May 20, 2024 • 41 mins
Lindsey Haun joins Will and Sabrina to talk about working on such an important Disney film and being the first Disney Movie Surfer!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to our Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind. We
have an amazing guest that is joining us today, but
before we get to her, I have one quick question
for you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
There Sabrina. Did you ever watch Movie Surfers?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You did?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, didn't everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I had no idea what it was, really, no idea
what it was.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah, it was a really fun show that would go
behind the scenes of Disney Channels shows and movies.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Really cool.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It was kind of my.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
First idea of what it would be to be somebody
who was interviewing, and it was fun.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I love that you're a fan, because I think other
people out there are big fans too. And today we
get to talk to our first ever movie surfer is.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
This is where I recognize her from within the movie?
It was, yes, Hoviously, after research, I got to see
all the other things that I'm like, oh that's right,
she wasn't true blood.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I recognized her from different things, but this was where.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Her little young face, so cute.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So awesome. I'm so excited to be able to meet
her tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I cannot wait. So everybody please help us. Welcome Lindsay Hank.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I love where you're coming to us from too. What
a cool location, missus.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
We my husband and I directed a movie, Hanky Panky
Thanky Panky, Yeah, and so we uh, it's it just
came out and so we've been doing a lot of
a lot of on camera stuff. So we there you
get like our own little makeshift press room over here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So then we got to start with that, what is
what is hanky Panky about?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And where can everybody see it?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You can get it everywhere.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
We love Apple, so we would love for you to
get it from Apple.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But it's a.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Crazy, dumb movie about a talking napkin and Seth Green
plays the talking hat.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
But it's it's a it's horror, there's blood, it's a
horror comedy. It's it's possibly the dumbest movie you've seen
in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know, have you ever have you ever seen Rubber?
There you rather, Sabrina? Have you ever seen Rubber?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's literally the entire movie is just about a killer tire.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
It's amazing, amazing, and actually our movie has been compared
to Rubber.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's reference. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, we can talk about hanky panky all day, which
we can if you'd like, But we just finished our
rewatch of The Color of Friendship, Hey, and we wanted
to speak to you because, well, first of all, we
feel like we're talking to Disney Royalty, not just because
of the Color of Friendship, but you're the very first
ever movie surfer that we've had on.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh my gosh, I am.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What do you remember what's the coolest episode that you
were a part of with movie Surfers?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Oh gosh, Well, I really liked when I met Jean
Michelle Cousto, Jacques Cousto's son son. Yeah, and I went
scuba diving with him in Hawaii. That was basically one
of the coolest moments of my entire life.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. Yeah, and he took me.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
They took me deeper than I was supposed to, you
know that I was like allowed to go.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But it's like Jean Michelle Custo.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yeah, and we saw three sharks and one of them
was pregnant and it was like the coolest thing. And
they were like they were doing all the hand signals
like we're gonna go follow them and I was.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Like, oh, you would have so caught me just turning
around and be lining the top.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I am out. I am out, you guys. I was
so scared.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But apparently when there's a pregnant one, they're like the
least attacky because they don't want to like bring problems,
so they'll just like swim away from you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So it was actually really safe, at least that's what
they said to me.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, they were just telling you that. They're just telling
you that to get you to follow the shark. It's
probably because she's pregnant. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, I think that sounds like the worst kind of
day in the world for me.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Let me go follow this pregnant shark.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, thank you, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I'm out. I will be in the boat.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You guys have a great day.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, that's cool though.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How you beat scuba diving with a cousto, that's pretty
aweso awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You can't. I was like basically in life aquatic, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Like, I was just like, this is the dream, I
know anything else?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, she is really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So they you know, Disney would travel you out to
go do these really cool excursion type stuff. Yeah, and
you were there for just a couple of days, probably
to film.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And then yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Would just fly there for like, you know, the Hawaii
trip was like two nights, three days, you know, and
then sometimes I would extend the trip, like we went
to Hawaii twice with Movie Surfers, and one was with
the whole cast, which was also so fun. And and
then I was like, you know what, I'm gonna fly
my family out here and we're gonna island Hof do.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
A little family trip.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah. Yeah, so it was. It was awesome. There was
a lot of cool stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was a very cool experience.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I have to apologize because I'm I'm a little older,
so I did not watch the movie Surfers. What other
Disney talent were Surfers were? Like, you said, the rest
of the cast? Who else were surfing with you?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Katerina Stratford, who she I think she has a different
last name now, but she's a big deal. She was
a Fanta girl and now she's like I see her
on things. I'm like, holy, I'm terrible at this stuff.
This is like one of one of my worst problems
in my career is like at a names worst and
(06:15):
then there were other people who who sometimes a lot
of them stopped right after doing Movie Surfers.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it was like a rotating cast, wasn't it. They
were like other people would come in and.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Well in the same way that like Disney would change
up every three years, you know what I mean. So
after we did our three year stint, then they changed
they changed us up, and there was a new blonde girl.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Remember Movie Surfers being sort of a an in into
the channel too.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Once she kind of got on there. The exposure a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Of times it took you to doing a d com
or getting into their next show.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
So the movie surface was like a really cool.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Different way to get into being a part of their
casting real you know that they would use a lot,
so that was always a great opportunity for young talent
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, that's a perfect segue, Sabrina into how did you
get involved with the channel?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Did you start on the d cooms or did you
start by surfing?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I started on the dcoms. I started with the Color
of Friendship.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So this is your first ever introduction to Disney was
the Color of Friendship?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The Color of Friendship?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, showing for the fences on your first ever one.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got I got in there, man,
I was I was so proud.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I wanted it so badly. I wanted it so bad.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
I loved I loved the concept of the movie from
the get so it was very cool to be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And then yeah, and then they, you know, sort of
embraced me into into the family. And when nobody was
allowed to like make anything because of strikes, that was
when movie Surfers happened. So it was this moment when
no one was working and there was it was technically
an interstitial. It wasn't TV, and it wasn't a commercial.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'll always find the loophole, won't Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It was a cool way to be working when nobody
else could.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Right, Wow, that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So, I mean, can you walk us through when's the
first time you heard it? Was this just another audition? First?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'll have to tell you your American accent great because
I know you're actually South africanis.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yes, thank you, By the way, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I just wanted you to feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
When's the first was this just another audition to come
across your desk? I mean, how did you first hear
about this.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, I mean I was, you know, you know how
it goes like we were just auditioning like maniacs, like crazy,
and especially as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I feel like it was just like ye and I had.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Auditioned for Disney Channel movies before, but I wasn't booking
and I'm like, especially at that point, was very much
a dramatic actress, so I kind of was like.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Maybe I'm just like not vibing with the vibe.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
And then this came up and it was so meaty
and so cool, and I love doing accents and like
come from a very musical family, so I was really
excited for the opportunity to do it. And they said
you don't have to do it in the first audition,
and my acting coach was like, I think you should. Yeah.
At that point, there wasn't really a lot of touchstones
(09:20):
for the accent, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
We didn't have Trevor Noah, we didn't have like a
lot of South African stuff. So I tracked down this
movie from Hollywood video called If the Gods Were Monsters,
because that was really the only way that you could
listen to an authentic South African accent if you didn't
know anyone, and it was, first of all, great movie
and I never returned it and.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Is it a VHS or is it a VHS? The
only copy of they had and then and then yeah,
so so I did that for the first audition, and
then I think two or three auditions in they were like,
we're gonna set you up with an accent coach. They
set everybody up with this accent coach and that changed
the accent a little bit. And then when I went
(10:09):
to do the screen test, which was the fifth or
sixth audition, then they had me audition against a girl
who was actually from South Africa and yeah, and so
I she was very nice and her mom was really nice.
