Drama Queens Live II with Bryan Greenberg

for our second John M. Queens Live event. You guys. Um, I'm just like looking at my phone here. We have so many people joining us today, so stoked, so like excited, a big big deals us. Let's talk about it. It's coming back and it keeps coming back accidentally, like the fact that our New York Times article came out on the three when we were on the set of Good Sam filming, and we none of us knew it was coming out that day. We just like suddenly are starting

up weird text. It was so wild and we were like, wow, wasn't it crazy that we're together on the first twenty three of the year. And then an hour later our

article came out and we were like, what's happening? And then they announced our episode was airing today and we were like, on my treeting there really which is a double whammy because it's three twenty three, so we've got both boys basketball jerseys covered here, um, and our fan base has been so cool, like we've seen like twenty three tattoos on people and they're the ones that give us a big heads up whenever anything twenty three is happening.

I should get a twenty three tattoo at this point, right, are you gonna do it? I feel like we need some kind of a tattoo, you guys, we do. Did we ever get fan art for the idea? Were we talking about this on the show? Yes, guys, yeah, anyone who's with us tonight. We love seeing your art and the drawings that you've made. I mean, send us ideas for tattoos we might join. Are people disappointed when they find out you don't really have the twenty three tattoos.

I've definitely had some fans to be like, I want to see it. I'm like, first of all, I'm not gonna put my pants out for you, but second of all, but you got first at least, but second of all, no, I I don't I didn't actually get that tattoo, But I don't know. Maybe it might be fun. Maybe I'll get one somewhere, little three on my shoulder or something. It feels like it's about time. Well, we just surpass this like major major milestone with our podcast, Little engine

that could you want to walk us through with? Sophia wanted to tell us what we've won again, We're paying attention. The signs are coming for us. Um just was it last week or the week before? Now? Time literally as this episode is area. Yeah, we we got the news that we crossed twenty three million worlds of drama queens. Ye, my daughter embarrassed when I do that, Mom, I used to do that's my mom? What I mean? What do

we what do we want? But seriously, like all of this lining up to have twenty three million people listening to our podcast, we were marveling when the what is it called the list I guess for like most popular podcasts in the top five it's US and then four true crime shows and we were nostalgia into the murder room. We like it sometimes, I like our show is like true crime going on that we're just crimes of the players, true crime and romantic comedy at the same time in

the later season. It's a genre. There's a genre there. Hey, Hillary, will you talk a bit about the charity that we are sponsoring tonight, because I know that you have a lot of experience being from you said, you're from a Chapter one high school, and you know, having the experience of kids being uh not unable to play sports because of finances, so I know you have experienced. Well, this

was actually Joy's idea. She brought this to the table and we all jumped on it because high school sports is such a big part of one Tree Hills narrative. You know, we spent so much time in that jam and supporting real high school kids is important to us. So Good Sports is our charity partner tonight. They drive equitable access in youth sports and physical activity by supporting children in high need communities to achieve their greatest potential on the field and in life, because we know that

they're connected. The benefits of sports and physical activity in a child's life are very well documented, and Good Sports exist to make sure cost does not keep kids on the bench. So, like Joyce said, I went to a title one high school. We leveled the playing field by getting lots of donations for them through my charity, UM High School Forever that we raised winning for Park Few High School and all of a sudden, you guys, once we gave them money, my kids are winning everything. Really,

this is awesome, school Lady Patriots are killing it. Um. Yeah, it's it's a good feeling to be able to level the playing field. So thank you guys at home for helping us do that tonight. Yeah, so many young people don't have a talent gap, they have a resource gap. And where we can fill that gap, and the three of us can take a legacy of a show that was about you know, small town kids playing for their home team and do something for kids around the country.

It's really really meeting full. So you know, we're probably gonna thank you all for being here a lot tonight. Thank you for helping us use this community and like this fierce amount of love we have for each other to raise funds for people who need it. It's really meaningful to usk that this that this fam has been able to turn into a positive force in the world. So thank you. Absolutely should we toast to that should

we we should we have something special to toast with. Um. Thanks, friends at home, if you have some whiskey, especially if you have some Johnny Walker or Jane Oh, I have a display back here with a crown. Um, I'm gonna lead us through a little uh adventure, a little cocktail. It's gonna be like those YouTube unboxing video unboxing video from Blue Nile, by the way, that that's what you Okay, we're guys. Can I also just tell you a funny. So I'm working on my show in Canada and you

can hear Jason Isaacs and plays. My father is screaming with the rest of my cast in the other room because we're gathered to watch this. They're watching us on a laptop downstairs. Our friends at Johnny Walker sent us Black Label to say congrats on twenty three million views. You guys got the cocktail, kids, all I got was the whiskey because customs wouldn't let me have the rest. But it wouldn't see the best part. Can't send fruit

