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Laura Silverman, so excited to speak with you.
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I've been a fan for decades.
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You are part of my favorite show of all time, which I always mention on this show.
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The comeback, obviously, I'm talking about it.
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21 years, you've been part of that show as Jane.
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I've had Dan Bukutinsky on the show, Tim Bagley.
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I'm in the talks to have Lisa on.
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It's been four months since the series finale.
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We've gone through the award cycle.
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It's over.
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How did you feel on that final day of filming and how are you feeling right now?
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Oh wow.
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The final day of filming was a day that I just will never forget.
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It's so sort of, it's very sort of dreamlike, but also sort of so locked in and you know, like just these crystalline moments.
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We wrapped Ella in the first part of the day.
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And let me tell you something.
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That kid is amazing.
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Like that kid was raised well.
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So she's she's great.
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Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor's daughter.
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Oh yeah.
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She's a wonderful, wonderful person.
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So we really bonded.
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We know we were always sort of together.
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So we wrapped Ella and that was emotional.
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And then we were at the outside, the filming outside of the condo, which the condo is on a sound stage, and everybody wanted to live there.
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Like, this is so nice.
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Like it was on a soundstage.
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So then there was like this really, really long drive back to the studio where Lisa and I just got in a like her car together.
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And it just was like this dream.
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It was like having a dream, like just kind of in the dark in the back of this SUV, and just like knowing like we're driving back to the studio to do this final scene with just the two of us.
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And when Lisa and I talk, the conversation just goes all over the place.
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It goes everywhere.
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It usually ends up somewhere in quantum physics.
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Because she's she's into that and she I kind she understands it.
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But we just talk about everything.
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And it feels like a dream.
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But she's one of those people.
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You know, there's no small talk and there's hard, hard laughs and deep moments.
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And so it was just this, it felt like that that car ride felt like it was two hours.
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And then it was just so quiet, like everybody was gone, and it was just the two of us and this giant soundstage empty with all these people tied into this little set.
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And it was just so much.
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Lisa had a hard time getting through it.
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We both had a hard time getting through it.
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I had I found in my knapsack when I cleaned it out just recently um this little ripped out piece of paper that was like Jane's sort of last little speech to her.
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Because I couldn't get the words.
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We just couldn't get the words.
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And I think it I think it was like because we knew that as soon as we did it right, that was it.
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Like our brains kept making us grow.
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It was so intimate.
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Lisa was really emotional at the end.
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She freaking nailed it though.
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She did.
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She did.
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And then it was just, you know, it was the middle of the night.
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It was like one in the morning, and we all just said goodbye.
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And it it takes time to process it, but it was beautiful.
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Yeah, and then you have to wait months for it to be released.
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And so how did you react when you saw the final episode?
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And specifically that final beautiful monologue of hers.
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It's hard for me to watch myself.
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I don't enjoy it really.
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So it's uh usually if I watch it a second time, then I can really get it.
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I just was watching her, you know, that my job was to watch her.
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All I had to do was watch her and be connected with her.
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Yeah.
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So watching it, like uh there's always this phenomenon.
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Like I like being on set, I like shooting, I like working.
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That's the part I like.
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And then the watching it is kind of nerve-wracking.
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And, you know, there's the whole like Instagram of it all that I had to do, and I just became very ensconced and like, you know, entrenched in the whole, like, my whole algorithm was like the comeback, which sort of just sort
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of like fucks with your head because then you just start to think like, oh my God, the whole world is obsessed with the comeback, but it's not.
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It's just that your algorithm has shifted so that you're like flooded with it.
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And then it fades and you go, Oh, it was just a little shell.
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It was a little moment, you know.
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And I always have this thing like where whenever I like shoot a series or something, and people will start to say to me, like, are you excited?
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Are you excited?
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And I'll be like, About what?
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Like, well, this show's gonna air.
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I'm like, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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Like that's not the exciting part.
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That's not the exciting part.
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I mean, for fans it is.
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For me, it is about shows that I want to watch.
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But as an actress, I just like being on set, I just like doing it.
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Well, well, that's a good algorithm to have compared to what what we could be seeing.
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I I have that algorithm as well.
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I love the comeback in my feed.
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Right, right, right.
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Yeah, it's now Broadway.
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It's all Broadway now.
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I love that.
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Did you know that the final scene, that monologue, was gonna be in the different colors throughout the decades of TV?
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I think that was in the script.
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Well, uh no, it was in the script that it was started black and white and ended in color.
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I don't recall if it was that specific, but you know, um, Ellie Smolkin, who was our DP, was so amazing.
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He's such an amazing DP that I didn't even know he was the DP until like the fourth day.
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If that makes sense.
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You know what I mean?
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Because he was just, he's so he's he's just so he had a team.
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Like it was, I don't know, it's hard to explain why that, why that's good.
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But if you've if you've worked on sets and stuff, you'll know what I mean.
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Best show of all time.
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We're gonna get back to it a little later, but now let's double back all the way back.
