September 15, 2022 • 23 mins
One scene, two lines, but oh boy did this 90210 moment leave a lasting impression.
Rebecca Herbst has gone on to star on General Hospital for the last 25 years! But, before that she was just a teen girl with her prospective home buyer mom in Kelly's room looking at her closet. Then, Kelly shows up and things go downhill real fast! Rebecca joins Tori and Jennie to share memories about this memorable scene and iconic Kelly MELTDOWN!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling today. You guys,
we are excited. We're going to have a guest on.
Amy is so excited we have Rebecca Hurts with us. Um.
(00:20):
Everybody knows Rebecca. She's been a soap actress for a
long long time. She's been in everything. But you know,
I love myself General Hospital about it, Oh my gosh, celebrate.
It's her twenty five year coming up right General Hospital.
(00:41):
But General Hospital has spent on sixty years. Oh my god. Well,
she is a beloved star of that show, that's for sure.
And the best part is she was on our show
a long long time ago, on an episode that we
just recently watched, perfectly perfect in season three, episode more.
And we're so excited to do a little rewind and
(01:03):
have a chat with her. It's so iconic, And I
wonder if you damaged her. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask her.
It's my being to her affected anything long term? Yeah, Hi,
hold on, I'm trying to figure they are beautiful. Hi.
(01:24):
Oh my gosh, I just want to say I'm sorry
the way my character treated you right out of the gate.
I just want you to know I'm sorry, that's okay.
I forgive you. I was worried that she might have
scarred you for like you were so young. You were
so young, and I was so mean. I mean, I
wasn't mean, Kelly was really me. That's right. No, I
actually I'm used to that with Maybe it was a
(01:48):
good preparation for you to like be able to go
into the all the storylines that you've had to cover. Right. Yeah,
I've had a few people be mean to me, So
it's okay. It's nice question. And for you when you
were on the show, Um, do you remember them telling
you not to look any of the cast in the eyes? Oh? Um?
(02:11):
Was that? Oh? No? Was that a thing? Um? Jessica Alba,
who is so nice and so great, But there was
a story when we first started doing the podcast that
came out that she when she was young, it was
her first job, I think on nine two one oh,
that she was told and not by us, to someone
(02:32):
to not look the cast in the eyes and it
was scarring to her. So wow, yeah, I could see
how that would be a little traumatizing. Um. Yeah, no,
I've never experienced that. Everybody I remember everybody was really nice. No,
were you a fan of Antuna before you came on,
(02:53):
or were you excited to get the part? Um? Yes,
I had on auditioned several times for different roles. Um,
you know, I have no idea. I cannot remember that
far back. Um. I auditioned a lot as a kid,
So it's kind of you know, once you're out of
(03:13):
that room, you just don't remember anything, and you're what
did you start acting? I was six, Oh my gosh,
I was little. I was little as little. Yeah, yeah,
I started doing a lot of commercials as a kid,
and then like guest spots here and there, and but
(03:35):
I mean, I just I don't really remember a lot
of it, just because it was so much of my
like daily going on auditions and then I'd come home
and I used to be an ice skater and I
go to the ice rink, and you know, it was
just like a busy life that I don't remember a
whole lot of the auditions. So no, I don't remember
(03:56):
the roles, but I had been in quite often for
different roles, and then I was super excited to finally
be on your show. Were we saw it were like,
oh my gosh, we totally recognized you, and it was
like we know. Wait. I was like, I know her,
I know her, and um wait, it's like sliding doors.
(04:17):
What if you had gone on to be a professional
ice scare You weren't professional, right? I was not a professional? No,
I was no. Um. I started ice skating when I
was My mom put me on the ice when I
was three, and then I stopped competing when I was
about fifteen. Well, to me, competing means professional. So oh,
(04:37):
but you were like training, did you have to do that?
Like five am? Yes, I would get up and two
hours before I would skate for two and a half
hours before I go to school. I'd go to school.
After school, I'd do auditions. If I didn't have auditions,
I'd go back to the rink. And that was my
life for a while. But then when I got into
high school, managing high school and friends and audition need skating,
(05:00):
It's something had to give. And I liked acting more
than I enjoyed skating. Like that was, I was done.
