January 24, 2024 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Am all in with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
My daughter just walked in April Nardini. Hello, Vanessa Mrano,
Thank Scott.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm doing great? How you doing? You're excited for tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am excited for tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know it's a good crowd. It's a nice buzz.
Were you surprised to see what we did to get
ready to do?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
There was a lot of coffee, so that I was
not surprised by it. And I actually didn't stop for
coffee before those because when I know where I'm going exactly,
am I not? There?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We go?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now? I can hear you perfect? So what do you
think of this Gilmore stuff? It just keeps getting bigger
and bigger year in, year out. What do you attribute
that to?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, I think a lot of things. I think
it had a very, very loyal fan base. But I
was just talking about this, like, when it was on,
it almost didn't seem as big as it is now.
And I think it's probably because it's so accessible now
with streaming that it found a new audience. And then
also it's so rewatchable. I mean, you know, that I
was a huge fan of the show before I got
on the show. I can watch these episodes right over
(01:19):
and over and over again.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's it's highly addictive stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
And there's so fast paced, and there's so many jokes
that people are forced because you miss I mean, i'm
watching it now if I haven't seen it ever, it's
first time I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have to rewatch scenes because what's that joke? What's
that joke? What's that joke?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, that must be such a trip for you because
it's been like that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's wild, like watching another person that I don't know.
I'm not kidding. Oh, I believe, because I don't want
I can't watch myself. I get a Oh so now
it's like twenty four years. I'm fine, fine, Yeah, sometimes
that guy's pretty good and another time that guy.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Kind of stuff. Oh, come on, very critical, can't help.
How do you feel about watching yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm okay watching myself, But again, I have a child
actor brain, so it was like I didn't grow up
being as critical of myself as a result of that
because I started so young that it just sort of
like you almost had to watch yourself to get better
and like be a little bit conscious of what you
were doing so I can kind of disassociate out of
(02:22):
myself a little.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't know if it's super healthy, but I can
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You make money off that other people pay a PSYCHIATRYT.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What would you recommend really young kids getting into acting
to do?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How do you think they should go about it?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, you know, it's interesting and it's obviously so much
different now than when I started, So like just from
like an emotional psychological perspective, I would say, make sure
you actually, like really like it and the craft and
the school plays and all that stuff, because if you
don't like it, it's not worth the struggle that it
is to me your sanity within it.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And then I would say, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You do have to sort of realize that you as
an artist are almost a product in some ways and
really be okay with that and be okay with like
what your boundaries are within knowing what it is to
be putting yourself out there and like they're judging you, Like, yes,
it's a performance, but all the feedback is going to
be about you, and that could be really.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Really taxing on people.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
However, if you love it enough, if you're willing to
sort of you know, be logical about the whole thing
and put your boundaries up in that way, I think
then it is just putting yourself out there and trying
to create your own projects. I mean, we're in a
really interesting place now where it's like the influencer and
people are putting themselves as an influencer. You want to
(03:45):
be a performer, you can put yourself out there as
a performer. You can put together your own you know,
short films, what have.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You kind of easy to be discovered.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Now there's now no excuse not to be discovered if
you really have the intestinal fortitude.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Exactly what you said, because it is it is a
lot of work. Like I don't want to take away
from the fact that, like every day you have to
be creating something and putting yourself out there and have
the financial means to do that as well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But if you're starting younger, if you have.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The cushion of your teenager and your parents are supporting
you and you're trying to figure it out, or even
if you're in college and learning about your craft, that way,
doing that in tandem to putting your work out there
in any way that you can do it, I think
is the best thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, you can, I mean, but the training aspect of it,
you have to.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Train, and again just to make sure that you like it,
because it's not worth it if you don't like it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
You really do need to aggressively go after it, you know,
like a hungry animal basically, and if you don't have
that kind of passion for it, don't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And it also might not look the way that you
thought it was going to look. I think, you know,
my sister's on a Disney Channel show, and I think
for a lot of young kids.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It's like that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's being on your own Disney Channel show, and it's
like that's not necessary barely what it is. You might
be finding your way in as a as a costume designer,
and then you know, transitioning into a stylist, putting that
out there, but still finding a way to then get
your own podcast about that topic. It moves into a
television show for yourself. All of a sudden, you're.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
On a fashion show, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Like, I'm not saying that's a straight line, but I
think if you like the industry, or certain aspects of
the industry, whether it be performance, but it's just overall creation.
