Brooke D'Orsay (Crimes of Fashion: Killer Clutch - Hallmark Mystery)

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[00:00:35] Hi, I'm Brandon and I love Hallmark movies. I'm Dan and I despise hallmark movies.

[00:00:41] Hi, I'm Brooke and I am in the Hallmark movie. And this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast!

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[00:00:59] Wow, wow, what a day! What a day today, man! Yeah, it's a good day.

[00:01:10] Well, come up with a little spring in my step. You know, we got, we've had some,

[00:01:15] some hallmark like stalwarts like Mount Rushmore level hallmark talent on Deck The Hallmark.

[00:01:20] We've never had Brooke Dorset. Never! This is a big deal.

[00:01:25] We can have 100 episodes. We can retire after six, six, six years. It's all led to this moment.

[00:01:30] Brooke Dorset on Deck The Hallmark. How's it going, Brooke?

[00:01:34] It's going so well you guys and I did my best to escape this podcast. You know what?

[00:01:39] Didn't work because he brought you out. Every time it was close.

[00:01:43] This has been a work in progress for a while now. You know, lots of moving parts here.

[00:01:50] A lot of people at play. But we, you tried to get out of today in particular.

[00:01:57] You said I can't, I just don't want to talk to you. And I said not today, Brooke!

[00:02:01] Not today! You showed up! You showed up and here you are. We're so happy.

[00:02:07] I'm so excited to talk with you guys. I'm a big fan of the show.

[00:02:14] And I have to ask, did you guys model your show after the Simon Randy Paula like loving it?

[00:02:23] I even wear black like some. Yes we do. You, uh, Brian has been working on his Paula Abdul impression for years.

[00:02:32] You're still one song I should know by Paula. Straight up! Straight up!

[00:02:36] You don't know it at all. Of course you don't.

[00:02:38] Here, I will say this and I don't mind the comparison necessarily because there are some similarities here.

[00:02:45] But when it comes to interviewing, I hope that it's all rise. I also will say we do have your top five least favorite.

[00:02:52] I do have my bottom five. I do have my bottom five.

[00:03:24] Because it's like a, it's probably a top 15 top 20 hallmark movie all time for me.

[00:03:29] None of that has to do with Chris. I honestly doubt him. If Chris wasn't in it, I mean he would have been even better.

[00:03:35] That was the hurdle I think. But you on the other hand. It was great. It was perfect.

[00:03:40] Brooke, let's go back to the beginning though before we get to hallmark, before we get to Dickens any of that.

[00:03:45] I want to go back to your childhood. I would love for you to let us know where you grew up, what you were like as a child

[00:03:52] and when you first kind of got that first itch to maybe act.

[00:03:58] Like Rapin Toronto, I my mom, my dad and my old brother.

[00:04:03] And I my mom said like I'm from like a really young age. I just wanted to be on TV.

[00:04:10] She's like, I don't know where you got that from but that was just sort of in my head for some reason.

[00:04:14] But I do remember as a kid feeling like it was my job to entertain people.

[00:04:21] My parents would have people come over to the house and they were just trying to enjoy a couple coffee.

[00:04:26] I was like that kid. I was like, I can do some ourselves. I can do cartwheel.

[00:04:31] I felt like it was my duty to make sure that they had a good time.

[00:04:36] Which was kind of a stressful thing to take on as a kid but I guess there was just something in me that felt like I needed to do that.

[00:04:43] But yeah, just like an active kid. I was a gymnast growing up and got into acting right in my school years,

[00:04:53] like right after high school.

[00:04:55] Love that. So I have that child. My youngest is always putting on a show.

[00:05:00] Oh, always putting on a show.

[00:05:02] And he looks kind of like an old man. He's a four year old man.

[00:05:05] He's a four year old but he's lived a life.

[00:05:07] He has seen some things. Yeah, he's a right.

[00:05:09] I'm not sure if he's a kid.

[00:05:11] He's a great school.

[00:05:12] He's a great school.

[00:05:13] He's a great school.

[00:05:14] He's a great school.

[00:05:15] So you go after grade school, after high school it sounds like you go and like you start to make acting like a priority for you.

[00:05:19] Do you remember your first, like the first thing you booked, like commercial or something that you booked?

[00:05:25] You're like, I'm an actor. I did it.

[00:05:28] The first thing I booked was actually a commercial for a department store called Eaton's.

[00:05:35] I got a time. I think it's now, I think it's now gone under.

[00:05:38] But they were looking for like dancers and gymnasts.

[00:05:42] And so I, I got that first role just because of my gym mass of abilities.

[00:05:48] And then, and then from that,

[00:05:50] I just started booking other commercials.

[00:05:52] So it was like a slow build from commercials to guest stars to,

[00:05:56] you know, to then movies and TV.

[00:06:00] But it was like every step along the way.

[00:06:02] So you fight like you, you just keep grinding, right?

[00:06:05] You did, were you just taking other jobs?

[00:06:07] Were you bartending or doing something else where you're trying to find work?

[00:06:10] No, it was the strangest path there.

[00:06:12] You guys like, okay, so I was in,

[00:06:16] I was in college and I was kind of like,

[00:06:20] you know, amassing the student debt.

[00:06:22] I was never going to be able to pay this off.

[00:06:25] I knew I had this feeling that I wanted to try acting,

[00:06:29] but I had no idea where to begin.

[00:06:32] So I thought, well maybe I have to build some kind of a resume.

[00:06:35] So maybe I'll go ask to be in student films and build it that way.

[00:06:40] So I went to the like,

[00:06:42] a down to school downtown Toronto.

[00:06:44] And I knocked on the door and I was like, hi.

[00:06:46] I friend took like a photo of me.

[00:06:48] And like I had, you know, just a high school theater credits on my resume.

[00:06:52] And I watched this, I just would really love to be in some student films.

[00:06:56] I just heard a drop off my hot resume.

[00:06:59] And the guy at the school goes, oh great.

[00:07:02] He goes, would you like to teach the program?

[00:07:05] What?

[00:07:06] Why?

[00:07:07] Exactly what?

[00:07:09] I was like, I'm sorry, I'm here to be in a student film because I don't know.

[00:07:16] He's like, no, no, it's $40 an hour.

[00:07:18] You'll be teaching, you'll be teaching workshops and theory.

[00:07:21] And I'm like, okay, first of all, I was in no position to say no to $40 an hour.

[00:07:25] So I'm like, so I'm like, 40, 40 bucks an hour.

