February 14, 2024 • 37 mins
Hide your cigarettes! The bad girl of Full House, Gia (a.k.a. Marla Sokoloff) is on our newest interview episode.
Jodie & Andrea get deep into Girl Talk with one of its most vital members and find out just how rebellious a young Marla REALLY was. And what other iconic TGIF role almost fell right into her lap?
And what episode of Full House was her most awkward? Three words for you: Make. Out. Party.
All this, and so much more, with a true friend of the show - on an all new How Rude, Tanneritos!
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome back to How Rude Tiana Ritos.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now you're used to our girl talk every week on
this podcast, but this week we're taking girl Talk to
a whole new level. Our guest today has had a
huge impact on the landscape of nineties television, playing the
quintessential nineties bad girl that you just love to hate
as the character of Gia Mahan. She introduced Stephanie to
(00:40):
cigarettes and crop tops, and she perfected the art of
the resting bitch face. She was the bass player in
our band girl Talk, on both full and Fuller House,
so clearly we saw the sign that it was time
we have her on the podcast. Please welcome our dear friend,
Marla Sokoloff.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hi, Hi, Hi, go hi.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You just jump into our interviews, so don't We're like,
don't expect anything.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Uh so, so here we are. Yeah, we're not very formal.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I think we failed to inform Gary of that last
time we were just talking.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's like, what is this happening.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're like, oh yeah, yeah, but when are you gonna start?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He started the interview.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, it's over, So, Hi, Marla, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Guys, how are you I miss your face?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I miss you too.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We miss you. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, we don't see each other as regularly anymore since
the end of Fuller House, which makes me very sad.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We have to remedy this.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We do, right, And I feel like, Jody, you live
like so close to me. I don't know how it happen.
I mean I've run into you a couple of times
that like sushi.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's true. Yeah, we'll run into each other like in
the neighborhood sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But yeah, it's so it's.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Like it's like anything, like you become an adult and
you're like, we live so close. Oh my gosh, I'll
see you. And then four months later you're like, hey,
I still haven't you, but I'm gonna We're gonna do
it eventually one of these years.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So yeah, I know it's and you have three kids now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right, so you've added a child since you saw you.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
COVID was a funny time. Guy's some really silly things. Yeah,
it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Like Monday morning comes and I am so tired, Like
I think three kids mondays, Like who would have thought
that Monday's a vacation, But it comes, and I like
send the other two to school and my wonderful nanny
shows up.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And I'm like, oh, I could get something done today.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
This is so exciting, right, Okay, how old are they now?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
So my oldest is about to drink twelve okay, my
middle is almost nine. And then the littlest one is
going to be two on Tuesday, not tomorrow, week from tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh my goshsh wow.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And it's Harper, not Harlow. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I get her name wrong every time I text you
or talk to you, or talk to him our mutual friend,
Kim Moffett, I'm always calling her Harlow for some reason, Harper.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Somebody, some celebrity I think Nicole Richie or something has
a Harlow.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
She does have a Harlow.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, my best friend has Harper, So I will remember that.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh okay, perfect.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I love that name. I love Harlow too, I
was saying to Andrew. It was on my list of
names I liked. So it's a great name. Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And what what's it like going back to the beginning
of parents, her motherhood, parenthood, you know, with a brand
new one.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I will say, the most amazing part of it is
the first round for me. I don't know how you
guys were with when your kids were little. But I
don't know if I like enjoyed it as much. I
couldn't wait for them to be out of like the
baby stage. It was really hard for me, and I
was like more of like a stressed out mom. And
I was very surprising to everybody, but I was like,
I just want to get them to five, or I
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just want to get them to you know, like preschool
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Body that's usually the funny just yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Check check all these like milestones off the list.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And I we'll say with Harper, I've been more capable,
like I enjoy it more, you know, because I know everything.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Is so finite.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You're like, I know how quickly they get to nine
and twelve, you know.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, So it's like this newfound appreciation for that
like very small amount of time that they're little, and
you know you could put them in whatever clothes you
want they're.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, dress them up ridiculous little outfits.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
She's never once rolled her eyes at me like my
tween you know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So enjoy it now, yeah, as we know that's it's
so short lived.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now you just got to get her to like Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I know that she's not a fan, so guess where
we're taking her for her birthday?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No, you're not.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Everybody's like you're so mean. I'm like, she has to
get her shit together. I'm sorry, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's like get her birthday? What is what's happening? She
she just doesn't like, she's just not.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
What I think.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It's just too much like overstimulation again. And she's in
that phase where she doesn't want to be in her stroller.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
She wants to like.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Walk, which is the worst thing at Disneylan because you're
like you but you can't. But there's all these things
that you want to go walk and do. But if
I let you down, you're gonna get trampled by angry
parents with strollers. You're gonna wind up fifty feet away
from me. Like, I don't know what can happen.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, it's no.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I understand those parents that do the leash like
I'm not gonna do it. But I used to think
that was so cruel, but now I'm like I get
it because she's a runner. She you know, will keep
going and you know that like lifeless thing they do
when you try to put it right, the limp are
like yeah, which is I cannot, So I.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Like to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
When people try and pick me up too, I just
just dead wait and yeah, it makes it a lot harder.
So if you're ever, you know, if someone ever grabs you, just.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Wait, you'll be grand because it does, it does, noodle. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So anyways, so we're taking her for her second birthday
because I booked like the Princess breakfast and she doesn't
love like a Rapunzel breakfast, you know, like you gotta.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
She's gotta this Morn're gonna have to have a talk.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
She's at my house right now. Just for fun. I
have Mescal dressed up as a Punzel right now.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I can't wait to see that with the braid. He's like,
don't drag me, drag me into your crazy. He's like,
don't mention me in your insanity.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah yeah, leave him out of your princess costumes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How are the older two with the youngest. Are they
good big sisters? Are they helpful or are they just
rolling their eyes all the time?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
You know, I would say they're helpful when they like,
you know, Ellie and my older daughter, she you know,
wants something right now at like Sephoras. So she's like
all babysit Harper for an hour, and I'm like great, Like,
you know, because I've ever put it on my kids
that like they have to babysit.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
It's not, you know, their responsibility, but they like to
work toward things, and I like to honor that.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So yeah, that's that's a win win for everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Everybody gets what they want.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
No, they're great with her. Two of them together is
becoming a little bit you know, Jody Hall far part
of your girls.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Uh like two years four months.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So right now they're like a Zoe, You'll be sixteen
in April and b is thirteen, so they're like, yeah,
fifteen and thirteen right now. And they just now they
hang out all the time. It used to be they
were like ready to just kill each other, but now
now they like hang out and their friends and.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Okay, so I have something, I have some hope.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yes, But then what happens is that they turn against you,
so right, so it's yeah, they bond over over over
destroying you or being like oh my god, is it
mom crazy?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Mom's crazy? Right, and you're like cool cool.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So like you'll start like one of them will be
saying something and you start to reprimand and then the
other one now jumps in in defense of them, and
you're like, wait, I thought you guys hated each other.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No, now it's like, well, mom, you're being so strict or.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Then they just start giggling like they don't say anything,
but they just look at each other and start laughing,
and you know it's at you.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
As a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You're not in.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, that's great. I look forward to this. This sounds fun.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I said something to my daughter the other day, like
she was like so annoying me about something that I
just didn't feel like I deserved it.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm like, do you know? Do you know how lucky
are I have? Above? That's like so cool? I'm sorry, like,
I I'm awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do I have?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
She's like, no, actually, you're the worst.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You're the worst. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
If it's like my daughter, like all of her friends
think I'm so cool and so great and they're so
nice to me, and I'm like, look, Felicity, c I
am cool.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
She's like yeah, but they're just being you know, the
mom is the mom is always meaner at home no
matter what.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I'm actually the softy in my parenting journey, like my
husband's definitely more like I'm like, sorry, Dad, I'll talk
to dad.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I like to throw a ham on the under the bus,
like I don't want to be the one who everyone hates,
you know. It's probably my people pleasing problem in life.
