May 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Actress Brandi Burkhardt shares her journey from pageantry to acting, discussing how playing various characters ultimately led her to discover her authentic self. She reflects on her education at NYU's Strasberg program, her television roles including Heart of Dixie, and exciting projects like her upcoming music EP.
• Started as a shy child who entered pageants to fulfill her princess dreams
• Studied method acting at NYU's Tisch School where she had to overcome her polite upbringing
• Played Cricket on Heart of Dixie, filming on Warner Brothers' famous backlot
• Performed motion capture for Red Dead Redemption as a "zombie prostitute"
• Flew as Mary Poppins for Julie Andrews' lifetime achievement ceremony
• Stars alongside Paul Rudd in the upcoming buddy comedy "Friendship" (releasing May 9th)
• Features in "Rosemary Street," a web series highlighting Baltimore's art and music scene
• Releasing her EP "Just Like This" with the first single dropping June 1st
Check out Brandi’s new EP "Just Like This" on all streaming platforms starting this summer!
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Hello and welcome to Entertain this.
It's a podcast about movies, tvshows and video games.
My name is Tom.
With me I have Mitch and wedon't have Hayden, but in place
of Hayden we have BrandiBurkhart.
Hi how are you Brandi?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm good Excited to be here with you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule
to be on our little show.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I'm excited to talk about some things.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I see here American television and film
actress some music background, Ibelieve, and former Miss New
York.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm from the state of New.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
York.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Back in pageantry days.
Was that the first part of yourcareer?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
you know, I was always a very shy child but I
wanted to be a princess.
I think a lot of little girlsdo, so that was my way in to
being a princess.
And then I realized, when I gotcomfortable on stage and came
out of my shell a little, Irealized, oh, I really love
acting and singing especially.
But it's been funny because myjourney through acting has kind
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of it's taken trying ondifferent roles to really find
myself, which is excitingbecause I have a music project
coming out that's kind of feelsmore like me than I've ever felt
before.
So yeah, and I've, I've dabbledin quite a few arenas.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's awesome.
I mean, my nieces definitelylove being princesses.
Ava, the youngest, she wants tobe a starfish.
She likes to lay on the groundspread out.
She goes like Uncle Thomas, I'ma starfish.
And then she just throwsherself and just stares at you
and you like okay, Ava, same.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean starfish, I mean that could be cool.
I think they like lay aroundand eat which?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
you know who doesn't love that?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
sounds like her, yeah , and then I always wanted to be
a mermaid too, which eventuallythen I got to play a mermaid on
tv.
So you know, you don't know,maybe she'll play a starfish one
day that's my daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
She's got pretty much a Disney princess dress for
each one of them, and then she'sgot her mermaid tail to be like
Ariel and all that kind ofstuff.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Does she make you guys play princess and you guys
have to be the villains?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
There's one princess called Elena from Avalor or
something on Disney, and sheloves doing the little sword
fighting.
They do fencing, but it's likea TV show, then she'll make me
sit down and she'll paint myfingernails and stuff.
It's bad when you forget and goto order some food or something
like that at a drive-thru andthey look at you and they go.
(02:57):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's like I have kids .
Leave me alone.
That happened once.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was like oh, never mind, that's so sweet, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Mitch, you look like you're about to say something.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I was going to say.
So, from what I've you know, wedo our research, kind of it's,
through IMDB, and then I'll lookthrough your website.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But so you're from Baltimore, maryland, I am.
Yes, and it's funny because Ididn't really get to hang out in
Maryland becauseland's likebecause I moved to college to go
to nyu so I really felt like Ibecame an adult in new york.
So, um, moving home, likeduring covet and stuff I felt
like was my first, uh, um forayinto the baltimore and dc area,
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which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I haven't been back to new york since I moved.
I was born there and we movedhere in 2006.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I have not been back since.
Well, it's funny, when you goback it's like, oh wow, I forgot
how fast this place moves, butI love it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Once I get in there, I'm like zoom, zoom, zoom, I get
sometimes talking to oldfriends who still live in New
York and they're like why do youtalk so slow now?
And I'm like I don't know, like, yeah, you do, and I'm like you
talk way too fast and it's likethat's how you used to be.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
When I was off at college, I pretty much lived in
the same 40 mile circumferencemy entire life, so wow small
town kind of cool, because thenyou run into people.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know all the time that's what I miss about like
being like in a big city now,yeah, when I go home and then
I'm with all these like I seepeople from high school and I'm
like, oh my gosh, this is socool, it's, it's.
I feel like I missed that.
So it was nice to get to goback and like, have that time
again.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, because we see people every now and then it's
it's been a while since I was inschool, so like, uh, they had a
parade today that from the townthat I went to school and stuff
in, and my daughter she waswalking through it with her girl
scouts, so I saw a couple ofpeople like old coaches and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
but that's about it, that's cool they tried to do our
10-year high school reunion afew years ago and there's.
I was looking at the invitelist and I didn't know any of
the people and I was like did Igo to school with any of you who
?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
are you people?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
But speaking of school.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I hear you went to NYU.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I did and yeah, it was, it's um, it was pretty
crazy Cause, uh, at Tisch all ofthe acting schools are separate
, so you really take actingclasses through these different
programs, but you get a creditthrough NYU.
So I was at Strasburg, which isa method acting school, and
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everybody in my class was reallyuninhibited and you were
celebrated for being uninhibited.
But, as I said, I was frompageants, so I was very polite
and very I was such a good girland actually this comes kind of
full circle into friendshipbecause I just went in to re-dub
some language quote unquotethat needed to be more PG for
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like syndication, and I had toremove the F word.
And it's funny because inschool at NYU I wouldn't.
You know, I'm a good Christiangirl, so I didn't want to say
the F word and I would alwayssay it very apologetically.
So my acting teacher made mesay F you to everybody in my
class every day, which mostpeople would love.
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But yeah, so I was.
I was very thankful to get somemethod acting training at NYU.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's like sitting there in a big auditorium for
attendance and it's like Smithand it was like oh, brandy, you
here.
All right, yeah, you know whatto do.
Go ahead and tell everybody togo F off.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, she, let me do it at the end of class you just
stand at the door as everyoneleaves.
That's a little moreappropriate.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, I noticed, looking through some of your
film credits and stuff, you'vedone a lot of voice acting and
then you also work a lot doingaccents for different characters
as well, because I figuredbeing from Maryland and then,
you know, attending school inNew York and then, but you know,
you in a heart of Dixie, youhad a very Southern accent.
So where did you learn to doaccents and the voice acting?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, I think it was just one of those skills,
that, um, that you know, becauseI'm musical, maybe I have an
ear for things like that.
It's not something I reallythought about when we did Heart
of Dixie.
We did have a dialect coach inthe beginning and then, as our
characters became moresolidified, everybody kind of
did their own variation on aSouthern accent.
So I'm not sure if it was quiteas specific to Alabama as
(07:40):
Parker Posey's in the WhiteLotus this season, but we all
certainly made it our own and itwas kind of much.
It became more character drivenso, yeah, kind of based on how
the character thinks andeverybody, every character has a
different rhythm too in a scene.
So you kind of and as thewriters get to know you, they
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kind of write to your voice.
So it becomes a kind of a dualcreation between you and the
writers.
So yeah, I think that's kind ofhow it evolved on Heart of
Dixie.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And for those that don't know, on Heart of Dixie,
your character's name wasCricket.
Yes, I've never seen the wholeshow.
I've seen bits and piecesbecause my wife she's seen the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, well, she would be more of our demographic, I
think.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, probably so.
Now I was just wondering forHeart of Dixie where abouts did
y'all film that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They did the pilot, I think, in North Carolina, and
then we actually wound upshooting the series on Warner
Brothers lot, the back lot,which is pretty famous for
different, for different shows.
The music man was filmed thereand and it hasn't really changed
.
The set hasn't changed.
(08:59):
I mean they dress it updifferently but it's the same
town square.
It's also the same town squarethat they use in Gilmore Girls.
That's kind of the fun partabout working on the studio lots
.
We were at Warner Brothers,yeah.
Now I feel like because ofthese tax credits and all things
that are happening in ourindustry, the lots are kind of
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not as populated as they oncewere.
So I miss those days.
It was fun to be working kindof in Alabama quote unquote on a
soundstage and then we hadShameless shooting right next to
us, so we had Chicago rightnext to us, and so I mean that's
kind of really fun too.
It creates like a culture ofcreativity.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, I was just wondering.
Wondering because, like I know,uh, the cw or warner brothers,
they did a lot of stuff kind oflike here in georgia and like
because I know the, uh, anothercw show, the vampire diaries,
they filmed in covington,georgia.
So I just wasn't sure whether,it being a southern show, if it
was filmed around the same areaor not.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So just wondering yeah, yeah, I mean I think that
it seems like shows are movingthat way, especially to atlanta.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I mean, there's such a a burgeoning um film industry
in atlanta, and music too yes,but we we kind of hope people
stop coming here because there'sjust way too much traffic.
