The Three Questions with Andy Richter - Christina Ricci

Episode Date: November 8, 2022

Christina Ricci joins Andy Richter to discuss her Alaska escape-plan, motherhood, working with Cher, and her upcoming Netflix series “Wednesday.” Make sure to check out “Wednesday” on Netflix - streaming November 23. 

hi everybody uh andy richter here again another episode of my mom's favorite podcast it's the three questions and today i am talking to somebody that we have all been loving her work for years and years. And we just spoke in the sort of preamble here that the last time we saw each other was maybe 25 years ago. I was going to say 30. Maybe 30 years ago, yeah. But I could be wrong. But yeah, because I do remember meeting you and it was very much,

this is a teenager that's coming on our talk show. So here's obnoxious team. Be really nice to her. Pretend she's not saying dumb stuff. No, no, you did. I mean,

I, I, you know, I think you're charming no matter what, but I have to say stuff like that. Cause I'm a podcaster and desperate for guests. I'm talking to Christina Ricci and I'm very happy because I really honestly you are one of my favorite actors I really oh

thank you you have made you've taken like kid stuff and made really good interesting choices and and really continue to do interesting work and you know and i mean just and they're just the recent one uh yellow jackets is so fantastic and so good and and i just really a fun show it's fantastic and i do i do think it's like really cool that a creepy scary show that's kind of gross and terrifying it's all women yeah like it's all you know i even noticed like most of the music is women most of the incidental music is from is from female bands so yeah i mean that was one of the things that i was so excited about it's that you know this show women are taking the space that men usually occupy in this genre and all of it and uh it's really fun to get to not be treated with kid gloves.

Yeah, yeah. You know? I mean, right off the bat, I just love character actors. And you've gotten to become a character actor now. Yes, now that I'm older, I'm allowed. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, that's not an... No, I'm so thrilled.

Yeah. But it was a thing that when when actresses my age were younger we were like people were terrified that we would fall into character actress territory like it was oh no you mean like your your reps or something yeah oh wow yeah you can't like you can't take that part of the oh the murderer or the you know make yourself ugly again. People may not like you and all that stuff. And I've always been sort of, in my heart,

a very obnoxious, rebellious teen. And I always wanted to do those things. I wanted to play the person that everybody would hate. You know, I think it's a stunted maturity issue. It's also fun. It's also the pursuit of fun, you know. Yes, yes. And yes yes and it is like it's yeah it's fun to play the part that everyone's afraid of yeah yeah yeah well now you mentioned what kind of teen you were you're from you were born in california but you did not grow up there correct no i moved to the east coast when i was two and i was raised in long island

and then uh new jersey and then finally Manhattan. And is it three siblings? I can't remember. I have three older siblings. Three older siblings. So you were the baby. So did you get the benefit of being the baby sort of? I did.

I mean, the only reason I'm an actress really is because I'm the youngest child. Every single one of my siblings was approached and I guess scouted, for lack of a better word. But my mom always said no wow well we all looked a lot alike and we were all really verbal yeah yeah so it was basically like you have four shots with the same child basically i see i see tiny big eyes and talks a lot yeah pretty much i would like talk to any adults and we could all read really early so that was good so my mom always said no and And then because my siblings were so much older than me when it was my turn, they kind of bullied her into letting me try it. So I definitely benefited from being a baby. How how much age is between you and the next oldest? How many years? My oldest brother is nine years older than me. And then, oh, no, it goes eight sorry, eight, six, and then four.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So they were sort of. Yeah. By the time you're doing. And what age did you start auditioning? When I was seven. When you were seven.

