September 16, 2024 • 45 mins
Reunited, and it feels so good! It's a Melrose Place Reunion at 90s Con!
Laura and Daphne reconnect with Josie Bissett and Grant Show for a fun-filled Q&A and trip down memory lane, including cringe-worthy Melrose memories, interesting kissing scenes, their very first paid acting gigs, the guest actors that impressed them, what they took from the Melrose set and memorable fan interactions . . . like when Grant got bitten at a nightclub!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, So this episode, we're going to do something a
little bit differently.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Laura and I are here at Nineties Con in Florida.
We're missing Courtney.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This week, but we have some very special return.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Guests and we're going to have a great conversation with
Josie and Grant coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Like I said, we took our show on the road
and we're here in Florida at the Nineties Con together
celebrating with all the Melrose fans.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Still the place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And Daphne's Aniga and iHeartRadio podcast. So Laura and I
are just thrilled that we're all doing this Nineties Con,
and so we thought it was a great excuse to
get all of us together. And Laura's come up with
a really cool game. I hope, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Are you sure you don't run a small country somewhere.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's kind of like that famous last words.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We just do differ of things on the airplane. She
came up with a game with flashcards and sharpies, and
we're going to go aside, but I just wanted to
check in with you guys, here. We are in Florida
for the Nineties Con and I just want to check
in and we'll just see how you guys are doing,
and then we're gonna dive into this game. Okay, each
(01:19):
other's question. So, Josie, you want to just let us know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
How are you last week? Spoke because it's not been
that long.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I had been that long. I was in the car. Yeah,
the next day in the car. Yeah, right, like I
what are the chances? Right, like right before a podcast,
I'm like getting on because I was so prepared to
the zooms. Everything's up to date. And then it was
like going around and round and round. Anyway. I feel
bad about that because the sound wasn't great at certain points,
(01:48):
but I'm not great for our show.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And we're so happy person. Yeah that was hard.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To you through the phone, and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I'm good. Yeah, all is good. Living in the woods,
living living in the woods, as Tom. Tom's good. Tom's
in Atlanta, Yeah, very Yeah. So Mason and Maya, my
kids are now finished with college, Mason starting his masters,
is going to go into nursing. But they're home and
so it's a little bit like juggling that life again.
And then he's got his three kids, My step kids
(02:19):
are all in Atlanta, and yeah, so it's just full,
busy life. But yeah, I'm all is good, so happy
to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What do you guys think of this podcast that we've
been doing. We've had you both on.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you like one of these girls? You're willing to
come back?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Which is great?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's way better in person. We I mean for us,
it's like the best excuse to see you guys, and
like have you here and we're just so grateful that
you're that you're back.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's been really fun seeing you all, Like so many
years went by, but it's just been really kind of great,
like reconnecting and.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Know and how are you doing, Grant, you're in playing
golf and tennis.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really life is good in a dad camp every day
life was so great.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Now my wife's out in California working, so I'm single
parenting right now. But I love it. I love doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's why we grabbed you because you came to LA.
We're like, oh you're in l A, come on by Burbank.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
When we were talking, you were he had just finished
he was like, God, it's so hot here and he
had just finished roller roller skating.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Right, yeah with the quads. Is that what they're called
the four wheels, not the inline right?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No actual roller skate.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, my daughter she goes to school about two and
a half three miles away from my house, and you
can take the belt line, which is what used to
be this light rail system for delivering produce and meat
and stuff in the city goes all in the city. Yeah,
so I can take the belt line all the way
to her school. So I roller skated down there and
my roller skates that I bought because she wanted me
to get roller skates, and I kicked roller skated home.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So it's really good by now because years ago you
sent me a picture of her or a video of
her roller skates.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
No, the thing about go down the thing about that
will tell me, like, you know, I'm the best roller
skater in the family.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, sure you are.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's good to have confidence.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the thing about that belt line is like it's
it can be super busy with like go on the.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Belt line weekend will not go yeah after like you
know four or four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No skaters, bikers, walkers.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, this is now, this is how you know I'm
really old. Get those electric schools, electric bikes off my lawn.
Get them out there. It's like they're going thirty miles
an hour, get them out.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So many things like that though, right, don't you have
so many things of that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
When you're got the world in general?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, so this is actually a really good segue into
this idea.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Like you talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Being a dad and like, oh, I'm roller skating. I
don't think that Melrose fans would ever have been able
to in j Canson as like the roller skating dad
Grant is at this point, what Daphnie and I've been
learning is like through this podcast and everything, it's an
opportunity for us. We're getting to know each other better
sort of like just as adults in you know, these
(05:14):
years of our lives, and the fans are enjoying getting
to know us as people that's separate from the characters.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So the idea of this game.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That I thought would be fun for us, it's just
sort of along those lines, like just sharing our thoughts
about our own opinions as they relates to Melrose or not,
but like in a way to get to know each
other better and but also like to share, you know,
stuff with the fans.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So first question, here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So, yeah, I always do worry that I've actually shared
my real opinions that will be canceled in a second.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I don't think. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think
you're going I don't think you're at risk. I think
you're good. But what we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Is like if there's a deck of cards here with
questions on them, and we'll each get a chance to ask,
but we're all going to answer, so it's not like
one person has to be on the spot, right, So
I'll ask the first question, and then Daphne will answer,
than Josie will question, Grant will answer, and then I
will answer it, and then I'll pass the deck and
she'll ask the next question and we'll answer.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know, we'll answer. So nobody has to be on
the spot and you get to you know, you could do.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think she does protests too much. Over here. You
are talking this up so much that I know some questions.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, so let me give you a night, let me
be fine. It all right, you can quit it anytime.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Here's an example. Here's the first question. Okay, and you
teet us up really well. The first question is what
hobby or interests do you have now that might seem
incongruous with your character on Melrose Place, Daphney.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I mean everything was in congruous. I was much more
like Joe back then. Everything is in congruous to Joe
to me now. But and one thing that I do
that I don't think Joe ever did was I have
cocktails and back ammon at five o'clock every night.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The ice gets clingked into the glass. Well, I do
live with and am married to a man who's a
decade older than I am, so he started it and
I oblige so literally, and I take naps, So.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, those are great.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
We turn on the Tony Bennett. We literally wherever, we.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Bring a travel board with us, back emmon wherever we are,
and the world can be going to hell in a
ham basket, and we're like, okay, spritzers please and back emmon.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Love it's good.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah. So Jane, So Jane, to remind everybody, was a
fashion designer, and I actually also wanted to be a
fashion designer, which is crazy. But what my life. I
love camping and I love I don't love showering. I
know that sounds gross and stuff, but it's a hassle.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, this is a revelation general.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I mean I like at all.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I mean I clean, I don't. I like baths, but
I don't like to get wet in the whole thing.
Like I'm just oh, I know, yeah, yeah, maybe you
don't even I mean, yeah, and I don't. Yeah, I
don't mind being dirty. I don't mind like just being
(08:31):
in the woods and feeding the deer and the deer
like I got the deer like almost eating out of
my hands. Oh yeah, it's pretty cool. But I do
show I am a clean person. I just don't. I don't.
It's not something I love to do. Yeah, I wish
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I do shower, Yeah, every day. I think sometimes
Jake might have showered, so that yeah, that's not that's
not in Kongaroos. No, like, very very different. I was
like Jake, you know, I was riding riding. I was
(09:06):
I've been riding motorcycles since I was eight, so you know,
and I was angry and you know all that stuff.
But now I have a family and most of my
time is spent with my daughter. If it's if not
if I'm not playing tennis or golf, which are definitely
not Jake sports. I spent a lot of time with
my daughter, you know, single parenting right now because my
(09:28):
wife is working out in California. So that's also a
thing that that is kind of a Jaky though. Jake
is kind of like that. Jake is definitely he was
into his kid.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think the roller skating is a little bit non.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah that's non Jake.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
That's not me really. That's like I put the roller
skates on and my first thought is like, oh god, yeah,
this is really going to hurt. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, all right, I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
The roller skating is probably The roller skating with my
daughter is probably most.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think we're gonna need a photograph of that so
that we can really say Grant not Jake.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I bet they are.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
They are black, and I have like I don't remember
the wheels look like.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But we're you gonna pound out the exhaust pipes like
we did on the Harley.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You were like, they're black.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They have.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
They look I look like I'm in the roller Derby.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I love it a little Jake. Okay, So uh, I
guess my answer is so funny. I haven't really thought
about answers. All I did was think about questions. So
now I have to think about an answer. What hobby or
interest do I have? So Sydney was a little bit
of a wackad do and a little bit of a chameleon.
