February 12, 2024 • 50 mins
When you woke up this morning did you say to yourself, "Today I’m gonna talk, or today I’m gonna skate!?"
"Brink!" star Christina Vidal is dusting off those rollerblades and joining Will and Sabrina on an all-new episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, everybody, thank you so much for joining us
over here on our park Hopper episode where today we
are talking to one of the coolest people I think
I'll ever get a chance to talk to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did she just steal that movie? Or is that me
a hundred?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I mean she she is a front runner of the
girl power movement.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh definitely, and the cool weighted dress movement and the
oh Man, just everything about it. I know she's gonna
have some great stories. We are, of course talking about
the Star, and yes, I'm gonna say the Star. I
know Eric Fondett and everybody else is in it too,
but the Star of Brink Bank gotta go up when
you say it. Frank Christina Vidal, how.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Are you hi? Doing okay? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm good thing? Are you mid traveling somewhere?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh we are. I'm so sorry. Where.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
We just moved recently and it's just been NonStop things
to do, things to take care of and so we're
just kind of always on the move.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And my daughter gets out of school.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Really because I heard moving isn't stressful at all.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
No, it's it's a breede. It's a breed.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well welcome. Thank you for talking to us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Thank you for having me on guys.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, I'm just curious, are you aware of the resurgence
of this movie where in like the last year or two,
it's everywhere everybody's talking brink all the time everything.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
No, it's you know, it's actually been more than the
last year for me, but especially with like social media
and and you know, just kids posting things and like, you.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Know, there's just so much there's there's so much what's.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The word nostalgia around, yeah, around, and there's and there's
so many there's so many ways to express it now
through social media, TikTok, Instagram, like you know, people are
posting stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So I had no idea, I will say when filming
it that it would be the sort of that that it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean, it's like, I mean, I've had people
who uh you know are in the business now, actors
and actresses that I admire, tell me like, oh my gosh,
that movie is the reason why I started acting.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm like, really, do.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
You remember auditioning for it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
First of all, did you go to the twenty first
level at the Disney Channel Radio, like the Disney Channel building.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Do you remember the twenty first floor there?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't Oh, it's the audio audition floor. The audition floor.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I mean, if I went there, i'd probably just because
it's just so like it's down to the line.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, retroactive panic attack when you step off.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The I did.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And you know what else we had.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
We had an audition actually in the Disney on the lot,
but then they walked us out. We had to bring
our own roller blades, and they took us on this
like random street that had a downhill in Bourbon by
the studios, and they were like, all right, you put
your roller blades on and go down really fast.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Don't fall.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I was like, oh my gosh, you're kidding me.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I was like, I do like Santa Monica pier rollerblading.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yes, auditions aren't painful.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
And they took our breaks off, so you know how
like the regular Yeah, they took the brakes off, and
they wanted to teach us how to break without it,
because that's how real rollerbladers do it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right at the audition they did this or during your training, No,
at the audition. At the audition, they were ready to
let any of you kids basically.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Just bite it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it sounds like the Hunger Games. Yeah, the Hunger
you get the part or you die? Are you doing there?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They show they showed you how to do it. They're like,
have you ever done it? And I'm like no, and
they're like, this is how you stop? Okay, we just
needed we need to know that you can do this,
because to be fair, there were a lot of shots
where we had to stop, you know, on a dime
after coming off of something, you know, rollerblading, and so
it needed to be us, you know, because it'd be
(04:22):
close up whatever anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So but I survived.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I survived, thank god, because we could not have to
not be in that movie.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
But that that takes me to how honest were you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And be honest right now on your resume of how
good of a rollerblade? Like I think my rollerblading on
my resume was like totally got it like anything. But
if I would have gone to that audition, I would
have said, Dad, we're out.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Like I can't be here. That I lied and I
got got. So what was your resume?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Was it honest?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I said, I don't even think rollerblading was on there,
but I maybe it was, so I thought I could here.
The thing is I was a bit delusional. I had
no idea, what real rollerblade? When they said, I was like, heck,
yeah I can. I could run circles around that pier.
But that was when I thought rollerblading had brakes, and
I didn't know that they just took those off like
(05:18):
so to be fair.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
When I got there, I panicked a.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Little bit because I thought, oh no, I'm going to
lose this part because the other kids there actually did rollerblade.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I was like, I, this is guys, I gotta
be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I don't but I was a lot more confident as
a kid, and and so I just said, well, I
don't know, but I can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, sure, the typical actor thing. I'll figure out how
to ride a horse later.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I still have a busted tailbone because of that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So there are rube I've heard you say, weren't you
seriously injured while doing this movie?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I kind of was, because during the training they wanted
to teach us how to just go down the ramp,
which they made it sounds so simple, you know, and
I'm not even saying it right, but whatever that that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They drop in on the halfpipe half pipe, you drop
in into the half pipe.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Half pipe half pipe.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Sorry, had you wait if they had the actors actually.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Dropping in on the half pipe.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They were, Yeah, they wanted us to learn how to
drop in on the half pipe because they wanted to
be able to do close ups on us. Because my
my stunt double was a boy, so there were times
where they wanted to get close up.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Your stunt double was a dude.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yes, it was a little Hispanic boy, and I am
I am embarrassed to say we looked very much alike.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
We really couldn't tell it different.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I don't even want you to listen to the podcast
episode now because I was like, and even Gabriella's stunt
double looks so good.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I mean, how did they find these people to look
so much alike?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They really did. You couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And mostly one of the things we were talking about
was the fact that we couldn't tell the actors from
the stunt doubles.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It was almost seamless.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
No, he was he was a boy. He was a boy.
They put a wig on him. But we had the
same kind of body type, and he was my height
and everything, so my color.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like, you really couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Tell you're dropping they're teaching you how to drop in.
This is before the film is even started.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, this is just training.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So the Channel was potentially willing to lose actors before
filming because that's so dangerous.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That does not look.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You guys know, things are different back then. Back in
the day, they they just took all kinds of risk
and did all kinds of things that they would never
do now. I mean they would have allowed too.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So again just being overly confident, and you know, I'm
with a bunch of other like dudes and skaters, and
I was like, my ego was like I can't you know,
I gotta, I gotta do this, even though I was terrified.
So I went down and you know, I didn't have
my balance. It's why I'm not very good at snowboarding.
(08:05):
I didn't have my balance, and so I went up
and my feet kind of went under me and I
just fell directly on my tailbone at the like middle
of the pipe.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And so they didn't they didn't have me do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
After you didn't break anything, did you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I didn't break anything. I badly sprained it.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
There's nothing you can do about that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
No.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I was in pain for like a while, and then
like I had to go to the chiropractor for like
a long time after that, just because like my neck,
like everything was just sort of out of alignment.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But you know, we kept on going. I mean, you know,
we put some ice on it.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Like they gave me, you know, the rest of the
time off to kind of sit down and and chill.
But then I had to get back up and learn
the other stuff, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I nice they gave you the chance to sit throwing
you down a half pike.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It just gave me a bag of ice.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, you mentioned something about, you know, filming with there
were the only other females in this cast were a
young little little one and then adult in the mom
and the mom and I mean you I feel when
we were watching it we talked about this, you were
like ahead of the like girl power phenomenal. I mean
(09:28):
you're out there, you know, representing such an amazing and
big part of like sports, right like there were girls
wanting to do that, and your character it sounds like
that was part of like who you were of like
just not allowing like it to just be about boys.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Like I just I really love that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Did you feel that this was a good chance and
opportunity as a female athlete? To to to make a
you know, make a big presence in in you know,
the street at that point.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Wow, at that time, I don't even think I thought
about that. I was so young, but I grew up
with you know, my closest sibling is my older brother,
and I grew up just always competing with him and
with his friends. It was a very natural place for
me to be in. I was very comfortable around boys,
(10:24):
and like I dressed kind of like kind of like,
you know, a little tomboyish when I was growing up.
So it was just it just kind of came naturally
to me, and I already had this competitive nature, especially
with like little boys, where I was like.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I can do what you can do.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And at the time, I don't think I even knew
what that impact was. I mean I say that about
Freaky Friday, about Tyana, like the other things I was
on where I'm like, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You were just living the dream.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I was just living the dream. I was just a
kid doing what I love to do. Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, it really was ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Also for the reason that you know, most of the
time when we're watching these movies, anytime that Disney was
doing a film back then, if there was a girl
in it, there was some sort of love interest, right,
and you know she was somebody who the one of.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The boys was in love with. There was no there
wasn't even alluded to.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
In this movie that there was any love interest. This
was just the soule skaters.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Well, we did think there was possibly could have been. Well,
but that was our life.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That was you and I talking about it. It wasn't Disney.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It was I'm a Van, Pete the friend Pete, Pete.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It couldn't have been Brink, you know, but it could
have been Pete.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
He gives you his shoes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now we might be looking into a little bit like Cinderella, I.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Mean, take on it. That would have basically gone that
way maybe.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And you know what, in real life, I actually did
have a little crush on Patrick.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I think that probably showed through.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
He was just the sweetest, sweetest kid, like just the
nicest kid, and we really got along and so oh yeah,
I mean I think what I love about that movie
is that even if there was any of that, they
just the characters themselves I think prioritized friendship, yeah, more
(12:14):
than anything, and it was really about maintaining that friendship
and that bond, and like, I think that's one of
the reasons why the movie was so popular, because people
really believe that all these characters really cared about each other,
you know, and were really really close.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You definitely looked like a group of friends and we
kind of were offset.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well that's what I was gonna say, is do you
remember the first time you got to meet the rest
of the crew? I mean, do you remember the first
time they put you all together? It's like, all right,
you're cast, this is your team.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What was that like?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, I believe it was the same day as the
as the skating test.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We were all there because we were all testing, so
I know Patrick was there. Eric may have already been cast, actually,
but yeah, I think the other Yeah, I think we
were all there, and that was the first day that
I met them. And of course I was like, oh
my god, they're all so cute.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have to look cool. I can't don't fall.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Don't fall.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The nineties middle part were really on point with the hair.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh yeah, the long nineties middle.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Part, the greasy like I didn't really do it, I
didn't really wash it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh my gosh. It was so so.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Cute but okay.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But this brings me to the next question, which is, like,
how does it feel to outshine literally one of the
heart throbs of the era at that point?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You outshine everybody? Really, Oh god, you stole that movie.
