Larisa Oleynik Meets World

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Speaker 1: Recently, I saw a tweek by an American rapper named d DG and I thought, this is this is I want to know what will and writer think about this? Would you rather know how you're going to die or when you're going to die?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm happy knowing that I'm never going.

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Speaker 1: To Now that's wonderful for you when that sounds miserable for me.

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Speaker 3: But yikes, all right, So if you know how you're going to die, you can prepare for what you know because if it's something awful, like you know, eaten by a shark, okay, and you know that well, but you can't, right, you can't avoid fake. That's that's part of the idea stipulation here. So yeah, I guess you could prepare for the how. I think i'd rather know how, because if it was bad, I'd like to prepare for that so I can like know that, oh I'm going to be falling off a cliff and it's going to be those are going to be the final moments and come to peace with that. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I disagree. I think I'd want to know when. Yeah, because a if it was something like say a car accident, then every time you have such a fear of being in a card, you know, whereas if it's just when, then it's like I can prep what I need to do, you know. I think of was it Three Billboards where the worst.

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Speaker 5: Movies I've ever seen in my entire life.

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Speaker 4: But the way he did his last day where he was just like he didn't let anyone know what was going to be his last day, but he just had moments with his wife, had moments with his kids, and what he had to do.

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Speaker 2: There's something about that where it's like I wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Tell anybody else, probably, but I'd make sure I'd have moments with everybody that I wanted to have moments with, but I wouldn't want to know how when.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I would want to know when for the same reason because I do think being a planner, i'd want to know, Well, let's figure out what on my quote unquote bucket list are really important and how much time do I have to do those things? And how can I maximize the amount of time, Like if my number one thing is time with my children or experiences with my children, I want to be able to start doing those things immediately.

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Speaker 5: And also I always.

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Speaker 1: Love when you hear a story of like somebody who knew they were dying, they had a terminal illness or something, and they actually plan something out, like for a letter to be delivered later or a message left behind after. And I think, Man, I hope when it's my time, I feel decent enough, because that's this really truly the worst part about when you're sick and you die is that you don't feel good enough to experience those things you know, like you think you're going to want to do, like well, eat all the ice cream you want or do all that, and it's like, but the truth is, you don't feel.

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Speaker 3: Like you're not going to do any of that. Yeah, yeah, you're not going to.

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Speaker 5: Do any of those things. I'd want to do those things while I still feel good.

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Speaker 3: So you know that there are websites that you can go plug in info and it'll tell you when you're going to die, Like if like statistically you can get the date and the year. I want to do this because I don't know if you know, like exactly the year like twenty sixty something or whatever. I guess let's say forty years. No, that's not about you know, somewhere somewhere between twenties sixty and twenty eighty. We're talking is when we're gonna go.

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Speaker 5: Right, right.

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Speaker 4: So I was a heavy smoker and probably didn't take care of myself.

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Speaker 3: So I'd be lucky if I make it to my eighties. So if that year you can go, you know, you can start working backwards from that now and be like, all right, have you seen speaking of that?

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Speaker 4: Have you seen the It's one of my favorite things in the world, and so something that I would do.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen the video?

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Speaker 3: There is an.

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Speaker 4: Irish man who passed away, and right before he did, he recorded his voice, so as they're lowering the casket into the ground, it's his voice going, hey, let me out.

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Speaker 3: It's dark in here. Oh come on, what are you guys doing?

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Speaker 4: You're just standing around and everybody's trying to mourn, but they're laughing hysterically because it's actually his voice just going.

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Speaker 3: Why are you still loring me?

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Speaker 5: Someone opened a.

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Speaker 4: Door like it was hysterically fun and he did it on purpose, so that everybody's just laughing hysterically as they're trying to be there where there's something so wonderful about that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I do love that. I also I just was thinking about the flip side of it. Let's say you find out you're gonna die in ten years. That then that year, just imagine every day you're like the morning, he'd just be like, and every time you do anything you cross the street, am I gonna.

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Speaker 5: Make it a wor car?

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Speaker 3: You'd have to know the exact moment, you know, like yeah, because otherwise yeah, yeah. The same with how, like because yeah, I think you guys are right if you knew just the how and it was something like trying down the stairs? How could you go through? How do you ever walk downstairs?

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Speaker 4: But then isn't there isn't there the philosophical argument then that you should live your life as if it's going to be tomorrow anyway. So you're telling the people that you love that you love them, you're not wasting the time your you know, they say that nobody, you know, nobody sat you know, was lying on their deathbed and saying I wish I worked more, I wish I did this date. It's always I wish I spent more time in my family. I wish I told this person that I love them.

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Speaker 1: So all right, guys, let's quit the podcast and just start telling our families.

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Speaker 5: We love them well, we.

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Speaker 3: Can do both. This doesn't work. I love this, I love it, and I love you both. I love you, I love you guys.

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Speaker 5: We love each other.

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Speaker 2: Don't diet be Today's.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to Pod Meets World.

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Speaker 4: I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Writer Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.

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Speaker 1: If you've listened to Pod Meets World since episode one, then you know there have been a handful of fellow child actors whose names repeatedly pop up, from Jonathan Taylor Thomas to writer's brother Shiloh to Andrew Keegan to Jason Marsden to Genevan Oi. While some of you listeners grew up amongst a high school clique, we had something kind of similar, and one member of that crew, a lifelong friend of writers, Larissa Olenik, was a vital mainstay. Larissa began her acting career on stage in a San Francisco based touring production of Le Mizerab, which should sound familiar because it's also where a young baggy pants wearing former rollerblader from Sebastopol started his journey to Hollywood as well, and after running around a theater Willie Nilly and becoming besties, with Writer, she'd travel between northern California and LA to audition for TV and movies, where she'd eventually land a role on Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman, and the rest is history. She'd turned parts in The Babysitters Club and all that into iconic titular role on the Secret World of Alex Mack, and soon after she'd be sharing the screen with a young Heath Ledger in the classic Ten Things I Hate About You. She was more recently seen with her own story arc in a little show called mad Men, and return to Family TV for Netflix's Aaron and Aaron in twenty twenty three. But today none of that is important because we are focusing on her time as Sean's first love interest Dana Pruitt on the TGIF family sitcom Boy Meets World for season three's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Stormy Weather, and an eventual return for season five. So welcome to the podcast. Writer Strong's Bay Area boyhood, Bosom, Buddy, Larisso, Lene.

