Starring Jordan Hinson as Katelin Kingsford in “Go Figure”

“Go Figure” star Jordan Hinson joins Will and Sabrina to talk about the DCOM, working with Kristi Yamaguchi and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, what do I say every week on these Park
Opper episodes special for y'all, that we're so excited about
our guests, and uh, this week is no exception. Uh yeah,
First of all, of course, welcome to this Park Copper
episode of Magical Rewind. But yeah, another another special one.
I'd like to say that I don't think I've ever

(00:34):
been lying when I say we have a very special
guest and very special episode.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Very true, I'm not lying. I say so lucky the
people we get on and we get so much in
sight of all levels we get, the actors, take we get,
we're getting writers, we're getting producers, directors.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I mean, I think it's because people are proud. They're
proud of the Disney stuff that they've done, and as
well they should be. And I don't think, uh, today's
guest is going to be any exception. Who knows she
could come on and be like I'm not proud, I
hated it, But I seriously doubt that's gonna happen. Can
you please? Because well, we were very excited when we
went and we watched the first major project she ever

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did in her career that we want to hear about
where she has to play a figure skater. So was
she a skater before? I don't know. We're gonna find
out to find out who knows, But if you could
all please help us. Welcome Jordan Hinson.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Where am I?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Where am I? How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's never good when you don't know where you are.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I have two kids under two. I never know where
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Are they twins? I'm hoping you have two kids under
two that are not?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Are they Irish twins?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
No, they're not. My daughter's only four months of course,
Like it was one of those days where like anything
that can go wrong, you know, like my son pooped
and then it was like he needs to update. I'm
like shaking.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's OK. We were just literally just talking about the
difference because you know, uh, Sabrina has two young children
and I decided not to have children at all, and
I have a stepdaughter who's thirty five, So it's a
totally like we have just different lives all the way through.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
We're just like so relaxed all the time. I am
living on Sandy Beaches twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Of a It is just the best.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
My daughter's four and my son's going to be two
here in May.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Wow, Yeah, my son's going to be two next month,
and I'm like freaking out.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, I'm excited for two because a lot of the
craziness that seems to happen with.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
You're if you're telling me that the next month of
my life, all of a sudden, it's no longer going
to be crazy, Like I just don't buy it.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, it's more like I think it. They get they
gained the independence. Once they get into two, they're starting
to be independent and they actually start to listen a
little bit more. I know people say terrible twos, but
like they can understand the idea of like you know,
consequences and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
It does smart, like how he knows he's like testing
me sometimes. Yeah, oh for sure, finds everything and you know, I.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Mean sounds like when you're like, don't touch that.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
He's like, yeah, it's the slow Yeah, you're like.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Leger.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
He's like, you know, we got it's like we test
our limits for sure.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Of course.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Of course, Well thank you for joining us, thanks for
having me.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is so funny because like this movie was such
an important part of my life obviously twenty years ago,
but like I was thirteen and I'm thirty three now,
so it's like I'm going to struggle to remember certain things.
I'll do my best, you know.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, So well that answers the first question. You were
thirteen when you did it, So was this your first
real kind of gig.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yes, it was. I was, like, I want to say,
sides a couple commercials. This was like the first thing
that I booked. This was like so mind bending to me,
you know, because I was like auditioning. I was a kid.
I didn't know, like I was just going through the
motions and this was like one of those like that
first call you get like you got the part and
you're like a lead no, no, you know, like you just
like comprehend it, like I grew up doing theater and

(04:19):
I'll passo. So I was just like, this is like
such a strange concept to so many people. I had
never watched Disney Channel. Real, I had never watched one
thing on Disney Channel. I don't I don't know how
I missed it my whole childhood. I like, I like
watch Seinfeld growing up. Okay, so I like and I
like occasionally Cartoon Network, but like I never I never

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just somehow missed Disney Channel. Like my whole childhood. So
I didn't really understand how big it was, especially these
d coms like No Idea, you know. I was like, oh,
it's like a movie that they play and they do
it like once a month, and I was so it
was so foreign to me. And it was only when
like my other friends were like, wait, you're doing a
gee calm you know, and I was like, yeah, I

(05:02):
had no idea.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well wait, so you said you were you were doing
theater in El Paso? What what is the origin? What's
your origin story for the industry? How did how did
you find out you wanted to do this? What made
you say I need to be an actor?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
I have no idea. It was like ever since I
was like little tiny, I was like writing my own
little scripts, and I was like I was like trying
to make movies with my friends and like directing them.
And mind you, I'm like seven and I have my
parents camcorder, and I'm like, you're doing it wrong, you know.
So I was just like a kind of freak, and
I always loved movies and I always wanted to do that.