We said that during the pod you stole that movie.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And a rebuttal question is how much did people hate
you for it? Because I feel like every teenage girl
at that time was like, oh, well.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I can roller blade.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They probably all got their rollerblades out started going like
and in your in their mind they were competing against Gabrielle.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, they had I had so many. I still have
young girls now. Well they're in their twenties now, obviously,
like you know, but I still have them tell me,
like I started rollerblading because of Gabriella, Like Gabriella was
the goat in that movie. And again like I don't
even think it occurred to me because to me, that
(14:26):
movie was about Eric Bundton, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And until Gabriella hit the screen, girl, yeah, you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Meant to be I didn't see it like that.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But and I definitely didn't get any any uh any
hate from that, I think because guys.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Don't really respond like that. If it was a cast
of a bunch of girls, that's a different story, right,
I have story, but with all the guys.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Now, so we we heard it shot in It was
shot in l A and also in Washington, right.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I did not go to Washington, So okay, maybe yeah,
maybe that was maybe Eric.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So how long did you shoot in LA for?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I want to say, gosh, guys, that was a long
time ago, but I want to say it was like
at least two months, Like that was one of the
longer shoots.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, that was one of the longer shoots because of
all the skating stuff. We had a lot of prep
on that frame before we even started shooting stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So yeah, two months and you're skating every day.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I have to imagine, essentially, unless you were one of
the choir scenes, you're on Broadways all day long.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah, all day long.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And it would take so long because they had to
do our stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Then they had to do the stuff with the stunt
doubles and then bring us back in and you know,
and get different angles of stuff and so but again,
I was a kid, I was young.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I mean sometimes we would skate off and they would
have to come find it because we wouldn't be in
anywhere near set because we're like, we're skating, we're playing,
we're hanging out, you know. Like it was just a
big hangout every day.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So you were you were close. Then you were close
with the rest of the cast. You guys all get along.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
With everybody, with everybody. We everybody was We were really friendly.
Everyone was really nice and we really got along. We
even went to Eric didn't come with us, but I
think was it just Pat and o'patrick and oh god,
I can't remember the other kid's name.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We went to a water park like one of our
days off.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The kid.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh, he didn't come with us, but I loved him too.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I love that guy now, I love him. No, No, no,
he didn't come, but I think it was just me,
Patrick and one of the other kids. I can't remember
his name with the lung blood. Here, Hi, sweetpee, my
daughter just got We just picked her from school. Oh nice,
So yeah, we we would hang out like outside of filming.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We were really friendly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, Well, since your daughter just got in the car,
when's the last time you've watched it?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Has she watched it?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
So she hasn't watched Brink. They've only watched Freaky Friday
with me.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You've got to show her. She is gonna look I know.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Well, I mean I think they'll be excited because they
see me.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But my kids are just like they're just I have
two I have she's this, one's three, my other other
is five.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Okay, yeah, So it's like they're still into animated stuff
like live action. They're kind of like Snora, I don't
want to watch this. So when they see Mommy, they
get pretty excited. They do get pretty excited. So I
have I have to introduce them to Britain.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You do, because it is kind of I mean, you
do have to kind of, you know, put your tough
skin on. Because we watched rewatch my movie The Cheetah Girls.
My daughter halfway through it was like, can I go
watch Mowana now? And I was like, okay, all right,
but then at the end, by the end she really
was like that I want to be a cheatd girl.
You know you want it to be a chel It
(18:03):
happens when you do have to have kind of tough
skin knowing there's gonna be moments where they're like this
is boring, and I would yeah, it hurts a little bit, but.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, I'd rather go watch them. And I think
maybe that's why I've been avoiding it.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Because I'm like, right, wait until you know I should
have hurt my.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Feelings, and you tell me you don't want to watch
it anymore, I'll be sad.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
One of the things we loved about the movie was,
you know, it just shows how cyclical everything is and
all of your and I say this knowing nothing about this,
and even I could tell all of your wardrobe is
kind of like back in fashion.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It is because the look.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now is kind of how you were at you know,
the baggy pants and the cool.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Tank tops and all that kind of stuff. Did you
have any input.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Into how you looked or was it Disney just going
here's how you're gonna address.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, no, I not really.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I mean because I think for them it was really
about making sure we look like skaters, so obviously I
didn't really know what that was.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And it was also about making.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Sure that the clothes were like functional for what we
would be.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Doing with all with all the skating and stuff like that, so.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
As well as being bright as ever, all the bright
colors so bright, I mean cool though they're great.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I mean in the browner your skin, the more colors
they put on you because it looks tight.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So I'm lit.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I mean that.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I was noticing too, because you know, Will doesn't really
probably didn't really have to do a lot of standards
in practice, but I noticed, like you couldn't have like
a spaghetti strap tank top. It had to be like
a thick bank but tank top under a spaghetti strap
tank top. Like you know, it's like that's total Disney
standards and practices, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, they very careful about I mean, they have
conversations about like your ponytail and how you know how
high it is, how I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Like I but at the same time, one of the
things now as like a mom. I was like, there
were so many times, especially Eric's character Brink, who didn't
have his helmet fastened.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Safety issue, safety issue, the entire.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Time going down Like what did they say, one hundred
and fifty miles down that mountain or that that hill
not no safety, no safety, nobody cared. All that mattered
was that his hair stayed.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Again, you got to make sure the spaghetti strap is
over the other strap.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But forget spaghetti strap must be covering not too much shoulder,
not too much shoulder, can't Okay, did anyone, Well, I
guess you weren't around really any of the any like
a lot of young ladies. But maybe during that finale
scene where girls just like swooning over these like pro skaters,
you know, or guys too, just being rollerblade fans themselves.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, I can't remember his name now. He had red hair.
He was a big deal back then. Yeah, big rollerblader.
The girl and the guys were we I mean, everybody
was just and I didn't know who he was. But
my friend Matt, who is a really good rollerblader, who
(21:27):
was also one of the stunt doubles in there, he
was telling me, like, this guy's a really big deal.
I'm sorry, I wish I could remember his name, but
that's all right. But everybody, everybody was pretty excited about him.
But the girls, honestly, like all the girls who were
like you know, the background actors and stuff, they were
all swooning over Eric and like Patrick and.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They want the boys starring in the movie, right, Yeah
they were.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
They got all the attention from from the girls on
set there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, Sabrina was swooning over them.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's it's twenty five years later, and she's like, Eric, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Not even embarrassed about it, not honestly, not that there's
like a crush in any sense.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
It was like I remember when the movie.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Was out how big he was and how much everyone
had a crush on him.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
It was he was just a heart throb, he really was.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And this movie was so cool because Rollerblading was so big,
you know, and it was showing and now you're talking
about this He's not even cute.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
He's talented, like.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
So, you know, And that was him in real life,
just very very confident, very sweet. He was always very sweet.
Oh but like he knew, he knew he was cute,
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean he knew, he knew, he knew how to
work it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
He all thought he was cute.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think secret.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Do you talk to anybody from the film anymore?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
No, we had like a little reunion thing where I
got to see them all on zoom and we did
we did an interview and that was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, And then.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Briefly Patrick and I stayed in contact after that, but
he lives so far away and we kept saying, yeah,
we gotta we gotta get together, We gotta get the
families together, you know, because he has kids as well,
he's married, and it just never happened.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
But like other than some stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Also with the Vowel character, I ran into him a
few times, but I know, not kept touch with anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And it's tough, I mean, especially with the That's what
we have said multiple times with the d coms. You
don't go into thinking you're gonna really see these these
actors a ton after you usually go, you film and
then there's not a lot of times even yeah, you're done.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
It appears you may go for a press day and
that's kind of it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You're not they were meant to be these ongoing you know,
you go on a tour of a bunch of you know,
mirrors or anything.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
It's just it's it's one and done and that's it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So I think that's pretty cool that you haven't had
a chance to run into them here and there.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
And everybody from the film is doing something different too
now like a lot of them aren't e's been acting anymore.
So then you really don't see them because they're not
in the yeah, not in that world anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Anybody who knows me knows that one of the reasons
I got into the industry is because of Michael J.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And so I know that you were in life with
with with Mikey yep. And I'm just curious, do you
I mean, was this your this is your first film,
wasn't it first? And I mean you're in with some
of the biggest stars in Hollywood, big one of the
biggest director's, biggest producers.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What is that experience?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Like, I'm not going to try to gush and make
you tell me every single moment you spent with Michael J. Fox,
even though I would love to do that, but what
is that like you're stepping in and uh into that
set for your first time ever.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'll tell you what. The perception that we have of
some people is overrated. Not Michael J. Fox. He's every
bit and then some of what you think he is.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
I feel so blessed that that was not only my
first film, it was my first time acting in front
of a camera.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
From the audition process, like they literally got me.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Off the street from school, like I had never done anything, nothing,
and so that could have gone so many different ways,
And I feel so blessed that he was my first
experience because he was so kind and so generous while
never making me feel like I was the amateur that
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I was like genuinely, yeah, never made me feel like that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
He took care of me. He looked out for me.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I'll always remember he took me to he invited my
mom and I to hit his hotel to treat us
to lunch. And he was like, he was like, uh,
is he he's from Canada?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Right, yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Origin, Yeah, Okay, So he was like, hey, I'm from Canada.