So my oldest brother was already 15. So he really, yeah. And let's cut to the chase. Would you let your children do it? No, not professionally. Yeah. I think that children should get to be kids and you know you nurture those things they're interested in and those talents they have and then when they're

adults and they're ready in other ways that we need to be prepared to be professionals then great yeah they can go but i i just think that there's um like the whole idea of being a part of a production no individual is more important than the production i don't i think children should feel like their well-being and their emotions and who they are always the most important thing and then later you can decide to say well for the period of this work this this work day i'm not the most important right you know what i mean but i think you have to there's a missing step if you don't ever get that i think that i think that's very uh perceptive because yeah it's like you know it's really drummed into your head to to do as you're told on a you know and to like you know your feelings are not important hours are

long too bad yeah we all we're all we're all, we're all suffering, you know, and we're suffering because we get to work in the dream factory. very sort of sardonic woman who was a script supervisor and i she became one of my favorite work friends said we were just talking about film production she goes everyone in this business is completely codependent they're so happy to let someone else be in control of their lives they're so happy to not have to worry about their relationships or what to do with themselves or how to feel or what to think she goes they just submit she goes and she's like yeah that's me you know and i was and you know i was like i said i was brand new and i was kind of like oh wow okay i guess i'll file that away yeah no and i was like that forever i was so happy to have somebody tell me when to wake up when i was allowed to eat when i would be allowed to go home how much time i had to sleep

you know i loved that everyone used to joke that i would be such a good prisoner what a funny joke to say about a kid yeah oh man well and now do you like the way that you're because it was mostly your mom right your dad wasn't yeah did you like the way that you're, cause it was mostly your mom, right? Your dad wasn't. Yeah. Did you like the way that you're looking back? Do you think she handled your working well? Yes. My mother handled that really well. I was one of the, she was one of the reasons that I was actually hired a lot is because when you're a kid, they always look at the mother and you'll lose a job if you have a difficult parent. And my mother was always like, I always joke that she was, you know, she was my coworker, you know, and we, we traveled together. We went to hotels and restaurants. We

went to work. We had like the funniest experience because she was very not, she's warm, but she's much more of like a waspy, funny sense of humor kind of lady. So like when I had to do the press, the press up in the press photo op in Australia, where they handed me the kangaroo when I was 13, she whispered in my ear, Oh my God, kangaroos are so aggressive and nasty and they all have chlamydia. Good luck.

And ran away. They all have chlamydia. And then like ran away and they were like, smile, Christina. I was like, Oh my gosh. and then like where did she ran away and they were like smile christina but i was also dying laughing because i knew that she was being funny yeah yeah yeah we just always had that thing so yeah i spent most of the time with my mom yeah that's making making fun of stuff that's that's great that's great and it is true because you just you reminded me of one of my favorite showbiz stories that a friend told me, a writer friend told me.

It was a drama and there was a kid on the show whose mother was driving the showrunner crazy. And he came in from a meeting about the mother with the mother and he came through the door and shut the door of the writer's room and said, we got to kill that fucking kid. And so they literally did. They had the kid die. Like there was no plan to have the kid die in the show, but like,

okay, next episode, kid dies. Oh, I mean, I know the poor kid, but, and I wonder if the,

like, if that ever, like that information ever trickles out to the mother. Cause yeah, yeah, it would be tough. Yeah, for sure.

Were you always on board with acting like did you always kind of i was yeah i was really bored at school and doing weird things and the second i started even just going and auditioning every afternoon um i i stopped all like aberrant behavior and like to have focused yeah yeah i like had a skill and something to feel good about and i was busy in the afternoon you know yeah yeah i always really really liked it and then when i went away to do movies it was like always being lifted out of my miserable suburban life and all this magic yeah was there for me staying in hotels and room service yeah yeah perrier i had never seen perrier before wow i was like wow these

people are drinking this like magic sparkle water what's happening what when was that what was the was the first big job uh it was mermaids right and were you aware of like the you know the gravity of your co-stars and in other well that's the other thing my mother was really good at. My mother was a really loved movies. My dad also, but my mother loved film. And she showed me like all the Hitchcock movies when I was really little. And then the second she knew I was auditioning for something with Cher, we had a Cher movie marathon. She even had come back to the five and dime.