[00:07:28] I can, I can learn.

[00:07:30] So then you know,

[00:07:32] I said like you want to learn something, you teach it.

[00:07:35] Yeah.

[00:07:36] I went in full steam of like trying to figure out how to teach workshops

[00:07:40] and how to teach theory classes.

[00:07:42] And I was in the library just pouring through books.

[00:07:45] And he did give me a somewhat of an audition where he said, okay, I need you to read

[00:07:48] Joan of Arc comments the class.

[00:07:50] You have a character breakdown on it and ask also and have the students ask you all sorts of questions.

[00:07:55] And from there, I will judge how intelligent you are at breaking down character

[00:08:00] and understanding story.

[00:08:02] So that was where I started.

[00:08:04] I went home, I got a book, I read it, I was in front of the class.

[00:08:07] And then he gave me the job.

[00:08:09] I got it, I just got to be, can we just pause real quick?

[00:08:12] We've heard some stuff.

[00:08:13] Yeah.

[00:08:14] I just want to make sure I understand this, you are a professional acting teacher before you are a professional actor.

[00:08:20] Yeah.

[00:08:22] Oh my God.

[00:08:23] As somebody who also taught with no degree when I was 20 years old, I get this story.

[00:08:30] I was, I was a teacher at Brook for three years, didn't have a degree, kind of stumbled my way into it

[00:08:38] and just prayed that no one asked any questions.

[00:08:40] And it worked, it worked okay.

[00:08:42] Yeah.

[00:08:43] That's incredible.

[00:08:44] I'm like, I love that you have that same story.

[00:08:47] It was such a strange feeling doing it because my students were either my age older

[00:08:53] and after a year, I remember being in the mail room.

[00:08:56] I was collecting my, you know, my check and I was, and I had decided to then, to then leave.

[00:09:04] And some, and one of the guys who was, who was another teacher there, he said, oh, I heard you're leaving.

[00:09:09] And I was like, well, I just feel like it's time that maybe I get an agent and actually,

[00:09:13] and actually I've heard things that I'm teaching.

[00:09:16] And then he goes, well, I have, you know, one of my great friends that I went to school with is a teacher

[00:09:22] and is an agent.

[00:09:25] He's like, so, you know, here's her number if you want to submit to her when you're ready.

[00:09:30] And that's exactly what I did.

[00:09:33] Like, it was just, you know, it was stumbling my way through.

[00:09:38] And also this was sort of the time around like when .com was just in its boom.

[00:09:42] And I hooked up with this company that did trailers for movies that don't exist.

[00:09:48] And it was like just this thing that, you know, the guy was offering free improv classes

[00:09:53] and he could come in and you could be part of this company and it was growing.

[00:09:57] And I got to like learn improv and acting through him without having to pay,

[00:10:04] because still I, you know, didn't have a ton of money.

[00:10:08] It was just like peace-mealing and altogether to try to build some kind of an education

[00:10:14] and then once I had enough money that I actually put myself through, you know,

[00:10:18] legitimate acting training and scene study and all the rest of it.

[00:10:22] And then I got to do something.

[00:10:24] Did the random number, did she become your agent?

[00:10:28] She did become my agent, yeah.

[00:10:31] It's great.

[00:10:32] I love that.

[00:10:33] I mean, what a time to everyone in Canada is so nice.

[00:10:36] Everyone in Canada showed up.

[00:10:39] How about a job?

[00:10:40] 40 bucks an hour.

[00:10:41] 40 bucks an hour.

[00:10:42] We make right now, Brian.

[00:10:44] What is going on?

[00:10:46] What was going on up there?

[00:10:47] 40 bucks an hour, 20 years ago.

[00:10:49] Like are you kidding me, right now?

[00:10:51] However, what he did you admitted to tell me it's only two hours.

[00:10:54] Okay, okay, okay.

[00:10:56] I can breathe and feel like I'm not a failure as a human being.

[00:11:00] Good.

[00:11:01] I'm glad.

[00:11:02] If so is this, it's after the time where you were a professional teacher before

[00:11:06] you were a professional actor that you start getting some smaller roles in the early 2000s

[00:11:10] on like some movies.

[00:11:11] Like just for the quick, did a student ever ask you like what, like what you've done?

[00:11:16] Like how'd you handle that?

[00:11:18] I think God knows me.

[00:11:20] No, no, no, they wouldn't do that.

[00:11:22] They wouldn't dare.

[00:11:23] Have you set a reputation precedes her?

[00:11:26] She's an acting teacher, Brian.

[00:11:28] Yeah, they're all, they're all foreign.

[00:11:30] Yeah, probably haven't seen them.

[00:11:32] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:11:33] I don't want to.

[00:11:34] A lot of stuff in the States.

[00:11:35] Go on.

[00:11:36] So you're getting these parts and like movies like skulls three.

[00:11:39] Like those stuff like that or like even a Harold and Kumar movie.

[00:11:42] Like how are you, is this like are you now in the audition phase where you have an agent

[00:11:46] and you're auditioning for movies and trying to get parts or is this just these are

[00:11:50] happen to be shooting in Canada.

[00:11:51] And they just bring the acting teacher over.

[00:11:54] Oh, no, no, I mean when I was teaching I didn't have an agent at all.

[00:11:58] So I and I hadn't even been through like training so I had to, you know, first do that.

[00:12:03] Got my agent and then this was in Canada when I did skulls three and Harold and Kumar and all the rest of it.

[00:12:09] So then my agent in Canada had submitted me for all that once I had some training.

[00:12:15] Gotcha.

[00:12:16] Is there a, do you have like a memorably bad audition?

[00:12:18] Like you went on an audition and you were just like, oh my gosh, what just happened?

[00:12:23] Oh, you know, I just, I remember I would call my mother after every audition and I would move it either be laughing or crying.

[00:12:32] Like, you need to be writing these down please write these down.

[00:12:35] You know, you're going to want to remember this one day and I never did.

[00:12:40] I wish I did because I could give you that story.

[00:12:43] I could give you 10 of those stories, but I'm, they've escaped me at this point.

[00:12:48] That's okay.

[00:12:49] That's fine.

[00:12:51] But when you were doing all of these auditions, what, what's kind of like,

[00:12:56] what did you learn about yourself as a person?

[00:12:58] Was there something that you were like, I imagine as you continue to do more and more auditions,

[00:13:03] you get a little bit more and more confident?

[00:13:05] I would imagine so like, what was that process like for you and what did you learn in that time of like auditioning for projects early on in your career?

