9021One on One: Kerrie Keane

just put ear muffs on and read our lips. Okay, So I guess I should wear ear muffs. Yeah, probably, Okay, Carrie, Hi, Oh you two beautiful girls looking. Oh it's so good. It's so nice to see you two. This is crazy. So much life has happened to the two of you, and I drive into you with everybody, but oh, oh my gosh, so many great things have happened for both of you, and you look like kids. Still. I still think he was, you know, young twenty year olds. Oh

what we wish? Thank you, thank you for inviting me, for coming on. You were such a huge part of our journey in our history. Yeah, you came in hot and had I had a part that I didn't realize I was playing. No, Dallas, Oh no, you did not know. They never told me that I was anything other than the mother of Luke's sister, and I'd had an affair with Luke's father and this was the result. I thought it was just a little bit down and up looking

for a job at the peach pit. But I honestly say, till they gave me that last script, that it was I was a con artist. So the fact is that I said to them I would have played it exactly the same if I was a great con artists And they would never tell me to this day they won because I saw them recently. They won't tell me whether they had actually planned that from the beginning, or that they had sort of decided as the script developed that I would be trying to steal looks money. We were

hoping you would tell us, because we don't know. In fact, we didn't know until you just told us. I'm just spoiler. I don't know. My guess is that the script developed into that, because I don't know how far in advance. But what was it. I did twelve of those, so my team I'm just going to guess that it was great anyhow, because not knowing I played a great conn artist. I mean, I can see, on one hand if they were savvy enough to not tell you going in to

maybe shade your performance a certain way to their advantage. However, it's hard for me to give them that credit. Yeah, but I could be wrong. I could be wrong, But it just really does feel like it unraveled in a way that nobody knew was going to happen. Yes, well, that's what a good con would be, so that the audience wouldn't have a clue, same as me. But I think that's the perfect con, is that whether they decided I just wasn't capable of playing the con woman, I

don't know. I'm irritated. There's part of me that's a little irritated by that. Wait, they won't. They wouldn't tell you even today. No, because I did a podcast a couple of years ago, and I think I mentioned it at that time, but they just thought it was funny that I didn't know. But no, I don't think they knew, and they didn't want to say, like like, of course we had it planned out, but then they didn't want to say that either, so like it didn't matter. I

had such a good time with you. The fact is the whole cast was so welcoming to me and too. I'm sure Nollie and David. You were just Darlin's and so busy at that time, so unbelievably famous and dealing with all that celebrity, and still took the time to be as sweet as pot. I mean, it was just delightful people. And I mean most of my work was with Luke, and of course I just fell in love

like everybody else and Captain. I mean, life is so busy that we try to keep in touch with all of the people, even by just knowing what's going on with them, right, pretty hard. We meet a lot of people people, but some people, there's some people that they find a place, yeah, and Luke was definitely one of those for so many people. Do you know that I

still have a card for Luke. Then I never got a chance to give him because he had a pot bellied pig at the time we were and it's hard to this day where the pig is flying through the air into the and I was going to give it to and I keep it in my collection of things but you know what it's. It's it's just so great to have had all of you in my life, but to have met Luke into um life is really isn't it? About all of it? Whether it's a sadness, a grief, a joy, you just and you just wrap it around

you and carry it with you. Yeah, what else can you do? I mean you were the best. I just had such a lovely time with all of them. Yes, great memories working with you. You were always What episode are you are you playing today? We just watched episode from season four. Episode it's called sixteen, I think sixteen. It's the one where you decide to leave your daughter

with her new brother and go back. You just met the hymn and you say, oh, I'm gonna I have to go back home and square something away, and you leave her with him, which are for your social security number for his business man, and then you freak out that he wanted your social security number, got it, But then Erica goes into your wallet and steals it and gives it to him, and that's how it's left. So that's where we are. We He's going to find out

something about you. I've even I've even forgotten some of the details of each of the episodes. But I I, it's so funny. At this point in my career, I look back and I don't remember doing that or that or that. And then when I watch it sometimes, because you know, television now is like gobbling up everything. There's so much room for everything that every so off. My husband, will y'all, oh, Carr the world? Who is that? Who?

I don't remember doing that? You and Nlie that played your daughter, You guys were such just a pair of love bugs. I just remember when you guys were ones. I honestly, in my young mind remember you guys being actual mother and daughter to me. And and every time I watched the show now with these two characters, I believe that you're related. The casting so good. Oh, I'm so pleased to hear that I'm one of those actors.