So my mom and I hung out with her the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Did they fly her in from South Africa for the audition?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Oh and they yeah, yeah, Like she was like, I've
been trying to break into Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and uh fight for an audition.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Oh, it's a long flight. And so I hung out
with her, which was very nice for me. And I
also the guy the people who played my parents ended
up being my accent coaches because they were actually South African.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh okay, wow, so the guy.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Who plays my ad he started coaching me and they
made me super off for cons, like, which is historically
what I would have.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Been if I was a policeman's daughter. And I love it.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
This is what we're long.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We don't have to talk. This is the best.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So please you let me know because I can talk.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Please keep going.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I have two kids. I don't get to talk to adults,
and I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Same, so sad that I'm the adult you have to
talk to. I'm still a child myself, So I apologize
for that.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
So am I.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I'm sad for my kids anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So uh so.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He he made it really thick off for cons.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
We did the screen test and I was convinced that
I wasn't going to get it. I was just like,
I've been through the ringer with Disney Channel before and
I knew that it just never worked. So I had
convinced myself that I didn't have it. And so I
was packing up my bags and the director came to
my room and and was.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like, hey, like, we chose you. You got it.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And I just started crying because I had been hanging
out with this girl, Carly, and she was so cool
and I.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Just felt awful.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, long flight back.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Yeah, like I had become friends with her, and I
had been I had like accepted that I didn't get it,
so I was like, okay, you know, and then it
was like all of a sudden like oh god, like
it like the realization.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
He was like, why aren't you happy? Like do you
want to do this movie? Do you want to? Sorry?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Yeah, And apparently she had had the complete opposite reaction.
She got super excited when he told her that I
got it, which was which was very cool.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's yeah, do.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
You guys do you have to just still keep in
touch with her?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I wish that I had, I that I had the
grace or the wherewithal at that time to have done that,
because she.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Was so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
I think I was like embarrassed and like didn't know
how to, you know, I was fourteen. I didn't know
how to like still be friends with her after.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
That had happened. And I should have, don't. I don't
know what my problem was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Were people emailing in two thousand or would this have
been like you have to handwrite a letter?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I think it would have been really new.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But yeah, yeah, like some people had it and some people.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If you went on a deep dive, you could probably
social media.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I could probably pull.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Oh my god, social media if somebody could tell me
her last name and find her for me.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You didn't have her last name.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't have her last name, but I bet I
could get it. I bet I could get it. I
figure that out.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, how cool.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So you guys book it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Did you do screen test scene with the actress that
played Piper at all.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Shaddya Simmons.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, she was already cast, so we did the
screen test with her.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We were also hanging.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Out with her for the whole week, okay, and Shadya
was was awesome and we still we still like every
once while be like, hey, how's your kid? Yeah, but
for a really long time we were.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We were like kid friends. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah. And then you guys went up to Canada for
the shoe Yeah in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, with all the dcoms that we say, we figure
Disney flips a coin, they get a script, they flip
a coin, heads, they shoot in Canada, tails, they shoot
in Salt Lake City, We're in Utah, We're in Canada.
That's the only places we're shooting. So you got to
take you got a heads, So you're shooting in Canada.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
They must have started to like own buildings and things
at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Like, oh, we'll just shoot on Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I think it's honestly because they were doing one a
month right that they like wanted they found, like they're
good production company in Toronto and they're good production company
in Utah, and so they would be like, Okay, well
this one's working on this, then we'll start this one
and then they'll finish that up.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Bat on this one, you know what I mean? Because
I think that they did.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
They had just done like Alley Cats Strike Back or
something like right before us in Salt Lake City because
my my family has has houses in Salt Lake. So
I was like really hoping we were gonna shoot in
Salt Lake.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was like, great, I get to.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Toronto.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
That's true that I remember.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I remember the hair and makeup people talking about the
d coom that they had shot right before I was
there shooting in Toronto, right before.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I like they had You're right, they had their.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Kind of crew set up in that area, so it
made it easy to bring in production after production after production.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
That makes so much sense, right, yeah, I think so.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Now, do you remember feeling like this was a different
type of dcom? I mean from all the dcoms we're watching.
I mean, this was like a whole different level of film.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Even just reading the script before anything, going wow, this
is a different kind of storyline that dcombs are usually Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I mean we knew that it was a really big deal.
It was the first time that Disney Channel was dealing
with anything that could possibly be political or serious or
anything like that, and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Nervous about it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Sure, but.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
It was It felt incredible to be a part of
it felt like, you know, I mean I was like
a rage against a machine fan, you.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Like I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Was like, this is amazing.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
I get to be a part of, you know, change
an education, you know, rise up Disney Channel fans. So
it felt it felt very cool, and it felt that
way from the moment I got the sides, because it
was just it read different, It felt different.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, did you read the book?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No? No, I didn't. I should have.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
We haven't either. We did.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, maybe it's probably better that you didn't, because apparently
it's a your character was actually a combination of two
different girls, and one of them the one that they
most sleep based your character around. Apparently, according to the
real life, Piper goes back to South Africa and was
either possibly arrested or killed.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Killed. So I mean, yeah, that's what I was told.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, so you were told that she was killed when
she went back there.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, this was It was just a film on a
kind of completely different level than we have been used
to him. I mean, and the other movies are great,
We're watching a lot of very fun stuff, but then
there's something like this where we guess that somewhere there
was a conversation after the film was done of this
is not a dcom.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We should release this in theaters. I bet you that
happens on Oh that would be that's sweet. Yeah, it
was very very good.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Well, our director, Kevin Hooks is is always has been incredible,
and he's I still I've worked with him since. And
Alan Sachs, who was the producer, I've still talked to him.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
We've talked about doing a podcast together.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But he he you know, created Welcome Back Cotter, and
the two of them together just really spearheaded this and
really got it through and in and and even though
it didn't get a theatrical release, we won Disney Channel.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's first Emmy ever.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I know, incredibulation amazing, feels so good, awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I still have like the little plaque, that's what I
should have behind me.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Be like yes.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
And because of Alan Sachs, we got made a part
of twenty thousand curriculums across the US. So during Black
History Month, they like put out like a whole workbook
and the movie and a whole thing based off of it.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, you know, Will and I our spouses have to
watch these movies with us, obviously, because that's what we're
doing when we're when we're doing our work. They're there
on the couch with us, hanging out and he and
Jordan and my husband was like, I remember this one.
I'm trying to think of what I can't remember, but
I remember the title. And as we were going, he goes,
I watched this in school and I said he did.
(19:02):
He goes, yeah, I remember it was doing the same
thing Black History nothing. He's like, I remember watching this
in the classroom and I'd go, wow, that I've never
heard of a dcon being that I mean they're not
watching Johnny Tsunami and Glass, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, today's folks, we're gonna be watching Luck of the Irish.
That's not going to be happening.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yes, yes, that he because that wasn't you know. My
experience with that was cool. To hear him say that
he watched it in school. I was like, after watching
it again now as an adult, it was one hundred
percent understandable why this would be a great movie to
watch as.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
An educational aspect of school. You know.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
And for a long time, they they like stopped playing
it for a while, and I had run into someone
from the Disney Channel and she was like, you know, yeah,
I've been trying to get it to come back because
it's our only serious movie ever, but it's also our
only serious movie for black his month, and she was
like and like, people have gotten scared recently about us
(20:05):
being so serious, so they like pulled it for a while.
