Starring Tania Gunadi as Mojo in “Go Figure”

From “Go Figure” and “Pixel Perfect”, Tania Gunadi joins Will and Sabrina to talk about how she moved to America from Indonesia, started her acting career and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey everybody, and thanks so much for joining us, and
yet another park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind every week
every week now, I say it, Sabrina.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I know, because we get the good ones.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
We are so lucky on this podcast to get these
amazing actors that had a huge start at the Channel.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's just incredible with these amazing stories of how they
got there and how they got their career.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
And man, today is going to be no different. I
don't even want to wait anymore. I don't want to
waity more.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I just have to say Pixel Perfect, go figure, just
Disney Channel all over the place. Can you please help
us welcome because wait to you hear just what it's
like to learn how to play hockey in three weeks.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Tanya Ganadi, Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yes, I am so excited.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
So Okay, honestly, I've been like creepily stalking you.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Guys last one month.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
I feel like I know a little too much and
I'm like, oh my god, I have now to have
a creepy stalker.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Okay, So then before we ask you any questions, did
you want to interview us and figure out what's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yes, you know what I want to know.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
There's something that I think the audience don't know yet.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Which is?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Which is?

Speaker 6 (01:37):
How about we start with you tell us a secret
that no one ever ever knows about yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh my gosh, jeez.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
I was like, tell us something so juicy.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
Oh juicy, secretive, maybe maybe embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I don't, let see what would be a you see,
I don't. I feel like I live my life in
the open. So I'm trying to think of what people
don't know about me.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
You're gonna have one, will I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I'm sure I have much. I'm just trying to this interview.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
It'll pop in my head out I'll have to take
a break from it and tell you guys when it happens.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, Sabrina knows that I had never seen cheetah girls
before she and I met.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
That's not that's no secret. So that one.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
I even I found out. I also know you don't
like musical and likes music.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
That's true, that is very true. I'm trying to get better.
I am trying to get all right. Sometime during this interview,
I'm going to think of something. Yeah, I can tell you.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Telling you it's going to pop in I just can't
do on the spot things.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
You see a secret.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I feel like I've just.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Done so many interviews and I've just built, like you know,
I'm like an open book, like it's like.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Okay wait. In the third grade.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
To impress a girl at camp, I did a break
dancing show. Oh, I mean, with the parachute pants and
the Nike jacket spinning on the cardboard, the whole.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Thing who swears to the high heavens he doesn't have
a dance bone in his body, that is true.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
I did a break at I can't even remember the
name of the campus with my friend Paul Matthews. And
it started as that we had a toga party that
night and we were the only people that went there
dressed in togas, and the only sheet I had was
a fitted sheet, and so the whole thing looked ridiculous
and I was about to cry, and my camp counselor said,
why don't you just go back to put on regular clothes,

(03:35):
But instead I got full breakdance regalia and went and
break danced in front of everybody.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So there's mine.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Did that go well? Though?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Or was it did?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Actually? It did? The girl who wouldn't even talk to me.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Spent the whole night talking to me wondering how I
learned how to break dance.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
All it was, it was a career. I could have
gone with it. I could have gone with her crew.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
We're a liar this full time. Oh my gosh, oh
I love that.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Thank you so much for joining us here.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
We are so excited because this is a rare opportunity
where not only are we having an actor come on,
who has been in two huge movies so far.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
On the channel, but both that we've already.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Covered, yes over both of them.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
We are so excited that we know everything about the
movies that you've been in, and we cannot wait to
hear how you went from you know, being in a
rock band to figure skating or ice skating, back and
forth hockey the cool band. But we always started the
same place, which is, how did you decide to become

(04:38):
an actor?

Speaker 4 (04:39):
What is your origin story in the acting world?

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Okay, well mine is let's see, it was an accident
kind of so I was working. Okay, So first of all,
I'm from Indonesia, so I didn't speak English until I
got a green card.

Speaker 5 (04:58):
I got a green card, lottery.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
And when I want a lottery, my mom said, well
you're going to America.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Now you got to speak English.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
I was like I was learning when I was fifteen
and then anyway, so when I got to the States,
I brought two hundred dollars and I thought I was rich.
Get in Indonesia, two hundred dollars is three million. And
then after like a week, I ran out and my

(05:27):
brother said, well, you need to get a job.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
And I was like, but I don't know what a
job is.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
Because I was living in Indonesia as like a middle class,
so I didn't have to work, you know.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
I mean, one hundred dollars is rich, like I was
like living great, you know.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
And so I my brother hooked me up to work
at Pizza Hut. Okay, And because I used to be
a boss, like you know, and a teenager in Indonesia.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
I had no idea what to do with serving or
like counting money or cooking food or things like that.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
And literally my first job, I was like a customer
service relation picking up the phone. And because I didn't
understand English, I can only read English.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
So after I say welcome to Pizza Hut, home with
the Bigfoot and then they started ordering and I had
no idea.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
I was just like pressing buttons and so then I
got demoted within one week cook and then again I
don't know how to cook, so I don't know what
pepperoni or sausage.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
I just put things.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
And I got demoted again and we needed to wash dishes,
and then I had no idea. They said you have
to use hot water, so I wash it with my
bare hands and burned.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Oh no.

Speaker 6 (06:51):
The manager's like, here's the red clombs. And so finally
on the fourth week, I the only job I have
was cleaning bathrooms.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
But I was very happy.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
So I was very cheery, you know, because I was like,
oh my god, I'm in America and all. And then
someone said to me, hey, if you are so cheery
cleaning bathroom, you should audition for a Disneyland commercial.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
They're having like an open call looking for cheery girls.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I was like, okay, that's me.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
And I had no idea what audition is or like
that it's in Hollywood and I was in Monterey Park.
But the guy said to me, but it's five hundred
dollars and at the time I was only making like
seven fifty an hour. And so I took the bus,
went to this open call audition, no idea what I
was doing, and I booked it.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah, and all I had to do was like screaming and.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Like yeah and pretending I was in the roller coaster.
So then I booked at Disneyland commercial for three days.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
They picked me up in a limbo.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
They took me to Disneyland and I had like three
days of fun. Fifteen hundred dollars later, I was like,
I called my mom and I said, Mom, I finally
have a dream.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
After Oh wait, how long How long had you been
here by the time that you got that commercial?

