July 8, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 37 “From Brooklyn to Boca”. Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor, Writer, Producer and Comedian Sharon Pfeiffer. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening and welcome to Titime.Hey, everybody, welcome to tea Time.
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I'm so glad to joining me.Is July eighth. I'm going to
talk about my weekend and get tomy guests real quick. I'm so excited
she's here. So basically the weekendI didn't do much. But fourth of
July I was in Queen's with myparents. You know, my mom's on
the twenty third floor. I callit the pent house, and she's got
this beautiful view of Manhattan. Sowe've got to watch the you know,
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Macy's fireworks and it was great tobe with Familia as always, you know,
because we know how to party andeat. That's basically it. And
that's what we did. And thenthe rest of the weekend, I really
didn't do too much. You know. I just spent the weekend really learning
my lines for a movie that I'mdoing with my good friend Omar Moore.
We'll be filming it in Stanton,Italy next weekend. And that was really
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it. And yeah, so I'mjust gonna get to my guests because you
know, my show goes fast.So she's an actor, she's a writer,
producer. She's also a comedian Shahand fighter. Hi, how are
you? I'm so excited you're herebecause even though she's originally a Long Island
girl, you actually live in Florida. I do, and you came up
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for a family function and I waslike, listen, I want to get
you on the show if I can. And we figured it out. So
I'm glad you're here. And butyou're originally from Franklin Square. Yes,
well, I actually was born inPort Jefferson. Oh, poor jeff Port
Jefferson. Yes, and my familydid the reverse migration. You know.
Usually people move from Brooklyn and Queensand they go out right, you know,
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they go east. Not my family. We went the opposite way.
So we went from all the wayout east and headed towards the city.
And then I ended up in FranklinSquare. Yeah, so I live did
too. I was in Limbrook andthen went to Franklin Square in the early
nineties. But you and then youwent to zawanakahigt I did. I graduated
from Swanica in nineteen eighty two.We just had our reunion graduated the same
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year. Yeah, the same age. Yeah. And we also I'm just
a little shout out to my classmates. Yeah, we're doing another not a
high school reunion, but all ofour classmates were getting together at the end
of the month and we're doing sixtiethbirthday reunion because it was all turning turning
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sixty, so you know, youturned sixteen. I did just I'm turning
sixty September birthday, sister. Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. But
it's a lot of fun because Isee all my friends posting birthday birthday,
and I know we all know howall their turning graduated in eighty two.
So when you were in high school, were you involved in any of the
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arts, whether it be you know, chorus, a theater or absolutely not.
No. As a matter of fact, I was one of those people,
and I think I still am.I never really belonged to any clique,
club or anything, but what Idid do is and I guess you
could consider it an art. Iwas in cosmetology. Sowanica was a vocational
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high school, so everybody who wentto Swanica had to do some kind of
you know, they either took shopor they took mechanics, they took cosmetology,
which I did, so I actuallygraduated high school with my I got
my license to do hair and nailsay, I ended up becoming a manicurist.
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But yeah, so I never wasin drama or singing. First of
all, I can't sing for mylife, but I will tell you I
always wanted to be an actor.Since I'm that big. I'm not much
taller than that right now. Butsince I'm a we both five for two
and wearing some platforms. Yeah,you know. But do you ever leave
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the house for that heel? No? I try not to. I try
not to, know, I reallytry. My sneakers have a heel,
they do. I mean it.I almost wore them too. But so
I always wanted to be an actor. But growing up in a very large
family, which I did. Ihave four brothers and one sister, it
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just wasn't I don't want to sayit wasn't supported because it sounds negative,
but my my family, it justwasn't the thing that my parents didn't.
They weren't like, oh, yes, go be an actor. It was
like, you know, ye,go learn how to do something so you
can make a living. And soit just never happened. And then I
was a young mother. I hadmy daughter very early, was twenty two
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when I had my Danielle. Solike I never pursued my own interests and
you want to raise Yeah, Ihad. You have to do what you
have to do, and it waslike your goals and dreams on the back
burner. And that's why it's likea second act for us. Right,
that's exactly right. So when mydaughter finally went out on her own and
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I was on my second divorce,I said, hmm, what do I
want to do? Like, whatdo I want to write? And that's
a question you really didn't cross.Yeah, I never really had an opportunity
to pursue my own interests. SoI always wanted to be an actor.
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And I had a customer in thesalon that I owned, and he was
an actor, like a working actor, and his name was Dwayne. I'll
never forget it. I said,Dwayne, you're an actor. How do
you make it happen? Yeah?What should I do? And he said,
Charon, the first thing you needto do, you need to take
an act No, he said,you need to take an acting class.
Class. You just have to takea class. I know exactly who to
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tell you. In South Florida,it's so different than New York. So
this was all happening in Florida doesn'thappen now, I know it all and
for me because you're in Florida,how long now? I moved there in
nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, it'sa long time. But this acting thing
only happened in two thousand and nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So
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I'm already considered old. Well we'remature, mature, well women, call
it what you want, but youknow, I was like, already an
older woman that's sing yeah, andyou know it's so hard to get roles,
and it is, it is.But I took a course with the
person to take a class with downthere, and after the three day workshop
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whatever you want to call it,I just asked her point blank. I
said, I'm at a course roadsin my life. I don't know what
to do, and what do youthink just me taking this class? She
said, I never tell people whatto do. It's not what I'm here
for. She said, but youhave really good instincts and if I were
you, I would pursue it.Cool, So that was enough for me.
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So that was it. I wentand she I asked her where do
I get head shots? And blahblah bright right, and the rest guide
me right, yeah, exactly,show me the way, but the rest
was really history. I made myway. It was you know, South
Florida for me is coming from NewYork with culture. It's a culture shock.
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Florida is a culture shock, andit's a culture void. Yes,
Florida is literally and by the way, we lost all of our incentives,
our tax incentives, everything is gone. So all of the progress that we
had made regarding production and everything literallydisappeared overnight. I was working on a
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Netflix show called Bloodline, yes,which I was so proud to work on
that show, and literally we allgot called into one of the studios and
was basically told, you know,in two weeks, we're done. I
mean, it was it was unbelievable. So, I mean it was terrible
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setting and depressing and all the thingsyou can think as an actor, and
I had really just started. Yeah, I mean, so it was really
shocking. Yeah. You know,everyone tells me, Sharon, if you
want to be an actor, you'vegot to go to New York or LA
or even Georgia. They're telling youto try to get out of Florida pretty
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much at the time, or notat the time. And now, you
know, I've always been told that, Yeah, I know there is there
is some filming going on there,but it's very it's very, very hard.
There's a lot going on, alot. I know. I'm here
right now. I know, soI'm very lucky. I booked eight.
I booked, I booked eight thingsthat I'm doing, whether it's or films
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or documentary, whatever it is,whatever it is, and I'm you know,
it's it's not easy. I geteverything on my own. I don't
have an agent. I don't havea manager. It's like, you know,
you get to pimp yourself out.You have to pimp right, and
you have to be diligent. Youhave you have to. You have to
you're best advocate pair and you haveto not you know, like I tell
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my mom because my parents weren't supportive. I'll put it out there. They
just weren't. I wanted to goto high school performing arts and like,
no, it's not happening. Absolutely, And am like I try to tell
my mom because she's like, wantyou gotta get a real job, and
what do you get it? Isaid, It's like throwing spaghetti up against
the wall and eventually something has tostick. You know what I'm saying.
And I don't want to give up, because then you look back and you
say, what if I didn't?So at least if I don't, at
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least I can say I tried.I tried. You know, you tried
to make the thing relate to somewhereelse. You don't know what it's going
to lead you in this business,never knowing that, you never know,
you never know. It's crazy,it's just insane. Do you have to
take my first break? Do youtake my first break? All right,
let's take my first break when wecome back more with Sharon Don't go away.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
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making it. To see that impactin my community inspires me to work even
harder for everyone around me. Allright, is everybody having a good time?
That's what I'm feel? All right? So we are live Paradise,
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New York. Give yourself around forplus coming out tonight. Well, hi
there, Teresa It's jian Yorick fromGeneral Hospital. I am just checking in
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because apparently you have a great talkshow called Tea Time on Strong Island TV.
I want you to have continued greatsuccess and have a lot of fun.
It sounds like you're having a lotof fun, and that's pretty much
the key to everything, isn't it. So continued success. I'm proud of
you. Have a great day,Teresa. Bye, Hey everybody, welcome
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back to Tea Time. I'm soglad you're joining me. I am with
my friend Sharon Pfeiffer. She's anactor, a writer, producer, comedian.
She does it all like May andwe have so much in common.
So I want to get back toyou know, you're in Florida. You
want to act. Everyone's telling you, you know, New York LA,
New York LA. Now, yes, you and I are vertically challenged.
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If I for two and I haveto tell you I've lost a couple of
roles because of my hyaen and Ihave told I told them, I'll we
have platforms, put me on amilk box, crate, whatever, and
it's a little depressing. Did theytell you anything else about oh gosh,
yes, Well, first of all, this. This hair color is new.
Okay, this started in twenty twenty. Okay, I love it,
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by the way, thank you somuch. I love it. When I
first started acting, I was aplatinum blonde. Okay. And also,
but I have to say I likeyou with dark hair because I've seen you
with dark kin. Thank you.And my teeth were very crooked. Okay.
Now, I didn't realize I hadcrooked teeth. I grew up with
a very healthy dose of self confidence. Yes, I never realized I had
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crooked teeth. I really didn't.I don't know. I just it never
occurred to me that I had aproblem with my teeth. First thing my
first agent said was what are youdoing about your teeth? Wow? Right?
So I was like, what aboutmy teeth? I mean? And
she she said, you need tohave your teeth straightened. Did you get
braces? I did? I wentand I have. I got the Invisil
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line, which was, you know, very expensive, but I did it.