But then when Disney Plus came out, it was like
on the front page, and.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I was so like, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah have you felt besides that, because that is such
such a huge thing now that Disney Plus is able
to expose the next generation to these d coms you
know that we all kind of grew up with. Have
you felt the resurgence of fans people recognizing you from
that specific movie.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. It's so cool. And because
it's also like I've done I'm proud of, I'm proud
of my body of work.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
But like totally, it is the coolest thing to actually
come up and say that that's the reason why they're
they like recognized me and and it impacted their life,
Like it it is so edifying, Like if that is
the only thing that I did in my life, it's
it's just one of those things where it's like, okay,
like I was a part of something, you know, I
(21:05):
was a part of something that like open kids minds,
Like that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now, do you remember working with like Carl Lumley and
Penny Johnson. I mean, do you remember what it was
like to work with those two actors? Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It was pretty phenomenal actors.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, yeah, I loved them. Carl.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Carl's awesome, Like he is such a sweetheart. Yeah, man,
so sweet, He's so he's so cool. And and then
you know he was an alias and then I came
on alias as a South African. I think partially he
like vetted me, which is so cool and that was
(21:45):
like a dream of mine. But but so he's he's
just awesome. And then Penny is brad too because she
she I worked with the most I think other than Shadia,
and she would like give us cute little tips like
you know this is okay to say, but you'd be like,
put your boobs on platter, suck your tommy in, put
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your boobs on platter, and that's how you have good posture.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I really say.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
It to myself every time I'm taking pictures, I'm like,
boobs on flatter boobs.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But I'm never going to forget that now. Over going
to forget that now.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Since we're talking about the actors that you worked with,
I don't I don't want to jump off of the
d com route because we can definitely we got to
talk about that a lot, but.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We got to talk about Burt Reynolds a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh, let's talk about Bert Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What was it like working with Burt Reynolds on Broken Bridges?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
He well, first of all, legendary and hilarious, just constantly
zingers hilarious, wonderful and also like a little crotchety, but
in like the best, the best way, like the exact
way that you would want fort Reynolds to be crotchetys crotchety.
And I was just so satisfying. It was very satisfying,
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and he was mostly very sweet. And then and then yeah, yeah,
one time we were shooting and Tess Harper has to
have like she like faints and uh and she fainted
and he's like so emotionally in it and he's like
and she's his wife and he's like no, no, and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You know, and then they're like, okay, cut, can we
do that again?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And and you know, and I'm in there going like oh,
you know, and and.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
They're like can you do it again? And I'm like yeah,
and he's like, don't say yeah. For us.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
It's like, do you know how old we are?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We have to get down on our knees. I don't
know what do you wait for us to say yes?
You don't say yes? And I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Sorry, Bert, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Okay, So I'm gonna put you on the spot about
something because I know this, this can be tough, okay.
And I always do this. I always play the mean game.
But you talked about your body of work and there's
some pretty incredible things on it. Okay, what's the one
you want to really be remembered for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh good, that's a very nice question.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
I thought you were actually going to do like some
shady Andy Cohen like which one which would oh god.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
No, oh no, no, no, I would never Which one's
your favorite? This We're We're Disney related podcast?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Love?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And how much cocaine did you do on the second? Now?
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Then no, because you've got I mean, you've got some
incredible stuff with when it comes to True Blood and
Color of Friendship and movie Service, I mean it's like
one thing after another hanky panky, which I am absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Going to read the synopsis for in a second because
it's phenomenal. So I'm just curious which one when you
look back on, are you the most proud of?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Definitely the Color of Friendship.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I mean there are I would say, like, there are
things that I love about everything that I did, Like
Shrooms is one of, like, visually my favorite things that
I've ever been a part of.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Shrooms of course, visually.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Irish, well, Irish movie about shrooms very bad.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
It's a great movie unless you take too much of
it exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Actually, one of the lines is shouldn't have taken all
those shrooms, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
But but yeah, definitely the color of friendship. I mean,
it just feels like it's so important. It just you know,
and and I love dumb movies. I love arts for
art's sake, I love entertainment for entertainment's sake. But when
you get to be a part of something that has
a greater impact, it's like it's above and beyond.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It's it's next level.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And it's it's lasting.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, I was just gonna say it transcends over generation
after generation. I was saying to Will when we were
kind of finishing up. I said, you know, my daughter's
only three and a half right now, but when she
gets to an age where that kind of movie will
be something to really open her eyes to, like, I
can't wait, it's perfect.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I would I would be able to sit.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Her down and know that this message is going to
absolutely be received. And I think that's so incredible for
you to always have something that you did.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It just was phenomenal. Yeah, it's a real cool thing
to be a part of it is.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, and now one of the things we talked about, though,
I'm curious what your take would would be on this.
Do you think Disney Channel could make this movie today
exactly the way that it was done?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No? No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I mean well, first of all, we say the N word,
yeah in this movie, which I didn't remember.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It didn't remember until TikTok reminded.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Me, Oh really, Oh was that? Ah?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Yeah, like uh, this this trick saying that Disney Jantle movie.
And I was like, well, my friends told me, and
I was like no, and then I went and looked.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I was like, oh, oh I did. I don't that happened?
Remember that? So definitely not for that reason.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Even though it was it was said in a very
like educational way, like it wasn't a slur, it wasn't
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
No, it was also said between two friends learning from
each other.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, So context in that sense matters, I guess, but
they still would never say it.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of incredible. It's incredible that
that was allowed then, right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's what we were talking about tomazing.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Yeah, I think that you could you could almost make it,
but definitely not exactly the way that it was made right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
The dialogue is definitely the part that would really need
to be tweaked to be able to do it again.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But do you remember how much how much of an
emphasis was put on it being a period piece at
the time?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
How much?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I mean, do you remember set designers and everything like
we want to make sure that this is perfect or yeah, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh my gosh. And I wanted so much from this
set design.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I did get this little like cat. It was just
like this ceramic orange.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Cats seventies Cara Piper's room.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, id it. I had it for a really long
time and then it broke. It was very anyway, sad story.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Most of the clothes were from the seventies, were like
very authentic vintage fines and it was it was a
massive deal. It was a massive deal. They wanted everything
to feel like it. I mean, set deck was so precise.
There were constant conversations of like.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
What did this happen? Whether were we wearing this or
you know, was this piece made? I was a real big.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Deal, real big were you Did you ever find yourself overwhelmed?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I mean, here you are, You're on your first project,
You're one of the leads of the film.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's a period piece and you're doing an accent.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I mean, is it was this one of the things
where you ever like, Okay, I need I need a
day like this is this is a lot right now?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I mean, thankfully I had like blind youth on my side.
I think I think now I would be like, oh my,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know, at the time, it was just kind of like.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Excited to work.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, excited to work, excited to do this cool thing.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Oh look I get to I now do an accent,
you know, like like the hardest accent.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I picked up a best friend, like, I mean,
it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Totally you know, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Think there was. There was definitely like people trying to
tell me, like, this is a really hard accent and
and like psyching me up, and I'd be like, okay,
like but serious.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
You know, like, but I definitely did not get the
gravity of it at the at the time.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Probably to the benefit of the film.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, when it's not weighing on you and you're
just enjoying yourself as an actor, then yeah, oh god,
isn't being young great?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's wonderful. You want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Now. You mentioned you grew up in a musical family. Yeah,
so the first song I ever knew all the words
too was all out of Love Byers.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I love is that awesome?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That? I think I was three and I would run
around and say it. So, now, can you tell us
a little bit about your connection to Airsply?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
My dad was the lead guitar player for air Supply,
not the original one, so he is not Australian most important.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Important although you could do the accent if you had to, but.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Oh yeah, but but yeah, he he toured with them
for a really long time.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm terrible at my.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Own like your dates history like, but but he he
was basically when they came over to America, he was
their guitar player, and he wrote with them and toured
with them for a very very very long time.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
And that his primary band was air Supply or was
he kind of a studio musician or.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
He that was his prime primary band at that time.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
But he he was a studio musician and then and
then now he does music for film.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
He did music for Hanky Panky, but but he does
music for commercials.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
He's like he he was at one point, like the
top composer in the country for commercial he is like
like tons of Cleo Awards, Like it's like not a
big deal, Like they're like knickknacks.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm always like Dad, like this is such a deal,
Like oh, man, like.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
You know, because he's still like such a rock star.