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Probably like eight months?

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Oh how old were you?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
No, maybe like a month. But you know it's very
close because I got demoted so fast.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Were you above eighteen? Were you here on your own?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I was barely eighteen. So my god, My my sister
was a very smart, smart girl.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
So she got a sponsorship from USC and so she
was here and then she saved money to sponsor my brother.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
But when it comes to me, they all gave up
on me, and they're like, is just gonna she doesn't
do great?

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I can't with this.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
This is so good, wow, amazing.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
My gosh, because in Indonesia you have to have one
person to stay with your parents to take care of
them when they're older.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
OK, let's just put Tanya there.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Geez.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Now wait, you meant you mentioned something that that's really interesting.
What what exactly is a green card lottery?

Speaker 5 (09:28):
It's crazy.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
So this was like a long long time ago Green
Guard Lottery was like this. Nowadays it's all online. But
in the past, every country in the world can submit
to the unit to the US via envelopes, and you can,
you know, submit a lot and then they will put

(09:51):
it in the I don't know, a bucket or something,
and somebody will pick up the name and so they
would allocate like for example, okay, if you are from Spain,
you can get like maybe I don't know, two hundred
winners and then Indonesia ten winners, or like if you're
from France, maybe three thousand winners, you know. And however,

(10:12):
at the time, you are allowed to send as many
envelopes as you want. Oh wow, Okay, So in Indonesia,
a lot of my neighbors they are like very rich, right,
so they would send literally ten thousand envelopes. Whoa but
each envelope it costs like expensive to go to get

(10:35):
the posted right, And so my mom said to me,
you know, there's no chance for you, Like you know,
She's like, but you know what your sister forced me.
We'll just send one envelope and then we'll call it done.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
And it's they said, one envelope and you got picked.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Oh gosh, that is.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well that just shows you it was meant to be,
Like it was meant to be for you to come,
for you to get this amazing opportunity on to do
a Disneyland commercial.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
How fun for you. That's just so awesome. And then
from from there, where did you go? So you had
you got?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Did you just find yourself an agent? After that is
what ended up happening.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well, you know, when that happened, I thought I was like,
you know, hey, my first audition I booked hid this
is so easy. It was like telling everybody. I'm like,
oh my god, like you know, fifteen hundred dollars is
like so easy. I can get it in one day
and limosine coming to my house. So I started like.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Auditioning literally for one maybe like I don't know, nine
months to a year. I couldn't even get a single
callback yeah, really bad. And then I met another actor
and the actor said, Tanya, do you know that your
English is really bad? Like I barely understand you. And

(12:05):
he's like, and acting is not just screaming on a
roller coaster. You have to say lines. And he said, so,
how do you say the lines when you get sides?
I said, I don't know, I.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Just read it. And he's like, no, honey, you got
to take an acting class. It's this is not you know.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
And so I I took like acting classes four times
a week. I went to get voice coach, like dict coach,
and I was like working literally twenty four or seven.
I was just like so consumed by it. And then
I realized, I'm like, oh, I said, this is what
it's supposed to be.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
And I was so excited. And then I got the
Even Stevens was my very first acting job.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Wow with my with my good friend Christy Carlson.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yes, we love, weally love Christy.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
She's so cute.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Christie's my bud.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yes, I think I saw will you and Christie did
something a couple of years ago.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
You were doing the Kim Possible.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Yeah, we did Kim Possible together for years.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
So then we you know, for whenever we could get
back together, do you conventions or any of the fun stuff,
we would we would continue to do that.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Yeah, she's one of my favorite people in the world.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Have you guys ever did it or no?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, No, we're both you know, both kids from Connecticut
and both became just friends. But no, she was, especially
when we met, she was a lot younger than me.
So yeah, yeah, you look.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Super young right now. So I have no idea. I
can't tell.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh, I appreciate that I'm I'm I always say. My
wife doesn't like how I say it, but I always
say I'm almost fifty because I am almost fifty. I'm
forty eight.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, you're almost thirty five.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh that well, that's very And this is why we'd
like to announce Tanya is our new co host on
pod Mets on pod Meets.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
World on a Magical rewind.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
We've now got Tanya here because she's gonna constantly tell
me that I look like I'm thirty five.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Well take it.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Then, most of your career, especially at the beginning, was
all Disney.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
Yes, so okay, I always say to people that I
feel that Disney is a company like I am their
number one fan. Like if I talk about Disney, I
can literally cry because I feel like, I feel like
Disney is like the genie, you know, like who grant
me wishes, because like my first dream was you know,

(14:29):
it was because of the Disneyland. And then my first
acting job was even Stevens. And then Disney gave me
a chance to you know, like audition for that go
figure and fix out perfect and my English was not great.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
I had to like take all the script to the
voice coach for like literally two weeks, you know, to
be able to speak so that people can kind of understand.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
But I just love that Disney would.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
When I was auditioning for it, you know, I had
not gone to the voice coach yet, right, but they
gave me a chance and the opportunity, and ever since
then until now, I think once a year at least
I would audition and get something Disney oriented, whether it's
voiceover or things like that, or you know, like a

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show like I was on Girl Meets World.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I know you were.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
I think I saw you at the time. I don't
know if if it was just my imagination or you
went to the set one day.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
It's possible.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Yeah, they went crazy, like they're like I was like,
and you were like, you were like surrounded by you know,
people all the time.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
So that no, it's possible. I would go and I
would visit that set. But I saw that girlment where. Yeah,
you have had a storied Disney career absolutely. Now, as
a kid, when you were in Indonesia, did you watch
anything Disney growing up?

Speaker 6 (15:54):
So Disney did not come to Indonesia until around the
year two thousand. Okay, we don't have Disney or Transformers
or anything everything.