across an international border. So yeah, that's weird. I'm just gonna have you, okay, so listen, It's just an ounce and a half. Okay, get your highball glass. Anybody had almost got a highball glass. Give me some ice, okay, you know, like I brought up plastic three four, you know the ice there. Okay, a little bit of ice. Alright, we're gonna do an ounce and a half. Here we go. I can't pour and hold it up in front of here we go. Looks, that's the big end of the

little end. The big end is two ounces. So fill either the big end up a little less or the second the small end up a time and a half. We're still the big end up all the way. It's late where we are, Joy, it's not a clock where we are a baby. Um all right, so yeah, next is here. We got get some guava. I want that. Guava is known to have benefits for your skin. Oh oh my gosh. Shoot uh, guys, I just so sorry. It's just spilled everywhere my parents house. That's why they're

your friends. Joy, they're using anyway, we're tapping this off. Okay, guava juice. I have sparkling water. Appropriately it's Canada dry, so I'm gonna make um. That's actually really good. I would not have expected to put those two together and enjoyed it. But it's really good. I'm so sorry. John M. Queen's nice guys, hi friends and his wife Flaora's house and the cheers to you guys thinks are girl? Oh yeah, pleasure.

I'm sorry. It's fine, but maybe just really likes this is very haly of you right now to just like and you know what, the last time we were together, you made such an elegant cocktail. God doesn't give with both hands. If you do a really great thing, then you have to be a mess just to balance the university.

It feels right. Okay, what are we cheersing to? What's happened over the course of the last twenty three million downloads that we want to cheers to and want you We have learned so much about each other and from each other and about ourselves through this experience. I'm so proud to be your friends. I'm so proud of all of our fans for going on this journey with us, with the ups and downs. I hope you guys all stick with us. We are nowhere near done. Just hang on.

I love it. Yes, Okay, we have someone that a lot of the fans want to talk about. Maybe they want to talk to this person. What do you think should we should we bring our friend in? Our friend? That was me, that was my drunk winking Okay, bring the mad ladies into my God, Ryan Greenberg, why are you so handsome? Girl? Oh my gosh, you're better looking now than you were then, if that's possible. Moored, Yeah, where are you? I'm in l A. I'm home. Really?

Whose dog is that? This is my friend's dog. This is Lyla the dog. She always wants to be where the action is. I got a cold. My daughter had a cold, and then she was like, well me, can I sleep in your bed? Yeah? That's about now. Why do you look well? Arrested, Brian? You're not exausted. I have twins. I'm not sleeping. It's good though, let's get into that. I mean we Uh, why didn't I what's going on here? Why? What's going on? We're gonna We're

gonna fix that. I'm wanna be home in a week and I'm personally going to deliver a bottle of whiskey right now. Wouldn't even I'm so game to do it. Um, look on over you day on this freaking show and now your dad in real life. It's crazy. You were surprisingly good at it though, like in our early twenties, what was your baby experience up until our show? My baby experience until I had kids was only playing Jake on What Your Hill? No, yeah, I don't. I don't.

Like my sister doesn't have any kids. I just around kids. And you were so natural just with baby Jenny. You were so natural with her. Well let's let the audience know there were like four Baby Jenny's so when we come in. But the guitar thing really helped, Like that was they that would relax them. And now I do that with my kids too. It's kind of you do what you say. Yes, at least it's finally no one song still repeat. Um, I don't know, explain what right?

And mostly my stuff that's the only things I can remember. Okay, so talk to us a little bit about when we first started doing the show. Wow, okay, you get the message you've got to play basketball? Um? Right? Did you play? I thought I could play? And uh, I mean I played like pick up and stuff, and I was like, yeah, I played basketball, like I could shoot around, I know how to dribble a ball, but like that's as close

to playing real basketball is I'll ever get. Uh, and once I got to like once Your Hill and they were doing practices and I was like, James was dunking. I was way out of my league, but you know was it was. It also a little intimidating for them to be like, hey, go play basketball with all these people who do it every day, and you're going to be the guy who plays in Chuck Taylor's right, you

play in converse. I can't remember if that was my idea or marsh idea, I can't remember, but I think there was just something like there was like an old soul to Jake and and you know he was like he was at you know, yeah, he was like a throwback. Do you regret that decision later? Oh? Yeah? That hurt. Yeah, because we had really long I mean we've talked about this on our show. We had the basketball days were the most brutal because they were just epic. Everyone was

there all day long. You never knew when you were needed. You were always like on what do you remember about shooting those basketball days? Like I said, that's as close as I'm gonna ever get to playing real sports. So it was really fun for me because I got to look good and they drew place for us. Um. I

do remember one time I was doing it. We were doing a play and I remember Chad like I was supposed to like get out of the way, and I think he forgot and I like came down on him and I broke I broke a I remember, who's rid my rib? I think I came down on him like he was supposed to move, but he didn't move. It was like a little mix up that happens. But I was like, I remember that vividly. Um, but how long does it take to heal from a broken rib? As?