I'm trying to remember if that was exactly what he said,
but he was like, uh, this is a huge store
here Roots.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
He was talking about the store Roots.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He was like, I bought you this jacket from Roots
as just so you could remember Canada and you know
this is my hometown and I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Just so sweet.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Wow, Like he did everything possible to make me feel
as safe and comfortable as possible and it was the
best experience of my life.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I mean, how old were you?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was ten. I turned eleven while we were shooting.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And it's Nathan. You got Nathan Lane, Cindy Lacker.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I mean no, I had no idea. I think I
made her listen to me sing because I wanted to
be a sober more than anything at that time, and
so her and the director because I was so jealous
of the scene where all the kids got to sing,
and I was like, I feel like Angie should sing
and they were like, that's not really the direction we're
going with her. And I was like, well, you should
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at least give me a chance to sing for you
so I can show you how good I am. And
they were wonderful.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
You're like, okay, well, you know what, Cindy, just put
me on your next record.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
We'll give it even And she gave me tips.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Cindy gave me tips, like she actually gave me a
little like voice lesson one day. What you know, things
that are like I had no idea as a kid
how epic these experiences were.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear everything you just said.
Maybe so, I've gotten a chance to meet Michael J.
Fox once or twice, very briefly, and both times he
couldn't have been nicer. So to just hear that that's
exactly what he's like to work with too, it just
so warms me.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
From the inside out. I love hearing that well, oh,
it is the best thing in the world's and.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He worked harder than everyone, he got less rest. I mean,
there was not one day that that man was rude
or had a bad attitude or anything.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I mean, he was just lovely the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Entire God, I love it, my idol, still my idol,
clove of mind. Awesome. So happy to hear that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
What about your experience with Freaky Friday. I mean you
had some big hitters on that movie as well. I mean, yeah,
Jamie Lee, Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Lady Lowan.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I mean, how close an age were you? Guys? You
and Lindsay? Were you guys? Pretty similar?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Not that close.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I was like twenty one when I did that. She
was like seventeen. I think she was still a minor okay,
but you'd never know because she was always so mature.
You just had this sense that she she lived.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Like nine lives by the time she was sixteen. Wow,
she was just like that, you know, she was really mature,
really independent. She was. She was driving.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I remember driving down Sunset with her to go to
the sushi place in this convertible, and I remember thinking.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Aren't you too young to drive this? And even like
rent it, you know, but whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
We were driving down Sunset going to get some sushi,
and she was I just remember about her.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
She was very confident.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
She was, oh, hold on, yes, honey, Oh I'm sorry, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I said a word that we don't say in this house.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Confident, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I can't say it again, Will, because then she'll call.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Me Will fair enough because she hasn't. You haven't sworn.
So I'm wondering what it's not.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
A swear word. I'll explose. Okay, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
W h A T E B E, say whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Because the way that our children were saying it was
not respectful. We were like, hey, we don't say that,
we don't say that, but now anytime we is it
in any.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Way now they call that that, I don't say that word.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
That is so good, oh man, But it's too hard
to explain the difference.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You need to have them just flipped the script on you.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Right all the time, man, this parenting thing. But so anyway,
back to Lindsay, she was very confident. That's what I
remember about her. She had this confidence about everything she
did and it was really impressive and I thought.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
She's got tough skin.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
This kid yeah, like, Wow, she's got really tough skin
and all this stuff she had been through and stuff
like at just sixteen years old. I was really impressed
with her. And then Jamie Lee was really sweet. She
was everybody's mom. She was just everybody's mom on set.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Was she I've met her randomly at a dance competition
and she was so sweet and me, imagine how many
kids were there, her daughter was there to dance. She
was so respectful to all the other dancers, and she
just seemed like everyone's mom. That's exactly now, you just
explained it is exactly how she came off in a
brief meeting. What about so growing up there was such
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little amount of like the Puerto Rican representation within TV
and movies.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Did you have anyone growing up that you really.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Looked up to or aspired to be, you know, as
far as career wise.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well, other than my sister.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
My sister started acting before I did, which is which
made me want to be on screen. Okay, and then
there was also glorious Steffan. So I wanted to sing
more than anything before I wanted to act. I wanted
to sing. My mom had me in singing lessons, so
I would sit on our I would stand on our
balcony in Queens, Whitestone, Queens with my little boom box
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and Glorious Stuff on CD and I would play it
over and over again and sing at the top of
my lungs on the balcony because that's where I had
to sing so I didn't disturb anyone else.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And then just your neighbors. But you know, that's their problems,
just the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And then I remember my mom took me to go
see Rent on Broadway. Yeah, and Daphanie Rubin Vega played
Mimi and I was blown away. Yeah, I just and
I was already acting at that point that I had
(32:22):
only done a little bit of theater, and I.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Was like, wow, Wow, Like she she just.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Her talent, her ability to captivate an entire Broadway stage
every time she came on stage.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
To me, she stole the entire show.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Wow, and the way she danced and sang and moved,
And I was just like I, if I could even
be a fraction of that talented I would love it.
And then I got to work with her years later
on a pilot who I got to work with her
(33:04):
and hang with her and of course, I was like
fangirling and she was so sweet.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Did you geek out? Did you tell her everything?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I did?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I did? Well, that's a fun fact about me. I
am the most obnoxious fangirl. Like you would never think that.
I've been in the business for as long as I've
been and worked with.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The people I see. I see people, and I still
look Hi.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I met Mariah Carey because my husband danced for her,
and he's like, hey, you want to take a picture
with her?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
And I was like sure. I'm like I'm gonna be cool,
don't worry. And then I get in the picture with
her and I'm like she's like, Hi, nice to meet you.
I'm like, oh so much. I mean, I just had
this goofy.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Were you one of those people that would she hugged you,
she could feel you rattling.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Literally, I'm just well, I was so stiff. I was
just diff I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
It was one of those moments where you walk away
and you're like, I think I blacked out. Can you
tell me because I don't know what I said, what
I did, I don't know what happened, but your.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Own music career, because weren't you weren't you in a
girl group called Gemstone.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Oh no, why do you know that? Every reason? Yeah,
that was a girl group in Germany.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
You were in Germany in that girl group?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, yep, wow wow.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
How long did you do that?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Probably on and off for like a year year and
a half because then I got Tyana and I couldn't
I couldn't continue, and so they continued without me, and
then Jay ended up being an enormous superstar in Europe music.
She went, she went solo, But yeah, I was. I
was there for like almost two years. Movie. I didn't
live there, but my mom would fly back and forth
(34:57):
with me all the time to record. And oh so
we get to releasing. We didn't get as far as
releasing our album. We spent a good.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Year doing all the prep work, travel.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Back and forth.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, and we had we had rehearsals in La and
like we were getting ready to go, and then I
booked Tina and I think you guys were so sorry.
I can't turn down an opportunity to like lead my
own show.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
That's just yeah right, so yes, absolutely, Well, speaking speaking
of recording, there's another song we want to talk about,
because apparently you also recorded a song for Sabrina's workout DVD.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
It's called b U.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yes, Oh my, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
It was like a it was you know, it was
dance at Fitness.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It was about, you know, a DVD that was about
trying to make fitness fun for young kids.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Anything as possible, I think is the name of the song.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yes, all the music is super like empowering and you
know all of that, and yes.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Oh my gosh, is that crazy?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Oh my god, I forgot about I.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Was so excited that you were going to come on
and do an interview because I mean we didn't even
get a chance to like do anything. You know, it
was just a soundtrack that one of your songs was on.
So I just love that. That's so rad.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Yeah, wow, it's god, Oh my gosh, history that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
I love it. But I want to get now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Will Smith is one of my I mean talk about
having a hyperventilation if I ever were to get to
really sit down and talk to him and no, well no,
we'll no, i'ld be able to handle myself. You're talking
about what I was like twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yes, it would be totally.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
But but you got not only to just to be
honest out, but you did a music video with him?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I did.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
How epic was that?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So so I met Will to shoot that video. And
that's another situation where I completely embarrassed myself because he's
so cute, so nice, so humble, so down to earth,
all of those things you've heard about him. And so
we start. He was outside of his like enormous trailer
(37:21):
that looked like that I would live in, I would
live in happily.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
It was like a double wide, better than most of it,
expanded each side, like.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Two levels, that whole thing.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
So he's sitting outside there and we're on location shooting
the music video and I go up to him, and
I think I was with my manager and actually my
manager's assistant who was my ex boyfriend at the time,
so a little awkward. Anyway, we're there, he's talking, we're
(37:52):
hanging out, and he's like, hey, Christina, thank you so
much for being a part of this, like, you know,
just being his humble, nice self.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And I just grabbed him and gave him this like
big hug.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
And my manager was like, hey, you know, like still
out back on whatever, and I.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Was like, he said it again.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
She's gonna call me out every time.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
I'm gonna ask you to stop saying that word.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Please, you know, when they're just backfires on me anyway,
So I said to it. I turned to him, right
in front of wheel. I turned to my manager. I
was like, stop hating. I was like, don't hate on me,
because I'm getting some love from Will Smith. And it
just kind of broke the ice for all of us,
and he started laughing and he kind of looked at
me like okay, girl, like you got some you know,
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And I.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Was like, yeah, I mean, I don't know what I'm ever.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Going to see you again, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
get I'm gonna get me a hug. And then from
that point on it was just very very friendly, very chill.
