycho fan I was, and she actually said, I'm
going to write a part for you on the show.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Is that right? She said that to you? What did
that feel like? Eh?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I mean just the whole thing was dream. I got
to go on that little park, I got to walk
to this gazebo, and I was also on with Sutton Foster,
who's another huge Carolyn also Amy loves her, so the
two of us were there together and fangirling the whole time,
just at the set and everyone we were so excited.
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I was definitely pinching myself when she called me and said,
can you work it out in your schedule? Because I
think I was. I think I was in a show
at the time. And she even worked my shooting like
on Mondays my day off.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right, right, Wow, that's terrific. So tell us about the
first day on set. What was it like? I mean,
I remember who did you meet? Who do you remember meeting?
And what was it like? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I remember just going on this set and seeing all
Miss Patty's dance studio, all those places and just dying
and I took pictures everywhere, and then I got to
meet Lauren, who was amazing. And I think all of
my scenes were pretty much with Lauren.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Uh, I don't Kelly.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, But I didn't have any other
scenes besides the ones in the Oh no, no, I
had the fun scene where I actually sang, so she
would even put singing into the show. On fact, Dan
wrote the song that I sang in the show.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
That was a terrific show, that was so funny.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That was actually my favorite parts so far the Netflix
episode is that that musical, The Stars Hollow Musical, was
the most brilliantly written, the most the funniest thing I
have seen on that show in.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
A long time. And I thought Sutton killed it. I
thought she just killed it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, really tremendous fun And I bet you Dan had
a blast writing it too, because the lyrics were hysterical.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah. He ended up giving me a copy of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh really yeah, Wow, that's that's very special. So you're
sitting across from the two of them, we're talking about
Kelly Bishop and Lauren Graham, and you're just going back
and forth with a Quick Dial.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Did it make you nervous at all?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Now, coming from a musical theater background, I always found
those actors to be really mindful of hitting their cues,
and they just seem to be have a heightened awareness
when they're on an acting set, you know, knowing the
real basic nuts and bolts of what it is to
you know, timing, comedic timing, and it's like, you guys
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are really on it. Did you find it difficult to
fit in or with the pace of the show because
it didn't seem like it at all.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I felt it difficult to not laugh at the two
of them because they were so funny. Those scenes were
so funny, and to just act like I was annoyed
with them.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And right, right, right, what? So what? What are your
fondest memories of filming that?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I think? Honestly, it was watching the two of them together.
I mean, they are just such masters at that that
writing and the comedy and and and also there were
really heartfelt moments, like Lauren uh had this amazing monologue
that was, you know, very heartfelt, and so I just
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felt like I was watching two masters at work. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you have a favorite episode in the Netflix episodes.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Did you watch all of them?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Of course, of course I watched all of them, but
I would say, you know, the first the first section
before I was on is More my favorite. Like I
loved when when Rory was little and all the going
to the prep school, all that stuff from the very
very beginning was was my favorite.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Mm hmmm, So again I think we we touched.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What was your reaction when you finally saw Stars Hollow
the musical?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I thought it was hilarious and really well done, and
I was just so excited to be a part of it.
And the funny thing is, I'm sure you know this
that Gilmore Girls has this incredible life now with all tweens,
and I have a thirteen year old, so now I'm
suddenly the cool mom again because all of her friends
are like, I saw your mom on guilm Girls. Yeah,
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and my daughter has Gilmore Girls pajamas, and it's like
I always dreamed that I would get to watch the
Gilmore Girls with my daughter. The only thing is she
doesn't want to watch with me.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
She watches friends.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
No.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, it's disappointing.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Oh my god, we do.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But whenever fall comes around, I feel like it's time again,
we have to start watching Gilmore Girls again now.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So you've never watched the show with your daughter ever.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I forced her to watch with me a few times.
She loves it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I told her.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
She was very excited that I was doing this podcast
with you today, as I was. But she doesn't want
to watch with me for some reason.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So just as she gets together with her friends and
they just watch.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It, or they're watching it at the same time, and
you know, like texting each other, you know about it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
What is it about this show?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You know? You know going through these episodes, you know,
because I never saw it, and that was the premise
of the podcast. That's what I pitched. I just never
like watching myself. I didn't want to watch the show. Yea, yeah,
you know, I think most actors are like that, and and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So I never really saw it. I saw the I
saw Winter at the.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Premiere because I was forced to sit there with a
captive audience. But that's the only thing I ever saw.
