Have you ever wondered what it's like to make the leap from the charming streets of Central New York to the dazzling lights of Hollywood? Siobhan Fallon Hogan stops by to share her captivating story, from her early days on "Saturday Night Live" to her recent strides in independent filmmaking. We follow her remarkable path, filled with laughter, perseverance, and the invaluable lessons learned along the way. Siobhan's authentic tales from behind the camera in projects like "Shelter in Solitude"—a family-crafted gem set in Syracuse—add a layer of heartfelt sincerity to the often glitzy narrative of showbiz.
As we peel back the curtain, Siobhan treats us to a behind-the-scenes look into the entertainment industry's shifting sands. From her play that's catching Broadway's discerning eye to her innovative self-marketing strategies that turn a simple car ride into a promotional campaign, her creativity knows no bounds. The episode is a treasure trove of insider anecdotes, with Siobhan recounting her experiences alongside SNL legends and shedding light on the enduring spirit that has carried her through the dynamic landscape of acting and producing.
Lastly, as we wrap up our vibrant conversation, Siobhan reminds us of the potent blend of personal dedication and community involvement that fuels her projects. The support for "Shelter in Solitude" in Syracuse is a testament to the power of local backing. With an eye on the future of film distribution and the rise of streaming services, we delve into the complexities of the industry—from casting to location scouting—while never losing sight of the personal ties and family history that keep Siobhan grounded. Her parting words, filled with gratitude and good cheer, send us off with a renewed appreciation for the arts and a reminder to embrace the New Year with open hearts and self-care.
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
Have you ever wondered what it's like to make the leap from the charming streets of Central New York to the dazzling lights of Hollywood? Siobhan Fallon Hogan stops by to share her captivating story, from her early days on "Saturday Night Live" to her recent strides in independent filmmaking. We follow her remarkable path, filled with laughter, perseverance, and the invaluable lessons learned along the way. Siobhan's authentic tales from behind the camera in projects like "Shelter in Solitude"—a family-crafted gem set in Syracuse—add a layer of heartfelt sincerity to the often glitzy narrative of showbiz.
As we peel back the curtain, Siobhan treats us to a behind-the-scenes look into the entertainment industry's shifting sands. From her play that's catching Broadway's discerning eye to her innovative self-marketing strategies that turn a simple car ride into a promotional campaign, her creativity knows no bounds. The episode is a treasure trove of insider anecdotes, with Siobhan recounting her experiences alongside SNL legends and shedding light on the enduring spirit that has carried her through the dynamic landscape of acting and producing.
Lastly, as we wrap up our vibrant conversation, Siobhan reminds us of the potent blend of personal dedication and community involvement that fuels her projects. The support for "Shelter in Solitude" in Syracuse is a testament to the power of local backing. With an eye on the future of film distribution and the rise of streaming services, we delve into the complexities of the industry—from casting to location scouting—while never losing sight of the personal ties and family history that keep Siobhan grounded. Her parting words, filled with gratitude and good cheer, send us off with a renewed appreciation for the arts and a reminder to embrace the New Year with open hearts and self-care.
Thanks for listening! Follow us at youtube.com/c/skiphappens
We're live and welcome to the Inner Harbor cast. Everybody. My name's Skip Clark, I am, I'm live and that's a good thing. I'm in the studio, as you can see the Wolf Studio behind me, and I got Brad Paisley looking over my shoulder. But you know, most importantly, I am joined by. Well, she's definitely not a stranger to Central New York. We're so proud of her. Siobhan Felin Hogan is with us and that name sounds really familiar, right, because I'll tell you SNL back in the early 2000s. Am I right? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2:That's right, you're right.
Speaker 1:Met in black forest gump. You got the negotiator Holes Daddy Daycare going in style. The house that Jack built Shall I keep going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people always love Seinfeld too. That's always a big one.
Speaker 1:You were in the early episodes of Seinfeld. Yes, it was Elaine's roommate, Tina. Tina, was it?
Speaker 2:Tina.
Speaker 1:Yes, I love it. How was you know? Well, let's, let's start from the beginning. So you grew up around here, you went to Lemoine, correct?
