9021 on 1 Nicholle Tom (AKA SUE SCANLON)

four episodes. Let's have a little chat with Nicole Tom. Hello, Hi, so good to see you. Oh my gosh, I hate I hate these like zoom things. I'm so bad at it. No, you're here, That's all that matters. Like how beautiful you are. Oh, thank you. You guys look great deal. Oh my gosh, our little baby Sue is all growed up. You guys. We have so many questions for you. Oh my gosh.

We First of all, it's just so weird because I saw that we were gonna be talking to you today, to you today, and I got so excited because we have like some weird, you know, deeper family history because your brother David played my brother on like my very first acting job. Yeah, brand new life. I was so excited when um when I got nine o two and oh or like I felt I felt like I, um was connected to you because of that keeping it in the family. Yeah, and uh it was. How is family?

How's your brother and your sister and your mom, the whole everybody good? You know where it's been. Um, it's been hard the past couple of years. Um my my mom is, oh god, you know it's there's a well, there's a lot going on. Um but all in all, they're they're doing well. My sister is directing, Um, she's directing Dynasty now good for Oh my gosh, tell Heather High. Um. But yeah, just uh, I want to know, like, take it from the beginning. How did you get into acting?

Because you have an f family full of actors? Yeah, gosh, and you all started out super young. Yeah kind of. Um, well, it's it's sort of a long story. Um. I my mom was a casting director. She wasn't a casting director. She worked in an agency and um uh in Washington and uh we we all she always wanted to be an actress kind of forced it on us. Um I was I always like to um, you know, playmate believe and um, I was kind of an awkward child perm and braces and stuff and never really uh. Um, I

never booked a commercial. Um, but my brother and my sister worked a lot, UM, and so we had always come down for pilot season and um uh one year we just came down for pilot season and uh I never went home the rest of the history. Yeah. UM gotten to acting class, Actually, I am. I saw in the episode that I watched UM my first episode on nine O two and o um, there was a girl from my acting class that I was in, like Jenny Kuan. She she was in the episode. You were just so

damn cute. You were so adorable in this episode. I really appreciated you as like the sweet, young, innocent so over that a good girl to night. I must have been fun though. It must have been really fun to play sort of two sides of that character. Yeah, it was. It was so much fun. I remember when I auditioned for it. UM, I got all dressed up, my sister did my hair and makeup, because I mean the show nine two, it was huge. Like when I was on it and I was just like, oh my god, I

can't believe it. I have this audition and I wanted to do like a really good job, but they they had me come back in because I went in really sweet beginning and then they're like, well can she be can she be like, you know, sort of you know, the bad girl. Um, so they wanted me to come back in, um being the bad girl and so UM. I had my sister do my hair and makeup and um and dressed me and um. I actually he took pictures before my audition. I'll send him to you guys.

You have we would allowed to see that. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. Oh my goshhow show with U a black tank top with the like a cross you know that was really liked, like a big one with glitter that I put on. Um it um, I don't know. And when I got it, when I got the part, I was just like, oh my gosh, I'm so. I was so nervous. Wait, so was this before Beethoven or was they? How did that work? What came first? At Beethoven was my very first job? Um so this

I looked it up. It was two It was pretty much like right after Beethoven first. I was thirteen. Oh my gosh, years old. I always loved Beethoven and not my kids watching nice and still hold up. It's a classic. You know, we wanted to ask you, Um, We've talked about this on the show a couple of times that there was a rumor that, uh, there was gonna be a spinoff of uh, sort of like the Younger Crew of kids, like your character and Dana Baron's character, who

was also in this episode. Nikki, did you did you know that that was like in the I heard something like that, UM, but I didn't. I don't know if I was one of the people. I think I might have been, But yeah, I did hear that there was maybe going to be like a little um like a spinoff. That would have been asked. So when you initially auditioned, did they say how many episodes this character would be in? Um, we're just trying to put the pieces together. If there