I was ready to be done with that. And I'm
not a real big like, I don't like to compete.
So I loved ice skate. I hated competing. You were
literally a triple threat. Oh god, I was just busy.
(05:23):
I'm just busy. How long have you been on the
show that you're on? I just celebrated my twenty year.
I cannot believe you've been on there twenty five years
because you don't even look twenty years old, which is
crazy to look. I mean, you looked so young. I'm like,
I know you were when you were how old when
(05:44):
we started that show? I was twenty, you know, I
was twenty. How old were you when you were on sixteen?
And I had to look that up because honestly, I
just I didn't remember quickly this morning, and I was like,
what year was that? So? Yeah, that was four? I
(06:04):
think it? Or um, Rebecca. I asked this question to
a lot of people, but I really really want to know.
How come I mean, obviously you've been an actress your
whole life, but how come soap stars don't age? No, no, no,
you guys don't age, And I just I don't understand it. Well.
(06:27):
I think it might just be it's an illusion because
we're in your house every single day, and we all
age gradually together. It's not like you're watching for one
season and then there's this huge break and people come
back and they look a little different in order. You know,
we've over the years, you've you've aged, I think because
(06:50):
we're in the house and every single day you don't
see it. It's like you don't see you know, I
mean I don't. I don't. I look at my husband
and I don't see that he ages. He ever look
at him everything right, And that's the beauty of being
in a long term situation because I think about that too,
because like you know, I'm aging and my husband never notices,
(07:12):
like he doesn't see those things, which I'm like, right,
I don't notice it. I don't think you age. M h.
(07:32):
Speaking of your husband, you this is so good. You
married a co star from the show, yes, right, and
you're still married to Higether. Yeah. We've been married for
a little over twenty one years. And we worked together.
Um we were in the kids storyline because we were
(07:54):
He clearly was not a kid. Um I wasn't a
kid either, but we were in the kids storyline and
we worked together for about a year and a half
before we started dating, and then we got married and
the rest is history. Now we have three kids. Three kids.
Oh my gosh, this is like, yeah, it sounds like
(08:15):
it was a soap opera. See Out of the Soap Opera.
I love it so much. I know with stories that
work out. Wait, did people know you were dating at
first or did you guys hide it on set? No?
We yeah, we kept it pretty quiet for we're both
private people, and you know, it's not it gets There's
(08:36):
a whole soap world behind what you see on camera.
You know, there's a lot of dramas. I'm sure you
girls know it just from being on a show for
so long, and so we were we were not wanting
to bring everybody into our relationship. So we dated for
a while nobody really knew, and then he left the
show and that's when it was like, oh, yeah, okay,
(08:57):
now that's fine, we're dating. And then literally six months
later we got married. How old are your kids? My
baby just turned twelve, you will always be my baby.
And I have an eighteen year old daughter and almost
twenty one year old boy. I know you guys have
a lot of kids too, don't you a lot of kids? Yeah,
(09:20):
there's a lot of kids between the three of us.
And are your kids you used to have? Both of
you have little ones orbies always. My youngest is five
and my oldest is twenty five, so we have that's
our range, anything between five and yeah exactly. We got you. Yeah, wait,
(09:46):
we are Producer Amy. I don't know she prepped you
for this. She would like to not. I wasn't prepped
for anything, Amy. Amy loves a good reenactment scene, and
she would like to do the re enactment of your
scene from back in the day. Can just take you
(10:07):
back in time, you can just observe it if it
brings back memories. For some reason, I can't totally remember.
I think you had like a line or two, But
where are they? We don't have them. First of all,
I'm in I'm in the streets of Berkeley, and a
garbage truck drive by every time I have a moment.
But I am ready to play the part of Kelly,
(10:28):
and Tori has agreed to be the part of Jackie,
and Jenny will be the theme. Can't somebody where where
Rebecca's lines? I think I said something to the effect
of I'm sorry, I didn't like goes like. I feel
(10:49):
like you could fully ab lib it. I feel like
we're ready, Jenny, would you mind taking us back and
setting the scene? Okay, do you remember doing this. No,
I'm sure you don't write you don't know. I know.
I just watched it recently and I don't remember doing it,
and I was mortified how rude my character was to you.