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Yeah. So, so I did know by the time I went to my final audition with Cher and Winona Ryder, I knew who Cher was for sure. And did Cher ever do any like diva stuff because you were getting all the attention being a cute little girl on the set? No. Diva stuff is absolutely like so far from what Cher is like. Yeah. Cher was amazing.

Yeah. Cher was amazing. Yeah. Cher was incredible. I've heard that she's really fun and just cool. Just like a practical person. Yeah. Is always like, what is happening here? Like, why are we ignoring logic? Yeah, yeah.

Like that kind of human being. Right. Was so kind to me. Was so generous with me. Immediately like spent all of her time with me on set. I would go in her trailer to hide from my teacher and she was just like she just taught me stuff yeah everything everything that was going on on set she'd be like oh that's what this is no that's this and like it was

amazing oh that's great it was incredible that's what you want out of your shares uh yeah she really lives up to expectations i have to say and i, did that change your life a lot? I mean, just in terms of like your every day. I mean, obviously you're going to a junket and you're there's a premiere. But beyond that, I mean, do you feel it? Do you feel like I did? I felt immediately. I think that when you expose people to all kinds of possibilities in the world. Right. You know, I came from this suburban, kind of depressing, dysfunctional, not nice family life.

And then I was exposed to this other world and the way people behaved was different. You know, just everything was just a little bit- With respect to each other, kind of? Kindness. Yeah, yeah. You know, there were all kinds of different people and everybody was just really respectful to each other and focused on one thing and there was this feel this like aspirational

feeling yeah that i felt around being on those sets it actually made it okay for me to go back home because i felt like i had this knowledge that there was something else and so i could go back home and i could go to school and be a normal child, but I no longer was like misbehaving or any of that stuff because I knew there was more and I would be leaving to go there soon. Wow. That's nice. Yeah.

So it did change even like my mental and emotional state at the time through my childhood. This knowledge that there was another world to be in. Now, first of all, like to say, it's just funny to hear like someone, a I'm doing air quotes, child star say, you know, that like going into the film world, you know, took me into an area of mental health. Like, you know, like it, it's so opposite the cliche of it. I know, but some things are, are ways for people to escape. Yeah, yeah. You know?

And I think that was one of the reasons I was so successful as a child because I knew if I was really good all the time, I would get to go away. And it so, to me, resonates to like just there's something other than this. You know, like when you're a little kid and you eat from an early age, you know, like this is not good. Like I look around me and this is not, this is not good. And I can't wait to get out of here, you know? Yeah. And if you can show that child, what is out there waiting for them, there's a lot less for me. There was just so much less darkness.

Now, when you start getting into your teen years, I mean, you're not getting a normal. No. And then, of course, yeah, things do change as people change. And that is why it's best for adults to enter people who have already fully formed. You aren't going to like change drastically in the way that they take things in, I guess. But yeah, I, when I was a teenager, I was not great with,

you know, being looked at, judged, famous, you know, I didn't feel like I wanted to be photographed ever. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's pretty standard teen stuff. I mean. Exactly, exactly. I've talked about my daughter. There was an age and I don't, it was maybe around 13, I think, or something where it just became like, tell the whole entire world, don't look at me. I don't want to be looked at. And then, you know, she's kind of coming out.

She's 16 now. She's sort of coming the other, going to be 17 soon. It's coming out the other side of that. But there definitely like and the way that she you know the way that she dressed changed you know just like lots of very boxy you know all of a sudden could wear my clothes which was like you can't really but okay you know take that sweatshirt if you want to i called my style garbage pale kid style and it was intentionally mismatched yeah and oversized and dingy but this isn't the 90s when grunge was okay yeah yeah but yeah i would like intentionally covered everything and looked like crap basically because i so didn't want any attention positive