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Speaker 3: A lot of bees, very literative, very literative literation it.

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Speaker 6: Boy Meets World hat, You have a I don't have a Boy Meets World hat?

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Speaker 5: Unbelievable? Was that the cast and Kruegift for season three.

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Speaker 7: I don't know you.

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Speaker 3: I'm so jealous you.

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Speaker 5: Have that hat. I love awesome. That's so cool.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Hi, we have heard so much about lame Is on the podcast and the important role that it played in both of your lives. So I want to know what was nine lesbian Ryder strong.

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Speaker 5: Boy meets World hat and.

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Speaker 3: Stole it?

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Speaker 5: I hope you.

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Speaker 7: Stole it shield me from how vulnerable this is probably about to get. Nine year old writers strong? Was? I think? Where are you right now? Writer?

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Speaker 3: I'm in my parents' house. Yeah, so I'm in the I'm in where my grandmother lives. So I'm in the studio, the guest house. So this is like the first window that the house is that way.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Daniel's question was, what was nine year old writer strong like?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 5: What was nine year old thesbian rider strong?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 5: Did you guys become instant friends?

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Speaker 7: I don't. I mean the four of us were pretty inseparable because you know, two girls, two boys around the same age. It was all of our I believe, like first big things.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I got the job because my godparents on ad in a newspaper, right, and I was like this sounds cool, let's go do this. So I think even I don't know Danielle, we can relate on that. I found my journal, Oh no, with me were in my storage unit because I just moved out of my mom I just moved out of the house that I've been in, like similarly to the Shire, the house that I've been in my entire life that houses all the artifacts. So we just moved out of there, and I think it ended up in storage. But I definitely found my journal from when I was eight years old. I was I also had a very large crush.

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Speaker 3: Everyone with right, just a crush strong. You happen to have known no, no, not when when we were on when we were doing Late Miz. Yes, I guess so you remember me.

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Speaker 7: Like forcing you to hold my hand.

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Speaker 3: Yes, let's jump in. I feel like there were moments, there were times when like we we all, like I remember, we would all like admit that we had crushes on each other. Like there was a moment where like Sabrina and I we were both and I had a crush on each other, and then that changed. So I feel like it was just kids stuff. Yeah, we were nine ten and.

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Speaker 7: This was this was this is what I found in the journal that everything was like today, I gave Writer a handful of Eminem's and he didn't say thank you. But when Sabrina also very very close, I like she and our Instagram friends, Writer like she also like seems exactly the same to me, like, you know, we're just we're not like having a conversation, but like we're in touch. But yeah, she and I were also very close, but like I just I feel like I pretty much just spent that entire time pining in desperately.

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Speaker 4: Were you also randomly in love with a guy named Dave or David? That's what we found out in Danielle's journal. I loved and David and I.

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Speaker 7: Didn't know David was You don't know what it was.

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Speaker 1: I did, but now I realized it was David Letterman, I was a weirdo. Let's not go into my journal. So this is about you. It's about all about that.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Very similarly, though, you did not hate Sabrina because I did not hate Rachel. I was like, man, Rachel's so cool, and Writer loves her so much.

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Speaker 7: I can hate Rachel. You're like Rachel, She's got the coolest style, she's so ready. I know I spent I spent. I feel like I spent the majority of Leman's and years afterwards just being like there he is never to be mine. Narrative like that I have sort of like continue to slap myself into in various different circumstances in my life.

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Speaker 5: Did you know he had a pony, Susie the pony?

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Speaker 7: I don't remember. Okay, remember a lot of but I don't remember. I don't remember the pony.

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Speaker 2: Did he ever give you.

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Speaker 5: A white rose?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, just these are just things I needed to know.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's basically married by the time he was twelve, when.

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Speaker 7: I'm so curious because you seem warmed up.

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Speaker 3: How I want to talk about nine year old Larissa because I feel like, let's let's see, she was amazing. She was so talented, like and I remember like that was that was the thing about doing le Midis at that age, is like you knew which kids had something, and like Larissa like immediately was just amazing, a great singer, a good actor. And then like, yeah we stayed in touch. Was it did you start going to Bruce's class like right away? Or like how did we keep acting around it because I remember then going to doing acting class with you somewhere and being like, oh, God, Larissa's amazing, like so talented. And then yeah, I did know that.

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Speaker 7: I mean that wasn't I mean, I certainly didn't well think, I mean, I guess, thank you, but same like I always I always knew writer was good. Like it's just something. It's so funny that even at that age, I'm like, oh, that kid's good. And then yeah, when we were in class, I think I just followed. I think my mom and I just followed you and your mom wherever you guys went. Basically I was like, oh, you're going to this class, we'll go to that class. Or you have this agent, now, we'll have that agent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what I felt like. We were on this journey together. Yeah, it was like our parents were helping each other and like navigate this crazy thing. Like yeah, and I remember when my mom broke her leg, like your mom basically took care of her for six weeks at the open Oh, we were like cause we were like this little northern California crew of like actors, and we like no one knew what we were doing, like our parents like in retrospect, it's insane how much they took on. And so like we were each other's family, like going down to LA and like doing this thing, and like there was this constant check in of like are the kids okay? You okay? You know, and but a lot but that came from also, like I know, like for me, Larissa stood out as somebody because there's a lot of kids doing this who you would watch an acting class and be like, Okay, well you're doing this because your mom wants you to or your dad you know, maybe there's not an animating talent here or something, Whereas like with Larissa, that was not the case. It was like, oh, this is a real actor, and this is somebody who's going to be doing this for the rest of their lives. And like, I don't know, I think we found that in each other, and our parents found each other, and like it was just such a supportive, amazing friendship to have moving into LA.

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Speaker 7: I think our mom's just talked on the phone very recently.

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Speaker 5: Writer.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, It's like they were definitely like each other as touchstones for sure. Like I remember that about Marla specifically too, that I was just like.

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Speaker 3: Yes, another NorCal so talented.

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Speaker 1: So Writer's family they help you get set up with an agent, and that's obviously pretty easy because, like Writer mentioned, you're an incredible talent. So you get an agent and then you book the lead in the Secret World of Alex Mack and you're just twelve years old. Were you then intimidated being the lead in a show at such a young age?

