October 2, 2025 • 17 mins
Schuyler Fisk joins Reel Insights to talk about Hallmark’s The Chicken Sisters, her iconic roles in The Baby-sitters Club and Snow Day, and her career as a singer-songwriter. She reflects on three decades in entertainment, from Jack Black memories to Loretta Lynn collaborations, while teasing what fans can expect from her new music.
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Hello Skyler, it's a pleasure tofinally meet you and thanks for
making the time to chat, of course.
Yeah, thanks for having me on. Excited because I finally got to
see your latest series, The Chicken sisters.
I am hooked Yeah, I'm already hooked.
I might say I love it because itbrings together family drama,
southern charm, and of course, my favorite fried chicken.
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I'm. I'm going to have to ask this,
you know the how did this project land on your radar?
And I kind of research a little bit.
It's kind of cool that the show is a book that's from the Reese,
you know, Reese's book club pick, which is really cool.
So did you also dive into the novel?
Yeah, so how I how I came aware,but I I wasn't familiar with the
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book before I became aware of the script of the series and I
read it. I immediately identified with
Amanda, who I now get to play. And, you know, it's like it's
such a nice thing when you're really right for something
because I feel like there's so many auditions that come come to
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me that I just know I'm not right for.
And this I was like, I'm her. So it's just like a real, you
know, it was a lot of luck. And then I just, you know, I, I
auditioned and I auditioned again and was really lucky to,
to get the part. And then, of course, you know,
became aware of the book the best, the New York Times
bestseller, The Chicken Sisters by KJ Del Antonia.
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And I got to become friends withher, the author, she came to
set. And yeah, it's just been a
really fun, fun project from from the get go.
Yeah. It's kind of like a full circle
moment right there with her visiting the sets and your
character's obviously, you know,the center of this multi
generational family story and you said you relate to your
character so much, So what aspects of her did you
personally connect with? You know, I think Amanda is
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someone that's like she just wants to do good.
She just wants to be a good person.
She wants to do for everybody. She's kind of spent most of her
life thinking about everyone else and sort of put herself on
the on the back burner a little bit.
And I feel like although I do, Ipursue my own things and I
definitely am not quite that. I'm not quite Amanda.
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I do identify with some of thosethings And, you know, just just
want people pleaser, you know, all the things, just wanting to
be a good daughter, mom, human friend, all the things.
And yeah, so anyway, but she's complicated and that's what I
like about her. She's not perfect and she makes
mistakes and she has a nice like, you know, a nice little
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pass She gets to walk down to kind of learn about herself and
in the hard, hard ways, so. You definitely have a great cast
around you. You have this powerhouse of
women, part of this, and what's the energy like with such an
incredible group of women? I mean, and I'm not just saying
this, but we really are very, very, very close, like family,
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friends. I mean, we are, it was pretty
instant. But now since we've just
finished shooting the second season, it like really
solidified the bonds that we made during the first season.
I mean, Jennifer and I are like,like sisters.
I mean, we are very, very close.We talk all the time.
And Leah and Wendy are just they, they just feel like
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family. I mean, we text all the time.
We have a group text chain. But also like, we all text
separately. And I think, you know, there's
genuine love there, which is a nice base to be able to work
from because you have trust. Yeah, like I said, I love the
cast, and obviously I'm not going to hide it.
I'm a big Back to the Future fan.
Lovely. Just shoot me with something I
was obsessed with. So I love seeing Wendy and
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everything. She pops up and I got to watch
them. And of course, you and everyone
else. I love the small town.
Where is this shot? Because I always wanted to live
in a small town, a big city boy here.
And I always love these quaint little small towns.
So tell me about like with the sex.
It's really awesome. I agree.
Yeah, I love a small town too, but I am a I'm a country girl at
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heart. So we shoot in Canada, we shoot
in Vancouver. There's a really, really sweet
little town called Fort Langley and it looks like a little
picture book, like a picture book.
Small town, just beautiful little streets and tree lined.
I don't know, it's just it's it's a great place to shoot.
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We shoot a lot of it in the sound stage too for the sets.
But I think it's said you know any anywhere Southern USA is
what it's supposed to be. I think in the book it's Kansas
City or something like that anyway, but.
Well, I'm pretty far South, but it's big city South.
I'm in Houston, so we don't havethe quite feel.
