December 8, 2025 • 55 mins
It’s time to meet another crucial figure from within “The Nanny” universe - a second child actor supervised by Fran Drescher: Nicholle Tom! She played Maggie, the older sister of the Sheffield family, but you may know her from another family - one that rescued a lovable Saint Bernard named Beethoven.
Nicholle shares her memories from auditioning for The Nanny, and what happened when the casting director with the “weird voice” turned out to be the star of the show.
Plus, Nicholle reveals how they go the canine stars of Beethoven in-line…right here on a wild Pod Meets World!
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
So right, are your birthdays coming up?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We all know your birthdays, which leads me to ask
a brother, which is, hey, you don't get to talk
directly to us, Danielle, what is the best birthday present
you've ever gotten?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
In your O?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My wife, I guess this was my fortieth birthday, so
oh god.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Six years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Had a vinyl album made for me and asked family
and friends of mine to each contribute a song. And
so what I ended up getting was a two record
set of songs with liner notes explaining why everyone picked
their song.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That's cool and it was one of.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
The So I have this record and you know she
printed it, so it has like pictures from our life
on it and me on it. And then I open
it up and yeah, there's like a little message from
people in my life saying this song. Here's why I
picked it because of this memory, or because this always
makes me think of you, or I knew you would
like this song, or whatever you know you introduced me.
But everyone had their own reason why they picked a
(01:31):
song they picked. But yeah, it's truly like I mean,
I just fell apart and bald opening it up, and
then I can still pull it out and put it
on and hear a whole collection of the It's such
a great gift. Yeah, so that was by far, like
one of the coolest, most thoughtful, and you know, it
still goes on, Like I can still listen to it
(01:52):
and still get back into that mindset.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, how about you. Anybody else got a favorite gift?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, probably the gift that stands out the most of
me is my godfather for my sixteenth birthday gave me
my car. So I still have my Selica, my eighty
six Selica. So when I was a gift, Yeah, that
was a gift. It was a gift from my uncle Fred,
who's no longer here, who was the nicest guy in
the world.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And yeah, he gave me my car, which again it's.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Still huge, so cute.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That was a good one. He was a great guy.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Is my dad's college roommate, and he was my godfather
when I was born and he was just a wonderful man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And yeah, so still have it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And part of this is like because not even because
the gift itself was so amazing, it was the way
the gift was done was so memorable. When we were
living it was like the first year we were living
in our new house in Calabasas, so I was probably
twelve or maybe thirteen at the most. My mom for
my birthday did a scavenger hunt where you know, there
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was like the first present and then there was a
clue to go find the next present somewhere in the
house or somewhere else, and I had to go find it.
And the gifts were just like little things that got
progressively bigger, and they ended with a Commodore sixty four. Compute.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, Commodore sixty four. Commoore, me too, did YouTube. We
all had commodorees.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
They were the best.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh my god, and it was so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But like I remember the scavenger hunt of it all.
One of the reasons I remember the scavenger hunt to
is because my mom had this pair of shoes that
I loved that were like black snake skin and they
were they dipped down really low and showed a lot
of tow cleavage, and I loved them. I wanted them
so bad, even though I had nowhere at thirteen to
wear toe cleavage snakeskin shoes, but I loved them. My
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mom put a clue in one of those shoes under
you know, under the dining room table or whatever. And
I thought that was the big gift that she was
giving me the shoes. I was like, She's like, no,
that's still my I'm just putting a clue in it
because I know you love them.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I just went tow cleavage or was out a thing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I think it's a thing I did not. Okay, no,
I'm sure I've heard them somewhere before. Anyway, that was
probably my best.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's like a full experience. To make it a whole
treasure hunt is so cool. We've done that for India
a few times, like different different special occasions. We've had like, yeah,
clues that we hired and it's so fun.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, my parents did that. Once I got to the end,
there was nothing there. They're like, yeah, life disappoints you.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh God, life less.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Happy birthday, Happy birthday son. That never happened for I know,
I know, you know, we know your parents well enough.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To never do that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
They would never do that, not to the baby of
the family, not to me.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Will will change. We put them on a bus and
send them to New York.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It smokes.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Make some money for this family.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I had to fly. I hadn't spread my wings and fly.
It's just the way.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Welcome to Pod meets World.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'm Daniel Fishal, I'm right or strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
As a child actor, you hire an agent, missed school
sit an endless freeway traffic audition for judge strangers, and
in turn more knows than door to door room temperature
salmon salesman. That's even mean you don't know about the
temperature room temperature salmon salesman.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I did not. I was unaware that this was a profession.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Surprise. Now imagine the results of this career path somehow
doesn't end in disappointment like a large percentage of your competition. Instead,
you end up starring in a hit sitcom and become
part of the expansive Beethoven cinematic universe, which, let's be honest,
is as close to young actor royalty as you can get.
She grew up on sets alongside her twin brother, who
(05:37):
also somehow established an amazing career, both as a child
and ever since. She was around for the summer blockbuster
era and the days when a staggering fifteen million viewers
barely got her show than nanny to crack Nielsen's Top twenty.
She's best known as Maggie Sheffield, the older sister that
Fran Fine aka Fran Dresher was hired to look after,
(06:00):
but has since been on shows like Masters of Sex,
Criminal Minds, and Good American Family. Oh, she's also super Girl.
But now she's here talking to us about all of
those memories. So this week on pod Meets World, let's
say hello to Nicole Tom.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hello, why who?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
How are you? Good to see you?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Nice to see all of you. I'm looking at everybody's backdrop,
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Mean, you have so much going on in yours.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You look like you're in a place where they would
give psychic readings. Do you do tarot card readings out
of there?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No? And I've never been given the deck.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Either or this is a missed opportunity I know.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
And my friends actually I have two friends that have
their own, uh Tarot cards. Yeah, and they have actual photos.
Like so weird that you would mentioned tarot cards like
a psychic.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I feel like you need to have your own eight
hundred number at the bottom of.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Your stream right now.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I would totally call you for a psychic breathing, right,
miss Tom yeah, see I like this.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You should have just come in sideways going past lives.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
The crystal balls. I mean, it's just gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Is this your house? Sorry to keep harping on it,
is this your house?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
It's just beautiful my crafting garage.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nice?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I just I love this.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It's really crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's very cool looking. Honestly, I really like this.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
It's nice. But yeah, and you guys, I mean the
two boys they have, you know, Will and right they
you guys.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Have a lot going on, dark and stormy, dark and
stormy back there, yeah, both of them. Will's in a
batcave and and writers in a in a book dungeon. Uh. Yeah,
Mine is to be a little brighter because I also
have to use it for QVC, so wow QVC. Yeah,
I have a haircare line and we sell on QVC,
(08:12):
so I sometimes I have to do it from zoom
when I can't make it all the way out to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Everything behind Danielle is currently for sale.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Exactly would be dazzled Voss water.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I just got this at the Dancing with the Stars
twentieth anniversary party.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
One these pears on the.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Oh, look at that you do?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Are those pears yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
This is my my Pears chandelier.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
That did you make that whole chandelier?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I did I make crazy chandeliers?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Wow? Do you have a business doing this?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I just do it for fun. I mean I am
going to be selling some stuff on my friend's website.
Yeah WTF dot com?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Okay, when where can Well? I want to send everyone
to this also me. I want I want to I
want an early advanced link because I want to buy
one of your crazy chandeliers.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, I mean, I've just been This year has been nuts,
I'm sure for buddy, but yeah, I'm not. I'm just
now getting back into like I'm going to be taking
some photos of some of my you know, artwork at
an art show earlier on in the year. The chandeliers
in there, there's a cactus one that I sold. I
(09:32):
don't know if you can see it. There's a lot
going on.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I do see that cactus now that you've pointed it out.
That's so cool.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But I'm going to put a partridge in this Paris
chandelier for Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yeah, so let's jump in. I want to talk about
your Hollywood origin story. You were raised in Illinois, right
with your twin brother David, and you both have the
dream of acting in Hollywood. So how did that dream
my older sister Heather of course, and your sister as well,
(10:09):
how did it all come about? Who started it? Who
raised their hand and said I want to go to Hollywood?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Oh gosh, my mom probably.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Okay, yeah, first and foremost an adult, yes.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
But well we started off in Chicago in oak Park,
which is, you know, home of Einstein. And then my dad,
my dad was a stockbroker, and the stock market crashed, uh,
and so we had to skip town, and so we
(10:48):
went to the Seattle. My dad went to Settle and
it was still a stockbroker there. And my mom was
always like, really into She always wanted to be an actress.
And she was really good too, I mean, she was beautiful,
(11:08):
but she never, like her parents always wanted her to
be a teacher.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Yeah, she went to the school to be a teacher,
and she was a speech therapist. But she brought the
arts into her teaching, like by doing puppet shows and
she made her own puppets, which I think I is
where I got my craftiness from. Now all of her
puppets are my Christmas ornaments that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So that's cool.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
All scary because you know some of them, you know
they're from a long time ago and it's just the heads.
But it's just heads, like in the.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Tree Christmas horror film old Christmas decor is. I don't
know why it was all so creepy looking. We had
a lot, We have a lot of my mother in
law's old christ Missus dolls and my husband's like, oh,
these are so beautiful and I'm like, no, they're not.
