Allegra Edwards | Downloading the Upload

Well, I'm going to go get a bucket of paint

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Marc Preston: and I'm going to paint on the side of Jeff

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Marc Preston: Bezos' rockets.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm going to paint Allegra Edwards' FYI,

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Allegra Edwards: fyi.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, how are you, Marc Preston, and welcome

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Marc Preston: to Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you back.

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Marc Preston: How have you been Doing?

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Marc Preston: Okay, feeling good about life, all right.

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Marc Preston: Well, maybe you need a little break from

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Marc Preston: So, whatever you're doing, thanks for being

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Marc Preston: here and checking out this week's episode.

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Marc Preston: What a pleasure it was to sit down with

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Marc Preston: Allegra Edwards.

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Marc Preston: What a cool conversation this was.

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Marc Preston: Allegra plays Ingrid on the Amazon Prime

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Marc Preston: show upload and she is just a real pleasure.

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Marc Preston: We talked about her career, how she got to

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Marc Preston: play Ingrid, and we talked about a whole

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Marc Preston: to acting with Adam Sandler.

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Marc Preston: It is a great talk and I had a blast

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Marc Preston: talking with Allegra about a lot of stuff.

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Marc Preston: Okay, so let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: This week it's Allegra Edwards Day right

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Marc Preston: here on Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today?

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Allegra Edwards: I'm great.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm really great.

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Allegra Edwards: I had a very good night's sleep and

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Allegra Edwards: luxurious morning.

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Allegra Edwards: It's been a good day.

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Allegra Edwards: You're in Los Angeles, yes yes, we live in

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Allegra Edwards: North Hollywood, so thankfully, every day

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Allegra Edwards: is basically the same weather-wise.

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Allegra Edwards: We don't have to worry about gales at

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Allegra Edwards: midnight.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, once upon a time I used to live in

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Marc Preston: Southern California, people like how could

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Marc Preston: you live there?

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Marc Preston: It's like an incubator.

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Marc Preston: I'm like, oh, I like that, being from Texas

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Marc Preston: originally and having crazy hot

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Marc Preston: and I kind of like the level vibe that.

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Announcer: Southern.

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Marc Preston: California brought.

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Marc Preston: But okay, I want to say congratulations on

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Marc Preston: actually getting into the second season of

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Marc Preston: upload.

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Marc Preston: They were a quick question Is it only seven

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Marc Preston: episodes this season or is it I was going?

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Marc Preston: Okay, is Amazon just going to release some

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Marc Preston: episodes later, like every week?

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, we've gotten that question a bunch

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Allegra Edwards: and I do think because they do that for

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Allegra Edwards: other seasons I know with Maisel, for

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Allegra Edwards: example they kind of do it in chunks, right

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Allegra Edwards: and no, we wanted to do every episode all

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Allegra Edwards: at once.

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Allegra Edwards: And I do think it's important to point out

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Allegra Edwards: that we did our best shooting during COVID

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Allegra Edwards: and getting seven episodes in was as much

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Allegra Edwards: as we were able to do within the same

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Allegra Edwards: amount of time that it would normally take

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Allegra Edwards: us to film.

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Marc Preston: That was literally going to be my next

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Marc Preston: question.

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Marc Preston: How was that COVID shooting thing?

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Marc Preston: I was talking with someone else who's on

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Marc Preston: the show a couple of weeks ago and they

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Marc Preston: said it's a big pain in the butt but it's

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Marc Preston: what we had to do.

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Marc Preston: It is.

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Allegra Edwards: It was.

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Allegra Edwards: It's everything is just slow, it just takes

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Allegra Edwards: longer to do every little thing, and so the

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Allegra Edwards: metaphor that I had been using was like the

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Allegra Edwards: train is moving, but we're all pushing it

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Allegra Edwards: and it feels like it's uphill.

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Allegra Edwards: So you can still get from point A to point

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Allegra Edwards: B, but there's just a lot of hoops to jump

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Allegra Edwards: through.

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Allegra Edwards: So probably fortunately now, after the

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Allegra Edwards: rollout of the vaccine, it's probably

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Allegra Edwards: greatly improved.

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Allegra Edwards: But we were filming pre-vaccine, so that

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Allegra Edwards: that made a difference too.

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Allegra Edwards: Everybody had to get tested five days.

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Marc Preston: Well, a lot of the things I noticed and I

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Marc Preston: kind of want to go go to a little bit of

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Marc Preston: your origin story in a moment.

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Marc Preston: But I wanted to say I realized and I went

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Marc Preston: back to the first season because I wrapped

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Marc Preston: up last season last night and are the most

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Marc Preston: recent season and I was like you know this

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Marc Preston: is not because you're here with me, but I'd

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Marc Preston: say you are the most intriguing character

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Marc Preston: because you're the one has the most

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Marc Preston: interesting, I think, story arc.

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Marc Preston: You're just a hot mess in the first season,

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Marc Preston: but if you can go from being a hot mess to

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Marc Preston: like where people are feeling empathy for

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Marc Preston: you, that's the, that's the money.

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Marc Preston: Right there where you're, you're kind of,

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Marc Preston: you know you get people like she's

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Marc Preston: ridiculous but we love her.

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Marc Preston: You know that that.

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Marc Preston: But your story, your story line and I don't

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Marc Preston: want to give any kind of spoilers away, but

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Marc Preston: and this isn't but you are definitely

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Marc Preston: throughout the arc of the of the show A lot

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Marc Preston: of your scenes seem to be just you, you

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Marc Preston: having personal introspection time.

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Marc Preston: When Greg Daniels approached you with this

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Marc Preston: story the, the, the, what the show is going

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Marc Preston: to be about did you understand what it was

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Marc Preston: out of the gate?

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Marc Preston: Or what did he say as kind of a two-part

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Marc Preston: question, that he also say kind of run with

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Marc Preston: a, create, or did he have a very specific

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Marc Preston: idea of what he wanted your character to be?

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Allegra Edwards: You know it's a really I.

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Allegra Edwards: I don't think I've ever actually asked him

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Allegra Edwards: directly how much he had in mind for

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Allegra Edwards: Ingrid's trajectory at the start.

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Allegra Edwards: I do know that he has always thought of her

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Allegra Edwards: as being more than meets the eye.