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Well, we're gonna go back to New Hampshire.
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Your upbringing in New Hampshire.
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Uh, you have three sisters, you're still very close.
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How would you encapsulate your upbringing and family life?
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Funny, musical?
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I know you you sing as well, political.
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Political, funny, musical, crazy, dysfunction, all fucked up, close, warm, wonderful.
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Like everything is really out in the open, and sometimes that's too much.
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But yeah, I mean, we were a close family, but you know, we had we definitely like had our difficulties.
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Um, I would say the older we get, the closer we get as sisters.
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Like the relationship really evolves as you get older and you know, you realize like what's really important in life, and you just cling to each other.
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Like we just cling to each other.
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We're gonna be old ladies together, and it's um it's really great.
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My sisters are my best friends.
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Beautiful thing to have.
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And two of you are in the entertainment business, obviously, you and Sarah.
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Yeah.
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Was your initial aspirations as a child?
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Was it always entertainment or writing or music?
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Um, I wanted to be a writer since I was like eight.
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I wanted to be a novelist, and I still want to be a novelist, and I am working on a novel.
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Um, I have been working on a novel, and I know like everybody says that, but you know, we'll see.
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And but that was really my passion.
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But insane as it is, like I was always really awkward and introverted and shy.
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And performing was really the last thing anybody would think I would do.
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But writing was so frightening to me.
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I always wrote, I just didn't show it to people because it's it it's you.
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And I didn't have what it took emotionally to withstand rejection when it came to writing.
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I do now.
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It took me a long time to cultivate that, to understand myself and how my brain works and things like that.
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I had a lot to work on.
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So I I I started doing acting because I found it fascinating.
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I really was fascinated by what acting was, you know, how that you can create a performance, like all the things that can go into it.
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Like, and and I would just, I could handle the rejection because I would just be like, oh, you know, probably too cute and too sexy, it's probably too young looking and too
sexy for the part.
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You know.
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I could handle the rejection and I also could, you know, do something, watch it and go, okay, this is what I can do better, this is what I can do better, this is what I can do better, and be excited about that.
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So I guess there was just a lot less ego in it for me.
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You say you could handle the rejection, which, you know, is a big part of the entertainment industry.
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A lot of people veer away from doing it because of that.
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Being comfortable with rejection, does that parallel with being confident?
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Because you are very shy and extroverted, but are you an introverted, confident person?
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Yeah, I would say I'm an introverted, confident person.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Beautiful thing.
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I, you know, I definitely recharge my batteries by being alone.
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But I I I love connecting with people.
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What I like about it is I guess if if you are, I had never thought about it that way, like a confident introvert, but it allows you to step into a situation.
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You know, this got easier the older I got to, where you're part of a production.
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It's really fun to be part of a team and you give it all over.
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You're you're there to fulfill someone else's vision.
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And you have to constantly tell yourself, uh, remind yourself, I don't need anything from anybody here.
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I'm not on the make.
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I mean, everyone's on the make.
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I'm not on the make.
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That's why my career sucks.
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I don't know that's why I don't know anybody.
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That's why I couldn't like name a single, you know, like casting director or agent.
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Um, I suck at show business.
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But I think that it's like a it helps me as an actor because yeah, I'm there to to do the best to just give myself over completely.
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And uh I love that feeling.
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I really love it.
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Like I have ADHD that's like popular these days, but I really do have it.
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And um, just ask my husband.
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And um, it's a relief for me because my focus is like laser.
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I'm completely focused when the camera's rolling and I know what I'm supposed to do.
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And it's absolutely thrilling to not know exactly what's gonna happen.
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You're just locked into the situation with other people, and there's a script and there's backstory and whatever's happened and what's gonna happen, and and just like creating something in the moment you didn't expect is the greatest thrill.
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I love it so much.
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So that's what I'm in it.
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That's what I'm there for.
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I'm there for that, the the focus and the thrill and just being part of a team.
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So were your North stars growing up more writers as opposed to entertainers and and actors?
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Oh yeah, yeah, right.
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Did that also fall in line with uh musicians?
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Because you also write songs, right?
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Lyrics?
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Yeah, I do, but I just write stupid songs.
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I don't know.
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Um, my my sister Sarah is a huge fan of my stupid songs.
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So like I will go through phases where I just sort of like wake up in the morning and I just like off the top of my head write a song, record it, and send it to her, and she goes crazy for it.
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So like when we did the Sarah Silverman program, she all the songs that I had sent her, she worked into the show and even like based entire episodes on like the white dog poop lost boyslash friend, which was uh whatever, you don't know these songs, but like she would she would build episodes around these stupid songs.
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Well, you know, there's a um there's a soundtrack, has all the songs.
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I I'll add that to my my apple.
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Also, like great songs that she wrote and they wrote.
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But yeah, yeah.
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It's just it I I'm not I would not say I'm a songwriter, but I can really whip out a a good, solid, stupid song.