Speaker 2:I went to Lemoine. I grew, I was born in Syracuse, I went to Salem Hyde Grammar School and then we moved out to Casanova. Then I went to Lemoine College and then from there I went to Catholic University down in DC for my masters in fine arts and acting, which is a weird way of saying you know, pretend you're a student, you're someone else. For two years. Then I went to New York City.
Speaker 1:Well, it all worked out well for you, obviously.
Speaker 2:It was a rough road, but it it. It so far, so good.
Speaker 1:What is in a rough road, though? Think about it. Whether it's doing what you do or doing what I do, it's it's a rough road.
Speaker 2:It is, it is. You know, my kids are in their 20s now and I think your 20s are supposed to be the glory days and really they were so rough because you're like what am I doing? And people are always asking you what are you doing? You're like I don't know what I'm doing, just trying.
Speaker 1:But you made it. You made it and it's a lot for some others can say you know you've, you've got kids, you've got this place now in Casanova, are you on the lake?
Speaker 2:I am not on the lake, I'm. You know, I'm a people person, so I'm right in town. Oh, I'm like a block from the brain, lack of. I like to get here park my car and I don't like getting back at it, I just like walking around and seeing people.
Speaker 1:Well, do you know that big? There's a big stone house, like on the corner where you make the. If you're coming from Syracuse, you make the right and you go up into the Casanova a proper. There's a big stone house with a gate in the front. That was my aunt's house way back in the day.
Speaker 2:No way. And then the college bought that. Yes, exactly, that's a beautiful house. That's the Jepsen, they call it the Jepsen house. Now, and you know, now that's all in that Casco college up for sale, but no one knows what's happening. That's a gorgeous house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we had. We used to have our family reunions there, because there's like a big gymnasium, oh yeah. We had a big tree and all that.
Speaker 2:I, literally I'm three minutes from there. A walk, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, been there, I mean, spent a lot of time there. I go to Casanova quite often, but it's so cool that you're joining us here today. Shelter in Solitude independent film. It came out just a few months ago, yes, and when I watched the trailer for that, I noticed there's a lot of scenes that might be Syracuse related.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, so it came out. We produced it my husband, myself, my son, my daughter's production designer, my son's and my daughter's, anyway. But we got picked up by AMC and the Regals. Yes, huge for an independent. And now we're on Amazon, apple, all that streaming, and we filmed it. Jails in Syracuse the exterior jail was Jamesville Penitentiary Wow, the other scenes were in Casanova and then Erieville, the Blue Canoe. Have you ever been to the Blue Canoe restaurant? Yes, yes, that's where my bar was. I'm a washed up country singer who owns a bar. That's where my bar was, perryville. So it's all over the area.
Speaker 1:Wow. So how hard is it to put something like this together? You pretty much said, I mean, it was all within the family your husband, your son, yourself but you got to put all these pieces together. What is that like? What does it take?
Speaker 2:It's like a circus. So this was my second film. So Rosch, my first film we did down in New Jersey and that was like sort of the test, but I was naive and really was just like shooting from the hip. You know what do they say? Shooting from the pants or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, always something like that.
Speaker 2:Anyway. So what happened with that was I wrote the script and I sent it to Robert Patrick from the Terminator, who's a good friend of mine. He really liked it. So then I sent it out over to Denmark where I'd done several movies, and the producers like I'll help you. Then I started raising money. So that was that movie did very well. It's on Amazon now too and all those platforms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2:So this, this movie I rushed, came out August 2021, just at the end of COVID, and I then was. I thought I'm taking a break, but just before it came out, shelter and Solitude came to me. So I thought my dad was a lawyer from Syracuse, one of 11, the Fallons yeah, everybody knows the Fallons.
Speaker 1:And Syracuse yes.