And then the very next thing outof her mouth was and what are
you doing about that accent? Now? Remember I live in Florida, right,
And I was like, what doyou mean? And she said,
your accent is very thick? AndI said and and she said you got
to get rid of it. AndI said, yeah, I'm not doing
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that. And she said, well, if you want to work, and
I said, listen, I understandwhat you're trying to do. And I
respect it because I know you wantme to work. I sell cookies,
right, But that's not what Ithat's not who I am. Right,
that's not what I want to do. And that's not that's not that that's
not the kind of work that Iwant to do. I don't want to
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sell cookies and I don't want towork on public's commercials. I am who
I am. I am who Iam. Yeah, you want to stay
trist to tell me Lorraine Brocco,Edie Falco, so on and so forth.
I don't see them speaking like they'regoing to do a Shakespeare play.
It's not what I want to do. Now. If I have to speak
more eloquently, I can, Ican. I prefer not to. I'm
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who I am, and I'm goingto stay who I am. So in
South Florida, when I used towalk in the room, well five for
two of me with the big bazoombasand the New York accent and the slightly
crooked teeth and a little bit ofa lisp and the big giant hair,
et cetera, et cetera. TheyI'm a character. Now, how many
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roles for at that time? Andalmost fifty something let's call it a Dolly
Porton with a New York accent.It's not a whole lot of roles for
that. I get it. Butguess what I was booking. You were
booking and the first thing you bookedwas something called Don't Mess with the I
R S. That was back intwenty ten. That was like your first
That was the first thing, firstproject that I ever went to an audition.
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It was my first audition, Likeyou know, I got They sent
me the sides and here's where you'regoing to go to audition And I was
so nervous and excited and I actuallybooked the lead. That's amazing. I
come on, how many times?How many times does someone go on for
the first time book? I couldn'tbelieve it was a short film, but
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it was awful. It was oneof these local, you know, short
film project projects and yeah, butit gets you footnote, but it got
my footnotes. It gets to somekind of footage put towards a reel which
I find and I think I toldyou this, or I tell a lot
of people like sometimes getting my footageis it's easy to give birth and to
get your footage it's it's a painin the bond. And can I tell
you something t Yes, one ofthe one of the persons that was on
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that project that I worked with,his name is Joe Mignon. I have
to mention his name. Do youknow that we still work together, We
still work on projects. He's oneof my favorite people to work with.
We call we have a little bandof people, like you work with the
same people over and over because youlearned that there's certain people that are just
wonderful to work with. And wecall ourselves a rat pack actually our merry
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little band of actors. But he'sactually pasta Pete in my project from Brooklyn
bog Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And but we met on that actual
Wow, don't mess with the IR S. Isn't that funny? That's
awesome? Yes, all these yearslater you've done You've done a lot of
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features, shorts TV. Yes,now you also did something married a Mobster.
I married a mobster on the IDchant that's the ID. We have
a pick of that if he'll pullit up the ID, the I D
I D. Yeah, yeah,that was back and we filmed that in
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twenty twelve. That was on theID channel. It was. It was
on for two years. Yeah,there it is there you are as a
bone. That's the one now ifleave that there for a second, thank
you. That was yeah, thatwas back in the was it twenty eleven
and twenty twelve. I believe wefilmed it in twenty eleven. I think
it came out in twenty three andthat was also season two, season three,
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episode three. It was called theRule Breaker, The Rule Breaker,
And this is that is that theywere short, like many I call the
mini documentaries on women who were marriedbased on based on reality, these are
true stories, yes, and theyand it wasn't me acting. They had
actors portraying us. So it wasreally interesting, right, It was a
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fun thing to do. Of course, everybody was like, oh my god,
are you afraid? You know you'regoing on right, you're going public,
You're going public with your life.But I wasn't afraid, and I'm
still not. Obviously I talk aboutit publicly, yes, but uh,
it was It was interesting. Buthow did they how did how did they
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find out about you? Or theywere looking? Well, it was an
interesting thing because I was very friendlywith Love Majeski and you probably don't know
the name, but she was onMob Wives, and then they did an
episode of her on this show Okay, And because we were friendly, they
always said, do you know anyother women who would want to even come
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forward? And because she threw myname in the hat, and then the
producers contacted me. And I'm stillfriendly with Dan Pearson, who was one
of the producers of that show.Did you hesitate it all or did you
just jump right into it? Iactually didn't hesitate, And I'll tell you
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why I didn't hesit Tate because mymy my ex husband, my daughter's father,
I'm at we we don't talk anymore. So I didn't really feel a
particular allegiance to him. Yes,my the other person that I was involved
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in with who is away. Youknow, he's he's still away. He's
been a waste for you know now, it's I think twenty two years.
I knew that he wouldn't have aproblem with it because I have nothing but
the best things to say about him, right and I did in this in
the show. I mean, asa matter of fact, he loved it.
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He loved it because people don't usuallysay nice things about him, so
he really loved it. And thethird person that I was involved with,
I hate to use the word hatebecause it's not it's a negative thing,
but he was the worst is loath. Loathed is a wonderful word. And
I, you know, I washappy to do it right, and I
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was happy to let the world knowwhat a terrible human and what kind of
After it aired, people watched it, well, you know, I felt
kind of bad because they edited theway that they want to. You have
no choice in the way they edited, and they kind of painted me like
this mob mall. You know,this mob mall girl. That just I
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only you know, like I onlyslept with mob guys. First of all,
I was married to Vinnie and I'mjust going to say first name.
Ronnie I was with for years,and Joe I was with for years.
So I wasn't like this sleep aroundmob girl. But just to keep it
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simple, once you're in that life, you don't get out of that life.
Normal guys do not come over toyou and want to be with you.
You once. See you were soand so's wife. You're always oh,
that's so and so's ex wife.But you didn't grow up in that
life. No, I did not. You want that was not your world,
No, not at all. Igrew up very normal, a very
normal Irish Italian Catholic family. Youknow. My family didn't have anything to
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do with that at all. Right, And but but I left home when
I was eighteen, so I wasalready living on my own four years when
I met my ex husband, rightright, And we actually met in a
night club. It's a really interestingsurprise, that's how we met. I
have to come back, you know, and do another show just on this
whole, my whole past life,because it's a whole different you know.
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I don't know what you really wantto talk about, but people always are
interested in that part of my life. I mean, I you know,
you know, Angel has her ownshow too, right, so I was
on her show when I we wereon to like one o'clock in the morning.
Wow, how am I talking?Yeah, I mean like we yeah,
no, I know, we cango on forever and I know,
but but I met him in anight club. And the reason that I
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met him was because Sunny Francises,the water, I wanted to kick my
ass. Oh okay, I usedto go there all the time and I
lived there, and and she forwhatever reason, I don't remember all the
details, but she wanted to beatme up, and I was like,
I don't want to get beat up, right, And one thing led to
another was and I don't even knowwho she was, and he was like,
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you don't know who that is?Anyway, when I met my ex
husband, like two weeks later,I was like, hey, hey,
you know, just to like,you know, yeah, you know,
like I need my own protection protection. Yeah right. And he was so
tall and handsome and good looking,with eyes like you, green eyes and
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beautiful. And I was like,come stand over, you handsome. So
that was it. And that wasit, seriously, that was this story?
Was it? No? Yeah,no, I got it. So
but once you're once, yeah,you were in that life, right,
but you had to you had tomake a decision, and you had to
you had a yeah. Yeah.And I mean I had two nail salons
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that I walked away from. Wow, that literally I walked away from yeah,
yeah, and everything my whole life. I love New York. In
the middle of the I yeah,yeah, Franklin Square left everything everything,
reinvented myself very hard. It's veryhard to do, really hard. So
it was I'm not gonna I don'twant to really get into all the no,
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when you could make that whole othershow. But that's that I came.
I just wanted to touch upon thatyou were on the the show and
that you were you know, ifthey want to see it, yeah,
wherever it's I Married a Mobster ID Channel season two episode, so the
rule Breaker. Yeah, my myname was not Sharon Pfiffer then it was
Sharon McDonald M C D O Nand U L L. Yeah, And
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it's a true story and it's aquick watch. It's only yeah, yeah,
but it gives you all the gorydetails. In twenty we will move
on to twenty thirteen. Is whenyou worked for the first time with Michael
Rispoli on Not for Human Consumption.Actually, he correctly, he always corrects
me. He's like, that's notthe first time we worked together. We
worked. Yeah, we worked ona show called Magic City. Yeah,
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yeah, we worked and he hada great role. You know, Yeah,
I love him, he's amazing,And that's where we met. But
you know, I don't. Idon't really recall meeting him. I get
it, and he remembers, He'slike, no, no, we met,
and then we actually worked on Notfor Human Consumption. Yeah, and
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that's on TV if anyone wants totake a great film. Yeah, and
we've been friends. Yeah. Andhe's so hot, like I said,
after I saw him in the city, I got to meet him at Yeah,
he's dynamite. He's a great,great and what a great actor and
a theater actor. Yes, well, yes, well that's how I thought.
Fabulous on it. He was inthe pulitzerprise when play between Riverside and
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Crazy. That's the one where that'sthe one I saw. I met him.
He was. He was a fabulous, amazing, amazing. Twenty nineteen
was a very busy for you.You worked with again a mutual friend of
our Cerrial Depagio on Brass Knuckles.Loved it. And that's with yolks,
be honest and Anthony and Tony andTony depending on how you want to pronounce
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it, coron another great group ofwho I love working. Yeah. Worked.
As a matter of fact, I'mon Silent Partners as well. I
know, I know very small Iknow. I told Zero said, I'll
come down to Florida and just letme know the event the premiers. That's
in August, right, it's inAugust. I know that Gary Pastor will
be there, a good friend ofmine, and we were in the city
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with Joe and everyone watching it inManhattan. But I'm I'm excited about it.
Oh, I'd love to if Icould. You got to come down.
I really try to come down.Okay, I'll try. You surely
just fly in and fly out.I'll try. I will try. Oh,
that's so sweet of you. Andthen you did the beach Bomp Matthew
McConaughey, Snoop Dog, Jimmy Buffett, Zach Zach, and Jonah Hill.
