Drama Queens - Ashley Rickards

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

Ashley recalls her very first day as Sam Walker on OTH and why it was way more stressful than most other actors' first days. She and Sophia share the details of an incredible fan story and why Ashley has never forgotten it. Plus, find out what she faked in order to fit in on set!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. First of all, you don't know me. We're all about that high school drama girl, drama girl, all about them high school queens.

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incredible Sam. She came in and turned Brooke Davis's world upside down and then really helped set it right side up. And I'm so excited you're here today. I haven't seen you since like a pre-pandemic convention. Yeah, I came to Sam thing. where I was like, because I knew you sang because we have the same vocal coach. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I've seen your face like up on the wall that he has whenever I'm there. So I was like, oh, okay.

And then, yeah, we got together and I heard your voice for the first time and was blown away. You too. Oh, my God, no, but you're incredible. I wish we'd figured out a way to get you to sing on Wonture Hill. that would have been so fun. I mean, at this point, like, you know, we've got our dogs eating hearts. We've got nannies being shot in cornfields.

Like, why not? Let's just make Sam a rock star. Yeah, yeah, why not? Yeah. The dog eating the heart thing is great. Anything is possible in Tree Hill in season 6th. Anything. Well, let's get to know you a little bit for this audience

because everybody knows you as Sam, but here's some things that I love that I didn't know. about you, which is, A, that you grew up on a horse farm that catered to children with special needs, which is amazing. What an experience. Like, how many years of your life did you spend there? A lot on the horse farm. My family doesn't really do anything halfway. So I was, you know, I went to a horse camp one year, and then I guess the next year and a half, all of a sudden we had 24 horses and we're we're living on seven acres and uh and yeah we um we they had shoes for horses so that like they can go indoors and don't slip so we would bring some of the

and oh and i should say they were miniature horses so i mean i would yeah no way i did a little bit of like english riding not on the not on the miniature horses obviously but um Yeah, so they were really great for like, we'd bring them to nursing homes and we'd bring our dogs too. And one really crazy experience was that I brought Amber, who was our beagle in at the time, to, you know, this one woman in her room. And she was talking about her dog, about her kids and everything. And that's great. And then, you know, I went outside and the nurse was like, I can't. can't believe she's talking. She never talks. And I was like, wow, wow. That was crazy, but I guess

the power of animals. Yeah, horses especially. They're such incredible animals. Yeah. How do you go from growing up on a horse farm and doing so much of this sort of care work, how do you find your way into acting rather than, you know, forcefully? Training animals or something. like what light what lit you up in that way yeah i uh it was kind of by force i went to a small montessori school that was just like walking distance from my house and when i say small i mean very small there were five people in my grade and so to put they were doing a high school or an opera and i don't even think we had enough people in the high school and middle school put together to do it so it was mandatory. And I didn't want to do it. I'm very stubborn. And then I really liked it. And I remember

the moment like in the back of the theater where I was like, I really like this. I can't let anyone know. But then of course, I had to let people know because my family does not do anything halfway. And I was like, I want to be an actor. And so we actually ended up going to L.A. pretty quickly after that, though. Your family moved to L.A. for you to be able to pursue acting. We, okay, so I don't know if you remember Lou

Pearlman. He was throwing these, like, talent competitions, and one was in Orlando. So I went there and had a fun time, and didn't get anything out of it, but there was some person, I don't know who,

but it was like a talent scout or something, that was like, oh, yeah, you should come out to L.A. And so my mom and I came out for this, you know, meeting that ended up being a casting call. That long story short, ended up with me meeting my first entertainment lawyer. So by then, he sort of, yeah, he sort of introduced us to everybody. And so that way we had a foot in the door and kind of just went up from there.

And yeah, then me and my mom, we were going back and forth for a while, but then my mom realized she really liked L.A. And I love L.A. So, yeah. Are you an only child? Yeah. She says defeated. Yeah. Well, I'm just hoping it doesn't show.

Like, I don't know what did I say. No, we're all only children here. Oh, okay. Oh, we all grew up there. Yes. To the club. So it's a little less. less stressful for a family to pick up and move when they've only got a kid.