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That's pretty S, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
For someone just hearing about the show for the first time,
what's your pitch like? Why should they TuneIn like it's
I'll say like I didn't know anything about it.
Watched a couple episodes are like this is awesome.
Got to keep going. I got obviously a second season
to look forward to, so I'm superexcited.
Yeah, I love the second season so much.
It's so my picture be, you know,it's a, it's a it's great
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because it really has something for everyone to relate to.
It's like it's all those comforting things that you know
and love about something you would think is on Hallmark, but
it's so much more than that. And it's like a show that I
think could really be on any network.
It has, it deals with like real life issues, things that people
can really connect to. It's, it's challenging at times
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for these characters, but it's, it's nothing too crazy that you
can't like, just enjoy it after a really hard day.
Well you got me hooked. Definitely looking forward to
more. I wanted to jump back a bit to
actually one of my all time favorite movies that you are in
that does not get talked much about these days.
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Why do you think Orange County is a bit of a hidden gem?
I mean, there are so many reasons.
I I would say that many of it islike the writer Mike White,
who's, you know, we all know from White Lotus, the director
Jake Kasdan, who's brilliant, the incredible cast.
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I mean, these like legends that I was getting to work with.
Harold Ramis. Gosh, everyone, Captain.
O'Hara John Lithgow. I mean, it's a list of Colin
Hanks. John Lithgow.
Did I say him already of? Course you got Colin Hanks and.
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Ben Stiller makes a cameo with every cameo.
In black in his young, young days.
Yeah, he was just hitting the scene like, yeah, anyway, it
was, it was just so much fun. And that was just, I mean, that
was a wonderful project to be a part of, but I feel like it'll
come back around. There's just so much, I mean,
there's so much content now to watch.
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But that movie stuck with me when I saw it in theaters.
I think I was just maybe 12 years old when I saw it and I I
just loved it. So many aspects of it.
I laughed, loved the actors. Obviously I loved you in it and
everyone else. It just something.
It's probably my easily in my top 8 films of all time.
Thank you. Good one.
It's it's clever. Big watch.
Yeah. It is very fun.
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Do you have a a story you can share from that set?
Because I'm sure it was also some of a wild set.
There are so many stories in that set and it that's one of
the sets that I'm like, I actually have a lot of the
stories just like ready to go inmy brain.
But one of the ones that I thinkabout all the time is just like
the hardest scene for me to shoot was a scene in the car and
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Jack Black and Colin Hanks are talking and Jack's talking about
like a hat. And he was just like improving
and you never knew what he was going to say.
And I was literally just supposed to be asleep in the
backseat. And I was literally like biting
my lip, pinching my hand, like don't laugh, don't laugh, don't
laugh because I'm supposed to beasleep.
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But it was just like every time it was different.
And I remember being like, if I mess this up, I'm going to and
all I have to do is sleep. I'm going to be really mad at
myself. But there was so much.
I mean, there was the dog that bit my nose that it that ended
up in the movie. I mean, you know, there were
just, there were just a lot of funny things.
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There is a lot of memorable scenes and lines in that film.
It really is. A lot will stick with you.
It stuck with me since I was just a preteen.
You're the same height. He's like stoned on whatever.
That is fine. Everything's playing back in my
head again and I'm just like thewhole movie from start to
beginning. And I, I, I loved it.
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You're in tons of fantastic films and also a couple of films
that had anniversaries this year.
So early this year we had snow day.
Oh, what was that anniversary? For snow days, 25 years of snow
day. Wow.
I know. So when you hear that, what's
the first memory that comes backfrom filming that?
Snow day. Oh, I remember, I remember,
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gosh, I have so many things, butI just remember like, you know,
that was we were shooting in Canada in the winter, which is
supposed to be so cold and snowy.
And it was like the first winterthat they hadn't got any snow.
And so it's called snow day. We had, they had to like truck
in snow from nearby mountains and they had this stuff that
they were spraying. They had all these fake
snowballs. And I remember Chevy Chase,
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like, reaming us with snowballs,like completely out of blue.
You never knew. I mean, he's such a, you know,
jokester like that. You never know what to expect or
where it's coming from. But yeah, I, I think that.
And then I was like, I had theseboots on in that movie that had
no traction. They were like, and I just would
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slip on the snow or fake snow constantly and it was it was
like dangerous, but it was funnyand they thought it was so funny
that they just kept it. And so like, you see me walking
in the movie and I'm literally just it's like I'm on ice
constantly. So they.