[00:13:13] Oh, I think you just learn how to, you learn about your body and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

[00:13:22] Like you sort of just learn your process at that point.

[00:13:25] Like how many nights you need to have before you memorize how much sleep you need.

[00:13:30] Like what you, what you need to eat so that you can kind of like being the right headspace.

[00:13:35] There's just all, there's like a big learning curve and then how to present yourself.

[00:13:40] Like what works in a room versus what doesn't work in a room, you know,

[00:13:44] because sometimes you can just walk in and you're trying to be engaging and whatever you say doesn't land

[00:13:51] and you've like lost the room before you even started to speak.

[00:13:54] And when you can feel it when that happens, and it's like,

[00:13:57] well, now you know like you're now in your head it's not going to go well.

[00:14:01] So sometimes I learn like walking that room and just less is more because you like I never wanted to set myself up for that feeling.

[00:14:11] So oftentimes I'm just like just just get in and say hi and get to it.

[00:14:14] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, less time to get thoughts on your head there aside from your care to for sure.

[00:14:21] A lot of, you know, we have actors on the show they have a similar beginning to their filmography that you have which is like trying,

[00:14:28] you know, getting these bit parts on these TV shows and you're trying to land a recurring role or a series regular

[00:14:35] or something of that nature.

[00:14:37] Was that the idea for you or did or were you just along for the ride?

[00:14:41] Were you like I want to it or better question what was the moment where you a job that you got you were like this is it.

[00:14:47] I'm not doing this and made a check. I'm a professional, I'm really a professional actor like this is this is what I do for living.

[00:14:57] Um, I think it was an empty move, MTV movie I did back in boy 20 to 2001 to 2002.

[00:15:08] Um, and I remember getting that job and the feeling just I was bouncing around my living room.

[00:15:16] Just static going to be able to do this job.

[00:15:19] And I think that was the moment where I realized like I'm going to be able to support myself or at least this year anyway.

[00:15:25] Yeah, yeah, with this career.

[00:15:28] And that just like I was elated by that feeling.

[00:15:32] That's awesome.

[00:15:33] I'm a touring opposite Lizzie Kaplan. It appears and everybody's doing it on MTV.

[00:15:38] Yes, yes, fantastic.

[00:15:40] I love it.

[00:15:41] You were in 91 episodes of what appears to be a cartoon cartoon called 16 6 never heard of it.

[00:15:49] Yeah, it was about at six 16-agers that work at the mall and I was like I was a girl that works at the lemon stand like the little lemon head.

[00:15:58] Um, but yeah, that's actually come back.

[00:16:01] It's been in Canada. It's a big show there.

[00:16:05] I think it made its way here on Nickelodeon and cartoon network for a minute, but it's you know predominantly a Canadian show.

[00:16:12] Was that your first time doing voice acting?

[00:16:15] I had done a couple episodes. I think of Brace's face.

[00:16:19] I think that was Alicia Silicone show.

[00:16:21] I did a couple of episodes of that. And then that's when I got 16 shortly after that.

[00:16:26] What's is there a different in a difference in in process for you when it came to like acting when you're on screen versus just your voice or do you kind of approach it the same way?

[00:16:36] It's a little different because you're in the booth, right? Like so with that show, for example, I was recording.

[00:16:41] I would I started in Toronto and then I had moved to LA.

[00:16:44] So they had to record me out of LA and I would do three episodes at a time.

[00:16:49] And so it's basically like you need to really study the script know exactly what's going on because you just do your line with like a one second pause between each line.

[00:16:59] So you have to like imagine how the other characters going to say it so that you can respond appropriately.

[00:17:05] And we would yeah, we would do record three but like the mount.

[00:17:10] I would leave there sort of with attention headache after doing three episodes because you all your emotion has to like push through your voice.

[00:17:18] So it's it's like you don't have you can't rely on your facial expression.

[00:17:23] So every little expression has to be heard and it you end up kind of just like up in your head, the tension headache by the end of it.

[00:17:33] It's like the opposite of COVID when you were doing everything with your eyes, you know, when you're wearing a mask.

[00:17:42] Yeah, you're like man, I'm really working out my eyes today.

[00:17:45] Yeah, I really want people to know it.

[00:17:47] Good.

[00:17:49] I thought it was good.

[00:17:51] You had to be it wasn't bad. I'm sorry for making fun of you.

[00:17:54] We're also before you get royal pains, which we'll get to in a second.

[00:17:57] You're also on three of the most beloved American sitcoms of the last 30 years.

[00:18:03] At least most watched if nothing else, big bang theory, two and a half men, how I met your mother in any of those.

[00:18:10] And episode of psych episode of psych, which people, I mean, I love psych but people love psych really love psych.

[00:18:17] Any of those shows where you fans of before you got the gig, were you like a big like a how I met your mother fan and then you get the gig was there anything like that that happened.

[00:18:27] No, I actually, I had obviously seen all the shows but I wasn't watching it even regularly.

[00:18:36] Big bang theory action was just in its beginning stages.

[00:18:39] They hadn't even aired the show when I think I can want to do like this set the so Wow.

[00:18:44] So they need Oh, if they were picked up for their back nine.

[00:18:47] And I remember like being on that set and then like kind of worried about whether like whether or not they were going to get the full pickup.

[00:18:55] And I just remember one I think you guys are going to.

[00:18:59] People think about this.

[00:19:01] I think it was really special cast and you can see they had something like really good between them.

[00:19:05] Well, that was I think both big bang and how I met your mother the first season on CBS.

[00:19:10] Like how many of your mothers same thing was like will it get picked up it gets picked up and then they air big bang after it's.

[00:19:16] And then both of those shows go on to be cult classics or just classics of of like epic proportions so yeah, you got to be a part of a lot of TV history there early on.

[00:19:25] And she's a thank for both of those she is without Brooke Norseye neither one of those go on to do exactly.

[00:19:29] And I said that for years let's talk about royal pains on USA regular cast member on royal pains.

[00:19:36] Huge deal 75 episodes of a television program.

[00:19:40] That's that is that's the chunk of your life like you really like that's a big part of what it means to be a working actor.

[00:19:46] How cool was that? What was that experience like?

[00:19:49] Well, that was the show where my dad felt like I had made it because Henry Winkler the fans was my father.

[00:19:56] Yeah, like I got the stamp stamp approval for my dad on that one.