(05:36):
I just like, as a young age, I just said
I want to do that. Yeah, I started doing theater
and my parents found me at theater company in Alpasa,
where I grew up, and it was very small and
you know, the sets were just like plywood painted black,
and it was it was so much fun though, like
as a kid, to me, that was like so big.
You know, it's like you have actually playground that you

(05:58):
were to get the slides seemed so big and now, yes,
that's how that was for me.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
You have do you have a character that you played
or play or performance that you did that like sticks
out like when in theater? Yeah, in your theater.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
He never passed me for anything good. I swear I
was like a gate, like I would hold a gate. Yes,
my face like that, Like they never cast me for
anything good. There was like there was some nepotism in
that kind of theater. I just like I just enjoyed
the process of it. It was so silly, but it was

(06:33):
like as a you know, eight year old girl, it
was like a dream.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So did you move out to Los Angeles then to
become an actor or how did that work? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
I so like I was eleven and my grandma used
to be a school teacher and one of her students
is ended up being a casting director in Los Angeles,
and he came back to visit El Paso and he
was just kind of like telling me about I knew
nothing about it. Obviously. He was explaining pilot season and
I was just like, Mom, I want to do that.
And my parents are just so unbelievably supportive and cool.

(07:07):
My mom was like, let's go out there one year
and just try it, you know. And my mom she
is the furthest thing from a stage mom. She is
like from these women, you know, they're like, I don't
want to be anywhere near this. But she was such
a trooper. She like took me out. We stayed at Oakwood,
you know, like I was gonna ask, I was gonna.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Do you remember your building? What building? Do you remember
your building?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I wasn't a few. I was like an m L.
I think I was at one point around. We were there,
in and out for a couple of years. You know,
So how.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Does this work? Then? Was it your guys? Because I
being in Orange County, was just driving up for quessians
did your agents like how does everyone end up at
this one?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Because you just know word of mouthing.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
It was like everyone oak.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Wood, Yes, and it's turnkey about it.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
All your friends would go to the clubhouse, like do
you want to meet down at the What were they
There was like North and South clubhouse.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Had the clubhouses and they had the there was like
a volleyball court, there was a tennis tennis court, and.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Then there was like the dark innerwebs of oak Wood,
which would be like you hike up in the hill
on this random trail and they had like a hangout
that all these like kids put together.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was not.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Find that place.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
It was weird. It was such a like you know,
it's like you go to high school and like there's
these clicks and it was very strange the time that
no one will ever understand again, you.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Know right now, was there were you there with anybody
particular where it was like, oh and this person ended
up booking something or this person like who were some
of the cool actor kids you were with?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Actors that I was friends with at the time that work. Now,
you know, I won't I won't blow them up on here,
But like happen to people where you're like, you know,
we're auditioning with each other like every day, and then
we're going back to the same you know, apartment complex.
It was. It was strange and like I like I
said about the stage mom mentality, you know, you deal

(09:18):
with that a lot. You deal with like these thirteen
year old girls mothers who are more mean to you
than the actual girl.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
You know, get it in.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Your head, getting in your head at those audition like rooms,
the waiting rooms, You're just like, okay, lady, like really
you know, okay, So did you gut did you how
quickly did this audition come into play once you were
Was it your first year out?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
It's probably my second or third. I mean I was then.
I think when I got to LA and I was
thirteen when I book Go Figure, I had like a
Barbie commercial, which was like huge for me.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
It was this like yest commercial, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
But it was a Barbie mall. And this thing was
so big and so expensive. I don't even know if
anyone bought it. It was huge, and I was like
if I were a parent, and now I'm thinking, like
as a mom, I would never buy this thing. It
was huge. Did they give you one room and it'd
be's like five hundred dollars or something.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Did they give you one Did you get to take
home a Barbie mall No, that's like the equivalent for
a boy of the Gijo aircraft carrier. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
First, you know, I was like eleven. I was like, no, no, really,
I don't need this Barbie thing.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
So what was what was the we've we've heard So
we've talked to so many people that have done dcoms,
especially if they have something physical to do during the dcom,
Like we talked to the people who did Brink or
things like that where they had to roller blade or
sing or dance or something during the audition. Did you
have to do anything physical for the audition?

