March 11, 2024 • 34 mins
In the very first Q&A episode of 'Let's Be Clear,' Shannen opens up as she answers your questions.What did she really think about the Brenda/Kelly/Dylan love triangle? Did she really consider a singing career?What's the truth about the 'missing' episode of Charmed?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Dorty. Hi, everyone,
welcome to another episode of Let's Be Clear with Shanna Doherty.
So today's episode is going to be a Q and A.
You guys sent in hundreds of questions and I'm going
to answer them. I'm not going to get to all
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of them. I think that's pretty much impossible, but eventually
we will. So we're going to go through as many
today as I can get through. I'm sorry, I have
a little bit of a sore throat. So from and
if I butcher your names, I'm really sorry. From Kristen
de mac Isaac. Growing up, did you ever read and
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respond to your own fam mail or did someone else
do this for you? So interesting question, Yes, I actually did.
My mom and my dad were very much huge. They
encouraged me to read everything so that I would understand
my responsibility of being in the public eye. And they
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would so we would have like fan mail days where
we would sit down and read the fan mail and
then I would sign a photo or sign like a
little card, but certainly on little House. NBC would supply
us with all that stuff and then put it in
the envelopes, give it back to our producers and they
would send it off to the fans, So yes, I did.
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I actually really enjoyed reading the fan mail. Later on
it became a little overwhelming and that process sort of stopped.
I think Aaron Spelling did it, but I can't be sure.
From Mel mel B, I know you, girl high. Who
is your biggest inspiration in life? And what three words
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would you tell your younger self. My biggest inspiration in
life is probably always going to be my parents, and
it's just because of the way that they raise me
and what they taught me, and their strength and their perseverance,
and my admiration for them knows no limits. And what
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I would tell my younger self is to chill out
and don't take it all so seriously. That's pretty much it.
From Chelsea Luanne, what is something you've learned about yourself
since you started Let's Be Clear podcast. I've learned that
being transparent and honest is a double edged sword, and
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there are moments where it's really wonderful because you're getting
to share yourself in such a very personal way with
people who personally connect with you with your journey, whether
it is through cancer, just your acting or whatever. And
in that regard, it's really wonderful and really nice. But
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there are also people out there who they think that
they want to hear you be transparent, but then when
you are, they don't really like the answer. They don't
like that transparency, and it turns into a you know,
bashing of Shannon or a bashing of other people and
creating sort of this contentious environment, and that is something
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that I don't really like. You know, the point of
this podcast was to connect with all of you. It
was to be very clear about things in my life
that had transpired, talking to my friends, talking to doctors,
bringing knowledge and strings and hope to the cancer community,
which I hope I'm doing. So that's what I've learned,
is that transparency is a double edged sword. But I
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will always I will always lean towards transparency because at
least I'm getting to be honest, and at least I'm
getting to say what has transpired in my life and
what my truth is. And there's something very cathartic about that.
Lindy's Candy Boutique, Where does your strength come from during
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your hardest days of coping with your diagnosis? I don't know.
I have said this before that, I kind of imagine
that there's a well inside of me, and when it's dry,
you just kind of got to dig a little deeper,
and when you dig, you find more strength. I also
know my mom is one of the strongest human beings
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I know, So I get a lot of my strength
from her, and from the love and support of my
friends and that support system, and my brother and sort
of people knowing when I'm sort of going through probably
a darker time or a time when I'm not feeling
as strong, I tend to become a hermit. I tend
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to not answer phone calls. And my friends now know
that about me, and they sort of persist in reaching
out to me so that they can help me dig
a little deeper for that strength. So I'm really blessed.
I'm very lucky with the people that I have in
my life. You're ten seventeen. What is the biggest misconception
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about you that you would like to clear up? Oh,
there are so many. I think the biggest misconception about
me is that I am a bitch. I think that's
probably the biggest one I am. I am definitely not
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a bitch. I am strong, and I'm smart and I
have an opinion, and if those things make me a bitch,
then there's something incredibly incredibly wrong with this world and
how they view women and what the women are allowed
to put out there. So I don't really think that's
on me. I think that's on society, if that's what
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it is. I'm actually like a really I can be
painfully shy and very self conscious and things hurt me
really deep. I'm not I don't have thick skin, and
particularly since twenty fifteen when I got diagnosed with cancer,
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that those walls that protected me from a lot of
negative comments all sort of came down, and with them down,
I often sometimes feel like I don't have a coat
of armor anymore. And that can be beautiful, but it
can also be detrimental. More on that later. But that's
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probably the biggest misconception from Dana. I apologize. I'm going
to butcher your name right now now, Dana Jacko Viello,
how do you choose to handle any criticism, bullies and
haters your way over the years and now compared to
when when you were younger? Is there any difference? Ship
so why? Well kind of just answered that one in
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the sense of back then I think I just put
up all these walls and really was able to slough
it off and ignore it, and I wouldn't read anything
I had blinders on, and now I don't, And I
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think the oftentimes I get sent stuffed by people that
I probably shouldn't read, and I now know to not
read it because it's not going to be useful for me.
But the harassment haters, bullies now impact me more. But
I also like to remind myself that there's a thing
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called keyboard warrior, and that usually if you're someone who
is going on to tell someone how awful they are
or that they're toxic, or that they're this, or they're
ugly or like, whatever their mean comments are, it's really
a reflection upon how they feel about themselves and not
what they really feel about me. They're just gonna unload
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it on me because I seem like an easy target
for them, But that's their issue, And yes, it's a
thing that I constantly have to remind myself of from forever.
