Drama Queens - Lauren Holly
Episode Date: May 6, 2026Long before portraying Sophia's mom in their new comedy "Broad Trip," Lauren Holly was '90s TV and movie royalty, starring in the smash hit "Dumb and Dumber" opposite then-boyfriend Jim Carrey an...d in the wildly popular dramatic series "Picket Fences." Here, Lauren opens up about which role still lingers with her and why moving away from Hollywood was the best decision she could have made. Plus, the unexpected question she asked herself before stepping into this new project with Sophia.Stream "Broad Trip" on Roku starting Friday, May 8th.Learn all about the Holly Family Fund and scholarship here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everyone. It's Sophia.
Welcome to Work in Progress.
Welcome back to Work in Progress, friends.
Today, we have one of my favorite coworkers ever.
And one of the most incredible women who I've ever been lucky enough to call my mom on screen.
Today, I am interviewing actor, writer, philanthropist, and all around.
Hollywood icon Lauren Holly. She has built a career defined not just by those iconic roles,
but by an ability to step away, recalibrate, and redefine and redetermined success on her own
terms in so many versions of artistry. Morin is so much fun to be around and so incisive and
so brilliant, probably because she grew up in a family steeped in academia.
and storytelling, and that foundation shaped her creative instincts and her sense of personal purpose.
She went on to use her artistic voice across every single popular genre from outrageous
comedies like Dumb and Dumber to character-driven dramas like Pickett Fences and Chicago Hope.
Lauren is such an incredible scene stealer and chameleon because she manages to ground a story,
any kind of story she's in, bringing her intelligence and warmth and emotional credibility.
I can say from experience she elevates whatever she takes on.
I had the incredible privilege of getting to see it up close on the set of our movie Broad Trip,
which premieres on Roku this Friday.
Let's dive in with my mama, Lauren Hawley.
I'm so excited people get to see our movie this week.
I just don't even know how to contain it.
Did you watch it?
Not yet.
Have you seen it?
No, I haven't seen it yet.
And it's so funny because I wanted to see it so much.
Yeah.
But earlier.
And now that it's closer, I kind of want to wait.
I know.
It's kind of a strange thing.
It's weird.
It's like part of me wants to watch it and part of me doesn't want to watch it without you.
So I'm like, either we have to be together or we have to do this and get on a
Zoom and watch it like on our TVs at the same time.
Yeah, something like that.
Okay.
Well, we'll figure it out.
I want to go back before we get into the movie and all things now.
I actually want to go back and I don't even mean like, how'd you start acting?
I mean like way before.
I know a little bit of the story, but for the fans at home, long before you figured out
what you wanted your career to be long before anybody knew you, what was childhood like for you?
Like when you were nine or 10 years old, where were you?
What was your family structure?
Were you already performing?
You know, as you were starting to approach double digits, did you kind of have a sense yet?
Or was it still coming?
No, it was still coming.
I had very young parents that got pregnant very early and were sort of struggling, I guess,
like, you know, financially and all of that and, like, putting each other through school and that sort of stuff.
When I was nine or ten, I had my first little brother.
I was seven when he was born.
Oh.
And the thing about my family was it seemed like everyone in my family had children very young until me.
So consequently, I had multiple generations around me.
And I actually have a picture of five generations of women, which is so crazy.
because it's me, my mom, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and my great-great-grandmother, which is a really cool picture to have.
And I think maybe the actor thing was forming only because having all of those generations around, I have so many core memories of being in the center of a room, like at holidays or whatever, and anything I did drew applause.
from many people. So I think that I became comfortable with that performative sort of attitude.
Yeah. Well, and we've talked a little bit about this. I know you grew up in a college town.