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No, I know your goal is to write uh a novel, so you're immersed in fiction.
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Do you write personally?
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Did you were you a journaler or do you journal now personal essays?
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I don't really journal, but I definitely write no matter what I'm writing.
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The first thing I wrote was about um a hockey player.
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I was ahead of the curve.
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You were?
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I actually wrote a pilot about a hockey player, and then that was the first thing I wrote.
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It was probably 10 or more years ago, and I was like, no, nobody's gonna make a show about a hockey player, about hockey players.
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Uh I know, and when the whole thing started, Sarah was like, your script, your script.
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And I was like, you know, they already did it.
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Like, it's all right.
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I it's that's not like, but oh, okay.
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So well, my point was, sorry, I was gonna write try to write a pilot, and my sister's advice to me was think uh, it's hard for me not to imitate her, but it's like I'm not doing it a mean way.
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Like, think of your best self, like or you shine the most, and then write that character.
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And I wrote a story about a 27-year-old hockey player with PTSD, and he was me.
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So, like, I think it's Alice Monroe that said, you know, we all just have one story.
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We just find lots of ways to tell it.
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And it's it's the truth.
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So everything I write, whether it's like pretty closely autobiographical or not, it is, I definitely am inspired.
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Like, I don't write like fantasy or I can't even read that that kind of stuff.
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I like Slice of Life.
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Yes.
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Well, most of these books behind me are memoirs, including The Brilliant Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter.
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So do you think you have a memoir in you, or would you make it fiction with some truth woven in?
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No, absolutely not.
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Not a memoir, no.
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Do you have a musical in you?
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I don't know.
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My sister's doing that, you know.
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I know.
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It was here in DC.
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I don't have his zombie seconds.
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It's hard.
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It's really difficult.
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Do I have a musical in me?
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No, I don't think so.
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I think what I have in me, it's been brewing for a while, is a I want to do a show that is this is a real moneymaker.
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Just kidding.
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I don't have money making ideas.
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Um, I want to do a show.
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One of the things I'm really interested in is early childhood education.
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And I want to do a show for ages zero to four that is with songs and that basically just sort of like teaches kids how to deal with cope with their emotions in a healthy way.
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That would be beautiful.
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And you know, lots of really stupid songs and stupid characters, like so that I think I have that in me.
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It makes
me think of um Jack McBrayer who had a children's show on.
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He was kind of very Mr.
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Rogers-esque, yeah.
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Oh, oh God, yeah.
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I'm looking forward to that.
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Well, well, with that, the changing TV landscape, which the comeback captured so well throughout the 21 years with reality and cable shows and AI.
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How do you feel about where we are right now?
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Are you moving forward with confidence or sort of just with the AI of it all?
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And the TV landscape in general.
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It's changed so much in the 21 years.
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It started changing quite a while ago.
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And the way I feel about all things is, you know, if you can't do anything about it, then just accept it and work with it.
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Don't, you know, sit around and whine.
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You know, it just is what it is, and you gotta adapt and pivot.
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And because it changed a long time ago with streamers.
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And look, I enjoy watching shows on streamers, so I can't complain.
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But the hierarchy like shifted.
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You know, it used to be like we had movie stars who did movies, and they're still doing movies.
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They're doing indies and they're doing great stuff, but they stream.
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But people that we didn't think were TV people are doing series on streamers, amazing actors and actresses that are like our top-tier, you know, A-list movie stars.
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So that everybody who used to be like the TV star is now like the TV like supporting or the TV guest, you know, and the TV, the supporting is the TV guest star.
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And then people like me are like, you know, five lines of like the wacky teacher on a Tim Allen show.
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I don't belong there.
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I did do a Tim Allen show and I thought it was really good.
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Which one?
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It was the last one before this one was uh last man's last man standing.
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Yeah, and I got a call to go just go over there.
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Like I guess they must have fired someone.
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And that was so freeing because I yeah, guess there's not a lot of expectation on you, you know.
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I had a few minutes, I had a fitting, I sat there, I looked at the script.
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So I just felt really free.
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And so I just did I went way outside like my comfort zone and I, yeah, I kind of like that.
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Fun story when my was my husband and I were dating, we were staying in a hotel because we were like drove to Orange County for something.
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So we stayed overnight and it was one of our sort of like first like overnights in a hotel together.
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You know, it was morning, and we have like that, you know, like the hotel room service coffee, which is romantic.
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And uh, you know, we like the TV was just on, and you know, we started kind of getting a little bit intimate, and that came on.
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We being wacky on killer.
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Maybe he likes that.
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So you're an introvert, you're very shy.
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Your Instagram also says that you are, I mean, jokingly, a shut-in.
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What does that look like for someone who is in the entertainment industry and has to be in the public eye at some point?
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Well, you know, when I have to be like, I just lock into that and do it.
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And and it can be fun.
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It's always very, very stressful ahead of time.