He's like just commercials man, you know. But uh but yeah,
I'm like, oh, like my dad is is the coolest.
I'm probably I am possibly my dad's biggest fan. And
I know that there are other people who would argue
and would want to be that.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
But you mentioned he did the music for Hanky Panky,
and I just I absolutely have to before I ask
you about what it was like to move from acting
to directing. I want to just read very briefly if
I can, the synopsis.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Of Hanky Panky.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If I can, okay, it features Seth Green, You, Claire Grant,
a bunch of other great actors.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Here's the synopsis.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
A man and his sentient napkin save the world from
a dark evil in a cabin deep in the Utah Mountains,
and also learn to love.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
See perfect nice.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I've never wanted to see a movie more than I
want to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Now. I have so many questions. I don't know where
to start.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What was it like moving from in front of the
camera to behind the camera A fanta the stick, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
My god, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Kevin Hooks actually on the set of the Color of
Friendship was like, you should be a director. You think
like a director, and it was terrifying to me, Like
I I just thought, like I can't think of encompassing
more than one character in my head, Like I was
in awe of him. And there were days when I
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wasn't working that I would like sit and watch and
like watching Kevin work was incredible and really started me
on the like it just planted the seed of like,
oh maybe that is something I should do. So then
after that, every project that I did, I really not
only did my own work, but then would try to
(33:30):
just information I.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Sponge. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
And then finally I had the guts to like direct
my own music video.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And I did that, and.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
That's when Alan Sackson I got back into talking because
he like somehow saw it and wanted me to direct
a movie that he was doing that he was producing,
and so that just sort of got the ball rolling
for me because I, you know, to have somebody.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Like take you seriously.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's somebody that you really respect.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
And and I hadn't talked to him and you know,
like eight years or whatever, so for him to like
recontact me, it was a big deal for me. That
movie didn't end up panning out, but then I started
to generate my own things, my own.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Short films, and one of them did pretty good and festivals.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
It was called coming to and it was a single
shot and I won a camera. I want a digital
BULLX Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And so then.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Which is like this very cool like seventies vibe, Like
it's a digital camera, but it shoots like film and
it's like very warm, but terrible and low light, so
it like it has all these limitations. But it's actually
I like working with limitations because then it's just sort
of like it's like rules within a game, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
That's why Sabrina works me. I'm her limitation. I hold
her back just enough so she's like, I'm a.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Working perfect no options, just one option A.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I am her limitation.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
There you go, and from there the creative well spring.
But yeah, so so then we shot this movie on
that camera.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
We had no we didn't. We didn't have any money.
We had no money.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Uh. And the entire cast is the entire crew. We
all stayed in a cabin together. We didn't kill each other.
Big deal, A big deal, A big deal.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I can't even stay in Airbnb with a group of
people for three days?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah, man?
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Yeah, how long a shoot was it?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Three weeks all together?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
And we we wrote the script based off of everybody's availability, So.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The lead of the film was the most available.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's coat it was. You act in it too, don't
you do? I do?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I act in it? Yeah, that's great, thankfully, not a lead.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
We can get it everywhere though, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
You can get it everywhere, and it's gonna be free
with commercials everywhere next month. But right now you can
rent it or buy it or buy the hard copy everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, yea a sentient napkin. I can't way.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Congratulations, that is so good, and thank you so much
for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You have no idea how special this is for us.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Oh my gosh, well, I you know, I grew up
watching you guys too, so this is very cool for me,
very cool for me.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We have to tell you we were so unbelievably blown
away by the film.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It's just in a different kind of realm with decoms,
it's a different less I've seen some great dcoms, you
really have. They're phenomenal to watch, but this one was
just kind of on a whole different tier. It really
had ay of its own. Yeah, it really was so.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
And you guys, I mean you guys.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Really the cast was just I mean it really just
spot on powered through. You guys gave the message just
that much more depth and and also really made it
very like accessible, which I think is awesome. And I
really believe this will continue to transcend generation after generation.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm it's gonna just be so wonderful And I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Glad, yes, and I keep that my TV's.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Over there by the way, Ran.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
She has a cast of actors on standby that just
they act out every film we watch on DCM.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So when she she points off screen like that, all
of a sudden, they're doing xenon on the zel.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
They are, So it's just it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Oh my god, I wish that was the future.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Called the Sabrina players. Yeah, they're really great.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, No, but really, I'm glad it's on Disney Plus
because again it's just gonna help keep getting this movie
out there, and it's wonderful, it really is.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Thank you everybody, please go watch first all watch A
Color Friendship, which is a phenomenal movie.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Mostly that.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Also then watch Hanky Panky.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Thank you, thank you for a different kind of phenomenal nasty.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's seth Green is a napkin.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
No, he's a hat.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
He's a hat.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Oh, he's the hat. Who's the napkin?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Toby Brian, Toby Brian is, here's the hat. See it's scary.
Oh my gosh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
It's kind of it's got like almost like a little
shop of horror vibes for.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
That for the hat.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all practical effects.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
You might hate it, maybe not. It's one of those movies.
It's one I loved. Oh okay, well you're gonna like
you are gonna.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I am a big fan. I can't wait. Well, thank
you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I'm so happy to be able to talk to you, Lindsay,
and congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Go watch all of your stuff. Great all your things
and we will hopefully see you next time. You'll come
back and we'll take ten of the best episodes of
movie Surfers and we'll do a Movie Surfers.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I would love to ten because they're a little interstitial.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
They're perfect, you know.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I don't know if you can get them anywhere, but
I have all of them on perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I have to get them digitized or return the movie
to Hollywood Video that you stole, and then we'll take
your other vhs.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you
next time.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Have a good night too bye. She's awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
She is hysterical. Oh man, what a career though.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I mean, going from Yes, the Color of Friendship being
your first ever intro to the channel in any way,
shape or form, and you're essentially the lead of the movie,
one of the leads of the movie in a period
piece with an accent that to me still is I'm
getting anxiety just thinking about that now.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I honestly thought that she was South Africa and that
with all her other things I've seen her in, that
was her access right, Yeah, because she did such a
great job.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
She's obviously good at the voices, She's got the ear
for the musician's ear and you just somebody who can
do the voices.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
It's really great, so awesome.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
And then to hear I love getting like that behind
the scenes, like the people that played her parents were
actually you know, brought on because they were her dialect coach.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Yes, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I feel better about that guy now than I did
when he just played the cop and the patriarch of
the family. Now I feel better about him as a person.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
I know he's an actor, but still because it's his
fault that his character I know hated that guy.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us, and thank you
Lindsay for joining us again. Go out and check out
The Color of Friendship, which is on Disney Plus, or
don't again, this is America. You can do whatever you want,
but you should also check out Hanky Panky because man,
that sounds like that is a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Oh that sounds like such a fun night.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
And join us next time. I think our movie is Quints,
which is three uh.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Norina has pointed out it five uh, and we will.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Be dabs will say that next time. So thank you
all for joining us. Davies bye everybody.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Hi
Welcome to our Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind. We
have an amazing guest that is joining us today, but
before we get to her, I have one quick question
for you.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
There Sabrina. Did you ever watch Movie Surfers?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You did?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, didn't everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I had no idea what it was, really, no idea
what it was.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yeah, it was a really fun show that would go
behind the scenes of Disney Channels shows and movies.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Really cool.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
It was kind of my.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
First idea of what it would be to be somebody
who was interviewing, and it was fun.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I love that you're a fan, because I think other
people out there are big fans too. And today we
get to talk to our first ever movie surfer is.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
This is where I recognize her from within the movie?