was more, like we were so curious. I don't think so, but I know that. Um. I always thought I was in five episodes, but I guess I was when I looked it up on IMDb it was only in four. Well, we're gonna be rewatching them all back, so you could be right has definitely had wrong info before. Oh really, yes, well, I mean I always thought it was five, but I can't remember. I mean, you were so so young. What was it? What was like your Do you have like a favorite memory of your time on set? Or who

did you hang out with the most? Do we want to know because we were so you know, fan I was. I was really like, um, I was so nervous to meet all of the guys because I just thought all of them were so cute. Um and I, um, I remember my very first uh uh scene that the scene that we shot was the one um with the um the little plaid dress with the ruffle ruffles and stuff in the bathroom where I'm smoking and stuff. I'm like just taking a puff. But first of all, with the smoking,

you look like you've never smoked a cigarette before. Was that the first time you've ever smoked? I mean hopefully you're thirteen? Um, yes, that was yes, No, I started smoking when it was not, but it wasn't so like I felt so weird watching you smoke because you're just such a little young sweet thing and it just felt

so me too. And the way I like, I was just like just blowing it out like but I think it kind of worked for the character because I mean, for sure, just you know, going through a lot and probably didn't really smoke, but thought that that was like, you know, the thing, bad thing to do for sure. Um, the rebellion, Yeah, you had some really tough topics that

uh there, we've been talking about it. I don't really know what's going to happen because I don't remember and I have never watched the show back, so I'm not sure what happens with your character. But I think it gets a little crazy with with my understanding, Yeah it does. I, Um, don't tell her, don't tell her. She doesn't know. I won't. I won't tell. Um. Um, yes she you know, she's Sue Scanlon, so Scott Scalon's younger sisters. So just with that is the tragedy of his death right that probably

changed a lot for her. Sure that was it was a lot of like yeah, a lot, a lot of heavy subject matter though that you had to deal with at such a young age, Like how did you manage all that? Oh? Well, um, when I was a little girl, like I used to like to play, I believe a lot, but I would I would always like take it to the like really dramatic. Um point, like like I don't know why I my childhood was a little uh. Um, it wasn't the easiest. So I had a lot I have a lot of things to drop from. I guess,

um my early years. Um, it's so it it. I just like I really loved um going into a different person. And I guess I could kind of relate to Sue in that way that I could, you know, sort of pretend to be somebody that I'm wasn't, you know, or to sort of escape my reality. Is your mom still in the business, no, um my mom um my mom my mom had a stroke like a couple of years so, but she's, um, she's doing okay. But no she she uh,

she took acting classes and stuff. She never um she worked as an agent um for a little while, like an assistant. But um, she kind of grew up in a time that you know, you had to be something you you know, she had to be a teacher, so um she I guess she like her parents wanted her to be a um like that's just what she had to do, you know. So she always wanted to be um in in the acting world. And I guess she beat me have sort of lived vicariously through us kids.

But she wasn't like a huge stage bomb either though, you know, she was just wonderful. I love my mom. It's interesting, you know, like because you were so young. We were so young we were making the show. You were so young. When you're making the show, you watch it back, you watch back your first episode, Like, what, how did you feel like? Because sometimes when we watch it back at such an odd like separation, you know, you don't know who that person is that you're watching

on screen. Well, you knew the show was hugely famous when you were on, but you were thirteen, right, So had you ever even saw it? I mean it was for a little bit older? Oh yeah, yeah, Um I was sorry fruit fly m I uh yeah. I mean all of the kids in my school. I was in junior high, you know, so it was I think I was in junior high. Yeah, seventh grade, yeah, because it was two right, Yeah, didn't did you? I was fourteen? Did your Were your friends freaking out that you were

on the show? I mean, yes, everybody was. They were. It was it was I was so happy. I think I ran around the block like screaming. I was so excited and you went back to school though, like while you were filming it, it did. What was that? How did you manage like being in a spotlight kind of

and then going back and being a normal girl. Sometimes kids can be you know, like they don't want to be too nice to you because, um, they don't want you to think that they like you just because you're you know, on a show, so they'll be mean to you instead. But um, I didn't, you know, because then I got the nanny, like pretty much right after when I was fourteen, So I went back to school like for I have a twin brother, David, you know, so he was in school a lot more than I was.