F Ce your skin is flawless? What is your beauty regime?
Oh my Guinness, I love you. My skin is not flawless.
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As you can see, I got some stuff going on lately.
But my beauty regime, I'm I do not wash my
face in the morning with any soap. I just rent
it with water, which I've found helps a lot. And
I use serums and moisturizers and more serums. I'm figuring
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out which are the best. I like changing products a
lot because I feel like my skin gets used to
one thing. But I just moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, and I
have this little at home micro dermibration thing that I
roll on my skin lately, and that seems to be helping.
And that's pretty much it for that. From to how
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y'all do it? What do you feel is your legacy? Oh?
I don't know if I have one yet, but I
guess looking at legacy in a very simple way, I
hope my legacy is that I was a really good daughter.
And then on a bigger scale, I hope my legacy
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is that I put a face an emotion to cancer
and that I helped as many people as humanly possible.
Only baby girl sixteen, Where's the one place in this
world that you would love to travel to? There's just
too many places. Boy, Where would I like to travel to? Botswana, Kenya, Sardinia, Vietnam, India.
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It's a big list. I have a lot of places
that I want to go to. And again, guys, I
apologize about my sore throat. I threw a party for
my best friend's mom's ninetieth birthday and I was in
charge of planning the entire thing, and boy did I
work hard and as a result, I sort of lost
my boys. Chrispy Mayhem, I was wondering if you would
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be comfortable sharing with us what's in your everyday bag
and or beauty bag. So in my purse is always
my iPad and my cell phone. There is two eyeliner pencils.
One is the Chanelle Pencil Antique. The other one is
the new Victoria Beckham eye liner, which I love. And
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I usually keep a little pot of moisturizer with me
and then my Listics lip conditioner. I literally cannot go anywhere.
I've left my house and driven like three blocks and
turned around and went back to the house for it.
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It is my absolute favorite thing ever. And let's see,
there's always a hair band and my wallet and my passport.
My passport is always with me. Mitchell seven two three,
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How did you feel about the Brenda Dylan Kelly triangle
and the whole treating scandal. I was horrified. I was
so not into that because A I just thought Brenda
and Dylan were like the best things. Ever, so I
didn't understand anyone wanting to mess up that storyline. And
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then to have someone's best friend sleep with your boyfriend
is such a betrayal that I don't even know how
Brenda recovered from that. I don't think she ever did
recover personally. So I wasn't thrilled with it, but I
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didn't have much say, so I went with it. Shando's strong.
How did you find working with James Echalis here? Scenes
together were always quite emotional, they were. James was one
of my favorites. We got along really well, and he
was a great actor who made me feel in those
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moments like he was a dad like he was very
protective of me. So I loved working with James Jaylee
nineteen Pepper Sweeney was on his guest. He stated when
he appeared on nine Note two and Zho, you walked
around with the giant python around your neck. Ginny and
Tory said that they didn't remember that. I don't remember
that either if I had a python around my neck,
it's because it was either in an episode or one
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of our animal wranglers brought it and I was getting
used to it. I know there was a photo shoot.
I did it one time with uh it's an albino python,
and I did a photoshoot, So maybe the photoshoot was
done on the set and I had to get used
to the python. I also remember that on that photoshoot
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the python went to the bathroom on me and it
was pretty horrifying. Power of X men. I'm curious about
your relationship with Tiffany with theas in you two ever
met discus nine or two and now we met a
really long time ago because she was dating Brian Austin Green,
who's always been a great friend of mine. I think
Tiffany is wonderful. I love her, and I think she,
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you know, stepped in and did a fabulous, amazing job
and in something that was probably very difficult to step
into for her, and she handled it with class and grace.
Sir Nick Lee, how would you direct a Preue Resurrection special?
Are there any elements to your director style that you
incorporate or emphasize in your work? So I mean, I
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just think that Prue had so many powers and the
astral projection and everything else. I think that I would
have her come back as the strongest elder ever, but
where you know her form, everything that she can do,
her her power is tangible, and my directors style that
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that I would incorporate or emphasize in my work. I
when I direct something, I do a lot of shot
list and I like to have storyboards done, and I
usually base the esthetic the look of it on a
particular painting. So, for instance, the last episode I directed
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of Charmed, it was based on a salvad Or Dolly painting.
That was the color scheme, the esthetic, the mood, everything else.
And then I just like to be overly prepared, because
don't I don't think that people have to work sixteen
hours on a TV show and a day. So I
like to know how I can condent things, how I
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can put people in two shots, how many cameras can
I actually use, still be on budget, hopefully come in
under budget, and get people out at a normal hour
so that they can go home and have family time.
Kathy two bagels. What happened in the last episode Charm
season three? The Missing episode twenty three. This is a rumor.
