Ione Skye | From “Say Anything” to “Say Everything”

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But the warmth of, of Say Anything, yeah, I would have to say

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that one did feel the most like me.

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Yeah, I just like the warm feeling

that Cameron Crowe put into that.

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So yes, I would say that.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

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Now, here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Okay, here we go,

another episode of Story Craft.

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I am Marc Preston, and if this is

your very first episode, Welcome.

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Thanks for stopping by.

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And, uh, if you've been here

before, thanks for coming back.

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Got a fun episode today.

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If you're a kid of the 80s, uh, let's

say Gen X, you definitely know Ione Skye.

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I mean, she got John Cusack or Lloyd

Dobler to hold the, uh, Boombox up

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above his head and say anything.

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So, you know, she is kind of 80s movie

royalty She's got a brand new book out.

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It is called say everything

we learned about her journey A

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lot of this is in her new book.

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Just really jazzed to sit down and

share this with you Okay, do me a favor

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Okay, so let's jump right on into it.

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Today is Ioni Sky Day, right

here on Story and Craft.

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01:26 Life in Australia and Family

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Where are you joining me from?

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Ione Skye: I'm in Los

Angeles at the moment.

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Oh,

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Marc Preston: you're okay.

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Don't you live down in Australia now?

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Is that your?

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Ione Skye: I do.

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Yeah.

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I've been there.

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We've been there about a year now.

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Marc Preston: Whereabouts do y'all live?

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Ione Skye: In Sydney.

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Marc Preston: Oh, okay.

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My daughter, my youngest daughter,

uh, was doing a gap year last year.

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And, uh, I have always wanted

to go down to Australia, do the,

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I've always thought the expat

thing would be a lot of fun to do.

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And, uh, we were looking at

Melbourne and I'm going, I've got a

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recording studio here and all this.

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I'm like, Just the cost to go down

there for a year or two, three, it

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just, it just, it didn't make sense.

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And I was like, God, that would be so

much fun to go to Australia and be an

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expat with my kid for a little while.

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But, uh,

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Ione Skye: well, yeah,

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Marc Preston: we ended

up not doing it though.

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Ione Skye: Well, having my Australian

husband, uh, it made sense.

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And also I have a daughter who was

in, she's still in Sydney university.

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And so for us, it felt like, why

don't we try that expat thing?

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But it really.

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You know, there was sort of a, a shoe in

because he's Australian and he can work

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there also all the time, which is nice.

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Marc Preston: Uh, how

old is your daughter?

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Ione Skye: I have a 24 year

old and a, uh, 15 year old.

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Marc Preston: Okay.

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Okay.

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You're an LA kid, right?

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I mean, you grew for the most

part, you grew up there, correct?

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Ione Skye: Yes.

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Yes.

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I grew up in really in Hollywood,

Hollywood, like that neighborhood.

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Marc Preston: You were

born in, uh, London.

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Is that correct?

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Ione Skye: Yes.

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I was born in London.

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My parents were living in, yeah,

they were living in Scotland and then

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they moved to the country in England.

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But I was born in this clinic in London.

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Marc Preston: You're the only person

that I know that shares kind of a

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similar kind of peculiar lineage.

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I've got, I grew up identity

wise and all that kind of stuff.

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Jewish grew up with a Jewish

family, but one, I'm one quarter

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Scottish, which I didn't, you know,

I did the whole like 23 and me.

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Or ancestor at one of the two.

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And I discovered that, uh, you

know, I'm one quarter Scottish.

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I'm like, Oh, I want to

make a connection to that.

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I want to kind of see

what that's all about.

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So I'm speaking to another

Scottish Jewish combo as well.

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So you're the only other person who, Oh

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Ione Skye: yeah, I know.

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That's right.

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They both, the one thing in

common is the smoked salmon.

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Yes.

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Or into the salmon.

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Marc Preston: That, that, you know what?

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I never thought about that.

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That is absolutely correct.

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That's uh, that's, that's actually my,

that's my, that's my ultimate comfort

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food is lox and bagels and cream cheese.

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And I did notice in your book, there

was a mention of Cantor is in there.

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Uh, and we'll get to that.

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And I was like, yes, finally.

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I guess anybody listens to the

show knows I mentioned Cantor is.

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At least every couple of episodes.

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And if I speak to some, I'm just

talking to, uh, uh, Ben Ford, the

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chef in LA, Harrison Ford's son.

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And we were talking, I was like,

I was like, I, you know, the

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fine dining thing, love that.

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But when I go to LA, I've got

to hit Cantor's every time.

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That's my.

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Ione Skye: Yes, I know.

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And it's funny.

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You cannot find a good bagel in

Sydney or in Australia so far.

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I'm sure someone's screaming.

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Actually, there's one place, but one

of the first things I did was have

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a nice bagel with cream cheese and.

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You know, 'cause it's

just something about it.

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It's good here.

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Yeah.

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A proper movie and New York.

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Yeah.

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Marc Preston: But as far as your

book goes, I will say this kind of at

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the outset, uh, for those listening

who are Gen X kids, you are gonna

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do yourself a massive disservice

unless you go pick this book up.

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It's so dense with Gen X nuggets

of awesomeness, , you know,

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it's, it just, uh, oh, thank you.

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Yeah.

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Um, but the thing I really loved

about it is that I was picking

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up on, you know, there was the.

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Behind the scenes stuff, the, the

kind of how, how it was made stuff,

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like the whole, you know, uh, say

anything that's the fact that, uh,

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your connection to, to the Zappas and

moons, like, come on over Cameron.

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I'm like only in LA would something

like that happen, you know?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, exactly.

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I mean, yeah, that's the thing

you, there's that idea you will

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bump into celebrities and you

can, and then on top of it.

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All the kids of it sort of makes sense.

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It seems so mystical that Oh, wow.

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I just happened to be friends

with Mick Fleetwood's daughter

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and Mick Jagger's daughter.

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But when you connect the dots, kind

of my mom knew the mom of this one.

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And then they knew the mom of that one.

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And it was kind of a scene, a 60s scene.

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So it wasn't, you know, so it was

kind of like, wow, this is so random.

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But it also, I guess he is.

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You know, it's sort of, our parents

were sort of loosely and kind of

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circles hanging around people as well.

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So I guess

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Marc Preston: I think this way

it works for kind of everybody.

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Your, your initial friends are all kind

of based on who your parents friends are.

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Ione Skye: Absolutely.

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I know.

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Cause you can think you can think it's

so like, wow, isn't this fantastical?

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But really it's just like, yes,

you know, and my neighbors are

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professors and their children happen

to know people from that school.

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Cause their parents knew

them from this school.

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And it just is like, that makes sense.

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Marc Preston: I spoke with a moon unit.

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A couple of months ago,

uh, I lose track of time.

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I can say the other day, I say the

other day and it could have been

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like six months ago, you know?

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Right.

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Ione Skye: I know.

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Yeah.

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Marc Preston: You had mentioned

something in the book about

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hanging out at their house.

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One of the things I gathered from

speaking with her and with reading

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the book, that house was very active

with just like, it just seemed like

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it was the epicenter of just kind of

everything going on for a lot of people.

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You know, that's kind of what I gathered.

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Oh

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Ione Skye: yeah.

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I mean, it would be.

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Very unusual.

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There was one time that I was there

with just Frank and Gail and Diva.

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For some reason the other kids were doing

something and working out of town and it

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was like strange if you went there and

there was No one else running in and out.

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It was always full up until

I think Gail passed away.

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I feel like it was, I mean, I'm sure there

were quiet times too, and maybe I was

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just there during a party or something.

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But when I was there in the eighties,

it was just like a revolving door of

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Marc Preston: kind of interesting people.

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You went, you went to,

uh, was it Hollywood high?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I went there.

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That was the last, yeah.

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The last high

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Marc Preston: school.

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Yep.

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Ione Skye: Yep.

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Marc Preston: I grew up in Dallas, you

know, so I always thought when I thought

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LA, uh, but until I, I worked on the

radio briefly out there and then I lived

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in the North County of San Diego and

LA was like this kind of mystical kind

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of a Bert Kreischer, the comedians got

this, uh, show, you know, where he's

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interviewing people while he's cooking.

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Something's burning or

something and he put it best.

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I'm going to give credit to him.

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He put it best.

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He's like when you're growing

up and you're not from LA, it

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seems like this mystical place.

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That's really, you know, there's

these magical things that he moved

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out there and he's like, I want the

LA that I was dreaming of back then.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You know?

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Ione Skye: Well, I think I just did

this, uh, they're making a documentary

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on Eve Babbitt's and I grew up.

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There was a period where

she lived next door.

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I grew up next door to her parents

and her Hollywood high is a little

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different to my Hollywood high.

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And even when my brother

was at Hollywood high.

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So what was interesting about it was

it was a big public school in Hollywood

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and even up until the early 80s, I

would say it still had the remnants of

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those big American high schools with the

football players and the prom king and

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cheerleaders and Although it was a lot

of different cultures and races, it still

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had a semblance of that kind of thing.

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Like, you know, you know, just that

kind of old fashioned high school thing.