I didn't I don't think I actually did any shots
with him because he was Will Smith, but I did
get to meet him and talk.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
With him and you know, be on the song and
that was cool.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
So I hate to do this to you because I
know this is putting people on the spot. But if
you had to pick one and only one, you could
only act for the rest of your life or sing
for the rest of your life, which one do you take?
It's like picking between your kids, right.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Yeah, well that's that nice, except everybody knows the answer.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
You just don't want to say.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
But I would say act, okay, okay, because as much
as I love to sing, I'm not an artist. I
never loved the everything that came with singing. I didn't
love it as much as I love acting. I'm not
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I'm not as good at that as I feel like confident,
comfortable and confident, So it would it would definitely be acting, Okay.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Singing is more of a hobby at this point.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, I think that that's also it could dive into
the world of the industry, like the different industries that
those are, Like the music industry is so vastly different
than the industry of acting, and you know, the people
that are involved, the different things that you have to
go to versus you know, being an artist or being
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a character in a movie or TV show.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
But you do have two gorgeous daughters.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Are you gonna let them get into acting if they
want to? Do they have any desire to say? I
know they're young, I know they're young, but how do
you feel about that? Knowing you were young in the industry.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
You know, I've thought about that so much. My husband
and I have talked about it.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Yeah, because definitely at least one of them is showing
some real r risted just sort of natural talent in uh, performing, dancing, singing,
just the personality that like loving the camera, the attention,
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all of that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh you can spot it too, can't you.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You just see you see it coming where it's like, oh,
there it is, You've got it.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
And so you know, I think about how my mom
dealt with it, and I actually think my mom did
a really good job of balancing my me having a
childhood with still supporting and acknowledging my gifts and my
my like desire to perform.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Like she never snuffed that out, she never ignored it.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
But then also she she had boundaries and she wasn't
afraid to make the best decision for me, not just okay,
what's gonna She wasn't concerned with me being famous or rich.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
And so.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
I think I had a good example of like, if
we did do that, and again, it has to be.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Something like my husband.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I would agree upon and all that we would
never we would never want to stifle or like be
unsupportive of something that so clearly our child desires and
is good at, you know.
Speaker 6 (42:22):
But it's it's a hard balance though, it is.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
It's a matter of like when and and and how,
because I've worked not only am I a child after,
but I've worked with children now as an adult, and
I see how hard it is for them to comprehend,
especially the younger they are, that you know, once they're
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when it's once it's not fun anymore, and you still
have five hours left unset, right, you know, kind of
what that does to them that they don't understand the
concept of work and a job and needing to be
somewhere from this time to this time.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
And I kind of feel like they shouldn't have to.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
So that's the part that to me, you know, is
one of the reasons why I'm a little I'm hesitant
to to like push them in myself, you know, because
we've thought about modeling, you know, you know, commercials and
things like that, but I'm like, that's the part that
I'm just not sure about. You know, when when toddlers
(43:27):
are done, they're just done, and.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Then we get bribing them with candy and TV and it.
Speaker 10 (43:33):
Just gets a whole different to bribe them with and
you're just like yeah, you know, and then you're just
and then you're threatening their lives.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
It's too tough, there is, I think, especially with the age,
like you said, five and three, that's still really young.
I think, you know, I have a three year old
and and same thing. She's got a lot of personality.
But what I think of is the drive up there,
you know, up to up to the audition, and then
the chance of whether or not that is a moment
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she feels like turning it on and doing what she
does for mommy all day. Yeah that's yeah, no, no,
thank you, And I have wasted now however much time
and stress to get there.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
It's just tough.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
And then if she does book it right, then you're
on set now you now it's everyone's gonna look at
you right as a parent. If they are not on
it's tough.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
So it is. Age is a big difference, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Oh yeah, no, my my daughter, my stepdaughter, she never
wanted to act, but she's four hundred and eight months old,
so it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
Yeah, she could probably handle it at that age.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
She could probably do it now. Yeah, she's thirty three.
But so just I can't do that math well, oh yeah, no,
I just do the maths.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I just tell people she's she's very cute. She's four
hundred and eight months.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
So we want to wrap up with Brink, which is
why we're here, and it's had this incredible resurgence. So
what's going on in Gabrielle's life in Brink two.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
I think her and Peter got married and had some kids.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Okay, I am for that.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
For it.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
I think their kids.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
I think one of them skates, and I think another
one does a completely different sport. And I think they
run something like a kind of like a y m
c A for for kids.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
It's not like a y m.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
C A, but I think they have something like that
for kids who who want to learn to skate and
do all kinds of sports.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
And I think I think that's what she does.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Now, all right, that is a great, Well, that's I
would put her as a professional like skater that you
know now has her own women's professional skating team.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
But we could do you're like that, you.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Know what, that's definitely more. Now, that's definitely more now.
I mean, but me, I love the family life.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
I love having kids, and I love being able to
like I love being able to create a platform for them,
like the next generation, to do something.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
So that's why I think I like that story.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
But I mean, maybe they could be both.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
She can have her own skating coy and run.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
We're trademarking that right now.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
By the way, bring Trade, We're trademarking it right now.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's our movie. We're doing that. I love it.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You're still working all the time. Where can people find you?
What do you have coming out? I mean, you're in everything.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
Thank you, Pasha. I wish I'd like to be in more.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
I am on a show called Primo on Amazon right
currently you can watch the first eight episodes of that.
I also did Terminal List with Chris.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
Pratt, so that's that.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
Those are things that are actually still currently streaming.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
You can watch them. And yeah, that's it right now.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
And now I'm just waiting to hear hopefully that the
show returns and we get a season two.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Okay, good, well break a leg with that.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Yes, we love that. Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
You so much for joining us in the midst of
all the craziness of moving and everything else.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Very nice to take the time.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Thank you for taking us along with your errands for
the day. And yeah, I feel like we've been friends
forever now, I.
Speaker 6 (47:32):
Know, just hanging out.
Speaker 5 (47:34):
Thank you guys for being so gracious with my schedule
and you know.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Please were honored that you came up so cool.
Speaker 4 (47:41):
I enjoyed talking with you so thanks well.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Thank you so much. And I'd like just like to
end by saying, whatever, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Can't say it, but he's trying to get you in trouble.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
I mean, he's trying to get me strikes.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
She's probably going to be out will like, could you
just give the mom a break.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
Work for the road? Whatever?
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yes, at you, thank you so much much. By Oh
that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I love how we caught her like literally going to
pick up her kids. She's in the car with the
seatbelt on as her husband's driving while doing our podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
That is the best.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
I'm now going to only do interviews like that like that,
that's our thing. That is our thing, like it, just
take us in the car and let us see what
you are up to now.
Speaker 6 (48:39):
On you know, on a Wednesdayay afternoon.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
That seriously be like when we when we get to
descendants or any of that stuff, they can be like, hey,
it's nice to meet you. Sorry, I'm going to pick
up my laundry so you guys can hop in the
car with me as I do that.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
She is so cool. She's still like that cool.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yes, And I love how you know, it's so typical,
especially with child actors, to really not realize how big
they're like when they're a part of something that's that big,
to really not get it right, Like they don't see
how big it is around them. They have no idea
what's coming. And she even with again being being a
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young lady, you know, a young Puerto Rican in the game,
and bringing presents into the industry that way at that
time was huge and groundbreaking night.
Speaker 6 (49:27):
It was no one was doing that.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Thank you all so much for joining us as we
were here on our Park Copper episode speaking to Christina
Videl who was just so cool and joined us by car.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
It was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Fin And if you want to join us, by the way,
you can join us at Magical rewind Pod on the
Instagram machine, hit us up and let us know what
you think, what you want us to watch what you
want us to do. I have to get out of
here though, because I'm going to pop in Sabrina's workout
DVD and get my sweat on right now because I
got to figure out.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Oh, she's gonna make it.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
I need you to do a live stream of that.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
I can't can we can we get this?
Speaker 6 (50:04):
You just got to be you, will You just gotta
be you and no one else.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I'm going to need you to mail me a copy
of this if you have one. If not, I will
seriously go on and buy one. I have one I
can find.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Okay, you better. Thanks everybody for joining us and join
us next time. We are going to be watching The Descendants.
Speaker 6 (50:21):
Yes we are. It is coming, you.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Guys, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Everyone said that there's certain things like I can't believe
you're doing all these big movies right at the top, Yeah,
we're doing. It's because there's big movie after big movie
after big movie.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
That's the joy of the d coom.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Absolutely, and so join us for the twenty fifteen juggernaut
that is The Descendants.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
We can't wait. Thank you everybody, and we'll see you
next time.