I was you know, set schooled. But going back and dealing with the the kids, it's like I had to make the friends all over again, you know, Like I was away for three weeks then come back to normal like public school, and um, I actually went to school with them. It was Hilary Swink. She was on nine right. She lived with my family when we first um when when she first came down to really she and her mom lived with you, not just um and stayed in

our apartment. Like after this was I was put in acting class for like three years before I even had an audition. Um, who was your acting teacher? Diane Harden and Nora Eckstein if the young actors is love them? Do you know them? I remember the names? Yeah, I don't think I ever studied with Diane Harden, But isn't she the mom of um what's her daughter? Laura? Yes?

Also that yeah good company? Yeah yeah, Well it was like the place to be if you were a kid in so right when people would have been like recognizing you as and I know to when I was airing and recognizing you on the streets as being Sue Scanling. You got the Nanny, which became a huge uber success. So was it like I'm sure they stopped like Nino didn't go on, Oh you were just Maggie. Oh, I don't know. Sometimes are people are like, oh my gosh,

that was you. Let me realize that, Um it's I. I've been recognized for I get recognized fanana to a no um uh still really yeah, because you look exactly the same. You were such a young little nugget and now like you look completely you look the same, cutie pie. I wronged to say that unwed father was with Ryan Austin Green. Oh my god. Sorry, Nicole had like a like movie of the week. Your man was he your father or or the baby daddy? Yeah, he was putting her father. We had a one night stand and um,

I got pregnant. I remember when we um shot that scene on the boat. Um, the director was like, ah, okay, you're gonna take his shirt off and then you're gonna, you know, go for his pants. It's like choreographing the makeout scene. Is this is this hard for you, Tory? It's okay. I'm a big girl. I could. I like you so much that it's okay. She's so sweet, she's so considerate of your feelings about no one. Oh my god, it's like you just no, thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

It was an acting job. It wasn't real. Yeah. Yeah that was after and you were reunited with Yes. Ryan Austin Green. Yeah, okay. So so you were choreographing taking off his pants to hear more about the pants and the shirt, take off the button and then go for his undershirt and and then go for the pants and stuff as you're making out, and and so I was like okay, um, and then he's like, and he'll, you know, take your flouse shoulder off and and then we'll cut.

I was like okay, And so we're making out and I get the shirt off and I'm going for his undershirt and I'm like coming out, undershirt, come out. And then finally he stopped the scene. He's like, ouch, you've got my underwear and I've given him like wegy, Like, oh my god, I knew it was like all the way up is he wearing a good body suit? Like how do you have some big boxers on or something? Okay, Nicole, you just blew our minds. We've all we've retraced this.

Now we know the reason that he can't have girls. This all ties back now that massive wedgy somehow did something to the female sperm and he can only have boys. How many kids does he have now? About to have his fifth? Oh my gosh. But we were joking, not joking, we were like fascinating that, you know, how did that happen? How do yeah? He has you know, he's had his first son with with Vaness Marcel who was on our show, then three with Megan Fox and now with Sharna he's

having his new baby. All boys. Oh my gosh, that's that's insane. Wait wait, so what happened when you when he he's like, oh god, you know, he's like, oh gosh out and then I dramatic what Yeah, he was very dramatic about it. Maybe I don't know. You must have been mortified. Oh my gosh, it was love scenes can be dangerous, you guys. And then he had to go back and be sexy and into it and do

it again. Like that's that's what sucks sometimes. Yeah. I think he like put his boxers like down lowered or maybe just on act as Whitey is wife beater or whatever. Oh my gosh, insane. So I didn't have to like actually pull it out. I love that we didn't even put together the dots with that one. Thank you Amy for telling us that. We've been in so many projects though, like a series films. What do you miss like the sitcom life, because that is a good life. Oh I