But she was really going through some stuff. So this
(11:10):
scene takes place. What was she going through? I don't
even know. When Kelly comes home and finds people, prospective
buyers going through her closet in her Okay, that's the scene,
and are we ready? Okay everybody? Okay? Am I supposed
(11:32):
to say something? Because I I know you just can
add anything in front of me. You just add lib
what's at the very end? Can you just pretend you're
going through her closet? Oh? Sure? Nice? Nice, nice action? Okay, Kelly,
what are you doing home? Gee? I thought I still
(11:54):
lived here. This is our house, isn't it? Mom? Yes,
but maybe not much longer. This is a beautiful house
and we're selling it real cheat, So why don't you
just take it? Take everything while you're here? Get some
new jeans, new shoes, new underwear. Why don't you just
help yourself to my closet? Kelly? Oh, I'm so sorry. No,
(12:19):
what you like? This sweater? Not your underwear? You like
the sweater, take it it's yours. Okay, that's enough. How
about some new CDs? A new life? Why don't you
take my boyfriend? We're not getting along that well anyway.
Oh my god, you know what? Yeah, I'm so sorry man.
(12:47):
Did you really give it your all? Amy? I love
that about you. I gave that. I really wanted to.
Did you rehearse? I just want to know, like I
started last night, whenever I put into whenever I went
into the text, can I have that scripped again? Wait?
So poor Rebecca had to be treated poorly when she
(13:08):
was sixteen and now again now today, this is terrible.
I'm sorry, Rebecca. It's okay. I'm I'm actually having a
great time. And I'm super nervous generally for interviews, but
you girls have made feel very comfortable. Okay, Rebecca, wait
before I go to ask, like, it really was an
(13:29):
iconic scene that you were in because Kelly, this prominent,
huge character, just lost her right. So it's like, is
there any other memories you have of like or did
Jenny hug you after anything? To just be like, oh
my god, I just went crazy. All I remember is that.
(13:50):
And because I had been acting for so long. It
wasn't like my first rodeo with somebody yelling at me
and knowing that there's a there's a difference between the
character and the person. I just remember it being so quick.
It was like we got into this aty bitty little
room and and we did it and we were done.
It was such a fast day. I just remember being like, wow,
(14:10):
that was that was That was fast, nothing like I
mean soaps are fast. That too, was was quick. Really
that's cool to know that because you I've always heard
that soaps move so quickly and you have to cover
so much material every day. Like what's the most uh,
like page count you've done on General Hospital? Well, we
(14:31):
try to do about a hundred pages ago what, yeah,
we do like seven eight? I know, I know, I know.
We were on the same lot as Gray's Anatomy, And
it's so funny, you know, like watching people walk around
with their scripts and we're like, we know you have
five pages done. Oh my god, I can barely remember
(14:55):
a two page scene. That's insane. So like like twenty
it just depends on On an easy day, it's like twenty.
On a harder day, it's forty pages. But yeah, I
mean we we try to do one and done, like
drink it out. You work with my friend, I think
Cameron Oh Matheson, Oh he is so we absolutely love
(15:21):
having him there. He's not been there that long, but
his energy is beautiful. Yes, he's a special human being
him there. Yeah he is, and I know he loves
working there. Oh good, I'm glad. Well he's been doing
this for a couple of decades too. Yeah, he's old.
(15:43):
He loves it, he loves it. Well, thank you for
Do you have any other questions? Because you love your soaps,
tore and now's your moment, man, don't put me on
the spot. M h. Do any of your families watch soaps?
(16:11):
Did you guys grow up with soaps in your house
or I did? So Here's the thing. I grew up
watching NBC, not ABC, So I watched your Yes, But
I then had a friend that was really into General Hospital,
so I would switch. I would do Yeah, and I
(16:31):
didn't love whatever one was on at that time, so
I would do Days of Our Lives? Why would do CBS?
I do Young and the Restless, and then I would
do NBC for Days of our Lives and all my children, No,
not all my children Another World, and then I would
switch to ABC for General Hospital. That was my routine.
Oh so, and then I would record it, which is
(16:54):
super weird on VHS because that doesn't exist anymore. Um,
so I could watch it when I got home from school.