[00:20:02] But no, it was like when I moved out to LA was to I wanted to be on a TV show so badly I wanted to be part of a cast and have cast mates and just feel like what that would feel like.

[00:20:14] And and it was incredible when we filmed in New York, we were in you know our stages were Brooklyn.

[00:20:21] We would film in the Hamptons like twice a year we'd go out there to get all the shots.

[00:20:26] So I mean it was like it was yeah, it was a dream job for sure.

[00:20:30] I don't know what the show is.

[00:20:32] You know, a real pain.

[00:20:33] I'm sorry.

[00:20:35] Man, this was like in the heyday of USA television.

[00:20:38] Yes, this is like white collar burn notice and royal pains.

[00:20:43] It was like they were USA was like hey, do we watch TV on USA?

[00:20:47] You know, like it was like that era of USA television and royal pains was like a huge huge part of that show.

[00:20:53] I wasn't like a regular watcher but it had some big names in it.

[00:20:56] Yeah, sure.

[00:20:57] I mean she already said Henry Winkler.

[00:20:58] I do know the fonts absolutely.

[00:21:00] Yeah, what like getting to do that versus doing a movie.

[00:21:05] Like do you have a preference on building a character over multiple seasons versus you know with hallmark building a building a character in 15 days of shooting?

[00:21:14] I imagine very different process, very different.

[00:21:17] Do you have a preference on which of those type of things you prefer?

[00:21:22] You know, well it's interesting because in TV shows oftentimes your character just evolves naturally based on sort of what they need in the story.

[00:21:30] Like for those that have seen royal pains, my character started at I was like, I did a 180 once they added me to the show.

[00:21:40] It like she started off like just really entitled and kind of spoiled and then moved into somebody who actually could be a legitimate partner to Paulica stands out.

[00:21:48] But I mean, I I love both processes.

[00:21:51] I mean watching a character evolve is so wonderful to like live and breathe that person for a long time.

[00:21:56] But then like having these 15 day shoots where you come in, you need everyone and it's like summer camp.

[00:22:04] It's so it's so hard to leave after those three weeks with the relationships.

[00:22:10] The you know you were on royal pains from a 75 episodes and there's all these benchmarks when you're a TV like an actor working on TV.

[00:22:18] It's like we want to get picked up and then it's we want to make syndication.

[00:22:23] And then after that a lot of times sometimes there are shows where the cast and crew are just this great family and they're like, we want to do a thousand seasons.

[00:22:30] There's other times like big bang where Jim Parsons is like I've done ten seasons.

[00:22:33] I don't want to do anymore and everyone's like, that's great.

[00:22:36] We respect Jim.

[00:22:37] At what was there a point like where you were like royal pains is amazing.

[00:22:41] And I love it and would do it forever.

[00:22:43] But were you becoming a royal pain?

[00:22:46] No, but where are you were you excited for the opportunity after six years to be like, I get to do something different because I can imagine like it monopolizes your time.

[00:22:57] Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a chunk of your time for sure.

[00:23:01] Like the days everyone knows filming days are really really long.

[00:23:04] So we were all incredibly sad to say goodbye.

[00:23:09] But I think we're also already to like go back to our lives and I took like some serious time off after that show and just reconnected with my family and friends because I've just been away for so long.

[00:23:23] Do you still get is that like when you go up to like when we see it Christmas kind of so kind of see do you still get fairly regularly people who want to talk to you about royal pains?

[00:23:32] Oh, you mean like a Christmas.

[00:23:34] Christmas kind of yeah.

[00:23:35] Yeah, these do actually yeah.

[00:23:38] That's right.

[00:23:39] Holocaust stands out there doing a bunch of conventions right now and holding up the royal pains, you know, for us.

[00:23:46] I love it.

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[00:24:40] That leads us.

[00:24:45] I think I have to home this Christmas was Miss Christmas your first hallmark?

[00:24:50] No, my first homework I filmed in 2011.

[00:24:54] Oh wow.

[00:24:55] Yeah, and I believe it aired in 2012.

[00:24:58] It was with Eric maybe yes, and it was called how to fall in love.

[00:25:02] How to fall in love?

[00:25:03] Yeah, you got one past us.

[00:25:04] We don't I just I just found it here.

[00:25:06] It's a nice cover.

[00:25:07] It's a great cover.

[00:25:08] Good looking cover.

[00:25:09] Good looking.

[00:25:10] We've had Eric on the show before.

[00:25:11] Yeah, we've had him all.

[00:25:12] Oh, you do?

[00:25:13] Yeah, we've had him on the show.

[00:25:14] Absolutely.

[00:25:15] Yeah.

[00:25:16] Well, that's this looks like a cover of a movie that was made recently.

[00:25:19] This does not look like a movie that was made 12 years ago.

[00:25:23] I'm wondering what cover you're looking at.

[00:25:25] I wonder what can you flip it.

[00:25:27] It's an IMDV.

[00:25:28] You could go to mine.

[00:25:29] I can try to show it.

[00:25:30] You can go.

[00:25:31] Oh, that one.

[00:25:32] Yes, yes, yes.

[00:25:33] Yeah, yeah.

[00:25:34] Yeah, no, it is it is it is it looks very modern.

[00:25:37] Especially for good with glasses.

[00:25:38] I mean, yeah, maybe a soul clerk can over there.

[00:25:41] How about that guy?

[00:25:42] He was so good in this role.

[00:25:45] Well, I guess we got to get to it occasionally will.

[00:25:48] Pretty sure Aaron is telling us given us a thumbs up but yes,

[00:25:51] it is a great movie that we need to see.

[00:25:53] So okay, 2012.

[00:25:55] 2012.

[00:25:56] Was that an audition?

[00:25:57] Like I know that at this point in your home,

[00:25:59] Mark journey a lot of folks are probably like offer only or we have the script

[00:26:03] for you or that's kind of how it works with hallmark with some of their

[00:26:06] regulars.

[00:26:07] But at this point in 2012, what was it like?

[00:26:10] How did you get into that hallmark world because it's kind of its own stream?

[00:26:15] Yes.

[00:26:16] So I had a head done a movie called it was for Nickelodeon.

[00:26:21] It was with the jury justice and Brook Shields and it was called Boy Pride,

[00:26:24] where will classic.

[00:26:25] Classic.

[00:26:26] I did that move.

[00:26:28] Were you what did you get to play and boy now?

[00:26:30] I'm very curious about boy who cried.

[00:26:32] Where will I was?

[00:26:33] I was a vampire.

