April 21, 2025 • 47 mins
It’s Brooke and Julian’s wedding, and Austin reveals the reason behind Julian’s clean-shaven look. Skills takes his role as self-declared wedding security with over-the-top intensity, Haley and Jamie hilariously battle it out for the best speech, and Sophia feels like there was a major scene missing from the reception!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know me. We all about
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, friends, I am so amped about today's episode, not
only because it was such a special one for my
character's journey, but because we have one of our favorite
guests on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi Austin, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm so glad to see you, Bud. How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I'm very good.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Life is Life is treating me well, very happy, and
I'm always happy to come back and do one of.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
These with you guys and see you guys and talk
about the show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I know it's so fun. Rob is here, but had
to run a stairs to do a dad thing. But
I think we should just get started. Will you tell
the people what episode we're watching? Will you read our
synopsis for US.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Okay, Season eight, Episode thirteen, The other half of me
air date February first, twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Brooke and Julian's wedding days.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Finally here, dreams become reality, secrets are revealed, and wedding
hookups are inevitable.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Rector is Greg Prange. The writer is John A. Norris.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Let's get into it. Hi Rob, Hi, Hello, I've had
to attend to abe small toddler emergency. But guess what
put the fire out?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
For sure did?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Let's get into a great episode. I loved this sweet
opener with young Brook.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I forgot about it, you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's so good, like it's like a film.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It is, and it's such a crazy thing because as
soon as it starts, I was like, oh my god,
hiding on the porch because the parents are fighting. Oh
my god, oh in the veil. And it's like it
made me remember this whole chunk of the story that
for some reason, I had just forgotten about until watching
the episode jogged my memory.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I loved that device in the like classic car and
the bride and the groom by themselves. It's so romantic
and it's like, oh, like what a great core memory
like that's.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was beautiful, beautifully done.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Have we ever met Brook's dad, not, did we ever
put a face?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Not to this point. Eventually you do, but at this
point he's still sort of this mystery person.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh when do we meet your dads?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We meet him in season nine or is it later
in this season? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I don't remember that. My timeline's worried with that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, but it was a cool device because not only
do you see how the sort of fairy tale of
the wedding and the thing is so instrumental, you know,
in society and for little girls, but you see why
this idea means so much to Brook, because it's it's
(03:13):
sort of paralleled, like she's having one experience on one
side of the door while listening to her parents screaming
on the other, and it's I don't know, you get
that this little girl wanted the fairy tale. She wanted
to be rescued. She wanted a happy ending, not the
ending that she grew up in her house watching. And
(03:35):
it was cool to I think, to.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
See that in the programming you get from your parents.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, which is what comes up later when you say
to Victoria and you remember what you told me. No,
it's like, what an interesting genesis moment or not. You know,
what's the word the inception? Yeah, like to see that
seed sprout in you at a young age and like, yeah,
(04:00):
beauty of this versus my reality with my example.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, it's really good. And then I love that it
in the same way that we're having this experience with
Brooke as a child, we have the juxtaposition, and then
the humor is that Julian as a grown man, is
waking up in a house being like what is happening?
Because he's essentially a kid, you know, he's a guest
(04:27):
in Jamie's house and Jamie's bunny is on his chest,
and he's just like, what is this? And it's a
really funny way to flip it and stay on themes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I didn't realize you were at their house. I just
thought maybe Jamie, because of course you can't see Brooke
that day. I will say this, there are very few
people in this world who can pull off the under
the chin's camera ang. I was thinking the same thing,
Austin Nichols. You are one of the few people who
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can look handsome having a camera pointed directly under their.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I appreciate that, but even I was like, what the heck?
Are they doing?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And then also I noticed in this episode I had
like there was facial hair, but the line was weird.
And then like, no, at a bad angle at the
beard looks like it's up on your face, or like
there's a line high.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You had obviously just gotten a haircut prior to shooting
the wedding scenes, because it didn't look like its usual self.
It was a bit short.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well you shaved.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The shaving thing was my idea and I probably shouldn't
have done it.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was actually cut. It came from the right place.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It was like I'm getting married, and you know, I
think I pitched it, and I said, you know, I
think it's like a respect thing to the parents and
for photographs and for blah blah blah. Like a lot
of older people think that facial hair is still you
know a little it's associated with negative things. And so
(05:58):
it came from that place. It was like for the
old people, for our parents, for photos, blah blah blah.
But it ended up just looking weird to me because
he's never shaved once for the show. And then you know,
I hate to get into any stuff, but my hair
was weird. At the time, I was like, what was
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But here's why I think it worked, Because I like
you when like when you are walking up to skills
in Chase in the outside the church. Yeah, it's weird
because I didn't even realize the fact you were clean shaven,
but your hair is like a little too short, so
it looks odd And I thought, but you know why
that works is because I buy that Julian is excited
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about his wedding day and he wants to like look
his best, So I buy that he got a haircut
like not a week before, but like a day before
his wedding. Yeah, and they maybe just went a little
bit too short.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Good that makes you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Feel Yeah, no, I I did. I totally know what
you mean, because it's weird to look at yourself and
not feel like you look like yourself. But it did.
It gave you this kind of sheen of earnestness, and
it did make you look a little bit like a
little boy. And I mean that in the sweetest way.
(07:13):
Like watching you stand up there, and you know, watching
Julian looking at Paul and Sylvia and when they're fighting
over him. It plays into the dynamic of the children
we were and the adults we've grown into, and I
don't know, I think it worked now.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I also I skew dark quickly and can be I
play a lot of scoundrels, like I play a lot
of sort of like fun bad guys. So I think
sometimes I when I'm playing something like Julian or Julian
in the wedding scene, I'm conscious of that.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And wanting to.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Tamp down some of if there's any darkness, and try
to make him more.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't know what the word is safe.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I skew scoundrel is my favorite sentence of the week.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I love that so much. You know what else I liked?
I liked the beat of Julian, Nathan and Jamie at
the river court, and especially because you walk up and
to your point, you've been such a good sport about
Julian's quirks and the weird physical comedy, and then for
Nathan to toss you a ball and be like, you
(08:24):
gotta take a shot if you're on the court and
you just sink a three and walk away, I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Was like, we love to see me.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I actually, in reference to what we were talking about
earlier with some of the nerdy stuff with the high
five or flowers or butterflies, that moment may be landed
so well because of the earlier stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it's the shot and he goes in close up
like maybe it's my lucky day.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
And I was like, Oh, it's such a great moment.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It was the it was the payoff of when the
good guy finally gets the girl, like getting to see
Julian just swish a three on the first track. Because
as soon as they Nathan passed you the ball, I
was like, come on, no, don't let this be another
thing where like he air balls on his wedding day
and gets dark.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I thought I was going to miss it, and I
even shot the scene, and I'm watching the show thinking
I'm gonna miss and there's gonna be a joke.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah no, but it was so good and for you
to be in that moment, you're so earnest, you're clearly
so happy, and it's this very sweet It's just such
a sweet scene with these three dudes. And then I
love that the humor continues to run because Nathan tells
(09:37):
Jamie he's got to give a speech and you realize
Haley hasn't told him because they're competing, and it is
just the funniest gag to then see Jamie show up
with the letter you give him to give to me
and she's like, oh, your dad told you about the speech, Diddy.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
The competitive n's great a mom and in someone that
younger son that's that young is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's really really funny, and it's unexpected because we're used
to the Dan Scott Nathan Scott dynamic of like the
dad really pushing the kid, and then here you have
like tutor girl ribbing her kid over a speech and
being like, what are you going to write about? Are
you going to quote literature? Like it's just really really funny.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I loved you committing to the silly Molly Ringwold dance,
sof you get a gold star for that. You leaned
into it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It was it's a long runner, but that was the
thing I remember when we did it, you know, the
Senior and I did Austin in season six and they
literally brought the movie in. I mean, granted, I've seen
The Breakfast Club ten thousand times, it's one of my favorites,
but they were like we want you to do a
version of this eighties dance and do it badly. And
(10:54):
I was like, oh, man, I guess we're just doing this.