I love that. I love hearing stories like that. And yes,
I get the most excited to um to talk to
people on soaps because I'm such a huge fan. Literally,
like it was always on in my house, like so
(17:14):
I grew up since the time I was like five
years old, was like soaps on in my house. So
the stories, the stories, right, they were called stories Nanny. Yeah,
when I was little, she would always say, my stories
are on, and I was just like I was just
as like engaged my whole life. My grandparents watched One
Life to Live and when we go see them, it
was at one o'clock things but shut down because Vicky
(17:37):
was on. My grands would call it Vicky for Erica's
Plans act like that was his thing. So yeah, I
get it. Before we go what's going on? Like, what
are you up to? Other? Are you? Like? How long
are you going to be on the show? Do you
know what else you have going on? Um? You know,
(17:57):
I just feel I'm super blessed to have been on
a show this line. I mean, we all know how
it works in the in this industry, it's kind of
unpredictable and crazy, and I just I'm so grateful for
every year that I get to be there. It's been.
It's such a It's very conducive of having a family
(18:17):
because I my out. I'm not there for eighteen hours
out of the day. I'm not traveling out of town.
It's is as much as a like a nine to
five job as possible, So I'm home with my family
a lot. I'll be there. I mean, I'm probably I'm
a lifer. I love I love what I do. I
never I love the family there. I'm you know, I'm
(18:41):
super happy. So on a typical way to be there,
how many days do you typically work? It just depends
on the storyline. Story line, it's a big storyline. Then
you know, like four days a week. It's pretty rare
that I'm there five days a week. So that's another thing,
Like the schedule. Yeah, and what's like the lee'll stay
in a day? Oh um, I mean we're late would
(19:06):
be nine, nine o'clock at night. That's it's it's not
always no no, And they tried a bunch your scenes
together so that you're you know, you worked just in
this block of time and then you get to go home.
So I'm there on average anywhere from like four to
eight hours and that's it. How do you ever take
(19:27):
a vacation though? Because it's weekly, Like soaps don't shut down,
they don't have well because we try to do seven
or eight shows a week, so then we do have
weeks off, okay, and we get like during the summer
we have a three week break and during the winter
we have a three week break, and then like spreadically
sprinkled out through the year, we have you know, one
or two weeks here and there, so and that's when
(19:48):
all the vacations, I don't know, that's when all the
school stuff gets done and the doctor's appointments and you know,
like life gets done during those weeks. It sounds like heaven.
Do they have a coming up for your best friend
on the show? Um? Yeah, absolutely, I'll talk to Mark
Kushner and will I Actually my character needs friends, so yes,
(20:12):
you can come be my best friend. Are you still
a nurse on the show? I am? I went on
attorney leave and I came back a nurse. I was
literally I think I was a waitress, and then I
I got I went on a triney leaving, came back
a nurse. Yeah, I know that's tru smart. Any of
(20:33):
your kids act, no, no, no, only my little one
has expressed interest. But he's also um really into soccer
and his friends. So I've said, you know, if something
you can't do it all and something will, you'll have
to sacrifice being on a sports team and you might
(20:55):
not be able to do like the fun play dates
and not art camps or whatever if you're acting. And
so he was like, yeah, okay, but I could see
him getting into theater or doing something like that in
high school. But my other two nope, we get it,
you know which, I'm just fine, you know, I'm okay. Well,
(21:17):
it was really super fun working with you twenties some
years ago, and I'm so happy to reconnect with you. Yeah. Same,
Thank you so much for having me today, thank you
for being here and for doing that impromptu re enactment
for any sugarman. I'm sorry about hap. Yeah, that was funny.
(21:38):
That was great. I have personally want to do that
since this episode aired, so I'm not aired now. Now
it's done, we can move on. Thanks Rebecca, thank you
so much, Thank you, thank you. Have a good day,
greel bye. Oh my gosh, that was really cool to
(22:01):
talk to her. She looks exactly the same age, exactly. Wow,
I don't I'm telling you there's something in the water
that soap starts drink. It's just I need to get
some of that water delivered pronto. It's yeah, but she
(22:21):
looked great. She's so cool. Um, that was really fun
and we lost a but that was Amy's dream come true.
