Tosh Show - My Favorite Resident Evil Villain - Maggie Robertson

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

Daniel speedruns his way through an interview with videogame actor Maggie Robertson about studying Shakespeare, working fan conventions, and why she isn’t a gamer.See omnystudio.com/listene...r for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:15 I had a great weekend. My wife was out of town and you're probably like, well, you got to spread out in the bed. No, I let my son join me. Then I don't have to do the whole thing, fighting to put him down. I'm like, stay up as late as you want, I don't care. But on Friday, I took him to Dave and Busters. Now, that was a big deal.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Neither one of us have ever been to Dave and Busters. The reason that I was interested in the first place was because they had a new commercial For Dave and Busters and they're doing like a human Claw machine for kids where where they get strapped in and you control them and then they pick up a toy. Well Apparently that's Participating locations only because the one that we went to didn't fucking have it Doesn't matter. Let me get let me start this. I
Starting point is 00:03:07 First I you know, I don't ever do anything on my own. I call Pete I say Pete I am going to Dave and Buster's Do I need a reservation? He's like, when are you going? I'm like I am like noon He's like I think you'll be okay. We walk through the door There is no one in the place and And when I say no one, I mean no employees, there's no people, there's one of those computer screens, like just like welcome. And he's like, buy a card to go start playing games. And I'm like, oh wow, this would have been embarrassing
Starting point is 00:03:40 had I asked for reservations for the two of us. We get a car, I'm like, I don't know how many games, uh, we need. Hey, I put a hundred dollars in. Guess what? Way too much. Holy cow. We didn't even dent that card. We, uh, we sit down and, uh, we order food and I say, okay, we're going to go play
Starting point is 00:04:04 games. She says, well, I need a credit card if you're going to walk around and I'll let you know when your food's ready. I said, okay. I gave the lady a credit card. She said, oh wow, this credit card's heavy. I'm like, okay, I get it. Certain clientele doesn't normally come here.
Starting point is 00:04:22 It's a metal credit card. Anyway, we're walking around playing games. Now I keep my kid away from guns for the most part. I don't, he doesn't play shooting games ever. But today I was like, ah, there's a Godzilla game. You know, you're not shooting other people. There's just monsters. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:40 He's got a VR headset. I'm like, put this on, it'd be hysterical. He, it blew his mind. He was just in a helicopter shooting Godzilla. Thought it was the greatest, he thought it was kind of scary. Just loved it. My favorite game was one where the two of us
Starting point is 00:04:58 just sit on this game and it's, you don't do anything. It just shakes and moves and wind blows at you. And it's like, oh, it's just a ride We played a lot of race car games, you know where the whole where the whole thing moves But my son's too short to reach the pedal. So I have to put my leg up on the gas pedal That's fine, except for the whole thing is moving. So now i'm on one leg with my leg Inside this game that's going up and down and back and forth. It's quite the core workout.
Starting point is 00:05:30 I didn't enjoy that. But whatever, we played some games and then we ordered some food. The food is just awful. Oh man. I had some nachos. I shouldn't say they were awful. It was fine. I, they were, I shouldn't say they were awful. It was fine. You know, I had a, I had a strawberry lemonade. That was delightful. She's like, you're gonna have to stir it.
Starting point is 00:05:51 I'm like, I know how to drink. I don't know if Dave and Buster's is a sponsor of this show. Lord knows they should. The overlap is unbelievable because I was walking around there. Once people started filling in toward the end of our session, is that what you call it? Or lunch? People said, a couple of people said hi to me. And then, you know what I did?
Starting point is 00:06:16 I took my card that had 300 points still on it. And I gave it to, um, a minority family that was walking in. And it said, here you guys go. Here's our card. We didn't use all the points. Uh, feel free. They're like, well, you know, you can keep and come back. I go, I'm never fucking coming back. This was it.
Starting point is 00:06:32 This was a one and done. So anyway, we had a great time. You're probably wondering why did I even go to Dave and Buster's? Oh, okay. I need to do a little recon. I'm not much of a gamer. I just wanted to be sharp for today's guest. Enjoy.
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Starting point is 00:11:31 Yeah. Wow. Maggie, do you believe in ghosts? Mmm, for the plot, yeah. Yeah. That's pretty good. You moved a ton growing up as a kid. Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:46 So did I. Talk to me about that. 12 schools by time I was 12. Oh damn, you beat me. 12 by 12, that's how I remember that. 12 by 12, that's nice. I stopped at 12 though. Once they got to seventh grade, Madison Middle School,
Starting point is 00:12:00 Titusville, Florida, that's when they're like, we're done. By the way, if you look up Madison Middle School on the school rankings, I'm curious to know if it's the one to 10, like Zillow has that. Look that up for me. I'm curious if it's over a four. I don't think I even remember what middle school I went to, like the name of it.
Starting point is 00:12:19 Am I broken? I think I have a memory problem. This is what this conversation is teaching me. You don't have a good memory? I don't think I do. How often did you move? I think I moved, I think five, a memory problem. This is what this conversation is teaching me. You don't have a good memory? I don't think I do. How often did you move? I think I moved, I think five, somewhere around there. Why did you have to move?
Starting point is 00:12:31 My mom was a collegiate professor, so we went where she could get a job. Is she still working? Heavens no. Okay. Yeah, no, she went where she could get a job and then realized that academia is just as political and competitive as acting at times
Starting point is 00:12:46 and was like, so left. As a parent was she like education is so important? Yes, but here's where I get insecure because tell me if this happened to you, you move more than me, but I have definitive gaps in my knowledge of history and like key moments of life because the school that I left would have covered that topic the next year and the school that I moved to covered it the year before so then I was just left there being like what is the Holocaust oh shit you missed the Holocaust I missed the Holocaust that's a good one I know I mean not everyone's talking about this thing I have to I have to I do not think it was a good one, right? It was just correct. Jeez man. I know that's a pretty big one
Starting point is 00:13:31 My middle school three out of ten, that's how bad it was Florida right? Yes. So what's the average for Florida? I've great cuz you might be above average Do you think so? No. But you could. When did you get bit by the acting bug? I think it was a long time coming. I think I was bit and then it took a couple years of incubation before the disease started to manifest in my body. So I started acting in high school.