It's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You cannot get through atlanta anymore and if
there's no traffic, that'sbecause they have construction
to make more lanes for moretraffic, which causes more
traffic and it doesn't matterwhat time of day two in the
afternoon, 4, 30 in the morningdoes not matter.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You will hit the brakes at some point oh goodness
but not as bad as probably NewYork city.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, we have trains in New York city, so
, um, people can get around, uh,but in LA yeah, la is known for
traffic Um, sometimes itdoesn't even make any sense that
you just sit there and try tofigure out where all these
people came from or why it'sslowing down, and then all of a
sudden it speeds up.
I started keeping a lot ofsnacks in my car just so like I
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wouldn't get hangry because Ididn't want to rage and hangry,
you know.
So we'd just be like chompingaway on some beef jerky while
I'm sitting in traffic I wasjust about to ask what kind of
snacks are we?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
uh, what kind of snacks are we packing in the
brandy mobile?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
oh yeah, well, definitely some sweet tarts and
beef jerky and um doritossometimes in the console, but
those you know get your fingersmessy, so that is, what kind of
what flavoring of beef jerky?
I like a jalapeno.
Actually, the my favorite beefjerky comes from atlanta, it's
the striplings, uh jalapeno.
(11:42):
Have you had it?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I have had it many, many moons ago.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's been a while that's the best I like.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Order it from there, yeah I've had the jalapeno one
once.
It wasn't quite my palate.
I'm always been a teriyaki beefjerky kind of person tom
doesn't like spicy stuff I dolike spicy stuff.
It's just not the nonsense youget from Satan's workshop.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We have a thing on our normal episodes If you say a
cuss word, because we try tokeep it PG we have to take hot
sauce and Tom regularly ends uptaking some of the hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I violate that rule fairly, fairly frequently.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And we get some hot stuff that we can find.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Like redacted ingredients.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
One bottle of the cap actually burned.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh, that's not good, I've lost four spoons.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
He exaggerates, he just doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now, as someone who's been OC sprayed before, I'd
rather almost have that than thenonsense you give me.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, I think that would be like my reward would be
a teaspoon of Tabasco or somekind of hot sauce, Like for me,
if I lost a bet or something, itwould be a spoonful of
mayonnaise.
That would be like oh God no,that is a good idea.
Can't do it.
I do not recommend mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You and Hayden will have to hold me down because I'm
not just eating a tablespoon ofmayonnaise.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Mayonnaise belongs on a BLT only in a thin thin layer
.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I feel that what about tuna fish?
You'll do mayonnaise in sometuna.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I don't like tuna fish.
The smell gets me, I just can'tdo it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Okay, I like how.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
this is an entertainment show, but we're
also talking about food, becausefood is entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Food does bring a lot of people together.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
What other condiments do you hate?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh, relish Sweet pickles, no me gusta.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, no, no, no.
Relish is just wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, I'm more of a sour pickle girl.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Crispy cold pickles out of the jar, out of the
fridge, exactly With a littlefork to try to fight them out.
It's all you need in life,you're so sensible.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, Tom's just picky about his stuff.
I am a picky eater.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
For the first 15 years of my life, Pop-Tarts were
my favorite food.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh, what kind of pop tarts do you like?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
oh, I was.
I love wild berry pop tarts ifI couldn't get wild berry, then
it would be the icing, the onewithout icing strawberry or
cherry oh my gosh, you are akindred spirit.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I.
I strictly eat the non-frostedstrawberry.
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It just works Any frosting is nonsense.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I always liked the Wildberry one because it was
that purple and blue like kindof wild colors like Taco Bell
used to be in the 90s.
It was the quintessential 90slike color combo, but it's just
like they never had Wildberry.
Wildberry always sold out andit's like well, I want Wildberry
.
Why does it keep selling out?
It must be that good.
They always have blueberry,Pop-Tarts, Wildberry's, like Mom
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, they got Wildberry, I'm likeit's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
All right, Tom.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Leave me alone, let me have my little moment about
Pop-Tarts.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wait, did you see the Pop-Tart movie it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
was a Pop-Tart movie.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It was a Pop-Tart movie, yeah.
It's on Netflix.
What is it called?
It was Jerry Seinfeld and AmySchumer's in it.
It's about the race to thetoaster pastries between Post
and General Mills.
Yeah, anyway you should watchit.
I liked it Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm writing that down .
Pop-tart movie yeah, this isabout to be a movie we're going
to review at some point.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It was out last year.
My friends make fun of me forliking it, but I like Jerry
Seinfeld so much.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So the pop tart movie we're going to review it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We're going to make Hayden review it Okay, cause I
don't think he likes pop tarts.
He's not here.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Exactly.
But getting back on topic, Okay.
You're at NYU, you're studyingmethod acting.
Yes Now, yes now.
While you're at college, arethey helping you get roles?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
to like, give you an agent?
Do agents come in?
Like, how does it work?
Well, funny enough, um, I wouldmiss as many days as I could
miss to go on auditions, butthey didn't recommend you do
that and they frowned upon it,actually because they want you
to be in conservatory, um, andthen because NYU is very
expensive.
I was.
I joined the Miss Americapageant, which is when I became
Miss New York, and then I took aleave of absence from NYU to do
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my ribbon cuttings and myvolunteer work for the year and
because of that I got an agent.
So when I got an agent, I woundup not going back to school,
because usually that's the goalis to be able to audition and um
be a part of the industry.
So when I, when I got my agent,I left um, always thinking I'd
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go back, but I it never quiteworked out that way.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So but it did work out because you got acting roles
.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Exactly, exactly, um, yeah, so, and that's what
started really the whole, mywhole launching and my journey.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What was your first acting gig that you remember as
being like like I kind of madeit?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh gosh, you're always trying to make it, um,
and I realized that it's kind ofmade it.
Oh gosh, you're always tryingto make it.
And I realize that it's kind ofit's silly to say, but making
it is a little bit of anillusion, because it's always
about being interested andtrying to find the next thing
that you want to give yourenergy to and hopefully that
gives back to you.
But I did.
I booked a role on the seriesPassions.
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It was a soap opera that filmedin LA and I played a mermaid.
So that was like the first timewhen I was on a studio lot and
I had my own parking space andmy own dressing room and I could
sign in every day and I feltlike, oh wow, I, you know, they
let me in here.
How how did they?
How did I manage that Exactly?
(18:01):
It always feels a little bitlike winning the lottery, um,
because you know there's so manypeople who are trying to to be
a part of our industry and, um,thankfully, there's a lot of
room for everyone.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, I know like soap operas.
A lot of times they'll film.
You'll have like one or twoepisodes a week that you're
filming, right.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh gosh, sometimes we would do like five to seven.
Oh, okay, yeah, so it reallydepended.
And a lot of it's repetitivebecause people are coming every
day, so you kind of have tocatch them up on the story but
you don't want the action to tosubside, so you have to keep
attention but you have to goback and remind them what
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happened.
So a lot of it's like namesrepeating or remember last week
when so and so did this, or youwouldn't say last week, but you
would, you know, bring theaudience up to speed.
So it helped with all thatdialogue and we had to do a lot
of pages in a day, for sure well, because I just looking up the
uh the passions tv show, Inoticed that it had like 1700
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episodes.
So sheesh exactly yeah, and itwas supernatural.
So we had um like witches andum.
It was yeah and mermaidsclearly.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I mean that's got to be.
I guess a pretty interestingintroduction into being on
television is like you're goingto do a soap and the schedule is
that demanding.
You're doing that much stuffversus like other parts and
shows where it's not as it's atraining ground too, because it
was such a well-oiled machine.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You have to keep the schedule because you have to get
an hour's worth of content donefor the editing process to
happen so that you can't getbehind the schedule.
So everybody had to really worktogether and you had to really
throw yourself into the role,especially playing a mermaid.
It could be ridiculous, but youhave to commit to it.
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It was a great training groundjust in all capacities.
Just stretch your creativityand your imagination.
It was a great set becausenobody really took it super
seriously and we had a greattime with each other.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, I'm really thankful that that was one of my
first experiences, so lookingat some of these other ones, I
see you did Boston Legal LawOrder Numbers, the Glades, red
Dead, redemption, undead,nightmare Before we talk about
the video game stuff, I mean alot of these television roles
did you have a particularfavorite.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I really loved doing Boston Legal because it was with
William Shatner and CandaceBergen and Megan Mullally was on
that week and I had JamesSpader's trailer and I actually
flooded his trailer because thetoilet wasn't working properly
and apparently he was a littlebit of a germaphobe.
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So then I knew that and then Iwas at lunch trying to clean up
the trailer that I had floodedwithout telling people and yeah,
so, yeah, I really I had fun onthat set.
