May 16, 2024 • 58 mins
On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with actor, Catharine Daddario. We cover a lot of ground with Catherine, who has an infectious enthusiasm for her craft. We discuss her New York City upbringing as a "latchkey kid", as well as how she’s adjusting after her recent move to Los Angeles. We discuss the dynamics of growing up alongside her well-known siblings, Matthew and Alexandra Daddario, and the thrill of working on both indie projects and star-studded sets like John Krasinski's upcoming film "IF."
Catherine shares her journey from stage acting to her love for the collaborative magic of film. We discuss her family's initial hesitation about acting careers…and eventual warming to their children's passion. We also talk about her favorite L.A. restaurants and her quest for authentic cuisine, juxtaposed with her enduring love for New York's vibrant city life. Catherine's genuine love for acting shines through, as we touch on the different genres she enjoys and the types of characters that challenge her the most.
Catherine delves into her passion for science fiction, revealing her favorite authors and discussing some of her favorites of the genre. Catherine gives us a sneak peek into her upcoming projects, including "The Tributaries" and a horror film titled "Oak," which showcase her diverse and thriving career. So, enjoy this chat, as we sit down to talk story and get inspired by Catharine’s journey.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
(0:04:39) - Acting Experience on Movie Set
(0:12:04) - Acting, Family, Food, Auditions, and LA
(0:13:39) - Family's Support for Non-Traditional Careers
(0:24:14) - Childhood and Career Challenges
(0:31:06) - Family Dynamics in Show Business
(0:35:24) - Balancing Acting and Personal Hobbies
(0:38:11) - Growing Up in New York City
(0:44:31) - Science Fiction, Coffee, and Favorite Things
(0:51:30) - Exploring Science Fiction and Future Projects
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Catharine (00:02):
my mom still does the thing where she's
watching a show and she calls me.
She goes.
Why aren't you on this?
You should really have an oscar already.
You know like, thank you, that's very sweet
mom welcome to story and craft.
Announcer (00:16):
Now here's your host, Marc preston.
Marc (00:18):
All right here we are back again.
Another episode of story and craft.
Thank Thank you for stopping by.
Appreciate it greatly.
New to the show.
Thank you very much for checking it out and,
if you've been here before, thank you.
Thank you so much for coming back by.
Today we are sitting down with the lovely,
the talented Catherine Daddario.
Really enjoyed this chat.
(00:38):
She's got a new movie coming out on May
17th, called If.
It's the new John Krasinski movie.
That literally seems to have pretty much
everybody in the world in it.
You've got Emily Blunt, ryan Reynolds, brad
Pitt, matt Damon, sam Rockwell so many more
to name, including my guest today,
catherine Daddario.
(00:58):
We cover a lot of ground talking about what
it's like to grow up as a little kid in New
York City.
Also, what's it like to grow up as a little
kid in New York City.
Also, what's it like to have two working
actors as siblings, her brother Matthew and
her sister Alexandra Daddario also
successful actors.
We just kind of talk story.
Really enjoy this chat.
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Today is Catherine Daddario Day, right here
on Story Craft.
Are you in LA right now?
Catharine (01:59):
I'm in LA.
Yes, I moved here like a year ago, so
that's where.
Marc (02:03):
I am.
I saw somewhere you're a New York kid,
right.
Catharine (02:05):
Yeah, born and raised.
I was there for 30 years.
Marc (02:09):
So you've only been in LA for a year, so
what are you thinking about it?
Catharine (02:13):
I'm getting used to it.
I think everyone from New York has a
difficult transition time with LA.
It's got all the great restaurants and
museums it's a great place.
It's got all the great restaurants and
museums it's a great place.
It's just not the kind of city I was raised
with.
When I think of a city, I don't think of
needing a car.
Marc (02:32):
Now, did you grow up in the city?
Catharine (02:35):
Yeah, in Manhattan.
Marc (02:37):
Yeah, were you one of those kids that when
I was growing up, being a Gen X kid or
whatever?
But people that I knew up there were like
10 years old or going and getting on a
subway.
It's not even you have kids traveling on
the buses and subways.
Catharine (02:52):
Yeah, we were latchkey kids so we just kept
our key with us.
I remember third grade is when our
elementary school started letting us out
for lunch and then my mom was like, oh, I
guess you should have a little bit of a
curfew, so like a 5 pm curfew, and then
Wait so they let you out for lunch.
(03:12):
Yeah, so you have to stay within like a
half of my like a couple block radius and
you go to those restaurants instead of like
eight-year-olds running around.
Marc (03:19):
Wait, this is third grade.
Yeah, they wouldn't let us do that until we
were like seniors in high school.
Then they would let us go to Whataburger or
like a local burger place.
So third grade.
Catharine (03:29):
That's the New York way.
Marc (03:31):
Yeah, I don't think they'd let us be on the
playground unsupervised.
The decision to move from New York to LA
was it just work-based?
Just have you always wanted to live there?
What got you to LA finally?
Catharine (03:45):
I've always wanted to live somewhere else,
but New York is kind of a hard place to
leave because it has everything.
But when I turned 30, I was like, okay,
well, let me do this.
And then LA is where the industry is and I
also have friends and family here, so it
kind of was a very easy transition.
Marc (04:01):
I'm still mind boggled that you're over 30.
Are you still playing much younger?
Catharine (04:06):
Yeah, people still think I'm a teenager.
It's very crazy.
I think some of it's the way that I look.
I think some of it's the way that I act a
little childish.
But yeah, I'm still doing teenager, but I'm
starting now also to do like mom roles.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I'm like that in between.
Marc (04:23):
So, but you're playing a mom right now.
This is the first time you've done that
right.
Catharine (04:27):
Yeah, this is the first time I'm a mom.
I've sort of moved into like big sister and
now I'm a mom.
And if, um, yeah, I play like young bees.
So Kaylee Fleming's young part, audrey
Hoffman, who's so sweet and amazing, I play
her mom in the movie.
(04:49):
It was really, really fun to be on a set
like that.
I've never been on as an actor, such a
large set, and it was so interesting For me.
I had gone from working on some indie
projects and a horror and then, like those
directors that I worked with, like Kat
Goeli did an amazing indie project with me.
(05:11):
She's a first time director and she was
it's called the Tributaries and she's just
so about the emotions and like would sit
down and chat with you and be so invested
and it's a very serious role and the whole
thing and it was so incredible to work with
her and like have that collaborative
(05:32):
process.
And then If was so interesting because
there was still the collaborative process,
but John is so positive.
I've never worked with a director who just
wants to like inject aggressive positivity
into everything.
Um, watching him work was incredible.
I was like after you know, people are
(05:52):
putting in long days and nights and are
exhausted, and then you get to set and
john's just like amping everybody up,
staying focused, move, like keeping it
moving, um, and it's a tough job that he
had like but he's still in there.
Marc (06:09):
You know all enthusiastic, yeah for sure
that's kind of director you want, though
you want somebody who comes in there, who's
ready to rock and roll oh, absolutely I was
stunned.
Catharine (06:17):
I was like, wow, I've like he didn't seem
like he got tired once he was, so it was
incredible.
I've never seen anything like it.
Um, and that was really great for our stuff.
Um, you know, because we had to, I worked
with like a five-year-old at the time um,
so having that energy there was really
really phenomenal okay, I was about to ask
you.
Marc (06:36):
I was wondering how old your daughter is
supposed to be.
It's, she's, she's a five-year-old yeah, I
think she was five and six when we were
shooting this has got such an amazing cast,
but it seems like to me, a lot of that cast
that's a lot of voiceover that's happening
in the studio, your live action with her
yes, it was really incredible to be on that
set and see some of also how they shoot
(06:57):
some of the imaginary friends stuff which
is, you know, done in post but you have to
prep it on set.
Catharine (07:05):
Everyone was so, so talented.
I mean, working with like such big names
and on such a big production was amazing.
I mean, Fiona Shaw is so nice and everyone
was just like like it's funny because you
understand why certain people are like as
big as they are.
I'm like these people are all incredible,
(07:27):
Every single person I've met Now I know
your sister is.
Marc (07:29):
She's done one or two things here and there.
Catharine (07:32):
Yeah, that's all, just one or two.
Marc (07:34):
What about your folks Like were you coming
from?
Like an arts background at all?
Catharine (07:38):
Our parents were lawyers.
Yeah, my mom was like a contract lawyer.
My dad worked for the government and, um,
my mom, actually her undergrad was in piano
and then she went to law school after
because she couldn't get a job, um, and
which is just like such a funny decision
(07:59):
like over wine, be like I can't get any
respect.
What should I do?
Go to law?
It's crazy, but that's what it was back in
the day, I guess.
Marc (08:09):
Yeah, because attorneys get so much respect
in this country.
Catharine (08:11):
I know, yeah, seriously, but they're both
pretty badass and we got into the arts kind
of young.
I had like a speech problem growing up
called childhood speech apraxia, and I got
into theater in part, kind of to get over
(08:32):
that, and also I just really wanted to do
it and I joined this repertory company in
sixth grade and then we just kept
performing and that was all through high
school in New York and we went around with
that and then, you know, I did like a
program at Stella Adler.
Marc (08:50):
If you could look back when you were in
sixth grade like how did it affect in a
positive way your ability to kind of?
I mean first of all, did it help?
Did it help the condition?
Catharine (09:01):
Yeah, help.
Did it help?
The uh condition?
Yeah, when you don't have language or a
good grasp of language, you can't
communicate and you can't learn.
And making friends is difficult and reading
is difficult, like everything.
So having these scripts pre-written and
then I have to wear a mask, so it's not me
saying anything, you know like I don't have
(09:24):
to be careful with anything, I just have to
know where the character is coming from,
it's a very safe space.
And to learn history through old plays and
just be able to study something over and
over and over again until you have it
memorized absolutely helps with language
and helps with everything that comes with
(09:45):
that problem.
I also was in speech therapy for years, but
yeah, I mean, I got into theater for that
reason and then I just absolutely fell in
love with it.
Marc (09:55):
Of course you're young doing this.
Were you the first one like sixth grade?
We'd, like you know, 11, 12 years old?
Were you the first one of the family who
decided to dive into acting, or was this
something kind of percolating around
already?
Catharine (10:06):
I think Alex and I started at the same time
and then she was, we got repped and she
started getting cast in commercials and
then she got on that soap opera which now I
forget the name of, and, like my God, some
of my favorite actors got on soap operas
(10:28):
Like Margot Robbie phenomenal, you get like
the best training ever.
So she was like basically in acting school
every day, going there, and then she was
studying it in school and taking classes
and then she just sort of her career kept
moving upwards.
Marc (10:46):
How did the acting thing land for you?
I mean, you had a reason, there was purpose,
like you were feeling, like it would help,
it was fun.
Did the interest wane?
Ever Since sixth grade have you been going
nonstop.
Catharine (10:59):
No, I tried really really hard to do
anything but acting.
I think you know, seeing my sister sort of
succeed in it, I think I was like, oh, this
is actually really hard what she's doing,
really tough, and I just really wanted to
do anything else.
And especially like as a kid I would see my
(11:20):
mom, you know, in her heels and her
wonderful pencil skirts, going into the
office and I was like I want to be a
businesswoman and so I got a job at a
newspaper.
I got a job.
I mean I worked in so many different places
museums, yeah, I thought I was going to do
all kinds of different things.
I worked at an agency for a while.
(11:42):
My degree is ultimately in linguistics and
rhetoric, like it's not in acting.
Marc (11:52):
I really tried hard to not be an actor, but
I love it more than anything else.
That non-acting training and schooling has
got to help at least at some level in some
random you know way.
Catharine (11:58):
Oh, absolutely.
I also am much better at accents and
analyzing scripts because of it.
Marc (12:04):
When you started getting rolling.
Let's go back to, like, post sixth grade.
Were you thinking, on stage, on camera,
were you wanting to do anything in
particular that was grabbing you?
I mean, what was the North Star for you as
a young actor?
Catharine (12:18):
I mean, I grew up doing stage plays and so
I really fell in love with that audience
interaction that you have and just the
element of it being live every night really
is incredible, because you are so dropped
in completely each time and it's like
you're taken out of your body for however
(12:40):
long the show is, which is just incredible
to me.
And then I started doing more film work and
learning more about it and I think that,
while theater is my first love, I think
film is my true love because it's so
collaborative in a different way.
(13:01):
As an actor on stage, you do interact with
everyone else working in the theater, but
very much so it's a collaborative process
between the other actors and the director
and that's kind of it.
