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Maya Season 3 Episode 32

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A conversation with Hayley Festeryga and Roshahn Dhoré.❤️ 


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SPEAKER_07

It's a little bit hi Haley and Roshan.

SPEAKER_06

Uh you can see Haley Festeriga and Roshan Dore in the new Tubi movie Kissing is the easy part. Thank you so much for uh joining me. I loved meeting you both at the premiere and I'm so excited to be talking with you again. Us too.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you for having us, yes.

SPEAKER_06

Of course, yeah. So um the chemistry between the cast of kissing is the easy part um is so good. Uh were there any scenes that you had to film multiple times because you broke character? Yes.

SPEAKER_02

I'm thinking of one in particular. I don't know if you're also thinking of it, Haley.

SPEAKER_05

Go ahead. We'll see if we have the same answer.

SPEAKER_02

Joe C PR?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah, Joe C PR. Um, I was thinking of Tom.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Our our co-star Tom Keat. Um, we'll get to that. Let's talk about Joe C PR.

SPEAKER_02

Joe C PR um was not a line in the movie, but it became a line.

SPEAKER_05

So when we go into the convenience store and like Danny starts choking on food in his mouth because they see Flora walk in, we're both supposed to at the same time say, Raymond knows CPR, Josie knows CPR. We simply could not lock in.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, we could not say that line at the same time for the life of us. And again, then at one point I said Joe CPR, like instead of Josie no CPR. Um so that was definitely one scene that we had to give it a quite a few ghosts.

SPEAKER_05

Um and like mine was in the same scene where Tom Keat, who plays Denny, such a brilliant comedian, like and just a lovely person in general, but he was so freaking funny because they're doing his cloth on it when he's like choking, and I just see him like spit that thing across the room, and I could not keep every time he was choking on his Eminem or his Smart E, whatever it was. I'm just like I can't. Yeah, I know he was hilarious.

SPEAKER_02

He was so good, so good. Also, the party scene when him and when Denny and Sean pull up, and then Sean drives away with Flora, and Denny has a keg, he's like, Where's the party at? So many good takes. Like, yeah, Tom is hilarious. So many Tom's the best. Yeah, there were so many scenes where it was hard not to break because he was just so funny.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, I love that. Every take was different, too. Like everyone said the same thing twice.

SPEAKER_02

That's the thing, is like he always like surprises every take. So we just it was so hard to lock in because you never knew what you were gonna get.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, um, so in honor of the movie, what has been your biggest flirt fail?

SPEAKER_05

So many options to choose from. Right? Um I I think that I as soon as I actually have interest in someone, all of my like coolness, nonchalantness, ris, it all just flies out the window. Is gone.

SPEAKER_02

One thing that sticks out in particular for me was I was in a photo booth at the movies on a first date, and um I started laughing, and I think it was either spit or my gum that I was chewing, but something something flew out of my mouth like mid-photo, and I surprisingly my dates still wanted to see me again after that. Um, and I did see them again many times after that, but so maybe it was a part of success. Maybe it was, maybe it was really like endearing and cute, and trying to sew it away.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, no, I don't have like a specific fail story because I think Yeah, I have a hard time like actually like chasing if that makes sense. Like I'm not the person to be doing that, and so then usually I usually get what I want. Sounds so bad, but I it's like it's um I'm a I got big blue eyes. I just use them to my advantage and I rise them with the tism. I love that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Not certain, honestly.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I think my awkwardness is just endearing to the right people.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well put.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, thanks. Thanks.

SPEAKER_06

So what has been your most successful flirt line?

SPEAKER_02

We haven't gotten there yet. We're working on it. We're working on it.

SPEAKER_01

We're working on that.

SPEAKER_05

Um I don't really have like a line, but I think um a few years back, um, I was working at a retail store and our UPS delivery guy I thought was very cute. And so I like had my number written down on a piece of paper and it said Haley's number. Um, and it took me about two weeks to build up the courage to uh ask him if he I I just straight up was like, so are you single? And he was like, Yeah, I am. I'm like, Great, here's my number, use it. I like that we dated for six months, so I think that was a success.

SPEAKER_02

Definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I don't think that's a line though. I think that's just being crazy and delusional.

SPEAKER_02

Less is more, honestly. And I I think a direct approach is like you can never go wrong with that.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I mean, then you have your answer, you know? And then you're not sitting there thinking, oh my god, does he feel this way? Does he feel that way? Or like, you know, does she want me or not? And blah blah blah, and like you have your answer and you can move forward. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I think that's what I needed to hear, actually. I think that's I think that's key. I think I need to stop trying to be creative and just like direct, simplify it.

SPEAKER_05

A good lesson to learn.

SPEAKER_02

Very good.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Um, so who has had the biggest impact on the person you have become?

SPEAKER_05

My mommy.

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna say the exact same thing.