It was also cool because wewere in a in where everybody was
present for most of the episodein the scene, so I really got
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time with everyone, which wasreally cool.
And oh, Julie Bowen too, andshe's from Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Did you two chat it up a little bit oh?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
yeah.
Yeah, she was pregnant at thetime too, so she's always feisty
and she definitely has opinionsand she's very sharp Cool.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Now for a lot of the legal dramas that you were on.
Is that something you soughtout or is that just something
that they kind of fit?
You know, cause they saw you ina different one.
So another another show cameand asked for you to be on
theirs.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Uh, doesn't really work like that.
It's usually like you get anaudition and then for a role
that you seem appropriate forfrom your agent and then.
So it always feels likestarting from zero For me.
That's been my experience, butI've tended to really love legal
dramas, especially likedramedies, something that has
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some basis in reality but alsois a little lighthearted.
So and it's funny that a lot ofthe shows that I was on I've
actually was a fan of ahead oftime.
So I don't know how that quiteworked out, but I was fortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Do you ever catch yourself like on reruns of these
shows, if they pop up?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have friends who are, who send me screenshots
every once in a while, like, oh,I saw you on this and I'm like,
oh thanks, it's just funny.
Yeah, I try not to.
It's funny, I don't watchingmyself.
I, I don't like to watch myselfbecause then you get
self-conscious and then you'renot in the moment.
And it's important to be in themoment.
Um, yeah, so uh.
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But you have to also watchyourself because you have to
know what happened and how, howit came out.
So, yeah, that's a little toughfor me.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
How'd you get into the video game voice acting?
Was that like an audition orwere they just kind of like hey,
like your voice sounds great,We'd like to hear you do these
parts.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it kind of comes through agents.
The same way, I had someexperience with working in
recording studios a lot, becauseI was working on a record back
in the day.
So a lot of times those studioswould be used for music at
night but for advertising andalso for video game production
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during the day.
So one of those came throughthat and actually that was the
Star Wars one.
They had me read a bunch ofdifferent characters and I
didn't know what they wouldfinally use.
So I'm glad that they wound upusing me for something Because I
read like I must have read, Ithink, like 10 characters.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hey, we want you to be in the biggest online Star
Wars game there is.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I didn't know anything about it because I
don't I really don't play videogames, so I actually haven't
even seen that or heard thatwork.
But you know, it's like hearingyour own voice.
It's like, ah, so again, that'sfor.
Like someone else, it was funto be in the scene and then, and
obviously, in the world of StarWars, and it's cool to be a
Sith, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh, you get to play a Sith Lord.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's so cool.
I was like, do I get my ownlightsaber?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know right.
I think I deserve a lightsaber.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think they should send you one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, which it was kind of different than the
experience for Red DeadRedemption, because I actually
got to do the motion capture forthat Um, and they put you in a
suit with these balls on them,so that captures all of your
movements, and you're also in amask kind of thing, like a
helmet with a frame on the frontof it so it catches your facial
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expressions while you're acting.
So that was a different process.
It wasn't just voiceover, itwas physically in the space, and
then the characters are drawnand written off of your
movements too.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And this is for Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, that was the Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The zombie one.
You get to play a zombie.
I was a zombie prostitute.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And then I was in the end scene, the last scene.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Is that what you ever thought where your career might
be?
It's like, oh, I want to dothis, I want to do that, and
it's like zombie prostitute.
Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, you know, that's not, it's never, that was
never on my wishlist.
But the thing is is I love thisbusiness because I want to be
surprised, and so getting to goto work and be like what are we
doing today.
Okay, let's do that, and that'swhat's fun about it, right I?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
mean it's gotta be like a bingo card out there for
actors, where it's just like atroles like play.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's like serial killer, cop, lawyer, zombie yeah
, I guess some people have thatsure well, I also saw the um,
including heart of dixie.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You're also on how I met your mother and like, and
both of those are a lot morecomedic roles.
Is that something you enjoy?
More is like comedy, or do youenjoy drama more?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I, like I said I'm more of a dramedy person, like I
really like comedy.
That's kind of grounded, but Itend to like play kind of light.
I think, um, it's just my wayof, of my spirit, like how it
comes out.
I don't tend to really love todo like huge crying roles, like
there are people that lovecrying and I can cry on real
(26:39):
life, but it's just not my fortein um work.
Um, yeah, I would just muchrather be making fun and having
a good time, for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How do they get you to cry, like on a show, like, do
they like give you, like thewater drops, like throwing your
eyes?
Or do you have to think of statstuff?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
like throwing your eyes or do you have to think of
stat stuff?
Well, I mean, yes, you, yes,ideally you would be able to
work that up.
But a lot of people have liketricks and, like you, dry out
your eyes or they have mentholsticks they're called tear
sticks that you can put and itkind of just makes your eyes
water.
Um, but yeah, every, every rolerequires its own thing.
So I can't say that thateverybody uses a tear stick, but
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some people probably do whatwould you say was probably the
most challenging role you'vedone that is a good question.
Challenging, you know, I thinkit's they're all challenging in
(27:40):
their own ways.
It's it's kind of like how youaccess different parts of
yourself.
So I mean, the things that Iusually get cast in are things
that are more natural for me.
So I don't really I couldn'treally say that they're
challenging.
I think it's the biggestchallenge is auditioning.
So I don't really I couldn'treally say that they're
challenging.
I think it's the biggestchallenge is auditioning when
you don't really know what thepart is or what it's going to be
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, or how they, how it workstogether.
If you only get the scene andyou don't get a whole script of
the entire piece.
It's kind of that's thechallenging part, I think, is
trying to figure out what yourrole is and how to serve the
piece, when before you have alot of information.
Once you get the job, it's likeit's like, oh yeah, this fits,
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I know what it is and you're inthe room with other people, so
it just becomes a collaborativeprocess, which is fun.
But trying to understand otherpeople's ideas just off of a
page, that's probably the mostchallenging part.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Getting one piece of the puzzle.
I'm expecting to see the entirepicture.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yes, exactly right.
Yes, so, and we used to likewhen we would go into audition
rooms and we'd work with castingdirectors and other actors.
You would get more of a senseof the piece because you have
other people there who you canpick up the tone of it or you'll
get notes from the castingdirector.
Now, when you're doing, we do alot of self tapes, which is
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good because we can be anywhere,and then sometimes we do a zoom
audition, but even in thatregard, you're doing a lot of it
kind of in a vacuum.
So, yeah, depending on how muchinformation they give you and
what you can kind of pick upfrom those little clues, yeah,
it just becomes a little more.
I think it's more difficult,for me it's more difficult.
(29:26):
But yeah, that's the, that'sthe, the X factor.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, tom had mentioned, like you know, a
bingo card.
People want to play differentroles mentioned, like you know,
a bingo card.
People want to play differentroles.
Is there a certain role that,like, if it ever came up, like a
certain princess or a certainlike superhero character or
anything that you specificallywant to play if you had the
opportunity?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
um, it's funny I'm.
I'm kind of in the mind rightnow, because I've been writing
so much music um, of becomingmore myself, so it's funny I I'd
have to think about that.
Um, most of the projects I I'vealways wanted to escape myself
into these other roles and now,as I become more comfortable
(30:08):
being myself, I'm kind of reallyinterested in telling that
story and being that person,which is really quite ironic to
have to go through all of myroles to get back to myself.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You know, like the alchemist yeah, because you're
just kind of learning bits andpieces about yourself as you
went along, that's all yeah,exactly yeah, and I'm finally
comfortable in my own skin.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So, yeah, I'm excited to see what's next and, um, how
to bring that to different,different roles one question I
always like to ask is someonehas been in the game for a while
is do you ever have like astarstruck moment, or your best
like, oh my god, that's so andso?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
yes, I mean the.
The person that makes me themost starstruck is julie andrews
.
Julie Andrews and I actuallygot to fly as Mary Poppins for
her American film Institutelifetime achievement award,
which was a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I was like I should be ona list somewhere where I
shouldn't be allowed in a roomwith her, like pretty sure they
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should have that, but I was.
I was just like beside myselfthat I got to be there and I
didn't get to meet her the wholetime because they were using me
as a surprise for her, thatthey were going to fly someone
in as Mary Poppins.
And so by the end of the night Iwas like looking for her
because I just wanted that likeelusive picture and I was
(31:36):
thinking like, oh, what am Igoing to say?
What am I going to say?
And finally it was like thecrowd parted and there she was
and I was like this is my moment.
And so I ran right up to herand she was so chill and
easygoing and we just talkedlike actors, which is so lovely
and it's.
It's just so incredible to seesomebody who you followed their
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career for so long and admirethem, and then they're just such
a wonderful person, yeah, so Iwas really grateful to get my
picture.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I know I always tell you, like the old dad, just like
, don't meet your heroes.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But when you do meet one and it goes great.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
It's just like I always knew this is how this
would be.