You just have nostalgia for them, but they are terrifying.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Yeah. Their paper mache, which is really cool. I would
love to learn how to paper mache.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Okay, no, I no, I know how to do absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Back in the day, I mean I was like, I
remember making yet to make a paper mache like volcano
that would work for school and stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's a YouTube video
that could show you how to paper mache. Yeah yeah,
especially since you're so crafty, I think you pick it
up real fast.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I would totally be interested in that YouTube video anyways. Okay,
so we moved to Seattle and we we stayed there
for two years. My mom became an assistant or like
chanced toed the phone at an agency, the Lala Holloway Agency.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I remember that name.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Met my Uh, this guy Michael who was really who
was a commercial agent. He was he was an agent
there and then he he would always come down to
California for pilot season, like when there was a pilot season,
and uh, he was like, oh you should. And we
(13:17):
were always us kids. We were always in acting class.
But I was kind of a shy child and sort
of you know, I guess maybe in my own world
a little bit. I like to I like to make
believe and climb trees with my hamster and and that
(13:40):
I was in like a different land in my treehouse
and the come up with and I actually made like
a fort underneath the house, which I'm like, I can't
believe I did that. Yeah, because there's no way I
would go underneath my house now. I used to in Seattle. Anyways,
(14:02):
my mom always thought that I was really shy and
but uh and so she but my brother and my
sister were really the outgoing and they loved that they
were like they booked commercials and like they were really
cute kids. And I like had a perm and braces
and was sort of awkward, you know, kind of finding
(14:27):
myself as we do. Yeah, and so I mean I
never booked a commercial or anything. And so it was
really my brother and my sister that that. Uh Michael
was like, oh, well, you know, they should come down
for pilot season to to you know, check it out,
(14:48):
see see what happens, and you can stay with me
in his studio apartment with his cat Twinkle Posts, oh
my god, who was actually nicknamed Tinkletoes because coupeed on everything.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
And anyways, so my mom did that and she brought
my She brought my brother and my sister because they were,
you know, booking commercials and everything. And uh, for the
she pretty much abandoned me, you and your.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Dad in Seattle, Seattle.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
But it was fine, No, she didn't. I'm just joking.
And uh, my my sister ended up well. First it
was my brother that booked a play during pilot season,
which was half good with Judy Davis. And and then
my sister booked Who's the Boss. But she was the
(15:53):
first Danny Pintaro's first kiss.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
A cool.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
But they kept booking things. It kept them, it kept us,
you know, them down in California. Longer, and then finally
my mom, you know, was came back and got me.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
She's like, I want to go pick up Nicole.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah. And things weren't all that great, you know, between
my mom and my dad, they were you know, going
through some yeah, hard times. Okay, so uh it just
it the more that we started. Then I was put
into acting class where and my sister and my brother
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were put into acting class as well, where I met.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Writer a Space Shiloh and like pretty much anybody who
was working as a child back in the day with
Diane Harden and Eckstein who were then became managers.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And but I was put into acting class for like
three years before I was even sent out for anything
because they just you know, it was like they kind
of thought that I was a shy. I mean when
I was brought down to California, I uh, I I
(17:26):
sort of you know, I would go out at night
and like climb into the stairwell at the oak Woods
and just like daydream like fifle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Woods that happened at the oak Woods.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And did you, I mean, did you want to act?
Or so you did? Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
We used to put on plays back in Seattle. We
have this Muppet Book. Do you know if the book
it's the Great Muppet Book. It was great, and it
had like all of the Muppets scenes like in it
where Kermit says this, and you know miss Piggy says that,
(18:15):
and then in Gonzo, and I was I was always
the initiator of like, oh, let's do let's do one
of the plays from uh, the Muppet Book.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And so.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I was always interested in it. But I don't think
that my I mean the people they didn't really see
it in you.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Weren't the most obvious choice.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Right, because I was kind of shy, shy.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
In your own in your own world.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah, and so Gary Spats, I wasn't. Were you having
Gary Spats's class writer?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
No, well he uh he was in contact with Judy Savage,
who was our first agent. Was she your first agent?
Not my?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
She was writer's first agent. She was not my first agent.
I was with Kelman Arletta first, but then when I
was when I was on Boy Meets World, then I
signed with.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Yeah, she had everybody.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
She's the greatest.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So when you did start acting, did you find yourself
competitive with your siblings at all? Or No?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I never was I don't. I don't think so, because
my sister was always We're so different. I mean me
and my sister com completely different. My sister, uh, I
mean she's I guess maybe I'm like a big kid
at heart.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I really as will that's me.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, but I am, you know, I embraced that. I
love I have to like very young energy. My sister
has always been like the older sister, you know, the
matriar arch of the family. He's just always been more serious.
And she was the firstborn, right, Yes, yeah, that's that
(20:15):
kind of you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You have that kind of archetype where it's the firstborn
always tends to take on the responsible role and there
they are adults from the time that they're you know,
even kids, they embrace being an adult at an early age.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think that's that's pretty normal. My brother's like.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
That too, Yeah, your older brother.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, my oldest brother. He instantly took that kind of
adult role right away.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
So how shortly after you end up making your way
out to LA and you're staying at the oak Woods,
how shortly after do you start guest starring on shows
like Fresh Prince in Beverly Hills nine O two one.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Oh well, okay. So I was put into acting class
for three years and then finally somebody believed in me
and they're like, you know what, she's ready, she's ready out.
And thank god that they did wait for me, because
I probably wasn't ready to start auditioning, you know. And
then when I did, I my my first audition was
(21:13):
for I'll Fly Away, which was a TV show and
I went to network on it. I was like, God,
this is but I didn't get it. And and then
my second audition was for Beethoven. Second audition, Yeah, and
(21:38):
I auditioned. I auditioned a few times for that, and god,
it was I started everything because uh then I then
after that I auditioned for but then you know, the
Fresh Prince came along. And it's so random, though, because
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there's so many weird connections in my life. My sister's
first job, Who's the Boss. The people from Who's the Boss,
Rob Sterning and Prudence Frasier, they were the showrunners or
I think they were the showrunners of Who's the Boss.
(22:23):
But then they moved onto The Nanny and they were
creators with Fran and Peter for The Nanny. So it's
like there's that Weird Connection and then the Fresh Prince.
When I got or when I got Beethoven. The wardrobe
stylist was Terry and I can't remember her last name
(22:47):
right now. Uh, but she was the wardrobe stylist on
The Nanny, the first one. She worked with Brenda Cooper
and then Fresh Prince of bel Air. The director of
the episode that I was in, Uh, Lee Challotte.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, Lee Challett, Cemo, Lee Challettchmo's great. Yeah, she's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Yeah. She directed the first full season of The Nanny.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh wow, so everything ended up leading toward The Nanny.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lee's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
She's you know, she's also at the time, especially back
in the day, was one of the few female sitcom directors.
And I had the honor of working with her once
and she was just she found jokes where they're just
weren't any and knew exactly how to block everything.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She was really phenomenal at her job.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
She was. I absolutely loved Darnee. I can't believe that
they that they hired me. I auditioned nine times for
The Nanny.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Oh my gosh. Wait, before we get into The Nanny,
I still want to talk about Beethoven. I want everyone
to know. It's a Saint Bernard fronted blockbuster family movie.
It made almost a hundred and fifty million dollars dog dollars. Wow,
Now you're acting with Charles Groden, Bonnie Hunt, Stanley Tucci,
and yes, an adorably big dog. People always say to
(24:14):
never work with kids and animals. Now you were a
kid at the time. So what was it like filming
with a dog.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
But it was like a dream come true. Yeah, I
mean it just was a dream come true because I
just love animals so much. I've always loved animals, like
you know, from my Hamsters to my poodles. Just I,
where is mister Potts, mister Patts?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Who's that Potts?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Mister Potts is my poodle hole.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
He's so cute, mister Pratt.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It's so cute. He's a little star.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yeah, yeah, you can tell. Yeah, not as big as Beethoven.
But did when So while you were doing Beethoven, did
you ever expect it to be as big of a
movie as it was?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, I did, no good.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, like I I was just having fun like I
used to. I became really good friends with Jason Wrightman.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, sure, steal the.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Golf carts and go like writing around on the golf
carts on the lot, which was like, I mean, it's
just it's like every kid's stream to be able to
was snuck into Universal Studios and.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, I remember when you could figure out how that
area was.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, and now and and just to be able to.
I mean I always wanted to, you know, take over
an amusement park as a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I've done it, you have, I did.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I did my I was on Nickelodeon at the time,
and they were opening Universal Studios in Florida, and so
the show I was on, the four hosts and I
they sent us down there six weeks before the park opened,
and every day our job was just to go to
the empty park and ride all the rides and film.
They filmed this while doing it. So my three friends
and I had an amusement park to ourselves for like
almost six weeks.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh you could just ride all the rides over and
over to the point where we were sick of them,
where it was like I can't believe I have to
go on et ninety three times again. Today. It was
it was really it was truly amazing, but about Beethoven.
I have a question because Charles Groden is like one
of my favorite actors of all time and in my opinion,
should be on the list of the most underrated actors
(26:30):
of all time.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
What was it like working with him?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It was? It was amazing, Like I mean, I had
no idea that he he actually I think he said
in some interview that he should the two things that
you should never do or work with animals or kids.