And I would say, maybe the things that might seem
incongruous is I'm sort of a dork and like I
(10:51):
like to I like like, I like to make up games,
I like to knit, and I like to be crafty
and like and I played classical piano. And I guess
those things don't see what I mean? You didn't know
that when I make the time I started, I.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Started learning, I'm not very good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Idea, so much forgetting to.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Know, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I guess that's that's sort of the point.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But I think those things are probably incongruous with how
people saw Sydney.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Here's a new question. What is your favorite or weirdest
fan interaction?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So Josie favorite.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
For some reason, this just it's not super funny or weird,
but it's still consistent with my sister and I joke
someone had come up to me in the mall and
we were together, and she was like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
God, are you Jody Beetti.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
So to this day she sometimes still calls me Jo
I love it. That's hilarious. I hope, yes, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I had one me once.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh yeah, you had a fan bite you, yeah, nibble
your ear my hand.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I was, I don't, And he wasn't really a fan.
I was. I think it was at a nightclub and
it was like booths, and I was in a booth
and there was a woman behind me who was a
fan of the show, and she was kind of leaning
over and wanting to get to meet me and like,
you know, all that stuff that they do. And her
boyfriend was with her and he I could see he
was not happy about this. And my kind of way
(12:28):
of handling that has always been to introduce myself to
the boyfriend and sort of give him a lot of attention.
So I reached over and I said, hey, how you doing.
My name is Grant. What's your name? And he took
shook my hand. He said my name, and he went
like this, he don't know if I can do it.
Hevery so he's you know, there's a booth here. He
takes my hand and kind of goes like this and
he bit my hand. I did not break skin, but
it was like, that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Is super weird.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, huh, he was not happy.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Was he like drunk or something in this club?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean he probably was.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I don't know, but you think.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Never forgtten because that is supermo It was in was
like somewhere in.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Back in the day. Was this back when the show?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I think I was no longer on the show. I'm
pretty sure it was what I used to race cars.
So I traveled around the country a lot, and it
was like in one of those like bar racing downs.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wow, wow, you guys win first of all, and nothing
like that.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But trying not to laugh about the bier.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
What's your story?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So I'm still laughing.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Up bitten?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, so mine is mine is weird, but not that weird.
I was doing a movie on location and uh, a
local person came up, you know and whatever, like just
when you're not quite shooting and whatever, you're just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But and he was shirtless and he's.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Like handed me at sharp and.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He's like, can you sign my chairs?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You know were.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Texas? So that threw me, and yeah, that was weird.
But I have to say that what did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think I went and I think I might have
like said I'm okay with like maybe your arm, but
like that, I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Know, and I was like very young. I felt really weird.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I was very My first thought was like was their hair?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
And then I.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Did not make but the other the other thing you
actually might remember this. I had a very I don't
know if you guys have this experience I have. There's
one fan early on when I was on Melrose was
sort of the height of Melrose made an art piece
from a photograph out of of me, out of macaroni,
(14:53):
so that I mean that was as a crafty person,
I'm impressed by this sort of ingenuity, but it was
like that's kind of it was, yeah, like a mosaic
of macaroni that was tinted.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You did remind me of one. I did meet someone
at a comic con, which I do a lot of
them for Spaceballs, and he came up and he had
a tattoo of Princess Vesta's face on his leg and
his last name was Schwartz made the Schwartz be with you,
(15:26):
So we had that there. He was just I've never
seen someone he had very muscular cats.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I remember it was somewhere definitely.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean it was a big old tattoo. So yeah,
but I was trying to that's kind of it. I
mean it's good. Yeah, that counts.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Per Fan.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Jose your next, Okay, what.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Was your very very very first acting job.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Grant goes first.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh, I was Baby Jesus in the in the you know,
the church. Of course, you were Nativities?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Does it? I should have clarified on the card. What
was your very very.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Very professional.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Because it comes as no surprise the Grant played Baby Jesus.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
However, it's where the complex comes from.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Still with you still care?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh? Yeah it was Ryan Hope.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
That was your very very very first paid acting Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, I was still in college. I had done a
play i'd done as you like It. I played Sylvius
and an agent came and saw the back when agents
used to actually go out and seek out actors, saw
it and asked me to work with him. Signed with him,
and I was like, I'm not going to get anything,
but I should probably I'm going to be out of
school on a year. I probably should go get some
(16:54):
practice auditioning. And while I was doing these auditions thinking
I wasn't wouldn't really ever get one. I got one
and so amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So of course, when he was at U C l A,
which I was at too, you were in the main
stage production of As You Like.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It, Lee Aronson played the fool. I remember the fool's name.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A lot of our our Tim Robbins went to our years,
A lot of guys and gals who went, you know,
well we were in Los Angeles and yeah, started working
and stuff a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
The woman played Phoebe went ended up going to Juilliard,
who went to Juilliard from there I can remember name anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right, well, my very first act game, I'm just
going to interrupt right now and tell you what was
because it was really important and I was dying to
get to it. Okay, well it's not I'm joking. It
was not important. It was a Depth hair commercial. Remember
Depth Hair?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh yeah, drug store? Yes brand?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So in La.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yep, were you?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I did a geordas ad while I was.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know what. We may have seen that we made
yes on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Maybe r and sharing that because share this. We may
have just unearthed that and watched it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So that was after Ryan's Hope.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I was probably on Ryan's hope maybe two months.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Geord, right around the same time Baby I.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Was twenty one or twenty two.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, h wow, all right, so daf yours first paid,
first paid?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Okay, Well, I did a year of summer stock right
after high school and I got paid ten dollars a week.
Nice for this summer stock production company in New England.
But then when I came out to UCLA, my first
paid job was a horror film for Paramount called The Initiation.
(18:49):
I have founds out there for The Initiation. I show
up at these things and I played evil twin, an
evil twin sister, and a good twin sister, so I had.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
To go after.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It was a great It wasn't Baby Jesus, but it
was great to play twins because this was an eighty
nineteen eighty three and they didn't have like all the
CGI and you had to do split screen, so I
have yourself with myself, so it was really so it
was great. It was really fine.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, would you do a summer stock thank you for
your ten dollars?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
For ten dollars, I was it was actually maybe that
would count because I was in the It's a really
embarrassing story.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It's a first job. There's nothing embarrassing. It was really embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, okay, I'll just tell it quickly. So I auditioned
for them and they were like, you know, we're a
musical comedy.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I said, well, I'll do the song from Oliver and
they said, okay, you're a fine young actress because I
did a scene from I did a monologue from the
Glass Menagerie. And the producer director said, you're a fine
young actress, but you can't sing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Said that to you, Yes, everybody can.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We'd like you and our company this summer, but we're
going to put you in the choir and we'd like
you to lips night to mouth.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So but that's all you did, was that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But they wanted you, and they paid you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
They wanted me, and it's amazing. I didn't act. You
just said you're we just want you in. I guess
he was just encouraged. I was seventeen. He's like, we
want you in this company all summer. I'm going to
pay you ten dollars a week. Like your look, and
I like the look, but we don't want you to
actually sing in our musical, Let's.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Hear you sing? Can you really not sing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
To yourself at home?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
City?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yourself part of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Okay, well, if you want to hear it, listen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I like singing.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Great, It's a story.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hard thing.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We should have asked, like, what was the most embarrassing
thing that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think that might be coming. You'll have to have
another one. No, you shouldn't be embarrassed though.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Just commercials. Then my very first paid was and It's
Got Me. My sagcard was a Ford. I was like
a little teenager earl seventeen eighteen in the back. I
just remember putting my headphones on and that got in
a car like it was a Ford, yeah fan car
from huh yeah. But one of my first acting jobs
(21:17):
that was, oh my god, I had had so much
fun is with Doogie Howser and I think I was
eighteen or nineteen, but I played four characters within it
because he had all these dream sequences. Oh yeah, I played.
So when he first sees me, I'm the normal the
character and she's like, you know, just like kind of Jane,
but like a young Jane headband and she's like doo gee,
(21:40):
oh yeah. Actually do yee. I can't believe it's you.