Yeah, yes, you know, I alwaysknew this is how this would be.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yes, you know, I felt that too with Paul Rudd.
I was like oh, how's he goingto be?
I don't know.
And you know, class act exactlylike you think he would be.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, it was that was also a really relieving
experience too, cause it'd belike, you know, like oh hi, like
oh hi, mr rudd, no, you cancall me paul.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
he said I could call him paul exactly yeah, and we
started actually shooting theday after the afc championship
in 2024, which was the ravensversus the chiefs.
Um, and I'm from baltimore andclearly a ravens fan and he is a
Chiefs fan, so we had animmediate icebreaker in the
(33:02):
makeup trailer.
So, yeah, it just got betterfrom there.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's like how about that game?
We'll see you next year.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, speaking of Paul Rudd, the movie Friendship
comes out on May 9th.
Could you tell us a little bitabout that movie?
Of course we know you don'twant to spoil it, but could you
tell us a little bit about yourrole, a little bit about the
movie.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So the movie is a buddy comedy.
It's about two guys who kind ofshouldn't be friends.
Maybe they shouldn't be friends, we'll find out if they should
be friends.
It's like two people that it's.
Yeah, it's really funny to seehow they meet and and it's
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really told in such a groundedway.
So you have to just be readyfor anything.
And I play Paul Rudd's boss.
We work at a news station, so Igot to kind of see him in all
of his anchorman glory.
Essentially he's actually theweatherman and I'm the anchor
woman.
So yeah, that was.
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It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I definitely want to check that one out and see Is
Paul Rudd you, uh, tim Robinson?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, tim Robinson, have you seen?
I think you should leave.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I have seen a couple of it the one where he crashes
the hot dog.
Uh, and he's in the hot dog, sohe crashed in like a men's
warehouse okay, it's like in ahot dog mobile and everybody's
like what, what happened?
He's like, oh my god, who didthat?
And everybody looks at him andlooks at the car and it's like,
and he's just playing it offwhile shoplifting see it gets so
uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I love it.
It's, it's, it's amazing.
I really, I really love howtheir different senses of their
different comedic senses work inthis movie.
It's just gold.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Have you seen Tim Robinson's bit where he does
like he does not know how todrive?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't know if I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Because you always see it like in traffic.
He's like, do you ever learnhow to drive?
And he's just in a minivan,just like, bump it, install it,
you know, out in the middle ofthe parking lot.
He's like no.
Oh my goodness, and he's likejust move and he goes.
Oh, it's easy for you to.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I love it.
That's actually what we allwant to do, right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I just know that whenever I'm scrolling through
reels and TikToks and stuff, Ialways see his little meme kind
of video where he's going.
You sure about that, you sure?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
about that?
You sure about that?
Or I didn't do?
You know, I can't say the wordand I've got to get the hot
sauce.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Or mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, no, brandy, no, we don't do that here I'm going
to write that down.
You, better not.
You and Hayden will have tohold me down Anything you're
working on now that you canreveal.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Just actually, I've decided to release an EP this
summer, so I have like six songsready to be released and I'm
kind of working on the rolloutfor that, all of the visuals,
and trying to make a cohesivemoment for all these songs that
I've written, which is reallyexciting because again, it's
(36:15):
like me, with my voice, and sonot something I'm putting on,
but authentically me.
So, yeah, I'm really excitedabout that 's.
Uh, my first single comes outjune 1st, okay, and then july
1st, or we're aiming for thebeginning of the month.
So, yeah, more to more datesspecific dates to come shortly
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will this be on, like spotifyand itunes?
everywhere you can stream music.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, what kind of genre music are we talking here?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's definitely pop and dance.
It's going to make you move.
It can be.
You know good cartoons yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Everybody needs a good cartoon because you get all
pumped up and ready.
And then there's some songs andalbums you just don't listen to
while you're driving becauseyou'll miss the exits.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I was driving back to Georgia Southern, which is a
university here in South Georgiaor close to Savannah, and it's
about 45 minutes from Savannah,but you have to drive past
Georgia Southern to get to it.
And I'm driving along, I'mlistening to Pink Floyd, I'm
lost in the moment and the nextthing I know I just see an exit
sign for Savannah.
I was like what?
Oh no, I drove an extra 45minutes for nothing.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Then you get to listen to the album again.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I turned it off.
I was like, Nope, you're notgetting me twice.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Cause.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Then I ended up in like Macon or something, or
Atlanta.
I'd be like how?
No, this is just out of control.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
You can't drive and listen to Pink Floyd.
I did that Friday listening tosome music.
I drove right past the exit forwork.
I had to get off and come backaround to the next exit.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, you're excusive .
I was listening to music.
Might not fly with your boss.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I'm always early, it's okay, oh, okay.
Smart.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Good thing you weren't running late that one
time.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
My work starts pretty much at 7.
I normally get there about 6.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, you got time.
Get there about six.
So, yeah, you got time.
You got time to make a u-turn.
Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Anyway, back to brandy.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Any uh other acting jobs you're looking at, you're
auditioning for, you want topitch I also have a um web
series that I'm a part of uhcalled rosemary street.
It's uh kind of about baltimoreand kind of rebrand, rebranding
Baltimore instead of just likeinner city drugs and crime.
(38:31):
We have a great art scene inBaltimore.
We are the home of PeabodyConservatory, and so just
highlighting young talent,musical talent in the Baltimore
area.
It's kind of like Glee but in amore indie, folky rock kind of
way, and we have great flashbackscenes from the 80s really
(38:53):
celebrating Baltimore.
There's a classic gigging venuecalled Hammer Jacks, so it
really has like a hometown feel.
Yeah, and I'm excited aboutthat okay, where could you catch
this?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
uh, that'll be on youtube is it a you know to
subscribe or pay, it's free foreverybody.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
So yeah, we're.
I think they release threeepisodes at a time and I don't
think it's paid, so okay, yeahwe should do a youtube show tom,
we have to have visual podcastsbefore we can worry about a
show.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It might be the only way you ever get me to eat
mayonnaise Out of a scoop.
Welcome to Tom Tries onEntertain.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
This, I'll write that down.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Please don't write that down.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
That's just me talking ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Do you have any other questions, Mitch?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
At the moment.
I think she's answered prettymuch everything I wrote down to
ask.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
As I look through all my pre-written notes, it's like
man, like we flew through thatand we talked about food, which
we never get to talk about food.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, I was thinking like I've always wanted to be on
that hot wind show, like to seeif how far you can make it yeah
, exactly, I think I'd be goodwe, uh, I mean this will edit
most of this.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
This is just kind of talking talking uh, the hot
sauce, the last one, the lastdab yeah that's the one that
they had when we were doing the.
We did the video recording too,and the audio we would go to
alpharetta oh yeah, to record atmtech the atomic bomb yeah, the
atomic, yeah, the whatever, the?
Their last one was on hot ones.
We had it and it's likelighting your mouth on fire.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Really, brandy, don't , don't do it, don't buy it I
should just look them up andjust maybe, yeah, I should, I
should probably work up to it.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, just to it's like a, like a sport our
other co-host made tom mad onetime because Tom got up to leave
the room and he put some of thehot sauce just on the inside of
his Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Ruining a drink $5 worth of beverage Ruined.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Ruined Mitch.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Crazy.
I know that was a good one,though.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Idiotic 30-year-olds with nothing else to do, just
giant toddlers.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, it's amusing, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I'll have to say that you're the only other Brandy
that I know, besides my wife,that spells it with an I that
I've actually ever talked to.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Oh wow, that's cool I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I think that's the only other time I've seen it
spelled with the I.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, why?
I've seen it spelled with the Iyeah.
Why did your wife's parentschoose an I?
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I don't know.
She didn't tell me or she'snever told me.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
you know specifically why they chose an I but yeah,
mine say they didn't want it tobe like the alcohol and I'm like
it still sounds the same.
What is your problem?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The pronunciation never changed.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Because nobody goes brand.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I my mom always said Brandi Burkhart, mickey Mouse,
donald Duck, brandi Burkhart,I'm like oh great, I'm a cartoon
character.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Do I have comically?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
large feet to you, madam.
Exactly, she's like well,you're lucky, your name wasn't
Rainbow Bright, all right thanks.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Now go get Easy Bake Oven and tell them dinner's
ready Exactly.
That would be kind of funny.
But, Brandy, thank you verymuch for joining us on our show
Before we I mean we're going todo an edit and tighten it up a
little bit.
Is there anything you want toplug before we sign off?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I don't think so.
I think, that's it.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know, you got your upcoming EP that's going to
be coming out next year.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yes, and the EP is called Just Like this.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Check it out on iTunes and Spotify and anywhere
else you can stream music.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yes, and it's a very different presentation of me, so
I'm excited to share it withthe world.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
The true Brandy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
We'll have to check it out All of it.