And then, you know, three years later, call it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Right back great.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
And I got to admit when I watched it today,
you know, she opens the CD and she pulls it
out and then she does the dance, and it made
me emotional. I was like, there's something cool about There's
something really good.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
In that writing. And that's this is what's amazing about television,
is it.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You know, a couple of years later, a couple of
seasons later, you bring out a moment of where some
you know, two people fell for each other.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Is often this way. It's just really really satisfying.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah. Well, and I think that's one of the reasons
we love making TV, right, Like, don't get me wrong,
I love to go make a movie. I love the
summer camp experience of it. I love you know that
it takes forever to get a movie greenlit and then
suddenly you go do it and in three weeks or
six weeks it's over. But man, the long payoff in
(11:56):
TV when we get to develop these characters. Yeah, three
years later, called back to something and it hits for everybody,
even the actors who did it. That's really I think
that's one of the coolest parts of our job.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
One long long form like there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, speaking of nothing like it, I'm gonna go ahead
and just give you my honorable mention right now. Antwantana,
But he came back just red hot. He was so
(12:40):
damn funny in this episode.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Man, that commitment, the idea of someone committing so hard
to this security.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I mean, it's just I was cracking up. I loved
it so much. Way to go, Angeline.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And him being so committed to it, you know, basically
saying we're not ushers, we're security. He does. He does
it all heightened, and he is able to make fun
of some of the absurdity of a nine year long drama,
being like no psychos, no stalkers, no kidnappings, no nannies,
Like he pokes fun at us, so everyone's in on
(13:13):
the joke. And then what I didn't see coming I
also didn't remember this is that the slutty wedding sex
runner turns out to be happening in the limo and
he's like, I also decorated the truck just in case,
just in case it got just in case, the limo
got stolen and got driven off a bridge, Go take
you the other car, and then you and I have
the exact callback to the couple in the classic car
(13:38):
driving down the street in front of a little brook
And it's like, man, they just really tied all these
things together, where like the funniest jokes led to the
sweetest moments over and over and over again, and I
didn't see some of them coming. And just like, hats
off to Johnny Norris. He wrote such a good script and.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's so nice to that they like there was redemption
for skills behavior. It wasn't just like, yeah, he's being
silly and over the top. It's like, no, he actually
kind of saved the day at the end and then
to your point, so if it also allowed for the
similarity to young Brooks, you know experience at the top
of the episode, and he was just funny. It was
(14:21):
also great to see he and Lee and Steven together
are a really good trio. Yeah, all all of their
stuff was just so fun. Man, Like I love that
there's a cooler full of milk.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, the court jesters and Shakespeare, you know, there's this
like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or you know, these guys on.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The side just crack just cracking me up throughout. It's
really really well done.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It was nice to see, Uh, is this the first
time we've seen Alex and Quinn like their friendship? Because
it was great.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I love their budding friendship. It started last week in
the bachelorette party, and it's so nice, especially to get
to see Alex have a dynamic with another woman, because
it's not flirtation, it's not all of the sort of
obvious hot girl doing sexy whatever with the guys. You
(15:20):
get to see this sort of really human side of
her and hear what she's going through, and I just
think it's so refreshing. And Janna is so she's so
emotionally tender about all this stuff, and it's really nice
to see the two of them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, it was great. I've said this before, but I
don't think Alex would have been nearly as successful in
the hands of a different actor, because if you can't
land that vulnerable sincerity, I just it doesn't it doesn't
give you the same luxury of going so big with
everything else, Like it's those moments that kind of ground everything, like.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Her early days.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
She's so easy to hate a character like that, and
then suddenly she'll be so raw and vulnerable and you
just immediately go, oh, oh my god, this is a
human being who has.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, and she's able to really seesaw in those moments,
like when Quinn asks her if she can keep a
secret and Alex goes on a tangent about this one
time she told her friend Kimmy she'd keep a secret
and then forgot and then told four people and one
of them was Kimmy. Like, it is so silly and funny,
(16:37):
and it's such a nice way to break up a
moment that Quinn is having with something really heavy and dark.
And I think it's part of why I'm having such
a good time as a viewer watching them together, because
in a way, it's like, you know, we talked about
how Quinn was brought in to be, you know, to
(17:00):
fill the kind of Lucas void like this very you know, emotional,
artistic person, and getting to see her also be silly
is really fun and it gives me like early Lucas
and Haley dynamics almost watching Quinn and Alex now and
I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Also, it's funny because the last time I was on
you guys, we were watching a bunch of beautifulomen fight
in a swimming pool. Yeah, and they were having here
and it's nice to see two women like take care
of each other and you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, because we caught glimpses of this side of Alex
in scenes with Julian. But then the problem was it
would always just have a tendency to revert back to
some sort of like sexual nature, you know. And with
Millie there was opportunities for vulner ear. There was moments
of vulnerability, but then it would go back to that
like what's up, bitch, hey, bitch, like it would kind
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of go back to the surface. With Quinn, though there
is neither of those. Yeah, So it's just nice. And
I like that she was self aware enough to go
because listen, when someone wants to tell a secret, I
think the general instinct is to be like, yeah, tell me.
I love that she was self aware and honest enough
to go, I'm actually the last person you should tell.
Here's why that was so endearing.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Man's so cute and funny. And then what I love
is because they're having this really endearing budding friendship. When
Millie turns out to already be tipsy from the good
blue drink from the new bartender, and she sits down
and says, well, maybe Chase and me are going to
have the slutty wedding sex and looks at them, and
(18:39):
you know, Chantelle looks at Lisa like, what are you doing?
And Jannel looks so shocked, and Lisa goes, did I
say that out loud?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's just like, you don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's like everybody's not doing the thing you're expecting their
character to do, and it's just hilarious and exactly the
you chose endearing, And I'm having so much fun watching
everybody in the dynamic. Can I say one thing though,
that I actually thought was ridiculous? And I get why,
(19:11):
but it's impossible, I know, to have one hundred people
dancing at a wedding and have any kind of continuity
when you're filming these scenes. But the fact that nobody
dances at the wedding except me and you and then
us and the parents drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, where's the party? Where's the dance party?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Where is the rager?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like Brooke and Julian are gonna throw a rager and
you never see it because it would have been a
continuity nightmare. But it's like a thing that sticks out
to me like a sore thumb.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Okay, the one, yes, I agree with that, I have
one I bumped on as well. Okay, And it was
towards the end of the reception. It's a room full
of giant banquet tables as you do at a wedding,
and then there's one rain them four top that Alex
is sitting out by herself like it's the reject table
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to then, of course, give a space for Quinn to
come and have a heart to heart with her. But
I'm like, get the hell out of here. There has
never been a fore top at a web reception.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, that is so funny that that was in a
production meeting, Like how can we visually just make her
look so sad and alone?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Reality and yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, like we can't trust the actor to convey she's
lonely and sad, so let's put her at a small
table by herself. Well, I want to address the dance
part thing, because that's that's my one one of my
issues with television sometimes is time and money and and
just getting getting the script right like when when you can.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's easier in a movie, but there are shows.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
That where there is a little bit more freedom, Like
say it, Greg Prange was like, we're just going to
shoot some dancing, Like we might cut together Am and
TAJ and throw a song on it and it would
be so awesome. But in TV that's really hard to
do and get permission to do, even if you're great,
you know, like because what it's eight days of shooting
and we got to get all this stuff and then
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get out of there. And you know, that's one thing
like I've tried to remember now, like when I just
made my movie, it's like, don't get so like myopic
about this script and what's on the page and our opportunities.
Even if like it's in the moment and you go, hey,
(21:34):
just roll and then sixty people just dance for literally
twenty seconds. Yeah, it doesn't take a long time, and
with a few cuts that could become something, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Like that's such a.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
TV thing where there's not a lot of room for
especially you know, like networking, traditional networky stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
There's not a lot of room for improvisation or an
idea popping out at the last second.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And going back to the the Alex of the So,
the last time we saw Alex and Chase interact, it
was that scene a trick in the stock room, after
like Alex and Mia have bonded and it seems that
they're both just going to like give up on Chase. Yeah,
Alex follows him into the stock room and then kisses
him and is like, hey, I'm still into you, by
(22:19):
the way, and then we've never nothing ever came of
that though, No odd right, I mean, I'm not missing anything,
am I?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't think so there's.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Been no discussion. We never saw Alex talk about it,
we never saw Chase talking. It just seemed to me
like that was about to be the beginning of something.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And we've also remember we've had this big gap what
did we say, it was like a month or six
weeks or something from the Storm Night where Quinn almost
dies again where Brooke dies for two and a half minutes.
Thank God for Julian. Also Austin, we talked about like
one of our honorable mentions in that episode was absolutely
you hulking me out of the water. We were like,
(22:56):
oh my god, anyone ever looked more like a hero.
But like the we don't want to dwell in the
scary and so we're going to do a time jump,
do the bachelorette party. There's all these things that fall
through the cracks where you're like, wait a second, I
get that we didn't want to stay in the sads,
(23:17):
but also in this gap, we've lost We've lost the
follow up to some pretty big story points. Because even
when this episode started and Alex was saying to Quinn
when they were getting set up, oh, well, you know,
Chase is going with Mia and she's like, yeah, just
as friends, I'm like, wait, but since when and why
would they do that? Like what was the impetus for
(23:39):
them deciding to go on a platonic date to Brooke
and Julian's wedding And we have no reason?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, I think that was just a casualty of an
ensemble cast and forty minutes of content, you know. Yeah,
it's just they can't service everything. One couple that did
get at the moment they deserved was Mouth and Millie.