You can't? You just gotta you just gotta let it heal. There's nothing you can do about it. So that soulful like Jake squinteen was just Greenberg like in pain, like he focusing. Um, But no, I mean that was probably I played it so much basketball because we all became friends, like all the guys on the team, and we'd all play outside of shooting and stuff, so like we do practices NonStop, and I mean it wasn't That's all we did down there was played basketball and shoot the show.

What were you laying high school? For real? Like? Who who was Brian Greenberg class of What were you class A nineties seven. Yeah, I was the guy who was kind of like I didn't have a crew or a click. I could kind of be with anybody. I had a lot of friends, but I didn't have like my own click. Like I was in theater, I'd like I played the cross. Um you know, yeah, big public school in San Louis Parkway Central. Shout out, um, shout out our high schools

on this one, shout out. So wait, you did theater in high school? Were you like a musical boy? Did you do Greece? I feel like everybody were you naked or were you? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah yeah? And then I did Oklahoma? Oh my god. Yeah. I mean you do musicals in high school because most are the only plays that you do in high school, so you just kind of do it by the fault. But theater, nerd, did you fall in love with all your co stars?

And because theater is like such an intense on top of each other experience, I would always fall in love with my coasts and then you know it's like over three months later, like what did did you have that experience just with you three? Oh my god, Bryan Greenberg, you are such a flirt and I can't stand you. Um well, here's the deal. I catch so much on the internet because all I do is rape about Jake and Peyton. I'm like, I, guys, I blush. I can't even.

Like we watched these scenes back and you're so smooth and you're so good at it, and we're all just like dorky giddy girls, and the fans were like, Okay, Hillary, that's enough. I'm gonna make a confession that I actually haven't gone back and watched any of these episodes, so it feels like such a long time ago. But what I do remember is like we had crazy good chemistry,

right see um it. You know, we all remember the show, but not the episode specifically, and when the three of us have gone back a lot, like I feel like in every video where there's a payment Jake scene, I'm just like this. I'm like, I can't even. I can't. I'm so red. My face is sweating. It's I didn't. We're also like what this is? Cleol, Like I remember we think I went forward. I was like shirt Saw,

I was like, what is this? You were older? You were older than us, which is probably why you played, you know, such a mature high schooler. But did you feel like when you came in, um, did you feel like you were kind of on the same level or did you feel like you you were watching um, you know, kind of all like no, no, I mean like eure up here with your talent and you understanding you guys. I felt like, oh, you're all serious regulars and I'm just kind of here guest starring. I'm not really sure

where I fit in. But you guys were so cool and you to here's so humble and sweet. My other job, Clooney were something, how's that going for you? They're cool, Well, you're making a movie with Meryl Streep and great, it's so weird. It leveled jumps so quick, right Like I was like trying to be a series regular on One Tree Hill. I was dying to be a series regular and like for the first season, and they were kind of like, I don't know, maybe there's a big cast

and just get in line, all right. Well, I really loved the show and I loved the role and um, and then I got this other thing called Unscripted, which is an HBO show with George Clooney and uh, and I was like, I want to take this and then I was like, well, well now we want you. And I was like, well it's not that works. But I was like too late, you know so, But but we worked it out so we could I could keep coming back.

And I know even after I did Prime, I'd like I kept coming back and kept coming back, like seasons. I think, what do you think made you want to keep coming back? I just I mean the show, like it was a really special show those first I only know the early one three Hill Like, I don't know what happened later on um because there's like a whole cast of characters that I never have never even met.

But I just felt like we had something special. And I love the character and I love working with all of you, and I don't know, I just felt like we were onto something. I didn't want to let it go. And it was such a cool, like a rich character that I love playing. In the fans we're really responded to it too, so I wanted to give them, you know,

a full arc. They did. And you always had such a maturity about you anyway, I think that's what I mean, Like we were all sort of fumbling around as young kids, and you felt there was something about you that felt like mature and like you had seen more than we had seen in life, and like, I don't know, did you do you remember graduated college? Brian? I knew I had been on a few sets. Well maybe I did a movie before. That was kind of like why I had like the seniority or the experience, but I didn't

do I was never on like a real show. That was like I think my first recurring character. So I mean I was just you guys, like I didn't know what. We had fun though, I mean we got to do fun outside of the show too, Like there was a period where MTV had you and I host a Valentine's Day special because like Peyton and Jake were like hot and heavy at the time, and I was like, I feel like I got photo booth pictures to say, I had that on my fridge for like years. The photo

you did, Yeah, I don't know where they are. Those We had to have fun. And then Brian had this pack of buddies from n y U and anytime we all had to go do press in New York, I was like yo yo, and I just used him to like, yeah, we wanted a lot. Actually during those days, you had fun friends there still fun. Actually they're not funny now, Brian, We're not fun anymore. It's a memory. What's your favorite memory of just like hanging out in Wilmington's what was Yeah,

that's what I want to know. What are your favorite places? Oh, man, I don't know. I remember going to that Dixie Diner a lot back. Yeah. Yeah, then yeah, I remember everyone. You bought a house and you gave me a tour of it for the first time, and I just remember so much taxidermy. Oh yeah, really dark well paint and so much I got you. Oh my god. Joy just bought me a book on taxidermy called Creepy Taxidermy, and my kids are Um, you guys, I go through phases.