Probably gave it to all the actors on there so they can have
some funny scenes of them just falling around.
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Like that's funny. Keep with that.
No, I love that. You know, I love Nickelodeon
movies, you know, growing up andand that was one that that stuck
with me as well. And of course.
On double dare promoting that which?
Is cool. Oh yeah, I didn't know.
I maybe missed that. I probably seen it but probably
forgot about it. So tell me about Double Dare
because that's every kids dream.It wasn't it?
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I know. Well, it was Double Dare 2000.
To be fair, it's the same. Thing it's still the same thing.
Yeah, I mean, that was, I got todo the thing where you like, I
remember a big fake nose and there was slime and had to like
find a flag. And I was like going up in this
like fake nose through all the slime to get this red flag.
That's my memory from that. But it was so fun.
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And then we got to kind of like go around Universal Studios with
like a VIP pass and ride all therides.
That's cool. You're you're just rubbing it
in. Those are all my I was such a
big Nickelodeon kid obsessed with everything they provided
and, and everything. And, and snow Day was one of
them. And of course the other
anniversary is the Babysitter Club just turned 30.
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That's past August. So when you look back at a film
like that, that's become such a cult favorite for an entire
generation that are now adults, you know, how does that feel?
You know, it's awesome and it's really crazy because I mean, I
was 11 I think when I did that. I am recognized more for that
than literally anything. And I was in Nashville over this
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past weekend and I got recognized 2 * 2 separate
places. Like for that.
It was, it's, it's always shocking to me.
People are like, I know you fromsomewhere, and I'm thinking
they're going to be like, chicken sisters or Orange County
even or anything where I was sort of more an adult.
And they're like, maybe Sitter'sClub.
You were Christie. But it's cool because you know,
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these people now, you know, thatwas a special time in their
lives. And a lot of these, you know,
women read the books and now they're showing their kids the
movie. And yeah, it was a special
experience for me, too. And all the girls were all
really close. Still, it was a real bonding,
like our all of our first real experiences acting in a movie,
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you know? Yeah, that also had a great
cast. I mean you you've worked with so
many great actors just like yourself and it's just awesome
to kind of see that. And you're saying that y'all SO
are connected so which is reallycool after all those years.
We are, we really are. It's, it's really special.
And Melanie Mayeron, the director, too.
She's a part of the the club. That, that is awesome.
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Now that's super cool. I want to switch gears now into
music. You just dropped a brand new
single last month. So what inspired that track and
how does it reflect kind of where you are musically right
now? Yes, that track is called Bout
It. I did it in collaboration with
Klaus, a wonderful band out of Virginia.
That song was inspired by a lot of things.
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But you know, I been making thisTV show the Chicken sisters.
In doing that, I was listening to a lot of old school country
and thinking about wanting. I don't know that I just sort of
seeped into my brain as far as like wanting to write something
more in that vein. I wouldn't say about it is a
country song, but it definitely has those inspirations you can
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hear. And then, you know, I, you know,
similar to you, you're in Houston, but I lived in Austin
for many years and I got really into the two step scene and it's
still my favorite thing to do when I'm visiting there.
And I always was like, man, I want to write music that you can
2 step to because all my songs are, I tend to lean into the
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slower ballads. So anyway, that was on my brain.
And then I, I started collaborating with Klaus and,
and it just sort of happened andwe recorded it in Austin and
kind of brought it all. Yeah, it just made sense.
And it felt like that's where mybrain was.
And as far as what I have comingup, we have some more
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collaborations that we're doing and I'm excited for that because
they are really amazing. And if you don't know Klaus's
other music, it's really worth checking out.
They have two records, Take French and Totems is the first
one. And they're just, it's so good.
No, I listen to your that song. It's a great song and doing it
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in Austin. So you were recording the rest
in Austin, You come back down here.
I don't know if we'll record therest there, but I would love to
if that worked out. We we were at this incredible
studio called Arlen. I don't know if you've heard of
it, but it is like legendary. I mean, all of the most amazing
records have been made there. It's it has a total vibe.
The people there are wonderful. The engineers are wonderful.
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So yeah, I would, I mean, I would love to if that worked out
would be great. But otherwise I have a home
studio and just kind of. Just kind of yeah.
It's awesome vibes, though. It's yeah.
Any any reason to come to Austin, It's worth it.