Speaker 2:The uncles are all oral surgeons. My dad was a lawyer. He was really, really funny and he also represented a lot of really tough prisoners. And we go past the Jamesville Penitentiary every Sunday. We go to see our cousins, the Sullivan's out in Pompey. He'd tell us about these prisoners he had. So I was like, oh my gosh, I wonder what's like in that prison like, what are the relationships like? And then my father wanted me to be a country singer too. So this idea just came to me what if there's a guy on death row who has 10 days left to live and I am the guard and I'm this washed up loser country singer? And then I was like I gotta have Robert Patrick back in there because he's such a great actor. You know, he's in Rush and been my friend for 30 years. Then we got Dan Castellaneta, who's the voice of Homer Simpson. My son, peter plays like a loser cop, like a kind of like a you know Gomer pile type, and so that's where the whole story came from.
Speaker 1:Now, when I watched the trailer for Shelter in Solitude, there's one of the scenes is the lights are flashing in a prison. Is that Jamesville?
Speaker 2:That is not Jamesville, that is downtown. So my sisters, megan and Sheila, are attorneys in Syracuse. They had a client who's a former prison guard and that called him up. She gave me his number and I said, hey, do you know of a prison that would be available that maybe we could get into and maybe use to shoot? And he said there's a. It's like, when does it take place? I said, well, it's supposed to be kind of like, you know, kind of dreamlike, kind of Southern, but you don't know. But it really should be a throwback. Like the sixties or fifties Said, there's a really cool prison on Montgomery street that was shut down, so it's right in downtown behind the police department and it's been defunct for a long time.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that, wow oh yeah, it is creepy.
Speaker 2:There's like like the scratchings and all the on the walls. And we went in there in July two years ago and it was sweltering and you, it's creepy, Like none of the, none of the jail cells would open because it was the old crank system. So my friend Jack Griffiths from high school, he helped me out and got two of them to be, you know, operational because you could get locked in there for the day. So we we shot there for a week and the word was look, don't go, don't try to open any of the cells, cause number one, they don't open, but the two that my friend Jack fixed, don't shut the doors cause they might not open again.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean you get, you get pissed off at somebody.
Speaker 2:You know it's like I'll tell you, I'll tell you you, go in there they just like have kids spend an hour or two in an empty prison for a day and you'd keep your. You keep your life pretty clean cause the noise level, just the echoing, like you think of these prisoners and like how bad it's gotta be, like there's no quiet. You know every, you hear everything, everything echoes, matter of fact. I sing in it, you know, cause I'm supposed to be a country singer.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I say I say to the prisoner who wants nothing to do with me cause he's on death row, she's like why would I want to talk to you? So I sing to him and I'm like, my God, the acoustics are good in here, you know, because they really are, but because of that you go nuts listening to that.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow. And talking about that, so you got a big start of singing the song, or you took a song and used it in the movies. Yeah, then you did your part with that as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so crazy. So my son is a music, he's a music manager anyway. He manages like shaggy son Rob Banks, this guy Fat Nick Riff, really cool. So Now the movie comes along, I'm supposed to be a washed up country singer. He's like let me get in touch with some guys out in Nashville. So Justin, bill Tonin, three doors down, he hooks me up with them. Now I'm a music idiot. So this guy's huge, so out. And this other guy, todd Cameron. I fly out to Nashville after the movie's made. We knew we had the song. So we, you know we had it in the movie and I had to kind of like mouth it till I went out and recorded it and sang with him. So I was in a sound booth. My dream my father was in the heaven must have been like I told her to be a country singer, the idiot. So anyway, so we sang this song Heartache.
Speaker 2:Rodeo and we just released it on Apple and Spotify, and all that like 10 days ago, so anyway, yeah, so we have really great music in the movie.
Speaker 1:It's called Heartache Rodeo. Yeah, I'm going to have to give that a spin on the wolf here in town.
Speaker 2:Oh, you got to give it a spin.
Speaker 1:Another family that's here. They're big fans of the wolf, you said.
Speaker 2:Oh, big, huge fans.