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Um, every time I open it, would open an email that was an invite to an event, my reaction would be like dropping to my knees and slumping over the coffee table.
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Like, no.
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And my husband would think someone died.
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I get to figure out what to do.
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You seem to be navigating it well.
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I uh, you know, uh, it's it's gotten a lot better.
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This taught me, this taught me that I like, you know, I have good style.
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I can pull it together.
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It can be fun.
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And um, yeah, so I yeah, a lot better.
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A lot better.
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It's, you know, it's not my comfort zone.
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I am kind of a shut-in in LA.
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But what else is there to be in LA?
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Where are we going?
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Where are we going?
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That's why we, you know, like we we stay home, especially when you're older.
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Where are you going?
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Are you gonna go over somebody's house and hang out?
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That's terrifying for that person.
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What if you don't like stay too long?
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It just doesn't happen.
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It doesn't happen.
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Lisa's the same way.
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She's not going out to hang out.
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She's
not coming over someone's house.
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She's not gonna like meet at a coffee shop.
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Like, we we FaceTime.
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We all thank God for FaceTime.
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Well, we are living in pretty heavy times, so it's probably nice to be shut in.
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I isolate at times too.
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Yeah, it it can be a problem.
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I actually have um lately um gotten really good at like making plans with my good friends, my core friends, the people that I really like being around, I will make a point of seeing like once a month and staying in contact with.
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So I I am emerging.
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I'm doing better.
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Well, you mentioned your algorithm is a lot of Broadway.
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So happy stuff.
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Is that how you kind of recharge or escape?
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Do you have your your sort of life set up so you you're not having to because I feel like we're all in this onslaught of bad news and especially in California, you're living in it.
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So are you able to sort of shut a lot of that out?
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Yeah, I kind of like I I have developed a system where like I I shut off all of my news notifications.
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I have the news, I've shut off all of my notifications except for I get the LA Times for a dollar a year through SAG.
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So I got it, the LA Times and I get headlines on my watch.
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So if anything happens that's important, I find out about it.
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And you know, with my family, obviously is very engaged and we do family Zoom every Sunday, and it's amazing.
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Like it's like us four sisters, my sisters, three daughters, my aunt and my cousin Jenny, and we talk about anything and everything for forever every Sunday morning.
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But I I can't be I the the 24-hour news cycle is like the death of society.
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It's not healthy, it's not good, it's not real.
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They are competing to have a story every single second of every day.
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So there's no more editing, there's no more fact-checking.
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So you have to really boil it down for yourself.
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You have to do research about things.
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You have to really be careful and curate and not just repost and not be like virtue signaling when you don't know what you're talking about.
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That that's a big problem.
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So I I stay, I don't I stay out of that.
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I don't I used to talk politics on the old Twitter.
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It wasn't healthy for me at all.
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And it didn't help anybody.
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I don't do it anymore.
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Your sister Sarah is very politically outspoken, and I'm sure she uh has given you some pointers uh on uh not letting things get to you, like the scrutiny.
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Uh yeah.
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Uh well Or I guess that's probably also why you stop posting about it.
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I'm not famous, first of all.
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Nobody's looking for my voice about things.
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You know, I grew up an activist, we grew up activists.
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Well, you're very well respected.
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You mean the family?
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You mean me personally?
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I mean, here's the thing.
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I don't shit talk.
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I don't say negative things about anybody.
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And I could.
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I know a lot being in this business, you know a lot of things.
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You really probably wish you didn't know about people.
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I don't shit talk people as a rule.
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I just don't do it.
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I don't see any value.
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This is like, you know, this is my one and only life.
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And it's it's in the later stages.
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So I really need to make decisions about how I'm going to live.
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And I choose not to be doom scrolling and wringing my hands and, you know, getting ulcers over things I can't control.
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I educate myself.
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I I research things, I want to know about things.
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Um, I want to be able to speak well about things when it comes up.
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But the whole like social media, like, no, that's not what I I don't want to every time I open Instagram, I I feel like a rush of that like bad adrenaline, like that anxiety.
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It just I understand.
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You have to protect your peace.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you gotta protect your peace.
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And and speaking of that, you mentioned getting older and we persevering and resilience and sort of trying to maintain an hopeful, happy mindset.
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I want to talk about grief and loss, which you've lost both your parents.
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And Sarah channeled her grief very powerfully in her special postmortem.
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So beautiful.
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The older we get, we experience more loss.
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We realize what we can handle because we sort of have to get through it.
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How do you stay grounded and present in the wake of loss?
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And what have you learned over the past decade losing so many people and just growing older?
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Oh well.
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Yeah.
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We've lost I mean, my mom died 11 years ago.
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My stepdad died about five years before that.
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And then in 2023, my very unexpectedly, my stepmother died, and then my dad died ten days later because he didn't want to live without her.
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And you know, we honored that.
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Um I mean we didn't kill him, but it just his body just gave him what he wanted and it was it was the right thing.