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Allegra Edwards: I think he always knew from season one that

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Allegra Edwards: there would be a little misdirection about

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Allegra Edwards: what she seems capable of, in terms of

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Allegra Edwards: being quite menacing or villainous, versus

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Allegra Edwards: what she actually did, which is a bit more

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Allegra Edwards: brave, courageous and sacrificial, and so I

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Allegra Edwards: think that was always percolating for him.

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Allegra Edwards: I had no idea where she was headed, I think.

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Allegra Edwards: I think there was a little thought that he

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Allegra Edwards: gave me, as if it was a possibility.

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Allegra Edwards: He was like, what if she's protective?

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Allegra Edwards: What if she is?

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Allegra Edwards: She feels very defensive of him, and and

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Allegra Edwards: that was actually just enough of a seed, no

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Allegra Edwards: matter how it manifested or grew, to make

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Allegra Edwards: me feel like I could connect with her.

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Marc Preston: Did you buy any chance to go to high school

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Marc Preston: with anybody like that?

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Marc Preston: That?

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Marc Preston: You're like, okay, I'm going to.

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Marc Preston: We don't have to name names.

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Marc Preston: Was there somebody in your orbit or your

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Marc Preston: ecosystem growing up?

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Marc Preston: You're like, okay, this, this is her.

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Marc Preston: I'm going to kind of like tap in using her

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Marc Preston: as my spirit animal.

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Marc Preston: Did you have anybody like that?

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, not, not in my personal life, because

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Allegra Edwards: I think I probably would mostly avoid

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Allegra Edwards: people that she's.

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Allegra Edwards: She's quite extreme.

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Allegra Edwards: So I actually only found examples of the

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Allegra Edwards: ingrid for me in reality television.

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Allegra Edwards: So there are a couple of people in the

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Allegra Edwards: world of Bravo let's just say Bravo TV,

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Allegra Edwards: maybe some Netflix reality shows that that

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Allegra Edwards: are unapologetically extreme and that I

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Allegra Edwards: just find fascinating.

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Allegra Edwards: But they also still have some vulnerable

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Allegra Edwards: elements to them, I you know.

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Allegra Edwards: But no it's hard to find people in my

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Allegra Edwards: personal life.

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Marc Preston: Well, that's good.

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Marc Preston: So so would you say that reality TV, or

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Marc Preston: what are they called these days, unscripted,

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Marc Preston: you know, tv Is that kind of your guilty

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Marc Preston: pleasure, kind of like something you dive

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Marc Preston: into, or it was a strictly research.

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Allegra Edwards: I would love to say that it's strictly

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Allegra Edwards: research.

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Allegra Edwards: It is a guilty pleasure, but within, in

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Allegra Edwards: moderation.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm not like diehard.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm not watching every single Real

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Allegra Edwards: Housewives, but I'll occasionally watch

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Allegra Edwards: recap episodes.

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Allegra Edwards: You know, I do.

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Allegra Edwards: I go onto YouTube and I watch recaps of

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Allegra Edwards: reality television.

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Allegra Edwards: So I feel better about not spending two

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Allegra Edwards: hours of time.

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Marc Preston: Well, I will admit I'm not into reality TV,

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Marc Preston: but there was, you know, because I'm.

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Marc Preston: I got a couple of years on you, so I kind

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Marc Preston: of look at the OG.

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Marc Preston: Reality TV was real world on MTV, you know.

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: But?

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Marc Preston: But there was a show on I think it was

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Marc Preston: Lifetime it was.

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Marc Preston: It was a scripted series about making a

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Marc Preston: reality show, and I cannot, for the life of

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Marc Preston: me, remember the name of it.

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Allegra Edwards: Unreal Unreal.

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Marc Preston: I actually really enjoyed that show.

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Allegra Edwards: So excellent performances in that show.

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Allegra Edwards: Oh, that's a terrific show.

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Marc Preston: Where did you?

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Marc Preston: Where did you grow up?

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Marc Preston: Are you from Southern California?

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Allegra Edwards: I moved all over the place when I was

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Allegra Edwards: growing up, so I was born in the Bay Area,

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Allegra Edwards: then we moved to Southern California, then

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Allegra Edwards: Virginia, then Colorado, then Hawaii, then

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Allegra Edwards: back to Colorado, all before high school,

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Allegra Edwards: all before graduating and going to college.

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Marc Preston: Was your father in a military or?

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Allegra Edwards: That's the next question everybody asks and

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Allegra Edwards: it's not no, I he, those just happened to

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Allegra Edwards: be like states with a strong military

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Allegra Edwards: presence and he, you know, maybe he was,

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Allegra Edwards: and he just never told us.

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Allegra Edwards: But um uh no, he was in consulting and

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Allegra Edwards: fundraising, and so I tend to say that I'm

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Allegra Edwards: Necessarily there is theatricality, there's

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Allegra Edwards: swap them back no, and I agree with you.

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Allegra Edwards: I, I had no other interest, I had nothing

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Allegra Edwards: They were never pressuring me yeah To, to

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Allegra Edwards: So for undergrad I went to Pepperdine in

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Allegra Edwards: And then I got my MFA in acting at ACT,

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Allegra Edwards: I do think that when you're alone, it does

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Allegra Edwards: But you got to pretend like all of that

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Marc Preston: What was, um, kind of your first you know,

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's kind of like you don't know what

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Marc Preston: times I've done something like I tell my

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Marc Preston: friends or students, the biggest

474

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Marc Preston: nerve-wracking space of time for me is when

475

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Marc Preston: somebody on the set says lock it up.

476

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Marc Preston: Between that hammock of time between that

477

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Marc Preston: and when the director says action, I mean

478

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Marc Preston: my nerves are just like I was like

479

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Marc Preston: reminding myself, you know your lines.

480

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Marc Preston: You're fine.

481

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Marc Preston: You know it's because it just gets quiet.

482

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Marc Preston: People are buzzing about touch.

483

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Marc Preston: You know I've never you know that you

484

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Marc Preston: mentioned hearing makeup sound.

485

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Marc Preston: You know you let people do things with you

486

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Marc Preston: and to you and you never would put your

487

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Marc Preston: hand on your shirt, get your microphone

488

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Marc Preston: right.

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Marc Preston: I was like I would never let that happen

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Marc Preston: normally.

491

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Marc Preston: So I've always found that TV is kind of a

492

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Marc Preston: fun.