And I'm curious now because you are, you're such a fascinating and fascinated person. You're curious. You love to learn. You love to get to know people. And I wonder as you think about it,
how much do you think the kind of academic intellectual world that was all around you
shaped the way you saw the world? Do you think it inspired your curiosity? Oh, 100%. Because my parents
were always discussing things that were like different and sort of mind opening from, you know,
what my friends were talking about at school. And not only that, but just because they were both
academics, my world was broadened from such a small town because I grew up in Geneva.
New York that was about 18,000 people. But when I was 12, for example, we moved to London, England
for a year for my parents to do research and write. And all of a sudden I was like this
cosmopolitan kid going to an international school, taking the, you know, tube and buses all over
London by myself. Like it was kind of crazy. And so to then return to my town of 18,000 people,
wearing my skinny corduroys and my high heel clogs,
which was a very European influence,
you know, my world definitely broadened a bit.
Yeah.
So when you moved for research,
given that it was a year for them, I think you said,
did it feel less shocking and more just like,
oh, we're going on a family adventure
and then we'll wind up coming home?
Yeah, it was a family adventure because it wasn't a permanent move.
So, you know, you weren't afraid of that.
And it was, it was just very exciting because, for instance, I played the flute.
And, you know, in fourth grade in my town, you picked an instrument and that's what I picked.
And I was like, sort of playing along.
But when I went to London, I got into the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts because of it.
And that was, that probably started my whole trajectory.
Because to study music there and go through the examinations, I had to take the acting.
I became a junior member of the company, which basically meant, you know, I kept the bathrooms
clean and whatnot.
But I got to take all of the classes.
Yeah.
So it gave me this, I don't know, kind of foundation in a way about performing and what
it's like to be in a theater company and whatnot. It's such a young age from such a big city
that I sort of took back with me. And I think that really, by the time I got to college, even though I
wasn't studying theater, it just gave me the confidence, I think, to audition for my first play in
college, which set the whole arc of my career. Yeah. I mean, what a gift, that kind of exposure
at that age to have something where you sort of find yourself and you build your confidence
and you learn the ropes of something that's so special.
It was definitely baptism by fire.
Oh, 100% percent.
You know, at that time, even just to think that my parents kind of gave me free reign
of the city, of this giant city that I suddenly lived in and I could like take public
transportation everywhere.
This was like completely new to me because in my small town, I kind of.
I kind of lived on the edge of my small town that was like a kind of far bike ride or I was so dependent on my parents for a ride anywhere.
And now having the autonomy to just like jump on a tube and go wherever I wanted was so thrilling.
So that's so cool.
And then what is the tie?
Because I know I know in the family you're really connected to Hobart and to William Smith colleges.
how do they fit into the kind of larger Holly family equation?
Well, so Hobart William Smith is one college.
Oh, it is.
Yes, it's called Hobart, William Smith colleges.
I'm not exactly sure the history of why that is.
I think at some point it might have been the male side and the female side.
Of course.
But it's all just one.
And my mother ended.
up getting her undergraduate degree from there when I was like a freshman in high school. My dad was a
ten-yeared professor, beloved professor. He ended up teaching there for 52 years. And it's just a really,
it's a really strong liberal arts school that had a great lacrosse team that I used to do the stats
for. And it's just, you know, the town is sort of, that's one of the main industries that the whole
town has built around. So, very integral. That's really cool. And something I just, I want to give you
your flowers for. We got to talk about this a bit when we were working in Canada. But I just think it's
so special that, you know, years later, after your brother sadly passed away, you started a Holly,
no, I'm going to cry. Am I okay? I'm like about to get my period. I'm on well. You started the Holly family
Fund at the college in his honor.
And I don't know.
I just think it's such a beautiful thing to offer love in the spirit of someone's legacy
and to really give opportunities.
Yeah.
The thing is, is that the Holly Family Fund started with my brother Alexander,
and it was originally called the A Fund because we would call him A.
and because he was just, he was enamored with art and architecture,
and he would build fantastic cities with his blocks and everything else.
And was like a curious kid.
And so we wanted to give a scholarship.