Speaker 5 (16:04):
When we were growing up, we have to watch Indonesian things.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Like state run television something like that, I think, And
maybe you're all right, maybe back then though, that's what.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
It was back then.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Yeah, and then there is like a revolution things like that,
and then now it's you know, it's a free country.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
So what I mean, were you watching children's programming of
any kind when you were growing up? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (16:28):
So we own a video store and cool.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Okay, So we actually own a video store at the front,
but in the back it's an illegal.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Video store where we get.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
Animations from Japan and then we record it all the
way in the back near my room legally and then
if the police came, my mom would have to like
put the curtain and put my bed in front of it,
pretending I'm like, I know, this is a horrible story.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
You know, it's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Are you kidding your So you're bringing like like what
was called the japan animation at the time or that
kind of so like Akira and the old school kind
of movies things like that, you were you were dubbing
that stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
We were we were not dubbing, we were just recording it.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
Okay, somebody already put like an Indonesian subtitles and then
they go to our store and we have like a
bazillion like you know, tapes and like recording record and
then we would rent it out. It's uh, that is
Japanese animation, Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Oh I loved that stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
But yeah, man, was that because the same situation like
that wasn't allowed into the country. So this is the
only way they could see anything else besides what was
available at Indonesia.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Yes, and yeah you have to watch in the back,
you know, And you're like, and then we also have
like a lot of a Chinese kung fu and so
and so those are the things that I watched literally guys,
and I was like, wow, TV shows are different.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh, I can't.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I just love the idea that you're you're recording and
showing people just animation and Chinese kung fu movies that
they're not normally allowed to see. You're bringing people entertainment
they normally would have wouldn't have been allowed to have.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
That's so cool to me.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
My god, Oh, I love that your first big guest
starring role, right was even Stephen?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yes, So what was shooting that? Like?

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Oh, that was amazing.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
It was my first time ever, you know, like finally
speaking English words, you know, instead of just the Disneyland thing.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
And it was just an amazing time shooting it because,
like you know, Shaya was.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Like everyone was already jelling, right, I'm sure that's what
it is with you guys, Like when you are in
a movie or show where you're already jelling and you're
doing the third movie or the season three, so as
a guest star, you are like, hey, you know, and
so you kind of I learned so much because I

(19:14):
learned to be like, Okay, how do I not be needy?
And I have to be like focused on my own work,
you know, and not yet it's just all these things.
It's hard to explain. But I think after I did
even Stevens, actually, after I do every project, I always

(19:36):
feel like I learned to be a better person. Like
the thing that I learned the most is that the
more I care about how people think about me, it's
actually making my work bad because then I'm concerned about
how I was perceived. And so I always like, okay,
so I became like the nerd on set that I

(19:57):
just focus on my lines and I practiced with the
and after a while, nobody cares. They just they just think, Okay,
there's a weird girl over there, and I'm used to it.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
I'm actually happy about it.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
I mean, it is hard to come on a set,
you know, of a TV show that they're filming every week.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
You know they're working, they've been doing it for a
long time. They've got that camaraderie and you got it come.
And you were also a little bit older than the
cast of.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
I was the only one eighteen.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, yeah, they were all like younger, so they're going
through totally different things too. Write like you're you're a
grown up in like living here out of the country
that you were raised in. I mean, you've got like
all this world experience and they're really just like a younger, right.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
That's that's kind of hard in general as well.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Yes, And you know what's crazy though, these kids, all
of them from even Stevens and like go figure picks
up perfect, they're all bazillion times more mature than me
because because no, I was, like I was, was very sheltered,
like in Indonesia, you know, like I only do the
same thing every day. You go home from school, you

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put all these illegal movies, you watch them all, you know,
and then you play bicycle and you eat all kinds
of food and then you do it again the next day.
I was not like exploring anything. I have no clue about,
like cultures, arts and all that. In fact, when I
was a kid, my dream like all I want, I said,

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all I want is to work in a bank. And
you know why, because I had never experienced AC in
my house. So I and when I go to the bank,
I see the teller and I see AC underneath her.
And so I always tell my mom and God, please
let me be a bank teller so I can experience AC.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Geees.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
So when I see these.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Kids you know, like.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
Jordan and everybody everyone's talking like they are like mature, And.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
I was like, what is that?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
What is that? Yeah? Reach out?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Well that's the thing is we just we just spoke
to Jordan not too long ago, and she was like
thirteen when she did Go Figure.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
She felt really young compared to everyone.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, but the idea that you even thought like even
at thirteen, she was more mature than you were.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
She was the one telling me her and Leah Leah Pipes.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
Jordan would be like, Okay, Tanya, you know, because I
have no idea what should I do? Like I feel
like she was older than me and everyone was older
than me, because it's like they were all like telling
me what to do, and I was like, hey, what
are they?

Speaker 5 (22:40):
It was really fun though.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Oh man, so what so? Then the which one?

Speaker 1 (22:45):
This is what I was trying to figure out and
I'd never like to look things up if I can
avoid it. Which one was first, Pixel Perfect or go Figure?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You know what I thought you would ask, So I
actually researched that.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
I love how you have notes about your own career.
I did picks up perfect first Pixel Perfect was first?

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay, so you're in a in a rock band.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
You're in the Zeta Bytes and this kid has created
an AI hologram singer.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Yes, and by the way, let me just I just
want to say something real quick, Sabrina, you are so cute.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Can I tell you guys a quick secret?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Please, I haven't told you what my creepy is talking
Sabrina before.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Right. Oh, I can't wait to hear this.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Okay, okay. So my mom is a ballroom dancer doing that.
That is like her number one thing. She's a teacher.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
She has her own studio in Indonesia. She's the first
teacher actually who opens her own studio in my city.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
And so when Dancing at the Stars came.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
On again, we cannot watch it, and she can. I
was already in America and she cannot watch it in Indonesia.
But she heard about the show.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
Right, you must record it, you know, and then send
it to me so I can look at all the
most And.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Still I would record and I would say, right, a
season after season, and then Sabrina, you came on the show,
Mom and I we fell in love, like we were like,
oh obsessed. So I had never voted before, but when
you came on, I voted like a psychotic person, you

(24:34):
like Sirina, and I was so excited, right, and my
mom was like, she one time took one of your
recording and she did it for the anniverse. She followed
you and even like made address that you were similar,
and she performed that for the school's anniversary.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
I don't think she credited you. I think she and
she yea.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Which do you know which routine it was? Do you remember?