So right right, yeah, speaking of definitely being.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The one that everyone hates. But yet it's there is
an extreme love hate relationship with Gia.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The fans love to hate Gia, love to hate her.
And so I'm so excited about this girl Talk reunion
we're having right now, because that.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Was my original pitch for the name of this.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Podcast was girl Talk, Yeah, which didn't happen, but yeah,
I know, I know, but we're having a girl Talk
moment right here.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I think that's maybe more niche.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's why we did.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
We were like, oh my god, people will get it,
and then we're like, well, some people will get it
and then other ones.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We think we're playing that game from.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Like the late eighties that were you her game, But yeah,
probably is a great game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I loved it. I seem to remember there being like
a fake phone or something.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It was like the most fun sleepover.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was also thinking of all Madness
another great game. Great game, yeah, just training us to
be consumers early. But anyway, people like really Gia I
think was one of the most like fan favorite characters
hands down.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Which is shocking because you know, she kind of came
out real strong in the Hatred Department. But I love
the way it was written, Like a lot of times
when people ask me, you know, did you know.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
That you were going to be on you know, for
eight episodes or nine episodes or whatever, and I know
it was literally one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Episode one it was the smoking episode was the first one, right,
we didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
No, definitely not and I don't I don't know how
it happened. But I love that they kind of wrote
her where she just effortlessly became your friend and there
wasn't ever any discussion about it. There was never like
we should be friends, like actually you are really nice
Stephanie or Gia whoever. So I think that that's actually
funny that they But it's also great because they kept
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her like tough edged throughout the whole time, right, she
was still likable, So I kind of think that's what
people seem to relate to. I will say that, you
know now that we're all so old and we've been
doing this for so long.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Sorry, I'm kidding. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's okay, it's okay. My backcount hail in my back.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I get recognized for that the most out of anything.
I've ever died thirty something years.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh yeah, what do people say when they do?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They talk about the cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
They they but yeah, I was like, do they ask
you for a cigarette? They're like, hey, can I bum one?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is that just all.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
People do? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
The people and I have a cigarette. But people like
that is what they want to know all the time,
Like did you really smoke?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh yeah, that's my question.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Did?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I mean they weren't obviously you weren't smoking real cigarettes smoked?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And I also remember those cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They were closed cigarettes and we would go and steal
them from the prop room.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We would go and we would really, we're actually being naughty.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Oh god, twelve year old girls with like yeah, and
they're like clothes cigarettes, which were also like the emo
version of you know what I mean. It was like
the like the goths and the cool kids all like
smoked clothes cigarettes because it wasn't you know what, it's
still bad it's not great for you.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Actually, I think clothes inhaling members like really bad or something.
It's great. It's yeah, it's it's none of it's great.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But anyway, we would go to the prop department and
we'd be like, you know, mission impossible, wait for someone
to like leave the proper room, and then we'd like
go over there and try and find the like you know,
the prop cart that had the closed cigarettes on it
to steal them and go.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And then we'd go.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I had him like in my pocket, I had like
an army jack and they were in my pocket, and
I would like tell the guy I already gave it
to him.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yeah, you know, like I just took Yeah, like yeah,
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Bad girls, bad thirteen year olds, That's what we were doing.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, but yes we did. We did that was we
did actually smoke those probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So what does they Does it have a taste or
a smoke clover smoked anything?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So like yeah, yeah, those.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Are like it's like sweet glove smelling gloves smell nice cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Not Okay, they smelled it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you still have to inhale.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well you're not supposed to like inhale it as much.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I believe you just did and then blow it out,
which is why they use it like sort of you know,
on camera and stuff, because you don't have to inhale
it as much.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's just more for them.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Did you guys happen to see Maestro by any chance?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I told you now.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
He smokes in every frame of that movie, and it
stressed me out so much, Like the whole time I
was watching it, I'm like, gosh, this is intense anyway,
the total change of subject, but just thinking of smoking
on camera, it was so much smoking. I just I
want to ask him. I don't want to ask him
anything other than like, were you okay? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Let's give him a chest X ray and are okay?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Literally?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So, was Full House your first acting job or had
you acted before that?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I had done commercials up in San Francisco, and I
did a bunch of commercials up there, and I think
my mom had said like something along the lines of
we can go to Los Angeles because my agent in
San Francisco kept saying you should take her to LA
I feel like she did it, you know, have.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
A career there.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And my mom was very much not into it, but
I begged her and begged her, and she said, okay,
you get one month go to pilot season whatever this
thing is. And I want to say, like, one of
my first auditions was full house.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do you remember the audition vividly or was you do
oh gosh, tell us everything?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeahs, I actually just I just recently told this story
on a different podcast, not a competing one, guys, don't worry,
just a random podcast acting asking me about.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh, I want names as the episode come out, yet
it'll never see the light of day.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Never.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But I remember I went to the audition and you know,
the casting director was so nice and just said, you're
so I love this read, but you have such a
sweet face.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
And I know what they want.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
They want someone who's like, you know, more tough, And
I said, I mean this is like, you know, the
balls of a twelve year old.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I was like, I want to come back for the callback.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I promise you I will come back and I'll look different,
and she, for whatever reason, said okay, and my mom
and I went to the Salvation Army and I got
that den invest which I wound up wearing.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
In the episode.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh yes, and like.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I had Doc Martin's I put those on and I
came in character, and so when they came into the
waiting room to get me, you know, she was like Marla,
I was like what, oh yeah, And I was in
character the whole time. When I went into the room
with Jeff Franklin.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And everything, the ga wow.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Like I, by the way, would never in my life
do that today, Like ever.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I would just be too worried that they would hate
me or think that I was being like, you know, attitudey.
But you know, you have different kind of confidence when
you're younger.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you're not self aware at twelve. So yeah, but
that is a bold choice.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I was mind and I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes, that's so great.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And you dressed the part and everything, and they ended
up using your wardrobe, your actual wardrobe in the show,
use my wardrobe.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Was it intimidating to go back in for the callback
or did you feel like you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You were like, I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I remember it was the same day, Okay, I think that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Let's say my first audition was at like ten am.
It's just like fine, come back at three.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
So it was like just kind of a whirlwind of
you know, the process. And again it was one episode,
so I don't think it was something they put too
much thought into, and you know, it was just like, Okay,
this girl works, bring her in. But I was such
a fan of the show, you guys, that I think
in my head, I there was just no other option
(16:41):
for me, Like I had to get this job because
you know, like every other kid you know of that time,
every Friday night, I was there watching TGIF and I
it was so surreal to get the opportunity to actually
audition for the show.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Really, it's cool, that's right because a lot of a
lot of the people were interviewing were started on Full
House during the first season, so the show wasn't very
well known, but you came in in the later seasons,
so the show already had quite a following.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It was the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What was it like being.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
On the set, like with all of us, Like we
kind of were this established family and we had our
routines and our things. So what was that like coming
onto the set with these people that already knew each
other so well?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I never felt I've been a guest on a lot
of shows, and granted this was my first, but I
can tell you looking back, I never felt like a
guest like you guys were so welcoming and obviously, like
Jody and I were the same age, and you know,
we were playing friends and we were friends and we
hung out, which was so fun.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, but nobody from like top to the bottom made
me feel like, oh, this girl's just you know, a
guest star. Like everybody was so amazing. And I told
the story on my Instagram when all passed away. You know.
I remember one day it was like Friday before the taping,
and you guys were all going to Jerry's Deli.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Is like, con let's go, you want to come? And
I'm like me, okay. You know, it's just so.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Exciting to like be able to do the fun cast
stuff with you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, you were part of the family from day one,
cigarette number one.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
From smoke number one.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now I know there's also an interesting story that you
have connected to Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh yeah, in my mind, I didn't know this.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Danielle Official, uh you know, is one of the producers
of this podcast as well.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, Danielle and Jensen to help produce this podcast too,
And yeah I love Danielle and she you know started
on Full House. Uh, did the guest appearance. So yeah,
it's just like a fun, you know, small world.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And then she and I did an episode I think
of Yesteryear or.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Something together after Full House. Yeah, right, so it's it's fun.