And on film it's like the DP who's going to
be amazing, like to know that stuff is just
unbelievable to me and the lighting people
(13:24):
and you get to talk to every single person
and sort of be like, okay, how can we
improve this performance through sound and
this performance, and you really get to see
it all come together.
It's really, really wild.
So I think I like that the most.
Marc (13:39):
You know you're young doing this, at least
initially.
Was your family really down with it?
Were they like I don't know acting?
Or are they like anything but law?
You know it's cool.
Catharine (13:48):
Our parents were both very like look, we're
lawyers, so you don't have to be.
Just whatever you do, Don't be lawyers.
And then all three of us I also have a
brother.
He was on Shadow Hunters.
He's also a fabulous deal.
Marc (14:01):
He's also a fabulous deal.
Catharine (14:06):
Yes, and my parents were like no, no, no,
we meant like doctors or scientists.
Just, we didn't mean actors, what is that?
Um?
But we're all doing pretty okay with it.
So now I think they're on board, took them
a second, but they weren't ever like
hateful about it, they just wanted us to
have backups.
Marc (14:22):
Now, since you've uh, landed in LA, it they
just wanted us to have backups.
Now, since you've landed in LA, I always
end up talking food, at least once or twice.
Where's your place, where you like to go
sit down and grab a bite, like, have you
found your place?
Either that, or I'd say coffee, but there's
a bazillion coffee places, but where do you
like to go grab a bite in LA now?
Catharine (14:39):
Yeah, there's so many good coffee places.
It's also coffee is just one of those
things that each place you go, you're going
to get something different like, because
different places have different things that
you like.
So I live in the Valley.
I really like this place in Sherman Oaks
called Anna Jack.
It is phenomenal.
(15:00):
I believe that the chef won a James Beard
recently and it's Thai food and it's just.
It tastes like the best chefs in the world
making you a home cooked meal.
Marc (15:13):
Cantor's deli is the always, always one of
my go-to.
I got to hit that place at least twice.
Catharine (15:16):
Oh, that's a classic.
Yeah, that's phenomenal.
There's a lot of like deli places like that
in New York too.
Cantor's is so great.
Marc (15:24):
You know as a Jewish boy down South where
we don't really have that many deli well,
definitely not here.
Where I live now.
I live in South Pend Oreille Island.
There are no delis here.
There may be one bagel place, we're not
sure.
So it's kind of a weird place to be.
So the experience of growing up in New York
as a New York kid and having that freedom
and the kind of the culture and all that
jazz LA kind of, obviously for vocation
(15:50):
reasons, it makes sense to be there.
But is there anywhere else you were looking
to live?
Or you know, are you a beach kid or are you
like mountains or you like to be out in the
desert?
You know what's your, where's your happy
place?
Catharine (15:59):
I love hiking and I love mountains.
Definitely that's like I love the mountains,
I think, more than the beach, but
ultimately I really just long for a
concrete blanket, like I love just city.
I know that's so strange, but anywhere that
I can go and walk I'm happy, which I have
(16:20):
been hiking a lot.
Um, like I went up to Mount Rainier
recently and the Olympic national park as
well, and Zion and Bryce, and I've
discovered that like it really doesn't
matter what my surroundings are.
If I can just walk all day, I'm good.
Um, but like LA is fabulous for all these
different restaurants that you mentioned.
(16:43):
New York is fabulous for the same reasons
and like here people say, oh, maybe the
Mexican food is better here, and then in
New York, like I've had difficulty finding
really amazing Indian or Egyptian here.
I'm sure it's here, I just don't know where.
So I'm really excited to go back to New
York and get some of that and both places
are so diverse it's like not a problem
(17:05):
food-wise.
Marc (17:06):
I haven't had lunch yet, so I'm sitting
here listening going.
Well, that sounds good.
Catharine (17:10):
What kind of food is there?
Marc (17:12):
Well, we're 35 minutes from Mexico, so
Mexican food most certainly.
Catharine (17:17):
Oh right, I forgot it's there.
Marc (17:18):
But yeah, it's seafood.
It's a very Southern tip of Texas, the very
you know, right throw a stone, you hit.
Like Elon Musk's launch facility for SpaceX
is right down the way, five miles from us.
So that's kind of how far south we are.
But yeah, mexican food, seafood, yeah we
got that.
But man, I miss some quality Indian and
yeah, that's you know.
(17:39):
So you got me thinking food now, or I got
myself thinking food apparently.
Catharine (17:44):
Sorry, sorry, anyone listening to this.
Marc (17:47):
You're okay.
How did that come across?
Was it an audition?
How did that role come to you?
Catharine (18:01):
A very strange sort of situation which is
not the usual situation.
I've auditioned thousands of times in my
life.
This was not that.
This was I met John Krasinski in a very
weird way and it just sort of worked out
(18:22):
very, very strange.
I feel very weird about it because, like,
I'm so happy about it and I think it really
did work out, but I was like, wow, this is
so bizarre because I've auditioned for like
thousands of things and it just kind of
happens like that, like.
But that's sort of how every role has been.
Like I auditioned for like a music video
(18:44):
years ago and then the director called me
to do a feature and I didn't audition for
the.
It was so strange.
Marc (18:51):
So so you just, you know, you just happen
to be there and they're like you know, we
got this other thing going on that we think
you'd be good for.
Catharine (18:58):
Yeah.
So I had met John and he was lovely and
told me about it and I was like, absolutely,
that's great.
And I think it sort of is one of those
things that once you are working
consistently, someone can vouch for you and
someone will be like, look like they can do
(19:18):
the thing.
And then people are like, oh, that's so
much easier than going through a casting
process of 8,000 people.
So it's sort of really a lot of trudging
along in the beginning.
Marc (19:30):
Being in LA or even New York and you got to
get from one audition to the other and you
get, if you're fortunate enough to be busy,
it's got to be nice for you just to kind of
stay at home, put a little backdrop up
record, or do you have, like, uh, some
friends that you know whenever you're
auditioning you just yeah, I mean you tell
me what you think of it.
Catharine (19:47):
I think it's a different thing, completely
like when I used to do it in new york.
You know, in la it's different because you
got to drive around and you have your car
full of stuff and costumes and everyone
here is always looking fabulous.
In New York people don't necessarily show
up to auditions looking fabulous because
you like you've like trudged through snow
and the subway and it's 100 degrees and
(20:08):
it's like you know you're not in like an AC
or heated car and you've got your bags with
you for the day.
So you've got like your work clothes for
whatever shift you're doing or office job,
you've got your costume for the audition
and you've got your workout gear and like
maybe a night outfit and like you're just
like a bag lady every day and you're going
(20:30):
from.
You know I've had I remember the pilot
season was like so many auditions in a day
and it was all like 24 hour turnaround.
It was like you'd find out the night before
and just dash, dash, dash and you'd be
memorizing like 80 pages and just like
whatever.
Just you know, trying to do the best acting
you can and familiarize yourself with the
character and all that stuff.
(20:51):
And now it's so interesting because you do
it at home and you try to create the same
energy that's in the room when you're with
other people and you're coming in with that
heat of like, just boom, I've done the work,
let's go, okay One time.
Marc (21:08):
And plus a lot of those places you go to
have very poor construction and they've got
like really thin walls.
Catharine (21:13):
Oh yeah, you hear everyone.
Marc (21:15):
It's just like you're going.
Oh, that was an interesting choice they
made.
Catharine (21:18):
Yeah, I've had a couple of really fun ones
that are crazy.
You hear like screaming and very bizarre
things coming from the room and I'm like I
don't, that was an interesting choice.
Or I've been on the other end, where I come
out and people are like oh okay.
Marc (21:35):
About what point in time?
Because you said you had the you know, was
it a developmental speech, what you were
trying to overcome?
Was it like a developmental thing?
Catharine (21:44):
It's a motor speech disorder, so it's
basically like the connection between your
brain and all your oral muscles are not
super well connected, so you can't
articulate things super well and it's
really strange.
It's such an interesting thing to me that
when you can't articulate things super well,
and it's really strange, it's such an
interesting thing to me that when you can't
make the noises, like the sounds, correctly,
(22:05):
you also cannot understand things correctly
and you can't read things correctly.
So it's very interesting to me that, like
it really does restrict everything.
Marc (22:20):
You know, of course, getting into voiceover
was that I don't want to use the word
therapeutic, but was it helpful?
Did you find?
You know?
Cause that's just voice, you know.
Catharine (22:29):
I think after nine years, eight years of
speech therapy that I had, I just have such
a fascination with language now and such
sort of a loosey-goosey attitude about the
development of it and I'm not strict about
it with me I think it sort of has weirdly
(22:50):
given me a leg up ultimately, like in that
way I don't know it's just more fun for me
because I have so much history with it.
Marc (22:59):
Because you're just more cognizant of the
different things that yeah.
Kind of going back to when you were young
and doing the acting thing and all that.
Was that something that your brother and
sister were they kind of like?
Oh, you know, kat's doing this kind of cool
thing.
Who was the first one to kind of jump into
that of the three of y'all?
Catharine (23:16):
I really don't know.
I think Alex and I got into it around the
same time.
I think we took the same first few classes
at some random place, I don't remember.
Weirdly, we all had the same manager at one
point and we all were working and then my
(23:38):
brother went to business school and then he
got out and was like I actually don't want
to be a businessman.
That sounds really boring, I don't want to
be in an office all day, and that's when he
actually started pursuing it.
So he sort of had a delayed period,
although it's so funny because we all ended
up at the same teachers.
We all studied with this woman, ann Rattray,
(23:59):
who's amazing, who was amazing and it's
yeah.
But I think Alex and I did it around the
same time and then we all signed with this
one woman and then we all kind of got
started and then we all went our separate
ways.
Marc (24:14):
On the scale of being very shy to being
very precocious and rambunctious.
Where were you on that scale?
Were you a very vivacious kid or were you
pretty much keeping to yourself?
Catharine (24:24):
Comfortable with the people I'm comfortable
with, but otherwise very much keeping to
myself.
Marc (24:30):
It's so funny, the percentage of the actors
I speak with, how many of them are
naturally shy or they keep to themselves.
But you're in this very, uh well, a
vocation that calls on you to kind of
really kind of be exposed for, like a
better way to put it- that's why you get
into acting, though right, I think so I
think, I think it gives you a, a valve to
(24:52):
open up that maybe in normal social
situations you have a harder time doing.
Maybe that's completely.
What do you like, um, be it be it horror,
or be it comedy, or where have you found a
happy place that you enjoy?
I?
Catharine (25:05):
think I really like comedy.
I haven't really had the experience of
doing that one on film so much, but I think
comedy is probably my favorite.
I think it's probably the most fun to do,
even though it's also very fast paced and
quick and kind of maybe the hardest.
(25:27):
Maybe that's why I like it, because it
doesn't come easily to me.
I don't know.
I tend to do drama and horror pretty well
because the really strong emotions are not
super hard for me.
You know what I mean with the crying and
the screaming well now I know a little bit
more about how you grew up.
Marc (25:46):
I'm just totally kidding um the uh oh no
I'm playing, but I think it's.
I think it's fun to kind of be what you're
not normally 24, 7.
Like it's kind of fun to get step out if
you're normally a pleasant and affable.
Like it's kind of fun to get step out if
you're normally a pleasant and affable
person.
It's kind of fun to go be the villain or
something like that oh my god, the villain
is the most fun have you had a chance to do
any uh?
Catharine (26:06):
no, I I never get cast as villain.
I think that makes sense, but as far as
casting goes, you're probably right not to
see it initially.
But I think I'd love to see more villains
that look like not villains, you know, like
like we have a cliche of what a villain is.
(26:28):
Right, it's sort of a strong, strange
looking person with like an evil eye.
But someone that looks really nice and
sweet or whatever that idea of what that
looks like is is like to me way more
interesting.
Um, someone who can just like turn on a
dime.
Marc (26:43):
I would love to do that it was kind of
funny because I was watching, uh, this the
other day was it, was it bullet train with
uh joey king and uh, you know, brad pitt oh
yeah, joey's is in that, yeah.
You know where she's basically.
I don't want to say a villain, she's not a
nice person at all, but she's.
You know, she seems like a sweet, innocent
young lady, but she's a total tornado.
Catharine (27:04):
Yeah, actually that explains why I like
that so much, because she is.
That movie is so, so fun.
She really is kind of a great villain in
that and she gets sort of taken down in a
really no spoilers, I guess, but in a
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really fun way.