But when I worked with them, and it was like
(26:54):
just a it was he was so kind, oh cool,
like it was a only an experience, the whole the
whole thing, like working with the animals. And I remember
one time. I don't know how he felt about about
this one moment that we had, but they used to
you know, they built the entire home of Beethoven's house
(27:17):
on the sound stage, and so it was kind of
like lifted up off of the off of the ground,
so there was like a ledge around the house, and
then the house was built on top of it. So
there's like this, uh, the edge of the ledge where
the director like caught called a meeting for everybody to
(27:40):
you know, sit in. I think it was like a
safety meeting. Might have been the safety meeting. It was
like right when we first started working, and Charles Gruden
was sitting on the edge with his like feet dangling
off of it, and I was standing behind him kind
of just like you know, playing with his hair and stuff,
(28:03):
and and the director was talking to us and explaining
what was going to be going on for the day.
And I looked down at at his hair and I
noticed like this, uh, this netting, and so I immediately
(28:26):
stopped playing with it. But he probably was so like,
what is she doing?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Get your hands out of my head?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Why you don't work with kids or aim.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Kids. You never said anything about it. He never had
been like flenched.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Right, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It was like, yea, it must have been like a
pretty tedious set for the adults. I mean, because how
many dolls dogs did you guys actually have?
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Do you remember the first one? There was like two
hundred and fifty different dogs, and then the Yeah, well
the puppy Beethoven kept on growing growing up by the day. Yeah, so,
and so that in the second the second movie, there
were so many dogs because they puppies grow fast.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
What an insane set?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Oh my god, you had no idea.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It was probably an insane set, but you were just
totally in it and having the best time.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Yeah, And well you couldn't, you couldn't, you know, just
go up and pet Beethoven. He had his own dressy groom,
his own like air conditioner. Yeah, and the same trainer
who trained the animals for Babe.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah. Pack in the City. We love that movie.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's a big one for us here.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh man, yeah, I can't. That's a lot of dogs
to have around you. And you're right, they do grow
all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But that's got to just be crazy to not actually,
because all you'd want to do if I'm around two
hundred fifty puppies, I want to land the ground and
I want to have them cover me with kisses.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So the idea that you can't do that would would
suck a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Yeah. And they always smelled like baby food too. Whenever
they would get you know, whatever Beethoven had to kiss
us or or anything, they would put it chicken baby food,
but behind our ear and then they you know, they
would then I think you're.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
The one who smells like Beethoven.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, hole first.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
So yes, yeah, maybe it was.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And it's still it's one of the greatest sequel titles ever.
Beethoven Second is truly one of the best, the best
titles for any sequel that has ever happened.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's phenomenal.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
I'm Kristin Davis, host of the podcast Are You a Charlotte?
The most anticipated guest from season three is here the
Tray to My Charlotte. Kyle McGlaughlin joins me to relive
all of the magical Tray in Charlotte moments. He reveals
what he thinks of Trey giving Charlotte a cardboard baby.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Why would I bring her a cardboard baby? I was
literally I was like, this doesn't track for me at all.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
When he found out Trey's shortcomings, I'm.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Kind of excited to talk about.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I think he's he's a guy spends time in Central Park.
You know, he's probably, don't know, be some surgery stuff,
you know. And I was like, all this kind of
stuff going on, and they were like yeah, yeah, yeah, fine,
and they said, but he's impotent, and I was.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Like, he's impotent and why he chose not to return
to it?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Just like that.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
They came and presented an idea and I was like,
I get I see it.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It's so kind of a one joke idea.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
You don't want to miss this. Listen to Are you
a Charlotte on the iheartrate you app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So at this point, now you're in like the biggest
family movie of the year. What was the reaction like
back at home where you had to escape Illinois after
a stark market crash.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Oh my gosh, I'm such an overshare. That's why I
don't do many podcasts. It was it was, uh, you know,
because I was. I didn't really change. I've always been.
I've always just wanted friends like so much. I went
(32:44):
to the same junior high and in high school, I
went to South Past Junior High. Okay, and uh, oh gosh,
you know who else went to that that same high school?
H Well Edward for Long Oh, Okay, Edward for Along
(33:06):
went there. And Julia White, yes there, Hilary Swank actually
lived with my family first came down, and Sadie Kretsik.
I mean it was really it was jam packed in
the students. Like after we started working, we moved into
(33:27):
a one, like a two bedroom apartment in South Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Wait, I'm sorry, how many how how many of you
were in the studio apartment with this one guy?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
It was me. I slept on a chair for six months.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Oh my gosh, as a child. How old were you?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
My brother, my sister Sadie came down with us, and
Michael and the cat, you know, uh my poodle at
the time, Brandy.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So there's there's like six people and two animals in
your mind. Okay, so seven people and two animals in
a studio apartment.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yes, wow, it was crazy. And then you know, Michael
was an agent, so he was submitting people for auditions
and so and back in the day you had to
mail everything, so there were a million headshots like just everywhere.
You know, you have to put them in the envelopes
(34:32):
and label them all. We were kind of like, you know,
we were. It was a what is it a line
of assembly, geez, line of mailing out the breakdowns.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
So then you're fifteen when you audition for Maggie Sheffield.
Do you remember the audition for the Nanny?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I remember all of the audition and well most of them.
The first time I met Fran I thought that she
was the casting director. You know, I didn't know anything.
I'd never seen any of her movies, and I remember
going out and talking to my mom and Beetle like
(35:19):
that casting director first boys, Oh my god, Oh my gosh,
I've ever heard that, but it's really hard to you know,
listen to it was like, oh my gosh. Yeah, and
then I found out that that was that was fran
that was the you know, I had no idea and
(35:44):
that's so funny. Yeah, I uh, one time they when
I went in for the audition, I used to wear
a lot of vests and.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That was a big that was a big thing back
in the nineties.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Yeah, vests and like oversized shirts and maybe a bucket
hat here and there.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Oh hat hat, like a blossom hat.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh that's a bucket hat.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Okay, yeah, this was.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
This is a play that I did with writer.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yes, you got it.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Oh gosh, and this is one of my.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Blossom there. I see that.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Blossom hat on there. Shiloh has the band, of course,
I mean writers, the most normals.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Not saying something.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, Charlot took off his bowler hat for that.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Photo shoot and it took off his fishing vest.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah, he's probably still wearing the overalls though.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Oh yeah, that was. I don't know when I think that,
how old were we?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It was ninety five, so I would have been fifteen.
I think you're the same age of Shiloh, right, so
you were probably yeah, so yeah, seventeen, you were probably
sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Yeah, So what was the set of The Nanny like?
Was it family friendly? Was it tense? What was it like?
Speaker 6 (37:17):
Gosh, it was I it was Oh, it was my childhood.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You know, we were we were the.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Definitely, you know, we were the kids show and then
there was the adults and you know, the bosses, and
you know, we were in school and it was always
very right. Oh god, I loved going to the wardrobe
room and fitted for like all of the clothes were
(37:51):
so just amazing, like every single week. I just I
remember that. I remember sitting in the like when the
audience was there, I would go and sit in the
the living room. They have this huge fluffy couch that
was all feathered down and it was it was beautiful.
(38:12):
After the pilot of The Nanny, the set had a
major redo when we when we got picked up, and uh,
this couch was so comfortable. I would love to sit
on it. But the I don't think the stage you know,
(38:33):
the stage guy or the produce stage manager or the
guy who was in charge of the sets and deck
that deck. Yeah, I don't think he didn't like me
sitting on the couch because those those feather down cushions
are so heavy fluff and puff, and then he would
(38:53):
have to fluff and puff it.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Right, and you were like taking a nap on it
every day. Yeah, yeah, but I.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Would like to like kind of sneak into the living
room set was right in front of the audience, but
whenever they weren't in that scene, I would I would
sit like on the stairs and just like watch the
audience and just kind of like in the dark when
the that wasn't lit up. I remember, oh gosh, the
(39:23):
Craft's service was so good.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And that people remember so much from all their shows
and their kids. It's just like how good the Craft
service tables were.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
They would have bagels and locks like every morning, and
you know, that's where I learned that, you know, there's
really everybody has their own way of making their own bagel.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, oh yeah, very personal thing, very person the bagel make.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Can't have somebody, you know make my bagel for me.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
I know, God, the stuff on it my important stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be the right order.
It's got to be the right amount ratio. The ratio
has to be right.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, like.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I feel the same way to keep your hands off.
They've got to be done exactly the right way. Yep.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Yeah. When was the last time you watched The Nanny?
Do you have a favorite episode?