When Skills is about to not let Million and then
Mouth goes, not, she's my girlfriend. She can come in.
(24:09):
I was like, it's about time we make it official again.
You guys, yes, freaking cuties.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They are so sweet. I also love Alex being like, well,
why don't you go find Melvin and get it on,
Like she still doesn't know Mouth's name. A couple of
things that I thought were so great, Oh my god,
Carol Cutshaw and the wardrobe department. Crushed for Daphne. She
looked like a Chanelle model straight off the runway. She
(24:36):
gave me that like nineties runway Claudia Schiffer energy. I
was obsessed with her and one of the things that
stood out to me as being so genius. And I
know we touched on a little bit, but I'm curious
what you remember is Austin, you being sandwiched between Sharon
Lawrence and Gregory Harrison bickering at each other. Yep, and
(25:00):
then you take charge, You save Quinn. The whole thing
is so awkward and you just shut it down.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I loved that scene for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
One is because they're so funny and they're the center
of that scene, and two because I didn't really have
to do anything. I'm just sitting there watching a tennis match.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It's so fun.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
But anytime I got to work with Sharon or Gregory
was always so fun. They were such like just pros,
and you know, they've just been at it forever and
so many cool movies and shows. And felt so lucky
to have them play my parents. And what a treat
when we're saying our vows and she's crying. I laughed
out loud when he hands her the clean.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Next Yes, I wrote that down too.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
So good.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's really nice that little shift between them. And it
was also so sweet to see the parents all crying. Yeah,
because we've all had such drama with our parental characters
and it's so adorable that there was just not a
dry eye. And I loved it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I loved Victoria. I like that we're getting back to
the Victoria Brook dynamic we had at the start of
the season, with her showing up with the with the
veil that you caught as a little girl that she
had kept all these years. I thought that was awesome.
And then you know, at first, when your dad wasn't
or Brook's dad wasn't showing up, and you know, she
(26:23):
kind of makes her a comment like I wouldn't hold
your breath or something. I was like, ah, come on,
like be supportive of your kid. You know, you don't
need to like toss a dig. And but then when
she walked back in and was like, I'm so sorry,
you know, and then you I think, Brook says something
effective like what are we going to do? And she says,
We're gonna do what we've always done, and she walks
you down the aisle. And then later when it's the
(26:43):
father daughter dance, Paul dances with me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Sweet, I just I liked to see these faulted parents
really stepping up and showing up for their kids today.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And I loved that Paul said, well, you're my daughter now. Yeah, vulnerable.
We shared about what he looks back on that he's missed,
that he regrets, because it's such a nice it's a
nice callback again to that fight that Brooke and Paul
had years ago where she tells him, like, your kid
(27:17):
misses you. He holds onto this one memory because it's
all he's got, and in a way he's able to
say without saying that what she called him out on
shifted his behavior and now he can be there for
her too. It's so touching and just.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's it's vulnerable as well, because he could have just
been a hero in that moment. He could have just
said the cool line, but instead he was he was
sort of like he was kind of like minings his
past mistakes to help humanize her dad and help brook
understand the situation, which was just a generous thing to do.
(27:58):
It wasn't necessary, it didn't make him look any better,
but like, I just love that he was willing to
like be a peer, not like the flow, like the
flawless parent. He was like, yeah, man, I've actually screwed
up a ton, so you know, it was just it
was a class. It was a good move. You know,
it was integrity, which is sort of Brooks strike zone.
(28:19):
The whole listens trains Marry Me. I mean that's got
to be like top three all time wedding songs, right,
It's gotta be, because as soon as that song came on,
I'm like, well I'm done. And then that whole montage
walking down the aisle was dumb cute. I said this
(28:40):
in the Q and A, but like, I have never
seen any of your stuff from season six, so I
was thrilled to get to see stuff. Also shout out
to Austin's high haircut in the back of his hair
that I had heard about on this podcast but never
seen until this flashback. But it was all so sweet
and so effective. And then you guys just did such
(29:02):
a good job with keeping everything like nothing felt reached for.
It was all honest, which is all I ever really
want to see, you know. It just felt like it
was grounded, It was sincere, and it was so fun
to watch.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yeah, the token thing with Jamie the little haf I
was kind of like, you know, in the beginning with
the rabbit, I was kind of like, this feels it
feels like it was a little half ass or something.
But then when I'm standing at the altar and I
handed to him and I say, I found my other half.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It just worked. He made me cry, And I'm like,
why am I.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Being critical of the first scene when that ship works
and when he handed him the token, he said he's
looking at his bride at the end.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Of the other end of the the church. It's I
got emotional to it. It's so good.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It was such a good little little story about you know,
a little keepsake that reminds you of, you know, this
thing you hope for the future.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
It was really really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I liked that. I mean, I know, it's one thing
to be the actor who's reading it and then preparing
for how you're going to sell it, But as just
the viewer I was. I was on board from the
jump with it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Okay, good, I like it too. It worked in the end.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It was only the beginning that it was throwing you,
but that was probably just because I was the guy
who had to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yes, I loved that they took a moment to have
fun at Chase's expense and have the Chase clone bartender
who even did the finger guns and served a blue drink.
But of course it's like the same way that we
emasculate the show attempted to emasculate Julian. I like the
way that it just straight up insulted Chase. And also
(30:41):
it works.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
This drink has just followed him through the years, and
it's just I mean, I wonder if there's another runner
through the show that's as used as much as that one.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
That drink is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh it still goes because I don't think there's a scene.
I don't know if it's happened yet actually, but I
know for a fact if it hasn't. There's a scene
coming up where we're at trick and I think Nathan
goes up first and has a sip of it and
he slaps Chase and walks away, and then moments later
Chase comes up. Excuse me, Clay comes up and has
(31:16):
a sip and also slaps Chase. I mean he that dude,
he gets drug through the mud over that drink. Tell me,
how did you feel about Chase and Mia hooking up
in the back of the wedding Limo amazing. I was
(31:36):
not expecting that.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I would say, Look, you know, the bride may feel differently,
but I'm trying to decide if I should share a
story here.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Or not share it.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
There was a time, many many, many, many moons ago
where I made something happen on the premises at a wedding,
and why I talk to other people about it, and
it's a thing people like it happens.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It is a thing thing.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I mean, I'm not saying it happens every wedding, but
I think it's a thing that happens, and I think
it's kind of fun and silly and cute, and of course,
you know, you get the like ooze and the gross
and all that, but I think if it's you know,
if it's done right, I think it's kind of funny
and adorable.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay. Can I ask was it inside or outside this
Dallian Severe, I'll never tell. Oh, dang, you know, I
love that you're a gentleman most of the time, but
right now it's really grinding my gears. You know what.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I know.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
What I wanted to address was I've been deep in
it with my movie with music and trying to get songs,
and when I watched television, I I can't believe how
much money is spent. And this song you mentioned was
the Train song. And then Don't You Forget About Me,
which is you know, fster hit song. I'm sitting here
(33:09):
going that's forty grand, that's sixty grand, that's twenty grand.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Ye like, I'm going, holy crap. How does the show
pay for these? Every week?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I got paid in craft services. That's how they used
my salary for good tunes. And listen, if it's going
to be simple Minds and Train, I'm okay with it
for this episode. I'll get paid in fun Yan. We
loved it well. You two were so good in this episode.
You always are. You know, I've been saying since I
started this that I became a big, brilliant stand So
(33:41):
it was really nice to see, especially after what we've
been through this season. It's just been so heavy that
the Bachelorette party episode was the palate cleanser we all needed,
and then this just warm feels. There was no cat
stuck in a tree. It was just a beautiful wedding
with people that we like. It was great and you
(34:02):
two did such an awesome job.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
It was really I wrote down and it's gonna maybe
seem a little bit silly, but watching this, it really
felt like I was I'm watching people I know get
what they want, you know, Like it genuinely felt like
such a happy thing for some people who deserved it
(34:28):
and needed it. And it's like, it's an interesting thing
to feel that sort of connection to, you know, characters
that we made up because they're not real people, but
we played them for so long that they almost feel
like they are. And it was I don't know, it
was just nice to see this. To your point, Rob,
it was nice to see some warmth and some happiness
(34:51):
and some levity after all the very intense drama and
violence of the season. Yeah, it was sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Also shout out to Joy's pregnancy glow, which was very
real in this episode, the scene where she comes into
the bridle room. Yeah, when it's just the two of you,
I pause and I was like, oh my god, look
at the glow on Joy Man.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
And the hair is so good, and I mean the
dress they put her in was so great, and I
even loved, you know, looking back on it, obviously because
Joy was pregnant with Maria. Like even the throwaway joke
she makes in the morning when she has like gorgeous
BedHead and she's like, I join you, but I don't
want to go into labor on your wedding day. Like
(35:39):
the whole thing works. It's so funny, and she looks
so beautiful. And she was such a trooper. I mean,
those were long days and she hung out and was like,
I'm minute to win it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
How many months do we think she wasn't then?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh gosh, I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Maybe I don't know if she was mad at me.