I first of all, I love working with children, and I love working with animals, and I love working in bad weather because somehow it just takes you out of yourself completely. You're dealing with either the beautiful animal. I was in Australia and I had to work with a koala bear that I had in my arms. Oh, thank well to me the Koala Bear was star so we took all the pressure off of me. Yeah. I feel the same way with children. I just absolutely love working with kids. You can tell I don't have any o

my own. And maybe that's it, you know, because I just love the opportunity of playing that. But you did. You girls are mothers, if I'm not mistaken, right from our bellies? Eight between us? You have eight children between you? Yeah, my mouth drops. Man, I don't know how you do ours too and keep up such wonderful careers, et cetera. Cheez. Well, we women can do it all, no matter what is thrown at us, we deal with We can do it.

We absolutely do it. Go forward. If you're also create If you're creative women, you also have to create something or you'll implode. You'll just drivel up and die right creating something? I'm not a happy person. Did you audition for this part? Were you offered the part? How did it come about Glory's spelling your dad? First of all, I did a wonderful pilot called Divided We Stand with Aaron Spelling and that one, Oh my gosh, I mean

he had his fingers crossed for that one. But it was at the time that ABC and he not okay being id, let's put it that way, but we thought we were on the schedule and it was remember with Seth Green, and it was divided into a half an hour with the father and a half an hour with the mother, and Seth had just come off of radio days and then Seth as a little boy would look in the camera and talk to the audience about divorced parents. It was half and half. That's brilliant. I want to

watch that. No doubt my dad created it, but I'm just saying Dad, then it was he said to me, actually he said, this is my heart and soul is in And we was heartbroken because it wasn't picked a great idea. But so when it came then I did a couple of other things for him. And then when nine o two one Old came up, I think I met with he and Duke, but I don't think it

was really an audition. And then after nine o two and oh, I did a couple of students on Pacific Palisades seven seven, Your dad, And I mean, I owe him such a lot, I really do, because he treated casts like gold. At least my experience was he treated us like gold and I just adored working with those two gentlemen there, they could say, just brought out the best in me. So there you go. I have pretty good memories of you guys. Do you do you get

recognized for your role on Beverly Hills nine twenty. I mean I was sort of recognized before that for my work on series, but nine O two and oh was a whole other sensation. Differently, I remember going to the mall one day and all of a sudden, I had these kids all over me, and wow, I mean that was a whole other thing, and it was so much fun because then I kind of got an inkling of what you guys were going through in a in an

enormous way. So yeah, I sure did get recognized. And my niece, it's the only thing in my whole career that she's recognized as being the epitome of my career, the fact because she's never missed an episode. Now she's forty with her own baby and she looks for reruns. Tell her, Hie, it was like for Nolie just because she was so young and people a being Dylan's sister.

Oh my gosh, Throb of the show. What was it like which do you remember what she would say, like when she would start to get recognized, when she would come to work and tell you or I think, you know, when you shoot something, it takes a while to get on air, So I think by the truth, you know, because well we were just oh my goodness, do you remember when there was two studios and we were shooting two at the same time, double ups yea, and the lady was going just trying to get us the right costumes.

So there's very little time to chat other than about what the scenes were about in the story. And so at the time, I don't think either of us really realized that we would be caught up in any way at all. I mean certainly didn't realize that you were going to become this crazy con artist that destroys Dylan's life or tries to. I wonder my life wasn't written. I just shitty Cavendish because we because like we told you, were watching back from the beginning. We're on season four.

This is when you come in and I have no I don't know what's going to happen because while we were in it were I was never watching it. I didn't read every other body else's parts. You know, wasn't that like good at that point? But now just reading this and seeing that you what your character does in the show, I'm like flabbergasted. Well, yeah, so what's I But it was fun. I mean, I don't feel anything about it other than just fun. I just I just love terms and twists like that. What a good one.

I mean, my favorite thing is I'm nypd blew. At the end of that, Dennis friends said to me, don't be surprised if they throw out the script. And indeed, I write the first day and they basically threw out the script. Really yeah, and day after day we would meet talk a little bit about what should happen in the scenes and jump and my background with some improv and just my love of being in the moment and that spontaneous thing. I just had a ball because I

found fun. Vaguely about the story, but basically, no, just say what you need to say as the character that anything gone at me is my best. That's my favorite thing. Where are you now? Where are you up to now? I'm very curious. Where are you? My goodness, are you back in Canada? Are you you were still wonderfully in the land of movies of the week, you know, during nine or two, no One and after so I did many roles, including a wonderful one with m and Margaret.

You meet these fabulous people, and so I kept up that and guest starring. But I founded White Clo Theater Company and I started directing producing for six years. WHOA. It's just consumed me, and it was something I'd always wanted to do, was direct in theater. So that consumed me.

And out of that came a group of actors that I bring together every Wednesday night, and it's mostly for working actors, and I coached them and I've developed a class that I wish had been around when I was a young kid, because we thought of the physical breathing and all of that, and then we go into audition technique, which nowadays is on camera self different. Oh it's so different. And then we do see studies, so it's all in one. So it's a really intense Wednesday night. So that was fun.