Speaker 6 (40:17):
Yeah? Gosh, I I always loved the uh the gym
episode uh where I was with where Rina Moreno was
my gym.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Teacher casting awesome, But.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. And
then I had to in one of the scenes, I
had to climb up this rope ladder, which I've never
been good at, like ever. I I'm just like, I
don't really have the arm strings. I've got really little
wrists and and I can't like wrap my Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I was very skinny, kid, you warn't an athlete.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Yeah, so I I didn't have anything to like grasp
the rope with, Like, I don't know how to like
climb up the rope, but they wanted me to like
just slide down the rope too.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Well I had.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Pants on oh good, okay, yeah that can burn.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
But in order to get the shot, they had to
horace me up onto the rope. So I was like
just out of frame. Yeah, my with my legs like
you know, sideway was supposed like when they yelled at
you and supposed to just slide down the rope. Well,
(41:47):
I couldn't get up there out of frame. So actually
Peter Mark Jacobs, Fran's husband.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Came.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
Hoisted me up.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
What is the.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
And like I so he was like holding me up
there on the let on the rope.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
I did Fran's husband need to do this? Why was
there not someone who was a part of production that.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
Could have helped you with this idea? It was like
this should have been like that's what.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Rehearsals for.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Something. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so ridiculous,
like them up there on the on the rope and
he's like holding me up there with his hands and
I'm trying my best to hold on for as long
as it can, and then he like runs out of
frame real quick to get the shot. Wow. It's just
(42:45):
I couldn't stop laughing at one point, but then I,
you know, I got it, Like they did the shot
made it into the episode.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's how long did the Nanny go for? It went
for six years, six seasons?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Wow, long time.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, and this was it was NBC, right, it was CBS, CBS, CBS, okay, right, right, okay, Yeah,
they had a solid lineup back in the day.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Yeah. You know, truthfully, the a lot of the actors
or you know, the people on the show frightened me
as a child, really really scare me. But totally because
like just because the personalities were so I just like
(43:32):
I looked up to them so much. I had my like,
I just I respected them so much. So that's why
they were I don't know if that makes any sense,
that's why intimidating. Yeah, yeah, I think I was truly intimidated,
and so I was like scared a little bit. Like
(43:56):
but another weird connection is that yet Grandma Yetta is
the mother of Nora Eckstein, who was my acting teacher
at Young Actors Space.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, it all does come from it's actually it seems
like it's a huge business, but it's it's a lot
smaller than you think. Actually, the same kind of people
seem to filter in and out and know each other
and Yeah, it's really interesting.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Well, you also did Beethoven the second, which we talked
about we had. You had a four episode arc on
Beverly Hills nine O two one oh around the same time,
right in the peak of that phenomenon as well. What
was your experience on that set?
Speaker 6 (44:37):
Like, oh gosh, I was so excited to get that
that part. I had to did my makeup for the
audition because the first time I went in, I was
like sweet because sus Scanlon was good Girl by night
(45:00):
eat bad Girl by day. Some outfits on that show though,
too or just like whoa, I'm like, oh, may A goad.
But yes, working on that set was I was warned,
you know, before I went onto onto the set because
(45:22):
there was there was a lot of drama.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
And dramas a famous.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Set for that. Yeah, and uh so I was. I
was warned about like arguments, you know, when things. My
brother had actually done. He got a show that didn't
get picked up called Brand New Life, and Jenny Garth
(45:51):
was in that that so I was really looking forward
to seeing her again. I don't know if she I
think she remembered me, yeah, but from the Brand New Life.
But anyway, everybody was really super sweet to me.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
That's good on the set.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Oh my gosh, I am yeah. I ended up working
with Brian Austin Green and a few movies of the
week after that. Hm.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Hey, it's Wilfred Dell and Sabrina Bryan from the podcast
Magical Rewind, and we have a very special guest on
this week's episode. He's the mastermind behind some of your
favorite movies like Hocus Pocus, Newsy's The Descendants, and of
course High School Musical.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yes, it is the one and only a living legend
director Kenny or Tega.
Speaker 10 (46:47):
We sit down with Kenny to talk about his incredible
career and the legacy he's created with his choreography and films.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You seriously will not want to miss this one.
Speaker 10 (46:55):
Listen to Magical Rewind on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your pot.
Speaker 6 (47:01):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
It's Jenny Garth, host of the I Choose Me podcast.
Speaker 8 (47:05):
This week, I'm so excited to welcome my friend Gabrielle
carteris the Andrea Zuckerman from Beverly Hills nine o two
on Oho to the pod.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
We're Choosing to Get Real.
Speaker 5 (47:16):
I applied to the networks about my age and contracts.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
They never would have hired me if they had known
my age.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
We're choosing to be honest.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
She looked at me, and she said, this business is
about the mask, which.
Speaker 6 (47:26):
You have neither of.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
No, we're choosing to get nostalgic.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Listen to I Choose Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
Over the years, you've been able to work on projects
with your brother and your sister, Heather. Is that do
you when you guys work together, does it feel like
a dream come true?
Speaker 6 (47:54):
Yeah? I mean, well, I love working with my with
my family, it is. It is fun to get that opportunity.
My sister and I played twins one.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Time, which is ironic.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
Yeah, but with her brother, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
We were on Wedding Bells together, which was a davidy
Kelly show, and we randomly played twins. I think that
my sister and I. I think that my sister and
my brother look more like twins than my brother and I,
which is so random. But and then I worked with
(48:32):
my brother on Criminal Minds.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
Okay, yeah, okay. My last question for you, and it
might be a difficult question because it probably feels like
you have been acting for what feels like many lifetimes.
But if you weren't able to convince your mom to
let you become an actor, what job do you think
you would have had?
Speaker 6 (48:55):
Oh gosh, I've thought about this. I don't know, like
I've I feel like, I mean, as a as a
young kid, I always wanted to be a veterinarian. What
kid doesn't I know? Yeah, But then as I, uh
I grew up, I don't think I could take that
(49:16):
that pain of animal that all the time. But I've
always wanted to. I've always loved putting stuff on, sticking
stuff on stuff.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
The pair.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
I've been sticking stuff to stuff on my entire life.
I love that I have full Like you see those
things right there, Yeah, yeah, yeah, right there, that is
my that's.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
Just little stuff.
Speaker 6 (49:51):
Uh no, that's the larger stuff to stick on stuff, coordinated,
and then I've got the smaller and the medium stuff
to stick on stuff. But I I feel like I
would have my own store of sorts, like like I
would be uh a business, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Like a hobby shop or something like that.
Speaker 6 (50:13):
Yeah, like my own little t shop or oh yeah,
I can see that thing with the that that that
sells like vintage like weird things and I make lamps.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
Yeah, like I I know that it.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
Would be something really creative.
Speaker 5 (50:30):
Yeah, I love this. I still think I still I
think you need to open whatever this is, whatever this
I think you.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Need to It would look exactly like your room you're
in right now.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
That would be stuff, chandeliers, shop.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
I mean, this is my garage. I love it. I
was thinking about like a podcast. Oh well.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
With me.
Speaker 6 (50:59):
I wouldn't want to silly away from this good thing, but.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
You dare try to take him from us?
Speaker 6 (51:05):
All right, Daniel, she's stolen. It would be like Crime
and Crafting.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Oh, a great idea, idacting so they found Yeah they
found the body partially decomposed with a beautiful riding stone buckle.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
Yeah, as well as you're making something, you know, like
it's needle pointing to me, like sequence on stuff. I
would imagine would be like like needle pointing.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Crime and Crafting is actually a brilliant idea for some.
Speaker 5 (51:41):
Crime and Crafting is a podcast is.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Great so that he doesn't steal it from from you know,
watching that could be the first cover. Yeah, I would
my gosh, it wouldn't it just wouldn't be the same
without me. No, you're right, I'll do it, you know,
like where we talk about crime shows while.
Speaker 5 (52:02):
Working on a project that we have to complete by
the time the episode's over.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
Right.
Speaker 5 (52:06):
Sure, I love this idea. It's a really good idea.
I think we feel we've just helped you workshop this podcast. Nicole,
Thank you so much for being here with us. Where
can people find you? Where can people find this WTF?
You selling your stuff? Where can people go to help
support you and your projects?
Speaker 6 (52:26):
Well? I did just get now. I haven't posted anything
because it's been so busy this this last year because
it's just been crazy, but I did just get the
uh stuff to stick on stuff for Instagram.
Speaker 5 (52:42):
Great.
Speaker 6 (52:44):
But the WTF is what I'm doing with my friend Alana,
where it's just like it's actually it's where to Find
the Weird just one of the kind things. So I'm
gonna start really helping her out with with that site.
Speaker 5 (53:04):
And that's the WTF dot com, Yes, the U t F.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
And then I'm on Instagram, which I haven't posted a
lot because it's just been it's been a really hard year,
but I want to get back into it. And my
Instagram is just under my name, Nicole Tom Yeah, and
I c h O L L E t O M.
(53:30):
I spelled my name of misspelling it my entire life.
Speaker 5 (53:34):
Is that not the way your mom intended it?
Speaker 6 (53:36):
She never corrected me, so maybe the wrong way has
actually been the right way.
Speaker 5 (53:43):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
I'd also like to pitch you call it a true
crime podcraft.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Oh wow, I love it.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (53:54):
Just look at for giving you these ideas for free,
so generous.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
Maybe you can help me out of that because I
just like I have nowhere to.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Well, we'll talk. Chandelier, I get a good chandelier. We'll
figure it out. I have I okay, good, we'll talk
what you like. I don't know yet. I gotta see
what fits with my esthetic.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
Yeah, he's got to go shop. Thank you, Nicole, Thank
you for being here with us. It was great to
talk with you.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Good to see Nicole.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
You bye bye.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
I still want to have my tarot cards read in
that room.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
She definitely should.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
She could just open up her garage and yeah, it
would probably become the store that she was talking about.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
She should do.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
She just opened the garage door, put out a sign
and people would start coming and she's got and she's.
Speaker 1 (54:38):
Got to get together and do a podcast act.
Speaker 4 (54:42):
That would be a first season to Panga Nicole Tom
hanging out and do a terrot reading.
Speaker 6 (54:47):
Ye.