I'm such a Brian Tyree Henry fan and he's
so great.
I mean, everyone in that movie is so fun
and everyone's playing like sweet and
villain.
Marc (27:32):
It's so great Growing up what was the thing
that, like you thought was cool?
You're like, maybe it was an inspiring deal,
like that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
It's so great growing up.
What was the thing that, like, you thought
was cool?
You're like that maybe it was an inspiring
deal, like that's the kind of stuff I want
to do.
Um, what kind of movies did you enjoy, or
what?
Even now, what are you watching?
Catharine (27:46):
oh, tough questions.
Okay.
Well, when I was growing up I like was
really into strong female characters I
think still now.
So that's like always what I wanted to play,
you know, but also with like funny feminine
humor.
So I don't know if you know the Bear by
Chekhov, but like Elena Popova is in this
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little comedic one act by Chekhov and she's
very kind of flouncy and maybe maybe not
like will she, won't she, won't she, and
it's just very fun because she's so
powerful, but she's just so flirtatious and
like all over the place and she's a mess.
And growing up I loved like the strength of
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Betty Davis is like absolutely my favorite
movies and like I was obsessed with
gentlemen prefer Blondes because, quite
frankly, marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in
those movies are so strong but still really
feminine.
Marc (28:43):
How were you discovering those movies?
Were your folks watching them?
Were you just like flipping through the
channels on TV and just landing on it?
Catharine (28:49):
I don't remember how it happened, but I
became really obsessed with this period of
films and I started watching, like I think
I started with like carrie grant, and then
I moved to catherine hepburn and then I was
like, okay, what else?
and like whoever had small parts, I'd look
them up and then watch all their movies as
a kid my favorite two, og you know,
catherine hepburn and carrie grant are like
(29:09):
like the, og you know, oh my god and carrie
grant like I am obsessed with because he
came from england as an joined a circus,
changed his name, came to LA like became a
star and in his early films, even in his
later films, you can really see that
physical control that he has.
Like I love a dancer turned actor, all that
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kind of thing.
Like I take stunts twice a week now because
I just want to have that physicality.
Oh my God, it's so fun.
I feel like so much of what we do now,
especially with lower budget things is so
close up and really great performances, but
it's not everything that we can be doing,
and I love anything physical.
(29:54):
It's such a fun addition if you have the
time on set for it.
Cary grant in some of his movies like
somersaults into rooms.
Marc (30:01):
It's insane see, he's to me like like I
think the closest to him we got now is
maybe george clooney, I guess.
Yeah, actually, when you're growing up like
besides, I used to mention marilyn monroe
or betty davis well, who are you like?
We're kind of like the, the people that you
like to.
If they came out in a movie, you definitely
had to go see it.
Catharine (30:20):
I've never.
It's so funny because I've never been like
that.
Um, really like I love Sam Rockwell, I'll
see anything he's in.
He's really quirky.
Marc (30:30):
You know I would.
I would love to sit down with Sam Rockwell.
Catharine (30:34):
Oh my God Brilliant.
Marc (30:35):
Anything he's in, I'm going to go see.
Catharine (30:38):
Anybody who has a little bit of a theater
thing, like Steve Carell is now in Uncle
Vanya on Broadway.
All these actors have this other thing and
know how to switch it for camera.
I think most of my favorite actors just
have some other training.
There was no one who ever I was like I have
(30:59):
to see I'm much more story driven as far as
going to movies is concerned.
Marc (31:05):
With your sister Alex?
Do family meals ever kind of get into
talking shop or do your parents have like a
Thanksgiving like no talking about anything
work kind of a thing?
Catharine (31:16):
We don't really talk about work.
I, I, we get together and occasionally like
I'll ask a little advice or like so you
know, occasionally someone will be like oh,
can you read like a couple of pages of the
script and tell me what you think?
Like, but like, basically it's a job.
(31:37):
That it's also very strange because, as you
know, freelance work is a little stressful
and particularly this industry is like you
can go to set and shoot something for weeks
and you're not in the final product.
So don't get excited at any point, at any
point.
You know so.
(31:57):
Even when you've booked something like we
kind of don't want to talk any point at any
point, you know so.
Even when you've booked something like we
kind of don't want to talk about anything
and jinx it.
Marc (32:03):
I was thinking about this the other day.
It's like when do you allow yourself to
kind of get excited?
Is it when it finally comes out and it's
released, or I was noticing this the other
day.
I was working on something and I noticed
how many films you wrap and just don't even
get released for one reason or another.
That's got to kind of stink as well.
Catharine (32:21):
Oh yeah, no, a lot of those.
Yeah yeah, it's such a big thing in the
industry so you try to avoid it.
I get excited against my will.
I get excited.
So like I can't like prevent, like I'll
hear good news and I get excited and my
will I get excited.
So like I can't like prevent, like I'll
hear good news and I get excited.
And now I try to just be like you know, my
(32:43):
agents will call me with great news and
I'll be like Okay, okay, that's good.
So what happens now?
Like I get like kind of tense because I'm
like I don't want to actually be excited
until I know what's happening.
But that's like kind of how I take the
excitement.
You can't prevent yourself from feeling it,
but sometimes you don't want to talk about
it because you're like it just at a certain
(33:03):
point.
You know, if you tell your friends a bunch
of things, they're like what happened to
this movie and this movie?
I'm like, well, that one ran out of funding,
that one, you know it's like it's just how
it is.
Marc (33:14):
And what ways is it an asset to have
somebody in your family who's out there
performing and doing well where you're not?
This kind of person out on an island doing
this weird thing nobody gets In.
What ways is that helpful In any way?
Is it not helpful at all?
Catharine (33:32):
I think family-wise it's nice because I
don't have to explain anything to them and
they don't have to explain anything to me.
We all kind of get it.
We understand the rewards and the
difficulties and everything like that.
And then you know, we can help each other
(33:53):
with certain things, like auditions, if
we're in the same place, or last minute I
lose a reader, I can call somebody and have
them help me.
Um, and it's good.
Like you know what acting class, what coach
should I use for this one?
That sort of thing, but I don't know.
That it's.
(34:13):
I think it's better than coming from a
family that would want me to be doing
something else.
That's for sure.
But I don't know what really other rewards
there, other benefits there are than just
being able to do it fully.
Marc (34:28):
Yeah, no, that makes all the sense in the
world doing it fully being able to, you
know, not having to explain why it is that.
You have to kind of remember back in my
radio days, a long time ago, my rest of my
grandmother we're all night owls in our
family and she would be up, and this is
when I was 20, 21.
I was doing an all night radio shift in
Dallas.
My grandmother would actually be listening,
you know, and like well, when are you going
(34:49):
to do the morning show?
When are you going to do that?
It's like, well, it's not kind of
explaining the ebb and flow and how things
work?
Catharine (34:56):
Oh, our mom still does that to us.
My mom still does the thing where she's
watching a show and she calls me.
She goes why aren't you on this?
You should really have an Oscar already.
You know, like, thank you, that's very
sweet, mom, but it's not really so.
I understand that that's nice that your
grandma was like you should be on the
morning show.
Marc (35:15):
She listened to me at the most random times
at night and she'd be like two o'clock in
the morning.
She'd be like she would call.
She had the hotline phone number.
You're sounding really good tonight.
You know, it was just the funniest thing.
Besides the acting thing, what is it that
is keeping you busy?
You know what kind of things you know.
Sometimes you have to kind of really depart
and separate yourself from it.
What do you do?
(35:35):
What do you do when you, when you just kind
of want to clear your head?
Catharine (35:38):
It's so funny because I people say like, oh,
what do you do outside of acting?
And I'm like, well, you know, I went to a
museum and it inspired me in these and I'm
like, oh, dang well, that's sort of
connected to acting.
But I love art, so I go to museums a lot
and I do the stunt stuff and it's a great
workout and a great community.
(36:00):
And I'm like, oh, but that's kind of
related to acting and like everything kind
of comes back to it.
But I do bad movie for me to really like
(36:21):
enjoy it fully, Cause otherwise I'm like,
oh, my God, that camera.
Marc (36:25):
I know that feeling yeah, you don't want
something where you're so invested in it.
Plus, also, you start making creative
choices going what would I do in that
situation, like how would I handle that?
You know?
Catharine (36:34):
Yeah, or like just admiring someone's work.
Marc (36:36):
What are those movies you like to kind of
go to and you like, let's say, you've
ordered a pizza, maybe there's some wine
involved and you're just having a date
night with yourself or a close friend.
What kind of movie are you putting on?
Catharine (36:47):
Okay, so I just there's so many movies
Sometimes it's just a movie I've seen a
million times, you know, like a devil was
prototype thing, super fun, um, or like,
weirdly, like equilibrium or something
strange like that that I really love.
But I know other people don't love.
But recently I showed my friend a movie
(37:10):
called mouse hunt.
Um, which is, it is mouse hunt right 1997
and it's so, so bizarre and was the first
movie that dreamworks put out and then they
(37:31):
put out, um, yeah, like're live action and
it's such a strange movie and I really
think it's quite brilliant.
Um, so, like that one is super, um,
interesting to me.
Not a garbage movie at all, though.
Um, but I do like things, like I just
showed my friend, earth girls are easy,
(37:53):
which is just like a good time.
Gina Davis, jeff Goldblum, jim Carrey we're,
like everyone, super fun.
I have such a strange selection.
I think these days it's more TV.
I think most people do TV right.
They just mass consume and leave it running.
Marc (38:10):
One last bit of going to your origin story,
if you will.
What were you doing in high school?
I didn't, didn't, kind of you know, check
in.
Were you, were you an athletic kid?
Were you were you.
Did you do the theater and thing in high
school?
Catharine (38:22):
No, my first high school had is not
athletics public school.
In New York you can have athletics, it's
true, but mine was not Um and I didn't join
any sports teams.
I was kind of like just full-time doing the
theater, um, doing part-time work, you know,
either at a school or a newspaper.
(38:44):
I was working on a bunch of different
places.
Um, just love to be busy, busy, busy.
That's kind of it.
Marc (38:52):
What did y'all used to do when you were,
when you were younger?
Like were y'all like y'all vacation a lot,
or what?
What would the daddario family scenario be
like come summer vacation time?
Catharine (39:02):
that's a good question, because we my step,
my sister is like seven, six, seven years
older than me and my brother's like five
years older than me um so slightly
different sort of so you, you had it easy,
you were the baby, basically.
Yeah, so easy.
I did in some ways have it easier.
(39:26):
You know they had paved the way for sure.
But it's funny because we all had like
different routes that we took.
So like sometimes we each, I think, did
like one or two summers of a camp, but like
not more than that, and then we all got
like summer jobs and then that was kind of
what we all ended up doing.
So we would leave the city sometimes, but
it was mostly honestly in the city, and we
(39:50):
would go visit, like my great uncle, jack,
and my grandparents, and that's
Philadelphia and DC, and those were kind of
the trips that we took.
Marc (40:02):
If we did trips, Now the Dario, now that's.
Is that an Italian name?
It kind of sounds Italian.
Catharine (40:09):
It's a, it's Italian, from the Abruzzo.
Yeah, Very good guess.
And then my mother is um Austro-Hungarian.
Marc (40:17):
As far as the italian thing, again back to
food, did anybody kind of bring that uh
cooking tradition forward where, like was
your dad a cook, was your, you know,
grandmother is?
Catharine (40:27):
yeah, my mom cooked really good like
goulash, and you know we'd had nocoli,
which is like spezzel, and she'd make like
fun palachinkas, which is like a hungarian
crepe, um, or like chicken paprikash.
And my dad would make great italian dishes,
all the time different, you know, pastas,
and sometimes homemade, different chicken
things.
But also like we grew up in new york and my
(40:49):
parents were both full-time lawyers and we
were all different ages, so it was very
much like okay, like let's go to the
chinese spot and like, oh, how many pennies
do you have?
Okay, we'll hit the fruit stand, we'll go
get like the two pizzas and a soda deal at
this pizzeria and, oh, we'll get the.
You know this.
It was like you planned out exactly what
you had because we had very strict budgets
(41:11):
and that's sort of fun.
Marc (41:12):
See, that to me would be the fun part of
growing up in New York City, because you've,
you can walk to play.
You know, I grew up in Dallas and there's
we're married to our cars in that part of
Texas, you know.
But being able to walk or take the train,
that seems like a kind of a fun, magical,
cool thing for a young kid in New York yeah,
it was great.
Catharine (41:30):
I mean I understand people's fear of it but
at least at the time being in New York
everyone was kind of looking out for kids.