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I mean, that was like anAll Star the Last Star cast. It
was literally his worst film that heever made. It really is. It's
a horrible film. But I hadbut it's for me though, I mean,
did you watch you stupid some ofit? It's fun. Did you
see my scene? I did notsee your scene. It was in the
first ten minutes. I I caughtlike bits and pieces. I gotta I
gotta watch it. Watch it's inthe first ten minutes. Yes, you
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played a sexy older woman. Asexy older I have a sex scene with
Matthew McConaughey. There you guys areinterested. I get residuald Oh my god,
it's good to see me have sexwith Matthew McConney. There you go.
I mean, how was it?You know what? He has big
hands. It's all I'm gonna say. Okay, all right. Then you
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did a Jonas Brothers music video thatwas amazing, how much fun. It
was so much fun. The onlything I don't like about that whole thing
was that it was used in withwith Coca Cola and we never got We
just got paid for doing the video. And it was to me that was
should have been considered a national absolutething and it was sag thing and it
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wasn't. And I was really madabout that. And then after that you
were in the Irishman. Yes,you came up here for that. I
flew myself up here. I was. It was not a speaking role or
anything. I'm an old school manicuristand I am with I don't even remember
the name of what's that background inRummen? No, you know the big
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background casting, big background? Well, I don't know what about the company,
Wolf Wolf the other one. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But they
have me with them if they whenthey need an old school I'm not talking
about a nail technician, talking abouta manicurist right right, soaking your hands
in the water, doing the like, and they need like Madge. Yes,
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the young people have no idea.They have no idea. But anyway,
old palm all commercial. So theyneeded a manicures and they said,
and they think I live here inNew York because I have my daughter's address
and my daughter's phone, right,So I said, I absolutely can do
it. They said, can yoube here this afternoon for a fitting?
I said, no, I cannot. Can I come in tomorrow? Wow,
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this is how crazy I am?They said, yes, can you
be a tomorrow for I said,yes I can. I hung up the
phone and I booked a flight andI made it for the fitting. Yes,
And then you know, then theshoot was whenever it was, which
I made it, and what wasexciting about that whole experience and why I
did it? Let me tell youwhy I did it, And was like,
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why would you do such a thingfor background? Because I wanted to
work with Scorsese. I totally agreeI did Maestro with background with Bradley Cooper,
but I do it because he wasthere directing me. That's the only
reason. You know. He's old, Yeah he is. You know,
who knows how long he's going tobe around. And I just wanted to
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do it right. So I getto the set. I'm going to try
to make this quick and they don'thave the beauty parlor set up at all.
It's not set up at all.My station isn't set up. Nothing
is sad because I'd like to go, like look and see. So I
went over to the prop person propmaster, and I said, do you
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because I brought all my stuff,do you want me to like set up
my table? And he looks atme and he goes, we don't even
know what to do. Wow,Yeah, I said, do you want
me to help you? He wouldyou? I said, I would love
to. I went in the backwith them to the back where everything was
and we're picking things up, whichI help him set up the scene.
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It was amazing. So now weget ready to shoot, says he.
I'm not gonna make a big dealout of it because I don't want it
to sound like it's more than itwas. But he comes over and he
all he does, he taps me, he goes, good job kid,
that's it. I was like,oh yeah, my shoulder. But I
was so happy, like I feltlike I contributed, but it was worth
it. But here's the best partof the whole Irishman thing. Did you
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get do you? Are you sick? Not yet? Okay? So I
got my screener because I'm so That'swhat I was going to ask you.
How you got your sack? Okay, I'll tell you in a second.
When I got my screener, right, I open up the DVD for The
Irishman. There's my me sitting atmy table working on whatever her name is,
the girl with the hat from thegood Fellas that's in the movie.
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I can never remember my name.There's me in the DVD. That's all
three and a half hours they tookmy God, so was it worth it?
Was it worth? Ago? Po? Wow? You never as you
just in it? So what gotyou? You said? Car a Metro
PCs commercial? There you go?Okay, all right, and I'm in
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the commercial for about ten seconds,not even I'm being I'm exaggerating. Five
seconds. Wow. Twenty twenty youdid bad Boys for life? I'm in
you see me for you to seeme for a bus guard. You see
me for an eighth of the second. But as long as they see you,
and I had a whole scene.Yeah, but they cut like you
know, but as long as myface was in it, I'm still getting
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residuals. I know. It's awesome. That great, it's amazing. I
know. Well, you did twentytwenty three. You did Days of Distancing,
which was a mini series that wasa very odd thing. That was
one of those COVID things. Yeah, very similar to your Last Guests that
you had where we had to filmit ourselves. It was a very interesting
thing. I love doing it,but it was a weird thing. One
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awards in all the film festivals andwhat is it going anywhere? You know?
You know the and then Lost Treasure. You wrote it, I wrote
it, produced it. It wasfor the forty eight hour film. Yes,
we won all kinds of Best Director, Best best but did it.
But we did not get to goto Portugal for the big o hah because
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we didn't win Best Best Picture ofMiami Fort Lauderdale. So but we I'm
very proud of that film. It'sa comedy. I almost was considering submitting
it for the Long Island well too. Yeah, and there's Jerry Freddy's Yeah,
and you have Debora Mak Yeah.I was considering, you know,
submitting it, but I haven't gottenaround to because I'm busy right now,
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very busy, and we're gonna findout what she's busy with after this break.
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Time. I'm with Sharon Fifar.She's an actor and a comedian and a
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writer and a producer, and we'regonna talk about You played a lead lead
role in an original play called TheLost Virginity Tour. Yeah, the first
time you were on stage. Wellright, not the first time, but
the first time I've ever been ina full length stage play. Because you
know, there's nothing like life,there's nothing like as you know, we
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both do stand up comedy. Soand I attribute my ability to do this
play on having five years experience asa stand up There you go, And
I didn't really realize how much doingstand up would help me with the play.
So we're gonna, we're gonna putup a couple of pictures of you
doing stand up and I want youto tell me how did you get into
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that and how how long you actuallydoing stand up comedy? Well, I
I started doing stand up five yearsago. Yeah, we're gonna, We're
gonna. Okay, So Maria Maisanodoes Danny Iyello's Italian Chicks of Comedy.
I'm I'm one of the chicks,and you're one of the chicks because Marianne
did a show in Florida, Floridaup and you your host. Well,
(36:51):
I show and I see it.You're also in it? Yeah, yeah,
how much that? Oh my god? It was amazing. What I
love? Ourt like, what's notto love? She's amazing And but it
was so much fun and it wasreally out of my It's not in my
wheelhouse because I don't sing, andyou know, I mean, I really
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don't don't. I'm a horrific mymy speaking my speaking voice is horrible.
Can you imagine me singing? Disgusting? So, but it was really fun.
I just how how did you getinto the stand up? How did
you? Well? The stand upcame about because well, we're actors,
right, yes, and I actuallylove comedic acting, like I that's what
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I that's my genre, right,I love you and you're real is hysterical,
thank you, thank you. SoI thought that it would probably behoove
me to well, look, allof your favorite comedians end up doing great
movies like a Robin Williams and andthey end up doing TV shows. So
I thought maybe I should learn learnstand up and have that in my toolbox,
(38:00):
right, you know, learn right, my arsenal and just learn it.
And did you take any classes forthat too? Well? I went
and took well, I took Ihad already been acting, okay, I
had already been, like you said, acting, you would class first,
of course, I take a comedystand up plas well. That's what I
did five years ago. I tooka comedy course with a company, a
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group of comedians that they call themselvesComic Cure because they believe that laughter,
you know, cure as everything.So and they were wonderful, and I
took like a I don't know,eight week course or something like that.
And then we had a graduation kindof like what you did, a graduation
show. And at the graduation show, and this is a true story,
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you know, we all did well, all of us, all the students
did well. But at the graduationshow, a man approached me and said,
you were phenomenal, and I'd liketo book you at the book a
black box. This is at thegraduation show, my god, and I
so, of course I'm like,sure, sure, he says, he
goes, can you do twenty minutes? Now? Listen, all I heard
(39:10):
didn't want to was a graduation show. That's hysterical. So of course me
I said, yeah, sure Ican. I could do twenty minutes.
All I had was tight three minutes, and so I said, what are
you paying? So he says fivehundred dollars, right, and then then
I've got another write another how manymore minute? Right? So I said,
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can you do better? Now?Meanwhile the bolls right, oh my
god. Meanwhile, we're grateful rightout of graduation school back to get it
to get booked for free. ButI'm saying, can you do better?
He said no, I can't.I said, I'll take it right.
So now I go over to myteacher and I'm like, listen, I
just got booked and he almost fellon the flour. This is hysterical.
Nobody gets booked even fIF fifty dollars. No, this is five hundred dollars.
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PS. Guess who else is onthe show. So it's me the
guy who's booking me because he's asinger. And Tony Darrow he's great,
he's great. Yes, well,PS. Tony drops out because he's having
back surgery. You can look thisup. It's a true story. And
now it's me, this other guy. But I got to do twenty minutes.
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Well, when I tell you,I didn't have twenty minutes. I
only just learned how to do comedy. So I'm writing the worst jokes ever,
the worst, the worst, andI'm on stage. I have three
pieces of paper. They were onthe stool. I keep looking at the
paper. It was the worst thingever. You don't even know this poor
guy, I don't think, butyou know he's still he's still pag he
of course he had to pay mebecause I did the show. But it
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was the worst thing ever. People, but you know what. I kept
going, of course you did.I kept going. I kept doing the
open mics. I kept you know, and then you know, I got
booked back at the Book Book ablack Box. Mike Marino. I opened
for him all the time, openedhim. I mean, you know,
I shout out to Mike Marino andEdiburgh. I performed at the broker Age
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a couple of times. Yeah,yeah, here in New York when I'm
in town, and I love it. I love I love it. That's
great, Yeah, I love it. I have a really a perform all
over Florida, you know, atthe Improv Yeah. Yeah. Oh and
just to let you know, lookup Sharon on Facebook and Instagram. It's
it's Sharon Pfeiffer, not verified onInsta. And you could see like coming
(41:30):
shows, we're gonna be performing.I'm always posting. You can see everything
on this Yeah yeah, yeah,all right, So listen, we have
to take my last break, andwhen we come back, we're going to
talk about Don't Go Away, hermovie. Yeah, from Brooklyn to Boca,
From Brooklyn to Boca, Don't goAway. We'll be back after this.