493

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Marc Preston: You know you got to knock it out faster.

494

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Marc Preston: Like how long did it take per episode?

495

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Marc Preston: It's a 30 minute episode, but how long, how

496

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Marc Preston: many weeks does it take to shoot one each

497

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Marc Preston: episode?

498

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Marc Preston: Rather during.

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Marc Preston: COVID, of course.

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Allegra Edwards: Right, we do.

501

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Allegra Edwards: We are on a block filming schedule, so

502

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Allegra Edwards: occasionally we'll have one director take

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Allegra Edwards: two episodes on at a time, and so there'll

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Allegra Edwards: be some overlap.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm pretty sure the expectation is about

506

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Allegra Edwards: two weeks, maybe 10 days per episode, and

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Allegra Edwards: then, and like I said, there'd be some

508

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Allegra Edwards: bleed over.

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Allegra Edwards: So so yeah, one to two episodes would take

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Allegra Edwards: maybe two to three weeks, which is which is

511

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Allegra Edwards: it's fast and slow at the same time.

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Allegra Edwards: You know, it's it's pretty, it's pretty

513

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Allegra Edwards: quick.

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Marc Preston: Now do you have a preference?

515

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Marc Preston: Do you like the shooting schedule staying

516

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Marc Preston: close to home, making a TV, or are you

517

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Marc Preston: totally done with traveling and you know,

518

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Marc Preston: setting up shop for a couple months, three

519

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Marc Preston: months and some of the location.

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, I love the traveling aspect.

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Allegra Edwards: I think it.

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Allegra Edwards: I actually think it probably helps me focus

523

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Allegra Edwards: more honestly.

524

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Allegra Edwards: If I were to be living half an hour from

525

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Allegra Edwards: the soundstage and driving myself to work

526

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Allegra Edwards: like a nine to five, monday to Friday, I

527

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Allegra Edwards: might take it for granted more.

528

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Allegra Edwards: But if I'm on a plane going to Albuquerque,

529

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Allegra Edwards: for example, and shooting in the desert and

530

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Allegra Edwards: completely outside of my regular

531

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Allegra Edwards: environment, how can you not let that

532

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Allegra Edwards: inform your character?

533

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Allegra Edwards: And and you're there.

534

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Allegra Edwards: You have to remind yourself you're there to

535

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Allegra Edwards: work.

536

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Allegra Edwards: You're not there to try every amazing

537

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Allegra Edwards: Mexican restaurant in Albuquerque.

538

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Allegra Edwards: You're there.

539

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Allegra Edwards: You're there to do your job, you know.

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Allegra Edwards: Or?

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Allegra Edwards: Or in Vancouver, especially during COVID,

542

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Allegra Edwards: it was like we're not here to get out of

543

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Allegra Edwards: our LA quarantine, we're here to work.

544

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Allegra Edwards: So I find it to be really helpful for focus

545

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Allegra Edwards: to go out of state or out of town.

546

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Marc Preston: Can now use your husband part of the biz as

547

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Marc Preston: well.

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Allegra Edwards: He was for several years.

549

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Allegra Edwards: He was on a very popular show on Disney

550

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Allegra Edwards: Channel when he was in junior high, so a

551

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Allegra Edwards: lot of people still recognize him to this

552

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Allegra Edwards: day from that, which totally surprises me,

553

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Allegra Edwards: because I see him as this like full grown,

554

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Allegra Edwards: bearded, muscle bound man and and.

555

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Allegra Edwards: But admittedly I watched him on TV when I

556

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Allegra Edwards: was 12 years old too, so occasionally I'll

557

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Allegra Edwards: see his little.

558

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Marc Preston: you know, I've got a 19, 17, a 16 year old

559

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Marc Preston: and every single theme song from every.

560

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Marc Preston: It'd be a Jesse, or was it?

561

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Marc Preston: Shake it Up and all I mean.

562

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Marc Preston: I can literally the moment somebody says to

563

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Marc Preston: me yeah yeah, the theme starts playing in

564

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Marc Preston: my head.

565

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Marc Preston: I'm like God, it's like.

566

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Marc Preston: It's like Disney, ptsd or something.

567

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Allegra Edwards: Completely yeah.

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Marc Preston: So he's very.

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Marc Preston: You know he understands the flow, he

570

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Marc Preston: understands the if you're totally fried at

571

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Marc Preston: the end of a day, he understands you need

572

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Marc Preston: kind of a little me time.

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Marc Preston: So in other words, he got somebody who's

574

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Marc Preston: floated in the same ecosystem and you know

575

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Marc Preston: he understands what's going on.

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Allegra Edwards: He has it's kind of it's kind of the best

577

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Allegra Edwards: of both worlds because I mean I'm so

578

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Allegra Edwards: appreciative.

579

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Allegra Edwards: He's got a really good eye to just

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Allegra Edwards: directorially and you know we I auditioned

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Allegra Edwards: almost exclusively from self tape.

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Marc Preston: Now, Everybody doing that pretty much 2020.

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Allegra Edwards: Everybody, I mean.

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Allegra Edwards: I've had maybe two in-person auditions in

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Allegra Edwards: the last two years and I'm being fully.

586

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Allegra Edwards: That is literal.

587

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Marc Preston: I got so busy, that you know.

588

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Marc Preston: You know it's living in LA.

589

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Marc Preston: When you have to go, you run out to an

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Marc Preston: audition.

591

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Marc Preston: It's you got to block half a day.

592

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Marc Preston: At least you know traffic, oh yeah, oh yeah.

593

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Marc Preston: And I was talking to another actor not too

594

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Marc Preston: long ago and he's like man, everything's

595

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Marc Preston: self-tape.

596

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Marc Preston: He's like you know what I'm doing now.

597

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Marc Preston: He said I got a teleprompter too.

598

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Marc Preston: He said it makes life so much easier

599

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Marc Preston: because I'm not fretting over memorizing.

600

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Marc Preston: I'm bad at memorizing.

601

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Marc Preston: So I was like really a teleprompter.

602

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Marc Preston: He's like yeah, I'll get you the app.

603

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Marc Preston: I'm like so.

604

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Marc Preston: But yeah, is it?

605

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Marc Preston: So that's a lot of freedom where you could

606

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Marc Preston: submit all over and every opportunity is.