And then, unfortunately, with the passing of my other brother and my father,
and it became, it's a big deal now.
It's a scholarship.
It's one of the ones they compete for at the school.
It's a four-year scholarship.
Wow.
I'm just really proud that, you know, and it's not just, we pick the people who get the scholarship
really because of their sort of attitude and curiosity and interest.
It's not necessarily, you know, academic, which can be hard to compete for in these times.
And it's definitely some financial aid needed and all of that.
And so I'm proud for that.
And I love reading about the research.
recipients that are chosen each year.
Yeah.
It's just so cool.
I also love, you know, to sort of personalize it for us ladies who make films.
I just love any sort of reminder as well that actually to be an actor, you're probably pretty
academic.
Like we're nerdy little researchers, but people don't realize that about us.
Yeah.
I think your legacy with your whole family of your strong academic tradition is something I just
love. It's funny because I don't hear about it as much anymore. And I love that you brought that up
because now that there's all these like influencers and whatnot that are becoming actors,
but I know that for me, when I first started, it was Francis Ford Coppola and his producer,
Fred Roos, who sort of gave me my first chance. And one of the things that they were most
interested in was my academic background. Yes. They thought that that really supported me in being an
actress. They thought, you know, like reading and critical thinking and, you know, all of that stuff
was so important. And I love that. And it became something that I definitely, you know, I'm a Sarah
Lawrence graduate and I had, you know, Joseph Campbell and Louise Rose as my professors and I would
like talk about this all the time. And it helped me propel my career, which I think was a little bit
different than now. I'm not sure, but it seems like it is. It's just so cool to me.
What was that like? I mean, you know, it's a pretty big sentence to drop like, oh, early in my career, Francis Ford Coppola.
Like, man, can you paint that picture for us? Now I know nine and ten really clearly, but what happens? We fast forward.
You are pursuing acting. You're entering the industry. How did that happen? Like, what did it look like? Did you pack up your car and drive to L.A.? You know, what was the vibe?
No. What happened was I was at Sarah Lawrence and I auditioned for a play on campus that a guest director was coming to do called The Diviners and I got the play. And it was the lead role and everyone was kind of upset on campus because I wasn't in the theater department. It was like, what the heck. And to make matters worse, the play was successful. The director was taking it back to New York.
Broadway and asked me to do it for six weeks while I was a student and that's where Francis Ford Coppola
and Fred Ruse saw me in the play and so they offered me a movie that they were producing called
seven minutes in heaven that was Jennifer Connelly's first movie she was like 12 or 13 and mattie
Corman, a bunch of people, and they would come pick me up on campus in a station wagon
in your year while I made this movie. And it was so strange, I couldn't believe it. And then Fred,
the producer, was really instrumental in saying to me, I'm going to help you. I'm going to
support you. I think this is what you should do. And I was going to law school. So I decided to
defer my admission. And I was so scared to tell my parents these academic,
that I was going to try to be an actor.
And I didn't tell them and I stressed out.
And then finally, graduation day at my lunch, I drank much and told them kind of drunk
that I was not going to go to law school.
And I was surprised because they were like stoked.
And they were like, that's great.
Like, we can see this and you got your college degree and it doesn't matter.
And so my first job, I moved into Manhattan from Sarasel.
Lawrence, it's watching a big deal. It's like half an hour. And Ellie Coppola, Frances's wife,
paid me $100 a day to walk around their apartment living room at the Sherry Netherland,
modeling her dresses she designed for buyers. And in between, I would go in Francis's study
and look at his Oscar on his show. And that's how I started. And ended up getting my first movie that
summer. That's so cool. Everyone goes in a different way. I mean, 100%. And now a word from our
sponsors that I really enjoy, and I think you will too. What do you think you learned about yourself
or you learned about pressure in that early stage of your career? Because yes, you're being courted
by Hollywood royalty and you're also paying the bills by like modeling the dresses. I did that at like
a buyer in L.A. in high school to pay for things.
