Chrissy Metz

Chrissy Metz talks 'The Masked Singer', new show, new music and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real Fun with Mario Lopez. Mario Lopez joining me no
on Zoom from the latest season of The Mess. Singer
actress Chrissy Metz. How you doing, Chrissy? Hi?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm well, so nice to see you and I love
that you like to mix it up. You just got
revealed the other night as the poodle moth. First that
first off, what what what is a poodle moth?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, it's a very sweet little insect that most people
don't know about with.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
I thought it was a type of poodle. It's a
type of insect. It's a month, got it, it's a
month understood? Understood? Did you select that on your own
or was it presented to you? And you said, sort of.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
A collaboration of got it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
We wanted something that was like symbolic of sort of
you know, going to the light, the light of Hollywood,
you know, like sort of finding myself and all that jazz.
So the costume designer, who was incredible, she and I
sort of brought it to life together.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
So you you sang some Miranda Lambert, Natasha Beddingfield, Billy Joel.
What was the next song you play?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh, Jesse? J Ay?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
All right, Jay Okay, Yeah, I gotta imagine it's difficult
to perform in those suits, right.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
People don't know. People do not know.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I didn't know because in theory, sure you're like, oh great,
but then to put it on and like there were
so many pieces and then I had wings and then
it was like, I don't even know if I can breathe,
how can.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I sing so exactly exactly? And I know you have
or pardon me. We've heard your song's original songs before
and your musician, yourself. Any new music in the works.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yes, I am working on some new music. It's almost finished.
I'll have a couple of songs coming out soon. And
then I'm working on a second children's album for the
second children's book.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That nice written. And yeah, so you know, just trying
to stay creative.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I love it as good for you, Good for you,
And you're gonna be performing at CMA Fest. And now
this June, fingers.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Cross is going to work out with this schedule because
I'm doing a new show right now in Charlotte, So
fingers Cross, that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
But yes, hopefully, well you mentioned this new show. Is
this the Hunting Wife's It is cool title it's going
to be appearing on Stars. What's it about?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
It is a very juicy, scandalous show. I play a
good woman, but listen, nobody's perfect. They're complicated women. It's
said in East Texas, and yeah, it's juicy.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I think people are going to enjoy it fun. Where
are you shooting that at.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
We're in Charlotte right now.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Oh okay, well that's nice down Okay. You've also joined
the cast for Bank of Dave the sequel. Now I
didn't see the first one. What, oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
The first one is so it's like this very sweet,
feel good movie.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
It's based on a true story of a man in
the north of England in a town called Burnley. He
created a bank for people who couldn't afford, like, who
never could get loans, and I want to help back,
you know, get back and help my community. And so
you know, I love the tender field good stuff. So
this second the sequel is really about him trying to

(03:10):
take down payday lenders because you know, they gouge people
and they can never pay that interesting.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
You know, they're constantly in debt.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
So yeah, I'm a journalist that comes from New York
to the north of England.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
So oh fun. Good for you. I'm glad you're you're
staying so busy and getting to do all these different
kinds of different kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thank you God.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Speaking of different kind of stuff, we got to host
a parade together. Did you enjoy that experience? Did you
want to do more?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
You are so incredibly professional and amazing at what you do. No, seriously,
it's like, it's so it's unreal.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh, you're so nice. See my wife should be listening
to this.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm like, I'm like, how does he do this? I
had such a good time, but it was a lot
of pressure. You do it like in your sleep. It
was so impressive.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh, thank you. I liked this together. I thought we
were a good team. So yeah, that was a lot
of fun. Well again, congrats on everything. So nice to
catch up everyone. Head over to on withmarya dot com
for more info on all of Chrissy's projects and to
catch the rest of the season of The Mass Singer
Wednesday nights on Fox. Oh and by the way, I
know I was gonna tell you thank you so much

(04:13):
for sending the wine. Yeah it was really good. Yeah,
so thank you. I wanted to tell you thank you, Thanks,
You're welcome. Okay, I hope to see you soon. Take
care of sweet Take care by with Mario Lopez