SPEAKER_05

I knew you were gonna say your mom. I love your mom. My answer is Roshan's mom. Um, yeah, no, my mom. I mean, my mom has been like my number one supporter, especially in this industry. Like when I was very young in acting, and she would have to drive me from Ottawa to Toronto, Toronto to Montreal, and she was always just down for it and loving and reassuring, and yeah, definitely my mom.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, same. I wouldn't have gone to this point in my career if it wasn't for my mom. She's also an actress, so she introduced me to the biz and is the reason why I am where I am today. And yeah, always been super supportive. I remember when I graduated high school and was trying to figure out what I should major in. She was telling me, just go major in an acting program. Like, what are you what is there to think about? That's the only thing that you want to do. Why would you because I wanted to take a gap year to think about something more practical that I could major in, and in the end, I just ended up going into an acting program, and she was like, That's what I told you to do from the start. I don't know what there was, there's no question. It's funny, like, I had friends in my program who had to convince their parents to let them enroll, but like I had the complete end of the spectrum. My mom was like, No, like this is what you need to be doing. Like, go. I don't care what you go to university for, just go for something that you actually care about. So I owe it to her, and I'm also a lot like her in more ways, and I'd like to admit. I feel like as I get older, I'm noticing how similar we are, and I'm like, oh my god. It's crazy, but yeah, no, I wouldn't be who I am, where I am without my mom.

SPEAKER_06

I love that. Yeah. Um, yeah, my um mom has uh like my sister and I always joke that we're we like to make fun of her, but then we're exactly like her. Um yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Relatable, relatable.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. So then it's like we're all we're all laughing, like kind of making fun of each other, because my mom is always like, sorry, there's no hope that you were adopted.

SPEAKER_05

That's so cute. No, I think my mom definitely like doubled whatever's going on with her and passed it down. Like I think she says double it and pass it down. Um, because I do think I'm just like an amplified version of her in a lot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I agree. Yeah. And now, I mean, now Haley, we have the same mom. So and and yes, and yes.

SPEAKER_05

Um, for those who don't know, Maya's mom is actually my mom now. Um, I rented her at the premiere to be my mom. I said, my mom can't be here. And Maya's mom said, I'm your mom now.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, so cute.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. It was cute. It was so sweet. Yeah. She's the best. She's so nice. Yeah, she didn't even charge me.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. I know like I'm not trying to convince her, Kale, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

It's like that way you can out of her. What do you mean you're not charging? First one's always free, guys. Relax. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I was like, this is how we make our millions. Yeah, exactly. Um, tax write-off. What are we talking here? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

So um what uh small things uh bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_02

I love zoning out to music. Honestly, my playlist, like if somebody just played my playlist in a car, they get whiplash because it's like so jarring. Um, but like I have a lot of music that's just instrumentals or just sounds like the score of something you'd hear in a film. Like, it's just it's it sounds very weird at first, but a lot of the times when I'm listening to music, I'm sort of watching something play in my head, like whether it's like a movie trailer that I've like imagined or like a scene or something. So I kind of love to just like get lost in a song and pretend like I'm watching like a movie or something in my head.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, that's so cute. I also fully thought you were gonna say, like, I love just zoning out. You're just gonna end it right there. I love just zoning out.

SPEAKER_02

I I do actually. That too.

SPEAKER_03

I know you do.

SPEAKER_02

Nothing like just I know you do sitting in a chair and just like staring at the wall.

SPEAKER_05

Like you'll just capture Sean on set sometimes, just dead pain. It's like he's just turned off. Like, yeah, like that. Like he just is dead to the world. And it's there's nothing behind those eyes in that moment. Not at all.

SPEAKER_02

They say that zoning out actually like flushes your brain in a way. I don't know the specifics, so don't quote me on that. But I saw a video on it very recently. So zone out more guys, it's good for you. It's good for you.

SPEAKER_06

Love that. Yeah, I'm the same way. I zone out all the time. So I think you have to. Your brain just needs a break sometimes.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Um, I think, first of all, I love that question. Um, what little things bring you joy in everyday life? Because I think a lot of the times we put so much pressure and weight on achieving these like big goals. And then when we achieve that, that's when we'll be happy. That's when we'll be successful. And it's like the goalpost just keeps moving. So the more you do that, you're never gonna find joy. Like, there's no big change in your life that is just gonna suddenly make you happy. You have to find it um in the little things, and so I love that question so much. Um I think for me, um my family makes me really happy. We're all very, very close. Um like the littlest things, like the light shining through my window here in the morning. I'm like, oh beautiful. Sun last night, the sun is up, and so will my spirits be. I don't know. Like, I just like some days I'm just like everything is magical and wonderful. Um, when my dog is randomly, very rarely cuddly with me, warms my heart. He's like a cat. He was raised by cats, so he's just like not a cuddly dog. Um, but like last night he like tucked his head into my chest when he was sleeping, and I was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah, I love that. Yeah, whenever my um my dog, I just I'm obsessed with her. I love her so much, and so whenever she's snuggling with me, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Pat cuddles are like the purest form of love. Yeah, they are, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I love hugs from my grandma.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah. Yeah, those are also don't start with me. That is so cute and wholesome.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

He's like, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Also, I feel like hugs from my mom, too. Those are hugs in general.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Hugs in general, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, hugs in general. Like the right timing with the right person is just like it just warms your soul. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Um so what has been um the biggest obstacle, either personal or professional, that you've overcome.