Starting point is 00:13:58 That was just like for fun. Just an extracurricular. All my friends did it. Who cares? Like, fuck about. But yeah, and then in college, that's when I think I started to realize that this was serious and it was fun also. Like the work itself, working on the craft of acting was very fun and very interesting. And I never knew what I wanted to do. I was pretty apathetic about a lot
Starting point is 00:14:20 of things and I was just floating through life. And then I realized that acting allowed me to take all of the different interests that I had and not just pick one, but do them all within this one umbrella. Or did you go to college? Mühlenberg College. Mühlenberg? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Did you live in the area? You just- It's in Pennsylvania. You know where it is. You've heard of it? Allentown, Bethlehem, isn't it in that world? Yes. Well, first of all, I was told this,
Starting point is 00:14:46 but my manager, she's from Wilkes-Barre, which is right there. Do you miss the Lehigh Valley? No, and my allergies don't miss it either. Did you have bad allergies there? Oh, heavens, yes. My allergies in Florida were off the charts. Really, well, you just sneezed two times before we started.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Yeah, if I put on a sweater, I get it. Why? I have bad allergies, period. OK. But dust is a good one for me. Dust is mine. Dust mites. All right, after school, you moved back to the DC area. Got involved in local community theater.
Starting point is 00:15:13 How quickly did you realize you fucked up and needed to move to London? Well, I didn't move. So I moved back home after college. I didn't know that I wanted to do acting full time. I was kind of like, actors are crazy. So then I went and got real jobs when I moved back home. What were your real jobs?
Starting point is 00:15:31 Oh, I had a shloo. One of the most fun probably, I did aviation catering and then I was promoted. So I was the person who went and met private jets on the tarmac at Dulles Airport in DC and would take their catering orders in person from the head flight attendant. Pete just always just gets us a bag of Chick-fil-A.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Well, that's because he's not a head flight attendant caterer. No, he didn't get it. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. That's the one. You specialized in Shakespeare. Do you actually even like Shakespeare? I think Yes
Starting point is 00:16:10 That was really convincing, huh? I do like Shakespeare, but I think I chose to do a classical acting degree not because I'm like Shakespeare but because I was thinking well, that's the hardest thing you could possibly do as an actor So shouldn't I go train and do the hardest thing you could possibly do and then everything else will be easy? It is the hardest thing. I have no idea. I felt like it was at the time. It is quite hard because the language is so archaic and the worlds are heightened and it's a lot of words.
Starting point is 00:16:33 It's a lot of wording. So if you're not good at words, you're in trouble. It's not my world. Yeah. I wouldn't have done it. All right. Before we proceed, I have to acknowledge for my listeners, I believe video games are stupid. Did you play video games as a child?
Starting point is 00:16:45 No, I did like it as a child. I had a Nintendo. What did you play Super Mario? Okay brothers I've heard of them, you know, I think I think I might have played that You know, I think the only reason I enjoyed it was because my parents finally got fed up I enjoyed it was because my parents finally got fed up and put a TV in our bedroom, my brother and I's room, because they didn't want to hear that horrible music. So we went, but I never got into like, now there's like these, Pete, these old people that just all night long.
Starting point is 00:17:20 My brother-in-law on a headset all night long just shooting people. Oh, a headset. He's serious. I was never one of those people. I didn't grow up playing games. I'm just in them now, but I was definitely not cool. So that's not to say that I'm not one of the people. -♪ HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. HMM. There's no physical way for me to play these games. What console is Resident Evil on? PlayStation. I know this. Well, actually, that's a lie. You can play it on a variety of different
Starting point is 00:17:53 consoles depending on what you have. Xbox, I think. I have this one old Ms. Pac-Man machine. Why is it Ms. Pac-Man? Why isn't it Misses if she's taking his name? Is that the lore of Pac-Man? I don't know. Are they together? I have no idea. It's Miss Pac-Man, right? Yeah, but I believe it's MS. They're not married.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Right, but then why should she- She's not with him? Then why is she taking his name? Why should she saddle herself? Maybe she's a different Pac-Man. Maybe she's his sister. Why isn't it Pac-Woman? The patriarchy.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Absolutely correct. It's the patriarchy. By the way, why do I love Miss. Pac-Man but hate Pac-Man? Pac-Man is older, right? Maybe the graphics are just a notch better on Ms. Pac-Man. It doesn't matter. All right, get into it. How did you land... Resident Evil was the big, the big breaking point, right? The big break. Yes. It's a little bit of the Hollywood dream story, which is obnoxious to say it happened to me. Had you moved to LA before?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Just before. Oh, man. Get this. Let me paint the scene. I just graduated from a prestigious, stupid drama school, got my fancy degree, then did their showcase, didn't get a single bite from an agent. Sick. And then I decided to move to LA and was figuring it out living with five roommates whatever it is and then I just self submitted myself on
Starting point is 00:19:10 Something like LA casting one of those things and then got the audition This was a couple months after I moved to LA even she had no struggle No struggle. No struggle got here landed a big gig. Mm-hmm But you didn't even know it was a big gig I did not know it was a big gig, and this is very common with video games. Even today, being firmly entrenched in the industry, everything has a code name, everything's under NDA, so they don't want to give away any information. Every single thing about my audition process for Resident Evil was fake.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Fake character name, fake sides that I auditioned with. But you're such, you're not a gamer. If you were a true gamer, do you think you could have broke those codes and figured out what it was? Maybe. Because, I mean, you don't even think, like even the dialogue itself, like a real gamer would be like, I know what this is for. But all the dialogue was different.