I was in dark You're not still in the taxidermy phase. No, I mean I still have all of it and more. Um. I just have like two kids in the house, so

I try not to creep him out. Um. We told my story on the podcast, Bryan about you leaving your guitar at my house away for the time being like what the this and coming in out of town and I didn't want to travel with the guitar and I was like kind of yeah, and you were the dude everybody's boyfriend hated you because they were like this dude coming in singing the songs, being cool, your boyfriend who was part on the crew as well. Yeah, yeah, it

was around we had to do those love making scenes. Yeah, that was one for everyone that was awkward. That the worst was always there was no Hillary was right. You were the guy who all the other guys were really mad about, and like what you were saying earlier that we all don't know. We responded to your calm and you're cool, and even if it was one movie, you really seemed like you knew what you were doing in the industry, and we were all like a little fumbling.

Like every time you would like tell one of us we've done a good job on something, we'd be like Brian said, I do a good job. Yeah, growing I feel like I feel like I've figured something out, And all the other guys in the room were just like,

shut up, we're not. We still haven't. I think like you, you were all stuck in this bubble of being series regulars, and I had I could come in and give some perspective because I would pop in and pop out like I was never there for too long, and so I kind of came in and I got to like change up the energy a little bit and just like you know, just kind of clean the palette a little bit, and then i'd be out um when I come back from my guitar. But I don't know memories. We just remember

we all hung out all the time. It was so much fun. How many anythings did you do? Uh? I remember I did? I think on Off for the first three seasons, and I didn't do the pilot like I came in the second episode. Yeah, we talked about all the time, how your real life lucas introspect, you know, just like introspective and like you know, problems over where

are you coming and going and coming and going? Was that you were actually playing music like you started playing music on the show the season two or season three. You can't remember what we were doing those shows together. We would go on tour and we played a show together. That was a highlight for me. Just doing all those concerts and let Us Brian Us two were blues and all that stuff and was so much fun. Did we never did a song together? Did we? I don't know

if we did. I mean I remember going to see you perform Cafe that but that was just your show. Yeah, and I think we did a House of Blues gig. It's never too late hey you. In fact, it's exactly that voice back. Let's talk right, it's coming back. Why are you still performing? What's going on? COVID kind of made concerts a weird thing, but I haven't. Yeah, since COVID, I haven't. I did like some online stuff, but I

haven't really been playing stuff from my kids. I've been working more on you know, writing, and I'm you know, I have been you know, acting, and I'm about to direct the movie that I wrote, which I'm really excait. Is about energy is like going towards that. Yeah, it's hard to do, and music does take a lot out

of you. And me had seasons where I'm writing furiously, and then I'll go for like a two or three year stretch where I'm not writing anything musically because all my creative energy is focused on a story or some other project that I'm doing. It's just because a song will I mean, I don't know how you write, but for me, a song will live with I'll start it and it lives with me for like a week, two weeks three weeks, I can kind of piece it all the other You're walking or whatever, I mean, what do

you do? Every song is different, but I remember, like someday, for example, I remember I Was I Was, which was on the show UM featured on the show. I remember I went to New York to do some press for something, and the producer for Once Your Hill was like, you have to shoot the next day. You have to fly back in. And there was a huge snowstorm in New York and I couldn't come back in, and so he's like, you gotta drive. I'm like, I'm not dying. I'm not dying for the show, but I mean I'll try. I'll

do whatever I can. I like the show theren But so I took a train and I had like a fifteen hour train ride from from New York to UH to Raleigh actually, and I just remember writing it on that train, just seeing you know, the state's go blind. It sounds so clear, and I just kind of started writing it and I had the song in my head when I got to the hotel, and like it all came out. UM. I vividly remember that. I still think that's one of the better songs I've ever written, and

I remember that the process that vividly. I felt so cool. But yeah, I don't know. I just feel like I only have so much creative energy and I right now I just kind of put it in a different place. But I still love music. It's still there and it's a huge party. Father was a new parent though, too. I mean that the Lions share. George just turned four, and I just feel like I'm sort of getting like together. I'm like a four year, four year gap. My man, it's gonna be so You're gonna have gray hair like

me in four years. Right now whatever? Right now, you still look exactly like you did fifteen years ago. I had two different looks, like that was the first season like hair bangs, Oh the bangs. We all had puka shells in season one with your jeans, and so did we. Honestly, I'm calling myself out here too. It's like it's all coming back to that, Hey made your wife is such a good sport. Um she Jamie is an amazing actress in her own right and has like a brilliant career.