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Speaker 3 (55:30):
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So right, are your birthdays coming up?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
We all know your birthdays, which leads me to ask
a brother, which is, hey, you don't get to talk
directly to us, Danielle, what is the best birthday present
you've ever gotten?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
In your O?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My wife, I guess this was my fortieth birthday, so
oh god.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Six years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Had a vinyl album made for me and asked family
and friends of mine to each contribute a song. And
so what I ended up getting was a two record
set of songs with liner notes explaining why everyone picked
their song.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
That's cool and it was one of.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
The So I have this record and you know she
printed it, so it has like pictures from our life
on it and me on it. And then I open
it up and yeah, there's like a little message from
people in my life saying this song. Here's why I
picked it because of this memory, or because this always
makes me think of you, or I knew you would
like this song, or whatever you know you introduced me.
But everyone had their own reason why they picked a
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song they picked. But yeah, it's truly like I mean,
I just fell apart and bald opening it up, and
then I can still pull it out and put it
on and hear a whole collection of the It's such
a great gift. Yeah, so that was by far, like
one of the coolest, most thoughtful, and you know, it
still goes on, Like I can still listen to it
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and still get back into that mindset.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, how about you. Anybody else got a favorite gift?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, probably the gift that stands out the most of
me is my godfather for my sixteenth birthday gave me
my car. So I still have my Selica, my eighty
six Selica. So when I was a gift, Yeah, that
was a gift. It was a gift from my uncle Fred,
who's no longer here, who was the nicest guy in
the world.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And yeah, he gave me my car, which again it's.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Still huge, so cute.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That was a good one. He was a great guy.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Is my dad's college roommate, and he was my godfather
when I was born and he was just a wonderful man.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And yeah, so still have it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And part of this is like because not even because
the gift itself was so amazing, it was the way
the gift was done was so memorable. When we were
living it was like the first year we were living
in our new house in Calabasas, so I was probably
twelve or maybe thirteen at the most. My mom for
my birthday did a scavenger hunt where you know, there
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was like the first present and then there was a
clue to go find the next present somewhere in the
house or somewhere else, and I had to go find it.
And the gifts were just like little things that got
progressively bigger, and they ended with a Commodore sixty four. Compute.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yeah, Commodore sixty four. Commoore, me too, did YouTube. We
all had commodorees.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
They were the best.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh my god, and it was so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But like I remember the scavenger hunt of it all.
One of the reasons I remember the scavenger hunt to
is because my mom had this pair of shoes that
I loved that were like black snake skin and they
were they dipped down really low and showed a lot
of tow cleavage, and I loved them. I wanted them
so bad, even though I had nowhere at thirteen to
wear toe cleavage snakeskin shoes, but I loved them. My
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mom put a clue in one of those shoes under
you know, under the dining room table or whatever. And
I thought that was the big gift that she was
giving me the shoes. I was like, She's like, no,
that's still my I'm just putting a clue in it
because I know you love them.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
But I just went tow cleavage or was out a thing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I think it's a thing I did not. Okay, no,
I'm sure I've heard them somewhere before. Anyway, that was
probably my best.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It's like a full experience. To make it a whole
treasure hunt is so cool. We've done that for India
a few times, like different different special occasions. We've had like, yeah,
clues that we hired and it's so fun.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, my parents did that. Once I got to the end,
there was nothing there. They're like, yeah, life disappoints you.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh God, life less.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Happy birthday, Happy birthday son. That never happened for I know,
I know, you know, we know your parents well enough.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
To never do that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
They would never do that, not to the baby of
the family, not to me.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Will will change. We put them on a bus and
send them to New York.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
It smokes.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Make some money for this family.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I had to fly. I hadn't spread my wings and fly.
It's just the way.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Welcome to Pod meets World.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I'm Daniel Fishal, I'm right or strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
As a child actor, you hire an agent, missed school
sit an endless freeway traffic audition for judge strangers, and
in turn more knows than door to door room temperature
salmon salesman. That's even mean you don't know about the
temperature room temperature salmon salesman.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I did not. I was unaware that this was a profession.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Surprise. Now imagine the results of this career path somehow
doesn't end in disappointment like a large percentage of your competition. Instead,
you end up starring in a hit sitcom and become
part of the expansive Beethoven cinematic universe, which, let's be honest,
is as close to young actor royalty as you can get.
She grew up on sets alongside her twin brother, who
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also somehow established an amazing career, both as a child
and ever since. She was around for the summer blockbuster
era and the days when a staggering fifteen million viewers
barely got her show than nanny to crack Nielsen's Top twenty.
She's best known as Maggie Sheffield, the older sister that
Fran Fine aka Fran Dresher was hired to look after,
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but has since been on shows like Masters of Sex,
Criminal Minds, and Good American Family. Oh, she's also super Girl.
But now she's here talking to us about all of
those memories. So this week on pod Meets World, let's
say hello to Nicole Tom.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Hello, why who?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
How are you? Good to see you?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Nice to see all of you. I'm looking at everybody's backdrop,
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Mean, you have so much going on in yours.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You look like you're in a place where they would
give psychic readings. Do you do tarot card readings out
of there?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
No? And I've never been given the deck.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Either or this is a missed opportunity I know.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
And my friends actually I have two friends that have
their own, uh Tarot cards. Yeah, and they have actual photos.
Like so weird that you would mentioned tarot cards like
a psychic.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I feel like you need to have your own eight
hundred number at the bottom of.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Your stream right now.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I would totally call you for a psychic breathing, right,
miss Tom yeah, see I like this.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
You should have just come in sideways going past lives.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
The crystal balls. I mean, it's just gorgeous.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Is this your house? Sorry to keep harping on it,
is this your house?
Speaker 6 (07:29):
It's just beautiful my crafting garage.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Nice?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
I just I love this.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It's really crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
It's very cool looking. Honestly, I really like this.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
It's nice. But yeah, and you guys, I mean the
two boys they have, you know, Will and right they
you guys.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Have a lot going on, dark and stormy, dark and
stormy back there, yeah, both of them. Will's in a
batcave and and writers in a in a book dungeon. Uh. Yeah,
Mine is to be a little brighter because I also
have to use it for QVC, so wow QVC. Yeah,
I have a haircare line and we sell on QVC,
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so I sometimes I have to do it from zoom
when I can't make it all the way out to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Everything behind Danielle is currently for sale.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Exactly would be dazzled Voss water.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I just got this at the Dancing with the Stars
twentieth anniversary party.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
One these pears on the.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Oh, look at that you do?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wait?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Are those pears yeah, yeah, cool.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
This is my my Pears chandelier.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
That did you make that whole chandelier?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
I did I make crazy chandeliers?
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Wow? Do you have a business doing this?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I just do it for fun. I mean I am
going to be selling some stuff on my friend's website.
Yeah WTF dot com?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Okay, when where can Well? I want to send everyone
to this also me. I want I want to I
want an early advanced link because I want to buy
one of your crazy chandeliers.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Well, I mean, I've just been This year has been nuts,
I'm sure for buddy, but yeah, I'm not. I'm just
now getting back into like I'm going to be taking
some photos of some of my you know, artwork at
an art show earlier on in the year. The chandeliers
in there, there's a cactus one that I sold. I
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don't know if you can see it. There's a lot
going on.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I do see that cactus now that you've pointed it out.
That's so cool.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
But I'm going to put a partridge in this Paris
chandelier for Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yeah, so let's jump in. I want to talk about
your Hollywood origin story. You were raised in Illinois, right
with your twin brother David, and you both have the
dream of acting in Hollywood. So how did that dream
my older sister Heather of course, and your sister as well,
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how did it all come about? Who started it? Who
raised their hand and said I want to go to Hollywood?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Oh gosh, my mom probably.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Okay, yeah, first and foremost an adult, yes.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
But well we started off in Chicago in oak Park,
which is, you know, home of Einstein. And then my dad,
my dad was a stockbroker, and the stock market crashed, uh,
and so we had to skip town, and so we
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went to the Seattle. My dad went to Settle and
it was still a stockbroker there. And my mom was
always like, really into She always wanted to be an actress.
And she was really good too, I mean, she was beautiful,
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but she never, like her parents always wanted her to
be a teacher.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Yeah, she went to the school to be a teacher,
and she was a speech therapist. But she brought the
arts into her teaching, like by doing puppet shows and
she made her own puppets, which I think I is
where I got my craftiness from. Now all of her
puppets are my Christmas ornaments that is so cool.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So that's cool.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
All scary because you know some of them, you know
they're from a long time ago and it's just the heads.
But it's just heads, like in the.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Tree Christmas horror film old Christmas decor is. I don't
know why it was all so creepy looking. We had
a lot, We have a lot of my mother in
law's old christ Missus dolls and my husband's like, oh,
these are so beautiful and I'm like, no, they're not.
You just have nostalgia for them, but they are terrifying.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Yeah. Their paper mache, which is really cool. I would
love to learn how to paper mache.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Okay, no, I no, I know how to do absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Back in the day, I mean I was like, I
remember making yet to make a paper mache like volcano
that would work for school and stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's a YouTube video
that could show you how to paper mache. Yeah yeah,
especially since you're so crafty, I think you pick it
up real fast.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
I would totally be interested in that YouTube video anyways. Okay,
so we moved to Seattle and we we stayed there
for two years. My mom became an assistant or like
chanced toed the phone at an agency, the Lala Holloway Agency.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
I remember that name.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Met my Uh, this guy Michael who was really who
was a commercial agent. He was he was an agent
there and then he he would always come down to
California for pilot season, like when there was a pilot season,
and uh, he was like, oh you should. And we
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were always us kids. We were always in acting class.
