June 20, 2022 • 55 mins
Welcome back to our show! We're talking to Rebecca Reid, who played Nadia, the main model Cece lived with. She tells us about how she's encouraging women to break into the metaverse, and about her film "I Wish I Had Known".
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ring ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe?
Oh hello, Lamar Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. Everyone, Welcome
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to our show. Welcome to our show. Welcome to our show.
Have you ever been driving down a desert road in
a small desert town with nothing in sight for miles,
when suddenly suddenly hit with a beam of light and
out of nowhere there is this force. It's this force
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that's just it's just pulling on you. It feels like
it's calling on you, this unmistakable pressure pulling you into
the cosmos, and then you realize you've just been abducted
by aliens. Damn, I'm in an alien spaceship, folks. That's
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what it was like the day this woman stepped on
the scene, a new girl. I mean the new girl.
Fans know her. It's not you, but we know her
as the super talented and brilliant Rebecca Reid. Wow, Wow,
what h introduction? You know? La Mourn and I went
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back and forth, who gets to introduce Rebecca? And um
La more than one. He really wanted to introduce you,
and I am now so happy he did because instead
of reading off of like I AMDB. This man gave
you the intro that you deserve because I need to
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take my shoes off, and all the listeners out there,
all the listeners out there, gravital. It's funny because one time,
this publicist, when I first arrived in l A said record,
it's like you came fully formed from nowhere. Thank you,
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thank you. We're still friends now? Is that kind of
that kind of makes a little bit of sense. I
do you know, I remember when, um like, I had
no idea you were English. When I met you, I
thought you were Russian. I genuinely thought this. For those
out there who may may have not seen the episode,
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you play a Russian model on New Girl named Nadia,
and when you came on, I thought, oh my god,
this is one of the funniest performances I've ever seen
in my entire life. And I just thought you were Russian. No,
I thought I was Russian too. I feel like I
know it was maybe your second episode or something where
I actually heard your real voice. I think you stayed
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in character a little bit, or maybe it was just
that I only saw you in the scene because we
were being pulled around so much in the first season,
but it was It was a big shock to me
when yeah, you didn't have a Russian accent because you
were kneeling it. But do you know it's really funny.
June who played Sadie. I saw her on set of
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the show that she was shooting when you know, with
Jane Fonder, and I started talking to her and her
face dropped and she was like, oh, oh, you were Russian.
But do you know what's really funny. I when I
first put that role um in Hancock Park, a guy
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came and he handed me a vanilla envelope with UM
recordings inside of how to do a Russian accent. Yeah.
So somebody came to my saying to my studio in
Hancock Park. At the time, I don't know in the
studio anymore this I live in Malibou, but um, but
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I was given a manila envelope guests from producers of
how to do a Russian accent. So I was like, ship,
they don't think I can do it completely? Oh, I
better like see to this. So I never used those tapes.
I went to this one woman called Jessica Drake who
worked who worked with everyone really like Steve Martin and
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in all the accents he's done. She's worked with him,
and she would find the comedy with Steve when they're
creating accents. So I did my first. You know, I've
worked with I worked with her throughout the course of
New Gold to make sure there was some consistency. So
I always marked the scripts, you know, phonetically um to
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make sure or that I was hitting my mark with
the accent. How did you cope then with all of
the adultlines and jokes, because I can't I imagine you've
got so many because you're so funny, and the writers
love to write for you, and they would just throw
jokes out that you've never seen before in this accent
that you were you know, learning and studying. Yeah, I
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think I just like in the end, I just kind
of knew that there was maybe three things I always
had to do, and I always made sure I did
those when it was like on the fly. But really
that accent opened up a whole portal of adoring dialects
and really going into studying, Like I became a bit
obsessed not with just Russian, but like it where different
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English dialects come from, the American dialect give us a
Jimmaican accent, jamaking give us a Cameroonian, a Southern Cameroony.
I feel like you, actually, Lawaren could do a Southern
cam marooney an accent on the fly. Uh No, probably probably,
but I don't. I don't know what it was like.
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I would have to hear it first. You're actually very
good at accents as well. Like I feel like on
set you would for some reason go around and be like,
here's the difference between Australian New Zealand and South African
and you could somehow navigate those waters in like three sentences. Honestly,
it was because I didn't know who I was as
a person, right, so I like to be other people
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because I was insecure. Now that I know who I am,
I don't do accents anymore. It's off the resume. He
just like scrubbed off the bottom part. We're Baca just
in case there is the one listener, um, because this
is a New Girl rewatch podcast, So most people are
here because they have watched and are rewatching the show
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with us, UM, but in case they've never heard Nadia, Um,
could you do you have anything you could read that's
next to you? Nadia so course you could say anything
you would like about anything. I don't know. I mean,
this is on the New York Starbucks coff with my
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green teeth that I drink every morning. I wish I
had a husband who could make it for me, but
I have to make it myself. I'm living alone in Meliboe,
looking at the sea every morning, wondering where is he?
Where is he? And all I see is little fisherman
on their boats outside, floating by looking for lobsters. But
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where the funk is my husband? I better go to
the smoothie. There's a juice bar in Melibo. It's like Predator.
It's like people go there like predators. It's like everyone
at some point in her life will move through this
juice bar. It's like I just hung out there. Eventually
I meet David Dukovny. Is it like riding a bike?
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Are you just like back in slightly Psychotic Menacing? Nadia
Land Menacing? It's always just like a little delighted and violent. Yeah,
oh my gosh. So you know obviously when when when
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you came on the show New Girl at the time
was one of the bigger shows in television, did you
experience any you know, experience any of that out and
about with your character because you have such a unique
character and such a well loved character. You know, I
know we get it, you know, as you know as
some of the main cast, but you know, they're a
handful of our they're a handful of our recurrent characters
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that stick out and have their own like you have
your own Reddit page and all this stuff from your
quotes and all this. Yeah, it's huge. So you know,
do you ever get people that come up to you
and talk about the show with you? Yeah? I do
all the time at Girlson's about the supermarket. That does
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give people. Maybe it's because we're like all trapped indoors
with a task, so they know that you can't, like,
you know, you can't just keep walking down the sidewalk
and I'll be a brief exchange. Deeper conversations with people
who've watched your work seemed to always happen. Yeah, totally
always it does. Yeah, it does happen quite often. Like
I think there was instance a couple of weeks ago,
was at a restaurant and the waitress wanted to have
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a chat, so I just like how to chat with her.
It was really nice took a picture. I don't like
having my picture taken, that's the thing. So then I
got her to show me the pictures and then I
hearted the one that I told your ships everything else. Yeah,
that's a that's a very Nicki Minaj thing to do. Now,
I'm very controlling. I'm working on it. Listen. I think
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that's fair. I know what you want. You gotta know
what you want. Lives online then forever. I got a
lot of photos out there of me that people tag
me in and my face is all weird and yeah,
you don't and I'm like, damn it, I don't you know,
but you know, I don't know what to do in
those moments. I don't want to be like, giving your
phone and let me see because I think people feel
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like because of my character on TV that they can
beat me up. Yeah's off, where's my character so I
can beat them? That's dude. They're going to listen to
Rebecca because they know there's a little naughtia maybe that
will come out and she's like, give me your phone.
They're like, sure, of course, absolutely, please do whatever you
want with it. You can take it, take the whole phone,
and it's fine. Okay, so let's we've dove like dove
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straight in and we haven't. Actually, i've never heard the
story of how you um got the audition for the show,
how that went when you got the news that you're
going to be on it, And I feel like it
was only supposed to be for that one episode and
maybe a couple of words, right, and then it grew
into something. So talk us through because I don't know
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the story of Naughtia getting onto New Girl. Okay, Well,
came to l A because I broke up with someone
and they bought me a small guitar and told me
I should do stand up in l A and I
actually took the advice. His name was, actually you would
know who it was, Jeremy Piven. If you're listening, man,
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you're sucked up. Jeremy Piven. So there's a video of
you online that is so great of you at the
laugh Factory. Yeah, that's that's what That was My first
stand up. Are you joking? Where you're playing the ukulele
and eating a sandwich. Motherfucker song? Yeah, motherfucker so so
so the thing is at with that stand up, it's
like spliced right, It's like real, my life and not
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real life like congingled together. And it was from that
time that I did that stand up, that I booked
Children's Hospital and worked with David Wayne, and then David
Wayne when I booked New Girl was the director on
that episode. So chance, by chance, I think, what unless
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David Wayne is a super fan and was you in
your career? Um, well that's how did you get the audition?
This is the crazy thing. I got the audition through
my commercial agent. It was a commercial audition because they
wanted European models, and they went to the commercial agents
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and so I was in the waiting room with all
of these girls who thought it was a Russian model,
so they like had like eighties makeup and everything, and
I was just wearrying this very beautiful dress that I
had borrowed. Um, and I had no makeup. And I
went in there and I just did these lines with
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a Polish accent because I had originally been doing a
Polish accent for something else and it was Eastern Europeans,
so I did this Polish accent. It was an under
five and the casting director, Jessica just like under five
lines sentences, and Jessica Monks, she was in the room
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and we just had a real laugh. Um, and so
I think I went back again. I think, yeah, I
think I might have gone back another time. And then
my my commercial agents said that I booked it, and
and then um, I saw I booked an episode of
gossip Girl. And I didn't recognize. Next, this is really confusing.