I still remember the line.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I'm wrong, go ahead, I remember something good.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, you don't remember anything, that's why. And the girl
and the show was about jealousy and then the girlfriend's
like looking at him, and then he was like no, no,
she's just a friend. And then he goes into his
dream sequence and I'm like Madonna and I like leather coat,
really curly hair, and have to find he. The scene
(22:10):
is he grabs me and he turns me and then
we kiss and he dips me back. But you guys,
he and I'm so new to all of this. He
put his hand, so they did it where he filmed,
and he put his hand over his mouth and my mouth,
and it looked.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Like he kissed his hand. He kissed his hand.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He was his own intimacy, made sure that he wasn't
actually you were s yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Well yeah, I have no idea. He was young though, too, but.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I was like twelve, said the person you've heard, but still.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Only was a kind of a professional move, Like yeah,
I thought so too. I had a kissing scene with someone,
a grown up and he like did listerine constantly.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I was sharing kissing moments.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We were all always liked. Yeh the banaka, well that
sometimes after the tuna, like every once in a while. Yeah,
that tune in the morning.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Courtney was talking my favorite thing to talk about. All right,
so we made it. But grant remember I.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Did one line on Young and the Restless. I said, thanks,
miss Abbott.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That matters awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
All right, I'm going to be truthful and honestly I
love it.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I forgot my daughter to say, that's lying. Random.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, this is a random one.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh what is the last book you finished reading?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's a random question. Last book I finished reading.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's titled north Woods, and before that I finished it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Before that, I just finished James the Retelling of Huck
Finn also very good, highly recommend.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Nice yep, Well, uh gosh, I start so many I
have some money started.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
What was the last one you finished?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know I did finish some, but but I can't
remember which one. We might have to skip anyway, I
just started the art Thief. Yeah that's good. I will
finish that one, okay, but I'm just trying to think.
I know I just finished and anyways.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Not just answered one word was based on a true story.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, it's really cool. He's the the most art stolen
art thief in the world. He's stolen over a billion
dollars worth of art, and so it's based on a
true story.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
And he never sold a piece, never.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Sold a piece. He didn't do it for money. He's
this like French guy who thought that museums were the
worst places for art.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
They were like prisons for the artists.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And so he put it up in the attic where
he lived with his girlfriend at his mom's house in
the French countryside. And so they're describing from the beginning
his feeling and how he did it. And he worked
in a museum for a while just to learn where
the cameras are and what you know, the guards, their
sort of schedules, and he started out with little it's
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really good. It's really good because it's in his in
the psychology of him. And so it was in the
nineties and he and his girlfriend slash accomplice, got so
stole so much art and he never did any violence.
He never had to, like you know, sometimes they'll knock
out a guard and they'll like they've just stuck, but
(25:38):
not that nothing. Other thieves are like thugs and mop
and mobsters, and they will do whatever it takes. He's like,
he never did anything like that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
All right, well, we'll hold you to it and make
you finish this one.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
So I'm getting the giggles over here because I had
something really funny happened at the airport. And it's like,
when you're alone, you can't laugh with anyone. So I'm
gonna tell the story. So I was in the bookstore. No,
I was just in the gift star. I wasn't even
looking at the books and I and I laughed, and
I was going to my gate and my suitcase was
like hard to pull, and I'm like, what the hell?
And he looked down and I had somehow got a
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book under it, and it was like dragging along with me.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's like when you run over a code in your car.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
When I was like, maybe I meant to have this book.
So I didn't know, and I put it on the things.
Someone probably took it, but anyway, to be honest, the
last book I read was The Tickle Monster to my
niece and nephew.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And this is a book that Josie wrote a children's
book that I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yes, but I do audible these days. Right now I
am listening to I'm actually working on her work book,
The Byron Katie. The Work Yeah so good.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I love audio.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, one of two. I don't know which one. I
finished him in. Both run probably within days of each other. Once.
It's kind I think it was called The Hunter. It's
a Irish The Searcher no that I read a long
time ago. It's called The Hunter. It's a almost like
a detective ish kind of a thing. I don't even
know how I found it. Probably off of New York
(27:07):
Times read list.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, I think I had that on my.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Anyway, So that was just a novel. And I also
just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Who wrote that?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Did you ever read Open by Andrew Agassi? An amazing,
really amazing autobiography, not the last one I read. It
was out in the nineties, but it's so good. He
hated tennis, legacy, hated.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
His whole life.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Why would you do?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
I got to read it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
In the Game of Tennis is like it's it's a
sports psychology book. It's, yeah, trying to help you get
into the you know what other athletes would call the zone.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, you know, I want to read it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Good focus, it's good, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Okay, So I just looked up. I finished Ellen Hildebrand's
book The Swamp, which her last one, You're beat read? Yes, nice,
I've read a lot of her. She's from Nantucket and
she does a lot of my husband and his brother.
I've spent a lot of time and his brother still
lives on Nantucket. I was just there and they all
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know her, people like know her, and she does a
lot of gossipy stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Does she write the perfect Couple?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes, so she wrote that, But I want the song
is her?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I feel like you felt like you needed to defend yourself,
Like wait, I did, I did finish hold.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Well, I know, I hold you to it like I
wanted you to finish this one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like it sounds fascinating. We'll hold you to like I
can't wait to hear what happens in that one.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So that was all so cool? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So the next one, Uh, I'm going to ask what
was the soundtrack of your years on Melrose Place? Like
what music were you listening to in the car driving
to Santa Clarita for work?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Whatever? Heartbreak love song was love song going on?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Then?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's that's been the soundtrack to my I love life,
my whole life.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And even back then, like do you remember like searching
that feeling of driving to work, Like it was kind
of a long drive for all of us.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So I feel like we all sort of passed the time.
Oh I waited my lines. I was always working on lines.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Always want to run line.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Do you remember how long the drive was after the earthquake?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I'm mean, oh my god, you got stuck up?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, that was we had to go around the earthquake
damage for months. It was a long way there and
a long ways back to do that detour. But anyway,
I thought, you know, listening to music in.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The car, did you okay? Just's next? She was running lines? Okay,
running line about you? What was the soundtrack just going over? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I missed all the music of that era, Like I
went right from eighties to like minister listening to kind
of like you know, massive attack and trip hop kind
of music after that for a while, I kind of
missed that early nineties. I didn't really like grunge and
all that was happening now, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I have like a certain songs.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You know, it evokes the memory of like where you
were at what time or whatever. And we were just
reminded of the Mariah Carey album that came out like
in the nineties. I remember, yeah, like blasting music and
like trying to sing along with Maria Carre at high
drive to Santa Clarida, right, and then my other drive music.
I was sort of like stuck in the seventies eighties.
(30:21):
I had a lot of like a lot of vocalists
I like like Carly Simon and Jammy Mitchell, and I
was always listening to sort of vocalists and like singing
along in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The car and passing the time that that was.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Well, what what car did you drive when you were
first starting on molrows and what car.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Did you drive season three?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Or what did you drive in season three Joe's you go, gosh,
I think I had a Toyota for runner.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I don't remember all the way through.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
And then I think I had Alexa, yes, because I
was friends with the Penskes, Greg Penske and Patti Penske
and they would yeah. So I had a four winner
firsts and then I got a they like car dealership, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And grant.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I had an accurate legend when we started working, and
really quickly, maybe six or eight months, and I bought
one of the OJ Broncos that I drove for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh wow, and.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Wish I had never gotten rid of. And I drive
another Bronco.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now you do like a I knew it, A new.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Bronco, which I like that. I love it. I like
the OJ Bronco is way better. I mean, I missed
that car so much. I love, love, love love that, And.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You mean OJ Bronco just because the era and because
not exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Other things.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Just be clear what those of us.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Are it is.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Now that's great, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I was driving red Nissan CenTra with no air conditioning,
but really that I had driven out from across the
country from Iowa. When I moved to California, I drove
in a car with new air conditioning and I drove
it all the way till I got Membro's place. And
then when I purchased a car.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
By season three, I was.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Driving it was it might have been green from red
to green. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I started with a Ford Explorer. I was driving a
black Ford Explorer when I started, I believe, and the
the windows were tinted or at some point in there
I got them tinted. Maybe it wasn't right away, but
they were so dark, like limo black in the front
that I would get pulled over. And I got pulled
(32:42):
over by a cop once and he's like, pulls me
over and I'm like I'm sorry, and he's like, oh,
I can't give you a ticket.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
My wife would kill me.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
These are illegal, so get one, you know, a grave lighter.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And then I left. And then season three I was
driving a bm W. I think it was the five series.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
That was a series.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think it went three.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'm looking at you the guy.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, five series BMW and a Harley Davidson Sportster.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah. And it goes without saying that Grant was also driving.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But that was the first vehicle I bought after getting
Mao's place. Was I bought a Harley? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yeah. I had been riding a BMW really motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah that's what Greg lavro No triumph, try tryumph.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Are we on for the next one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Alrighty, okay, Which actors or guest actors impressed you or
perhaps even intimidated you on Melrose.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't remember anybody place.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
That actors, anybody you can remember anybody impressed you or
intimidate you, anybody that thought was really Coolmber.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Remember, I'm sorry. It wasn't supposed to be a memory test.
All right, I'll answer maybe.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That I don't know, but I will respond in my
own way, and maybe it'll spark a memory for you.