But I would love to hear the story of I.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Would talking the Topanga stories take story, yes, if you
don't want share, not at all. And honestly, when I
think of that story, now, you know, as actors, we
always think like I'm the best one for this part.
Of course I'm going to get it.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
But when I look back on every single job that
I didn't get, I know exactly why I didn't get
it and who was meant.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
To get it got it, you know. So I feel
like that's a perfect way to start this conversation. But
it was me and her on the show. Neither one
of us had the part of Tapanga. We were both doing,
you know, guest stars on the show. The original Topanga
wound up getting fired after the table read, and they
(19:38):
said to us, you know, to me and Danielle, it's
going to be one of you two. You're going to
play Tapanga.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Pressure.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
We're going to bring you guys to the network this afternoon. Yeah,
it was either this afternoon or the next day. And
I feel like Danielle remembers the story a little bit
better than I do, because she's like, I remember you
had to go to the airport because I was still
living in San Francisco, So I like, you know, flew
write to San Francisco for the weekend because my parents
were married, and yeah, they had us both, you know,
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kind of not against each other, but essentially.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yes, competing for the part, right.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah, And she was so worried that I was going
to hate her, and I didn't. She was so great
and like even now, like I've told this story a
couple of times and Peo were like, are you do
you do you hate that you weren't to Panina And
I'm like, no, there was no other Topinka. I would
have been such a different to Panga, Like she nailed
that role that was meant for her. But yeah, it
was really funny I could have I was a second
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away from being Topanga.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Wo.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow, what a different trajectory your your career would have had.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Right you come?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was this post this was post full house? Yes? Or
kind of right around it was.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's a they start airing until the nineties, so well, so.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
No, there would have. I think there was maybe a
little there was some crossover. I think I think it was.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I think it was a like it must have been
at the same time, yeah, because I wasn't on Full
House every episode.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, I feel like it was like season seven or
eight maybe that they started.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah, I don't remember when they were on the air,
but that sounds remember. I did, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Can't all about the same age and they started, like
what in they're like middle school years, right.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
So I think, so, yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But you were still on the episode.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I watched the clip where you're like you're like putting
a fish into a beaker.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
It's like a science class or something science thing.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Okay, Yeah, And I don't remember what the episode was
about or what I was doing. I just I remember
being there. And I grew up with writer. I've known
him forever. So that was another like really fun experience.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I was going over your biography getting ready for this interview,
and I like, I just know you was Marla, You're
our friend, You've been our friend forever, and I just
I didn't realize just how extensive your acting credits are.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like there's so many iconic shows that you were on.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I just I'm going to name a few of them,
not just Full House, but the Practice.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I remember when we got the Practice. I was like, yeah,
I was so excited for you. My mom was like
happy fatch it. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So the Practice, Friends, Desperate Housewives, Seventh Heaven, Dude Wears
My Car, Party of Five, Third Rock from the Sun,
boy Me's World, step by Step, Home Improvement, and then
iconic films like Sugar and Spice, Whatever It Takes, and
The Babysitters Club. What Like, Marla, you are a huge
star from the nineties. I had no idea, like like, oh,
I don't know about that conic.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I definitely I was around.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah, I remember doing Home Improvement and step by Step
like all in that same like Full House time period.
Like I really it was just like really horn it out.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I mean, you were making the nineties sitcom rounds, which
is funny because like even like I hear there's like, yes, dear,
I'm like we all like I did Party five, I did, Yes,
Like we all sort.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Of in that.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You know, if you were around that age and you
were an auditioning actor, chances were you were gonna sort
of do the you know, the docy do around and
be on all of these people shows, and that's why,
like it's such a weird little club that we're in of,
you know, all that we know all these people. You know,
when like when taj Mawory was on the show and
(23:13):
Tea and Tamara before they had their show, they'd come
with him to set, and you know, it was like,
so we got to know them, and then they had
sister sister and their whole huge grow Like, yeah, these
funny little intersections of you know, all of us growing
up together.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yeah, it is crazy, and I feel like I love
that we're all and I don't know if it was
like that time period, but there isn't anybody. I feel
like we all get along so well, Like every time
we're all together, you know, like Danielle Fischel and.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, that whole grouping of people, Like it's so nice
to be reunited, you know, when we all go back
to our normal lives but then hang out and it's
like no time has passed.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, what was it like being on the set of Friends?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You played Joey Tribbiani's pregnant sister Dina, which I remember
this episode.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I was so impressed and starstruck.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
And I got that job the same way I got
or Danielle got to Panga. The girl who originally was
Dina got replaced after the table read, and they brought
five girls in and it was so stressful, and they
had us all like sitting in the waiting room at
Warner Brothers, right, and they had to start that day
(24:24):
because you know, it's a sitcom obviously, so she probably
got fired on a Monday, and now it's Tuesday and.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We gotta get bad.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Wow. So they came into the waiting room and they
were like, okay, girls, thank you all so much. Marla,
would you mind just coming with us really quickly?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And I have one of my best friends was one
of those five girls, and to this day she's always like,
do you remember the Friend's edition?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Remember a friend's audition? When they asked me to leave
and you got to stay.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Like, I'm still I don't know that slipped my mind.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I don't remember that at all.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You were there, you know that was just a fever dream, yeah, right, right, right,
ex But it was another surreal experience.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
First of all, it filmed on the same stage as
you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Know amazing Stage twenty four and it's magic.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Stage twenty four.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And I was also such a huge fan of the show.
I had seen so Jennifer Aniston. I don't think I
even spoke to her because I was very starstruck and
just wanted her to think I was like, the easiest
guest star has ever been on the show. So I'm
like kind nice to me, Like.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I blend into the wallpaper, I will perform my scene
and then I will not be here, right, yeah, you're like,
and then I will not bother you at all, unless
you want me to bother you, and which case I
will bother you.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I remember I saw Matt LeBlanc at like a charity
event a couple of years after that, and he was like, Marlow,
what's going on?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
And again I was like me, Marlow.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Hi, Oh are you so good to see you? I
love that you know me.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's so sweet. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I noticed you had a really thick New York accent
in the episode.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Was that your idea or was that the director?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
No, that was it was a requirement for the job.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I mean, when I look back on it now, I go, oh,
if I would have had more time, I probably would
have hired someone.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
To help me with that. You know, you just jump
in and do it and hope for the best.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, it was from New York, the British whatever. We
just go oh like now, okay, cool, right.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
There's no no research necessary, just jump on it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Make it work, make it work right, the Joe cast
to work right, right.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So, out of all of these guest spots, besides the
role of g out, what was your favorite role to play?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Any sure to say that we were her favorite, but well,
I mean that's just a s.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I was like, yeah, so what's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No pressure, no pressure. We know it was Ga, But
besides that, besides.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
The best I mean, okay, so yes, obviously Gia for
so many reasons.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
But I would say Friends. That was so surreal and
so fun. And you know those two shows. I don't
think that they could rerun them more if they tried.