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Hey everybody, Welcome back with SharonPfeiffer. She's an actor and a
producer, of writer, a standup comedian. She does it all.
I want to thank everyone for watchingthe show. Please like it, please
share it. My regulars are watchingAnne and Bruno and Greg and Michael Norton.
Thank you for watching the show.I appreciate it, all right.
So we got to talk about yourbaby, because it's your baby, my
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baby. From Brooklyn to Boca.We got two pictures. There's there's one
of them and there's the other one. I I love it, and I
want you to tell everyone. Obviouslyyou wrote it and I co wrote it.
You co wrote it, and sotell everyone the concept of this,
because this is hysterical. The conceptis hysterical. So I'll try to be
quick. So I co wrote thiswith a woman named Denny Show. And
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Denny is an option screenwriter who I'mvery friendly with. And about three and
a half years ago, Denny andI were just talking and I told her
I've had this idea in my mindfor many, many years about a TV
show. This originally started as aTV show called From Brooklyn to Boca.
What is it about? Regina Refeudois married to Frank forget about it.
(44:39):
Frank Refudo and he's a wise guy, and they live in Brooklyn. They
have a son, twelve year oldson named Carmine. Anyway, Frank and
his crew get arrested. One thingleads to another, and Frank and Regina
decide they're going to go into witnessprotection right now. Originally they're supposed to
go to Iowa. Well, acouple of things happen and they end up
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not going to Iowa. They endup getting sent to Boca Retne Boca.
So the agent, you know,the marshal, the federal marshal that's signed
to their case tells them, listen, you're not only getting sent to Boca
ratone, and you're not only gonnahave to change your name from the refudos
to the Green Blacks, right becauseBoca is like Jewish, but you're gonna
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happen to become Jewish, right,so you're no longer going to be be
cap don't be wearing that cross thefix around your name Jewish. So that's
where all the comedy comes in.And it's and it's very funny, you
know, you know the joke,you know the joke. What's the difference
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between an Italian mother and a Jewishmother. Nothing Italian mother. A Jewish
Italian mother says if you don't eatthat, I'll kill you, And a
Jewish mother says, if you don'teat that, I'll kill my fellow.
Exactly. I love that, Ilove that, but it's true. It
is true, and it's true andJewish people were so much aligned, so
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much alike, and so basically thecrux of the story is that we're all
the same and we all bleed thesame And the bottom line is it's really
about love and just loving each otherand the humanity of all of us.
So what started out as a TVshow and morphed into a feature film is
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now. Because I was doing theplay the Lost Virginity Tour, a local
producer came to see the play.She loved the play so much she approached
me after the play and said,Sharon, I heard that you have this
film that you're working on. Buthonestly, I'd like to take that film
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from Brooklyn Toboca and let's turn itinto a play. So right now we
are going to be putting from Brooklyntobocap on the stage. So we're going
to be doing the chas commentary guideto success and hopefully take off play and
see what happens. That'd be great. And you have attached to it,
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who do you have attached to it? Well? Well, when we have
l o eyes for if it shouldever, should we ever be so blessed
to become a become a movie,we have some you know, Michael Rispoli,
we have Eddie Brill, we haveMichael Marino's comedian. We have Ronda
Sheer, Yeah, we have heron the show. I'm trying to think
of who else. We were solucky to ever. I mean, I
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have a whole list of people.You know. That's awesome. But yeah,
we're really excited and very excited.It's it's a great concept. Everybody
who's ever, you know, wehave a terrific sizzle. I should have
sent over the sizzle. That wouldhave taken up too much time, but
you can. You know, wehave If anyone's interested, please contact me.
If anybody wants to donate money,contacted me, She'll send it over.
(47:52):
That happens. Yeah, so we'reexcited. So the play is going
to come first. Yeah, theplay is going to come definitely, and
hopefully it'll snowball and people love itso much. How much how much of
how much of what you have doyou have to tweak if any into a
play version? Well, it's alldone. The play's done. The play's
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written, and it's done, andit's ready to go. It's ready to
go. So right now we're tryingto find the right and then you and
that's not always. I have onein Manhattan if you want to do it
here, I of course you wantto do it? Yeah, of course,
absolutely got a great one, noI yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
This is how it happens. Thisis how we make it happen.
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But how long ago did this conceptcome to you? Because like literally twelve
years ago. Really, yeah,it's been in my head for And thank
god that I met Denny because she'sthe person who forced me to put pen
to paper, right, or youknow, tip fingertips to the computer and
you know, put it down becauseI wanted to do it for so long
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and just never never considered myself awriter, right, even though I had
been writing my own jokes, welljokes, Yeah, you do know a
joke which I was found hysterical andfunny, sixties the New forty, which
is which is great. But yeah, you write, you write. As
comedians, we have to write material, so we don't give ourselves credit.
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But it's very different from from sittingdown and writing. Because I wrote,
I wrote a short and I didn'tfilm it yet. It's on paper,
but it has to do with mydaughter getting married. But you're gonna film
it. I'm going to yes.But the thing is is that it's a
different kind of way of writing.You know, it's a very different way
of writing than total writing jokes,And I got news for you. Writing
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a film on final draft is completelydifferent than writing a play, totally different.
So it's it's really it's interesting thateven at you know, my age,
I'm learning so much and I loveit and I love it meeting other
creative I wouldn't. I would neverhave met you had I not embarked on
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this creative journal. That's the wholething, you know, And I just
love you don't know, you know, you meet people in your life.
I say that there's a lesson ora blessing that's just and you just you
know, and you just you neverknow, you never know, you never
know, you never gonna look it. With that venue in the city,
thank you. Even last year atthe Long Island Film Festival with Yeah,
Jerry and I just I hadn't seenyou there. I don't know if we
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were properly introduced, I don't know, but I know that we met.
We met there and I met somany wonderful people there, a lot of
creative and and it was so wonderfuland validating for me to have my screenplay
when you know, my screenplay fromBrooklyn to Bocal one best screenplay and it
was amazing and I was. Ifelt so validated because I really hadn't submitted
(50:52):
to any other film festivals. Soto get that validation, I couldn't believe.
It's a it's a beauty, it'sa beautiful thing. No, this
is going to be a fabulous journeythan you. It really is. I
see it all happening. You know, it's it's it's awesome. We have
we have a we have a fewminutes left, which is great. I
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really touched upon everything I wanted totalk about. Let's talking about you.
No, no, no talking aboutme. Uh but I will tell you
I will fly to Florida if youneed me. I don't have a I
would love Florida and I'd love towork with you. I mean, I
mean we're like sisters. I knowyou are just separated at birth. I'm
telling you, I said, Itold her a little bit about my worst
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story married to my first husband.We have we do. It's so crazy,
it's insane. But you know,just to reiterate a little bit before
you know, you were a businessowner. You're a business owner, so
you know, you know how totake charge, you know how to delegate.
You have that background, you know, so I'm sure it's incorporated and
(52:00):
you know what you want, whatyour vision is. Well, when you're
a first of all, you knowwhen you're a mom, right, so
you have to run business. Yeah, I don't care what you do.
You multitask big multit So when Ilived here in New York before I left
in ninety eight, I always hadnail salons. That's what I did,
believe it or not. And youknow what, I don't know if I'm
(52:22):
allowed to say this without anybody beingmad at me, but the name of
my salon, my nail salon washammer and nails, like hammering was one
word and then nails. And ourlogo was don't get mad at me people.
But my logo is we speak yourlanguage. It was because we had
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all I get it. I getit. Yeah, just regular people work.
I don't know how else to sayit. I don't want to get
in trouble, but could never getaway with it. Today would have been
shut down right back then, Icould get away, but that was my
people woke Now well, it's youknow, we talk about that and doing
stand up and how you know it'sit's it's really impinging on Some people don't
(53:07):
care, right, and they'll justsay whatever they want, which is that's
on them. But there are certainthings that you know, I won't do
religional politics, No me, neither. I don't. I stay away from
that. You know, it's basicallyall about a town, family, food,
you need to sex. You know. Well, yeah, what's that?
Talk about that? What is it? What is it? Right?
(53:28):
Will I talk about Boca Return?Listen to me? But I heard those
seniors. Those seniors hang some kindof colored balls. You're talking about the
villages. Oh, the villages.I don't go anywhere near this stuff going
on down nowhere. I live inBoca Ratone. Dating is a challenge.
All the men are attached to theiroxygen tank and they're walkers. I'm not
(53:51):
kidding. Oh my god, it'sgreat. And they will wear the same
uniform gop shirts, jeans from Costcoright and new Bound, and sneakers.
Some they we're back to lose theirbalance. Sounds like my dad, I'm
serious, so funny, Oh mygod, listen, this is great.
I'm so I could do a wholeroutine with you, right, we can.
(54:12):
We're so good. Wait, girlsgirls' night out. We don't call
girls' night out anymore, you know, we call it antiquing. We're going
antiquing. It's terrible. So yeah, Well I told my girlfriend who's eighty
five. There's three there's three differentwebsites for people older, and I cannot
(54:32):
tell it on air. We're gonnatell you the off the air. But
listen, I have to thank youagain for coming. Thank you. I'm
so glad you're in New York andyou were able to do this for me.
Love to have you back, can'twait to work with you. I
want to thank everyone for watching teatime, supporting me. Remember, tell
everyone you love you love them andI'll see you next week. Chow everybody
out and the New Found No Mod
Good evening and welcome to Titime.Hey, everybody, welcome to tea Time.