Speaker 5 (25:07):
I was trying to find the video, but I find it.
It was so funny. And then when you left, we
were so upset. I actually boycotted. I did not watch
Dancing with the Stars for years.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
Oh my gosh, until my mom begged me and said,
can you I have no more routines?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Can you?

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Anyway? That was my story with you.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh that's the best thing ever. No, you have to
come and just be on every episode because you got
to keep telling Sabrina that she's an amazing dancer and
you love her and that I look like I'm thirty five.
This has been the best episode I've ever done, only
thirty six. There you go. I love it.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh, I love the.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Dance community is amazing and I don't I mean, I
don't know if the loss have changed, but I know
they have Dancing with the Stars and so much any countries.
So if they don't have one in Indonesia yet, I'm
sure it's coming because that that whole brand enfranchise for
them is just huge, and they've been I mean, they're
in India now, they're I mean, they're in I think Argentina,
they're really everywhere.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Your mom should try to bring it to Indonesia and
be one of the judges. She should, she should should
be great.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
I'm sure she's already, like she knows all these things.
I think we stopped.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Literally that year after you left, I lost all the
like because you know, when you were like rooting for
one person and then like and then after that you're like,
oh I know.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I know.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
And honestly, seriously, that first season when we did leave
early with that early elimination, the love that I mean
I had during Cheetah Girls, you know, it was the
Disney audience and those girls and boys and everyone that
watches the channel. They're just such incredible fans. But like
there were no fans like my dancy with this. Our

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fans pissed doing boycotts, doing like writing up to the
I mean, you.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Came in second right and people were kind of up
in arms.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
No I got I got eliminated like week six, and
they they were they were at the time saying that
they thought I was like a front runner too, yeah,
be in the final and when I when I left
super early, I mean they were trying to get signatures
to try.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
To get me back on. It was like, wow, I'm gone,
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
But I but we did get to do the tour after,
which was great because then we got to meet the
fans and you know, they were really amazing. But yeah,
those Dancing with the Stars fans, they were like a
mighty team. They were. They were so beautiful and amazing
to me. I'm always just I was so appreciative. I
couldn't believe that my story and journey like affected so
many people on that show, because I was always very,

(27:51):
very sad, but their support made it like just wow,
you know, it's like my first just like oh my gosh,
why I can't believe someone cares so much about out me,
Like that's so crazy, you know.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
So you know, I have to say, though the fans
are like that, it's it's because of you because you
are like making us feel like you know, you are
like beautiful, amazing, passionate's funny, and we were all like,
you know, it was you always became like rabbit fans.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yes, I I I'm so appreciative of that, and it
was It was great too because my partner Mark, that
was his first season on the show too, So I
was glad that we did get that support, just because
you know, the the pros on that team or on
that show aren't always guaranteed to come back that next year.
So I was like, oh my gosh, like I just

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got eliminated. I know Mark so well. I want him
to do well with his career, and oh I just
ruined it for him, you know, That's what it felt like.
But the fans made it sure that that did not happen.
He came back and won with Chris Yamagucci that next year.
He did fine, he was don't worry spoiler alert.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Well, speaking of singing and dancing, so you get Pixel
Perfect and you're in a band in the movie, are
you actually a musician?

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Do you sing and dance as well?

Speaker 6 (29:15):
So here's another thing that I mentioned about Disney being
a genie, right when I was in high school.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
My dad is like the best dad. So this is
how I grew up.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
Even we are middle class, right, middle class in Indonesia
means that you're not wealthy, but you have enough to live.
And my dad lets me do whatever I want, Like
I'm changing hobbies NonStop.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
I want to learn guitar, I want to learn violin.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
I want to learn He's like, yeah, you can quit
any time, start anything anytime. And my mom is amazing.
She said, do not ever do chores. Okay, all you
need to do is have fun. So all my life
was like just you know, bicycling and doing all kinds

(30:07):
of like extra activities.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Like usually it's all musical instruments related.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
So drumming was something that I actually took lessons and
I absolutely love playing the drums.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
But it is the most expensive thing the room and stuff.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
And I remember one day people say to me like, hey,
you know what, You're wasting your parents' money. What is
this drumming skill ever gonna do to you? Like you
will never this will be useless forever and ever. So
when I got an audition for the Fixed Out Perfect,
so we did the audition and the callback right the

(30:47):
final callback they wanted to see the final girls, see if.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
They're lying like like I kind of light and go figure,
I'll tell you.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Later maybe, or if they can actually play the drums.
And so I said, I can play the drums. So
they sent the director and the producer to a place
of your choosing to show that you can play the drums.
So I went to Burbank rehearsal studio and I brought
you know music and I actually played the drums an

(31:22):
Indonesian song that I learned with my dad's money, and
I played it like really loud, and it was so exciting.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
And I booked the job that day.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Wow wow man, because there to be honest, I mean,
think about how many kids, especially I mean in you know,
how many girls like are the drums isn't something that
a lot of girls always play.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
So you were like a perfect gem for them that
you were able to because so many people on.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Their resume we talk about it all the time, and
a lot of the interviewers we do were like, okay,
so when it says fording.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Could you really horse that ride or was that just
on your resume?

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Everyone said they couldn't force back ride because it's like yeah,
I'm sure I can get on a horse. I'm figuring.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
You just figure it out later. You lie and you
just figure it out. Can I fly a plane? Sure,
I can fly a plane. Of course I can't all
figure it out.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Could kill it because that drumming is not something I
think you could just fake on camera and it actually
look yeah right, I mean will dies When we do
some of these other ones and there's a guy playing
the guitar, he's like, he is not playing the guitar.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
It's like this weird drum thing. It's like you're not
even faking playing the guitar. Good.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
So, I mean the drums the same thing, Like you
can kind of move your arms, but if you don't,
like if you're able to do the beat, that's like
such a different thing.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
That's so cool. Wow.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
And you know what Disney did, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
When we went to Utah to film it, and we
were all I think we arrived maybe a week or
two weeks before the filming, and they put all the
cast because four of us, like, you know, to see.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
If we can play as a group.