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, I mean I not the actual first audition. You know,
there's the process of I go in and there's forty
other girls in the room. You get your call back,
and you go on and there's like fifteen other girls,
and then you have a producer Sasha, it's just you
and four girls. And then they're kind of mixing matching you,
and you know the old like can you I skate?
And it's like sure, my life And I was like yeah,

(11:05):
and like my brain, I don't know what I was thinking.
I said pretty good, pretty well, you know, I told
them I could ice skate, not just ice skate, but
I could do it well, which was I don't know
what I was thinking, but I grew up doing gymnastics.
I was like a big gymnast, so I was like,
how hard going to be totally different? It's not at
all the same. And I just thought, you know, because

(11:25):
you're told, like when you're like, if they ask you
if you do something, you yes, yes, absolutely yes. And
then I just I, you know, they were like, okay,
well now you know it's you and one other girl,
and they wanted to test you on the ice next week.
And I was like, so, I like, I went every
single day to this. It was oh god, what was

(11:47):
this place called Iceland? I think it was called I
want to say it was like your Chatsworth or something, Okay,
and I went every day and I was so determined
and I was there from opening the clothes and by
the time that I I had to skate from them,
I could like fake skating. So worked out on the ice.

(12:07):
They were testing out a couple of like my love
interests on the ice as well, which was strange because
I was thirteen and they looked so much older to me.
You know, yes, yeah, I somehow, you know, I faked
it and I made it.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well, thank god, because you ended up being in the
film that immortalized the tagline. She shoots, she scores, she accessorizes.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I realized, like even when I was thirteen and they're like,
here's the poster, showed it to me and I was
like what tagline? Even at thirteen, I was like.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, I will say it's not one of their best
that they've had.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, there's been better.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yes, but you definitely can't sizes.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, you get the idea they went.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Through before they landed on that.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
One throw away?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
What oh god? Can you imagine the other options?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I know?

Speaker 1 (13:13):
So did now we hear? Did you train with an Olympian?
Was it Sarah?

Speaker 3 (13:21):
She choreographed the Olympics in like the Olympic figure Skating
intro and all that, I believe, and I think that
was in it's probably two thousand right five, So she
had just she was like a big name coming into it.
When we first did it, U and she trained me
for maybe a month and a half.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
We went to there's an ice skating rink in la
Or in Bourbank called Pickwick.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, also a bowling alley.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, it's a bowling alley. Is it still there because
I moved it's still there?

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Ye, pics totally still there.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
We trained there like every day, and man, I was
in a wicked shape. You know, imagine being like thirteen,
you're already in good shape and then you're skating every
single day?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, did it make you kind of fall in love
with skating at all?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Like?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Were you going?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
You did?

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Like it was I was. I grew up in gymnastics,
so there was like it was that same kind of
like vibe. You know, you go, what you got, your equipment,
you show up. It's like exercise, you're trying to improve
it something. There was just something really like special about it.
I can people get attached to it from a very
young age, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah sure? Now shot in Canada, right.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
No, we shot in Salt Lake City, salt Like that's.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
What I meant. Okay, so you were in We were
still there. The DCM coin flip, they're they're either shoot
in Canada or they shooting Vancouver.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Toronto, Vancouver or Salt Lake.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
It was a shooting schedule. Like, I mean, were you
skating almost every day?

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Not every day? I think we kind of like, you know,
if we were filming at an ice rink. We we're
shooting at that ice rink for a couple of days
or however long we were there. A lot of it
was like at a school, and you know, like there
was all that basis of I was like boarding at
that school, so it was like there's a lot of
that kind of stuff too. And obviously I had to

(15:16):
do like a hockey camp too, because skating on hockey
skates is like a completely different sport altogether than figure skating.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Is it really I've never done I've only yeah, well
I knew, I knew, but yeah, I don't. I mean,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I would compare it to like skiing and snowboarding, you know,
it's just good to say, totally different motions. With hockey skates,
you're kind of like running walking almost you're skating. There's
just it's more of like a dance, you know. Well, yeah,
and then switching back and forth is like like at
the age, I don't think I think I could do it.