or negative and how did the people around you deal with that? Did they just have to put up with it? Yeah. I mean, we did, they did the best to try to, to work with me and change me. And, you know, I think over time I did learn to be a better press soldier, but, but, you know, at the time I was just like a teen and I was like a feral creature. So there wasn't a lot of controlling me. Yeah. Now, when you get into your teens and your young adulthood is are you always you know do you ever does your faith in this career that you've chosen ever wavered you're sort of oh my god yeah yeah i like to watch by life below zero you know the alaska show oh yeah and i was like why do i love to watch this show so much and it's because i know now that if everything falls to shit i can go live in alaska i was like why does this show make me feel so safe and it's that that is what it is um so i've always

had feelings of like i don't know how much longer it's gonna be good for and you know and i had great periods of time when i didn't work and i couldn't work or the work I took was not great. And I wasn't that proud of it. But I had to keep supporting myself. Did you ever consider doing something else? Like for real, kind of? Well, I made that mistake of deciding that I didn't need to go to college because I was already on my way to becoming a big movie star. Yeah, right. So kind of going to, I was already, already on my way to becoming a big movie star.

Right. So kind of after that, I was screwed, you know, it's like, I already, I like, I had put all my money down on one horse.

Yeah. Oh, well, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's true. I, I was just talking yesterday to Jeanette McCurdy.

Do you know her? Oh yeah. She was on, she was on iCarly she played Sam on iCarly and I never saw iCarly because I'm too young too old for it yeah I wish I was too young for it I'm too old for it yeah I'm I'm old enough that I saw it with a child like I you know I saw every episode because a child was watching it and it's actually was pretty good but she had a similar kind of thing where she kind of got through child stardom and then you know was like I kind of missed

the boat at college you know and I was like well you could go back and she's like yeah and I understand that too like the notion of going back because I'll sometimes get in a get in a mood and I'll be like maybe I'll go back to school and become a therapist or something. And then I think, yeah, right. With your attention span, you're not going to be reading textbooks. Yeah. I was a terrible student. No, I only did the work I enjoyed as a child. Yeah. I was a horrible student. The fact that I got into college at all and I got into a really good college was shocking. Oh, and you didn't go or did you go at all? No, I got into Columbia and into the creative writing department

because I had all this writing and stuff, you know. And so I was accepted as a freshman, which actually they only take, they usually only take sophomores. So my writing was clearly okay. Yeah. But I just, I just didn't go. Yeah. I just kept deferring. And then I was like, well, I'm all right. You know, I'm fine. And I wish I had gone. Yeah. But I just, I just didn't go. Yeah. I just kept deferring. And then I was like, well, I'm all right. You know, I'm fine. And I wish I had gone. Yeah, I honestly do. Yeah. Yeah. Is that something that you think you'll push your kids more on? You know?

And I think I really do feel like education is important. Yeah. And, you know, when I speak with writers about material, I would love to have a better education. You know, I'd love to, I don't know, whatever educated people do, quote the tragedies. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Sometimes, like, whenever I'm around, like, really smart people, because I, like, I feel like I'm not, you know, like, I did really well on Celebrity Jeopardy.

And granted, Celebrity Jeopardy is easier. But I still feel like, yeah, I'm, like, Fredo, I'm smart. But when I'm around, like, I don't know, well-read people, and there's just, like, so much stuff they talk about that I just feel like oh i don't care about that yeah and then you use the yeah that's true you know it's true there's stuff that i don't care about but yeah i guess i would only like to have all the knowledge so i can wield it during competitive situations yeah yeah that's it that's it just that's all really just really to

you know to elevate myself you know at the expense of others yeah that's right that's what it's all, really. Just really to elevate myself at the expense of others. Yeah. That's right. That's what it's all about. I just want to win. Yeah. Now, as you're moving through your career and you start to make, like I said, interesting choices that make the people that get 10% of what you make nervous and sweaty. I mean, how are you feeling about that when you're doing it? I mean,

because there's got to be, whenever you push against the conventional wisdom of something like this, you're told you might be taking a hit here, you might be fucking it all up. And oftentimes they're right. You know what I mean? So you want to be brave, but they're also, but you know, like there's, you know, safety, safety is safe for a reason. Yeah. I would say that I was definitely, you know, open for guidance and please give me all your constructive criticism, which basically meant like, tell me who to be, tell me how to do that. Cause you know, like you say,