It was, yes, Hoviously, after research, I got to see
all the other things that I'm like, oh that's right,
she wasn't true blood.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I recognized her from different things, but this was where.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Her little young face, so cute.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So awesome. I'm so excited to be able to meet
her tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I cannot wait. So everybody please help us. Welcome Lindsay Hank.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Hello, Hello, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I love where you're coming to us from too. What
a cool location, missus.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
We my husband and I directed a movie, Hanky Panky
Thanky Panky, Yeah, and so we uh, it's it just
came out and so we've been doing a lot of
a lot of on camera stuff. So we there you
get like our own little makeshift press room over here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So then we got to start with that, what is
what is hanky Panky about?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And where can everybody see it?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You can get it everywhere.
Speaker 7 (01:59):
We love Apple, so we would love for you to
get it from Apple.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
But it's a.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Crazy, dumb movie about a talking napkin and Seth Green
plays the talking hat.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
But it's it's a it's horror, there's blood, it's a
horror comedy. It's it's possibly the dumbest movie you've seen
in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I don't know, have you ever have you ever seen Rubber?
There you rather, Sabrina? Have you ever seen Rubber?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It's literally the entire movie is just about a killer tire.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
It's amazing, amazing, and actually our movie has been compared
to Rubber.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's reference. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, we can talk about hanky panky all day, which
we can if you'd like, But we just finished our
rewatch of The Color of Friendship, Hey, and we wanted
to speak to you because, well, first of all, we
feel like we're talking to Disney Royalty, not just because
of the Color of Friendship, but you're the very first
ever movie surfer that we've had on.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh my gosh, I am.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What do you remember what's the coolest episode that you
were a part of with movie Surfers?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Oh gosh, Well, I really liked when I met Jean
Michelle Cousto, Jacques Cousto's son son. Yeah, and I went
scuba diving with him in Hawaii. That was basically one
of the coolest moments of my entire life.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah. Yeah, and he took me.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
They took me deeper than I was supposed to, you
know that I was like allowed to go.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But it's like Jean Michelle Custo.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Yeah, and we saw three sharks and one of them
was pregnant and it was like the coolest thing. And
they were like they were doing all the hand signals
like we're gonna go follow them and I was.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Like, oh, you would have so caught me just turning
around and be lining the top.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I am out. I am out, you guys. I was
so scared.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But apparently when there's a pregnant one, they're like the
least attacky because they don't want to like bring problems,
so they'll just like swim away from you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So it was actually really safe, at least that's what
they said to me.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, they were just telling you that. They're just telling
you that to get you to follow the shark. It's
probably because she's pregnant. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, I think that sounds like the worst kind of
day in the world for me.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Let me go follow this pregnant shark.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, thank you, I don't.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I'm out. I will be in the boat.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You guys have a great day.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No, that's cool though.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
How you beat scuba diving with a cousto, that's pretty
aweso awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You can't. I was like basically in life aquatic, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Like, I was just like, this is the dream, I
know anything else?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, she is really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
So they you know, Disney would travel you out to
go do these really cool excursion type stuff. Yeah, and
you were there for just a couple of days, probably
to film.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And then yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Would just fly there for like, you know, the Hawaii
trip was like two nights, three days, you know, and
then sometimes I would extend the trip, like we went
to Hawaii twice with Movie Surfers, and one was with
the whole cast, which was also so fun. And and
then I was like, you know what, I'm gonna fly
my family out here and we're gonna island Hof do.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
A little family trip.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah. Yeah, so it was. It was awesome. There was
a lot of cool stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It was a very cool experience.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I have to apologize because I'm I'm a little older,
so I did not watch the movie Surfers. What other
Disney talent were Surfers were? Like, you said, the rest
of the cast? Who else were surfing with you?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Katerina Stratford, who she I think she has a different
last name now, but she's a big deal. She was
a Fanta girl and now she's like I see her
on things. I'm like, holy, I'm terrible at this stuff.
This is like one of one of my worst problems
in my career is like at a names worst and
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then there were other people who who sometimes a lot
of them stopped right after doing Movie Surfers.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it was like a rotating cast, wasn't it. They
were like other people would come in and.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Well in the same way that like Disney would change
up every three years, you know what I mean. So
after we did our three year stint, then they changed
they changed us up, and there was a new blonde girl.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, I.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Remember Movie Surfers being sort of a an in into
the channel too.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Once she kind of got on there. The exposure a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Of times it took you to doing a d com
or getting into their next show.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
So the movie surface was like a really cool.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Different way to get into being a part of their
casting real you know that they would use a lot,
so that was always a great opportunity for young talent
as well.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Well, that's a perfect segue, Sabrina into how did you
get involved with the channel?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Did you start on the d cooms or did you
start by surfing?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I started on the dcoms. I started with the Color
of Friendship.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So this is your first ever introduction to Disney was
the Color of Friendship?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The Color of Friendship?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, showing for the fences on your first ever one.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got I got in there, man,
I was I was so proud.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I wanted it so badly. I wanted it so bad.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
I loved I loved the concept of the movie from
the get so it was very cool to be a
part of.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
And then yeah, and then they, you know, sort of
embraced me into into the family. And when nobody was
allowed to like make anything because of strikes, that was
when movie Surfers happened. So it was this moment when
no one was working and there was it was technically
an interstitial. It wasn't TV, and it wasn't a commercial.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'll always find the loophole, won't Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It was a cool way to be working when nobody
else could.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Right, Wow, that's very cool.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So, I mean, can you walk us through when's the
first time you heard it? Was this just another audition? First?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I'll have to tell you your American accent great because
I know you're actually South africanis.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yes, thank you, By the way, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I just wanted you to feel comfortable.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
When's the first was this just another audition to come
across your desk? I mean, how did you first hear
about this.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, I mean I was, you know, you know how
it goes like we were just auditioning like maniacs, like crazy,
and especially as teenagers.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I feel like it was just like ye and I had.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Auditioned for Disney Channel movies before, but I wasn't booking
and I'm like, especially at that point, was very much
a dramatic actress, so I kind of was like.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Maybe I'm just like not vibing with the vibe.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
And then this came up and it was so meaty
and so cool, and I love doing accents and like
come from a very musical family, so I was really
excited for the opportunity to do it. And they said
you don't have to do it in the first audition,
and my acting coach was like, I think you should. Yeah.
At that point, there wasn't really a lot of touchstones
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for the accent, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
There.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
We didn't have Trevor Noah, we didn't have like a
lot of South African stuff. So I tracked down this
movie from Hollywood video called If the Gods Were Monsters,
because that was really the only way that you could
listen to an authentic South African accent if you didn't
know anyone, and it was, first of all, great movie
and I never returned it and.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
I love that.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Is it a VHS or is it a VHS? The
only copy of they had and then and then yeah,
so so I did that for the first audition, and
then I think two or three auditions in they were like,
we're gonna set you up with an accent coach. They
set everybody up with this accent coach and that changed
the accent a little bit. And then when I went
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to do the screen test, which was the fifth or
sixth audition, then they had me audition against a girl
who was actually from South Africa and yeah, and so
I she was very nice and her mom was really nice.