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Wait when you got on set, you were confused. I
thought I was. I thought it was an episode of
gossip Girl. That I was confused A lot Gassle Girl,
two Broke Girls, New Girl. So you haven't heard of
new Girl? Throne and I had a new Girl. I
was working somewhere and the woman I was working and said, oh,
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you've got an action job. Then I was like, yeah,
I just put the chow called gossip Girl. They both
have girl the title, to be fair. Yeah, but the
other girl in the scene, woman was actually a Russian model,
And I always remember, bless her heart. That's so condescending.
When you say bless your heart usually means like idiot.
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Well she after we shot the scene, I went outside
and she was in crafty and she was sticking ah,
like about a dozen cereal bars in her pockets and
in her bags, and I was like, what are you doing?
And she's like Losa for later. Oh, oh my gosh,
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you know what the life the life of an actor
man model? She wasn't an actors, she was a model. Well, yeah,
it's it's in the entertainment business. Isn't as glamorous as
you may think. It's not ashole that crafty comes in
handy And I can't say it's your first or second
time on a set and people are just like laying
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out delicious snacks and there's no like rule board on there.
I for sure I am someone who's gonna like pull
up with like a little bag and be like, I
just take all these Chronola marks. Let me tell you something,
I still do it. I still before I leave a set.
If I if it's like my last day and then
my trailer, they have snacks that are sitting in my trailer,
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we'll just dump into the passenger seat. It's going to
my going to my duffel bag, going on my duffel bag.
I had a friend who came to set. Ex girlfriend
who came to the New Girls set, and she brought
her friend with her. Right. Lovely people, lovely people, you know,
they do well for themselves, like financially the fine. Her
friend had never been on a set before. So she
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goes to Crafty. She goes to Crafty and she comes
back and she's like, holy ship, they got everything in there.
I was like yeah, And she went in the Crafty
truck and I said, yeah, they got a lot of stuff.
And I was like, just grab what you want and
just come kick it. And she goes anything I want. Yeah,
that's what it's for. I just grabbed something. I come
back after we cut, I go back to my trailer.
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They're sitting in my trailer. She no joke, has a
grocery bag. She's like supermarket. Sweet. I said, don't go shopping.
She literally went shopping. Yeah, so you're scene partner went
in cleared Crafty. She shouldn't do that. She didn't care.
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Did you model? You model for real? Real? Realize? How
accurate was this the New Girl modeling concept? Me? Because
both of you played models together, your model in real life,
you know, and obviously it's a comedy, But like some
of the bits and some of the the I don't
know storylines around it, is that any bit accurate to
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the real life? Yeah, I tell you something. Okay, So
when I was modeling in Paris. This is like a
while ago now. I remember I was lining up outside
this building. Literally the line went down the street, all
these models, men and women. It was for the cost
And there was a girl next to me outside Russian.
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She was smoking and it was really like getting in
my airspace and I said, would you mind to smoke
in another direction? And she replied, maybe you breathed too hot.
So I kind of based Nadia on that one interaction.
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I was about to say. I was like, is that
the real Nadia? Yeah, that is the real Nadia. I
met her in all the cost casting years ago, which
I booked. Actually really I used to like really book
things like left, right and Center. I don't know what happened.
For the fans out there. If you're listening right, please
go and find this La cost Ad. Yeah, it was
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it was like literally No, that was another It was
that it's like a shipping thing. And and because I'm
very slim, all the clothes that were meant to be
really big on me. I think it was a look book.
And maybe it was a look book. I actually emailed
the cost years ago and asked when I was trying
to get my own one, visa the cost Please, let's
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bring this back. Okay, let's let's whatever she was modeling.
Let's bring that line of clothing back. Okay. The New
Girl fans to get the Natia ware, the Natia La costware.
So how did the Natia role then grow? Do you
know how it grew just from the one episode in
the Under five too being a mainstay of the show. Well,
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I heard from someone that you or Max said, Oh,
I like doing scenes with her. She's funny to Liz.
Is that not true? I mean that does? I mean
I loved doing scenes with you. You have these things
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with you though, Have you guys never done a scene together?
I don't know? So how do we don't think? So? No? Never? Wow?
Is this the first time you guys are really meeting?
I go, this a introduction chat um. But you know what,
I do think that it was because I remember just
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really learning on the fly a lot of things and
building up the courage to use my voice in the
first season because it was a lot of you know,
things going on for the first time for me. Um.
So I can't imagine that I would like march over
to Liz right and understand I had that power to
be like, I want to know more of that. I
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was just so happy to be there. Yeah, but Max, Um,
I know, is like like loves you and it's a
huge fan of yours, So that makes sense, and he
was a way more seasoned on set to understand do
that say that, then we get to work with all
these funny people again. If the if Liz feels the same,
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and she obviously did, so that's it. That's really nice
to know. I'm gonna yeah, I give that to Max,
even though I probably had the same thought. I'm sure
he's the one I took action on it. I do
believe that if you if you heard that, I do
believe it was Max. Yeah, I just don't remember the
last room. Yeah, but that would be a red page.
Probably a super fan, a super naughty a fan knows
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your story better than you. Yeah, that's really cool. And
then when did they tell you that you were going
to break his penis? When I read the page, that
was I mean, that was one of the craziest storylines
I feel like I've seen our network TV period. Well,
then I saw a penis that actually looked like what
they said in the script, and I didn't even think
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that that existed a broken penis. You know, how did
you see this? I'm scared to ask, how did you
see this? Penis? I sent her a picture you have
met before said the weirdest It was really funny, though,
is that I found this weird thing happening with New Girl.
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I booked an episode, then something weird would happen. So
in the first reading that we did, which was actually
at Fox, you know, when we'ld have like a huge audience,
and so I left my Saint Laurent blazer on the
back of the chair and then it just disappeared forever.
And then I put another episode with the monkey thing,
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Monkey and Monkey where you and then my cat called
Monkey got run over by a car. So then and
then I booked and then I was on settin next week.
So when I said Monkey no to Zoe, Monkey no,
it was like really like finding that my out my
cat had died, like Monkey no. So it's like there
was always like a weird kind of like thing that
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I would find in the script. So whether it was
like the actual penis that went left, or the monkey
my little monkey cat that died, or suddenly my my
blazer went missing, or like there would be like some
weird like connection to the script. Wow, but I don't
have that anymore because I believe in God and I
don't do dispels anymore. I gotta ask you how to
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all those coincidences? Which one has bothered you the most?
I feel like it's the jacket. Oh yeah, do you
know I didn't really miss that, Jackie welcome. I have
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to ask because was it just doing research for like
the episode that you googled broken penis? Or did you
see one with your own eyes? I still one with
my own eyes. I don't know whether it was broken,
but like it went straight and then left. I didn't
know that penises could ever do that. The whole thing
has gone left, the whole interview. I don't know. If
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I was ever in that situation, if I would not
be able to say something, well, I would just be
so curious. I would want to be like, what happened?
Are you born that way? That way? It was born? Oh?
You did ask? No, I just didn't ask. I just know.
I mean you wouldn't ask. You just assume, right, I
mean you could sleep sleep a certain way for a
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long period of time. You don't know way like parents
used to say back in the day, like if you
keep your face twisted up like that, you know the
change it stay like that. It was stayed like that.
Scoliosis is the scoliosis of the so on ahead, Um,
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you not only not only do you bless the stage,
you you bless our screens. You're so funny, but you
you were right as well. Also director producer um tell
us about this short. Tell us about the short that
you created. Yeah, well, I love I love like telling
stories based on real people, and so I found this
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story based on this ballerina called Francesca Man. Not the
happiest of stories. She was a ballerina during World War
two and um, she was you know, she died in
in the gas chambers. But there was an eyewitness report
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that I came across that said that whilst everyone was
getting undressed, something propelled her to dance. And I got
very emotional when I talked about this, because you know,
it's not comedy, is it. I mean, so, you know,
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she um got the attention of a guard and this
is none of this was planned, and she you know,
close enough to grab his gun and she shot him,
and she shot someone else as well, another guard. And
so I worked with this writer to retell this story
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in the form of a short and yeah, I mean
I didn't really, you know, it's not it wasn't really
for anyone to see. It was really because you know,
we're all storytellers, and I felt I wanted to tell mm, hm, wow, wow,
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that is that's incredible, that's incredible that you How did
you how did you come across her story? Well, I am.
I found this book called the Hotel pol Ski UM,
and it was about how in World War Two in
Poland and more so, there was this scam about the
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Hotel polk were after the ghetto was burnt down. Um.
What the Nazis strategized was to get the rest of
the Jews out of hiding, was that they were now
selling these passports for North America and Israel and UM.
And so I read this account and they kept on
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talking about, you know, people who had brought Jewish people
knowing the into this scam and we're walk from nurse
and Francesco was mentioned as one. But I didn't believe
that that was the case. So I did more research
and I found this other eyewitness report of the actual
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night that this happened, with her death, and I don't know.
I just pieced everything together and researched who she was
as a young you know, she was twenty six when
she died. Who she was and what her life might
have been up into that time. And I don't believe
that she I feeled that she was trying to save
herself and her family, and she was had good intentions.
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So I just you know, over COVID, I just really
researched this woman. She I felt that she was because
she was a ballerina, and it was in her body
that in this highly stressful situation, there was a force
that moved her, and her body responded not in the
way that everybody else responded, It responded in a way
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in her last moments that she would be enjoy you know.