She got to read it that scene, so I feel
like we should probably recast her next time. She's getting
far too much pleasure out of these reenactments, but she
can't keep playing Kelly. Well, maybe she'll want to play
(22:42):
play Kelly before. Yeah, I think she's always Kelly. I
like her. I like when she does that. She it
makes me so happy. Well, thank you guys, talk to
you soon. E
It's with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling today. You guys,
we are excited. We're going to have a guest on.
Amy is so excited we have Rebecca Hurts with us. Um.
(00:20):
Everybody knows Rebecca. She's been a soap actress for a
long long time. She's been in everything. But you know,
I love myself General Hospital about it, Oh my gosh, celebrate.
It's her twenty five year coming up right General Hospital.
(00:41):
But General Hospital has spent on sixty years. Oh my god. Well,
she is a beloved star of that show, that's for sure.
And the best part is she was on our show
a long long time ago, on an episode that we
just recently watched, perfectly perfect in season three, episode more.
And we're so excited to do a little rewind and
(01:03):
have a chat with her. It's so iconic, And I
wonder if you damaged her. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask her.
It's my being to her affected anything long term? Yeah, Hi,
hold on, I'm trying to figure they are beautiful. Hi.
(01:24):
Oh my gosh, I just want to say I'm sorry
the way my character treated you right out of the gate.
I just want you to know I'm sorry, that's okay.
I forgive you. I was worried that she might have
scarred you for like you were so young. You were
so young, and I was so mean. I mean, I
wasn't mean, Kelly was really me. That's right. No, I
actually I'm used to that with Maybe it was a
(01:48):
good preparation for you to like be able to go
into the all the storylines that you've had to cover. Right. Yeah,
I've had a few people be mean to me, So
it's okay. It's nice question. And for you when you
were on the show, Um, do you remember them telling
you not to look any of the cast in the eyes? Oh? Um?
(02:11):
Was that? Oh? No? Was that a thing? Um? Jessica Alba,
who is so nice and so great, But there was
a story when we first started doing the podcast that
came out that she when she was young, it was
her first job, I think on nine two one oh,
that she was told and not by us, to someone
(02:32):
to not look the cast in the eyes and it
was scarring to her. So wow, yeah, I could see
how that would be a little traumatizing. Um. Yeah, no,
I've never experienced that. Everybody I remember everybody was really nice. No,
were you a fan of Antuna before you came on,
(02:53):
or were you excited to get the part? Um? Yes,
I had on auditioned several times for different roles. Um,
you know, I have no idea. I cannot remember that
far back. Um. I auditioned a lot as a kid,
So it's kind of you know, once you're out of
(03:13):
that room, you just don't remember anything, and you're what
did you start acting? I was six, Oh my gosh,
I was little. I was little as little. Yeah, yeah,
I started doing a lot of commercials as a kid,
and then like guest spots here and there, and but
(03:35):
I mean, I just I don't really remember a lot
of it, just because it was so much of my
like daily going on auditions and then I'd come home
and I used to be an ice skater and I
go to the ice rink, and you know, it was
just like a busy life that I don't remember a
whole lot of the auditions. So no, I don't remember
(03:56):
the roles, but I had been in quite often for
different roles, and then I was super excited to finally
be on your show. Were we saw it were like,
oh my gosh, we totally recognized you, and it was
like we know. Wait. I was like, I know her,
I know her, and um wait, it's like sliding doors.
(04:17):
What if you had gone on to be a professional
ice scare You weren't professional, right? I was not a professional? No,
I was no. Um. I started ice skating when I
was My mom put me on the ice when I
was three, and then I stopped competing when I was
about fifteen. Well, to me, competing means professional. So oh,
(04:37):
but you were like training, did you have to do that?
Like five am? Yes, I would get up and two
hours before I would skate for two and a half
hours before I go to school. I'd go to school.
After school, I'd do auditions. If I didn't have auditions,
I'd go back to the rink. And that was my
life for a while. But then when I got into
high school, managing high school and friends and audition need skating,
(05:00):
It's something had to give. And I liked acting more
than I enjoyed skating. Like that was, I was done.
I was ready to be done with that. And I'm
not a real big like, I don't like to compete.
So I loved ice skate. I hated competing. You were
literally a triple threat. Oh god, I was just busy.
(05:23):
I'm just busy. How long have you been on the
show that you're on? I just celebrated my twenty year.