I mean, just that one episode of Friends, I swear
is on every week.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Do you know that I've never seen an episode of Friends?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I want to smack total I know it hurts.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It hurts when she says that.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I know, but you don't want to or you just
is it like, because you know, I've never seen Star Wars,
and at this point, I feel like I'm not gonna
start at forty three.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I'm not dark enough for it's not dark enough. It's
you know what, I'm not a huge sitcom fan. Ironically
I am not.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I know. It's I yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You literally played one of the most iconic sitcom characters.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
This is always the thing people, And I'm like, I know,
and I just not my not my vibe, but I all, all, yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
That's really funny. My husband, when I met him, he
wasn't a sitcom guy either. I'm sure he still isn't,
but he had never seen Full House, and when people
were always asking, oh, it's your girlfriend Gia or we
would be on public, like are you on Full House,
He's like, I never saw this show.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It must be really good.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You're like, yeah, it's popular.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, a few people watched it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, just a couple, just a coupuple.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, let's let's go back to the to the Girl
Talk episode, the original Girl Talk episode where we created.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
A band and called Girl Talk We Are Song.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
The one song that we sang was I Saw the
Sign by a bass Did you Have? And you were
the bass player. So had you played guitar before did
you have to learn?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Did you hate play guitar?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Guitar?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Never a bass but I did play guitar, so it
was fairly easy to kind of figure out what we
were doing, Okay. I remember also those overalls that I
wore in the rehearsal scene were also my personal I
got them American rag so much, very big in the denim.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
They really liked your denim choices.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Clearly I was trying to really incorporate that into my
character choices.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But that was so fun.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
And I think that the Fuller House episode, the first
one that I was on, like that was that couldn't
have been a better idea.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh yes, it was reuniting, reuniting girl talk.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yes, that was so so much fun. I didn't know
how to play guitar, so you were like, this was easy.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
I was like, I was like, oh god, but I
had they you know, in a matter of like three weeks,
one of the rippers, Landy Cordola Uh who lived down
in Orange County by us, would come to my house
like two or three evenings a week and teach try
and teach me how to play guitar, which bless his heart,
he did as best as he could. I just was
(29:21):
not a great guitar, but I could get through it,
you know. But again, luckily we didn't have to be
great because I wasn't. But it was, Yeah, it was fun,
good enough make it, yeah, exactly, it was.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Enough well, and the girls weren't really focused on being
good at their musical instrument instruments. You were more focused
on the fashion and your outfits, so.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
As one should be.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
We did have do you remember going and recording I
Saw the Sign though, because we had Gary Griffin, the uh,
the the Ripper, the ripper with the red hair. Yeah,
but he.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Was the one.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
He did all like a lot of the music and
stuff for the show with uh uh, Jesse Frederick and
Bennett Salvat and but he did.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
He did the recording of I Saw the Sign.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
We had him on a couple of weeks ago and
he was talking about how impressed he was with our
ability to do I Saw the Sign.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
So yeah, I don't that's a blur.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I don't remember that at all. I do remember the
episode where we were in a car and we had
to go to Griffith Park with Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
My gosh, who was Scott Scott White and who I
still like follow on socials and stuff, and he is
and he does a ton of like voiceover animation stuff,
right m M. And I forget who are other the
other person's name was, but I remember I can see
his face.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It was the It was the episode where we meet
the boys and we go for the joy ride and
we're like in, you know, in the backseat of a car,
and I am like, I.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Don't think we should do this, and Ga is like bye.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Bitches and take off and grow up like you're like
a year lame and then like you nearly died in
a car accident.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, but that was Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I remember how much fun we have with that episode
because it was scenes with like just the four.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Of us, and they were they were a little bit
older too.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I think they were like sixteen maybe and we were
I was like thirteen, but it was we were still
like it was young people.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And I was always like, yay, so excited.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Every time I drive by Griffith Park in that little
area where we were going up and down, I'm like
I think about it every single time. But I would
say that's the it's an episode I get asked about
a lot because it was kind of like, you know,
it's a very special episode.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Right, very right, right right, don't get in the car
with strangers.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Don't do that, like a stupid idea. That one and
then the other one sticks out in my mind as
to being the most stressful thing I've ever done, which
I'm sure Jody will agree, was the makeout party.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Oh I don't even remember the man member the makeout party.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I have blocked it from my brain.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You got to watch the makeout party.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Oh, we're going to We're going to get there. We're
going to get through all the episodes. So that's the
thing too, Like there's some that I haven't even I'm like,
oh my god, I forgot about the makeout party.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
So you and I had never kissed a guy before,
Like we were may maybe a peck, but like a
makeout And you know, obviously we were so wholesome.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
We weren't going to make out parties.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
And right now, God comes to he was something like that,
this terrible behavior.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I don't think makeup parties. I don't think we're a thing.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It wasn't like like you just what you had like
a party, and then everyone started out because it was
you're in like a specific eighth grade and everyone was
just a walking hormone.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
But yeah, Danny was dating my mom.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Right, Oh my god, that's right. I forgot that Danny
dated Gia's mom.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
And you lied, of course about where you were. And
then she came home and I was making out on
the couches. People just make it out everywhere, and it
was very.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Stressful, so stressful.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Oh yeah, that's over.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Was that your first?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Was that your first on screen kiss, first in gen
real life kiss or yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I think I had, you know one of.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Those, right, And there's nothing more awkward than on screen
kissing anyway, even as an adult, because you're like, it's
just weird.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Literally still hate it so much.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Right, and yeah, and doing it as a kid. I
think Rusty was my first little kiss. One of the
the episode where and I take a bite of the
onion and then I and then I kiss him.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think that was my first one.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
You took a bite of an onion, that's right.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, and I kissed him on the like a New
Year's episode. But yeah, that again, was like, I think
that was my first like lip to lip interaction.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It is stressful. And then the fact that your parents
are That's really what it stands in the audience. Yeah,
could it be more mortified?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You're kissing in front of two hundred strangers and your parents, like,
come on, and you have to do it over and
over again too?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Over it all week? Yeah? No, it was.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
I feel like it was last week. It was so
stressed out about it. I hated that episode.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Have you kissed a boy yet? I mean, I know
you have three kids, and.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I'm still working, still working.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Through it, still working through it, right, I have children,
But I know, no, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Now, what about this episode where you guys wore crop tops?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Was that stressful to wear crop tops at the time?
Do you cringe when you watch it?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Now? Cringe? I'd kill for those apps. We have no idea.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Literally, would just like murder for it to just so
freely wear a crop top without being like a baby,
you know, or like doing a thousand sit ups.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Just hey, I do remember reading it though, like because
you know you're in that awkward phase of like you're
twelve or thirteen and like your right bobs are growing.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, everything feels weird, right, But.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
When I look at pictures now, I'm like, wow, who knew? Right,
good time to be alive.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, I would never now do that, Yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I do remember the crop Tops though, because that was
like it was, that was adventurous for for Full House, I.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Always I did love that.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Steph got to be kind of the boundary pusher a
little bit, you know what I mean. As far as
the three girls, she was the one that you know,
was kind of getting into a little bit of trouble
and stuff. But it was fun and it was it
made for some great, very special episodes.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I mean.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
And even think about the smoking, like that would never
pass today. You won't see that on any sitcom Kids smoke.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, maybe it's always sunny, but that's but that's not
like a.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Wholesome family show.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
I just don't think that would be passing any sort
of you know, uh Q, what is it called.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I don't know, standards, S and P standard to practice.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
It wouldn't it wouldn't pass that, So I don't know.
I just think it's quite shocking.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean, we were running around in crop tops,
smoking cigarettes, getting in cars with boys.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
What were we doing look at the makeout parties.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Going to make out parties?
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yeah, ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Geo was a lesson and what not to do?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Like she was like that you were your character existed
to create like this moral code on Full House of
all the things.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Although a lot of people are like, your character got
me to smoke?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But why did she make it looks like so much fun? Yeah?
She made it look so good, you know.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Glamorized it.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
It's Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Well, we could talk and probably sing and fake playing
guitar with Marla all day long, but since there's so
much ground to cover we had to break this episode
into two parts for all of you. So thank you
so much for listening to part one with Marla Sokoloff
and join us tomorrow for part two. And if you
guys want to follow us on social media, make sure
and check.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
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Speaker 4 (36:53):
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see you next time for more fun on how Rude
Tanerto's And remember everyone.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
The world is small, but the house is full. You
saw I hesitated. You saw me though, I was like,
but I did it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
You have to come up with another another. I saw
it in your face.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I saw it. You were like, but you did it.