There is no missing episode twenty three. Louis Oakes, what
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items did you keep from the set of Charmed? I
kept a lot of clothing. I kept a lot of
clothing which I still wear, actually, Mucco Metal. Please tell
us literally anything about your experience on Heather's I, you know,
was I don't think I was eighteen yet and my
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mom was on set with me. I remember thinking that
the other girls were really beautiful and that I was
awkward looking, and I had a little bit of insecurity
about that. But I really kind of hung out with
my mom because, you know, except for Winona, everybody else
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was older than me at that time. The True Fire,
I would like to know your experience in the mood
friends till the end where you had to sing, and
you did it very well. Thank you. Would you like
to participate in a musical movie? Did you ever think
about being a singer? I did think about being a
singer after that movie came out. I had a couple
of meetings with some amazing record people, and it was
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something that I discussed. But ultimately I think I was
incredibly insecure about my singing voice, and I was also
insecure about how people would receive that from me. I
think I got scared. I chickened out of doing anything
with singing. I might regret it a little bit, but
not too much. What are some roles that you auditioned
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for that you didn't get? There's a lot. There are
a lot of roles that I auditioned for that I
didn't get. I can't really remember one offhand right now,
Oh I did. I remember when I was young, I
auditioned for a movie called Pollyanna or a TV show
called and I really really really really wanted it, and
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I thought I had it and I didn't and I
was pretty bummed. And I auditioned for Annie. I didn't
get Annie. I auditioned for I think I auditioned for
Anna green Gables and I was I know, I'd read
all the books. Later in life, I auditioned for scorsese
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movie Aviator with Leonardo, and I also did not get that.
I was pretty bummed about that one. Obviously I would
want to be in that movie. And I auditioned for Heat,
the Michael Mann movie, which I loved, and I loved
Michael Mann and all the actors that were involved. But
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ultimately he hired Ashley Judd instead, which was a bummer
for me but great for her. Those are just some
fan that I can remember. Oh, if you could get
back into the director's chair given it unlimited budget, what
would be your dream movie or series to direct an
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unlimited budget? You know, I don't think I would care
about the unlimited budget. I work well on budgets. It
would it would just have to be a piece that
was emotional and stirred people. I want to bring out
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emotions from the audience. And there's a couple of books
that I have my eye on that I would love
to direct. There was a book that Rebecca Diynerston wrote
that I really wanted to direct, but by the time
I reached her, they had already had to deal with
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somebody else, which was a bummer. But you know, anything
that just feels I kind of like more from my
from my style. I kind of like a little little
bit more of a simple movie, even though I obviously
directed with CGI and stunts and all of that, so
I can definitely do it. Of course, I would love
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to direct a Matrix style movie. That's one of my
all time favorite movies. But you know, they did it
so well, I I could never touch that ever ever,
just it was every single thing about the matrix was perfection.
What co star made you laugh the most between takes,
Oh depends on what show we're talking about. You know,
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Brian always made me laugh, Toy always made me laugh,
and uh, you know, Holly and I made each other
laugh quite a bit. So I think out of significant
TV shows, those are the ones. And then working with
Kevin Smith and just all of those actors were hysterical,
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so we would all kind of chuckle at one another.
What is your fondest memory from your time on the
Little House and any valuable lessons that Michael Lannon taught you.
Michael Lannon taught me to be true to myself. He
taught me to embrace my voice, to stand up from myself.
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And he taught me how to play a liar's poker,
which occupied a lot of dead time on the set.
You know, when they're lighting and stuff, you sit around
and you're in school, or you're sitting around and or
on your breaks, and so I would play a liar's
poker with the crew, and that was always really fun.
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I loved Michael. I loved the movie Gone in the
Night what was your memories of making that movie. It
was hard. I felt a deep responsibility to the family
to portray their story accurately, and it was to dig
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and find her emotion and what she was going through.
I got to meet her. There was just a lot
of pressure that I felt doing that movie. And it's
also one that I'm really, really, really proud of. I
think it turned out wonderful. The cast was amazing in
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that movie, and it was Yeah, that would go down
as a piece of work that I'm extremely proud of.
Who's your dream person to work with. It's directors. It's
people like Michael Mann, people like Martin Scorsese, people like
Joe Wright, Darren Aronofski, obviously Quentin Tarantino. There's just and
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there's so many Stephen Soderberk like there's it's usually directors
that I look to that I really really want to
work with. I mean, obviously, there are actors that are
fantastic that you can only dream of working with. The
Robert de Niro's of the world and Nicole Kimmins, the
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Michelle Pfeiffer's, all of those people phenomenal. Yes, of course
I would want to work with them, but I think.
For me, my main focus would be on who the
director is. Is it true that there was an All
Hell Breaks Loose? Part two? Nope, not true. Beck ma'am Stanton.
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I am from Santa Clarita, and I have a story
about Shannon that I never forgot. She was filming that
show that she did with Wilfrid Brimley at my high
schoo Goal Heart High and Newhall, California, probably around nineteen
eighty eight to nineteen ninetey nine. My friend was a
senior with a huge question of her. He asked her
to her of coming prom and Shannon treated him with
complete respect and reflected on the date she was a
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successful working actress in all the team magazines and made
him feel worthy of her time and consideration. She let
him know she was working and gracefully thanked him for
asking her. My question would be, as a successful young
teen girl, where did that humility come from? I've been
a fan ever since that day, because if I didn't
have that humility, my parents would have been so mad
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at me. They they really taught me to be respectful
of people until they give you a reason to not
be respectful and then just walk away from them and
I actually remember this, and he was lovely. He was
so nice about it and so charming and sweet that
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he obviously deserved the attention, and he deserved me giving
him consideration, and I wanted him to walk away from
that feeling good. You know, I think if we all
put ourselves in other people's shoes before we react or
before we say something, it'll make us a lot kinder
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of human beings, because oftentimes we'll think, oh God, I
can't believe somebody like asked me. But now think about
that person who did ask you, and what they felt
in that moment, the possible nerves that they felt, or
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maybe they felt self conscious, maybe they got dared to
do it, maybe whatever it is, You've got to think
about how they're feeling, so that your reaction can be
one one of respect and humility as opposed to as
opposed to any other reaction that someone perhaps might have.
