Speaker 1: I'd love to tell you a story about a radioactive cat.
Speaker 2: Sweet. I already like where this is going?
Speaker 3: Is this?
Speaker 4: Where is this catwoman's origin story?
Speaker 1: Possibly? Well, yet the jury's still out. So we have
Speaker 1: a dog and a cat. We have a dog named
Speaker 1: Brunch and a cat named Bill. And Bill is about
Speaker 1: thirteen years old, and for the last let's say six
Speaker 1: ish months, he had been acting kind of acting differently.
Speaker 1: He was eating brunches dog food, and then he was
Speaker 1: throwing up and we were like, oh, it's because he's
Speaker 1: eating the dog food. He's not supposed to eat the
Speaker 1: dog food. So we'd give Brunch his food, and then
Speaker 1: when Brunch would be done eating, we'd pick up the
Speaker 1: bowl so that the wasn't just extra pieces of food
Speaker 1: in the bowl sitting out all day, and he was
Speaker 1: consistently waking us up multiple times at night to eat
Speaker 1: and just generally being kind of obnoxious. And then one
Speaker 1: day my mom came over and she goes, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 1: Bill has lost so much weight. Now Bill is a
Speaker 1: huge cat, like thirty pounds big, okay massive, So he
Speaker 1: can lose some weight and you don't really notice it
Speaker 1: because wow, he's a chonk and I love it, and
Speaker 1: so my mom goes, wow, he's lost a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, do you think So I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you're right. I guess maybe he has lost weight.
Speaker 1: So I said, Jensen, you need to bring him into
Speaker 1: the vet.
Speaker 5: So he does. He brings him into the vet.
Speaker 1: Turns out he has hyper thyroidism, and that means he's
Speaker 1: got a little tumor on his thyroid and it's making
Speaker 1: him hungry all the time, and it's making him agitated,
Speaker 1: and it's also what's causing him to be throwing up.
Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily the dog food. So he said, okay,
Speaker 1: so what are our options and they said, well, there's
Speaker 1: a medica, a medication you can give him. It'say one
Speaker 1: pill twice a day and if it works, it'll be great.
Speaker 1: He'll feel better. And we were like, okay, that sounds great.
Speaker 1: So we get this medication. Jensen starts giving it to
Speaker 1: him morning at night, and wouldn't you know it, it works.
Speaker 1: Bill stops throwing up. He's feeling really good, he's he's
Speaker 1: gaining weight, he's back to he's just great.
Speaker 5: And then I swear it happened overnight. We look down
Speaker 5: at him one morning.
Speaker 1: And he is just covered in blood blisters just here missing, bloody,
Speaker 1: huge blisters, full of blood everywhere. Oh and he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be bothered by them at all. He's not itching,
Speaker 1: he's not acting any different. But we're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is terrib Oh my god. So Jensen takes him
Speaker 1: back into the vent and I go, I hate to
Speaker 1: tell you this. I know it's working in every other way,
Speaker 1: but he's having an allergic reaction to the medication and
Speaker 1: you have to stop the medication. And so we say, so,
Speaker 1: what are our options and they said, well, not treating
Speaker 1: it at all, which means you don't know how long
Speaker 1: he's going to live. It's also kind of an uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: painful situation because he will he will Basically it'll feel
Speaker 1: to him like he's starving to death. He's going to
Speaker 1: be hungry all the time, and he's going to continue
Speaker 1: to throw up, and you know that's your one option,
Speaker 1: not treating it and he just dies, or you put
Speaker 1: him under or for the low low price of three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, you can send in to another vet, a
Speaker 1: doctor in LA where they will give him one. It's
Speaker 1: like a radio isotope treatment. They inject him with something
Speaker 1: that's radioactive, and that radioactive business attacks the tumor in
Speaker 1: the thyroid, and with ninety nine point ninety nine percent efficiency,
Speaker 1: it will kill the tumor and he will no longer
Speaker 1: have hyperthyroidism. And then he will just live for however
Speaker 1: long he's gonna live, but hyperthyroidism will not.
Speaker 5: Be a factor in it. It's just gone. And I
Speaker 5: hear this, and I go, so, what exactly do they do?
Speaker 5: You send him there? They give him this treatment.
Speaker 1: They keep him for a week because he's literally radioactive
Speaker 1: after and he can't be around you.
Speaker 5: So we keep him for a week.
Speaker 1: And I go, okay, and it's wow, it's three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, well, you know, I think it's worth it.
Speaker 1: I we have the three thousand dollars. We're in a
Speaker 1: blessed position to be able to pay that for our cat.
Speaker 5: Let's do it? Sounds great.
Speaker 1: We send him, We get daily updates, we're getting pictures,
Speaker 1: videos of him. Oh, he seems to be doing great.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's gonna be feeling so much better
Speaker 1: after this. He's gonna be less irritated too, because Bill's
Speaker 1: kind of a jerk, and they're like, he's going to
Speaker 1: be less of a jerk after this. The tumors are
Speaker 1: irritating him. Jensen goes to pick him up after a
Speaker 1: week away, and I'm so excited. Yay, Bill's coming home.
Speaker 1: I'm telling the kids Bill's coming back today. Jensen picks
Speaker 1: him up and they go, okay, great. So now the
Speaker 1: last thing for you to know is that for the
Speaker 1: next twelve days, no one is allowed to be closer
Speaker 1: to Bill than an arms distance length away from him,
Speaker 1: except for one hour a day.
Speaker 6: Sause he's radioactive radioactive cat.
Speaker 1: Okay, so for one hour a day you can cuddle
Speaker 1: with your cat. The rest of the day, for twelve
Speaker 1: days you have to stay arms distance or more away
Speaker 1: from him, and then every day you have to clean
Speaker 1: the poop from his cat litter box and discard it
Speaker 1: in one of those big paint cans with a lid.