Like, you know, how do you think you kind of started not just to get into it, but to really cut your teeth?
I think it's just, you know, I feel badly for people starting out now.
Because the fact that I could even do that then in Manhattan, you know, granted, I would have roommates and stuff.
I'd find places.
I was waitressing and bartending and doing, you know, infomercials, like, you know, strange stuff.
But I could do it.
I could thread it together, make enough money to keep trying, going on those auditions,
running all over the city.
And I don't know how people do it now.
It's like way too expensive.
It's crazy.
And I just, I don't know.
I just always had this belief that it was going to work.
Yeah.
And there were a lot of magical things that just kind of happened and like one thing that
led to another.
And it did.
And I just kept going.
I mean, when you just think about also, to your point, the era, you know, like the 90s rom-com, the big, you know, over-the-top comedies that defined a whole generation, I mean, you, you were at the helm of all of that stuff. Did it, in the moment, did it feel sort of fresh and magical? Or was it just where the tide was going and you were on the boat?
I think it was where the tide was going and I was on the boat.
And I look back at it now and I'm just like, holy crap.
I almost wish I had like slowed down a little bit and enjoyed it because the industry has changed so much now.
And, you know, I was one of the first people that was really bridging television and movies.
And I would be on a series and make like four movies a year.
That was kind of my thing.
And so it was constant, like there was a season of, okay, there's press junkets and award shows,
and this is what we're doing and, you know, just one right after the other.
And I guess I kind of thought like, this is the way it is, but it's not.
Like, I literally won the lottery.
And it was so thrilling at the time.
And I don't think you really realize it until you get off the train because our business is a little bit like a high school.
and there's like certain popular groups for the moment, you know, and that's kind of what happens.
And so it's interesting to look back on it now and see it.
And also see how just how much it's all, you know, was streaming and everything.
And I talk frequently about what it was like to be on a television series then when there was only four real stations.
Yeah, when you actually got a chance to find an audience and develop a character.
And yeah. Exactly. Like it's just so different now. It's also crazy to me to think, like, it was before the industry really started squeezing. Everything seemed like it was really still expanding. You know, you'd go to shoot a movie for three months, not 22 days, if you're lucky. And you got time. A movie I did called Dragon for Universal. We shot in Hong Kong, Macau, Los Angeles. I think we had 112 days was our shooting.
so this was like what was normal yeah and now like would movies you know how many movies would
actually go to Hong Kong would go to Macau like it's changed maybe a Tom Cruise movie maybe and that's
just because he wants to hang off the side of the building he can you know he's like he's that
cool that he's like no we're going and then the studio says okay um it's it's got to be crazy too because
And look, I know this happens to women differently than it does to men, but, you know, you were the top of the pyramid in television and film and all these big movies.
And, you know, you had a very public moment and a very public relationship with another person at the top of his pyramid.
And like, do you think it was helpful for the two of you to share that experience and the craziness of it together?
or looking back, does it feel like the personal, professional, like made people care too much
about the personal side? Because I know how it feels for me. Yeah, no. But it was different then
because, first of all, there wasn't all the social media or anything, right? So the only way
they knew about us and our relationship was there were like television shows that would focus on it,
like these things like art-com, entertainment shows, entertainment tonight, and you know,
and those sort of things, or like newspapers or magazines, right?
Yeah.
And I think that there's a certain amount of energy.
I think people are energy and you sort of breed positive energy.
And when you get into a situation, I think we definitely sort of highlighted each other.
Yeah.
In a lot of ways.
And I don't think if, you know, if you look back at what we were both doing in our
relationship, it's really cool because we were both, you know, growing exponentially and I think we
helped each other. And probably he helped me more, even though at the beginning, I was the one who
was more well known. Like, it was kind of strange. But our group of friends at the time,
everybody exploded. So it was kind of like, I think it was energetic that we were all had the
same goal and like doing stuff. And I think it's different now because people are so spread out.