So my mom and I hung out with her the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Did they fly her in from South Africa for the audition?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Oh and they yeah, yeah, Like she was like, I've
been trying to break into Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, and uh fight for an audition.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Oh, it's a long flight. And so I hung out
with her, which was very nice for me. And I
also the guy the people who played my parents ended
up being my accent coaches because they were actually South African.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Oh okay, wow, so the guy.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Who plays my ad he started coaching me and they
made me super off for cons, like, which is historically
what I would have.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Been if I was a policeman's daughter. And I love it.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
This is what we're long.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
We don't have to talk. This is the best.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
So please you let me know because I can talk.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Please keep going.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I have two kids. I don't get to talk to adults,
and I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Same, so sad that I'm the adult you have to
talk to. I'm still a child myself, So I apologize
for that.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
So am I.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
I'm sad for my kids anyway.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So uh so.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
He he made it really thick off for cons.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
We did the screen test and I was convinced that
I wasn't going to get it. I was just like,
I've been through the ringer with Disney Channel before and
I knew that it just never worked. So I had
convinced myself that I didn't have it. And so I
was packing up my bags and the director came to
my room and and was.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like, hey, like, we chose you. You got it.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And I just started crying because I had been hanging
out with this girl, Carly, and she was so cool
and I.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Just felt awful.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah, long flight back.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Yeah, like I had become friends with her, and I
had been I had like accepted that I didn't get it,
so I was like, okay, you know, and then it
was like all of a sudden like oh god, like
it like the realization.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
He was like, why aren't you happy? Like do you
want to do this movie? Do you want to? Sorry?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Yeah, And apparently she had had the complete opposite reaction.
She got super excited when he told her that I
got it, which was which was very cool.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's yeah, do.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
You guys do you have to just still keep in
touch with her?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
I wish that I had, I that I had the
grace or the wherewithal at that time to have done that,
because she.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Was so cool. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
I think I was like embarrassed and like didn't know
how to, you know, I was fourteen. I didn't know
how to like still be friends with her after.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
That had happened. And I should have, don't. I don't
know what my problem was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Were people emailing in two thousand or would this have
been like you have to handwrite a letter?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I think it would have been really new.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But yeah, yeah, like some people had it and some people.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If you went on a deep dive, you could probably
social media.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
I could probably pull.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Oh my god, social media if somebody could tell me
her last name and find her for me.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You didn't have her last name.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't have her last name, but I bet I
could get it. I bet I could get it. I
figure that out.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Yeah, yeah, how cool.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So you guys book it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Did you do screen test scene with the actress that
played Piper at all.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Shaddya Simmons.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, yeah, she was already cast, so we did the
screen test with her.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We were also hanging.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Out with her for the whole week, okay, and Shadya
was was awesome and we still we still like every
once while be like, hey, how's your kid? Yeah, but
for a really long time we were.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
We were like kid friends. It was fun.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Yeah. And then you guys went up to Canada for
the shoe Yeah in Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Well, with all the dcoms that we say, we figure
Disney flips a coin, they get a script, they flip
a coin, heads, they shoot in Canada, tails, they shoot
in Salt Lake City, We're in Utah, We're in Canada.
That's the only places we're shooting. So you got to
take you got a heads, So you're shooting in Canada.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
They must have started to like own buildings and things
at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Like, oh, we'll just shoot on Toronto.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
I think it's honestly because they were doing one a
month right that they like wanted they found, like they're
good production company in Toronto and they're good production company
in Utah, and so they would be like, Okay, well
this one's working on this, then we'll start this one
and then they'll finish that up.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Bat on this one, you know what I mean? Because
I think that they did.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
They had just done like Alley Cats Strike Back or
something like right before us in Salt Lake City because
my my family has has houses in Salt Lake. So
I was like really hoping we were gonna shoot in
Salt Lake.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was like, great, I get to.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Toronto.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
That's true that I remember.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I remember the hair and makeup people talking about the
d coom that they had shot right before I was
there shooting in Toronto, right before.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I like they had You're right, they had their.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Kind of crew set up in that area, so it
made it easy to bring in production after production after production.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
That makes so much sense, right, yeah, I think so.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Now, do you remember feeling like this was a different
type of dcom? I mean from all the dcoms we're watching.
I mean, this was like a whole different level of film.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Even just reading the script before anything, going wow, this
is a different kind of storyline that dcombs are usually Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
For sure.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
I mean we knew that it was a really big deal.
It was the first time that Disney Channel was dealing
with anything that could possibly be political or serious or
anything like that, and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Nervous about it.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Sure, but.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
It was It felt incredible to be a part of
it felt like, you know, I mean I was like
a rage against a machine fan, you.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Like I was like, I.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Was like, this is amazing.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
I get to be a part of, you know, change
an education, you know, rise up Disney Channel fans. So
it felt it felt very cool, and it felt that
way from the moment I got the sides, because it
was just it read different, It felt different.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, did you read the book?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No? No, I didn't. I should have.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
We haven't either. We did.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Well, maybe it's probably better that you didn't, because apparently
it's a your character was actually a combination of two
different girls, and one of them the one that they
most sleep based your character around. Apparently, according to the
real life, Piper goes back to South Africa and was
either possibly arrested or killed.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Killed. So I mean, yeah, that's what I was told.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, so you were told that she was killed when
she went back there.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, this was It was just a film on a
kind of completely different level than we have been used
to him. I mean, and the other movies are great,
We're watching a lot of very fun stuff, but then
there's something like this where we guess that somewhere there
was a conversation after the film was done of this
is not a dcom.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
We should release this in theaters. I bet you that
happens on Oh that would be that's sweet. Yeah, it
was very very good.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Well, our director, Kevin Hooks is is always has been incredible,
and he's I still I've worked with him since. And
Alan Sachs, who was the producer, I've still talked to him.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
We've talked about doing a podcast together.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
But he he you know, created Welcome Back Cotter, and
the two of them together just really spearheaded this and
really got it through and in and and even though
it didn't get a theatrical release, we won Disney Channel.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It's first Emmy ever.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I know, incredibulation amazing, feels so good, awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I still have like the little plaque, that's what I
should have behind me.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Be like yes.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
And because of Alan Sachs, we got made a part
of twenty thousand curriculums across the US. So during Black
History Month, they like put out like a whole workbook
and the movie and a whole thing based off of it.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yes, you know, Will and I our spouses have to
watch these movies with us, obviously, because that's what we're
doing when we're when we're doing our work. They're there
on the couch with us, hanging out and he and
Jordan and my husband was like, I remember this one.
I'm trying to think of what I can't remember, but
I remember the title. And as we were going, he goes,
I watched this in school and I said he did.
(19:02):
He goes, yeah, I remember it was doing the same
thing Black History nothing. He's like, I remember watching this
in the classroom and I'd go, wow, that I've never
heard of a dcon being that I mean they're not
watching Johnny Tsunami and Glass, you know, so.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, today's folks, we're gonna be watching Luck of the Irish.
That's not going to be happening.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Yes, yes, that he because that wasn't you know. My
experience with that was cool. To hear him say that
he watched it in school. I was like, after watching
it again now as an adult, it was one hundred
percent understandable why this would be a great movie to
watch as.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
An educational aspect of school. You know.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
And for a long time, they they like stopped playing
it for a while, and I had run into someone
from the Disney Channel and she was like, you know, yeah,
I've been trying to get it to come back because
it's our only serious movie ever, but it's also our
only serious movie for black his month, and she was
like and like, people have gotten scared recently about us
(20:05):
being so serious, so they like pulled it for a while.