But did you give birth during the season?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
She did? Yeah, that's right, Yeah far away. Yeah, she
was pretty close. She was probably, I mean she had
to be like seven or eight once at this point,
because I remember, and we talked about this, that when
Haley has lydia, Joy gave birth in the middle of
that episode when we were filming and then had to
(36:23):
come back and pick up those scenes and was like,
absolutely not. There's no way I can pretend to give
birth on camera now that I've just done it, Like,
this is fucked up. I can't. And so I don't
remember what episode that is, but it's I think it's
pretty close.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, And something I loved too that they did, And
what a great call of Greg is when Joy's giving
Haley's speech that is so funny and sweet and lovely.
She said to me, she says, looking at me, it
was in the eye, and I did this to her
(37:02):
at the table, and then she did it back to me,
and Greg was like, I love that. Do it again,
and he very smartly cut it in the opposite order,
so you know, she says it and then does the thing,
and then you cut to me and I do the thing,
and it was this really sweet moment. I don't know
(37:24):
why Joy and I were so deadlocked on each other,
and yes, it's about Brooke and Haley, but it was
also so clearly about us, and we just had this
moment and we did this thing, and then I'll never
forget Greg running in and being like, do it again,
do it again?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I love it, And it made the show. And now
it's a thing that people like, like you're saying with
your high five Austin, Like people will do that to
us at conventions and stuff, and it's you never know
what's going to hit.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Also, why smart guy, and so you could direct her
because when you see those little things that happen, you
got to grab them and it's lightning in a bottle
and like, yeah, those are the things that make something
unique and special and good for him.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I remember I have a little behind the scenes moment
that I remember from doing this episode when we were
all you know, anytime you get the whole cast together,
it's problems because we're like kids who have never been
allowed to sit next to each other in class, and
now on the field trip, we're all in the same bus.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Right, it's a disaster.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
And so it was me, Colletti, James Antoine like all
sitting in a pocket, right, And I'll never forget you
guys were up up on the altar, so we must
have been doing some sort of establisher or something, but
like we were getting close to you. I mean we
must have been shooting like over you onto us, because
I remember you guys were actually performing and one of
(38:40):
the group I believe, I believe Antoine started to doze.
Not because of you, guys, it was just, you know,
a long day. Whatever, it's Antoine, you know, it's just funny.
He starts to dose and we started laughing and then
we got quite literally church giggles, and I remember feeling
so bad because at one point, so if you turned
on and you were like, guys, like we were totally
(39:05):
not helping the situation. And it was one of those
ones that was like, I am trying to be here
for you, but unfortunately the giggles have taken over. And
then it's like, you know it is, I stop it,
but then I hear James snickering and it starts again.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
We love Antoine, but when anyone starts snoring while you're rolling,
it's really hard to not lose it. And to your point,
it was such a long day and the reason it
was hard for us up there is because we had
one camera doing coverage in a tight shot and a
camera at a perpendicular angle shooting a two shot of
(39:39):
us with you guys all in the background. So we
were doing a wide shot which is totally inconsequential at
the same time as we were doing our coverage, and
it was like please to please please, Yeah, And it
was hard.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Also, it was towards the end of the day, and
this is arguably the most important shot of your two
characters so far. It's so important. So it's tough. It's
already the end of the day. Energy's waning, and then
you have the peanut gallery. You hear a faint snoring
and then a bunch of grown man children giggling about it. Yeah.
I mean the fact again that you pulled off that
(40:13):
scene so well, kudos to the two of you. But
I will never forget that moment where it was like
so if it was like you were the mom going
like you better.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Pull your together at the similar exit people are watching,
I will not have you behaved this way.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
But I remember you turning around being like guys and
just feeling like fudge, I'm blowing this.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
See.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
That would have been a great little thing, like at
the beginning of the episode, Clay like admits to somebody
that he has like a church giggle problem, like a
real issue.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
That would have felt very Clay as well.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Hold it in the whole show.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
It would have been great.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Speaking of Clay, I liked that when Quinn admits to
stocking Katie that he'd just let her off the hook. Yeah,
I'm glad that it's because we haven't even really we
hadn't had a chance to see them like what their
process was of her telling him about that, any of that.
But I just appreciate the fact that it's like they've
(41:06):
been through hell and he's like, I'm glad you're okay.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, well cool, you know what. It's such a lovely
apology scene, and it's nice that we get to it
because it's serious with some humor, as we said earlier,
with Quinn and Alex, especially Alex being like, yeah, you
better tell him because there's a chance I might, like
there's levity. And then when you guys sit together, you're
(41:31):
both so dropped in, you're so vulnerable. Chantelle looks so
afraid to tell you this thing, and when she does,
and you ask why. I loved that they didn't give
her some big justified whatever she just said. I don't know,
(41:51):
and it was so honest, and you two basically got
to sit with each other and look at each other
and admit that, yeah, you don't always know what you're doing,
but you love each other and it's so refreshing.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, there's a good amount of grace there to just
go yeah, okay. Like to me, it was another one
of going like, oh, yeah, that's your person, not raking
you over the coals. It's not a whole big thing.
It's like, yeah, we both almost died, so let's just okay, Yeah,
lesson learned, Let's move on. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I loved it. I thought you guys were beautiful. What
are we? Oh? I have a shout out something that
I love? And you know, we got we got to
really craft Brooke and Julian's valves, which I thought we crushed.
And I loved that we managed to get some humor
in our scene. In so many of these scenes, like
(42:51):
we've been talking about throughout the episode, I love the
moment where we're in the truck and you call me
missus Baker and I just call you miss Davis and
we both laugh. It's like it's such a perfect button
for Brooke to be like cute.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Also, you it's so exactly who you are, who Brooke is.
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I loved it. It was so sweet.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
We got a question from Lisa. She asks, besides Brook's
father not showing up, there wasn't a dramatic storyline for
this wedding. If you got to choose something dramatic to
happen at their wedding, what would you want that storyline
to be.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh, oh, it's a good question, but I almost My
immediate reaction is no, I don't want anything dramatic to
happen at the wedding because that skills whole storyline is
preventing it.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah. My first thought was, like the catering gets goofed up,
like it has to be something you can live without,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
Like if the cold Feet thing has been done so
many millions of times, and you know, if I like
Brooke and Julian having a successful, great wedding, but if
there was something going awry behind the scenes, and then
somebody else was the hero that fixed it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
That would have been fun. Like if you and I
never knew about it, but something was happening in the
background and one of our characters was on this sort
of wild goose chase to fix it, and then the
wedding goes off without a hitch. That would have been cute.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Maybe Antoine did actually Hills actually did stop the event.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
That was yes, yeah, if it wasn't just the truck,
there actually was eminent danger that he took care of
and told no one, go one.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
He's a silent hero. He walks back into the church.
Oh that would be gold.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
That would have been nice. Okay, yes, yes to that.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Honorable mentions definitely Antwine. Mm hmmm same.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah. I'm also going to give an honorable mention to
le Goldstein's bouquet catch because her flying through the air
into that still shot from Quinn's camera and then the
bouquet coming up into frame just absolute physical comedy. Gold.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
Also to the little girl who played young Brook. I
just loved that moment and she did such a great job.
And you often wonder like where are they now and
who is she now?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
You know, Yeah, that would be fun to know, so well.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Shout out to you a young girl to be Jojo Siwa.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Could you imagine, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Oh should we spin a wheel?
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Let's do it?
Speaker 3 (45:40):
What does that mean you're about to find out Austin.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Most likely to like in the yearbook get Ready superlative time.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Most likely to make friends with a stranger on vacation for.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
The whole cast character and castmate.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Yeah, I mean I want to say Clay, but no, no, no, no,
that's more rob than Clay.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
I'd say Julian. Really, Julian, You're see he's so open yeh, yeah, interesting,
I would say Julian, and then I would agree me.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Yeah, I'm into it.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
How about you, guys?
Speaker 2 (46:15):
I think you're both correct. It feels like a unanimous vote.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
We'll take the win, Robin, I will take make down
the author.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I'm gonna write so much more Julian Clay fan fiction.
What would our couple name be? Would it be Julie Lay? Wait, no, Clay,
Cullian Lulian Clulian Oh Colulian. Oh you heard it first listeners.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Well, I'll try it out both ways. I'll put it
in all of my fiction both ways, and we'll see
which one sounds the best. Well, that wraps it up.