And I have always appreciated that she's a fellow MTV girl. You know, she probably hears about Jake jagel Ski more than she wants to. Um, I don't like hearing about my husband. She like, I don't hear about Denny. Is

she a good sport about it? Is? She like? But she's also kind of like what like shes At some point, I think she's gonna watch it because she's just heard about it so much and people it's it's the craziest thing that I've done a lot of work, but this show is it has an audience like no other, And it doesn't matter where are we going the world. That could be in Brazil and France wherever. Like people are coming up and then saying Jake, Jake Elsie and she's

just never seen it. And I think one of these days was just gonna cave and I watch it. Do you have anywhere else here? I haven't seen it since it aired. Oh yeah, you guys should watch it together some distance from it too, So I think it's just interesting to watch. That's why we started this podcast. Man. We were like, why is it so special? And the first episode we watched together, we were all bawling. By

the end. We were like, oh no, you've all working on a bunch of stuff like why do you think this show connects with an audience so much all these years later, Because it's the thing that airs when you're forming your identity. I think we all identify with things we watched when we were teenagers or young adults, because you're formulating your identity at the same time, these characters are also being formulated, and there's a bond there, you know.

I don't connect with characters now as a grown up. I'm like Nietz, you know. But that thing that you watch when you're like malleable is important. I think there's also something to it, you know. I think Joy you might have been the first person who said this, Like there was no fantasy, There was no like gimmick, No one's a superhero, no one's a vampire, no one's awarewolf.

We all like those movies, but it was like kind of the last best place to go to just see groups of friends trying to figure out how to be good humans, pre social media, pre iPhone, you know, like just a group of kids trying to find their posts in the world. And that's a universal truth. And so I think despite having since yeah, and despite the premiered so long ago, still ring so true when you tune in and you watch, you go like, oh yeah, that

that's telling the truth to me. Well, I think it's interesting, is you know, we're seeing a whole second generation discovering it now. Like now it's like it's crazy how it's got a whole other life. Yeah. I think it's like ironic to them in the same way, you know what I mean, not really watching it like enthusiastically, they're like just watching but it may have started that way, but there's no denying that you fall in love with these characters.

So even if it's like, oh, this will be cool and retro to watch, the fact is there's nothing like it on television right now for teenagers. Everything is high genre driven and to be able to give teenagers a safe space. Might I have a little brother who's twenty, and he texted me the other day, what were the nineties? Like, what was it like in the late nineties? Wow? So before so also life like before a cell phone, you know. Yeah, and it's it's it's cool that they're interest it in

that because it was a very different time. Yeah. Yeah. Where would where would Jake Jakalski be right now? Babe? Like, what's Jake? What what hasn't been up to the road, do you think, well, because now, yeah, he's probably like maybe he's um, maybe he's like what Verry was like. He maybe he's like the new coach, like the new the new gratchy coach, drinking real heavily. That's what he

wants to be too. So I would be really into a sports team run by skills in Jake JASKI gotta be honest good Yeah, yeah, I mean like rival rival teams that were going at it that could be good. I don't know, what do you think. I have no idea, like Jake could be or he could be you know, Jack Dorsey. I mean he's like you don't he's so he's so random. You know, he is so random because I completely forgot about the storyline down the road where like Jake gets arrested and goes to jail. What guys,

it's coming. Was like pounding on the glass. You and I had our hands up on the glass each other. Yeah, it was what you say. It was all to protect Jenny. Yeah, okay, yeah, right. You know you were mentioning that there's fans all over the world of this show. No matter where you go, people recognize you. Are there any specific fan encounters that you remember that we're like either really meaningful or really crazy or I don't know, what's just like, I mean,

it happens a lot with this show. Um as. I'm sure you guys all know, but um, I mean I was in Paris last year, by the way, it's huge in France. Me. Yeah, more interested in front of um I know. Um but like suddenly came up to me and they're like like, oh, you play basketball And I'm like what, And I'm like, yeah, I mean I have in the past. I don't like yeah, but with Scott's and I'm like, what you know with the Scots, I was like, oh yeah, I didn't know that. It was

like it had another name out there. It's like, yeah, I had no idea what they were saying. So it took a little while, but um, yeah, it's huge, it's crazy. Yeah,

what about you. I don't know what we got. We got reminded today people were talking about being so excited for this and they posted a bunch of photos from the last convention that you and I and Hillary brab Ban the One and Willing to Enjoy You were working, so you remember you couldn't be there, but people were posting those photos we all took together and and someone posted the video of the girls who got engaged that we helped with Hill the photo for a fan and

the whole thing was a ruse and they were video cameras going and her girlfriend set it up and we literally were like holding her up when she almost fainted from the surprise of being proposed. We were just like, this is a very intimate special moment for us Mut's pay pictures. People do they really feel like the show is like these characters meet so much to them and you guys, I went to go see Greenberg play in Vancouver right after I left the show. So I left

the show. I went and I had a secret baby. Gus was a year old. So One Tree Hill was still on the air but we weren't on it, and Jeff was shooting a movie to Vancouver and Greenberg is like, hey, I'm in town right maybe I saw a flyer and I was like, are you here? And so I went to go see Greenberg and all the girls in the audience are like on the baby with you know. I had my Gus in like a Bjorn and people were like it's baby, Jenny. No, but we did go to