Like all my family's there so. No, that is awesome.
So looking back on your music career, what has been your
proudest moment? Oh gosh, musically, I don't
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know. I mean, I 11 dear memories when
I got to, I got to open for Loretta Lynn, who was actually
when I was like 6 months old. She was my first concert ever
because my mom and Loretta were friends from of course, it's
coal miner's daughter. But but anyway, that was really
a cool full circle moment. Loretta asked if I would open
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this, this big sort of benefit show.
And I had a, an indie country band at the time called FM Radio
and, and we did and it was just really special.
And of course she called me up and was sang with her and her
set. And it was just that's, that's
been. But I'm honestly, I'm just proud
to be writing music and putting it out there because it's, it's
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hard to, you know, it's hard to put yourself out there and in
that way. And so I'm excited for I'll be
really proud of myself when I get warm stick out.
And yeah, balancing music and acting, you know, can't be easy.
Do you find the 2 worlds feed into each other?
You know, creatively? Oh, completely.
I feel like for me, art really begets art.
And I felt like whenever, like especially when I was working on
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the Chicken Sisters, I was really, you know, I don't know,
you just get like it, this creative switch turns on.
And even though it's like the acting collaboration there, it
made me think about all the songs I wanted to write and it
just lit that creative fuse at me.
So yeah, they really, and it's anice music is a nice thing to do
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when I when I'm not on set working, it's like a nice thing
I can do anywhere. That's very true.
And lastly, I'm going to ask this, like looking ahead, what
excites you most about the next chapter of your career?
Gosh, all of it. Just, I mean, it's the scariest
and most exciting thing. I think it's not knowing what's
around the corner, you know? I think for a lot of artists and
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actors, you know, you're just kind of waiting to see what
happens, you know? I'm hoping for another season of
the Chicken Sisters, of course, have new music coming down the
pipeline, but just excited for what's next or whatever.
We'd have collaborations or yeahto come.
I'm super excited to 1st see more Chicken Sisters because I
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already got hooked on that and more from you as well.
But Skyler, thank you so much for chatting.
I guess I'm really excited for more episodes of The Chicken
Sisters and hope to catch up again.
Thank you.
Hello Skyler, it's a pleasure tofinally meet you and thanks for
making the time to chat, of course.
Yeah, thanks for having me on. Excited because I finally got to
see your latest series, The Chicken sisters.
I am hooked Yeah, I'm already hooked.
I might say I love it because itbrings together family drama,
southern charm, and of course, my favorite fried chicken.
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I'm. I'm going to have to ask this,
you know the how did this project land on your radar?
And I kind of research a little bit.
It's kind of cool that the show is a book that's from the Reese,
you know, Reese's book club pick, which is really cool.
So did you also dive into the novel?
Yeah, so how I how I came aware,but I I wasn't familiar with the
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book before I became aware of the script of the series and I
read it. I immediately identified with
Amanda, who I now get to play. And, you know, it's like it's
such a nice thing when you're really right for something
because I feel like there's so many auditions that come come to
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me that I just know I'm not right for.
And this I was like, I'm her. So it's just like a real, you
know, it was a lot of luck. And then I just, you know, I, I
auditioned and I auditioned again and was really lucky to,
to get the part. And then, of course, you know,
became aware of the book the best, the New York Times
bestseller, The Chicken Sisters by KJ Del Antonia.
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And I got to become friends withher, the author, she came to
set. And yeah, it's just been a
really fun, fun project from from the get go.
Yeah. It's kind of like a full circle
moment right there with her visiting the sets and your
character's obviously, you know,the center of this multi
generational family story and you said you relate to your
character so much, So what aspects of her did you
personally connect with? You know, I think Amanda is
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someone that's like she just wants to do good.
She just wants to be a good person.
She wants to do for everybody. She's kind of spent most of her
life thinking about everyone else and sort of put herself on
the on the back burner a little bit.
And I feel like although I do, Ipursue my own things and I
definitely am not quite that. I'm not quite Amanda.
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I do identify with some of thosethings And, you know, just just
want people pleaser, you know, all the things, just wanting to
be a good daughter, mom, human friend, all the things.