But my our parents were played by two fantastic actors,
Gail Strickland and Ken Howard, who later became the.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
President of the Screen Actress Gills Union.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
But I I remember Gail who played Josie and who
played Jane and Sydney's mother.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I just I found her.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
So I just thought she was so impressive and I
felt a little bit like nervous around her and stuff,
and I wanted I wanted to not suck around her.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I thought she was right.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
But Donna Mills, So was Jane adopted?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes, Jane was adopted.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Donna Mills was your birth mom, right, and that was
whole story.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, so revisit that at some point.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, were you intimidated or impressed by her?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Or No?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
I don't recall that being intimidated. Yeah, yeah, I'm still thinking, Yeah,
we were intimidating, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Maybe that's why, because you're still in your Jesus mode.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I think I had scenes with I think Parker Stevenson,
Oh yeah, and he was so nice and so fun
He just brought an ease, the opposite of being intimidated.
Like anyway, I just remember being very put at ease
and just directed.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
He was super He directed, he directed, he directed as well.
He was super nice.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
And I'm always impressed by those that come on and
just make it so easy, like they've been around, and
you know, I don't really remember being intimidated, but.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Maybe it was just me.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Maybe I'm the only one who really was likely to
be intimidated or impressed. But I mean it was my
first job, and so I was, like you always feel
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Of that throughout throughout it all. I I didn't work
with Jack that much. I think maybe twice out of
those seven years Jack Wager, Yeah, but the one scene
I did have with him, I just he was being
funny that day and I couldn't. I just couldn't do it,
like could. It's kind of like you and I but
not because we didn't have a relationship. But he was
and so I was. He was just making me laugh.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
And it was I ever worked with him either worked
with Jack.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh, he made everybody laugh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I worked with Jack also in two movies, two TV movies.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well I think, yeah, we did like to bring seven together.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, the wedding March homework. Yeah, that's right, that's.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Right, so fun all right, that's next. Next, I forget
what's in here?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
There's a lot of questions, Laura, I forgot what's in here?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
What if anything do you wish you could have taken
with you from the set of Melrose.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Or what did you take? I guess you can. You
can answer it anyway you like.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
You don't to answer it literally.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, funny again. I forgot to think about my answer
to this while I wrote that. But what what do
I wish I had taken? Okay, I'm going to answer it.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
What I did take?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I took the leopard print hat box suitcase that Sydney
had on the helicopter tarmac as she was saying farewell
to her love what's his name Carter played by Chad
Low and he was sort of leaving her behind, and
she thought she was in love with them so Sidney
looked pathetic and all leopard everything on the tarmac issues.
(37:30):
But I loved the little leather like round suitcase thing
and I took that.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, I mean I was given.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I think I was given.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It was very, very very and so I think it
was given permission. I didn't like steal it. Just to
be clear, what do I wish i'd taken.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I wish i'd had more wardrobe the hat. I wish
I had more wardrobe, but I didn't feel I didn't
feel like that was really a thing is back then,
is like being able to keep all the clothes, but
like I had some really fun.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
No, they can if you wanted it. I got so
much money.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I guess they just didn't know to ask. But I
didn't have a lot I wish I had.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But you seem closer to Jane than like, Yeah, I could.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
See I did not keep Sydney's commotioning. You had to
really you had a really cool look.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
See. I love That's the thing. Like I love clothes
no matter even if it's something I wouldn't wear. I
love keeping it for a roll or whatever. So I
will always take whatever whatever I can. So that's what
I took.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I mean, I've done a show since then that they didn't.
They don't let you let you buy for maybe a Yeah,
now it's like those days are gone. So what did
you take?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I think there were some clothes that I liked of
Joe's that I may have. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I think I remember saying to Denise our costumes, our costumer,
and she'd be like, I'm just going, I'm leaving the
trailer now.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I don't like I love this, you know, but like
you don't have a brick from the I don't have
a vial of water.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
All these things that have got access to I didn't
even remember that. I didn't, you know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I just remember feeling like so uh done.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Yeah, I didn't really want And.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Even now when I'm on.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Oh like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
If they're very sort of like pants or an outfit
that will go with anything, fine, But I don't really.
But I do wish I had just for a little.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Memento to something.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yeah, what about you, j just I would say the clothes. Yeah,
I wish I would have taken something maybe from make
me an object or something.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah, I thought of one since we've been talking the first.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Grand I guess, Harley, but I had one. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
You'd have liked to have that other, I guess, but you.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Know, really I don't as I'm sitting here thinking about it,
and I don't know what I would do with it.
But if I'm not mistaken, there was a on Shooters signs.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah and stuff like that, like little stuff like that,
or like, here's the thing I was thinking about is
the forty six sixteen of the Melrose address like this
tie oh you know that sort.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Of thing, like just something that says yeah the show.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, you know, when watching the show back for this podcast,
I love the interiors, you know, like in Alison and
Billie's apartment, it's just so kitchy and colorful, and like,
of course, in hindsight thirty years later, you're like, that
would be so cool just to have, you.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Know, posts antiques that we yeah, just weird.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It looks so much better than I remember it looking.
I'm just like, when I watched it for the last
time I was with you guys, just was like, this
looks way better than I remember.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I know, it looks really cool and yours, your apartment
with Michael.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
It looks lived in.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean right, it just looks and it all looks
so different.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Yeah, they all do. Yeah, I don't know. They did
such a good job. I was cracking up at the
last podcast you did, talking about like the office, the
fax machine and then having to move everything out right right,
like what we did for like moving all the different
scenes around and shooting in the like you said the office.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And by the way, when I don't know which podcasts,
so we were talking about the T shirts that they
would put on that Matt would wear, Doug would wear,
or maybe posters, political statements, rock the vote, medical statements. Yeah,
and I'm noticing them everywhere now on the shot.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
No, you didn't have T shirt stuff, but I'm noticing
things that we're very current.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Comment on the time. Yeah, yeah, and we were doing
it and we didn't know it.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
We didn't know.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Yeah, So I think there was a lot going on
there that we didn't know about.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I think a lot going on that we didn't know about.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
All right, we have time for one or two more.
Let's see what's in here. I forget what's in here.
The next question is do you have any specific Melrose
Place memories that still make you cringe? Any any storylines
or memories of like something you did or like, oh
it's still cringe when I think of that.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
It might just be me. I might be the only
one who has one. For here.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
The questions, I wait a minute, this is a revelation
of like what's in my brain is like I have
a moment that made me cringe. So I asked the
question of all of you, and you're like, no, do
you have one?
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Okay, they all go into a deep dark hold.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
OK, you're not you're not accessing, all right. I respect
that completely. Mine is so much more like cringey, but
like funny. So I will share and it is my cringey.
I'm sure there's the deep dark ones too that I'm
not sharing, but the one that I'm sharing it was
just hard for me personally and it made me feel vulnerable.
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Is like the scene of Sydney being a stripper, and
like I had to work with you know, like a
choreographer person ahead of time to work out what I
was going to, Like I didn't know how to you know,
do whatever on a stripper pole whatever, But the character
was supposed to do this whatever, and all the guys
were there because the we haven't gotten to it since
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season whatever three or four, whatever it is. But like
all the guys are there and they're supposed to be
having a bachelor party and they.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Witnessed Sydney having to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
It was it was all of that and so and
then the button on the scene is Michael chase the
Sydney outside into the alley and laugh in her face
about her having become a stripper. He laughs, his big
knee slapping Michael Mancini laugh ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And he's pointing at me. And I just remembered feeling
actual cringe.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
In my real life as and the character obviously had
to feel that same thing. But I remember that was it.
That was It was the nature of my character. Though
I had to do a lot of like some stuff,
I just went all right, let me just have fun
with this.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
That one actually like yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (43:51):
You had to expose yourself for you real friends and
then the guys and.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
We were just it was just trying to get it.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Was at a real strip.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Club and like so anyway, that's you didn't have to
be that. I can't remember, but like, you know, like
the guys had to be at some bachelor party and
so witnessing it, there were tons of people and I
just had to like take a deep breath and go, Okay,
I got to do this, And it was just.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
It was what is that vulnerability that makes me?
Speaker 4 (44:17):
I was working day and I remember it not on
in that scene, but I think it was in the
scene after that. So I was at the location getting
here in makeup done while you guys are shooting that,
and I remember feeling, this does not feel good.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
We got through it, and I, you know, I can
still sort of like look at it and appreciate it
for like that's the character needed to do that.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Whatever. It was just a hard thing for me as
an actress.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Okay, so you guys, that was fun. We're just getting started.
There's still some more secrets I want to hear later,
but let's go do some con and we'll be back
for part two.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Good, I'm not going Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Don't go anywhere. Well we were, it's still the place
Okay, So this episode, we're going to do something a
little bit differently.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Laura and I are here at Nineties Con in Florida.