Welcome back to How Rude Tiana Ritos.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now you're used to our girl talk every week on
this podcast, but this week we're taking girl Talk to
a whole new level. Our guest today has had a
huge impact on the landscape of nineties television, playing the
quintessential nineties bad girl that you just love to hate
as the character of Gia Mahan. She introduced Stephanie to
(00:40):
cigarettes and crop tops, and she perfected the art of
the resting bitch face. She was the bass player in
our band girl Talk, on both full and Fuller House,
so clearly we saw the sign that it was time
we have her on the podcast. Please welcome our dear friend,
Marla Sokoloff.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hi, Hi, Hi, go hi.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You just jump into our interviews, so don't We're like,
don't expect anything.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Uh so, so here we are. Yeah, we're not very formal.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I think we failed to inform Gary of that last
time we were just talking.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He's like, what is this happening.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
We're like, oh yeah, yeah, but when are you gonna start?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
He started the interview.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yes, it's over, So, Hi, Marla, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Guys, how are you I miss your face?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I miss you too.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We miss you. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, we don't see each other as regularly anymore since
the end of Fuller House, which makes me very sad.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We have to remedy this.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
We do, right, And I feel like, Jody, you live
like so close to me. I don't know how it happen.
I mean I've run into you a couple of times
that like sushi.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
That's true. Yeah, we'll run into each other like in
the neighborhood sort of.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
But yeah, it's so it's.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Like it's like anything, like you become an adult and
you're like, we live so close. Oh my gosh, I'll
see you. And then four months later you're like, hey,
I still haven't you, but I'm gonna We're gonna do
it eventually one of these years.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So yeah, I know it's and you have three kids now.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Right, so you've added a child since you saw you.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
COVID was a funny time. Guy's some really silly things. Yeah,
it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Like Monday morning comes and I am so tired, Like
I think three kids mondays, Like who would have thought
that Monday's a vacation, But it comes, and I like
send the other two to school and my wonderful nanny
shows up.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And I'm like, oh, I could get something done today.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
This is so exciting, right, Okay, how old are they now?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
So my oldest is about to drink twelve okay, my
middle is almost nine. And then the littlest one is
going to be two on Tuesday, not tomorrow, week from tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh my goshsh wow.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
And it's Harper, not Harlow. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I get her name wrong every time I text you
or talk to you, or talk to him our mutual friend,
Kim Moffett, I'm always calling her Harlow for some reason, Harper.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Somebody, some celebrity I think Nicole Richie or something has
a Harlow.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
She does have a Harlow.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, my best friend has Harper, So I will remember that.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Oh okay, perfect.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, I love that name. I love Harlow too, I
was saying to Andrew. It was on my list of
names I liked. So it's a great name. Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And what what's it like going back to the beginning
of parents, her motherhood, parenthood, you know, with a brand
new one.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
I will say, the most amazing part of it is
the first round for me. I don't know how you
guys were with when your kids were little. But I
don't know if I like enjoyed it as much. I
couldn't wait for them to be out of like the
baby stage. It was really hard for me, and I
was like more of like a stressed out mom. And
I was very surprising to everybody, but I was like,
I just want to get them to five, or I
(03:51):
just want to get them to you know, like preschool
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Body that's usually the funny just yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Check check all these like milestones off the list.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And I we'll say with Harper, I've been more capable,
like I enjoy it more, you know, because I know everything.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Is so finite.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You're like, I know how quickly they get to nine
and twelve, you know.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yeah, yeah, So it's like this newfound appreciation for that
like very small amount of time that they're little, and
you know you could put them in whatever clothes you
want they're.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, dress them up ridiculous little outfits.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
She's never once rolled her eyes at me like my
tween you know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
So enjoy it now, yeah, as we know that's it's
so short lived.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Now you just got to get her to like Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
I know that she's not a fan, so guess where
we're taking her for her birthday?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
No, you're not.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Everybody's like you're so mean. I'm like, she has to
get her shit together. I'm sorry, Like.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's like get her birthday? What is what's happening? She
she just doesn't like, she's just not.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
What I think.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
It's just too much like overstimulation again. And she's in
that phase where she doesn't want to be in her stroller.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
She wants to like.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Walk, which is the worst thing at Disneylan because you're
like you but you can't. But there's all these things
that you want to go walk and do. But if
I let you down, you're gonna get trampled by angry
parents with strollers. You're gonna wind up fifty feet away
from me. Like, I don't know what can happen.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yeah, it's no.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
And I understand those parents that do the leash like
I'm not gonna do it. But I used to think
that was so cruel, but now I'm like I get
it because she's a runner. She you know, will keep
going and you know that like lifeless thing they do
when you try to put it right, the limp are
like yeah, which is I cannot, So I.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Like to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
When people try and pick me up too, I just
just dead wait and yeah, it makes it a lot harder.
So if you're ever, you know, if someone ever grabs you, just.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Wait, you'll be grand because it does, it does, noodle. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So anyways, so we're taking her for her second birthday
because I booked like the Princess breakfast and she doesn't
love like a Rapunzel breakfast, you know, like you gotta.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
She's gotta this Morn're gonna have to have a talk.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
She's at my house right now. Just for fun. I
have Mescal dressed up as a Punzel right now.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I can't wait to see that with the braid. He's like,
don't drag me, drag me into your crazy. He's like,
don't mention me in your insanity.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah yeah, leave him out of your princess costumes.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How are the older two with the youngest. Are they
good big sisters? Are they helpful or are they just
rolling their eyes all the time?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
You know, I would say they're helpful when they like,
you know, Ellie and my older daughter, she you know,
wants something right now at like Sephoras. So she's like
all babysit Harper for an hour, and I'm like great, Like,
you know, because I've ever put it on my kids
that like they have to babysit.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
It's not, you know, their responsibility, but they like to
work toward things, and I like to honor that.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
So yeah, that's that's a win win for everybody involved.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Everybody gets what they want.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
No, they're great with her. Two of them together is
becoming a little bit you know, Jody Hall far part
of your girls.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Uh like two years four months.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
So right now they're like a Zoe, You'll be sixteen
in April and b is thirteen, so they're like, yeah,
fifteen and thirteen right now. And they just now they
hang out all the time. It used to be they
were like ready to just kill each other, but now
now they like hang out and their friends and.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Okay, so I have something, I have some hope.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yes, But then what happens is that they turn against you,
so right, so it's yeah, they bond over over over
destroying you or being like oh my god, is it
mom crazy?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Mom's crazy? Right, and you're like cool cool.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
So like you'll start like one of them will be
saying something and you start to reprimand and then the
other one now jumps in in defense of them, and
you're like, wait, I thought you guys hated each other.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No, now it's like, well, mom, you're being so strict or.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Then they just start giggling like they don't say anything,
but they just look at each other and start laughing,
and you know it's at you.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
As a joke.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You're not in.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, that's great. I look forward to this. This sounds fun.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I said something to my daughter the other day, like
she was like so annoying me about something that I
just didn't feel like I deserved it.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I'm like, do you know? Do you know how lucky
are I have? Above? That's like so cool? I'm sorry, like,
I I'm awesome.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do I have?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I don't think I do.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
She's like, no, actually, you're the worst.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You're the worst. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
If it's like my daughter, like all of her friends
think I'm so cool and so great and they're so
nice to me, and I'm like, look, Felicity, c I
am cool.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
She's like yeah, but they're just being you know, the
mom is the mom is always meaner at home no
matter what.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
I'm actually the softy in my parenting journey, like my
husband's definitely more like I'm like, sorry, Dad, I'll talk
to dad.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I like to throw a ham on the under the bus,
like I don't want to be the one who everyone hates,
you know. It's probably my people pleasing problem in life.
So right right, yeah, speaking of definitely being.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The one that everyone hates. But yet it's there is
an extreme love hate relationship with Gia.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The fans love to hate Gia, love to hate her.