And yeah, so anyway, but she's complicated and that's what I
like about her. She's not perfect and she makes
mistakes and she has a nice like, you know, a nice little
(02:35):
pass She gets to walk down to kind of learn about herself and
in the hard, hard ways, so. You definitely have a great cast
around you. You have this powerhouse of
women, part of this, and what's the energy like with such an
incredible group of women? I mean, and I'm not just saying
this, but we really are very, very, very close, like family,
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friends. I mean, we are, it was pretty
instant. But now since we've just
finished shooting the second season, it like really
solidified the bonds that we made during the first season.
I mean, Jennifer and I are like,like sisters.
I mean, we are very, very close.We talk all the time.
And Leah and Wendy are just they, they just feel like
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family. I mean, we text all the time.
We have a group text chain. But also like, we all text
separately. And I think, you know, there's
genuine love there, which is a nice base to be able to work
from because you have trust. Yeah, like I said, I love the
cast, and obviously I'm not going to hide it.
I'm a big Back to the Future fan.
Lovely. Just shoot me with something I
was obsessed with. So I love seeing Wendy and
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everything. She pops up and I got to watch
them. And of course, you and everyone
else. I love the small town.
Where is this shot? Because I always wanted to live
in a small town, a big city boy here.
And I always love these quaint little small towns.
So tell me about like with the sex.
It's really awesome. I agree.
Yeah, I love a small town too, but I am a I'm a country girl at
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heart. So we shoot in Canada, we shoot
in Vancouver. There's a really, really sweet
little town called Fort Langley and it looks like a little
picture book, like a picture book.
Small town, just beautiful little streets and tree lined.
I don't know, it's just it's it's a great place to shoot.
(04:23):
We shoot a lot of it in the sound stage too for the sets.
But I think it's said you know any anywhere Southern USA is
what it's supposed to be. I think in the book it's Kansas
City or something like that anyway, but.
Well, I'm pretty far South, but it's big city South.
I'm in Houston, so we don't havethe quite feel.
(04:45):
That's pretty S, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
For someone just hearing about the show for the first time,
what's your pitch like? Why should they TuneIn like it's
I'll say like I didn't know anything about it.
Watched a couple episodes are like this is awesome.
Got to keep going. I got obviously a second season
to look forward to, so I'm superexcited.
Yeah, I love the second season so much.
It's so my picture be, you know,it's a, it's a it's great
(05:10):
because it really has something for everyone to relate to.
It's like it's all those comforting things that you know
and love about something you would think is on Hallmark, but
it's so much more than that. And it's like a show that I
think could really be on any network.
It has, it deals with like real life issues, things that people
can really connect to. It's, it's challenging at times
(05:31):
for these characters, but it's, it's nothing too crazy that you
can't like, just enjoy it after a really hard day.
Well you got me hooked. Definitely looking forward to
more. I wanted to jump back a bit to
actually one of my all time favorite movies that you are in
that does not get talked much about these days.
(05:51):
Why do you think Orange County is a bit of a hidden gem?
I mean, there are so many reasons.
I I would say that many of it islike the writer Mike White,
who's, you know, we all know from White Lotus, the director
Jake Kasdan, who's brilliant, the incredible cast.
(06:14):
I mean, these like legends that I was getting to work with.
Harold Ramis. Gosh, everyone, Captain.
O'Hara John Lithgow. I mean, it's a list of Colin
Hanks. John Lithgow.
Did I say him already of? Course you got Colin Hanks and.
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Ben Stiller makes a cameo with every cameo.
In black in his young, young days.
Yeah, he was just hitting the scene like, yeah, anyway, it
was, it was just so much fun. And that was just, I mean, that
was a wonderful project to be a part of, but I feel like it'll
come back around. There's just so much, I mean,
there's so much content now to watch.
(06:57):
But that movie stuck with me when I saw it in theaters.
I think I was just maybe 12 years old when I saw it and I I
just loved it. So many aspects of it.
I laughed, loved the actors. Obviously I loved you in it and
everyone else. It just something.
It's probably my easily in my top 8 films of all time.
Thank you. Good one.
It's it's clever. Big watch.
Yeah. It is very fun.
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Do you have a a story you can share from that set?
Because I'm sure it was also some of a wild set.
There are so many stories in that set and it that's one of
the sets that I'm like, I actually have a lot of the
stories just like ready to go inmy brain.
But one of the ones that I thinkabout all the time is just like
the hardest scene for me to shoot was a scene in the car and
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Jack Black and Colin Hanks are talking and Jack's talking about
like a hat. And he was just like improving
and you never knew what he was going to say.