That's how she expressed herself. That's through dance, and so
she wanted to dine the way that she decided, even
though that she knew it was intimate that she could
have that one last experience as an artist. She was
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an artist. Wow. So that's what I was exploring with
that short. I wish I knew that's what it's called.
I wish I knew. I wish I knew it's called soft. Oh,
I wish I had known. Oh that's another short I direct.
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You know what's so interesting? You know what's so interesting
as you were going as you were going, you know,
and it's it's such you're you're so passionate about about
your work, about and especially about this particular piece. I
was talking about a completely different project. Yeah, you know
about my last project. I just I forgot about I
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wish I had known. I'm sorry. I got emotional. I
just do I emotional person. I can't help it. I
kind of like try and keep it like all locked down.
But it's just it's just who I am. It's there's
no way you were you know, especially took it upon
yourself to tell this story that I would say, almost
no one knows, and then put yourself in the charge
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of sharing it and the responsibility that comes with it,
and then the um gaps you have to fill in
in a way that you hope still honors, you know,
the truth that you know of that person. Um that
I'm sure every time you share it that would feel
emotional because you're carrying a lot around that soft soft
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soft Yeah, and can people see that? I mean no,
I just I mean, like we submitted to it all
to the festivals, but it didn't really it didn't get
really take it. Yeah, I think it got picked up
a couple of places, but the place. But the next
film I did, called I Wish I Had Known did
get picked up and win um some like film awards
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and stuff like that. And that was about another project
that I was working on which I wanted to be
a TV show, but then I didn't do it. I
this was that the Wish I had Known was actually
a proof of concept. And I asked women from all
around the world if there was one thing that they
wished they had known about womanhood when they were a girl,
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you know, something that they had been told. What would
it have been? And I asked, I think a hundred women,
you know, not actresses in Hollywood, but you know, from
all over the world. And I learned so much. I
learned the takeaway that that women shared. I think a
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big thing for me was that other women are not
the competition I think in our position or not for you,
because you know your mother now you know, different stage
in life, but you know you kind of pitted against
other women as a model, as an actress, and realizing
that they're not the competition kind of takes a weight
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off m and to not um and to not blame
your mother because you never know what she's gone through,
and that you know, it's okay to be a late bloomer.
That we don't have to adhere to these timelines that
the over culture you know, tells us too. So you know,
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you can start a family in your forties and falling
off for the first time in your fifties. We're in
your sixties, and you know, life is always happening. You know,
it's never too late. Let's say I knew a woman
started a family in the seventies was good years old.
You're popping out babies right now, grandma. It's not well.
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Women in their seventies have gone through the menopause, and
going through the menopause portal me that you're now a
grandmother or you will grandmother, be that role model grandmother.
I mean, what would be the thing that you wish
you had nown mm hmmm. I think I would have
started therapy years ago. M mm hmm. I think you know,
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in the UK we don't really do therapy. It's really
it's not something that you do. I think that you know,
therapy has given me a foundation foundation, you know, because
I didn't really have a very stable childhood, and so
therapy for me has kind of helped me, you know,
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have a stable foundation to now build my life on,
you know it, to rather than be failing, frailing all
over the place. Do I do this, I'll do this,
I'll do this. Like to have more of a an
understanding of why I'm doing things, more conscious of why
I'm doing things, like just being intentional, more inten Yeah,
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more intentional, um, taken you know, things, less personally and
really having more of a connection to God, m or
love God love. I find your answer to be a
very profound one. Actually that's who you. I mean. Obviously,
comedy runs in your bones, but you're you're also a
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thinker and your your a very thoughtful individual. If you
were to ask me that question, Um, I'm not gonna
lie to you, I'm very I'm an idiot. I would
have said something money related. Would have been like, oh,
I would have invested in the Microsoft. I would have
bought up all the bitcoin, you know. I would have
(33:45):
said something like that. And that that's why when I
said in the intro that you were like this force
who came on the show. Um, you're very very unique.
You're very very unique individual and we were just kind
of blessed to have you as a as a member
of our our New Girl family. Um. Yeah, let me
ask you something, lamore and though to reframe it, because
(34:06):
I it's funny you said that. I'm like, for sure
you would have deflected with humor, right, But what would
you want your daughter to know about being a woman.
What's the lesson or the teaching you hope that she
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carries with her and you could give it to her
now to make things a little easier or more joyous
and better for her. That I that I can't define
what a woman is for her, you know what I mean.
It's I'll raise you the way I raise you, teach
you lessons that I feel, keep you safe and keep
you strapped and ready for for life, and then wherever
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you go at that point, I can't dictate that I can.
I can protect you from a distance, you know what
I mean. But the definition I'm not. I can't tell
anybody how to be. That's something has to kind of
grow into using her and not to be and not
to feel pressure to be something else. Yeah, because that's
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gonna be difficult to I would imagine that the definition
of a man. That's there's a lot of times you
even as a man, you'll hear it. You'll go a
real man would do this, And I'm like, damn, I
just maybe I'm not a real man. I would you know,
I didn't. I didn't do things like you would have
done things. So and that's and that's a big pressure
for me. So I can imagine how it feels to be,
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you know, um, a woman having to feel that pressure.
So I wouldn't want that pressure for her. Right, it's
funny though, Right, as soon as it's about your daughter,
then it's not deflected with comedy. Right, you went just
as in the deep waters as Rebecca, and that very honest,
truthful answer that is true. Um, I deflect because I
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don't have a good relationship with my father. No, sorry,
we have a good relationship. It's a great relationship. I'm
m is incredible, said welcome. I mentioned something in the
(36:17):
last deflection about bitcoin and crypto, and you do now.
I Rebecca has been kind of schooling me offline about
web three and the n f T space and metaverse
and you know, the essentially the future and and and
(36:43):
you know, there's there's so much skepticism around it, and
you know, people don't understand it, and it's it's weird
for some folks, and you know, and some folks will
be just fine without it, and that's perfectly fine. But Rebecca,
you are, you are knee deep and yeah, tell about it?
Who introduced you? M H Who introduced me? Um? Well,
(37:06):
I grew up in London with a lot of British artists,
and so I lived in East London for a while
where a lot of those galleries were coming up, and
I stayed in contact with one artist who when it
was bitcoin called me to tell me to invest in
bitcoin and I didn't. And then last year around March,
(37:27):
he called me again and was telling me about n
f T S and he wouldn't let up. He would
call me, you know, a few times a week to
tell me about this new space. And so eventually I
started to listen and UM was reading up on it
and started to listen to the Defiant podcast, his British
(37:50):
based based in Amsterdam. And then I started my own
project called Audrey Mouse, which was a stand up character
that I've now imagined UM for Web three and so
I was going to do an n f T drop,
but I stopped. I stopped because I ideated something else,
which I think is more valuable to the space, um
(38:16):
which is, I've created a VR shopping platform bridging the
gap between Web two consumers and Web three and all
dream Mouse is the Alexa or the Seri of this space.
So she guides Web two users, which is the Internet
as we know it now, to Web three. And what
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is a VR shopping experience? Well, up until now, we've
known two ways to shop brick and mortar, and the
second way is Amazon and platforms like Amazon, and with
shop of Us, which is the platform I'm launching, it's
the third way to shop. When we're calling this meta commerce.
And I've started to dream in this way now when
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I wake up in the morning. I'm not kidding. A
couple of weeks ago, I woke up and I imagined
a sandal on my foot. I was thinking about buying
this sand and I was like, woke up and I
was like, oh, so in this platform, you'll be able
to say to Audrey Mouse, Audrey, take me to I
don't know you go boss, take me to Tory. But
you'll be able to go into these storefronts and try
(39:21):
on outfits in virtual reality and when you're using the
VR headsets. But we are developing it for desktop and
as an app for your phone, but you will be
able to use it to um virtually try on clothing
wild So we're calling this meta commerce. And so you know,
(39:47):
the thing is with Web three, it's not going to
take over the Internet. It's about integrating into the Internet.
And so essentially, you know what Web three years. It's
just based on the blockchain, and every cryptocurrency is based
on its particular blockchain, and so with shopper Verse, it
will be based on the blockchain. But what's interesting about
(40:08):
this platform is that up until now, cryptocurrency has only
been when you being able to trade by in cell cryptocurrency.
There's been no real life, you know, transactions that you
can do. But in the space you can use your cryptocurrency.
And we're also creating a plate earned game, so people
can you know, own token, earn tokens and then they
(40:29):
can either exchange that for feat or use those tokens
in the shop of us. Wow, you should do a
Ted talk on this. I was just about to feel
like you just explained that to me in a way
that I could actually understand because I'm so outside of
all of that world. But I think I understood everything
(40:49):
that you said, because usually it'll just want to fly
over my head just because I'm not Yeah, because there's
no real use application. It's like what the fund is
an n f T. I can't point to anything in
the real world and say, oh, that's so, that's why
people don't trust it. But literally, n f T is
just a tech term. It's literally just the way of
(41:10):
wrapping data. So your grandma can imagine something and and
an f T can wrap data around it and then
put it on a blockchain, whether that's on etherory and
blockchain or Polygon or Solano. These are all different blockchains.
That's interesting. Um, when you said she should do a
TED talk, So I learned a lot about crypto through
(41:31):
Audrey Mouse. Yeah. She she sent me these instructional videos.
So for folks out there who um, for folks out
there who are a little skeptical or don't, I just
don't know enough because I'm still learning all the time. Um.