Speaker 1: You have to put the poop in there every day
Speaker 1: for twelve days because the poop is radioactive, and then
Speaker 1: at the end of those twelve days, you have to
Speaker 1: store that poop for three months at your house because
Speaker 1: you cannot throw away radioactive poop. Apparently Jensen then had
Speaker 1: to know all the details. Why, Well, it causes the
Speaker 1: Geiger counters to go off. At the trash dump, they
Speaker 1: test for radioactivity and trash trucks have like a two
Speaker 1: block radius, and so if they if the truck goes off,
Speaker 1: they then go search for two weeks. They send a
Speaker 1: special unit out to that two block radius, investigate who
Speaker 1: has a cat whose radioactive poop is this? And they
Speaker 1: will find you seven thousand dollars for sending radioactive poop
Speaker 1: to the dump. So anyway, I'm the proud owner of
Speaker 1: a no longer radioactive cat. We've been through the twelve
Speaker 1: days of hell. I am now the proud owner of
Speaker 1: twelve days worth of radioactive poop. It's living on my property.
Speaker 1: It says do not discard until June twenty third or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and uh for the lolo price of
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars bills.
Speaker 5: So science right.
Speaker 3: I have so many jokes going through my head about
Speaker 3: so much of the story that I'm.
Speaker 4: Always I was wondering who was going to jump in
Speaker 4: that I saw a radioactive poop at coach.
Speaker 3: I have so so many from blood blister cat to
Speaker 3: radioactive poop to I store my own poop that way.
Speaker 2: I have so many jokes.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: I'm literally overwhelmed, and you can deliver them to me
Speaker 1: at them.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna start.
Speaker 4: I'll start texting ten as our next free show chat.
Speaker 6: You take this material and digest it.
Speaker 3: Because it is just like the poop, which you can't
Speaker 3: digest for two weeks.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right. You'll get fine.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'm going to let that ruminate. I
Speaker 2: just like the poop in your garage.
Speaker 5: I just wanted you to know how much we love
Speaker 5: our cat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a lot of that's a commitment, man.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 5: Also, did I tell you he's thirteen? It's not right?
Speaker 2: No, exactly, it's not a spring Sea. I grew up
Speaker 2: with a cat named Bill. By the way, also had
Speaker 2: a cat named Bill.
Speaker 5: Oh was he ever a radioactive?
Speaker 2: He was not.
Speaker 3: I still have his poop, but that's just for personal use.
Speaker 3: But no, but it wasn't radioactive in any way.
Speaker 2: But that's just you know, it's fun.
Speaker 3: Okay. One of the jokes is gone. Thanks, so cross
Speaker 3: that one off.
Speaker 6: Excellent.
Speaker 5: Welcome to Bond meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel.
Speaker 2: I'm Rider Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 1: This week, we're excited to welcome a season four guest
Speaker 1: star who not only wowed us during our recent rewatch
Speaker 1: of an Affair to Forget, but is also the only
Speaker 1: person to have appeared on Boy Meets World and to
Speaker 1: punt Arnold Schwarzenegger. But I will be honest, it would
Speaker 1: have been cool if William Daniels got to do that too.
Speaker 1: She is so bad ass that not only was she
Speaker 1: Sean's tough as nails and time dominating girlfriend Jennifer Bassett
Speaker 1: on our show. She would later become the ginoid t
Speaker 1: Robot in the two thousand and three movie Terminator three,
Speaker 1: Rise of the Machines, the former thief Taja in Mortal
Speaker 1: Kombat Conquest, an unholy mix of human and vampire as
Speaker 1: the title character in the film Blood Rain, and a
Speaker 1: criminal bounty hunter sent to Kazakhstan to rescue the first
Speaker 1: daughter from a blood hungry warlord in Mercy.
Speaker 2: She has my career.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: If you also said she was a Jedi, that would
Speaker 2: have just been it.
Speaker 1: I mean, as if that's not enough, She's in the
Speaker 1: new movie Darkness of Man, alongside Jean Claude Van Dam
Speaker 1: and Sticky Fingers from the rap group Onyx.
Speaker 5: All this to say, no.
Speaker 1: Matter how many karate classes Will and I take, she
Speaker 1: would beat us to a bloody pulse.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: And not only would she reappear on Boy Meets World
Speaker 1: in season five as a ghost of girlfriends past for Sean,
Speaker 1: she'd also return for Girl Meets World as the same character,
Speaker 1: now as the surprise wife of Stuart Minkus, a rare
Speaker 1: easter egg that was actually worth it in the reboot,
Speaker 1: and now we are happy to be reunited with the
Speaker 1: toughest student at John Adams High, an actor who.
Speaker 5: Has done it all.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Meets World, Christanna Logan, Hey, so good
Speaker 1: to see you.
Speaker 7: Ah, Oh my gosh, it's so great to see you all.
Speaker 5: So great to see you too.
Speaker 1: It's normally when we do these interviews, we're sometimes seeing
Speaker 1: people for the first time in like twenty five or
Speaker 1: twenty seven or thirty years. But in this case, I
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to see you in Girl Meets World,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't feel like quite as long as a
Speaker 1: reunion for us. But so happy to have you here.
Speaker 5: Thank you for being.
Speaker 1: Twenty five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah a long time. Yeah, I'm a lot, Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know. And I was thinking when I last
Speaker 8: saw you and Ryder, it was already nine years.
Speaker 5: Ago, right exactly. Even that's almost a decade ago, right,
Speaker 5: so crazy.
Speaker 1: So as we just went through in your intro, we
Speaker 1: ran down all of the incredible hardcore roles that you
Speaker 1: have been able to step into over the past twenty years.
Speaker 1: I mean, you are a bona fide action movie legend, truly,
Speaker 1: so thank you. With this in mind, do people ever
Speaker 1: bring up your role on Boy Meets World to you
Speaker 1: all the time?
Speaker 6: Really all the time?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I get feedback on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 8: Almost as often as some of the biggest projects that
Speaker 8: I've done. So I mean, congrats to you guys for
Speaker 8: creating such a cult classic. And can I just tell
Speaker 8: you that I rewatched some of the episodes, you know,
Speaker 8: to just refresh my memory, and you guys rocked. Like
Speaker 8: the show was awesome. I mean, I can see why
Speaker 8: it was such a hit. It was so cute, it
Speaker 8: was so well done. It was so heartwarming and funny
Speaker 8: and fun and playful and great life lessons and you know,
Speaker 8: it was just it was really special, So.
Speaker 1: You know, thank you for saying that, and thank you
Speaker 1: for watching some of the episodes. I know we asked
Speaker 1: you to watch your episode, which is just it was
Speaker 1: we were dying laughing.
Speaker 6: One of the best, one of one of the best
Speaker 6: episodes of It's ever so good.