You know, if someone saw something weird
happening to us, I remember like people
intervening, but generally they left us
alone.
You know, and taking the train to a museum
or to like a public free show in the park,
(41:54):
and you know I'd come home one day and be
like, oh, I got a job today.
Park, and you know I'd come home one day
and be like, oh, I got a job today.
My parents would be like what, okay, like
you just run, ran around the city was your
playground completely.
Marc (42:05):
Yeah, that's that's.
It's funny because it seems like a very Gen
X thing.
You're kind of left to your own devices.
That was, I will say that was one cool
thing about growing up back in the day.
Yeah.
Catharine (42:14):
I think it's kind of gone now, like your
kids, I assume, don't have that.
I don't know because now, especially like I
had a flip phone.
That was my first phone, so it was the
substitute for having to carry a quarter
around with me, but now you hand your kids
a full computer.
I think it's a different lifestyle
(42:35):
completely.
You're not exploring and finding things,
you're going to things you already found.
Marc (42:46):
As we kind of start wrapping up, I have
this seven questions.
I like it's a little extra good to know you.
A little fun, if you will.
I told you we go to food, Got to ask what
is your favorite comfort food?
That thing you just love.
It's pure happiness for you.
Catharine (43:03):
Without getting complicated.
I think mac and cheese, Because you can
change it up.
Marc (43:09):
Do you have some special way you dress up
your mac and cheese?
Catharine (43:12):
I really like it super spicy, so I'll maybe
put chicken in it, but generally I'll add a
lot of hot sauce or different peppers and
make my own little thing.
Marc (43:22):
Well, cheese and hot sauce have a wonderful
relationship that needs to be explored more
often.
Yes, Phenomenal.
My youngest daughter.
We get our pizza.
Hot sauce is always going on the pizza, you
know.
Catharine (43:31):
Oh, same yeah.
Marc (43:32):
My kids grew up in New Orleans, though, so
it's kind of like it's you know, I'm from,
I'm from Texas, so it's kind of like they
were bound to have hot sauce, you know, as
part of their life.
Catharine (43:39):
I love New Orleans.
I mean talk about great cuisine.
Marc (43:43):
So mac and cheese with accoutrement there,
that's very good.
Now I'm very curious.
Next question who you'd sit down with If
you had a few hours to sit down and talk
story with three people now living or not,
who would those three people be that you
would love just to sit down and just chat
with?
Catharine (44:00):
I don't know anything about Ray Bradbury's
personal life, but his stories were so
significant to me growing up so I think it
has to be him and I think Betty Davis.
Yeah, ray Bradbury is really phenomenal,
(44:22):
and I think Betty Davis and I don't know
Probably another writer.
Were you a big reader when you were growing
up yeah, I was a big, big reader, a lot of
books, and I would read science fiction
like non-stop.
I even like started to get anxiety about
going to.
I had like a bad schooling experience.
(44:44):
Like I love learning, it's my favorite
thing, but I didn't necessarily love school
and I remember there were like two days
that I decided I'm just going to go late
because I started to like really hate
certain things and I would, instead of
going to school, I would go to like Burns
and Nobles and read.
So I would just like read through whole
sections, but I would read all the time at
(45:05):
home and also like New York life.
Like my bag was just stuffed full of plays.
You'd like read a play and like finish it
in one subway ride and then you'd like my.
My favorite thing was always collections of
short stories, which is part of why I loved
ray bradbury.
Um, because you can read a story even in a
short subway ride.
Um, so my bag was just so heavy every day.
(45:26):
Um, that was probably.
Yeah, so ray br Bradbury, betty Davis and
then-.
Marc (45:31):
Did you like, was it Isaac Asimov, I think.
Catharine (45:33):
Oh yeah, asimov's great.
Yeah, that whole generation of science
fiction writers is really great, and
actually I used to go to local bookshops
when I would travel in the Northeast and
they used to print their own collections.
They'd put money together to print all
their stories, or they'd have one person
who sort of made a little magazine of short
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stories, and so that's a really great way
to find new science fiction authors from
that time period.
Like Asimov is published in a bunch of
those old pamphlet booklets.
Really.
Marc (46:05):
So a little bit of the nerd on the down low,
I like that, which is a good thing.
It's a very cool thing.
Now I have a question if you next question,
if when you go back to being, you know, a
young cat who was your first celebrity
crush no, I never had celebrity crushes, I
just had people whose work I really liked.
Catharine (46:25):
And people would be like, oh my God, who's
your celebrity crush?
And I'd be like like I'd be like Paul G
Marty, Like I don't know, Like I really
like him, I don't know.
I think probably like you got to give Jeff
Goldblum his due right, so maybe him.
Marc (46:44):
A lot of ladies have a crush on him from.
I think it started with the Fly, I think.
Now, if you're going to be living on an
exotic island somewhere actually you really
want to be somewhere.
It's really nice.
You're going to be there for a year, though,
and you have no streaming.
You got to bring a DVD.
If you want a movie, you got to bring a CD,
an album.
So for you, what would that for that year?
(47:07):
What would that one DVD movie be, and what
would that album be that you would want to
bring with you that would keep you company
for that full year?
For the book nerd types, I got to say you
can say what book you would bring as well,
because a lot of folks having a book with
them is important.
So we'll put that in there as an option.
Catharine (47:23):
It's a really hard question.
Hmm, I've been rereading this one book
called my Dark Vanessa recently, which is
really phenomenal.
Marc (47:36):
What's it called again?
Catharine (47:36):
My Dark Vanessa.
It's sort of a new.
It was published during COVID.
Actually it's by Kate Elizabeth Russell, so
maybe that book and movie is so hard.
Marc (47:56):
I'm always so bad at these because I like
way overthink I'm.
Catharine (47:57):
I'm the same way I think I'd probably bring
like a classic.
I'd bring like maybe I'd bring all about
eve or something well, what about music
wise?
Marc (48:05):
where are you at musically what?
What's your jam?
Catharine (48:08):
music is so tough for me because I don't
have any like one genre I like, like I'll
listen to anything.
If I had to bring one album, maybe a
Hendrix.
Marc (48:20):
Okay, if you were to define for yourself,
from the time you get up to the time you go
to bed, the component parts of a perfect
day for you, what would that be?
Catharine (48:28):
Coffee, Lots and lots of coffee.
Marc (48:34):
Now do you make your own, or are you
talking about going to a coffee shop?
Catharine (48:37):
I think the perfect day would be going to a
coffee shop.
I do make my own.
I make pretty good espresso, but yeah, I
also used to roast my own green beans.
Now that I'm in LA, I have to figure that
out again, but I used to really be such a
coffee snob, which is not good.
Marc (48:55):
I appreciate that my coffee grinder broke
the other day and I had to go buy
pre-ground oh no, To me.
I felt like I was getting the McDonald's
version of coffee.
It's like I want to grind my own beans.
I was speaking with Billy Magnuson and I
asked him.
I said he talked about the ritual of making
coffee in the morning.
I'm like, yes, there's a thing, it's part
of my routine.
It's not just firing it up or instant
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coffee.
I want to go through the grinding and the
whole, and you roasted your own beans.
That's crazy.
I feel like I need to catch up.
Catharine (49:25):
Yeah, you can buy green beans, roast them.
But I I also love like just really trashy,
like a bad diner coffee or bad cart coffee,
like I don't mind it.
And then there's like the other thing of
really fancy espresso.
You know like a euro chef, like an
ethiopian bean um, that's like freshly
roasted the day before, it's's fabulous.
(49:47):
There's like two ends for me.
So definitely like good coffee Probably.
Now I think like just a walk with some
friends, a good hike.
It's like so easy to keep me happy.
If I have a day off, I'm happy.
Marc (50:05):
Yeah, where you don't have to be anywhere
or do anything.
You're just making your mapping out your
own day as it comes.
Catharine (50:11):
Yeah, just seeing some loved ones, that's
all.
Marc (50:13):
Very good.
I like that.
Now, if you weren't able to make a living
and really embrace the performance thing
from acting whether it be voiceover,
whatever what would you be doing for a
living?
What would bring you joy?
Catharine (50:25):
This is a weird question.
This is a weird one for me.
So like I love science fiction and I got
kind of into science for a long time and I
love doing little math, you know I'm not
like for fun doing crazy hard equations,
but I think I would have probably tried to
get into astrophysics, um, because I had
(50:48):
tried sort of doing like museum curation
and I really loved that and but I think
ultimately that's what I would have gone to
grad school for if I were capable of it.
Marc (51:01):
Well, since you are a science fiction kid,
you like that.
What is your?
You know, maybe I'll give you a top three,
like what are your favorite sci-fi shows
that have come out in the last I don't know
five, ten years?
Catharine (51:12):
oh gosh, um, um, okay, so let's, that's a
well.
So okay, I feel kind of bad.
I haven't seen fallout yet, but I know I'm
gonna love it because I love the video game.
Um, also, like, what do you consider?
Science fiction?
I guess is sort of a good question, like
(51:33):
westworld oh, yeah, yeah, something like
that I love aza gonzalez but I haven't seen
the three body problem yet, but I'm very
excited to see it I, I just did.
Marc (51:42):
I didn't really know anything about it.
Honestly, walking into it and it was very,
I thought it was very cool.
It was like I like anything that's
different.
You know you watch something.
Okay, I have not seen this.
I don't know where it's going, and that's
kind of fun for me, good science fiction.
If I don't know where it's going, that's a
ride I like to be on.
Have you seen the foundation at all?
On, I think it's Apple.
Catharine (52:01):
Oh, I watched some of.
Had one or two seasons, but really great.
And now Paramount has.
Oh, have you seen the new Twilight Zone?
I haven't seen it.
That's terrible of me.
Marc (52:19):
I had that bookMarced in my mind to watch
that, but I've not seen it yet.
Catharine (52:23):
I've heard it's great there's so many.
Marc (52:25):
The Expanse.
I think it was a big fan of.
Catharine (52:29):
My son and I got him into it.
Marc (52:30):
oh yeah, the last question I got for you if
you were to jump in that delorean where you
could travel back in time, and you got a
piece of advice for 16 year old cat, either
for that moment, to make whatever you're
navigating in life a little easier on you,
or maybe put you on a little bit altered of
a path to get you where you want to go,
what's your piece of advice to 16 year old
you?
Catharine (52:50):
I think, um, you know, try to enjoy the
ride more.
I think when you're a kid it's tough.
You know you feel like especially 16, like
you know you're like, oh, I got to get into
college, or if I don't do college, I got to
have a real like good reason not to, and I
got to do, you know, good work.
And I was.
(53:11):
I was so worried about like, okay, well, I
shouldn't be an actor, cause it's not like
the sensible thing.
And, um, I think it's just like, enjoy it
more.
Marc (53:21):
I've heard a lot of uh answers that are
similar to that.
You know, don't be so hard on yourself,
Kind of.
Just kind of just ride the wave and kind of
be there, for lack of, I mean, you sound
esoteric, but just kind of be in the moment.
You know, don't stress.
But I think at that age you're kind of
wired up to stress go, what college am I
going to get into?
What you know, isn't that the theme of
almost every teen movie?
(53:43):
It's like what college and relationships,
and you realize, chill, it's going to to be
okay.
Catharine (53:48):
That stuff is going to be okay.
There's a lot of other stuff that won't be
okay, and that's you know what I mean.
Like, don't worry about that stuff, because
that's all the small stuff.
Like, life is pretty intense, just focus on
life.
Indeed.
Marc (54:02):
Indeed.
Well, what do you have coming up?
I know IF is coming out on the 17th.
Is that when it comes out?
Catharine (54:08):
Yes, it comes out May 17th.
I'm about to head to New York for the
premiere and I'm very excited.
Yeah, it's going to be such a fun family
movie.
Marc (54:20):
I've got to ask you who's going to be your
date for the premiere.
Catharine (54:23):
I'm bringing a whole posse.
I'm bringing my mom.
I'm bringing a couple of friends.
I'm bringing my mom.
I'm bringing a couple of friends.
I'm bringing my boyfriend bringing a lot of
people.
Um, I got a whole gang rolling up with me,
but we're all really excited.
Marc (54:39):
Well, it's time to celebrate, you know
that's I'm excited for them to see it.
Catharine (54:42):
It's gonna be a super fun.
I think it'll be really nice for them to
see it.
It's just a family time and you don't get,
as an adult, you don't get to see a movie
that kind of makes you feel like a kid
again or reminds you of that stuff, and I
think it does, you know.