607

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Marc Preston: I mean, save for the callbacks, of course.

608

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Marc Preston: But now I did see you.

609

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Marc Preston: You worked with Adam Sandler on Sandy

610

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Marc Preston: Wexler and that's one of his movies I've

611

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Marc Preston: yet to see.

612

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Marc Preston: My kids and I love 51st dates.

613

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Marc Preston: You know it's like anything.

614

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Marc Preston: So, adam Sandler, you know it ends up

615

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Marc Preston: showing up on TV at our house.

616

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Marc Preston: But what was?

617

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Marc Preston: it like working with Adam Sandler?

618

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Marc Preston: Is it because he has?

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Marc Preston: He has one of the very?

620

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Marc Preston: He's one of the few guys out there has kind

621

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Marc Preston: of his own ecosystem of people that float

622

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Marc Preston: with him.

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Marc Preston: Be it, I'm sure, crew, but definitely the

624

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Marc Preston: people on screen.

625

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Marc Preston: What was that experience like?

626

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, it was.

627

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Allegra Edwards: So that was my first film Actually might

628

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Allegra Edwards: still be one of my like only feature films

629

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Allegra Edwards: that I've done.

630

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Allegra Edwards: And you're right, he is surrounded by

631

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Allegra Edwards: people that he trusts and that he's worked

632

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Allegra Edwards: with for years and years and years on many,

633

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Allegra Edwards: many projects.

634

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Allegra Edwards: So there is this comfort and familiarity

635

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Allegra Edwards: and ease that everybody has on his set.

636

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Allegra Edwards: And he was.

637

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Allegra Edwards: He was lovely, he was a joy, he was very

638

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Allegra Edwards: comfortable and just.

639

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Allegra Edwards: He was a really nice guy and he enjoyed the

640

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Allegra Edwards: process.

641

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Allegra Edwards: You could tell that he was having a good

642

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Allegra Edwards: time and he also really likes to laugh.

643

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Allegra Edwards: So I had I was kind of clinging onto Milo

644

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Allegra Edwards: Ventiniglia for my dear life because he was

645

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Allegra Edwards: my scene partner.

646

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Announcer: Oh, really Okay.

647

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yeah, and you know he could tell I

648

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Allegra Edwards: was really nervous and and you know,

649

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Allegra Edwards: meeting Adam and kind of being there, it

650

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Allegra Edwards: was like why are we nervous?

651

00:24:02,563 --> 00:24:04,175

Allegra Edwards: This is, this is playtime.

652

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Allegra Edwards: It's also it's a really silly movie, so we

653

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Allegra Edwards: don't have to be precious about it.

654

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Allegra Edwards: We can, we can be more relaxed.

655

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Allegra Edwards: It's okay.

656

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Allegra Edwards: It's just a grocery store.

657

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Marc Preston: Kind of getting back to upload.

658

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Marc Preston: You're such an important part of the show,

659

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Marc Preston: is it something where you does that create

660

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Marc Preston: any kind of like, not nerves?

661

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Marc Preston: That's not the phrase I'm looking for, but

662

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Marc Preston: I mean it's enhanced responsibility, most

663

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Marc Preston: certainly compared.

664

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Marc Preston: You know you certainly are.

665

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Marc Preston: It's a well deserved gig for you, without a

666

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Marc Preston: doubt.

667

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Marc Preston: Is it kind of nerve wracking a little bit

668

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Marc Preston: because you are now straight up a regular

669

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Marc Preston: showing up in every episode?

670

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yes, there is a, it's both.

671

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Allegra Edwards: I have more of a sense of responsibility,

672

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Allegra Edwards: for sure, and I do feel pressure to carry

673

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Allegra Edwards: more of a central storyline and not just I

674

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Allegra Edwards: can't hide and and it's me and it's going

675

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Allegra Edwards: to continue to be me, knock on wood unless

676

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Allegra Edwards: something happens.

677

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Allegra Edwards: They replace my face like they do, mildred,

678

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Allegra Edwards: but yeah, so that that comes with some

679

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Allegra Edwards: pressure, but also, simultaneously, it

680

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Allegra Edwards: comes with confidence, because I'm not

681

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Allegra Edwards: picking up with something else has created

682

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Allegra Edwards: and trying to carry it.

683

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Allegra Edwards: I'm continue to carry what I created.

684

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Allegra Edwards: And so there is this nice thing that's

685

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Allegra Edwards: happening right now where I feel like I

686

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Allegra Edwards: know her well enough that we could start to

687

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Allegra Edwards: sort of Jog together, like, like season one

688

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Allegra Edwards: was sort of just getting used to being on

689

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Allegra Edwards: the horse and season two is now Okay, now

690

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Allegra Edwards: I'm really on the trail with the horse and

691

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Allegra Edwards: we're I know how to ride the horse and now,

692

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Allegra Edwards: like I would love to get to a point where

693

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Allegra Edwards: we could really gallop.

694

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Allegra Edwards: You know what I mean, and so so there is an

695

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Allegra Edwards: innate sense of confidence that comes with

696

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Allegra Edwards: that sort of responsibility To which I

697

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Allegra Edwards: didn't expect, I wasn't ever expecting that.

698

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it seems like you have a real muscle

699

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Marc Preston: memory for who that character is.

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Marc Preston: You know.

701

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Marc Preston: I will say I just remember the, the scene

702

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Marc Preston: of the Though not the wake, but the funeral

703

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Marc Preston: service.

704

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Marc Preston: I'm like, oh my gosh, she's just terrible.

705

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Marc Preston: You know, first, these second season is

706

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Marc Preston: like, okay, now your colors are showing,

707

00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,245

Marc Preston: now more of a human is there.

708

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Marc Preston: I'm really like so I really enjoyed it.

709

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Marc Preston: But now, besides, of course, we were

710

00:26:25,973 --> 00:26:28,280

Marc Preston: talking about the reality stuff, what, what

711

00:26:28,361 --> 00:26:29,725

Marc Preston: is that was inspiring you?

712

00:26:29,765 --> 00:26:31,231

Marc Preston: What were you watching that?

713

00:26:31,251 --> 00:26:34,695

Marc Preston: We're like you see an actor and you go God,

714

00:26:34,795 --> 00:26:35,819

Marc Preston: that is turning me on.