Speaker 8: It was wild for me because I can't remember the
Speaker 8: last time that I've actually watched my early work, and
Speaker 8: to see young teenage Christanna, it was such a trip.
Speaker 8: I was like, wow, I really got a glimpse into
Speaker 8: myself at that age too, even though it was you know, it.
Speaker 7: Was a character, but there was a reason why, you know,
Speaker 7: we get higher.
Speaker 8: For these roles, right, Christota.
Speaker 5: The prowess you know, well, you were so confident.
Speaker 1: I mean you were very you commanded every scene you
Speaker 1: were in. You really felt just so much more in
Speaker 1: control than which is hard to do.
Speaker 4: As a guest star. I mean we talked about we
Speaker 4: watched it. I was like, the confidence with which you
Speaker 4: came in and like, just take over this episode. It's
Speaker 4: it's the only way the episode works is because you
Speaker 4: are like you know, and that's one of those things
Speaker 4: I'm sure our writers wrote and then they're just like,
Speaker 4: how are we ever going to find somebody to fill
Speaker 4: these shoes of it, and.
Speaker 6: You just nailed it.
Speaker 4: And the best part for me was watching it and
Speaker 4: realize you look like you were having fun too, like
Speaker 4: we all look like we're having fun, and I'm like.
Speaker 6: This is this was this was a good week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, thank you, No, it was.
Speaker 8: It was awesome. It was a really special time and
Speaker 8: it was great to reprise my role some it was, however,
Speaker 8: fifteen plus.
Speaker 5: No, I don't know, twenty or twenty to twenty years later, Yeah.
Speaker 8: And come back.
Speaker 7: That was such a trip.
Speaker 8: And you guys have done many different iterations of the show, right,
Speaker 8: various different spinoffs.
Speaker 1: Just just Girl Meets World was the only version. We're
Speaker 1: inching our way slowly to like elderly person's Home meets World.
Speaker 1: We're almost there.
Speaker 8: Home meets World.
Speaker 5: That's a nursing.
Speaker 1: Exactly do you remember auditioning for the role or did
Speaker 1: you have to audition?
Speaker 8: You know, it's funny, Danielle, because I was thinking of that.
Speaker 8: I was like, what was the process for getting that role?
Speaker 8: And I seem to remember an audition, and but other
Speaker 8: than that, maybe it was just like they found like
Speaker 8: the one person who was tall enough and moisterous enough,
Speaker 8: as Riders said, to fill the shoes. But maybe it
Speaker 8: was just a good fit.
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's perfect.
Speaker 1: It was so great, so to recap for anyone who's
Speaker 1: unfamili you played Writer's girlfriend who so badly wanted him
Speaker 1: to stop hanging out with his real soulmate Corey.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything specific about taping the show that
Speaker 1: week or about rehearsals.
Speaker 5: Do you remember working specifically with writer?
Speaker 8: Oh? Of course. And you know the one that I
Speaker 8: was cracking up with the most was this this kissing
Speaker 8: move that hand who would I think it was like
Speaker 8: don d that was like smooth.
Speaker 2: I don't bet you. I'll bet you that was a note.
Speaker 3: I bet you that was a Michael Jacob's note like
Speaker 3: we need something, some kind of move to show.
Speaker 4: You and then like the nose thing we're doing like
Speaker 4: this little like weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: I mean it might have been a note, but it
Speaker 9: might have just been me because I played a lot
Speaker 9: of as you can see them going forward in my career,
Speaker 9: physical roles.
Speaker 8: I mean, like you know, like that type of physicality,
Speaker 8: but like really so I do have a dance background,
Speaker 8: and so you know, maybe that fluidity or something reminded
Speaker 8: me of a dance move or I don't know, but
Speaker 8: you know, no, and you guys were all so great
Speaker 8: and funny. I mean I remember also too, like just
Speaker 8: sometimes trying to hold it together because it was so funny.
Speaker 8: It was so much cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one of the funniest episodes we've ever done.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that's truly one of the funniest
Speaker 3: episodes we've ever done. Everybody bought into the premise and
Speaker 3: so it just worked everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you could hear.
Speaker 4: The audience just increase the energy as it goes on.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh my god, once we get into the
Speaker 4: plot and the joke is there, Oh, it's just everything.
Speaker 4: Everything you guys, everything that you do is funny. Everything
Speaker 4: Danielle does, it's like we just keep getting laughs.
Speaker 6: It's so good.
Speaker 1: It's the writers were it was so funny, even from
Speaker 1: the table, So every time we saw it on its
Speaker 1: feet every run through, it was.
Speaker 5: Just this like raucous laughter.
Speaker 1: So it was it was one of those weeks where
Speaker 1: we were just all bubbling with how funny what we
Speaker 1: were doing.
Speaker 6: Was.
Speaker 7: That's great to hear, that's great to do.
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 5: Was that your first on screen kiss. No, okay, no,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: To say a writer, it.
Speaker 6: Was all right, check you off the list for years,
Speaker 6: you know, all right?
Speaker 8: Fine. The first actually my my first kiss, and was
Speaker 8: in my first audition for As the World Turns, which
Speaker 8: I thought, wow, this is so easy, Like you go
Speaker 8: in my first audition, like you get the job. Wow,
Speaker 8: I love this. I love acting, you know, a little
Speaker 8: bit so pure luck. But I went into the audition
Speaker 8: room with a group of the producers and my love
Speaker 8: interest who was on the show at the time, who
Speaker 8: was Jason Biggs, And I didn't you know, Hey, I'm
Speaker 8: a farm girl from upstate New York. You know I
Speaker 8: can hang And in the middle of the audition we're
Speaker 8: supposed to have this moment, but he like really goes
Speaker 8: for it. You're the audition But anyway, so yeah, I
Speaker 8: ended up getting that job.
Speaker 7: But yes, Jason Biggs and I laughed about that years later.
Speaker 5: Oh that's so fun. I know I've never kissed in
Speaker 5: an audition.
Speaker 8: You probably can't now, you know.
Speaker 2: It's tough on Zoom to make out with it.
Speaker 5: It is tough on Zoom.
Speaker 2: You're exactly right.
Speaker 7: We would meet the intimacy coordinator.