And I would like to say I'm fairly well versed
in it now. Um Um. But Audrey Mouse was kind
(41:53):
of teaching me some of the basics, because once you
have the basics down, you'll start to think in a
in a for a way. And it's just so exciting
that I have a like a homie who worked with
who worked with, who understand who's in the comedy spaces,
the TV film space, but also now in this space
and understands me of what I was attempting to do
(42:17):
or going through and this character you created kind of
helped guide me through there. Yeah, I hope to do
more with her. I really do want to position her
not just in my app as a guide, but other
brands as well that want to bring their consumers from
Web two and have that Web three experience. Um. But yeah,
(42:38):
I've done a few. I've done a few videos, and
I think the reason why they are really effective is
because every single word I am saying I wrote and
I understand. It's like, you know, when you go and
see a bad Shakespeare play and you don't understand anything.
It's almost like because the actors don't understand what they're saying.
But when you go to a good Shakespeare and all
the actors know exactly every single word, it's like you
(42:58):
have in full experience of the truth, and I think,
like with these all dream ouse videos, I really wanted
to understand and the basics and then pass that on.
That's incredible. Ladies and gentlemen. If you're just tuning in,
you're here with the wonderful, talented actress, comedian, and Web
(43:23):
three innovator Rebecca Reid. Should we dive into the box?
We should dive into the box? You want to know
what the box is? Un excited like the nut jar, help,
the nerd jar, douchebag jar. Also, by the way that
(43:44):
you would call Schmidt's dochar the nerd jar, it's a
very naughtier thing to do. You're not an accent, but
I can hear naughtia of being like, oh please, that's
a compliment for an idiot, Like I could see you
playing a Russian spot We're going mac and they can
see it happening for you. Maybe if then Rebecca would
(44:05):
just like dub voice me, then I could do it Jessica. Um, okay, yeah,
explain the box. Let's ladies and gentlemen, Um, welcome to
this segment. It's a segment where we we crawl into
the back of Nick's closet. Okay, it's a lot of
(44:27):
strange things in Nick's closet, a lot of sticky things,
a lot of crusty, smelly, stained things in the back
of Nick's closet. But women back there, what we're gonna
do is we're gonna bypass all that trash and we're
gonna pull out some of the memories that the cast
and crew of New Girl have kept hidden for years. So, Rebecca,
(44:50):
what's your favorite memory from your time on New Girl? Um?
One not just immediately jumped into my brain, like right here.
Um was the last episode when I'm doing the speech
two Jazz and Hannah is to my right and she's
(45:12):
taking pictures of what I'm just pictures just as Hannah
and I think for the last take, I just like
stormed off the front of the stage. I just remembered that.
I'm not saying it's my favorite, but I just remembered that.
And Yeah, I just saw all a little moments, remember,
like the the eggshells in the scrambled eggs for breakfast
(45:35):
in the morning, the craft you mean to leave those
eggshells in? Yeah, I think sells a little treat. A
little treat. We do a segment on our show call
where's the beer? But in real life it's kind of like,
you know, find the shells and the eggs. It was real, No,
I just thought of my favorite moment, um. I gotta say. Um.
(46:00):
When I did a John Patrick Shanley play, I understood
what acting was for the first time because my molecular
structure and my patterns changed from Rebecca to this character
that I was playing, Donna. And then when I worked
with them with Max, something else happened because I had
decided on the script how I was going to play
(46:21):
the scene, and then I had to surrender everything over
because what Max. How Max was looking at me in
the moment when we did that Mick Mouse scene, I
had to throw everything away and just be there with
Max present and saying these lines to Max, and all
of my preparation out the window, very very present, And
(46:44):
that was my second big acting lesson was with Max,
and the lesson was being present. I felt so alive
in that scene with him with Mick Mouse because I
was discovering things for the first time, Like I remember
looking at him one time and thinking, do you think
I'm stupid? That was Rebecca thought, and then it came
out in the Nadia voice. So I think that was
(47:11):
probably one of my favorite experiences. And then because I
think that was like the first time where Liz would
then throw lines, but it was before they would write
them down and leave them in your room. It was
when this was on set and she would shout say
that all she'll come up to you and say and
so she would say. I remember her calling over and
(47:32):
saying something, and then and then I hearing people laughing,
I was like, oh, my funny. Right now is this funny?
Because I really think that he that Max, this actor
thinks I'm stupid. I honestly think there's a There was
a handful of people, um less than a handful of
people who when they would come to set and we
(47:55):
knew they were going to visit as we um all
immediately became unprofessional because we were so excited they're going
to be there. And I feel like I can speak
for myself. Then I was not a very good scene
partner because I was like, Rebecca is such a strong actress,
She's so funny. She has this character that I'm not
(48:15):
going to be sitting here as Cecy. I am Hannah,
and I'm going to break the entire time and laugh
and watch this incredible performance, and I know that's not
going to bump you because you're amazing, and I feel
like it was just like a joyous thing. And I
feel like Max kind of felt the same way. We're okay.
Maybe you had Schmidt sometimes in the scene, but I
think a lot of times off camera when it was
(48:38):
turned around on you and he's sitting off camera, I'm
sure he was just sitting there as Max, laughing his
ass off because you're just so funny and committed. I
think I remember that time when we did one of
our first scenes together Hannah in in in CC's apartment
(48:58):
and and well, I have to all due to Schmidt.
And I remember doing that scene on Gossip Girl. I
thought I was on um and I said some Max.
When I said some maximum between, I was like, am
I doing okay? Do you think this is okay? It's like, yeah, yeah,
you're doing great. I think everyone was so surprised. I think,
(49:25):
genuinely everyone was so surprised because I feel like a
lot of times you you you know, you step on
a TV set and you're the new kid in town,
and you just go like I just want to get
in say my lines. I'm not gonna take any risk
or chances to anything differently and get out of there
(49:45):
and hope that they like me. Right. We sipped from
in a place of fear. Right, and you came in
and had built this whole character, this whole world for her.
You were so committed to it, and we all kind
of just whenever the Natia character was on the show,
we all had to join Nadia's world. Like that was
(50:06):
just the way of it. You never integrated into our world.
If you're there, we were in her world and it
was awesome. Rebecca, what you're supposed to do. It's like
when it's like basketball, I always have basketball references is
I'm a huge basketball fan. That's the only thing I
can relate real life too. You have somebody who comes
in and their specialty is scoring, Like you have to
(50:30):
get that person the ball, like we can do everything else,
Just get that person the ball like that. That's it,
Like she's gonna score, and that's that's where the money is.
Whenever she's there is this this, These are where the
jokes are going to come from. This is what's going
to keep the eyeballs on the screen. And they and
and we think you did a fantastic. Yeah, it was
like the greatest day. When we would see the next
(50:52):
episode Nadia is back for whatever it was, everybody got
excited because we knew that we got to share a
scene with you. We could said as us and enjoy
a performance and who knows what direction it's going to go,
and that's the best. That's why you feel alive and something.
I think that's one of the best things about acting.
I think in comedy is that live feeling. But I mean,
(51:15):
you guys were doing this like full time, like amazing,
I mean, on it all the time. So I was
just getting into and like having a little taste. But
I do really understand how special the show is and
was because the alchemy of all of you together is
like that was the jack pot. You know. It doesn't
(51:38):
happen all the time. I was a serious regular and
another show and I was like a new Girl and
Children's Hospital were my only other you know, comparisons, and
I was so excited to put this series regular. I
was like, oh my god, it's gonna be like my
own New Girl. It's gonna be amazing cars. I'm going
to love them all friends until we die, you know.
(51:59):
And it wasn't like that tool like I got hives
from the stress, right. I mean people say that to
us all the time, and I've never had another experience
prior to it, right, So it was my first time,
and so like you, I was just like, well, this
must be how it all works. And everyone's like, well,
wait till the show ends one day and you go
into the real world. I got lucky because I woke
(52:22):
show I'm currently on. We get along famously. Yeah, you
guys look like you have a lot of fun. Okay,
we have too much fun. Um. I feel like, guys,
we're going to have to wrap this up, and I
will say, this is such this episode I love so
much because it is so true to the spirit of you, Rebecca.
(52:45):
This is the most one of the most unpredictable, wonderful
um conversations I've had in a long time. And I've
learned so much. I've left. I've cried, well I did, Yeah,
I cried too. I was crying with you. I mean you,
(53:07):
I saw at least a lot I was damp in
the ducts. And you may have thought when you tuned
into this episode at the top and heard Lamourens intro
like that seems like a little much. And now after
sitting here for an hour with Rebecca, you understand, if anything,
it was um an understatement instead of an overstatement. You
(53:28):
are a light and a force and we love you
and thank you for coming on to Welcome to Our Show.
And I would like to dedicate this episode two Monkey,
because I didn't know that you had lost Monkey the
week before and then have to come and repeatedly say
your sweet cat's name over and over again. That must
(53:51):
have felt so strange. And I didn't know it at
the time, but I know it now so too. Monkey.
We love you and thank you for it. Yeah, well Monkey. Um,
we love you, Rebecca, thank you for coming on. Love you, Hannah,
love you, Larry, love you. Thank you so much. And
if you guys love Monkey, please like and subscribe. UM
(54:15):
give us five stars and remember, Oh how is wife?