Starting point is 00:19:54 None of that dialogue was actual in-game dialogue. It broke fake scenes. It wasn't parallel to the character that you're playing? It was parallel, but she's a new character. She's a new IP. Tsk. Moral of the story is, I was a dumbass. I went in blind. I was like, oh, cool she's a new character. One, four, 18. And maybe some on Zoom.
Starting point is 00:20:27 Okay. Definitely the cinematics director. What year is this? This is the year of our lore 2019. Pre-shutdown. Pre-shutdown. I know. So we were working on this throughout the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Oh, you having to get like all that dumb COVID testing constantly? Yes-ish. I was mostly doing ADR at that point. So I was just going into the booth. They release a trailer for your game. Well, Ethan Winters, there you are. The game's not even finished yet.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Game's not even finished. They release a trailer, and just like that, your character becomes the IT thing. Yeah, which was crazy also because I'm still under NDA. So I can't tell anybody that it's me and my character has gone viral on the internet. You really can't, are they really gonna come after you? Haven't we learned with like me too
Starting point is 00:21:16 that NDAs are all bullshit and you can break them? Well, keep in mind, this was my first game. You were scared. I was scared. Yeah. And they gave us the talk. When we first showed was scared. Yeah. And they gave us the talk. When we first showed up for the table read, they gave us the talk. And they say things that are 100% not legal.
Starting point is 00:21:29 They put the fear of God. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So I was like, I'll never work again. I tell people immediately. When people tell me, hey, I'm going to tell you something, and you got to keep going, I just say stop. Whenever this comes up, it's coming out.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Note to self, don't tell you secrets. I mean, why are you telling me secrets, Maggie? Well, I haven't yet and now I never will. Because you don't know this world at all. Are you just completely confused? Yes. Or did you think, oh, this is how Hollywood works. I landed a gig, I'm a video game character
Starting point is 00:21:59 and now I'm popular. Well, let's put this in perspective. Being famous for video games is not like being a Brad Pitt. I'm not actually that famous. You either really care or you really don't care. Well that's how I used to feel about like the real world as growing up. These kids were so, I felt bad for them because they were so famous immediately, but yet they had no money.
Starting point is 00:22:24 That's what it was. And that's a bad thing, because you still have to, you don't get the protection, the privacy that you're afforded with money, and now you're just having to be a mark stuff. Now you're just a people. Now you're just a people. Now you're just a people.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Vulnerable. And you had some, let's be fair, some probably not, how do I want to say, the people that were attracted or know this world or stalking you could be some real creepers. Yes, I definitely had a lot of anxiety before the game came out. I did have a panic attack or two.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Watching her go viral and still not being able to say anything, you build up a lot of anticipation. And I think that's what made me more nervous because I wasn't sure how fans are going to react to me. If that was going to be put onto me then, all of the fetishization of the character, which, you know, she's gorgeous, absolutely go off. I think it helps too with video games, at least in this one, she doesn't look like me. So I have a degree of separation where I can be like, hell yeah, she's a baddie. Like say what you want.
Starting point is 00:23:17 Like you but what her characteristic or physical character is that she's extremely tall. Yeah. And you're tall. I'm tall. And did they know that? Of course they did. Yeah. Is this one of these new Hollywood things where it's like, well, if we're gonna have a tall character, we have to have a tall actor. We need exactly the thing that we're looking for.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Do you think that's the case or no? No acting required. Well, video games are different. How do you act tall? Well, you act like an asshole. And that's what it is, looking down at all the little people. You know my favorite tall thing to do is to act like,
Starting point is 00:23:48 oh, like everything is, like, I don't want to bump my head. I have to always just lean into things. But that's real. It's not an act. Did you enjoy being tall when you were younger? People always say that I'm lying about this, but like I graduated high school, and from like 18 to 22, I kind of shot up.
Starting point is 00:24:06 Is that normal? No. But that is when I shot up. I wasn't- I don't believe that's normal. I wasn't tall in high school. Like I was like a little beanpole. I lived in Florida and I was embarrassed to wear shorts
Starting point is 00:24:19 because my legs were so bad. You had little chicken legs. And to this day, Pierre, my friend, still calls me chicken legs to insult me, but he's French. So it's like I let him get away with it because he doesn't have a better sense of humor. Yeah. But it still stings. I was tall in high school, but I have a memory.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Girls shot up right away. Girls shoot up quicker, but I know it was high school. It was freshman year of high school, ninth grade, because eighth grade I moved, and my best friend, where I was before, was taller than me. I moved away, I came back to visit her. A year later, I was taller than her. How aggressive was the high school volleyball coach
Starting point is 00:24:58 to jump over? No, I also, okay. I had foot issues. You're turning me on. Hey. I had a lot of foot issues, and're turning me on. Hey. I had a lot of foot issues and I went through a whole thing and I couldn't play sports. I think that's how I got into theater anyway,
Starting point is 00:25:12 but I like had a boot, got lots of x-rays. They thought maybe I have a extra bone in my foot. I'm gonna have to get surgery. Years later, I just have flat feet. Oh. I also went to the emergency room one time for stomach pain and then it was just gas. So you're just a little bit of an overreactor there. No, well the first time it was my parents overreacting, it wasn't me.
Starting point is 00:25:34 What all goes into doing a video game? It's not just voice. It's not just voice. Well, it can not just be voice. So every time I work on a game, it's a different story depending on what tech they're using. You sometimes physically have to act. I do sometimes physically have to act. Do you have to wear the dumb Velcro balls?