715

00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:37,304

Marc Preston: I want to do this thing, I want to up my

716

00:26:37,325 --> 00:26:37,445

Marc Preston: game.

717

00:26:37,886 --> 00:26:39,711

Marc Preston: What was inspiring you along the way, even

718

00:26:39,812 --> 00:26:40,333

Marc Preston: even right now?

719

00:26:41,256 --> 00:26:47,752

Allegra Edwards: I am right now to Well, a pair and a person

720

00:26:47,852 --> 00:26:48,454

Allegra Edwards: come to mind.

721

00:26:48,534 --> 00:26:50,259

Allegra Edwards: The first person that comes to mind when I

722

00:26:50,299 --> 00:26:52,305

Allegra Edwards: think of who is completely inspiring me is

723

00:26:53,389 --> 00:26:58,526

Allegra Edwards: Olivia Coleman, because I think she Was

724

00:26:58,586 --> 00:27:01,292

Allegra Edwards: known for so long for being incredibly

725

00:27:01,332 --> 00:27:03,517

Allegra Edwards: gifted in comedy but also just just

726

00:27:03,557 --> 00:27:06,447

Allegra Edwards: supporting so effortlessly.

727

00:27:07,149 --> 00:27:09,813

Allegra Edwards: And now she's come into her own and had

728

00:27:09,854 --> 00:27:12,097

Allegra Edwards: this amazing trajectory and longevity in

729

00:27:12,137 --> 00:27:15,051

Allegra Edwards: her career where she's the central point

730

00:27:15,513 --> 00:27:18,245

Allegra Edwards: and can absolutely carry it and is just

731

00:27:19,267 --> 00:27:21,552

Allegra Edwards: she's just a ball of nerve endings and is

732

00:27:21,713 --> 00:27:25,767

Allegra Edwards: so available and is so seen, and I Saw her

733

00:27:25,807 --> 00:27:28,753

Allegra Edwards: work in the father with Anthony Hopkins.

734

00:27:29,415 --> 00:27:32,287

Allegra Edwards: I was just blown away by her ability to

735

00:27:32,347 --> 00:27:36,537

Allegra Edwards: somehow be totally subtle and also huge at

736

00:27:36,557 --> 00:27:37,218

Allegra Edwards: the same time.

737

00:27:38,666 --> 00:27:39,308

Allegra Edwards: So I love her.

738

00:27:39,468 --> 00:27:41,292

Allegra Edwards: And then the other people that I'm tracking

739

00:27:41,433 --> 00:27:43,417

Allegra Edwards: and I'm so curious to see what they do next

740

00:27:43,758 --> 00:27:47,187

Allegra Edwards: are Maya Erskine and Anna Conkel from I'm

741

00:27:47,308 --> 00:27:49,855

Allegra Edwards: pen 15, which is a show that they created

742

00:27:49,896 --> 00:27:50,317

Allegra Edwards: together.

743

00:27:54,686 --> 00:27:56,574

Allegra Edwards: Yes, and they're 30 year old women

744

00:27:58,705 --> 00:28:00,589

Allegra Edwards: Portraying 13 year old versions of

745

00:28:00,629 --> 00:28:03,434

Allegra Edwards: themselves, and I forget that they're 30

746

00:28:03,474 --> 00:28:03,915

Allegra Edwards: years old.

747

00:28:03,975 --> 00:28:06,459

Allegra Edwards: That's how good they are at it, and it is

748

00:28:07,805 --> 00:28:09,931

Allegra Edwards: hysterical and heartbreaking and compelling

749

00:28:10,071 --> 00:28:12,658

Allegra Edwards: and wild and weird, and I've never seen

750

00:28:12,698 --> 00:28:15,025

Allegra Edwards: anything like it, and knowing that they

751

00:28:16,209 --> 00:28:21,507

Allegra Edwards: perform it and wrote it is Just thrilling

752

00:28:21,547 --> 00:28:23,912

Allegra Edwards: to me and I'm I cannot wait to see what

753

00:28:23,932 --> 00:28:27,399

Allegra Edwards: they do next, both separately and as a pair.

754

00:28:28,326 --> 00:28:29,209

Marc Preston: I definitely need to check that out,

755

00:28:29,229 --> 00:28:31,095

Marc Preston: because I did see it in passing on Hulu.

756

00:28:31,787 --> 00:28:33,355

Marc Preston: Now, as far as when you're, when you're

757

00:28:33,375 --> 00:28:34,742

Marc Preston: coming up, when you're well, I would say

758

00:28:34,782 --> 00:28:36,007

Marc Preston: growing up, but when you were, when you

759

00:28:36,027 --> 00:28:37,571

Marc Preston: were really, when you're putting yourself

760

00:28:37,631 --> 00:28:38,974

Marc Preston: into, you know, you're in classes, you're

761

00:28:38,994 --> 00:28:41,750

Marc Preston: studying as a kid what was inspiring you?

762

00:28:42,727 --> 00:28:50,194

Allegra Edwards: Yeah, so I, I Really was taken by pirates

763

00:28:50,235 --> 00:28:54,031

Allegra Edwards: of the Caribbean, and the reason I like say

764

00:28:54,051 --> 00:28:56,336

Allegra Edwards: that with a laugh is because it's, you know,

765

00:28:56,537 --> 00:29:01,288

Allegra Edwards: it's not cinema per se, but I remember

766

00:29:01,428 --> 00:29:02,992

Allegra Edwards: watching that movie for the first time, the

767

00:29:03,012 --> 00:29:03,693

Allegra Edwards: very first one.

768

00:29:03,753 --> 00:29:07,388

Allegra Edwards: The the, you know, curse the black pearl OG

769

00:29:07,488 --> 00:29:08,653

Allegra Edwards: cure nightly, all that.

770

00:29:09,693 --> 00:29:13,494

Allegra Edwards: I Remember watching that and realizing, as

771

00:29:13,574 --> 00:29:16,451

Allegra Edwards: I was watching it, they must be having so

772

00:29:16,512 --> 00:29:17,154

Allegra Edwards: much fun.

773

00:29:17,906 --> 00:29:20,411

Allegra Edwards: They're running around a tropical island

774

00:29:20,491 --> 00:29:22,755

Allegra Edwards: jumping into water with missing teeth, and

775

00:29:22,855 --> 00:29:25,967

Allegra Edwards: corsets and trampolines and skeletons.