SPEAKER_05

Um I think for me it's definitely been uh seeking outside validation. Um and it's still something that I'm working on. I think that's you know, you have your good days and you have your bad days, but I am somebody who puts a lot of value in what other people think of me. And so learning to not do that has been really important, especially in my career and in my everyday life. Um obviously in this industry, when you're just starting out or you know, you're in high school and everybody's talking about what they want to do in life, and you say, like, oh, I'm gonna be an actress. A lot of people will kind of be a little mean about it and be like, well, that's not a real job. You need a backup. You when are you gonna get a real job? I actually had an ex say that to me uh while we were dating. When are you gonna get a real job? When are you gonna give up this little acting thing? Never. Thanks. Yeah, thank you. Um anyways, um, so I think just like learning to really not care what other people think of me, because it's none of my business.

SPEAKER_01

Definitely.

SPEAKER_05

That's been my kind of biggest obstacle.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, that's some great. I was gonna say advice, but I think it's advice. Yeah. You weren't saying it in the form of advice right now within the context of this, but like still, like for anyone to hear, like, yeah, that's that's great advice.

SPEAKER_05

Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.

SPEAKER_02

Literally, yeah. Yeah, no, I think the only opinions that should matter are your own and like the people that you care about. You know what I mean? Like I think for me. There's like a few things that come to mind, but I think like a general answer is just like my mental health. Like, I think I really struggled with depression and anxiety when I was um an adolescent. And even still now, like I can struggle with anxiety, but I feel like I've come a long way mentally, and I'm really proud of myself for that. Like, I feel like there was a turning point for me where I really changed the narrative that I was telling myself about like my life and my identity and like my place in the world, and I feel like that really has made all the difference. I feel like once I realized that the story you tell yourself is the one that's going to be true, like that really changed the game for me, honestly. Like I feel like it wasn't until my twenties that I really started to feel like on like a deep subconscious level that I was you know destined for good things and great things, and that my life was going to go somewhere great. Um so I think that's definitely like a summarized answer, but yeah, yeah, I think I'm just proud of the place I've gone mentally. Oh, did you guys hear my calendar notification?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_01

So did the world, so did the world. Do not disturb that right now. Um but yeah, I think. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05

Howdy king?

SPEAKER_01

Huh?

SPEAKER_05

How do you king?

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06

Um, yeah, so what uh motivates you on days you aren't really feeling it?

SPEAKER_02

Wait, I'm so sorry. Could I add one more thing to my previous answer?

SPEAKER_06

Yes, definitely.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like that also relates to my career as well, because to make it in this industry, you really have to believe in yourself. Like there can be no, I feel like there can't be any doubt in your mind about whether or not you're going to succeed or not, whatever that success looks like to you. But I feel like for me, you know, like kissing is the easy part was the has been the biggest break in my career so far. And honestly, like I was hoping that I would get to this point, um, at this get to this stage at this point in time. But I knew that, you know, it might take a bit longer, but I was okay with that, you know what I mean? I knew that there was still a point to this and that there was a means to an end, and I was willing to put in the time and the effort, and I felt like it was worth it, and that it then would justify the means, and I feel like you really do have to believe that on a deep subconscious level. Like even if it doesn't feel true, you have to still lie to yourself because your brain, like it's like it's like a computer, it like looks for Information that confirms what it's being told. So I feel like if you're telling yourself negative things, that's like you're only gonna be able to notice the negative things. You know what I mean? Like it's gonna look for confirmation of those negative things. So I feel like just like telling yourself, you know, positive statements, positive affirmations, even if it might not feel true, is so important. And I feel like that's also why I've been able to get to this point in my career is because I've you know every audition that comes in, like I tried, I I know sometimes you know you might get one, you're like, oh, like you know what I mean? Like it might feel like you know what I mean, like, oh like I'm not gonna get this, or like, oh, I don't have time to do this, or I don't want to do this, or like this is like so much work, but like I get I try to get excited every time I get an audition, you know what I mean? Because I feel like even if you're not getting that, it's still preparing you for the day that you do book that that big job, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, so yeah, it's also just getting your face in the rooms.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05

And like, I mean, we were talking about when you booked adults, um, that you had auditioned for a role, and they just liked you so much that they were like, we're gonna rate you something. Yeah. And it's like, okay, so maybe you don't fit this role, but they'll have you in mind for something else, or maybe they'll be like, Wow, we love that person so much that because of your confidence and your choices and your craft, like I think that's such a special thing to just put yourself out there, and you can't lose something that was never yours.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly, definitely. Yeah, no, that's a great point as well. Like, you know, casting's gonna remember you, and just like getting yourself out there and showing your face and showing what you can bring to the table, like it makes all the difference. Like, they're not like they'll remember you, you know what I mean? Like, so yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, so what um motivates you on days you aren't really feeling it?

SPEAKER_05

I no, you go. I don't have an answer. You go.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna say, um, I think just uh taking action, honestly, I feel like when I'm stuck and I don't want to do anything, the worst possible thing I can do is to just like sit there and not do anything. I mean, unless like I'm really not, you know, like I'm really unwell or something, you know what I mean? But like even last week I was having a day where I just like I was already under the weather and I was coming out of it feeling better, but I just felt like I'd lost so much time in the last week and I just felt so emotivated and I didn't want to do anything. And I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna lay in bed and literally do nothing and watch like really bad reality TV. And that's also like total that's also totally valid, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, like there's nothing I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that at all.

