Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (Part 9)

Episode Date: August 26, 2022

After a long day on set... what did the Drama Queens do to unwind? Did someone say “karaoke?!” Find out the Queens’ personal life hacks, the nuances the viewers noticed that they didn’t, and hear the story of their visit to a college bar!  Plus, who got asked out by a much younger man, and so much more!  The Drama Queens are putting the Q in Q&A!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. It may look different, but native culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop. That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first Native comic bookshop. Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage, Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio 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. We'll take you for a ride in our comic girl. Drama girl. Cheering for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens, smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you'll tough girl. You could sit with us, girl. Drama queen, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens.

Hey everybody. We're doing a Q&A episode just for you. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you girls ready? Hit me with some questions. Oh, boy, from Julia. Julia wants to know, when faced with a tough day on set, what did you do to unwind? Uh, karaoke. Hide in one of your trailers at lunch? I would leave set and just walk straight to a bar. Like, I wouldn't even even. go home because I knew I'd get there eventually, we were just either at level five or Yosaki or where else did we go? Deluxe. Oh, yeah. Like if we wanted to eat and drink. Yeah. But I'd sit, I'd have dinner there and then I'd sit at that bar like with Paul and Hank for so many hours. Yeah. I'd just sit there until they closed a lot. Oh, the French place. We used to go to that

upstairs French place, Caprice. Yeah, Caprice. Caprice had that upstairs. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that there was anything. It's just like, I think anybody else has a hard day at work and they just go, they want to go have a drink with a friend and take a load off or go home, just bury yourself in your apartment and watch a movie or something. Well, Joy, you would go home in like so beautiful clothes. Like you would, you know, you'd like make a thing. Yeah, usually had a craft or something that I would get into. Also, having an animal helps. It kind of depends for me. Did I need to shake? it off by like being alone and you know taking patch for a walk or did I did I need to shake it off by like going with you guys to karaoke and slamming two tequila shots and like screaming to Pat Benatar like I don't know it kind of depends on what kind of a day you've had I don't think there's necessarily a standard but I will say I think it's important to acknowledge what you need whether it's a moment of introversion or a moment of extreme extrovert version, you know, listen to yourself. That makes so much sense. Give yourself what you need.

Take care of yourself. Because don't you feel that juxtaposition makes so much sense, so because now that I'm thinking about it, I went out so much downtown because I was so mopey on the show that I felt like I had to be turbo fun outside of work. But in subsequent jobs where I have to be a ton of fun and kind of loud, that's when I want to just go home and be like, I'm just going to be a ground on crochet and like sit here. It's balance. Balance.

All right. Are we still doing those things, though? No, still do all those. Have we evolved? No. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't know. You guys, this weekend, I went, we were out visiting friends and we went to this really fun party on Saturday night and there was this great DJ and everyone was like, oh my God.

God, we're outside and we're dancing and it's great. We went to a college bar after once. I didn't know it was a college bar until I got there. No, but we were there. There was a cover band playing incredible music. It was like me and 10 friends who are all our age, like, you know, my friend who's a magazine editor, like grown-ass people. And we were in the corner of a college bar just like dying, having the time of our

lives. I got asked out by a kid who could not have been more than 22. That feels good. And I just was like, oh, you sweet, you sweet, you sweet, sweet boy. Yeah, ask me again. No, no. Ask me again. I just want to hear it. But thanks. It was, it was adorable. You have to go now. I love this. So like, I don't know. Are we still doing that? Yes. Have I done that in years? No. Was it fun? Absolutely. Can we promise to be like 75-year-old women still doing that? At the bar, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. College bar.

We're going to be fun forever. Put that on her shirt. We're going to be fun forever. All right. We're going to be fun forever. Joy, you got a question. I did. What's the question?

She wants to know when filming the costume segment with Chad. Okay, I think she said about the Halloween episode. Oh, yeah. What was it like? Was it as much fun as it looked? And how do montage segments work? You want to walk him through a montage? Yeah, usually they just set up the camera on one side

and Chad would go in the dressing room, come out with all his outfits, do fun stuff, and then he would go back in, and then he would do it again. He would just do it like six or seven times until all the costumes were done. And then they would turn the camera around and put it where Chad was standing and just shoot all of my reactions to. all of those outfits and any of the outfits that they wanted us to be interacting in they would shoot us i don't remember which angle it was from they probably just picked one of the angles and then they would just shoot our interactions from a little bit further back they'd like pull the camera back

like a master right yeah it's a master and then they just had all the singles it does take quite a while i have to say it's it's always it goes so fast but it takes a while to set those up um but it was fun yeah we had fun that day. I remember enjoying that. I was just glad I didn't have to change a million times. I was like, yes, let him do it. Yeah. I'll stand here. It's always funny when you watch a montage and you go, God, that looks good. We did that for eight hours. Yeah. Yeah. But we made it look great. Exactly. You made it look so spontaneous. I know, totally. That is an iconic scene. Let's see. Tracy asks, do you see a parallel in the relationships between Lucas and Peyton and Brenda and Dylan? Beverly Hills 902 and O. Never thought about that. I never really watched 90210, so I don't know. I wasn't allowed.