Speaker 2:So this is the deal. So I'm like so the song comes out right, yeah. And I'm like all right, guys, I need to get who. Who's great? And my niece, shavon Biggs, her name, she's named after me, shavon Biggs. She's like you got to get out on the wolf. You got to get out on the wolf, so how crazy. So I called up, spoke to Becky and I'm like hi, you know, could tell people like who is this beard up? I'm like, hi, my name is Shavon Thalen Hogan and I'm from the area and I filmed a movie here and I was on SNL. But I have this whole spiel of my kids are like, if I hear it.
Speaker 1:She told me okay.
Speaker 2:And then she's like all right.
Speaker 1:And then you called and I was like okay, see, yeah, exactly, you know, and we will, we'll, we'll do something with it here on the air.
Speaker 2:So that's awesome.
Speaker 1:But you know, we were talking here today and we're doing it by way of virtual, which has become a big thing since COVID. Yes, but I have I was just going to say that's pretty much why we're doing this. But you look great, you sound good and I pray that everything is okay. You know a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Everybody handles it differently, so oh, yeah, yeah, no, listen, I'm from a big Irish family, so you were never allowed to feel sorry for yourself. It's like you're not that sick Like my husband left this morning.
Speaker 1:Get out of bed.
Speaker 2:He took the recyclables and the garbage. I was like, hey guy, I mean, what does COVID things not get me very far? Oh wait, one thing really important to say is the movie is now streaming on Amazon and Apple and we have five stars and rotten tomatoes. We have 98%.
Speaker 1:You took the words right out of my mouth because, I'll be totally honest with you, I have not seen the whole movie yet.
Speaker 2:All right, you gotta see it.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to, because my wife and I were sitting on the couch last night Not that we do that very often but, you know what I mean. It's like she's usually on the other side of the room and I'm on the couch, but, last thing, we're sitting together and I went to Amazon Prime Video and I went oh my God, there's the movie. I know it's going to be talking to Siobhan tomorrow, it's so weird.
Speaker 1:So I watched the trailer and that's where I got some info. But I saw it had five stars. Yes, I know, thank God.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, here's the deal. I think it's a movie that's perfect for this time, because it's about hope and redemption. You got a guy on death row, you know. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't like the great white hope. He's really the hero, peter Macon, who plays this role.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:By the way, it's directed by Vibhika Masai, who's great, from Denmark, and this guy, peter Macon, who plays this role. He was in the TV show the Orville, but he also played a fellow all over the world. He's like this incredible. He's like a young James Earl Jones. Then Robert Patrick gives a star turn. My son, peter, gives a star turn. It's all it's. But you know what it is. It's all broken down. People who are good, people who are just trying to do their best to change their lives and it's it's so.
Speaker 2:it's a really good message, especially for this day and age, when people are so divided and split because people are like you know when, when you only have 10 days left to live, you can forget about what your beliefs and your divisions are Like. Why don't you just get down to the core of what's important?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly Exactly. How long are you in town for?
Speaker 2:I am hopefully in town till at least Sunday or Monday.
Speaker 1:Or when you test negative, I'm riding this COVID thing.
Speaker 2:You know I'm trying not to go back as long as I can.
Speaker 1:And what do you say? Go back. Where do you go back to?
Speaker 2:New Jersey.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I wrote, I wrote a play actually with that that's really having being read. Well, this is crazy. So we did, we did. The premiere of the movie out in Nashville was like was so exciting. On this, we're on this rooftop singing with Justin Bill Tone. We do the movie. And you know, patty Heaton from everybody, loves Raymond.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So she comes to the movie and she's like, oh my gosh, I love the movie. And I was like, okay, that's crazy, because I wrote a play and I really wanted you to play the part of my sister. So anyway, she read the play Long story short. We have a big reading in New York next week to see if they this can be like a Broadway play. But that's a whole little bit Hopefully. I'll be back next year talking about that.
Speaker 1:Yes, that'll be awesome. That will be awesome. You know you're always welcome here. Believe me, now that we've gotten to know each other a little bit and knowing that you're from the area and you know you're here for a little bit, do you get noticed when you go out and about, people go hey, there's chiffon.