[00:26:34] Yeah, I was like I was villain.

[00:26:37] Yes, a villain fantastic.

[00:26:39] I love that.

[00:26:40] Yeah, I started my career playing a lot of villains actually.

[00:26:43] Like that was sort of like where where I started.

[00:26:47] And that's how you know she's a good actor.

[00:26:48] That's right because you've ever met Brook.

[00:26:50] She is the sweetest human being alive.

[00:26:52] It's impressive.

[00:26:53] Range.

[00:26:54] So that was so that was what it was like a comedy was fun like a fun villain.

[00:26:59] And so yes, I started there and the producer of How to Fall in Love was looking for their girl for that movie.

[00:27:10] And she had the director of Boy Pride where we'll cut recommended me to her because they were at that time doing a project together.

[00:27:18] So so yeah, it came to me as an offer and I was nervous right.

[00:27:27] It was like my first time doing a job that where I knew I was going to be in day in and day out like for multiple days and you know you kind of don't know what your capable of until you do it.

[00:27:40] I was like, am I going to have the stamina to do it every day and to be able to you know you're asking people to to like tune in and watch and look at your face for an hour and a half.

[00:27:51] I was like, you know, he's like, let's I'm going to see how this goes and.

[00:27:56] And it was it just went so well like Eric is incredible in the movie.

[00:28:01] I hope you guys get to see it. He's so so good.

[00:28:03] We're going to have to check it out for sure. That's actually really fun though because hallmark in 2012 was very different than home.

[00:28:09] Different world 2017, which is different than now there's like a definitely some evolution of home art going on there.

[00:28:16] So when you did miss Christmas in 2017.

[00:28:19] I assume Royal Payne's probably the reason you couldn't just have a standard hallmark movie every year at like you know you're busy on this television show.

[00:28:28] Um, yes. So yeah, there was a point where it I was also doing some other like I did two and a half men in my high.

[00:28:37] Yes, one of the years. And so I just at a certain point I realized doing doing the show and then doing a job in the hiatus.

[00:28:47] I was then exhausted when I'd go back to the series. So I did I kind of at one point just went all right.

[00:28:54] I love it. Yeah.

[00:28:56] When you get miss Christmas in 2017, that's like almost kind of a golden age of hallmark.

[00:29:04] It's when when you see the memes about what hallmark is like where it's just the guy the girl going back to the town and stuff like that.

[00:29:11] That all kind of comes from 2016 27 Christmas is like a class very quintessential mark,

[00:29:18] like Lucas, that Brooke Dorsey the giant Christmas tree, the whole like that is a that's what you think.

[00:29:25] Like what people that don't watch these movies regularly, like we do, that's what they think all of them are is this blueprint of a movie that happened seven years ago.

[00:29:35] Right. So when you when you do that movie in 2017, did it feel like it had become a well oiled machine like hallmarks like oh,

[00:29:43] we know exactly the beats that we're trying to hit here versus in 2012 or it was a bit more of a hot spot,

[00:29:49] depending on what you're going to get for each movie.

[00:29:52] Yeah, I actually I did feel the shift because so in 2012 they had were only doing like 23 movies a year at that point was very,

[00:30:01] very different and then the year after that I did one with West Brown and it was that same type of feeling that like that.

[00:30:08] I think that was in 2013 as June and January, that was what that was.

[00:30:13] That was with us. So I did when I went to step back in four years later like it was at that point,

[00:30:21] the network had complete like I think at that point there's 100 movies a year.

[00:30:26] There was definitely a formula to how these were going to go.

[00:30:30] But like what a thrill notice to step in and to see the difference between like then and then now.

[00:30:37] The fans like I think they had like double their triple their fans.

[00:30:42] When I first signed on I felt like as I was I was nervous and I felt like okay, well it's like it'll be a safe space.

[00:30:48] It's probably like I don't know how many people will watch it.

[00:30:52] So if I do you know if I don't succeed will at least it'll probably like just fly under the radar like that was not true.

[00:30:59] That could be a still air yeah.

[00:31:02] I know that at the time I probably really really would have been nervous on that set.

[00:31:09] But yeah, well and Miss Christmas is one that we were like recommended until we watched it.

[00:31:14] That was before the podcast. It was every year people were like when you're going to watch Miss Christmas.

[00:31:19] And I think by then it's a it's definitely a machine and I when we get to the movie or we're going to talk about today.

[00:31:24] Crimes of fashion.

[00:31:25] I do want to hear a little bit more about the difference now because I you know talking to actors now they're even more excited about getting to spread their wings and do do even.

[00:31:33] You know more variety on the network but you do then you have a string of Christmas movies in 17 18.

[00:31:41] Christmas and love is big for us.

[00:31:43] Yeah, because it's a love is a big part of our podcast more we you guys say yeah it is it's a movie with maybe the worst Christmas movie title of all.

[00:31:52] That could be anything we're on that setbrook are you like are we going to call it this like you write like that you did.

[00:32:00] Oh no Daniel listening that was like Daniel listening is like what is his suggestion he's like I think it's.

[00:32:07] Daniel listening come on him on the show and we've now got a bone to pick with Daniel listen.

[00:32:13] Yeah, we're going to sing love we're going to bring him back on just to ask him what's like what was he thinking about the age bro like are you kidding me.

[00:32:21] Yeah, but in that movie it's all it's all about cringles and you walk in and you go cringles and the whole crowd goes cringles we do that.

[00:32:28] We do that on our podcast like on the regular listen from 2018 to 2020 one person of their cringles and wall go cringles and it got us a cringles sponsor.

[00:32:37] Yeah, cringles add.

[00:32:38] Racine uh Danish cringles who every year every year sponsors our show because of your movie and we've done live show.

[00:32:47] We're now cringles and the cringles in the true story it's all okay and there's actually a gif if you if you search the gifs of you your character going cringles

[00:32:56] and then everybody going cringles and we we took it in random with it.

[00:33:00] So thank you uh your checks in the mail it is not.

[00:33:04] No.

[00:33:05] It's 40 bucks an hour every hour that we say cringles is 40 bucks an hour.

[00:33:11] I think we're close to 40 now though so.

[00:33:13] Uh oh yeah well I think it was originally called Miss cringles.

[00:33:17] It's a way better title.

[00:33:19] It's a better title.

[00:33:20] Lessing.

[00:33:21] Yeah.

[00:33:22] But Christmas and love you guys remember it so at least it has some kind of a reading.