We're missing Courtney.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This week, but we have some very special return.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Guests and we're going to have a great conversation with
Josie and Grant coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Like I said, we took our show on the road
and we're here in Florida at the Nineties Con together
celebrating with all the Melrose fans.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Still the place with Laura Layton, Courtney Thorn Smith.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And Daphne's Aniga and iHeartRadio podcast. So Laura and I
are just thrilled that we're all doing this Nineties Con,
and so we thought it was a great excuse to
get all of us together. And Laura's come up with
a really cool game. I hope, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Are you sure you don't run a small country somewhere.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's kind of like that famous last words.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We just do differ of things on the airplane. She
came up with a game with flashcards and sharpies, and
we're going to go aside, but I just wanted to
check in with you guys, here. We are in Florida
for the Nineties Con and I just want to check
in and we'll just see how you guys are doing,
and then we're gonna dive into this game. Okay, each
(01:19):
other's question. So, Josie, you want to just let us know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
How are you last week? Spoke because it's not been
that long.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
I had been that long. I was in the car. Yeah,
the next day in the car. Yeah, right, like I
what are the chances? Right, like right before a podcast,
I'm like getting on because I was so prepared to
the zooms. Everything's up to date. And then it was
like going around and round and round. Anyway. I feel
bad about that because the sound wasn't great at certain points,
(01:48):
but I'm not great for our show.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And we're so happy person. Yeah that was hard.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To you through the phone, and I'm good.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I'm good. Yeah, all is good. Living in the woods,
living living in the woods, as Tom. Tom's good. Tom's
in Atlanta, Yeah, very Yeah. So Mason and Maya, my
kids are now finished with college, Mason starting his masters,
is going to go into nursing. But they're home and
so it's a little bit like juggling that life again.
And then he's got his three kids, My step kids
(02:19):
are all in Atlanta, and yeah, so it's just full,
busy life. But yeah, I'm all is good, so happy
to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
What do you guys think of this podcast that we've
been doing. We've had you both on.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you like one of these girls? You're willing to
come back?
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Which is great?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's way better in person. We I mean for us,
it's like the best excuse to see you guys, and
like have you here and we're just so grateful that
you're that you're back.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's been really fun seeing you all, Like so many
years went by, but it's just been really kind of great,
like reconnecting and.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Know and how are you doing, Grant, you're in playing
golf and tennis.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really life is good in a dad camp every day
life was so great.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Now my wife's out in California working, so I'm single
parenting right now. But I love it. I love doing that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's why we grabbed you because you came to LA.
We're like, oh you're in l A, come on by Burbank.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
When we were talking, you were he had just finished
he was like, God, it's so hot here and he
had just finished roller roller skating.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Right, yeah with the quads. Is that what they're called
the four wheels, not the inline right?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No actual roller skate.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah, my daughter she goes to school about two and
a half three miles away from my house, and you
can take the belt line, which is what used to
be this light rail system for delivering produce and meat
and stuff in the city goes all in the city. Yeah,
so I can take the belt line all the way
to her school. So I roller skated down there and
my roller skates that I bought because she wanted me
to get roller skates, and I kicked roller skated home.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So it's really good by now because years ago you
sent me a picture of her or a video of
her roller skates.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
No, the thing about go down the thing about that
will tell me, like, you know, I'm the best roller
skater in the family.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yeah, sure you are.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's good to have confidence.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But the thing about that belt line is like it's
it can be super busy with like go on the.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Belt line weekend will not go yeah after like you
know four or four o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No skaters, bikers, walkers.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, this is now, this is how you know I'm
really old. Get those electric schools, electric bikes off my lawn.
Get them out there. It's like they're going thirty miles
an hour, get them out.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So many things like that though, right, don't you have
so many things of that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
When you're got the world in general?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, so this is actually a really good segue into
this idea.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Like you talking about.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Being a dad and like, oh, I'm roller skating. I
don't think that Melrose fans would ever have been able
to in j Canson as like the roller skating dad
Grant is at this point, what Daphnie and I've been
learning is like through this podcast and everything, it's an
opportunity for us. We're getting to know each other better
sort of like just as adults in you know, these
(05:14):
years of our lives, and the fans are enjoying getting
to know us as people that's separate from the characters.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So the idea of this game.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That I thought would be fun for us, it's just
sort of along those lines, like just sharing our thoughts
about our own opinions as they relates to Melrose or not,
but like in a way to get to know each
other better and but also like to share, you know,
stuff with the fans.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So first question, here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So, yeah, I always do worry that I've actually shared
my real opinions that will be canceled in a second.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I don't think. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think
you're going I don't think you're at risk. I think
you're good. But what we wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Is like if there's a deck of cards here with
questions on them, and we'll each get a chance to ask,
but we're all going to answer, so it's not like
one person has to be on the spot, right, So
I'll ask the first question, and then Daphne will answer,
than Josie will question, Grant will answer, and then I
will answer it, and then I'll pass the deck and
she'll ask the next question and we'll answer.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
You know, we'll answer. So nobody has to be on
the spot and you get to you know, you could do.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think she does protests too much. Over here. You
are talking this up so much that I know some questions.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Okay, so let me give you a night, let me
be fine. It all right, you can quit it anytime.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Here's an example. Here's the first question. Okay, and you
teet us up really well. The first question is what
hobby or interests do you have now that might seem
incongruous with your character on Melrose Place, Daphney.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I mean everything was in congruous. I was much more
like Joe back then. Everything is in congruous to Joe
to me now. But and one thing that I do
that I don't think Joe ever did was I have
cocktails and back ammon at five o'clock every night.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
The ice gets clingked into the glass. Well, I do
live with and am married to a man who's a
decade older than I am, so he started it and
I oblige so literally, and I take naps, So.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, those are great.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But it's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
We turn on the Tony Bennett. We literally wherever, we.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Bring a travel board with us, back emmon wherever we are,
and the world can be going to hell in a
ham basket, and we're like, okay, spritzers please and back emmon.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Love it's good.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Yeah. So Jane, So Jane, to remind everybody, was a
fashion designer, and I actually also wanted to be a
fashion designer, which is crazy. But what my life. I
love camping and I love I don't love showering. I
know that sounds gross and stuff, but it's a hassle.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, this is a revelation general.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I mean I like at all.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I mean I clean, I don't. I like baths, but
I don't like to get wet in the whole thing.
Like I'm just oh, I know, yeah, yeah, maybe you
don't even I mean, yeah, and I don't. Yeah, I
don't mind being dirty. I don't mind like just being
(08:31):
in the woods and feeding the deer and the deer
like I got the deer like almost eating out of
my hands. Oh yeah, it's pretty cool. But I do
show I am a clean person. I just don't. I don't.
It's not something I love to do. Yeah, I wish
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I do shower, Yeah, every day. I think sometimes
Jake might have showered, so that yeah, that's not that's
not in Kongaroos. No, like, very very different. I was
like Jake, you know, I was riding riding. I was
(09:06):
I've been riding motorcycles since I was eight, so you know,
and I was angry and you know all that stuff.
But now I have a family and most of my
time is spent with my daughter. If it's if not
if I'm not playing tennis or golf, which are definitely
not Jake sports. I spent a lot of time with
my daughter, you know, single parenting right now because my
(09:28):
wife is working out in California. So that's also a
thing that that is kind of a Jaky though. Jake
is kind of like that. Jake is definitely he was
into his kid.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think the roller skating is a little bit non.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah that's non Jake.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
That's not me really. That's like I put the roller
skates on and my first thought is like, oh god, yeah,
this is really going to hurt. Now.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, all right, I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
The roller skating is probably The roller skating with my
daughter is probably most.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I think we're gonna need a photograph of that so
that we can really say Grant not Jake.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I bet they are.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
They are black, and I have like I don't remember
the wheels look like.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But we're you gonna pound out the exhaust pipes like
we did on the Harley.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You were like, they're black.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
They have.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
They look I look like I'm in the roller Derby.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I love it a little Jake. Okay, So uh, I
guess my answer is so funny. I haven't really thought
about answers. All I did was think about questions. So
now I have to think about an answer. What hobby or
interest do I have? So Sydney was a little bit
of a wackad do and a little bit of a chameleon.