I saw the pilot episode, which I liked, but I
never saw any of the other one hundred and fifty
two episodes. And I never saw the three other Netflix episodes.
So that's basis of the podcast. And finding out how
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darn funny this thing is.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I never I look.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I was in all the table reads, I was in
a lot of the scenes. I know it's funny. I
know it's high quality. You know it's sophisticated comedy. These
are very very witty people, Amy and Dan very well read,
various studie people, and this humor is really sophisticated, and
it's coming at you. Not only is it coming at
you fast and furious, but it's coming at you in
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groups of ten great lines.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I mean, it speeds by so fast.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And this is the reason why people continue to rewatch it.
It's a lot of things, but I think the primary
reason is the level of humor. You get the level
of great jokes, the unexpected one liners, And it doesn't
matter how many times you've seen it. You can't remember
all of the singers, and it's always a surprise, so
it always seems fresh. Do you find that as well
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when you're watching these episodes?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
One nd percent? And even when I watched it, you know,
the first time, I thought, oh, they must be theater writers,
because they would have very obscure theater references in there.
So yes, I always thought it was hilarious. But also
I just there's just it's like comfort food. It's so
loving and refreshing to see that relationship between a mother
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and a daughter. To see you know, her love affair
with your character, it was just so sweet and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have to tell you the experience of this now,
the way that it continues to grow and capture younger
and younger audiences. Every generation is discovering this show. I
just how can you envision twenty five years ago that
something would be have such staying power and that it
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would continue to grow in popularity. I mean, it's it's
absolutely bizarre. It's a real phenomenon in the industry.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It really really is.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's timeless the show because it's well written.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
It's timeless, right, It's going to stand up forever. Yes,
because of the quality of the writing.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, I agree. I mean these two really really accomplished
something special. There's a there's a there's a sort of
an honorary Emmy in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Store for these two, I guess. I mean I think
there has to be.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I would be so upset every Emmy season, like, how
is everyone not getting Amy in this show? I mean,
even because the acting quality was just phenomenal, you know,
I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think the critics didn't know what to make of it.
I think they didn't know what to make of it.
I think, is this a drama? Is it a comedy?
We know it's funny, it's dramatic, it's a drama, but
I just never understood it myself.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And to have a show of it's actually.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Kind of a unique category to be in because there's
plenty of great actors and great performances, great productions that
never got nominated for anything. I mean, if you go
through the list, it's like, wait a minute, how but
she don't even get nominated for what this guy or
Meryl Street or whomever, or Kate Blanchette and everything she does.
You know, it's amazing how often great things in this
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business are completely overlooked. So you gotta wonder what's going
on behind the scenes. You know, it's like who's carrying
the brain's what's happening?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Now? Do you know Sutton Foster? Did you know?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Do you know her from your brother? So it's a
small community of people, right, and so you know her.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Sutton actually understudied me in Lee Miss when she was
like eighteen years old.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Is that right. So she was kind of a phenom
coming out of high school.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yes, yes, yeah, she didn't go to she went straight
to Broadway.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, are you kidding me? From high school?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
What elite?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Where? Now? Where is she from? Is she from the Northeast?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Her brother is Hunter Foster and I had already or
I did a show with her brother too. I did
Little Hearts with mm hm.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's in the blood. It's in the blood in
that Foster family.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah. Yeah, wow, what a talent. And she was also
a huge fan of the Gilmore Girls. So both of
us were like.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
There, now isn't Amy doing something with Sutton now on Broadways?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That she writing in a musical.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The Mattress Once Upon a Mattress. I think that's what
it's called. Yeah, yeah, it's a limit okay? And Amy
wrote it and Sotton's in its the star.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah all right.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So so after the episode you filmed for Amy for
Gilmore Girls their revival, she brought you in for a
role in mysell and the Marvelous Missus myself. Uh, what
was the role? What was it like working with her again?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well? This time I feel like last time she didn't
direct the show or this time, you know, it was
just there's so much going on in our episode was
one day where they were just shooting this scene with
a million different things going on, a huge restaurant, tons
of extras, and so it was really exciting to see
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her in her element as the director and just how
everybody loved her and just getting everything, putting all the
pieces together, getting everything done. So that was exciting. And
we've stayed friends all of this time, so she's always
looking for parts for me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh that's great. So you see her, you go to
lunch for her. Do you live do you live in
the city.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, well I moved out to New Jersey, but I
did live in the city forever.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's yeah, that's great. All right, So let's talk about
this Aaron Hernandez thing which took over the headlines for
a while. So you've done plenty of drama and now
with your episodes just mirroring the in the Ryan Murphy
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American Sports story. Aaron Hernanz, which do you prefer working
on musicals or drama?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I think I prefer musicals. I mean, it's great to
stretch that muscle, and obviously it's fun to be on TV.