All right, everybody, thank you so much for joining us
over here on our park Hopper episode where today we
are talking to one of the coolest people I think
I'll ever get a chance to talk to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did she just steal that movie? Or is that me
a hundred?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I mean she she is a front runner of the
girl power movement.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh definitely, and the cool weighted dress movement and the
oh Man, just everything about it. I know she's gonna
have some great stories. We are, of course talking about
the Star, and yes, I'm gonna say the Star. I
know Eric Fondett and everybody else is in it too,
but the Star of Brink Bank gotta go up when
you say it. Frank Christina Vidal, how.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Are you hi? Doing okay? How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm good thing? Are you mid traveling somewhere?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh we are. I'm so sorry. Where.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
We just moved recently and it's just been NonStop things
to do, things to take care of and so we're
just kind of always on the move.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And my daughter gets out of school.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Really because I heard moving isn't stressful at all.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
No, it's it's a breede. It's a breed.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well welcome. Thank you for talking to us.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Thank you for having me on guys.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So, I'm just curious, are you aware of the resurgence
of this movie where in like the last year or two,
it's everywhere everybody's talking brink all the time everything.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
No, it's you know, it's actually been more than the
last year for me, but especially with like social media
and and you know, just kids posting things and like, you.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Know, there's just so much there's there's so much what's.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The word nostalgia around, yeah, around, and there's and there's
so many there's so many ways to express it now
through social media, TikTok, Instagram, like you know, people are
posting stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So I had no idea, I will say when filming
it that it would be the sort of that that it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Yeah, I mean, it's like, I mean, I've had people
who uh you know are in the business now, actors
and actresses that I admire, tell me like, oh my gosh,
that movie is the reason why I started acting.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I'm like, really, do.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
You remember auditioning for it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
First of all, did you go to the twenty first
level at the Disney Channel Radio, like the Disney Channel building.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Do you remember the twenty first floor there?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I don't Oh, it's the audio audition floor. The audition floor.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I mean, if I went there, i'd probably just because
it's just so like it's down to the line.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know, retroactive panic attack when you step off.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The I did.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And you know what else we had.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
We had an audition actually in the Disney on the lot,
but then they walked us out. We had to bring
our own roller blades, and they took us on this
like random street that had a downhill in Bourbon by
the studios, and they were like, all right, you put
your roller blades on and go down really fast.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Don't fall.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
I was like, oh my gosh, you're kidding me.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I was like, I do like Santa Monica pier rollerblading.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yes, auditions aren't painful.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
And they took our breaks off, so you know how
like the regular Yeah, they took the brakes off, and
they wanted to teach us how to break without it,
because that's how real rollerbladers do it.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right at the audition they did this or during your training, No,
at the audition. At the audition, they were ready to
let any of you kids basically.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Just bite it.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, it sounds like the Hunger Games. Yeah, the Hunger
you get the part or you die? Are you doing there?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They show they showed you how to do it. They're like,
have you ever done it? And I'm like no, and
they're like, this is how you stop? Okay, we just
needed we need to know that you can do this,
because to be fair, there were a lot of shots
where we had to stop, you know, on a dime
after coming off of something, you know, rollerblading, and so
it needed to be us, you know, because it'd be
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close up whatever anyway.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So but I survived.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I survived, thank god, because we could not have to
not be in that movie.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
But that that takes me to how honest were you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
And be honest right now on your resume of how
good of a rollerblade? Like I think my rollerblading on
my resume was like totally got it like anything. But
if I would have gone to that audition, I would
have said, Dad, we're out.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Like I can't be here. That I lied and I
got got. So what was your resume?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Like?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Was it honest?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I said, I don't even think rollerblading was on there,
but I maybe it was, so I thought I could here.
The thing is I was a bit delusional. I had
no idea, what real rollerblade? When they said, I was like, heck,
yeah I can. I could run circles around that pier.
But that was when I thought rollerblading had brakes, and
I didn't know that they just took those off like
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so to be fair.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
When I got there, I panicked a.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Little bit because I thought, oh no, I'm going to
lose this part because the other kids there actually did rollerblade.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And I was like, I, this is guys, I gotta
be honest.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I don't but I was a lot more confident as
a kid, and and so I just said, well, I
don't know, but I can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, sure, the typical actor thing. I'll figure out how
to ride a horse later.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I still have a busted tailbone because of that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So there are rube I've heard you say, weren't you
seriously injured while doing this movie?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I kind of was, because during the training they wanted
to teach us how to just go down the ramp,
which they made it sounds so simple, you know, and
I'm not even saying it right, but whatever that that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They drop in on the halfpipe half pipe, you drop
in into the half pipe.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Half pipe half pipe.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Sorry, had you wait if they had the actors actually.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Dropping in on the half pipe.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
They were, Yeah, they wanted us to learn how to
drop in on the half pipe because they wanted to
be able to do close ups on us. Because my
my stunt double was a boy, so there were times
where they wanted to get close up.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Your stunt double was a dude.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yes, it was a little Hispanic boy, and I am
I am embarrassed to say we looked very much alike.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
We really couldn't tell it different.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I don't even want you to listen to the podcast
episode now because I was like, and even Gabriella's stunt
double looks so good.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I mean, how did they find these people to look
so much alike?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They really did. You couldn't tell.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And mostly one of the things we were talking about
was the fact that we couldn't tell the actors from
the stunt doubles.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
It was almost seamless.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
No, he was he was a boy. He was a boy.
They put a wig on him. But we had the
same kind of body type, and he was my height
and everything, so my color.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Like, you really couldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Tell you're dropping they're teaching you how to drop in.
This is before the film is even started.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, this is just training.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So the Channel was potentially willing to lose actors before
filming because that's so dangerous.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That does not look.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You guys know, things are different back then. Back in
the day, they they just took all kinds of risk
and did all kinds of things that they would never
do now. I mean they would have allowed too.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
So again just being overly confident, and you know, I'm
with a bunch of other like dudes and skaters, and
I was like, my ego was like I can't you know,
I gotta, I gotta do this, even though I was terrified.
So I went down and you know, I didn't have
my balance. It's why I'm not very good at snowboarding.
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I didn't have my balance, and so I went up
and my feet kind of went under me and I
just fell directly on my tailbone at the like middle
of the pipe.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
And so they didn't they didn't have me do it anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
After you didn't break anything, did you.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
I didn't break anything. I badly sprained it.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
There's nothing you can do about that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
No.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I was in pain for like a while, and then
like I had to go to the chiropractor for like
a long time after that, just because like my neck,
like everything was just sort of out of alignment.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
But you know, we kept on going. I mean, you know,
we put some ice on it.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Like they gave me, you know, the rest of the
time off to kind of sit down and and chill.
But then I had to get back up and learn
the other stuff, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I nice they gave you the chance to sit throwing
you down a half pike.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It just gave me a bag of ice.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, you mentioned something about, you know, filming with there
were the only other females in this cast were a
young little little one and then adult in the mom
and the mom and I mean you I feel when
we were watching it we talked about this, you were
like ahead of the like girl power phenomenal. I mean
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you're out there, you know, representing such an amazing and
big part of like sports, right like there were girls
wanting to do that, and your character it sounds like
that was part of like who you were of like
just not allowing like it to just be about boys.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Like I just I really love that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Did you feel that this was a good chance and
opportunity as a female athlete? To to to make a
you know, make a big presence in in you know,
the street at that point.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Wow, at that time, I don't even think I thought
about that. I was so young, but I grew up
with you know, my closest sibling is my older brother,
and I grew up just always competing with him and
with his friends. It was a very natural place for
me to be in. I was very comfortable around boys,
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and like I dressed kind of like kind of like,
you know, a little tomboyish when I was growing up.
So it was just it just kind of came naturally
to me, and I already had this competitive nature, especially
with like little boys, where I was like.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I can do what you can do.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And at the time, I don't think I even knew
what that impact was. I mean I say that about
Freaky Friday, about Tyana, like the other things I was
on where I'm like, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You were just living the dream.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I was just living the dream. I was just a
kid doing what I love to do. Yep.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, it really was ahead of its time.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Also for the reason that you know, most of the
time when we're watching these movies, anytime that Disney was
doing a film back then, if there was a girl
in it, there was some sort of love interest, right,
and you know she was somebody who the one of.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
The boys was in love with. There was no there
wasn't even alluded to.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
In this movie that there was any love interest. This
was just the soule skaters.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Well, we did think there was possibly could have been. Well,
but that was our life.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That was you and I talking about it. It wasn't Disney.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
It was I'm a Van, Pete the friend Pete, Pete.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
It couldn't have been Brink, you know, but it could
have been Pete.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
He gives you his shoes.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now we might be looking into a little bit like Cinderella, I.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Mean, take on it. That would have basically gone that
way maybe.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
And you know what, in real life, I actually did
have a little crush on Patrick.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I think that probably showed through.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
He was just the sweetest, sweetest kid, like just the
nicest kid, and we really got along and so oh yeah,
I mean I think what I love about that movie
is that even if there was any of that, they
just the characters themselves I think prioritized friendship, yeah, more
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than anything, and it was really about maintaining that friendship
and that bond, and like, I think that's one of
the reasons why the movie was so popular, because people
really believe that all these characters really cared about each other,
you know, and were really really close.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
You definitely looked like a group of friends and we
kind of were offset.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Well that's what I was gonna say, is do you
remember the first time you got to meet the rest
of the crew? I mean, do you remember the first
time they put you all together? It's like, all right,
you're cast, this is your team.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What was that like?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, I believe it was the same day as the
as the skating test.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
We were all there because we were all testing, so
I know Patrick was there. Eric may have already been cast, actually,
but yeah, I think the other Yeah, I think we
were all there, and that was the first day that
I met them. And of course I was like, oh
my god, they're all so cute.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I have to look cool. I can't don't fall.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Don't fall.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The nineties middle part were really on point with the hair.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh yeah, the long nineties middle.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Part, the greasy like I didn't really do it, I
didn't really wash it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh my gosh. It was so so.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Cute but okay.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But this brings me to the next question, which is, like,
how does it feel to outshine literally one of the
heart throbs of the era at that point?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You outshine everybody? Really, Oh god, you stole that movie.
