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SeriesFest Night 1 Opening Red Carpet | The Latest With Maya

May 07, 2026 • Maya • Season 3 • Episode 48

0:00 | 10:50

A conversation with Tracey Wigfield, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Marco Calvani on the red carpet for opening night of SeriesFest.❤️ Watch Season 2 of "The Four Seasons" on Netflix May 28th!

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

It's a little bit of a gonna go. What's the gonna outcome?

SPEAKER_04 0:13

Thank you. I love your outfit. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah. Um, so what's the most exciting thing about being here at Series Fest?

SPEAKER_03 0:26

Well, no one has seen season two at all. This is the first time anyone's going to see it. Like, we haven't had our premiere for our cast crew yet. We haven't had anything. This is like the world premiere of the show. So it's exciting that people are going to see the episode and then ask questions about it because you know, while you're making it, you don't get any feedback. So um, I'm excited for people to see it. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

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

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Bossy. I guess if you ask my husband or my children, probably bossy.

SPEAKER_04 1:08

Um so my final question for you is um if you could live in um any like movie or TV world, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 1:21

Any movie or TV world. I well, I would have to be a different person, but I would live on um I would live on below deck. But I would be young and hot and like going to different places and like you know, stay going out in whatever, going going out in the Mediterranean and having a fun life. But that's not for me. I'm I'm middle-aged.

SPEAKER_04 1:50

Well, thank you so much. Of course, thank you. Yeah, thank you, and I can't wait to see season two. Thank you. Thanks a lot.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

It like swallowed it.

SPEAKER_04 2:00

It would be a really good bit. And then it would be over. I mean, more than I think you want to do. So, what are you most looking forward to at Series Fest?

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Um, I am really excited. This is really, I think, the first time that the public is gonna see the beginning, you know, the first two episodes of this season. And we always, as a as a cast and as as uh the showrunners, we're always texting each other, sort of feeling like uh-oh, our baby is about to to crawl out into the world without us, and what is that gonna be like? And it's very exciting, it's very exciting, and so nerve, nervous, excited for people to see it and uh hopefully love it as much as we do.

SPEAKER_04 2:53

Yeah, oh wow, yeah. Um, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as? Oh, that's deep.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Oh, you gotta warn a girl. Oh, I think um sort of the genre that the four seasons is, which is like a lot, there's a lot of comedy, there's a lot of emotional stories, darkness, there's a lot of drama, there's a lot of love, there's a lot of joy, there's a lot of humor. Um you know, whatever this this genre is that is that is life. You know, a lot of people got upset that Steve Carell died, and Tina Fay's answer was that's life. Yeah, you know, I'm sorry, and it does suck, and and it's life. Yeah, you're going along, everything's funny, you're having a great time, and then people die or something happens, you know. So like you can watch these eight episodes if you're telling me this all the time. I think so. I wish I could say, you know, an animated cartoon, but unfortunately it's it's real life.

unknown 4:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

Yeah. Um so what song always makes you want to turn up the volume and dance?

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Brand new day. I start almost every day with the song from the whiz, Brand New Day, dancing around my kitchen. And it and so I tend to wake up my my husband and my son with that song. I saw it on Broadway when I was a kid, and uh it's just in my soul. So anytime I feel down or just every every morning, I'll just I'll turn it on.

SPEAKER_04 4:40

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um so if you could choose anyone to narrate your life, uh, who would you choose? Who are you? These questions are so good.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Thank you. Oh, and you just with a good question, you just want a really good answer. You don't just want to fire off some baloney answer. I mean, um I just I just co-hosted the Kelly Clarkson show and we had Morgan Freeman on. I mean that voice. Who doesn't want Morgan Freeman narrating their life? Um possibly Morgan Freeman. Um maybe it should be female. Uh let's just go for it. Since you've asked me and I get whoever I want, I'm taking Meryl Street. Oh, I sorry, Meryl. You're busy for the next couple years narrating my life story.

SPEAKER_04 5:42

I love that. Um so my final question for you is um if you could give um and sorry, I forgot exactly.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Well, because of in-depth and thoughtful, that's why. You're not just like, so who made who where's your skirt from? It's Philip Lim, by the way. No, I just can't. Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

I love your outfit. So yeah, I don't know why I completely forgot how I phrased the question. So um, if you could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_02 6:26

My mom. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

Hi, my mom.

SPEAKER_04 6:34

I love that. Yeah, yes. Um, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

Thank you. You're an angel. Oh, thank you. Thank you. I'm gonna have to go home and think about those questions and come back with better analysis.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

You deserve better. Thank you. You too. Oh, thank you. Nice to meet you. You too. Um so what's the most exciting thing about being here at Series Fest? My favorite person.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

I love, first of all, I have to say, I love that a festival like this exists. And I love being part of it for the second year in a row. I love being here with the four seasons, which is a show that I love with people I love. Um I love that everybody's here to have a good time and to support one another. I I know that you know they say this about every festival, but I felt really felt that way last year. And I'm sure this year is gonna be even more. The more it grows, the festival is gonna be. So I I really feel a community here of creatives who are beginning, who are more seasoned, they're all mingling together to do something good. It's good, it's nice. I'm glad I'm part of it.

SPEAKER_04 7:50

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um so uh what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_01 8:01

My life story will be told probably as a telemovella. Or as you call it in in the US as a soap opera. It's it's been there's been plenty of up and ups and downs, plot twists, deaths, no murders, but um a lot of um yeah, a lot of uh twists and turns and surprises, including you know, being an actor again. After 20 years, I I quit. That was uh that's you know, it's a new it's a new season of my of my soap opera.

SPEAKER_04 8:37

Yeah, I love that. So what in your life uh brings you the most joy?

SPEAKER_01 8:47

What if my husband and my dog I've always been convinced that my joy was to be on a stage, traveling, be on a plane, meet as many people as possible, eat as much food as possible, and then lately after I've been you know forming the family and I've got married, and I really find joy in the more beautiful things, and those things are at home.

SPEAKER_04 9:17

Oh I love that. Yeah. Um, so if you had the opportunity to put a message on a billboard for everyone to see, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 9:32

For everyone to see the fourth season or for everyone to see in general, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:36

In general. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Uh be kind to yourself and and to be kind to one another.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Be kind. That's all there is. Love, be love and lovable and loving.

SPEAKER_04 9:56

Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I wanna see that billboard.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

I don't know if they're gonna sponsor it. This country and now, but I that's why we need it. Yes, I'll find the money.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

Yeah, well, thank you so much. So much, Maria.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

I love your questions.

SPEAKER_04 10:18

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Thank you so much for asking.

SPEAKER_04 10:20

Thank you so much. Have a good night. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

I love that you have a jacket too.

SPEAKER_04 10:24

Oh, thank you. I actually got it from um someone here. Oh, you stole it! I did it now. I thought she didn't need it yet.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

That's what I'm gonna do now. Have a good night.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Oh, stop.