(15:53):
I think my brain would melt, you.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Know, So do you think is it? Is it so difficult?
One of the things we talked about during the movie
was like, Okay, wait a minute, she's supposed to be
like a competitive ice skater, but then they put her
on hockey skates and she can't even stand. Isn't this
kind of ridiculous? But it turns out no kind of accurate.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
I mean, it's a Disney movie. I don't know if
like it is a little absurd, Like I'm sure at
some point in a figure skater's life she tries on
hockey skates. But I think you could argue that my
character was so like prim and proper and prison like
she had only seen figure skating the whole world her
whole life, you know. I mean, it's it's not she
might have been like, oh, hockey skates, you know, that

(16:32):
big a thing. It's like, you know, growing up gymnastics.
I never danced, you know, I never tried the whole
dancing world, or like they're all so separate.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
What do they give you when you rent skates when
you go like ice skating, Like, what do they give you? Yeah?
Are those hockey skates?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Either? I think it is either. Yeah. I think mostly
they're gonna give you the one without the topic.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Right, I mean, if you're like a beginner, beginner, it's
like smarter to get hockey skates. I swear blades walking
you can hold hug the side and like be on
hockey skates easier, like you forget there's a tope pick
or like the back blade on those skates. For a second,
you're you're done, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Why I don't do that anymore because the rinks are
always so small and there's so many people that do
not know what they're doing. I just see like a
leg coming in the air and like slice.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Like you fall the cold hard eye, like it's like
on the ground. It is painful.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
It is we're still learning how to snowboarder. Skiku, there
is zero I mean it is okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
So it's your your first big role. You're the lead
in the film. What is it like the first day
you step on set? I mean, what do you what
are you thinking? When the first day you step on surreal?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
To me, it was like it was just like I
couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe looking at a call
sheet and seeing one and seeing my name, you know
that to me was already I was I was never
like I never took it for granted, you know, like
to me, it was like I was still like this
kid from Alpaso, and like I couldn't even believe it.
It was it was just crazy to me. And I
don't think I expected to show up and see such

(18:18):
a big production. Like I don't know if I expected,
like I had done one thing and it was like
a short film, you know, and it was like a
student independent film, and I think I expected to just
show up, like not have trailers, and like, I don't
know what. I was so young and I was just
my mind was blown.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
It was like there's catering and there's this and like
they're renting out this entire place for us. Like I
couldn't believe it. You know, we're in hindsight now, I'm like, yeah,
it's Disney exactly, like of course they are. What do
you yeah, but I it was like it was wild
to me. I was just like to me, I was
I was still you know, I was like fairly mature
at that age, and I was like, just show up

(18:54):
and you know you're lying, Just do your job, you know,
because I.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
Wouldn't have guessed you were thirteen, No, No, I would
have said maybe fifteen, which yeteen and fifteen is a
big is a big difference because yeah, I had a
lot of poise on camera for somebody who's thirteen.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
You know, I was like I was an old soul,
very young, but I was like I was tiny. I
was like, you know, I think I kind of looked
my age if would have seen me in person, I
was small and yeah, I was wide on big gap
tooth and you know, yeah, the idea of what I
was like in store for that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Well, and so many times with Disney, probably why Will
and I are thinking, is they tend to cast.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Older, younger twenties the thirties.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Like we did. We talked to We've talked to people
who are like I kept my mouth shut. I was
twenty five years old and I was playing fourteen years.
I was like, okay, that.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Has been more of a trend than anyone playing their
own age. But you know, it's like it makes sense
for them with like school hours, you end up losing
on side lots. Sure the minor can actually work, it's
you know, a lot of hours.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
So yeah, Okay, see someone who's.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Twenty five who looks like.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yes, and she looked great.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Right, so you're in this pretty much like dreamland. Everything
that you hoped and desired as you were growing up,
you know, so acting is like happening in your whole world.
And then Christia mcgucci comes in. But how did you
did you know that was she? In the script from
the you know.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Script, it was written as like I want to I
want to say it was like there was like a filler,
kind of like some big you know you're skating, and
it might have even said Christiamagucci, but I think we
were told like this is just a placeholder.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
It's going to.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Right. They were like, it's a placeholder. It'll get too
excited about anyone. And it actually ended up being you know,
Christia mcgucci, which was crazy because you know, especially at
that time it was two thousand and five. She like
I grew up hearing her name. Like I said, I
wasn't a figure skater, so I didn't have like her
poster on my wall, but I I mean, she was Christiegucci.
It was like, you know, it was just there's certain

(21:03):
athletes that are like larger than life, no matter if
you follow this sport or not, and she was one
of those.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
And yeah, she.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Was absolutely lovely, just such a complete sweet angel of
a person on set.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
And I thought she did a great job. And she
was great. I was you know, you never know when
they do, they probably athletes, And she was great. She
wasn't dairy, she was sweet. I mean she she's just
playing herself herself. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
So did the cast? Did you guys all get along
very well and bond right away?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
And you know, we were all learning to skate too
at the same time, So like, I think that was
a bit of a common ground for us. Is like
we were like falling constantly and hurting ourselves and like
trying to act and navigate this. And you know, filming
on ice is like a whole other thing because they
have these contraptions where they have to move around with
a camera and it's like you can't control, Like no