Next episode, we got season eight, episode fourteen, Holding out
for a Hero, Austin, It's always so good to see
you and talk with you buddy the best.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
I love you, guys, it's so fun. I miss you.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
We love you, we miss you. We can't wait to
see your movie. Thank you okay, I fam Hey, thanks
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, friends, I am so amped about today's episode, not
only because it was such a special one for my
character's journey, but because we have one of our favorite
guests on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hi Austin, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm so glad to see you, Bud. How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I'm very good.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Life is Life is treating me well, very happy, and
I'm always happy to come back and do one of.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
These with you guys and see you guys and talk
about the show.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I know it's so fun. Rob is here, but had
to run a stairs to do a dad thing. But
I think we should just get started. Will you tell
the people what episode we're watching? Will you read our
synopsis for US.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Okay, Season eight, Episode thirteen, The other half of me
air date February first, twenty eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Brooke and Julian's wedding days.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Finally here, dreams become reality, secrets are revealed, and wedding
hookups are inevitable.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Rector is Greg Prange. The writer is John A. Norris.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Let's get into it. Hi Rob, Hi, Hello, I've had
to attend to abe small toddler emergency. But guess what
put the fire out?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
For sure did?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Let's get into a great episode. I loved this sweet
opener with young Brook.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I forgot about it, you guys.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
It's so good, like it's like a film.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It is, and it's such a crazy thing because as
soon as it starts, I was like, oh my god,
hiding on the porch because the parents are fighting. Oh
my god, oh in the veil. And it's like it
made me remember this whole chunk of the story that
for some reason, I had just forgotten about until watching
the episode jogged my memory.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I loved that device in the like classic car and
the bride and the groom by themselves. It's so romantic
and it's like, oh, like what a great core memory
like that's.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was beautiful, beautifully done.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Have we ever met Brook's dad, not, did we ever
put a face?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Not to this point. Eventually you do, but at this
point he's still sort of this mystery person.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh when do we meet your dads?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We meet him in season nine or is it later
in this season? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I don't remember that. My timeline's worried with that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, but it was a cool device because not only
do you see how the sort of fairy tale of
the wedding and the thing is so instrumental, you know,
in society and for little girls, but you see why
this idea means so much to Brook, because it's it's
(03:13):
sort of paralleled, like she's having one experience on one
side of the door while listening to her parents screaming
on the other, and it's I don't know, you get
that this little girl wanted the fairy tale. She wanted
to be rescued. She wanted a happy ending, not the
ending that she grew up in her house watching. And
(03:35):
it was cool to I think, to.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
See that in the programming you get from your parents.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah, which is what comes up later when you say
to Victoria and you remember what you told me. No,
it's like, what an interesting genesis moment or not. You know,
what's the word the inception? Yeah, like to see that
seed sprout in you at a young age and like, yeah,
(04:00):
beauty of this versus my reality with my example.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, it's really good. And then I love that it
in the same way that we're having this experience with
Brooke as a child, we have the juxtaposition, and then
the humor is that Julian as a grown man, is
waking up in a house being like what is happening?
Because he's essentially a kid, you know, he's a guest
(04:27):
in Jamie's house and Jamie's bunny is on his chest,
and he's just like, what is this? And it's a
really funny way to flip it and stay on themes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I didn't realize you were at their house. I just
thought maybe Jamie, because of course you can't see Brooke
that day. I will say this, there are very few
people in this world who can pull off the under
the chin's camera ang. I was thinking the same thing,
Austin Nichols. You are one of the few people who
(04:58):
can look handsome having a camera pointed directly under their.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I appreciate that, but even I was like, what the heck?
Are they doing?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And then also I noticed in this episode I had
like there was facial hair, but the line was weird.
And then like, no, at a bad angle at the
beard looks like it's up on your face, or like
there's a line high.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You had obviously just gotten a haircut prior to shooting
the wedding scenes, because it didn't look like its usual self.
It was a bit short.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well you shaved.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The shaving thing was my idea and I probably shouldn't
have done it.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
It was actually cut. It came from the right place.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It was like I'm getting married, and you know, I
think I pitched it, and I said, you know, I
think it's like a respect thing to the parents and
for photographs and for blah blah blah. Like a lot
of older people think that facial hair is still you
know a little it's associated with negative things. And so
(05:58):
it came from that place. It was like for the
old people, for our parents, for photos, blah blah blah.
But it ended up just looking weird to me because
he's never shaved once for the show. And then you know,
I hate to get into any stuff, but my hair
was weird. At the time, I was like, what was
going on?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But here's why I think it worked, Because I like
you when like when you are walking up to skills
in Chase in the outside the church. Yeah, it's weird
because I didn't even realize the fact you were clean shaven,
but your hair is like a little too short, so
it looks odd And I thought, but you know why
that works is because I buy that Julian is excited
(06:40):
about his wedding day and he wants to like look
his best, So I buy that he got a haircut
like not a week before, but like a day before
his wedding. Yeah, and they maybe just went a little
bit too short.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Good that makes you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Feel Yeah, no, I I did. I totally know what
you mean, because it's weird to look at yourself and
not feel like you look like yourself. But it did.
It gave you this kind of sheen of earnestness, and
it did make you look a little bit like a
little boy. And I mean that in the sweetest way.
(07:13):
Like watching you stand up there, and you know, watching
Julian looking at Paul and Sylvia and when they're fighting
over him. It plays into the dynamic of the children
we were and the adults we've grown into, and I
don't know, I think it worked now.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I also I skew dark quickly and can be I
play a lot of scoundrels, like I play a lot
of sort of like fun bad guys. So I think
sometimes I when I'm playing something like Julian or Julian
in the wedding scene, I'm conscious of that.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And wanting to.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Tamp down some of if there's any darkness, and try
to make him more.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I don't know what the word is safe.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I skew scoundrel is my favorite sentence of the week.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I love that so much. You know what else I liked?
I liked the beat of Julian, Nathan and Jamie at
the river court, and especially because you walk up and
to your point, you've been such a good sport about
Julian's quirks and the weird physical comedy, and then for
Nathan to toss you a ball and be like, you
(08:24):
gotta take a shot if you're on the court and
you just sink a three and walk away, I.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Was like, we love to see me.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I actually, in reference to what we were talking about
earlier with some of the nerdy stuff with the high
five or flowers or butterflies, that moment may be landed
so well because of the earlier stuff.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, it's the shot and he goes in close up
like maybe it's my lucky day.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
And I was like, Oh, it's such a great moment.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It was the it was the payoff of when the
good guy finally gets the girl, like getting to see
Julian just swish a three on the first track. Because
as soon as they Nathan passed you the ball, I
was like, come on, no, don't let this be another
thing where like he air balls on his wedding day
and gets dark.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I thought I was going to miss it, and I
even shot the scene, and I'm watching the show thinking
I'm gonna miss and there's gonna be a joke.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah no, but it was so good and for you
to be in that moment, you're so earnest, you're clearly
so happy, and it's this very sweet It's just such
a sweet scene with these three dudes. And then I
love that the humor continues to run because Nathan tells
(09:37):
Jamie he's got to give a speech and you realize
Haley hasn't told him because they're competing, and it is
just the funniest gag to then see Jamie show up
with the letter you give him to give to me
and she's like, oh, your dad told you about the speech, Diddy.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
The competitive n's great a mom and in someone that
younger son that's that young is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's really really funny, and it's unexpected because we're used
to the Dan Scott Nathan Scott dynamic of like the
dad really pushing the kid, and then here you have
like tutor girl ribbing her kid over a speech and
being like, what are you going to write about? Are
you going to quote literature? Like it's just really really funny.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I loved you committing to the silly Molly Ringwold dance,
sof you get a gold star for that. You leaned
into it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It was it's a long runner, but that was the
thing I remember when we did it, you know, the
Senior and I did Austin in season six and they
literally brought the movie in. I mean, granted, I've seen
The Breakfast Club ten thousand times, it's one of my favorites,
but they were like we want you to do a
version of this eighties dance and do it badly. And
(10:54):
I was like, oh, man, I guess we're just doing this.