Starting point is 00:25:50 Yes. Is it, are they Velcro? I don't even know. It's like a spandex Velcro suit, and then they put sensors all over your body. When you're doing what's called performance capture, which is what I did for Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, we're in a big wide open space
Starting point is 00:26:04 that has cameras all around us to capture all of our physical data. We have, we're also doing facial capture, which is not always the case. So I have a big heavy helmet with a camera that sits directly in front of my face. And then, you know, if I'm doing a scene with you, I can't make eye contact with you because there's a camera right in my face. Do you interact with other actors? Yeah, you can. If you're doing a scene altogether.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Like actually touching and stuff like that? Not so much touching, because that could interfere with the data collection. Is there any sexy scenes in any of these games? There can be, yes. So like you are like doing all of that type of stuff too? I don't know, because I've not done them, but I've seen some cut scenes of other people.
Starting point is 00:26:42 You've never done a sex scene in a game? No. I don't know what games have sex scenes, but I'm just guessing Grand Theft Auto has to have something. They've got to have something. Don't they? I don't know. You nerds play that stuff. Yes, for sure.
Starting point is 00:26:53 Yes, for sure. Okay, thank you. That's what I wanted to hear. How many days or weeks or months did you actually work for? Let's just start with Resident Evil. I did performance capture for Resident Evil, which is when we're in that volume space and I'm doing the full body mechanics, face, blah, blah,
Starting point is 00:27:11 blah. That I think I was there for a week because we were just doing the cut scenes in the game, which is essentially the scenes in a video game that play like a movie. So I worked on that for about a week. And then we were going in for ADR sessions every other month for
Starting point is 00:27:25 two or three years. That's about how long we worked on the game. So it was a nice steady paycheck. Can this be something that somebody specializes in like like oh I'm only interested in being a video game actor? Yes. Are there people that do that? Yes there are because you can do no cap in games. So the umbrella is all performance capture is motion capture but not all motion capture is motion capture, but not all motion capture is performance capture. There are people who can go into games, and I've done this before as well, where the audio has already been recorded. So I'm essentially doing karaoke to an existing audio track, and I'm doing the mechanics of the character saying, hey,
Starting point is 00:28:00 how are you? And it's my body going, hey, how are you? So I'm doing the physical movements to a line that already exists. It's so weird the jobs that are out there. It's so weird. So every time you step into video games, you're doing something different. You can just do VO, you could just do motion capture, just capturing your body.
Starting point is 00:28:17 How long does this take? Is there somebody just a director? Director depends. Going, yes, there can be this. Or do you know what the list is going in? Actors know nothing. We're given the least amount of information, but it's just like going on to set for a movie,
Starting point is 00:28:32 quite honestly. There's really no difference in terms of the acting. What's unique about it is it's like the marriage between theater and on camera, because you are acting in the round, and so you're acting to fill an entire space, but you're also acting for your close-up. You have a wide and you have a close-up happening simultaneously and you have to act for both.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Are you actually the actor? If it's a video game and I'm controlling you, technically I'm the actor then. Or I'm a director. Maybe I'm a director in that scenario. That is gets into one of the critical points about video games. We don't make residuals. That's why the pay is, but we don't make residuals, which is because who is the performance? Who's the performer?
Starting point is 00:29:10 I'm doing my motions, but if I pick up this coffee mug with my right hand and then they realize in post, shit, she's got to pick it up with her left, they can change that in post. The animators can change that. For a game like Baldur's Gate, with over 17,000 possible endings, are you recording all of those? Yeah. You serious?
Starting point is 00:29:28 The ending I got was destroying the nether brain. Pretty satisfying, though. How did you get that ending? You don't play games. I just read this. OK, do you actually think I have any idea what the fuck that meant? No. What do you think it is?
Starting point is 00:29:42 Please tell me what you think Baldur's Gate is about. Oh, I'm, I'm, if I were to guess, it's monsters, it's apocalyptic, and there's shooting. I don't know, is it, what is it about? No, it's Dungeons and Dragons. It's nerdy shit. Same thing. All right.
Starting point is 00:29:58 Zombies, Dungeons and Dragons, it's all the same to me. Cool, you're so true. Okay, no you didn't, you didn't record 17,000 different. This is how long the game is. There are acts. My character comes in at the end of Act Two, but predominantly is in Act Three. And the, what is it called, the map that the developers had
Starting point is 00:30:17 to keep track of all of the different threads and branches of the narrative line made me want to slit my throat. I read a Choose Your Own Adventure book with my son, and I just get furious because at the end of every one that he chooses, he doesn't like the ending of it, and he's like crying. And I was like, I wanted to win.
Starting point is 00:30:35 I'm like, then I find out after doing 50 versions of it, there was no winner. It's not about winning. Right. It's about the journey. Ugh. That's the lesson. I can't teach him those things.
Starting point is 00:30:44 I'm not smart enough. Is there an equivalent to the Oscars for the video game performers? Yes. You won? Yes. That feels weird to just be like, yeah, I won.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Yeah, there's the Game Awards. Do you get dressed up? You do. Do you dress up like the character of the game or do you just dress nice? No, I'm an actor. Do you dress nice? That's my character. I dress nice.
Starting point is 00:31:04 How many people were in your category? And what was your category? The category was best performance in a video game. That's pretty good. That's best actor. That's it, that's it, yeah. And then there's a slew of other video game awards that I won as well.
Starting point is 00:31:20 And then there's also BAFTAs, the BAFTAs have a games. Should there be one in like just the traditional? Probably. Emmys? Yeah, Emmys. Why, is it more of a movie? Is it would gaming? I mean, I feel like most people play it on their television.
Starting point is 00:31:36 That's why I said Emmys. I don't know. Maybe we can pull the community at large. I don't know. I don't have the answers. You know what the worst thing in the world is, is people that enjoy watching videos of people playing games.
Starting point is 00:31:51 I don't get that. It's huge. I know. That's how I watch games. You actually just watch somebody play? I watch somebody play or you can go on and be like, Resident Evil cut scenes, all, and then you watch the game like it's a movie.