Like back then, you know, Los Angeles was really kind of the focus of the entertainment industry.
So you pretty much had to be there and doing stuff and meeting people. And I think that's
accelerated that, you know, energetic thing. It's very different now. It's changed so much. I mean,
look at me. Yeah. I mean, for the friends at home, I'm referring to like,
the frenzy of excitement around the Lauren Holly and the Jim Carrey who were a couple,
you know, for a time. And something I really value when I, when we've worked together and I've
asked you questions is like the lovely fondness you still offer. I think it's so great when
people have a time in their journey together. And even if the context of that time changes,
the love continues. Yeah. And I think to your point, I'm realizing as you're saying, like for you,
for gym, for everyone around you guys, for Jeff, like the whole gang.
It's almost like those moments you see in sports where they say, oh, no one's ever run a sub three
minute mile. And then somebody does it and then five more people do it within the next three
months. You're right. It is energetic. You see something. You're a witness to something.
You feel the energy of it. And then that energy is in your body. And then you move forward towards
it too. Yeah. Like there's something very positive about that and very, and I,
And I think it's still important for people, at least I think so, to align yourself with people who have the sort of same energetic thing too.
It's very powerful.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
I really, and we'll get to the movie closer to the end, but I had that same experience working with you.
Like the joy of making a movie with you was feeling like we were in a good way, like in a tug of war.
you'd do something and then I'd do something and then you'd do something and it was like we were building
together all the time. You definitely had a very great chemistry. Yeah, so fun. It's like, and there was a
certain confidence that came to working with you that I really enjoyed. For me too. It was like weird.
It's like I knew you were going to be there. Like you were going to give me stuff. You're like all of that
went out the window after the first day. Like that's and that makes it easier too. Right?
Like there's something about like a confidence that you just sort of fit in.
I believed our relationship.
I kind of felt our relationship.
Yeah, me too.
And so everything else just kind of went by the wayside.
I love that.
And it was weird because the moment that I met you, you walked into a conference room when we were about to do a read-through.
And the moment I met you, I knew.
It was weird.
I felt the same.
And you were very generous.
the friends at home listening won't be surprised by this, but I walked into the conference room
and I was like, we can do our read in just one moment, but I just have to express that I'm
freaking out that I'm doing this movie with you.
Oh, no.
And you were so sweet about it.
And I was like, okay, she's not like perturbed.
And now that it's out of my system, I can be a normal coworker.
No, no.
It was just so sweet, but it was just such a good.
I just, I don't know.
I just felt like we connected somehow.
And that just kept going.
Yeah.
And it was just every day I knew that there'd be something that would be good that would happen that day in a scene.
Totally.
Totally.
We found so many things off the page.
And it really makes me think about something, you know.
I love that you talk about the industry in a way that is very authentic and weighty, but also fun.
and you manage to talk about the importance of happy sets and environments, you know, without ego.
And like, I don't know, you do it in this way that I think reminds everyone not to take it all so seriously, but also to be kind.
I think sometimes when I get amped about, like, and it should be like this, I can lean a little into the serious.
And I'm curious for you, like, that sense of joy that you want, which does lead to a better
professional outcome, how do you let that be an ingredient, essentially, in your recipe of
choice when you're looking at a job opportunity?
Well, I think it's really about the people that you're going to work with.
And the thing is, is that you don't always know.
Yeah.
Our particular project, you were the unknown thing to me.
I didn't know what you were going to be like.
And to be honest, I wasn't worried about you as an actor.
I was worried about how you thought about the world right now.
Like, this mattered to me because I'm so stressed out about everything in the world right now
that I didn't want someone who had a different worldview than me,
especially in a movie that I knew it was going to be mainly the two of us.
Yeah.
Often in a car.
Like, stuck in a car.