But I was kind of a shy child and sort
of you know, I guess maybe in my own world
a little bit. I like to I like to make
believe and climb trees with my hamster and and that
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I was in like a different land in my treehouse
and the come up with and I actually made like
a fort underneath the house, which I'm like, I can't
believe I did that. Yeah, because there's no way I
would go underneath my house now. I used to in Seattle. Anyways,
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my mom always thought that I was really shy and
but uh and so she but my brother and my
sister were really the outgoing and they loved that they
were like they booked commercials and like they were really
cute kids. And I like had a perm and braces
and was sort of awkward, you know, kind of finding
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myself as we do. Yeah, and so I mean I
never booked a commercial or anything. And so it was
really my brother and my sister that that. Uh Michael
was like, oh, well, you know, they should come down
for pilot season to to you know, check it out,
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see see what happens, and you can stay with me
in his studio apartment with his cat Twinkle Posts, oh
my god, who was actually nicknamed Tinkletoes because coupeed on everything.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
And anyways, so my mom did that and she brought
my She brought my brother and my sister because they were,
you know, booking commercials and everything. And uh, for the
she pretty much abandoned me, you and your.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Dad in Seattle, Seattle.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
But it was fine, No, she didn't. I'm just joking.
And uh, my my sister ended up well. First it
was my brother that booked a play during pilot season,
which was half good with Judy Davis. And and then
my sister booked Who's the Boss. But she was the
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first Danny Pintaro's first kiss.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
A cool.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
But they kept booking things. It kept them, it kept us,
you know, them down in California. Longer, and then finally
my mom, you know, was came back and got me.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
She's like, I want to go pick up Nicole.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah. And things weren't all that great, you know, between
my mom and my dad, they were you know, going
through some yeah, hard times. Okay, so uh it just
it the more that we started. Then I was put
into acting class where and my sister and my brother
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were put into acting class as well, where I met.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Writer a Space Shiloh and like pretty much anybody who
was working as a child back in the day with
Diane Harden and Eckstein who were then became managers.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
And but I was put into acting class for like
three years before I was even sent out for anything
because they just you know, it was like they kind
of thought that I was a shy. I mean when
I was brought down to California, I uh, I I
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sort of you know, I would go out at night
and like climb into the stairwell at the oak Woods
and just like daydream like fifle.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Woods that happened at the oak Woods.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And did you, I mean, did you want to act?
Or so you did? Okay.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
We used to put on plays back in Seattle. We
have this Muppet Book. Do you know if the book
it's the Great Muppet Book. It was great, and it
had like all of the Muppets scenes like in it
where Kermit says this, and you know miss Piggy says that,
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and then in Gonzo, and I was I was always
the initiator of like, oh, let's do let's do one
of the plays from uh, the Muppet Book.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
And so.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I was always interested in it. But I don't think
that my I mean the people they didn't really see
it in you.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Weren't the most obvious choice.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Right, because I was kind of shy, shy.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
In your own in your own world.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
Yeah, and so Gary Spats, I wasn't. Were you having
Gary Spats's class writer?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
No, well he uh he was in contact with Judy Savage,
who was our first agent. Was she your first agent?
Not my?
Speaker 5 (19:03):
She was writer's first agent. She was not my first agent.
I was with Kelman Arletta first, but then when I
was when I was on Boy Meets World, then I
signed with.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Yeah, she had everybody.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
She's the greatest.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Yeah, I love.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
So when you did start acting, did you find yourself
competitive with your siblings at all? Or No?
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I never was I don't. I don't think so, because
my sister was always We're so different. I mean me
and my sister com completely different. My sister, uh, I
mean she's I guess maybe I'm like a big kid
at heart.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I really as will that's me.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Yeah, but I am, you know, I embraced that. I
love I have to like very young energy. My sister
has always been like the older sister, you know, the
matriar arch of the family. He's just always been more serious.
And she was the firstborn, right, Yes, yeah, that's that
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kind of you.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
You have that kind of archetype where it's the firstborn
always tends to take on the responsible role and there
they are adults from the time that they're you know,
even kids, they embrace being an adult at an early age.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I think that's that's pretty normal. My brother's like.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
That too, Yeah, your older brother.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, my oldest brother. He instantly took that kind of
adult role right away.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
So how shortly after you end up making your way
out to LA and you're staying at the oak Woods,
how shortly after do you start guest starring on shows
like Fresh Prince in Beverly Hills nine O two one.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Oh well, okay. So I was put into acting class
for three years and then finally somebody believed in me
and they're like, you know what, she's ready, she's ready out.
And thank god that they did wait for me, because
I probably wasn't ready to start auditioning, you know. And
then when I did, I my my first audition was
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for I'll Fly Away, which was a TV show and
I went to network on it. I was like, God,
this is but I didn't get it. And and then
my second audition was for Beethoven. Second audition, Yeah, and
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I auditioned. I auditioned a few times for that, and god,
it was I started everything because uh then I then
after that I auditioned for but then you know, the
Fresh Prince came along. And it's so random, though, because
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there's so many weird connections in my life. My sister's
first job, Who's the Boss. The people from Who's the Boss,
Rob Sterning and Prudence Frasier, they were the showrunners or
I think they were the showrunners of Who's the Boss.
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But then they moved onto The Nanny and they were
creators with Fran and Peter for The Nanny. So it's
like there's that Weird Connection and then the Fresh Prince.
When I got or when I got Beethoven. The wardrobe
stylist was Terry and I can't remember her last name
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right now. Uh, but she was the wardrobe stylist on
The Nanny, the first one. She worked with Brenda Cooper
and then Fresh Prince of bel Air. The director of
the episode that I was in, Uh, Lee Challotte.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, Lee Challett, Cemo, Lee Challettchmo's great. Yeah, she's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Yeah. She directed the first full season of The Nanny.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Oh wow, so everything ended up leading toward The Nanny.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lee's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
She's you know, she's also at the time, especially back
in the day, was one of the few female sitcom directors.
And I had the honor of working with her once
and she was just she found jokes where they're just
weren't any and knew exactly how to block everything.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
She was really phenomenal at her job.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
She was. I absolutely loved Darnee. I can't believe that
they that they hired me. I auditioned nine times for
The Nanny.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Oh my gosh. Wait, before we get into The Nanny,
I still want to talk about Beethoven. I want everyone
to know. It's a Saint Bernard fronted blockbuster family movie.
It made almost a hundred and fifty million dollars dog dollars. Wow,
Now you're acting with Charles Groden, Bonnie Hunt, Stanley Tucci,
and yes, an adorably big dog. People always say to
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never work with kids and animals. Now you were a
kid at the time. So what was it like filming
with a dog.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
But it was like a dream come true. Yeah, I
mean it just was a dream come true because I
just love animals so much. I've always loved animals, like
you know, from my Hamsters to my poodles. Just I,
where is mister Potts, mister Patts?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Who's that Potts?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Mister Potts is my poodle hole.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
He's so cute, mister Pratt.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It's so cute. He's a little star.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yeah, yeah, you can tell. Yeah, not as big as Beethoven.
But did when So while you were doing Beethoven, did
you ever expect it to be as big of a
movie as it was?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
No, I did, no good.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, like I I was just having fun like I
used to. I became really good friends with Jason Wrightman.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, sure, steal the.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Golf carts and go like writing around on the golf
carts on the lot, which was like, I mean, it's
just it's like every kid's stream to be able to
was snuck into Universal Studios and.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Yeah, I remember when you could figure out how that
area was.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, and now and and just to be able to.
I mean I always wanted to, you know, take over
an amusement park as a kid.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I've done it, you have, I did.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I did my I was on Nickelodeon at the time,
and they were opening Universal Studios in Florida, and so
the show I was on, the four hosts and I
they sent us down there six weeks before the park opened,
and every day our job was just to go to
the empty park and ride all the rides and film.
They filmed this while doing it. So my three friends
and I had an amusement park to ourselves for like
almost six weeks.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh you could just ride all the rides over and
over to the point where we were sick of them,
where it was like I can't believe I have to
go on et ninety three times again. Today. It was
it was really it was truly amazing, but about Beethoven.
I have a question because Charles Groden is like one
of my favorite actors of all time and in my opinion,
should be on the list of the most underrated actors
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of all time.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
What was it like working with him?
Speaker 6 (26:33):
It was? It was amazing, Like I mean, I had
no idea that he he actually I think he said
in some interview that he should the two things that
you should never do or work with animals or kids.
But when I worked with them, and it was like
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just a it was he was so kind, oh cool,
like it was a only an experience, the whole the
whole thing, like working with the animals. And I remember
one time. I don't know how he felt about about
this one moment that we had, but they used to
you know, they built the entire home of Beethoven's house
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on the sound stage, and so it was kind of
like lifted up off of the off of the ground,
so there was like a ledge around the house, and
then the house was built on top of it. So
there's like this, uh, the edge of the ledge where
the director like caught called a meeting for everybody to
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you know, sit in. I think it was like a
safety meeting. Might have been the safety meeting. It was
like right when we first started working, and Charles Gruden
was sitting on the edge with his like feet dangling
off of it, and I was standing behind him kind
of just like you know, playing with his hair and stuff,
(28:03):
and and the director was talking to us and explaining
what was going to be going on for the day.