(21:56):
matter how great of a contraption you have, you're still
on ice. Like they can't rift off, you know. So
we were you know, at some points we're standing on
something trying to look like we were skating for more
close up shots. So it was like it had to
be such a big team effort because we really had
to like sell it all at the same time. And
everyone was lovely, like we all got along, we all

(22:16):
stayed at the same hotel in Salt Lake, and I
think I was the youngest one. Like, like we said, like,
I think like a couple of the characters were playing
my friends, they were definitely adults, you know, right, like
my uh the one, my brother Ryan Malgarini, who was

(22:37):
like in Freaky Friday, I think and all that before,
He's always played like the younger brother, and he was.
He was like the only one who was I think
younger than me there. Everyone else was like older definitely,
And it definitely worked before.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know, do you remember how much older the guy
that plays your like the one you were having It
was like in a completely inappropriate.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's a time I feel like I was like, this
feels odd, you know.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah, I was like, well, you know how much older
was he?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Donness or anything?

Speaker 2 (23:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
But like now I'm watching and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh my, he would have gotten off.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
My daughter fired, he would have gotten arrested. She was thirteen, yeah,
arrested hopefully.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So I think he was seventeen. Oh okay, and I
was thirteen. No, not okay, that's not.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
All I mean.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I'm thinking now that you're saying and arrested, I'm thinking
this guy's like twenty two.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well there was another guy testing for the part. Right
they had Jake there on the ice with me, and
they had another guy. And I want to say, this
guy had to be like twenty at least. I've never
being like, wow, that's a handsome man, you know what
I mean. I was like, this dad is that? I
was like, that is a handsome man.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Right there?

Speaker 2 (23:55):
We got a hot dad on said cast.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
We got a hot dad. I was like, I was
what am I doing here? You know, like that's what
was going on in my head. I was like, I
am so like I'm thirteen, What am I doing here?
There was decisions I made too, Like I remember the
original script had us kissing in it. Yeah, it was
like something. We were in the car and he like
brings me my skates I think, and we like were

(24:17):
supposed to kiss and I didn't even say anything. I
just kissed him on the cheek and they were kind
of like standing there, and I was like, is there
a problem?

Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know, because yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Kid, and I know he's older than me, and like
I felt weird about it. If I just made that
decision myself and acted like I didn't know, good.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
That's that kind of the smart way to do it too.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
I have to and you have to. But I was thirteen.
It's not that I should have even known to do
that at the time, but I think that would have
kiss kiss and it would have been weird for me.
Like now we'd be having this conversation, but even weirder,
you know, yeah, definitely wow.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
But now you said, you said, uh the last you know, well,
when I look at it again, So have you watched
the movie recently?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Not recently, but there have been times when like I
have like friends who are my age, they grew up
on this movie, and of course, like old roommates and stuff,
they'd be like watching it the living room or I'd
come out of my room and it's on, you know,
one of those things. I watched it so many times
when it came out because there was just it was
so brand new to me and family members want to

(25:19):
watch it. And then I took like ten years off.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
It's like I watched this for a while, but I
have probably seen it for the most part once in
the past, like maybe six years.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
It's it's like it's fun to revisit now, you know.
You go through these phases where you watch it the
first time it's exciting, and then you're like working on
other things and you're like, oh, is this embarrassing? I
was so young, And then you like learn to appreciate
it as you get older too, especially being a mom now,
like it'll be fun to be able to show my
kids that movie of course.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, that's what's always magical with Disney is there's always
a good message behind.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
It, right exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
I mean, well, we're picking apart right now. Truly, back then,
wasn't at like that age gap, Like it wasn't as sensitive.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
And it wasn't it should have been the assistant coach
of the hockey team constantly hitting on the thirteen.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Year old player. Maybe he should be something.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Assistant coach was like lames, like maybe he was like
a student himself.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
You know, well he was, because wasn't he in class
with you as well? I don't remember, So he's also
not that smart guy because he's also in class with
I guess.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
It should have been just distinguished. He was like the
teacher's assistant type of situation. Yeah, like he was was
a elective or something. Yeah, But regardless, for the most
part that the messaging is always great. You don't really
there's there's something that you know, you can sit down.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
In classic about it. It doesn't age.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You know.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
It's like like that movie I could show my kid.
It have eight years old.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You don't have to worry about it's not.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Going to be like this is old, you know, it's
a that's the same. Totally, yeah, I totally for sure.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Now did any of this spark any interest in you
in hockey or ice skating? Did you keep up with
either one?