I made a lot of interesting choices and I got a lot of attention for those things. I think in the beginning they were like, sure, go do these Indies, like whatever. Yeah. Weird, weirdo. Go off, feel a weirdo, do whatever. Your career is going to be done soon anyway. And then it like, I got a lot of attention for it. And so then I think I attracted the attention of people saying like, well, okay, we could make money with you,

but we got to make sure we get this right. And so then from then on, there was a lot of like trying to make sure I, I could try to fit more into the mold I was supposed to be in or make choices that were, I don't know, were strategic or, and it just never really wasn't really the right thing for me. I don't think. Yeah. Were there people in your life that supported you in that in, in any way, or did you feel kind of left to your own devices to push that individually? Yeah. I, I felt like they were right and I should like hide who I was until I got really successful. And then I could be myself and make movies that I wanted to make and all that stuff. So that was sort of, I guess the plan. Yeah. Yeah.

I would hide it until it was too late. Was there, you know, when you play in that, you know, when you're an actor and when you have a public persona outside of the acting, it is easy to kind of, you know, and this, it sounds like a lifetime movie to lose yourself um but i mean is that something that you did have to i mean not to be flip about it but is that something that you did kind of have to deal with or or still deal with you know yeah well i feel like now i don't have to anymore but at that time the thing was always if you do this this might happen if you

can just control this or look a little bit more like this or there was always this you do this this might happen if you can just control this or look a little bit more like this or there was always this like the carrot was always so much more enticing than me being myself like i hated myself i didn't care you know what i mean yeah sort of like i didn't have any sense that being myself was this great thing oh really no i was like oh okay great i got us here now you guys take over and tell me exactly who to be because clearly this isn't going to work. Yeah, yeah. I was on board really with how off-putting I was. What?

So I was completely complicit in all of it. And then, you know, it just didn't work. It wasn't the right thing for me. And I ended up, you know, not really. My career ended up not flourishing as much, I guess. Can you remember an instance that sort of made, where you felt like, okay, I gotta, this is not working. I have to be me, whoever that may be. No, I mean, I think that's a more gradual realization.

You know, as you're like struggling and not getting work. And then I would create work for myself. And it was never quite the work I really wanted to do. It was just like what I could get made. And then over time, I just sort of, you know, I had to step back. I wasn't working as much and really think about what the problem might be. the problem might be and um at the same time i started uh i had gone to a comic-con and um i met all of you know i started meeting fans that had been uh that had loved my work since i was a child and i got to kind of witness firsthand all these people who you know basically i was with them in

their lives and they really enjoyed the parts I had played and what they liked was this very specific individuality. And, and so that made me sort of feel more confident about the fact that like, maybe I hadn't been wrong in the beginning. Like, and, and maybe, cause I've always thought that, you know, if you're really going to be an artist and call yourself an artist, then it always felt weird to me that there was this strategy to be considered when what I did was basically like emotional impressionism or something, you know what I mean? To,

I don't know. It just, it didn't feel right anyway. And so. You mean, you mean just technique wise, like what the way you were acting or. I just always felt like you should do the things that you just respond to emotionally.

Yeah. As well for the kind of actor I am. Yeah. That makes the most sense. Right. For me to to to choose something that I can't immediately identify with emotionally isn't isn't right for me. Uh, so strategy and all that stuff and, and really trying to be so analytical and, and, um, and critical of myself was the wrong thing to do. And so, and I feel like I've, I've figured that out now by virtue of really of playing Misty and, and finding this part and leaning into it, I guess. Yeah. I mentioned technique. Did you take like classes? Like do you rely on some technique in your acting or is it just you learned on the job?