And I looked down at at his hair and I
noticed like this, uh, this netting, and so I immediately
(28:26):
stopped playing with it. But he probably was so like,
what is she doing?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Get your hands out of my head?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Why you don't work with kids or aim.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Kids. You never said anything about it. He never had
been like flenched.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Right, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It was like, yea, it must have been like a
pretty tedious set for the adults. I mean, because how
many dolls dogs did you guys actually have?
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Do you remember the first one? There was like two
hundred and fifty different dogs, and then the Yeah, well
the puppy Beethoven kept on growing growing up by the day. Yeah, so,
and so that in the second the second movie, there
were so many dogs because they puppies grow fast.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
What an insane set?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Oh my god, you had no idea.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It was probably an insane set, but you were just
totally in it and having the best time.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Yeah, And well you couldn't, you couldn't, you know, just
go up and pet Beethoven. He had his own dressy groom,
his own like air conditioner. Yeah, and the same trainer
who trained the animals for Babe.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah. Pack in the City. We love that movie.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's a big one for us here.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Oh man, yeah, I can't. That's a lot of dogs
to have around you. And you're right, they do grow
all the time.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But that's got to just be crazy to not actually,
because all you'd want to do if I'm around two
hundred fifty puppies, I want to land the ground and
I want to have them cover me with kisses.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So the idea that you can't do that would would
suck a little bit.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Yeah. And they always smelled like baby food too. Whenever
they would get you know, whatever Beethoven had to kiss
us or or anything, they would put it chicken baby food,
but behind our ear and then they you know, they
would then I think you're.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
The one who smells like Beethoven.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, hole first.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
So yes, yeah, maybe it was.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And it's still it's one of the greatest sequel titles ever.
Beethoven Second is truly one of the best, the best
titles for any sequel that has ever happened.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's phenomenal.
Speaker 8 (31:04):
I'm Kristin Davis, host of the podcast Are You a Charlotte?
The most anticipated guest from season three is here the
Tray to My Charlotte. Kyle McGlaughlin joins me to relive
all of the magical Tray in Charlotte moments. He reveals
what he thinks of Trey giving Charlotte a cardboard baby.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Why would I bring her a cardboard baby? I was
literally I was like, this doesn't track for me at all.
Speaker 8 (31:30):
When he found out Trey's shortcomings, I'm.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Kind of excited to talk about.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
You know.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
I think he's he's a guy spends time in Central Park.
You know, he's probably, don't know, be some surgery stuff,
you know. And I was like, all this kind of
stuff going on, and they were like yeah, yeah, yeah, fine,
and they said, but he's impotent, and I was.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
Like, he's impotent and why he chose not to return
to it?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
Just like that.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
They came and presented an idea and I was like,
I get I see it.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It's so kind of a one joke idea.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
You don't want to miss this. Listen to Are you
a Charlotte on the iheartrate you app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
So at this point, now you're in like the biggest
family movie of the year. What was the reaction like
back at home where you had to escape Illinois after
a stark market crash.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Oh my gosh, I'm such an overshare. That's why I
don't do many podcasts. It was it was, uh, you know,
because I was. I didn't really change. I've always been.
I've always just wanted friends like so much. I went
(32:44):
to the same junior high and in high school, I
went to South Past Junior High. Okay, and uh, oh gosh,
you know who else went to that that same high school?
H Well Edward for Long Oh, Okay, Edward for Along
(33:06):
went there. And Julia White, yes there, Hilary Swank actually
lived with my family first came down, and Sadie Kretsik.
I mean it was really it was jam packed in
the students. Like after we started working, we moved into
(33:27):
a one, like a two bedroom apartment in South Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Wait, I'm sorry, how many how how many of you
were in the studio apartment with this one guy?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
It was me. I slept on a chair for six months.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Oh my gosh, as a child. How old were you?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
My brother, my sister Sadie came down with us, and
Michael and the cat, you know, uh my poodle at
the time, Brandy.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So there's there's like six people and two animals in
your mind. Okay, so seven people and two animals in
a studio apartment.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yes, wow, it was crazy. And then you know, Michael
was an agent, so he was submitting people for auditions
and so and back in the day you had to
mail everything, so there were a million headshots like just everywhere.
You know, you have to put them in the envelopes
(34:32):
and label them all. We were kind of like, you know,
we were. It was a what is it a line
of assembly, geez, line of mailing out the breakdowns.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
So then you're fifteen when you audition for Maggie Sheffield.
Do you remember the audition for the Nanny?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I remember all of the audition and well most of them.
The first time I met Fran I thought that she
was the casting director. You know, I didn't know anything.
I'd never seen any of her movies, and I remember
going out and talking to my mom and Beetle like
(35:19):
that casting director first boys, Oh my god, Oh my gosh,
I've ever heard that, but it's really hard to you know,
listen to it was like, oh my gosh. Yeah, and
then I found out that that was that was fran
that was the you know, I had no idea and
(35:44):
that's so funny. Yeah, I uh, one time they when
I went in for the audition, I used to wear
a lot of vests and.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That was a big that was a big thing back
in the nineties.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Yeah, vests and like oversized shirts and maybe a bucket
hat here and there.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Oh hat hat, like a blossom hat.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh that's a bucket hat.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Okay, yeah, this was.
Speaker 6 (36:15):
This is a play that I did with writer.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yes, you got it.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Oh gosh, and this is one of my.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Blossom there. I see that.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
Blossom hat on there. Shiloh has the band, of course,
I mean writers, the most normals.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Not saying something.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, Charlot took off his bowler hat for that.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Photo shoot and it took off his fishing vest.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah, he's probably still wearing the overalls though.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Oh yeah, that was. I don't know when I think that,
how old were we?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It was ninety five, so I would have been fifteen.
I think you're the same age of Shiloh, right, so
you were probably yeah, so yeah, seventeen, you were probably
sixteen or seventeen.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Yeah, So what was the set of The Nanny like?
Was it family friendly? Was it tense? What was it like?
Speaker 6 (37:17):
Gosh, it was I it was Oh, it was my childhood.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You know, we were we were the.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
Definitely, you know, we were the kids show and then
there was the adults and you know, the bosses, and
you know, we were in school and it was always
very right. Oh god, I loved going to the wardrobe
room and fitted for like all of the clothes were
(37:51):
so just amazing, like every single week. I just I
remember that. I remember sitting in the like when the
audience was there, I would go and sit in the
the living room. They have this huge fluffy couch that
was all feathered down and it was it was beautiful.
(38:12):
After the pilot of The Nanny, the set had a
major redo when we when we got picked up, and uh,
this couch was so comfortable. I would love to sit
on it. But the I don't think the stage you know,
(38:33):
the stage guy or the produce stage manager or the
guy who was in charge of the sets and deck
that deck. Yeah, I don't think he didn't like me
sitting on the couch because those those feather down cushions
are so heavy fluff and puff, and then he would
(38:53):
have to fluff and puff it.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Right, and you were like taking a nap on it
every day. Yeah, yeah, but I.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Would like to like kind of sneak into the living
room set was right in front of the audience, but
whenever they weren't in that scene, I would I would
sit like on the stairs and just like watch the
audience and just kind of like in the dark when
the that wasn't lit up. I remember, oh gosh, the
(39:23):
Craft's service was so good.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And that people remember so much from all their shows
and their kids. It's just like how good the Craft
service tables were.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
They would have bagels and locks like every morning, and
you know, that's where I learned that, you know, there's
really everybody has their own way of making their own bagel.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah, oh yeah, very personal thing, very person the bagel make.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Can't have somebody, you know make my bagel for me.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
I know, God, the stuff on it my important stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be the right order.
It's got to be the right amount ratio. The ratio
has to be right.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, like.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
I feel the same way to keep your hands off.
They've got to be done exactly the right way. Yep.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Yeah. When was the last time you watched The Nanny?
Do you have a favorite episode?
Speaker 6 (40:17):
Yeah? Gosh, I I always loved the uh the gym
episode uh where I was with where Rina Moreno was
my gym.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Teacher casting awesome, But.