It may not look the way that you envisioned it,
but you will still get to the place that you
want to get if you love it enough, and like
you said, are aggressive enough.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What are you doing now?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What am I doing now?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well? I've transitioned quite a bit into producing actually, so yeah.
I produced a film on Netflix that my sister was in,
which was really really awesome. It's called The Royal Treatment.
It was very cool to be like Laura's on Netflix
and then you can go and watch an episode.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Of Kilmore Girls with me on it. There we are.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So yeah, I've been you know, producing, writing, I directed
a music video and then yeah, the Strike. So now
so hoping to act again sometime soon.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
There were some of your big inspirations in the entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Field, Emma Thompson, I love obsessed with Anne Hathaway, but
I think that's just because like I think I was
Princess Diary's that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
She was in a pilot when she was eighteena and
I was. I did an episode of that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Word.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love her And I saw in a movie theater
a couple months.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Later, ship record.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, I mean, I mean after one episode the Goal,
the Unmitigated gall I cry.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I know you thinking about it now.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Because everybody knew she was going to be a huge
everybody knows, everybody knows amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Hell, let's see here, Tina Fe I also am obsessed
with as well. Yeah, like like pretty much any like
strong opinionated brunette is someone that I shockingly gramitate towards.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Any anybody from the Golden era of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The Golden era of Hollywood forty I mean, look, I
think it's hard because so many women were being abused
and overly medicated during that time, so it's a little
bit difficult to be like.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But I mean, I think Judy Garland is an amazing
example of like strength and overcoming adversity during a time period,
and also like sticking up for the LGBTQ community before
anybody actually was, which I think is very impressive for
that time period.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So, and of course I love the Wizard of Oz.
It could just be as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What about new projects? When are you're working on now?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
New projects?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I have a few different things in the producing pipeline.
Something that I've set myself up for directing. We'll see
if that actually goes. But you know that's that's what
it is, man. It's just like chasing, chasing, chasing until
something lands.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Van does. It doesn't get better. I miss you. I
want to work with you again.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Let's do it. Let's make it happen, right, We've got
to be aggressive, yes again?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Good deal. We'll see everybody, and don't forget.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast
and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com
I am all in.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, I.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Am all in with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
My daughter just walked in April Nardini. Hello, Vanessa Mrano,
Thank Scott.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm doing great? How you doing? You're excited for tonight?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am excited for tonight.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I know it's a good crowd. It's a nice buzz.
Were you surprised to see what we did to get
ready to do?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
There was a lot of coffee, so that I was
not surprised by it. And I actually didn't stop for
coffee before those because when I know where I'm going exactly,
am I not? There?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We go?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now? I can hear you perfect? So what do you
think of this Gilmore stuff? It just keeps getting bigger
and bigger year in, year out. What do you attribute
that to?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, I think a lot of things. I think
it had a very, very loyal fan base. But I
was just talking about this, like, when it was on,
it almost didn't seem as big as it is now.
And I think it's probably because it's so accessible now
with streaming that it found a new audience. And then
also it's so rewatchable. I mean, you know, that I
was a huge fan of the show before I got
on the show. I can watch these episodes right over
(01:19):
and over and over again.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's it's highly addictive stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
And there's so fast paced, and there's so many jokes
that people are forced because you miss I mean, i'm
watching it now if I haven't seen it ever, it's
first time I'm watching.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have to rewatch scenes because what's that joke? What's
that joke? What's that joke?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, that must be such a trip for you because
it's been like that.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
That's wild, like watching another person that I don't know.
I'm not kidding. Oh, I believe, because I don't want
I can't watch myself. I get a Oh so now
it's like twenty four years. I'm fine, fine, Yeah, sometimes
that guy's pretty good and another time that guy.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Kind of stuff. Oh, come on, very critical, can't help.