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And then when I went, Eve Babitz

writes about it pretty well.

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When I went, it was, had lost that kind

of American big high school in the way

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that you envision it and just felt more

like a detention center for a, you know,

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700 dialects of different cultures,

which was sort of interesting, but there

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was not really a, um, you know, people

didn't, apart from the creative kids

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who were like in the magnet program for

dance, everyone stayed in their group,

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the Hispanic Korean, you know, it was

not the way I think it It was always that

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way, but I think there was, it was more

old fashioned, but anyway, yeah, it's,

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I do think Eve Babitz is a good person.

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If you want to kind of get a

sense of LA that it's kind of ugly

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and horrible, but also kind of

fabulous in its own strange way.

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Marc Preston: You know, you, of course,

everyone you co starred with throughout

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your career, they're all the I don't want

to say icons, which you're one, but when

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you say Gen X, like actors, the, you know,

the Mount Rushmore, you know, of like

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10, 15, 20, you worked with all of them,

you know, and, uh, and it kind of defined

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for a moment, the, you know, I think

John Hughes had a lot to do with that.

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What, what high schools were the

cliche, not the cliche, well, I

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guess cliche is kind of, cause it

always, always culminated in prom,

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you know, all the, or, or graduation.

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Yeah.

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Ione Skye (2): Um,

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Marc Preston: when you look at

your, uh, your kids, what are

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the big things that you notice?

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They're kind of different about the

way they're growing up and do you think

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they'd identify with circa 1980 or early

nineties what it was like to grow up?

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Ione Skye: I think that's sure.

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This, I mean, the similarities are.

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There's still groups of different

kids that are drawn to each

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other for various reasons.

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But, um, for sure there was innocence

might be the wrong word back then,

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but we definitely didn't have, you

know, iPhones filming each other.

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So you could kind of be more free to

just be silly and be yourself and not

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worry about that or presenting yourself.

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Looking a certain way.

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It was, it was, I caught all

these people at a great time, like

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hanging out with River Phoenix and

Keanu Reeves and all these people.

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We were just young and no one was really,

really worrying about how we were.

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Everyone always worries about

how you're looking, but it wasn't

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like to that extent, right?

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Like we were just.

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Sort of able to be ourselves and

also kind of compartmentalize.

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Like I wasn't hanging out with river

thinking what a talented actor.

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I knew that of course, but you're

just hanging out with people.

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And then when you would see them act and

you'd be like, wow, this person's really

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amazing, but we, you know, it was just

nice to kind of just hang out as people.

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Um, yeah, I think for the kids now.

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Yeah, I do think there is that added,

there's just more pressure, I suppose,

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that to sort of be, be successful at a

young age and to kind of be funny and

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to present yourself in a certain way

online or whatever to your friends.

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So yeah, it's a little more pressure.

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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These kids are always bringing

themselves, you know, it's just like

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all the kids movies these days, all

the teen movies, high school movies,

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always, there's always this component

of on the phone, you know, on the phone

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Ione Skye (2): and

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Marc Preston: posting pictures and stuff.

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And when I was in high school,

somebody had access to a video camera.

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You couldn't miss it because it

was this big monolithic thing.

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And so everybody was kind of like,

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Ione Skye: yeah, I know.

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I love, I love my, my favorite

videos is actor Donald Logue went to

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Ireland with his, one of the first.

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you know, video cameras and the

whole video of his Irish family.

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They're all just like, what is that then?

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What is that?

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Like, they're just talking

about the camera the whole time

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and like amazed at the camera.

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And he's like, just act natural.

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But yeah, I think there's a lot

of pressure they take on one hand.

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It's great because kids and younger

people can like have different

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interesting careers and come up

with it and be their own bosses.

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And all of these things.

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But on the other, I just hope my kids

don't feel like You have to have it, you

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know, figured out at such a young age.

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Ione Skye (2): Um, but yeah, it's

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Ione Skye: really interesting.

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I know we all keep, I

have to just keep my car.

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As I was like, we, I got famous

young, but I've been trying

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to keep it going ever since.

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So you just, it never stops.

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Marc Preston: You know, whenever I've

spoken with someone who had kicked off the

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career early, if I was to think back to

when I was 20, 21, something like that.

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It's like a lifetime ago.

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It's like when I speak to someone who

knew me back then I went to school with or

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something, it's like, I was a knucklehead

or something, you know, it just, it kind

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of feels like a whole different thing.

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But if somebody kept trying to

reference, you know, kind of like

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me based upon 19 year old Marc.

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Um, It would be kind of odd.

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So what, what does that like for you

when people reference you, you're

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much, much younger, but it's, is it,

is it weird when people bring that up?

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It's like, wait a minute, that was,

that's a couple of lifetimes ago.

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Is that odd?

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Is it, is it familiar?

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How does that feel?

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I know it's an odd question to ask, but.

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Ione Skye: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, on one hand, I. still feel the same

kind of, I'm kind of ethereal and shy and

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I was sort of just going with the flow

and not paying attention to, I wasn't

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like my brother was quite different.

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He was always aware of,

Oh, this producer did that.

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And he just was always aware of like

who did what and, um, understanding,

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you know, connecting the dots about the

business and understanding the business.

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And now I do and I'm really

interested and I, you know, I'll

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see a movie and I immediately I'll

read a name like, Oh, yeah, that

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makes sense why they did that movie.

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And so I know the sort of

business side of it back then.

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I was just like, Whoa.

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So on one hand, I still feel that person.

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Who I was, that was sort of almost

unaware that I was even famous at all.

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Um, so that feels a little bit like a

different person because I'm so much

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more kind of aware of how things work.

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Marc Preston: Right.

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Ione Skye: Um, but yeah, yeah.

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You were kind

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Marc Preston: of in a bubble.

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You mentioned hanging out with the river.

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Phoenix and the people who were in your

ecosystem back then, it was just hanging

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out with Gail and Frank Zappa's home.

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That was kind of normal for you.

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Uh, you know, it's perspective now

that I think you have, and I, I think

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that's everybody when you're getting

old, not older, but as when you're

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no longer a teen or in your early

twenties, you do have that 30,000 foot

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view of Oh, that's what was going on

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Ione Skye: and Yeah, exactly.

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Marc Preston: As far as kinda how you

grew up, I mean, you did have a. Period

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of time, you did go east coast, right?

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For a moment.

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And then you did kind

of move around early on.

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But I mean, where, where do you

kind of reference as being home?

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Ione Skye: Would

definitely say Los Angeles.

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I've always felt New York cause

my mother's in New Yorker.

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I've always felt like that is a big thing.

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And I spend a lot of time in

Florida because my grandparents

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moved from New York to Florida.

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So I really.

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Loved, of course, spent a

lot of Jewish grandparents.

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That's what happens.

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Exactly.

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That's what happens.

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But yeah.

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And London, so it would go in the order.

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It would go LA, New York, London

for a while it was, and now Sydney.

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But yes, Los Angeles is

definitely where I grew up.

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I was there from, you know, four or five

till, you know, I was still living, you

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know, living there until a year ago.

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Here.

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Marc Preston: Early on, uh, you, you

know, really your father wasn't really

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a factor early on, uh, in your life.

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You know, y'all were, you were,

you were kind of with your mother.

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Did you make a reconnection at any point?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, we, um, my brother was

really interested in connecting with

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my father and I had a lot of pride.

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Like if, if, well, if he's.

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Not inviting me to see him.

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Why should I be the one, you know, I

just had that kind of, I just wanted

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to be wanted so, but when I was 17,

my brother finally said, listen,

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I've started, you know, I knew he

was starting to see our father and

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have a relationship who my father was

living in Joshua tree at the time.

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And, uh, he said, you have to come.

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He's great.

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So he

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Marc Preston: moved over to

the U he moved over to the U.

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Ione Skye: Yeah, which was kind

of a painful realization because

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all this time I thought he was in

England and he was really in, for a

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lot of it was in the desert nearby.

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So I went to see him and it was

surreal just meeting my father for

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the first time, almost probably what

people who are adopted feel like.

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But it's gotta be kind of odd

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Marc Preston: for you to know, you know,

you can go to, you know, pick up his

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album, you know, it's like, Oh yeah,

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Ione Skye: loved his albums.

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I mean, I, yeah.

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Marc Preston: You may be

listening to, you know, the

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radio and hear a song come along.

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Where's my dad?

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I don't talk to him, but you

know, that's, that's gotta be it.

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Yeah, I would

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Ione Skye: meet people, I would

meet people who knew him better

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than I did, which was strange,

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Marc Preston: really weird.

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Did, uh, Frank Zappa, did he have

any insight as far as, did he ever

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talk, did he know your dad or did?

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Ione Skye: Well, then there was

a nice moment that, there's this

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moment in the book where, I come

back from working on something.

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Um, my father had a lawyer send

something saying he wasn't wanted

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to do a paternity test because he

was thinking I wasn't maybe his

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daughter, which was really brutal.

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And I refused because I was

already working and I was 17 or 18.

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And I just thought, screw him.

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Like I'm not doing a paternity test.