Starting point is 00:32:04 So you don't make a lot of money. No, that's a big misconception too. I think you make good money, but you don't make, you don't make, oh my goodness money, or you don't even make good money. It's debatable. I'm sure it's debatable. Good is debatable, but because people that watch this,
Starting point is 00:32:20 this is where they go, you're so out of touch. They think I'm so out of touch because, you know, I won't take a shit for under 50 grand. I would take a shit for 50 grand. If I had to go, you're so out of touch. They think I'm so out of touch because, you know, I won't take a shit for under 50 grand. I would take a shit for 50 grand. If I had to go, maybe. Okay. All right, but I'm not gonna do it on command. That seems to be pornographic.
Starting point is 00:32:33 I don't know if I can poop on command. Can you? Yes, I do. Holy shit, I have some stomach issues. You're a poopy boy? Ugh, it's not good. Okay. I'm not a poopy girl, I'm a constipated girly.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Ah, lucky you. I know, right? So I'm just bloated and disgusting in here. It's all festering inside me and it won't come out. Can you eat right before you perform? Yes, because I'm not a poopy girl. I get it, no, I'm just saying, so if you're hungry, you can have something to eat.
Starting point is 00:33:01 Me, if I have a show or something, I have to be like, oh, I'm, for this interview, I don't eat breakfast. Okay, I had Taco Bell in the car. So... So... So... So...
Starting point is 00:33:13 So... Just to... Oh, that's delightful. By the way, Taco Bell, I don't know if you're a sponsor. But you can be, hey. Or I was a spokesperson for Taco Bell many years ago. Bli-li-li-li. Tell me more. I was the spokesperson for Taco Bell many years ago.
Starting point is 00:33:25 Blah, blah, blah. Tell me more. It was my first gig. What? In LA. Okay. I moved out. Voicing a Taco Bell commercial was your first job in LA. No, I was the spokesperson for, I've replaced the Chihuahua.
Starting point is 00:33:38 Yo quiero Taco Bell, I was the next spokesperson. It didn't do well. Wait, so everyone hates you because we all missed the Chihuahua. In fairness, they don't even hate me They don't even know you there. I came and went no one knows I shot six commercials two of them didn't even air Anyway, I got free Taco Bell for life now. I'm late life here in theory I put it in my car in the contract I put it in my contract that I got free Taco Bell for life because I thought they were gonna give me some gold
Starting point is 00:34:03 Card that I could shine At the drive-thru. Oh, I love the red carpet right now. Okay, that didn't exist What did exist was border bucks? So they just did the math of if I ate Taco Bell every day for a year I would need X amount of dollars a year So every year I would get a box like 10,000 border bucks in ones. In ones? Yes. Like a stripper?
Starting point is 00:34:27 Yes. Okay. Well, they're ones. They're border bucks. Maggie? I think I don't know what border bucks are. Doesn't matter. This is what I'm learning.
Starting point is 00:34:33 This is your story and I'm just living in it. Keep going. Okay. I'm just going to finish it because I started it. Anyway, after a few years, I just stopped sending them. I didn't request them anymore. I didn't want to. But at the time, I just stopped sending them. I didn't request them anymore. I didn't want to, but at the time I was so poor in LA
Starting point is 00:34:47 that I was using the border bucks to buy things at Taco Bell, wait for it. And I knew what to buy to like make it be 201. Then I would give them three border bucks and they would give me 99 cents in real currency back. And so that's how I started making a little extra change for parking meters, et cetera. That's very smart.
Starting point is 00:35:09 That's where I was at. I admire your ingenuity. Oh man. In the face of adversity. Those were the days. Oh, the struggle was fun. Residuals are the best part about show business. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:22 You, you do a job and then if the job is successful and it lives in other worlds forever, you're just constantly getting repaid for something you did a long time ago. Now people in the quote real world think that's nonsense because they're like, well, you should only get paid for when you work. But the reality is as an actor that thousands
Starting point is 00:35:43 of times you work, you never get paid. Just for all the failure, the rejection, blah an actor, that thousands of times you work, you never get paid. Just for all the failure, the rejection, blah, blah, blah. And the studios continue to get paid off of your one performance. They're still making money off of your one scene or whatever, so why shouldn't you? Okay, so you don't preach to the choir. I want residuals.
Starting point is 00:36:01 You know, like when Netflix and those streaming services came out, they knocked it off. They said no residuals. Yeah, they ruined it. I'm like, ugh. You know like when Netflix and those people those streaming services came out they knocked it off. They said no residuals Yeah, they ruined it. I'm like, uh, that's not my thing I want to get paid forever. Exactly. I'm over the starving actor trope. We need to get rid of it I'm not interested. How soon till AI? Fucks all of you very soon. That's why we're on strike. Is there a strike right now? I didn't know there was another there is not many people do but we are on strike for video games We're currently renegotiating our contract and fighting for more legal protections I didn't even know there was another strike. There is. Not many people do, but we are on strike for video games.
Starting point is 00:36:25 We're currently renegotiating our contract and fighting for more legal protections, especially in regards to AI. And that's just to block them from using AI? I mean, it seems like video games will be... No, no, AI is here. AI is already a tool. AI is a valuable tool. And if you continue to use it as just an accessory, then I think, hell yeah, do it.
Starting point is 00:36:44 Games have been using AI already for years and years. It's just about how can we protect keeping humans in games, keeping actors in games so that we can continue to create the best games that we can possibly create. Well, once they figure this out, the pay, then, Pete, I wanna be in a video game. But I don't wanna do it until they figure out the pay. Absolutely not. I'm not taking a pay cut until they figure out the pay. Absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:37:05 I'm not taking a pay cut for these monsters. Heavens. They make so much money. Video games are the most lucrative industry. I think it's TV, movies, and music combined. Video games makes more money than all of them. But what about porn? I don't know. I don't have that data.
Starting point is 00:37:20 Porn's in front. You're so right. There's no way it's not. What was I thinking? It just seems like it always is like, yeah, you know, we forgot have that data. Porn's in front. You're so right. There's no way it's not. What was I thinking? It just seems like it always is like, yeah, you know, we forgot about that one. The game itself, okay, they don't pay you a ton, but you go to these Comic Cons, right?