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Right, Yeah, I was the only one so in the
because they were thinking, do we need to get a.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Double and you have to fake a few of them.
And the director or the producers was so nice. They
set us up in the rehearsal room and they said, okay,
so you.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
Have a driver, right, you are welcome to learn as
much as you want or as little as you want.
We just gonna we just want to see a few
clips of you playing and guitar and bass and all.
And I took that opportunity because we had to learn
four songs. Literally, I did not socialize for that two

(33:44):
weeks I was in that rehearsal room.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
I was like, yeah, they gave.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Me like an instructor, and I finally learned for the
first time to do the drummings to an actual notes
read music.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Yeah, only learn it with my eyes, like okay, you
go over here and go over here. We didn't even
have any notes, you know.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
And it was so fun, you guys, like when we
were filming it, I was actually playing it.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah good, that is awesome. That is so great.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Was the rest of your bandmates where they also playing
their own instruments pretty well or.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
I think like Leah Leah probably learned one of them
the intimate song, but the others I think they turned
down the volume on some of them. I don't know
because the drums is hard to mute it right, So
I actually told them I can do it.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
You don't have to mute it. I'm going to do it.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
And it was so.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
When a dream come true, because like I would never
be in a band, but at least I have a
movie where I'm in a band.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Exactly. Now, is your family in Indonesia when these when
these movies are coming out, are they able to watch
your films in Indonesia?

Speaker 5 (34:59):
You know how I know how to Reford.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
That's how they had to watch their daughter on the
Disney Channel.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
This is so cool. So you film this movie, this
is your first Disney Channel movie, and when it comes out,
we always ask does your life change right away when
you have a new movie that just comes out or
people recognizing you places and all of a sudden it's like,
wait a second, I'm in kind of a popular Disney
Channel movie here.

Speaker 6 (35:26):
You know, yes, I kind of forget like exactly how
it went. But I think because everyone everything was kind
of close to each other.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
The even Stevens go figure and makes out perfect. But
I do remember, like what you said, Sabrina the.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
Kids, the fans that are kids, they're so sweet, right,
and they're like and it was really fun and you're right,
Like sometimes I think when I was outside or like
having lunch and people come up to you, and it
just feels so humbling to be a part of it

(36:04):
and to realize, you know, how big the Disney Channel
is and like, I don't know, it's just like an
experience that is it's hard to explain. Like I'm very
appreciative of it. Yeah, it changed the trajectory of my
career for sure.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Oh I'm sure, yeah, definitely. Oh that's so cool. So
now this movie comes out, it does very well, and
then all of a sudden you are asked if you
can figure or hockey skate And I'm wondering what you
told them when they asked you if you can skate.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Next one.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
It's a story that my agent said to me that
he has said this to for every interview he has
with a new actor. So apparently so again for the
Oh for the go Figure, my character Mojo is like
she's kind of like a crazy and spiritual is a

(37:04):
better word, and she has like she would do like
you know crazy, uh oh, incense and age, Yes, so
I studied that, you know, and then I went to
my acting coach and we worked on it. And then
I said to my acting coach, I kind of want

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to bring something like crazy.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
And he's like, don't do that. I highly do not
recommend that, you know, don't do it.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
And so I'm like, okay, fine, And then I went
to the Disney Channel for the callback callback or audition.

Speaker 5 (37:40):
I forgot and I remember there.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Was Judy, Judy Taylor and Michelle and all these people,
right but on my way up outside there was this
beautiful lush greeneries and like branches and leaves, and I.

Speaker 5 (37:56):
Just couldn't help it.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
And I grabbed a couple of them and I put
them on their branches and I took one and put
it in the back and then I use it.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
For the you know, audition like a sage.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeah. They actually loved it.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I think that's a great idea.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
That was all You've stood out. I mean you stood out.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yes, you know, there was four hundred people coming in
for that role. You're the only one that had the
guts to put branches in your hair and use one
for a sage. It's perfect.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Such a good idea. I really.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
I thought it was amazing. And then so they called me.

Speaker 6 (38:35):
I think two days later, my agent called me and
they said, like he said, like this, Tania, So they
want you to come in for a callback. Can you
ice skate?

Speaker 5 (38:45):
I said yeah? I said, yeah, I I skated all
the time when I was in high school.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
Okay, no, no, so I so he's like, okay, all right,
I did not know. My agent said, name is Glenn.
It's like, I thought, you're in Indonesia.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
You guys have like, you know, ice, like snow, you know, Like, yeah, oh,
what do you mean ice? I said, you know the
one with the four wheels, you.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Know, skating roller skating.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Oh honey, that is not ice skating. Ice skating is
totally different. It's like, so you don't know how to
ice skate?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Right, No, I can do it.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
I said, by when? And then Glenn's like, by when,
by tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Just tell me the time I'll be there and I
can ice skate. Do not take me out from this callback.
It's like, okay, but if you cannot ice skate, they
do not want to see it. I can ice skate tomorrow.
And I contacted the Pasadena Ice Rink and I hired
the instructor.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
I said, I need to learn one on one for
two hours. I came in that evening.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Oh my god, you guys, there's no way. Ice skating
was so hard. First of all, it was really cold
and I have no idea.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
I was like, what is going on? And then there's
like blades.

Speaker 6 (40:09):
I was so afraid and it was really bad, and
the coach said, yeah, there's no way you can, like
I escape by tomorrow. I said, okay, listen, I'm gonna
hire you again tomorrow for two more hours, and you're.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
Gonna make me. I need to be able to go
because my agent said they're gonna want to see that
you can go around one time. Okay, all you need
to do is to teach me to go around one time.

Speaker 6 (40:38):
And so I learned that, and the next day, guys,
I was like literally crying and so afraid.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
I fell a thousand times. It was a very difficult sports,
very difficult. The next day, all the Disney people came
in and three other girls came in.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
We had to audition one person at a time, and
all I did was like, Okay, I'm just gonna rely
on my acting and just gonna pretend that I.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
Can do it, and I just hope I will not die,
and I did when.