But then when Disney Plus came out, it was like
on the front page, and.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I was so like, yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Yeah have you felt besides that, because that is such
such a huge thing now that Disney Plus is able
to expose the next generation to these d coms you
know that we all kind of grew up with. Have
you felt the resurgence of fans people recognizing you from
that specific movie.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. It's so cool. And because
it's also like I've done I'm proud of, I'm proud
of my body of work.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
But like totally, it is the coolest thing to actually
come up and say that that's the reason why they're
they like recognized me and and it impacted their life,
Like it it is so edifying, Like if that is
the only thing that I did in my life, it's
it's just one of those things where it's like, okay,
like I was a part of something, you know, I
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was a part of something that like open kids minds,
Like that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now, do you remember working with like Carl Lumley and
Penny Johnson. I mean, do you remember what it was
like to work with those two actors? Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
It was pretty phenomenal actors.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, yeah, I loved them. Carl.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Carl's awesome, Like he is such a sweetheart. Yeah, man,
so sweet, He's so he's so cool. And and then
you know he was an alias and then I came
on alias as a South African. I think partially he
like vetted me, which is so cool and that was
(21:45):
like a dream of mine. But but so he's he's
just awesome. And then Penny is brad too because she
she I worked with the most I think other than Shadia,
and she would like give us cute little tips like
you know this is okay to say, but you'd be like,
put your boobs on platter, suck your tommy in, put
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your boobs on platter, and that's how you have good posture.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I really say.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
It to myself every time I'm taking pictures, I'm like,
boobs on flatter boobs.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But I'm never going to forget that now. Over going
to forget that now.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Since we're talking about the actors that you worked with,
I don't I don't want to jump off of the
d com route because we can definitely we got to
talk about that a lot, but.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We got to talk about Burt Reynolds a little bit.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Oh, let's talk about Bert Reynolds.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
What was it like working with Burt Reynolds on Broken Bridges?
Speaker 7 (22:43):
He well, first of all, legendary and hilarious, just constantly
zingers hilarious, wonderful and also like a little crotchety, but
in like the best, the best way, like the exact
way that you would want fort Reynolds to be crotchetys crotchety.
And I was just so satisfying. It was very satisfying,
(23:06):
and he was mostly very sweet. And then and then yeah, yeah,
one time we were shooting and Tess Harper has to
have like she like faints and uh and she fainted
and he's like so emotionally in it and he's like
and she's his wife and he's like no, no, and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You know, and then they're like, okay, cut, can we
do that again?
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And and you know, and I'm in there going like oh,
you know, and and.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
They're like can you do it again? And I'm like yeah,
and he's like, don't say yeah. For us.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
It's like, do you know how old we are?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
We have to get down on our knees. I don't
know what do you wait for us to say yes?
You don't say yes? And I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Sorry, Bert, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Okay, So I'm gonna put you on the spot about
something because I know this, this can be tough, okay.
And I always do this. I always play the mean game.
But you talked about your body of work and there's
some pretty incredible things on it. Okay, what's the one
you want to really be remembered for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh good, that's a very nice question.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
I thought you were actually going to do like some
shady Andy Cohen like which one which would oh god.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
No, oh no, no, no, I would never Which one's
your favorite? This We're We're Disney related podcast?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Love?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I love it?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And how much cocaine did you do on the second? Now?
Speaker 8 (24:33):
Then no, because you've got I mean, you've got some
incredible stuff with when it comes to True Blood and
Color of Friendship and movie Service, I mean it's like
one thing after another hanky panky, which I am absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Going to read the synopsis for in a second because
it's phenomenal. So I'm just curious which one when you
look back on, are you the most proud of?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Definitely the Color of Friendship.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
I mean there are I would say, like, there are
things that I love about everything that I did, Like
Shrooms is one of, like, visually my favorite things that
I've ever been a part of.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Shrooms of course, visually.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
Irish, well, Irish movie about shrooms very bad.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
It's a great movie unless you take too much of
it exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Actually, one of the lines is shouldn't have taken all
those shrooms, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
But but yeah, definitely the color of friendship. I mean,
it just feels like it's so important. It just you know,
and and I love dumb movies. I love arts for
art's sake, I love entertainment for entertainment's sake. But when
you get to be a part of something that has
a greater impact, it's like it's above and beyond.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It's it's next level.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And it's it's lasting.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Yeah, I was just gonna say it transcends over generation
after generation. I was saying to Will when we were
kind of finishing up. I said, you know, my daughter's
only three and a half right now, but when she
gets to an age where that kind of movie will
be something to really open her eyes to, like, I
can't wait, it's perfect.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I would I would be able to sit.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Her down and know that this message is going to
absolutely be received. And I think that's so incredible for
you to always have something that you did.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It just was phenomenal. Yeah, it's a real cool thing
to be a part of it is.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, and now one of the things we talked about, though,
I'm curious what your take would would be on this.
Do you think Disney Channel could make this movie today
exactly the way that it was done?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No? No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
I mean well, first of all, we say the N word,
yeah in this movie, which I didn't remember.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
It didn't remember until TikTok reminded.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Me, Oh really, Oh was that? Ah?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Yeah, like uh, this this trick saying that Disney Jantle movie.
And I was like, well, my friends told me, and
I was like no, and then I went and looked.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I was like, oh, oh I did. I don't that happened?
Remember that? So definitely not for that reason.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Even though it was it was said in a very
like educational way, like it wasn't a slur, it wasn't
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
No, it was also said between two friends learning from
each other.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Right, right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, So context in that sense matters, I guess, but
they still would never say it.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of incredible. It's incredible that
that was allowed then, right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's what we were talking about tomazing.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Yeah, I think that you could you could almost make it,
but definitely not exactly the way that it was made right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
The dialogue is definitely the part that would really need
to be tweaked to be able to do it again.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But do you remember how much how much of an
emphasis was put on it being a period piece at
the time?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
How much?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I mean, do you remember set designers and everything like
we want to make sure that this is perfect or yeah, yeah,
oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Oh my gosh. And I wanted so much from this
set design.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
I did get this little like cat. It was just
like this ceramic orange.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Cats seventies Cara Piper's room.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yeah, id it. I had it for a really long
time and then it broke. It was very anyway, sad story.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Most of the clothes were from the seventies, were like
very authentic vintage fines and it was it was a
massive deal. It was a massive deal. They wanted everything
to feel like it. I mean, set deck was so precise.
There were constant conversations of like.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
What did this happen? Whether were we wearing this or
you know, was this piece made? I was a real big.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Deal, real big were you Did you ever find yourself overwhelmed?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
I mean, here you are, You're on your first project,
You're one of the leads of the film.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's a period piece and you're doing an accent.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I mean, is it was this one of the things
where you ever like, Okay, I need I need a
day like this is this is a lot right now?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I mean, thankfully I had like blind youth on my side.
I think I think now I would be like, oh my,
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
You know, at the time, it was just kind of like.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Excited to work.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, excited to work, excited to do this cool thing.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
Oh look I get to I now do an accent,
you know, like like the hardest accent.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And I picked up a best friend, like, I mean,
it's exactly.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Totally you know, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Think there was. There was definitely like people trying to
tell me, like, this is a really hard accent and
and like psyching me up, and I'd be like, okay,
like but serious.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
You know, like, but I definitely did not get the
gravity of it at the at the time.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Probably to the benefit of the film.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I mean, when it's not weighing on you and you're
just enjoying yourself as an actor, then yeah, oh god,
isn't being young great?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
It's wonderful. You want to do it again.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Now. You mentioned you grew up in a musical family. Yeah,
so the first song I ever knew all the words
too was all out of Love Byers.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I love is that awesome?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That? I think I was three and I would run
around and say it. So, now, can you tell us
a little bit about your connection to Airsply?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
My dad was the lead guitar player for air Supply,
not the original one, so he is not Australian most important.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Important although you could do the accent if you had to, but.