How do you feel about watching yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I'm okay watching myself, But again, I have a child
actor brain, so it was like I didn't grow up
being as critical of myself as a result of that
because I started so young that it just sort of
like you almost had to watch yourself to get better
and like be a little bit conscious of what you
were doing so I can kind of disassociate out of
(02:22):
myself a little.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't know if it's super healthy, but I can
do it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
You make money off that other people pay a PSYCHIATRYT.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
What would you recommend really young kids getting into acting
to do?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
How do you think they should go about it?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Well, you know, it's interesting and it's obviously so much
different now than when I started, So like just from
like an emotional psychological perspective, I would say, make sure
you actually, like really like it and the craft and
the school plays and all that stuff, because if you
don't like it, it's not worth the struggle that it
is to me your sanity within it.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And then I would say, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You do have to sort of realize that you as
an artist are almost a product in some ways and
really be okay with that and be okay with like
what your boundaries are within knowing what it is to
be putting yourself out there and like they're judging you, Like, yes,
it's a performance, but all the feedback is going to
be about you, and that could be really.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Really taxing on people.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
However, if you love it enough, if you're willing to
sort of you know, be logical about the whole thing
and put your boundaries up in that way, I think
then it is just putting yourself out there and trying
to create your own projects. I mean, we're in a
really interesting place now where it's like the influencer and
people are putting themselves as an influencer. You want to
(03:45):
be a performer, you can put yourself out there as
a performer. You can put together your own you know,
short films, what have.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You kind of easy to be discovered.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Now there's now no excuse not to be discovered if
you really have the intestinal fortitude.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Exactly what you said, because it is it is a
lot of work. Like I don't want to take away
from the fact that, like every day you have to
be creating something and putting yourself out there and have
the financial means to do that as well.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But if you're starting younger, if you have.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The cushion of your teenager and your parents are supporting
you and you're trying to figure it out, or even
if you're in college and learning about your craft, that way,
doing that in tandem to putting your work out there
in any way that you can do it, I think
is the best thing.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, you can, I mean, but the training aspect of it,
you have to.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Train, and again just to make sure that you like it,
because it's not worth it if you don't like it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
You really do need to aggressively go after it, you know,
like a hungry animal basically, and if you don't have
that kind of passion for it, don't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And it also might not look the way that you
thought it was going to look. I think, you know,
my sister's on a Disney Channel show, and I think
for a lot of young kids.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
It's like that's that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
It's being on your own Disney Channel show, and it's
like that's not necessary barely what it is. You might
be finding your way in as a as a costume designer,
and then you know, transitioning into a stylist, putting that
out there, but still finding a way to then get
your own podcast about that topic. It moves into a
television show for yourself. All of a sudden, you're.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
On a fashion show, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Like, I'm not saying that's a straight line, but I
think if you like the industry, or certain aspects of
the industry, whether it be performance, but it's just overall creation.
It may not look the way that you envisioned it,
but you will still get to the place that you
want to get if you love it enough, and like
you said, are aggressive enough.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
What are you doing now?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What am I doing now?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well? I've transitioned quite a bit into producing actually, so yeah.
I produced a film on Netflix that my sister was in,
which was really really awesome. It's called The Royal Treatment.
It was very cool to be like Laura's on Netflix
and then you can go and watch an episode.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Of Kilmore Girls with me on it. There we are.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So yeah, I've been you know, producing, writing, I directed
a music video and then yeah, the Strike. So now
so hoping to act again sometime soon.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
There were some of your big inspirations in the entertainment.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Field, Emma Thompson, I love obsessed with Anne Hathaway, but
I think that's just because like I think I was
Princess Diary's that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
She was in a pilot when she was eighteena and
I was. I did an episode of that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Word.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love her And I saw in a movie theater
a couple months.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Later, ship record.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, I mean, I mean after one episode the Goal,
the Unmitigated gall I cry.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I know you thinking about it now.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Because everybody knew she was going to be a huge
everybody knows, everybody knows amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Hell, let's see here, Tina Fe I also am obsessed
with as well. Yeah, like like pretty much any like
strong opinionated brunette is someone that I shockingly gramitate towards.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Any anybody from the Golden era of Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The Golden era of Hollywood forty I mean, look, I
think it's hard because so many women were being abused
and overly medicated during that time, so it's a little
bit difficult to be like.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
But I mean, I think Judy Garland is an amazing
example of like strength and overcoming adversity during a time period,
and also like sticking up for the LGBTQ community before
anybody actually was, which I think is very impressive for
that time period.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
So, and of course I love the Wizard of Oz.
It could just be as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What about new projects? When are you're working on now?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
New projects?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I have a few different things in the producing pipeline.
Something that I've set myself up for directing. We'll see
if that actually goes. But you know that's that's what
it is, man. It's just like chasing, chasing, chasing until
something lands.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Van does. It doesn't get better. I miss you. I
want to work with you again.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Let's do it. Let's make it happen, right, We've got
to be aggressive, yes again?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Good deal. We'll see everybody, and don't forget.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast
and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com
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