Speaker 6 (41:10):
When the camera was rolling, I just pretended I can
do it even though I was scared, and did one
round and pretended like.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
I was not a friend.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Here we go, oh man, and.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
They actually they voked me, and I was.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Like, yeah, like my gosh, that's crazy. And then you
end up being in a movie with like one of
the top skaters of the world. To see Amagucci.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Did you get to meet her at all?

Speaker 5 (41:40):
I was, Yeah, she was very nice.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
She was nice, and she well when we were all talking,
you know, I think he was mostly hanging out with
Jordan because Jordan was in the ice skating part and
I was in the hockey part. So I only get
to see Christy maybe during lunch one time. But I
heard she was very very nice. Yeah, and she talks

(42:04):
to everyone, you know, because all the we had a
lot of Budy Doubles, right, and so the Buddy Doubles
are fans of Christy, and she was very very nice
to everyone. And I want to tell you though, what's funny,
but go figure, is that we all had to come
two weeks before and learn how to hockey with, you know,

(42:27):
with the actual hockey team.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Yeah, even though the other cast members know how to
ice skate. Guess what, I'm pretty sure I'm right.

Speaker 6 (42:38):
Maybe, with the exception of Jordan, everybody after two weeks
of learning and practicing hockey and August two weeks like
eight hours a day. By the end of the two weeks,
Disney hired body doubles for everyone.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
By the way, there's a great YouTube video that we
just watched this morning of y'all kind of learning how
to skate and being interviewed about learning how to skate.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
And all that kind of stuff. It's great.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
Yeah, yes, I will see there is, because guys, when
you see it, when you see the actual hockey players
do it, there's no way you're gonna learn that. Like,
you know, I couldn't even find the what.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Do you call that? Pup puck? Yeah, so I have
to ask.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
I know, I don't mean to put you on the spot,
put me on the spot, put you on the spot.
Which of the two movies did you prefer shooting?

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Oh, I mean, go figure, I have to take advil
every three hours that the pixel perfect I prefer you know.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Yeah, it was like right, up your alley and you've
you had like so much confidence going into what you
were going to be doing when it comes to like
any musical aspect.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Although I have to say the go figure. The one
thing that is so special is that I became very
close with. It was only stressful the first two weeks
when you thought you have to actually act and try
to find the puck and like the blades everywhere and.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
All these things.

Speaker 6 (44:12):
But then the moment they hired the doubles, Oh, it
felt very like nice and you don't have anything, and
when they call you, they just put you in the
like what do you call that?

Speaker 5 (44:23):
Like they pull you and you're.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Oh, it's like a rig kind of the Yeah, I
forget what. It's like a steadycam kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Yeah, a steadycam and you just hang out and you
pretended like this yeah and carry you.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
Oh, And it was like it was the most fun.
It became very fun.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
And at the time I was very close with all
the coaches and all the doubles and the background actors.
We hang out, I think almost every weekend together in Utah.
And I want to show you something. They actually made
me this.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
And I'm still in touch with three of them.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
We we're gonna ask if you you were still who
are you still in touch with.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
With the go Figure.

Speaker 6 (45:05):
I'm still in touch with the background actors and the
Doubles and the.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Coach person Shawna.

Speaker 6 (45:11):
And with Pixel Perfect. I'm in touch with the wardrobe
people and the Double as well.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
I want to show you this. I hang out with
them like every weekend. They made me this. This is
from the Double.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Oh cool, your ball break a leg? That's great, so cute.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
One one thing, Oh my god, I'm geking no please,
I love this stuff. This one is so memorable from
Pixel Perfect.

Speaker 6 (45:43):
The wardrobe people were so nice. They all created a
blanket for me.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Oh cute.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
I only wear it like every now and then because
I don't want it to go like.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
It is amazing.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
How about you guys when you are in Cheetahs and
the Boy Meets World, are you guys in touch with
the crew.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Or most.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Yeah, Well, with Boy Meets World, it's it's gotten a
lot easier because we do a podcast called pod meets World.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
So we've brought everybody back.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
We get to see everybody again and hang out with
everybody and and Danielle and Ryder are still my two
best friends. So yeah, there's we're still in touch with
basically everybody, yeah, which is good.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
And we've been able to do interviews with I mean,
I was around so many of the channels, like you know,
Corbyn Blue, and we've been able to really bring in
a lot and then we've even brought in a director
of the third movie and Keighley, one of the other
Cheeater Girls, has come on. So this podcast has been
awesome to kind of reconnect with a lot of people

(46:47):
that I was around, like my early twenties for so
many years. It's been fun to be able to reconnect
and everything.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
So it's been fun.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
It's a great I mean, I'm like you, and it's
been awesome for all of the interviews that we do
that everyone has such amazing memories working for Disney because
they've got a great, you know, cast of people that
are on set productions thing seem you know, say, I
still am in touch with one of our wardrobe women
as well, like Momenta May was just like she inspired

(47:18):
me so much and she's gone on to do so
many great things. And so I'm so glad that you
had that same type of experience. That's what we keep
finding out from everyone's that we interview. It's been we
always we.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Haven't interviewed a single person who's come on and said like, Wow,
I had a really bad time working for Disney or
the Disney channel, like it just you don't hear that.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Really, it's been, it's been wonderful.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Before we let you go, I do want to talk
to you about something that's very near and dear to
my heart, which is voice over acting. Yes, yes, because
you know you and I were on the same show. Yes,
so tell us. Tell us how you found voiceover acting?

Speaker 6 (48:03):
Voiceover well, you know after being an actor on TV
and all I I again, you know, my brain is
not like working like you guys like it's like it's
a different dimension. I did not even realize until one
day some like I was. I always like to watch cartoons,
right and Maze and Japanese. Do you guys know that

(48:25):
I had no idea that they were voiced by human beings.
I just didn't understand, and I just thought those are
speaking animals or something.

Speaker 4 (48:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
My brain was not thinking.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
So one day I was watching cartoon and then my
husband said, yeah, you know, honey, you should do voiceover.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
I said, what do you mean, what is that?