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This is ridiculous.

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But I, part of me thought

maybe I'm not his.

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And.

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I went to the Zappas because I was there

every day, it felt like, and Gail, I told

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Gail Zappin, she was like, that's baloney.

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This guy's, you, you look at

yourself, you look just like him.

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So I, you know, then, you know, now

cut to, we both know I'm his daughter,

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but that was really quite nice of

her to say, Look in the mirror, you

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look at, and, and then when I met

my half sisters, we look like twins.

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So it was, uh, ni you know, it

was like obvious that I was, his

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Marc Preston: growing up is just kind of

weird when you, when you, you know, you

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start realizing your parents, uh, you,

you start noticing more and more flaws.

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You know, what was that?

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That, uh, I think that was a phrase

like, you become an adult when

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you realize your parents are not

perfect, you know, or something

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like, I'm in Ming that Yes, exactly.

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Yes.

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That quote.

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Ione Skye: Yes.

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Marc Preston: Going back, you know,

when you were going to school and

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father having, you know, doing what

he does and the people around you

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being in entertainment, do you felt

like it was sort of like, well, I'm

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probably going to do this thing.

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Was that even on your mind or was

this something that you felt like

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it just kind of happened, you know?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I was very, very creative

kid, but more like in the drawing,

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writing stories and drawing pictures way.

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I never thought.

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I gotta have an agent.

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I wasn't, there were definitely kids

that wanted an agent at a young age

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and I still meet them now sometimes

and their parents are scratching their

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heads like, Oh, my kid wants to act.

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Especially after they see certain shows,

like stranger things or something.

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Then all the kids are like, I want to act.

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I wasn't like that.

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I wasn't even in the school plays.

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I like dancing a little bit, but I think

I must've inside wanted to do it because.

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I, I really never ever wanted to give

up acting, even when I had periods where

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I wasn't acting for a long time, cause

I wasn't getting a role or something.

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I just, I really took to it as they say.

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Um, so yeah, I, I just, it sort of

happened to me, but it was the right,

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it was something I liked in the end.

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Marc Preston: Because you're right

at the right time when movies

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were doing that angling towards.

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Teen stuff up to that point, they

weren't really movie, you know, so

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there's a whole swath of stuff coming

out and you're kind of swept up into it.

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Ione Skye: Oh yeah, there was, it

was like a lot of teen ensemble.

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The Outsiders, River's Edge was one ton.

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There was, it was like a

lot of teen ensemble films.

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And whenever those were casting all the

teen actors, we would all just like.

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You know, run around

trying to get those roles.

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Marc Preston: I think the title of

your book, I'm like, okay, that's

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the most ultimate perfect title.

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Uh, but how long did it take you

to land on, uh, say everything?

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Ione Skye: It was one second

cause that was my husband's idea.

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He's very good at naming things.

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Like anytime we have to kind of name

something like, uh, I'm like, what do

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you think a good name for this would be?

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Cause he's just really good at it and

he just, yeah, he said that and it

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just was like, oh, look no further.

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So pretty much, there's not

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Marc Preston: many times I

look and go, wow, that that's

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literally the most perfect name.

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Well, it's cool.

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You said that, you know, painting,

writing, that was your thing, the

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style, the way you wrote it, it didn't

feel just like a, you know, like

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this is just a narrative, you know,

it was a recollection or a journal.

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It was.

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I can't really pinpoint.

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It's like you're sitting down to

somebody for coffee and they're

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trying to, they're remembering things.

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You know, I dislike the

way you wrote it for a lie.

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I know that's the

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Ione Skye: most elegant way to put it, but

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Marc Preston: no,

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Ione Skye: no, I really had to

make, cause I, I like, uh, creative

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writing, but I also had to think.

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This is a memoir.

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It's not exactly a novel or something

creative like that, but I, it's like

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kind of meshing the two worlds where

it sort of is a memoir, you know,

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so that's a sort of format, but it

also has a style and has creative.

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Yeah.

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Cause every

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Marc Preston: chapter kind

of opened up with almost like

486

21:31 ,510 --> 00:21:33,839

a cold open of, uh, right.

487

21:34 ,509 --> 00:21:35,039

Ione Skye: Yeah.

488

21:35 ,349 --> 00:21:36,229

Uh, yes, exactly.

489

21:36 ,249 --> 00:21:40,639

And also it's very, I've written scripts,

so I feel like something, things were

490

21:40 ,639 --> 00:21:42,829

approached like almost more like a scene.

491

21:43 ,150 --> 00:21:45,820

But that's also kind

of can be good reading

492

21:46 ,140 --> 00:21:47,290

Marc Preston: as far as

the title of the book.

493

21:47 ,300 --> 00:21:51,829

Of course, Genesis, you know, with,

with say anything, do you identify with

494

21:51 ,829 --> 00:21:56,720

say anything is sort of like what you

feel like of the era was your marquee

495

21:57 ,000 --> 00:22:01,079

project or do you feel more closely

identified to something else you've done?

496

22:01 ,410 --> 00:22:05,170

Ione Skye: I think that's the

most identified project of mine.

497

22:05 ,190 --> 00:22:09,709

I think that's the one that people know

the most, like the most iconic for sure.

498

22:09 ,999 --> 00:22:11,360

There's a River's Edge fans.

499

22:11 ,380 --> 00:22:12,330

Oh, for me?

500

22:12 ,480 --> 00:22:13,250

Yeah, for you.

501

22:13 ,270 --> 00:22:13,780

In other words,

502

22:13 ,780 --> 00:22:16,899

Marc Preston: when you look back and

you go, God, that was, be it the making

503

22:16 ,900 --> 00:22:21,350

of the film or the way it was received,

what, what for you just kind of settles

504

22:21 ,350 --> 00:22:25,780

in this, this is where this feels

more like home for you, if you will.

505

22:26 ,430 --> 00:22:28,390

Ione Skye: Yeah, I think, uh, yeah.

506

22:28 ,440 --> 00:22:33,270

Well, that was the most, uh, at home.

507

22:33 ,650 --> 00:22:37,490

That one gave me a confidence

that the other ones didn't

508

22:37 ,520 --> 00:22:39,189

in a way, but it's funny.

509

22:39 ,189 --> 00:22:42,899

It's sort of like children,

like River's Edge felt at home.

510

22:42 ,900 --> 00:22:45,430

Cause I do love that kind of indie.

511

22:45 ,785 --> 00:22:50,475

smaller thing, but the

warmth of, of say anything.

512

22:51 ,115 --> 00:22:54,635

Yeah, I would have to say that

one did feel the most like me.

513

22:54 ,645 --> 00:22:56,224

Like it's a very warm.

514

22:56 ,855 --> 00:22:57,175

Yeah.

515

22:57 ,175 --> 00:23:00,575

I just like the warm, the warm feeling

that Cameron Crowe put into that.

516

23:00 ,595 --> 00:23:02,034

So yes, I would say that.

517

23:02 ,595 --> 00:23:02,784

Marc Preston: Yeah.

518

23:02 ,784 --> 00:23:04,105

He's, he is so awesome.

519

23:04 ,165 --> 00:23:08,995

I love everything, everything he does

is just got such a, everything he does

520

23:09 ,014 --> 00:23:12,884

has a very similar or familiar tone

for like a better way of putting it.

521

23:12 ,884 --> 00:23:14,065

Ione Skye: It's so true.

522

23:14 ,075 --> 00:23:14,274

Yeah.

523

23:14 ,274 --> 00:23:19,864

He's so specific, but also so, I don't

know that it's so hard to describe his

524

23:19 ,894 --> 00:23:22,539

style cause it's just very like simple.

525

23:22 ,539 --> 00:23:25,094

It's not like you can't say

it's, oh, it's so simple.

526

23:25 ,095 --> 00:23:29,665

Stylized or it's, it's, it's not, but

he just has a very specific style.

527

23:29 ,665 --> 00:23:30,665

It's just his.

528

23:31 ,085 --> 00:23:34,335

Marc Preston: The contrast between

you who were for you're more

529

23:34 ,345 --> 00:23:36,284

mellow and kind of easygoing.

530

23:36 ,284 --> 00:23:39,455

And then you had John Cusack who

was just mile a minute wordsmith.

531

23:39 ,964 --> 00:23:42,004

Was there any improvisation on his part?

532

23:42 ,004 --> 00:23:44,445

Like did, did Cameron ever say just riff?

533

23:44 ,514 --> 00:23:48,125

Ione Skye: Well, he was, he didn't want

to do the movie initially because he

534

23:48 ,125 --> 00:23:49,774

didn't want to do another teen movie.

535

23:49 ,774 --> 00:23:52,865

He wanted to just do serious

adult films at that point.

536

23:52 ,905 --> 00:23:53,284

And.

537

23:54 ,335 --> 00:23:58,014

But he, Cameron Crowe, and

I convinced him to do it.

538

23:58 ,014 --> 00:24:03,024

But one of the things he said was, I

would like to write some parts for myself.