776

00:29:26,208 --> 00:29:30,310

Allegra Edwards: This looks like so much fun and I had not

777

00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:33,348

Allegra Edwards: had that experience before, you know,

778

00:29:33,830 --> 00:29:36,615

Allegra Edwards: watching something that made me go.

779

00:29:37,018 --> 00:29:39,571

Allegra Edwards: What was it like to make it so that left an

780

00:29:39,631 --> 00:29:40,695

Allegra Edwards: impact on me, for sure.

781

00:29:41,466 --> 00:29:42,308

Marc Preston: I was listening to an interview.

782

00:29:42,328 --> 00:29:42,709

Marc Preston: Funny, you say.

783

00:29:42,729 --> 00:29:43,933

Marc Preston: I was listening to an interview not long

784

00:29:43,973 --> 00:29:45,196

Marc Preston: ago and an actor was.

785

00:29:45,236 --> 00:29:48,351

Marc Preston: I think it was that shepherd was saying for

786

00:29:48,411 --> 00:29:51,065

Marc Preston: him when it comes to me doing a movie, it's

787

00:29:51,105 --> 00:29:53,992

Marc Preston: not just he didn't remember the box office

788

00:29:54,052 --> 00:29:56,176

Marc Preston: take or whatever it's he, it's always what

789

00:29:56,196 --> 00:29:57,298

Marc Preston: was it like making it.

790

00:29:57,365 --> 00:29:59,212

Marc Preston: That's the decision-making factor for him

791

00:29:59,975 --> 00:30:01,239

Marc Preston: and I could see that would definitely.

792

00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,348

Marc Preston: You know, especially you know If you have a

793

00:30:03,408 --> 00:30:03,730

Marc Preston: family.

794

00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:05,497

Marc Preston: You know it's like what, what's the kind of

795

00:30:05,538 --> 00:30:06,683

Marc Preston: experience I want to have?

796

00:30:06,884 --> 00:30:09,591

Marc Preston: You know, you know, as as far as

797

00:30:09,631 --> 00:30:11,115

Marc Preston: experiences you want to have, like, is

798

00:30:11,135 --> 00:30:11,716

Marc Preston: there any like?

799

00:30:11,776 --> 00:30:13,148

Marc Preston: Is there a director You're like I'd love to

800

00:30:13,188 --> 00:30:15,737

Marc Preston: work with them, or work within this genre,

801

00:30:15,877 --> 00:30:17,884

Marc Preston: or something that you have on your bucket

802

00:30:17,924 --> 00:30:18,687

Marc Preston: list you talk about.

803

00:30:18,707 --> 00:30:20,331

Marc Preston: When you're younger, you had that little

804

00:30:20,351 --> 00:30:21,013

Marc Preston: you want to be on.

805

00:30:21,494 --> 00:30:22,557

Marc Preston: You know, modern family.

806

00:30:23,027 --> 00:30:23,930

Marc Preston: Is there something on that list?

807

00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:25,014

Allegra Edwards: now that you haven't done yet.

808

00:30:26,365 --> 00:30:27,269

Allegra Edwards: Definitely so.

809

00:30:27,891 --> 00:30:31,522

Allegra Edwards: I have been a fan of Jason Reitman for a

810

00:30:31,562 --> 00:30:31,945

Allegra Edwards: long time.

811

00:30:33,408 --> 00:30:36,554

Allegra Edwards: He has now transitioned from these amazing

812

00:30:36,614 --> 00:30:39,059

Allegra Edwards: indie films into doing this.

813

00:30:39,925 --> 00:30:44,390

Marc Preston: Incredible version of Ghostbusters Came out,

814

00:30:44,671 --> 00:30:47,469

Marc Preston: oh gosh, he did a great job with George

815

00:30:47,509 --> 00:30:49,593

Marc Preston: Clooney and up in the air, I think so it

816

00:30:49,613 --> 00:30:51,577

Marc Preston: was up in the air, one of my favorites.

817

00:30:51,938 --> 00:30:52,839

Allegra Edwards: Love that movie.

818

00:30:54,469 --> 00:30:57,305

Marc Preston: That was one of his George Clooney next to

819

00:30:58,428 --> 00:30:59,992

Marc Preston: the descendants, I think are my probably

820

00:31:00,012 --> 00:31:01,696

Marc Preston: two favorite performances of them, you know,

821

00:31:01,956 --> 00:31:02,538

Marc Preston: outside of the Danny.

822

00:31:04,486 --> 00:31:06,271

Allegra Edwards: Sure, sure, well, iconic.

823

00:31:06,331 --> 00:31:08,717

Allegra Edwards: But yeah, so Jason, jason Reitman, for sure,

824

00:31:09,866 --> 00:31:13,455

Allegra Edwards: I'm also tracking Ryan Johnson and the

825

00:31:13,535 --> 00:31:16,407

Allegra Edwards: Knives Out kind of Thread.

826

00:31:16,548 --> 00:31:19,897

Allegra Edwards: And then I, I, of course I love Phoebe

827

00:31:19,917 --> 00:31:20,679

Allegra Edwards: Waller Bridge.

828

00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,885

Allegra Edwards: Speaking of Olivia Coleman, I think she's

829

00:31:25,269 --> 00:31:29,537

Allegra Edwards: really keen and rides that line of keeping

830

00:31:29,577 --> 00:31:32,628

Allegra Edwards: everybody laughing and then ripping the rug

831

00:31:32,688 --> 00:31:34,853

Allegra Edwards: out from underneath them in a very

832

00:31:34,913 --> 00:31:36,498

Allegra Edwards: satisfying and theatrical way.

833

00:31:38,148 --> 00:31:41,847

Allegra Edwards: And then, you know, I, I Always wanted to

834

00:31:41,907 --> 00:31:44,933

Allegra Edwards: do marvelous, mrs Maisel, and I think that

835

00:31:44,993 --> 00:31:47,598

Allegra Edwards: train has left the station because I'm

836

00:31:47,638 --> 00:31:49,493

Allegra Edwards: pretty sure they're like Filming season

837

00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:50,564

Allegra Edwards: five as we speak.