And fun? Oh all right, this is now. This is
honestly next time, Rebecca, we do this. It's just you
and me. Okay, Hi, guys, you've been listening to Welcome
to Our Show, a New Girl recap podcast. Welcome to
(54:36):
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(54:57):
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you next week. M
Ring ring, ring ring. May I please speak with Zoe?
Oh hello, Lamar Let's patch in Hannah. God, I forgot
what it was like working with you guys. Everyone, Welcome
(00:28):
to our show. Welcome to our show. Welcome to our show.
Have you ever been driving down a desert road in
a small desert town with nothing in sight for miles,
when suddenly suddenly hit with a beam of light and
out of nowhere there is this force. It's this force
(00:50):
that's just it's just pulling on you. It feels like
it's calling on you, this unmistakable pressure pulling you into
the cosmos, and then you realize you've just been abducted
by aliens. Damn, I'm in an alien spaceship, folks. That's
(01:12):
what it was like the day this woman stepped on
the scene, a new girl. I mean the new girl.
Fans know her. It's not you, but we know her
as the super talented and brilliant Rebecca Reid. Wow, Wow,
what h introduction? You know? La Mourn and I went
(01:36):
back and forth, who gets to introduce Rebecca? And um
La more than one. He really wanted to introduce you,
and I am now so happy he did because instead
of reading off of like I AMDB. This man gave
you the intro that you deserve because I need to
(01:57):
take my shoes off, and all the listeners out there,
all the listeners out there, gravital. It's funny because one time,
this publicist, when I first arrived in l A said record,
it's like you came fully formed from nowhere. Thank you,
(02:21):
thank you. We're still friends now? Is that kind of
that kind of makes a little bit of sense. I
do you know, I remember when, um like, I had
no idea you were English. When I met you, I
thought you were Russian. I genuinely thought this. For those
out there who may may have not seen the episode,
(02:41):
you play a Russian model on New Girl named Nadia,
and when you came on, I thought, oh my god,
this is one of the funniest performances I've ever seen
in my entire life. And I just thought you were Russian. No,
I thought I was Russian too. I feel like I
know it was maybe your second episode or something where
I actually heard your real voice. I think you stayed
(03:06):
in character a little bit, or maybe it was just
that I only saw you in the scene because we
were being pulled around so much in the first season,
but it was It was a big shock to me
when yeah, you didn't have a Russian accent because you
were kneeling it. But do you know it's really funny.
June who played Sadie. I saw her on set of
(03:29):
the show that she was shooting when you know, with
Jane Fonder, and I started talking to her and her
face dropped and she was like, oh, oh, you were Russian.
But do you know what's really funny. I when I
first put that role um in Hancock Park, a guy
(03:52):
came and he handed me a vanilla envelope with UM
recordings inside of how to do a Russian accent. Yeah.
So somebody came to my saying to my studio in
Hancock Park. At the time, I don't know in the
studio anymore this I live in Malibou, but um, but
(04:14):
I was given a manila envelope guests from producers of
how to do a Russian accent. So I was like, ship,
they don't think I can do it completely? Oh, I
better like see to this. So I never used those tapes.
I went to this one woman called Jessica Drake who
worked who worked with everyone really like Steve Martin and
(04:37):
in all the accents he's done. She's worked with him,
and she would find the comedy with Steve when they're
creating accents. So I did my first. You know, I've
worked with I worked with her throughout the course of
New Gold to make sure there was some consistency. So
I always marked the scripts, you know, phonetically um to
(04:59):
make sure or that I was hitting my mark with
the accent. How did you cope then with all of
the adultlines and jokes, because I can't I imagine you've
got so many because you're so funny, and the writers
love to write for you, and they would just throw
jokes out that you've never seen before in this accent
that you were you know, learning and studying. Yeah, I
(05:22):
think I just like in the end, I just kind
of knew that there was maybe three things I always
had to do, and I always made sure I did
those when it was like on the fly. But really
that accent opened up a whole portal of adoring dialects
and really going into studying, Like I became a bit
obsessed not with just Russian, but like it where different
(05:45):
English dialects come from, the American dialect give us a
Jimmaican accent, jamaking give us a Cameroonian, a Southern Cameroony.
I feel like you, actually, Lawaren could do a Southern
cam marooney an accent on the fly. Uh No, probably probably,
but I don't. I don't know what it was like.
(06:06):
I would have to hear it first. You're actually very
good at accents as well. Like I feel like on
set you would for some reason go around and be like,
here's the difference between Australian New Zealand and South African
and you could somehow navigate those waters in like three sentences. Honestly,
it was because I didn't know who I was as
a person, right, so I like to be other people
(06:28):
because I was insecure. Now that I know who I am,
I don't do accents anymore. It's off the resume. He
just like scrubbed off the bottom part. We're Baca just
in case there is the one listener, um, because this
is a New Girl rewatch podcast, So most people are
here because they have watched and are rewatching the show
(06:49):
with us, UM, but in case they've never heard Nadia, Um,
could you do you have anything you could read that's
next to you? Nadia so course you could say anything
you would like about anything. I don't know. I mean,
this is on the New York Starbucks coff with my
(07:09):
green teeth that I drink every morning. I wish I
had a husband who could make it for me, but
I have to make it myself. I'm living alone in Meliboe,
looking at the sea every morning, wondering where is he?
Where is he? And all I see is little fisherman
on their boats outside, floating by looking for lobsters. But
(07:35):
where the funk is my husband? I better go to
the smoothie. There's a juice bar in Melibo. It's like Predator.
It's like people go there like predators. It's like everyone
at some point in her life will move through this
juice bar. It's like I just hung out there. Eventually
I meet David Dukovny. Is it like riding a bike?
(08:02):
Are you just like back in slightly Psychotic Menacing? Nadia
Land Menacing? It's always just like a little delighted and violent. Yeah,
oh my gosh. So you know obviously when when when
(08:25):
you came on the show New Girl at the time
was one of the bigger shows in television, did you
experience any you know, experience any of that out and
about with your character because you have such a unique
character and such a well loved character. You know, I
know we get it, you know, as you know as
some of the main cast, but you know, they're a
handful of our they're a handful of our recurrent characters
(08:48):
that stick out and have their own like you have
your own Reddit page and all this stuff from your
quotes and all this. Yeah, it's huge. So you know,
do you ever get people that come up to you
and talk about the show with you? Yeah? I do
all the time at Girlson's about the supermarket. That does
(09:09):
give people. Maybe it's because we're like all trapped indoors
with a task, so they know that you can't, like,
you know, you can't just keep walking down the sidewalk
and I'll be a brief exchange. Deeper conversations with people
who've watched your work seemed to always happen. Yeah, totally
always it does. Yeah, it does happen quite often. Like
I think there was instance a couple of weeks ago,
was at a restaurant and the waitress wanted to have
(09:31):
a chat, so I just like how to chat with her.
It was really nice took a picture. I don't like
having my picture taken, that's the thing. So then I
got her to show me the pictures and then I
hearted the one that I told your ships everything else. Yeah,
that's a that's a very Nicki Minaj thing to do. Now,
I'm very controlling. I'm working on it. Listen. I think
(09:54):
that's fair. I know what you want. You gotta know
what you want. Lives online then forever. I got a
lot of photos out there of me that people tag
me in and my face is all weird and yeah,
you don't and I'm like, damn it, I don't you know,
but you know, I don't know what to do in
those moments. I don't want to be like, giving your
phone and let me see because I think people feel
(10:14):
like because of my character on TV that they can
beat me up. Yeah's off, where's my character so I
can beat them? That's dude. They're going to listen to
Rebecca because they know there's a little naughtia maybe that
will come out and she's like, give me your phone.
They're like, sure, of course, absolutely, please do whatever you
want with it. You can take it, take the whole phone,
and it's fine. Okay, so let's we've dove like dove
(10:36):
straight in and we haven't. Actually, i've never heard the
story of how you um got the audition for the show,
how that went when you got the news that you're
going to be on it, And I feel like it
was only supposed to be for that one episode and
maybe a couple of words, right, and then it grew
into something. So talk us through because I don't know
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the story of Naughtia getting onto New Girl. Okay, Well,
came to l A because I broke up with someone
and they bought me a small guitar and told me
I should do stand up in l A and I
actually took the advice. His name was, actually you would
know who it was, Jeremy Piven. If you're listening, man,
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you're sucked up. Jeremy Piven. So there's a video of
you online that is so great of you at the
laugh Factory. Yeah, that's that's what That was My first
stand up. Are you joking? Where you're playing the ukulele
and eating a sandwich. Motherfucker song? Yeah, motherfucker so so
so the thing is at with that stand up, it's
like spliced right, It's like real, my life and not
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real life like congingled together. And it was from that
time that I did that stand up, that I booked
Children's Hospital and worked with David Wayne, and then David
Wayne when I booked New Girl was the director on
that episode. So chance, by chance, I think, what unless
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David Wayne is a super fan and was you in
your career? Um, well that's how did you get the audition?
This is the crazy thing. I got the audition through
my commercial agent. It was a commercial audition because they
wanted European models, and they went to the commercial agents
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and so I was in the waiting room with all
of these girls who thought it was a Russian model,
so they like had like eighties makeup and everything, and
I was just wearrying this very beautiful dress that I
had borrowed. Um, and I had no makeup. And I
went in there and I just did these lines with
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a Polish accent because I had originally been doing a
Polish accent for something else and it was Eastern Europeans,
so I did this Polish accent. It was an under
five and the casting director, Jessica just like under five
lines sentences, and Jessica Monks, she was in the room
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and we just had a real laugh. Um, and so
I think I went back again. I think, yeah, I
think I might have gone back another time. And then
my my commercial agents said that I booked it, and
and then um, I saw I booked an episode of
gossip Girl. And I didn't recognize. Next, this is really confusing.