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Speaker 7: I mean, the funny thing about that is that, like we've been coming down for pilot season for at least two I think I booked Alex Mack when it was the August version of pilot season, so probably two and a half years at that point, which like two and a half years from nine.

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Speaker 3: To Yeah, you're burnt out, washed up already. You're like, why hasn't this happened yet?

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Speaker 8: Right, this is what I said, you.

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Speaker 7: Already you'd already gotten Women's World yep, and like other people's careers were taking off, I did not get the part of Tapanga.

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Speaker 3: Oh you auditioned, You auditioned for Topanga?

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Speaker 7: Why did not? I did not make it very far, but I think I got a callback and that was one of those that I was just in the backseat of the car with my mom just like shoveling ice creaming, like it's over.

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Speaker 5: I got a call back and I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, but you got the part. You got the part, kid got the part.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I know, I remember, like I remember all of the heartbreak sort of leading up to it, or really just the sense of like it's just the math of it all, which I think I still do where it's like, you know, I'm like, well, it's been a second since I've booked something. It's either completely done for me or something's around the corner. And that was sort of like how I went into that whole experience, and I think I was at that point in my career as a twelve year old. I think I was sort of ready to call it and I got the show. But then, you know, as Natanya mentioned on her I've listened to a lot of the episodes. Guys. It's been incredible therapeutic, let me tell you. There there was a big gap in between us doing the pilot and doing the first season. I think about a year at least, and there was a lot of shuffling. So I think with all of that, it just the reality of it didn't really sink in. Honestly, it was just kind of like, Okay, we're shooting the pilot. We'll see if you get called back for the first season. We'll see if the first season does anything, we'll see. So I don't know. I don't know that I felt that the pressure of being the lead on a show until maybe later after we started doing press and stuff, and yeah, I think at that point I was just sort of in the routine of it, in the routine of like cautiously optimistic but preparing for the worst, like, well, maybe I'll just go back to school. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Can anybody think of any other career ever where you can.

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Speaker 4: Be and like, I think I'm done with this at twelve, But it is it's like it's maybe, yeah, maybe, like if it's something, if you're some sort of athletics, gymnastics, something like that. But to be in some kind of lifestyle where you are eleven or twelve, you're in the routine of I'm going to another audition.

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Speaker 3: No, oh God, more disappointment and even more agonizing than sports, because in sports there's measurable, quantifiable level like measures of success, like you can run faster than anybody, You've won so many games, whereas with acting, you could be slamming your head against the wall and have no talent, no ability to book jobs, no way about. You'll keep you have the passion, you keep trying it. So you're also constantly looking, So you're seeking evidence of whether this is the right choice or not, some sort of validation, some validation something. Your parents are, you know, looking for that validation too, because they're committing their time and money and energy towards Oh my god, like you know, so, yeah, it does, it's it's it's a it's an incredibly strange pressure to have as a teenager.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember though, where you were when you found out you got the role? No, so you were by that time you were already like, well I booked a job.

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Speaker 5: But we'll see how this goes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know if it was that extreme necessarily, but you know, honestly, if we if we really want to talk about it, there probably was some sort of like protective mechanism in me that like, you know, either knew not to get too excited because it might be disappointed, but maybe even more was like, oh your life might change and better to you know, dip like ease into the water slowly, and you know, I think that maybe there was some some sort of intuition of like, oh, things are not going to be the same after this, and you know, best to what's the word not burn out? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: You know, were your parents celebrating this for you? Was anybody in your life.

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Speaker 5: Like the Wills and this Judy Savage?

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Speaker 7: We all we loved Judy so much. Yeah? No, my I mean I know both you know I Will. Are both your parents lawyers?

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Speaker 3: Or yeah?

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Speaker 7: With my parents are medicine, So they're just kind of like, Okay, what is this thing that you're doing. I really have no concept of what was actually happening until it completely.

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Speaker 1: Started to ramp up, right, and then when it did completely ramp up, were you then very excited about being the face of a hit show or did you What were your feelings then?

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Speaker 7: I honestly was really excited to get invited to Nickelodeon's stuff, because I think that started happening before we even aired, and so I got to go. I remember flying to New York, I mean maybe for the first time for remember when we did upfronts. I think I did up Fronts and I can't remember if the kids from all that. I don't know if all that was on yet, but like they were definitely a part of my whole Nickelodeon experience. But Melissa was definitely there. And I've talked about this before. I was like so excited to meet Melissa and like the shirt that she was wearing. I was like, ah, I have that same shirt from Express or what. She was just that much older than me that I at that particular age that I was just like, oh my god. I looked up to her so much, and I think, you know, obvious, it's very clear that like our show would not have been successful had they not come first. So I think once that stuff started to happen, it sunk in.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I just went to work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's something so magical when you were a kid about working for Nickelodeon, because I think I was eleven when I got my Nickelodeon show, and there is you like you're going to the studio. You're like you're going to the offices and everything's bright, and there was something so cool about that.

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Speaker 7: The offices in New York were so fun. Everywhere I went I got Nickelodeon product, I had like back and slime and floam. I think was a thing like all this stuff. And actually I did find some of those things at my mom's house too, and I was like, these have disintegrated. It's time. There are certain things that you're like, this does not feel good to the.

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Speaker 4: Touch to this is probably toxic, this is right, this is officially burning my back.

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Speaker 7: That element of it. I was like, I just I think I honestly was just overwhelmed. And then, like I'm saying, we just went to work. And I think, talking again about le Miss, that was really the thing that for me clicked in more than anything as a as a kid. Because I listen, I will say for myself, I was not naturally good at this. I decided at a certain point to be good at this because I liked the experience. I mean, sure I have some natural whatever, but like, I liked the experience of it so much. I liked the family that we made so much, like the fact that writer and I were still in touch. I'm still in touch with a lot of people friendly Miss, and that was the aspect of it. And I remember a writer, I went back and I was so thrilled to go back and be with my family and so that's that's always been And with Alex Mack too. We were filming it in Valencia. We weren't filming it on a on a h at the studio. We were we were sort of separated, and so that that was really the part that that just becomes your world. And so I mean, I mean, I love going to work. So I've always loved that part of it for sure, and known how special that part is, especially as an only child, like I just I need I need those people in my life.