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So I do like to take into consideration how people
feel and what their emotional journey was having the guts
to come and ask me. Because I'm too shy, I
would never be able to do that. So for this
person to ask me, I did respect them. I respected
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that they felt strong enough about themselves that they invited me.
I thought that that was very cool, but humility is
a beautiful thing, and more people actually really needed. Do
you have any memories of working with Johnny Depp when
you guest starred in twenty one Jump Street. I did
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not get to work with Johnny. My scenes were with
other people, so I didn't really get to work with Johnny.
But I had met Johnny later a bunch of times
as I used to go to the viper room. I
also lived above him for a period of time, so
I actually looked onto his property, so sometimes I would
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wave to him. There's my Johnny Dupp story. I know
it's been a long time. This is from Sweet Summer.
I know it's been a long time ago, but I
love Little House in the Prairie and I loved your
character as Jenny. Can you tell us any favorite memories
that you had while doing the show Boy. I just
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I got to work with Michael Landon. That's one of
my all time favorite memories and just the things that
I learned from him. He directed some of the episodes
and wrote some of the episodes, and just remember how
he was as a director. It probably didn't probably definitely
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helped me realize what kind of a director I wanted
to be, and he gave an example to me of
being so concise and so thorough and so prepared and
really confident in his choices as a director, and I
admired that and I took it with me and then
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Teddy Voitlander was our DP, probably one of the best
dps I've ever worked with. Unbelievable, and Teddy was very
kind because I was extremely curious and I wanted to
know about the lighting and the lenses and how he
was making these choices, and he took the time with
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me to really explain it. He had no problem putting
me behind the camera and showing me the different lenses,
and that also helped me later in life when I
started directing, I worked on there was an episode of
Little House with an actor named Off Bellamy, and probably
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one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had as
an actor was working with Rough Bellamy. First off, he's
a legend, and he's so special, he's so kind, he's
so giving as an actor, and I learned a lot
from him. And then afterwards because he always came to
set and he had these little licorices that he would
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get in London, and so he would. After our time
together was done on the episode, he would send me
notes with these little licorices, incredibly special moments. Little House
provided all of that. And then there's Victor French, who
I called him Stinky and he called me the worm
because I was squiggly and he was not stinky, but
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I was a kid, and that's the nickname I came
up with. But we just had so much fun together.
Was pretty phenomenal, Erica, what was the experience like working
with an older co star in Night Team ninety two
is obsessed? It was a little weird, to be honest,
and not because the actor. He was wonderful, but there
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was a huge age discrepancy and it just felt it
felt like I was playing a role, which I was,
but it wasn't a role that I was necessarily comfortable playing.
The intimate scenes were were awkward. But Bill Devane was amazing.
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William Devane was. He was awesome and if it wasn't
for him, it would have been way worse. But he
would just make me laugh. How is your time shooting
North Shore and working with Jason Momo? Jason Momo was amazing,
so North Shore was really interesting for me. I think
I I was there for eight or nine months, and
I basically lived in Hawaii towards the last couple of
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months where I started flying home because I got very,
very very homesick. But I learned to surf in Hawaii
from Hans Hatemann and Jason Amanda Urghetti. There was a
couple of them that would we would all hang out
all the time, and they would come to my house.
I would go to their house. So it was it
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was it was like being on a paid vacation. It
was actually for the fact that I could be on
a set, have a job and wrap super early or
not even have to work the next day, and spend
my days surfing or tooling around Hawaii. That's kind of
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a dream job. From be my question for Shannon from France,
are you happy? I am? I am happy, And it's
been an interesting year and a half. Twenty twenty three
did not start going rate and I found it incredibly challenging.
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And you know, every day is a challenge because with
cancer things change all the time. Your protocols start working.
You think you've got this protocol that's amazing, and then
all of a sudden, your body just stops reacting to it,
and those are hard moments to get through. But I'm
happy because I'm still here and I have people in
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my life now that truly love me and that will
walk through hell with me and for me. And I
was missing that for a lot of years of my life, apparently,
And I think that there's I think none of us
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should waste time, because life is incredibly precious, particularly when
you have cancer. I feel like a lot of clutter
is out of my life now and things are much
more clear and focused, and I know what I want
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from myself and I and I know how I want
to wake up every morning. I also, you know, I
just see things in a different light because of the
year and a half that was hell. But I have
one hundred percent turned a corner and I am I'm happy.
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I can say that I've had a really blessed life,
and then I'm an incredibly lucky human being. So yes,
I'm happy. Thank you for asking that question. All right, guys,
as all we have time for with your questions. But
I actually really enjoyed this. I think it's great being
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able to answer questions and we will definitely definitely be
doing another one. I hope you guys liked it as
much as I did. All right, thank you, thank you
guys for tuning in, and catch you on the next
episode of Let's Be Clear with Shannon Torty. H
This is Let's Be Clear with Shannon Dorty. Hi, everyone,
welcome to another episode of Let's Be Clear with Shanna Doherty.