I cannot believe you've been on there twenty five years
because you don't even look twenty years old, which is
crazy to look. I mean, you looked so young. I'm like,
I know you were when you were how old when
(05:44):
we started that show? I was twenty, you know, I
was twenty. How old were you when you were on sixteen?
And I had to look that up because honestly, I
just I didn't remember quickly this morning, and I was like,
what year was that? So? Yeah, that was four? I
(06:04):
think it? Or um, Rebecca. I asked this question to
a lot of people, but I really really want to know.
How come I mean, obviously you've been an actress your
whole life, but how come soap stars don't age? No, no, no,
you guys don't age, And I just I don't understand it. Well.
(06:27):
I think it might just be it's an illusion because
we're in your house every single day, and we all
age gradually together. It's not like you're watching for one
season and then there's this huge break and people come
back and they look a little different in order. You know,
we've over the years, you've you've aged, I think because
(06:50):
we're in the house and every single day you don't
see it. It's like you don't see you know, I
mean I don't. I don't. I look at my husband
and I don't see that he ages. He ever look
at him everything right, And that's the beauty of being
in a long term situation because I think about that too,
because like you know, I'm aging and my husband never notices,
(07:12):
like he doesn't see those things, which I'm like, right,
I don't notice it. I don't think you age. M h.
(07:32):
Speaking of your husband, you this is so good. You
married a co star from the show, yes, right, and
you're still married to Higether. Yeah. We've been married for
a little over twenty one years. And we worked together.
Um we were in the kids storyline because we were
(07:54):
He clearly was not a kid. Um I wasn't a
kid either, but we were in the kids storyline and
we worked together for about a year and a half
before we started dating, and then we got married and
the rest is history. Now we have three kids. Three kids.
Oh my gosh, this is like, yeah, it sounds like
(08:15):
it was a soap opera. See Out of the Soap Opera.
I love it so much. I know with stories that
work out. Wait, did people know you were dating at
first or did you guys hide it on set? No?
We yeah, we kept it pretty quiet for we're both
private people, and you know, it's not it gets There's
(08:36):
a whole soap world behind what you see on camera.
You know, there's a lot of dramas. I'm sure you
girls know it just from being on a show for
so long, and so we were we were not wanting
to bring everybody into our relationship. So we dated for
a while nobody really knew, and then he left the
show and that's when it was like, oh, yeah, okay,
(08:57):
now that's fine, we're dating. And then literally six months
later we got married. How old are your kids? My
baby just turned twelve, you will always be my baby.
And I have an eighteen year old daughter and almost
twenty one year old boy. I know you guys have
a lot of kids too, don't you a lot of kids? Yeah,
(09:20):
there's a lot of kids between the three of us.
And are your kids you used to have? Both of
you have little ones orbies always. My youngest is five
and my oldest is twenty five, so we have that's
our range, anything between five and yeah exactly. We got you. Yeah, wait,
(09:46):
we are Producer Amy. I don't know she prepped you
for this. She would like to not. I wasn't prepped
for anything, Amy. Amy loves a good reenactment scene, and
she would like to do the re enactment of your
scene from back in the day. Can just take you
(10:07):
back in time, you can just observe it if it
brings back memories. For some reason, I can't totally remember.
I think you had like a line or two, But
where are they? We don't have them. First of all,
I'm in I'm in the streets of Berkeley, and a
garbage truck drive by every time I have a moment.
But I am ready to play the part of Kelly,
(10:28):
and Tori has agreed to be the part of Jackie,
and Jenny will be the theme. Can't somebody where where
Rebecca's lines? I think I said something to the effect
of I'm sorry, I didn't like goes like. I feel
(10:49):
like you could fully ab lib it. I feel like
we're ready, Jenny, would you mind taking us back and
setting the scene? Okay, do you remember doing this. No,
I'm sure you don't write you don't know. I know.
I just watched it recently and I don't remember doing it,
and I was mortified how rude my character was to you.