And I would say, maybe the things that might seem
incongruous is I'm sort of a dork and like I
(10:51):
like to I like like, I like to make up games,
I like to knit, and I like to be crafty
and like and I played classical piano. And I guess
those things don't see what I mean? You didn't know
that when I make the time I started, I.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Started learning, I'm not very good.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Idea, so much forgetting to.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
Know, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
I guess that's that's sort of the point.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
But I think those things are probably incongruous with how
people saw Sydney.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
So yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Here's a new question. What is your favorite or weirdest
fan interaction?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
So Josie favorite.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
For some reason, this just it's not super funny or weird,
but it's still consistent with my sister and I joke
someone had come up to me in the mall and
we were together, and she was like, oh my.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
God, are you Jody Beetti.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
So to this day she sometimes still calls me Jo
I love it. That's hilarious. I hope, yes, hilarious.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I had one me once.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh yeah, you had a fan bite you, yeah, nibble
your ear my hand.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I was, I don't, And he wasn't really a fan.
I was. I think it was at a nightclub and
it was like booths, and I was in a booth
and there was a woman behind me who was a
fan of the show, and she was kind of leaning
over and wanting to get to meet me and like,
you know, all that stuff that they do. And her
boyfriend was with her and he I could see he
was not happy about this. And my kind of way
(12:28):
of handling that has always been to introduce myself to
the boyfriend and sort of give him a lot of attention.
So I reached over and I said, hey, how you doing.
My name is Grant. What's your name? And he took
shook my hand. He said my name, and he went
like this, he don't know if I can do it.
Hevery so he's you know, there's a booth here. He
takes my hand and kind of goes like this and
he bit my hand. I did not break skin, but
it was like, that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Is super weird.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, huh, he was not happy.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Was he like drunk or something in this club?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean he probably was.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I don't know, but you think.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Never forgtten because that is supermo It was in was
like somewhere in.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Back in the day. Was this back when the show?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I think I was no longer on the show. I'm
pretty sure it was what I used to race cars.
So I traveled around the country a lot, and it
was like in one of those like bar racing downs.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Wow, wow, you guys win first of all, and nothing
like that.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
But trying not to laugh about the bier.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
What's your story?
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So I'm still laughing.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Up bitten?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, so mine is mine is weird, but not that weird.
I was doing a movie on location and uh, a
local person came up, you know and whatever, like just
when you're not quite shooting and whatever, you're just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But and he was shirtless and he's.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Like handed me at sharp and.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He's like, can you sign my chairs?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You know were.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Texas? So that threw me, and yeah, that was weird.
But I have to say that what did you do?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I think I went and I think I might have
like said I'm okay with like maybe your arm, but
like that, I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Know, and I was like very young. I felt really weird.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I was very My first thought was like was their hair?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
And then I.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Did not make but the other the other thing you
actually might remember this. I had a very I don't
know if you guys have this experience I have. There's
one fan early on when I was on Melrose was
sort of the height of Melrose made an art piece
from a photograph out of of me, out of macaroni,
(14:53):
so that I mean that was as a crafty person,
I'm impressed by this sort of ingenuity, but it was
like that's kind of it was, yeah, like a mosaic
of macaroni that was tinted.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You did remind me of one. I did meet someone
at a comic con, which I do a lot of
them for Spaceballs, and he came up and he had
a tattoo of Princess Vesta's face on his leg and
his last name was Schwartz made the Schwartz be with you,
(15:26):
So we had that there. He was just I've never
seen someone he had very muscular cats.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I remember it was somewhere definitely.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean it was a big old tattoo. So yeah,
but I was trying to that's kind of it. I
mean it's good. Yeah, that counts.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Per Fan.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Jose your next, Okay, what.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Was your very very very first acting job.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Grant goes first.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh, I was Baby Jesus in the in the you know,
the church. Of course, you were Nativities?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Does it? I should have clarified on the card. What
was your very very.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Very professional.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Because it comes as no surprise the Grant played Baby Jesus.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
However, it's where the complex comes from.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Still with you still care?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh? Yeah it was Ryan Hope.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
That was your very very very first paid acting Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, I was still in college. I had done a
play i'd done as you like It. I played Sylvius
and an agent came and saw the back when agents
used to actually go out and seek out actors, saw
it and asked me to work with him. Signed with him,
and I was like, I'm not going to get anything,
but I should probably I'm going to be out of
school on a year. I probably should go get some
(16:54):
practice auditioning. And while I was doing these auditions thinking
I wasn't wouldn't really ever get one. I got one
and so amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So of course, when he was at U C l A,
which I was at too, you were in the main
stage production of As You Like.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It, Lee Aronson played the fool. I remember the fool's name.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
A lot of our our Tim Robbins went to our years,
A lot of guys and gals who went, you know,
well we were in Los Angeles and yeah, started working
and stuff a lot.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
The woman played Phoebe went ended up going to Juilliard,
who went to Juilliard from there I can remember name anyway.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
All right, well, my very first act game, I'm just
going to interrupt right now and tell you what was
because it was really important and I was dying to
get to it. Okay, well it's not I'm joking. It
was not important. It was a Depth hair commercial. Remember
Depth Hair?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Oh yeah, drug store? Yes brand?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So in La.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yep, were you?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I did a geordas ad while I was.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know what. We may have seen that we made
yes on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Maybe r and sharing that because share this. We may
have just unearthed that and watched it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So that was after Ryan's Hope.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I was probably on Ryan's hope maybe two months.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Geord, right around the same time Baby I.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Was twenty one or twenty two.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, h wow, all right, so daf yours first paid,
first paid?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Okay, Well, I did a year of summer stock right
after high school and I got paid ten dollars a week.
Nice for this summer stock production company in New England.
But then when I came out to UCLA, my first
paid job was a horror film for Paramount called The Initiation.
(18:49):
I have founds out there for The Initiation. I show
up at these things and I played evil twin, an
evil twin sister, and a good twin sister, so I had.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
To go after.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It was a great It wasn't Baby Jesus, but it
was great to play twins because this was an eighty
nineteen eighty three and they didn't have like all the
CGI and you had to do split screen, so I
have yourself with myself, so it was really so it
was great. It was really fine.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Yeah, would you do a summer stock thank you for
your ten dollars?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
For ten dollars, I was it was actually maybe that
would count because I was in the It's a really
embarrassing story.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
It's a first job. There's nothing embarrassing. It was really embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
No, okay, I'll just tell it quickly. So I auditioned
for them and they were like, you know, we're a
musical comedy.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I said, well, I'll do the song from Oliver and
they said, okay, you're a fine young actress because I
did a scene from I did a monologue from the
Glass Menagerie. And the producer director said, you're a fine
young actress, but you can't sing.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Said that to you, Yes, everybody can.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
We'd like you and our company this summer, but we're
going to put you in the choir and we'd like
you to lips night to mouth.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So but that's all you did, was that.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
But they wanted you, and they paid you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
They wanted me, and it's amazing. I didn't act. You
just said you're we just want you in. I guess
he was just encouraged. I was seventeen. He's like, we
want you in this company all summer. I'm going to
pay you ten dollars a week. Like your look, and
I like the look, but we don't want you to
actually sing in our musical, Let's.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Hear you sing? Can you really not sing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
To yourself at home?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
City?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yourself part of the family.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Okay, well, if you want to hear it, listen.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I like singing.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Great, It's a story.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hard thing.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
We should have asked, like, what was the most embarrassing
thing that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I think that might be coming. You'll have to have
another one. No, you shouldn't be embarrassed though.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Just commercials. Then my very first paid was and It's
Got Me. My sagcard was a Ford. I was like
a little teenager earl seventeen eighteen in the back. I
just remember putting my headphones on and that got in
a car like it was a Ford, yeah fan car
from huh yeah. But one of my first acting jobs
(21:17):
that was, oh my god, I had had so much
fun is with Doogie Howser and I think I was
eighteen or nineteen, but I played four characters within it
because he had all these dream sequences. Oh yeah, I played.
So when he first sees me, I'm the normal the
character and she's like, you know, just like kind of Jane,
but like a young Jane headband and she's like doo gee,
(21:40):
oh yeah. Actually do yee. I can't believe it's you.
I still remember the line.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I'm wrong, go ahead, I remember something good.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, you don't remember anything, that's why. And the girl
and the show was about jealousy and then the girlfriend's
like looking at him, and then he was like no, no,
she's just a friend. And then he goes into his
dream sequence and I'm like Madonna and I like leather coat,
really curly hair, and have to find he. The scene
(22:10):
is he grabs me and he turns me and then
we kiss and he dips me back. But you guys,
he and I'm so new to all of this. He
put his hand, so they did it where he filmed,
and he put his hand over his mouth and my mouth,
and it looked.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Like he kissed his hand. He kissed his hand.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
He was his own intimacy, made sure that he wasn't
actually you were s yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Well yeah, I have no idea. He was young though, too, but.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I was like twelve, said the person you've heard, but still.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Only was a kind of a professional move, Like yeah,
I thought so too. I had a kissing scene with someone,
a grown up and he like did listerine constantly.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I was sharing kissing moments.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
We were all always liked. Yeh the banaka, well that
sometimes after the tuna, like every once in a while. Yeah,
that tune in the morning.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Courtney was talking my favorite thing to talk about. All right,
so we made it. But grant remember I.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Did one line on Young and the Restless. I said, thanks,
miss Abbott.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That matters awesome.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
All right, I'm going to be truthful and honestly I
love it.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I forgot my daughter to say, that's lying. Random.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, this is a random one.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Oh what is the last book you finished reading?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
It's a random question. Last book I finished reading.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
It's titled north Woods, and before that I finished it.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Before that, I just finished James the Retelling of Huck
Finn also very good, highly recommend.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Nice yep, Well, uh gosh, I start so many I
have some money started.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
What was the last one you finished?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know I did finish some, but but I can't
remember which one. We might have to skip anyway, I
just started the art Thief. Yeah that's good. I will
finish that one, okay, but I'm just trying to think.