SPEAKER_05

But it's hard coming out of a phase where you're like not doing anything because that's what your body needs is rest. If you're sick or you're injured or something like that, and you're doing what your body needs and then trying to come out of it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. Like, I think at that point I like was ready to come out of it, but I wasn't letting myself, and I was sitting there and I was watching the show, and I was like, I'm watching these people like fight over like nonsense, and it's just making me feel even worse than I already have so many things that I need to get done. Like, I was like, no, I need to just lock in, and I just like was like, you know what, no, I'm gonna start responding to those texts. I haven't answered, I'm gonna like do this thing I'm gonna have to do this, I need to do.

SPEAKER_05

Like, I feel like that just like moving forward is just like the easiest thing for me to get out of my ruts, is to just yeah, take like a small step, and then that'll have a chain reaction.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_05

I think for me, I have to have it in my eyesight. If it's out of sight, it's out of mind. So I have paperwork I need to fill out, it's staying on my desk until it's done. You know, like that kind of thing, or like, oh, I have a like a self-tape I need to learn the sides for, the scene for. Um, that's staying out on my desk until I actually do it. Because if it's hidden away in a drawer, I'm gonna completely forget that I need to do that, or I'm just gonna push it to the back burner. Um, or like I have like my guitar on the wall, it's not in a case in the basement, you know, so that it's easily accessible to me so that I can practice when I feel like it and not overthink that. Um like my my keyboard is in the basement, like in a storage room somewhere. Do you think I've played the piano in the last like six months, maybe three years? No, I haven't touched it, you know? So I think just having these things in my line of vision on a regular basis um really helps me to just be like, ah, yeah, I'd have to do that.

SPEAKER_06

I should really smart you know yeah, that is that is really smart. I'm still trying to figure out how to like remember um certain things I have to do because I write them down, but then I like forget about the piece of paper. Like I read it in my phone, but then I close the app, and so I'm still trying to figure out what will get my brain to remember. I'm the exact same way, girl.

SPEAKER_05

I totally get that. See, we are related. We are siblings, yeah. It's true. The apples didn't fall far from the same tree. No.

SPEAKER_06

They didn't. Yeah. Um so uh I am uh pop culture obsessed and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching. I mean, if you can already tell from my uh wall. Um uh is there a show that you are currently obsessed with? I have so many.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, like I'm I'm gonna name at least three.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yes, name as many as you want.

SPEAKER_02

I just finished Dexter um last week. And there's so many different spin-offs, so I'm like really excited for that. I also finished From, and the new season's coming out, I think, in April on Paramount Plus. That's also a good one. The horror show. And uh Haley knows this. I love LA. Like the last time I saw her, I was quoting this one scene where uh Rachel said its character like vomits. And she's just like just from like pure anxiety, but it's like so casual. It's such a cute, like casual vomit. There's something about a casual vomit that's just like a classy one, like a classy, clear like a class, a classy, clear, like you know, there's no like heaving, no, no force, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

It's just out. Yeah. No, that was like a whole bit when we were in LA together.

SPEAKER_02

But yeah, I think those are my top three um shows right now.

SPEAKER_05

Um for me, I mean, welcome to Dairy and Heated Rivalry have me in a chokehold. Choke hold. I'm obsessed with both of those. I think the whole world is obsessed with heated rivalry, to be very clear. Like, who's not obsessed? Yeah, and that's that. Um, I just loved I loved it. I think that um everybody in that show is so talented and so brilliant. And then Welcome to Dairy. Oh my gosh, these kids, man, can they act? Oh my gosh. I'm not spoiling anything, but there's this one scene, and there's so many scenes, like it's just one of the scenes at the end, and um one of the last episodes. Fully improving. Like the second last.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Like the second last. Um if I say like if I say like kissing the fridge, do you know what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_02

Kissing the fridge, no.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Never mind, just ignore me. I'll tell you later. I don't want to spoil it for anybody. No, um, because it's so good, and I'm getting my friend to watch it right now, and we're like right before one of the most like traumatic scenes ever.

SPEAKER_02

Just oh, I do it that was improv.

SPEAKER_04

That was improv. These kids are geniuses, their choices are so good. I'm not kidding. That was improv.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, when you first said kissing the friends, you're like, no, it it just it just clicked. Oh my god, that's yeah, no, that, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

To my friend Paige, if you're watching this, stop watching. Don't watch this part. Okay. I don't I've told her I was really excited to get to that point, and she was like, why? I was like, it's just really funny. It's really there's like really comedic points in that, which there are because Pennywise is so unserious and just like amazing. Um, but I just don't want her to know because she was so shocked by the kids in the first episode that I was just like, I'm not spoiling anything. Um, but yeah, I love I love Welcome to Dairy so much. A very unpopular obsession that I have right now, and I was told not to talk about this. I'm going to anyways. I love Bluey. The children's show Bluey. I don't know. I'm convinced it's for adults. I mean, they designed it with like the adults that are watching it with these kids in mind. And I think that if you have, you know, two brain cells and a beating heart and media literacy, you can watch it and enjoy it. And I love Bluey.

SPEAKER_02

Bluey? I'm gonna look that up.

SPEAKER_05

Do you not know Bluey?

SPEAKER_02

No, everybody knows I've got someone.