You know, it's just the three of two. Was it two of you or three of you? It was my mom and I and my dad came out like every two weeks or so. Yeah. Okay. Okay, cool. Wow. I mean, that's that's just got to, that's, that's got to be a lot of, a lot of freedom. I don't, maybe it was a lot of pressure. I don't know. Just the feeling of like we're, we've picked up our whole life. We're coming out here for me to try and do this thing that I, think that I love as a child when did it start transitioning for you as like this is something that I can really do yeah I mean part of being stubborn is kind of obsessing of something and so we were still doing the horse farm and when we were traveling back and forth we were trying to see

you know where that would fit in with everything and we kept it going quite a bit longer than probably, I don't know, we all really love the farm, so that was hard moving away from it. But we got a different house of Florida. And by that time, my mom and I were mostly living in L.A. So it just kind of naturally formed into that. When we decide to pursue acting, there's usually a moment that we, something happens where we realize, like, I have to do this. And it's, I'm going to make it work.

And like you're saying, the stubbornness of I'm going to figure out how to make this work. I have to do this. And it sounded like maybe being on stage was a moment for you for that. But I feel like when you get to L.A. and you start integrating with the community here and getting jobs, like, do you have a moment where everything really clicked for you? I do. But that moment was back in Florida.

And I was sitting at the Players Theater backstage. I can remember the smell. I can remember. And I still use that mascara. Great lash. the pink tube with the green top I paid to say anything about that but I was putting that on

and also I was playing an eel so I don't know and my so my face was green and like I don't know why the eel needed mascara but anyway yeah I just remember the smell and everything and like it was just like one of those aha moments

and yeah and then you know just once you were on set and you were in your first sort of experience with the real world acting, not just like an acting class or acting school, it became even more addictive and like, like, you know, that you have to do it like you were saying. And it's just I've never looked back since.

So how did you get cast on our show as Sam? So I auditioned and I was with my parents at, It was a, yeah, it was Don Cucco's down in Toluca Lake. And the creator was there, and he came up to the table with my mom and my dad and I, and he said, saw your audition, looked really good for you. I was like, okay, and neither of us really knew what was going on. But I got the call later that afternoon, and off to Wilmington, we go. It was just a random audition that came in.

Yeah, it was an audition. I did it like everyone else. And then, yeah, I guess people were looking at it and the right person up to, had to run into me at Don Cucko's. You were 16, right, when you came out to Wilmington? Yeah, like 15, 16, something like that, really young. Yeah. Because you graduated high school. Yeah, yeah. I didn't have to do any onset. I'd never had to do any. Thank God. um any onset schooling because that's oh you're mensa i mean that would be hard to find a tutor who's capable of yeah probably would have been teaching them i'm yeah yeah when you're smart enough

to graduate that many years early i feel like yeah they're like she's good she's she's maybe but um yeah i don't know i just saw a lot of my friends going through the onset schooling and that just seemed kind of like awful because there you are you're parallel to doing something that you love something that you want to do and then you have to go into a room with somebody who really has no idea where you are schooling wise and is also teaching the seven-year-old in the scene like with you so I loved on set tutoring really it was just oh it was my favorite thing and I always did way better in my classes when I was doing a, when I was doing a job, because the classroom environment just was really not suited for my, my brain. I had such a hard time focusing and paying attention

and retaining information, but we would do one-on-one, and I would get straight A's every time. And it was, it was material that was ahead of where my class was, so it was always more complex. And then I would get back to school and then be bored, because I was already ahead of everybody. I wish I had been able to do one-on-one tutoring for most of my life. I probably would have graduated early. That would have been nice. But I loved it. Yeah, it definitely was in a way a lot of one-on-one tutoring because you had to when

you're going back and forth that much. You have to find a different schooling program. So it was definitely travel schooling. So, you know, my mom tried to be my teacher for a bit, but, you know, mothers and That didn't last very long. So we were doing some like, like you were saying, you know, the one-on-one kind of stuff, which, of course you excel at more. I just, I just really had no interest.