But she was really going through some stuff. So this
(11:10):
scene takes place. What was she going through? I don't
even know. When Kelly comes home and finds people, prospective
buyers going through her closet in her Okay, that's the scene,
and are we ready? Okay everybody? Okay? Am I supposed
(11:32):
to say something? Because I I know you just can
add anything in front of me. You just add lib
what's at the very end? Can you just pretend you're
going through her closet? Oh? Sure? Nice? Nice, nice action? Okay, Kelly,
what are you doing home? Gee? I thought I still
(11:54):
lived here. This is our house, isn't it? Mom? Yes,
but maybe not much longer. This is a beautiful house
and we're selling it real cheat, So why don't you
just take it? Take everything while you're here? Get some
new jeans, new shoes, new underwear. Why don't you just
help yourself to my closet? Kelly? Oh, I'm so sorry. No,
(12:19):
what you like? This sweater? Not your underwear? You like
the sweater, take it it's yours. Okay, that's enough. How
about some new CDs? A new life? Why don't you
take my boyfriend? We're not getting along that well anyway.
Oh my god, you know what? Yeah, I'm so sorry man.
(12:47):
Did you really give it your all? Amy? I love
that about you. I gave that. I really wanted to.
Did you rehearse? I just want to know, like I
started last night, whenever I put into whenever I went
into the text, can I have that scripped again? Wait?
So poor Rebecca had to be treated poorly when she
(13:08):
was sixteen and now again now today, this is terrible.
I'm sorry, Rebecca. It's okay. I'm I'm actually having a
great time. And I'm super nervous generally for interviews, but
you girls have made feel very comfortable. Okay, Rebecca, wait
before I go to ask, like, it really was an
(13:29):
iconic scene that you were in because Kelly, this prominent,
huge character, just lost her right. So it's like, is
there any other memories you have of like or did
Jenny hug you after anything? To just be like, oh
my god, I just went crazy. All I remember is that.
(13:50):
And because I had been acting for so long. It
wasn't like my first rodeo with somebody yelling at me
and knowing that there's a there's a difference between the
character and the person. I just remember it being so quick.
It was like we got into this aty bitty little
room and and we did it and we were done.
It was such a fast day. I just remember being like, wow,
(14:10):
that was that was That was fast, nothing like I
mean soaps are fast. That too, was was quick. Really
that's cool to know that because you I've always heard
that soaps move so quickly and you have to cover
so much material every day. Like what's the most uh,
like page count you've done on General Hospital? Well, we
(14:31):
try to do about a hundred pages ago what, yeah,
we do like seven eight? I know, I know, I know.
We were on the same lot as Gray's Anatomy, And
it's so funny, you know, like watching people walk around
with their scripts and we're like, we know you have
five pages done. Oh my god, I can barely remember
(14:55):
a two page scene. That's insane. So like like twenty
it just depends on On an easy day, it's like twenty.
On a harder day, it's forty pages. But yeah, I
mean we we try to do one and done, like
drink it out. You work with my friend, I think
Cameron Oh Matheson, Oh he is so we absolutely love
(15:21):
having him there. He's not been there that long, but
his energy is beautiful. Yes, he's a special human being
him there. Yeah he is, and I know he loves
working there. Oh good, I'm glad. Well he's been doing
this for a couple of decades too. Yeah, he's old.
(15:43):
He loves it, he loves it. Well, thank you for
Do you have any other questions? Because you love your soaps,
tore and now's your moment, man, don't put me on
the spot. M h. Do any of your families watch soaps?
(16:11):
Did you guys grow up with soaps in your house
or I did? So Here's the thing. I grew up
watching NBC, not ABC, So I watched your Yes, But
I then had a friend that was really into General Hospital,
so I would switch. I would do Yeah, and I
(16:31):
didn't love whatever one was on at that time, so
I would do Days of Our Lives? Why would do CBS?
I do Young and the Restless, and then I would
do NBC for Days of our Lives and all my children, No,
not all my children Another World, and then I would
switch to ABC for General Hospital. That was my routine.
Oh so, and then I would record it, which is
(16:54):
super weird on VHS because that doesn't exist anymore. Um,
so I could watch it when I got home from school.