Speaker 4: I think I have kissed her in an audition. I
Speaker 4: feel like that's really yeah. Yeah, when you're at like
Speaker 4: the final stage, like if you're at a screen test
Speaker 4: or a chemistry read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you were at an audition. Writer,
Speaker 3: this was some strange no, because you know, I'm actually
Speaker 3: thinking it was. It was with Christine lacoln who I
Speaker 3: had already kissed for another job.
Speaker 6: And then also.
Speaker 4: Abigail Spencer was down to the two of them for
Speaker 4: and and me and another actor for a movie. And
Speaker 4: I remember, yeah, we like actually made out for for
Speaker 4: our screen test.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's you know about you.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't get the job, Christine got the job. Okay,
Speaker 6: you might ever look good?
Speaker 5: So there there you go.
Speaker 1: Now, Christna, you had already been on unhappily ever after
Speaker 1: and just shoot me.
Speaker 5: Did you like doing single camera work?
Speaker 8: You mean going from from like sitcom kind of exactly?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Yes, And actually I had done other like independent films
Speaker 8: and such single camera before, but I came to La
Speaker 8: really was it was like that dollar and a Dream
Speaker 8: kind of story where I had done some work in
Speaker 8: New York City and then I had they took me
Speaker 8: from New York and they brought me to La to
Speaker 8: scream test for Unhappily ever After, and that's when I
Speaker 8: ended up getting the job and staying. So I was
Speaker 8: just like really going with the flow and having fun
Speaker 8: of like, let me try this out, let me try
Speaker 8: that out. Oh that's cool, you know, and it just
Speaker 8: really went from there.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments in our rewatch of your
Speaker 1: episode of Boy Meets World was the scene where you
Speaker 1: and I were in the library and we give each
Speaker 1: other the very vapid phony high. It made me laugh
Speaker 1: so much, and I was wondering, do you remember, I
Speaker 1: said when we did our rewatch of it, that I
Speaker 1: don't remember there being any sort of even discussion about
Speaker 1: what that would be.
Speaker 5: We both just.
Speaker 1: Knew immediately what that hello to each other was, and
Speaker 1: I was wondering, do you remember if it said anything
Speaker 1: in the sco ripped about like giving us a direction
Speaker 1: about the type of high, or do you remember rehearsing
Speaker 1: that at all?
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 8: I certainly remember that moment, but I think it was, yeah,
Speaker 8: just one of those kind of young high school things. Yeah, hi, yeah, hi, yeah.
Speaker 2: One interaction. Your entire relationship was laid out in that wood.
Speaker 1: We are going to pretend to be nice to each other,
Speaker 1: but we don't really like each other.
Speaker 5: And all we needed to say was high and he
Speaker 5: picked up on all of it.
Speaker 8: That other moment that was so funny that my mom
Speaker 8: even remembered today when I told my folks I was
Speaker 8: going to be speaking to all of you, and she
Speaker 8: was like, Oh, that's going to be so much fun.
Speaker 8: She said, there was that one moment, she said, I
Speaker 8: remember where the other actress looked up at you and
Speaker 8: was like, Hey, I'm talking to you up there.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a cult favorite line of people of
Speaker 1: people from that episode. Yeah, it's something that people really like.
Speaker 1: They think it was really funny. And I when we
Speaker 1: watched it, I was critical of my delivery of it.
Speaker 1: I was like, why did I say it like that?
Speaker 1: Why didn't I just deliver it more earnestly? But I
Speaker 1: put a spin on it. We were trying to remember
Speaker 1: if it was like a very specific.
Speaker 5: Line reading note I had been given.
Speaker 1: But people love it, and people also love the way
Speaker 1: it was delivered. They thought, so, you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 8: That I think in that moment too, and you wanted
Speaker 8: to get through to me, and that's why you were
Speaker 8: trying to talk to me.
Speaker 5: Way up there, way up there. Listen to me, lady.
Speaker 5: You're keep ignoring me because you can barely see me,
Speaker 5: which is.
Speaker 1: Just a funny. It's it's very funny. So then you
Speaker 1: came back to Boy Meets World in season five for
Speaker 1: First Girlfriend's Club alongside Larissa o'leinik and Lindsay McKeon.
Speaker 5: Do you remember coming back for that season five episode?
Speaker 8: You know, it wasn't as clear to me as the
Speaker 8: first episode. Yeah, but in rewatching Man, there's some great
Speaker 8: stuff in there too, and Will you and I even
Speaker 8: have a little moment there.
Speaker 2: In the end, do we Okay, I haven't seen it,
Speaker 2: so we.
Speaker 4: Haven't watched that yet, so yeah, I'm so good. But
Speaker 4: I definitely yeah, it's a Bonker's episode. I'm like handcuffed.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I like handcuffed. It's like a full on
Speaker 4: on like.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're handcuffed.
Speaker 10: And somehow in the end, like Will and I and
Speaker 10: the other actor and like two other girls end up
Speaker 10: together and Will kind of goes back and he like
Speaker 10: grabbed the handcuffs and ducks out the side.
Speaker 7: It's really what I know, you probably couldn't do.
Speaker 2: That now, right, So that's so funny.
Speaker 5: Oh man, I can't wait till we get there.
Speaker 2: I want to get there. I want to see that one.
Speaker 1: So before you came on to boy Meet's World, had
Speaker 1: you ever heard of the show? Did you know anything
Speaker 1: about it before you arrived on set for your episode
Speaker 1: that week?
Speaker 8: Great question, I'm I'm sure that i'd heard of it,
Speaker 8: but I wasn't that familiar with it. I love Wonder
Speaker 8: Years with Fred Savage, and I knew Ben was in
Speaker 8: the show, and I was looking forward to working with him,
Speaker 8: and and I knew people that loved it. But you know,
Speaker 8: then I got the first hand experience.
Speaker 6: Which better.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So who was like you had a I think you
Speaker 1: had a pretty cool group of actor friends out here.
Speaker 5: Who was your crew?
Speaker 8: Yeah? So I had done this independent film, my first
Speaker 8: film when I was sixteen in Connecticut, and I worked
Speaker 8: with Justin Whalen, who played kind of my love interest
Speaker 8: in the movie, and legendary Ed Asner. Yes, Justin became
Speaker 8: my first on set boyfriend on my first movie. Because
Speaker 8: I didn't least any time there.