[00:33:27] I mean I need to be remembers it broke to be fair but also that you've been on set like Miss Christmas everybody like immediately.

[00:33:34] Christmas and love I have to rifle through the old roll.

[00:33:37] I tell you that I but I tell you the cringle movie and you immediately try it.

[00:33:41] Oh yes or like a dickens of a holiday that's such a unique you know if you're making 50 Christmas movies a year to have one entitled Christmas and love.

[00:33:50] I mean you're just asking for people to not know which movie that is right?

[00:33:54] Am I crazy?

[00:33:56] No no I see what you're saying I mean it lands it's totally land.

[00:34:00] Yeah yeah can you tell me about nostalgic Christmas uh Trevor Donovan said that is the wooden things that they say

[00:34:06] do they come to life or is there some magic in there somewhere I think?

[00:34:10] Yeah.

[00:34:11] Yeah the wooden did die in which shot in that.

[00:34:14] Yes of course.

[00:34:15] There you go.

[00:34:16] That was an HMM joint.

[00:34:17] Yes.

[00:34:18] Yeah right.

[00:34:19] See I know mine.

[00:34:20] I'm hoping that you guys remember all these movies and titles like because you you you preview the law.

[00:34:26] Yes yeah we have.

[00:34:29] Yeah and we can we can talk about that one which would be fun.

[00:34:33] We've met Trevor he's been on the show as well we can skip God wink and we can go to stop it.

[00:34:37] We can go to I will just say you're doing a Christmas movie every year.

[00:34:41] How did that kind of become like the thing the thing like I get to do a Christmas movie every year.

[00:34:47] That's pretty that's pretty fun and special.

[00:34:49] It's the best job in town.

[00:34:52] I can't say enough with these about it.

[00:34:54] I am so happy being at home market Christmas movies.

[00:34:58] I mean it's everything that I wanted in my career in terms of like that feeling that you have with with the people you work with and the jobs are doing.

[00:35:09] It makes my heart so full.

[00:35:11] I absolutely love it.

[00:35:13] Yeah and you can tell too like you can tell and it's something you're a pro.

[00:35:17] You even taught it before you did it.

[00:35:19] But then you found a home with hallmark and you've had the ability to really even blossom even further.

[00:35:25] In all honesty Beverly Hills wedding, Godwink Christmas those are 2020 early 21 but then we have this regime change and the movie start to look a little different.

[00:35:34] They start to have a wider spectrum of what the plot could be who's going to be in them representation inclusion all of that amazing stuff.

[00:35:44] And the first movie that you're in in that what I would consider new era and maybe I'm just wrong on this is a dickens of a holiday.

[00:35:51] And you know we were used to at that point every Christmas scene of the 40 movies we get 32 of them are roughly exactly the same.

[00:35:59] And then the other eight have a little bit of variation a here or there.

[00:36:03] This movie is wild.

[00:36:05] It is a movie that is, you know, I don't think that home market really ever tackled this like this.

[00:36:12] And you're there's so many Christmas Carol variations when when home market makes these movies they use a Christmas Carol all the time.

[00:36:19] But you guys took it and had such a modern spin on it.

[00:36:22] And from Chris like hearing Chris talk about it, there were scenes where they let you guys just go and do your thing.

[00:36:28] And there's some very I know I'm talking a lot but I really love this movie.

[00:36:32] There's some very special scenes in this movie where you kind of unlock the carrot you unlock Chris's character as an actor to get him to give a more.

[00:36:41] Scrooge-esque performance and you do that like it's a really powerful scene that I just it just is a marker to me in the timeline of home market movies of when they started letting actors kind of go above and beyond.

[00:36:55] And so did you I guess my question is because I just wanted to rave about the movie because I think it's great.

[00:37:02] But my question is, is did you have that feeling on set like we're getting to do something this is different I've been working for home market for a decade.

[00:37:09] This is different this feels different. It is different. I'm proud of this in a way I've not been proud about a movie before.

[00:37:16] Absolutely, absolutely because what I noticed on that set so the moments that were emotional that actually had real meaning we were allowed to go into that moment and and die right in and explore it fully.

[00:37:30] Yeah, and that was so satisfying where it's like you know we kind of walked just more like a middle of the road before that but once the network turned and decided like we'll just go deeper into storytelling.

[00:37:43] It just made it so much richer for us actors to be able to connect with each other and to like really do our craft you know.

[00:37:52] Yeah, no absolutely Chris you know we're obviously dear friends with Chris and he always tells us about all his movies and he's always positive of all his movies but you can you get to the point of Chris.

[00:38:02] We've known him for six years I can tell when he when he's actually excited or when he's getting himself like he's trying to make himself excited for it but he came to Greenville after he shot that movie.

[00:38:12] He was actually with us we do a marathon to start the year and he came and joined us here in Greenville for it and he was talking to me and it was off off camera where you couldn't hear and he goes.

[00:38:21] You know I'm telling you this movie this is like and he couldn't stop talking he was like Brooke is unbelievable she's unbelievable she is raving about you and the only other movie he's ever talked like that about his built more Christmas which he made this year like those two movies of the movies these two movies are okay.

[00:38:36] And those are the two that I would say if you're starting a Chris blah like to watch Chris blah movies these are the two that I would recommend you so clearly special and you were just so wonderful at it.

[00:38:46] He's so excellent I just remember that moment when he was on stage being screwed like you could hear a pin drop in that auditorium with the cat like everyone was so quiet the crew was so quiet and in that moment I just saw I've always sort of thought like oh acting is like really like a skill.

[00:39:04] And and then in that moment I was like no it's an art like watching Chris blah do what he does like he is an artist and it and he gave me like even you know newfound respect for for the craft and he's so phenomenal like yeah can't say enough good things about him as a performer.

[00:39:24] And you guys bonded on sad about your mutual love of deck the home.

[00:39:27] Yeah you both love each other so much.

[00:39:29] Yes.

[00:39:30] Yeah maybe we can put that video I think you should have made it.

[00:39:33] Yeah I think well I don't know well maybe we'll put it in post yeah yeah yeah it's great then you do wedding of a lifetime which is so much fun.

[00:39:44] You know Jonathan just get to play and do such a fun movie and like I love seeing that side of the group all comic.

[00:39:54] Yes it's full.

[00:39:55] And that was like I think the first time we really got to see Jonathan Bennett do comedy too like really be zany and have a lot of fun yeah that movie had to be a ton of fun to shoot.

