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May 8, 2026 14 mins

In this exclusive Bonus chat, Holly and Sophia Bush unpack the making of their wild new comedy, "Broad Trip," including their chaotic experience with a monster truck and embarrassing Celine Dion moment that they may never live down.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress. High
Whip Smarties, Welcome back. We are picking up where we
left off with the iconic Lauren Holly. We're going to

(00:20):
talk all about our new movie, broad Trip, which premieres
on Roku this Friday. I cannot wait for you to
learn about the shenanigans we shared up in Canada. I
want to give the fans a little bonus on our film.
I'm so excited it comes out on Friday. It's on Roku.

(00:41):
The movie is called broad Trip. Two Broad's on a
trip and it just from the moment it landed in
my inbox, I laughed out loud through the entire thing.
You know, I just I read it so fast. Can
you tell the people little bit about what the movie

(01:01):
I want to expect.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, it's a mother daughter road trip and the point
of the road trip is for the daughter to convince
the mom that she should not marry this new guy
that's in her life, because you know, the mom is
kind of wild and doesn't really think things through. And

(01:26):
it's sweet and it's just I mean, we're supported by
two great guys too. You both have sort of love
focused relationships in this movie. They're both great, and it's
just it's fun. It's fun in the week of a
road trip. Where were we driving from Saint Louis to Buffalo? Yeah? Right,

(01:48):
because my character wanted to get married in Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, it's so cute. Yeah, that speech kills me. I
won't give that away for our friends at home. But
I think one of the things I really loved about
it is it's a true rom com and the love
relationship that needs figuring out is us right, and I
love it as a central dynamic. And then it was

(02:14):
so sweet that there are these these secondary storylines for
each of our gals, each of us that.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Are making us realize things about each other.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yes, And it's like, I'm trying to get you to
be less in my character's definition, you know, flighty and nuts,
and you're trying to get me to loosen up and
not be so serious. Yeah, like take a chance, take
a risk, kiss a guy who cares. Yeah, And it's
so I don't know, it's really special. I think to

(02:44):
see a comedy that lets the women be the leads
in this way, and I love that it's a mom
and daughter, but it's also in an interesting way it's
an intergenerational friendship because you're trying to teach me from
your perspective, and I think that I have things to
teach you from mine. And it's it's so damn charming.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's very charming, very fun definitely a laugh. Yeah, the
script is very funny.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh my god, oh my god. To Chelsea, she just unbelievable.
And I think my favorite day on set when she
was visiting was when she actually pulled up photos of
her family walked us through, you know what certain nods
were in the movie, even your animal print coat.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Have to walk people through a little preview of your
wardrobe because to your point from the last segment, the
character is so defined by the clothes and you committed,
like you just went hardened the paint for her and
I love it. So how did it happen?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
We all did though, Ye. That was the thing that
was also I think the special sauce about this movie
be is that it required everybody who came in to
just go for it. You know. Steve Gutenberg did that too,
Like he came in late, we were already we had
this whole vibe going, and he just jumped right in

(04:16):
both feet and was like, yeah, don't do this too,
and like that. That whole thing was just it was
just really good. And for my character, you know, we
would have the wardrobe fittings and it was just kind
of like, oh, more more print, more lace, more flounce,
more whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
More necklaces. Yes, so I mean you guys. Every night
I wrapped, it was like okay, you'd have to get
your hair off your neck and we would just sit
there and unclasp. I mean what like twelve to fifteen
necklaces a night.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh, of course, all the jewelry, all the even the
amount of hair they put on my head.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh, it was great, so fun, and it was crazy
because you'd get in the chair in the morning looking
like you and then it was like the montage where
the person in the hairchair spins around and then it
was I dream of Genie just like a boufont and
curls everywhere, and oh it was so great. I also

(05:14):
because some people asked me what motivated me in the
calendar year anyway last year to cut my hair into
a bob and it was our movie.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
But it worked so well.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Oh I needed an hr lady bob for sure.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
It was perfect and that thextaposition of the two of
us as mother daughter was like.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, oh it was great. And by the way, I
don't particularly prefer myself with short hair. I prefer my
long hair. But I was like, this woman has to
have Alice has to have like an uptight little short haircut.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's like perfect little Yeah, you were good.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, we really needed it something that And I hope
this comes off as funny as I mean it and not,
you know, critically, but to for our listeners to Lauren's
point about how the industry has changed, and I mentioned
in our last segment that things get a bit squeezed.

(06:14):
You don't have one hundred and eleven days and for
global locales to shoot a movie anymore, we really had
to do a lot of creative work to get this
thing done on time. And as she mentioned, this is
a road trip movie. A lot of this movie takes
place in a car, and when you film scenes in

(06:36):
a car as two actors, it's obviously not safe. She's
rolling her eyes. It's obviously not safe to have the
actors who are acting piloting the vehicles with cameras attached
to them everywhere. So you get on a thing called
a process trailer. It's a single car trailer that's being
towed behind. You know, usually it's a big sort of