Speaker 4: None of us.
Speaker 3: You were watching together for a while because that's work,
Speaker 3: isn't that When we hung out when it was you
Speaker 3: and Justin and Jason Marsden was with so and we
Speaker 3: would all hang out together and go and do stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I remember.
Speaker 3: I remember hanging out with you more off the set
Speaker 3: than we ever did on the sets.
Speaker 8: We didn't really until that second episode, we didn't really
Speaker 8: have anything yeah this episode at all together.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So then when I came when I ended up coming
Speaker 8: out here and getting the job and staying because I'm like,
Speaker 8: all right, if I don't get the job, I don't
Speaker 8: want to be just another blonde, out of work actress.
Speaker 8: I'm going to go back to New York and continue there.
Speaker 8: And then I ended up staying. So Justin and I
Speaker 8: then forged a relationship and you know, I together and
Speaker 8: stayed together for quite a while.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you remember wearing Connecticut? I'm from Connecticut, so I'm
Speaker 3: just curious if you remember where you shore.
Speaker 7: It was Loomis Chaffey's School.
Speaker 3: Which is where my entire family went to school. My
Speaker 3: mom went to Chafee back in the day when it
Speaker 3: wasn't even Loomis Chafey. Then both my brothers graduated from
Speaker 3: was they shot a movie at Loomis.
Speaker 2: That's so funny. Yeah, we did.
Speaker 8: They did. It was called Prep and it was about
Speaker 8: a boys I guess it was just or maybe just
Speaker 8: in the movie.
Speaker 7: It was just a boys' school at one point, like
Speaker 7: in the sixties.
Speaker 3: No, it was it was Loomis was was the boys
Speaker 3: school and Chafey was the girls school, and they combined
Speaker 3: them later and became Loomis Chafee.
Speaker 8: Okay, gotcha, gotcha. So it was the director had written
Speaker 8: something I think loosely inspired by his experience there when
Speaker 8: he was younger, when it was just a boys' school
Speaker 8: and there was, you know, kind.
Speaker 7: Of a sixties racial.
Speaker 8: Thing going on and music bringing people together. It was cute.
Speaker 3: It was so cool he shot at Loomis. So we've
Speaker 3: talked about Boy Meets World. Great show, awesome, great, we
Speaker 3: all love it. Fantastic.
Speaker 2: Can we please talk about Terminator?
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's get let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Can we please talk about Terminator? Boy Meets worlds awesome?
Speaker 2: But you were the Terminator?
Speaker 6: Please? Oh my cool?
Speaker 5: So cool?
Speaker 6: Thanks?
Speaker 8: You know what I remember when I came back to
Speaker 8: do Girl Meets World and I saw Danielle and Ryder
Speaker 8: and you guys said that you were so excited for
Speaker 8: me when I got the job, and I was so
Speaker 8: touched by that. I was like, oh, really, like somehow
Speaker 8: that was really surprising and prob to me. And so yeah,
Speaker 8: that was an incredible experience and opportunity. And I worked
Speaker 8: my butt off for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're like, in so much of it it's
Speaker 4: so physical, Oh my god, Yeah.
Speaker 3: So cool.
Speaker 8: It was. It was it was kind of the role
Speaker 8: I think that you know, in the beginning of my career,
Speaker 8: people sometimes didn't really know how to cast me because
Speaker 8: I'm five to eleven, I had a deeper voice. You know.
Speaker 8: There's even like a couple that I noticed, like references
Speaker 8: in the show then.
Speaker 7: Like my size and my voice and everything.
Speaker 8: And when this audition came around, I was like, oh,
Speaker 8: this is it. I just I just that none of
Speaker 8: the constraints mattered and actually worked to my advantage. And
Speaker 8: I had been such a fan of Robert Patrick in
Speaker 8: T two. I was just so blown away by his
Speaker 8: performance and you know, just his elimination of human qualities
Speaker 8: in them, who I actually got to work with years later.
Speaker 8: We has become a good friend of mine.
Speaker 6: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I just I just knew it was going
Speaker 8: to be the right fit and and it was so
Speaker 8: it was it was really special. And then I got
Speaker 8: into the best physical shape of my life. I had
Speaker 8: a weight trainer, I had a nutritionist, I did Prabma
Speaker 8: God Israeli martial arts. I worked with a mime coach,
Speaker 8: weapons training with the LAPD. I put on about fifteen
Speaker 8: pounds of muscle mass, and I got my body fat
Speaker 8: down to that of an Olympic athlete. Yes, I really
Speaker 8: I really went for it. And you know a lot
Speaker 8: of people said, who is this young woman who's going
Speaker 8: to take on this iconic image of cinema history, you know,
Speaker 8: and I wanted to really prove to myself and to
Speaker 8: everyone that you know, I had it within me. And
Speaker 8: I think, you know, having the dance background and knowing
Speaker 8: the physicalities and knowing how to really work like from
Speaker 8: the inside out really helped overall with that job.
Speaker 4: What was the audition process like, did you have to
Speaker 4: do a fight scene to audition.
Speaker 6: Like besides reading lines? What was it like?
Speaker 3: Well, because there aren't really any lines, You've got like
Speaker 3: a couple of lines in the entire film, So how yeah,
Speaker 3: how are you?
Speaker 8: Yeah? There's a few. Most of everything is conveyed through physicality.
Speaker 8: So it was a very physical audition. It was probably
Speaker 8: about a ten audition process.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, hell.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: And so it was a lot of like running and
Speaker 8: jumping and falling and getting up and looking and moving
Speaker 8: and you know, it was very physical. And Monathan the
Speaker 8: director would say to me once we got on set,
Speaker 8: you know, like just go do that terminator thing.
Speaker 6: Turn on the terminator. Yeah.
Speaker 8: You know, after all the physical training that I'd done
Speaker 8: within myself to really feel like I could embody that,
Speaker 8: and working you know with the mind coach and you know,
Speaker 8: working against different internal energies. I mean, some of it
Speaker 8: was very esoteric to really create the end result, but
Speaker 8: it was.
Speaker 7: It was a.
Speaker 8: Wonderful, incredible process. And then having the opportunity to really
Speaker 8: showcase the film on a worldwide stage like that, just
Speaker 8: you know, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: How long a shoot was it?