And then, you know, three years later, call it.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Right back great.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
And I got to admit when I watched it today,
you know, she opens the CD and she pulls it
out and then she does the dance, and it made
me emotional. I was like, there's something cool about There's
something really good.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
In that writing. And that's this is what's amazing about television,
is it.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You know, a couple of years later, a couple of
seasons later, you bring out a moment of where some
you know, two people fell for each other.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Is often this way. It's just really really satisfying.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah. Well, and I think that's one of the reasons
we love making TV, right, Like, don't get me wrong,
I love to go make a movie. I love the
summer camp experience of it. I love you know that
it takes forever to get a movie greenlit and then
suddenly you go do it and in three weeks or
six weeks it's over. But man, the long payoff in
(11:56):
TV when we get to develop these characters. Yeah, three
years later, called back to something and it hits for everybody,
even the actors who did it. That's really I think
that's one of the coolest parts of our job.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
One long long form like there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, speaking of nothing like it, I'm gonna go ahead
and just give you my honorable mention right now. Antwantana,
But he came back just red hot. He was so
(12:40):
damn funny in this episode.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Man, that commitment, the idea of someone committing so hard
to this security.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I mean, it's just I was cracking up. I loved
it so much. Way to go, Angeline.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And him being so committed to it, you know, basically
saying we're not ushers, we're security. He does. He does
it all heightened, and he is able to make fun
of some of the absurdity of a nine year long drama,
being like no psychos, no stalkers, no kidnappings, no nannies,
Like he pokes fun at us, so everyone's in on
(13:13):
the joke. And then what I didn't see coming I
also didn't remember this is that the slutty wedding sex
runner turns out to be happening in the limo and
he's like, I also decorated the truck just in case,
just in case it got just in case, the limo
got stolen and got driven off a bridge, Go take
you the other car, and then you and I have
the exact callback to the couple in the classic car
(13:38):
driving down the street in front of a little brook
And it's like, man, they just really tied all these
things together, where like the funniest jokes led to the
sweetest moments over and over and over again, and I
didn't see some of them coming. And just like, hats
off to Johnny Norris. He wrote such a good script and.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's so nice to that they like there was redemption
for skills behavior. It wasn't just like, yeah, he's being
silly and over the top. It's like, no, he actually
kind of saved the day at the end and then
to your point, so if it also allowed for the
similarity to young Brooks, you know experience at the top
of the episode, and he was just funny. It was
(14:21):
also great to see he and Lee and Steven together
are a really good trio. Yeah, all all of their
stuff was just so fun. Man, Like I love that
there's a cooler full of milk.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah, the court jesters and Shakespeare, you know, there's this
like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern or you know, these guys on.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
The side just crack just cracking me up throughout. It's
really really well done.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
It was nice to see, Uh, is this the first
time we've seen Alex and Quinn like their friendship? Because
it was great.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I love their budding friendship. It started last week in
the bachelorette party, and it's so nice, especially to get
to see Alex have a dynamic with another woman, because
it's not flirtation, it's not all of the sort of
obvious hot girl doing sexy whatever with the guys. You
(15:20):
get to see this sort of really human side of
her and hear what she's going through, and I just
think it's so refreshing. And Janna is so she's so
emotionally tender about all this stuff, and it's really nice
to see the two of them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, it was great. I've said this before, but I
don't think Alex would have been nearly as successful in
the hands of a different actor, because if you can't
land that vulnerable sincerity, I just it doesn't it doesn't
give you the same luxury of going so big with
everything else, Like it's those moments that kind of ground everything, like.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Her early days.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
She's so easy to hate a character like that, and
then suddenly she'll be so raw and vulnerable and you
just immediately go, oh, oh my god, this is a
human being who has.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, and she's able to really seesaw in those moments,
like when Quinn asks her if she can keep a
secret and Alex goes on a tangent about this one
time she told her friend Kimmy she'd keep a secret
and then forgot and then told four people and one
of them was Kimmy. Like, it is so silly and funny,
(16:37):
and it's such a nice way to break up a
moment that Quinn is having with something really heavy and dark.
And I think it's part of why I'm having such
a good time as a viewer watching them together, because
in a way, it's like, you know, we talked about
how Quinn was brought in to be, you know, to
(17:00):
fill the kind of Lucas void like this very you know, emotional,
artistic person, and getting to see her also be silly
is really fun and it gives me like early Lucas
and Haley dynamics almost watching Quinn and Alex now and
I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Also, it's funny because the last time I was on
you guys, we were watching a bunch of beautifulomen fight
in a swimming pool. Yeah, and they were having here
and it's nice to see two women like take care
of each other and you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yeah, because we caught glimpses of this side of Alex
in scenes with Julian. But then the problem was it
would always just have a tendency to revert back to
some sort of like sexual nature, you know. And with
Millie there was opportunities for vulner ear. There was moments
of vulnerability, but then it would go back to that
like what's up, bitch, hey, bitch, like it would kind
(17:55):
of go back to the surface. With Quinn, though there
is neither of those. Yeah, So it's just nice. And
I like that she was self aware enough to go
because listen, when someone wants to tell a secret, I
think the general instinct is to be like, yeah, tell me.
I love that she was self aware and honest enough
to go, I'm actually the last person you should tell.
Here's why that was so endearing.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Man's so cute and funny. And then what I love
is because they're having this really endearing budding friendship. When
Millie turns out to already be tipsy from the good
blue drink from the new bartender, and she sits down
and says, well, maybe Chase and me are going to
have the slutty wedding sex and looks at them, and
(18:39):
you know, Chantelle looks at Lisa like, what are you doing?
And Jannel looks so shocked, and Lisa goes, did I
say that out loud?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's just like, you don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's like everybody's not doing the thing you're expecting their
character to do, and it's just hilarious and exactly the
you chose endearing, And I'm having so much fun watching
everybody in the dynamic. Can I say one thing though,
that I actually thought was ridiculous? And I get why,
(19:11):
but it's impossible, I know, to have one hundred people
dancing at a wedding and have any kind of continuity
when you're filming these scenes. But the fact that nobody
dances at the wedding except me and you and then
us and the parents drives me nuts.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah, where's the party? Where's the dance party?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Where is the rager?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Like Brooke and Julian are gonna throw a rager and
you never see it because it would have been a
continuity nightmare. But it's like a thing that sticks out
to me like a sore thumb.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Okay, the one, yes, I agree with that, I have
one I bumped on as well. Okay, And it was
towards the end of the reception. It's a room full
of giant banquet tables as you do at a wedding,
and then there's one rain them four top that Alex
is sitting out by herself like it's the reject table
(20:06):
to then, of course, give a space for Quinn to
come and have a heart to heart with her. But
I'm like, get the hell out of here. There has
never been a fore top at a web reception.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, that is so funny that that was in a
production meeting, Like how can we visually just make her
look so sad and alone?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Reality and yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, like we can't trust the actor to convey she's
lonely and sad, so let's put her at a small
table by herself. Well, I want to address the dance
part thing, because that's that's my one one of my
issues with television sometimes is time and money and and
just getting getting the script right like when when you can.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It's easier in a movie, but there are shows.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
That where there is a little bit more freedom, Like
say it, Greg Prange was like, we're just going to
shoot some dancing, Like we might cut together Am and
TAJ and throw a song on it and it would
be so awesome. But in TV that's really hard to
do and get permission to do, even if you're great,
you know, like because what it's eight days of shooting
and we got to get all this stuff and then
(21:12):
get out of there. And you know, that's one thing
like I've tried to remember now, like when I just
made my movie, it's like, don't get so like myopic
about this script and what's on the page and our opportunities.
Even if like it's in the moment and you go, hey,
(21:34):
just roll and then sixty people just dance for literally
twenty seconds. Yeah, it doesn't take a long time, and
with a few cuts that could become something, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Like that's such a.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
TV thing where there's not a lot of room for
especially you know, like networking, traditional networky stuff.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
There's not a lot of room for improvisation or an
idea popping out at the last second.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And going back to the the Alex of the So,
the last time we saw Alex and Chase interact, it
was that scene a trick in the stock room, after
like Alex and Mia have bonded and it seems that
they're both just going to like give up on Chase. Yeah,
Alex follows him into the stock room and then kisses
him and is like, hey, I'm still into you, by
(22:19):
the way, and then we've never nothing ever came of
that though, No odd right, I mean, I'm not missing anything,
am I?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't think so there's.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Been no discussion. We never saw Alex talk about it,
we never saw Chase talking. It just seemed to me
like that was about to be the beginning of something.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Well.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And we've also remember we've had this big gap what
did we say, it was like a month or six
weeks or something from the Storm Night where Quinn almost
dies again where Brooke dies for two and a half minutes.
Thank God for Julian. Also Austin, we talked about like
one of our honorable mentions in that episode was absolutely
you hulking me out of the water. We were like,
(22:56):
oh my god, anyone ever looked more like a hero.
But like the we don't want to dwell in the
scary and so we're going to do a time jump,
do the bachelorette party. There's all these things that fall
through the cracks where you're like, wait a second, I
get that we didn't want to stay in the sads,
(23:17):
but also in this gap, we've lost We've lost the
follow up to some pretty big story points. Because even
when this episode started and Alex was saying to Quinn
when they were getting set up, oh, well, you know,
Chase is going with Mia and she's like, yeah, just
as friends, I'm like, wait, but since when and why
would they do that? Like what was the impetus for
(23:39):
them deciding to go on a platonic date to Brooke
and Julian's wedding And we have no reason?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, I think that was just a casualty of an
ensemble cast and forty minutes of content, you know. Yeah,
it's just they can't service everything. One couple that did
get at the moment they deserved was Mouth and Millie.
When Skills is about to not let Million and then
Mouth goes, not, she's my girlfriend. She can come in.
(24:09):
I was like, it's about time we make it official again.