I know I just finished and anyways.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Not just answered one word was based on a true story.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, it's really cool. He's the the most art stolen
art thief in the world. He's stolen over a billion
dollars worth of art, and so it's based on a
true story.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
And he never sold a piece, never.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Sold a piece. He didn't do it for money. He's
this like French guy who thought that museums were the
worst places for art.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
They were like prisons for the artists.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
And so he put it up in the attic where
he lived with his girlfriend at his mom's house in
the French countryside. And so they're describing from the beginning
his feeling and how he did it. And he worked
in a museum for a while just to learn where
the cameras are and what you know, the guards, their
sort of schedules, and he started out with little it's
(25:16):
really good. It's really good because it's in his in
the psychology of him. And so it was in the
nineties and he and his girlfriend slash accomplice, got so
stole so much art and he never did any violence.
He never had to, like you know, sometimes they'll knock
out a guard and they'll like they've just stuck, but
(25:38):
not that nothing. Other thieves are like thugs and mop
and mobsters, and they will do whatever it takes. He's like,
he never did anything like that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
All right, well, we'll hold you to it and make
you finish this one.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
So I'm getting the giggles over here because I had
something really funny happened at the airport. And it's like,
when you're alone, you can't laugh with anyone. So I'm
gonna tell the story. So I was in the bookstore. No,
I was just in the gift star. I wasn't even
looking at the books and I and I laughed, and
I was going to my gate and my suitcase was
like hard to pull, and I'm like, what the hell?
And he looked down and I had somehow got a
(26:11):
book under it, and it was like dragging along with me.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It's like when you run over a code in your car.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
When I was like, maybe I meant to have this book.
So I didn't know, and I put it on the things.
Someone probably took it, but anyway, to be honest, the
last book I read was The Tickle Monster to my
niece and nephew.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Oh I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And this is a book that Josie wrote a children's
book that I love it.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yes, but I do audible these days. Right now I
am listening to I'm actually working on her work book,
The Byron Katie. The Work Yeah so good.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I love audio.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yeah, one of two. I don't know which one. I
finished him in. Both run probably within days of each other. Once.
It's kind I think it was called The Hunter. It's
a Irish The Searcher no that I read a long
time ago. It's called The Hunter. It's a almost like
a detective ish kind of a thing. I don't even
know how I found it. Probably off of New York
(27:07):
Times read list.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, I think I had that on my.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Anyway, So that was just a novel. And I also
just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Who wrote that?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Did you ever read Open by Andrew Agassi? An amazing,
really amazing autobiography, not the last one I read. It
was out in the nineties, but it's so good. He
hated tennis, legacy, hated.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
His whole life.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Why would you do?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
I got to read it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
In the Game of Tennis is like it's it's a
sports psychology book. It's, yeah, trying to help you get
into the you know what other athletes would call the zone.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, you know, I want to read it.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Good focus, it's good, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Okay, So I just looked up. I finished Ellen Hildebrand's
book The Swamp, which her last one, You're beat read? Yes, nice,
I've read a lot of her. She's from Nantucket and
she does a lot of my husband and his brother.
I've spent a lot of time and his brother still
lives on Nantucket. I was just there and they all
(28:16):
know her, people like know her, and she does a
lot of gossipy stuff.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Does she write the perfect Couple?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yes, so she wrote that, But I want the song
is her?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I feel like you felt like you needed to defend yourself,
Like wait, I did, I did finish hold.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Well, I know, I hold you to it like I
wanted you to finish this one.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Like it sounds fascinating. We'll hold you to like I
can't wait to hear what happens in that one.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So that was all so cool? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
So the next one, Uh, I'm going to ask what
was the soundtrack of your years on Melrose Place? Like
what music were you listening to in the car driving
to Santa Clarita for work?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Whatever? Heartbreak love song was love song going on?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Then?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
That's that's been the soundtrack to my I love life,
my whole life.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And even back then, like do you remember like searching
that feeling of driving to work, Like it was kind
of a long drive for all of us.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
So I feel like we all sort of passed the time.
Oh I waited my lines. I was always working on lines.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Always want to run line.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Do you remember how long the drive was after the earthquake?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
I'm mean, oh my god, you got stuck up?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, that was we had to go around the earthquake
damage for months. It was a long way there and
a long ways back to do that detour. But anyway,
I thought, you know, listening to music in.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The car, did you okay? Just's next? She was running lines? Okay,
running line about you? What was the soundtrack just going over? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I missed all the music of that era, Like I
went right from eighties to like minister listening to kind
of like you know, massive attack and trip hop kind
of music after that for a while, I kind of
missed that early nineties. I didn't really like grunge and
all that was happening now, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I have like a certain songs.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
You know, it evokes the memory of like where you
were at what time or whatever. And we were just
reminded of the Mariah Carey album that came out like
in the nineties. I remember, yeah, like blasting music and
like trying to sing along with Maria Carre at high
drive to Santa Clarida, right, and then my other drive music.
I was sort of like stuck in the seventies eighties.
(30:21):
I had a lot of like a lot of vocalists
I like like Carly Simon and Jammy Mitchell, and I
was always listening to sort of vocalists and like singing
along in.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
The car and passing the time that that was.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Well, what what car did you drive when you were
first starting on molrows and what car.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Did you drive season three?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Or what did you drive in season three Joe's you go, gosh,
I think I had a Toyota for runner.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I don't remember all the way through.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
And then I think I had Alexa, yes, because I
was friends with the Penskes, Greg Penske and Patti Penske
and they would yeah. So I had a four winner
firsts and then I got a they like car dealership, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And grant.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I had an accurate legend when we started working, and
really quickly, maybe six or eight months, and I bought
one of the OJ Broncos that I drove for twenty years.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Oh wow, and.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Wish I had never gotten rid of. And I drive
another Bronco.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now you do like a I knew it, A new.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Bronco, which I like that. I love it. I like
the OJ Bronco is way better. I mean, I missed
that car so much. I love, love, love love that, And.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
You mean OJ Bronco just because the era and because
not exactly.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Other things.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Just be clear what those of us.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Are it is.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Now that's great, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I was driving red Nissan CenTra with no air conditioning,
but really that I had driven out from across the
country from Iowa. When I moved to California, I drove
in a car with new air conditioning and I drove
it all the way till I got Membro's place. And
then when I purchased a car.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
By season three, I was.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Driving it was it might have been green from red
to green. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I started with a Ford Explorer. I was driving a
black Ford Explorer when I started, I believe, and the
the windows were tinted or at some point in there
I got them tinted. Maybe it wasn't right away, but
they were so dark, like limo black in the front
that I would get pulled over. And I got pulled
(32:42):
over by a cop once and he's like, pulls me
over and I'm like I'm sorry, and he's like, oh,
I can't give you a ticket.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
My wife would kill me.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
These are illegal, so get one, you know, a grave lighter.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And then I left. And then season three I was
driving a bm W. I think it was the five series.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
That was a series.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I think it went three.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
I'm looking at you the guy.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, five series BMW and a Harley Davidson Sportster.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah. And it goes without saying that Grant was also driving.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
But that was the first vehicle I bought after getting
Mao's place. Was I bought a Harley? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Yeah. I had been riding a BMW really motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah that's what Greg lavro No triumph, try tryumph.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
Are we on for the next one? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Alrighty, okay, Which actors or guest actors impressed you or
perhaps even intimidated you on Melrose.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't remember anybody place.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
That actors, anybody you can remember anybody impressed you or
intimidate you, anybody that thought was really Coolmber.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Remember, I'm sorry. It wasn't supposed to be a memory test.
All right, I'll answer maybe.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That I don't know, but I will respond in my
own way, and maybe it'll spark a memory for you.