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But you get through it by realizing that there's four of us girls, four sisters, and we have gotten closer and closer and closer through every loss of parents.
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And yeah, we cling to each other and we start to just let go of all the things, you know, like you you you have to let go of all your expectations of a person that are just not your business and not your deal, and let them be themselves and don't get involved in the things that you don't like or disagree with because it's not your business, and just love them for everything that you love about them, and there's so much.
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Just strip away like the trying to control people, let them do them, or they let you do you, and you just love the shit out of each other.
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We love each other so hard, it's ridiculous.
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Yeah, it's redefining.
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I mean, I lost my favorite dog earlier this summer.
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It's different, but it reshapes you.
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It's awful to lose a dog.
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Yeah, I have three, and they just I feel like they're I've lost people in my life and they're just the closest thing.
00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:56.319
It's like a loss, a grief unlike any other.
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But you know what the thing is about pets is that it is the most personal loss because nobody had the relationship with that pet that you had.
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Like people, you share a closeness and a knowledge of that person, but you're the only person that had that relationship.
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And so it's it's some there's something that's very intensely lonely about it.
00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:18.000
We'll lighten up a little bit now.
00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.319
Um, I did want to get back to your singing because you do have a gorgeous voice.
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I'm
curious who your favorite artists were, past and and present currently.
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What are you listening to?
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Oh, um, thank you for saying that.
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I actually just started taking singing lessons just for myself, and I love it so much.
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Growing up, you know, we had all the big musicals of the generation of the time we're always playing on vinyl in our house.
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We had uh Hair and Pearly and Jesus Christ.
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I knew every word to Jesus Christ Superstar when I was six.
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I love that show.
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Yeah.
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I love the movie.
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I mean, the movie soundtrack is is what I listened to.
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Godspell, a chorus line, Sunday in the park with George and company.
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And, you know, those are the the album covers.
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And then I was really into the Partridge family.
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I was in love with Chris in the way that, in the sense that I kind of wanted to be him.
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Like I was a boy crazy when I was young, but I it was more like I I thought they got to wear cooler clothes and do cooler things.
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So I was like what they call a tomboy, with a I think is a weird term.
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I don't know what it really means.
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So I got a drum kit and I got a drum kit for Christmas.
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We had Jewish Christmas.
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We just had a tree couple sometimes for fun.
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I got a drum kit and I played the drums.
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I played uh like through high school.
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So Broadway, but we also we were always listening to like Roberto Flack and Johnny Mitchell, and you know, all that kind of music, that sort of singer-songwriter stuff, John Denver, Carol King.
00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:54.559
So it was that stuff, the Mamas and the Papas, the Carpenters, the Peter, Paul, and Mary, all that stuff.
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And I still listen to that music.
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Yeah, the older I get, I'm just returning to my favorite 90s singers.
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I'm so bad now, like I don't know who who the singers are and the songs are because I don't have a commute.
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You know, that's when I would listen to the radio and I would know the current song.
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So I feel very old right now because I don't know who these young people are.
00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:17.440
I've been listening to a lot of Broadway, honestly, lately.
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I'm just like really in a thing, but my younger adulthood, I mean the 90s hip-hop, 90s hip-hop
was a big deal.
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De la Sole, who I actually got to work with on their album and the anonymous nobody, and the song that I did didn't make it onto the album, but there you there's little bits of me in there doing skits and bits and voices, but that was a thrill of a lifetime.
00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:42.079
Um coolest thing I ever did, I think.
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And then it was like Joe Jackson, Joan Arm Trading.
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I still listen.
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My playlist is basically all like Lilithair and Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos from the 90s.
00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.680
It's like you get in our routines the older we get.
00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:53.920
Yeah.
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:54.400
Yeah.
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Alanis for sure.
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:56.000
All right.
00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:57.680
Well, we're gonna go back to the comeback now.
00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.039
21 years as Jane.
00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:04.880
Dan Bukutinski said in an interview that you're nothing like Jane, but even in speaking with you right now, I do see some overlap.
00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:06.319
Where do you see some overlap?
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:07.920
Uh yeah, there's overlap.
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:14.160
I mean, it's funny, like, I think like I have been cast generally as two archetypes.
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:23.119
I'm either like the kind of dry, withdrawn, constantly judging you silently character, like Jane, like Laura and Dr.
00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:28.880
Katz, with the, you know, kind of speaks in like the lower register, or I'm like Laura on the surface.
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:29.759
So I'm in programmer.
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:36.480
I'm just like this cheerful, happy, cheerful, like with the high little voice, like when they've done like sitcoms.
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:49.680
It's always like, oh, so it's like it seems like there's these two archetypes that I get cast as like the bubbly high voice, cute, stupid girl, or the one that's kind of hanging back and like, mm-hmm.
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:57.200
Yeah, and I also see the overlap in that she also wasn't great at showbiz, kind of like to be in the background and not public facing.
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.079
She kept getting sucked into like, ugh, this.
00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.759
You know, we had a thing.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.079
Like Michael loved to play with that.