Speaker 8: One hundred days?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 4: And it was a gigantic film, like we're talking big budget.
Speaker 8: I remember.
Speaker 3: I remember one of the stories about that was one
Speaker 3: of the biggest set pieces in the film is the
Speaker 3: truck scene where the two trucks are going back and forth,
Speaker 3: and schwartzeneight you and and arnmed Swarzenegger fighting back and forth,
Speaker 3: and it went way over budget, and they said, we're
Speaker 3: not going to pay for this, and Schwarzenegger said, I'll
Speaker 3: pay for it, And he paid for the entire that
Speaker 3: entire section of the film out of his own pocket
Speaker 3: because he loved the scene so much that he refused
Speaker 3: to cut it. So they shot for what was it like,
Speaker 3: three or four days of just the truck scene, and
Speaker 3: it cost him millions of dollars of his own money
Speaker 3: because it's like, we can't we can't lose the scene.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was, I was in a crane A cool Yeah,
Speaker 8: and it was the largest budgeted film to date when
Speaker 8: they made the film, it was two d and fifty million.
Speaker 5: Oh and yeah.
Speaker 8: When I read that chase scene, I mean it was
Speaker 8: just like I was turning page after page after paid.
Speaker 8: I'm like, it's still going. It was like a ten.
Speaker 6: Weeks of your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, did you drive the truck?
Speaker 8: Well, here's what they did.
Speaker 7: So they had switched the steering on the crane, the
Speaker 7: Champion crane, to.
Speaker 8: The other side, so there was a stunt driver on uh,
Speaker 8: the other side. But I was on the side where
Speaker 8: people would normally be driving on the west side. But
Speaker 8: a crane is totally different. Driving a crane is different
Speaker 8: than driving a semi.
Speaker 7: Truck, you know. So it was.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a really incredible experience for sure. Oh wow.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't I have to imagine, even with
Speaker 1: a resume like yours at the time, and how confident
Speaker 1: you were as a person being the new terminator in
Speaker 1: a movie of that size, that budget, that kind of
Speaker 1: world stage had to have been extremely scary and intimidating.
Speaker 5: How did you How did you keep it all together?
Speaker 8: How?
Speaker 5: What did you have? A therapist?
Speaker 8: Did you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: How were you? How are you keeping it all together?
Speaker 8: You know, I think I'm just one of these people
Speaker 8: that really thrives under pressure, Like I really enjoy it,
Speaker 8: Like I really love a good challenge. I love proving
Speaker 8: myself and testing myself and really seeing how far I
Speaker 8: could go. So it just felt kind of strangely natural
Speaker 8: for me, you.
Speaker 7: Know, yeah, yeah, wow, Later, of course, but.
Speaker 3: Just to I know that we could spend an entire
Speaker 3: podcast talking about this, and frankly I would love to
Speaker 3: because it's so in my wheelhouse. But being on such
Speaker 3: a special effects driven film. How much of the effects,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a stupid question, but how much of
Speaker 3: the effects were practical, Like how much do you have
Speaker 3: to actually mime out while you were there compared to
Speaker 3: things where they're like, no, we just do that later
Speaker 3: by computer.
Speaker 7: It's a great question.
Speaker 8: And at the time Matrix two and then three, they'd
Speaker 8: shot them together, were coming out, and so we were
Speaker 8: really on par believe it or not, with them for
Speaker 8: practical shots and also special effects. But we shot as
Speaker 8: much as we possibly could practically at the time, because
Speaker 8: you know, you're just going to get something better someone's
Speaker 8: actually doing it. Of course, not to the nth degree
Speaker 8: where you're going to get completely smashed and beat up,
Speaker 8: but we really shot a lot of it practically.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean back then that you had to too.
Speaker 4: I mean, like the technology what I mean now it's
Speaker 4: like in the Marvel Universe, it's.
Speaker 2: Just you're you're a you're an entering room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I feel like back then you still had
Speaker 4: to actually do it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: And so from that time on, is then every offer
Speaker 1: you got for action movies, did you just became like
Speaker 1: the go to action movie star from that point on.
Speaker 7: Well, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did a lot of action after that, and
Speaker 8: I think again because of of course the film and
Speaker 8: having the dance background and learning fight and stunt choreography
Speaker 8: for me was a lot like learning a dance.
Speaker 7: Routine, so so the body conditioning is different.
Speaker 8: You know, I found myself, you know, working with Tony
Speaker 8: Chang from a house of flying daggers and you know,
Speaker 8: doing wire work with the Circusolaid troop and I'm like,
Speaker 8: it's kind of a six foot tinker bell or something.
Speaker 8: It was these things, you know, we're exactly natural for me,
Speaker 8: but I did it. And you know, I think also
Speaker 8: just having a you know, you know, broad shoulders and
Speaker 8: an athletic frame, and you know, I'm an athletic person
Speaker 8: in general, like I'm an open ocean swimmer, I'm an
Speaker 8: avid skier, you know, I'm I'm an equestrian. I do
Speaker 8: you know long distance endurance. I mean I love kind
Speaker 8: of that excitement and extreme kind of sport background. So
Speaker 8: doing all that for me was exciting. And you know,
Speaker 8: doing a lot of you know, work with a fencing
Speaker 8: and weaponryue and you know, whether it's double bladed axes
Speaker 8: or swords, I mean, it's just cool.
Speaker 6: Don't you ever just look around and you're like, this
Speaker 6: is my job.
Speaker 4: I get paid to work with double bladed axes.
Speaker 8: So cool.
Speaker 1: So I know Will is also thinking this question, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask it for him.
Speaker 5: What's it like working with Jean Claude Van Dam.
Speaker 8: Jean Claude van Dam such a legend. I know we
Speaker 8: all grew up watching his films. Yeah, it was really
Speaker 8: an awesome experience working with him. He's very kind hearted.
Speaker 8: But I will have you know that in this film,
Speaker 8: I play his love interest and darkness of man, and uh,
Speaker 8: I don't do any action. Actually, oh, it is a
Speaker 8: Mune wab thriller with a substantial amount of action. I
Speaker 8: don't know.
Speaker 7: Maybe in part two there'll be a surprise there.
Speaker 6: He was great.
Speaker 2: Is this out yet? Is it coming out to?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 5: Exciting?