Speaker 6 (48:43):
It's like, you know, voicing, and I was like and
then it's just like, oh my god, there's another area
that I can try.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
And I literally lost my mind and he was like okay.
And so I my commercial agent BBR was in the
same office as Box.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Okay, yep, voice of agent.

Speaker 6 (49:06):
And I had nothing nothing, and I went to BBR.
I said, hey, can you introduce me next door? I
really want to do voice over and then the agent
said sure, come on in tomorrow. I came in and
she walked me and introduced me to the CEO and
the agent of Box and here's Tanyunai go ahead, and

(49:29):
then so the CEO of tom and West from Vox.
They thought that I am like amazing because I was
introduced by.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
The head agency of BBR. So they were excited.

Speaker 6 (49:42):
They're like, so, Tania, how many voices can you do?
And you do access, like what is your experience?

Speaker 5 (49:48):
Do you have a real I was like, I have
none of that. I'm like, look, I only have one voice,
this one. Okay. They said, how does it sound? They're like,
can you at least speak with an American accent. I said,
absolutely not, this is it. And they were like, oh

(50:09):
but sweetheart.

Speaker 6 (50:10):
They're like, you know, there are other actors who can
do accents and like standard American English.

Speaker 5 (50:17):
How are you going to compete with them? And so
I said, but I don't have to compete with them.

Speaker 6 (50:22):
I said, I believe that I don't need a Brazilian
voices too. But I said, I can only I can
also just use my voice, my one voice, and I
can play a bazillion characters like mushroom and animal and dolphin.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
I said.

Speaker 6 (50:39):
So, I said, you know what, why don't we just
sign a contract and see how it goes. I said,
let's just do it for one year and enough chit
chat and talking nonsense.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Just get yourself signed.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
I love that, and they're like okay.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I was like, okay, oh man.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
And then you're on one of the greatest animated series
of all time in Transformers.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
You too, Yes, we were actually on the same show.
You were on Prime right, Yes.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
I saw that, but we never get to see each other.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
I say it, Well, it's because my character Bumblebee didn't
speak until the very last episode until Deadlock. So yes,
so I and they brought me in after you guys
had finished the series because they didn't want anybody to
know who was doing Bumblebee's voice.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
So then I have finished that.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
So I did the last three episodes of Prime without
anybody knowing, and then did the movie after that, and
then rolled into Robots in Disguise. So it was you
were you were with you know, Kevin, Michael Richardson and
everybody else there, Steve Bloom and the whole crew.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You're with everybody.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
Yeah, Oh my.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Gosh, that's what it was, because I remember they were
talking about it, but we weren't.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
We thought it's gonna be frank. This was doing Bumblebee.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Ye. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:00):
I literally found out only last week when I googled
you and you know what I did. I was doing
IMDb collaborations.

Speaker 5 (52:08):
Okay, that's when I found out.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
I was like, oh my god, there are five things
if you were in together.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Yeah, well, let's see.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
We did well, Girl Meets were Old it would be one, right,
and then Transformers Prime, yes, and then Robots and Disguise.

Speaker 6 (52:25):
No, the Jetsons okay, we did the Jetsons, Avengers Assemble.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
Okay, DC Superhero Girls. You're Aquaman. I'm Lady Shiva.

Speaker 4 (52:36):
There you go. Okay, yes we have.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
We've worked together all the time and never actually met.
That is the way the life of a voiceover actor
was so.

Speaker 5 (52:44):
Crazy, and I was like, yeah, I was so excited.
I was hoping that maybe one of these days you
will go to a Transformers convention.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Sure, yeah, they've asked, they've been.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
The cons have been a little I do a lot
of conventions, so throwing on another one occasionally was was
a little much.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
But I would love to do a Transformers convention.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
And I still think the cast of Transformers Prime is
one of the greatest ensemble voice overcasts that has ever existed,
with Josh Keaton and everybody. That's just it is such
a good show all the way around that the idea
that I got a chance to be on it at
the end was to me was just because I was
such a fan.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
It was really cool. Yeah, you're all just incredible.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
I've never seen the robots in disgust. How is that?
Do you guys record together?

Speaker 4 (53:31):
Or what we did? Yeah? We did.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
It was so they they wanted a show in the middle,
so Transformers Prime was for kind of older Transformers fans.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
It was a very real, kind of dark cartoon. And
then they had.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Rescue Bots, which was for the little kids, and so
they wanted something right in the middle, so they created
Robots in Disguise, which was which was in between the two.
So Bumblebee has a new team on Earth and Bumblebee
is the leader of the team.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
Yeah. It was, it's it's very it was. It was
a lot of fun and I loved playing it. But
ye never got a chance to meet to meet everybody.
I mean I knew everybody except one or two people
on the cast.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
But is there one you prefer do you Do you
like voiceover work now more so than acting on screen?

Speaker 5 (54:17):
Or I love all of them?

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Yeah? Right, I know it's a tough question.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
I know, yeah, I mean, you know, if I could, like, honestly,
I always say to my my husband since we first met,
I said, if I can have a career for the
entire life, working like Disney, oriented like for kids, is
actually what I want.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
But you know, I mean I did like Corby. Your enthusiasm.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
You know, it's just gonna say, that's not quite curb.
Your enthusiasm with Larry David is not Disney.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
It's not Disney. I feel like I love doing all
kinds of things, but I think I just have like
so much energy, Like I really wanted to like like
I have excess energy. I think that's what it is.

Speaker 6 (55:04):
So I wanted to do like kids stuff because with
the kids stuff, I can go like, oh out, I
have to really tone myself down.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
And I did the curb you know really, Oh that
is so fun? But you how about you will.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
I'm exactly the same way there there it's to me,
I always say I don't have children, thankfully, but if there, yeah,
if I did. When people always say do you prefer
on camera acting or voice over acting? I imagine it's
like asking which one of your children is your favorite? Yeah,
you know, I just I can't answer that because they're
both wonderful for different reasons.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Yeah, it's the same with like singing, dancing and acting, Like, yeah, really,
what I'm doing at the time, I always am loving
it so much that that's what I'll sort of feel
like I'm right now leaning towards this because you're you're
also now writing a little bit, right.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
Yeah, yeah, would you ever write a dcon?