So I was very, I was, it was the first time I ever really considered that, to be honest.
And I did.
And I'm really happy I did.
And I quickly realized, you know, with two minutes of scoping you out that we were going to be on the same worldview.
and it sort of was able to put that in my pocket because a happy set is everything.
And right now, I just don't think I could have handled it if we had been on opposite sides of that fence.
Totally.
Well, yeah.
That would have been difficult.
And as much as sometimes you have to put those things aside, I don't think I'm capable of it at this point in our world.
Well, yeah.
It's not 2004 anymore.
No.
Like things are just very different.
And I similarly, you know, I was so excited about the work with you.
And then when I sort of combed through the things you talk about online, I was like, oh, that's my girl.
Like, I can't wait to go to, like, talk some political shit with her.
This is going to be fun.
Yeah.
So we kind of got that out of the way.
Like, that was good.
And I knew that we were sort of the same moral fiber, I guess.
Yeah.
And then it was just about if there was like a chemistry.
That was it.
And we were just lucky because not having met, not auditioning together, not anything,
we just had no idea if there was that chemistry, if people would buy it.
And I just felt that immediately from that first meeting, I was like, okay, I'm not worried
about this anymore either.
Yeah.
And that's like special sauce.
I don't know what it is.
It's just like you can't really quantify it or anything.
right? Like it's just special sauce.
And everybody knows when it's happening.
You know, it's funny.
I just was on a Zoom with the Roku folks last week.
And they were like, it's our favorite movie we ever made.
We can't get over it.
And I was like, great, because Lauren and I want to make a sequel.
And then we want to make the third and the fourth and the fifth.
Like, we want to go on a broad trip every summer.
Exactly.
So I've pitched a number of movies.
I did the same thing.
I did the same thing.
Good.
They're hearing it in stereo.
Yeah, everywhere.
But it's sweet to see people, you know, like the people I was on this call with were not people I'd met before.
And just to hear the excitement and to know how amped everyone is across the board.
You're right.
That sort of chemistry is, it permeates the air.
Like what you were saying earlier about the energy in the friend of it.
It's the same thing.
And it's really nice to be a part of it.
It's the same thing.
And if I were going to give advice to anybody young, starting out anything,
thing is just really manage who your friends are and think about what everybody's goals are and
who they are really because it multiplies. I love that. You know, when you think about that kind of
energy, that thing that spreads in a positive way, I wonder if it relates to the audience at large,
too, because when I think about it, you've starred on so many.
fan favorites. Like when I think about the TV side for you, Pickett Fences, Chicago Hope, and
CIS, like, these are shows people ride hard for. And I wonder, you know, with that much positive
energy around your projects, do you still feel that kind of emotional attachment to any of those
worlds or any of those characters? Like, do they still feel like they're sort of in you? Definitely. I think,
we all have some, you know, characters that we play that sort of travel with us in a way.
Yeah.
I don't know what it was about picket fences. I think that it was the first time I ever had
somebody write specifically for me. And that made such a big difference. I wasn't trying to
fit into a part. David E. Kelly definitely sort of he created this world. And then once he knew
all of us really started writing to our strengths. And I just, I loved it. And it just, that has such a
golden place in my heart. I just recently, I was in Los Angeles and I saw David and I just
adore him so much. Like that was just, you know, 30 years ago and it stuck with me. Yeah. So I think that
that's, I think when you have, I think there are certain experiences like that as an actor. And I'm sure
you've had them too, that just certain projects will resonate with you for years and years and
years. And, you know, as opposed to I frequently, and do you do this? Like when you're dressing as a
character, all of a sudden, the part finishes and I move on into life, but I take a piece of that
character with me. You know, like all of a sudden I'm wearing giant earrings or, you know,
like something that I just never before, but I got so comfortable doing that.
Those residual effects seem to last with me for a while.
Totally.
Well, there was a pair of sunglasses you had on our movie that they had multiples of.