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:11.279
Like, if you watch it a lot, you'll start to see like he he would have me decide, is Jane interested in this?
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:11.839
You know?
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.039
And it was always kind of like a fun task.
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:22.960
Yeah, and you also said you don't usually come up with projects that are moneymakers, and that made me think of Jane's Oscar documentary.
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:28.240
But you know, then in despite herself, she had some modicum of success, you know.
00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.799
So I guess that's similar as well.
00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:32.240
I am both those people.
00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:38.799
I am like super supportive, warm, loving, and I am also spider-eyes.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:43.119
How did you get the call, or how did you find out that there was going to be a third and final season?
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:45.279
Um, it was February.
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.279
I actually had gotten really sick and it was a whole thing.
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:50.799
It was kind of scary.
00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:55.359
And it got figured out, but I had to go on high dosteroids and all this stuff.
00:28:55.440 --> 00:29:00.960
And so it was like right at right when this happened, and I got this sort of diagnosis.
00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:08.319
I was actually literally like getting blood drawn to confirm when Michael texted me and said, Can we call you?
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:09.279
Can I call you?
00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:10.400
And I was like, Yeah.
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:13.039
And this can only be one thing, you know?
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:18.960
And and so Michael and Lisa got on the phone with me and they're like, season three of the comeback is shooting this summer.
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:19.440
Are you in?
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:25.119
And I was like, Yes, I'm in, you know, and I would just all like I was all like, yeah, let's do it.
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:25.680
Yeah.
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:31.119
And meanwhile, I was like, I might be dying.
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:35.519
Uh I didn't die and I'm healthy, I'm good.
00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.240
But that is a thing, like, I don't know.
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:57.039
I always I feel like I want to say, it probably nobody cares, no one noticed, but I had to go on high-dose steroids for a period of time, and then it got figured out and I it it got like cured, but then I had to slowly get off of steroids, and my face, it was enough, and my face got puffy.
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.799
And during the course of shooting, it was still kind of puffy.
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:11.519
And so that was like that's all I can see when I look at it, is that my face is still puffy from steroids because it just makes me feel like that's not that doesn't look like me to me, but nobody else notices.
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:13.519
No, I don't think it registered for anyone.
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.000
It was very, it was just a little bit left.
00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:18.799
I was like down to like nine milligrams.
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:20.640
It takes forever to get off that shit.
00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.119
It does.
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:22.400
I have a dog on it right now.
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:25.839
Uh what is your favorite episode or storyline?
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.039
And what do you think the legacy of the comeback will be or is?
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:35.200
God, I don't I I I'm the worst at like if we played comeback trivia, you I wouldn't win.
00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:37.440
Well, you don't like to rewatch yourself, yeah.
00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:38.799
I don't, yeah.
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:39.759
I don't.
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:44.640
But I mean, I really I think my favorite storyline is is this last season.
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:47.920
It has to be because each season was an evolution.
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.359
So it's like you have to kind of go with the the latest one.
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:56.880
It's sort of like when you write something and you're like, I'm writing so much better now than I was 10 months ago.
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.640
So, you know, you you just keep improving on it.
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.599
So I think it is one of those things that it got better and better.
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:10.480
So the latest storyline I think is really it really deals with something big in a really incredible way.
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:11.599
So impactful.
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:16.480
And I was so happy to see that Lisa got nominated for writing, not just acting.
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:18.640
Yeah, she was really excited about that.
00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:22.000
It's like Lisa, this is like the difference between Lisa and Michael.
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.200
Lisa's like, oh, I got nominated for writing.
00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:26.160
That's so cool.
00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.640
I've never gotten a nominee for writing before.
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:32.160
And and you know, and and and best actress for something I wrote.
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:33.039
Like, that's so cool.
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:35.200
You know, and she's like, oh, Gene Smart's gonna win.
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:36.000
I mean, and she should.
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:36.799
She's incredible.
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.640
You know, that's what it's like talking to her about it.
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:41.759
And then Michael is just like, uh, you want to have lunch?
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.319
Yeah, I guess we can go like lick our wounds.
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:46.880
And I was like, what is wrong with you?
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:51.200
I mean, it's a brilliant show, and it's always been a small niche show.
00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:52.400
It's a small show.
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:53.359
That's what Lisa says.
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.640
She's like, it's a little show.
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.599
Like, it's incredible that we've done what we've done.
00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:58.559
Absolutely.
00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:00.160
And Michael, great quality.
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:03.920
Be happy with this third season, especially coming off event just like that.
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:04.559
Be happy.
00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.359
Um and what do you think the legacy will be?
00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:27.039
I think the legacy of the comeback is I mean, the legacy already exists because between seasons with decades passing, you have young people, people in their early 20s that you work with and they're like, when I did last man standing, those girls who play the daughters were like, You're Jane.
00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:28.480
And I was like, really?
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:32.400
You know, then they're like in their early 20s or late teens.