lunch the next day and I brought my baby. And it was so weird for you because you're, like, you really have a baby, like we worked with the baby you were young. I didn't have a baby until ten twelve years after that, so that was blowing my mind. I was just not in that that headspace. Yeah, well, now you've got he's like a man, he's shaving up. Yeah, kids, got a mustache. It's crazy. Is there anything that's been really surprising for you about parenthood. I mean, I know

they're I know they're really little. Still, I guess what I was surprised most by was, um, just how many people in your life step up and like how people say it takes a village, and I didn't really you hear that, but I didn't really realize until we needed the help, and so many of our friends and family we have stepped up and gotten on planes and then showed up and there. Because two at the same time

when you don't know what you're doing is intense. So I guess I'm just it's deep in my appreciation and my love for my support system. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, um all right, Well, you're directing a movie. Yeah, you're dadding it up. Um, start that in May, I think, really, all right, where are you guys going to shoot it? Probably Rhode Island, Yeah, probably after two weeks prep. And it's my first time directing. So it's the drama. It's called Junction. Um, so it's gonna be an intense but

I love indies. It's gonna be an intense intense you for like a month and a half and then yeah, I'll be editing all summer. But I don't know. I've been working. I just finished a really cool movie with Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy called You People. That's coming out on Netflix. Casual. Yeah, there you go, special Drop. We love him. He's so just easy and cool cool. Hey, well I was chilling during COVID, so that came out of nowhere. I was like, Okay, that's that's awesome. Um.

So it's nice that you deserve it. You deserve all of it. You're so talented and so he worked with such a constant professional and so fun And I'm just so bad for all the success that comes your way, and I don't want to I want to find something else for all of us to work on together. Yes, I was just gonna say it. Everything is real sparkly when we're together. Guys, make sure just make sure you bring your guitar. You can leave it at my house, Brian, no one about it. Got to start leaving stuff in

your house. Now. I'm just gonna leave this about whiskey. Yeah, we Hey, will you come on the regular podcast in season three when Jake and Peyton are in Savannah? So how's it work with watching the episode we talk about it? Oh yeah, I'm gonna make you sit down you're watching it? Yeah, it's so good you would talk with you honestly, like, I've missed your face. Man, I love all of you so much. Really, congrats on the success of this and your show, Sophia, I know you guys draw that's so

cool face. I love you. Um, alright, so we're gonna see you soon. Then it's aty fantastic all right, tell the family we said, Hibs, I love him so much? Is that the quietest I've ever been during an interview? I just sat like this. I think it was. I think it was. Also, why is your lighting amazing? You're like in a basement to find the best lighting no matter where you go. I was gonna say that about yours. I feel like I look like I'm being interrogated by

the police. It's like, I'm so mad. Guys. We ordered these cute me on, you know, trick lightning bolts, and I was so excited to get off work in time to do this that I ran out of the van. And now sweet Doug, who drives me to work as a lightning bolt in his van, it's supposed to be

right here. I can't do it. There goes What's cool is seen throughout the course of like twenty three million downloads and all the fan interactions, is seen them to their drama queens rooms and like put their crowns out and their lightning bolts out, and it kind of made us a little bit like, you know, we had we had a little bit of envy. We were like, well, I want to pick me on, Like I want to hear more of what the fans have to say, because they've been been sending it a lot of questions and

comments and I can't wait to hear. Oh, we have one already. Well, while we answer these, I'm gonna make another drink. But item from set with each of us. Oh, did we wish we took we took what item from set? Um? From this set? You know, Sophia and I have spoken at length about that red vintage couch that was in Karen's cafe. It was a really good It was a curved couch in the corner front window. It's beautiful. Yeah,

I wish we had that. The cut out of the toe the Wetsprocket song, what what what are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Everything is better and everything is safe? That's what? Did you think it was wrong? I know it was a song I but I didn't think it was for that band. Somebody told me this is the place everything's better and everything's saying. Yeah, it's called walk on the Ocean. I think you want not think they sang that because I

heard did you cover it? Who covered it? Because I just felt like, I just feel like that's our song. I wish I took that. Hillary, we have another question. But tell us what you what would you have taken? You know what? I'm mad I didn't take. In later seasons, they got a really cool old black pickup truck for Julian for my husband's character. Most of blue Gie taking cars and taking it. I mean, I like you have the comment and I want that truck. I'm mad about it.

Next question, Rebecca, Oh, this is sweet. If you had a yearbook for yourself right now, what would your senior quote be? I mean, apparently it would be from a toad Weets Rocket song. Have we been saying that quote and writing that quote? And I had zero idea, no idea, no clue. Oh guys, okay, Um, my senior quote is I mean come to you? Okay. So here's the deal.

I was kind of told my senior year in high school because I was just ready to get out of Virginia and go to New York, and I had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder about certain things in my small town. And I won the Senior superlative most Dramatic, and my quote in like this little senior like book it that comes out was if you thought I liked you in high school, I was only acting.