And so I'm so excited about this girl Talk reunion
we're having right now, because that.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Was my original pitch for the name of this.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Podcast was girl Talk, Yeah, which didn't happen, but yeah,
I know, I know, but we're having a girl Talk
moment right here.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I think that's maybe more niche.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's why we did.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
We were like, oh my god, people will get it,
and then we're like, well, some people will get it
and then other ones.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
We think we're playing that game from.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Like the late eighties that were you her game, But yeah,
probably is a great game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I loved it. I seem to remember there being like
a fake phone or something.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
It was like the most fun sleepover.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was also thinking of all Madness
another great game. Great game, yeah, just training us to
be consumers early. But anyway, people like really Gia I
think was one of the most like fan favorite characters
hands down.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Which is shocking because you know, she kind of came
out real strong in the Hatred Department. But I love
the way it was written, Like a lot of times
when people ask me, you know, did you know.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
That you were going to be on you know, for
eight episodes or nine episodes or whatever, and I know
it was literally one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Episode one it was the smoking episode was the first one, right,
we didn't know that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
No, definitely not and I don't I don't know how
it happened. But I love that they kind of wrote
her where she just effortlessly became your friend and there
wasn't ever any discussion about it. There was never like
we should be friends, like actually you are really nice
Stephanie or Gia whoever. So I think that that's actually
funny that they But it's also great because they kept
(10:57):
her like tough edged throughout the whole time, right, she
was still likable, So I kind of think that's what
people seem to relate to. I will say that, you
know now that we're all so old and we've been
doing this for so long.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Sorry, I'm kidding. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That's okay, it's okay. My backcount hail in my back.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I get recognized for that the most out of anything.
I've ever died thirty something years.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh yeah, what do people say when they do?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
They talk about the cigarettes?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
They they but yeah, I was like, do they ask
you for a cigarette? They're like, hey, can I bum one?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Is that just all.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
People do? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
The people and I have a cigarette. But people like
that is what they want to know all the time,
Like did you really smoke?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh yeah, that's my question.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Did?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I mean they weren't obviously you weren't smoking real cigarettes smoked?
Speaker 5 (11:46):
And I also remember those cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They were closed cigarettes and we would go and steal
them from the prop room.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We would go and we would really, we're actually being naughty.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Oh god, twelve year old girls with like yeah, and
they're like clothes cigarettes, which were also like the emo
version of you know what I mean. It was like
the like the goths and the cool kids all like
smoked clothes cigarettes because it wasn't you know what, it's
still bad it's not great for you.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Actually, I think clothes inhaling members like really bad or something.
It's great. It's yeah, it's it's none of it's great.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But anyway, we would go to the prop department and
we'd be like, you know, mission impossible, wait for someone
to like leave the proper room, and then we'd like
go over there and try and find the like you know,
the prop cart that had the closed cigarettes on it
to steal them and go.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And then we'd go.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
I had him like in my pocket, I had like
an army jack and they were in my pocket, and
I would like tell the guy I already gave it
to him.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yeah, you know, like I just took Yeah, like yeah,
what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Bad girls, bad thirteen year olds, That's what we were doing.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, but yes we did. We did that was we
did actually smoke those probably not.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So what does they Does it have a taste or
a smoke clover smoked anything?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So like yeah, yeah, those.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Are like it's like sweet glove smelling gloves smell nice cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Not Okay, they smelled it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you still have to inhale.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Well you're not supposed to like inhale it as much.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I believe you just did and then blow it out,
which is why they use it like sort of you know,
on camera and stuff, because you don't have to inhale
it as much.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's just more for them.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Did you guys happen to see Maestro by any chance?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I told you now.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
He smokes in every frame of that movie, and it
stressed me out so much, Like the whole time I
was watching it, I'm like, gosh, this is intense anyway,
the total change of subject, but just thinking of smoking
on camera, it was so much smoking. I just I
want to ask him. I don't want to ask him
anything other than like, were you okay? How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Let's give him a chest X ray and are okay?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Literally?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So, was Full House your first acting job or had
you acted before that?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:57):
I had done commercials up in San Francisco, and I
did a bunch of commercials up there, and I think
my mom had said like something along the lines of
we can go to Los Angeles because my agent in
San Francisco kept saying you should take her to LA
I feel like she did it, you know, have.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
A career there.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And my mom was very much not into it, but
I begged her and begged her, and she said, okay,
you get one month go to pilot season whatever this
thing is. And I want to say, like, one of
my first auditions was full house.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Do you remember the audition vividly or was you do
oh gosh, tell us everything?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeahs, I actually just I just recently told this story
on a different podcast, not a competing one, guys, don't worry,
just a random podcast acting asking me about.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh, I want names as the episode come out, yet
it'll never see the light of day.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Never.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But I remember I went to the audition and you know,
the casting director was so nice and just said, you're
so I love this read, but you have such a
sweet face.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
And I know what they want.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
They want someone who's like, you know, more tough, And
I said, I mean this is like, you know, the
balls of a twelve year old.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
I was like, I want to come back for the callback.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I promise you I will come back and I'll look different,
and she, for whatever reason, said okay, and my mom
and I went to the Salvation Army and I got
that den invest which I wound up wearing.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
In the episode.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Oh yes, and like.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
I had Doc Martin's I put those on and I
came in character, and so when they came into the
waiting room to get me, you know, she was like Marla,
I was like what, oh yeah, And I was in
character the whole time. When I went into the room
with Jeff Franklin.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And everything, the ga wow.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Like I, by the way, would never in my life
do that today, Like ever.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I would just be too worried that they would hate
me or think that I was being like, you know, attitudey.
But you know, you have different kind of confidence when
you're younger.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you're not self aware at twelve. So yeah, but
that is a bold choice.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I was mind and I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes, that's so great.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And you dressed the part and everything, and they ended
up using your wardrobe, your actual wardrobe in the show,
use my wardrobe.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Was it intimidating to go back in for the callback
or did you feel like you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You were like, I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I remember it was the same day, Okay, I think that.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Let's say my first audition was at like ten am.
It's just like fine, come back at three.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
So it was like just kind of a whirlwind of
you know, the process. And again it was one episode,
so I don't think it was something they put too
much thought into, and you know, it was just like, Okay,
this girl works, bring her in. But I was such
a fan of the show, you guys, that I think
in my head, I there was just no other option
(16:41):
for me, Like I had to get this job because
you know, like every other kid you know of that time,
every Friday night, I was there watching TGIF and I
it was so surreal to get the opportunity to actually
audition for the show.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Really, it's cool, that's right because a lot of a
lot of the people were interviewing were started on Full
House during the first season, so the show wasn't very
well known, but you came in in the later seasons,
so the show already had quite a following.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
It was the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What was it like being.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
On the set, like with all of us, Like we
kind of were this established family and we had our
routines and our things. So what was that like coming
onto the set with these people that already knew each
other so well?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I never felt I've been a guest on a lot
of shows, and granted this was my first, but I
can tell you looking back, I never felt like a
guest like you guys were so welcoming and obviously, like
Jody and I were the same age, and you know,
we were playing friends and we were friends and we
hung out, which was so fun.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Yeah, but nobody from like top to the bottom made
me feel like, oh, this girl's just you know, a
guest star. Like everybody was so amazing. And I told
the story on my Instagram when all passed away. You know.
I remember one day it was like Friday before the taping,
and you guys were all going to Jerry's Deli.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Is like, con let's go, you want to come? And
I'm like me, okay. You know, it's just so.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Exciting to like be able to do the fun cast
stuff with you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, you were part of the family from day one,
cigarette number one.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
From smoke number one.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Now I know there's also an interesting story that you
have connected to Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh yeah, in my mind, I didn't know this.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Danielle Official, uh you know, is one of the producers
of this podcast as well.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, Danielle and Jensen to help produce this podcast too,
And yeah I love Danielle and she you know started
on Full House. Uh, did the guest appearance. So yeah,
it's just like a fun, you know, small world.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
And then she and I did an episode I think
of Yesteryear or.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Something together after Full House. Yeah, right, so it's it's fun.
But I would love to hear the story of I.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Would talking the Topanga stories take story, yes, if you
don't want share, not at all. And honestly, when I
think of that story, now, you know, as actors, we
always think like I'm the best one for this part.