Speaker 3 (27:11):
When the movie was ice skating a little bit because
I had learned so much and I was like, I'm
not letting this skill go to ways, you know, so
like a couple of times a year, I'd go back
to Pickwick or like my friends want to go ice skating,
and they gave me my skates because the skates were
like custom made for my shirt. Yeah, I still kind
of had to like beg for them a little bit.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, and it's still Disney, right, It's still Disney.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
So I you know, they were like such nice ice skates.
I was like, I can't not use these, you know,
sure they're expensive and they're and then I'll go to
the ice rink and like I would either have people
be like wait, you know, like aren't you from you know,
like you really skate, or there was like the bullies

(27:55):
of the ice world, which is like the real figure
skaters who are so much better than me. I'm not
even trying to compete with but they kind of assume
I'm there to compete with them. They're like they can't
really skate. I'm like, yeah, I can't, I can't.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I can't. I just get paid all the time on
that ice rinky bubble.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Just flock the movie and you'll see a totally different face.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
So question, you finished the film, it's in the can
Is there a do they do a premiere or does
it just kind of it just comes out on TV.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
I remember I booked a pilot right like it was
that next year. I booked a pilot. I was shooting
in Vancouver. It was a show that I was on
for like maybe seven years called Eureka Yeah, which has
a huge following, Yeah, big, big like sci fi coulty following.
It was so much fun. But the trailer for Go
Figure like was like premiering, but then we didn't get

(28:49):
it in Canada, you know, so I had they sent
me like I want to see it was like a
VHS tape or a DVD. It was something like, and
they sent it to me and I had to like
borrow a TV that they rolled in the hotel so
that I could watch the trailers. And I was sitting
there and I was like, so I couldn't believe it,
you know, I'd never really seen I was like crying,
and I'm fourteen at the time, probably, and I'm like,

(29:11):
and I'm shooting another thing, but I still have never
seen myself in anything. You know.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Was cool.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
I was like, really cool that I was.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Was your mom there or did you have anyone with you?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
That's great?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Yeah, she troubled everywhere with me, so I was okay.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
So, speaking of Eureka, do you get more people to
recognize you from that or from Go Figure?

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Definitely Eureka because I look so different than I didn't
Go If I'm blonde every so often, you know, wait,
you look like and I get that too, because I
was mostly blonding Eureka. They're like and it's never like
are you anymore? It's like you look like this girl
in this show. Don't worry about it, you know, And

(29:55):
I'll be like, what what show you know.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Eventually just are going like, yeah, I get that a lot. Yeah, Yeah,
I get that a lot.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
That's I never really wanted to do that though, because
I'm like, what if it's exciting? But you know, it's
like I would be really excited if I watch a
show and I you know, especially now living in Florida,
if someone you know knows who I am here, I'm like, sure, yeah,
first I'm gonna say hi, you.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Know, oh, I still fan I fan out over my
favorites all the time.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah. I watched you know, off of like a show
that I loved, Like I don't want to say something
to them too.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
I think it's just I think Pete more people would understand.
It's like if you think it like instead of saying
like you look like it's like, please don't make me
say I am this person who I think you think
I might be but you're.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Not sure from the show and you go, oh, is
it eureka, Yeah, you know, I get that a lot.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, It's like there we go. So we always like
to know did your life change at all after this
this movie? Premierre. I mean we talked to some people
for like high school musical that are like, Okay, on Tuesday,
I was one guy on Wednesday. It's a totally different lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
I would say that some of that with this, you know,
it was like I didn't realize how huge it was
going to be, and I was This is something I
talked to my mom about a few years ago because
I was like so young at the time, and right
after it premiered, I couldn't go to the mall like
I would go. My grandpa was a high school football
coach in Texas, and I would go to his game
and I got like mobbed and pushed up against like

(31:31):
the back barricade of the like and like the leechers
and like people were freaking out and I I never
I had no idea that these movies were, like so
many people watched them. I had no idea, but I
was going, I was like, mom, this is so weird
that people I'd go to Disneyland or something. It was insane.
Eventually that dies off, you know, because the next thing

(31:51):
comes out. But it's like for years it was like
that and I couldn't believe it. Like I was humbled
by it, for sure.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
You know.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, Well, luckily hig school foot ball isn't big in Texas,
so they're probably people there.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
But you know what's crazy though, is I mean being
on the channel now it's researched because Disney Plus is
out there and they're pushing and they're doing like, uh,
you know, you should recommendations and things like that. So
and on top of that, then this is what we've
really seen with this podcast is that you know, whether
it's one of the ones that everyone knows or sometimes