I hope I get to hear it on theradio too.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Well, thank you to you, the listener, for enjoying
this episode of Entertain this.
We'll hopefully catch you onour next ones.
I'm Tom, I'm Mitch andentertain this We'll hopefully
catch you on our next ones.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm Tom, I'm out.
Hello and welcome to Entertain this.
It's a podcast about movies, tvshows and video games.
My name is Tom.
With me I have Mitch and wedon't have Hayden, but in place
of Hayden we have BrandiBurkhart.
Hi how are you Brandi?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm good Excited to be here with you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule
to be on our little show.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I'm excited to talk about some things.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I see here American television and film
actress some music background, Ibelieve, and former Miss New
York.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I'm from the state of New.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
York.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Back in pageantry days.
Was that the first part of yourcareer?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
you know, I was always a very shy child but I
wanted to be a princess.
I think a lot of little girlsdo, so that was my way in to
being a princess.
And then I realized, when I gotcomfortable on stage and came
out of my shell a little, Irealized, oh, I really love
acting and singing especially.
But it's been funny because myjourney through acting has kind
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of it's taken trying ondifferent roles to really find
myself, which is excitingbecause I have a music project
coming out that's kind of feelsmore like me than I've ever felt
before.
So yeah, and I've, I've dabbledin quite a few arenas.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That's awesome.
I mean, my nieces definitelylove being princesses.
Ava, the youngest, she wants tobe a starfish.
She likes to lay on the groundspread out.
She goes like Uncle Thomas, I'ma starfish.
And then she just throwsherself and just stares at you
and you like okay, Ava, same.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean starfish, I mean that could be cool.
I think they like lay aroundand eat which?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
you know who doesn't love that?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
sounds like her, yeah , and then I always wanted to be
a mermaid too, which eventuallythen I got to play a mermaid on
tv.
So you know, you don't know,maybe she'll play a starfish one
day that's my daughter.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
She's got pretty much a Disney princess dress for
each one of them, and then she'sgot her mermaid tail to be like
Ariel and all that kind ofstuff.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Does she make you guys play princess and you guys
have to be the villains?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
There's one princess called Elena from Avalor or
something on Disney, and sheloves doing the little sword
fighting.
They do fencing, but it's likea TV show, then she'll make me
sit down and she'll paint myfingernails and stuff.
It's bad when you forget and goto order some food or something
like that at a drive-thru andthey look at you and they go.
(02:57):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
It's like I have kids .
Leave me alone.
That happened once.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was like oh, never mind, that's so sweet, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Mitch, you look like you're about to say something.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I was going to say.
So, from what I've you know, wedo our research, kind of it's,
through IMDB, and then I'll lookthrough your website.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But so you're from Baltimore, maryland, I am.
Yes, and it's funny because Ididn't really get to hang out in
Maryland becauseland's likebecause I moved to college to go
to nyu so I really felt like Ibecame an adult in new york.
So, um, moving home, likeduring covet and stuff I felt
like was my first, uh, um forayinto the baltimore and dc area,
(03:38):
which was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I haven't been back to new york since I moved.
I was born there and we movedhere in 2006.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I have not been back since.
Well, it's funny, when you goback it's like, oh wow, I forgot
how fast this place moves, butI love it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Once I get in there, I'm like zoom, zoom, zoom, I get
sometimes talking to oldfriends who still live in New
York and they're like why do youtalk so slow now?
And I'm like I don't know, like, yeah, you do, and I'm like you
talk way too fast and it's likethat's how you used to be.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
When I was off at college, I pretty much lived in
the same 40 mile circumferencemy entire life, so wow small
town kind of cool, because thenyou run into people.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know all the time that's what I miss about like
being like in a big city now,yeah, when I go home and then
I'm with all these like I seepeople from high school and I'm
like, oh my gosh, this is socool, it's, it's.
I feel like I missed that.
So it was nice to get to goback and like, have that time
again.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, because we see people every now and then it's
it's been a while since I was inschool, so like, uh, they had a
parade today that from the townthat I went to school and stuff
in, and my daughter she waswalking through it with her girl
scouts, so I saw a couple ofpeople like old coaches and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
but that's about it, that's cool they tried to do our
10-year high school reunion afew years ago and there's.
I was looking at the invitelist and I didn't know any of
the people and I was like did Igo to school with any of you who
?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
are you people?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
But speaking of school.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I hear you went to NYU.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I did and yeah, it was, it's um, it was pretty
crazy Cause, uh, at Tisch all ofthe acting schools are separate
, so you really take actingclasses through these different
programs, but you get a creditthrough NYU.
So I was at Strasburg, which isa method acting school, and
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everybody in my class was reallyuninhibited and you were
celebrated for being uninhibited.
But, as I said, I was frompageants, so I was very polite
and very I was such a good girland actually this comes kind of
full circle into friendshipbecause I just went in to re-dub
some language quote unquotethat needed to be more PG for
(06:04):
like syndication, and I had toremove the F word.
And it's funny because inschool at NYU I wouldn't.
You know, I'm a good Christiangirl, so I didn't want to say
the F word and I would alwayssay it very apologetically.
So my acting teacher made mesay F you to everybody in my
class every day, which mostpeople would love.
(06:27):
But yeah, so I was.
I was very thankful to get somemethod acting training at NYU.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's like sitting there in a big auditorium for
attendance and it's like Smithand it was like oh, brandy, you
here.
All right, yeah, you know whatto do.
Go ahead and tell everybody togo F off.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, she, let me do it at the end of class you just
stand at the door as everyoneleaves.
That's a little moreappropriate.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well, I noticed, looking through some of your
film credits and stuff, you'vedone a lot of voice acting and
then you also work a lot doingaccents for different characters
as well, because I figuredbeing from Maryland and then,
you know, attending school inNew York and then, but you know,
you in a heart of Dixie, youhad a very Southern accent.
So where did you learn to doaccents and the voice acting?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, I think it was just one of those skills,
that, um, that you know, becauseI'm musical, maybe I have an
ear for things like that.
It's not something I reallythought about when we did Heart
of Dixie.
We did have a dialect coach inthe beginning and then, as our
characters became moresolidified, everybody kind of
did their own variation on aSouthern accent.
So I'm not sure if it was quiteas specific to Alabama as
(07:40):
Parker Posey's in the WhiteLotus this season, but we all
certainly made it our own and itwas kind of much.
It became more character drivenso, yeah, kind of based on how
the character thinks andeverybody, every character has a
different rhythm too in a scene.
So you kind of and as thewriters get to know you, they
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kind of write to your voice.
So it becomes a kind of a dualcreation between you and the
writers.
So yeah, I think that's kind ofhow it evolved on Heart of
Dixie.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And for those that don't know, on Heart of Dixie,
your character's name wasCricket.
Yes, I've never seen the wholeshow.
I've seen bits and piecesbecause my wife she's seen the
whole thing.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yes, well, she would be more of our demographic, I
think.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, probably so.
Now I was just wondering forHeart of Dixie where abouts did
y'all film that?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
They did the pilot, I think, in North Carolina, and
then we actually wound upshooting the series on Warner
Brothers lot, the back lot,which is pretty famous for
different, for different shows.
The music man was filmed thereand and it hasn't really changed
.
The set hasn't changed.
(08:59):
I mean they dress it updifferently but it's the same
town square.
It's also the same town squarethat they use in Gilmore Girls.
That's kind of the fun partabout working on the studio lots
.
We were at Warner Brothers,yeah.
Now I feel like because ofthese tax credits and all things
that are happening in ourindustry, the lots are kind of
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not as populated as they oncewere.
So I miss those days.
It was fun to be working kindof in Alabama quote unquote on a
soundstage and then we hadShameless shooting right next to
us, so we had Chicago rightnext to us, and so I mean that's
kind of really fun too.
It creates like a culture ofcreativity.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, I was just wondering.
Wondering because, like I know,uh, the cw or warner brothers,
they did a lot of stuff kind oflike here in georgia and like
because I know the, uh, anothercw show, the vampire diaries,
they filmed in covington,georgia.
So I just wasn't sure whether,it being a southern show, if it
was filmed around the same areaor not.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
So just wondering yeah, yeah, I mean I think that
it seems like shows are movingthat way, especially to atlanta.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I mean, there's such a a burgeoning um film industry
in atlanta, and music too yes,but we we kind of hope people
stop coming here because there'sjust way too much traffic.
It's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You cannot get through atlanta anymore and if
there's no traffic, that'sbecause they have construction
to make more lanes for moretraffic, which causes more
traffic and it doesn't matterwhat time of day two in the
afternoon, 4, 30 in the morningdoes not matter.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You will hit the brakes at some point oh goodness
but not as bad as probably NewYork city.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, you know, we have trains in New York city, so
, um, people can get around, uh,but in LA yeah, la is known for
traffic Um, sometimes itdoesn't even make any sense that
you just sit there and try tofigure out where all these
people came from or why it'sslowing down, and then all of a
sudden it speeds up.