Marc (54:56):
Indeed, yeah, and what else do you have in
the pipeline that's coming up here shortly?
Catharine (55:00):
Well, so I mentioned Cat Gweli.
That's for the movie the tributaries, and
that's we're having a world premiere at the
end of the summer I can't say where yet,
but we're very excited about that and
that's it's like mental health awareness
month.
Right now it's may, and that has to do with
that, and it's a very sad movie, very much
(55:22):
the opposite of it.
Marc (55:24):
Well, you're really selling it.
Catharine (55:26):
No, it's really, really great, I think if
you want an honest depiction of mental
health and of a lot of things that people
really do go through, it's perfectly honest,
it's crazy, and I have a horror movie
called Oak.
Marc (55:43):
Very good, very good.
So you're staying busy and that's you know.
For an actor, isn't that great.
You know you're staying busy, you're
getting stuff done.
Catharine (55:51):
Unreal heaven.
Marc (55:57):
Kat, thank you so much again.
I appreciate it.
I'm always looking for fun and opportunity
to connect with with folks who are talented
and and when they got cool stuff going on,
and I appreciate you sharing some time with
me.
Catharine (56:05):
This was a great time and I hope everyone
goes to see If and has a great time there.
Marc (56:12):
Yeah, indeed, indeed, best of luck on If,
and I look forward to catching up down the
line then.
Catharine (56:16):
Yeah, have a great one.
Marc (56:19):
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talented, the very fun to talk to.
Catherine Daddario Really enjoyed sitting
down and just talking story with her.
Catherine Daddario Really enjoyed sitting
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Are you in LA right now?
Catharine (01:59):
I'm in LA.
Yes, I moved here like a year ago, so
that's where.
Marc (02:03):
I am.
I saw somewhere you're a New York kid,
right.
Catharine (02:05):
Yeah, born and raised.
I was there for 30 years.
Marc (02:09):
So you've only been in LA for a year, so
what are you thinking about it?
Catharine (02:13):
I'm getting used to it.
I think everyone from New York has a
difficult transition time with LA.
It's got all the great restaurants and
museums it's a great place.
It's got all the great restaurants and
museums it's a great place.
It's just not the kind of city I was raised
with.
When I think of a city, I don't think of
needing a car.
Marc (02:32):
Now, did you grow up in the city?
Catharine (02:35):
Yeah, in Manhattan.
Marc (02:37):
Yeah, were you one of those kids that when
I was growing up, being a Gen X kid or
whatever?
But people that I knew up there were like
10 years old or going and getting on a
subway.
It's not even you have kids traveling on
the buses and subways.
Catharine (02:52):
Yeah, we were latchkey kids so we just kept
our key with us.
I remember third grade is when our
elementary school started letting us out
for lunch and then my mom was like, oh, I
guess you should have a little bit of a
curfew, so like a 5 pm curfew, and then
Wait so they let you out for lunch.
(03:12):
Yeah, so you have to stay within like a
half of my like a couple block radius and
you go to those restaurants instead of like
eight-year-olds running around.
Marc (03:19):
Wait, this is third grade.
Yeah, they wouldn't let us do that until we
were like seniors in high school.
Then they would let us go to Whataburger or
like a local burger place.
So third grade.
Catharine (03:29):
That's the New York way.
Marc (03:31):
Yeah, I don't think they'd let us be on the
playground unsupervised.
The decision to move from New York to LA
was it just work-based?
Just have you always wanted to live there?
What got you to LA finally?
Catharine (03:45):
I've always wanted to live somewhere else,
but New York is kind of a hard place to
leave because it has everything.
But when I turned 30, I was like, okay,
well, let me do this.
And then LA is where the industry is and I
also have friends and family here, so it
kind of was a very easy transition.
Marc (04:01):
I'm still mind boggled that you're over 30.
Are you still playing much younger?
Catharine (04:06):
Yeah, people still think I'm a teenager.
It's very crazy.
I think some of it's the way that I look.
I think some of it's the way that I act a
little childish.
But yeah, I'm still doing teenager, but I'm
starting now also to do like mom roles.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I'm like that in between.
Marc (04:23):
So, but you're playing a mom right now.
This is the first time you've done that
right.
Catharine (04:27):
Yeah, this is the first time I'm a mom.
I've sort of moved into like big sister and
now I'm a mom.
And if, um, yeah, I play like young bees.
So Kaylee Fleming's young part, audrey
Hoffman, who's so sweet and amazing, I play
her mom in the movie.
(04:49):
It was really, really fun to be on a set
like that.
I've never been on as an actor, such a
large set, and it was so interesting For me.
I had gone from working on some indie
projects and a horror and then, like those
directors that I worked with, like Kat
Goeli did an amazing indie project with me.
(05:11):
She's a first time director and she was
it's called the Tributaries and she's just
so about the emotions and like would sit
down and chat with you and be so invested
and it's a very serious role and the whole
thing and it was so incredible to work with
her and like have that collaborative
(05:32):
process.
And then If was so interesting because
there was still the collaborative process,
but John is so positive.
I've never worked with a director who just
wants to like inject aggressive positivity
into everything.
Um, watching him work was incredible.
I was like after you know, people are
(05:52):
putting in long days and nights and are
exhausted, and then you get to set and
john's just like amping everybody up,
staying focused, move, like keeping it
moving, um, and it's a tough job that he
had like but he's still in there.
Marc (06:09):
You know all enthusiastic, yeah for sure
that's kind of director you want, though
you want somebody who comes in there, who's
ready to rock and roll oh, absolutely I was
stunned.
Catharine (06:17):
I was like, wow, I've like he didn't seem
like he got tired once he was, so it was
incredible.
I've never seen anything like it.
Um, and that was really great for our stuff.
Um, you know, because we had to, I worked
with like a five-year-old at the time um,
so having that energy there was really
really phenomenal okay, I was about to ask
you.
Marc (06:36):
I was wondering how old your daughter is
supposed to be.
It's, she's, she's a five-year-old yeah, I
think she was five and six when we were
shooting this has got such an amazing cast,
but it seems like to me, a lot of that cast
that's a lot of voiceover that's happening
in the studio, your live action with her
yes, it was really incredible to be on that
set and see some of also how they shoot
(06:57):
some of the imaginary friends stuff which
is, you know, done in post but you have to
prep it on set.
Catharine (07:05):
Everyone was so, so talented.
I mean, working with like such big names
and on such a big production was amazing.
I mean, Fiona Shaw is so nice and everyone
was just like like it's funny because you
understand why certain people are like as
big as they are.
I'm like these people are all incredible,
(07:27):
Every single person I've met Now I know
your sister is.
Marc (07:29):
She's done one or two things here and there.
Catharine (07:32):
Yeah, that's all, just one or two.
Marc (07:34):
What about your folks Like were you coming
from?
Like an arts background at all?
Catharine (07:38):
Our parents were lawyers.
Yeah, my mom was like a contract lawyer.
My dad worked for the government and, um,
my mom, actually her undergrad was in piano
and then she went to law school after
because she couldn't get a job, um, and
which is just like such a funny decision
(07:59):
like over wine, be like I can't get any
respect.
What should I do?
Go to law?
It's crazy, but that's what it was back in
the day, I guess.
Marc (08:09):
Yeah, because attorneys get so much respect
in this country.
Catharine (08:11):
I know, yeah, seriously, but they're both
pretty badass and we got into the arts kind
of young.
I had like a speech problem growing up
called childhood speech apraxia, and I got
into theater in part, kind of to get over
(08:32):
that, and also I just really wanted to do
it and I joined this repertory company in
sixth grade and then we just kept
performing and that was all through high
school in New York and we went around with
that and then, you know, I did like a
program at Stella Adler.
Marc (08:50):
If you could look back when you were in
sixth grade like how did it affect in a
positive way your ability to kind of?
I mean first of all, did it help?
Did it help the condition?
Catharine (09:01):
Yeah, help.
Did it help?
The uh condition?
Yeah, when you don't have language or a
good grasp of language, you can't
communicate and you can't learn.
And making friends is difficult and reading
is difficult, like everything.
So having these scripts pre-written and
then I have to wear a mask, so it's not me
saying anything, you know like I don't have
(09:24):
to be careful with anything, I just have to
know where the character is coming from,
it's a very safe space.
And to learn history through old plays and
just be able to study something over and
over and over again until you have it
memorized absolutely helps with language
and helps with everything that comes with
(09:45):
that problem.
I also was in speech therapy for years, but
yeah, I mean, I got into theater for that
reason and then I just absolutely fell in
love with it.
Marc (09:55):
Of course you're young doing this.
Were you the first one like sixth grade?
We'd, like you know, 11, 12 years old?
Were you the first one of the family who
decided to dive into acting, or was this
something kind of percolating around
already?
Catharine (10:06):
I think Alex and I started at the same time
and then she was, we got repped and she
started getting cast in commercials and
then she got on that soap opera which now I
forget the name of, and, like my God, some
of my favorite actors got on soap operas
(10:28):
Like Margot Robbie phenomenal, you get like
the best training ever.
So she was like basically in acting school
every day, going there, and then she was
studying it in school and taking classes
and then she just sort of her career kept
moving upwards.
Marc (10:46):
How did the acting thing land for you?
I mean, you had a reason, there was purpose,
like you were feeling, like it would help,
it was fun.
Did the interest wane?
Ever Since sixth grade have you been going
nonstop.
Catharine (10:59):
No, I tried really really hard to do
anything but acting.
I think you know, seeing my sister sort of
succeed in it, I think I was like, oh, this
is actually really hard what she's doing,
really tough, and I just really wanted to
do anything else.
And especially like as a kid I would see my
(11:20):
mom, you know, in her heels and her
wonderful pencil skirts, going into the
office and I was like I want to be a
businesswoman and so I got a job at a
newspaper.
I got a job.
I mean I worked in so many different places
museums, yeah, I thought I was going to do
all kinds of different things.
I worked at an agency for a while.
(11:42):
My degree is ultimately in linguistics and
rhetoric, like it's not in acting.
Marc (11:52):
I really tried hard to not be an actor, but
I love it more than anything else.
That non-acting training and schooling has
got to help at least at some level in some
random you know way.
Catharine (11:58):
Oh, absolutely.
I also am much better at accents and
analyzing scripts because of it.
Marc (12:04):
When you started getting rolling.
Let's go back to, like, post sixth grade.
Were you thinking, on stage, on camera,
were you wanting to do anything in
particular that was grabbing you?
I mean, what was the North Star for you as
a young actor?
Catharine (12:18):
I mean, I grew up doing stage plays and so
I really fell in love with that audience
interaction that you have and just the
element of it being live every night really
is incredible, because you are so dropped
in completely each time and it's like
you're taken out of your body for however
(12:40):
long the show is, which is just incredible
to me.
And then I started doing more film work and
learning more about it and I think that,
while theater is my first love, I think
film is my true love because it's so
collaborative in a different way.
(13:01):
As an actor on stage, you do interact with
everyone else working in the theater, but
very much so it's a collaborative process
between the other actors and the director
and that's kind of it.
And on film it's like the DP who's going to
be amazing, like to know that stuff is just
unbelievable to me and the lighting people
(13:24):
and you get to talk to every single person
and sort of be like, okay, how can we
improve this performance through sound and
this performance, and you really get to see
it all come together.
It's really, really wild.
So I think I like that the most.
Marc (13:39):
You know you're young doing this, at least
initially.
Was your family really down with it?
Were they like I don't know acting?
Or are they like anything but law?
You know it's cool.
Catharine (13:48):
Our parents were both very like look, we're
lawyers, so you don't have to be.
Just whatever you do, Don't be lawyers.
And then all three of us I also have a
brother.
He was on Shadow Hunters.
He's also a fabulous deal.
Marc (14:01):
He's also a fabulous deal.
Catharine (14:06):
Yes, and my parents were like no, no, no,
we meant like doctors or scientists.
Just, we didn't mean actors, what is that?
Um?
But we're all doing pretty okay with it.
So now I think they're on board, took them
a second, but they weren't ever like
hateful about it, they just wanted us to
have backups.
Marc (14:22):
Now, since you've uh, landed in LA, it they
just wanted us to have backups.
Now, since you've landed in LA, I always
end up talking food, at least once or twice.
Where's your place, where you like to go
sit down and grab a bite, like, have you
found your place?
Either that, or I'd say coffee, but there's
a bazillion coffee places, but where do you
like to go grab a bite in LA now?