539

24:03 ,024 --> 00:24:08,004

And how we got there, um, we did

a little bit of improvising, and

540

24:08 ,004 --> 00:24:12,124

then Cameron Crowe wrote some stuff

into scenes, and then John Cusack

541

24:12 ,125 --> 00:24:14,034

wrote a couple of his monologues.

542

24:14 ,545 --> 00:24:19,610

So the improvising wasn't necessarily

In the scenes, like we didn't actually

543

24:19 ,620 --> 00:24:23,860

film and improvise while we were

filming, but we did some improvisation

544

24:23 ,870 --> 00:24:27,830

before that was turned into a script,

which is, I think what Mike Lee, the

545

24:27 ,830 --> 00:24:29,450

director does a little bit sometimes.

546

24:29 ,840 --> 00:24:32,849

So yeah, improvisation,

but not like on the day,

547

24:32 ,990 --> 00:24:34,299

Marc Preston: you know,

it really disappointed me.

548

24:34 ,300 --> 00:24:37,340

By the way, I saw a cool little

movie, uh, that XOXO that came

549

24:37 ,349 --> 00:24:38,750

out on Netflix a few years ago.

550

24:38 ,750 --> 00:24:39,280

And it's like, Oh,

551

24:39 ,280 --> 00:24:40,010

Ione Skye: and I

552

24:40 ,010 --> 00:24:42,880

Marc Preston: saw you, I saw you pop up

and like, Oh, I don't need skies in this.

553

24:42 ,880 --> 00:24:42,920

Yeah.

554

24:43 ,004 --> 00:24:44,014

For 15 seconds.

555

24:44 ,014 --> 00:24:46,011

I'm like, Oh, you broke my heart.

556

24:46 ,011 --> 00:24:49,014

Ione Skye: Yeah, I guess I just

like, it was an offer and those

557

24:49 ,014 --> 00:24:50,865

ones you're like, Oh, okay.

558

24:50 ,865 --> 00:24:51,544

I guess.

559

24:51 ,544 --> 00:24:54,925

But it was, I guess it's just like,

seemed like a cool movie and sometimes

560

24:54 ,925 --> 00:24:57,345

doing a little cameo is really fun.

561

24:57 ,404 --> 00:24:58,794

Marc Preston: You know, you

mentioned the drawing, the

562

24:58 ,794 --> 00:25:00,734

writing, uh, and of course acting.

563

25:01 Creative Pursuits and Future Plans

25:01 ,005 --> 00:25:04,325

Uh, naturally is part of your,

what's been where your career is at.

564

25:04 ,945 --> 00:25:08,385

Where does the writing and the, uh, uh,

the painting figure in right now for you?

565

25:08 ,595 --> 00:25:11,124

Is that a bigger part of what you're

doing or is it something you're

566

25:11 ,124 --> 00:25:12,305

doing a little bit more of now?

567

25:12 ,715 --> 00:25:13,324

Ione Skye: Yeah.

568

25:13 ,324 --> 00:25:16,644

Well, I think that, well, yeah,

doing this book was just all

569

25:16 ,645 --> 00:25:18,895

consuming and I was acting.

570

25:19 ,525 --> 00:25:21,335

While I was doing it,

but that was about it.

571

25:21 ,365 --> 00:25:26,595

And yeah, my painting I've had, I still

paint, but I haven't done a big, I'm

572

25:26 ,595 --> 00:25:30,975

hoping to do another big painting phase

now when maybe this book tour is over and

573

25:30 ,975 --> 00:25:36,974

I have some time I like to really kind

of not have a lot going on, but I think

574

25:36 ,975 --> 00:25:40,945

I, yeah, I hope writing is in my future.

575

25:41 ,610 --> 00:25:45,980

Um, to a bigger extent, and I hope

a painting phase is coming again.

576

25:46 ,050 --> 00:25:48,510

Marc Preston: Have you ever wanted

to put a screenplay together, uh, you

577

25:48 ,510 --> 00:25:49,485

know, or direct or anything like that?

578

25:49 ,485 --> 00:25:49,829

Yeah, but over the

579

25:49 ,830 --> 00:25:53,879

Ione Skye: years, sure, over the years

I've, uh, written screenplays and I've

580

25:53 ,879 --> 00:25:56,690

directed music videos and short films.

581

25:57 ,690 --> 00:26:01,610

I would love one day to do a feature

and I'm kind of half relieved that

582

26:01 ,610 --> 00:26:06,409

it hasn't happened yet because the

older I get, the more relieved I am.

583

26:06 ,409 --> 00:26:09,760

I didn't do the one that I thought

was the most amazing one, I guess.

584

26:10 ,100 --> 00:26:10,729

So I don't know.

585

26:10 ,729 --> 00:26:16,029

I, I probably will have one feature

in me, but, um, yeah, I think that

586

26:16 ,029 --> 00:26:16,809

Marc Preston: would be very cool.

587

26:16 ,820 --> 00:26:19,570

I mean, you have such a

broad bit of experience.

588

26:19 ,879 --> 00:26:21,439

Did you ever have a

conversation with your mother?

589

26:21 ,439 --> 00:26:25,725

Of course she, Jed dated,

obviously, you know, musicians

590

26:25 ,725 --> 00:26:27,325

and people in the music business.

591

26:27 ,665 --> 00:26:30,405

Um, and that seemed to be kind

of where you ended up as well.

592

26:30 ,425 --> 00:26:33,095

I mean, it was, did your mother, do you

and your mother ever have a powwow and

593

26:33 ,095 --> 00:26:37,544

go, you know, what is it about musicians

or whatever, what is it about that aspect

594

26:37 ,544 --> 00:26:39,155

of creativity or something like that?

595

26:39 ,165 --> 00:26:39,175

I

596

26:39 ,315 --> 00:26:44,634

Ione Skye: haven't, I want, I,

I, my mother just loved that time

597

26:44 ,695 --> 00:26:49,154

and that she just loved seeing

bands, she, she, but she wasn't.

598

26:49 ,824 --> 00:26:53,105

She didn't continue going to C

Band, she just liked the ones

599

26:53 ,105 --> 00:26:55,205

that she saw back then, really.

600

26:55 ,544 --> 00:26:59,405

But she, yeah, she really does

appreciate live music, but, uh,

601

26:59 ,425 --> 00:27:02,795

I think, yeah, it's so funny, I

was thinking about that for me.

602

27:03 ,055 --> 00:27:06,264

It seems obvious, like, my father's

a musician, so I'm, most of my

603

27:06 ,264 --> 00:27:07,904

big relationships are musicians.

604

27:07 ,934 --> 00:27:11,345

And it just feels like a creative

thing that's not dating an actor,

605

27:11 ,345 --> 00:27:13,605

which I think an actor feels too close.

606

27:14 ,104 --> 00:27:19,495

To home, but musician is another creative

thing, but it's not the same as an actor.

607

27:20 ,195 --> 00:27:24,274

Uh, we have never had that powwow, but

we definitely share that in common.

608

27:24 ,395 --> 00:27:27,125

Marc Preston: Kind of curious if you felt

like, okay, it's something's in the DNA.

609

27:27 ,395 --> 00:27:28,905

There are the musicians make sense.

610

27:28 ,915 --> 00:27:29,754

Yeah, it's

611

27:29 ,984 --> 00:27:30,264

Ione Skye: funny.

612

27:30 ,284 --> 00:27:33,855

Maybe we're, we're frustrated musicians.

613

27:34 ,304 --> 00:27:34,855

So we just

614

27:35 ,044 --> 00:27:37,185

Marc Preston: do you do

anything musically or

615

27:37 ,405 --> 00:27:41,195

Ione Skye: I don't I've I've yeah,

just a little bit of piano as a kid I

616

27:41 ,195 --> 00:27:42,534

learned a couple songs on the guitar.

617

27:42 ,534 --> 00:27:47,245

I like the drums a little bit, but no

my brother plays guitar both my brothers

618

27:47 ,264 --> 00:27:52,295

play guitar but I think if I was going

to I would have because I definitely

619

27:52 ,295 --> 00:27:56,954

I paint my creativity went more into

like painting and drawing and writing

620

28:04 ,540 --> 00:28:07,760

Marc Preston: One of the sweetest notes

I saw in the book, and I think this is

621

28:07 ,760 --> 00:28:09,950

something anybody can identify with.

622

28:09 ,960 --> 00:28:11,220

They've had that one relationship.

623

28:11 ,240 --> 00:28:14,790

You said that everything in

your life to a point was prior

624

28:14 ,790 --> 00:28:16,679

to or after Anthony Kiedis.

625

28:16 ,830 --> 00:28:18,580

How did that relationship.

626

28:18 ,750 --> 00:28:21,280

Uh, evolve, uh, how did

y'all, how did y'all connect?

627

28:21 ,280 --> 00:28:25,010

Cause you know, you had a red hot

chili peppers for that generation.

628

28:25 ,010 --> 00:28:27,230

Was that, that was

college for me, I think.

629

28:27 ,869 --> 00:28:30,309

So, but it was, yeah,

630

28:30 ,310 --> 00:28:33,260

Ione Skye: we met, um, we met,

I did a movie with flea, who's

631

28:33 ,270 --> 00:28:35,070

an actor as well as a musician.