838

00:31:53,150 --> 00:31:55,234

Marc Preston: So I think that maybe they're thinking man,

839

00:31:55,254 --> 00:31:56,917

Marc Preston: we can't, we can't get a leg or a man, we

840

00:31:56,937 --> 00:31:58,119

Marc Preston: got a week, we can't get her.

841

00:31:59,647 --> 00:32:02,829

Allegra Edwards: You can, you can get me Please, please,

842

00:32:02,849 --> 00:32:03,311

Allegra Edwards: come get me.

843

00:32:05,027 --> 00:32:06,452

Marc Preston: Yeah, I've seen a few episodes of that.

844

00:32:06,492 --> 00:32:08,139

Marc Preston: It's so funny, there's so much good stuff

845

00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:08,524

Marc Preston: on TV.

846

00:32:08,544 --> 00:32:10,070

Marc Preston: Now I was talking to a director, ariel

847

00:32:10,170 --> 00:32:11,826

Marc Preston: Roman, and he said, listen, he's like

848

00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:13,852

Marc Preston: there's so much work out there with all the

849

00:32:13,913 --> 00:32:14,996

Marc Preston: streamers, all the you know.

850

00:32:15,056 --> 00:32:16,690

Marc Preston: Now there is literally you know, if you

851

00:32:16,710 --> 00:32:18,636

Marc Preston: want to work their opportunities out there.

852

00:32:19,386 --> 00:32:20,990

Marc Preston: I think I love the knee she carved out with

853

00:32:21,010 --> 00:32:21,270

Marc Preston: this show.

854

00:32:21,290 --> 00:32:24,477

Marc Preston: I'm like I I thoroughly and enjoy it and I

855

00:32:24,517 --> 00:32:27,330

Marc Preston: granted, of course, the rest of Casarabi is

856

00:32:27,370 --> 00:32:30,410

Marc Preston: wonderful and everything, and Andy Allo.

857

00:32:30,490 --> 00:32:33,072

Marc Preston: But Did, who do you spend most of the time

858

00:32:33,112 --> 00:32:34,656

Marc Preston: with when you're, when you're shooting

859

00:32:34,717 --> 00:32:36,843

Marc Preston: based on, like we discussed before, that

860

00:32:36,863 --> 00:32:38,411

Marc Preston: you're kind of solo In a lot of scenes but

861

00:32:38,773 --> 00:32:40,063

Marc Preston: who are you spending most of the time with?

862

00:32:40,143 --> 00:32:41,729

Marc Preston: You know, I always kind of found the craft

863

00:32:41,969 --> 00:32:44,035

Marc Preston: service, craft food tables where I kind of

864

00:32:44,095 --> 00:32:45,607

Marc Preston: until I learned my lesson, I ate too much

865

00:32:45,707 --> 00:32:47,111

Marc Preston: one day and I was like, oh god, I'm not, I

866

00:32:47,151 --> 00:32:47,873

Marc Preston: need to take a nap.

867

00:32:47,993 --> 00:32:49,056

Marc Preston: Oh, call times five minutes.

868

00:32:50,710 --> 00:32:51,434

Allegra Edwards: So, so, who are you?

869

00:32:53,706 --> 00:32:55,352

Marc Preston: Who are you spending time with?

870

00:32:55,372 --> 00:32:56,827

Marc Preston: Kind of a two-part question, and do you

871

00:32:56,847 --> 00:32:58,191

Marc Preston: ever see something on the script and go.

872

00:32:58,492 --> 00:32:59,265

Marc Preston: You got a run to him, go.

873

00:32:59,285 --> 00:32:59,907

Marc Preston: Did you see this?

874

00:33:00,028 --> 00:33:01,031

Marc Preston: Did you see what we're gonna do?

875

00:33:01,071 --> 00:33:02,415

Marc Preston: This is just ridiculous and it looks like

876

00:33:02,475 --> 00:33:03,076

Marc Preston: fun, you know.

877

00:33:03,486 --> 00:33:07,792

Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, it's um, I would

878

00:33:07,913 --> 00:33:12,930

Allegra Edwards: say that I'm often I Connect with all of

879

00:33:12,990 --> 00:33:14,695

Allegra Edwards: them and I mean that sincerely.

880

00:33:14,755 --> 00:33:18,532

Allegra Edwards: We, we, we, the the main five cast mates

881

00:33:18,592 --> 00:33:22,449

Allegra Edwards: are all kind of around the same age and and

882

00:33:22,509 --> 00:33:25,829

Allegra Edwards: we're past the, we don't have to go out

883

00:33:25,889 --> 00:33:28,336

Allegra Edwards: late at night and we're eating healthy, and

884

00:33:28,798 --> 00:33:30,944

Allegra Edwards: some of us are married with kids and let's

885

00:33:31,024 --> 00:33:31,225

Allegra Edwards: you know.

886

00:33:31,527 --> 00:33:33,343

Allegra Edwards: So there's this sort of mutual respect with

887

00:33:33,383 --> 00:33:33,565

Allegra Edwards: everybody.

888

00:33:34,447 --> 00:33:37,636

Allegra Edwards: I think I probably connected the most with

889

00:33:37,756 --> 00:33:39,930

Allegra Edwards: Andy LL, which is funny because we don't

890

00:33:39,990 --> 00:33:44,226

Allegra Edwards: have a ton of scenes together, particularly

891

00:33:44,286 --> 00:33:47,111

Allegra Edwards: in season one, but I think she and I were

892

00:33:47,171 --> 00:33:50,317

Allegra Edwards: mutually in this like whoa, this is the

893

00:33:50,337 --> 00:33:52,100

Allegra Edwards: biggest thing we've ever done, ever.

894

00:33:53,802 --> 00:33:56,091

Allegra Edwards: I Mean, obviously she toured with Prince,

895

00:33:56,351 --> 00:33:57,855

Allegra Edwards: so that's one of the biggest things she's

896

00:33:57,895 --> 00:33:58,497

Allegra Edwards: ever done ever.

897

00:33:59,467 --> 00:34:00,551

Announcer: She toured with Prince.

898

00:34:01,866 --> 00:34:04,767

Allegra Edwards: Yes, you should look up, yes.

899

00:34:06,307 --> 00:34:07,532

Marc Preston: Now I know I'm definitely.

900

00:34:07,652 --> 00:34:09,761

Marc Preston: Uh, I hope I bump into somebody's.