We said that during the pod you stole that movie.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
And a rebuttal question is how much did people hate
you for it? Because I feel like every teenage girl
at that time was like, oh, well.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I can roller blade.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
They probably all got their rollerblades out started going like
and in your in their mind they were competing against Gabrielle.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Yeah, they had I had so many. I still have
young girls now. Well they're in their twenties now, obviously,
like you know, but I still have them tell me,
like I started rollerblading because of Gabriella, Like Gabriella was
the goat in that movie. And again like I don't
even think it occurred to me because to me, that
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movie was about Eric Bundton, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And until Gabriella hit the screen, girl, yeah, you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Meant to be I didn't see it like that.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But and I definitely didn't get any any uh any
hate from that, I think because guys.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Don't really respond like that. If it was a cast
of a bunch of girls, that's a different story, right,
I have story, but with all the guys.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Now, so we we heard it shot in It was
shot in l A and also in Washington, right.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
I did not go to Washington, So okay, maybe yeah,
maybe that was maybe Eric.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So how long did you shoot in LA for?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
I want to say, gosh, guys, that was a long
time ago, but I want to say it was like
at least two months, Like that was one of the
longer shoots.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah, that was one of the longer shoots because of
all the skating stuff. We had a lot of prep
on that frame before we even started shooting stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So yeah, two months and you're skating every day.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I have to imagine, essentially, unless you were one of
the choir scenes, you're on Broadways all day long.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yeah, all day long.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
And it would take so long because they had to
do our stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Then they had to do the stuff with the stunt
doubles and then bring us back in and you know,
and get different angles of stuff and so but again,
I was a kid, I was young.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I mean sometimes we would skate off and they would
have to come find it because we wouldn't be in
anywhere near set because we're like, we're skating, we're playing,
we're hanging out, you know. Like it was just a
big hangout every day.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So you were you were close. Then you were close
with the rest of the cast. You guys all get along.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
With everybody, with everybody. We everybody was We were really friendly.
Everyone was really nice and we really got along. We
even went to Eric didn't come with us, but I
think was it just Pat and o'patrick and oh god,
I can't remember the other kid's name.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
We went to a water park like one of our
days off.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
The kid.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh, he didn't come with us, but I loved him too.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I love that guy now, I love him. No, No, no,
he didn't come, but I think it was just me,
Patrick and one of the other kids. I can't remember
his name with the lung blood. Here, Hi, sweetpee, my
daughter just got We just picked her from school. Oh nice,
So yeah, we we would hang out like outside of filming.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
We were really friendly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yeah, Well, since your daughter just got in the car,
when's the last time you've watched it?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
Has she watched it?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
So she hasn't watched Brink. They've only watched Freaky Friday
with me.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You've got to show her. She is gonna look I know.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Well, I mean I think they'll be excited because they
see me.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But my kids are just like they're just I have
two I have she's this, one's three, my other other
is five.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Okay, yeah, So it's like they're still into animated stuff
like live action. They're kind of like Snora, I don't
want to watch this. So when they see Mommy, they
get pretty excited. They do get pretty excited. So I
have I have to introduce them to Britain.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
You do, because it is kind of I mean, you
do have to kind of, you know, put your tough
skin on. Because we watched rewatch my movie The Cheetah Girls.
My daughter halfway through it was like, can I go
watch Mowana now? And I was like, okay, all right,
but then at the end, by the end she really
was like that I want to be a cheatd girl.
You know you want it to be a chel It
(18:03):
happens when you do have to have kind of tough
skin knowing there's gonna be moments where they're like this
is boring, and I would yeah, it hurts a little bit, but.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yeah, yeah, I'd rather go watch them. And I think
maybe that's why I've been avoiding it.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Because I'm like, right, wait until you know I should
have hurt my.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Feelings, and you tell me you don't want to watch
it anymore, I'll be sad.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
One of the things we loved about the movie was,
you know, it just shows how cyclical everything is and
all of your and I say this knowing nothing about this,
and even I could tell all of your wardrobe is
kind of like back in fashion.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
It is because the look.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now is kind of how you were at you know,
the baggy pants and the cool.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Tank tops and all that kind of stuff. Did you
have any input.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Into how you looked or was it Disney just going
here's how you're gonna address.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah, no, I not really.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I mean because I think for them it was really
about making sure we look like skaters, so obviously I
didn't really know what that was.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And it was also about making.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Sure that the clothes were like functional for what we
would be.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Doing with all with all the skating and stuff like that, so.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
As well as being bright as ever, all the bright
colors so bright, I mean cool though they're great.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I mean in the browner your skin, the more colors
they put on you because it looks tight.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So I'm lit.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I mean that.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I was noticing too, because you know, Will doesn't really
probably didn't really have to do a lot of standards
in practice, but I noticed, like you couldn't have like
a spaghetti strap tank top. It had to be like
a thick bank but tank top under a spaghetti strap
tank top. Like you know, it's like that's total Disney
standards and practices, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, they very careful about I mean, they have
conversations about like your ponytail and how you know how
high it is, how I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Like I but at the same time, one of the
things now as like a mom. I was like, there
were so many times, especially Eric's character Brink, who didn't
have his helmet fastened.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Safety issue, safety issue, the entire.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Time going down Like what did they say, one hundred
and fifty miles down that mountain or that that hill
not no safety, no safety, nobody cared. All that mattered
was that his hair stayed.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Again, you got to make sure the spaghetti strap is
over the other strap.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But forget spaghetti strap must be covering not too much shoulder,
not too much shoulder, can't Okay, did anyone, Well, I
guess you weren't around really any of the any like
a lot of young ladies. But maybe during that finale
scene where girls just like swooning over these like pro skaters,
you know, or guys too, just being rollerblade fans themselves.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah, I can't remember his name now. He had red hair.
He was a big deal back then. Yeah, big rollerblader.
The girl and the guys were we I mean, everybody
was just and I didn't know who he was. But
my friend Matt, who is a really good rollerblader, who
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was also one of the stunt doubles in there, he
was telling me, like, this guy's a really big deal.
I'm sorry, I wish I could remember his name, but
that's all right. But everybody, everybody was pretty excited about him.
But the girls, honestly, like all the girls who were
like you know, the background actors and stuff, they were
all swooning over Eric and like Patrick and.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
They want the boys starring in the movie, right, Yeah
they were.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
They got all the attention from from the girls on
set there.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, Sabrina was swooning over them.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
It's it's twenty five years later, and she's like, Eric, I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Not even embarrassed about it, not honestly, not that there's
like a crush in any sense.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
It was like I remember when the movie.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Was out how big he was and how much everyone
had a crush on him.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
It was he was just a heart throb, he really was.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
And this movie was so cool because Rollerblading was so big,
you know, and it was showing and now you're talking
about this He's not even cute.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
He's talented, like.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
So, you know, And that was him in real life,
just very very confident, very sweet. He was always very sweet.
Oh but like he knew, he knew he was cute,
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I mean he knew, he knew, he knew how to
work it.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
He all thought he was cute.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think secret.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Do you talk to anybody from the film anymore?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
No, we had like a little reunion thing where I
got to see them all on zoom and we did
we did an interview and that was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, And then.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Briefly Patrick and I stayed in contact after that, but
he lives so far away and we kept saying, yeah,
we gotta we gotta get together, We gotta get the
families together, you know, because he has kids as well,
he's married, and it just never happened.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
But like other than some stuff on Instagram.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Also with the Vowel character, I ran into him a
few times, but I know, not kept touch with anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And it's tough, I mean, especially with the That's what
we have said multiple times with the d coms. You
don't go into thinking you're gonna really see these these
actors a ton after you usually go, you film and
then there's not a lot of times even yeah, you're done.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
It appears you may go for a press day and
that's kind of it.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You're not they were meant to be these ongoing you know,
you go on a tour of a bunch of you know,
mirrors or anything.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
It's just it's it's one and done and that's it.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So I think that's pretty cool that you haven't had
a chance to run into them here and there.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
And everybody from the film is doing something different too
now like a lot of them aren't e's been acting anymore.
So then you really don't see them because they're not
in the yeah, not in that world anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Anybody who knows me knows that one of the reasons
I got into the industry is because of Michael J.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Fox.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And so I know that you were in life with
with with Mikey yep. And I'm just curious, do you
I mean, was this your this is your first film,
wasn't it first? And I mean you're in with some
of the biggest stars in Hollywood, big one of the
biggest director's, biggest producers.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
What is that experience?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Like, I'm not going to try to gush and make
you tell me every single moment you spent with Michael J. Fox,
even though I would love to do that, but what
is that like you're stepping in and uh into that
set for your first time ever.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'll tell you what. The perception that we have of
some people is overrated. Not Michael J. Fox. He's every
bit and then some of what you think he is.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
I feel so blessed that that was not only my
first film, it was my first time acting in front
of a camera.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
From the audition process, like they literally got me.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Off the street from school, like I had never done anything, nothing,
and so that could have gone so many different ways,
And I feel so blessed that he was my first
experience because he was so kind and so generous while
never making me feel like I was the amateur that
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I was like genuinely, yeah, never made me feel like that.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
He took care of me. He looked out for me.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I'll always remember he took me to he invited my
mom and I to hit his hotel to treat us
to lunch. And he was like, he was like, uh,
is he he's from Canada?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Right, yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Origin, Yeah, Okay, So he was like, hey, I'm from Canada.