But my our parents were played by two fantastic actors,
Gail Strickland and Ken Howard, who later became the.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
President of the Screen Actress Gills Union.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
But I I remember Gail who played Josie and who
played Jane and Sydney's mother.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
I just I found her.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
So I just thought she was so impressive and I
felt a little bit like nervous around her and stuff,
and I wanted I wanted to not suck around her.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I thought she was right.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
But Donna Mills, So was Jane adopted?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yes, Jane was adopted.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Donna Mills was your birth mom, right, and that was
whole story.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, so revisit that at some point.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, were you intimidated or impressed by her?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Or No?
Speaker 5 (35:07):
I don't recall that being intimidated. Yeah, yeah, I'm still thinking, Yeah,
we were intimidating, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Maybe that's why, because you're still in your Jesus mode.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
I think I had scenes with I think Parker Stevenson,
Oh yeah, and he was so nice and so fun
He just brought an ease, the opposite of being intimidated.
Like anyway, I just remember being very put at ease
and just directed.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
He was super He directed, he directed, he directed as well.
He was super nice.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
And I'm always impressed by those that come on and
just make it so easy, like they've been around, and
you know, I don't really remember being intimidated, but.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Maybe it was just me.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Maybe I'm the only one who really was likely to
be intimidated or impressed. But I mean it was my
first job, and so I was, like you always feel
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Of that throughout throughout it all. I I didn't work
with Jack that much. I think maybe twice out of
those seven years Jack Wager, Yeah, but the one scene
I did have with him, I just he was being
funny that day and I couldn't. I just couldn't do it,
like could. It's kind of like you and I but
not because we didn't have a relationship. But he was
and so I was. He was just making me laugh.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
And it was I ever worked with him either worked
with Jack.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh, he made everybody laugh. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I worked with Jack also in two movies, two TV movies.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well I think, yeah, we did like to bring seven together.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, the wedding March homework. Yeah, that's right, that's.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Right, so fun all right, that's next. Next, I forget
what's in here?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
There's a lot of questions, Laura, I forgot what's in here?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
What if anything do you wish you could have taken
with you from the set of Melrose.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Or what did you take? I guess you can. You
can answer it anyway you like.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
You don't to answer it literally.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, funny again. I forgot to think about my answer
to this while I wrote that. But what what do
I wish I had taken? Okay, I'm going to answer it.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
What I did take?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I took the leopard print hat box suitcase that Sydney
had on the helicopter tarmac as she was saying farewell
to her love what's his name Carter played by Chad
Low and he was sort of leaving her behind, and
she thought she was in love with them so Sidney
looked pathetic and all leopard everything on the tarmac issues.
(37:30):
But I loved the little leather like round suitcase thing
and I took that.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, I mean I was given.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I think I was given.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
It was very, very very and so I think it
was given permission. I didn't like steal it. Just to
be clear, what do I wish i'd taken.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I wish i'd had more wardrobe the hat. I wish
I had more wardrobe, but I didn't feel I didn't
feel like that was really a thing is back then,
is like being able to keep all the clothes, but
like I had some really fun.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
No, they can if you wanted it. I got so
much money.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I guess they just didn't know to ask. But I
didn't have a lot I wish I had.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
But you seem closer to Jane than like, Yeah, I could.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
See I did not keep Sydney's commotioning. You had to
really you had a really cool look.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
See. I love That's the thing. Like I love clothes
no matter even if it's something I wouldn't wear. I
love keeping it for a roll or whatever. So I
will always take whatever whatever I can. So that's what
I took.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I mean, I've done a show since then that they didn't.
They don't let you let you buy for maybe a Yeah,
now it's like those days are gone. So what did
you take?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I think there were some clothes that I liked of
Joe's that I may have. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I think I remember saying to Denise our costumes, our costumer,
and she'd be like, I'm just going, I'm leaving the
trailer now.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I don't like I love this, you know, but like
you don't have a brick from the I don't have
a vial of water.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
All these things that have got access to I didn't
even remember that. I didn't, you know, I don't.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I just remember feeling like so uh done.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Yeah, I didn't really want And.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Even now when I'm on.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Oh like, oh that's cool.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
If they're very sort of like pants or an outfit
that will go with anything, fine, But I don't really.
But I do wish I had just for a little.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Memento to something.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
Yeah, what about you, j just I would say the clothes. Yeah,
I wish I would have taken something maybe from make
me an object or something.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah, I thought of one since we've been talking the first.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Grand I guess, Harley, but I had one. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
You'd have liked to have that other, I guess, but you.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Know, really I don't as I'm sitting here thinking about it,
and I don't know what I would do with it.
But if I'm not mistaken, there was a on Shooters signs.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah and stuff like that, like little stuff like that,
or like, here's the thing I was thinking about is
the forty six sixteen of the Melrose address like this
tie oh you know that sort.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Of thing, like just something that says yeah the show.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, you know, when watching the show back for this podcast,
I love the interiors, you know, like in Alison and
Billie's apartment, it's just so kitchy and colorful, and like,
of course, in hindsight thirty years later, you're like, that
would be so cool just to have, you.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Know, posts antiques that we yeah, just weird.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It looks so much better than I remember it looking.
I'm just like, when I watched it for the last
time I was with you guys, just was like, this
looks way better than I remember.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I know, it looks really cool and yours, your apartment
with Michael.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
It looks lived in.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean right, it just looks and it all looks
so different.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Yeah, they all do. Yeah, I don't know. They did
such a good job. I was cracking up at the
last podcast you did, talking about like the office, the
fax machine and then having to move everything out right right,
like what we did for like moving all the different
scenes around and shooting in the like you said the office.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And by the way, when I don't know which podcasts,
so we were talking about the T shirts that they
would put on that Matt would wear, Doug would wear,
or maybe posters, political statements, rock the vote, medical statements. Yeah,
and I'm noticing them everywhere now on the shot.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
No, you didn't have T shirt stuff, but I'm noticing
things that we're very current.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
Comment on the time. Yeah, yeah, and we were doing
it and we didn't know it.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
We didn't know.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Yeah, So I think there was a lot going on
there that we didn't know about.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I think a lot going on that we didn't know about.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
All right, we have time for one or two more.
Let's see what's in here. I forget what's in here.
The next question is do you have any specific Melrose
Place memories that still make you cringe? Any any storylines
or memories of like something you did or like, oh
it's still cringe when I think of that.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
It might just be me. I might be the only
one who has one. For here.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
The questions, I wait a minute, this is a revelation
of like what's in my brain is like I have
a moment that made me cringe. So I asked the
question of all of you, and you're like, no, do
you have one?
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Okay, they all go into a deep dark hold.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
OK, you're not you're not accessing, all right. I respect
that completely. Mine is so much more like cringey, but
like funny. So I will share and it is my cringey.
I'm sure there's the deep dark ones too that I'm
not sharing, but the one that I'm sharing it was
just hard for me personally and it made me feel vulnerable.
(42:46):
Is like the scene of Sydney being a stripper, and
like I had to work with you know, like a
choreographer person ahead of time to work out what I
was going to, Like I didn't know how to you know,
do whatever on a stripper pole whatever, But the character
was supposed to do this whatever, and all the guys
were there because the we haven't gotten to it since
(43:06):
season whatever three or four, whatever it is. But like
all the guys are there and they're supposed to be
having a bachelor party and they.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Witnessed Sydney having to do that.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
It was it was all of that and so and
then the button on the scene is Michael chase the
Sydney outside into the alley and laugh in her face
about her having become a stripper. He laughs, his big
knee slapping Michael Mancini laugh ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
And he's pointing at me. And I just remembered feeling
actual cringe.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
In my real life as and the character obviously had
to feel that same thing. But I remember that was it.
That was It was the nature of my character. Though
I had to do a lot of like some stuff,
I just went all right, let me just have fun
with this.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
That one actually like yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (43:51):
You had to expose yourself for you real friends and
then the guys and.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
We were just it was just trying to get it.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Was at a real strip.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Club and like so anyway, that's you didn't have to
be that. I can't remember, but like, you know, like
the guys had to be at some bachelor party and
so witnessing it, there were tons of people and I
just had to like take a deep breath and go, Okay,
I got to do this, And it was just.
Speaker 3 (44:13):
It was what is that vulnerability that makes me?
Speaker 4 (44:17):
I was working day and I remember it not on
in that scene, but I think it was in the
scene after that. So I was at the location getting
here in makeup done while you guys are shooting that,
and I remember feeling, this does not feel good.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
We got through it, and I, you know, I can
still sort of like look at it and appreciate it
for like that's the character needed to do that.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Whatever. It was just a hard thing for me as
an actress.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Okay, so you guys, that was fun. We're just getting started.
There's still some more secrets I want to hear later,
but let's go do some con and we'll be back
for part two.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Yeah, okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Good, I'm not going Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
Don't go anywhere. Well we were, it's still the place
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