(32:30):
it's the ones that not everyone. Everyone has their like
five D coms that like it does not matter what
you say, they are the best D coms that have
ever seen the channel, you know what I mean. So
it's like you definitely, you.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Know, they were such an age. They were like you're
coming into like your out of your adolescence into your
teenagers and like these movies like Change You you know,
you're like, that's something I want to do. That's something
I want to be, Like, I want to emulate that.
And I think it sticks with you that that time
in my life stuck with me so much, going from
like you know, ten into thirteen, like that was such

(33:05):
a big time as a as a young girl, as
whatever you're you're changing so much and your brain is
moving in a thousand miles an hour, and I think
it's like you're trying to figure out really what you
want to do. And I think watching these movies, it's
like you're seeing people your own age who are doing
like cool things, and it definitely sticks with you.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Was there ever a talk anywhere about go Figure two?

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I heard things down the pipeline, but nothing ever, nothing ever.
I don't think legitimate. Well that's now, can you imagine?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I think it'd be great, that's.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Very good. I was like, I was like a coach,
you know. It was like Rocky, like they have to
come get me out of it.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Like I'm like, exactly, I've coached.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I'm like, I haven't seen the ice in ten years.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
You know, you're you're the ex boyfriend now the Jay
Gable is he's like what sixty five seventy years old?

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Ye? So rapidly you know he hasn't paid me a
child support. I was like, I can't you know.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
So, I mean, girl, are you going to I should
say what age do you think you will now show
your kids?

Speaker 3 (34:12):
I mean I was a show writer. Now I just
don't think.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Your your your son is son or daughter son's name
is writer.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Writer, yeah, writer, and my daughter's name is Arlow. She's
four months so like little angels or just do not
make life now at this point, you know, I was like.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I make my best friend's head big. It's not named
after riders strong, right, just okay, good? Just making sure no,
unless you want to tell him not, you know I
do not.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
You don't what I mean. No. No, Writer was like
a name. I had that name in my head from
like when I was like young, and I was like
my rebissan, I'd love to name him writer, and then
I guess it came back to me when I was pregnant.
So he is such a writer though, like you know,
he's he has that vibe about him. So I would

(35:01):
show him now, but like he would have no idea
to me. Maybe like when he's six.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
You know, my daughter's four and she can recognize me
from all the teef, can't she really?

Speaker 3 (35:14):
You know, girls are like they're quicker, Like that's so destructive,
Like he's wait a second, that was around him. He's like,
what can I tear apart?

Speaker 2 (35:24):
And I was just saying that about my son, like
he does not sit still even for a second. So
I think you're right, probably five.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Or six more agile and bigger and heavier. And my
son like thirty one pounds. He's huge. Oh my gosh,
wow big and he's been big a long time. So
like I I'm like, so my arms are so like okay,
and I'm like, I'm I want to get those like
Sarah Connor, like you know, shredded carry him around so much.

(35:56):
I'm like I got to be like ripped by now,
you know.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
So okay. So then last question then before we let
you go, And I think this is when, since you're
talking about your kids, with your experiences growing up as
a child actor and then an actor, if your kids
came to you and said we want to be in
the industry, how would you feel about that.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I've thought about that. You know, there's there's like a
part of me that would be like, ooh, I don't know, right,
But of course I want them to do what they
want to do, because if my mom had stopped me
from doing it, I don't think I would have ever
truly been happy, you know, right, So I think if
I think, if anything, at least I have some experience
behind it that I could help, you know, I think

(36:35):
about it like with my daughter, because being a female
in the industry, so when you're that it is so
like I'm sure it's you know, it's a man too.
I'm not like trying to be like so yeah, but
like being a young girl and like image issues and
all that. I just think about. You know. She came
to me and was like, all I want to do
is like act. Of course I would support that. I
think like I would go into it being like, listen,

(36:57):
if there's anything else in the world that you want
to do as much as you want to do this,
do that because it is such a it is such
an amazing high and such a low low, you know,
and you're not working. It's a it's a gut punch sometimes.
So you know, I don't want her to grow up
too fast. I think like we're all kind of pushed
into growing and we have to grow up quickly in
that industry because business deals from the time you were

(37:20):
a kid, you know, they're like negotiating contracts and you're
like you have to be at work on this time,
you got to the clock. It's just like you really
have to grow up. And I don't want her to
feel like she has to do that, So, yeah, you know,
I kind of want to have them on a farm
until they're life, maybe fifteen, and then if she wants
to try it out, she absolutely can. In the meantime,