Speaker 2:Well, listen, I do, and I make it. Now that I wear only shelter and solitude, I make my kids. I am so shameless, no, no, no. This is so pathetic. But you know, my kids are like mom. Social media, social media I'm like, look, I don't really know how to do that. So my social media is carrying in a Ziploc bag little cards that say shelter and solitude, but then I wear all the merch, I wear the sweatshirt, but the best is this one.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I taped the shelter in solitude poster to the back of my car and I made my kids no, oh my God, I made my kids take it, because my aunts in the hospital up at community drive it and park it. So everybody who went by it was like, yes, why is there a poster on the back of that car?
Speaker 1:But that's awesome. Look at the attention that you got. Oh, yeah, right there. Yeah, I mean, I don't need to tell you, siobhan, you know that that's great marketing, because you're going to get the attention of everybody. They're going to go. What's that?
Speaker 2:I'm like one of those little planes that goes by in New Jersey, like in the, and you're in a plane that has like Miller beer, but it'll be like shelter and solitude.
Speaker 1:I love it. I love it, yeah. So pretty soon I'll probably see a plane flying overhead with a banner on the back shelter and solitude.
Speaker 2:I have no shame, it's like.
Speaker 1:I go.
Speaker 2:I'll go with my daughter shopping and they'll be like oh hi, oh, aren't you the actress? I'm like, oh yes, as a matter of fact, there's a movie that you should see. It's great for the Christmas season.
Speaker 1:And if you don't know, it's shelter and solitude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my daughter's like it's only the 20th time you said it and you act like it's the first.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I love it. I love it. You got to be such a cool mom.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, who knows? I'll tell you what I'm not domestic. My house is a disaster, oh, welcome to the crowd. I have a Christmas tree with about four ornaments on it and just lights.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter, it's you Exactly.
Speaker 2:It's all that matters.
Speaker 1:It's all that matters. Tell us a little bit about your SNL days just a few years ago, like 20.
Speaker 2:Like a hundred. Yeah, so well it was. First of all, I have such gratitude because, you know, snl opened up so many doors for me for movies. I mean like right after I did Forrest Gump and Greedy and Men in Black. So for that reason and I met great, great friends. Chris Farley was a really good friend of mine.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, david Spade, chris Rock, I was in a really great group. Um, it was really competitive really, because it's mainly standups. I'm an actress, you know, so standups are by nature, very competitive because they're in the clubs and it's like cutthroat. So and I am not one of these complainers like I am woman, hear me roar but it was just accepted that in those days it was like we got the eight guy sketches. Now where's the female sketch? And then we need the black sketch.
Speaker 1:That's the way it was.
Speaker 2:And you know you you didn't say anything. You're like all right. Well, at least we get to be on the show.
Speaker 1:Well, you got a good point. I mean I'd be like, no, okay, I'm done with this, we need to move on.
Speaker 2:I honestly just was that why you?
Speaker 1:got out. No no, okay, you don't want to go there. If you don't want to, no no, no, it's okay.
Speaker 2:Look, I like. I'm very specific about what I like and I love comedy, but it was pretty rough for my taste. A lot of the material, Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know exactly what you mean that being said, that being said I never had any fights.
Speaker 2:That Lorne Michaels was great. He put me in Baby Mama years later. But you know I'm not I, I. I don't like getting into the lot of material.
Speaker 1:No right, right, right. No, I totally understand that. Snl is all over the place they can go from. I mean, they go pretty deep sometimes and sometimes you kind of wonder yeah, I don't know at this day and age, I don't know if I'd be going down that road.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I mean. I mean there was a sketch, this Italian restaurant sketch, and and I got called you know everything's nocturnal there. Right In the middle of the night I was called and like she wanted you to play the part and let's just say it was filthy and I was like, listen, I don't want to be dent. They're like what I go, my father will kill me. So anyway, that kind of thing. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly. How do you go about getting a spot on SNL?
Speaker 2:So what happened for me was this I was weird looking and I auditioned like crazy for all kinds of things when I was in New York City and basically everybody was like you're gonna really work in your 40s, you are really gonna work. You have a deep. I'm like I can't wait to my 40s. So I got into this improv comedy club. So we did improv every Saturday night. It was like it was called who's On First. It was really popular.