You guys, yes, freaking cuties.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
They are so sweet. I also love Alex being like, well,
why don't you go find Melvin and get it on,
Like she still doesn't know Mouth's name. A couple of
things that I thought were so great, Oh my god,
Carol Cutshaw and the wardrobe department. Crushed for Daphne. She
looked like a Chanelle model straight off the runway. She
(24:36):
gave me that like nineties runway Claudia Schiffer energy. I
was obsessed with her and one of the things that
stood out to me as being so genius. And I
know we touched on a little bit, but I'm curious
what you remember is Austin, you being sandwiched between Sharon
Lawrence and Gregory Harrison bickering at each other. Yep, and
(25:00):
then you take charge, You save Quinn. The whole thing
is so awkward and you just shut it down.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I loved that scene for a couple of reasons.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
One is because they're so funny and they're the center
of that scene, and two because I didn't really have
to do anything. I'm just sitting there watching a tennis match.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
It's so fun.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
But anytime I got to work with Sharon or Gregory
was always so fun. They were such like just pros,
and you know, they've just been at it forever and
so many cool movies and shows. And felt so lucky
to have them play my parents. And what a treat
when we're saying our vows and she's crying. I laughed
out loud when he hands her the clean.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Next Yes, I wrote that down too.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
So good.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
It's really nice that little shift between them. And it
was also so sweet to see the parents all crying. Yeah,
because we've all had such drama with our parental characters
and it's so adorable that there was just not a
dry eye. And I loved it.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
I loved Victoria. I like that we're getting back to
the Victoria Brook dynamic we had at the start of
the season, with her showing up with the with the
veil that you caught as a little girl that she
had kept all these years. I thought that was awesome.
And then you know, at first, when your dad wasn't
or Brook's dad wasn't showing up, and you know, she
(26:23):
kind of makes her a comment like I wouldn't hold
your breath or something. I was like, ah, come on,
like be supportive of your kid. You know, you don't
need to like toss a dig. And but then when
she walked back in and was like, I'm so sorry,
you know, and then you I think, Brook says something
effective like what are we going to do? And she says,
We're gonna do what we've always done, and she walks
you down the aisle. And then later when it's the
(26:43):
father daughter dance, Paul dances with me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Sweet, I just I liked to see these faulted parents
really stepping up and showing up for their kids today.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And I loved that Paul said, well, you're my daughter now. Yeah, vulnerable.
We shared about what he looks back on that he's missed,
that he regrets, because it's such a nice it's a
nice callback again to that fight that Brooke and Paul
had years ago where she tells him, like, your kid
(27:17):
misses you. He holds onto this one memory because it's
all he's got, and in a way he's able to
say without saying that what she called him out on
shifted his behavior and now he can be there for
her too. It's so touching and just.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
It's it's vulnerable as well, because he could have just
been a hero in that moment. He could have just
said the cool line, but instead he was he was
sort of like he was kind of like minings his
past mistakes to help humanize her dad and help brook
understand the situation, which was just a generous thing to do.
(27:58):
It wasn't necessary, it didn't make him look any better,
but like, I just love that he was willing to
like be a peer, not like the flow, like the
flawless parent. He was like, yeah, man, I've actually screwed
up a ton, so you know, it was just it
was a class. It was a good move. You know,
it was integrity, which is sort of Brooks strike zone.
(28:19):
The whole listens trains Marry Me. I mean that's got
to be like top three all time wedding songs, right,
It's gotta be, because as soon as that song came on,
I'm like, well I'm done. And then that whole montage
walking down the aisle was dumb cute. I said this
(28:40):
in the Q and A, but like, I have never
seen any of your stuff from season six, so I
was thrilled to get to see stuff. Also shout out
to Austin's high haircut in the back of his hair
that I had heard about on this podcast but never
seen until this flashback. But it was all so sweet
and so effective. And then you guys just did such
(29:02):
a good job with keeping everything like nothing felt reached for.
It was all honest, which is all I ever really
want to see, you know. It just felt like it
was grounded, It was sincere, and it was so fun
to watch.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yeah, the token thing with Jamie the little haf I
was kind of like, you know, in the beginning with
the rabbit, I was kind of like, this feels it
feels like it was a little half ass or something.
But then when I'm standing at the altar and I
handed to him and I say, I found my other half.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It just worked. He made me cry, And I'm like,
why am I.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Being critical of the first scene when that ship works
and when he handed him the token, he said he's
looking at his bride at the end.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Of the other end of the the church. It's I
got emotional to it. It's so good.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It was such a good little little story about you know,
a little keepsake that reminds you of, you know, this
thing you hope for the future.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
It was really really beautiful.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
I liked that. I mean, I know, it's one thing
to be the actor who's reading it and then preparing
for how you're going to sell it, But as just
the viewer I was. I was on board from the
jump with it.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Okay, good, I like it too. It worked in the end.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It was only the beginning that it was throwing you,
but that was probably just because I was the guy
who had to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yes, I loved that they took a moment to have
fun at Chase's expense and have the Chase clone bartender
who even did the finger guns and served a blue drink.
But of course it's like the same way that we
emasculate the show attempted to emasculate Julian. I like the
way that it just straight up insulted Chase. And also
(30:41):
it works.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
This drink has just followed him through the years, and
it's just I mean, I wonder if there's another runner
through the show that's as used as much as that one.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
That drink is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Oh it still goes because I don't think there's a scene.
I don't know if it's happened yet actually, but I
know for a fact if it hasn't. There's a scene
coming up where we're at trick and I think Nathan
goes up first and has a sip of it and
he slaps Chase and walks away, and then moments later
Chase comes up. Excuse me, Clay comes up and has
(31:16):
a sip and also slaps Chase. I mean he that dude,
he gets drug through the mud over that drink. Tell me,
how did you feel about Chase and Mia hooking up
in the back of the wedding Limo amazing. I was
(31:36):
not expecting that.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
I would say, Look, you know, the bride may feel differently,
but I'm trying to decide if I should share a
story here.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Or not share it.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
There was a time, many many, many, many moons ago
where I made something happen on the premises at a wedding,
and why I talk to other people about it, and
it's a thing people like it happens.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It is a thing thing.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
I mean, I'm not saying it happens every wedding, but
I think it's a thing that happens, and I think
it's kind of fun and silly and cute, and of course,
you know, you get the like ooze and the gross
and all that, but I think if it's you know,
if it's done right, I think it's kind of funny
and adorable.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Okay. Can I ask was it inside or outside this
Dallian Severe, I'll never tell. Oh, dang, you know, I
love that you're a gentleman most of the time, but
right now it's really grinding my gears. You know what.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
I know.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
What I wanted to address was I've been deep in
it with my movie with music and trying to get songs,
and when I watched television, I I can't believe how
much money is spent. And this song you mentioned was
the Train song. And then Don't You Forget About Me,
which is you know, fster hit song. I'm sitting here
(33:09):
going that's forty grand, that's sixty grand, that's twenty grand.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Ye like, I'm going, holy crap. How does the show
pay for these? Every week?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I got paid in craft services. That's how they used
my salary for good tunes. And listen, if it's going
to be simple Minds and Train, I'm okay with it
for this episode. I'll get paid in fun Yan. We
loved it well. You two were so good in this episode.
You always are. You know, I've been saying since I
started this that I became a big, brilliant stand So
(33:41):
it was really nice to see, especially after what we've
been through this season. It's just been so heavy that
the Bachelorette party episode was the palate cleanser we all needed,
and then this just warm feels. There was no cat
stuck in a tree. It was just a beautiful wedding
with people that we like. It was great and you
(34:02):
two did such an awesome job.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
It was really I wrote down and it's gonna maybe
seem a little bit silly, but watching this, it really
felt like I was I'm watching people I know get
what they want, you know, Like it genuinely felt like
such a happy thing for some people who deserved it
(34:28):
and needed it. And it's like, it's an interesting thing
to feel that sort of connection to, you know, characters
that we made up because they're not real people, but
we played them for so long that they almost feel
like they are. And it was I don't know, it
was just nice to see this. To your point, Rob,
it was nice to see some warmth and some happiness
(34:51):
and some levity after all the very intense drama and
violence of the season. Yeah, it was sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Also shout out to Joy's pregnancy glow, which was very
real in this episode, the scene where she comes into
the bridle room. Yeah, when it's just the two of you,
I pause and I was like, oh my god, look
at the glow on Joy Man.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
And the hair is so good, and I mean the
dress they put her in was so great, and I
even loved, you know, looking back on it, obviously because
Joy was pregnant with Maria. Like even the throwaway joke
she makes in the morning when she has like gorgeous
BedHead and she's like, I join you, but I don't
want to go into labor on your wedding day. Like
(35:39):
the whole thing works. It's so funny, and she looks
so beautiful. And she was such a trooper. I mean,
those were long days and she hung out and was like,
I'm minute to win it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
How many months do we think she wasn't then?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Oh gosh, I can't remember.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Maybe I don't know if she was mad at me.