Starting point is 00:37:34 Yeah, so voice actors and video game actors, we use Comic Cons to essentially create our own residual structure after the game. If you're lucky enough to have a character or a game that is popular enough to take you to cons, that's your residual structure. Can they stop you from profiting off of that? Well, it's a legally great area. So what we say is, I'm selling my autograph. That's it. They don't own my autograph. That's about me.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Do you dress up like the character? No. That would be stupid. You wear like tall shoes? I'm tall enough. They get it. But then, do you get this or is it just because I'm a tall woman that people are like, mm, thought you'd be taller? No, everyone because they have met one or two people that's been on television before and they're all dwarves. They are! So weird.
Starting point is 00:38:19 When they see me they go, oh my God, I didn't think you were that tall. Yeah. I had a child at a TJ Maxx go, whoa, and then run away. So that felt good. What's a TJ Maxx like? I'm sorry. Are you too big time now? You don't know what a TJ Maxx is?
Starting point is 00:38:35 I've never. You don't do your own shopping? No, I definitely don't do my own shopping. Who got this sweater for you? Carrie. Okay. She's wonderful. And she only charges me 150 an hour.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Only? Listen, I'm proudly Florida trash, struggled for 10 years, started doing well for 10 years, and the last 10 years things have been good. I'm happy to be like, yeah, yeah, I don't remember that nonsense. Absolutely, what is the point of working so hard to make this money if then you don't capitalize
Starting point is 00:39:03 on having money? Do you think this office space is close to their houses? Hmm. If somebody were to get into this and they were to land a decent role, maybe not the starring role of a video game, what can they expect to be paid? Depends on what contract the game is under.
Starting point is 00:39:22 It depends on the size of the role. Even projects where I have a pretty large role, maybe I can, if it's just voiceover, I can probably get all of their voiceover lines done in maybe a session or two, which means you're just getting your day rate. So the most you're making, if you just do one session, I forget what the now sag day rate is, scale day rate for video games. I think it's something like a thousand bucks. So you're just making a thousand bucks. If you book one game- A thousand bucks a day. A thousand bucks for video games. I think it's something like a thousand bucks. So you're just making a thousand bucks.
Starting point is 00:39:45 If you book one game. A thousand bucks a day. A thousand bucks for one session. But oftentimes they only need you for one session. So you're making a thousand bucks, period. And that's it. I did God of War. I only needed one session to do my stuff.
Starting point is 00:39:58 That's all I made. You can't do, you gotta drag it out. Do you, do you? You're right. I'll go, I'll be worse. Do you try to do that sometimes? No, cause you gotta be professional then they don't want you back. Could you be on cameo and just do audio messages
Starting point is 00:40:10 in character and make a fortune? Yes, and I am. Boom. That's, Boom. Cameo is great if you, Are you on cameo? No.
Starting point is 00:40:19 No. Why do I feel like I'm being judged right now for being on cameo? Not at all. Oh. Now I, I asked to be on cameo when- And they wouldn't let you? Well, here's the thing. I wanted it to be a million dollars my rate.
Starting point is 00:40:32 Oh. And my joke was that eventually one person would do it, and that's all I wanted. And then you'll be- you'll only need one. That was my- I was like, yes, put me on for one million dollars. They wouldn't do it. But it's a racket though. Can we break down down prices because you know, you gotta price yourself pretty high because cameo takes 30 percent okay, if they purchase a cameo off of A device that is either an apple or an android then google or apple take 30 percent I'm walking away with less than 50, but you're making 50 percent about don't give me that
Starting point is 00:41:04 You're gonna be like well But you're making 50% about? Don't give me that. You're gonna be like, well, you're still making. I don't know. You're still making 50%. What about jacking the rate up a little bit, just to nudge it? Well, you don't wanna price people out. It's a delicate balance. Are you doing your cameos daily?
Starting point is 00:41:17 Are you, is the- No, not daily. It's not like a frequent, I'm not making millions off a cameo. It's like once every now and again I'll do it. And then I'm like, I have to put on makeup. Kill me. Why not do them dirty?
Starting point is 00:41:29 Well, now I do. Just be like. Because I'm lazy. I don't know why people get cameos with me. Just push in real close and just be like, here you go. Here is my nostril. Weirdest request you've gotten from a fan. There are definitely some, you know,
Starting point is 00:41:44 like some requests that should have been on an Only There are definitely some, you know, like, some requests that should have been on an OnlyFans account where I'm like, great, that's not what we're doing here, but fully support you doing that somewhere else. Okay, could you clean up on OnlyFans? I could. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:59 But will I? No, no, that's fine. We were gonna create an OnlyFans account for this show. Really? For your chicken legs? No, well. that's fine. We were gonna create an OnlyFans account for this show. For your chicken legs? No, well. Oh. Clothes. I think you could clean up on those bad boys. My idea for us doing an OnlyFans was just like,
Starting point is 00:42:14 at the end of our interview, I just asked one or two questions with my shirt off. And then we saved that, and that's exclusive content for the OnlyFans. Okay. What's this obsession with people wanting you to step on them and have you ever done it? These are the dark corners of the interwebs
Starting point is 00:42:31 and this is what Lady D went viral for. She's a looker. People like her. They like her so much that they want her to step on them. You know what, I'm thinking about, I've been obsessed with this, the P Diddy trial. Oh. Are you?
Starting point is 00:42:48 No. Oh, it's just so, it's just horrible. But I'm just so blessed. And I've never used the word blessed. It felt weird coming out of your mouth. It's not natural. Yeah. But the one thing that I love is that I'm just so boring
Starting point is 00:43:03 when it comes to what physically I would be into. Okay. To have the kinks that some of these people have, and I'm not kink shaming, but thank God I don't have it. You're not gonna get in trouble. Oh, you know what I'm into? People in my house having sex for six days. What?