I'm trying to remember if that was exactly what he said,
but he was like, uh, this is a huge store
here Roots.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
He was talking about the store Roots.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
He was like, I bought you this jacket from Roots
as just so you could remember Canada and you know
this is my hometown and I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Just so sweet.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Wow, Like he did everything possible to make me feel
as safe and comfortable as possible and it was the
best experience of my life.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
I mean, how old were you?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I was ten. I turned eleven while we were shooting.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And it's Nathan. You got Nathan Lane, Cindy Lacker.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I mean no, I had no idea. I think I
made her listen to me sing because I wanted to
be a sober more than anything at that time, and
so her and the director because I was so jealous
of the scene where all the kids got to sing,
and I was like, I feel like Angie should sing
and they were like, that's not really the direction we're
going with her. And I was like, well, you should
(27:08):
at least give me a chance to sing for you
so I can show you how good I am. And
they were wonderful.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
You're like, okay, well, you know what, Cindy, just put
me on your next record.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
We'll give it even And she gave me tips.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Cindy gave me tips, like she actually gave me a
little like voice lesson one day. What you know, things
that are like I had no idea as a kid
how epic these experiences were.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Oh, I'm so happy to hear everything you just said.
Maybe so, I've gotten a chance to meet Michael J.
Fox once or twice, very briefly, and both times he
couldn't have been nicer. So to just hear that that's
exactly what he's like to work with too, it just
so warms me.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
From the inside out. I love hearing that well, oh,
it is the best thing in the world's and.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He worked harder than everyone, he got less rest. I mean,
there was not one day that that man was rude
or had a bad attitude or anything.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I mean, he was just lovely the.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Entire God, I love it, my idol, still my idol,
clove of mind. Awesome. So happy to hear that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
What about your experience with Freaky Friday. I mean you
had some big hitters on that movie as well. I mean, yeah,
Jamie Lee, Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Lady Lowan.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I mean, how close an age were you? Guys? You
and Lindsay? Were you guys? Pretty similar?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Not that close.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I was like twenty one when I did that. She
was like seventeen. I think she was still a minor okay,
but you'd never know because she was always so mature.
You just had this sense that she she lived.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Like nine lives by the time she was sixteen. Wow,
she was just like that, you know, she was really mature,
really independent. She was. She was driving.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
I remember driving down Sunset with her to go to
the sushi place in this convertible, and I remember thinking.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Aren't you too young to drive this? And even like
rent it, you know, but whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
We were driving down Sunset going to get some sushi,
and she was I just remember about her.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
She was very confident.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
She was, oh, hold on, yes, honey, Oh I'm sorry, sweetie.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
I said a word that we don't say in this house.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Confident, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I can't say it again, Will, because then she'll call.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Me Will fair enough because she hasn't. You haven't sworn.
So I'm wondering what it's not.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
A swear word. I'll explose. Okay, it's it's.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
W h A T E B E, say whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Because the way that our children were saying it was
not respectful. We were like, hey, we don't say that,
we don't say that, but now anytime we is it
in any.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Way now they call that that, I don't say that word.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
That is so good, oh man, But it's too hard
to explain the difference.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
You need to have them just flipped the script on you.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Right all the time, man, this parenting thing. But so anyway,
back to Lindsay, she was very confident. That's what I
remember about her. She had this confidence about everything she
did and it was really impressive and I thought.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
She's got tough skin.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
This kid yeah, like, Wow, she's got really tough skin
and all this stuff she had been through and stuff
like at just sixteen years old. I was really impressed
with her. And then Jamie Lee was really sweet. She
was everybody's mom. She was just everybody's mom on set.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Was she I've met her randomly at a dance competition
and she was so sweet and me, imagine how many
kids were there, her daughter was there to dance. She
was so respectful to all the other dancers, and she
just seemed like everyone's mom. That's exactly now, you just
explained it is exactly how she came off in a
brief meeting. What about so growing up there was such
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little amount of like the Puerto Rican representation within TV
and movies.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Did you have anyone growing up that you really.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Looked up to or aspired to be, you know, as
far as career wise.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well, other than my sister.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
My sister started acting before I did, which is which
made me want to be on screen. Okay, and then
there was also glorious Steffan. So I wanted to sing
more than anything before I wanted to act. I wanted
to sing. My mom had me in singing lessons, so
I would sit on our I would stand on our
balcony in Queens, Whitestone, Queens with my little boom box
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and Glorious Stuff on CD and I would play it
over and over again and sing at the top of
my lungs on the balcony because that's where I had
to sing so I didn't disturb anyone else.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And then just your neighbors. But you know, that's their problems,
just the neighborhood.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
And then I remember my mom took me to go
see Rent on Broadway. Yeah, and Daphanie Rubin Vega played
Mimi and I was blown away. Yeah, I just and
I was already acting at that point that I had
(32:22):
only done a little bit of theater, and I.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Was like, wow, Wow, Like she she just.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Her talent, her ability to captivate an entire Broadway stage
every time she came on stage.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
To me, she stole the entire show.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Wow, and the way she danced and sang and moved,
And I was just like I, if I could even
be a fraction of that talented I would love it.
And then I got to work with her years later
on a pilot who I got to work with her
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and hang with her and of course, I was like
fangirling and she was so sweet.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Did you geek out? Did you tell her everything?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I did?
Speaker 5 (33:12):
I did? Well, that's a fun fact about me. I
am the most obnoxious fangirl. Like you would never think that.
I've been in the business for as long as I've
been and worked with.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The people I see. I see people, and I still
look Hi.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I met Mariah Carey because my husband danced for her,
and he's like, hey, you want to take a picture
with her?
Speaker 4 (33:38):
And I was like sure. I'm like I'm gonna be cool,
don't worry. And then I get in the picture with
her and I'm like she's like, Hi, nice to meet you.
I'm like, oh so much. I mean, I just had
this goofy.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Were you one of those people that would she hugged you,
she could feel you rattling.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Literally, I'm just well, I was so stiff. I was
just diff I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
It was one of those moments where you walk away
and you're like, I think I blacked out. Can you
tell me because I don't know what I said, what
I did, I don't know what happened, but your.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Own music career, because weren't you weren't you in a
girl group called Gemstone.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Oh no, why do you know that? Every reason? Yeah,
that was a girl group in Germany.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
You were in Germany in that girl group?
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Yeah, yep, wow wow.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
How long did you do that?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Probably on and off for like a year year and
a half because then I got Tyana and I couldn't
I couldn't continue, and so they continued without me, and
then Jay ended up being an enormous superstar in Europe music.
She went, she went solo, But yeah, I was. I
was there for like almost two years. Movie. I didn't
live there, but my mom would fly back and forth
(34:57):
with me all the time to record. And oh so
we get to releasing. We didn't get as far as
releasing our album. We spent a good.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Year doing all the prep work, travel.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Back and forth.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, and we had we had rehearsals in La and
like we were getting ready to go, and then I
booked Tina and I think you guys were so sorry.
I can't turn down an opportunity to like lead my
own show.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
That's just yeah right, so yes, absolutely, Well, speaking speaking
of recording, there's another song we want to talk about,
because apparently you also recorded a song for Sabrina's workout DVD.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
It's called b U.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yes, Oh my, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 6 (35:46):
It was like a it was you know, it was
dance at Fitness.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It was about, you know, a DVD that was about
trying to make fitness fun for young kids.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Anything as possible, I think is the name of the song.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yes, all the music is super like empowering and you
know all of that, and yes.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Oh my gosh, is that crazy?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Oh my god, I forgot about I.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Was so excited that you were going to come on
and do an interview because I mean we didn't even
get a chance to like do anything. You know, it
was just a soundtrack that one of your songs was on.
So I just love that. That's so rad.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Yeah, wow, it's god, Oh my gosh, history that was awesome.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
I love it. But I want to get now.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Will Smith is one of my I mean talk about
having a hyperventilation if I ever were to get to
really sit down and talk to him and no, well no,
we'll no, i'ld be able to handle myself. You're talking
about what I was like twelve years old.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yes, it would be totally.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
But but you got not only to just to be
honest out, but you did a music video with him?
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I did.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
How epic was that?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
So so I met Will to shoot that video. And
that's another situation where I completely embarrassed myself because he's
so cute, so nice, so humble, so down to earth,
all of those things you've heard about him. And so
we start. He was outside of his like enormous trailer
(37:21):
that looked like that I would live in, I would
live in happily.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
It was like a double wide, better than most of it,
expanded each side, like.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Two levels, that whole thing.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
So he's sitting outside there and we're on location shooting
the music video and I go up to him, and
I think I was with my manager and actually my
manager's assistant who was my ex boyfriend at the time,
so a little awkward. Anyway, we're there, he's talking, we're
(37:52):
hanging out, and he's like, hey, Christina, thank you so
much for being a part of this, like, you know,
just being his humble, nice self.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And I just grabbed him and gave him this like
big hug.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
And my manager was like, hey, you know, like still
out back on whatever, and I.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
Was like, he said it again.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
She's gonna call me out every time.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
I'm gonna ask you to stop saying that word.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Please, you know, when they're just backfires on me anyway,
So I said to it. I turned to him, right
in front of wheel. I turned to my manager. I
was like, stop hating. I was like, don't hate on me,
because I'm getting some love from Will Smith. And it
just kind of broke the ice for all of us,
and he started laughing and he kind of looked at
me like okay, girl, like you got some you know,
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And I.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Was like, yeah, I mean, I don't know what I'm ever.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Going to see you again, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
get I'm gonna get me a hug. And then from
that point on it was just very very friendly, very chill.