And I was literally just supposed to be asleep in the
backseat. And I was literally like biting
my lip, pinching my hand, like don't laugh, don't laugh, don't
laugh because I'm supposed to beasleep.
(08:01):
But it was just like every time it was different.
And I remember being like, if I mess this up, I'm going to and
all I have to do is sleep. I'm going to be really mad at
myself. But there was so much.
I mean, there was the dog that bit my nose that it that ended
up in the movie. I mean, you know, there were
just, there were just a lot of funny things.
(08:22):
There is a lot of memorable scenes and lines in that film.
It really is. A lot will stick with you.
It stuck with me since I was just a preteen.
You're the same height. He's like stoned on whatever.
That is fine. Everything's playing back in my
head again and I'm just like thewhole movie from start to
beginning. And I, I, I loved it.
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You're in tons of fantastic films and also a couple of films
that had anniversaries this year.
So early this year we had snow day.
Oh, what was that anniversary? For snow days, 25 years of snow
day. Wow.
I know. So when you hear that, what's
the first memory that comes backfrom filming that?
Snow day. Oh, I remember, I remember,
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gosh, I have so many things, butI just remember like, you know,
that was we were shooting in Canada in the winter, which is
supposed to be so cold and snowy.
And it was like the first winterthat they hadn't got any snow.
And so it's called snow day. We had, they had to like truck
in snow from nearby mountains and they had this stuff that
they were spraying. They had all these fake
snowballs. And I remember Chevy Chase,
(09:28):
like, reaming us with snowballs,like completely out of blue.
You never knew. I mean, he's such a, you know,
jokester like that. You never know what to expect or
where it's coming from. But yeah, I, I think that.
And then I was like, I had theseboots on in that movie that had
no traction. They were like, and I just would
(09:49):
slip on the snow or fake snow constantly and it was it was
like dangerous, but it was funnyand they thought it was so funny
that they just kept it. And so like, you see me walking
in the movie and I'm literally just it's like I'm on ice
constantly. So they.
Probably gave it to all the actors on there so they can have
some funny scenes of them just falling around.
(10:10):
Like that's funny. Keep with that.
No, I love that. You know, I love Nickelodeon
movies, you know, growing up andand that was one that that stuck
with me as well. And of course.
On double dare promoting that which?
Is cool. Oh yeah, I didn't know.
I maybe missed that. I probably seen it but probably
forgot about it. So tell me about Double Dare
because that's every kids dream.It wasn't it?
(10:31):
I know. Well, it was Double Dare 2000.
To be fair, it's the same. Thing it's still the same thing.
Yeah, I mean, that was, I got todo the thing where you like, I
remember a big fake nose and there was slime and had to like
find a flag. And I was like going up in this
like fake nose through all the slime to get this red flag.
That's my memory from that. But it was so fun.
(10:54):
And then we got to kind of like go around Universal Studios with
like a VIP pass and ride all therides.
That's cool. You're you're just rubbing it
in. Those are all my I was such a
big Nickelodeon kid obsessed with everything they provided
and, and everything. And, and snow Day was one of
them. And of course the other
anniversary is the Babysitter Club just turned 30.
(11:16):
That's past August. So when you look back at a film
like that, that's become such a cult favorite for an entire
generation that are now adults, you know, how does that feel?
You know, it's awesome and it's really crazy because I mean, I
was 11 I think when I did that. I am recognized more for that
than literally anything. And I was in Nashville over this
(11:39):
past weekend and I got recognized 2 * 2 separate
places. Like for that.
It was, it's, it's always shocking to me.
People are like, I know you fromsomewhere, and I'm thinking
they're going to be like, chicken sisters or Orange County
even or anything where I was sort of more an adult.
And they're like, maybe Sitter'sClub.
You were Christie. But it's cool because you know,
(12:01):
these people now, you know, thatwas a special time in their
lives. And a lot of these, you know,
women read the books and now they're showing their kids the
movie. And yeah, it was a special
experience for me, too. And all the girls were all
really close. Still, it was a real bonding,
like our all of our first real experiences acting in a movie,
(12:25):
you know? Yeah, that also had a great
cast. I mean you you've worked with so
many great actors just like yourself and it's just awesome
to kind of see that. And you're saying that y'all SO
are connected so which is reallycool after all those years.
We are, we really are. It's, it's really special.
And Melanie Mayeron, the director, too.