I started keeping a lot ofsnacks in my car just so like I
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wouldn't get hangry because Ididn't want to rage and hangry,
you know.
So we'd just be like chompingaway on some beef jerky while
I'm sitting in traffic I wasjust about to ask what kind of
snacks are we?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
uh, what kind of snacks are we packing in the
brandy mobile?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
oh yeah, well, definitely some sweet tarts and
beef jerky and um doritossometimes in the console, but
those you know get your fingersmessy, so that is, what kind of
what flavoring of beef jerky?
I like a jalapeno.
Actually, the my favorite beefjerky comes from atlanta, it's
the striplings, uh jalapeno.
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Have you had it?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I have had it many, many moons ago.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's been a while that's the best I like.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Order it from there, yeah I've had the jalapeno one
once.
It wasn't quite my palate.
I'm always been a teriyaki beefjerky kind of person tom
doesn't like spicy stuff I dolike spicy stuff.
It's just not the nonsense youget from Satan's workshop.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We have a thing on our normal episodes If you say a
cuss word, because we try tokeep it PG we have to take hot
sauce and Tom regularly ends uptaking some of the hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I violate that rule fairly, fairly frequently.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
And we get some hot stuff that we can find.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Like redacted ingredients.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
One bottle of the cap actually burned.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh, that's not good, I've lost four spoons.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
He exaggerates, he just doesn't like it.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Now, as someone who's been OC sprayed before, I'd
rather almost have that than thenonsense you give me.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, I think that would be like my reward would be
a teaspoon of Tabasco or somekind of hot sauce, Like for me,
if I lost a bet or something, itwould be a spoonful of
mayonnaise.
That would be like oh God no,that is a good idea.
Can't do it.
I do not recommend mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You and Hayden will have to hold me down because I'm
not just eating a tablespoon ofmayonnaise.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Mayonnaise belongs on a BLT only in a thin thin layer
.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I feel that what about tuna fish?
You'll do mayonnaise in sometuna.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I don't like tuna fish.
The smell gets me, I just can'tdo it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Okay, I like how.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
this is an entertainment show, but we're
also talking about food, becausefood is entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Food does bring a lot of people together.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
What other condiments do you hate?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Oh, relish Sweet pickles, no me gusta.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
No, no, no, no.
Relish is just wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, I'm more of a sour pickle girl.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Crispy cold pickles out of the jar, out of the
fridge, exactly With a littlefork to try to fight them out.
It's all you need in life,you're so sensible.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, Tom's just picky about his stuff.
I am a picky eater.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
For the first 15 years of my life, Pop-Tarts were
my favorite food.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh, what kind of pop tarts do you like?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
oh, I was.
I love wild berry pop tarts ifI couldn't get wild berry, then
it would be the icing, the onewithout icing strawberry or
cherry oh my gosh, you are akindred spirit.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I.
I strictly eat the non-frostedstrawberry.
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It just works Any frosting is nonsense.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I always liked the Wildberry one because it was
that purple and blue like kindof wild colors like Taco Bell
used to be in the 90s.
It was the quintessential 90slike color combo, but it's just
like they never had Wildberry.
Wildberry always sold out andit's like well, I want Wildberry
.
Why does it keep selling out?
It must be that good.
They always have blueberry,Pop-Tarts, Wildberry's, like Mom
(14:51):
, they got Wildberry, I'm likeit's amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
All right, Tom.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Leave me alone, let me have my little moment about
Pop-Tarts.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wait, did you see the Pop-Tart movie it?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
was a Pop-Tart movie.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It was a Pop-Tart movie, yeah.
It's on Netflix.
What is it called?
It was Jerry Seinfeld and AmySchumer's in it.
It's about the race to thetoaster pastries between Post
and General Mills.
Yeah, anyway you should watchit.
I liked it Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm writing that down .
Pop-tart movie yeah, this isabout to be a movie we're going
to review at some point.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
It was out last year.
My friends make fun of me forliking it, but I like Jerry
Seinfeld so much.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
So the pop tart movie we're going to review it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We're going to make Hayden review it Okay, cause I
don't think he likes pop tarts.
He's not here.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Exactly.
But getting back on topic, Okay.
You're at NYU, you're studyingmethod acting.
Yes Now, yes now.
While you're at college, arethey helping you get roles?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
to like, give you an agent?
Do agents come in?
Like, how does it work?
Well, funny enough, um, I wouldmiss as many days as I could
miss to go on auditions, butthey didn't recommend you do
that and they frowned upon it,actually because they want you
to be in conservatory, um, andthen because NYU is very
expensive.
I was.
I joined the Miss Americapageant, which is when I became
Miss New York, and then I took aleave of absence from NYU to do
(16:26):
my ribbon cuttings and myvolunteer work for the year and
because of that I got an agent.
So when I got an agent, I woundup not going back to school,
because usually that's the goalis to be able to audition and um
be a part of the industry.
So when I, when I got my agent,I left um, always thinking I'd
(16:50):
go back, but I it never quiteworked out that way.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So but it did work out because you got acting roles
.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Exactly, exactly, um, yeah, so, and that's what
started really the whole, mywhole launching and my journey.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What was your first acting gig that you remember as
being like like I kind of madeit?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh gosh, you're always trying to make it, um,
and I realized that it's kind ofmade it.
Oh gosh, you're always tryingto make it.
And I realize that it's kind ofit's silly to say, but making
it is a little bit of anillusion, because it's always
about being interested andtrying to find the next thing
that you want to give yourenergy to and hopefully that
gives back to you.
But I did.
I booked a role on the seriesPassions.
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It was a soap opera that filmedin LA and I played a mermaid.
So that was like the first timewhen I was on a studio lot and
I had my own parking space andmy own dressing room and I could
sign in every day and I feltlike, oh wow, I, you know, they
let me in here.
How how did they?
How did I manage that Exactly?
(18:01):
It always feels a little bitlike winning the lottery, um,
because you know there's so manypeople who are trying to to be
a part of our industry and, um,thankfully, there's a lot of
room for everyone.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, I know like soap operas.
A lot of times they'll film.
You'll have like one or twoepisodes a week that you're
filming, right.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh gosh, sometimes we would do like five to seven.
Oh, okay, yeah, so it reallydepended.
And a lot of it's repetitivebecause people are coming every
day, so you kind of have tocatch them up on the story but
you don't want the action to tosubside, so you have to keep
attention but you have to goback and remind them what
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happened.
So a lot of it's like namesrepeating or remember last week
when so and so did this, or youwouldn't say last week, but you
would, you know, bring theaudience up to speed.
So it helped with all thatdialogue and we had to do a lot
of pages in a day, for sure well, because I just looking up the
uh the passions tv show, Inoticed that it had like 1700
(19:06):
episodes.
So sheesh exactly yeah, and itwas supernatural.
So we had um like witches andum.
It was yeah and mermaidsclearly.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I mean that's got to be.
I guess a pretty interestingintroduction into being on
television is like you're goingto do a soap and the schedule is
that demanding.
You're doing that much stuffversus like other parts and
shows where it's not as it's atraining ground too, because it
was such a well-oiled machine.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You have to keep the schedule because you have to get
an hour's worth of content donefor the editing process to
happen so that you can't getbehind the schedule.
So everybody had to really worktogether and you had to really
throw yourself into the role,especially playing a mermaid.
It could be ridiculous, but youhave to commit to it.
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It was a great training groundjust in all capacities.
Just stretch your creativityand your imagination.
It was a great set becausenobody really took it super
seriously and we had a greattime with each other.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, I'm really thankful that that was one of my
first experiences, so lookingat some of these other ones, I
see you did Boston Legal LawOrder Numbers, the Glades, red
Dead, redemption, undead,nightmare Before we talk about
the video game stuff, I mean alot of these television roles
did you have a particularfavorite.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I really loved doing Boston Legal because it was with
William Shatner and CandaceBergen and Megan Mullally was on
that week and I had JamesSpader's trailer and I actually
flooded his trailer because thetoilet wasn't working properly
and apparently he was a littlebit of a germaphobe.
(20:58):
So then I knew that and then Iwas at lunch trying to clean up
the trailer that I had floodedwithout telling people and yeah,
so, yeah, I really I had fun onthat set.
It was also cool because wewere in a in where everybody was
present for most of the episodein the scene, so I really got
(21:18):
time with everyone, which wasreally cool.
And oh, Julie Bowen too, andshe's from Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Did you two chat it up a little bit oh?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
yeah.
Yeah, she was pregnant at thetime too, so she's always feisty
and she definitely has opinionsand she's very sharp Cool.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Now for a lot of the legal dramas that you were on.
Is that something you soughtout or is that just something
that they kind of fit?
You know, cause they saw you ina different one.
So another another show cameand asked for you to be on
theirs.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Uh, doesn't really work like that.