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like a Van Damn movie. I mean, there
Speaker 3: really is nothing like a Van Dam movie. It's it's
Speaker 3: like a Cigall movie. They're all They've got this kind
Speaker 3: of just character to them that are so wonderful that.
Speaker 8: Really he really brings the action I mean for him,
Speaker 8: and I think, you know, being a kickboxer and having
Speaker 8: that kind of training. It's it'll be muscle memory for
Speaker 8: him forever. I mean because he was a champion. Yeah,
Speaker 8: so it's it's there and he's he's an incredible shape
Speaker 8: and yeah, just a really kindhearted individual.
Speaker 3: The video of him, have you guys seen the video
Speaker 3: of him between the trucks?
Speaker 2: Have you seen him with the splits, with the split splits?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that rider?
Speaker 3: Have you seen this? No, So he's just there's two
Speaker 3: trucks next to each other, like two rigs driving next
Speaker 3: to each other, and they have these little platforms on him.
Speaker 3: He standing between the two rigs and then they slowly
Speaker 3: just start to pull out until he's just in a
Speaker 3: perfect split as these trucks are driving down.
Speaker 2: It's insane. It's insane. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about your stunt team because
Speaker 4: this is something that I'm always fascinated. Have you had
Speaker 4: a consistent stunt actor that you've worked with or a
Speaker 4: team that you've worked with.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Alisa Hensley is a stunt double that is.
Speaker 8: Not only an incredible talent, but a wonderful person and
Speaker 8: a dear friend. And she doubled me on T three
Speaker 8: and then it just kind of went from there. We
Speaker 8: worked together on various projects and you know, the Sun
Speaker 8: people that I've had the opportunity to work with, and
Speaker 8: I'm now so glad that there are awards to celebrate
Speaker 8: them for the final.
Speaker 2: Recognition Unsung Heroes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I mean what they put themselves through, it's like,
Speaker 8: you know, obviously they make all of us look good
Speaker 8: and they're really out there, you know, putting their lives
Speaker 8: on the line, and I mean I've seen so much
Speaker 8: that also goes wrong and it's it's just an incredibly
Speaker 8: harrowing job. So yeah, I've worked with just an amazing
Speaker 8: amount of talent in the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like they they're the equivalent in politics of
Speaker 3: the speech writer, where it's like they do a ton
Speaker 3: of work, they take none of the credit. There's a
Speaker 3: there's like a rule where you don't take the credit.
Speaker 3: It's like it's not about us. But they're doing all
Speaker 3: the work, unbelievable and it's about time that they're they're
Speaker 3: getting their due, which is yeah, they're phenomenal.
Speaker 5: And you have a son thor right, I sure do, Yes,
Speaker 5: I do? And so how old does.
Speaker 1: He and do is he into anything in the entertainment industry?
Speaker 1: What would you want him to be. Does he know
Speaker 1: how cool it is that his mom is the terminator.
Speaker 8: Well, Thor is seven and three quarters, if you're okay
Speaker 8: right now, and you know, I don't really see him
Speaker 8: being in front of a camera. He's very different than
Speaker 8: me in that regard. He did get up on stage
Speaker 8: and do his school play a little reluctantly at first,
Speaker 8: but there and now he's kind of helping the other kids,
Speaker 8: so he's being a little more confident there. And you know,
Speaker 8: he sees pictures around the house, you know, where mama
Speaker 8: is half mama, half robot, but we haven't. I'm also
Speaker 8: kind of one of these parents, ironically, given my profession,
Speaker 8: who doesn't do screens with my son. So he has
Speaker 8: really kind of no idea. Like I tell him, I
Speaker 8: play pretend for my job and I create characters, and
Speaker 8: I described that to him and for his play it was.
Speaker 8: I was so giddy that I was actually like running
Speaker 8: lines with him, and then he starts giving me direction.
Speaker 8: He's like, no, Mama, no, no, no, you gotta gotta
Speaker 8: read it like this. So I think, of anything, he'd
Speaker 8: be a director, you know.
Speaker 5: So what was his school play?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 7: It was It was a mash up and it was
Speaker 7: frozen of Oz.
Speaker 6: That makes sense.
Speaker 8: They did Pinocchia. You know, we've got to be very
Speaker 8: piece here. Okay, female Pinocchio.
Speaker 5: Yeah, female Pinocchio. Okay.
Speaker 1: Finally, almost thirty years since appearing on our little show
Speaker 1: and going on to have such a fun and rewarding career,
Speaker 1: what would you want to tell teenage Christanna back in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 8: You know, I guess if I had to do it again,
Speaker 8: I've had a lot of wanderlust in my life, and
Speaker 8: I think.
Speaker 7: Things might have been a little bit different for me
Speaker 7: if I did.
Speaker 8: I did a mini series in South Africa, fell absolutely
Speaker 8: in love with the country. I want a house there.
Speaker 8: I became a permanent resident. Wow. I went on to
Speaker 8: produce and start in another film there. But I think
Speaker 8: perhaps if I hadn't spent quite so much of my
Speaker 8: time gallivanting around Africa, maybe things would have been a
Speaker 8: little different. But you know what, I got something. I
Speaker 8: got a lot out of that experience too, And I
Speaker 8: think we can all relate as getting into the business
Speaker 8: as a youngster, like there was a part of me
Speaker 8: that really needed that separation, Like I needed to be
Speaker 8: far away to my own reflection and grounding and perspective
Speaker 8: I think in life. So it was it was a balance.
Speaker 8: It was a trade off.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think there's so many actors that sit around in
Speaker 4: LA going to the gym and waiting for the phone
Speaker 4: to ring, you know, like you. I think it's great.
Speaker 4: That's probably helped your career. And though it took a
Speaker 4: lot of your time. I think living living for other
Speaker 4: places and other experiences that can only enrich enricher art artistry.
Speaker 8: You know that's true. Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 6: How long did you live there?
Speaker 7: I had the home there for ten years?
Speaker 6: Wow, it's so quick. I've never been one.
Speaker 8: Of course, I had my my here in LA, but
Speaker 8: between jobs I would go there quite a bit. Wow.
Speaker 6: That's so cool.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: And I love that big map behind you. I can
Speaker 1: I just you can tell you.
Speaker 7: Are I do.