Speaker 6 (40:35):
Yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. And
then I had to in one of the scenes, I
had to climb up this rope ladder, which I've never
been good at, like ever. I I'm just like, I
don't really have the arm strings. I've got really little
wrists and and I can't like wrap my Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I was very skinny, kid, you warn't an athlete.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
Yeah, so I I didn't have anything to like grasp
the rope with, Like, I don't know how to like
climb up the rope, but they wanted me to like
just slide down the rope too.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Well I had.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Pants on oh good, okay, yeah that can burn.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
But in order to get the shot, they had to
horace me up onto the rope. So I was like
just out of frame. Yeah, my with my legs like
you know, sideway was supposed like when they yelled at
you and supposed to just slide down the rope. Well,
(41:47):
I couldn't get up there out of frame. So actually
Peter Mark Jacobs, Fran's husband.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Came.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
Hoisted me up.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
What is the.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
And like I so he was like holding me up
there on the let on the rope.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
I did Fran's husband need to do this? Why was
there not someone who was a part of production that.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
Could have helped you with this idea? It was like
this should have been like that's what.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Rehearsals for.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Something. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so ridiculous,
like them up there on the on the rope and
he's like holding me up there with his hands and
I'm trying my best to hold on for as long
as it can, and then he like runs out of
frame real quick to get the shot. Wow. It's just
(42:45):
I couldn't stop laughing at one point, but then I,
you know, I got it, Like they did the shot
made it into the episode.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's how long did the Nanny go for? It went
for six years, six seasons?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
Wow, long time.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, and this was it was NBC, right, it was CBS, CBS, CBS, okay, right, right, okay, Yeah,
they had a solid lineup back in the day.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Yeah. You know, truthfully, the a lot of the actors
or you know, the people on the show frightened me
as a child, really really scare me. But totally because
like just because the personalities were so I just like
(43:32):
I looked up to them so much. I had my like,
I just I respected them so much. So that's why
they were I don't know if that makes any sense,
that's why intimidating. Yeah, yeah, I think I was truly intimidated,
and so I was like scared a little bit. Like
(43:56):
but another weird connection is that yet Grandma Yetta is
the mother of Nora Eckstein, who was my acting teacher
at Young Actors Space.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, it all does come from it's actually it seems
like it's a huge business, but it's it's a lot
smaller than you think. Actually, the same kind of people
seem to filter in and out and know each other
and Yeah, it's really interesting.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
Well, you also did Beethoven the second, which we talked
about we had. You had a four episode arc on
Beverly Hills nine O two one oh around the same time,
right in the peak of that phenomenon as well. What
was your experience on that set?
Speaker 6 (44:37):
Like, oh gosh, I was so excited to get that
that part. I had to did my makeup for the
audition because the first time I went in, I was
like sweet because sus Scanlon was good Girl by night
(45:00):
eat bad Girl by day. Some outfits on that show though,
too or just like whoa, I'm like, oh, may A goad.
But yes, working on that set was I was warned,
you know, before I went onto onto the set because
(45:22):
there was there was a lot of drama.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
And dramas a famous.
Speaker 6 (45:28):
Set for that. Yeah, and uh so I was. I
was warned about like arguments, you know, when things. My
brother had actually done. He got a show that didn't
get picked up called Brand New Life, and Jenny Garth
(45:51):
was in that that so I was really looking forward
to seeing her again. I don't know if she I
think she remembered me, yeah, but from the Brand New Life.
But anyway, everybody was really super sweet to me.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
That's good on the set.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
Oh my gosh, I am yeah. I ended up working
with Brian Austin Green and a few movies of the
week after that. Hm.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Hey, it's Wilfred Dell and Sabrina Bryan from the podcast
Magical Rewind, and we have a very special guest on
this week's episode. He's the mastermind behind some of your
favorite movies like Hocus Pocus, Newsy's The Descendants, and of
course High School Musical.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yes, it is the one and only a living legend
director Kenny or Tega.
Speaker 10 (46:47):
We sit down with Kenny to talk about his incredible
career and the legacy he's created with his choreography and films.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
You seriously will not want to miss this one.
Speaker 10 (46:55):
Listen to Magical Rewind on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your pot.
Speaker 6 (47:01):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (47:02):
It's Jenny Garth, host of the I Choose Me podcast.
Speaker 8 (47:05):
This week, I'm so excited to welcome my friend Gabrielle
carteris the Andrea Zuckerman from Beverly Hills nine o two
on Oho to the pod.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
We're Choosing to Get Real.
Speaker 5 (47:16):
I applied to the networks about my age and contracts.
Speaker 6 (47:19):
They never would have hired me if they had known
my age.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
We're choosing to be honest.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
She looked at me, and she said, this business is
about the mask, which.
Speaker 6 (47:26):
You have neither of.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
No, we're choosing to get nostalgic.
Speaker 6 (47:29):
Listen to I Choose Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple
podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
Over the years, you've been able to work on projects
with your brother and your sister, Heather. Is that do
you when you guys work together, does it feel like
a dream come true?
Speaker 6 (47:54):
Yeah? I mean, well, I love working with my with
my family, it is. It is fun to get that opportunity.
My sister and I played twins one.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Time, which is ironic.
Speaker 5 (48:06):
Yeah, but with her brother, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
We were on Wedding Bells together, which was a davidy
Kelly show, and we randomly played twins. I think that
my sister and I. I think that my sister and
my brother look more like twins than my brother and I,
which is so random. But and then I worked with
(48:32):
my brother on Criminal Minds.
Speaker 5 (48:35):
Okay, yeah, okay. My last question for you, and it
might be a difficult question because it probably feels like
you have been acting for what feels like many lifetimes.
But if you weren't able to convince your mom to
let you become an actor, what job do you think
you would have had?
Speaker 6 (48:55):
Oh gosh, I've thought about this. I don't know, like
I've I feel like, I mean, as a as a
young kid, I always wanted to be a veterinarian. What
kid doesn't I know? Yeah, But then as I, uh
I grew up, I don't think I could take that
(49:16):
that pain of animal that all the time. But I've
always wanted to. I've always loved putting stuff on, sticking
stuff on stuff.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
The pair.
Speaker 6 (49:36):
I've been sticking stuff to stuff on my entire life.
I love that I have full Like you see those
things right there, Yeah, yeah, yeah, right there, that is
my that's.
Speaker 5 (49:49):
Just little stuff.
Speaker 6 (49:51):
Uh no, that's the larger stuff to stick on stuff, coordinated,
and then I've got the smaller and the medium stuff
to stick on stuff. But I I feel like I
would have my own store of sorts, like like I
would be uh a business, you know.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Like a hobby shop or something like that.
Speaker 6 (50:13):
Yeah, like my own little t shop or oh yeah,
I can see that thing with the that that that
sells like vintage like weird things and I make lamps.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
Yeah, like I I know that it.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
Would be something really creative.
Speaker 5 (50:30):
Yeah, I love this. I still think I still I
think you need to open whatever this is, whatever this
I think you.
Speaker 4 (50:37):
Need to It would look exactly like your room you're
in right now.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
That would be stuff, chandeliers, shop.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
I mean, this is my garage. I love it. I
was thinking about like a podcast. Oh well.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
With me.
Speaker 6 (50:59):
I wouldn't want to silly away from this good thing, but.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
You dare try to take him from us?
Speaker 6 (51:05):
All right, Daniel, she's stolen. It would be like Crime
and Crafting.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Oh, a great idea, idacting so they found Yeah they
found the body partially decomposed with a beautiful riding stone buckle.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
Yeah, as well as you're making something, you know, like
it's needle pointing to me, like sequence on stuff. I
would imagine would be like like needle pointing.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Crime and Crafting is actually a brilliant idea for some.
Speaker 5 (51:41):
Crime and Crafting is a podcast is.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Great so that he doesn't steal it from from you know,
watching that could be the first cover. Yeah, I would
my gosh, it wouldn't it just wouldn't be the same
without me. No, you're right, I'll do it, you know,
like where we talk about crime shows while.
Speaker 5 (52:02):
Working on a project that we have to complete by
the time the episode's over.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
Right.
Speaker 5 (52:06):
Sure, I love this idea. It's a really good idea.
I think we feel we've just helped you workshop this podcast. Nicole,
Thank you so much for being here with us. Where
can people find you? Where can people find this WTF?
You selling your stuff? Where can people go to help
support you and your projects?
Speaker 6 (52:26):
Well? I did just get now. I haven't posted anything
because it's been so busy this this last year because
it's just been crazy, but I did just get the
uh stuff to stick on stuff for Instagram.
Speaker 5 (52:42):
Great.
Speaker 6 (52:44):
But the WTF is what I'm doing with my friend Alana,
where it's just like it's actually it's where to Find
the Weird just one of the kind things. So I'm
gonna start really helping her out with with that site.
Speaker 5 (53:04):
And that's the WTF dot com, Yes, the U t F.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
And then I'm on Instagram, which I haven't posted a
lot because it's just been it's been a really hard year,
but I want to get back into it. And my
Instagram is just under my name, Nicole Tom Yeah, and
I c h O L L E t O M.
(53:30):
I spelled my name of misspelling it my entire life.
Speaker 5 (53:34):
Is that not the way your mom intended it?
Speaker 6 (53:36):
She never corrected me, so maybe the wrong way has
actually been the right way.
Speaker 5 (53:43):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (53:44):
I'd also like to pitch you call it a true
crime podcraft.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Oh wow, I love it.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (53:54):
Just look at for giving you these ideas for free,
so generous.
Speaker 6 (53:59):
Maybe you can help me out of that because I
just like I have nowhere to.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
Well, we'll talk. Chandelier, I get a good chandelier. We'll
figure it out. I have I okay, good, we'll talk
what you like. I don't know yet. I gotta see
what fits with my esthetic.
Speaker 5 (54:13):
Yeah, he's got to go shop. Thank you, Nicole, Thank
you for being here with us. It was great to
talk with you.
Speaker 4 (54:18):
Good to see Nicole.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
You bye bye.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
I still want to have my tarot cards read in
that room.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
She definitely should.
Speaker 3 (54:27):
She could just open up her garage and yeah, it
would probably become the store that she was talking about.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
She should do.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
She just opened the garage door, put out a sign
and people would start coming and she's got and she's.
Speaker 1 (54:38):
Got to get together and do a podcast act.
Speaker 4 (54:42):
That would be a first season to Panga Nicole Tom
hanging out and do a terrot reading.
Speaker 6 (54:47):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
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