But like I'm doing. I created this show with my
friends girl. Now we're going we just did it in
la like two days ago, and we're going to have
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an off Broadway run. And it's just there's just something
so magical about being in front of the audience and
hearing the act right there, like having the palm of
your hand. And this show I do with my friends,
which is even more fun, and we created it. So
it's just there's just noing like live theater.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, there is nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
More vital than live theater when it's done well, I agree, nothing,
nothing comes close to it. So you're saying, is you
prefer the live theater experience that you're used to to
portraying characters in a psycho sports, murder, documentary styles serious
limited series, you would prefer to be on stage with
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your friends, singing and dancing, magazine laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Go exactly exactly. If you choose, like what I'm going
to put out into the world, especially now, I think
I choose joy and maybe laugh and bringing people together.
Not that there is a place for the other.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
There's always going to be a place in people's hearts
for psycho sports murders, dramas.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
There's absolutely an audience, and by golly, I'll be tuning
in just to catch your performance. I'm curious to see
what you did. What did you do in that? What
did you do in that?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I played Urban Meyer's wife. Oh okay, yeah, so old person.
And who played Urban Meyer Tony Yasbeck, who is also
a huge Broadway star, big, big dancer, and this was
his kind of big break for TV.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
And he's, oh, that's you, guys. You go, there's something
about you too. That said to Ryan Murphy, I gotta
bring him in for the sports psycho murder thing, you know,
gotta have them.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, this one, this one I did have to audition for.
I didn't get it just because I'm friends.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Now, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
You had to.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You had to earn that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Well, not saying you wouldn't earn if you got the offer,
but that's amazing. Okay, so extensive theater work.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Most TV stuff I auditioned for.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, TV's tough is tough. It's a tough crowd. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And you now teach a class called Breaking into Broadway
and it's a digital course for musical theater performers. What
is your number one advice for someone wanting to make
it on Broadway. Let's say, at my age, I came
to you and said, listen, I'm sixty six. Now I've
never been on Broadway. I'd like to try it.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
As a matter of fact, I was considered for the
lead role in Chicago, the New York production of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Sure that couldn't well.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
For now, you broadly be lucky to have you so,
but sim you so you hadn't had this amazing career.
Then I would say, find the thing that makes you special,
like find your special sauce. You do that nobody else
can do. And like I could say, for you, it's
that kind of like dark comedy.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You know, like oh, I was going to say skiing,
So I was.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Gonna say, I'm grumpy but lovable.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Okay, people lovable, right, And then.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like you know, just go into your auditions with that
and lead with that, and the parts will come to
you that you have.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Hopefully Amy and Dan will write me a Broadway musical
and I can start it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Get out there. You got to do the secret like
I did. Yeah, it's gonna happen all right.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
But you you have to do it with me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Okay, I need you there, you guess I'm gonna like
text Amy, guess what, Amy?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, the old guy wants to do Broadway music. Yeah,
that'll give her a real thrill.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We'll have a most fun ever, like you would love
doing all. All people who come over are like, oh,
it's just crazy fun.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I no, no, I wanted to do Chicago. We just
couldn't work it out in the schedule. But I really
it was like, Wow, what an opportunity, you know, And
I'm sure with all the rehearsal and all the professionals surroun,
they're not gonna let you fail, right, They're going to
make sure that you're going to give a performance.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You probably wouldn't get that much parsal, have I I
because you probably.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
How much rehearsal do you think you get?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think maybe maybe two weeks or maybe three weeks,
that's what That's what I would guess.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So what do you think the most challenging part is?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
It is like getting the voice in shape, right, getting
getting your voice in shape and getting it used to
really belting out these songs, right, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Guess, or doing the dance moves, or just the stamina
of doing like the eight shows a week.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Oh my, goodness, what am I doing?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You can do it?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I believe you think I can do it.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I do.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We're gonna play a little game called rapid fire, and
there's there's no pressure.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
To answer these questions quickly.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's really I don't know why they call it rapid fire,
but I just want to take the pressure.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Oh? I actually don't drink coffee, So that's how you
like your coffee?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
With no coffee? You like an empty cup? Or tea?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Tea? I'll take tea.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We've got Are you team Logan, Team Jess or team Dean?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh? Gosh, Oh that's a hard one. I'm gonna I'm
gonna say teen Dean Dean.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, I.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Love them all. I loved all them.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Who's your favorite Gilmore Girls couple? Luke and Laura? Are
Emily and Richard?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Luke and Laura?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I of course that's but Emily and Richard great couple.