Speaker 2:Like whatever the director said to me, why don't you write a one person show? I had no idea how to do that, but I was like, hey, listen, I'm not working, I might as well try. So I wrote like 10 characters of characters I would like to play, if someone would possibly cast me which they wouldn't and put it up, rented out a theater that was an off Broadway theater but on Monday nights when they were dark, meaning they weren't working and invited a couple of critics and it did really well, and so then I took it to LA and I put it on there. I had $5,000 to my name cause I was a receptionist at the law firm. I rented out this theater, seinfeld came and SNL came, and that's how I got it. That's what happened.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow, yeah. How cool is that though SNL. I mean, like I said that, yeah, they kind of walked that line once in a while, but then to know that you were on Seinfeld, and then, of course, the bus driver in Forest Gump, Forest Gump, and wow it, just what was it? I remember you as the bus driver in the door opening up. You know, once we got talking about this Becky and I were talking about this, it's like yes, that's her.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was like you, coming along and I was young, they had to age me cause I was young and all this is bus to school. And then they'd be like, okay, now we're going to age you. I was on that movie for so many weeks because I was what they call the B unit, so they would only get to me when they weren't doing like the big big scenes. So then they'd get to me like, oh, we got called back to the other, you know, the A unit, which was great, but they would have to for the old scene. They blow dry my face and put wrinkles in and then, like Shavon, we're not going to get to you. We're so sorry and I'm like I'm so glad. But now I look at that and I'm like I kind of look like how I looked when they blow dried my face to make it look old. I'm like what happened.
Speaker 1:I thought it was great.
Speaker 2:It's so weird, no, it was awesome, I loved it. And Mary Ellen Zemeckis, who was Bob Zemeckis, who directed that, we were in the movie Greedy, together with Michael J Fox before that, and she's like my husband is going to be doing this movie Do you know my husband? I was like no, she's. Like oh, he directed Back to the Future and Romance and the Stone, all these moves. I was like, oh, you don't say, anyway, I go in. I was supposed to play the part of the babysitter and I was like, look, I'm not playing the part of the babysitter. I should play the bus driver because I rode the bus my whole life. But I had a history of doing that where I'd go in like men in black. I was supposed to give birth to the alien and I was like, no, I am from Syracuse, I know a lot of farms. I play the farmer's wife.
Speaker 1:Did they even know where Syracuse was?
Speaker 2:I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I saw a clip. You were on late night TV and you were talking about Syracuse and I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I love Syracuse.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can tell it's the best. It's the best, people are the best. Yep, yep.
Speaker 2:Everyone's so supportive. When we filmed here, people were unbelievable. I mean, they'd be like Isaac, I need to house crew. You could have a house, you could have this, we'll bring food. I mean, the cops were unbelievable. Bill Lansley down at the police department unbelievable Just cool yeah.
Speaker 1:Good people. What do you? You got any more in the works, or are you already like moving forward with a follow up to shelter and solitude?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, I got this play coming up, but there's a possibility that shelter and solitude could be a TV show, which would be great. So that's a possibility. So that's the next thing after we get the play rolling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how do you feel about all this streaming that's going on? I mean, you got Amazon, we've got Hulu, we've got all the different platforms. Your movie is now out there on streaming. And how do you feel about that, as opposed to what it was years ago?
Speaker 2:I really wish it was the way it was years ago. To tell you the truth, I do. You know, here's the deal. I think COVID really hurt the movies because people already got big screen TVs. They realize they can stay home. It's a lot cheaper. I think the movies are in trouble. Like every time I go to see a movie, there's not a lot of people in the theater. You know, I went and saw what was that? The flower moon movie and you can hear Taylor Swift blasting through the wall.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah be like the movie theaters are becoming for people who can't afford to go to concerts to go to the movie theater. If you can't afford to go to the movie, it's not the can't afford to go to the movie. But are you gonna get off your rear end and go?
Speaker 1:right.