632

28:35 ,649 --> 00:28:39,020

I did a movie with flea

and back to the future.

633

28:39 ,140 --> 00:28:39,270

Am I

634

28:39 ,270 --> 00:28:42,350

Marc Preston: imagining that what do

you want to the back to the futures?

635

28:42 ,850 --> 00:28:44,320

Ione Skye: I think he was.

636

28:44 ,459 --> 00:28:45,560

I don't, I think you're right.

637

28:45 ,560 --> 00:28:48,919

Well, Crispin Glover was, who

was in River's Edge, but might

638

28:48 ,919 --> 00:28:50,159

have been, I can't remember.

639

28:50 ,160 --> 00:28:54,610

I haven't seen the other two, like, as

many times as I've seen the first one.

640

28:55 ,119 --> 00:28:58,199

Um, yeah, so I did a movie with

Flea, and then Flea was talking about

641

28:58 ,199 --> 00:29:01,609

Anthony, and then I had become friends

with Flea, but it was definitely me.

642

29:01 ,609 --> 00:29:01,814

Yeah.

643

29:02 ,124 --> 00:29:07,254

It was sweet, but then I just probably

should have left it at that and not,

644

29:08 ,125 --> 00:29:12,665

you know, gotten involved with that

whole group cause they were just great.

645

29:12 ,675 --> 00:29:15,274

And there's a lot of love between

us, but there were just too old.

646

29:15 ,274 --> 00:29:18,264

It was like too old of

a generation of kids.

647

29:18 ,364 --> 00:29:21,354

Marc Preston: Uh, how, how

was he like eight years older?

648

29:21 ,784 --> 00:29:22,084

Ione Skye: Yeah.

649

29:22 ,304 --> 00:29:24,185

So it was just a fast 16

650

29:24 ,185 --> 00:29:26,064

Marc Preston: when y'all

connected or something to that

651

29:26 ,064 --> 00:29:26,114

Ione Skye: effect.

652

29:26 ,114 --> 00:29:26,955

17. Yeah.

653

29:26 ,955 --> 00:29:30,665

So I think I just met him and just,

I don't know what happened to me.

654

29:30 ,665 --> 00:29:33,044

I just, It wasn't even

like love at first sight.

655

29:33 ,044 --> 00:29:33,675

I just was,

656

29:35 ,705 --> 00:29:36,534

I have no idea.

657

29:36 ,574 --> 00:29:39,094

Just because I was hanging

out with Flea and some of his.

658

29:39 ,655 --> 00:29:43,715

Friends and his girlfriend, I just like

ended up meeting Anthony and just like,

659

29:43 ,715 --> 00:29:48,665

I want to stay in this group of friends,

but it was too too old of a group.

660

29:48 ,665 --> 00:29:52,155

And yeah, that, that was something I

should have just waited 10 years and then

661

29:52 ,155 --> 00:29:54,145

been friends when I was a little older.

662

29:54 ,555 --> 00:29:55,095

Well, do you

663

29:55 ,285 --> 00:29:58,015

Marc Preston: something to do

with the, you know, teenage girls?

664

29:58 ,035 --> 00:29:58,975

You know, I got a couple of them.

665

29:59 ,385 --> 00:30:02,035

Uh, getting that kind of attention

from a guy, you know, is that, was

666

30:02 ,035 --> 00:30:03,375

that kind of new for you at that?

667

30:03 ,405 --> 00:30:04,875

Ione Skye: Yeah, it was intriguing.

668

30:04 ,975 --> 00:30:05,995

Absolutely.

669

30:06 ,065 --> 00:30:06,875

Absolutely.

670

30:06 ,875 --> 00:30:11,175

And I knew it felt a little dangerous

and scary and I think because I didn't

671

30:11 ,195 --> 00:30:13,875

know what I was in for, I thought.

672

30:14 ,890 --> 00:30:17,240

That was sort of fun, danger, scary.

673

30:17 ,240 --> 00:30:21,120

And then once I was in two over my head, I

was like, this is not fun, danger, scary.

674

30:21 ,120 --> 00:30:22,600

This is just danger and scary.

675

30:22 ,900 --> 00:30:26,990

Marc Preston: Well, I'm curious,

uh, or moon zap or anybody like,

676

30:26 ,990 --> 00:30:30,530

you know, say, Hey, no, we know my

677

30:30 ,540 --> 00:30:31,140

Ione Skye: mom.

678

30:31 ,435 --> 00:30:36,215

My mom did, but they were very

anti drug at that household.

679

30:36 ,215 --> 00:30:40,635

So I, once I was with Anthony, I

sort of kept him, I stopped kind of

680

30:40 ,645 --> 00:30:43,005

hanging out that much with, with moon.

681

30:43 ,245 --> 00:30:46,915

Um, you know, cause yeah, once I was

hanging out with Anthony, I kind of

682

30:46 ,915 --> 00:30:50,055

stopped hanging out with moon cause

I was sort of embarrassed and hiding.

683

30:50 ,405 --> 00:30:50,705

That's right.

684

30:50 ,705 --> 00:30:51,755

I did see that.

685

30:51 ,755 --> 00:30:52,245

Yeah.

686

30:52 ,665 --> 00:30:52,995

Yeah.

687

30:53 ,055 --> 00:30:56,005

My mom was more like, what are you doing?

688

30:56 ,025 --> 00:30:59,155

But there was no, I don't know at

that point that was, she couldn't,

689

30:59 ,255 --> 00:31:01,975

she didn't was not, you know, I've

690

31:01 ,975 --> 00:31:03,455

Marc Preston: seen, I've

heard flea in interviews.

691

31:03 ,455 --> 00:31:04,735

He's really great to listen to.

692

31:04 ,735 --> 00:31:07,915

He's a great, um, he's a

great storyteller of the time.

693

31:07 ,945 --> 00:31:11,265

You know, he, he has a, it seems to

have a good grasp of what was going on,

694

31:12 ,185 --> 00:31:12,725

Ione Skye: but it's funny.

695

31:12 ,725 --> 00:31:13,365

I did, I did have

696

31:13 ,725 --> 00:31:15,555

Marc Preston: to pull this up

because we got Crispin Glover.

697

31:15 ,605 --> 00:31:18,675

He wrote, you know, a little note

about the book says, I only sky

698

31:18 ,685 --> 00:31:20,505

has always been a bit of a mystery.

699

31:20 ,515 --> 00:31:20,895

Beautiful.

700

31:20 ,895 --> 00:31:21,135

Okay.

701

31:21 ,145 --> 00:31:21,565

Mystery.

702

31:21 ,685 --> 00:31:23,715

When you got Crispin Glover,

say you're a mystery.

703

31:23 ,715 --> 00:31:25,185

You know, you, you

know, you're mysterious.

704

31:25 ,605 --> 00:31:26,285

Ione Skye: Yeah.

705

31:26 ,285 --> 00:31:26,345

Okay.

706

31:26 ,575 --> 00:31:30,205

Wait, is that one of the final blurbs or

is that just something else that came up?

707

31:30 ,205 --> 00:31:30,425

Yeah,

708

31:30 ,465 --> 00:31:30,655

Marc Preston: yeah.

709

31:30 ,655 --> 00:31:34,275

It was, it said Ioni Sky has always

been a bit of a mystery, beautiful,

710

31:34 ,305 --> 00:31:37,345

elegant and artistically accomplished

in various realms of the arts.

711

31:37 ,345 --> 00:31:38,405

It was an absolute

pleasure to read your book.

712

31:38 ,405 --> 00:31:38,815

I forgot

713

31:38 ,815 --> 00:31:40,725

Ione Skye: what the, I

forgot what was the last,

714

31:40 ,725 --> 00:31:41,295

Marc Preston: insert here.

715

31:41 ,515 --> 00:31:41,855

Okay.

716

31:42 ,095 --> 00:31:43,185

Ione Skye: Oh, got it.

717

31:43 ,245 --> 00:31:43,865

Cool.

718

31:45 ,190 --> 00:31:46,850

Marc Preston: Um, yeah, yeah, that's true.

719

31:47 ,040 --> 00:31:49,570

Ione Skye: I know I was surprised he

said that because I was like, yeah,

720

31:49 ,640 --> 00:31:51,550

if he says I'm a mystery, I must be.

721

31:51 ,610 --> 00:31:54,550

Marc Preston: So, because you were in a

group of folks who really were defining

722

31:54 ,550 --> 00:31:58,050

an era, like I said, that was, that

seemed to be being a teen, all these

723

31:58 ,060 --> 00:31:59,690

teen movies were, were rolling out.

724

31:59 ,770 --> 00:32:03,650

Who do you feel like was most, you know,

simpatico who, who did you hang out with?

725

32:03 ,670 --> 00:32:05,620

He felt like there was a

connection, y'all were kind of on

726

32:05 ,620 --> 00:32:07,670

a similar actor path, if you will.

727

32:07 Children of Musicians: A Unique Upbringing

32:07 ,670 --> 00:32:07,899

Ione Skye: Yeah.