love it. Yeah, yeah it was. I mean it was wonderful. It's like the so much fun to be in front of a live audience and um feel that energy, like that's my that's my favorite thing to do is his theater and doing a sitcom. It's kind of like like that you have a performance every week and it's really I do want miss it. Well, maybe I'll be back doing that. What do you have going on? Now? We should do a reboot of The Nanny? Why now she's the press. It in a sag and it's like you

hang out with me, You've become the president of Sack. Like, wow, I didn't connect those dots either. There you go. Yeah, the Colonel Tom, you were fascinating. Um wait, has there ever been talking of a reboot of The Nanny? Have you heard the work? Well? Um, I thought of a I thought of an idea, but I haven't you know, I've kind of put it on the back burner and stuff. Um, I don't tell us, we won't tell anyone nobody. Yeah, but I don't know. Maybe someday there I think that.

I think that maybe even in a different format, like kind of like a marvelous Mrs Maisel type of them, you know, format like a thirty minute um, single camera like for the for the reboot. But um just thought they did with Fresh Prince. That's what they're not like the dramatic. I was just gonna say heads up to you a little pre warning when you change the format and creativity a little too much. The fans just aren't

into it. We know that firsthand. Well, it would be great, and you should do that, and we're going to help put that out there because we would love to see it. Okay, Well I didn't really. I mean, you know, it's it's whatever, something I was working on. But I don't think. I'm I don't know, do it? Do it? Do it? I'm

a stuttering mess. Sometimes you're adorable. I could watch and listen to you forever, Like I love that you are still quirky and giggly and adorable and remind me of your third year old self, but a gorgeous woman bringing it out in me. I mean, it's it's like I'm stepped back into that little girl role. Well, on that note, can we play a game with you? Sure? We play this game with all of our guest stars. Um, it's

called Kiss Mary Kicked to the Curb. Now, this does not involve real actor, so you're not hurting our feelings. It's not us. Well obviously it's not us because you're going to pick the boys. Um, but yeah, or you might not, whatever you think, whatever you want. Who which character would you kiss, Which character would you marry? Which character would you kick to the curb? As you not a sue scandlin? Oh is me as you as a viewer? Oh gosh? Um, well I kiss Brian Austin Green because

he gets mad when you give him wetges. But I actually probably i'd probably kicked him to the curb. I'm so sorry that would stapped made a lasting impression on you. Yeah, wow, I would. I would kick him to the curb. Sorry, Brian, Um, I you know, do you love him? But um, I would probably kiss um? Oh god? Uh Dylan? No, no, no, yeah, Dylan, and then probably marry Brandon. Oh my gosh, solid answers. I'm trying to know what's going on for you now in like, what's up? Um? What are you focusing on?

I actually I just booked a movie, um that I'm gonna be shooting in March, which I'm really excited about, really fun character. Can you tell us anything? It's a comedy, a thriller and uh sort of a murder mystery too. Where can we see it? When can we see it? Um? I don't know. We're gonna be filming it and so then, um you know when and when it sells, you'll be able to watch it in the theater. So it's like an independent film. Yeah, I love it, very cool. It's um.

And then I did this other job last year, um, which I can't really talk about um, but it was the most stress I can't talk about it yet, but it was the most stressful thing I've ever done in my entire life. Was it a movie a TV show? It was a TV show? Oh, Now I really want to know. I know, like, okay, what do you know when it's coming out? I don't. They don't have a they don't have a set date. Okay, But why was it so stressful? Why was it so stressful? Was it

the content that was stressful or the experience experience? Because I had just like um, you know, with COVID and everything, and being away from people for so long, um, then suddenly being around people again, um without and we didn't you know, have to wear masks when we were working, and and just like it was just so um. It's so I was so happy to be like back, you know,

working with people and around people again. That but the situation that I was in, uh, it's like nothing I've ever I can't talk I can't talk about I can't talk about I love it. That's something that you can't talk about it really, Um, yes, sure I can talk about it when it when I can talk about it, okay, Oh my gosh, Okay, dying to know see you're lovely, You're so so talented, and I wanted to be nice to see you. Um. I wanted to talk about my outfits. No,