It's usually like you get anaudition and then for a role
that you seem appropriate forfrom your agent and then.
So it always feels likestarting from zero For me.
That's been my experience, butI've tended to really love legal
dramas, especially likedramedies, something that has
(22:07):
some basis in reality but alsois a little lighthearted.
So and it's funny that a lot ofthe shows that I was on I've
actually was a fan of ahead oftime.
So I don't know how that quiteworked out, but I was fortunate.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Do you ever catch yourself like on reruns of these
shows, if they pop up?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have friends who are, who send me screenshots
every once in a while, like, oh,I saw you on this and I'm like,
oh thanks, it's just funny.
Yeah, I try not to.
It's funny, I don't watchingmyself.
I, I don't like to watch myselfbecause then you get
self-conscious and then you'renot in the moment.
And it's important to be in themoment.
Um, yeah, so uh.
(22:48):
But you have to also watchyourself because you have to
know what happened and how, howit came out.
So, yeah, that's a little toughfor me.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
How'd you get into the video game voice acting?
Was that like an audition orwere they just kind of like hey,
like your voice sounds great,We'd like to hear you do these
parts.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, it kind of comes through agents.
The same way, I had someexperience with working in
recording studios a lot, becauseI was working on a record back
in the day.
So a lot of times those studioswould be used for music at
night but for advertising andalso for video game production
(23:31):
during the day.
So one of those came throughthat and actually that was the
Star Wars one.
They had me read a bunch ofdifferent characters and I
didn't know what they wouldfinally use.
So I'm glad that they wound upusing me for something Because I
read like I must have read, Ithink, like 10 characters.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hey, we want you to be in the biggest online Star
Wars game there is.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I didn't know anything about it because I
don't I really don't play videogames, so I actually haven't
even seen that or heard thatwork.
But you know, it's like hearingyour own voice.
It's like, ah, so again, that'sfor.
Like someone else, it was funto be in the scene and then, and
obviously, in the world of StarWars, and it's cool to be a
Sith, you know.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Oh, you get to play a Sith Lord.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That's so cool.
I was like, do I get my ownlightsaber?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know right.
I think I deserve a lightsaber.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think they should send you one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, which it was kind of different than the
experience for Red DeadRedemption, because I actually
got to do the motion capture forthat Um, and they put you in a
suit with these balls on them,so that captures all of your
movements, and you're also in amask kind of thing, like a
helmet with a frame on the frontof it so it catches your facial
(24:56):
expressions while you're acting.
So that was a different process.
It wasn't just voiceover, itwas physically in the space, and
then the characters are drawnand written off of your
movements too.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And this is for Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
No, that was the Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The zombie one.
You get to play a zombie.
I was a zombie prostitute.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And then I was in the end scene, the last scene.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Is that what you ever thought where your career might
be?
It's like, oh, I want to dothis, I want to do that, and
it's like zombie prostitute.
Red Dead Redemption.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, you know, that's not, it's never, that was
never on my wishlist.
But the thing is is I love thisbusiness because I want to be
surprised, and so getting to goto work and be like what are we
doing today.
Okay, let's do that, and that'swhat's fun about it, right I?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
mean it's gotta be like a bingo card out there for
actors, where it's just like atroles like play.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's like serial killer, cop, lawyer, zombie yeah
, I guess some people have thatsure well, I also saw the um,
including heart of dixie.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
You're also on how I met your mother and like, and
both of those are a lot morecomedic roles.
Is that something you enjoy?
More is like comedy, or do youenjoy drama more?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
I, like I said I'm more of a dramedy person, like I
really like comedy.
That's kind of grounded, but Itend to like play kind of light.
I think, um, it's just my wayof, of my spirit, like how it
comes out.
I don't tend to really love todo like huge crying roles, like
there are people that lovecrying and I can cry on real
(26:39):
life, but it's just not my fortein um work.
Um, yeah, I would just muchrather be making fun and having
a good time, for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How do they get you to cry, like on a show, like, do
they like give you, like thewater drops, like throwing your
eyes?
Or do you have to think of statstuff?
Speaker 2 (26:59):
like throwing your eyes or do you have to think of
stat stuff?
Well, I mean, yes, you, yes,ideally you would be able to
work that up.
But a lot of people have liketricks and, like you, dry out
your eyes or they have mentholsticks they're called tear
sticks that you can put and itkind of just makes your eyes
water.
Um, but yeah, every, every rolerequires its own thing.
So I can't say that thateverybody uses a tear stick, but
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some people probably do whatwould you say was probably the
most challenging role you'vedone that is a good question.
Challenging, you know, I thinkit's they're all challenging in
(27:40):
their own ways.
It's it's kind of like how youaccess different parts of
yourself.
So I mean, the things that Iusually get cast in are things
that are more natural for me.
So I don't really I couldn'treally say that they're
challenging.
I think it's the biggestchallenge is auditioning.
So I don't really I couldn'treally say that they're
challenging.
I think it's the biggestchallenge is auditioning when
you don't really know what thepart is or what it's going to be
(28:03):
, or how they, how it workstogether.
If you only get the scene andyou don't get a whole script of
the entire piece.
It's kind of that's thechallenging part, I think, is
trying to figure out what yourrole is and how to serve the
piece, when before you have alot of information.
Once you get the job, it's likeit's like, oh yeah, this fits,
(28:23):
I know what it is and you're inthe room with other people, so
it just becomes a collaborativeprocess, which is fun.
But trying to understand otherpeople's ideas just off of a
page, that's probably the mostchallenging part.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Getting one piece of the puzzle.
I'm expecting to see the entirepicture.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yes, exactly right.
Yes, so, and we used to likewhen we would go into audition
rooms and we'd work with castingdirectors and other actors.
You would get more of a senseof the piece because you have
other people there who you canpick up the tone of it or you'll
get notes from the castingdirector.
Now, when you're doing, we do alot of self tapes, which is
(29:03):
good because we can be anywhere,and then sometimes we do a zoom
audition, but even in thatregard, you're doing a lot of it
kind of in a vacuum.
So, yeah, depending on how muchinformation they give you and
what you can kind of pick upfrom those little clues, yeah,
it just becomes a little more.
I think it's more difficult,for me it's more difficult.
(29:26):
But yeah, that's the, that'sthe, the X factor.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, tom had mentioned, like you know, a
bingo card.
People want to play differentroles mentioned, like you know,
a bingo card.
People want to play differentroles.
Is there a certain role that,like, if it ever came up, like a
certain princess or a certainlike superhero character or
anything that you specificallywant to play if you had the
opportunity?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
um, it's funny I'm.
I'm kind of in the mind rightnow, because I've been writing
so much music um, of becomingmore myself, so it's funny I I'd
have to think about that.
Um, most of the projects I I'vealways wanted to escape myself
into these other roles and now,as I become more comfortable
(30:08):
being myself, I'm kind of reallyinterested in telling that
story and being that person,which is really quite ironic to
have to go through all of myroles to get back to myself.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
You know, like the alchemist yeah, because you're
just kind of learning bits andpieces about yourself as you
went along, that's all yeah,exactly yeah, and I'm finally
comfortable in my own skin.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So, yeah, I'm excited to see what's next and, um, how
to bring that to different,different roles one question I
always like to ask is someonehas been in the game for a while
is do you ever have like astarstruck moment, or your best
like, oh my god, that's so andso?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
yes, I mean the.
The person that makes me themost starstruck is julie andrews
.
Julie Andrews and I actuallygot to fly as Mary Poppins for
her American film Institutelifetime achievement award,
which was a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I was like I should be ona list somewhere where I
shouldn't be allowed in a roomwith her, like pretty sure they
(31:13):
should have that, but I was.
I was just like beside myselfthat I got to be there and I
didn't get to meet her the wholetime because they were using me
as a surprise for her, thatthey were going to fly someone
in as Mary Poppins.
And so by the end of the night Iwas like looking for her
because I just wanted that likeelusive picture and I was
(31:36):
thinking like, oh, what am Igoing to say?
What am I going to say?
And finally it was like thecrowd parted and there she was
and I was like this is my moment.
And so I ran right up to herand she was so chill and
easygoing and we just talkedlike actors, which is so lovely
and it's.
It's just so incredible to seesomebody who you followed their
(32:00):
career for so long and admirethem, and then they're just such
a wonderful person, yeah, so Iwas really grateful to get my
picture.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I know I always tell you, like the old dad, just like
, don't meet your heroes.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
But when you do meet one and it goes great.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
It's just like I always knew this is how this
would be.
Yeah, yes, you know, I alwaysknew this is how this would be.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yes, you know, I felt that too with Paul Rudd.
I was like oh, how's he goingto be?
I don't know.
And you know, class act exactlylike you think he would be.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, it was that was also a really relieving
experience too, cause it'd belike, you know, like oh hi, like
oh hi, mr rudd, no, you cancall me paul.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
he said I could call him paul exactly yeah, and we
started actually shooting theday after the afc championship
in 2024, which was the ravensversus the chiefs.