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Speaker 5: I have a very weird questionquestion I wanted to ask.

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Speaker 7: Let's get weird.

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Speaker 1: Recently, the actress Alison Mack, who was a child actor and was most notably on Smallville, was jailed for her role in a cult. And every time it comes up in my head, I have to separate the difference between Alex Mack and Alison Mack.

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Speaker 3: Same.

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Speaker 5: Does that happen to you?

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Speaker 1: Do people come up to you and say, like, tell me about the woman with the cult and You're like, sorry, what you're talking about?

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Speaker 3: No, that has not.

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Speaker 7: That's really funny. That has not since you know, in light of recent events, No, no one has asked me about that. I actually, I mean you know Alison and I knew each other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys didn't know Alison will think so. Oh I knew Alison was a young actors space. She was so talented. I mean I just I was in love with her. I was in love with her. It just had such a cross on it. Pre this is pretty Smallville, but yeah, we used to. She was so talented and such a cool person too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: When I heard all that, I was like, whoa, whoa. I know, talk to her for twenty years and look what happened.

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Speaker 7: Actually the funny, but not the funny. I mean, I don't know, I don't want it.

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Speaker 3: Were you almost in the cult?

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Speaker 7: Actually, I will tell a story that Diane, when I was meeting with her to potentially have her be my manager, she was like, this is before Alex Mack and she goes, she goes, you know, you and Allison are just too similar.

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Speaker 3: Oh interesting, Yeah, I can see that.

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Speaker 7: And so that's why she didn't was good managing. That's like a I mean, how respects that's to be respected that. She was just like, you guys are going to go in for the same things. I'm already invested in her.

00:26:44
Speaker 5: And I'm interested she might take you on now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A good time to love to see.

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Speaker 7: I would love to see her.

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Speaker 3: I saw her two months ago. Yeah, we had the reunion of the Young Actor's Space where you and Diana and Judy were there and I got to sit and sit with both of them and talk for a while.

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Speaker 7: And an Angie too, Angie Angie Ellen right or I can't remember. She messaged me on Instagram, but yeah, yeah, I remember.

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Speaker 3: Everybody was crazy.

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Speaker 7: She was one of my teachers. Yeah, I was in New York. I was so bummed I missed that.

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Speaker 1: But well, so then Ten Things I Hate About You comes along, and that movie, though released in nineteen ninety nine, seems just as popular today with a whole new generation of people.

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Speaker 5: What do you think has made it so timeless? Uh?

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Speaker 7: Listen, the writing is really good. Yeah, you know, it's it's Keween Karen, who went on to write Legally Blonde and The House Funny and a million other things like they are awesome and the script was awesome, And you know, that was a time. I don't think that I was in a position to be super choosy, but there were a lot of teen scripts sort of coming my way, and that was the one that I just latched onto. I was like, I became. I was just like no, I would will not take no for an answer, And I went in for both characters for a really long time, up until the bitter end, when they were just like, okay, we've decided that, like we're pushing you for Bianca. And I met Julia and she and I read together, and I was like, ah, yes, yes, yes, this fits, this fits, even though well whatever. I just remember when I got to said I had like pink in my hair, and I was like, see, I told you I was punk rock and they were like, we have to bleach that out. Thanks so much, you're still show I forget we can talk about hair hair, yes, And I think, you know, that's another example of we all really got along. We all really got along, and we were you know, it was a different time. No one was on their phone, like that didn't exist. We were in a hotel first and Tacoma and then in Seattle, and it was summer. Joe and Julia and I were all seventeen.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

00:29:00
Speaker 7: You know, it was a magical, magical time. Uh. And we were all for the most part, like very invested in what we were doing and honestly, I watched that movie again recently, and aside from a few things that do not age well, but it really does, I was blown away by how much I enjoyed it. I knew that I enjoyed it, like personally nostalgically, but I just I really enjoyed the whole experience of watching it.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Did Gill direct that?

00:29:30
Speaker 8: That?

00:29:30
Speaker 7: Was?

00:29:30
Speaker 4: Was that?

00:29:31
Speaker 3: Gilly Younger? It was, Okay, I bought his car.

00:29:35
Speaker 2: It's not so strange the world, Gilly?

00:29:39
Speaker 3: What did you work with him on?

00:29:39
Speaker 6: He was?

00:29:40
Speaker 3: He was directing an episode of TV that you were in. Yeah, he did? Was it?

00:29:45
Speaker 2: It might have been Go Fish, I can't remember.

00:29:48
Speaker 4: He did a show after and he pulled up in this car and I was like, I need, I need to buy your car. And it was it was the it was the.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was yeah, but it was.

00:30:00
Speaker 4: He pulled up and since the time I was a little kid, I wanted a green Ferrari convertible and I've never seen one. And he pulled up and parked it right in front of me. It's like, I need your car, and we just yeah. It was like a week later, let me.

00:30:10
Speaker 8: Get rid of it.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I had it until twenty twenty.

00:30:14
Speaker 3: I saw it right before the pandem.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: I want to ask you a Heath Ledger question.

00:30:19
Speaker 1: Did he always feel like just a special different actor?

00:30:27
Speaker 7: I try not to tell. I try not to talk about Heath too much anecdotally because that is or because it is very real. Yeah, sure, that particular loss like collectively and also anyway, yeah, short answer, yes, like there's there's some people sparkle.

00:30:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he was a sparkler for sure.

00:31:02
Speaker 7: I just remember. I'll I'm like I said, I but I do you remember the first time I met him? He like ordered me dessert and I was like, okay, and then I was like it was something like you like push it across the tab and was like I thought you'd like it.

00:31:20
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I do need this Sunday.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: It's so sweet. So let's chat Boy meets World.

00:31:43
Speaker 1: Were you a fan of the show at all before you came on? I mean, obviously you writer, but did you can you watch the show?

00:31:51
Speaker 7: Yes, it was a big deal. I feel like we would gather. I feel like we would gather and watch it or maybe I don't know, writer, if you were even a part of that, but the rest of us, would it was a big deal. It was a big deal. Uh yeah, and I was I was a big fan of the show, and it felt it was a big deal for me to be on the show. And I don't I was trying to remember. I don't remember auditioning. I'm not quite sure how that worked out.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: I don't you must have had you visited the set before you worked on the show, I mean a taping. Yeah, you must have come to a taping. But I feel like I feel like our writers and Michael in particular, must have known who you were. I'm sure, like I wonder if they just offered this part to you, because it was like, oh, you already had your own show on Nickelodeon and we knew each other. Yeah that's amazing. Yeah yeah.