SPEAKER_05

Oh this thing?

SPEAKER_01

Is that bluey?

SPEAKER_05

This is that bluey? Yeah. So I started watching it because it's apparently it's apparently in colors that dogs can see. And my dog is a healer, he's the same breed as like this family that it is about. And so I was like, I'll throw it on the TV while I crochet and hopefully it it's like lazy enrichment time for him. And he could not care less about it, I'll tell you that much. Um, I however really enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm like going to my mom crying. I'm like not Gemini Google coming up on my phone. Chill. Don't touch um, but yeah, no. Yeah, it's literally a children's show. Yeah, like it'd be like watching Dora the Explorer as an adult. Like it's like not normal for me to have an obsession with this.

SPEAKER_02

I watch SpongeBob as an adult, and I think SpongeBob is like yeah, like I think SpongeBob is a great show, honestly.

SPEAKER_03

Period.

SPEAKER_02

Like, I I yeah, I laugh audibly, very audibly when I watch that show at the age of 24.

SPEAKER_05

So listen, I need something to cheer me up, but also just like hit me in my feelings. I'll throw on Bluey. And everyone makes fun of me for it, and I don't care.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I shouldn't.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah. I see all these reels on Instagram of dog owners putting on the show for their dogs, and the dogs just loving it, and it's so cute.

SPEAKER_05

My dog couldn't care less, but that is really cute. My dog just couldn't care less. I think he actually usually leaves the room when he hears the theme song.

SPEAKER_02

Oh he's like he's like, oh, she's out of here.

SPEAKER_05

I enjoy that. Um he's like, I'm too grown, mom. I'm almost six, so I don't I don't need that. That's for puppies. I'm a dog.

SPEAKER_00

I'm a grown dog.

SPEAKER_05

I'm a grown dog. So I don't need your bluey stuff, okay? Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you next.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I'm yeah, I've been um there's so many shows that I'm obsessed with, and I've been recently um binge watching Ugly Betty for the first time. Okay, and I'm obsessed with that.

SPEAKER_02

That's actually on my list of shows that I want to see.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_02

I've seen the previews a lot as a kid on TV. Um, but then I don't know, I've just been seeing like really good reviews for it. Like people have been like um say really good things about it recently. So I was like, you know what? That's my list. I have a very long note in my phone of TV shows and movies that I need to watch. Some of them have been on there for like five years, and I still haven't watched them yet. But I'm gonna get to them eventually.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. Oh yeah, I have um like I have uh when I have things to do during the day, I'm like, I don't care. I'm watching an episode of Ugly Betty, and then one episode leads to another, and then I usually don't get anything done. So I'm like, after this interview, I'm gonna watch an episode of Ugly Betty and then force myself to get things done.

SPEAKER_05

So that's totally fair. That's why I do like re-watching of shows. Like, I'll re-watch New Girl, Gilmore Girls, like till the cows come home, or like a movie, like a comfort movie that I've seen a million times, and I can probably recite from start to finish. Like, that's what I usually do if I'm like, okay, I actually need to be productive, and then I'll just stop for like my favorite moments, you know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I think Modern Family was my comfort show that I've re-watched like two, three times. Um, and we'll just even like put on in the background sometimes because it's like easy to listen to.

SPEAKER_05

My sorry? Two or three, that's light work.

SPEAKER_02

I it's it's it's it's unfortunate actually, because I I I still want to watch it, but I have to stop myself because like I have seen every single episode at least twice, and I know the plot. Like, maybe not off the top of my head, but if as soon as it starts playing, I'm like, I remember this. So I I'm trying to space it out. Same thing with how to get away with it.

SPEAKER_05

I'll literally finish a show and then restart.

SPEAKER_02

It's because I just I don't want because otherwise it's ruined for me if I watch it too much. Like, I don't want to get sick of it. You know what I mean? Like that if I get sick of it, then it's like, like, no, like I feel like I can't come back from that. Same thing with how to get away with murder. Like, okay, for the record, how to get away with murder, modern family, my all-time favorite shows ever. Um, and I've rewatched both of them, but I'm like taking a big break from both so that I can rewatch them like years later and kind of have it feel like I'm watching it for the first time.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So we'll see.

SPEAKER_05

That's kind of the benefit of me being a Grey's Anatomy girl is that like by the time you finish your rewatch, it's like 10 months later. And you can start over and be like, whoa, I've watched Gray's Anatomy probably eight or nine times. Like, I do I do my rewatches annually.

SPEAKER_02

No, you haven't.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, I do rewatches annually. So, like, right now I'm on a new girl rewatch. In the summer, I'll be a vampire diaries rewatch. In the fall, I'm obviously a Gilmore Girls rewatch. That's when you start, is in September. Um, I re-watch things till the cows come home, and I think it's because I'm a deeply anxious person, and so I just like knowing what's coming.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I can totally relate. I re-watch things all the time. I have my go-to comfort shows. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05

That's so cute. Yeah, no, I didn't realize that I have like a schedule until I was like watching like Snapchat memories, and it was like the exact same episode that I'm re-watching as I'm going through my Snapchat memories, and I was like, Oh, that's wild.