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Wait when you got on set, you were confused. I
thought I was. I thought it was an episode of
gossip Girl. That I was confused A lot Gassle Girl,
two Broke Girls, New Girl. So you haven't heard of
new Girl? Throne and I had a new Girl. I
was working somewhere and the woman I was working and said, oh,
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you've got an action job. Then I was like, yeah,
I just put the chow called gossip Girl. They both
have girl the title, to be fair. Yeah, but the
other girl in the scene, woman was actually a Russian model,
And I always remember, bless her heart. That's so condescending.
When you say bless your heart usually means like idiot.
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Well she after we shot the scene, I went outside
and she was in crafty and she was sticking ah,
like about a dozen cereal bars in her pockets and
in her bags, and I was like, what are you doing?
And she's like Losa for later. Oh, oh my gosh,
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you know what the life the life of an actor
man model? She wasn't an actors, she was a model. Well, yeah,
it's it's in the entertainment business. Isn't as glamorous as
you may think. It's not ashole that crafty comes in
handy And I can't say it's your first or second
time on a set and people are just like laying
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out delicious snacks and there's no like rule board on there.
I for sure I am someone who's gonna like pull
up with like a little bag and be like, I
just take all these Chronola marks. Let me tell you something,
I still do it. I still before I leave a set.
If I if it's like my last day and then
my trailer, they have snacks that are sitting in my trailer,
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we'll just dump into the passenger seat. It's going to
my going to my duffel bag, going on my duffel bag.
I had a friend who came to set. Ex girlfriend
who came to the New Girls set, and she brought
her friend with her. Right. Lovely people, lovely people, you know,
they do well for themselves, like financially the fine. Her
friend had never been on a set before. So she
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goes to Crafty. She goes to Crafty and she comes
back and she's like, holy ship, they got everything in there.
I was like yeah, And she went in the Crafty
truck and I said, yeah, they got a lot of stuff.
And I was like, just grab what you want and
just come kick it. And she goes anything I want. Yeah,
that's what it's for. I just grabbed something. I come
back after we cut, I go back to my trailer.
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They're sitting in my trailer. She no joke, has a
grocery bag. She's like supermarket. Sweet. I said, don't go shopping.
She literally went shopping. Yeah, so you're scene partner went
in cleared Crafty. She shouldn't do that. She didn't care.
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Did you model? You model for real? Real? Realize? How
accurate was this the New Girl modeling concept? Me? Because
both of you played models together, your model in real life,
you know, and obviously it's a comedy, But like some
of the bits and some of the the I don't
know storylines around it, is that any bit accurate to
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the real life? Yeah, I tell you something. Okay, So
when I was modeling in Paris. This is like a
while ago now. I remember I was lining up outside
this building. Literally the line went down the street, all
these models, men and women. It was for the cost
And there was a girl next to me outside Russian.
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She was smoking and it was really like getting in
my airspace and I said, would you mind to smoke
in another direction? And she replied, maybe you breathed too hot.
So I kind of based Nadia on that one interaction.
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I was about to say. I was like, is that
the real Nadia? Yeah, that is the real Nadia. I
met her in all the cost casting years ago, which
I booked. Actually really I used to like really book
things like left, right and Center. I don't know what happened.
For the fans out there. If you're listening right, please
go and find this La cost Ad. Yeah, it was
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it was like literally No, that was another It was
that it's like a shipping thing. And and because I'm
very slim, all the clothes that were meant to be
really big on me. I think it was a look book.
And maybe it was a look book. I actually emailed
the cost years ago and asked when I was trying
to get my own one, visa the cost Please, let's
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bring this back. Okay, let's let's whatever she was modeling.
Let's bring that line of clothing back. Okay. The New
Girl fans to get the Natia ware, the Natia La costware.
So how did the Natia role then grow? Do you
know how it grew just from the one episode in
the Under five too being a mainstay of the show. Well,
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I heard from someone that you or Max said, Oh,
I like doing scenes with her. She's funny to Liz.
Is that not true? I mean that does? I mean
I loved doing scenes with you. You have these things
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with you though, Have you guys never done a scene together?
I don't know? So how do we don't think? So? No? Never? Wow?
Is this the first time you guys are really meeting?
I go, this a introduction chat um. But you know what,
I do think that it was because I remember just
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really learning on the fly a lot of things and
building up the courage to use my voice in the
first season because it was a lot of you know,
things going on for the first time for me. Um.
So I can't imagine that I would like march over
to Liz right and understand I had that power to
be like, I want to know more of that. I
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was just so happy to be there. Yeah, but Max, Um,
I know, is like like loves you and it's a
huge fan of yours, So that makes sense, and he
was a way more seasoned on set to understand do
that say that, then we get to work with all
these funny people again. If the if Liz feels the same,
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and she obviously did, so that's it. That's really nice
to know. I'm gonna yeah, I give that to Max,
even though I probably had the same thought. I'm sure
he's the one I took action on it. I do
believe that if you if you heard that, I do
believe it was Max. Yeah, I just don't remember the
last room. Yeah, but that would be a red page.
Probably a super fan, a super naughty a fan knows
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your story better than you. Yeah, that's really cool. And
then when did they tell you that you were going
to break his penis? When I read the page, that
was I mean, that was one of the craziest storylines
I feel like I've seen our network TV period. Well,
then I saw a penis that actually looked like what
they said in the script, and I didn't even think
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that that existed a broken penis. You know, how did
you see this? I'm scared to ask, how did you
see this? Penis? I sent her a picture you have
met before said the weirdest It was really funny, though,
is that I found this weird thing happening with New Girl.
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I booked an episode, then something weird would happen. So
in the first reading that we did, which was actually
at Fox, you know, when we'ld have like a huge audience,
and so I left my Saint Laurent blazer on the
back of the chair and then it just disappeared forever.
And then I put another episode with the monkey thing,
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Monkey and Monkey where you and then my cat called
Monkey got run over by a car. So then and
then I booked and then I was on settin next week.
So when I said Monkey no to Zoe, Monkey no,
it was like really like finding that my out my
cat had died, like Monkey no. So it's like there
was always like a weird kind of like thing that
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I would find in the script. So whether it was
like the actual penis that went left, or the monkey
my little monkey cat that died, or suddenly my my
blazer went missing, or like there would be like some
weird like connection to the script. Wow, but I don't
have that anymore because I believe in God and I
don't do dispels anymore. I gotta ask you how to
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all those coincidences? Which one has bothered you the most?
I feel like it's the jacket. Oh yeah, do you
know I didn't really miss that, Jackie welcome. I have
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to ask because was it just doing research for like
the episode that you googled broken penis? Or did you
see one with your own eyes? I still one with
my own eyes. I don't know whether it was broken,
but like it went straight and then left. I didn't
know that penises could ever do that. The whole thing
has gone left, the whole interview. I don't know. If
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I was ever in that situation, if I would not
be able to say something, well, I would just be
so curious. I would want to be like, what happened?
Are you born that way? That way? It was born? Oh?
You did ask? No, I just didn't ask. I just know.
I mean you wouldn't ask. You just assume, right, I
mean you could sleep sleep a certain way for a
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long period of time. You don't know way like parents
used to say back in the day, like if you
keep your face twisted up like that, you know the
change it stay like that. It was stayed like that.
Scoliosis is the scoliosis of the so on ahead, Um,
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you not only not only do you bless the stage,
you you bless our screens. You're so funny, but you
you were right as well. Also director producer um tell
us about this short. Tell us about the short that
you created. Yeah, well, I love I love like telling
stories based on real people, and so I found this
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story based on this ballerina called Francesca Man. Not the
happiest of stories. She was a ballerina during World War
two and um, she was you know, she died in
in the gas chambers. But there was an eyewitness report
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that I came across that said that whilst everyone was
getting undressed, something propelled her to dance. And I got
very emotional when I talked about this, because you know,
it's not comedy, is it. I mean, so, you know,
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she um got the attention of a guard and this
is none of this was planned, and she you know,
close enough to grab his gun and she shot him,
and she shot someone else as well, another guard. And
so I worked with this writer to retell this story
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in the form of a short and yeah, I mean
I didn't really, you know, it's not it wasn't really
for anyone to see. It was really because you know,
we're all storytellers, and I felt I wanted to tell mm, hm, wow, wow,
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that is that's incredible, that's incredible that you How did
you how did you come across her story? Well, I am.
I found this book called the Hotel pol Ski UM,
and it was about how in World War Two in
Poland and more so, there was this scam about the
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Hotel polk were after the ghetto was burnt down. Um.
What the Nazis strategized was to get the rest of
the Jews out of hiding, was that they were now
selling these passports for North America and Israel and UM.
And so I read this account and they kept on
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talking about, you know, people who had brought Jewish people
knowing the into this scam and we're walk from nurse
and Francesco was mentioned as one. But I didn't believe
that that was the case. So I did more research
and I found this other eyewitness report of the actual
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night that this happened, with her death, and I don't know.
I just pieced everything together and researched who she was
as a young you know, she was twenty six when
she died. Who she was and what her life might
have been up into that time. And I don't believe
that she I feeled that she was trying to save
herself and her family, and she was had good intentions.