00:32:43
Speaker 7: You know. There's very few jobs that I've gotten with on auditioning, but I really wonder if this was one of those. I mean, Barbie and Sally would probably know oh yeah, uh yeah, but I do. It was I'm just thinking and looking at my hair. I was like, oh, I think that must have been like second season of Alex Mack, so that would have already been happening and probably been like mildly successful at that point, I.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: Bet you they wrote either wrote this part for you or yeah, or is a straight offer after they wrote the part.

00:33:13
Speaker 5: And they were yeah.

00:33:15
Speaker 1: Well, now in light of the journal finding, this question is even more interesting. What was it like then playing Sean's first girlfriend, writer's first girlfriend on the show and you kind of constant makeout partner?

00:33:31
Speaker 5: What was that like for you?

00:33:34
Speaker 7: Ryer? Have we talked about this?

00:33:37
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. Are you serious? Was it ever?

00:33:44
Speaker 7: Ever?

00:33:45
Speaker 3: You kissed me during rehearsal though I remember, but I remember during rehearsal you just went for it, and I was like, Oh, we're going to be kissing during better Oh my god. You seem so confident to me. I was like, oh, I guess we're doing this like okay, And we were tired, so.

00:34:01
Speaker 7: I can't even tell you that I knew this was like I mean, and I hadn't watched the episode in forever and I went back in just like, oh god, oh god. And it's been a couple of months I've had But yeah, no, all I remember about that entire experience of the first episode at least was I mean, because I, like I said, it was between first and second season. Since Alex mac I was fourteen or fifteen, but I was a very very very young, fourteen fifteen year old. I was a very late bloomer. And then you know, once thing sped up, they really sped up. But at that point in my life, like I was, I was a kid.

00:34:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you were definitely, and I remember you were. You were more sheltered, you know, than like me. Like I remember like me and my brother were way more advanced in certain areas, and I remember you and your mom were like, no, no, no, I did.

00:34:47
Speaker 7: Exactly what my mother told me to do.

00:34:52
Speaker 3: A good way.

00:34:52
Speaker 7: And I was like until I wasn't. And then you know, subsequently, like all exploded at this certain age.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:35:02
Speaker 7: I think it's healthier too. It's just sort of.

00:35:06
Speaker 3: A little bit. But yeah, that's crazy. That was your first kiss, you you because I remember sitting at the rehearsal being like, this is gonna be weird because it's Larissa, you know, and we like went to hold hands for the rehearsal, and then you just right in for the kiss, and it was I was like, oh, this this is fine, great, Okay, we're going to be kissing, I know, but you were you seemed so confident to me, I thought like, oh wow, she is such a like consummate actor, she just wants to do it, and like, yeah, that's son.

00:35:33
Speaker 7: No wow. Shot freaked out the entirety because I don't think we did it until the run through.

00:35:41
Speaker 3: Okay, So I just remember you. I just remember not expecting you to actually kiss me, and then you kissed me and being like, oh wow, I didn't.

00:35:48
Speaker 7: Know you guys have talked about there was no intimate intimacy coordinator. I'm sure like mccrapan did his best, but yeah, there was no one sort of talking us through it. And I think for me at that age, I was just like I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing. I'm like, oh my god, I had no idea what I could see. So I just went like one hundred and fifty. Instead, I was like, I'm just going to commit. I'm just going to commit, and then it was fine, and then it was fine once we got over it. But I do remember, I mean, leading up to that first run through, and of course we're all in school together, and I'm like, how am I supposed to do school? Right now?

00:36:26
Speaker 1: I can't think about anything except writer's tongue, and.

00:36:30
Speaker 7: Then it's like and then there's nothing worse than just like sitting, like driving back to the apartment or hotel, probably like with my mom, just like my mom threw Both our moms were there. Both our moms were definitely there.

00:36:45
Speaker 8: Wowses, and the men, middle aged men in their hands and pencil looking at you, going hmm, is.

00:36:55
Speaker 3: This going to work?

00:37:03
Speaker 6: But you have your first kiss on film, you have your first kiss ever, it's kind of like you can kind of watch your whole first that it would have been. I'm saying, like the first week though, it's like that's crazy for you.

00:37:14
Speaker 5: Great, Well, what other memories do you have on set?

00:37:18
Speaker 3: Do you make the trauma? Okay, guys, let's just laugh about it.

00:37:24
Speaker 5: What memories?

00:37:25
Speaker 1: What other memories do you have of being on set? Because then you were on set with us for several weeks. Once the awkwardness of the first kisses out of the way, then it has to just be more fun, right.

00:37:36
Speaker 7: Once all of that, once all of that was out of the way, I remember having I just remember having a great time. I Mean, it's funny the way that you guys talk about or y'all talk about your experience on the show. It's sort of like not feeling like you were cool or not feeling like it was the cool show. Like to me, it was the cool show. And I, you know, I also was like I was like, I'm going to get in there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna flex them acting like the scene. I'm like, okay, so it's so good.

00:38:15
Speaker 3: Good, it's fine?

00:38:17
Speaker 7: Or no, you mentioned too ready, you mentioned the hand acting. I noticed almost like behind the ear acting.

00:38:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I could feel you and I we were loving every moment and I could feel us. I could feel watching it back. It was like I could feel us just loving the like drama and the like awkwardness and like leaning into the like let's make this as natural as possible and like and so it just ends up being a lot of looking at our hands and rubbing our hands. It's but it's great. I mean, you know, I'd rather that than like very polished that comback. Like I could tell that we are two young actors who, you know, like thought thought we should be on My so called life were disappointed as boy meets World.

00:38:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, who had probably done my so called life scene my so.

00:39:02
Speaker 7: Called life impersonations. I think like the second season of Alex Mac, I did it through all of that as well, like my best so fun, my best approximation of clar days And but that's fine, you know, like it's the only way I've sort of been able to keep going as is that I can look back on stuff like that and be like, well, I was just in process. It was just I was just figuring it out. And it usually is like the scene that you're like this is it that ends up kind of being like, oh, that's cute, that that's how you did it, and then the one that you kind of throw away, it's like then there's like at the next episode, I can see as having a lot more fun to get so much relationship they like each other.