SPEAKER_02

You're you're actually dreamed. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05

I don't watch the whole thing anymore. Ah, okay. I was gonna say caught up now.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

You said you're not caught up now, or no, I think I got to like the COVID seasons and I was just like No.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I like I would imagine it feels like a different, completely different show in a way, because like so many like I haven't watched the show, but I've heard that like so many characters like pass or like leave the show. Yeah. So it's like a whole new vibe. Yeah it sounds.

SPEAKER_05

Um, I do want to watch there's a new episode coming out, I think, in um Memorium of Eric Dane. Um since he just passed away. So I would love to watch that because Eric Dane was just such a such a king. So cool.

SPEAKER_01

Such a legend, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. And uh everybody loves Mark Sloan, so I'm excited for the new season of Euphoria.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah, oh yeah. That's gonna be spicy.

SPEAKER_05

I could talk about TV shows and movies all day.

SPEAKER_01

Same.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'd be like, I'll keep on rambling if we don't know.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I'm like, let's talk about let's get out. Yeah, I have so much to say on shows. And yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Um another great movie that I love is this little movie on Tubi called Kissing is the Easy Part. Oh, I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_02

I I've heard of that. It's real I've heard really good things.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

That's something that I've been like re-watching, and I think everybody should.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I I agree.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, definitely. Um so if you had a warning label, what would yours say? She bites.

SPEAKER_05

She bites.

SPEAKER_02

She bites.

SPEAKER_05

Not friendly.

SPEAKER_02

Not friendly.

SPEAKER_05

No, I am friendly. I am friendly. I think friendly but bites.

SPEAKER_02

Is that what you oh that's what you said, friendly but bites?

SPEAKER_05

That's what I'm saying for me. Yeah, no, we're both biters. We both we'll both just be like.

SPEAKER_03

I think that's why we get along.

SPEAKER_02

I bite my friends, I bite my family.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I don't have a partner, but if I did, I'd bite my partner too.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yeah. When I was a kid, I was a biter. And it was like I would hug my brother, and I would be filled with like I just had so much love and excitement to be like holding him. He's my big brother, too. He's like two and a half years older than me, but I would go and I would hug him, and I my mom would know it was coming because I would start to like visibly vibrate with love, and I would just sink my teeth into his shoulder. And like people were bleeding. Like, I've always been this way.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Like, imagine my poor, like, you know, six-year-old brother. I'm like four, and he's just his shoulder is just bleeding down his back.

SPEAKER_02

Breaking skin is crazy.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe you don't know.

SPEAKER_02

Like, sometimes I like like will like put my lips over my teeth. When I bite my grandma, I do that. Cause like, you know, she's old and frail, and we don't want to hurt her.

SPEAKER_04

No. No, I'm not I'm not gentle.

SPEAKER_02

You gotta be you, you know, like I'm bored.

SPEAKER_05

It's like the freaking bus question. We had a Wattpad, like this or that kissing thing. And they were like, Would you rather like kiss the floor of a movie theater or the inside of a bus? And I was like, I definitely as a kid licked the inside of like the windows of some buses. And I don't know what possesses me to tell people publicly these things.

SPEAKER_03

And Rashawn's just literally like.

SPEAKER_02

Listen and we don't judge.

SPEAKER_05

No, I was like in kindergarten, and I think that I was anemic because I had an obsession with like like I would put like my necklaces in my mouth, like anything metal would go in my mouth. And so I think I was on the bus, and there's that like metal divider, and I stuck my tongue onto it, and I'm in Canada in the winter, and so my tongue stuck to the window. No, I was in kindergarten. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I don't know why when I'm picturing this. You're I don't know why when I'm picturing this, you're like 14.

SPEAKER_05

You know what? I wouldn't put it past me. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

It's probably happening.

SPEAKER_05

I do weird stuff, guys. I don't know what to do anymore. I do too. So yeah, thank you. Thank you for the support. Of course.

SPEAKER_06

I think we are sisters, so and we are sisters, yeah. Yeah. Um, but I I feel like you were saying that question that you got immediately. I was like, oh neither, I would not do either of those.

SPEAKER_05

I would not be kissing the floor of a movie theater.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

That's no.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

No. I would kiss the window of a bus, but not like a bus seat.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Like if I had to. I'm being forced to, guys. Like, gun my hand.

SPEAKER_02

You're like, oh my god, like so many good options. Like what do I choose? Like what do I choose?

SPEAKER_04

Like which one's my favorite?

SPEAKER_02

Which one's my favorite?

SPEAKER_04

The least bad. Yeah, no, no. One thing about me.

SPEAKER_02

One thing about me.

SPEAKER_04

Knocking on that bus window.

SPEAKER_02

I love a good snack. I know a good snack when I see one.

SPEAKER_03

Oh god. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06

Um so um, if you could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be? Roshawn.

SPEAKER_05

He's such a star. Like he just is. He walks in onto set and he's just like, he's like, give me my lubrify.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, please.

SPEAKER_05

Genuinely, like he's such a star. He's just such a bright actor and like just so brilliant and sweet and deserving. And so, yeah, if I had$75,000, I would pay for Rashawn's star on the walk of fame.

SPEAKER_02

That's so sweet. Thank you. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

You're welcome. You don't have to say me. That's okay. No, you don't. No, you don't. I know you I know you prepared an answer. Give your genuine answer.