728

32:07 ,900 --> 00:32:08,160

Yeah.

729

32:08 ,160 --> 00:32:10,540

I think, I mean, I think the actors that.

730

32:11 ,275 --> 00:32:16,675

Uh, some who were kind of children of ish.

731

32:16 ,725 --> 00:32:20,655

I mean, moon wasn't acting a lot then,

but it's the, I definitely was drawn

732

32:20 ,655 --> 00:32:26,535

to these kind of children of musicians

and people of that era, cause they

733

32:26 ,705 --> 00:32:28,735

had a similar Bohemian upbringing.

734

32:28 ,735 --> 00:32:30,215

So we probably could relate to that.

735

32:30 ,225 --> 00:32:31,815

And sometimes these sort of famous.

736

32:32 ,315 --> 00:32:37,465

Dads who are these kind of presence in

their lives and then just see actors

737

32:37 ,475 --> 00:32:44,175

like River and Keanu felt very similar

and Martha Plimpton, Winona Ryder, very

738

32:44 ,185 --> 00:32:50,995

bright, interesting, interested people

who were like reading a lot and listening

739

32:50 ,995 --> 00:32:55,620

to music and it's kind of sophisticated,

but in a way that wasn't like We're not

740

32:55 ,620 --> 00:33:02,100

playing adult sophisticated, but just

almost like college minds of like learn.

741

33:02 ,110 --> 00:33:03,570

And we were all self taught.

742

33:03 ,570 --> 00:33:06,480

We had to be self taught because

we were often not in school.

743

33:06 ,790 --> 00:33:12,770

So like a lot of very bright, creative

people who are really self taught

744

33:12 ,780 --> 00:33:14,450

and reading a lot and that kind of

745

33:14 Reflections of 80’s Teen Actors

33:14 ,450 --> 00:33:14,730

Marc Preston: thing.

746

33:14 ,740 --> 00:33:15,630

You're a hundred percent right.

747

33:15 ,630 --> 00:33:19,000

And now it seemed to be more like

thinkers, more intellectuals, you

748

33:19 ,000 --> 00:33:21,300

know, and if you compare them to.

749

33:21 ,865 --> 00:33:24,145

Commensurate like teen

actors of the day now?

750

33:24 ,145 --> 00:33:25,255

Uh, I think there is a difference.

751

33:25 ,260 --> 00:33:25,350

Yes.

752

33:25 ,355 --> 00:33:25,495

Yes.

753

33:25 ,495 --> 00:33:26,590

There was just something

different in that.

754

33:26 ,660 --> 00:33:26,950

Ione Skye: Yeah.

755

33:27 ,085 --> 00:33:32,185

I mean, it's true like some, like a lot

of us, like I'm thinking of Winona Rider,

756

33:32 ,915 --> 00:33:37,325

when we would audition for, say, a Woody

Allen movie, we had all seen the Woody

757

33:37 ,325 --> 00:33:41,375

Allen movie, whereas I remember this

actress who had come from the Midwest.

758

33:41 ,505 --> 00:33:44,305

And it's not because she came

from the Midwest that she didn't

759

33:44 ,355 --> 00:33:48,115

hadn't seen, but maybe, but she

was doing a lot of catching up.

760

33:48 ,665 --> 00:33:53,235

And I think for, yeah, for some reason,

maybe, yeah, we were all, and even

761

33:53 ,235 --> 00:33:58,255

Leonardo DiCaprio, like we all had sort

of reading kind of college age books

762

33:58 ,255 --> 00:34:02,525

and, you know, getting into beatnik and

whatever, maybe because of our parents.

763

34:02 ,875 --> 00:34:05,715

So it was this kind of thing

where we were kind of exploring

764

34:06 ,355 --> 00:34:07,515

things that were sort of.

765

34:08 ,135 --> 00:34:12,085

Out there and maybe considered

a certain type of learning.

766

34:12 ,285 --> 00:34:14,485

Marc Preston: Do you think it

had something to do with, at some

767

34:14 ,485 --> 00:34:17,565

level, maybe you didn't want to be

perceived, you know, because of it's

768

34:17 ,575 --> 00:34:21,905

maybe a teen movie, but you're acting

with adults and notable actors.

769

34:21 ,905 --> 00:34:24,615

Did you want to be perceived

as more than just a teen actor?

770

34:24 ,615 --> 00:34:28,135

You know, do you want to be perceived

as an intellectual by the people?

771

34:28 ,135 --> 00:34:28,965

Do you think that's the impetus?

772

34:29 Desire to Be More Than a Pretty Face

34:29 ,610 --> 00:34:33,450

Ione Skye: I, yeah, I had that from

a young age where I just didn't

773

34:33 ,450 --> 00:34:35,130

want to just be a pretty face.

774

34:35 ,160 --> 00:34:38,550

I just always wanted to kind

of be, um, something more.

775

34:38 ,840 --> 00:34:42,570

And then it seemed people valued

in the industry or not, you know,

776

34:42 ,580 --> 00:34:48,194

my peers who I admired, they

valued humor, quickness, you know.

777

34:48 ,595 --> 00:34:53,095

And so that, and it was just

fun to be really funny together.

778

34:53 ,095 --> 00:34:57,695

And I mean, I'm sure a lot of groups

of teenagers and people, you know,

779

34:57 ,705 --> 00:35:02,105

value those kinds of things, but as

far as wanting to be, yeah, I've always

780

35:02 ,105 --> 00:35:07,365

wanted to be considered smart and

also know I knew they knew I wasn't.

781

35:07 ,675 --> 00:35:10,815

I hadn't graduated high school,

so I had an insecurity about that.

782

35:10 ,825 --> 00:35:14,415

And I definitely wanted to catch

up and be self taught and not be

783

35:14 ,445 --> 00:35:18,845

perceived as, yeah, I didn't want to

be looked down upon because I wasn't.

784

35:18 ,855 --> 00:35:20,015

Do you mean you hadn't graduated

785

35:20 Balancing Career and Education

35:20 ,015 --> 00:35:22,284

Marc Preston: as of yet or you

left early to just focus on career?

786

35:22 ,285 --> 00:35:22,485

I

787

35:22 ,485 --> 00:35:26,005

Ione Skye: left early to focus on,

I mean, yeah, because I was doing

788

35:26 ,005 --> 00:35:30,585

my career and, and it was taking,

you know, it was going, if it wasn't

789

35:30 ,875 --> 00:35:32,395

going gangbusters, I would have.

790

35:32 ,860 --> 00:35:36,520

Just gone back to school, but

it was just like a, there was

791

35:36 ,540 --> 00:35:38,730

no stopping it at that point.

792

35:38 ,980 --> 00:35:40,580

And I mean, you definitely got on

793

35:40 ,580 --> 00:35:43,360

Marc Preston: a fast moving train,

you know, there was not like big

794

35:43 ,470 --> 00:35:45,440

gaps between projects, you know,

795

35:45 ,450 --> 00:35:45,800

Ione Skye: yeah.

796

35:45 ,820 --> 00:35:48,870

But at that time, and my

mom was not a stage mom.

797

35:48 ,870 --> 00:35:52,800

She was baffled by both of us,

especially my brother who was just

798

35:52 ,830 --> 00:35:57,510

like, got himself an agent and he was

just gangbusters doing it all himself.

799

35:58 ,055 --> 00:36:03,555

She's quite reserved, you know,

she's, she's not an, uh, a performer.

800

36:03 ,555 --> 00:36:08,555

And so she was thought it was fun

and kind of great, but then she was

801

36:08 ,555 --> 00:36:11,345

a little nervous, but she definitely.

802

36:11 ,500 --> 00:36:15,600

It was, would have said to go back

to school, but it was, yeah, it was

803

36:15 ,600 --> 00:36:18,390

just going movie back to back to back.

804

36:18 ,600 --> 00:36:21,220

Marc Preston: I always feel odd talking

about somebody's personal life and I'm

805

36:21 ,220 --> 00:36:25,680

like, we're talking about a book that

brings that up for whatever reason.

806

36:25 ,680 --> 00:36:29,400

I never knew that, uh, you were, uh,

that you were married to Adam Horowitz.

807

36:29 ,410 --> 00:36:32,490

I don't know why I didn't know

that, but you know, it was

808

36:32 ,570 --> 00:36:33,790

Ione Skye: pre internet.

809

36:33 ,800 --> 00:36:38,210

So maybe, and there was sort of

pre, just before paparazzi mania.

810

36:38 ,430 --> 00:36:43,510

For a lot of like, I guess, of course

there was paparazzi for Elizabeth

811

36:43 ,510 --> 00:36:48,210

Taylor and, you know, princess Diana,

but this was still, you could kind

812

36:48 ,210 --> 00:36:53,430

of go under the radar and our level

of fame wasn't well, his was big.

813

36:53 ,480 --> 00:36:54,150

I don't know.

814

36:54 ,150 --> 00:36:54,650

I don't know.

815

36:54 ,650 --> 00:36:57,580

We could just go out and I've always

been able to kind of pretty much just.