Um, and I'm from baltimore andclearly a ravens fan and he is a
Chiefs fan, so we had animmediate icebreaker in the
(33:02):
makeup trailer.
So, yeah, it just got betterfrom there.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It's like how about that game?
We'll see you next year.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, speaking of Paul Rudd, the movie Friendship
comes out on May 9th.
Could you tell us a little bitabout that movie?
Of course we know you don'twant to spoil it, but could you
tell us a little bit about yourrole, a little bit about the
movie.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So the movie is a buddy comedy.
It's about two guys who kind ofshouldn't be friends.
Maybe they shouldn't be friends, we'll find out if they should
be friends.
It's like two people that it's.
Yeah, it's really funny to seehow they meet and and it's
(33:46):
really told in such a groundedway.
So you have to just be readyfor anything.
And I play Paul Rudd's boss.
We work at a news station, so Igot to kind of see him in all
of his anchorman glory.
Essentially he's actually theweatherman and I'm the anchor
woman.
So yeah, that was.
(34:06):
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I definitely want to check that one out and see Is
Paul Rudd you, uh, tim Robinson?
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, tim Robinson, have you seen?
I think you should leave.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I have seen a couple of it the one where he crashes
the hot dog.
Uh, and he's in the hot dog, sohe crashed in like a men's
warehouse okay, it's like in ahot dog mobile and everybody's
like what, what happened?
He's like, oh my god, who didthat?
And everybody looks at him andlooks at the car and it's like,
and he's just playing it offwhile shoplifting see it gets so
uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I love it.
It's, it's, it's amazing.
I really, I really love howtheir different senses of their
different comedic senses work inthis movie.
It's just gold.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Have you seen Tim Robinson's bit where he does
like he does not know how todrive?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I don't know if I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Because you always see it like in traffic.
He's like, do you ever learnhow to drive?
And he's just in a minivan,just like, bump it, install it,
you know, out in the middle ofthe parking lot.
He's like no.
Oh my goodness, and he's likejust move and he goes.
Oh, it's easy for you to.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
I love it.
That's actually what we allwant to do, right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I just know that whenever I'm scrolling through
reels and TikToks and stuff, Ialways see his little meme kind
of video where he's going.
You sure about that, you sure?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
about that?
You sure about that?
Or I didn't do?
You know, I can't say the wordand I've got to get the hot
sauce.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Or mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
No, no, brandy, no, we don't do that here I'm going
to write that down.
You, better not.
You and Hayden will have tohold me down Anything you're
working on now that you canreveal.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Just actually, I've decided to release an EP this
summer, so I have like six songsready to be released and I'm
kind of working on the rolloutfor that, all of the visuals,
and trying to make a cohesivemoment for all these songs that
I've written, which is reallyexciting because again, it's
(36:15):
like me, with my voice, and sonot something I'm putting on,
but authentically me.
So, yeah, I'm really excitedabout that 's.
Uh, my first single comes outjune 1st, okay, and then july
1st, or we're aiming for thebeginning of the month.
So, yeah, more to more datesspecific dates to come shortly
(36:37):
will this be on, like spotifyand itunes?
everywhere you can stream music.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, what kind of genre music are we talking here?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
It's definitely pop and dance.
It's going to make you move.
It can be.
You know good cartoons yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Everybody needs a good cartoon because you get all
pumped up and ready.
And then there's some songs andalbums you just don't listen to
while you're driving becauseyou'll miss the exits.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I was driving back to Georgia Southern, which is a
university here in South Georgiaor close to Savannah, and it's
about 45 minutes from Savannah,but you have to drive past
Georgia Southern to get to it.
And I'm driving along, I'mlistening to Pink Floyd, I'm
lost in the moment and the nextthing I know I just see an exit
sign for Savannah.
I was like what?
Oh no, I drove an extra 45minutes for nothing.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Then you get to listen to the album again.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I turned it off.
I was like, Nope, you're notgetting me twice.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Cause.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Then I ended up in like Macon or something, or
Atlanta.
I'd be like how?
No, this is just out of control.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
You can't drive and listen to Pink Floyd.
I did that Friday listening tosome music.
I drove right past the exit forwork.
I had to get off and come backaround to the next exit.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, you're excusive .
I was listening to music.
Might not fly with your boss.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I'm always early, it's okay, oh, okay.
Smart.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Good thing you weren't running late that one
time.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
My work starts pretty much at 7.
I normally get there about 6.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, you got time.
Get there about six.
So, yeah, you got time.
You got time to make a u-turn.
Yeah, yeah, it's fine.
Anyway, back to brandy.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Any uh other acting jobs you're looking at, you're
auditioning for, you want topitch I also have a um web
series that I'm a part of uhcalled rosemary street.
It's uh kind of about baltimoreand kind of rebrand, rebranding
Baltimore instead of just likeinner city drugs and crime.
(38:31):
We have a great art scene inBaltimore.
We are the home of PeabodyConservatory, and so just
highlighting young talent,musical talent in the Baltimore
area.
It's kind of like Glee but in amore indie, folky rock kind of
way, and we have great flashbackscenes from the 80s really
(38:53):
celebrating Baltimore.
There's a classic gigging venuecalled Hammer Jacks, so it
really has like a hometown feel.
Yeah, and I'm excited aboutthat okay, where could you catch
this?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
uh, that'll be on youtube is it a you know to
subscribe or pay, it's free foreverybody.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
So yeah, we're.
I think they release threeepisodes at a time and I don't
think it's paid, so okay, yeahwe should do a youtube show tom,
we have to have visual podcastsbefore we can worry about a
show.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It might be the only way you ever get me to eat
mayonnaise Out of a scoop.
Welcome to Tom Tries onEntertain.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
This, I'll write that down.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Please don't write that down.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
That's just me talking ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Do you have any other questions, Mitch?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
At the moment.
I think she's answered prettymuch everything I wrote down to
ask.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
As I look through all my pre-written notes, it's like
man, like we flew through thatand we talked about food, which
we never get to talk about food.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, I was thinking like I've always wanted to be on
that hot wind show, like to seeif how far you can make it yeah
, exactly, I think I'd be goodwe, uh, I mean this will edit
most of this.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
This is just kind of talking talking uh, the hot
sauce, the last one, the lastdab yeah that's the one that
they had when we were doing the.
We did the video recording too,and the audio we would go to
alpharetta oh yeah, to record atmtech the atomic bomb yeah, the
atomic, yeah, the whatever, the?
Their last one was on hot ones.
We had it and it's likelighting your mouth on fire.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Really, brandy, don't , don't do it, don't buy it I
should just look them up andjust maybe, yeah, I should, I
should probably work up to it.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You know, just to it's like a, like a sport our
other co-host made tom mad onetime because Tom got up to leave
the room and he put some of thehot sauce just on the inside of
his Red Bull.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Ruining a drink $5 worth of beverage Ruined.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Ruined Mitch.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Crazy.
I know that was a good one,though.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Idiotic 30-year-olds with nothing else to do, just
giant toddlers.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, it's amusing, we appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
I'll have to say that you're the only other Brandy
that I know, besides my wife,that spells it with an I that
I've actually ever talked to.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Oh wow, that's cool I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I think that's the only other time I've seen it
spelled with the I.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, why?
I've seen it spelled with the Iyeah.
Why did your wife's parentschoose an I?
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I don't know.
She didn't tell me or she'snever told me.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
you know specifically why they chose an I but yeah,
mine say they didn't want it tobe like the alcohol and I'm like
it still sounds the same.
What is your problem?
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The pronunciation never changed.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Because nobody goes brand.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I my mom always said Brandi Burkhart, mickey Mouse,
donald Duck, brandi Burkhart,I'm like oh great, I'm a cartoon
character.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Do I have comically?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
large feet to you, madam.
Exactly, she's like well,you're lucky, your name wasn't
Rainbow Bright, all right thanks.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Now go get Easy Bake Oven and tell them dinner's
ready Exactly.
That would be kind of funny.
But, Brandy, thank you verymuch for joining us on our show
Before we I mean we're going todo an edit and tighten it up a
little bit.
Is there anything you want toplug before we sign off?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
I don't think so.
I think, that's it.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know, you got your upcoming EP that's going to
be coming out next year.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Yes, and the EP is called Just Like this.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Check it out on iTunes and Spotify and anywhere
else you can stream music.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yes, and it's a very different presentation of me, so
I'm excited to share it withthe world.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
The true Brandy.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
We'll have to check it out All of it.
I hope I get to hear it on theradio too.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Well, thank you to you, the listener, for enjoying
this episode of Entertain this.
We'll hopefully catch you onour next ones.
I'm Tom, I'm Mitch andentertain this We'll hopefully
catch you on our next ones.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I'm Tom, I'm out.
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