I love that. I love hearing stories like that. And yes,
I get the most excited to um to talk to
people on soaps because I'm such a huge fan. Literally,
like it was always on in my house, like so
(17:14):
I grew up since the time I was like five
years old, was like soaps on in my house. So
the stories, the stories, right, they were called stories Nanny. Yeah,
when I was little, she would always say, my stories
are on, and I was just like I was just
as like engaged my whole life. My grandparents watched One
Life to Live and when we go see them, it
was at one o'clock things but shut down because Vicky
(17:37):
was on. My grands would call it Vicky for Erica's
Plans act like that was his thing. So yeah, I
get it. Before we go what's going on? Like, what
are you up to? Other? Are you? Like? How long
are you going to be on the show? Do you
know what else you have going on? Um? You know,
(17:57):
I just feel I'm super blessed to have been on
a show this line. I mean, we all know how
it works in the in this industry, it's kind of
unpredictable and crazy, and I just I'm so grateful for
every year that I get to be there. It's been.
It's such a It's very conducive of having a family
(18:17):
because I my out. I'm not there for eighteen hours
out of the day. I'm not traveling out of town.
It's is as much as a like a nine to
five job as possible, So I'm home with my family
a lot. I'll be there. I mean, I'm probably I'm
a lifer. I love I love what I do. I
never I love the family there. I'm you know, I'm
(18:41):
super happy. So on a typical way to be there,
how many days do you typically work? It just depends
on the storyline. Story line, it's a big storyline. Then
you know, like four days a week. It's pretty rare
that I'm there five days a week. So that's another thing,
Like the schedule. Yeah, and what's like the lee'll stay
in a day? Oh um, I mean we're late would
(19:06):
be nine, nine o'clock at night. That's it's it's not
always no no, And they tried a bunch your scenes
together so that you're you know, you worked just in
this block of time and then you get to go home.
So I'm there on average anywhere from like four to
eight hours and that's it. How do you ever take
(19:27):
a vacation though? Because it's weekly, Like soaps don't shut down,
they don't have well because we try to do seven
or eight shows a week, so then we do have
weeks off, okay, and we get like during the summer
we have a three week break and during the winter
we have a three week break, and then like spreadically
sprinkled out through the year, we have you know, one
or two weeks here and there, so and that's when
(19:48):
all the vacations, I don't know, that's when all the
school stuff gets done and the doctor's appointments and you know,
like life gets done during those weeks. It sounds like heaven.
Do they have a coming up for your best friend
on the show? Um? Yeah, absolutely, I'll talk to Mark
Kushner and will I Actually my character needs friends, so yes,
(20:12):
you can come be my best friend. Are you still
a nurse on the show? I am? I went on
attorney leave and I came back a nurse. I was
literally I think I was a waitress, and then I
I got I went on a triney leaving, came back
a nurse. Yeah, I know that's tru smart. Any of
(20:33):
your kids act, no, no, no, only my little one
has expressed interest. But he's also um really into soccer
and his friends. So I've said, you know, if something
you can't do it all and something will, you'll have
to sacrifice being on a sports team and you might
(20:55):
not be able to do like the fun play dates
and not art camps or whatever if you're acting. And
so he was like, yeah, okay, but I could see
him getting into theater or doing something like that in
high school. But my other two nope, we get it,
you know which, I'm just fine, you know, I'm okay. Well,
(21:17):
it was really super fun working with you twenties some
years ago, and I'm so happy to reconnect with you. Yeah. Same,
Thank you so much for having me today, thank you
for being here and for doing that impromptu re enactment
for any sugarman. I'm sorry about hap. Yeah, that was funny.
(21:38):
That was great. I have personally want to do that
since this episode aired, so I'm not aired now. Now
it's done, we can move on. Thanks Rebecca, thank you
so much, Thank you, thank you. Have a good day,
greel bye. Oh my gosh, that was really cool to
(22:01):
talk to her. She looks exactly the same age, exactly. Wow,
I don't I'm telling you there's something in the water
that soap starts drink. It's just I need to get
some of that water delivered pronto. It's yeah, but she
(22:21):
looked great. She's so cool. Um, that was really fun
and we lost a but that was Amy's dream come true.
She got to read it that scene, so I feel
like we should probably recast her next time. She's getting
far too much pleasure out of these reenactments, but she
can't keep playing Kelly. Well, maybe she'll want to play
(22:42):
play Kelly before. Yeah, I think she's always Kelly. I
like her. I like when she does that. She it
makes me so happy. Well, thank you guys, talk to
you soon. E
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