And at the end, they were like, do you want anything?
Which was crazy because they never do that.
And I was like, I just want a pair.
I want a pair of those.
And it's funny.
It's like your character influenced me.
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I just wonder when you think about your career as a whole,
because the things that you've done
and the spectrum of performances you've delivered,
and now the incredible writing that you're doing,
the development that you're doing,
like, I'm over here, like, chomping at the bit for a script,
I'm dying.
I don't know.
It's like you, you seem,
to me as a newer, you know, friend and co-worker in your life, like somebody who just continues
to expand her purview. And I wonder, do you feel like, do you look at the sort of directions
you move in as a series of pivots, or do you kind of think about it as you get to a point
where you feel like you're ready to include sort of the next circle and pull in the next set of,
you know, experiences or tests or something.
I think it's that.
I mean, I think honestly, it's just how life unfolds for people, you know.
I don't know that I had the time years ago to try to expand what I did and write and do
all that, mainly because I was a mom.
And it was just, you know, there was just a lot.
Like I felt like I was always under the gun as schedule.
And now that my kids are all like grown.
up and their own people, I think I'm going back to something that I always wanted to do.
Yeah.
So that's kind of why it's expanding.
And it's just, this is the way it is in our industry.
You know, you have there, you, you do slow down as you get older or maybe it's even
that you get a little more picky.
I don't know.
You know, it's, I say no more than I say yes now.
And also I get, like the writing thing has definitely sort of overtaken.
It's something that I spend a lot of my time doing now.
Yeah.
And it's exciting that it's moving forward.
So, but you just have to keep pushing that forward.
Yeah.
It's not easy.
And in, and in.
this the way the business is now like it's i'm almost hoping that all these giant mergers and these
threats of things are like a real kick in the ass for independent film like i'm hoping
that something happens that you know that because otherwise it's just getting really
distressing there's less i know feels weird it's interesting you know you talk about
following your own curiosity and following the changing tides of the industry.
But you touched on something too, that there was a period where, you know, you just didn't
have time to be writing and acting and doing the things and raising three boys.
You know, we talked a little bit about this when we were filming, but, you know, your choice
to shift, granted, yes, L.A. is not.
the center of the universe of the industry anymore. But your choice to shift even as a family and
raise the boys in Canada, when you look back, you know, what do you think about making that move
for them? Like, what were you most hoping to give them by making that choice? Well, I think that
the shift to Canada was better for my boys than it was for me as an actor, for sure. And
And, you know, I was here. I was working and I ended up doing two fairly long-term series back to back.
Yeah. And living here. And by the, you know, like in the middle of that, the boys were now like in middle school and were like, hey, hey, hey, like we're not going to go back because they didn't even remember Los Angeles at that point.
Right. And they had friends and they had things here. And I look at it now and I think that they're all different.
people because they were raised in Canada and not sort of in like, you know, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles
with an actor mom. Like I think that would have been like really different. And so I'm very happy
that I did that. And two of them have gone back to the States. One of them has stayed in Canada,
but they're all, they all feel very Canadian. Yeah. So I think it was better for them. And as far as for me,
it ended up being great because, you know, I'm meaningful to productions here.
So I kind of constantly am asked to join projects or whatever.
But I don't think it's as, I don't think Canada has sort of a star system like United States does.
So there's advantages and disadvantages to that.
Like I lead a very easy life here.
nobody's like any, you know, they don't care that I do this.
Like, you know, nobody's like, there's no paparazzi or anything like that, you know.
But at the same time, there's not that, which sort of gives you that push, you know.
Yeah, it's like a both and kind of thing.
Yeah, it's at both end.
But from the point of view of my family, I think it was a great decision.
Yeah, that's really cool.
I do not want to stop talking to my favorite lady, but.
I have definitely run us out of time for today.
We will be back with a special bonus episode to talk all about our movie broad trip with
Lauren Holly.
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