So today's episode is going to be a Q and A.
You guys sent in hundreds of questions and I'm going
to answer them. I'm not going to get to all
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of them. I think that's pretty much impossible, but eventually
we will. So we're going to go through as many
today as I can get through. I'm sorry, I have
a little bit of a sore throat. So from and
if I butcher your names, I'm really sorry. From Kristen
de mac Isaac. Growing up, did you ever read and
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respond to your own fam mail or did someone else
do this for you? So interesting question, Yes, I actually did.
My mom and my dad were very much huge. They
encouraged me to read everything so that I would understand
my responsibility of being in the public eye. And they
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would so we would have like fan mail days where
we would sit down and read the fan mail and
then I would sign a photo or sign like a
little card, but certainly on little House. NBC would supply
us with all that stuff and then put it in
the envelopes, give it back to our producers and they
would send it off to the fans, So yes, I did.
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I actually really enjoyed reading the fan mail. Later on
it became a little overwhelming and that process sort of stopped.
I think Aaron Spelling did it, but I can't be sure.
From Mel mel B, I know you, girl high. Who
is your biggest inspiration in life? And what three words
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would you tell your younger self. My biggest inspiration in
life is probably always going to be my parents, and
it's just because of the way that they raise me
and what they taught me, and their strength and their perseverance,
and my admiration for them knows no limits. And what
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I would tell my younger self is to chill out
and don't take it all so seriously. That's pretty much it.
From Chelsea Luanne, what is something you've learned about yourself
since you started Let's Be Clear podcast. I've learned that
being transparent and honest is a double edged sword, and
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there are moments where it's really wonderful because you're getting
to share yourself in such a very personal way with
people who personally connect with you with your journey, whether
it is through cancer, just your acting or whatever. And
in that regard, it's really wonderful and really nice. But
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there are also people out there who they think that
they want to hear you be transparent, but then when
you are, they don't really like the answer. They don't
like that transparency, and it turns into a you know,
bashing of Shannon or a bashing of other people and
creating sort of this contentious environment, and that is something
(03:24):
that I don't really like. You know, the point of
this podcast was to connect with all of you. It
was to be very clear about things in my life
that had transpired, talking to my friends, talking to doctors,
bringing knowledge and strings and hope to the cancer community,
which I hope I'm doing. So that's what I've learned,
is that transparency is a double edged sword. But I
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will always I will always lean towards transparency because at
least I'm getting to be honest, and at least I'm
getting to say what has transpired in my life and
what my truth is. And there's something very cathartic about that.
Lindy's Candy Boutique, Where does your strength come from during
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your hardest days of coping with your diagnosis? I don't know.
I have said this before that, I kind of imagine
that there's a well inside of me, and when it's dry,
you just kind of got to dig a little deeper,
and when you dig, you find more strength. I also
know my mom is one of the strongest human beings
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I know, So I get a lot of my strength
from her, and from the love and support of my
friends and that support system, and my brother and sort
of people knowing when I'm sort of going through probably
a darker time or a time when I'm not feeling
as strong, I tend to become a hermit. I tend
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to not answer phone calls. And my friends now know
that about me, and they sort of persist in reaching
out to me so that they can help me dig
a little deeper for that strength. So I'm really blessed.
I'm very lucky with the people that I have in
my life. You're ten seventeen. What is the biggest misconception
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about you that you would like to clear up? Oh,
there are so many. I think the biggest misconception about
me is that I am a bitch. I think that's
probably the biggest one I am. I am definitely not
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a bitch. I am strong, and I'm smart and I
have an opinion, and if those things make me a bitch,
then there's something incredibly incredibly wrong with this world and
how they view women and what the women are allowed
to put out there. So I don't really think that's
on me. I think that's on society, if that's what
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it is. I'm actually like a really I can be
painfully shy and very self conscious and things hurt me
really deep. I'm not I don't have thick skin, and
particularly since twenty fifteen when I got diagnosed with cancer,
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that those walls that protected me from a lot of
negative comments all sort of came down, and with them down,
I often sometimes feel like I don't have a coat
of armor anymore. And that can be beautiful, but it
can also be detrimental. More on that later. But that's
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probably the biggest misconception from Dana. I apologize. I'm going
to butcher your name right now now, Dana Jacko Viello,
how do you choose to handle any criticism, bullies and
haters your way over the years and now compared to
when when you were younger? Is there any difference? Ship
so why? Well kind of just answered that one in
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the sense of back then I think I just put
up all these walls and really was able to slough
it off and ignore it, and I wouldn't read anything
I had blinders on, and now I don't, And I
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think the oftentimes I get sent stuffed by people that
I probably shouldn't read, and I now know to not
read it because it's not going to be useful for me.
But the harassment haters, bullies now impact me more. But
I also like to remind myself that there's a thing
(07:58):
called keyboard warrior, and that usually if you're someone who
is going on to tell someone how awful they are
or that they're toxic, or that they're this, or they're
ugly or like, whatever their mean comments are, it's really
a reflection upon how they feel about themselves and not
what they really feel about me. They're just gonna unload
(08:19):
it on me because I seem like an easy target
for them, But that's their issue, And yes, it's a
thing that I constantly have to remind myself of from forever.