00:39:42
Speaker 3: Yes, I wish there had been more episodes of that, like just being you know, partners together like in in situations that are funny. Yeah, I felt I had.

00:39:53
Speaker 7: A blast with you guys. I mean I just remember that. I remember that part very I was like, oh, here we are, here, we are.

00:40:02
Speaker 3: Now.

00:40:03
Speaker 4: I have a question, did you know when when you got Boy Meets World that it was going to be multiple episodes or was it supposed to just be a one off.

00:40:09
Speaker 7: I think it was the I think it was always the two together. Okay, then the one that they.

00:40:14
Speaker 2: Brought everybody back, right and.

00:40:18
Speaker 7: And lindsay back for that, I think, I mean, I don't think that was ever on anyone's agenda, But I think it was always the first two together because as you guys I listened last night, as you mentioned, like there is there's a significant amount of continuity between the two. So yeah, yeah, they must have always been coupled.

00:40:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they I think that was always a plan. And by that time that you were now had done a couple of episodes, we were all pretty close.

00:40:42
Speaker 5: Larissa. I have a great picture of you and I in a limo.

00:40:46
Speaker 1: And I'm wearing a hard rock cafe leather jacket and you have on a great striped sweater, and I have no idea where we were going.

00:40:56
Speaker 3: Probably the Kid's Choice Awards, because Kids Choice were every year. Would have like I remember, Liverisa, you and I presented at the Nickeload and Kids Choice Awards. I did it in roller blades. It's like roller blades and you jeans. Yeah, remember you don't. We can probably find it online, but I'm pretty sure you and I are at the podium together and you're like, yeah, and but anyway, that was something we would have been picked up in a limo for if we were all going.

00:41:20
Speaker 4: To the Choice.

00:41:21
Speaker 5: I wonder that's what Oh well, I mean.

00:41:26
Speaker 3: Do you think, oh we got to talk about We haven't.

00:41:30
Speaker 2: Even talked about.

00:41:33
Speaker 1: It's at night though, And where would we have where would they have picked us up from?

00:41:36
Speaker 7: Like, do you know what it might have been? Do you remember that we did that slumber party together at the Great Mall?

00:41:41
Speaker 1: Yes, it was the slumber party at the Great Mall.

00:41:45
Speaker 3: You guys did a slumber party. It's a great mall. What's the great you put together?

00:41:50
Speaker 5: The Great Mall of America.

00:41:52
Speaker 3: In Minnesota and Minnesota they flew you guys out to Minnesota.

00:41:56
Speaker 7: Yes, it was one of those things. Well, and that this could also be like a Judy thing, because I was asking my mom about it recently and she was like, oh, yeah, I remember that it was something like they had approached me about it, and I was like, I was like, this doesn't sound like something that would be fun to do on my own.

00:42:12
Speaker 5: Won't bring us end?

00:42:14
Speaker 7: What if Danielle came along too? You know, I'm just like I'm like, you can get.

00:42:22
Speaker 3: Two of us.

00:42:24
Speaker 7: Also, we'll have a much better time totally.

00:42:28
Speaker 3: So what did you guys do sleep on the floor in what was us? Did you sleep on the floor in the mall?

00:42:34
Speaker 1: We just went and like I feel like we just had a slumber party. We visited the slumber party.

00:42:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, we like brought some wars or something like that and there Q and so odd.

00:42:45
Speaker 3: It sounds so weird.

00:42:50
Speaker 7: I feel like that might have been a limo situation because they know you're.

00:42:53
Speaker 1: Right, because it's it's also like a bunch of pictures and which could have very well been that we were somewhere local and my mom decided to use this as an opportunity for a little photo shoot for us. But it does feel very much like a photo shoot you have when you're on a trip, like you're in a different location, Like we should commemorate this look at us in a limo in Minnesota at.

00:43:14
Speaker 5: The Great Mall.

00:43:14
Speaker 1: That is exactly what it was, for sure. And let's please talk about our Kushling's commercial.

00:43:21
Speaker 7: And memories that they made about our lives just after hanging out, like.

00:43:28
Speaker 3: When you walked into her dressing room and had that conversation. It's just totally natural, just.

00:43:33
Speaker 7: Happen to be care with there.

00:43:34
Speaker 1: Do you remember about that experience, because I have I have a surprisingly kind of a lot of memories, and none of them are of actually really filming it. They're of all the stuff like gearing up for filming it. Do you remember looking at the storyboard, like when they showed us the storyboard.

00:43:51
Speaker 7: I do remember all of us just kind of being like, oh.

00:43:54
Speaker 3: Oh, I am this is what today is going to be these days.

00:44:02
Speaker 7: But again, like you know, the fact that we were in it together. I was just like, thank.

00:44:08
Speaker 3: God, yes, like you know, nothing God.

00:44:11
Speaker 7: I mean, not that it was so listen, it wasn't so embarrassing. I mean, it's just we're teenagers, you know, just were teenagers.

00:44:18
Speaker 5: Like feeling uncomfortable.

00:44:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're being awkward already, and it was just like, okay, so we're going to commit to this thing. But at least it was, you know, the three of us in it together. And yeh, that's not what I remember. And actually I have to say this last show that I just worked on, our set decorator came up to me, went in she was like, oh my gosh, my boyfriend and I found this video of this commercial and I was like, oh god, I know, so embarrassing. And she was like, what was embarrassing about it? And I was like, I don't know, it's just so cheesy, and she was like, honestly, it was just really nice to see the three of you together. And I was like, noted, no, note.

00:44:58
Speaker 5: You know, and I do.

00:44:59
Speaker 1: It's it's nice because the three of us are obviously friends in the commercial.

00:45:02
Speaker 5: But you're right that, like my overwhelming.

00:45:04
Speaker 1: Memory of the thing is just that the three of us looked at each other and we all shared the same sentiment, which.

00:45:10
Speaker 5: Is like, this is so fun together.

00:45:13
Speaker 1: Here we are doing this together, and I'm happy that we're here together and we're doing this.