Speaker 2 (55:59):
You should write? Did he come original? You should do it?

Speaker 6 (56:03):
I think writing was just a one like it was
like another accident thing. I don't everything seems to be like.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
I love that.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
The writing was so difficult. It took me two years
to write one script. I do not want to write, honestly, Okay,
that happened, But what I really want is to produce.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
That is like my dream.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
So I have.

Speaker 6 (56:29):
I produced a couple of short films and when I
did them, there was like a feeling that you can't describe,
because every time I want set as an actor, the
one thing that I love is to watch how things unfold,
and I'm like one of those nerves, like when I
get the call sheep. I would make guesses, Okay, on
this scene, we're gonna do two and a half hours.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
They're gonna do medium shot, they're gonna do this, this, this,
and then I bet.

Speaker 6 (56:53):
I said, they're gonna start here and they're gonna be
laid on this, They're gonna do this. I organize things
in my head and I would make guesses on like
budgeting and all these things.

Speaker 5 (57:03):
I just love the producing part, but I never had
an opportunity.

Speaker 6 (57:07):
So last year when I won the writing it was
a writing I wanted because of my writing but the
price is I get to follow passion Elwis, who's a producer,
follow him for five days at Sun Dance and learn
how to produce and learn everything about it. So when

(57:30):
I hang out with him that five days, he was
negotiating deals, doing foreign sales, everything about movies for five
whole days, talking to bankers, talking to marketing and fixing
problems and guys.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
I last year I was like this, lord, please, this
is what I bought.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
I feel like I feel like that would be my
next thing that I would love to explore. So I'm
I'm producing it right now with Cassian, and I look
forward to see how it unfolds.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Well, you got to go find a writer then if
you don't want to, because your life story of winning
the lottery after sending in one thing coming instantly, then
the whole Pizza Hut thing, and then being on Disney, that's.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
A d com. It's a full on d com. You
can sell that to the channel in a pitch meeting
because it is a wonderful story and we're so happy
that you came on and you joined us so much,
and will you will you come back again and talk
to us more?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (58:38):
Oh my gosh, we should play games. I love that
Disney games like things like you know.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
I think it's a great idea. We're gonna do that
because we've talked about the Disney Channel games and the
games that you have to play.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
You're gonna play though, because the Disney Channel games they've
canceled those. They need to bring them back, and until
they do, we're gonna need to do some magical rewind
Disney Channel games. We'll get some of the original team
members back and we'll come up with some new stuff,
and we'll watch Sabrina lose badly as everybody else wins
around her, which is much like what happens.

Speaker 6 (59:13):
We have to do that before we go, though, Sabrina,
did you find a juicy secret yet?

Speaker 2 (59:18):
No, I've been trying. I have been racking my brain trying.
That's not all not already out.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
There, you know, or going to get you arrested. There's
that balance, there's that balance. Yea. I will get it
out of her at.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Some point, and I will email you with whatever she
comes up with, because it'll be good.

Speaker 5 (59:41):
Well, you are not on Instagram. I couldn't find you.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
I'm not No, I don't I don't social media is
not my thing, so I have never been a social
media guy. I tried it for a little while and
it just made me anxious and it was like it
was a little.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
Lucky to me. So I decided never to do a
social media again. I do. I do real face to
face stuff.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Oh my god, that's so with the cons so fun.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
So if you'd like, I can just every day, I'll
just send you pictures of my lunch. If that'll make
you lunch, pictures of my dogs, stuff like that. That's
no problem. Just randomly send you photographs brushing my teeth
all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Yes, perfect, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
They're quite entertaining.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
You are the best.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
This has been an absolutely enjoyable hour talking to you,
and please come back and we are that's a great idea.
We are absolutely going to do uh some sort of
Disney Channel games and we're going to get you involved.
We're going to be But I'm telling you talk to
your producing partner because your life is a d com.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
It is wonderful and you should do it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Congratulations on all your success.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Yes, Disney Channel, the voice over, how amazing you've got.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
Everything's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
You've done it. It's so great, So congrats.

Speaker 5 (01:00:52):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:00:53):
I mean, both of you are so humble and kind
and beautiful and amazing and so supportive.

Speaker 5 (01:01:00):
Thank you for all the time. And I am so
glad I get.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
To do it with you guys, us too. And yes,
you're gonna come back. You're gonna be I'm already calling you.
You're on my team for the Disney Channel games. I'm
already calling it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
I need I need to pep, I need to thank
you guys. Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Uh Oh sweet.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
She's such I could talk to her. Oh, I couldn't
get the smile off my face just from her.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Her energy is infectious and her instantly starting with like
tell me a secret about yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Oh god, what a fun hour that was.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
She's obviously talented, but just talk about like the idea
of being at the right place at the right time.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Over and over. I'm telling you, I have the crappiest
luck you talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
I would be the person that spent twenty kajillion dollars
with those ten thousand ticket ones and not even get anything.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Sent in one came to America. A month and a
half later, she's the actress on TV. It's like that's awesome, man,
I love my country. Yeah, no, it's it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us. That was that
was a fun holt. It really was totally totally cool.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
And join us next time where we were gonna be well,
there's nothing, no two ways to say it. We're gonna
be jumping in finally, Corbyn Blue, you're you're, you know,
friend of the pod and best dancer ever Corbyn Blue.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
And I think didn't he tell us about this? Is
like it's a jump roping movie. Yes, okay, so this
is kind of these are what these are those movies.

Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
That are right in my wheelhouse, These kind of like
niche things that all of a sudden become awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
I remember when this one came out and it was
a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
You know, everyone was really excited because he was in
high school musical, but really was the first movie he
doesn't have a giant role in it, right, and this
is a movie like after he was on Hannah Montana,
now high school music and he's got this just like
this is his movie, which is just so awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
Well, I hope we get him back to talk to
him about it.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
I do too.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Yeah, so join us next time as we jump in
and thank you so much Tanya for joining us. That
was a ton of fun and we'll see you all
next time.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
Bye.