F Ce your skin is flawless? What is your beauty regime?
Oh my Guinness, I love you. My skin is not flawless.
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As you can see, I got some stuff going on lately.
But my beauty regime, I'm I do not wash my
face in the morning with any soap. I just rent
it with water, which I've found helps a lot. And
I use serums and moisturizers and more serums. I'm figuring
(09:07):
out which are the best. I like changing products a
lot because I feel like my skin gets used to
one thing. But I just moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, and I
have this little at home micro dermibration thing that I
roll on my skin lately, and that seems to be helping.
And that's pretty much it for that. From to how
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y'all do it? What do you feel is your legacy? Oh?
I don't know if I have one yet, but I
guess looking at legacy in a very simple way, I
hope my legacy is that I was a really good daughter.
And then on a bigger scale, I hope my legacy
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is that I put a face an emotion to cancer
and that I helped as many people as humanly possible.
Only baby girl sixteen, Where's the one place in this
world that you would love to travel to? There's just
too many places. Boy, Where would I like to travel to? Botswana, Kenya, Sardinia, Vietnam, India.
(10:26):
It's a big list. I have a lot of places
that I want to go to. And again, guys, I
apologize about my sore throat. I threw a party for
my best friend's mom's ninetieth birthday and I was in
charge of planning the entire thing, and boy did I
work hard and as a result, I sort of lost
my boys. Chrispy Mayhem, I was wondering if you would
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be comfortable sharing with us what's in your everyday bag
and or beauty bag. So in my purse is always
my iPad and my cell phone. There is two eyeliner pencils.
One is the Chanelle Pencil Antique. The other one is
the new Victoria Beckham eye liner, which I love. And
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I usually keep a little pot of moisturizer with me
and then my Listics lip conditioner. I literally cannot go anywhere.
I've left my house and driven like three blocks and
turned around and went back to the house for it.
(11:35):
It is my absolute favorite thing ever. And let's see,
there's always a hair band and my wallet and my passport.
My passport is always with me. Mitchell seven two three,
(12:04):
How did you feel about the Brenda Dylan Kelly triangle
and the whole treating scandal. I was horrified. I was
so not into that because A I just thought Brenda
and Dylan were like the best things. Ever, so I
didn't understand anyone wanting to mess up that storyline. And
(12:26):
then to have someone's best friend sleep with your boyfriend
is such a betrayal that I don't even know how
Brenda recovered from that. I don't think she ever did
recover personally. So I wasn't thrilled with it, but I
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didn't have much say, so I went with it. Shando's strong.
How did you find working with James Echalis here? Scenes
together were always quite emotional, they were. James was one
of my favorites. We got along really well, and he
was a great actor who made me feel in those
(13:07):
moments like he was a dad like he was very
protective of me. So I loved working with James Jaylee
nineteen Pepper Sweeney was on his guest. He stated when
he appeared on nine Note two and Zho, you walked
around with the giant python around your neck. Ginny and
Tory said that they didn't remember that. I don't remember
that either if I had a python around my neck,
it's because it was either in an episode or one
(13:31):
of our animal wranglers brought it and I was getting
used to it. I know there was a photo shoot.
I did it one time with uh it's an albino python,
and I did a photoshoot, So maybe the photoshoot was
done on the set and I had to get used
to the python. I also remember that on that photoshoot
(13:52):
the python went to the bathroom on me and it
was pretty horrifying. Power of X men. I'm curious about
your relationship with Tiffany with theas in you two ever
met discus nine or two and now we met a
really long time ago because she was dating Brian Austin Green,
who's always been a great friend of mine. I think
Tiffany is wonderful. I love her, and I think she,
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you know, stepped in and did a fabulous, amazing job
and in something that was probably very difficult to step
into for her, and she handled it with class and grace.
Sir Nick Lee, how would you direct a Preue Resurrection special?
Are there any elements to your director style that you
incorporate or emphasize in your work? So I mean, I
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just think that Prue had so many powers and the
astral projection and everything else. I think that I would
have her come back as the strongest elder ever, but
where you know her form, everything that she can do,
her her power is tangible, and my directors style that
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that I would incorporate or emphasize in my work. I
when I direct something, I do a lot of shot
list and I like to have storyboards done, and I
usually base the esthetic the look of it on a
particular painting. So, for instance, the last episode I directed
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of Charmed, it was based on a salvad Or Dolly painting.
That was the color scheme, the esthetic, the mood, everything else.
And then I just like to be overly prepared, because
don't I don't think that people have to work sixteen
hours on a TV show and a day. So I
like to know how I can condent things, how I
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can put people in two shots, how many cameras can
I actually use, still be on budget, hopefully come in
under budget, and get people out at a normal hour
so that they can go home and have family time.
Kathy two bagels. What happened in the last episode Charm
season three? The Missing episode twenty three. This is a rumor.