00:45:29
Speaker 3: Do you remember, Larissa, you and I were you know, national ambassadors for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, which was like this huge Washington push for They were trying to pass some legislation, you know, some anti tobacco legislation. So there was this it was this giant it was like hundreds of millions of dollars dollars funneled into this campaign, and we were like the national ambassadors and they flew us to d C. We had like give speeches and be part of that.

00:46:00
Speaker 7: I was available, I shouldn't have been asked to be a part of it. That's the photo that I sent you, writer. I feel like that's from one of those. I sent it to you, like a couple years ago, because they were asking something for press for another show and I was like, I was like, oh, I have this because I sent it to you for approval. I was like, hey, remember when I was Gwen Stefani and you were a beat poet the writer with like full goate. I think I said it, but I think that was from one of those.

00:46:31
Speaker 4: So you were in costume and writer was writer. Do you guys do wait to Danielle? Do you do you guys know that Larissa and I actually did a show. We did a pilot together after Boy Meets World with Jeff. Jeff Sherman wrote it, Jeff McCracken directed it, and Alex Daysier was in it too.

00:46:55
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, you did mention that and it was shot at.

00:46:58
Speaker 7: My house, right, because that was the only way we could get you to do it, was.

00:47:02
Speaker 5: That what it was that would make sense because at.

00:47:05
Speaker 3: The time, at that time, that totally makes sense.

00:47:07
Speaker 4: That's the only way I could do it is I guess we have to shoot it here year was it.

00:47:11
Speaker 7: I'm not making they wouldn't be clear. I'm not making light of that. I just I was like, I just.

00:47:15
Speaker 3: Remember, No, I forgot.

00:47:16
Speaker 4: That was the reason that that was hugely in my in my anxiety face.

00:47:20
Speaker 7: We shoot it at his house, and I was like, well, shoot at his house, then that's right.

00:47:23
Speaker 3: Good I found the photo. Larissa.

00:47:25
Speaker 4: You and I didn't really work together until later because we did voice some voice over together and then we did.

00:47:32
Speaker 7: Did we do voice over together?

00:47:34
Speaker 3: Was it?

00:47:34
Speaker 7: Did you did you Club?

00:47:36
Speaker 4: It was? Yeah, we did winks. We did Winks for a while and then we did and we did that pilot. What was the name of that show, Katie?

00:47:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, because I wrote that with Jeff and Wendy or I mean right, yea, yes, the three of us kind of collaborated on that, and it really was yeah, like a Boy Means World Reunion.

00:47:55
Speaker 3: It was. It was a good show. It was it was fun.

00:47:58
Speaker 7: Honestly, Will like our like I our scenes were really good.

00:48:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, so, yeah.

00:48:04
Speaker 7: Oh there's really something here well. And also I have such a fondness for Alex too, Like I mean because wow, I said I was propped out, but I'm not more catch on Hapcatcher hepcat baby tea.

00:48:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the most nineties thing ever had.

00:48:26
Speaker 3: I was a big Scott.

00:48:27
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm still I still love Scott, but I was like a he that was like my life when I was sixteen, and so Alex and I sort of like had kept a connection for years before then we did. Yeah, we did this pilot together. Yeah, that was Yeah, we shot it here. I'm trying to remember there were turtles.

00:48:42
Speaker 4: Yes, I owned I sold turtles on the internet or something like that was.

00:48:47
Speaker 5: Part of the show.

00:48:48
Speaker 3: As part of the show.

00:48:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I sold turtles in real life, not turtles is real life.

00:48:53
Speaker 5: And I was like this drumps pony.

00:49:00
Speaker 3: That's so funny. Oh man.

00:49:02
Speaker 1: Now going back to just some memories, do you have like a favorite hangout session, like a favorite hang with writer story?

00:49:11
Speaker 7: I remember, well, gosh, I mean I don't know writer, We've just known each other for so Also Writer, I mean, do you remember that I did Pepper Dennis.

00:49:19
Speaker 3: Too, Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, So third job together was doing Pepper Dennis where I met my wife.

00:49:25
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, they're just honestly, like most recently. The last time you and Alex were in New York, it was a couple of years. It was pre pandemic, so you think you were both in New York. I think it was her short that you were in Tribecca for that's we did, like we had like a solid.

00:49:43
Speaker 3: Hang oh yeah. We stayed late.

00:49:45
Speaker 7: We late, and I remember I was like, this is it.

00:49:50
Speaker 3: This is you came out to a screening of her short. It was part of a program at Tribeca, and then the three of us and maybe some other people went out for pizza afterwards, and I remember you and I got into it. Yeah, it was really a good oh yeah wow. And you know they were so pissed that I had to go to They were like, why we want we wanted a teenager, We want want to be twenty one year old. Du You look a lot like Shiloh in that totally Oh wow, I do.

00:50:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot like Shiloh in that picture.

00:50:26
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Wow, there another one.

00:50:31
Speaker 7: You've seen each other through so many iterations, you know, and it's it's always reassuring when and I mean I think that this is sort of like look.

00:50:42
Speaker 3: At that he both looks so awkward here. You're like, uh, does he have to put his arm around me? Does he have to put his arm around me? And I'm like, hey man, I'm just here. You're just lucky I'm here.

00:50:56
Speaker 5: I refuse to show you my teeth, oh.

00:50:59
Speaker 3: Riot, or do something like I share my teeth so cute? Come on, it's adorable.

00:51:10
Speaker 7: But isn't that why we're here? You know? Isn't that why we're all here? To appreciate the fact that like we're still here, Yes, we're still here, and years can go by and there's just some things you share with people that it's all you can kind of just get right back into it. Yeah. Yeah, isn't that the beauty of I think now after the fact, I know we all went through our phases of sort of like rejecting this time in our lives, which I think is healthy to need to step away and say and sort of compartmentalize and say like that's something that I did before, but now to be able to embrace it more holistically and just I mean, we're all in our we're all in our forties, right, Yeah, It's like it's a small miracle that we're all even still here. I just I've never really appreciated it more. That's why it is the best. It is such a great age. Yeah, because of stuff like.

00:52:16
Speaker 5: This that it is.

00:52:17
Speaker 1: Writer and I had this conversation recently where it is so nice now to be far enough removed from some of the things we would have called childhood traumas that or that felt you know, pretty serious at the time, to be far enough away from them now to be able to truly laugh at at ourselves and the way and how serious we may have taken something. And it doesn't mean that it was any less significant at the time, sure, but just being able to have the distance to say, it's kind of nice to laugh about that now.