And maybe in science and history, I cared, but like, oh, my God, math. Like, no interest. It may look different, but Native culture is very alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. It was a huge honor to become a television writer because it does feel oddly, like, very traditional. It feels like Bob Dylan going electric, that this is something we've been doing for a hundred of years. You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Taylor Ornellis, who with Rutherford Falls became the first name.

native showrunner in television history. On the podcast, Burn Sage Burn Bridges, we explore her story, along with other Native stories, such as the creation of the first Native Comic-Con or the importance of reservation basketball. Every day, Native people are striving to keep traditions alive while navigating the modern world, influencing and bringing our culture into the mainstream. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten, they called me a massacist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.

I'm Leon Nefok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. This is Fiasco, Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts. or wherever you get your podcasts. Was it hard to pick up and move away from all your friends, right at that sort of moment when everyone's like getting their driver's licenses

and life is sort of opening up in that way? It would, except for that my social circle consisted of like two people. So it wasn't that it wasn't that hard. in that way and I kept in touch with them too but you know coming out here so early on especially being in acting classes and whatever you you may you mean a lot of people your age pretty quick and that's that kind of fulfills that void how did it feel coming into season six of a show I had no understanding of like how long it is for you guys to be in like season like season like I didn't know any of this.

I think I'd done like a guest star or something, but I had no understanding of what that felt like for you guys. So I couldn't really like give you an answer, but it felt great because it was super smooth. Everyone knew what they were doing. Do you remember your first day on set, like what things felt like getting to Wilmington and just being like, okay, this is my life now for the next, you know?

couple of months. Oh, yeah. When I had that, this of my life now, was because my mother snores a lot, loudly and profusely. And it's the worst. And you can't, you can't sleep in a room next door. So we've requested that we have like two different rooms, it doesn't matter. Well, then they gave us two different of those whole apartments down by the waterfront. And so I'm 15 and I have my own apartment. Your own apartment. It's so good. It was so great. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah. I do deserve this. I do. That was really fun. That was great. And I could not hear, I mean, my mom was in the one right next to me, but I still couldn't hear her snore. So I got adequate sleep. That was nice.

And your whole life changed then, it sounds like. Yeah, what a good. Pretty much. Yeah, then I moved out at 18 because I was like, I've done this before. I got it. But, yeah, it was fun. That's awesome. That's so cool.

Was it kind of a wild experience? I mean, to your point, you've done a guest star before. And now you move across the country. You're in an apartment. And because you've graduated high school, you're doing full. I mean, you were doing full work days with us. Was it sort of surreal to go to set and be like, oh, we're just going to be here for 17 whole hours every day? Like, or did it just feel so exciting?

I think it was so exciting that I didn't mind any of the long hours. If anything, it was like a point of pride being like, oh, we're still here at that point. Then on awkward, you know, I'd be like, oh, my God, we're still here. And I think that that must have been how you guys felt. There were days. I think we all had, you know, I think any job has those days. It has to. It has to.

But yeah, it was great. And I think I learned a lot about like memorizing lines. I had a system, but, um, it was great to, um, you know, try that system out. And I learned a lot from you guys too, like, and Sophia, you were just so warm and such a professional. You just hit your mark, did the line. That was great. Um, and Joy, when I saw you on set when we had like scenes in the same area, um, and we would be in chairs, like, you were just so kind and worn and yeah, it was just such, I feel really grateful that that was my, my intro to like a reoccurring role in a larger sense because there are there could have been a lot

crazier places that would have probably left a bad taste in my mouth yeah so i'm i'm very grateful that that was my first experience that's awesome i remember being we you know we were at we had been on the show for long enough that uh i think we all felt established and sort of like we were figuring out how to be grownups. And so we really enjoyed having younger, having kids around, having that younger generation come in and learning how to help you guys figure out things that you didn't know. Because, you know, you weren't the only one who came on the show without a ton of experience. We had a lot of younger people who would come in and who had never done an acting job

before or who didn't really know much about how to find your mark or your lighting. And it was fun to be transitioning into that phase. of our lives of learning how to be able to pass on everything that we had learned over the last six years when we came in feelings a little bit like, you know, on a plank that's like teeterottering in water. And now we felt really solid. So it was fun. It was fun to have you around. And you were always really collaborative and had lots of fun ideas. And I felt like you, you know, you're very stoic you have a very stoic sort of personality and so it's I mean as far as I experienced on set and so it was it was easy to I guess project that you knew exactly what you were doing and so it was

always a little like surprising like oh yeah that's right like she's she's still learning where the marks are and all this stuff is really fun I have a story about that um Sophia you there's this book it's too high for me to reach I was going to get it but it's on a bookshelf I'm I'm five, four, and not too high. But I had this book called Lost Histories, and you were like, oh, I'm trying about that. sounds super interesting. I'm like, yeah, it's really good. I had never read a word of that book, but I knew, I knew that people read books on set.