There is no missing episode twenty three. Louis Oakes, what
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items did you keep from the set of Charmed? I
kept a lot of clothing. I kept a lot of
clothing which I still wear, actually, Mucco Metal. Please tell
us literally anything about your experience on Heather's I, you know,
was I don't think I was eighteen yet and my
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mom was on set with me. I remember thinking that
the other girls were really beautiful and that I was
awkward looking, and I had a little bit of insecurity
about that. But I really kind of hung out with
my mom because, you know, except for Winona, everybody else
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was older than me at that time. The True Fire,
I would like to know your experience in the mood
friends till the end where you had to sing, and
you did it very well. Thank you. Would you like
to participate in a musical movie? Did you ever think
about being a singer? I did think about being a
singer after that movie came out. I had a couple
of meetings with some amazing record people, and it was
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something that I discussed. But ultimately I think I was
incredibly insecure about my singing voice, and I was also
insecure about how people would receive that from me. I
think I got scared. I chickened out of doing anything
with singing. I might regret it a little bit, but
not too much. What are some roles that you auditioned
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for that you didn't get? There's a lot. There are
a lot of roles that I auditioned for that I
didn't get. I can't really remember one offhand right now,
Oh I did. I remember when I was young, I
auditioned for a movie called Pollyanna or a TV show
called and I really really really really wanted it, and
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I thought I had it and I didn't and I
was pretty bummed. And I auditioned for Annie. I didn't
get Annie. I auditioned for I think I auditioned for
Anna green Gables and I was I know, I'd read
all the books. Later in life, I auditioned for scorsese
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movie Aviator with Leonardo, and I also did not get that.
I was pretty bummed about that one. Obviously I would
want to be in that movie. And I auditioned for Heat,
the Michael Mann movie, which I loved, and I loved
Michael Mann and all the actors that were involved. But
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ultimately he hired Ashley Judd instead, which was a bummer
for me but great for her. Those are just some
fan that I can remember. Oh, if you could get
back into the director's chair given it unlimited budget, what
would be your dream movie or series to direct an
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unlimited budget? You know, I don't think I would care
about the unlimited budget. I work well on budgets. It
would it would just have to be a piece that
was emotional and stirred people. I want to bring out
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emotions from the audience. And there's a couple of books
that I have my eye on that I would love
to direct. There was a book that Rebecca Diynerston wrote
that I really wanted to direct, but by the time
I reached her, they had already had to deal with
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somebody else, which was a bummer. But you know, anything
that just feels I kind of like more from my
from my style. I kind of like a little little
bit more of a simple movie, even though I obviously
directed with CGI and stunts and all of that, so
I can definitely do it. Of course, I would love
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to direct a Matrix style movie. That's one of my
all time favorite movies. But you know, they did it
so well, I I could never touch that ever ever,
just it was every single thing about the matrix was perfection.
What co star made you laugh the most between takes,
Oh depends on what show we're talking about. You know,
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Brian always made me laugh, Toy always made me laugh,
and uh, you know, Holly and I made each other
laugh quite a bit. So I think out of significant
TV shows, those are the ones. And then working with
Kevin Smith and just all of those actors were hysterical,
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so we would all kind of chuckle at one another.
What is your fondest memory from your time on the
Little House and any valuable lessons that Michael Lannon taught you.
Michael Lannon taught me to be true to myself. He
taught me to embrace my voice, to stand up from myself.
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And he taught me how to play a liar's poker,
which occupied a lot of dead time on the set.
You know, when they're lighting and stuff, you sit around
and you're in school, or you're sitting around and or
on your breaks, and so I would play a liar's
poker with the crew, and that was always really fun.
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I loved Michael. I loved the movie Gone in the
Night what was your memories of making that movie. It
was hard. I felt a deep responsibility to the family
to portray their story accurately, and it was to dig
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and find her emotion and what she was going through.
I got to meet her. There was just a lot
of pressure that I felt doing that movie. And it's
also one that I'm really, really, really proud of. I
think it turned out wonderful. The cast was amazing in
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that movie, and it was Yeah, that would go down
as a piece of work that I'm extremely proud of.
Who's your dream person to work with. It's directors. It's
people like Michael Mann, people like Martin Scorsese, people like
Joe Wright, Darren Aronofski, obviously Quentin Tarantino. There's just and
(22:59):
there's so many Stephen Soderberk like there's it's usually directors
that I look to that I really really want to
work with. I mean, obviously, there are actors that are
fantastic that you can only dream of working with. The
Robert de Niro's of the world and Nicole Kimmins, the
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Michelle Pfeiffer's, all of those people phenomenal. Yes, of course
I would want to work with them, but I think.
For me, my main focus would be on who the
director is. Is it true that there was an All
Hell Breaks Loose? Part two? Nope, not true. Beck ma'am Stanton.
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I am from Santa Clarita, and I have a story
about Shannon that I never forgot. She was filming that
show that she did with Wilfrid Brimley at my high
schoo Goal Heart High and Newhall, California, probably around nineteen
eighty eight to nineteen ninetey nine. My friend was a
senior with a huge question of her. He asked her
to her of coming prom and Shannon treated him with
complete respect and reflected on the date she was a
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successful working actress in all the team magazines and made
him feel worthy of her time and consideration. She let
him know she was working and gracefully thanked him for
asking her. My question would be, as a successful young
teen girl, where did that humility come from? I've been
a fan ever since that day, because if I didn't
have that humility, my parents would have been so mad
(24:36):
at me. They they really taught me to be respectful
of people until they give you a reason to not
be respectful and then just walk away from them and
I actually remember this, and he was lovely. He was
so nice about it and so charming and sweet that
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he obviously deserved the attention, and he deserved me giving
him consideration, and I wanted him to walk away from
that feeling good. You know, I think if we all
put ourselves in other people's shoes before we react or
before we say something, it'll make us a lot kinder
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of human beings, because oftentimes we'll think, oh God, I
can't believe somebody like asked me. But now think about
that person who did ask you, and what they felt
in that moment, the possible nerves that they felt, or
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maybe they felt self conscious, maybe they got dared to
do it, maybe whatever it is, You've got to think
about how they're feeling, so that your reaction can be
one one of respect and humility as opposed to as
opposed to any other reaction that someone perhaps might have.