00:52:49
Speaker 5: It's it's really it really is beautiful.

00:52:52
Speaker 1: And you are still acting a bunch now, you're still having dream jobs like.

00:52:56
Speaker 3: Well, that's what I wanted to ask about, because you you mean, you were doing a sitcom with kids, right, like, you were working with child actors. So what was that like? I mean, how was it to be on the other side of it?

00:53:07
Speaker 7: I love it, Yeah, I love it. I have to say, I have to say that I think that's also a huge part of you know, I'm going to use a big word and maybe it's with a capital eight. I mean with the capital the lowercase H. But that's part of like the healing process of all of this, is when things come full circle like that and then you get to be in a position where it's like, oh, I might actually have something to impart here, And especially seeing the kids on the show, I actually just zoomed. The show is called Erin and Aaron. We aired on Nickelodeon and now it's on Netflix. We're waiting to hear about a season two. But so I was just zooming with the parents, but then the kids hopped on and of course, you know my question is I was like, I was like, I know, we all want a second season, but like, how are the kids feeling?

00:53:58
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:53:59
Speaker 7: Very cue And this is my third time playing a mom, and I've been incredibly I just I just love it. I've been incredibly protective every time. Like I've loved all I've loved all of these kids that I've I've worked with because I'm able to see in them. Yeah, some people don't want to be there, sure, and it's like it's like this is a path, this is a hobby, You'll grow out of it, whatever. But then with some of them, I'm just like, yeah, man, sometimes there's just no other way. Sometimes I'm actually curious to know if you would have it any other way, because I honestly think that, like I can look back and say I wouldn't really want anything to be different other than maybe just I would just be gentleer on myself in general. But yeah, but I see it. So when the kids hopped on and then like I sort of asked them and they were like, they were like yeah, I was like, how school, And they're like, you're kind of ready to get back to work, and I was.

00:54:55
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, there you go, there you go.

00:54:58
Speaker 7: I remember the exact same thing. I remember being so ready to get back to school. And actually, Danielle, I don't think I realized that you too were in like real scholar school, regular school. I didn't realize Jodie was. Christine was like that's something that I'm like, oh, no, wonder we sort of gravitated towards each other because very few people really understand absolutely and that is such difficult balance. But I wouldn't change it. I'm very old that I had both. But I was like, yes, I remember this. I remember wanting to get back to school and going for a semester and then just being like, when are we getting back to Yeah, I mean I'm obsessed. I mean I'm obsessed with them, So I I just love you know, I have no plans to be a mother in my real life, but I love playing a mom. I love anytime. I think it was maybe just towards the end of the season one of them sort of like quietly approached me and was like, oh, you know, I'm gonna get I'm actually surprised I haven't busted a tear yet. She was like, she's like, well, I'm just kind of nervous about, you know, how what's gonna happen when the show airs. And I was able to give her some i think solid advice because it's hard to hold yourself back, at least for me it is. I just want to tell them things all the time, but I have to wait for them to, you know.

00:56:24
Speaker 5: Help too.

00:56:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, exactly, they have to want to anyway. And it was like it was like I imparted what I could and she walked away, and I was like in the makeup trailer and I was like, I like called it together, and I was like after she was out of the room. I was like, oh, because I just I there are so many elements of this business that are completely magical. And I'll say it again like that really is one of them. The people that you meet, the connections that you for, the family that you make. Yeah, I'm a lifer.

00:57:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely. My final question is totally related to that. What would little lame is Larissa think about current adult, beautiful Alissa still working all these decades later, and the wonderful human woman you've grown into being.

00:57:31
Speaker 7: Sorry, that's a big one. I think she's so much smarter than me. Honestly, I think she's more just like, Yeah, I told you.

00:57:48
Speaker 5: I love it.

00:57:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love it.

00:57:55
Speaker 5: That's a perfect answer. That's exactly right. Yeah to you, this is life. This is the if I knew you were going to have you just duh, I've d at it. Yeah, And sister enjoyed that Kushli's commercial. You've got decades more of this, sister.

00:58:10
Speaker 7: A.

00:58:13
Speaker 1: Larissa, thank you so much for being here with us and gracing us with your presence.

00:58:17
Speaker 5: It's always so wonderful to see you.

00:58:20
Speaker 7: I mean I said it briefly, but you really are. And I kind of joked about it with you in text, but like you really are providing a service. Like I think I think you understand, but like I just want to mirror back for you that, like the ripple effect of this podcast is much bigger than and I think you, I think you get that, but I just I just wanted to reiterate it that I think it's just even for those of us who aren't child actors, there's something that's just so relatable about well just about what you're doing. It's important.

00:59:04
Speaker 5: Thank you, It's very sweet.

00:59:06
Speaker 7: Thank you, special corner of the world. It's very important.

00:59:10
Speaker 5: Thank you means a lot to us writers.

00:59:12
Speaker 1: Emotional I can tell, so I won't on the whole time.

00:59:19
Speaker 5: So cute on you. Thank you, Larissa, thank you so much for being here. We'll see you again soon.

00:59:23
Speaker 7: Thank you. Bye bye.

00:59:26
Speaker 5: We need to bring her back to do.

00:59:28
Speaker 4: We should actually, yeah, well we should have all three of the girlfriends back for the episode where they all gather for sure rewatch.

00:59:38
Speaker 3: We'll do a rewatch for that.

00:59:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it.

00:59:41
Speaker 2: That'd be fun, wonderful.

00:59:43
Speaker 1: I would I would love that we could also bring back Larissa and Jody and do a Kush Links episode.

00:59:49
Speaker 5: Yes, we watched the.

00:59:54
Speaker 2: Entire time.

00:59:54
Speaker 4: We should do it while doing while having a sleepover at the Mall of America.

00:59:59
Speaker 5: And we can watch Will's show with Larissa.

01:00:02
Speaker 3: Oh it was it was fun. It was good.

01:00:04
Speaker 2: I still have it too somewhere. I mean, I think we should.

01:00:06
Speaker 1: We could throw out and Pepper Dennis guys, Yes we could.

01:00:10
Speaker 5: We'll have a great to going. I really like this idea.

01:00:15
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