Starting point is 00:43:22 You couldn't come up with something that I would hate more. I agree with you. It's just bonkers. Get out of my house. It's just bonkers. Yeah. Anyway, I hope he, you know, gets to tell his truth. OK.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Another thing that I've never said. Have you ever witnessed a dick flattening? Have I witnessed it? Is that the question? Yeah. Have you ever witnessed a dick flattening? Have I witnessed it? Is that the question? Yeah. They're laughing because they know I don't know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:43:52 I know what dick flattening is. That's what her character in Resident Evil squishes. She goes around flattening dicks. Thank you. That's what she does. Is that what she does? Yes. Really?
Starting point is 00:44:03 These games are so stupid. That's what she does. Is that what she does? Yes. Really? These games are so stupid. That's so dumb. So kids are playing that? Yes. I just hope my kids don't get into video games because it's- Playing or being in? Playing.
Starting point is 00:44:17 They don't play video games. Not yet, they're young. Oh. I don't want to learn. It's hard enough to screen television.. I'm a screen games. Yeah So there are some really cute games out there. They don't have to be like crazy I don't want I don't want them to learn the buttons as it I've then I have the buttons are really hard Right, I don't want to run into walls. I can't figure it out. People tell me who's this button
Starting point is 00:44:42 I don't remember buttons all over the edge. I can't I can't figure it out people tell me who's this button. I don't remember buttons all over the edge I can't I can't I don't want any of the buttons Maggie everybody that comes on the show gets a gift for me. It's just something good. No, it's sometimes It's good and you know, I found out people Have been keeping track of whose gifts like are probably the most valuable which has made me laugh Because some gifts are more right yours are not yours are not a check no I know that you're not a real gamer but I actually like playing games really because you have not given that indication no they're on games and card games oh my god that's what I like playing all right but not done what card game go fish Monopoly deal if you play Monopoly deal
Starting point is 00:45:22 okay it's so fun I haven't played such a good game. Did you bring that? Is that my gift? Are we playing it right now cards? It's a card game. Yeah. Yeah, and deal and it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes for a game So oh unlike Monopoly anyway excellent. So here's what I got you. Okay. I got you This is a beautiful backgammon table. I love backgammon. Is it new? Did you buy this? Yes, it hasn't been opened. Hasn't been opened. No, no, it's beautiful.
Starting point is 00:45:47 Like you didn't just find that you didn't walk around your house and pick something up. No, no. This, Kristy, my manager bought this. You're one from Pennsylvania. Right. I have a much nicer one.
Starting point is 00:45:55 Oh, okay. So I'm like, I'm like, what am I gonna do? I don't need two backgammon tables. Oh, you're regifting. That's all I do. That's what's happening. Basically. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:46:04 Okay, so here's a nice backgammon table. Oh my gosh, how did you know? I'm secretly 80 years old. This game, what do you meme? Yeah. I know you do. First of all, anytime I see an adult party game, I'm like, I'm fucking out.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Okay. I don't want my games to be dirty. Oh. And I am guessing when I say adult, I'm like, oh, I bet you there's some stuff in there. I don't care. Whatever. Okay, that that's your game Then I got you. What is this? This is quarter. I love this game. I don't know anything about this game I'm gonna show I'm gonna play I'll play you with it right now. Um here take your table off my table That was you OCD about this no, it's it's just
Starting point is 00:46:44 No, and then there's immediate... This is heavy. No? And then there's immediate laughter from the back, so that's a yes? Uh, fine. Okay, so, Quarto, here's how you play this game. Are we playing this right now? Yeah, I'll play you one. Okay, here's the thing. Each piece has four characteristics. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:00 This one's characteristic is tall. Okay? It's light colored wood compared to this one that's dark colored. It's square compared to this one that is circular and this one is solid compared to this one that is hollow. Heard. So the game is simple so you just have to get four in a row of the same characteristics. Okay. What makes the game fun... It's like tic-tac-toe meets chess? Yes. Thank you. Okay, but what's fun is you hand your opponent their piece So here we go. We're gonna play around and I just give you a piece
Starting point is 00:47:32 You don't have to put much thought into it at the beginning But once we get going go ahead you'll hand me a piece. I should learn how to play. Oh my god You just said the rules. Mm-hmm So if I put this here, then the characteristic is that it's tall and square. And solid. And solid. Mm-hmm. I see.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Okay. I'm not as nice as you. That's fine. Oh, shit. It is round, though. No! Okay. And that was fun. Qu that was fun, quarto.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Oh shit. Short. I didn't see that it had the- And hollow. The hollow. It was two, it was two, it was two. I had the hollow. By the way, if I don't see that and I didn't call quarto, then you could, on your turn, you could just say quarto, but I already won.
Starting point is 00:48:19 It's like uno meets- To lose in six plays is almost impossible. Yeah. Get that off my list. What a happy day. What a lucky girl am I. Do you get recognized in public and do fans recognize your voice and then get all horned up?
Starting point is 00:48:35 I can't speak for how horned up they get. That's a personal thing. Sure. But yes and, yes I've been recognized. I think I've had one person that was like, oh my God, I heard you talking and I thought it sounded like you and then I saw you. Was this a woman?
Starting point is 00:48:48 Oh yeah. Do women play video games? Heck yes. My mind is blown. Welcome to the 21st century. Why are they playing games? Women play video games now. Why, don't they know that that's not-
Starting point is 00:48:58 And slash always. They've always played? Yes, it's just the patriarchy erased them from history. I don't know if that's true. Why do they play video games? Why? I can't believe that. I thought they were like so much smarter than us.
Starting point is 00:49:11 Well, we are. Is the goal to play Princess Peach someday? No, my goal is to play the weirdest creatures ever. I'd like to be a slimy toad next. I don't know what that character is. I want to be the weirdest thing. So that would be Frogger, I believe. Ah!