Yeah, I wasn't allowed. Were you guys allowed? No way. Well, I was and then my parents watched an episode once while I was at camp and I don't know, somebody had sex with somebody behind somebody's back and then I wasn't allowed to watch it anymore. So I don't, I have no idea because I was banned from 902 and O. Does I think pretty early on. Yeah, we were babies. I don't know. I don't really know. Brenda and Dylan. I was also banned from watching Dawson's Creek, too.

Like, I remember when Dawson's Creek premiered, I had all my girlfriends over, and it was, like, we were pumped. We were like, we are going to watch this show together every week. It's going to be so fun. And these, like, senior boys came over to, like, see us and visit. And we were like, oh, my God, this is so cool. This is high school. High school is going to be the best time ever. Yes.

And then Pacey started sleeping with his teacher. Oh, that's right. And my mother was like, no, we are not. We are not watching this show. This is smut. And so I grew up to make smut. I feel good. You're like, well, you didn't let me watch it, so I'm going to go and make it.

It's always how it happens. You know what? Parents, you pull the reins in too tight and then they just go crazy when you let them go. You got to, you got to just be real careful. Buck Wild on tree. real careful it's true Angelica wants to know if we ever notice that the writers use and I love you for that

all the time in scenes I never noticed that if you haven't she said if you haven't now you will and I love you for that but blah blah blah I love you for that yeah no I never clocked that one there's a couple that I know that they felt real cute about like well well well is one

well yeah well well well and hi friend or hey pretty girl that was another one that was like i used a lot all right well this one's going to be like a you know brainworm we're stuck with it now 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. Nihau wants to know. I know that Joy and Sophia have directed multiple episodes of the show. In your podcast with Lindsay McKin, you discuss.

how there is eight days of prep, eight days of shooting, and eight days of post-production, how did you as actors, manage your schedules as actors, but also directors, and how did pre-production and post-production work while also shooting the episodes with different directors? That's a great question. Well, the pre-pro and post-pro work while shooting episodes with different directors was easier. I mean, for me, it was easier. So if you can speak for yourself, but because I wasn't on set, I was on set working on my own stuff. And then I would leave set and go do post or that just felt like a separate job. So it was anytime I wasn't on set, I was just in an office

doing something that had absolutely nothing to do with the acting I was doing that day. So that made it a lot easier. I did not like being on set as an actor and then directing myself at the same time. and having to direct the other people I was in a scene with because as an actor, I prefer to be 100% in the moment in the scene rather than judging someone else's performance, which you have to do as a director. So it's kind of, I didn't love that aspect of it.

Yeah, I understand that. So I think one of the just sort of technical things that would probably be helpful to fill you guys in on at home is, you know, for example, when we would be directing and we would be in our pre-production time, a director who is not acting on the show gets all eight days to prep. We did not. They would definitely try, you know, let's say I was directing episode eight of the season.

They would try to block my days in episode seven. So they'd try to cluster your scenes together as much as possible so that you might act all day on Tuesday, but then you could go prep all day on Wednesday while, you know, Brooke would be off while Nathan and Haley would be having a day at their house or something. Um, but you definitely did get less time. I think what helps really make up for that is we started directing years into being on the show. We knew every location like the back of our hands. We,

we, we, we had shorthand with the crew. We knew what, you know, the lighting looked like at trick for concerts. Yes, there were things we were, you know, designing and creating, but we already had, uh, the deep, intimate experience with most of our sets. Um, If you had to go find a set, you know, specific for your episode, you would Location Scout on a day where you were not acting in the episode that was filming before yours. And then post, to Joy's point, you know, you'd run in, if you had a scene off, you'd run into the office and jump back in the edit. But with directors, you do not get final cut.

You know, the producers and creator of the show, get the directors cut. Then they make whatever edits they make. because they do an edit on every single episode, which really creates a cohesion with the story. And sometimes they don't have a lot of notes for you. And sometimes, you know, they disagree. You too don't fight. Never. You really think something's amazing.