(06:57):
white truck that has seats on the for the crew.
And when we showed up to the first of our
two biggest process trailer days, yes, the truck pulling our
process trailer was like it was the skipper to a
barbie doll of a monster truck from a monster truck rally.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Let's be honest, it was a monster truck. It was
a monster truck that was like the loudest monster truck
in the world.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I've never heard a muffler like that, and like I'm
a classic car kid, I have never heard And I
just remember when they fired it up, seeing our sound
mixer with his earphones on getting everything set for us
to drive away with mics, and I saw a little
head pop up and.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Up.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
What's going on? And we had to get towed around
by this car and do all of our scenes. We
could barely hear each other.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
We could barely hear each other. We're lip reading, and.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
All they had in the edit was this like and
so we had to adr We had to do dialogue
replacement for every single scene in the I.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Have never when I got the call that said that
I had like one hundred and ten cues. Normally I
would say maybe fifteen cues, fifteen to thirty, Okay, I'll
give you thirty if there's like crowd scenes or something.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah yeah, or a restaurant or whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Many It was like, how is this? And then they
wanted me to do it in one day? And I
was like, how is that even gonna be possible? But
I did it was.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
It was just so funny and we knew And that
was one of those moments too where I was like, oh,
not only do I like acting with you, I like
being around you, because I know plenty of people who
would have flipped out and been like, I'm not doing this,
I'm not shooting it. It won't be usable. And you and
I looked at each other and we were like, here
we go, sister, We're just gonna get it done while

(09:06):
we fixing this later. It was so funny. We were
also required to do some singing in this film.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah. That didn't go well for me me neither No, no,
not good. They should never require me to do that ever.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Again, I agree, here's the thing. I can sing, but
not I cannot sing Celene Dion, No one, but Celine
Dion can sing Celene Deon.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, Well, I especially cannot sing Celine Dion because I
can't sing like row row row your boat, So going
to Celine Dion is just a whole other thing.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah. I was like, this is a dirty trick.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, it's a dirty trick. And by the way, I
heard my voice what I was actually doing in production
on the day, and it's it's not good. It's not good.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Our defense. We were screaming over a monster truck, so
it's not totally our fault. I did appreciate that. Our
wonderful director, at least when I was doing ADR was like,
you should intentionally try to sing this off key, like
make it be bad. Alice wouldn't know how to do this,
but I was like, okay, but really, as a performer,
I like to hit my mark and find my light

(10:21):
and I don't like to not do it. Well, so
FA can really sing.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh yeah, they're not saying that about Laurence, so don't worry.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Well, don't worry, they're not going to say it about
me in this movie either. I love it. And now
for our sponsors, well, I'm so thrilled our project is
out in the world. I'm so thrilled for everyone at
home to get to see it. Also, we want to

(10:49):
make as many sequels as our writer is willing to
write for us.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yes, so please watch it, like, just put it on
over and over, even if you're not in the room.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh, I love that. Just just start restart right when
you get to the end post it.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I will do that. I have multiple televisions. I'll put
it on all just trying to help.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
H I love that. That's like what I do when
my friends have music come out, is I just I
stream on every single device in the house.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
It helps, I think it really does.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
And it helps you know when people when people share
about it, tag us in all your favorite moments from
the movie. Please we can't wait to see Okay, my love,
I have to ask you my favorite and final question
for all my people. I'm curious from the amazing spectrum
of you know, life and work and love and everything
in your world right now, what feels like you're work

(11:42):
in progress?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Probably writing?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Mmm?

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Writing? Because I'll never master it. That's kind of the
great thing about writing. It's always a work in progress.
There's always something you can do better.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, like that. It's interesting. You know, I've never written.
I've not written a script. I've done polishes on things,
I've rewritten scenes, but I've never sat and really written
a script.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
One of the most proud days I ever had was
when I got into the writer's guilt for actually selling
a script. Like I was very like, very proud of that.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, that's huge. Yeah, it's one of those things. I
think I need to confront a little bit of fear there.
And I understand, you know, the because you're right, you
can't really master it. And I always have a little anxiety,
you know, when I'm working on an article or an
abed or something, I go, is it enough? I have
I connected all the dots well enough? Well? This really

(12:45):
hit for people. Am I making my points as clearly
as I want to be and also with some kind
of empathy?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Are you the same way as an actor?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I can be If I don't get out of my
own way as an actor, I can really make myself
a little bit of a basket case.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Because I think I'm way more precious about writing. Like
it's so nerve racking to me. It's so nerve wracking
to me when people are about to read it. Yeah,
I just go through a lot. I feel very vulnerable,
much more than acting, where y'all like lay my soul bare,
and somehow doing that is enough. But writing, it's the

(13:27):
judgment I worry about.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Strange. Well, there's also something I wonder for us as actors.
We're so used to trying a spectrum of options until
we find just the right balance. And when you write something,
you put it on the page, and then it's on
the page. There's no second or third take. There's no

(13:49):
do a throwaway. See what happens? You know there? There
isn't another option to express It's just the typeface. And
that is hard for me.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
See I you'd even say that it makes me nervous.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, I know. It's it's like it's horrible, Like it's
too much pressure. I'll read your writing.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Finishing something and sending it to someone to read it
is just it takes a certain amount of courage for me.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Mm hmmm, Oh this.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
Is just so fun. I love you too.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Bye, my love bye.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Friends. Make sure you see broad Trip on Roku this Friday,
and learn more about the incredible Holly Family Fund at
the link in the episode notes for this podcast
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