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.960
They and they they worship the comeback.
00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:38.880
Young people have found it every time and continue to find it.
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:42.720
And I think that's what creates a legacy is that it's evergreen.
00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:43.759
It's always gonna hold up.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:50.160
And you touched on it earlier in in our conversation about the final day of filming and the special quiet moments with Lisa.
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.559
What in general does Lisa Coudreau mean to you after 21 years?
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:56.720
She means a lot to me.
00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:06.720
I, you know, my job was to be there for her, to act with her at all times, even though almost all of the time I wasn't on camera.
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:07.759
What am I gonna do?
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:08.880
Not give her everything?
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:10.880
Like, how boring of a day am I gonna have?
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:12.480
Like, I get to act with Lisa all day.
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.000
Who cares if it's not on camera?
00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:18.240
I mean, it would have been nice, but you know, it still was awesome.
00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:21.519
And so she looked to me for that.
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:22.480
You know what I mean?
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.279
And I looked to her for everything.
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:34.319
It was it it's such a strong connection between the two of us that, you know, even though season one, I was so intimidated by her because she's so smart and cool.
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:40.559
And I I couldn't say two words to her, like when we were in a van going back to the studio from location.
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:42.400
I'd be like, this is every single time.
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:44.319
And I just go like, how's Julian?
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:47.200
Because, you know, that's all I could come up with.
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:57.119
To then season two, coming back 10 years later and being just a much more relaxed and confident person and able to engage and talking and laughing a lot.
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.079
And she leaned on me a lot that season and it felt great.
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.000
And then season three was just like, and we had to actually work together.
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:12.880
I wrote a pilot that I developed with her and stuff, but season three was just the connection between us as people got so strong.
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:19.440
We just Lisa would sometimes say, like, you know, something would happen and she goes, Oh yeah, because we're the same person.
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:33.679
We are kind of the same person in all these sort of weird um ways that almost the way like twins have a secret language, like when we talk,
it's yeah, there's something there's just this thing.
00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:34.719
Very special.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:37.840
Now, how are you navigating post-comeback life?
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:38.800
This next chapter.
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:43.119
I know you want to write a novel, you write music, you do voice work.
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:43.920
What's next?
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:45.360
Are you still figuring that out?
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:51.280
Listen, my dream has always been I wanted I thought I was gonna be a dramatic actress.
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.280
I studied acting for 10 years.
00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:58.480
You know, I didn't think I was gonna do comedy, but then like, duh, like that was just sort of my way in.
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:10.000
And then so obviously that path kind of follows people just uh but I I wanna I want to do drama and I my dream is to play a doctor on a medical drama.
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:11.280
That's the dream.
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:21.360
Um Michael said when we were at South by Southwest, we're having dinner, and he just was like, he's so intense because he was gushing so much to me this time.
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:24.400
It felt good, but you're so good, you're so good.
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:26.719
Like, I see you, I see you.
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:30.239
Like a starring like a medical drama.
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.400
I'm like, Yeah, I I hope so.
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:37.360
I felt like when he said it, he was like speaking to you know to God.
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.800
I can see it, but I don't know nobody's listening.
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:41.760
I don't know.
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:48.239
I'm I'm like I said, Kyle, I suck at show business, but I'm I I I'm feeling like a strong pull to New York City.
00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:49.440
I love New York City.
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:51.039
I've been spending a lot more time there.
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:52.320
I'm a different person in New York.
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:53.840
In New York, I'm I go out.
00:35:54.000 --> 00:36:07.440
I'm out, I am I'm with friends, I'm seeing shows, I'm walking, I'm just like drifting around and I I see myself living in both cities and just in LA enjoying the sort of hibernation and isolation.
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.320
And then New York, it's just a whole different thing for me.
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:16.159
It's and so I actually signed with a talent agency in New York City.
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:20.400
Ooh, that's an exciting new chapter by coastal.
00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:21.199
Yeah.
00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:24.239
I so, you know, there's a lot happening in New York.
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:26.159
There's not so much happening here.
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:30.239
And I I love the idea of working more in New York and spending time in New York.
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:34.320
So hopefully that's and they know they know what I want.
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:36.400
So they're working on it.
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:37.679
What about theater?
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:38.880
Could you do eight shows a week?
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:39.599
You love Broadway.
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:41.840
You know, I think I yeah, I could do eight shows a week.
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:42.320
I could.
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.840
I couldn't do musicals.
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.280
I don't have that kind of voice.
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:45.760
Maybe.
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.119
You could you could sing and dance.
00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:47.760
I can sing.
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:50.159
Maybe after after more lessons.
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:51.679
I cannot dance.
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:52.880
I cannot dance.
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:53.679
I can dance.
00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:57.760
Like I dance, I bust out, like I go crazy, but it's not structural.
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:02.079
No, I can't either.
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:02.880
All right.