[00:40:06] Yeah it was so much fun I didn't I cried I will say both Dickens of a holiday and wedding lights have I cried at the end of that shoot like I really didn't want it to be over I was heartbroken.

[00:40:20] Yeah we had a wonderful time Jonathan is aces he's so good at comedy he's so good he can like he's emotionally available I mean the guys of true performer he hosts he acts he's on Broadway right now.

[00:40:35] Yes, spam a lot.

[00:40:36] It's show time.

[00:40:37] Yeah he's phenomenal.

[00:40:39] Is there a reason in 23 you did the not so is not not so well Christmas was never mind I saw the beginning of the title and I was like not a Christmas movie but totally as a Christmas movie last word in the title.

[00:40:50] It actually says it right there right there not so well Christmas I'll get there you eventually I will get there.

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[00:42:07] Yeah shall we get to crimes of fashion we should we shall a a true mystery drive maybe the first of many I don't know I don't have a wheel.

[00:42:20] I don't have any insider information but this was this is this is a little bit different for you it's not it's not your standard hallmark rom com so what was it like going into into into this movie where it wasn't like daunting at all kind of going into this mystery and playing this psychologist that ends ends up stumbling into a murder.

[00:42:46] I would I mean every like in order for me to get my head around things as a performer I just go okay one day at a time right like I just what I have to do the night before otherwise I can get too over well but I'm going if I just take it piece by piece then this is something that I'm confident be able to tackle but I mean we you know it was an intense shoot we filmed it five like up until five days before Christmas so it was cold or we were in Budapest we're in Paris.

[00:43:16] We were flipping between nights and days we it was like it was a shoot I mean we were really we were in it but I'm so proud of it the director you you've seen it yes we have seen it we have seen it.

[00:43:34] The director is just so brilliant yeah like with the way he sets up his shots with the way he directs Gilmarini like what a beautiful soul I'm so proud of this movie I the script is tight the stories take the music as I saw it myself yesterday for the first time and I just really think people are going to go

[00:44:00] I think a couple things brook and I do have a question about this being a shoot for you shortly but the movie you get to you get to cry on cue a couple times in this movie and it's unbelievable that the acting is unbelievable that what what they're like

[00:44:14] when you cry is I cry it is it is like it's crazy you don't see that a lot on homework and it just it's so natural so impressive

[00:44:21] you also get to do some action in this movie which is amazing it's in Paris and you are actually there shooting it for some of it but we've got to talk not about any of that and the fact that

[00:44:33] neither brain or I figured the movie that the killer out which never ever never have yeah wow actual actual twist well have a nice things where most of the mystery movies have a set like we're going

[00:44:47] to bring you on a hundred red herrings and they're going to all just tell you why they could have done it and then walk you back off the screen

[00:44:54] and it becomes very just like paint by numbers and the mysteries are actually more formulaic on homework than the movies the

[00:45:01] homework just movies are this movie is not the case there's a few there's a fun two fun twist near the end of this movie I think people will enjoy that

[00:45:09] well if you're a sleuth or I think you're really going to enjoy but I and if we need to take this out of homework makes us take this out that's fine

[00:45:16] but I have to ask you because you're here you do a scene with rats in this movie rat and if you didn't that's fine you tell me now

[00:45:24] because it's the best filmmaking I've ever seen a rat you have to stay quiet and there are rats plural crawling brook crawling on your shoulder around your neck over your head

[00:45:37] and the director is a miracle worker if you're not doing this because we see your face and the rat it is a real rat

[00:45:44] and a real brook on scene together and it is un like I couldn't believe it like there are some actors that just they wouldn't do it

[00:45:53] and you did it I just you did it did you yeah amazing amazing it's unbelievable tell me about it

[00:46:04] you know I was like I was so excited to film that day because I so I got to meet the rat ahead of time they sent me a little video threat

[00:46:12] and he's just a little like pink hands and this cute no it's like these were like pet rats they were super sweet

[00:46:20] so I didn't mind I mean they were tangled in my hair they were crawling on my shoulder his tail whips me and I can't

[00:46:29] it's next level yeah but I love animals like all kinds of animals so I really and I had gerbels growing up I had a hamstered

[00:46:40] I don't know I really love these rats man so what's wild about that's the pull quote there at the end pull that quote

[00:46:47] I really love these really love the or say put on the DVD but I I feel like the best part about this story is is that

[00:46:55] on camera you the acting is you looking like you're hating it when in reality like look at this wee rats right yeah

[00:47:04] yeah I know I love those rats and I do remember I was you know I was trying to sell it and being like disgusted

[00:47:09] and I'm the director

[00:47:12] what what a time what a time to lose her perfect so you were what here's where you cut off and I'll let you keep going

[00:47:18] because I was literally on the edge of my seat you said I was I had to act like the rats were disgusting

[00:47:23] and then you said the director and then that was it that's all we got yeah the director so I was acting like they were

[00:47:28] gross and scores and he actually had to pull me down he's like okay you look a little too disgusting

[00:47:33] you look like you're too much pain so yeah we have to kind of split the difference

[00:47:37] just dial it back a little on the disgusting rats talk I got you and did you bring the rats home with you

[00:47:43] like how much did you love these rats I love it so much I asked but they the woman was attached to these rats

[00:47:49] were they were they French rats are a pretty sure they were French yeah you could tell to people that are watching at home

[00:47:57] you can tell yeah if you know your rats you're gonna see you're gonna see a higher class rat

[00:48:02] yeah I said this and then if you live really close a little tiny croissant

[00:48:06] in the in the in the hand of the the rat it's really good it's really good

[00:48:10] they have like sweet little whiskers and the pink now I was like do you really and they're pretty cute

[00:48:15] of course I love that like the rat I love it of course I love that you met the rat ahead of time that's the best let me

[00:48:22] let me do one more yeah it sounds like it was in your rider yeah I'm gonna zoom with that right I got to

[00:48:26] just I got to get you kid me very excited for people to see this kinds of fashion killer color

[00:48:33] and that and I will say this is a good title the use of the title in the story the way the story unfolds

[00:48:39] there's so many different ways you could take that title which I appreciated that's good a lot from a movie like this

[00:48:45] where to typically that doesn't happen when you get home or mysteries so I'm excited for people to see it too

[00:48:50] just really quit this is unrelated but I'm seeing it and I don't know how often you check out your IMDB brook

[00:48:56] but looking at it right now we have upcoming crimes of fashion killer clutch and then upcoming

[00:49:02] is something called happy hour one episode 2006 what are we waiting on