And I was like, that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to be reading this book. Just going to bring a book? Yeah. That is so funny. I read books for real, but just like on my phone. now but um but yeah i was totally faking it the whole time so maybe that's where you got the stoic from um that's so funny yeah we were like god she's so mature she's like in the corner reading all

these books yeah this you know wise teenager okay wait were there were there any sort of experiences or similarities in your life as a teenager that you felt like like you were pulling from to play Sam or even when you were like working, did you sort of feel like you had to figure it out really quick and just pretend like you knew what you were doing? One of the coolest scenes I ever did just to like sidetrack a little bit was we're doing a super long shot and like you could not even see the camera. It was at night and it was With Evan Peters, oh my God, how fun is it to see him doing everything now. Yeah, we guys not what Evan, right?

Oh, my God. It's so cool. You guys had a lot of fun. I feel like you got on really. Oh, we'll come back to that. Keep going. Sorry. No, we did.

He was as quirky as I was. But I guess with Sam, what I related to most was, like having a guard up and kind of not trusting people and, you know, being an only child feeling. kind of alone and like that mentality of like well no one else is going to do it for you and then being able to pull from things that I probably didn't let anybody on to in real life was very therapeutic what were you going to say though you said you had a moment when it was you were shooting a scene with Evan oh yeah we just looked at each other and we were like all scenes should be shot this way. We can't see a camera. It was night, but we couldn't see anything. And it was so easy to do. Those are the best. Yeah. I have had like two of those since, but oh my God,

it's such a great, great thing. But that was one of the moments that I'm like, oh, I wish I could do that again. That was so nice. But yeah, dude, Evan Peters, how well is he doing? Oh, my gosh. Yeah, he's taken off. You guys picked up right away. I mean, I remember when he came in, you both just clicked. It was like easy, connective energy. You both always had your, like, inside jokes. I feel like I was always looking over the two of you giggling in the corner and just talking about whatever kids, 16 year olds talk about at the time. It was so fun. Yeah, he was. He was, he was, he was, he was, just kind of quirky and offbeat and I was probably not pretending to read books at that point but it was it was nice it was easy it felt like somebody got my sense of humor

and yeah we did click right away because he was in his 20s but I remember like my mom was like do you mean anything we can take you someplace and he goes just go to a grocery store and get some beer and popcorn

that was it that's Jen oh he got pancakes, too. But that was genuinely all he bought. And I was like, oh, okay. Bair and popcorn and pancakes. What else does a 17-year-old in Wellington eat? Yeah. Oh, gosh. So fast forward 10 or so years later, you're still in L.A. What's happening in your life? What are, you know, some of the lessons that you've learned through your experience on Awkward and Wintry Hill and all the other stuff that you've been doing since then, just give us a lay of the land for you right now where you're at. Yeah, it's been, it's been great to have that experience. It would have been probably really rough holding, carrying a show like awkward if I hadn't

you know, had that huge experience on Montree Hill, which was so, I mean, so many fun memory. It's like even even when we were back there for the convention I still went and walked around downtown and I was like oh that was so nice and there was this one scene where

it was pretty early on in our filming I think it might have even been in this episode where you and I Sophia were in a real life diner filming this and you know there are all the fans who are always like waiting outside once we're filming none of my episodes today are you but they're losing their mind over you and they know

they know that i'm somehow on the scene with you so then they start losing their mind over me and i was so excited i was like yeah i'll sign that and it was fun it was so great because they they you know freak out over you and then they were still wanting to to freak out, so I got the second phase of the freak out. That's fun. But I guess the things that I learn mostly on on One Tree Hill that really helped me the most was just how to be on set,