I've been doing a lot of writing, so I have a script that I've been working on, so it's ready to go. Getting anybody to read it in this town is an a low story, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and then I'm waiting for something called sweet de quarantine lac mine, which in English means something like being It's really about being stuck in the quarantine of COVID and how relationships either survived or didn't. And so that's the

cool fun. And the last couple of rules I've done have been comedy and oh my goodness, so much fun. I just love, you know, I just love any of it, and I am so grateful and joyful that at this point in my life, I still love this craft. I love it with all my soul, and I have I can you know, people talk about the industry, but I can't. I can't even remember really bad experiences. Maybe a few that weren't ideal, but in most cases I've just met

fabulous people. Such a fun journey. We've all gone to be on people in this career, and all of a sudden light life hands you things that kind of knock you on your butt from and then you you kind of have to summon that creative energy and then you look back and you go, ah, still there, I still got it. That is the one thing that acting teaches us because we go on auditions and we're like this is it. I'm gonna get it and boom, you don't get it. So it knocks you down, you get back up,

and you have to apply that to life. So it's already ingrained in us. So naturally in life, nothing, you know, everything knocks us down and we get back up again. That's a song, isn't it. Wait? What part of Canada? Are you from? Little towns around Toronto? And then I spent some time in Toronto in my early acting days, and then I moved here in nineteen eighty four with my fingers crossed because I didn't have anything. I mean,

I had no sort of fidential or anything. And the first audition Burt Medcalf, who was one of the producer mash he took me under his wing because he had worked with me up in Canada, and he got me a great agent, Roe Diamond. I still have her, and he sort of helped me through. And the first audition audition I got, they were looking for a Greek woman and I never My agent said can you play that?

And I said yes, of course, right. I stayed up all night and watched Zorba the Greek my body and I kind of walked in the room and they were wonderful. It was Don Brinkley and he said, well, great, you start next week. And I said, well, there's just one little catch. I don't have any permit to work here. They walked me across the Fox lot to the legal department, got permit. My first audition in America. I was that's my favorite story, because that's a great story. Woman. It

was just the timing of it. That's what happened today, No, what happened today, but wow, so many things couldn't happen today that we're just part of the fun of it. Back then you're just you know, being in that's a whole an auditioning with a director unheard of now unheard. So your class is still going, yeah, and it's really

I think people join or yeah, well coaching. Coaching is um and I do a small class because I want to do it once a week and it's for working actors and it's really more coaching the individuals with their particular challenge because I don't know about you girls, but I still as an actress, almost always can identify a challenge that's always been with me. So with these actors, that's what we're working on. His ways of getting that

challenge U taken care of. Wow, see you next week then, I mean, anybody listening out there, if you need this is the real You are the real deal. Like your love for your craft and your passion for what you do is just palpable and it's inspirational. So anybody out there I feel like would benefit so much from working with you. How can they find you? Mostly? You know what, I haven't advertised the class. I don't have a website about it. It's really word of mouth, so believe it

or not. People just recommend and but let me see, not wanting to give up my phone number to like the world. Do you have a website and don't? I don't at all, but you know what they do? You have an Instagram? No, I'm not on social. Every time you open your mouth more and more. Now this is crazy. I can't give out your number, but people find eight and Instagram just quickly, so people can slide into your DMS if they want to reach you. Find Kerry Keen.

You won't regret it. My actors have been coaxing me for years because I've been doing this. Now you have to post. I'll just get them to do something and so remember Kerry Keen and I'll try to do something that that that they can slot into. Yes, Kerry ke k r R I E E K e A and there you go. There they will find you. Yes, they want you two girls. I'm just remarking the experiences and lives you've pad since I last saw you, and you are not You have not aged, and you are more beautiful.

Women can get more beautiful. And I think you've land and the way you've landed on your feet each time and come up. Uh, you are gorgeous girls and your spirits are so alive. Yeah. That privileged to talk to you so much to us. Really, we've loved getting to see you again. It's been a blessing. Thank you for coming on our show. You're a beautiful inside. And now Kerrie Keane, Wow, you stay well As adults now, it's so it's so different. We talked about this often putting

into perspective. We were young girls in our own heads, doing our own thing, and it's nice to come back and kind of re meet people that we've worked with, but now as adults and we appreciate them in such a different way. Oh, I bet, because I think I feel the same as I meet these what I think of as kids, and then I meet them and they've lived. I just love doing that. I love re meeting. Yeah, well we will meet again, hopefully, I would love we love you, be well, thank you. Such a nice like

light just emanating from her. There's something about her that makes me it's hard for me to even really want to be an actress like she. She reignites that like love and appreciation for the craft that we get to do. You know, she's so into it. That was great. Yeah, what a neat lady. Well, I hope you guys like that interview. Her character goes on to do some major damage. We see it, but we don't. We don't remember exactly what happened. I don't know. It's not good, but we

want to see. We're excited, so stay tuned.