816

36:58 ,495 --> 00:36:59,845

Do whatever I want in public.

817

36:59 ,845 --> 00:37:01,745

And I get it.

818

37:01 ,745 --> 00:37:02,225

I get it.

819

37:02 ,225 --> 00:37:02,495

Right.

820

37:02 ,955 --> 00:37:04,155

It's so nice.

821

37:04 Navigating Fame and Privacy

37:04 ,445 --> 00:37:05,955

How did y'all connect?

822

37:06 ,075 --> 00:37:08,095

Marc Preston: I mean,

was this, was that again?

823

37:08 ,685 --> 00:37:08,915

I'm sorry.

824

37:09 ,155 --> 00:37:09,295

That

825

37:09 ,295 --> 00:37:10,895

Ione Skye: was my, yeah, sorry.

826

37:10 ,895 --> 00:37:11,335

I'm sorry.

827

37:11 ,365 --> 00:37:16,755

My brother did a movie, a remake of

the blob and, and Adam's older sister,

828

37:16 ,775 --> 00:37:19,915

Rachel Horovitz was a publicist on that.

829

37:20 ,115 --> 00:37:24,495

And she and my brother just got

along really well and just connected.

830

37:24 ,515 --> 00:37:27,565

And then he came back to LA from,

they filmed that in Louisiana.

831

37:27 ,970 --> 00:37:31,020

He came back like, I'm friends

with Rachel Horvitz and her

832

37:31 ,020 --> 00:37:32,460

little brothers, Adam Horvitz.

833

37:32 ,920 --> 00:37:33,360

I was like, what?

834

37:33 ,360 --> 00:37:35,690

And we were so excited.

835

37:35 ,910 --> 00:37:37,410

Marc Preston: What now,

what year was this?

836

37:37 ,410 --> 00:37:37,690

Roughly?

837

37:37 ,690 --> 00:37:40,160

It was about 91 ish, 92.

838

37:40 ,160 --> 00:37:40,500

Am I?

839

37:40 ,750 --> 00:37:41,380

Ione Skye: No, no.

840

37:41 ,380 --> 00:37:42,400

This is early.

841

37:42 ,450 --> 00:37:43,450

This was 87.

842

37:44 ,960 --> 00:37:45,470

Oh, okay.

843

37:45 ,470 --> 00:37:45,869

Okay.

844

37:45 ,870 --> 00:37:47,160

87. Yeah.

845

37:47 ,220 --> 00:37:47,560

Marc Preston: Okay.

846

37:47 ,560 --> 00:37:49,950

I got to remember high

school, uh, beastie boys.

847

37:49 ,950 --> 00:37:50,710

That was.

848

37:51 ,725 --> 00:37:51,945

Yeah.

849

37:51 ,945 --> 00:37:53,085

The first album

850

37:53 ,085 --> 00:37:56,725

Ione Skye: was probably 86, 87.

851

37:56 ,725 --> 00:37:57,915

I'm thinking, yeah,

852

37:57 ,955 --> 00:38:00,425

Marc Preston: my kids grew up

with Spotify, but when, you know,

853

38:00 ,425 --> 00:38:03,375

you had discovered music on the

radio, it seemed like Beastie Boys

854

38:03 ,375 --> 00:38:05,285

were on all the time, you know?

855

38:05 ,395 --> 00:38:06,495

So there's a lot of attentions.

856

38:06 ,495 --> 00:38:07,015

What was that?

857

38:07 ,015 --> 00:38:09,895

What was that like back then

for being a young lady who's got

858

38:09 ,895 --> 00:38:12,875

this guy who's Everybody's, you

know, talking about their band.

859

38:13 ,125 --> 00:38:14,185

Ione Skye: Well, they were active.

860

38:14 ,215 --> 00:38:15,755

They had just blown up.

861

38:15 ,805 --> 00:38:18,495

And then I got them right after the album.

862

38:18 ,495 --> 00:38:22,695

So I was with them when they were

recording, working so hard, kind

863

38:22 ,695 --> 00:38:26,815

of avoiding, they did not want

to be in the spotlight like that.

864

38:26 ,825 --> 00:38:31,850

They wanted the kind of, they just

wanted to be Successful and do well and

865

38:31 ,850 --> 00:38:37,610

do their work, but they were they were

still like so popular and doing a lot of

866

38:37 ,780 --> 00:38:42,090

publicity and touring and albums and all

of that, but they were actively kind of

867

38:42 ,110 --> 00:38:45,110

having a push pull with the fame game.

868

38:45 ,780 --> 00:38:47,990

So we were trying to be on the down low.

869

38:48 ,715 --> 00:38:53,115

And not be, you know, we weren't

like Kim Kardashian trying

870

38:54 ,585 --> 00:38:56,655

be out and about in that way.

871

38:56 ,975 --> 00:38:58,565

Marc Preston: That's just a

wonderful point because it seems

872

38:58 ,565 --> 00:39:02,055

like the difference between now

and then people are seeking it now.

873

39:02 ,095 --> 00:39:05,155

Whereas back then you wanted to

do the work and then have your

874

39:05 ,155 --> 00:39:07,525

life, you know, there seems to

be a little bit of a difference.

875

39:07 ,815 --> 00:39:08,145

Ione Skye: Yeah.

876

39:08 ,265 --> 00:39:13,025

You were always happy to, well, at

least for me, I liked if I got to have

877

39:13 ,035 --> 00:39:14,915

my photo taken for something with the.

878

39:15 ,140 --> 00:39:17,480

photographer who was really, really great.

879

39:17 ,520 --> 00:39:19,540

Like I was like, Bruce Weber, sure.

880

39:20 ,020 --> 00:39:21,820

But it was that thing.

881

39:21 ,820 --> 00:39:25,610

You just didn't want to do cheesy things.

882

39:25 ,610 --> 00:39:30,670

And there was a push pull with absolutely

like you want, we would like avoid the

883

39:30 ,670 --> 00:39:35,050

red carpet and just go into the screening

or, but then your representation would

884

39:35 ,050 --> 00:39:36,500

probably be like, you should do that.

885

39:37 ,470 --> 00:39:41,620

But yeah, I mean, I think it was this real

push pull with all of the stuff you have

886

39:41 ,620 --> 00:39:44,290

to do, the, the, being in public part.

887

39:44 ,490 --> 00:39:48,370

So we were very much trying to kind

of hide out while still continuing

888

39:48 ,390 --> 00:39:53,350

to do our work and, you know, stay,

stay relevant, but in the way that

889

39:53 ,350 --> 00:39:55,190

you want to stay relevant, if you can.

890

39:55 Jewish Heritage and Family Dynamics

39:55 ,610 --> 00:39:57,690

Marc Preston: So is your mother

like, Oh, she's spending time

891

39:57 ,690 --> 00:39:58,960

with some Jewish boys in New York.

892

39:58 ,970 --> 00:39:59,630

That's a good thing.

893

39:59 ,670 --> 00:40:00,240

Ione Skye: Yeah.

894

40:00 ,240 --> 00:40:02,210

She loved Adam right away.

895

40:02 ,220 --> 00:40:05,985

And I'll Also I'd come from just,

Anthony was so scary for everybody.

896

40:05 ,985 --> 00:40:09,655

We loved, my mom loved Anthony and

worried about him and we cared about

897

40:09 ,655 --> 00:40:14,295

him, but it was just too much to, to,

and it was too hard and I was too young.

898

40:14 ,295 --> 00:40:19,385

So when that ended, thankfully,

um, yeah, everyone loved Adam.

899

40:19 ,385 --> 00:40:22,605

My mom loved him and his

mother wasn't around anymore.

900

40:22 ,785 --> 00:40:26,175

So my mom is so maternal and

it just was just this one big

901

40:26 ,185 --> 00:40:27,465

family and it was just great.

902

40:27 ,475 --> 00:40:31,995

And sure, my mom finally married

a Jewish man, but she was never.

903

40:32 ,270 --> 00:40:36,110

Uh, you know, like my grandparents

were always like, oh my God, all her,

904

40:36 ,170 --> 00:40:41,060

all their kids did not marry Jewish

people until my, my mom finally did.

905

40:41 ,060 --> 00:40:43,400

But, but yeah, she, she doesn't care.

906

40:43 ,400 --> 00:40:45,260

But she also, it was just very nice.

907

40:45 ,260 --> 00:40:49,460

And also the, the New York thing, my

mom's a New Yorker and it was just nice

908

40:49 ,460 --> 00:40:51,380

to have more reasons to go to New York.

909

40:51 ,500 --> 00:40:53,420

Marc Preston: Feel I to tell my kids,

like, do whatever makes you happy.

910

40:53 ,420 --> 00:40:54,530

Be with whoever makes you happy.

911

40:54 ,535 --> 00:40:54,735

I don't care.

912

40:55 ,370 --> 00:40:55,690

Religion.

913

40:55 ,790 --> 00:40:58,600

And I'm not, we're not really, really

observant at all, but we do love the food.

914

40:58 ,600 --> 00:40:59,780

I will say that without a doubt.