SPEAKER_02

I did prepare an answer, but you are the close second um after this person. But I was gonna say again, my mom. And I I thought you were gonna say your mom actually too. I was like, we're probably both gonna say our moms again.

SPEAKER_05

Why would I say my mom? What's she doing?

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I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_02

That's so sweet, thank you. But yeah, I was I was gonna say my mom.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but your mom's an actress too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, so I I would. She's yeah, she's an amazing actress, and she's an amazing person, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00

My mom mommy, my mommy.

SPEAKER_04

Your mommy? Mamacita?

SPEAKER_00

Mamacita, mama, mama, mama, my mother, Mumsy.

SPEAKER_06

How many times are we gonna say? Yeah, I was I was yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like I should just quickly ask the next question so we can draw from that.

SPEAKER_05

I actually genuinely think that Rashawn and I, when we're inter, like it's just like a whole nother like something happens on like a deep like cellular level. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Even from you know, a four and a half hour distance. Yeah, like he's in Toronto, I'm in Ottawa, like I still feel it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, our body, our like our souls are just like synced up.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, soul tied.

SPEAKER_02

Soul tied.

SPEAKER_06

I love that. Um so um if your life was narrated, who would you choose to tell your story?

SPEAKER_05

Um I love Sophia Bush. I love her voice specifically. Like if we're talking about like a literal like voice over narration, um, I love Sophia Bush. I think her voice is like I love it. It's so like raspy and cute, and I love it. And I also just think that she's really cool as a person. Like the way that she uses her platform is really great and really important. And I always like when celebrities aren't afraid to do that and be very vocal in public, and I always take note of that. So Sophia Bush.

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna say I'm stuck between either Jennifer Coolidge or David Spade. I like both of their voices, but for like different reasons.

SPEAKER_05

I would pay to hear Jennifer Coolidge say your name.

SPEAKER_02

Right?

SPEAKER_05

Oh my god, so I don't I can't even do a Jennifer. I don't know why I tried to do that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm not even gonna try. I'm not even yeah, it's just real bad. It's just so like unique and just so iconic. Like, I yeah, yeah. And like David Spade, there's something about his voice that's just so like I don't know. Yeah, I feel like it gives off like laid back, like casual, but also like you know, like funny, humorous. I don't know. Yeah, those are my top two.

SPEAKER_03

Love, yeah, I love that. Yeah, who would you choose?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, that's so hard. Um, I just said, damn, you're turning it around now.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I okay. My the first person that popped into my head is I think Reese Witherspoon.

SPEAKER_01

So that's a good one.

SPEAKER_06

A little southern twang in there. Yeah, and I rom coms are my favorite, and she's in like one of my all-time favorite rom coms. It's called Home. Sweet Home Alabama. Home Again. I love Sweet Home Alabama. Oh, home again.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Home again. I'm a big Sweet Home Alabama girl.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

So I can kiss you anytime I want. I love I love Sweet Home Alabama.

SPEAKER_06

Anyway, yeah, sorry. I I do love that movie, but home again is like my top uh uh favorite.

SPEAKER_05

That's a good one. Yeah, no, she's done a lot of great rom-coms.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, she has. I there was one it was several years ago. There was like a summer I I went through and I just I watched so many Reese Witherspoon movies, like I lost track of how many I watched.

SPEAKER_03

But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I would absolutely die to do Legally Blonde the musical. Oh my gosh, I love that musical. So good.

SPEAKER_02

I haven't seen it. I would love to.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. So good.

SPEAKER_05

Laura Bell Bundy. So good. She plays L in it. Who is it? Laura Bell Bundy plays um L in the music. Well, original the original cast. Um I love a musical.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I want my life to be a musical rom-com, so that would be so good.

SPEAKER_05

That would change things for me. I didn't think about like what the genre would be. But cute, cute.

SPEAKER_06

Um, so if you had to choose a theme song that plays every time you enter a room, what would it be and why?

SPEAKER_02

I would have the second half of the chorus of the song On the Lob by Rico Nasty.

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna have to go listen to that now.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I it doesn't that might not make sense. Like, go listen to it afterwards, it'll make sense.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, cute. What's the like reasoning?

SPEAKER_02

It's just so I just love the way it makes me feel.

SPEAKER_00

She just goes like uh ah uh ah ah like it's just like very poppy and very like I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I just it makes it makes me feel good.

SPEAKER_05

That's so cute. Um I would do more than a woman by the Bee Gees. I feel like that's such a good, like, it's just very like upbeat but in a chill way.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

And I love like a little disco moment.

SPEAKER_01

Kiss all the time occasionally. A little sample, a little sample.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, um more than a moment.

SPEAKER_05

Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, and like the intro to it too. I love. I haven't heard that song in a big oh, I've never heard of that.

SPEAKER_02

I was like hoping that I would recognize it, but I didn't. I'm gonna let what's it called again?

SPEAKER_05

Look it up later. More than a woman. You'll know it when you hear it. I probably am not singing it. I know it's a recognizable point. Um, I also anything by Otis Redding. I think it's just like I like that kind of like I like old people music. I like the girly pop stuff like a lot as well. That's what I listen to pretty regularly, but like all of my vinyl is like Otis Redding and Abba and the Bee Gees and like Motown mixes and that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_01

So nice.