Starting point is 00:49:27 Great game. Good. That I remember. Yep. Cross the road, then cross the river. Love it. Do you have your own booth at your house now? I do now.
Starting point is 00:49:34 It's just my closet. Whatever. It's still cool to go into your closet. I mean. Is it? Because as you said it, it didn't sound cool. No, it didn't sound good. I don't know how nice your closet is.
Starting point is 00:49:44 What if it's beautiful? It's a nice closet, but it it didn't sound cool. No, it didn't sound good. I don't know how nice your closet is. What if it's beautiful? It's a nice closet, but it doesn't make it cool. When I was a young comedian, Anthony Clark, he was a very successful comedian. His advice to me when I was like a young comedian, he goes, hey man, he goes, you just got to get famous and then everything is real easy. Oh.
Starting point is 00:50:03 And I'm not going gonna lie to you. That's true. I was like, oh, I really did. He was on to something. Yeah. You gotta figure that out. It's a hard nut to crack, but. But I didn't do this to be famous.
Starting point is 00:50:14 I never wanted to be famous, did you? No. Being famous is gross. No, no. My only goal was like, I'm gonna have like a job that doesn't make me wanna vomit at night when I'm going to bed knowing what I have to wake up and do the next day.
Starting point is 00:50:28 Yeah. That was it. That was the only goal. Maggie, thank you for being on the show. All right. Thank you. Thank you for having me. The American West with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network, hosted by me, writer and historian Dan Flores, and brought
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Starting point is 00:54:38 and experiences so you can explore the world your way. Discover more with Chase Sapphire Reserve. Do we have time for Dear Tosh Show? We do. That's a segment, Carl, as you may recall, where one of our subscribers seeks my advice. What do you got for me, Eddie? All right, Dear Tosh Show, you mentioned multiple times in the pod that you play Monopoly Deal. So I need you to have final ruling on an issue that comes up when I play with friends. Can you play a Just Say No card on a just say no example? Player one plays slide deal. Yeah, I don't need the example. Yes, that's a big, a lot of people have monopoly deal
Starting point is 00:55:31 questions that are legitimate, that was not one. Yes, you can always play, if somebody just say no's your move, you can just say no on top of it, then they have to do it. And it doesn't count, like if you were finished with your three turns and you put that, and they put a just say no, you can put a just say no on top of it then they have to do it and it doesn't count like if you were finished with your three turns and you Put that and they put it just say no you can put it just say no down It doesn't count as a fourth move. It just blocks theirs
Starting point is 00:55:53 And yes, they have to do it that bothers me because that rule that that person we were just talking about Monopoly deal with Maggie It is a great game Christie my manager She wants me to get the inventor of Monopoly deal as a guest on the podcast Just so I can really get into a few of the gray areas My father-in-law when I play with him, it's maddening every time he goes. Can I do that with this card? first of all every card has The directions on them like what this card does like you just have to read the card, you know collect $200 from every player Pick one person it so that's maddening. You know, Jocelyn who was on the show. Dr. Jocelyn. She was on this show
Starting point is 00:56:36 We got her to start playing it regularly and she goes, oh, you know, we're not loving it that much And I'm like what and then I found out that the rule that she was ignoring was that each time you get up to three turns, but no more. And she was just going an infinite amount of turns. And I'm like, that's not even a game. You were just, what were you guys just going through cards at that point? Shuffle in the deck.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Maddening. Anyway, all right, let's do some plugs. Carl, you still here? Carl, come on buddy, stay with me. We're doing a show over here. Now we've got thetoshostore.com, Eddie's tour, my tour. Come check me out in the Midwest. Come check me out in NorCal, come check me out in Vegas. I think I'm gonna add a few more days
Starting point is 00:57:28 I might go up to Canada. I want to go up to Vancouver free plug hit the music. There you go Finally some just classic rock and roll this week's free plug is for race High school graduation party. Oh, that's nice. Race is a fan of my comedy and invited me to attend his high school graduation party. All right, well, you know, I'm not gonna show up but I'll give you a free plug. He went so far as to say that my unique humor
Starting point is 00:57:58 has been a constant source of joy during his high school years. Well, isn't that nice? His party is June 18th at 6 p.m. I'm sorry Raise I'm gonna be in Omaha that night doing a show Omaha, Nebraska Make sure everybody comes out and sees me that night but if you're in a Wherever he is, where's race lip race lives in Ohio Loveland, Ohio head on over to his house, I guess
Starting point is 00:58:26 Yeah, he's got a high school graduation congratulations Congratulations, that's kind of funny to do it that way Congratulations on our graduate in high school. That's a big accomplishment. I was the first person in my family to graduate high school Wouldn't that be fun if you were in such a family like that? Where you got such milestones? Huge party. Oh man. June 18th, 6 p.m.
Starting point is 00:58:54 The party's located is W- W- W- W- in Loveland, Ohio. We're just giving out his home address. That seems like I'm setting myself up
Starting point is 00:59:06 for some type of lawsuit. We might have to bleep this out, guys. But listen, if you know Race, you'll know where his house is. I'm guessing there'll be balloons or something out front. Loveland's 20 miles outside of Cincinnati. So you're right, you know what, if you're in Kentucky, you're down in Louisville, it's not gonna be hard
Starting point is 00:59:29 to jump up and say hey to race. I'm sure they got food, open bar. High school graduation, they probably don't have an open bar. Carl, Carl, you wanna go to, is there parking? What's the parking situation? They're not gonna have a valet. They're valet. No, not in Loveland, Ohio.
Starting point is 00:59:49 It's race. It's a theme. I'm sure you can park in their neighbor's driveway. Just don't block it off completely. Just, you know, do it tandem. Yeah, don't block the mailbox. Yeah. All right. Well, congratulations on your high school graduation. I hope everybody has a good time at the party and, you know, Yeah. All right. Well, congratulations on your high school graduation.
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