Speaker 2:You can stay home and watch it. You know what I mean, right, which is really a bummer, because you know, the feeling of going to the movie is just special.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how often do you Sit down and talk to your agent or whatever you need to do to say what's next for me? Are you in contact with somebody every day? I know you reached out by yourself here. Oh, yeah, the call, but so obviously got other people that do that for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, mainly. You see, it's weird because I'm an actress. Mm-hmm and now my husband. I formed a production team and a distribution team, so that's totally different than my agent. So you know, so it's um. You know we had a publicist for Shelter and Salter there I was on Seth Meyers a lot, a lot of shows like that was the show I was thinking about Seth Meyers.
Speaker 1:They just couldn't drew a blank.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, so for the period of the movie, but then I don't keep a publicist, you know, because yeah. I get expensive and, um, I don't know, you know they're gonna like me for who I am, or you know it's, or what am I gonna do? Go go around.
Speaker 1:I love you already. I mean, this is pretty awesome, absolutely, absolutely awesome. Um so, so uh, how do you do? You cast your own extras and do all that as well? Yes, you do it all.
Speaker 2:So we're shelter and solitude. I sent out. So there was the scene in the bar which was, as I said, the blue canoe in Erieville. Love it and I sent to my class of 1979 because we had a reunion sort of recently and they all seem to run together now and tell me who wants to be an extra.
Speaker 2:So literally people came from my friend, come from Colorado, connecticut, all over they were all the extras and then, like friend, like at the change of penitentiary, just people, like people just want to be extras. But you know you have to be very specific about your extras. They have to look right and their clothing has to be right. So I look at every minutia. Now I have people helping me like friends that. But I'm like we have to look at every costume that they're gonna bring because it could Take your eye and it could Ruin the movie. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, one thing I'm really, really into is locations and I did do all those myself.
Speaker 2:So like a year before I'm like like I saw a house in Casanova. I was like, oh, that house looks really good for my house. Wonder what the inside looks like. Knock on the door turns out to this woman, mary Judd, who I know from growing up. I was like, how'd you take your house in a movie? I love it. Let me look at it. Meanwhile it's perfect. We didn't have to because you know, a lot of times you go to a movie You'll see a set. You like this looks like a set. It doesn't look like the authentic Movie, that which is, and all those pieces of the puzzle make the movie a success.
Speaker 1:Wow, just crazy everything that goes into what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that goes into what you do. So he haven't sneezed yet.
Speaker 2:I haven't sneezed yet, which is pretty good.
Speaker 1:I know, I know I was just kind of kind of asking, but it's so good talking to you today. Shelter in solitude is the movie a chivalrin fell in Hogan. Oh, right, there, you're looking at her. Look at that and you know what? She's in our backyard with my big giant Irish head also.
Speaker 2:Salitude rushed is awesome too, and that's still available.
Speaker 1:I'm like comparing my head to your head, see.
Speaker 2:My grandfather, my grandpa Egan, who was from Syracuse. Yeah, he was a big. You know he was very responsible for building Syracuse. You know he was Egan real estate. He was one of the first founders of the morning college.
Speaker 1:I paid them a lot of money.
Speaker 2:by the way, when I run an apartment, so back in the day he, he was in his family, they were like just Like, it's the word. There's no such word as Syracuse a file, but love Syracuse. But he, but this all goes back to his head. He had a gigantic head and then I ended up with a gigantic head and my daughter burn a jet. When I birthed her the doctor came in me, said you see this piece of measuring tape. I said yeah. He said this is a normal baby's head.
Speaker 2:He took his fingers and he Going away goes. You just delivered a fire hydrant.
Speaker 1:You know you're such a pleasure to chat with and to find out more about the movie shelter and solitude. You can run it right now. You can go online, go on your television, go to prime video. It's all right there and it's cool. So did you see it in the big screw? I mean, you went to Nashville for the premiere, but what you said, it was picked up by AMC.