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:15.119
Well, as we close this out, the tangle, I ask every guest what they're currently tangled in that they're loving, immersing themselves in, binge watching, reading, activity, anything you love, and then anything that's annoying or frustrating that you need to get untangled from.
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:15.760
Okay.
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:16.960
Um, reading.
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:19.039
I've been reading a lot of Ann Tyler.
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:20.079
Wow.
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:21.519
Such an incredible writer.
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:27.760
It's like so like zooms in on just the little things, and you just go, oh, that's like a painting.
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:33.199
Like uh, I'm reading um right now, Audition by I can't remember her name.
00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:36.079
Um, but yeah, always reading a lot of stuff.
00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:37.280
Memoir audition?
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.400
It's not a memoir.
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:38.960
Okay.
00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:39.280
No.
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:41.679
Barbara Walters has a book called No, no, no.
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:42.239
That's not it.
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.400
It's uh um, yeah.
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:47.440
Oh, the correspondent masterclass in storytelling.
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:48.239
Absolutely beautiful.
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:49.760
So you're more of a reader.
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:50.960
Are you binge watching anything?
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:56.320
Yeah, I am a more reader, but here this is an I like I don't watch comedies per se that much.
00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:02.000
Sometimes some there's a you know select few and and a lot of British comedies that I've loved.
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:11.519
But we just drove six hours home from Arizona and I binged Shmigadoon and I was like, this is fucking brilliant.
00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:19.039
Like we tried watching it when it came, and like my husband was so sort of like, you know, against it.
00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:23.039
And when you're watching with the wrong person, sometimes you just don't, it
doesn't come through.
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:26.000
I'm very hyper aware of like other people's experience.
00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:29.679
I want people everyone in the room to be happy or I can't focus.
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:37.199
So just like with my earbuds and my phone and now finishing it on the treadmill, I I wish there was more.
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.079
It's brilliant, it's so funny, it's so smart, it's so well done.
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:43.360
Did you see the musical?
00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:48.320
I didn't see it, no, but my childhood friend Jen Samart is starring in it now.
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:55.519
And um I was I was in a production of The Boyfriend with her when I was in college that my mother directed.
00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:07.519
It was like community/slash college theater, and somebody quit, and my mother tapped me to come and do a big song and dance musical with two rehearsals.
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.800
It's like literally a nightmare, like a literal nightmare.
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:13.519
And she was the lead and she was fantastic.
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:16.079
But yeah, she she did shows with my mom.
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:18.880
Well, Jen Smart, uh that voice on her.
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:20.960
She's gonna go places and look at her now.
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:21.440
I know.
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.039
I I wish there was more seasons too.
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:29.920
And I actually had uh um Julie Klausner on this show and she wrote for Schmigadoon and they wrote a whole third season, they just didn't shoot it.
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:39.440
I saw her name, and I'm gonna I'm gonna message her and tell her that I kind of we've connected on uh on Instagram or Instagram friends.
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.159
Yeah, I saw her name and I was like, ah Yeah, the resurgence, maybe it'll bring it back.
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:45.440
Can they please do it?
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:47.360
It's it's written genius.
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:52.480
Yeah, it's g and it has Aaron Tabate, who is like, I'm kind of brilliant, brilliant.
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.280
Oh my gosh, yes.
00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:57.519
We have a thing going on.
00:39:57.679 --> 00:40:01.519
No, I just I I do actually just really like his He's incredible.
00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:02.239
He's incredible.
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:03.440
And so are you, Laura.
00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:04.639
This has been such a pleasure.
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:05.440
Really?
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:07.119
Yes, it has been.
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:08.719
It has been a pleasure, actually.
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:10.559
It's been very easy to talk to you.
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:15.199
You're so easy to speak with, and yeah, I've been a fan for decades, and I just so appreciate you taking the time.
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:20.000
And it was nice to speak with you about stuff other than the comeback and get to know you a bit more and you can't do it.
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:21.199
Oh good, you know.
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.760
I was like beforehand, I was like, what are we gonna talk about?
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:25.920
Who's interested in like me?
00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:27.599
So many people.
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:31.760
I mean, just look at your your co-stars on Last Man Standing.
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:32.559
Everyone loves you.
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:33.599
Right, exactly.
00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:34.239
Those girls.
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:40.000
Um, and can I just say, you are uh I don't want to be inappropriate, don't call HR, but you are so handsome.
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:40.960
Oh my gosh.
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:41.840
Laura, stop.
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:43.199
Beautifully appreciated.
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:44.880
I love a nice smile.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.119
I mean, I'm I'm I'm trying to take care of myself.
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:48.639
I started at 30, so that was good.
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.199
I'm in my 40s now, so my mom taught me well.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:52.960
You started at 30, what?
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:57.280
Well, like skincare and actually like trying to pay attention to like what I'm doing.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:40:58.800
I had no like lessons on that.
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.679
I mean, you look fantastic too, my gosh.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.719
They're your whole family.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:03.599
You don't age.
00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:04.800
Thank you.
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:05.840
Thank you, Lord.