I didn't I don't think I actually did any shots
with him because he was Will Smith, but I did
get to meet him and talk.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
With him and you know, be on the song and
that was cool.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
So I hate to do this to you because I
know this is putting people on the spot. But if
you had to pick one and only one, you could
only act for the rest of your life or sing
for the rest of your life, which one do you take?
It's like picking between your kids, right.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Yeah, well that's that nice, except everybody knows the answer.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
You just don't want to say.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
But I would say act, okay, okay, because as much
as I love to sing, I'm not an artist. I
never loved the everything that came with singing. I didn't
love it as much as I love acting. I'm not
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I'm not as good at that as I feel like confident,
comfortable and confident, So it would it would definitely be acting, Okay.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Singing is more of a hobby at this point.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, I think that that's also it could dive into
the world of the industry, like the different industries that
those are, Like the music industry is so vastly different
than the industry of acting, and you know, the people
that are involved, the different things that you have to
go to versus you know, being an artist or being
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a character in a movie or TV show.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
But you do have two gorgeous daughters.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Are you gonna let them get into acting if they
want to? Do they have any desire to say? I
know they're young, I know they're young, but how do
you feel about that? Knowing you were young in the industry.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
You know, I've thought about that so much. My husband
and I have talked about it.
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Yeah, because definitely at least one of them is showing
some real r risted just sort of natural talent in uh, performing, dancing, singing,
just the personality that like loving the camera, the attention,
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all of that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh you can spot it too, can't you.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
You just see you see it coming where it's like, oh,
there it is, You've got it.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Yeah, yeah, yep, yep.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
And so you know, I think about how my mom
dealt with it, and I actually think my mom did
a really good job of balancing my me having a
childhood with still supporting and acknowledging my gifts and my
my like desire to perform.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Like she never snuffed that out, she never ignored it.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
But then also she she had boundaries and she wasn't
afraid to make the best decision for me, not just okay,
what's gonna She wasn't concerned with me being famous or rich.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
And so.
Speaker 5 (42:01):
I think I had a good example of like, if
we did do that, and again, it has to be.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Something like my husband.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I would agree upon and all that we would
never we would never want to stifle or like be
unsupportive of something that so clearly our child desires and
is good at, you know.
Speaker 6 (42:22):
But it's it's a hard balance though, it is.
Speaker 5 (42:25):
It's a matter of like when and and and how,
because I've worked not only am I a child after,
but I've worked with children now as an adult, and
I see how hard it is for them to comprehend,
especially the younger they are, that you know, once they're
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when it's once it's not fun anymore, and you still
have five hours left unset, right, you know, kind of
what that does to them that they don't understand the
concept of work and a job and needing to be
somewhere from this time to this time.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
And I kind of feel like they shouldn't have to.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
So that's the part that to me, you know, is
one of the reasons why I'm a little I'm hesitant
to to like push them in myself, you know, because
we've thought about modeling, you know, you know, commercials and
things like that, but I'm like, that's the part that
I'm just not sure about. You know, when when toddlers
(43:27):
are done, they're just done, and.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Then we get bribing them with candy and TV and it.
Speaker 10 (43:33):
Just gets a whole different to bribe them with and
you're just like yeah, you know, and then you're just
and then you're threatening their lives.
Speaker 3 (43:44):
It's too tough, there is, I think, especially with the age,
like you said, five and three, that's still really young.
I think, you know, I have a three year old
and and same thing. She's got a lot of personality.
But what I think of is the drive up there,
you know, up to up to the audition, and then
the chance of whether or not that is a moment
(44:04):
she feels like turning it on and doing what she
does for mommy all day. Yeah that's yeah, no, no,
thank you, And I have wasted now however much time
and stress to get there.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
It's just tough.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
And then if she does book it right, then you're
on set now you now it's everyone's gonna look at
you right as a parent. If they are not on
it's tough.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
So it is. Age is a big difference, you know.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Oh yeah, no, my my daughter, my stepdaughter, she never
wanted to act, but she's four hundred and eight months old,
so it's not that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (44:34):
Yeah, she could probably handle it at that age.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
She could probably do it now. Yeah, she's thirty three.
But so just I can't do that math well, oh yeah, no,
I just do the maths.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
I just tell people she's she's very cute. She's four
hundred and eight months.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
So we want to wrap up with Brink, which is
why we're here, and it's had this incredible resurgence. So
what's going on in Gabrielle's life in Brink two.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (45:12):
I think her and Peter got married and had some kids.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Okay, I am for that.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
For it.
Speaker 4 (45:25):
I think their kids.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
I think one of them skates, and I think another
one does a completely different sport. And I think they
run something like a kind of like a y m
c A for for kids.
Speaker 4 (45:38):
It's not like a y m.
Speaker 5 (45:39):
C A, but I think they have something like that
for kids who who want to learn to skate and
do all kinds of sports.
Speaker 4 (45:45):
And I think I think that's what she does.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Now, all right, that is a great, Well, that's I
would put her as a professional like skater that you
know now has her own women's professional skating team.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
But we could do you're like that, you.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Know what, that's definitely more. Now, that's definitely more now.
I mean, but me, I love the family life.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
I love having kids, and I love being able to
like I love being able to create a platform for them,
like the next generation, to do something.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
So that's why I think I like that story.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (46:26):
But I mean, maybe they could be both.
Speaker 4 (46:29):
She can have her own skating coy and run.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
We're trademarking that right now.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
By the way, bring Trade, We're trademarking it right now.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
That's our movie. We're doing that. I love it.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
You're still working all the time. Where can people find you?
What do you have coming out? I mean, you're in everything.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
Thank you, Pasha. I wish I'd like to be in more.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
I am on a show called Primo on Amazon right
currently you can watch the first eight episodes of that.
I also did Terminal List with Chris.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
Pratt, so that's that.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
Those are things that are actually still currently streaming.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
You can watch them. And yeah, that's it right now.
Speaker 5 (47:09):
And now I'm just waiting to hear hopefully that the
show returns and we get a season two.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Okay, good, well break a leg with that.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Yes, we love that. Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
You so much for joining us in the midst of
all the craziness of moving and everything else.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Very nice to take the time.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Thank you for taking us along with your errands for
the day. And yeah, I feel like we've been friends
forever now, I.
Speaker 6 (47:32):
Know, just hanging out.
Speaker 5 (47:34):
Thank you guys for being so gracious with my schedule
and you know.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Please were honored that you came up so cool.
Speaker 4 (47:41):
I enjoyed talking with you so thanks well.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Thank you so much. And I'd like just like to
end by saying, whatever, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Can't say it, but he's trying to get you in trouble.
Speaker 4 (47:53):
I mean, he's trying to get me strikes.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
She's probably going to be out will like, could you
just give the mom a break.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
Work for the road? Whatever?
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yes, at you, thank you so much much. By Oh
that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
I love how we caught her like literally going to
pick up her kids. She's in the car with the
seatbelt on as her husband's driving while doing our podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
That is the best.
Speaker 3 (48:28):
I'm now going to only do interviews like that like that,
that's our thing. That is our thing, like it, just
take us in the car and let us see what
you are up to now.
Speaker 6 (48:39):
On you know, on a Wednesdayay afternoon.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
That seriously be like when we when we get to
descendants or any of that stuff, they can be like, hey,
it's nice to meet you. Sorry, I'm going to pick
up my laundry so you guys can hop in the
car with me as I do that.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
She is so cool. She's still like that cool.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yes, And I love how you know, it's so typical,
especially with child actors, to really not realize how big
they're like when they're a part of something that's that big,
to really not get it right, Like they don't see
how big it is around them. They have no idea
what's coming. And she even with again being being a
(49:18):
young lady, you know, a young Puerto Rican in the game,
and bringing presents into the industry that way at that
time was huge and groundbreaking night.
Speaker 6 (49:27):
It was no one was doing that.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
Thank you all so much for joining us as we
were here on our Park Copper episode speaking to Christina
Videl who was just so cool and joined us by car.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
It was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Fin And if you want to join us, by the way,
you can join us at Magical rewind Pod on the
Instagram machine, hit us up and let us know what
you think, what you want us to watch what you
want us to do. I have to get out of
here though, because I'm going to pop in Sabrina's workout
DVD and get my sweat on right now because I
got to figure out.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Oh, she's gonna make it.
Speaker 6 (50:00):
I need you to do a live stream of that.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
I can't can we can we get this?
Speaker 6 (50:04):
You just got to be you, will You just gotta
be you and no one else.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
I'm going to need you to mail me a copy
of this if you have one. If not, I will
seriously go on and buy one. I have one I
can find.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Okay, you better. Thanks everybody for joining us and join
us next time. We are going to be watching The Descendants.
Speaker 6 (50:21):
Yes we are. It is coming, you.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Guys, it's coming.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Everyone said that there's certain things like I can't believe
you're doing all these big movies right at the top, Yeah,
we're doing. It's because there's big movie after big movie
after big movie.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
That's the joy of the d coom.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Absolutely, and so join us for the twenty fifteen juggernaut
that is The Descendants.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
We can't wait. Thank you everybody, and we'll see you
next time.
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Will Friedle
Sabrina Bryan
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