(01:23):
I'm so glad to joining me.Is July eighth. I'm going to
talk about my weekend and get tomy guests real quick. I'm so excited
she's here. So basically the weekendI didn't do much. But fourth of
July I was in Queen's with myparents. You know, my mom's on
the twenty third floor. I callit the pent house, and she's got
this beautiful view of Manhattan. Sowe've got to watch the you know,
(01:44):
Macy's fireworks and it was great tobe with Familia as always, you know,
because we know how to party andeat. That's basically it. And
that's what we did. And thenthe rest of the weekend, I really
didn't do too much. You know. I just spent the weekend really learning
my lines for a movie that I'mdoing with my good friend Omar Moore.
We'll be filming it in Stanton,Italy next weekend. And that was really
(02:07):
it. And yeah, so I'mjust gonna get to my guests because you
know, my show goes fast.So she's an actor, she's a writer,
producer. She's also a comedian Shahand fighter. Hi, how are
you? I'm so excited you're herebecause even though she's originally a Long Island
girl, you actually live in Florida. I do, and you came up
(02:27):
for a family function and I waslike, listen, I want to get
you on the show if I can. And we figured it out. So
I'm glad you're here. And butyou're originally from Franklin Square. Yes,
well, I actually was born inPort Jefferson. Oh, poor jeff Port
Jefferson. Yes, and my familydid the reverse migration. You know.
Usually people move from Brooklyn and Queensand they go out right, you know,
(02:50):
they go east. Not my family. We went the opposite way.
So we went from all the wayout east and headed towards the city.
And then I ended up in FranklinSquare. Yeah, so I live did
too. I was in Limbrook andthen went to Franklin Square in the early
nineties. But you and then youwent to zawanakahigt I did. I graduated
from Swanica in nineteen eighty two.We just had our reunion graduated the same
(03:15):
year. Yeah, the same age. Yeah. And we also I'm just
a little shout out to my classmates. Yeah, we're doing another not a
high school reunion, but all ofour classmates were getting together at the end
of the month and we're doing sixtiethbirthday reunion because it was all turning turning
(03:36):
sixty, so you know, youturned sixteen. I did just I'm turning
sixty September birthday, sister. Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. But
it's a lot of fun because Isee all my friends posting birthday birthday,
and I know we all know howall their turning graduated in eighty two.
So when you were in high school, were you involved in any of the
(03:57):
arts, whether it be you know, chorus, a theater or absolutely not.
No. As a matter of fact, I was one of those people,
and I think I still am.I never really belonged to any clique,
club or anything, but what Idid do is and I guess you
could consider it an art. Iwas in cosmetology. Sowanica was a vocational
(04:21):
high school, so everybody who wentto Swanica had to do some kind of
you know, they either took shopor they took mechanics, they took cosmetology,
which I did, so I actuallygraduated high school with my I got
my license to do hair and nailsay, I ended up becoming a manicurist.
(04:42):
But yeah, so I never wasin drama or singing. First of
all, I can't sing for mylife, but I will tell you I
always wanted to be an actor.Since I'm that big. I'm not much
taller than that right now. Butsince I'm a we both five for two
and wearing some platforms. Yeah,you know. But do you ever leave
(05:08):
the house for that heel? No? I try not to. I try
not to, know, I reallytry. My sneakers have a heel,
they do. I mean it.I almost wore them too. But so
I always wanted to be an actor. But growing up in a very large
family, which I did. Ihave four brothers and one sister, it
(05:29):
just wasn't I don't want to sayit wasn't supported because it sounds negative,
but my my family, it justwasn't the thing that my parents didn't.
They weren't like, oh, yes, go be an actor. It was
like, you know, ye,go learn how to do something so you
can make a living. And soit just never happened. And then I
was a young mother. I hadmy daughter very early, was twenty two
(05:53):
when I had my Danielle. Solike I never pursued my own interests and
you want to raise Yeah, Ihad. You have to do what you
have to do, and it waslike your goals and dreams on the back
burner. And that's why it's likea second act for us. Right,
that's exactly right. So when mydaughter finally went out on her own and
(06:15):
I was on my second divorce,I said, hmm, what do I
want to do? Like, whatdo I want to write? And that's
a question you really didn't cross.Yeah, I never really had an opportunity
to pursue my own interests. SoI always wanted to be an actor.
(06:38):
And I had a customer in thesalon that I owned, and he was
an actor, like a working actor, and his name was Dwayne. I'll
never forget it. I said,Dwayne, you're an actor. How do
you make it happen? Yeah?What should I do? And he said,
Charon, the first thing you needto do, you need to take
an act No, he said,you need to take an acting class.
Class. You just have to takea class. I know exactly who to
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tell you. In South Florida,it's so different than New York. So
this was all happening in Florida doesn'thappen now, I know it all and
for me because you're in Florida,how long now? I moved there in
nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, it'sa long time. But this acting thing
only happened in two thousand and nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So
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I'm already considered old. Well we'remature, mature, well women, call
it what you want, but youknow, I was like, already an
older woman that's sing yeah, andyou know it's so hard to get roles,
and it is, it is.But I took a course with the
person to take a class with downthere, and after the three day workshop
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whatever you want to call it,I just asked her point blank. I
said, I'm at a course roadsin my life. I don't know what
to do, and what do youthink just me taking this class? She
said, I never tell people whatto do. It's not what I'm here
for. She said, but youhave really good instincts and if I were
you, I would pursue it.Cool, So that was enough for me.
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So that was it. I wentand she I asked her where do
I get head shots? And blahblah bright right, and the rest guide
me right, yeah, exactly,show me the way, but the rest
was really history. I made myway. It was you know, South
Florida for me is coming from NewYork with culture. It's a culture shock.
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Florida is a culture shock, andit's a culture void. Yes,
Florida is literally and by the way, we lost all of our incentives,
our tax incentives, everything is gone. So all of the progress that we
had made regarding production and everything literallydisappeared overnight. I was working on a
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Netflix show called Bloodline, yes,which I was so proud to work on
that show, and literally we allgot called into one of the studios and
was basically told, you know,in two weeks, we're done. I
mean, it was it was unbelievable. So, I mean it was terrible
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setting and depressing and all the thingsyou can think as an actor, and
I had really just started. Yeah, I mean, so it was really
shocking. Yeah. You know,everyone tells me, Sharon, if you
want to be an actor, you'vegot to go to New York or LA
or even Georgia. They're telling youto try to get out of Florida pretty
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much at the time, or notat the time. And now, you
know, I've always been told that, Yeah, I know there is there
is some filming going on there,but it's very it's very, very hard.
There's a lot going on, alot. I know. I'm here
right now. I know, soI'm very lucky. I booked eight.
I booked, I booked eight thingsthat I'm doing, whether it's or films
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or documentary, whatever it is,whatever it is, and I'm you know,
it's it's not easy. I geteverything on my own. I don't
have an agent. I don't havea manager. It's like, you know,
you get to pimp yourself out.You have to pimp right, and
you have to be diligent. Youhave you have to. You have to
you're best advocate pair and you haveto not you know, like I tell
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my mom because my parents weren't supportive. I'll put it out there. They
just weren't. I wanted to goto high school performing arts and like,
no, it's not happening. Absolutely, And am like I try to tell
my mom because she's like, wantyou gotta get a real job, and
what do you get it? Isaid, It's like throwing spaghetti up against
the wall and eventually something has tostick. You know what I'm saying.
And I don't want to give up, because then you look back and you
say, what if I didn't?So at least if I don't, at
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least I can say I tried.I tried. You know, you tried
to make the thing relate to somewhereelse. You don't know what it's going
to lead you in this business,never knowing that, you never know,
you never know. It's crazy,it's just insane. Do you have to
take my first break? Do youtake my first break? All right,
let's take my first break when wecome back more with Sharon Don't go away.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
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because apparently you have a great talkshow called Tea Time on Strong Island TV.
I want you to have continued greatsuccess and have a lot of fun.
It sounds like you're having a lotof fun, and that's pretty much
the key to everything, isn't it. So continued success. I'm proud of
you. Have a great day,Teresa. Bye, Hey everybody, welcome
(12:46):
back to Tea Time. I'm soglad you're joining me. I am with
my friend Sharon Pfeiffer. She's anactor, a writer, producer, comedian.
She does it all like May andwe have so much in common.
So I want to get back toyou know, you're in Florida. You
want to act. Everyone's telling you, you know, New York LA,
New York LA. Now, yes, you and I are vertically challenged.
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If I for two and I haveto tell you I've lost a couple of
roles because of my hyaen and Ihave told I told them, I'll we
have platforms, put me on amilk box, crate, whatever, and
it's a little depressing. Did theytell you anything else about oh gosh,
yes, Well, first of all, this. This hair color is new.
Okay, this started in twenty twenty. Okay, I love it,
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by the way, thank you somuch. I love it. When I
first started acting, I was aplatinum blonde. Okay. And also,
but I have to say I likeyou with dark hair because I've seen you
with dark kin. Thank you.And my teeth were very crooked. Okay.
Now, I didn't realize I hadcrooked teeth. I grew up with
a very healthy dose of self confidence. Yes, I never realized I had
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crooked teeth. I really didn't.I don't know. I just it never
occurred to me that I had aproblem with my teeth. First thing my
first agent said was what are youdoing about your teeth? Wow? Right?
So I was like, what aboutmy teeth? I mean? And
she she said, you need tohave your teeth straightened. Did you get
braces? I did? I wentand I have. I got the Invisil
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line, which was, you know, very expensive, but I did it.
And then the very next thing outof her mouth was and what are
you doing about that accent? Now? Remember I live in Florida, right,
And I was like, what doyou mean? And she said,
your accent is very thick? AndI said and and she said you got
to get rid of it. AndI said, yeah, I'm not doing
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that. And she said, well, if you want to work, and
I said, listen, I understandwhat you're trying to do. And I
respect it because I know you wantme to work. I sell cookies,
right, But that's not what Ithat's not who I am. Right,
that's not what I want to do. And that's not that's not that that's
not the kind of work that Iwant to do. I don't want to
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sell cookies and I don't want towork on public's commercials. I am who
I am. I am who Iam. Yeah, you want to stay
trist to tell me Lorraine Brocco,Edie Falco, so on and so forth.