She's a part of the the club. That, that is awesome.
(12:45):
Now that's super cool. I want to switch gears now into
music. You just dropped a brand new
single last month. So what inspired that track and
how does it reflect kind of where you are musically right
now? Yes, that track is called Bout
It. I did it in collaboration with
Klaus, a wonderful band out of Virginia.
That song was inspired by a lot of things.
(13:09):
But you know, I been making thisTV show the Chicken sisters.
In doing that, I was listening to a lot of old school country
and thinking about wanting. I don't know that I just sort of
seeped into my brain as far as like wanting to write something
more in that vein. I wouldn't say about it is a
country song, but it definitely has those inspirations you can
(13:29):
hear. And then, you know, I, you know,
similar to you, you're in Houston, but I lived in Austin
for many years and I got really into the two step scene and it's
still my favorite thing to do when I'm visiting there.
And I always was like, man, I want to write music that you can
2 step to because all my songs are, I tend to lean into the
(13:51):
slower ballads. So anyway, that was on my brain.
And then I, I started collaborating with Klaus and,
and it just sort of happened andwe recorded it in Austin and
kind of brought it all. Yeah, it just made sense.
And it felt like that's where mybrain was.
And as far as what I have comingup, we have some more
(14:11):
collaborations that we're doing and I'm excited for that because
they are really amazing. And if you don't know Klaus's
other music, it's really worth checking out.
They have two records, Take French and Totems is the first
one. And they're just, it's so good.
No, I listen to your that song. It's a great song and doing it
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in Austin. So you were recording the rest
in Austin, You come back down here.
I don't know if we'll record therest there, but I would love to
if that worked out. We we were at this incredible
studio called Arlen. I don't know if you've heard of
it, but it is like legendary. I mean, all of the most amazing
records have been made there. It's it has a total vibe.
The people there are wonderful. The engineers are wonderful.
(14:55):
So yeah, I would, I mean, I would love to if that worked out
would be great. But otherwise I have a home
studio and just kind of. Just kind of yeah.
It's awesome vibes, though. It's yeah.
Any any reason to come to Austin, It's worth it.
Like all my family's there so. No, that is awesome.
So looking back on your music career, what has been your
proudest moment? Oh gosh, musically, I don't
(15:24):
know. I mean, I 11 dear memories when
I got to, I got to open for Loretta Lynn, who was actually
when I was like 6 months old. She was my first concert ever
because my mom and Loretta were friends from of course, it's
coal miner's daughter. But but anyway, that was really
a cool full circle moment. Loretta asked if I would open
(15:48):
this, this big sort of benefit show.
And I had a, an indie country band at the time called FM Radio
and, and we did and it was just really special.
And of course she called me up and was sang with her and her
set. And it was just that's, that's
been. But I'm honestly, I'm just proud
to be writing music and putting it out there because it's, it's
(16:10):
hard to, you know, it's hard to put yourself out there and in
that way. And so I'm excited for I'll be
really proud of myself when I get warm stick out.
And yeah, balancing music and acting, you know, can't be easy.
Do you find the 2 worlds feed into each other?
You know, creatively? Oh, completely.
I feel like for me, art really begets art.
And I felt like whenever, like especially when I was working on
(16:33):
the Chicken Sisters, I was really, you know, I don't know,
you just get like it, this creative switch turns on.
And even though it's like the acting collaboration there, it
made me think about all the songs I wanted to write and it
just lit that creative fuse at me.
So yeah, they really, and it's anice music is a nice thing to do
(16:53):
when I when I'm not on set working, it's like a nice thing
I can do anywhere. That's very true.
And lastly, I'm going to ask this, like looking ahead, what
excites you most about the next chapter of your career?
Gosh, all of it. Just, I mean, it's the scariest
and most exciting thing. I think it's not knowing what's
around the corner, you know? I think for a lot of artists and
(17:14):
actors, you know, you're just kind of waiting to see what
happens, you know? I'm hoping for another season of
the Chicken Sisters, of course, have new music coming down the
pipeline, but just excited for what's next or whatever.
We'd have collaborations or yeahto come.
I'm super excited to 1st see more Chicken Sisters because I
(17:36):
already got hooked on that and more from you as well.
But Skyler, thank you so much for chatting.
I guess I'm really excited for more episodes of The Chicken
Sisters and hope to catch up again.
Thank you.
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