And I cringed about that right now because it's so bitchy and like so unwarranted, because I really hometown and I really love all the kids I graduated with, and I'm like, why, So, what would your quote me, now then if if this was your senior year, I'm sorry, sorry, it's Simon Birch. I'm sorry. Yeah. Good. Of all the houses on the show, such as Brooks, Felix Stands, all the houses are big. Are those actual houses in Welmington's and are they actually all that big? Well, Joy and

I lived on the opposite side of the tracks. Haley and Brooke or Haley and Payton's house are actually right next door to each other. Um, They're just across there, like catty corner from each other. And we are actually over by New Hanover High School, which is another I want to say, it's another title one school. And so I liked that chapter one? Why am I thinking chapter one? Probably? Um?

But yeah, so your house was for sure real? Yeah, yeah, Brooke and Felix's house were next door to each other, and they were definitely in like a fancy part of town. They were big homes. And then where Dan's house was was like the fancy, fancy, fancy fancy that was like houses and guest houses and like big. I was not accustomed to anything and seeing anything like that. So yeah, this kind of small though, I mean, it wasn't like they were like we had little pockets of every kind

of sort of socioeconomic experience. The one thing I don't think we really ever showed though, I don't think we ever had a family in an apartment, which feels weird because so many families live in apartments. But I guess maybe because Wilmington is such a house town, Like the apartment started getting built there in the later years that we were filming there weren't really even many apartment buildings

and college kids living there college it was college. Yeah, I really like this next question, smart, This is a good one. Well, when you guys had scenes on the phone, were you actually dogging to someone mike Leone, mike leone every time, Supervisor. I remember one call when I actually I think we actually had James on the phone, or it might have been. And there was another one when

we had Paul, I had Paul reading. We called Paul and he read someone else's lines for me because it was like an acting moment and I just needed some

real feedback. Yeah. I definitely feel most of the time they'll just have yeah the script supervisor read for you, which is super weird, especially because those people are usually your friends, but not people on the show, and then we started to do things like if we were at work at the same time, if you you know, if if Hailey had to call Brooke and I was like in the parent makeup t I'd run in and do the off camera. We we really started to do that

free truck. It's hard to act with like essentially like your friend's dad pretending to be Peyton. Like it's weird. So we we tried. But yeah, sometimes you've got somebody being like, well, g Brooke and you're like stop it, I can't you're doing this. Yeah, it's in What ways do you think Sam is similar different than Brooke Davis? Do you think they have any similar personality traits? Sam?

That's so sweet? Um, you know, I think they're both really motivated women who aren't going to let anything in the world hold them back from achieving in a really um, you know, competitive landscape and also in like a major way. I think I think Sam is a little calmer, perhaps a little more professional than Brooke Davis, but there's she's feisty in there, like you don't wanna you don't want to push her, So yeah, I don't know, maybe they

are somewhere. What did you guys, see when you came to the set, well, listen, Brook Davis was always the boss, always, always, always the boss, And we didn't really get to see her go into her thirties, you know, and get like closer to authority. We saw her in those years where we all are kind of just testing the waters, and so a self assured Brooke Davis is every bit as calm and powerful as Sam. I think that's right. Brook was. She was always the boss, but not everyone always saw it,

and she was trying. She was young and just kind of scrappy in a way of like trying to constantly prove it, and there was there's an elegance and a settledness to Sam. I have sat here today. This is what I want you guys. It's our fourth Surama Queen. Oh my gosh, so beautiful. Dr Lex truly has a new look. It's actually well her part in the middle today. But usually we have the exact same time, like you

too can beat the Sophia Rush and Strawberry Um. You guys, we were really lucky when we came up to to film Good Sam, because your cast was so so so welcoming and oh my god, my cheerleading photo. Look at our cheerleading knees, like all of us got right into formation. I love the photo. It was like perfect thing. Wells about your high school experience? Who were you in high school? Sky?

Oh my god, that's so funny that you asked, because I was literally just downstairs talking to Jason Isaac's about my high school experience. And I went to high school in to Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, and anyone who knows Chicago knows that UM at that time in Lincoln Park where Lincoln Part High School is. It was right in the district of the kids of Lincoln Park, very wealthy, very smart kid majority white, and Cabrini Green,

the roughest projects in Chicago. So that's where I really learned how to like code switch because my sister was very much attached to the Cabrini Green crowd, and I was very much attached to the very smart like I believe we're gonna go, We're gonna shoot to the sky, like very ambitious and outgoing, and they were just more into the things that I was into. But I had to keep like kind of playing both sides, which is quite interesting because that was something important to me that

I wanted to do with Dr Lex truly. Yeah, you know, because wow, I may be able to like be myself with my friends, I still know like in America, it's best to just switch over to mainstream and talk a certain type of way so that the patient can trust

you with their life in your hands. So many people are preconditioned to like only trust what they know and like what they're comfortable with, and so if you come with any kind of energy that's not familiar to them, it's like, oh, this is bad, this is wrong, this is you know, uncomfortable. And so I love that your character is shaking things up. I love that you have this military background where you're like a beautiful homecoming queen cheerleader.