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So I do like to take into consideration how people
feel and what their emotional journey was having the guts
to come and ask me. Because I'm too shy, I
would never be able to do that. So for this
person to ask me, I did respect them. I respected
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that they felt strong enough about themselves that they invited me.
I thought that that was very cool, but humility is
a beautiful thing, and more people actually really needed. Do
you have any memories of working with Johnny Depp when
you guest starred in twenty one Jump Street. I did
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not get to work with Johnny. My scenes were with
other people, so I didn't really get to work with Johnny.
But I had met Johnny later a bunch of times
as I used to go to the viper room. I
also lived above him for a period of time, so
I actually looked onto his property, so sometimes I would
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wave to him. There's my Johnny Dupp story. I know
it's been a long time. This is from Sweet Summer.
I know it's been a long time ago, but I
love Little House in the Prairie and I loved your
character as Jenny. Can you tell us any favorite memories
that you had while doing the show Boy. I just
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I got to work with Michael Landon. That's one of
my all time favorite memories and just the things that
I learned from him. He directed some of the episodes
and wrote some of the episodes, and just remember how
he was as a director. It probably didn't probably definitely
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helped me realize what kind of a director I wanted
to be, and he gave an example to me of
being so concise and so thorough and so prepared and
really confident in his choices as a director, and I
admired that and I took it with me and then
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Teddy Voitlander was our DP, probably one of the best
dps I've ever worked with. Unbelievable, and Teddy was very
kind because I was extremely curious and I wanted to
know about the lighting and the lenses and how he
was making these choices, and he took the time with
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me to really explain it. He had no problem putting
me behind the camera and showing me the different lenses,
and that also helped me later in life when I
started directing, I worked on there was an episode of
Little House with an actor named Off Bellamy, and probably
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one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had as
an actor was working with Rough Bellamy. First off, he's
a legend, and he's so special, he's so kind, he's
so giving as an actor, and I learned a lot
from him. And then afterwards because he always came to
set and he had these little licorices that he would
(29:23):
get in London, and so he would. After our time
together was done on the episode, he would send me
notes with these little licorices, incredibly special moments. Little House
provided all of that. And then there's Victor French, who
I called him Stinky and he called me the worm
because I was squiggly and he was not stinky, but
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I was a kid, and that's the nickname I came
up with. But we just had so much fun together.
Was pretty phenomenal, Erica, what was the experience like working
with an older co star in Night Team ninety two
is obsessed? It was a little weird, to be honest,
and not because the actor. He was wonderful, but there
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was a huge age discrepancy and it just felt it
felt like I was playing a role, which I was,
but it wasn't a role that I was necessarily comfortable playing.
The intimate scenes were were awkward. But Bill Devane was amazing.
(30:35):
William Devane was. He was awesome and if it wasn't
for him, it would have been way worse. But he
would just make me laugh. How is your time shooting
North Shore and working with Jason Momo? Jason Momo was amazing,
so North Shore was really interesting for me. I think
I I was there for eight or nine months, and
I basically lived in Hawaii towards the last couple of
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months where I started flying home because I got very,
very very homesick. But I learned to surf in Hawaii
from Hans Hatemann and Jason Amanda Urghetti. There was a
couple of them that would we would all hang out
all the time, and they would come to my house.
I would go to their house. So it was it
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was it was like being on a paid vacation. It
was actually for the fact that I could be on
a set, have a job and wrap super early or
not even have to work the next day, and spend
my days surfing or tooling around Hawaii. That's kind of
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a dream job. From be my question for Shannon from France,
are you happy? I am? I am happy, And it's
been an interesting year and a half. Twenty twenty three
did not start going rate and I found it incredibly challenging.
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And you know, every day is a challenge because with
cancer things change all the time. Your protocols start working.
You think you've got this protocol that's amazing, and then
all of a sudden, your body just stops reacting to it,
and those are hard moments to get through. But I'm
happy because I'm still here and I have people in
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my life now that truly love me and that will
walk through hell with me and for me. And I
was missing that for a lot of years of my life, apparently,
And I think that there's I think none of us
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should waste time, because life is incredibly precious, particularly when
you have cancer. I feel like a lot of clutter
is out of my life now and things are much
more clear and focused, and I know what I want
(33:10):
from myself and I and I know how I want
to wake up every morning. I also, you know, I
just see things in a different light because of the
year and a half that was hell. But I have
one hundred percent turned a corner and I am I'm happy.
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I can say that I've had a really blessed life,
and then I'm an incredibly lucky human being. So yes,
I'm happy. Thank you for asking that question. All right, guys,
as all we have time for with your questions. But
I actually really enjoyed this. I think it's great being
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able to answer questions and we will definitely definitely be
doing another one. I hope you guys liked it as
much as I did. All right, thank you, thank you
guys for tuning in, and catch you on the next
episode of Let's Be Clear with Shannon Torty. H
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