I learned as I went and I watched other people and I would take things from what they did and I sort of cobbled together a method for myself. It's all incredibly like cerebral. It all takes place right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even need a pen. And I think also I have the benefit of having done this since I was a child.

So I still have this, like that muscle of playing make-believe and fantasizing and all that stuff is still very active in me because I never stopped it, I guess. Yeah. I mean, can you describe your method in any, in like? Yeah. stopped it i guess yeah can you i mean can you describe your method in any in like yeah i mean so when i take when i read something and i love the part or i love the movie or i love the concept i mean it just like sits in my head and i will think about it and ruminate over it and just sit with that character as i go through my day and randomly come back and revisit the thoughts. And eventually, after a couple days or a week, I have a really good feeling of knowing who that person is.

The character of Misty, she's so weird. And so, like, and it's kind of, it's like, yeah, it's damaged. But it's like, you don't even, I mean, I don't know, maybe we learn more about why she is but she was that you know she's that way she's a weird kid you know when she's i mean we do see the beginning they put that scene in there where she watches an animal slowly drowned and oh right right that's right and i always took that scene to indicate there's some issue here yeah maybe she's a sociopath or yeah yeah you know i'm not a doctor so that's just

what i thought when i read and saw that and i think we're very hesitant to put labels on misty just because you know less fun right right right right well and also it's like you know it's like the there is now and i'm not i'm not grousing about it it just is there's a sensitivity to mental illness that like it's just you can't just sort of make like oh this person is a sociopath delicious you know and then it's a little irresponsible of us to like present the sociopath and then be like but look how much fun she's having yeah yeah but we that's why i always hesitate to do it because i'm like i mean it's a serious thing and we're not handling it very serious or i right yeah but that's you know it's kind of like i don't think

we'll ever not be entertained by that like i just think that it's like in our nature it's the same way you know on my side of the street comed about, oh, you can't make fun of this and you can't make fun of that. And it's always, and the one that I worry about is like, are we not going to be able to make fun of stupid people? Stupid people. Oh, my God. There's so much fun. I think you could always make fun of stupid people because stupid people don't know they're stupid. of stupid people because stupid people don't know they're stupid can't you tell my loves have you have you shot the second season of yellow jackets yet uh no no we start i don't

know why it took me so long to come up with that answer we start at the end of august so i was like where am i okay now you have little kids i I do. I don't know if you heard. My baby was crying. No, I didn't. I didn't. But I'm glad you ignored it. Oh, yeah. Shut that door.

I'm sure to lend. Because you have what? I have an eight-year-old son and an eight-month-old daughter. Wow. That's a good that's a, that's a good spread though. I found my, my kids are five years apart and I found it way better than, well, I mean, you know, it's still nice, but when they're little, oh, to have a kid that you don't like did not have to worry about two kids killing themselves, you know, falling off of something.

My eight year olds will watch the baby for 20 minute time periods all i have to do is buy him video games nice nice i'm like okay she's in her little player yeah yeah play with her 20 minutes yeah how have they changed i mean you know there's the obvious ones but how have they changed your attitude towards show business and did it surprise you the way that because it has to change i mean i just you know being a father i just think you know it's gotta change you yeah i mean by the time i had my son i didn't realize how much of a nihilist i was like i didn't really i had i guess it's just i've been through so much and been dealing with so much anxiety and this intense industry and like shit in my childhood that i just got to a place where I just didn't care about anything literally was making life

decisions just like well what could I mean I'm sure it's fine major life decisions where I'm like I mean I'm sure I mean that sounds fine yeah how bad could that be and when I had my son that unconditional love or whatever whatever that, just broke everything open. And all of a sudden I cared about everything again, which was difficult. Right. So how incredible that just feeling that amount of love can change everything. Yeah. Well, what do you want to what do you want to do going forward?