Catharine (14:39):
Yeah, there's so many good coffee places.
It's also coffee is just one of those
things that each place you go, you're going
to get something different like, because
different places have different things that
you like.
So I live in the Valley.
I really like this place in Sherman Oaks
called Anna Jack.
It is phenomenal.
(15:00):
I believe that the chef won a James Beard
recently and it's Thai food and it's just.
It tastes like the best chefs in the world
making you a home cooked meal.
Marc (15:13):
Cantor's deli is the always, always one of
my go-to.
I got to hit that place at least twice.
Catharine (15:16):
Oh, that's a classic.
Yeah, that's phenomenal.
There's a lot of like deli places like that
in New York too.
Cantor's is so great.
Marc (15:24):
You know as a Jewish boy down South where
we don't really have that many deli well,
definitely not here.
Where I live now.
I live in South Pend Oreille Island.
There are no delis here.
There may be one bagel place, we're not
sure.
So it's kind of a weird place to be.
So the experience of growing up in New York
as a New York kid and having that freedom
and the kind of the culture and all that
jazz LA kind of, obviously for vocation
(15:50):
reasons, it makes sense to be there.
But is there anywhere else you were looking
to live?
Or you know, are you a beach kid or are you
like mountains or you like to be out in the
desert?
You know what's your, where's your happy
place?
Catharine (15:59):
I love hiking and I love mountains.
Definitely that's like I love the mountains,
I think, more than the beach, but
ultimately I really just long for a
concrete blanket, like I love just city.
I know that's so strange, but anywhere that
I can go and walk I'm happy, which I have
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been hiking a lot.
Um, like I went up to Mount Rainier
recently and the Olympic national park as
well, and Zion and Bryce, and I've
discovered that like it really doesn't
matter what my surroundings are.
If I can just walk all day, I'm good.
Um, but like LA is fabulous for all these
different restaurants that you mentioned.
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New York is fabulous for the same reasons
and like here people say, oh, maybe the
Mexican food is better here, and then in
New York, like I've had difficulty finding
really amazing Indian or Egyptian here.
I'm sure it's here, I just don't know where.
So I'm really excited to go back to New
York and get some of that and both places
are so diverse it's like not a problem
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food-wise.
Marc (17:06):
I haven't had lunch yet, so I'm sitting
here listening going.
Well, that sounds good.
Catharine (17:10):
What kind of food is there?
Marc (17:12):
Well, we're 35 minutes from Mexico, so
Mexican food most certainly.
Catharine (17:17):
Oh right, I forgot it's there.
Marc (17:18):
But yeah, it's seafood.
It's a very Southern tip of Texas, the very
you know, right throw a stone, you hit.
Like Elon Musk's launch facility for SpaceX
is right down the way, five miles from us.
So that's kind of how far south we are.
But yeah, mexican food, seafood, yeah we
got that.
But man, I miss some quality Indian and
yeah, that's you know.
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So you got me thinking food now, or I got
myself thinking food apparently.
Catharine (17:44):
Sorry, sorry, anyone listening to this.
Marc (17:47):
You're okay.
How did that come across?
Was it an audition?
How did that role come to you?
Catharine (18:01):
A very strange sort of situation which is
not the usual situation.
I've auditioned thousands of times in my
life.
This was not that.
This was I met John Krasinski in a very
weird way and it just sort of worked out
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very, very strange.
I feel very weird about it because, like,
I'm so happy about it and I think it really
did work out, but I was like, wow, this is
so bizarre because I've auditioned for like
thousands of things and it just kind of
happens like that, like.
But that's sort of how every role has been.
Like I auditioned for like a music video
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years ago and then the director called me
to do a feature and I didn't audition for
the.
It was so strange.
Marc (18:51):
So so you just, you know, you just happen
to be there and they're like you know, we
got this other thing going on that we think
you'd be good for.
Catharine (18:58):
Yeah.
So I had met John and he was lovely and
told me about it and I was like, absolutely,
that's great.
And I think it sort of is one of those
things that once you are working
consistently, someone can vouch for you and
someone will be like, look like they can do
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the thing.
And then people are like, oh, that's so
much easier than going through a casting
process of 8,000 people.
So it's sort of really a lot of trudging
along in the beginning.
Marc (19:30):
Being in LA or even New York and you got to
get from one audition to the other and you
get, if you're fortunate enough to be busy,
it's got to be nice for you just to kind of
stay at home, put a little backdrop up
record, or do you have, like, uh, some
friends that you know whenever you're
auditioning you just yeah, I mean you tell
me what you think of it.
Catharine (19:47):
I think it's a different thing, completely
like when I used to do it in new york.
You know, in la it's different because you
got to drive around and you have your car
full of stuff and costumes and everyone
here is always looking fabulous.
In New York people don't necessarily show
up to auditions looking fabulous because
you like you've like trudged through snow
and the subway and it's 100 degrees and
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it's like you know you're not in like an AC
or heated car and you've got your bags with
you for the day.
So you've got like your work clothes for
whatever shift you're doing or office job,
you've got your costume for the audition
and you've got your workout gear and like
maybe a night outfit and like you're just
like a bag lady every day and you're going
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from.
You know I've had I remember the pilot
season was like so many auditions in a day
and it was all like 24 hour turnaround.
It was like you'd find out the night before
and just dash, dash, dash and you'd be
memorizing like 80 pages and just like
whatever.
Just you know, trying to do the best acting
you can and familiarize yourself with the
character and all that stuff.
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And now it's so interesting because you do
it at home and you try to create the same
energy that's in the room when you're with
other people and you're coming in with that
heat of like, just boom, I've done the work,
let's go, okay One time.
Marc (21:08):
And plus a lot of those places you go to
have very poor construction and they've got
like really thin walls.
Catharine (21:13):
Oh yeah, you hear everyone.
Marc (21:15):
It's just like you're going.
Oh, that was an interesting choice they
made.
Catharine (21:18):
Yeah, I've had a couple of really fun ones
that are crazy.
You hear like screaming and very bizarre
things coming from the room and I'm like I
don't, that was an interesting choice.
Or I've been on the other end, where I come
out and people are like oh okay.
Marc (21:35):
About what point in time?
Because you said you had the you know, was
it a developmental speech, what you were
trying to overcome?
Was it like a developmental thing?
Catharine (21:44):
It's a motor speech disorder, so it's
basically like the connection between your
brain and all your oral muscles are not
super well connected, so you can't
articulate things super well and it's
really strange.
It's such an interesting thing to me that
when you can't articulate things super well,
and it's really strange, it's such an
interesting thing to me that when you can't
make the noises, like the sounds, correctly,
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you also cannot understand things correctly
and you can't read things correctly.
So it's very interesting to me that, like
it really does restrict everything.
Marc (22:20):
You know, of course, getting into voiceover
was that I don't want to use the word
therapeutic, but was it helpful?
Did you find?
You know?
Cause that's just voice, you know.
Catharine (22:29):
I think after nine years, eight years of
speech therapy that I had, I just have such
a fascination with language now and such
sort of a loosey-goosey attitude about the
development of it and I'm not strict about
it with me I think it sort of has weirdly
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given me a leg up ultimately, like in that
way I don't know it's just more fun for me
because I have so much history with it.
Marc (22:59):
Because you're just more cognizant of the
different things that yeah.
Kind of going back to when you were young
and doing the acting thing and all that.
Was that something that your brother and
sister were they kind of like?
Oh, you know, kat's doing this kind of cool
thing.
Who was the first one to kind of jump into
that of the three of y'all?
Catharine (23:16):
I really don't know.
I think Alex and I got into it around the
same time.
I think we took the same first few classes
at some random place, I don't remember.
Weirdly, we all had the same manager at one
point and we all were working and then my
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brother went to business school and then he
got out and was like I actually don't want
to be a businessman.
That sounds really boring, I don't want to
be in an office all day, and that's when he
actually started pursuing it.
So he sort of had a delayed period,
although it's so funny because we all ended
up at the same teachers.
We all studied with this woman, ann Rattray,
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who's amazing, who was amazing and it's
yeah.
But I think Alex and I did it around the
same time and then we all signed with this
one woman and then we all kind of got
started and then we all went our separate
ways.
Marc (24:14):
On the scale of being very shy to being
very precocious and rambunctious.
Where were you on that scale?
Were you a very vivacious kid or were you
pretty much keeping to yourself?
Catharine (24:24):
Comfortable with the people I'm comfortable
with, but otherwise very much keeping to
myself.
Marc (24:30):
It's so funny, the percentage of the actors
I speak with, how many of them are
naturally shy or they keep to themselves.
But you're in this very, uh well, a
vocation that calls on you to kind of
really kind of be exposed for, like a
better way to put it- that's why you get
into acting, though right, I think so I
think, I think it gives you a, a valve to
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open up that maybe in normal social
situations you have a harder time doing.
Maybe that's completely.
What do you like, um, be it be it horror,
or be it comedy, or where have you found a
happy place that you enjoy?
I?
Catharine (25:05):
think I really like comedy.
I haven't really had the experience of
doing that one on film so much, but I think
comedy is probably my favorite.
I think it's probably the most fun to do,
even though it's also very fast paced and
quick and kind of maybe the hardest.
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Maybe that's why I like it, because it
doesn't come easily to me.
I don't know.
I tend to do drama and horror pretty well
because the really strong emotions are not
super hard for me.
You know what I mean with the crying and
the screaming well now I know a little bit
more about how you grew up.
Marc (25:46):
I'm just totally kidding um the uh oh no
I'm playing, but I think it's.
I think it's fun to kind of be what you're
not normally 24, 7.
Like it's kind of fun to get step out if
you're normally a pleasant and affable.
Like it's kind of fun to get step out if
you're normally a pleasant and affable
person.
It's kind of fun to go be the villain or
something like that oh my god, the villain
is the most fun have you had a chance to do
any uh?
Catharine (26:06):
no, I I never get cast as villain.
I think that makes sense, but as far as
casting goes, you're probably right not to
see it initially.
But I think I'd love to see more villains
that look like not villains, you know, like
like we have a cliche of what a villain is.
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Right, it's sort of a strong, strange
looking person with like an evil eye.
But someone that looks really nice and
sweet or whatever that idea of what that
looks like is is like to me way more
interesting.
Um, someone who can just like turn on a
dime.
Marc (26:43):
I would love to do that it was kind of
funny because I was watching, uh, this the
other day was it, was it bullet train with
uh joey king and uh, you know, brad pitt oh
yeah, joey's is in that, yeah.
You know where she's basically.
I don't want to say a villain, she's not a
nice person at all, but she's.
You know, she seems like a sweet, innocent
young lady, but she's a total tornado.
Catharine (27:04):
Yeah, actually that explains why I like
that so much, because she is.
That movie is so, so fun.
She really is kind of a great villain in
that and she gets sort of taken down in a
really no spoilers, I guess, but in a
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really fun way.
I'm such a Brian Tyree Henry fan and he's
so great.
I mean, everyone in that movie is so fun
and everyone's playing like sweet and
villain.
Marc (27:32):
It's so great Growing up what was the thing
that, like you thought was cool?
You're like, maybe it was an inspiring deal,
like that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
It's so great growing up.
What was the thing that, like, you thought
was cool?
You're like that maybe it was an inspiring
deal, like that's the kind of stuff I want
to do.
Um, what kind of movies did you enjoy, or
what?
Even now, what are you watching?
Catharine (27:46):
oh, tough questions.
Okay.
Well, when I was growing up I like was
really into strong female characters I
think still now.
So that's like always what I wanted to play,
you know, but also with like funny feminine
humor.
So I don't know if you know the Bear by
Chekhov, but like Elena Popova is in this
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little comedic one act by Chekhov and she's
very kind of flouncy and maybe maybe not
like will she, won't she, won't she, and
it's just very fun because she's so
powerful, but she's just so flirtatious and
like all over the place and she's a mess.
And growing up I loved like the strength of
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Betty Davis is like absolutely my favorite
movies and like I was obsessed with
gentlemen prefer Blondes because, quite
frankly, marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in
those movies are so strong but still really
feminine.
Marc (28:43):
How were you discovering those movies?
Were your folks watching them?
Were you just like flipping through the
channels on TV and just landing on it?
Catharine (28:49):
I don't remember how it happened, but I
became really obsessed with this period of
films and I started watching, like I think
I started with like carrie grant, and then
I moved to catherine hepburn and then I was
like, okay, what else?
and like whoever had small parts, I'd look
them up and then watch all their movies as
a kid my favorite two, og you know,
catherine hepburn and carrie grant are like
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like the, og you know, oh my god and carrie
grant like I am obsessed with because he
came from england as an joined a circus,
changed his name, came to LA like became a
star and in his early films, even in his
later films, you can really see that
physical control that he has.