SPEAKER_06

I love that. Yeah, yeah. There's there's so many musicians and songs that I'm obsessed with. I feel like I I don't I feel like I'd have to say like any Asher Angel song because I have his music on all the time.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_06

So I yeah, I listen to his music on repeat uh like every single day. So or a little country boy.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like rodeo is a good like intro song.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, when I was picturing this, I'm picturing like walking on to like a talk show, you know, when you like come through the curtain and they're like playing music. That's what I'm picturing. You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I was just picturing like walking into like any room at any time in any context.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I think I think Roshan, your song would actually be the radiate alarm. I mean that would be your song.

SPEAKER_02

It's just like as long as it's not oh, I can't even remember what it was. The one that I said I hated.

SPEAKER_05

I sent Roshan just a meme, like a TikTok of um this guy that was like, This is what the Apple alarm sounds would dance like, and Radiate is that girl. Um she gets it, and so I feel like that would be Roshan, but I don't remember which one you hated.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, there was one that I hated. I didn't like the choreography, it made me scared.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, it was like the Yeah, like I can't even like I can't even do it. I'm too old for that. I'm too grown.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, but um, yeah. I do feel like the one I chose though, the song I chose would be good for like a talk show scenario, like you just said.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Um, so I just have uh one final question for you. Um so today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_03

This I think this is so fun and so exciting.

SPEAKER_05

Um getting to see you guys again is so nice. I feel like it's been forever.

SPEAKER_02

I know fingers crossed for a sequel.

SPEAKER_05

Fingers crossed for a sequel, sequel. Oh my god, sequel. Oh my gosh. I need it deeply in my bones. Yeah. Get on that, guys. Come on. Yeah, lock in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Definitely.

SPEAKER_02

What am I most grateful for today? I am most grateful for my health.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like that's kind of a random answer, but no, that's not no, I think that's something to be grateful for every day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Definitely, yeah. Like I was under the weather past few weeks, feeling better now. But just in general, like I'm grateful for my health and for like the fact that I can, you know, just get up and you know, go out into the world and you know, do whatever I want.

SPEAKER_01

That I'm able.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. I think that's a really great point. Like my so my brother was recently diagnosed with uh MS, multiple sclerosis. And so um he's in treatment now and he's doing um better, but it's definitely been a bit of an eye-opener of like do things while you have the function, like while you're able. Definitely, yeah. You should be grateful to be able. And truthfully, right now, um, the doctor said that it was it's a miracle that he's still able to walk. Um yeah, so you know, I think that was really a big eye-opener for all of us of just like yeah, I mean, we're all able to exist and um obviously, like, we do kind of live in a world that is not super uh accommodating for people with disabilities, and so yeah, I'm just grateful to have the privilege to be able to not have to think of that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I think that's exactly what I was trying to say, but couldn't articulate. Like I just I I meant like there are just so many things that we take for granted every single day. You know what I mean? And I'm glad that and I just I'm I want to acknowledge that and be grateful for that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

My little Roshi. Um well Haley, I'm so sorry that your brother is um dealing with that. That's so hard, and I'm really sorry.

SPEAKER_05

Thank you. Yeah, I mean it's hard, but he has a really great partner. Um, and so she's helped him in so many ways, and we're all really grateful for her as well, because I don't think he would have really gotten through this without her. Um so yeah, it's just been it's been really eye-opening, and we just spend a lot more time together and take our family time a little more seriously. And you know, I silver lining is that it's brought us all a little closer together.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

You know, like it's not all doom and gloom. It's not all bad. You gotta look for the silver lining. He's still like farting in my face, you know? Like he's he's still the biggest pain in my butt. So he's still sending me TikToks of monkeys and and like trolls, and being like, Oh my god, my sister made it into Harry Potter. Like just big brother things. Like he still comes upstairs and flicks my light on and off and then leaves it on and leaves the door open while I'm watching a movie. I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Thanks.

SPEAKER_05

Cool.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, I think that's a great that's a great point. Like, in moments like what your family's going through right now, like you have to appreciate the time that you do have together and just I guess make take advantage of it because you have to spend more time together because of the situation, and you know, obviously it's very unfortunate, but you know, making the most of it is really important for sure. And I feel like I'm trying to tell myself that, like um when I'm you know, like caregiving for my grandmother, because she's like partially blind, and she's just she's in her 90s and she like needs a lot of care these days, and it can be really overwhelming, but I'm also like telling myself that because of this, I am now spending a lot much more time with her than I normally would. So I should just appreciate that and try to just stay present in every moment and soak it up because you never know like when that will end, right?

SPEAKER_04

So yeah, it can be pretty eye-opening.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um yeah, I'm so grateful to be talking with you both again. Like I said at the start of this interview, I loved meeting you at the premiere, and now I I have a long-lost sister, so yeah, you do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Long lost Canadian sisters.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you so much for having us.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yeah, thank you, Maya. Really, this has been an absolute treat.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, thank you so much for joining me. I I have loved talking with you again. You've made my day, so thank you so much. So many giggles. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

This is so much fun.

SPEAKER_06

Thank you. Um, I hope you have a great rest of your day. You too. Thank you. Um, and that's a wrap on today's edition of The Void Us to Admire.