I mean, do you want to work more? Do you want to work less? Do you want to, you know, become a sculptor? I want to, I'm going to keep doing really interesting acting work. Yeah. I also produce and have, you know, some stuff of my own that is that I'll be pitching and whatever. I have packaging. I'd like package some stuff or whatever. And then I also want to um

hopefully sorry it makes me so uncomfortable to talk about what i want to do in the future because i feel like i'm setting myself up in case i fail oh but anyway well sorry it's it's part of this deal i gotta ask it i know it's the law but i do want to direct so that is something i'm focusing on now yeah directing's funing people what to do. I feel like I'll really love it. I just love finally getting to tell everyone what to do. Oh, Oh, you had that. Sorry. You got to do it my way. It's my, it's my time. It's also nice just because, you know, so much in a collaborative process, everybody's got an idea, but there, but there's one person that's like,

just in this, in this setting, this person gets the say, and you have to just go like, all right, well, I don't agree with what Steve's saying, but Steve is the guy. So we're going to do what Steve wants. And that's nice, especially when you, when you have a sense of poise and like, you know what you're doing. Yeah. And I feel like me as Steve, I'll probably let everybody, you know, as much as I can have a chance to do it their way. You know what I mean? Right. Right. We'll do it Steve's way and we'll do it your way. Or just do it your way and make Steve think he's that you're doing it his way.

Well, yeah, there's that too, but you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the final part of this is that what have you learned is the what's what's the what's the moral to the Christina Ricci story so far? I guess these young kids are right. And we need to understand more like what we have to offer in the world and feel really good about that and see what is valuable in ourselves. And I wish that I had had more confidence and a sense of self when I was younger to have pursued the kind of work that I, I feel confident about pursuing now. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It took me a long time, but now that I'm older, I feel like, Oh wow.

So I can trust my instincts and I can trust my taste. And in fact, it's the thing that sets me apart and is going to ultimately allow me to do more and more work. I always try to tell people, young people, that little people, all these little people. I always try to tell them. The little ones that no one else can see. Yeah. Yeah. The little ones that no one else can see.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, to really find a thing that you do that no one else does and develop it. Yeah. Cool. Well, let me go through what you're doing here. You've got the popular Showtime series, Yellow Jackets. You were nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. I was.

Yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. Was that your first Emmy? No, I was nominated like 20 million years ago. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But this is really exciting. Yeah, it's fun to go there, to go to those things for a reason. You know? Yeah, no, I'm really excited. Even though you do kind of, you tell yourself you don't care, but you know, it's always like, oh, shit. I mean, yeah, no, I'm really excited. And I think too, you know um coming at this time in my life so it actually is really meaningful to me and validating and um moving great i've been

really moved by this this time which is embarrassing because i cry sometimes and i hate that and also you are going to be a series regular on the upcoming netflix tim burton series wednesday based on the adams family character jenna ortega is playing wednesday according to this sheet of paper exactly she is well make sure that you you know you can't let that kid get out of hand you got to let him she's really good she's really really good all right yeah and these these young people today are very self-possessed and terrified i know i know yeah and they don't you don't want to tell them anything also you're just like another another boring adult too they don't know but she was really incredible she she's she's amazing i

think people are going to be really happy with this version cool and you've got the thriller uh monstrous uh is out yeah uh scary movie and streaming and you were voicing harley quinn in a new podcast series from wb and spotify oh that's cool yeah i was i like to call them podcasts is weird to me i always feel like i want to call them radio plays because that's kind of what they are they were like well the scripted series i was like you mean radio yeah yeah yeah i've done some of them and i'm like call it because they always you know and like audible has their special like audible original content like and it's like yeah that's easy to say that's right that's what all the cool kids will be saying but i have to say it was a really fun experience

and it's a really um interesting not interesting but a really great take on harley quinn and she finally has an origin story that's like that makes sense for a woman and um it's it's really great actually awesome yeah and incredible actors you're great too christina thank you so much for taking the time uh thank you you know i know i know you're busy with a million different press things so and you know, you know, and those kids, those crying babies. Those annoying kids. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, thank you so much.

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