how to welcome new people, how to kind of, I don't know, if the day can be made shorter, you can point it out to maybe like a very new director who you can tell is a little intimidated be like it's all good um you know we can not to like back seat direct but you know when you're doing your rehearsals you can just say it you know is it better for you if i'm over here and then it is and we all get out two hours earlier yeah but yeah those little tips and tricks set hacks yeah but um i don't know you guys really taught me like how to cry and

it's like just take your time and kind of have it rolling before you need to be on it because it's kind of distracting when they're like in action and you're supposed to be like but you can just have them be rolling out waste any one's time for 30 seconds um And that was super helpful and important. Also, I learned you should never ugly cry and definitely what that meant. But it's hard to do. It really is. It is.

It's like so hard. When you're really upset, you're just upset. But yeah. And what you were saying about, like, you know, how exciting it is to have like a new generation. It was the same way on awkward When we had have new people who we knew We're going to be around for a long time For many episodes

It was that like excitement And seeing how they were on set And You know, a lot of them it was their first big thing too And so You know, you hope you're helping them But But yeah, it was just such a pivotal show for me, just setting it up for everything else I'd do.

That's so cool. I love hearing that. It may look different, but Native culture is very alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. It was a huge honor to become a television writer because it does feel oddly, like, very traditional. It feels like Bob Dylan going electric, that this is something we've been doing for a hundred of years. You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Taylor Ornellis, who with Rutherford Falls became the first native showrunner in television history. On the podcast, Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we explore her story, along with other native stories, such as the creation

of the first Native Comic-Con or the importance of reservation basketball. Every day, Native people are striving to keep traditions alive while navigating the modern world, influencing and bringing our culture into the mainstream. Listen to Burn Sageburn Bridges

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. You put two and two together. Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. I'm Leon Nefok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.

This is Fiasco, Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Yes, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When you tell that story about all the folks outside the Dixie Girl, it feels like a perfect segue because we told the fans you were coming on the show. And my God, they sent in so many questions for you. So, yeah, so we want to do, I mean, we have a million more questions.

We want to ask you. But, you know, we want to spread the love around and let make sure we get through some of this fan Q&A that we have. Okay, so the first one is from Katie. She says, what is your favorite scene? of Brooke and Sam. I remember being very uncomfortable assaulting you in that first scene, Sophia. So it was pretty happy, like, every other episode where I didn't have to, like, punch you or throw you down. I mean, have you, how many, if you watched the episodes, like, have you gone back and watched the stuff that you were in?

Are you one of those actors that's like, I just can't, I can't watch it? No, I've watched it. I just haven't, like, it's so weird to watch, like, something where it's, like, 10 years ago for you. It is, isn't it? It's hard to pick one, but I think, you know, that episode where Sam leaves, I think we both got to do a lot of crying. And that's always good actors love that when they get a chance to, like, cry on camera. Yeah, so somewhere in there. Well, that sort of relates to Christina's question, because she wants to know what was your hardest scene to shoot.

would it have been one of those really emotional ones do you think yeah there was one and i don't remember what episode it is but i think sam had done something bad and she was i was just like doing the dishes or something in brook's house and like that required a lot of emotion so that was pretty hard um but yeah actually the first scene in close over grows was probably the hardest because I had no experience with like physicality or stunts or anything so you did a lot of the guide work on that um that I guess technically for me that was the hardest I just remember having to be like don't worry it's okay you can check me like we'll be will be going to be all right do it like do it harder

You know, because you, yeah, it was a poor thing. I mean, they gave it to you on your first day. You're like, hey, nice to me. You let me just hate you. Like, what a weird way to be introduced to someone. And I remember being like, I know exactly how you're feeling. We're going to be okay, me and you. Yeah, so, Ashley, did they ask you to come back like for Brooks wedding or anything?

Where were you? Where were you? Where did you go? I don't know. I didn't know where I was. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think because Sam just kind of walked off by like this freaking fence and then she was

just gone. She didn't like die or anything, but she just like, but you walked off into the sunset to go live with her mom. Yeah. You wound up on awkward though pretty quickly, right? Yeah. Yeah, it wouldn't like a year. Exactly.