Speaker 2:AMC and Regal. So, oh god, this is crazy. So we had a big Regal did a premiere for us in New York City on October 6.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:So, as I was telling you, we have merch like sweatshirts and hats, all the stuff. So we live down in New Jersey. So my husband is like an insane driver and at this point I am exhausted because we've been to Nashville. We did, we did. Manliest theater was awesome to us, the guys from W W Wander who will yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're amazing guys. We did a premiere there because we wanted, you know, show it to all the people that we um know from here. And so the time we're to the October 6th mirror, I'm like the walking dead. I got the fake eyelashes, I got like a stupid outfit on. I'm trying to look like you know the actors. And in we go and we stop at the John Bon Jovi gas station in Syracuse, on the Garden State Park. I mean New Jersey.
Speaker 2:New Jersey on the garden State Park and the guy says you know, I hate to tell you, but your cause on fire. Like what? Sure enough, we open the window like oh my god. So he's like yeah, you better pull your car away from the pump because it's gonna blow. So, like who does this happen to? So we pulled away. The car is fully on fire. Long in the short of we got to get to this freakin premiere. I'm like ditch the car, get some water on it, get the merch out. So now I think it's kind of funny, because I always think things are funny and my husband's like this psycho New Yorker with a fixed accent and he's calling Ubers. He's like, yeah, you know Uba, one by one they're canceling what? When I say one by one, I mean four of them. And my son, who I called and told him, said mom, film, dad, hold your camera, hold your phone horizontally. We can use it because we have a like a making of the movie.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh so.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking it's really funny to the fourth Uber cancels and I'm like dear god. I'm like this is bad. We got to get suddenly my phone rings and it says Attitude limousine. I'm like, oh my god, it's miracle. So he goes where are you? And I said New Jersey and he says I can't come out there. Well, like well, we got to get to the premier. It's like what premiere? So he's like I'm the limo driver, my Shoes in my car. Anyway, it was just a three-ring circus.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, it's hilarious though, yeah, but a guy pulls up, who it was? My son's best friend's father from grammar school. We go, dan. He says I got an emergency, I have a bad prostate, I have to go to the bathroom. We go we got an emergency to. We're supposed to go to a premiere. He goes well, let me go to the bathroom, I'll drive. And he drove us into New York.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow. What a story you know. I mean it's serious, I get it, it's serious, but you look at it from a different angle and you have life and I'll tell you what I don't like Going faster to car.
Speaker 2:And he said I'm gonna tell you something close to get you there on time. And he said hand on my hand on the Bible, my father was a race car driver. Well, when I tell you and I'm not exaggerating we want a hundred miles an hour, I was like this is so bad.
Speaker 2:I'm a garden state Parkway it was terrible and he was going over, like, like where you're not supposed to go, and he goes. That's a six pointer right there on your insurance. So then he said he said I Gonna put some music on. What would you prefer? And I thought the last thing I can handle right now is like Acid rock or something like that. So all I could think of was I said the Bee Gees. So, he started playing, staying alive, but he was dancing while driving.
Speaker 1:He did. That's all that matters, and everybody's alive and they can tell yeah, exactly, siobhan fell and Hogan, thank you for your time today. Shelter and solid dude, oh my god, it's so. It's just an honor to get to know you, chat with you great time.
Speaker 2:I really appreciate you supporting the movie and I support that. I appreciate the support of the Syracuse community.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Madison County on a dog County. Everybody's been awesome.
Speaker 1:It's so good to know you, and yes follow us on Instagram. At.
Speaker 2:Siobhan fell and Hogan or at shelter and solitude shelter and do like the movie when you watch on Amazon and everything. Give it a review and give it some stars.
Speaker 1:I will do that. Thank you, I know me doing that, but thank you for having us on. I said having a son, thanks for watching. Uh, it's not the case. Should be the other way around. Yeah, there you go, well thank you. Happy New Year. That's right, and you got plans just gonna let. Well, I guess kind of dumb.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll see. It depends on if I test, Don't, don't tell. But I got a test again.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, just take big, thing, take care of yourself oh yeah, yeah, yeah of god bless. I appreciate you right back at you, drink lots of fluids, yep.
Speaker 2:And you're gonna go so much.
Speaker 1:Siobhan fell and Hogan joining us on the inner harbor cast today. Thanks for watching everybody. Stay right there. You're awesome.