I don't see them speaking like they'regoing to do a Shakespeare play.
It's not what I want to do. Now. If I have to speak
more eloquently, I can, Ican. I prefer not to. I'm
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who I am, and I'm goingto stay who I am. So in
South Florida, when I used towalk in the room, well five for
two of me with the big bazoombasand the New York accent and the slightly
crooked teeth and a little bit ofa lisp and the big giant hair,
et cetera, et cetera. TheyI'm a character. Now, how many
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roles for at that time? Andalmost fifty something let's call it a Dolly
Porton with a New York accent.It's not a whole lot of roles for
that. I get it. Butguess what I was booking. You were
booking and the first thing you bookedwas something called Don't Mess with the I
R S. That was back intwenty ten. That was like your first
That was the first thing, firstproject that I ever went to an audition.
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It was my first audition, Likeyou know, I got They sent
me the sides and here's where you'regoing to go to audition And I was
so nervous and excited and I actuallybooked the lead. That's amazing. I
come on, how many times?How many times does someone go on for
the first time book? I couldn'tbelieve it was a short film, but
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it was awful. It was oneof these local, you know, short
film project projects and yeah, butit gets you footnote, but it got
my footnotes. It gets to somekind of footage put towards a reel which
I find and I think I toldyou this, or I tell a lot
of people like sometimes getting my footageis it's easy to give birth and to
get your footage it's it's a painin the bond. And can I tell
you something t Yes, one ofthe one of the persons that was on
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that project that I worked with,his name is Joe Mignon. I have
to mention his name. Do youknow that we still work together, We
still work on projects. He's oneof my favorite people to work with.
We call we have a little bandof people, like you work with the
same people over and over because youlearned that there's certain people that are just
wonderful to work with. And wecall ourselves a rat pack actually our merry
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little band of actors. But he'sactually pasta Pete in my project from Brooklyn
bog Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And but we met on that actual
Wow, don't mess with the IR S. Isn't that funny? That's
awesome? Yes, all these yearslater you've done You've done a lot of
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features, shorts TV. Yes,now you also did something married a Mobster.
I married a mobster on the IDchant that's the ID. We have
a pick of that if he'll pullit up the ID, the I D
I D. Yeah, yeah,that was back and we filmed that in
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twenty twelve. That was on theID channel. It was. It was
on for two years. Yeah,there it is there you are as a
bone. That's the one now ifleave that there for a second, thank
you. That was yeah, thatwas back in the was it twenty eleven
and twenty twelve. I believe wefilmed it in twenty eleven. I think
it came out in twenty three andthat was also season two, season three,
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episode three. It was called theRule Breaker, The Rule Breaker,
And this is that is that theywere short, like many I call the
mini documentaries on women who were marriedbased on based on reality, these are
true stories, yes, and theyand it wasn't me acting. They had
actors portraying us. So it wasreally interesting, right, It was a
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fun thing to do. Of course, everybody was like, oh my god,
are you afraid? You know you'regoing on right, you're going public,
You're going public with your life.But I wasn't afraid, and I'm
still not. Obviously I talk aboutit publicly, yes, but uh,
it was It was interesting. Buthow did they how did how did they
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find out about you? Or theywere looking? Well, it was an
interesting thing because I was very friendlywith Love Majeski and you probably don't know
the name, but she was onMob Wives, and then they did an
episode of her on this show Okay, And because we were friendly, they
always said, do you know anyother women who would want to even come
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forward? And because she threw myname in the hat, and then the
producers contacted me. And I'm stillfriendly with Dan Pearson, who was one
of the producers of that show.Did you hesitate it all or did you
just jump right into it? Iactually didn't hesitate, And I'll tell you
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why I didn't hesit Tate because mymy my ex husband, my daughter's father,
I'm at we we don't talk anymore. So I didn't really feel a
particular allegiance to him. Yes,my the other person that I was involved
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in with who is away. Youknow, he's he's still away. He's
been a waste for you know now, it's I think twenty two years.
I knew that he wouldn't have aproblem with it because I have nothing but
the best things to say about him, right and I did in this in
the show. I mean, asa matter of fact, he loved it.
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He loved it because people don't usuallysay nice things about him, so
he really loved it. And thethird person that I was involved with,
I hate to use the word hatebecause it's not it's a negative thing,
but he was the worst is loath. Loathed is a wonderful word. And
I, you know, I washappy to do it right, and I
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was happy to let the world knowwhat a terrible human and what kind of
After it aired, people watched it, well, you know, I felt
kind of bad because they edited theway that they want to. You have
no choice in the way they edited, and they kind of painted me like
this mob mall. You know,this mob mall girl. That just I
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only you know, like I onlyslept with mob guys. First of all,
I was married to Vinnie and I'mjust going to say first name.
Ronnie I was with for years,and Joe I was with for years.
So I wasn't like this sleep aroundmob girl. But just to keep it
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simple, once you're in that life, you don't get out of that life.
Normal guys do not come over toyou and want to be with you.
You once. See you were soand so's wife. You're always oh,
that's so and so's ex wife.But you didn't grow up in that
life. No, I did not. You want that was not your world,
No, not at all. Igrew up very normal, a very
normal Irish Italian Catholic family. Youknow. My family didn't have anything to
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do with that at all. Right, And but but I left home when
I was eighteen, so I wasalready living on my own four years when
I met my ex husband, rightright, And we actually met in a
night club. It's a really interestingsurprise, that's how we met. I
have to come back, you know, and do another show just on this
whole, my whole past life,because it's a whole different you know.
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I don't know what you really wantto talk about, but people always are
interested in that part of my life. I mean, I you know,
you know, Angel has her ownshow too, right, so I was
on her show when I we wereon to like one o'clock in the morning.
Wow, how am I talking?Yeah, I mean like we yeah,
no, I know, we cango on forever and I know,
but but I met him in anight club. And the reason that I
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met him was because Sunny Francises,the water, I wanted to kick my
ass. Oh okay, I usedto go there all the time and I
lived there, and and she forwhatever reason, I don't remember all the
details, but she wanted to beatme up, and I was like,
I don't want to get beat up, right, And one thing led to
another was and I don't even knowwho she was, and he was like,
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you don't know who that is?Anyway, when I met my ex
husband, like two weeks later,I was like, hey, hey,
you know, just to like,you know, yeah, you know,
like I need my own protection protection. Yeah right. And he was so
tall and handsome and good looking,with eyes like you, green eyes and
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beautiful. And I was like,come stand over, you handsome. So
that was it. And that wasit, seriously, that was this story?
Was it? No? Yeah,no, I got it. So
but once you're once, yeah,you were in that life, right,
but you had to you had tomake a decision, and you had to
you had a yeah. Yeah.And I mean I had two nail salons
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that I walked away from. Wow, that literally I walked away from yeah,
yeah, and everything my whole life. I love New York. In
the middle of the I yeah,yeah, Franklin Square left everything everything,
reinvented myself very hard. It's veryhard to do, really hard. So
it was I'm not gonna I don'twant to really get into all the no,
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when you could make that whole othershow. But that's that I came.
I just wanted to touch upon thatyou were on the the show and
that you were you know, ifthey want to see it, yeah,
wherever it's I Married a Mobster ID Channel season two episode, so the
rule Breaker. Yeah, my myname was not Sharon Pfiffer then it was
Sharon McDonald M C D O Nand U L L. Yeah, And
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it's a true story and it's aquick watch. It's only yeah, yeah,
but it gives you all the gorydetails. In twenty we will move
on to twenty thirteen. Is whenyou worked for the first time with Michael
Rispoli on Not for Human Consumption.Actually, he correctly, he always corrects
me. He's like, that's notthe first time we worked together. We
worked. Yeah, we worked ona show called Magic City. Yeah,
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yeah, we worked and he hada great role. You know, Yeah,
I love him, he's amazing,And that's where we met. But
you know, I don't. Idon't really recall meeting him. I get
it, and he remembers, He'slike, no, no, we met,
and then we actually worked on Notfor Human Consumption. Yeah, and
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that's on TV if anyone wants totake a great film. Yeah, and
we've been friends. Yeah. Andhe's so hot, like I said,
after I saw him in the city, I got to meet him at Yeah,
he's dynamite. He's a great,great and what a great actor and
a theater actor. Yes, well, yes, well that's how I thought.
Fabulous on it. He was inthe pulitzerprise when play between Riverside and
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Crazy. That's the one where that'sthe one I saw. I met him.
He was. He was a fabulous, amazing, amazing. Twenty nineteen
was a very busy for you.You worked with again a mutual friend of
our Cerrial Depagio on Brass Knuckles.Loved it. And that's with yolks,
be honest and Anthony and Tony andTony depending on how you want to pronounce
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it, coron another great group ofwho I love working. Yeah. Worked.
As a matter of fact, I'mon Silent Partners as well. I
know, I know very small Iknow. I told Zero said, I'll
come down to Florida and just letme know the event the premiers. That's
in August, right, it's inAugust. I know that Gary Pastor will
be there, a good friend ofmine, and we were in the city
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with Joe and everyone watching it inManhattan. But I'm I'm excited about it.
Oh, I'd love to if Icould. You got to come down.
I really try to come down.Okay, I'll try. You surely
just fly in and fly out.I'll try. I will try. Oh,
that's so sweet of you. Andthen you did the beach Bomp Matthew
McConaughey, Snoop Dog, Jimmy Buffett, Zach Zach, and Jonah Hill.
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I mean, that was like anAll Star the Last Star cast. It
was literally his worst film that heever made. It really is. It's
a horrible film. But I hadbut it's for me though, I mean,
did you watch you stupid some ofit? It's fun. Did you
see my scene? I did notsee your scene. It was in the
first ten minutes. I I caughtlike bits and pieces. I gotta I
gotta watch it. Watch it's inthe first ten minutes. Yes, you
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played a sexy older woman. Asexy older I have a sex scene with
Matthew McConaughey. There you guys areinterested. I get residuald Oh my god,
it's good to see me have sexwith Matthew McConney. There you go.