please please love a good fashion of it. Those Yeah, those outfits were really something. Did you have say in what they put in you on you? Or were you just like okay, no, Um, I really didn't. But um, I have always loved fashion like so much. Like I loved your baseball dress that you had on you and that was so cute. But um, one of the outfits that I really loved, um of Sue Scanlon's was this little vest um with the bra under it, with just

the bra. No. Yeah, And I told the wardrobe gals, I was like, I just I love this best so much. And they they're like, well, really cool. If you love it so much, you can have it. You have it. They give it to me. Oh my gosh, oh love. You are officially the best guest star we have ever had on the podcast. Look at you. Oh, I love it. You know it isn't cute, it's really cute. Um, it's so cute. Oh, my gosh, you have it. I love that so much. Of course I wouldn't. I would never

get rid of it. I mean it's my ston nest. I love it. So take you back to Sue Scanlon right now, back into the episode where Dylan is torn between uh e torm between Kelly and Brenda. We have to ask and you don't have to say it because Gen's here team Kelly or team Brenda. My gosh, I mean, this is reminding me a lot of Now. I don't know if you guys would think this not, but do you watch Euphoria. It's a little bit darker. Everyone. Everyone

on our instagram is saying this. Oh my god, Nicole, yes, okay, give your theory. But well it's sort of like, I mean, um, oh, oh, who is like, you know, oh with the cigarettes and stuff. Um, but hers is a little bit you know, darker of course, um and then um and then like I can't remember the names of the other people, but like Kelly uh with with Dylan, you know, she's just like a friend that's you know, cheated on her best friend's boyfriend. You know,

she's she's like Cassie, so okay. So it is kind of like everyone's like, oh, my gosh, who's na gonna choose? Is it gonna be Cassie or Maddie? But here we go, You're right, Dylan, Kelly or Brenda. My gosh, I have to watch you for you know, Oh my gosh. Everyone's like team Cassier, team Maddie. Whoa. But yeah, um, I think that personally, I think that I'm so sorry, but

I think that Dylan should be with Kelly. I love their connection and but Brenda, you know, and Dylan have a great thing going too, but he's being so like he's, you know, kissing on Brenda right in front of Kelly. It's all along. It's like psychological torture. Yeah, a nice guy, like exactly what Nate's doing in front of Yeah, with Maddie and Cassie. Oh my god, wait Amy, everyone's saying

like euphoria, they're like tying it together. So all over our Instagram, these comparisons are being drawn, and I'm so happy to pull brought it up because yeah, there's a lot of people that are really seeing these similarities, which is like quite a compliment to nine two one because Koria is like, I wish we had that makeup though,

oh my god, they're makeup. I guess like on points, it's so fun they'll be they'll be watching all of those episodes back like like and being like I did on camera, Like no, we have talked about how it is so extreme and racy, like imagine like nine two and l like we thought we were doing was pushing the envelope, which it was in terms of the storylines and everything, but having to do those scenes. So I need to watch you for it because I just don't

think she can handle it. I don't think we're all a little traumatized, like emotionally, Like imagine what you'd be like now if you had to do those scenes, like literally like half naked, doing like saying things like whoa, yeah, I don't think I can handle it. It's so cool. How do you look so young? Like oh my god, oh my god, thanks like you look. People need to go to our Instagram to see how gorgeous Nicole is. Anyway I put you know, I have a really great

moisturizer what to call perfect answer epiance. I love it anyway. Good to know you look amazing. Love talking to you. Thank you so much for coming on our show, and hopefully we can talk to you again about your big juicy secret about We would love to coming out. I would love to be back on you know, whenever you whenever you guys want me. Oh my gosh, like loved you back then and everything you did, but like, couldn't girl crush on you more right now? Honestly, thank you

to you some sweet to me. Everybody was like really nice to me on that show too well. Big love, big love to you. Bye to your brother and your sister, and best wishes to your mom. Thank you, Thank you so much. All right, take care, bye bye bye. Thanks so much for coming on with us, Nicole, And that's it for this week's episode. We will see you guys later