Speaker 8: I'm like citizen of the world.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being willing to come back
Speaker 1: and spend this time with us reliving some of those
Speaker 1: fun moments from that amazing two weeks. I guess we
Speaker 1: spent with you between season four and season five episodes.
Speaker 1: But you are such a cool addition to the Boy
Speaker 1: Meets world lore and legacy, and we have just we're
Speaker 1: honored to talk to you today.
Speaker 5: So thank you for coming back and spending time with us.
Speaker 1: Please give us a plug for your movie, tell us
Speaker 1: about the premiere May twenty first, tell us everything you
Speaker 1: can about that and where we can see it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, thanks Danielle, And I just want to say too,
Speaker 8: thanks to you guys, like it was only I can't
Speaker 8: believe when you say two weeks, because I felt like
Speaker 8: I really spent more time with you because you were
Speaker 8: such You've made such a lasting impact in my life
Speaker 8: and on my career and in my mind and positive memories.
Speaker 8: And you know you don't. You don't always have that
Speaker 8: on the jobs that you do, the people that you
Speaker 8: work with. So it's a real testament to the culture
Speaker 8: that you created on the show. So thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I saw the movie there too, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: You so yeah.
Speaker 7: So I've actually got four movies coming up.
Speaker 5: Come on.
Speaker 8: Darkness of Man is the Jean Claude Van Dam movie
Speaker 8: that comes out on digital May twenty first, and the
Speaker 8: trailer is available online so people can find that. Then
Speaker 8: I've got a film that I produced my company, Trio
Speaker 8: Entertainment called Bis and Virtue, which is an ensemble dramedy
Speaker 8: about two celestial beings that come down to planet Earth
Speaker 8: and impose this judgment day on about half a dozen
Speaker 8: people that find themselves in an undisclosed location.
Speaker 9: Night.
Speaker 8: And it's really a story about choices and for me
Speaker 8: during COVID, when we're all sitting at home steering our
Speaker 8: choices in the face, do you go there? Do you
Speaker 8: not go there? Do you see this person? Do you
Speaker 8: not see this person? It really impacted me. So I
Speaker 8: was inspired to make Vice and Virtue and how certain
Speaker 8: choices lead us down one path and other choices take
Speaker 8: us in a different direction.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 8: So Vice and Virtue will be out later this year.
Speaker 8: We're doing the festival circuit now. And then there's a
Speaker 8: film called Dark Night of the Soul, which is a
Speaker 8: survival film.
Speaker 7: It's kind of my one hundred and twenty seven hours.
Speaker 2: Oh so disturbing. So just did you do you cut
Speaker 2: off your army? You don't cut off your arm do you?
Speaker 8: No? But there are some there are some gruesome moments.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, Yeah.
Speaker 7: My character has a high position at the CDC.
Speaker 8: It's during a pandemic at the film, she gets into
Speaker 8: a car accident she gets pinned under the car. So
Speaker 8: it's inspired by a poem Dark Knight of the Soul,
Speaker 8: which essentially is about a person staring their dark knight
Speaker 8: in the face. Will do they have the will to
Speaker 8: survive and to pull through or do they feel like
Speaker 8: they've done all that they need to do and let
Speaker 8: themselves go into the next phase of So that is
Speaker 8: Dark Knight of the Soul with Martin Cove he plays
Speaker 8: My Father. And then last, but certainly not least is
Speaker 8: a film called No Address, and No Address is written
Speaker 8: by and directed by a dear friend of mine, Julia Verdon.
Speaker 8: Some of you may know her. She seems to know
Speaker 8: everybody and she got on a tour bus with a
Speaker 8: homeless expert. She went to seventeen different cities and interviewed
Speaker 8: people from the homeless community, and inspired from their stories,
Speaker 8: she wrote a scripted feature. There's also a documentary that's
Speaker 8: going to be coming out in tandem, and it's to
Speaker 8: really underscore the plight of homelessness in America and the
Speaker 8: crisis in which we are all facing. In la we
Speaker 8: have the largest in city homeless community, sixty thousand people.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's the size of the city in and
Speaker 8: of itself. So No Address is really a story about
Speaker 8: a handful of people that find themselves in their journey
Speaker 8: of homelessness and how we're all truly just a few
Speaker 8: steps away from becoming homeless ourselves. And so my character,
Speaker 8: I have a family, I have a son who's ten,
Speaker 8: and my husband played by Billy Baldwin, and it's you know,
Speaker 8: we are one of the vignette of our journey to homelessness.
Speaker 8: So No Address as well.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for telling us all that sharing
Speaker 1: those with us.
Speaker 5: They all sound amazing.
Speaker 6: I want to I want to.
Speaker 2: See all foremost to thinking the same thing. I want
Speaker 2: to break it up.
Speaker 3: I think I want to go to the Homeless movie
Speaker 3: first because I think that's important.
Speaker 2: But then followed right by Van Dam because that's just
Speaker 2: it's Van Dam. So that's awesome. And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, Christana, thank you so much for being here with us.
Speaker 1: A joy to see you, and I hope to see
Speaker 1: you again. I hope it's not another almost ten years.
Speaker 8: No, I do too, and you know, it's it's been
Speaker 8: such a blast from the past. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 8: I didn't get to go to a high school and
Speaker 8: us as you all probably didn't either, you know, growing
Speaker 8: up on set. But I feel like this is like
Speaker 8: the closest I could have to it.
Speaker 7: So thanks for keeping this a lot.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. It's great to see you, all
Speaker 5: of you.
Speaker 8: Great to see you.
Speaker 5: Thank you you too.
Speaker 6: Bye bye.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: She's so smart and so cool and yeah, just like
Speaker 1: everything I want to be here.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it would be it's just Schwarzenegger van Dam.
Speaker 3: I mean, like again, if she's holding a lightsaber at
Speaker 3: one point, she's living my dream.
Speaker 5: It's just so cool, so cool.
Speaker 6: Yow.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm really excited that we got to reconnect with
Speaker 1: her and here that she's still still up to it. Like, man,
Speaker 1: the age has got nothing on her. She's still just
Speaker 1: being a bad ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: She's talked about open ocean swimming and long distance and
Speaker 3: I was tired halfway through all just the list of.
Speaker 1: The things that she does exactly. You know, we need
Speaker 1: to we need to get back to karate.
Speaker 2: Will Yeah, we do immediately.
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