I mean, how was it?You know what? He has big
hands. It's all I'm gonna say. Okay, all right. Then you
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did a Jonas Brothers music video thatwas amazing, how much fun. It
was so much fun. The onlything I don't like about that whole thing
was that it was used in withwith Coca Cola and we never got We
just got paid for doing the video. And it was to me that was
should have been considered a national absolutething and it was sag thing and it
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wasn't. And I was really madabout that. And then after that you
were in the Irishman. Yes,you came up here for that. I
flew myself up here. I was. It was not a speaking role or
anything. I'm an old school manicuristand I am with I don't even remember
the name of what's that background inRummen? No, you know the big
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background casting, big background? Well, I don't know what about the company,
Wolf Wolf the other one. Anyway, it doesn't matter. But they
have me with them if they whenthey need an old school I'm not talking
about a nail technician, talking abouta manicurist right right, soaking your hands
in the water, doing the like, and they need like Madge. Yes,
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the young people have no idea.They have no idea. But anyway,
old palm all commercial. So theyneeded a manicures and they said,
and they think I live here inNew York because I have my daughter's address
and my daughter's phone, right,So I said, I absolutely can do
it. They said, can yoube here this afternoon for a fitting?
I said, no, I cannot. Can I come in tomorrow? Wow,
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this is how crazy I am?They said, yes, can you
be a tomorrow for I said,yes I can. I hung up the
phone and I booked a flight andI made it for the fitting. Yes,
And then you know, then theshoot was whenever it was, which
I made it, and what wasexciting about that whole experience and why I
did it? Let me tell youwhy I did it, And was like,
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why would you do such a thingfor background? Because I wanted to
work with Scorsese. I totally agreeI did Maestro with background with Bradley Cooper,
but I do it because he wasthere directing me. That's the only
reason. You know. He's old, Yeah he is. You know,
who knows how long he's going tobe around. And I just wanted to
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do it right. So I getto the set. I'm going to try
to make this quick and they don'thave the beauty parlor set up at all.
It's not set up at all.My station isn't set up. Nothing
is sad because I'd like to go, like look and see. So I
went over to the prop person propmaster, and I said, do you
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because I brought all my stuff,do you want me to like set up
my table? And he looks atme and he goes, we don't even
know what to do. Wow,Yeah, I said, do you want
me to help you? He wouldyou? I said, I would love
to. I went in the backwith them to the back where everything was
and we're picking things up, whichI help him set up the scene.
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It was amazing. So now weget ready to shoot, says he.
I'm not gonna make a big dealout of it because I don't want it
to sound like it's more than itwas. But he comes over and he
all he does, he taps me, he goes, good job kid,
that's it. I was like,oh yeah, my shoulder. But I
was so happy, like I feltlike I contributed, but it was worth
it. But here's the best partof the whole Irishman thing. Did you
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get do you? Are you sick? Not yet? Okay? So I
got my screener because I'm so That'swhat I was going to ask you.
How you got your sack? Okay, I'll tell you in a second.
When I got my screener, right, I open up the DVD for The
Irishman. There's my me sitting atmy table working on whatever her name is,
the girl with the hat from thegood Fellas that's in the movie.
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I can never remember my name.There's me in the DVD. That's all
three and a half hours they tookmy God, so was it worth it?
Was it worth? Ago? Po? Wow? You never as you
just in it? So what gotyou? You said? Car a Metro
PCs commercial? There you go?Okay, all right, and I'm in
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the commercial for about ten seconds,not even I'm being I'm exaggerating. Five
seconds. Wow. Twenty twenty youdid bad Boys for life? I'm in
you see me for you to seeme for a bus guard. You see
me for an eighth of the second. But as long as they see you,
and I had a whole scene.Yeah, but they cut like you
know, but as long as myface was in it, I'm still getting
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residuals. I know. It's awesome. That great, it's amazing. I
know. Well, you did twentytwenty three. You did Days of Distancing,
which was a mini series that wasa very odd thing. That was
one of those COVID things. Yeah, very similar to your Last Guests that
you had where we had to filmit ourselves. It was a very interesting
thing. I love doing it,but it was a weird thing. One
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awards in all the film festivals andwhat is it going anywhere? You know?
You know the and then Lost Treasure. You wrote it, I wrote
it, produced it. It wasfor the forty eight hour film. Yes,
we won all kinds of Best Director, Best best but did it.
But we did not get to goto Portugal for the big o hah because
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we didn't win Best Best Picture ofMiami Fort Lauderdale. So but we I'm
very proud of that film. It'sa comedy. I almost was considering submitting
it for the Long Island well too. Yeah, and there's Jerry Freddy's Yeah,
and you have Debora Mak Yeah.I was considering, you know,
submitting it, but I haven't gottenaround to because I'm busy right now,
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very busy, and we're gonna findout what she's busy with after this break.
Don't go away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that
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looked like me. She stands forbeing a voice for people that need a
voice. My organization renovates homes forpeople with disabilities, and when I come
home a self care routine makes mefeel my best. I'm very proud of
the difference that we're making, andto see that impact in my community inspires
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me to work even harder for everyonearound me. Hi. I'm Georgia Rose,
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that is how I first opened intomy own psychic gifts was through the
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Akazini and taro for the four cupright side up. It means we have
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Tee Time with Teresa Kindas Dracy fo. We'll see you there the way
you say my name. Well,hey, everybody, welcome back to tea
Time. I'm with Sharon Fifar.She's an actor and a comedian and a
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writer and a producer, and we'regonna talk about You played a lead lead
role in an original play called TheLost Virginity Tour. Yeah, the first
time you were on stage. Wellright, not the first time, but
the first time I've ever been ina full length stage play. Because you
know, there's nothing like life,there's nothing like as you know, we
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both do stand up comedy. Soand I attribute my ability to do this
play on having five years experience asa stand up There you go, And
I didn't really realize how much doingstand up would help me with the play.
So we're gonna, we're gonna putup a couple of pictures of you
doing stand up and I want youto tell me how did you get into
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that and how how long you actuallydoing stand up comedy? Well, I
I started doing stand up five yearsago. Yeah, we're gonna, We're
gonna. Okay, So Maria Maisanodoes Danny Iyello's Italian Chicks of Comedy.
I'm I'm one of the chicks,and you're one of the chicks because Marianne
did a show in Florida, Floridaup and you your host. Well,
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I show and I see it.You're also in it? Yeah, yeah,
how much that? Oh my god? It was amazing. What I
love? Ourt like, what's notto love? She's amazing And but it
was so much fun and it wasreally out of my It's not in my
wheelhouse because I don't sing, andyou know, I mean, I really
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don't don't. I'm a horrific mymy speaking my speaking voice is horrible.
Can you imagine me singing? Disgusting? So, but it was really fun.
I just how how did you getinto the stand up? How did
you? Well? The stand upcame about because well, we're actors,
right, yes, and I actuallylove comedic acting, like I that's what
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I that's my genre, right,I love you and you're real is hysterical,
thank you, thank you. SoI thought that it would probably behoove
me to well, look, allof your favorite comedians end up doing great
movies like a Robin Williams and andthey end up doing TV shows. So
I thought maybe I should learn learnstand up and have that in my toolbox,
(38:00):
right, you know, learn right, my arsenal and just learn it.
And did you take any classes forthat too? Well? I went
and took well, I took Ihad already been acting, okay, I
had already been, like you said, acting, you would class first,
of course, I take a comedystand up plas well. That's what I
did five years ago. I tooka comedy course with a company, a
(38:23):
group of comedians that they call themselvesComic Cure because they believe that laughter,
you know, cure as everything.So and they were wonderful, and I
took like a I don't know,eight week course or something like that.
And then we had a graduation kindof like what you did, a graduation
show. And at the graduation show, and this is a true story,
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you know, we all did well, all of us, all the students
did well. But at the graduationshow, a man approached me and said,
you were phenomenal, and I'd liketo book you at the book a
black box. This is at thegraduation show, my god, and I
so, of course I'm like,sure, sure, he says, he
goes, can you do twenty minutes? Now? Listen, all I heard
(39:10):
didn't want to was a graduation show. That's hysterical. So of course me
I said, yeah, sure Ican. I could do twenty minutes.
All I had was tight three minutes, and so I said, what are
you paying? So he says fivehundred dollars, right, and then then
I've got another write another how manymore minute? Right? So I said,
(39:32):
can you do better? Now?Meanwhile the bolls right, oh my
god. Meanwhile, we're grateful rightout of graduation school back to get it
to get booked for free. ButI'm saying, can you do better?
He said no, I can't.I said, I'll take it right.
So now I go over to myteacher and I'm like, listen, I
just got booked and he almost fellon the flour. This is hysterical.
Nobody gets booked even fIF fifty dollars. No, this is five hundred dollars.
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PS. Guess who else is onthe show. So it's me the
guy who's booking me because he's asinger. And Tony Darrow he's great,
he's great. Yes, well,PS. Tony drops out because he's having
back surgery. You can look thisup. It's a true story. And
now it's me, this other guy. But I got to do twenty minutes.
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Well, when I tell you,I didn't have twenty minutes. I
only just learned how to do comedy. So I'm writing the worst jokes ever,
the worst, the worst, andI'm on stage. I have three
pieces of paper. They were onthe stool. I keep looking at the
paper. It was the worst thingever. You don't even know this poor
guy, I don't think, butyou know he's still he's still pag he
of course he had to pay mebecause I did the show. But it
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was the worst thing ever. People, but you know what. I kept
going, of course you did.I kept going. I kept doing the
open mics. I kept you know, and then you know, I got
booked back at the Book Book ablack Box. Mike Marino. I opened
for him all the time, openedhim. I mean, you know,
I shout out to Mike Marino andEdiburgh. I performed at the broker Age
(41:05):
a couple of times. Yeah,yeah, here in New York when I'm
in town, and I love it. I love I love it. That's
great, Yeah, I love it. I have a really a perform all
over Florida, you know, atthe Improv Yeah. Yeah. Oh and
just to let you know, lookup Sharon on Facebook and Instagram. It's
it's Sharon Pfeiffer, not verified onInsta. And you could see like coming
(41:30):
shows, we're gonna be performing.I'm always posting. You can see everything
on this Yeah yeah, yeah,all right, So listen, we have
to take my last break, andwhen we come back, we're going to
talk about Don't Go Away, hermovie. Yeah, from Brooklyn to Boca,
From Brooklyn to Boca, Don't goAway. We'll be back after this.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me.