Like I love a dancer turned actor, all that
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kind of thing.
Like I take stunts twice a week now because
I just want to have that physicality.
Oh my God, it's so fun.
I feel like so much of what we do now,
especially with lower budget things is so
close up and really great performances, but
it's not everything that we can be doing,
and I love anything physical.
(29:54):
It's such a fun addition if you have the
time on set for it.
Cary grant in some of his movies like
somersaults into rooms.
Marc (30:01):
It's insane see, he's to me like like I
think the closest to him we got now is
maybe george clooney, I guess.
Yeah, actually, when you're growing up like
besides, I used to mention marilyn monroe
or betty davis well, who are you like?
We're kind of like the, the people that you
like to.
If they came out in a movie, you definitely
had to go see it.
Catharine (30:20):
I've never.
It's so funny because I've never been like
that.
Um, really like I love Sam Rockwell, I'll
see anything he's in.
He's really quirky.
Marc (30:30):
You know I would.
I would love to sit down with Sam Rockwell.
Catharine (30:34):
Oh my God Brilliant.
Marc (30:35):
Anything he's in, I'm going to go see.
Catharine (30:38):
Anybody who has a little bit of a theater
thing, like Steve Carell is now in Uncle
Vanya on Broadway.
All these actors have this other thing and
know how to switch it for camera.
I think most of my favorite actors just
have some other training.
There was no one who ever I was like I have
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to see I'm much more story driven as far as
going to movies is concerned.
Marc (31:05):
With your sister Alex?
Do family meals ever kind of get into
talking shop or do your parents have like a
Thanksgiving like no talking about anything
work kind of a thing?
Catharine (31:16):
We don't really talk about work.
I, I, we get together and occasionally like
I'll ask a little advice or like so you
know, occasionally someone will be like oh,
can you read like a couple of pages of the
script and tell me what you think?
Like, but like, basically it's a job.
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That it's also very strange because, as you
know, freelance work is a little stressful
and particularly this industry is like you
can go to set and shoot something for weeks
and you're not in the final product.
So don't get excited at any point, at any
point.
You know so.
(31:57):
Even when you've booked something like we
kind of don't want to talk any point at any
point, you know so.
Even when you've booked something like we
kind of don't want to talk about anything
and jinx it.
Marc (32:03):
I was thinking about this the other day.
It's like when do you allow yourself to
kind of get excited?
Is it when it finally comes out and it's
released, or I was noticing this the other
day.
I was working on something and I noticed
how many films you wrap and just don't even
get released for one reason or another.
That's got to kind of stink as well.
Catharine (32:21):
Oh yeah, no, a lot of those.
Yeah yeah, it's such a big thing in the
industry so you try to avoid it.
I get excited against my will.
I get excited.
So like I can't like prevent, like I'll
hear good news and I get excited and my
will I get excited.
So like I can't like prevent, like I'll
hear good news and I get excited.
And now I try to just be like you know, my
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agents will call me with great news and
I'll be like Okay, okay, that's good.
So what happens now?
Like I get like kind of tense because I'm
like I don't want to actually be excited
until I know what's happening.
But that's like kind of how I take the
excitement.
You can't prevent yourself from feeling it,
but sometimes you don't want to talk about
it because you're like it just at a certain
(33:03):
point.
You know, if you tell your friends a bunch
of things, they're like what happened to
this movie and this movie?
I'm like, well, that one ran out of funding,
that one, you know it's like it's just how
it is.
Marc (33:14):
And what ways is it an asset to have
somebody in your family who's out there
performing and doing well where you're not?
This kind of person out on an island doing
this weird thing nobody gets In.
What ways is that helpful In any way?
Is it not helpful at all?
Catharine (33:32):
I think family-wise it's nice because I
don't have to explain anything to them and
they don't have to explain anything to me.
We all kind of get it.
We understand the rewards and the
difficulties and everything like that.
And then you know, we can help each other
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with certain things, like auditions, if
we're in the same place, or last minute I
lose a reader, I can call somebody and have
them help me.
Um, and it's good.
Like you know what acting class, what coach
should I use for this one?
That sort of thing, but I don't know.
That it's.
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I think it's better than coming from a
family that would want me to be doing
something else.
That's for sure.
But I don't know what really other rewards
there, other benefits there are than just
being able to do it fully.
Marc (34:28):
Yeah, no, that makes all the sense in the
world doing it fully being able to, you
know, not having to explain why it is that.
You have to kind of remember back in my
radio days, a long time ago, my rest of my
grandmother we're all night owls in our
family and she would be up, and this is
when I was 20, 21.
I was doing an all night radio shift in
Dallas.
My grandmother would actually be listening,
you know, and like well, when are you going
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to do the morning show?
When are you going to do that?
It's like, well, it's not kind of
explaining the ebb and flow and how things
work?
Catharine (34:56):
Oh, our mom still does that to us.
My mom still does the thing where she's
watching a show and she calls me.
She goes why aren't you on this?
You should really have an Oscar already.
You know, like, thank you, that's very
sweet, mom, but it's not really so.
I understand that that's nice that your
grandma was like you should be on the
morning show.
Marc (35:15):
She listened to me at the most random times
at night and she'd be like two o'clock in
the morning.
She'd be like she would call.
She had the hotline phone number.
You're sounding really good tonight.
You know, it was just the funniest thing.
Besides the acting thing, what is it that
is keeping you busy?
You know what kind of things you know.
Sometimes you have to kind of really depart
and separate yourself from it.
What do you do?
(35:35):
What do you do when you, when you just kind
of want to clear your head?
Catharine (35:38):
It's so funny because I people say like, oh,
what do you do outside of acting?
And I'm like, well, you know, I went to a
museum and it inspired me in these and I'm
like, oh, dang well, that's sort of
connected to acting.
But I love art, so I go to museums a lot
and I do the stunt stuff and it's a great
workout and a great community.
(36:00):
And I'm like, oh, but that's kind of
related to acting and like everything kind
of comes back to it.
But I do bad movie for me to really like
(36:21):
enjoy it fully, Cause otherwise I'm like,
oh, my God, that camera.
Marc (36:25):
I know that feeling yeah, you don't want
something where you're so invested in it.
Plus, also, you start making creative
choices going what would I do in that
situation, like how would I handle that?
You know?
Catharine (36:34):
Yeah, or like just admiring someone's work.
Marc (36:36):
What are those movies you like to kind of
go to and you like, let's say, you've
ordered a pizza, maybe there's some wine
involved and you're just having a date
night with yourself or a close friend.
What kind of movie are you putting on?
Catharine (36:47):
Okay, so I just there's so many movies
Sometimes it's just a movie I've seen a
million times, you know, like a devil was
prototype thing, super fun, um, or like,
weirdly, like equilibrium or something
strange like that that I really love.
But I know other people don't love.
But recently I showed my friend a movie
(37:10):
called mouse hunt.
Um, which is, it is mouse hunt right 1997
and it's so, so bizarre and was the first
movie that dreamworks put out and then they
(37:31):
put out, um, yeah, like're live action and
it's such a strange movie and I really
think it's quite brilliant.
Um, so, like that one is super, um,
interesting to me.
Not a garbage movie at all, though.
Um, but I do like things, like I just
showed my friend, earth girls are easy,
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which is just like a good time.
Gina Davis, jeff Goldblum, jim Carrey we're,
like everyone, super fun.
I have such a strange selection.
I think these days it's more TV.
I think most people do TV right.
They just mass consume and leave it running.
Marc (38:10):
One last bit of going to your origin story,
if you will.
What were you doing in high school?
I didn't, didn't, kind of you know, check
in.
Were you, were you an athletic kid?
Were you were you.
Did you do the theater and thing in high
school?
Catharine (38:22):
No, my first high school had is not
athletics public school.
In New York you can have athletics, it's
true, but mine was not Um and I didn't join
any sports teams.
I was kind of like just full-time doing the
theater, um, doing part-time work, you know,
either at a school or a newspaper.
(38:44):
I was working on a bunch of different
places.
Um, just love to be busy, busy, busy.
That's kind of it.
Marc (38:52):
What did y'all used to do when you were,
when you were younger?
Like were y'all like y'all vacation a lot,
or what?
What would the daddario family scenario be
like come summer vacation time?
Catharine (39:02):
that's a good question, because we my step,
my sister is like seven, six, seven years
older than me and my brother's like five
years older than me um so slightly
different sort of so you, you had it easy,
you were the baby, basically.
Yeah, so easy.
I did in some ways have it easier.
(39:26):
You know they had paved the way for sure.
But it's funny because we all had like
different routes that we took.
So like sometimes we each, I think, did
like one or two summers of a camp, but like
not more than that, and then we all got
like summer jobs and then that was kind of
what we all ended up doing.
So we would leave the city sometimes, but
it was mostly honestly in the city, and we
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would go visit, like my great uncle, jack,
and my grandparents, and that's
Philadelphia and DC, and those were kind of
the trips that we took.
Marc (40:02):
If we did trips, Now the Dario, now that's.
Is that an Italian name?
It kind of sounds Italian.
Catharine (40:09):
It's a, it's Italian, from the Abruzzo.
Yeah, Very good guess.
And then my mother is um Austro-Hungarian.
Marc (40:17):
As far as the italian thing, again back to
food, did anybody kind of bring that uh
cooking tradition forward where, like was
your dad a cook, was your, you know,
grandmother is?
Catharine (40:27):
yeah, my mom cooked really good like
goulash, and you know we'd had nocoli,
which is like spezzel, and she'd make like
fun palachinkas, which is like a hungarian
crepe, um, or like chicken paprikash.
And my dad would make great italian dishes,
all the time different, you know, pastas,
and sometimes homemade, different chicken
things.
But also like we grew up in new york and my
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parents were both full-time lawyers and we
were all different ages, so it was very
much like okay, like let's go to the
chinese spot and like, oh, how many pennies
do you have?
Okay, we'll hit the fruit stand, we'll go
get like the two pizzas and a soda deal at
this pizzeria and, oh, we'll get the.
You know this.
It was like you planned out exactly what
you had because we had very strict budgets
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and that's sort of fun.
Marc (41:12):
See, that to me would be the fun part of
growing up in New York City, because you've,
you can walk to play.
You know, I grew up in Dallas and there's
we're married to our cars in that part of
Texas, you know.
But being able to walk or take the train,
that seems like a kind of a fun, magical,
cool thing for a young kid in New York yeah,
it was great.
Catharine (41:30):
I mean I understand people's fear of it but
at least at the time being in New York
everyone was kind of looking out for kids.
You know, if someone saw something weird
happening to us, I remember like people
intervening, but generally they left us
alone.
You know, and taking the train to a museum
or to like a public free show in the park,
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and you know I'd come home one day and be
like, oh, I got a job today.
Park, and you know I'd come home one day
and be like, oh, I got a job today.
My parents would be like what, okay, like
you just run, ran around the city was your
playground completely.
Marc (42:05):
Yeah, that's that's.
It's funny because it seems like a very Gen
X thing.
You're kind of left to your own devices.
That was, I will say that was one cool
thing about growing up back in the day.
Yeah.
Catharine (42:14):
I think it's kind of gone now, like your
kids, I assume, don't have that.
I don't know because now, especially like I
had a flip phone.
That was my first phone, so it was the
substitute for having to carry a quarter
around with me, but now you hand your kids
a full computer.
I think it's a different lifestyle
(42:35):
completely.
You're not exploring and finding things,
you're going to things you already found.
Marc (42:46):
As we kind of start wrapping up, I have
this seven questions.
I like it's a little extra good to know you.
A little fun, if you will.
I told you we go to food, Got to ask what
is your favorite comfort food?
That thing you just love.
It's pure happiness for you.
Catharine (43:03):
Without getting complicated.
I think mac and cheese, Because you can
change it up.
Marc (43:09):
Do you have some special way you dress up
your mac and cheese?
Catharine (43:12):
I really like it super spicy, so I'll maybe
put chicken in it, but generally I'll add a
lot of hot sauce or different peppers and
make my own little thing.
Marc (43:22):
Well, cheese and hot sauce have a wonderful
relationship that needs to be explored more
often.
Yes, Phenomenal.
My youngest daughter.
We get our pizza.
Hot sauce is always going on the pizza, you
know.