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So I just you know, over COVID, I just really
researched this woman. She I felt that she was because
she was a ballerina, and it was in her body
that in this highly stressful situation, there was a force
that moved her, and her body responded not in the
way that everybody else responded, It responded in a way
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in her last moments that she would be enjoy you know.
That's how she expressed herself. That's through dance, and so
she wanted to dine the way that she decided, even
though that she knew it was intimate that she could
have that one last experience as an artist. She was
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an artist. Wow. So that's what I was exploring with
that short. I wish I knew that's what it's called.
I wish I knew. I wish I knew it's called soft. Oh,
I wish I had known. Oh that's another short I direct.
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You know what's so interesting? You know what's so interesting
as you were going as you were going, you know,
and it's it's such you're you're so passionate about about
your work, about and especially about this particular piece. I
was talking about a completely different project. Yeah, you know
about my last project. I just I forgot about I
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wish I had known. I'm sorry. I got emotional. I
just do I emotional person. I can't help it. I
kind of like try and keep it like all locked down.
But it's just it's just who I am. It's there's
no way you were you know, especially took it upon
yourself to tell this story that I would say, almost
no one knows, and then put yourself in the charge
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of sharing it and the responsibility that comes with it,
and then the um gaps you have to fill in
in a way that you hope still honors, you know,
the truth that you know of that person. Um that
I'm sure every time you share it that would feel
emotional because you're carrying a lot around that soft soft
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soft Yeah, and can people see that? I mean no,
I just I mean, like we submitted to it all
to the festivals, but it didn't really it didn't get
really take it. Yeah, I think it got picked up
a couple of places, but the place. But the next
film I did, called I Wish I Had Known did
get picked up and win um some like film awards
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and stuff like that. And that was about another project
that I was working on which I wanted to be
a TV show, but then I didn't do it. I
this was that the Wish I had Known was actually
a proof of concept. And I asked women from all
around the world if there was one thing that they
wished they had known about womanhood when they were a girl,
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you know, something that they had been told. What would
it have been? And I asked, I think a hundred women,
you know, not actresses in Hollywood, but you know, from
all over the world. And I learned so much. I
learned the takeaway that that women shared. I think a
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big thing for me was that other women are not
the competition I think in our position or not for you,
because you know your mother now you know, different stage
in life, but you know you kind of pitted against
other women as a model, as an actress, and realizing
that they're not the competition kind of takes a weight
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off m and to not um and to not blame
your mother because you never know what she's gone through,
and that you know, it's okay to be a late bloomer.
That we don't have to adhere to these timelines that
the over culture you know, tells us too. So you know,
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you can start a family in your forties and falling
off for the first time in your fifties. We're in
your sixties, and you know, life is always happening. You know,
it's never too late. Let's say I knew a woman
started a family in the seventies was good years old.
You're popping out babies right now, grandma. It's not well.
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Women in their seventies have gone through the menopause, and
going through the menopause portal me that you're now a
grandmother or you will grandmother, be that role model grandmother.
I mean, what would be the thing that you wish
you had nown mm hmmm. I think I would have
started therapy years ago. M mm hmm. I think you know,
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in the UK we don't really do therapy. It's really
it's not something that you do. I think that you know,
therapy has given me a foundation foundation, you know, because
I didn't really have a very stable childhood, and so
therapy for me has kind of helped me, you know,
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have a stable foundation to now build my life on,
you know it, to rather than be failing, frailing all
over the place. Do I do this, I'll do this,
I'll do this. Like to have more of a an
understanding of why I'm doing things, more conscious of why
I'm doing things, like just being intentional, more inten Yeah,
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more intentional, um, taken you know, things, less personally and
really having more of a connection to God, m or
love God love. I find your answer to be a
very profound one. Actually that's who you. I mean. Obviously,
comedy runs in your bones, but you're you're also a
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thinker and your your a very thoughtful individual. If you
were to ask me that question, Um, I'm not gonna
lie to you, I'm very I'm an idiot. I would
have said something money related. Would have been like, oh,
I would have invested in the Microsoft. I would have
bought up all the bitcoin, you know. I would have
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said something like that. And that that's why when I
said in the intro that you were like this force
who came on the show. Um, you're very very unique.
You're very very unique individual and we were just kind
of blessed to have you as a as a member
of our our New Girl family. Um. Yeah, let me
ask you something, lamore and though to reframe it, because
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I it's funny you said that. I'm like, for sure
you would have deflected with humor, right, But what would
you want your daughter to know about being a woman.
What's the lesson or the teaching you hope that she
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carries with her and you could give it to her
now to make things a little easier or more joyous
and better for her. That I that I can't define
what a woman is for her, you know what I mean.
It's I'll raise you the way I raise you, teach
you lessons that I feel, keep you safe and keep
you strapped and ready for for life, and then wherever
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you go at that point, I can't dictate that I can.
I can protect you from a distance, you know what
I mean. But the definition I'm not. I can't tell
anybody how to be. That's something has to kind of
grow into using her and not to be and not
to feel pressure to be something else. Yeah, because that's
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gonna be difficult to I would imagine that the definition
of a man. That's there's a lot of times you
even as a man, you'll hear it. You'll go a
real man would do this, And I'm like, damn, I
just maybe I'm not a real man. I would you know,
I didn't. I didn't do things like you would have
done things. So and that's and that's a big pressure
for me. So I can imagine how it feels to be,
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you know, um, a woman having to feel that pressure.
So I wouldn't want that pressure for her. Right, it's
funny though, Right, as soon as it's about your daughter,
then it's not deflected with comedy. Right, you went just
as in the deep waters as Rebecca, and that very honest,
truthful answer that is true. Um, I deflect because I
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don't have a good relationship with my father. No, sorry,
we have a good relationship. It's a great relationship. I'm
m is incredible, said welcome. I mentioned something in the
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last deflection about bitcoin and crypto, and you do now.
I Rebecca has been kind of schooling me offline about
web three and the n f T space and metaverse
and you know, the essentially the future and and and
(36:43):
you know, there's there's so much skepticism around it, and
you know, people don't understand it, and it's it's weird
for some folks, and you know, and some folks will
be just fine without it, and that's perfectly fine. But Rebecca,
you are, you are knee deep and yeah, tell about it?
Who introduced you? M H Who introduced me? Um? Well,
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I grew up in London with a lot of British artists,
and so I lived in East London for a while
where a lot of those galleries were coming up, and
I stayed in contact with one artist who when it
was bitcoin called me to tell me to invest in
bitcoin and I didn't. And then last year around March,
(37:27):
he called me again and was telling me about n
f T S and he wouldn't let up. He would
call me, you know, a few times a week to
tell me about this new space. And so eventually I
started to listen and UM was reading up on it
and started to listen to the Defiant podcast, his British
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based based in Amsterdam. And then I started my own
project called Audrey Mouse, which was a stand up character
that I've now imagined UM for Web three and so
I was going to do an n f T drop,
but I stopped. I stopped because I ideated something else,
which I think is more valuable to the space, um
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which is, I've created a VR shopping platform bridging the
gap between Web two consumers and Web three and all
dream Mouse is the Alexa or the Seri of this space.
So she guides Web two users, which is the Internet
as we know it now, to Web three. And what
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is a VR shopping experience? Well, up until now, we've
known two ways to shop brick and mortar, and the
second way is Amazon and platforms like Amazon, and with
shop of Us, which is the platform I'm launching, it's
the third way to shop. When we're calling this meta commerce.
And I've started to dream in this way now when
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I wake up in the morning. I'm not kidding. A
couple of weeks ago, I woke up and I imagined
a sandal on my foot. I was thinking about buying
this sand and I was like, woke up and I
was like, oh, so in this platform, you'll be able
to say to Audrey Mouse, Audrey, take me to I
don't know you go boss, take me to Tory. But
you'll be able to go into these storefronts and try
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on outfits in virtual reality and when you're using the
VR headsets. But we are developing it for desktop and
as an app for your phone, but you will be
able to use it to um virtually try on clothing
wild So we're calling this meta commerce. And so you know,
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the thing is with Web three, it's not going to
take over the Internet. It's about integrating into the Internet.
And so essentially, you know what Web three years. It's
just based on the blockchain, and every cryptocurrency is based
on its particular blockchain, and so with shopper Verse, it
will be based on the blockchain. But what's interesting about
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this platform is that up until now, cryptocurrency has only
been when you being able to trade by in cell cryptocurrency.
There's been no real life, you know, transactions that you
can do. But in the space you can use your cryptocurrency.
And we're also creating a plate earned game, so people
can you know, own token, earn tokens and then they
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can either exchange that for feat or use those tokens
in the shop of us. Wow, you should do a
Ted talk on this. I was just about to feel
like you just explained that to me in a way
that I could actually understand because I'm so outside of
all of that world. But I think I understood everything
(40:49):
that you said, because usually it'll just want to fly
over my head just because I'm not Yeah, because there's
no real use application. It's like what the fund is
an n f T. I can't point to anything in
the real world and say, oh, that's so, that's why
people don't trust it. But literally, n f T is
just a tech term. It's literally just the way of
(41:10):
wrapping data. So your grandma can imagine something and and
an f T can wrap data around it and then
put it on a blockchain, whether that's on etherory and
blockchain or Polygon or Solano. These are all different blockchains.
That's interesting. Um, when you said she should do a
TED talk, So I learned a lot about crypto through
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Audrey Mouse. Yeah. She she sent me these instructional videos.