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Hey everybody, Welcome back with SharonPfeiffer. She's an actor and a
producer, of writer, a standup comedian. She does it all.
I want to thank everyone for watchingthe show. Please like it, please
share it. My regulars are watchingAnne and Bruno and Greg and Michael Norton.
Thank you for watching the show.I appreciate it, all right.
So we got to talk about yourbaby, because it's your baby, my
(43:52):
baby. From Brooklyn to Boca.We got two pictures. There's there's one
of them and there's the other one. I I love it, and I
want you to tell everyone. Obviouslyyou wrote it and I co wrote it.
You co wrote it, and sotell everyone the concept of this,
because this is hysterical. The conceptis hysterical. So I'll try to be
quick. So I co wrote thiswith a woman named Denny Show. And
(44:15):
Denny is an option screenwriter who I'mvery friendly with. And about three and
a half years ago, Denny andI were just talking and I told her
I've had this idea in my mindfor many, many years about a TV
show. This originally started as aTV show called From Brooklyn to Boca.
What is it about? Regina Refeudois married to Frank forget about it.
(44:39):
Frank Refudo and he's a wise guy, and they live in Brooklyn. They
have a son, twelve year oldson named Carmine. Anyway, Frank and
his crew get arrested. One thingleads to another, and Frank and Regina
decide they're going to go into witnessprotection right now. Originally they're supposed to
go to Iowa. Well, acouple of things happen and they end up
(45:01):
not going to Iowa. They endup getting sent to Boca Retne Boca.
So the agent, you know,the marshal, the federal marshal that's signed
to their case tells them, listen, you're not only getting sent to Boca
ratone, and you're not only gonnahave to change your name from the refudos
to the Green Blacks, right becauseBoca is like Jewish, but you're gonna
(45:23):
happen to become Jewish, right,so you're no longer going to be be
cap don't be wearing that cross thefix around your name Jewish. So that's
where all the comedy comes in.And it's and it's very funny, you
know, you know the joke,you know the joke. What's the difference
(45:43):
between an Italian mother and a Jewishmother. Nothing Italian mother. A Jewish
Italian mother says if you don't eatthat, I'll kill you, And a
Jewish mother says, if you don'teat that, I'll kill my fellow.
Exactly. I love that, Ilove that, but it's true. It
is true, and it's true andJewish people were so much aligned, so
(46:04):
much alike, and so basically thecrux of the story is that we're all
the same and we all bleed thesame And the bottom line is it's really
about love and just loving each otherand the humanity of all of us.
So what started out as a TVshow and morphed into a feature film is
(46:25):
now. Because I was doing theplay the Lost Virginity Tour, a local
producer came to see the play.She loved the play so much she approached
me after the play and said,Sharon, I heard that you have this
film that you're working on. Buthonestly, I'd like to take that film
(46:45):
from Brooklyn Toboca and let's turn itinto a play. So right now we
are going to be putting from Brooklyntobocap on the stage. So we're going
to be doing the chas commentary guideto success and hopefully take off play and
see what happens. That'd be great. And you have attached to it,
(47:05):
who do you have attached to it? Well? Well, when we have
l o eyes for if it shouldever, should we ever be so blessed
to become a become a movie,we have some you know, Michael Rispoli,
we have Eddie Brill, we haveMichael Marino's comedian. We have Ronda
Sheer, Yeah, we have heron the show. I'm trying to think
of who else. We were solucky to ever. I mean, I
(47:27):
have a whole list of people.You know. That's awesome. But yeah,
we're really excited and very excited.It's it's a great concept. Everybody
who's ever, you know, wehave a terrific sizzle. I should have
sent over the sizzle. That wouldhave taken up too much time, but
you can. You know, wehave If anyone's interested, please contact me.
If anybody wants to donate money,contacted me, She'll send it over.
(47:52):
That happens. Yeah, so we'reexcited. So the play is going
to come first. Yeah, theplay is going to come definitely, and
hopefully it'll snowball and people love itso much. How much how much of
how much of what you have doyou have to tweak if any into a
play version? Well, it's alldone. The play's done. The play's
(48:15):
written, and it's done, andit's ready to go. It's ready to
go. So right now we're tryingto find the right and then you and
that's not always. I have onein Manhattan if you want to do it
here, I of course you wantto do it? Yeah, of course,
absolutely got a great one, noI yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely.
This is how it happens. Thisis how we make it happen.
(48:37):
But how long ago did this conceptcome to you? Because like literally twelve
years ago. Really, yeah,it's been in my head for And thank
god that I met Denny because she'sthe person who forced me to put pen
to paper, right, or youknow, tip fingertips to the computer and
you know, put it down becauseI wanted to do it for so long
(48:58):
and just never never considered myself awriter, right, even though I had
been writing my own jokes, welljokes, Yeah, you do know a
joke which I was found hysterical andfunny, sixties the New forty, which
is which is great. But yeah, you write, you write. As
comedians, we have to write material, so we don't give ourselves credit.
(49:19):
But it's very different from from sittingdown and writing. Because I wrote,
I wrote a short and I didn'tfilm it yet. It's on paper,
but it has to do with mydaughter getting married. But you're gonna film
it. I'm going to yes.But the thing is is that it's a
different kind of way of writing.You know, it's a very different way
of writing than total writing jokes,And I got news for you. Writing
(49:40):
a film on final draft is completelydifferent than writing a play, totally different.
So it's it's really it's interesting thateven at you know, my age,
I'm learning so much and I loveit and I love it meeting other
creative I wouldn't. I would neverhave met you had I not embarked on
(50:04):
this creative journal. That's the wholething, you know, And I just
love you don't know, you know, you meet people in your life.
I say that there's a lesson ora blessing that's just and you just you
know, and you just you neverknow, you never know, you never
know, you never gonna look it. With that venue in the city,
thank you. Even last year atthe Long Island Film Festival with Yeah,
Jerry and I just I hadn't seenyou there. I don't know if we
(50:29):
were properly introduced, I don't know, but I know that we met.
We met there and I met somany wonderful people there, a lot of
creative and and it was so wonderfuland validating for me to have my screenplay
when you know, my screenplay fromBrooklyn to Bocal one best screenplay and it
was amazing and I was. Ifelt so validated because I really hadn't submitted
(50:52):
to any other film festivals. Soto get that validation, I couldn't believe.
It's a it's a beauty, it'sa beautiful thing. No, this
is going to be a fabulous journeythan you. It really is. I
see it all happening. You know, it's it's it's awesome. We have
we have a we have a fewminutes left, which is great. I
(51:14):
really touched upon everything I wanted totalk about. Let's talking about you.
No, no, no talking aboutme. Uh but I will tell you
I will fly to Florida if youneed me. I don't have a I
would love Florida and I'd love towork with you. I mean, I
mean we're like sisters. I knowyou are just separated at birth. I'm
telling you, I said, Itold her a little bit about my worst
(51:39):
story married to my first husband.We have we do. It's so crazy,
it's insane. But you know,just to reiterate a little bit before
you know, you were a businessowner. You're a business owner, so
you know, you know how totake charge, you know how to delegate.
You have that background, you know, so I'm sure it's incorporated and
(52:00):
you know what you want, whatyour vision is. Well, when you're
a first of all, you knowwhen you're a mom, right, so
you have to run business. Yeah, I don't care what you do.
You multitask big multit So when Ilived here in New York before I left
in ninety eight, I always hadnail salons. That's what I did,
believe it or not. And youknow what, I don't know if I'm
(52:22):
allowed to say this without anybody beingmad at me, but the name of
my salon, my nail salon washammer and nails, like hammering was one
word and then nails. And ourlogo was don't get mad at me people.
But my logo is we speak yourlanguage. It was because we had
(52:44):
all I get it. I getit. Yeah, just regular people work.
I don't know how else to sayit. I don't want to get
in trouble, but could never getaway with it. Today would have been
shut down right back then, Icould get away, but that was my
people woke Now well, it's youknow, we talk about that and doing
stand up and how you know it'sit's it's really impinging on Some people don't
(53:07):
care, right, and they'll justsay whatever they want, which is that's
on them. But there are certainthings that you know, I won't do
religional politics, No me, neither. I don't. I stay away from
that. You know, it's basicallyall about a town, family, food,
you need to sex. You know. Well, yeah, what's that?
Talk about that? What is it? What is it? Right?
(53:28):
Will I talk about Boca Return?Listen to me? But I heard those
seniors. Those seniors hang some kindof colored balls. You're talking about the
villages. Oh, the villages.I don't go anywhere near this stuff going
on down nowhere. I live inBoca Ratone. Dating is a challenge.
All the men are attached to theiroxygen tank and they're walkers. I'm not
(53:51):
kidding. Oh my god, it'sgreat. And they will wear the same
uniform gop shirts, jeans from Costcoright and new Bound, and sneakers.
Some they we're back to lose theirbalance. Sounds like my dad, I'm
serious, so funny, Oh mygod, listen, this is great.
I'm so I could do a wholeroutine with you, right, we can.
(54:12):
We're so good. Wait, girlsgirls' night out. We don't call
girls' night out anymore, you know, we call it antiquing. We're going
antiquing. It's terrible. So yeah, Well I told my girlfriend who's eighty
five. There's three there's three differentwebsites for people older, and I cannot
(54:32):
tell it on air. We're gonnatell you the off the air. But
listen, I have to thank youagain for coming. Thank you. I'm
so glad you're in New York andyou were able to do this for me.
Love to have you back, can'twait to work with you. I
want to thank everyone for watching teatime, supporting me. Remember, tell
everyone you love you love them andI'll see you next week. Chow everybody
out and the New Found No Mod
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