Catharine (43:31):
Oh, same yeah.
Marc (43:32):
My kids grew up in New Orleans, though, so
it's kind of like it's you know, I'm from,
I'm from Texas, so it's kind of like they
were bound to have hot sauce, you know, as
part of their life.
Catharine (43:39):
I love New Orleans.
I mean talk about great cuisine.
Marc (43:43):
So mac and cheese with accoutrement there,
that's very good.
Now I'm very curious.
Next question who you'd sit down with If
you had a few hours to sit down and talk
story with three people now living or not,
who would those three people be that you
would love just to sit down and just chat
with?
Catharine (44:00):
I don't know anything about Ray Bradbury's
personal life, but his stories were so
significant to me growing up so I think it
has to be him and I think Betty Davis.
Yeah, ray Bradbury is really phenomenal,
(44:22):
and I think Betty Davis and I don't know
Probably another writer.
Were you a big reader when you were growing
up yeah, I was a big, big reader, a lot of
books, and I would read science fiction
like non-stop.
I even like started to get anxiety about
going to.
I had like a bad schooling experience.
(44:44):
Like I love learning, it's my favorite
thing, but I didn't necessarily love school
and I remember there were like two days
that I decided I'm just going to go late
because I started to like really hate
certain things and I would, instead of
going to school, I would go to like Burns
and Nobles and read.
So I would just like read through whole
sections, but I would read all the time at
(45:05):
home and also like New York life.
Like my bag was just stuffed full of plays.
You'd like read a play and like finish it
in one subway ride and then you'd like my.
My favorite thing was always collections of
short stories, which is part of why I loved
ray bradbury.
Um, because you can read a story even in a
short subway ride.
Um, so my bag was just so heavy every day.
(45:26):
Um, that was probably.
Yeah, so ray br Bradbury, betty Davis and
then-.
Marc (45:31):
Did you like, was it Isaac Asimov, I think.
Catharine (45:33):
Oh yeah, asimov's great.
Yeah, that whole generation of science
fiction writers is really great, and
actually I used to go to local bookshops
when I would travel in the Northeast and
they used to print their own collections.
They'd put money together to print all
their stories, or they'd have one person
who sort of made a little magazine of short
(45:54):
stories, and so that's a really great way
to find new science fiction authors from
that time period.
Like Asimov is published in a bunch of
those old pamphlet booklets.
Really.
Marc (46:05):
So a little bit of the nerd on the down low,
I like that, which is a good thing.
It's a very cool thing.
Now I have a question if you next question,
if when you go back to being, you know, a
young cat who was your first celebrity
crush no, I never had celebrity crushes, I
just had people whose work I really liked.
Catharine (46:25):
And people would be like, oh my God, who's
your celebrity crush?
And I'd be like like I'd be like Paul G
Marty, Like I don't know, Like I really
like him, I don't know.
I think probably like you got to give Jeff
Goldblum his due right, so maybe him.
Marc (46:44):
A lot of ladies have a crush on him from.
I think it started with the Fly, I think.
Now, if you're going to be living on an
exotic island somewhere actually you really
want to be somewhere.
It's really nice.
You're going to be there for a year, though,
and you have no streaming.
You got to bring a DVD.
If you want a movie, you got to bring a CD,
an album.
So for you, what would that for that year?
(47:07):
What would that one DVD movie be, and what
would that album be that you would want to
bring with you that would keep you company
for that full year?
For the book nerd types, I got to say you
can say what book you would bring as well,
because a lot of folks having a book with
them is important.
So we'll put that in there as an option.
Catharine (47:23):
It's a really hard question.
Hmm, I've been rereading this one book
called my Dark Vanessa recently, which is
really phenomenal.
Marc (47:36):
What's it called again?
Catharine (47:36):
My Dark Vanessa.
It's sort of a new.
It was published during COVID.
Actually it's by Kate Elizabeth Russell, so
maybe that book and movie is so hard.
Marc (47:56):
I'm always so bad at these because I like
way overthink I'm.
Catharine (47:57):
I'm the same way I think I'd probably bring
like a classic.
I'd bring like maybe I'd bring all about
eve or something well, what about music
wise?
Marc (48:05):
where are you at musically what?
What's your jam?
Catharine (48:08):
music is so tough for me because I don't
have any like one genre I like, like I'll
listen to anything.
If I had to bring one album, maybe a
Hendrix.
Marc (48:20):
Okay, if you were to define for yourself,
from the time you get up to the time you go
to bed, the component parts of a perfect
day for you, what would that be?
Catharine (48:28):
Coffee, Lots and lots of coffee.
Marc (48:34):
Now do you make your own, or are you
talking about going to a coffee shop?
Catharine (48:37):
I think the perfect day would be going to a
coffee shop.
I do make my own.
I make pretty good espresso, but yeah, I
also used to roast my own green beans.
Now that I'm in LA, I have to figure that
out again, but I used to really be such a
coffee snob, which is not good.
Marc (48:55):
I appreciate that my coffee grinder broke
the other day and I had to go buy
pre-ground oh no, To me.
I felt like I was getting the McDonald's
version of coffee.
It's like I want to grind my own beans.
I was speaking with Billy Magnuson and I
asked him.
I said he talked about the ritual of making
coffee in the morning.
I'm like, yes, there's a thing, it's part
of my routine.
It's not just firing it up or instant
(49:17):
coffee.
I want to go through the grinding and the
whole, and you roasted your own beans.
That's crazy.
I feel like I need to catch up.
Catharine (49:25):
Yeah, you can buy green beans, roast them.
But I I also love like just really trashy,
like a bad diner coffee or bad cart coffee,
like I don't mind it.
And then there's like the other thing of
really fancy espresso.
You know like a euro chef, like an
ethiopian bean um, that's like freshly
roasted the day before, it's's fabulous.
(49:47):
There's like two ends for me.
So definitely like good coffee Probably.
Now I think like just a walk with some
friends, a good hike.
It's like so easy to keep me happy.
If I have a day off, I'm happy.
Marc (50:05):
Yeah, where you don't have to be anywhere
or do anything.
You're just making your mapping out your
own day as it comes.
Catharine (50:11):
Yeah, just seeing some loved ones, that's
all.
Marc (50:13):
Very good.
I like that.
Now, if you weren't able to make a living
and really embrace the performance thing
from acting whether it be voiceover,
whatever what would you be doing for a
living?
What would bring you joy?
Catharine (50:25):
This is a weird question.
This is a weird one for me.
So like I love science fiction and I got
kind of into science for a long time and I
love doing little math, you know I'm not
like for fun doing crazy hard equations,
but I think I would have probably tried to
get into astrophysics, um, because I had
(50:48):
tried sort of doing like museum curation
and I really loved that and but I think
ultimately that's what I would have gone to
grad school for if I were capable of it.
Marc (51:01):
Well, since you are a science fiction kid,
you like that.
What is your?
You know, maybe I'll give you a top three,
like what are your favorite sci-fi shows
that have come out in the last I don't know
five, ten years?
Catharine (51:12):
oh gosh, um, um, okay, so let's, that's a
well.
So okay, I feel kind of bad.
I haven't seen fallout yet, but I know I'm
gonna love it because I love the video game.
Um, also, like, what do you consider?
Science fiction?
I guess is sort of a good question, like
(51:33):
westworld oh, yeah, yeah, something like
that I love aza gonzalez but I haven't seen
the three body problem yet, but I'm very
excited to see it I, I just did.
Marc (51:42):
I didn't really know anything about it.
Honestly, walking into it and it was very,
I thought it was very cool.
It was like I like anything that's
different.
You know you watch something.
Okay, I have not seen this.
I don't know where it's going, and that's
kind of fun for me, good science fiction.
If I don't know where it's going, that's a
ride I like to be on.
Have you seen the foundation at all?
On, I think it's Apple.
Catharine (52:01):
Oh, I watched some of.
Had one or two seasons, but really great.
And now Paramount has.
Oh, have you seen the new Twilight Zone?
I haven't seen it.
That's terrible of me.
Marc (52:19):
I had that bookMarced in my mind to watch
that, but I've not seen it yet.
Catharine (52:23):
I've heard it's great there's so many.
Marc (52:25):
The Expanse.
I think it was a big fan of.
Catharine (52:29):
My son and I got him into it.
Marc (52:30):
oh yeah, the last question I got for you if
you were to jump in that delorean where you
could travel back in time, and you got a
piece of advice for 16 year old cat, either
for that moment, to make whatever you're
navigating in life a little easier on you,
or maybe put you on a little bit altered of
a path to get you where you want to go,
what's your piece of advice to 16 year old
you?
Catharine (52:50):
I think, um, you know, try to enjoy the
ride more.
I think when you're a kid it's tough.
You know you feel like especially 16, like
you know you're like, oh, I got to get into
college, or if I don't do college, I got to
have a real like good reason not to, and I
got to do, you know, good work.
And I was.
(53:11):
I was so worried about like, okay, well, I
shouldn't be an actor, cause it's not like
the sensible thing.
And, um, I think it's just like, enjoy it
more.
Marc (53:21):
I've heard a lot of uh answers that are
similar to that.
You know, don't be so hard on yourself,
Kind of.
Just kind of just ride the wave and kind of
be there, for lack of, I mean, you sound
esoteric, but just kind of be in the moment.
You know, don't stress.
But I think at that age you're kind of
wired up to stress go, what college am I
going to get into?
What you know, isn't that the theme of
almost every teen movie?
(53:43):
It's like what college and relationships,
and you realize, chill, it's going to to be
okay.
Catharine (53:48):
That stuff is going to be okay.
There's a lot of other stuff that won't be
okay, and that's you know what I mean.
Like, don't worry about that stuff, because
that's all the small stuff.
Like, life is pretty intense, just focus on
life.
Indeed.
Marc (54:02):
Indeed.
Well, what do you have coming up?
I know IF is coming out on the 17th.
Is that when it comes out?
Catharine (54:08):
Yes, it comes out May 17th.
I'm about to head to New York for the
premiere and I'm very excited.
Yeah, it's going to be such a fun family
movie.
Marc (54:20):
I've got to ask you who's going to be your
date for the premiere.
Catharine (54:23):
I'm bringing a whole posse.
I'm bringing my mom.
I'm bringing a couple of friends.
I'm bringing my mom.
I'm bringing a couple of friends.
I'm bringing my boyfriend bringing a lot of
people.
Um, I got a whole gang rolling up with me,
but we're all really excited.
Marc (54:39):
Well, it's time to celebrate, you know
that's I'm excited for them to see it.
Catharine (54:42):
It's gonna be a super fun.
I think it'll be really nice for them to
see it.
It's just a family time and you don't get,
as an adult, you don't get to see a movie
that kind of makes you feel like a kid
again or reminds you of that stuff, and I
think it does, you know.
Marc (54:56):
Indeed, yeah, and what else do you have in
the pipeline that's coming up here shortly?
Catharine (55:00):
Well, so I mentioned Cat Gweli.
That's for the movie the tributaries, and
that's we're having a world premiere at the
end of the summer I can't say where yet,
but we're very excited about that and
that's it's like mental health awareness
month.
Right now it's may, and that has to do with
that, and it's a very sad movie, very much
(55:22):
the opposite of it.
Marc (55:24):
Well, you're really selling it.
Catharine (55:26):
No, it's really, really great, I think if
you want an honest depiction of mental
health and of a lot of things that people
really do go through, it's perfectly honest,
it's crazy, and I have a horror movie
called Oak.
Marc (55:43):
Very good, very good.
So you're staying busy and that's you know.
For an actor, isn't that great.
You know you're staying busy, you're
getting stuff done.
Catharine (55:51):
Unreal heaven.
Marc (55:57):
Kat, thank you so much again.
I appreciate it.
I'm always looking for fun and opportunity
to connect with with folks who are talented
and and when they got cool stuff going on,
and I appreciate you sharing some time with
me.
Catharine (56:05):
This was a great time and I hope everyone
goes to see If and has a great time there.
Marc (56:12):
Yeah, indeed, indeed, best of luck on If,
and I look forward to catching up down the
line then.
Catharine (56:16):
Yeah, have a great one.
Marc (56:19):
All right, there you go, the lovely, the
talented, the very fun to talk to.
Catherine Daddario Really enjoyed sitting
down and just talking story with her.
Catherine Daddario Really enjoyed sitting
down and just talking story with her.
Don't forget, her new movie is coming out
on May 17th.
It is called If it's the new John Krasinski
movie.
It really looks like a fun movie, a fun
family movie.
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