So I feel like that's the thing that happens is, you know, great people leave a show and then they wind up on another show and then they're not available to come back for special episodes or whatever because, you know, you're off working and starring on your own thing, which was so cool. Yeah. Would have loved to have been in two places at once, though. Thinking back on it now, Jess wants to know this and so do we. Is there any storyline you would have liked to see for Sam that you didn't get to do while you were on the show? I mean, I think it's like an easy one where you're like, oh, Sam gets pregnant. But that would have locked me in for a couple episodes, you know.

Definitely would have kept you around for a while. Yeah. So that would have been great. Then there's also like, what about the skateboarding thing? Because Sam was supposed to be a skateboarder. And I am athletic. I am not afraid of heights. I am so scared of being an inch and a half.

off the ground. Skateboards are terrifying. It's fine. I paddle board. I mean, but I can't skateboard. I'm just. I know. It's like these hoverboards with the two wheels on either side.

My daughter has friends that just jump on these hoverboards and they're just zooming, zipping around their driveways in the house. And I'm like, every time I get on one, I feel like I'm going to fall over. I haven't tried one probably for the same reason. The skateboard didn't work. Tara is asking, what is your best on-set memory with the cast and crew? This is a nice, like, oh, let's put a bow on it. I just loved this moment.

Okay, on-set moment. I don't mean to make fun of this person. I really, I don't. So there was this background artist who I thought just smelled like a reginal, but he just smelled overall Irby. Later in life, I would come to know what that is. but he was he was just

so weird and he was talking to me and he was kind of like holding up the wall and like one eyeing it kind of thing and I was like all right

it's like Rocky oh god I'm on Rocky um Rocky's like I don't know what this situation is so he came over a background artist name was Joe

we've been filming for like reasonably 10 hours but the prop food had been put out the beginning of the day. There's North Carolina heat. Oh, boy. And Joe decides to go eat one of those sandwiches. And a PA stops and before and goes, no, no, no, don't eat that.

Obviously for continuity as well, but, like, also, there's ham cheese and mustard on this. Like, don't eat that. No, no, no, no. He ate it. And we looked over like an hour and a half later, Joe was like, oh. and so then like when they did get to you know see him and he was in the shot he was just like on a lawn chair coming to sleep um oh my god that was something i think the other one was um so i think it was a book that Hillary bought me.

She did buy me a great book that I have to sit next to me. But this might have been another one. And it was about like fairies and mystical stuff. And we're in the makeup trailer and I brought it. And Rocky and I were like, there's a quiz in there that says like, what kind of mystical creature are you?

And so I was hoping for unicorn. I got known. and I re-took it and I was like maybe that was a goof now I got gnome again so then the next day from the set

and on my trailer is a little garden gnome just right on the step it was so cute and so yeah we named him Philip and I put some blush on him

and I've had him ever since. Philip Philip is the best. I love that. Those are the little things you carry with you that, you know, nobody would know about who wasn't in the

sort of intimate cast family. And I don't know, I just, I love it. I love all those quirky little pieces of chachis and things that make you, you know, feel a little warm and fuzzy. Those are the things that. make it feel like a family, just all the little things that happen in the trailers and between the trailers and from the trailers to set and in between the shots, watching background people

eat, say, old sandwiches. And it's just like, man, that's the stuff that really builds the bond. Yeah. I remember one, here we are. It was like around Halloween or something. Rocky, Tim and my mom and I and some other people all decided to go up to, I think, Charleston. supposed to be like super haunted or whatever and so we wanted to go on one of those ghost tours and props to the guy who was doing the tour he is a good and um committed actor um as corny as the

situation was he was on it and they're like if you see any orbs those are spirits so whether it's a dust particle or an orb we'll never know but but so we're taking all these pictures and everything and at the end of the tour. We end up at like a cemetery because you've gone through like the house and other places and so we're at a cemetery and I'm like 15, 16.

I'm just being obnoxious. But I'm laughing, giggling, stifling, giggling the whole time. And we get out to the like cemetery area or whatever where they're like, okay, take a bunch of pictures and see what you get. And there's this one picture with all of us where they're genuinely are like,

orbs that didn't look like dust particles, but they could have been very large dust particles. Just hanging out all around you. It will never know. Yeah. Wow. That was fun too. Amazing. Well, fun.

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