(37:40):
she can watch movies, she can try and write scripts,
she can like no do that.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, well i'd say too though. You know, you you
know yourself and you know your experience and a big
thing that will and I recognize as well as like,
like you said earlier, like I did not have a
momager at all, you know, and I think you being
able to see that because that was what I observed.
I remember how different it was being on set with

(38:05):
my dad versus how it was with my friend's dads
or moms, and they were just so different than like
my dad was just like basically working the whole time
a job. He was not, you know, taking money out
of my paychecks.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
My parents were so gass and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Right, Like there was all about.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Who dealt with the latter, you know, they like the
parents were more involved than they were and like obviously
I wouldn't be like that, but I.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Think that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, right, I think, like, you know, it would definitely
help that I have some experience. Mind me, I can
also like through a lot of things. You know, I
think everything's so shiny and new when you're you know,
you don't really you need someone to navigate a little
bit of it for you. When you're that young. You
just and I had my parents were very smart. They
knew kind of what to weed through and like what

(38:53):
you know, wouldn't serve me at that age. So I
think I want to emulate that somewhat if they ever
want to do it. But you know, maybe they want to.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Maybe they want to do anything else.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Because my husband was in the army, you know, and
we're okay if writer says he wants to join the military,
like that's a whole other conversation too, you know, so totally.
At least we have some years, you.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Know, just you've got a little time. You got a
little time.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Absolutely, you know what, whatever they want to do that
makes them happy, you know, as long as it's nothing insane,
I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Some people would say this industry is insane exactly.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
I think we all know. She shoots, she scores. Yes, Well,
thank you so much for joining us. This has been great,
and I know that you you know, yeah, with the
two little ones.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
So I'm going to go relieve my husband of his
I'm sure he is like rowing right out.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Thank you so much, you.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Thank you, and have the best time with those littles.
Oh yeah, squeezes, no, thank you.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Bye bye. Yeah, I'm not having kids.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Well, I think Sue would be like, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
It's you're having not having them. She's I think it
the idea that she I never would have thought she
was thirteen.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
I didn't either. She came across so mature.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
So much more mature than thirteen.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
And I love that she clearly was, because I don't
know very many thirteen year olds that would have just
taken it in their own hands and said, I know
this as a kiss, but I'm gonna go ahead and
kiss him on the cheek. Yep, I am not kissing
that forty five year old. This is not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
You know what, I like.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
I I mean that that's I'm not even to ask
to literally just do it.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Hell, yes, yeah, that's great. And again that it's so
interesting when you meet a quote unquote child actor who
clearly had a stable parental upbringing, it makes such a difference.
My parents were the same way. They were not you know, momagers, dadagers.
They were we had nothing to do with the industry,
your family the same way. It makes a huge difference.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
It does a lot of it is because I think
what comes into play often in those situations is the
parents want it more than the kid, so whether it's
fun or not anymore. Like I know, I've been on
set with kids that are like heavy meltdowns or looking
up they're about to have an anxiety attack because they
just don't want to be there anymore, or they're uncomfortable

(41:38):
and whatever they're doing, or you know, or tired or whatever, yeah,
or being kid and you just kids a parent just
like this is it, you know. I mean granted, obviously,
like you said, you do have to grow up because
you are on a professional stage and you're doing a job.
People you doing our job. People are getting paid to
be there. Money is getting lost if you just walk off.

(41:59):
So I understan in that part of having to say, like, look,
remember we decided to do this, we agreed we were
going to be here. We're going to see it out.
If at the end of this job you're done, you're done, that,
We're totally fine. Yeah, but a lot of mammagers and
daddagers out there do.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Not do that and onto the next.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
And it's unfortunate because those kids grow up with a
lot of different situations later. And I'm just feel so
lucky that wasn't my journey now.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Or hers or my which is great. So uh yeah, go,
thank you so much Jordan for joining us, and go
of course and check out once again. I'm just gonna
say it one more time. No figure, she shoots, she scores,
she accessorizes, and I love what she said. It's absolutely true.
I'm dying to know which cat that what got vanished?

(42:47):
Oh it's so great. Well, thank you everybody so much
for joining us on this park Opper episode, and don't
forget to hop over to our other feed where I think, yes,
I get to say this once again. Our next movie
is nineteen ninety nine's wait for it, people h E.
Double hockey Sticks starring this incredibly good looking young man

(43:09):
named Matthew Lawrence, and I'm in it too, So thanks everybody,
and we will see you next time. Bye.