Don't be corny. Who, us? No. Opinions? We don't know what those are. But I, yeah, I definitely enjoyed juggling. all those things. For me, you know, being so many years into our show, directing in ways, you know, when, let's be honest, you do the same thing every day for years, you get a little

bored. It's not a bad thing. It's just human. And as a director, I fell in love with our show all over again, over and over again every year. And I really cherish that experience. Um, Nicole says, is there a reason why Bevin and Antoine have the same names as the actors that play now? I mean, is it laziness? What's the answer? I feel like it is. I feel like they were just like, let's not worry about tracking too many people. Like, I don't want to have to deal with like a new, remembering new characters names. This is the biggest cast in the history of television. There's eight billion people on this show. Just call them by their real name. It's fine. Yeah. I think that was it. Well, you know what happened? I remember when Bevin

came on the show, she was saying that there was an episode where, you know, long before she'd ever actually been cast to speak as an actor, where she was just a featured extra, you know, being one of our cheerleaders, they had, when we were doing cheer practice, yes, to make it easier. They had us, you know, me and Hillary, calling all of the girls who were our cheerleaders by their real names. Right. Which is such a weird thing because, you know,

the writers are like, oh, well, you know, these are featured extras. Like, we don't know if these girls are going to stick around. Like, call them by their real names. You know, some guy, don't say who, said in the room, like, well, it's not like they're ever going to talk.

And then, like, Bevin became a star in our show. And they were like, well, well, she has her own name already. So that ship has sailed. I don't know how. happened with Antoine though how confusing for the fan base though like to like see her out in the wild and be like Bevan I know talk about blurred lines so weird but our show that was kind of the magic of our show is that no one ever knew what was real and what wasn't turns out a couple

things are real um Hillary what is your best personal life hack tip farming advice bekeeping cooking makeup because you're the you're the farmer yeah let me you know what I should do is I should just start doling out makeup and fashion advice because we know I'm so gifted at that that question is from Alicia by the way Alicia this is a vague question I don't have a problem with vague but um my life hack tip okay find the fun and failure like we we can laugh about it after the fact Like, we can go back and watch episodes of the show and be like, ooh-hoo, ooh, that was a look. Yeah. Or that was a choice.

But it's hard to find the funny in your failures, like, in the moment, in the present. That's true. This is a great question. I wish I had a great answer because I feel like there are things that I do on a daily basis that are unusual and help. but I don't know what they are unless I have somebody who's hanging out with me for the day and they're like, what are you doing?

And then I'm like, I'm doing this. And then they go, oh my God, that's genius. And then I'm like, I know. But I don't like write things down. No, Sophia and I felt that way when we hung out by the bar in your kitchen and you just started like making elixirs and shit. And we were like, what?

We were like, what's going on? Sure. Yeah, mine, I wish mine were cooler and involved cocktails, but something that I have found really helpful in minimizing chaos is just setting a couple of rules. Like, anytime I walk in my house, I put my keys in the little key drawer, in the little console table next to the front door. And if I don't, then the next day I can't leave my house for an hour because I'm running around

looking for my keys. Yeah, for sure. So it's like, that's, I know, I'm sure that sounds silly, but there's like some things that if you can just take care of it right away, it'll reduce the time that it takes you to fix it later. Oh, yeah. And that has been a good adult life hack to learn. Those key gremlins are the worst. The key they take them all. Oh, I have one.

You know, it's a skin hack. I have been, first thing when I wake up in the morning, I put water on my face and I don't dry my face. I just splash water on it and let my skin absorb the water. And then I put on a really thin layer of vitamin E oil. And often that's all I'll do. Especially if I'm traveling and stuff. So I don't know. I have a sort of a Mediterranean mixed skin type. So I don't think that would work for everyone. I can't imagine. Nobody's, not everyone's skin is the same. But if you have sort of olivey that Mediterranean

like a normal I guess medium skin type you might try that my skin has never looked like dewyer and glowier and had less problems than when I'm just using water and vitamin E oil you were gloving

done done I love you guys too thanks for your questions everyone I can't wait for more next time hey thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review. You can also follow us on Instagram at Drama Queen's O-T-Harendh. Or email us at Dramaquins at iHeartRadio.com. See you next time.

We're all about that high school drama girl, drama girl, all about them high school queens. We'll take you for a ride in our comic girl. Charing for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens. You can see the smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you'll tough girl. You could sit with us, girl. Drama queen. Drama queen. It may look different, but Native Culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop. That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first Native comic bookshop.

Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.