Of course I'm going to get it.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
But when I look back on every single job that
I didn't get, I know exactly why I didn't get
it and who was meant.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
To get it got it, you know. So I feel
like that's a perfect way to start this conversation. But
it was me and her on the show. Neither one
of us had the part of Tapanga. We were both doing,
you know, guest stars on the show. The original Topanga
wound up getting fired after the table read, and they
(19:38):
said to us, you know, to me and Danielle, it's
going to be one of you two. You're going to
play Tapanga.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Pressure.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
We're going to bring you guys to the network this afternoon. Yeah,
it was either this afternoon or the next day. And
I feel like Danielle remembers the story a little bit
better than I do, because she's like, I remember you
had to go to the airport because I was still
living in San Francisco, So I like, you know, flew
write to San Francisco for the weekend because my parents
were married, and yeah, they had us both, you know,
(20:06):
kind of not against each other, but essentially.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yes, competing for the part, right.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yeah, And she was so worried that I was going
to hate her, and I didn't. She was so great
and like even now, like I've told this story a
couple of times and Peo were like, are you do
you do you hate that you weren't to Panina And
I'm like, no, there was no other Topinka. I would
have been such a different to Panga, Like she nailed
that role that was meant for her. But yeah, it
was really funny I could have I was a second
(20:31):
away from being Topanga.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Wo.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Wow, what a different trajectory your your career would have had.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Right you come?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Was this post this was post full house? Yes? Or
kind of right around it was.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's a they start airing until the nineties, so well, so.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
No, there would have. I think there was maybe a
little there was some crossover. I think I think it was.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
I think it was a like it must have been
at the same time, yeah, because I wasn't on Full
House every episode.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, I feel like it was like season seven or
eight maybe that they started.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Yeah, I don't remember when they were on the air,
but that sounds remember. I did, like, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Can't all about the same age and they started, like
what in they're like middle school years, right.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
So I think, so, yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
But you were still on the episode.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I watched the clip where you're like you're like putting
a fish into a beaker.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
It's like a science class or something science thing.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Okay, Yeah, And I don't remember what the episode was
about or what I was doing. I just I remember
being there. And I grew up with writer. I've known
him forever. So that was another like really fun experience.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I was going over your biography getting ready for this interview,
and I like, I just know you was Marla, You're
our friend, You've been our friend forever, and I just
I didn't realize just how extensive your acting credits are.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Like there's so many iconic shows that you were on.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I just I'm going to name a few of them,
not just Full House, but the Practice.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I remember when we got the Practice. I was like, yeah,
I was so excited for you. My mom was like
happy fatch it. Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
So the Practice, Friends, Desperate Housewives, Seventh Heaven, Dude Wears
My Car, Party of Five, Third Rock from the Sun,
boy Me's World, step by Step, Home Improvement, and then
iconic films like Sugar and Spice, Whatever It Takes, and
The Babysitters Club. What Like, Marla, you are a huge
star from the nineties. I had no idea, like like, oh,
I don't know about that conic.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I definitely I was around.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Yeah, I remember doing Home Improvement and step by Step
like all in that same like Full House time period.
Like I really it was just like really horn it out.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I mean, you were making the nineties sitcom rounds, which
is funny because like even like I hear there's like, yes, dear,
I'm like we all like I did Party five, I did, Yes,
Like we all sort.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Of in that.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
You know, if you were around that age and you
were an auditioning actor, chances were you were gonna sort
of do the you know, the docy do around and
be on all of these people shows, and that's why,
like it's such a weird little club that we're in of,
you know, all that we know all these people. You know,
when like when taj Mawory was on the show and
(23:13):
Tea and Tamara before they had their show, they'd come
with him to set, and you know, it was like,
so we got to know them, and then they had
sister sister and their whole huge grow Like, yeah, these
funny little intersections of you know, all of us growing
up together.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yeah, it is crazy, and I feel like I love
that we're all and I don't know if it was
like that time period, but there isn't anybody. I feel
like we all get along so well, Like every time
we're all together, you know, like Danielle Fischel and.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, that whole grouping of people, Like it's so nice
to be reunited, you know, when we all go back
to our normal lives but then hang out and it's
like no time has passed.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, what was it like being on the set of Friends?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You played Joey Tribbiani's pregnant sister Dina, which I remember
this episode.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I was so impressed and starstruck.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
You know, it's so funny.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
And I got that job the same way I got
or Danielle got to Panga. The girl who originally was
Dina got replaced after the table read, and they brought
five girls in and it was so stressful, and they
had us all like sitting in the waiting room at
Warner Brothers, right, and they had to start that day
(24:24):
because you know, it's a sitcom obviously, so she probably
got fired on a Monday, and now it's Tuesday and.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We gotta get bad.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Wow. So they came into the waiting room and they
were like, okay, girls, thank you all so much. Marla,
would you mind just coming with us really quickly?
Speaker 6 (24:35):
And I have one of my best friends was one
of those five girls, and to this day she's always like,
do you remember the Friend's edition?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Remember a friend's audition? When they asked me to leave
and you got to stay.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Like, I'm still I don't know that slipped my mind.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I don't remember that at all.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
You were there, you know that was just a fever dream, yeah, right, right, right,
ex But it was another surreal experience.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
First of all, it filmed on the same stage as
you guys.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Know amazing Stage twenty four and it's magic.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Stage twenty four.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
And I was also such a huge fan of the show.
I had seen so Jennifer Aniston. I don't think I
even spoke to her because I was very starstruck and
just wanted her to think I was like, the easiest
guest star has ever been on the show. So I'm
like kind nice to me, Like.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I blend into the wallpaper, I will perform my scene
and then I will not be here, right, yeah, you're like,
and then I will not bother you at all, unless
you want me to bother you, and which case I
will bother you.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I remember I saw Matt LeBlanc at like a charity
event a couple of years after that, and he was like, Marlow,
what's going on?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
And again I was like me, Marlow.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Hi, Oh are you so good to see you? I
love that you know me.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's so sweet. Oh.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I noticed you had a really thick New York accent
in the episode.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Was that your idea or was that the director?
Speaker 5 (25:49):
No, that was it was a requirement for the job.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
I mean, when I look back on it now, I go, oh,
if I would have had more time, I probably would
have hired someone.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
To help me with that. You know, you just jump
in and do it and hope for the best.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, it was from New York, the British whatever. We
just go oh like now, okay, cool, right.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
There's no no research necessary, just jump on it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Make it work, make it work right, the Joe cast
to work right, right.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So, out of all of these guest spots, besides the
role of g out, what was your favorite role to play?
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Any sure to say that we were her favorite, but well,
I mean that's just a s.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I was like, yeah, so what's your favorite?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
No pressure, no pressure. We know it was Ga, But
besides that, besides.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
The best I mean, okay, so yes, obviously Gia for
so many reasons.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
But I would say Friends. That was so surreal and
so fun. And you know those two shows. I don't
think that they could rerun them more if they tried.