That's a funny question, as if.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Right, I mean, come on, would you rather work with
Michelle or Kirk Kirk?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Kirk Kirk, the zany Kirk?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah? What would you order? Gary?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
What would you order if you happen to find yourself
one day, one glorious morning in Luke's Diner.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Mmmm, well, this is tough because the burgers are the staple. Right,
I'm vegetarian. Do you think Luke's Diner like has moved
into vegetarian burgers.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I believe that Caesar could whip one up for you.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's what I think. That's what I have to go for.
Then I have to get in the price.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You got it? You got it? Uh? Who would you
rather hang out with Paris or Lane?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Lane?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
How can you imagine hanging out with Paris? That's that
would be like? Whoa Harvard or Yale? Or would you
drop out live in the poolhouse? Actually, I don't like
that part of the question. Just Harvard or Yale?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Harvard?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Okay? Why isn't isn't that?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Did Worry go to Harvard or did she go to Yale?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
She went to Yale.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
She always dreamed of going to Harvard. But Richard is
you know it would make her a legacy because Richard
loved went to Harvard, I mean to Yale.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Sorry, Oh I really don't have a reason.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Why Just Harvard? Right? Okay? Just because you like you
like the way it looks on a sweatshirt. I got you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Both in Boston, so that was like, that would have
been my main thing.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
But right, okay, would you rather attend a da AR
event with Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
That's a very easy easy. That's the wrong answer.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Why because you have to sit in that tent all
day in one hundred and twenty degrees.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
You know, at least they're interesting. Oh but when you
film it.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That's so interesting when you're shooting it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
No, no, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's all good. Only one hundred and thirty degrees in there,
so big, and you're wearing winter clothes and hats and
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
It's not a problem. It's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Then I have like fans and stuff. Were you all?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I want to lose ten pounds today.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Not a problem. You know what they do? You know
they have those big yellow tubes.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh, pump in the ac. Sometimes it would work, sometimes
it wouldn't. But you know, hey, at least you were there, right,
at least you were in Gilmore Girls. So I'll just
shut up Gilmourger's character.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
That you would want as a roommate moral I duh, duh,
I mean who my best friend there? You go right?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
See that's her show. It's her show, Something in your life.
You are all in.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
On my dog.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Your dog? What kind of a dog do you have?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I have a mutt and I actually got him. There's
this event called Broadway Barks that Bernard Peter started and
we tricked my husband into going there because I had
to like perform there, and we fell in love with
my dog. And I am one of those crazy people
now who just like sends pictures all the time and
(25:43):
just right my dog when I go away.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yeah, I want to get my son a dog. He
really wants a dog, and I want to get him
a dog. I want to surprise. I want a dog.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So fun.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Carrie Harry Butler. Ladies and
gentlemen check her out in the Gilmore Girls the Year
in Life episode as Claudia the Therapist. And you also
did get a chance to do a scene outside the
(26:14):
therapist office by the gazebo when you were auditioning for
the Musical Stars Hall of the Music and you were
very excited.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
And now that now that you know me, you can
see that's right now, I recognize it. I was really
acting as the therapist.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, absolutely, and great job, by the way, great job.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But you definitely, you know, the real you came out
in the older scene. But it's been a pleasure getting
to know you a little bit, and good luck with everything.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
And I hope to one day meet you and to
see you on Broadway. I would love we're.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Gonna be on Broadway together.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It let's do it. You be, you be roxy Heart,
I'll be uh, what's his what's his name? Doctor Detroit? No,
it's not doctor. What's the guy's name? That's why to
get the part, I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Billy billy, billy, right right right.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
All right, anyway, all right, all the best. It was
a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Thanks so much, and good luck with everything, and best
your daughter and your dog and your husband and everybody.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Take care, okay, thanks all right, bye
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Everybody, and also again, follow us on Instagram at I
Am all In podcast and email us at Gilmore at
iHeartRadio dot com.
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