901

00:34:09,801 --> 00:34:10,645

Marc Preston: Please tell me what it's like.

902

00:34:11,086 --> 00:34:12,470

Allegra Edwards: It's worth a Google, for sure.

903

00:34:12,570 --> 00:34:14,696

Allegra Edwards: But but yeah, she and I I think both were

904

00:34:14,776 --> 00:34:18,971

Allegra Edwards: like wow, this show is changing something

905

00:34:19,192 --> 00:34:22,118

Allegra Edwards: for our trajectory as performers and also

906

00:34:22,218 --> 00:34:23,381

Allegra Edwards: like, oh.

907

00:34:24,286 --> 00:34:26,712

Allegra Edwards: So I think there was like a mutual, like a

908

00:34:26,793 --> 00:34:29,018

Allegra Edwards: rival moment that we both would feel like

909

00:34:29,038 --> 00:34:30,883

Allegra Edwards: we could confide in each other about.

910

00:34:30,983 --> 00:34:31,966

Allegra Edwards: This is crazy, isn't it?

911

00:34:32,006 --> 00:34:32,989

Allegra Edwards: Yeah, it's kind of amazing.

912

00:34:33,049 --> 00:34:33,671

Allegra Edwards: Isn't this great?

913

00:34:33,711 --> 00:34:34,353

Allegra Edwards: This is great.

914

00:34:34,413 --> 00:34:35,095

Allegra Edwards: This is yeah.

915

00:34:35,295 --> 00:34:35,877

Allegra Edwards: How are you feeling?

916

00:34:35,905 --> 00:34:39,107

Allegra Edwards: How are you doing, you know, but I really

917

00:34:39,167 --> 00:34:40,270

Allegra Edwards: do get along with all of them.

918

00:34:40,350 --> 00:34:42,175

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's sort of like not going to summer

919

00:34:42,215 --> 00:34:42,496

Marc Preston: camp.

920

00:34:42,637 --> 00:34:42,857

Allegra Edwards: Yes.

921

00:34:43,586 --> 00:34:45,031

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's not like necessarily going to

922

00:34:45,051 --> 00:34:46,555

Marc Preston: summer camp or something, but it's sort of

923

00:34:46,635 --> 00:34:49,829

Marc Preston: like when you get to have an experience of

924

00:34:49,869 --> 00:34:51,214

Marc Preston: somebody that's, somebody that's kind of be

925

00:34:51,354 --> 00:34:53,309

Marc Preston: in your you know, kind of high up there in

926

00:34:53,329 --> 00:34:54,513

Marc Preston: your speed dial for us to your life,

927

00:34:54,533 --> 00:34:55,720

Marc Preston: because it's like you remember we did that

928

00:34:55,788 --> 00:34:56,048

Marc Preston: thing.

929

00:34:56,115 --> 00:34:57,615

Marc Preston: You know it's a weekend, I don't say you

930

00:34:57,682 --> 00:35:00,119

Marc Preston: came of age, but, but I mean most certainly

931

00:35:00,199 --> 00:35:01,941

Marc Preston: this is I think it's one of the more

932

00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:03,442

Marc Preston: interesting shows on on TV.

933

00:35:03,585 --> 00:35:04,968

Marc Preston: It's just, it's an interesting premise.

934

00:35:05,510 --> 00:35:06,211

Marc Preston: It's kind of a reverse.

935

00:35:06,231 --> 00:35:08,838

Marc Preston: Some people say do we live in a, in a and a

936

00:35:09,606 --> 00:35:10,288

Marc Preston: Virtual reality?

937

00:35:10,328 --> 00:35:12,133

Marc Preston: Do we do we live in a simulation?

938

00:35:12,153 --> 00:35:14,447

Marc Preston: I was like, well, this kind of flips it and

939

00:35:14,467 --> 00:35:15,851

Marc Preston: actually put somebody in a simulation.

940

00:35:16,051 --> 00:35:16,713

Marc Preston: You know, so it's.

941

00:35:16,913 --> 00:35:20,449

Marc Preston: It's, it brings up Very mildly, brings up

942

00:35:20,529 --> 00:35:23,156

Marc Preston: moral questions, even brings up even mildly

943

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Marc Preston: religious question, I mean, all while being

944

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Marc Preston: funny as hell for 30 minutes.

945

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Marc Preston: It really, it really covers some ground.

946

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Marc Preston: Now, are you shooting anything right now,

947

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Marc Preston: anything that coming up that we can look

948

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Marc Preston: forward to seeing you at?

949

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Allegra Edwards: Currently I am not.

950

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Allegra Edwards: I am prepping to become a mom.

951

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Allegra Edwards: I'm in real life.

952

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Allegra Edwards: I'm Clayton and I are expecting a baby in

953

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Allegra Edwards: July, so that's kind of it.

954

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Marc Preston: Oh, it's my people saying Mosltov, you know,

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Marc Preston: Ah thank you so much Thank you very much.

956

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Marc Preston: I got two words for you, diaper genie.

957

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Marc Preston: Trust me, it will change the life.

958

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Marc Preston: Oh yes, Diaper genie I remember diaper

959

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Marc Preston: genie.

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Marc Preston: That is.

961

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Marc Preston: Let me tell you something that is a

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Marc Preston: necessity above all else.

963

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Marc Preston: You know babies can make do, but there is,

964

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Marc Preston: I'm just telling you.

965

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Marc Preston: It's one of those things I always, whenever

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Marc Preston: a friend of mine has a baby, I'm like going

967

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Marc Preston: on Amazon to sing him a diaper genie.

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Marc Preston: So now, when are you expecting?

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Allegra Edwards: July, some mid-July.

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Allegra Edwards: So, as you can imagine, that kind of limits

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Allegra Edwards: a little bit what I'm able to either work

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Allegra Edwards: on or audition for right now and at least

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Allegra Edwards: for the time ahead.

974

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Allegra Edwards: And I think we're also hoping that we'll

975

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Allegra Edwards: get picked up for another season and I'll

976

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Allegra Edwards: get to go back to work with upload.

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Allegra Edwards: That would be really nice.

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Allegra Edwards: I mean, that's the dream.

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Allegra Edwards: I'll speak to the manager of Amazon and

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Allegra Edwards: I'll demand it.

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Marc Preston: Thank, you.

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Marc Preston: I'll go for Karen, thank you.