But did you give birth during the season?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
She did? Yeah, that's right, Yeah far away. Yeah, she
was pretty close. She was probably, I mean she had
to be like seven or eight once at this point,
because I remember, and we talked about this, that when
Haley has lydia, Joy gave birth in the middle of
that episode when we were filming and then had to
(36:23):
come back and pick up those scenes and was like,
absolutely not. There's no way I can pretend to give
birth on camera now that I've just done it, Like,
this is fucked up. I can't. And so I don't
remember what episode that is, but it's I think it's
pretty close.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
I forgot about that.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, And something I loved too that they did, And
what a great call of Greg is when Joy's giving
Haley's speech that is so funny and sweet and lovely.
She said to me, she says, looking at me, it
was in the eye, and I did this to her
(37:02):
at the table, and then she did it back to me,
and Greg was like, I love that. Do it again,
and he very smartly cut it in the opposite order,
so you know, she says it and then does the thing,
and then you cut to me and I do the thing,
and it was this really sweet moment. I don't know
(37:24):
why Joy and I were so deadlocked on each other,
and yes, it's about Brooke and Haley, but it was
also so clearly about us, and we just had this
moment and we did this thing, and then I'll never
forget Greg running in and being like, do it again,
do it again?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I love it, And it made the show. And now
it's a thing that people like, like you're saying with
your high five Austin, Like people will do that to
us at conventions and stuff, and it's you never know
what's going to hit.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Also, why smart guy, and so you could direct her
because when you see those little things that happen, you
got to grab them and it's lightning in a bottle
and like, yeah, those are the things that make something
unique and special and good for him.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I remember I have a little behind the scenes moment
that I remember from doing this episode when we were
all you know, anytime you get the whole cast together,
it's problems because we're like kids who have never been
allowed to sit next to each other in class, and
now on the field trip, we're all in the same bus.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Right, it's a disaster.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
And so it was me, Colletti, James Antoine like all
sitting in a pocket, right, And I'll never forget you
guys were up up on the altar, so we must
have been doing some sort of establisher or something, but
like we were getting close to you. I mean we
must have been shooting like over you onto us, because
I remember you guys were actually performing and one of
(38:40):
the group I believe, I believe Antoine started to doze.
Not because of you, guys, it was just, you know,
a long day. Whatever, it's Antoine, you know, it's just funny.
He starts to dose and we started laughing and then
we got quite literally church giggles, and I remember feeling
so bad because at one point, so if you turned
on and you were like, guys, like we were totally
(39:05):
not helping the situation. And it was one of those
ones that was like, I am trying to be here
for you, but unfortunately the giggles have taken over. And
then it's like, you know it is, I stop it,
but then I hear James snickering and it starts again.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
We love Antoine, but when anyone starts snoring while you're rolling,
it's really hard to not lose it. And to your point,
it was such a long day and the reason it
was hard for us up there is because we had
one camera doing coverage in a tight shot and a
camera at a perpendicular angle shooting a two shot of
(39:39):
us with you guys all in the background. So we
were doing a wide shot which is totally inconsequential at
the same time as we were doing our coverage, and
it was like please to please please, Yeah, And it
was hard.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Also, it was towards the end of the day, and
this is arguably the most important shot of your two
characters so far. It's so important. So it's tough. It's
already the end of the day. Energy's waning, and then
you have the peanut gallery. You hear a faint snoring
and then a bunch of grown man children giggling about it. Yeah.
I mean the fact again that you pulled off that
(40:13):
scene so well, kudos to the two of you. But
I will never forget that moment where it was like
so if it was like you were the mom going
like you better.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Pull your together at the similar exit people are watching,
I will not have you behaved this way.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
But I remember you turning around being like guys and
just feeling like fudge, I'm blowing this.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
See.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
That would have been a great little thing, like at
the beginning of the episode, Clay like admits to somebody
that he has like a church giggle problem, like a
real issue.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
That would have felt very Clay as well.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Hold it in the whole show.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
It would have been great.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Speaking of Clay, I liked that when Quinn admits to
stocking Katie that he'd just let her off the hook. Yeah,
I'm glad that it's because we haven't even really we
hadn't had a chance to see them like what their
process was of her telling him about that, any of that.
But I just appreciate the fact that it's like they've
(41:06):
been through hell and he's like, I'm glad you're okay.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah, well cool, you know what. It's such a lovely
apology scene, and it's nice that we get to it
because it's serious with some humor, as we said earlier,
with Quinn and Alex, especially Alex being like, yeah, you
better tell him because there's a chance I might, like
there's levity. And then when you guys sit together, you're
(41:31):
both so dropped in, you're so vulnerable. Chantelle looks so
afraid to tell you this thing, and when she does,
and you ask why. I loved that they didn't give
her some big justified whatever she just said. I don't know,
(41:51):
and it was so honest, and you two basically got
to sit with each other and look at each other
and admit that, yeah, you don't always know what you're doing,
but you love each other and it's so refreshing.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, there's a good amount of grace there to just
go yeah, okay. Like to me, it was another one
of going like, oh, yeah, that's your person, not raking
you over the coals. It's not a whole big thing.
It's like, yeah, we both almost died, so let's just okay, Yeah,
lesson learned, Let's move on. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
I loved it. I thought you guys were beautiful. What
are we? Oh? I have a shout out something that
I love? And you know, we got we got to
really craft Brooke and Julian's valves, which I thought we crushed.
And I loved that we managed to get some humor
in our scene. In so many of these scenes, like
(42:51):
we've been talking about throughout the episode, I love the
moment where we're in the truck and you call me
missus Baker and I just call you miss Davis and
we both laugh. It's like it's such a perfect button
for Brooke to be like cute.
Speaker 4 (43:07):
Also, you it's so exactly who you are, who Brooke is.
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I loved it. It was so sweet.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
We got a question from Lisa. She asks, besides Brook's
father not showing up, there wasn't a dramatic storyline for
this wedding. If you got to choose something dramatic to
happen at their wedding, what would you want that storyline
to be.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh, oh, it's a good question, but I almost My
immediate reaction is no, I don't want anything dramatic to
happen at the wedding because that skills whole storyline is
preventing it.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Yeah. My first thought was, like the catering gets goofed up,
like it has to be something you can live without,
you know, yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
Like if the cold Feet thing has been done so
many millions of times, and you know, if I like
Brooke and Julian having a successful, great wedding, but if
there was something going awry behind the scenes, and then
somebody else was the hero that fixed it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
That would have been fun. Like if you and I
never knew about it, but something was happening in the
background and one of our characters was on this sort
of wild goose chase to fix it, and then the
wedding goes off without a hitch. That would have been cute.
Speaker 5 (44:30):
Maybe Antoine did actually Hills actually did stop the event.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
That was yes, yeah, if it wasn't just the truck,
there actually was eminent danger that he took care of
and told no one, go one.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
He's a silent hero. He walks back into the church.
Oh that would be gold.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
That would have been nice. Okay, yes, yes to that.
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Honorable mentions definitely Antwine. Mm hmmm same.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah. I'm also going to give an honorable mention to
le Goldstein's bouquet catch because her flying through the air
into that still shot from Quinn's camera and then the
bouquet coming up into frame just absolute physical comedy. Gold.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
Also to the little girl who played young Brook. I
just loved that moment and she did such a great job.
And you often wonder like where are they now and
who is she now?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
You know, Yeah, that would be fun to know, so well.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
Shout out to you a young girl to be Jojo Siwa.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Could you imagine, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Oh should we spin a wheel?
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Let's do it?
Speaker 3 (45:40):
What does that mean you're about to find out Austin.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Most likely to like in the yearbook get Ready superlative time.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Most likely to make friends with a stranger on vacation for.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
The whole cast character and castmate.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Yeah, I mean I want to say Clay, but no, no, no, no,
that's more rob than Clay.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
I'd say Julian. Really, Julian, You're see he's so open yeh, yeah, interesting,
I would say Julian, and then I would agree me.
Speaker 4 (46:12):
Yeah, I'm into it.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
How about you, guys?
Speaker 2 (46:15):
I think you're both correct. It feels like a unanimous vote.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
We'll take the win, Robin, I will take make down
the author.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
I'm gonna write so much more Julian Clay fan fiction.
What would our couple name be? Would it be Julie Lay? Wait, no, Clay,
Cullian Lulian Clulian Oh Colulian. Oh you heard it first listeners.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Well, I'll try it out both ways. I'll put it
in all of my fiction both ways, and we'll see
which one sounds the best. Well, that wraps it up.
Next episode, we got season eight, episode fourteen, Holding out
for a Hero, Austin, It's always so good to see
you and talk with you buddy the best.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
I love you, guys, it's so fun. I miss you.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
We love you, we miss you. We can't wait to
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