Speaker 7 (30:37):
Oh yeah, but but yeah, he he toured with them
for a really long time.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
I'm terrible at my.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
Own like your dates history like, but but he he
was basically when they came over to America, he was
their guitar player, and he wrote with them and toured
with them for a very very very long time.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
And that his primary band was air Supply or was
he kind of a studio musician or.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
He that was his prime primary band at that time.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
But he he was a studio musician and then and
then now he does music for film.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
He did music for Hanky Panky, but but he does
music for commercials.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
He's like he he was at one point, like the
top composer in the country for commercial he is like
like tons of Cleo Awards, Like it's like not a
big deal, Like they're like knickknacks.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I'm always like Dad, like this is such a deal,
Like oh, man, like.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
You know, because he's still like such a rock star.
He's like just commercials man, you know. But uh but yeah,
I'm like, oh, like my dad is is the coolest.
I'm probably I am possibly my dad's biggest fan. And
I know that there are other people who would argue
and would want to be that.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
But you mentioned he did the music for Hanky Panky,
and I just I absolutely have to before I ask
you about what it was like to move from acting
to directing. I want to just read very briefly if
I can, the synopsis.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Of Hanky Panky.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
If I can, okay, it features Seth Green, You, Claire Grant,
a bunch of other great actors.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Here's the synopsis.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
A man and his sentient napkin save the world from
a dark evil in a cabin deep in the Utah Mountains,
and also learn to love.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
See perfect nice.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I've never wanted to see a movie more than I
want to see this movie.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Now. I have so many questions. I don't know where
to start.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
What was it like moving from in front of the
camera to behind the camera A fanta the stick, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
My god, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Kevin Hooks actually on the set of the Color of
Friendship was like, you should be a director. You think
like a director, and it was terrifying to me, Like
I I just thought, like I can't think of encompassing
more than one character in my head, Like I was
in awe of him. And there were days when I
(33:09):
wasn't working that I would like sit and watch and
like watching Kevin work was incredible and really started me
on the like it just planted the seed of like,
oh maybe that is something I should do. So then
after that, every project that I did, I really not
only did my own work, but then would try to
(33:30):
just information I.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Sponge. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
And then finally I had the guts to like direct
my own music video.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And I did that, and.
Speaker 7 (33:47):
That's when Alan Sackson I got back into talking because
he like somehow saw it and wanted me to direct
a movie that he was doing that he was producing,
and so that just sort of got the ball rolling
for me because I, you know, to have somebody.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Like take you seriously.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's somebody that you really respect.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
And and I hadn't talked to him and you know,
like eight years or whatever, so for him to like
recontact me, it was a big deal for me. That
movie didn't end up panning out, but then I started
to generate my own things, my own.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Short films, and one of them did pretty good and festivals.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
It was called coming to and it was a single
shot and I won a camera. I want a digital
BULLX Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
And so then.
Speaker 7 (34:41):
Which is like this very cool like seventies vibe, Like
it's a digital camera, but it shoots like film and
it's like very warm, but terrible and low light, so
it like it has all these limitations. But it's actually
I like working with limitations because then it's just sort
of like it's like rules within a game, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
That's why Sabrina works me. I'm her limitation. I hold
her back just enough so she's like, I'm a.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Working perfect no options, just one option A.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I am her limitation.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
There you go, and from there the creative well spring.
But yeah, so so then we shot this movie on
that camera.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
We had no we didn't. We didn't have any money.
We had no money.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
Uh. And the entire cast is the entire crew. We
all stayed in a cabin together. We didn't kill each other.
Big deal, A big deal, A big deal.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I can't even stay in Airbnb with a group of
people for three days?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah, man?
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Yeah, how long a shoot was it?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Three weeks all together?
Speaker 7 (35:49):
And we we wrote the script based off of everybody's availability, So.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The lead of the film was the most available.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's coat it was. You act in it too, don't
you do? I do?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
I act in it? Yeah, that's great, thankfully, not a lead.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
We can get it everywhere though, Yes, yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
You can get it everywhere, and it's gonna be free
with commercials everywhere next month. But right now you can
rent it or buy it or buy the hard copy everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, yea a sentient napkin. I can't way.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Congratulations, that is so good, and thank you so much
for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
You have no idea how special this is for us.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
Oh my gosh, well, I you know, I grew up
watching you guys too, so this is very cool for me,
very cool for me.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We have to tell you we were so unbelievably blown
away by the film.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It's just in a different kind of realm with decoms,
it's a different less I've seen some great dcoms, you
really have. They're phenomenal to watch, but this one was
just kind of on a whole different tier. It really
had ay of its own. Yeah, it really was so.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
And you guys, I mean you guys.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Really the cast was just I mean it really just
spot on powered through. You guys gave the message just
that much more depth and and also really made it
very like accessible, which I think is awesome. And I
really believe this will continue to transcend generation after generation.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I'm it's gonna just be so wonderful And I'm.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Glad, yes, and I keep that my TV's.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
Over there by the way, Ran.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
She has a cast of actors on standby that just
they act out every film we watch on DCM.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
So when she she points off screen like that, all
of a sudden, they're doing xenon on the zel.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
They are, So it's just it's very strange.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Oh my god, I wish that was the future.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Called the Sabrina players. Yeah, they're really great.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, No, but really, I'm glad it's on Disney Plus
because again it's just gonna help keep getting this movie
out there, and it's wonderful, it really is.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Thank you everybody, please go watch first all watch A
Color Friendship, which is a phenomenal movie.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Mostly that.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Also then watch Hanky Panky.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Thank you, thank you for a different kind of phenomenal nasty.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's seth Green is a napkin.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
No, he's a hat.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
He's a hat.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Oh, he's the hat. Who's the napkin?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Toby Brian, Toby Brian is, here's the hat. See it's scary.
Oh my gosh, it's great.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
It's kind of it's got like almost like a little
shop of horror vibes for.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
That for the hat.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all practical effects.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
You might hate it, maybe not. It's one of those movies.
It's one I loved. Oh okay, well you're gonna like
you are gonna.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I am a big fan. I can't wait. Well, thank
you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I'm so happy to be able to talk to you, Lindsay,
and congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Go watch all of your stuff. Great all your things
and we will hopefully see you next time. You'll come
back and we'll take ten of the best episodes of
movie Surfers and we'll do a Movie Surfers.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I would love to ten because they're a little interstitial.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
They're perfect, you know.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I don't know if you can get them anywhere, but
I have all of them on perfect.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I have to get them digitized or return the movie
to Hollywood Video that you stole, and then we'll take
your other vhs.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Thank you so much for joining us. We'll see you
next time.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Have a good night too bye. She's awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
She is hysterical. Oh man, what a career though.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I mean, going from Yes, the Color of Friendship being
your first ever intro to the channel in any way,
shape or form, and you're essentially the lead of the movie,
one of the leads of the movie in a period
piece with an accent that to me still is I'm
getting anxiety just thinking about that now.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I honestly thought that she was South Africa and that
with all her other things I've seen her in, that
was her access right, Yeah, because she did such a
great job.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
She's obviously good at the voices, She's got the ear
for the musician's ear and you just somebody who can
do the voices.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
It's really great, so awesome.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
And then to hear I love getting like that behind
the scenes, like the people that played her parents were
actually you know, brought on because they were her dialect coach.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Yes, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I feel better about that guy now than I did
when he just played the cop and the patriarch of
the family. Now I feel better about him as a person.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
I know he's an actor, but still because it's his
fault that his character I know hated that guy.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us, and thank you
Lindsay for joining us again. Go out and check out
The Color of Friendship, which is on Disney Plus, or
don't again, this is America. You can do whatever you want,
but you should also check out Hanky Panky because man,
that sounds like that is a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (40:51):
Oh that sounds like such a fun night.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
And join us next time. I think our movie is Quints,
which is three uh.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Norina has pointed out it five uh, and we will.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Be dabs will say that next time. So thank you
all for joining us. Davies bye everybody.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Hi
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