[00:49:09] yeah

[00:49:17] yeah

[00:49:21] it never got released so maybe it's still upcoming maybe somebody's holding onto it for the right time

[00:49:26] yeah that's weird no they released three of them okay three and yeah we were well there's one

[00:49:32] episode and it's good it's coming out it's recording it's coming out we can't wait for that it's gonna be a huge day big deal

[00:49:38] huge day it's right it's time for rapid fire it's exciting this is when we each could ask you three questions

[00:49:45] and I know that sounds a lot like what we have been doing but this is different because it can be about

[00:49:49] anything which I know also seems like what we've been doing but this needs to be fast unless it's not and that's totally fun

[00:49:58] it's more of the same that's random a food in Toronto that you miss or cannot have in Los Angeles or can't get regularly

[00:50:10] my brother's cooking nicely done that's really sweet yeah well done let us unbelievable

[00:50:18] great that what's what is your your go to guilty pleasure thing to watch oh you know I think love is blind it's pretty interesting

[00:50:34] yeah yeah sure is yeah you really get into the psyche of people that one's like yeah

[00:50:42] watch the first I watched the first season which I was really proud of double-deckers yeah we all did it together and it was so many so much so fast

[00:50:50] they're already on season six which just seems crazy to me that's unbelievable yeah it's only been three years yeah

[00:50:56] and I get my adrenaline running and my cortisol is like going off the chart so I have to be big time viewing

[00:51:08] yeah that's it's a thriller it's a thriller it's too high love is blind is too high anxiety for brick

[00:51:16] for brick for sure it's about I love her so much that's the actual poll quote that's the not the rats one is that one yeah what

[00:51:24] is there a particularly memorable Christmas tradition from your childhood or from your your adulthood even like that

[00:51:32] is something that when you do these movies it kind of gets you in the Christmas spirit

[00:51:36] um is there you sorry the question is do I can you rapid fire that one to me one more time I can rapid fire one more time

[00:51:42] is there a Christmas tradition from your childhood or that you do still to this day that when you're filming these movies

[00:51:48] you can think about to help get you in the Christmas spirit the little cuties

[00:51:52] the little cute oranges the little one we are right me of Christmas that immediately puts me back

[00:51:58] because my parents would always step those and my brother nice stocking it was you stocking

[00:52:02] stocking before we open presents so just that whole thing is very Christmas eat at me

[00:52:09] I don't have any uh little cutie uh experience in regards to Christmas time but I did read a book

[00:52:17] and I have this book now that I read it my kids it's about a little bear at Christmas time and he gets a

[00:52:21] little cute so so so by proxy a child no no it's a little orange

[00:52:29] little bear did not get the little cute

[00:52:35] so no mine did not brook you and I are virtually the exact same age

[00:52:41] and mine I heard about this all like my dad all the time would be like you know we could just put

[00:52:49] some oranges in your stocking you could eat that instead of having the toys that was a joke he

[00:52:54] would make to me when I was a kid so clearly he had some I think growing up he did it and then

[00:52:59] it was something that other people that I knew that were friends of mine did I do know it's a thing

[00:53:03] yes but I never did it I never did you ever get an orange in your stocking no okay yeah no

[00:53:08] no but that that doesn't surprise me that is that is something I heard about a lot grown up

[00:53:12] yeah little cuties little bear little bear he's just tearing through some kids

[00:53:17] any he's just ripping a limb from limb I see that you have a pull behind you

[00:53:25] are you good at you good in there my good at swimming is there is a question yeah I can do a pretty

[00:53:31] mean front crawl yeah yeah that's good I'm not I'm not good in there so anytime someone is good

[00:53:38] in there are you good in there how dare you what is this good question yeah I can kind of

[00:53:46] you know make my way make my way through it if I have to I see that's a bill your statement

[00:53:50] back here good there and I thought it was a great question

[00:53:54] now before I don't know how it's now getting both of us but anyway it's occasionally it'll

[00:54:00] it'll come into process just say it was a good question it's a terrible question don't

[00:54:05] no bro don't do that uh bro a memorable trip to the theater in your life like a movie

[00:54:12] a memorable trip where you're like I remember it like for me it's Independence Day Will Smith I was

[00:54:16] just before eighth grade and like that that was it that's it could be theater or the theater I would

[00:54:21] say um when my dad took me to twins yeah Daniel Davida come on they were just together

[00:54:30] it's the best I still love that we actually I watched it it came on TV to their night um but that

[00:54:36] was very memorable because of somebody did it was the first time he took me to the movies

[00:54:39] who was what it was the first time it was just the two of us oh yeah yeah that's fantastic

[00:54:46] I love it would you rather um what do these we do I've only done that yes your last one

[00:54:52] okay that's my last one I forgot little too long I'm having a good time I was just ripping

[00:54:56] children apart just um would you rather run five miles yeah or or walk 20 miles

[00:55:09] either okay hold on I really have 100

[00:55:12] you guys before my feet are just like I've got flat feet so it kind of hurts after a minute um

[00:55:20] I would I would take five mile run because it's wow that's tough less miles on the

[00:55:25] it's less miles it's just it's yeah it's fewer you don't there's just the five

[00:55:34] take five candy bar also not a sponsor but could be we we want we want you to come back

[00:55:38] on the show again Brooke but after what just happened with Brandon's questions I don't know

[00:55:42] she said it was good question she was pressured into it uh Brooke every every time we get to

[00:55:48] interview someone we ask them because we'd love to bring some joy around here if there's a charity

[00:55:52] that you'd like to highlight or spotlight for us we're going to give some money to and hope other

[00:55:55] people join us is there a charity of of such repute um I love big love animal rescue it's a dog rescue

[00:56:03] and oh fantastic big big love animal rescue big love animal rescue I have three rescue dogs at home

[00:56:12] they're they're fine by me yes three of them from all from the same rescue two three different

[00:56:18] rescues three different three different rescues in town uh in green bill here and we we try to

[00:56:23] support all of them financially so this is great big love we can support big part trying to pretend

[00:56:28] that you don't love hallmark movies it's a secret Brooke don't don't let anybody know I have to

[00:56:34] it's like you with the rats I actually love these godforsaken movies and I have to keep talking bad about

[00:56:39] see it's in contract I made them sign it early on uh we did it everybody broke you're the best we

[00:56:44] love you so much and i'm so happy that this finally happened it made my heart so happy I want to talk to

[00:56:49] you yeah and may we be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas

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