I mean, just that one episode of Friends, I swear
is on every week.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Do you know that I've never seen an episode of Friends?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I want to smack total I know it hurts.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
It hurts when she says that.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
I know, but you don't want to or you just
is it like, because you know, I've never seen Star Wars,
and at this point, I feel like I'm not gonna
start at forty three.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I'm not dark enough for it's not dark enough. It's
you know what, I'm not a huge sitcom fan. Ironically
I am not.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I know. It's I yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You literally played one of the most iconic sitcom characters.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
This is always the thing people, And I'm like, I know,
and I just not my not my vibe, but I all, all, yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
That's really funny. My husband, when I met him, he
wasn't a sitcom guy either. I'm sure he still isn't,
but he had never seen Full House, and when people
were always asking, oh, it's your girlfriend Gia or we
would be on public, like are you on Full House,
He's like, I never saw this show.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It must be really good.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
You're like, yeah, it's popular.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah, a few people watched it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah, just a couple, just a coupuple.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, let's let's go back to the to the Girl
Talk episode, the original Girl Talk episode where we created.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
A band and called Girl Talk We Are Song.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
The one song that we sang was I Saw the
Sign by a bass Did you Have? And you were
the bass player. So had you played guitar before did
you have to learn?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Did you hate play guitar?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Guitar?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Never a bass but I did play guitar, so it
was fairly easy to kind of figure out what we
were doing, Okay. I remember also those overalls that I
wore in the rehearsal scene were also my personal I
got them American rag so much, very big in the denim.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
They really liked your denim choices.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Clearly I was trying to really incorporate that into my
character choices.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But that was so fun.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
And I think that the Fuller House episode, the first
one that I was on, like that was that couldn't
have been a better idea.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh yes, it was reuniting, reuniting girl talk.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yes, that was so so much fun. I didn't know
how to play guitar, so you were like, this was easy.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
I was like, I was like, oh god, but I
had they you know, in a matter of like three weeks,
one of the rippers, Landy Cordola Uh who lived down
in Orange County by us, would come to my house
like two or three evenings a week and teach try
and teach me how to play guitar, which bless his heart,
he did as best as he could. I just was
(29:21):
not a great guitar, but I could get through it,
you know. But again, luckily we didn't have to be
great because I wasn't. But it was, Yeah, it was fun,
good enough make it, yeah, exactly, it was.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Enough well, and the girls weren't really focused on being
good at their musical instrument instruments. You were more focused
on the fashion and your outfits, so.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
As one should be.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
We did have do you remember going and recording I
Saw the Sign though, because we had Gary Griffin, the uh,
the the Ripper, the ripper with the red hair. Yeah,
but he.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Was the one.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
He did all like a lot of the music and
stuff for the show with uh uh, Jesse Frederick and
Bennett Salvat and but he did.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
He did the recording of I Saw the Sign.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
We had him on a couple of weeks ago and
he was talking about how impressed he was with our
ability to do I Saw the Sign.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
So yeah, I don't that's a blur.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
I don't remember that at all. I do remember the
episode where we were in a car and we had
to go to Griffith Park with Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
My gosh, who was Scott Scott White and who I
still like follow on socials and stuff, and he is
and he does a ton of like voiceover animation stuff,
right m M. And I forget who are other the
other person's name was, but I remember I can see
his face.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
That was so much fun.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It was the It was the episode where we meet
the boys and we go for the joy ride and
we're like in, you know, in the backseat of a car,
and I am like, I.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Don't think we should do this, and Ga is like bye.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Bitches and take off and grow up like you're like
a year lame and then like you nearly died in
a car accident.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, but that was Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I remember how much fun we have with that episode
because it was scenes with like just the four.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Of us, and they were they were a little bit
older too.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I think they were like sixteen maybe and we were
I was like thirteen, but it was we were still
like it was young people.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
And I was always like, yay, so excited.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Every time I drive by Griffith Park in that little
area where we were going up and down, I'm like
I think about it every single time. But I would
say that's the it's an episode I get asked about
a lot because it was kind of like, you know,
it's a very special episode.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Right, very right, right right, don't get in the car
with strangers.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Don't do that, like a stupid idea. That one and
then the other one sticks out in my mind as
to being the most stressful thing I've ever done, which
I'm sure Jody will agree, was the makeout party.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Oh I don't even remember the man member the makeout party.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I have blocked it from my brain.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
You got to watch the makeout party.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Oh, we're going to We're going to get there. We're
going to get through all the episodes. So that's the
thing too, Like there's some that I haven't even I'm like,
oh my god, I forgot about the makeout party.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
So you and I had never kissed a guy before,
Like we were may maybe a peck, but like a
makeout And you know, obviously we were so wholesome.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
We weren't going to make out parties.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
And right now, God comes to he was something like that,
this terrible behavior.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
I don't think makeup parties. I don't think we're a thing.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It wasn't like like you just what you had like
a party, and then everyone started out because it was
you're in like a specific eighth grade and everyone was
just a walking hormone.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
But yeah, Danny was dating my mom.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Right, Oh my god, that's right. I forgot that Danny
dated Gia's mom.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
And you lied, of course about where you were. And
then she came home and I was making out on
the couches. People just make it out everywhere, and it
was very.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Stressful, so stressful.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Oh yeah, that's over.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Was that your first?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Was that your first on screen kiss, first in gen
real life kiss or yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:15):
I think I had, you know one of.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Those, right, And there's nothing more awkward than on screen
kissing anyway, even as an adult, because you're like, it's
just weird.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Literally still hate it so much.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Right, and yeah, and doing it as a kid. I
think Rusty was my first little kiss. One of the
the episode where and I take a bite of the
onion and then I and then I kiss him.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I think that was my first one.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
You took a bite of an onion, that's right.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, and I kissed him on the like a New
Year's episode. But yeah, that again, was like, I think
that was my first like lip to lip interaction.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
It is stressful. And then the fact that your parents
are That's really what it stands in the audience. Yeah,
could it be more mortified?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You're kissing in front of two hundred strangers and your parents, like,
come on, and you have to do it over and
over again too?
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Over it all week? Yeah? No, it was.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
I feel like it was last week. It was so
stressed out about it. I hated that episode.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Have you kissed a boy yet? I mean, I know
you have three kids, and.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I'm still working, still working.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Through it, still working through it, right, I have children,
But I know, no, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Now, what about this episode where you guys wore crop tops?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Was that stressful to wear crop tops at the time?
Do you cringe when you watch it?
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Now? Cringe? I'd kill for those apps. We have no idea.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Literally, would just like murder for it to just so
freely wear a crop top without being like a baby,
you know, or like doing a thousand sit ups.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Just hey, I do remember reading it though, like because
you know you're in that awkward phase of like you're
twelve or thirteen and like your right bobs are growing.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Yeah, everything feels weird, right, But.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
When I look at pictures now, I'm like, wow, who knew? Right,
good time to be alive.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah, I would never now do that, Yeah I do.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I do remember the crop Tops though, because that was
like it was, that was adventurous for for Full House, I.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Always I did love that.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Steph got to be kind of the boundary pusher a
little bit, you know what I mean. As far as
the three girls, she was the one that you know,
was kind of getting into a little bit of trouble
and stuff. But it was fun and it was it
made for some great, very special episodes.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I mean.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
And even think about the smoking, like that would never
pass today. You won't see that on any sitcom Kids smoke.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Yeah, maybe it's always sunny, but that's but that's not
like a.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Wholesome family show.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
I just don't think that would be passing any sort
of you know, uh Q, what is it called.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I don't know, standards, S and P standard to practice.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
It wouldn't it wouldn't pass that, So I don't know.
I just think it's quite shocking.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean, we were running around in crop tops,
smoking cigarettes, getting in cars with boys.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
What were we doing look at the makeout parties.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Going to make out parties?
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yeah, ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Geo was a lesson and what not to do?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Like she was like that you were your character existed
to create like this moral code on Full House of
all the things.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Although a lot of people are like, your character got
me to smoke?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
But why did she make it looks like so much fun? Yeah?
She made it look so good, you know.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
Glamorized it.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
It's Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Well, we could talk and probably sing and fake playing
guitar with Marla all day long, but since there's so
much ground to cover we had to break this episode
into two parts for all of you. So thank you
so much for listening to part one with Marla Sokoloff
and join us tomorrow for part two. And if you
guys want to follow us on social media, make sure
and check.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Out at how Rude Podcast.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
You can also send us an email with questions with answers,
because I'm sure we've probably gotten some things wrong on
some of the trivia of the show, and we'd also
love to hear your questions so we can ask answer
them in some of our minisodes. Anyway, email us at
how Rude podcast at gmail dot com and we will
(37:13):
see you next time for more fun on how Rude
Tanerto's And remember everyone.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
The world is small, but the house is full. You
saw I hesitated. You saw me though, I was like,
but I did it.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
You have to come up with another another. I saw
it in your face.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I saw it. You were like, but you did it.
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