That's also like I'm really good with funds. Like yeah, Uncle Sam was my sugar daddy. He bought me all my books in school. Sure I was into the military, you know, Honestly, um my dad was a doc he and my mom was a teacher, and I would hear

them talk about student debt all the time. And like I share the story with Sophia, Like I thought Sally May was a real like woman with like a very beautiful silver silver locks and she made am She made America Pies every weekend, just the sweet sweet Sally May like the sweetest woman, and she just want to make sure you got that education. So she gonna get but she's gonna have to get that. Sally and I had this this that was a very I had a very

vivid imagination as a kid. So I thought Sami. I was like, honey, Sally May, I don't want any relationship with saving. And she's sound sweet, but I don't want her money. And and I just kind of grew up not wanting to have that that umbrella of debt that just forces these young kids to go straight into the corporate world to pay off this this dad, when like, how do we know who we want to be at

seventeen eighteen years old? I didn't decide to act until I was twenty nine, really, girl, and I did not have a resident a uh formal training. I had life experience, and that's what I took in the room. How would you make preparate myself? You know, I was sitting in a cubicle for two years in New York, a cubicle

that I worked so hard to get to. You know, I thought I was gonna have my Cary brash all life and just like make this money and wear cool shoes and hang out with Wall Street models and like that was just gonna be the life. And it wasn't the life, but it was like totally opposite ends of the spectrum. It was like I was partying hard and then back in this just very sterile, neutral cubicle world

that was just sucking the life out of me. But what I noticed is they would always send me in two boardrooms to close the deals because I would go in there because it was a pharmaceutical market, this woman doing any kind of I would go in there. I'd be like, so we drugs and wood and these are like a bunch of like birds and you know, so like I was just going there and make it fun and like yeah, So they would always in the end, but I was like I'm performing, like I'm getting yes

and yeah. And and then after that, everyone just kept saying to me like are you you never thought about acting? Like you've never you never, And I'm like, I mean, of course I've thought about it. I was in dance place, you know, like, yeah, I was always in dance theater since I was a kid, and recitals like I was never afraid of the stage and another version of me would show up. Um, I knew the who am I? Based off of where I am and who I'm talking to? Like the who am I with you ladies isn't the

who am I with my mom? Or the who am I a cop pulls me over? Or the who am I in the courtroom or at the club? Right? So I learned that very early on on. How can it

serve for me? Because at the age of seventeen, I've had to figure everything out in my life because while I may have said my dad as a doctor, my mom's teacher, she hit the fan when I was twelve, So like, I had to really learn how to figure out, Okay, how can I how can I not fall into the whole in the wrap of being somebody's baby mama and doing nails in Chicago, which was like what I was surrounded by. So when I went to the military, that's where it really helped because it taught me how to

process and utilize fear. And then the corporate world taught me how to market, so I was able to market myself. I didn't have an agent when I got go Sam. I haven't had an agent and said, since you, she goes do yeah, I message, I miss. It's just amazing. We're getting ready to wrap, so we can send people to watch whatever. You know. But I want to know when you were growing up, who were the drama queens

that you looked up to? Who were your drama queen? Here, Rapid Fire, let's go, Lisa Turtle and Shannon Aerty On Nanatino. That was that was my dam I was a to those and I record every episode and because in tapes, and then my ends and neighborhood would come over and they would rent episodes and I hadn't had a numbered from season and season and I were rented out like Black Buster. I had a library and it was business and I was making money off and I was amazing.

You guys can go. Everybody out there, you guys can come. Let's come watch these amazing women as these incredible doctors come on. And it was so special. I loved working with you Sky and uh, we're gonna party in New York. Yeah, oh yeah, were you coming to be with the two of us? Was so cool? And I remember when you left, she was like, that's what we're doing, like building these families and I'm so excited for everyone. Two minutes guys too, Good Sam episode eight of season one with these two

gorgeous ladies and us and my cast that's downstairs right here. Yeah, okay, listen. The cast was so so cool. Sophia knew what a huge crush I had on j and Isaac's geeked out so quick already knows Sky I get you out so hard. They took a picture and guy, um no, honestly, please give all of them great, big, huge hugs for us because it was so nice to be welcomed into your family. And we're so excited to, you know, send all our drama queens fans over to hang out on the on

the medical set of Good Sam. You guys are change in the world. I can't wait for you all to see the episode. I think we have. Who did this little treat come from? Which one of you took this? We filmed it? I don't remember you filmed. This is our favorite moment from being on set and I love you. Thank you for having us you, thank you, thanks for joining us, everybody, Thanks for joining us. Everybody. We have a little sign off for you, and we'll see you

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best friends came employed with us. This we and these girls and I grew up together. We started on our first show over twenty one We literally have been to hound and back. They are my family, your family, and you welcome them with open arms. And it's been yeah,