So for folks out there who um, for folks out
there who are a little skeptical or don't, I just
don't know enough because I'm still learning all the time. Um.
And I would like to say I'm fairly well versed
in it now. Um Um. But Audrey Mouse was kind
(41:53):
of teaching me some of the basics, because once you
have the basics down, you'll start to think in a
in a for a way. And it's just so exciting
that I have a like a homie who worked with
who worked with, who understand who's in the comedy spaces,
the TV film space, but also now in this space
and understands me of what I was attempting to do
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or going through and this character you created kind of
helped guide me through there. Yeah, I hope to do
more with her. I really do want to position her
not just in my app as a guide, but other
brands as well that want to bring their consumers from
Web two and have that Web three experience. Um. But yeah,
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I've done a few. I've done a few videos, and
I think the reason why they are really effective is
because every single word I am saying I wrote and
I understand. It's like, you know, when you go and
see a bad Shakespeare play and you don't understand anything.
It's almost like because the actors don't understand what they're saying.
But when you go to a good Shakespeare and all
the actors know exactly every single word, it's like you
(42:58):
have in full experience of the truth, and I think,
like with these all dream ouse videos, I really wanted
to understand and the basics and then pass that on.
That's incredible. Ladies and gentlemen. If you're just tuning in,
you're here with the wonderful, talented actress, comedian, and Web
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three innovator Rebecca Reid. Should we dive into the box?
We should dive into the box? You want to know
what the box is? Un excited like the nut jar, help,
the nerd jar, douchebag jar. Also, by the way that
(43:44):
you would call Schmidt's dochar the nerd jar, it's a
very naughtier thing to do. You're not an accent, but
I can hear naughtia of being like, oh please, that's
a compliment for an idiot, Like I could see you
playing a Russian spot We're going mac and they can
see it happening for you. Maybe if then Rebecca would
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just like dub voice me, then I could do it Jessica. Um, okay, yeah,
explain the box. Let's ladies and gentlemen, Um, welcome to
this segment. It's a segment where we we crawl into
the back of Nick's closet. Okay, it's a lot of
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strange things in Nick's closet, a lot of sticky things,
a lot of crusty, smelly, stained things in the back
of Nick's closet. But women back there, what we're gonna
do is we're gonna bypass all that trash and we're
gonna pull out some of the memories that the cast
and crew of New Girl have kept hidden for years. So, Rebecca,
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what's your favorite memory from your time on New Girl? Um?
One not just immediately jumped into my brain, like right here.
Um was the last episode when I'm doing the speech
two Jazz and Hannah is to my right and she's
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taking pictures of what I'm just pictures just as Hannah
and I think for the last take, I just like
stormed off the front of the stage. I just remembered that.
I'm not saying it's my favorite, but I just remembered that.
And Yeah, I just saw all a little moments, remember,
like the the eggshells in the scrambled eggs for breakfast
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in the morning, the craft you mean to leave those
eggshells in? Yeah, I think sells a little treat. A
little treat. We do a segment on our show call
where's the beer? But in real life it's kind of like,
you know, find the shells and the eggs. It was real, No,
I just thought of my favorite moment, um. I gotta say. Um.
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When I did a John Patrick Shanley play, I understood
what acting was for the first time because my molecular
structure and my patterns changed from Rebecca to this character
that I was playing, Donna. And then when I worked
with them with Max, something else happened because I had
decided on the script how I was going to play
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the scene, and then I had to surrender everything over
because what Max. How Max was looking at me in
the moment when we did that Mick Mouse scene, I
had to throw everything away and just be there with
Max present and saying these lines to Max, and all
of my preparation out the window, very very present, And
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that was my second big acting lesson was with Max,
and the lesson was being present. I felt so alive
in that scene with him with Mick Mouse because I
was discovering things for the first time, Like I remember
looking at him one time and thinking, do you think
I'm stupid? That was Rebecca thought, and then it came
out in the Nadia voice. So I think that was
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probably one of my favorite experiences. And then because I
think that was like the first time where Liz would
then throw lines, but it was before they would write
them down and leave them in your room. It was
when this was on set and she would shout say
that all she'll come up to you and say and
so she would say. I remember her calling over and
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saying something, and then and then I hearing people laughing,
I was like, oh, my funny. Right now is this funny?
Because I really think that he that Max, this actor
thinks I'm stupid. I honestly think there's a There was
a handful of people, um less than a handful of
people who when they would come to set and we
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knew they were going to visit as we um all
immediately became unprofessional because we were so excited they're going
to be there. And I feel like I can speak
for myself. Then I was not a very good scene
partner because I was like, Rebecca is such a strong actress,
She's so funny. She has this character that I'm not
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going to be sitting here as Cecy. I am Hannah,
and I'm going to break the entire time and laugh
and watch this incredible performance, and I know that's not
going to bump you because you're amazing, and I feel
like it was just like a joyous thing. And I
feel like Max kind of felt the same way. We're okay.
Maybe you had Schmidt sometimes in the scene, but I
think a lot of times off camera when it was
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turned around on you and he's sitting off camera, I'm
sure he was just sitting there as Max, laughing his
ass off because you're just so funny and committed. I
think I remember that time when we did one of
our first scenes together Hannah in in in CC's apartment
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and and well, I have to all due to Schmidt.
And I remember doing that scene on Gossip Girl. I
thought I was on um and I said some Max.
When I said some maximum between, I was like, am
I doing okay? Do you think this is okay? It's like, yeah, yeah,
you're doing great. I think everyone was so surprised. I think,
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genuinely everyone was so surprised because I feel like a
lot of times you you you know, you step on
a TV set and you're the new kid in town,
and you just go like I just want to get
in say my lines. I'm not gonna take any risk
or chances to anything differently and get out of there
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and hope that they like me. Right. We sipped from
in a place of fear. Right, and you came in
and had built this whole character, this whole world for her.
You were so committed to it, and we all kind
of just whenever the Natia character was on the show,
we all had to join Nadia's world. Like that was
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just the way of it. You never integrated into our world.
If you're there, we were in her world and it
was awesome. Rebecca, what you're supposed to do. It's like
when it's like basketball, I always have basketball references is
I'm a huge basketball fan. That's the only thing I
can relate real life too. You have somebody who comes
in and their specialty is scoring, Like you have to
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get that person the ball, like we can do everything else,
Just get that person the ball like that. That's it,
Like she's gonna score, and that's that's where the money is.
Whenever she's there is this this, These are where the
jokes are going to come from. This is what's going
to keep the eyeballs on the screen. And they and
and we think you did a fantastic. Yeah, it was
like the greatest day. When we would see the next
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episode Nadia is back for whatever it was, everybody got
excited because we knew that we got to share a
scene with you. We could said as us and enjoy
a performance and who knows what direction it's going to go,
and that's the best. That's why you feel alive and something.
I think that's one of the best things about acting.
I think in comedy is that live feeling. But I mean,
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you guys were doing this like full time, like amazing,
I mean, on it all the time. So I was
just getting into and like having a little taste. But
I do really understand how special the show is and
was because the alchemy of all of you together is
like that was the jack pot. You know. It doesn't
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happen all the time. I was a serious regular and
another show and I was like a new Girl and
Children's Hospital were my only other you know, comparisons, and
I was so excited to put this series regular. I
was like, oh my god, it's gonna be like my
own New Girl. It's gonna be amazing cars. I'm going
to love them all friends until we die, you know.
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And it wasn't like that tool like I got hives
from the stress, right. I mean people say that to
us all the time, and I've never had another experience
prior to it, right, So it was my first time,
and so like you, I was just like, well, this
must be how it all works. And everyone's like, well,
wait till the show ends one day and you go
into the real world. I got lucky because I woke
(52:22):
show I'm currently on. We get along famously. Yeah, you
guys look like you have a lot of fun. Okay,
we have too much fun. Um. I feel like, guys,
we're going to have to wrap this up, and I
will say, this is such this episode I love so
much because it is so true to the spirit of you, Rebecca.
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This is the most one of the most unpredictable, wonderful
um conversations I've had in a long time. And I've
learned so much. I've left. I've cried, well I did, Yeah,
I cried too. I was crying with you. I mean you,
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I saw at least a lot I was damp in
the ducts. And you may have thought when you tuned
into this episode at the top and heard Lamourens intro
like that seems like a little much. And now after
sitting here for an hour with Rebecca, you understand, if anything,
it was um an understatement instead of an overstatement. You
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are a light and a force and we love you
and thank you for coming on to Welcome to Our Show.
And I would like to dedicate this episode two Monkey,
because I didn't know that you had lost Monkey the
week before and then have to come and repeatedly say
your sweet cat's name over and over again. That must
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have felt so strange. And I didn't know it at
the time, but I know it now so too. Monkey.
We love you and thank you for it. Yeah, well Monkey. Um,
we love you, Rebecca, thank you for coming on. Love you, Hannah,
love you, Larry, love you. Thank you so much. And
if you guys love Monkey, please like and subscribe. UM
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give us five stars and remember, Oh how is wife?
And fun? Oh all right, this is now. This is
honestly next time, Rebecca, we do this. It's just you
and me. Okay, Hi, guys, you've been listening to Welcome
to Our Show, a New Girl recap podcast. Welcome to
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Our Show is a production of I Hurt Radio, hosted
by Zoe Deschanel Lamour and Morris and Hannah Simone. Our
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