915

40:59 ,920 --> 00:41:00,430

Yes,

916

41:00 ,470 --> 00:41:01,370

Ione Skye: absolutely.

917

41:01 ,370 --> 00:41:01,710

Yeah.

918

41:01 ,710 --> 00:41:04,310

And there's a familiarity

with, you know, of course.

919

41:04 ,935 --> 00:41:08,865

If some people like his grandmother and

grandfather, like his grandmother and

920

41:08 ,865 --> 00:41:12,035

my grandmother, we're like so similar.

921

41:12 ,035 --> 00:41:15,935

So that's cute when you see stuff and

you understand certain things like that.

922

41:16 ,435 --> 00:41:19,445

Marc Preston: I think that is the thing

that, that one of the things that does

923

41:19 ,445 --> 00:41:22,525

make it a little bit easier for Jewish

folks is, you know, spending time

924

41:22 ,525 --> 00:41:26,845

with somebody else is like, okay, they

can connect with a whole Jewish, uh,

925

41:26 ,865 --> 00:41:31,665

uh, grandparent thing or whatever, or

understand kind of the Family dynamic.

926

41:32 Favorite Foods and Culinary Skills

41:32 ,055 --> 00:41:34,725

Um, but I have to ask you 'cause

I always talk food at least once.

927

41:34 ,725 --> 00:41:37,545

What is your favorite

deli Jewish food dish?

928

41:37 ,545 --> 00:41:38,475

I'm just kind of curious.

929

41:39 ,655 --> 00:41:45,585

Ione Skye: Well, I just kind of discovered

like, um, I mean, I love cabbage,

930

41:45 ,585 --> 00:41:51,795

so I love, um, like a a, what's the

sandwich with like roast beef and then

931

41:51 ,825 --> 00:41:55,815

like that Ruben, that sort of like,

yeah, a Reuben I think is my favorite.

932

41:55 ,995 --> 00:41:57,105

Ruben is my favorite.

933

41:57 ,375 --> 00:41:59,775

There some place in life

that makes a really,

934

41:59 ,775 --> 00:42:00,705

Marc Preston: really, really good.

935

42:00 ,705 --> 00:42:02,475

Not that it was, it's not, um.

936

42:03 ,215 --> 00:42:04,595

Is it Langer's Langer's?

937

42:04 ,625 --> 00:42:07,125

I think I've never been there

before, but I talked to Andrew

938

42:07 ,125 --> 00:42:09,685

Zimmern, you know, from food network

and all that a little while back.

939

42:09 ,695 --> 00:42:11,775

And he was talking about, Oh yeah, I

gotta go there and get this sandwich.

940

42:11 ,775 --> 00:42:13,955

But apparently the Reuben

there is amazing or something.

941

42:14 ,275 --> 00:42:14,785

Okay.

942

42:14 ,835 --> 00:42:15,665

Ione Skye: I'll get that.

943

42:15 ,755 --> 00:42:19,795

And I do love, of course, a matzo

ball soup and a good matzo ball too.

944

42:20 ,365 --> 00:42:22,615

Marc Preston: Well, that's, that's

one thing I am known for is the,

945

42:22 ,795 --> 00:42:26,925

and I'm, I am quite proud of that,

you know, so that's, uh, yeah.

946

42:26 ,925 --> 00:42:28,305

It sounds simple that

947

42:28 ,485 --> 00:42:29,555

Ione Skye: you can mess it up.

948

42:29 ,805 --> 00:42:31,065

Oh, you make your own locks.

949

42:31 ,175 --> 00:42:31,785

Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

950

42:31 ,935 --> 00:42:32,385

That's easy.

951

42:32 ,385 --> 00:42:33,325

I can get you, I can get your recipe.

952

42:33 ,335 --> 00:42:36,275

It's the literally the

easiest thing in the world.

953

42:36 ,285 --> 00:42:36,572

It's just.

954

42:36 ,572 --> 00:42:36,829

Oh

955

42:36 ,829 --> 00:42:37,857

Ione Skye: my God, I'm fascinated.

956

42:37 ,857 --> 00:42:38,114

Okay.

957

42:38 ,115 --> 00:42:39,085

You have salt, pepper,

958

42:39 ,355 --> 00:42:42,705

Marc Preston: sugar, dill, and you can

wrap up some salmon for a few days.

959

42:42 ,715 --> 00:42:43,005

Boom.

960

42:43 ,005 --> 00:42:43,755

You got locks.

961

42:43 ,765 --> 00:42:45,045

It's not hard at all.

962

42:45 ,045 --> 00:42:45,485

Ione Skye: Incredible.

963

42:45 ,485 --> 00:42:45,945

Yeah.

964

42:46 ,020 --> 00:42:46,670

Oh, wow.

965

42:46 ,710 --> 00:42:47,100

Okay.

966

42:47 ,100 --> 00:42:47,130

You

967

42:47 ,130 --> 00:42:48,350

Marc Preston: can tell

I haven't had lunch yet.

968

42:48 ,350 --> 00:42:49,540

So I'm starting to kind

of go that direction.

969

42:49 ,590 --> 00:42:50,010

No, me

970

42:50 ,010 --> 00:42:50,350

Ione Skye: too.

971

42:50 ,350 --> 00:42:53,050

This will be, we'll both go have

a, have some food after this.

972

43:00 The Seven Questions

43:00 ,310 --> 00:43:02,820

Marc Preston: Now, before we get

going, I always do what I call my

973

43:02 ,830 --> 00:43:06,434

seven questions before we wrap up

a little fun and adding, of course.

974

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You know, we were talking food and

that's always my first question is

975

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what is your favorite comfort food?

976

43:13 ,095 --> 00:43:15,915

I want that thing if you had a

crappy day or an amazing day, just

977

43:16 ,215 --> 00:43:17,865

it just lands just right for you.

978

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I would say what

I just said, a Reuben or I think

979

43:25 ,565 --> 00:43:28,805

just like a really good pasta.

980

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Like it's sort of weirdly

hard to make a good.

981

43:31 ,525 --> 00:43:35,015

Maranara or that kind of sauce

where it's like a just a basic

982

43:35 ,035 --> 00:43:37,565

red, you know, an Italian pasta.

983

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I feel like warm, definitely warm food,

but a really good kind of just delicious.

984

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I love the combo of tomato, the

salt fat thing of like tomato and

985

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cheese, you know, that combination.

986

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So I think like a delicious, just

straight up Italian pasta or a

987

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Reuben, something warm and fatty.

988

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Marc Preston: Well, you know, I have

to ask, cause I know he's probably

989

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going to listen to this episode.

990

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There's a friend of mine on the island

named Wayne, who's from Australia.

991

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And I've got, I'm going to ask,

what is your favorite, on behalf

992

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of him, I'm going to ask, what

is your favorite Australian food?

993

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By the way, he introduced

me the other day.

994

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He sent me a text message

when his daughters were in

995

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town, uh, from Australia.

996

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He said, come over for a sausage sizzle.

997

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I was like, what's that?

998

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Sounds like a barbecue.

999

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Apparently that's a thing in Australia.

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Sausage sizzle.

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Ione Skye: Yeah.

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Sausage sizzle.

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Yeah.

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I think, well, the seafood

is probably the best.

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Cause it's.

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The seafood's so good there.

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So I would say.

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You know, their fish and chips are

pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

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But I like, um, yeah, their

seafood is just really good.

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So I think I would have to say

that and their, and their fruit of

Speaker:1011

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fruit and also fruit, cause they

have just great, beautiful fruit.

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Marc Preston: Very good.

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Well, next question I got for

you is if you're going to be

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sitting down with three people.

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Having coffee, a few hours

talking story, living or not.

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Who would those three people be?

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You would like to sit down with?

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44:58 ,810 --> 00:44:59,680

Ione Skye: I'd love to.

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Cause I was talking about Winona

Ryder and I haven't hung out

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with her and she's so bright.

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So I'd love to get her and I

know she, you know, I haven't

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been in her circle for a while.

Speaker:1023

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So Winona Ryder, um, Say

Ing, uh, Ingmar Bergman?

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Is that her name?

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Why am I saying it wrong?

Speaker:1026

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Isabella Rossellini's mom, I

think, would be really interesting.

Speaker:1027

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Um, Ingmar Bergman, yeah?

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Am I saying it wrong?

Speaker:1029

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Why am I forgetting?

Speaker:1030

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An old act, an actress from

the, I would be really curious,

Speaker:1031

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like, an actress from the 40s.

Speaker:1032

45:38 ,015 --> 00:45:44,155

Who I really love, because I would be very

curious to find out what it was like and

Speaker:1033

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maybe James Baldwin, just

because he's so brilliant.

Speaker:1034

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I can just listen to him.

Speaker:1035

45:50 ,475 --> 00:45:50,915

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Thanks.

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Marc Preston: Again, I love the way you

wrote the book and that's another reason

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45:54 ,255 --> 00:45:58,265

I, I rarely fawn or go, you must pick

up this book, but I'm going to say this

Speaker:1040

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to anybody, you know, for you listening.

Speaker:1041

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If you, especially if you Gen X, you got

to pick up this book, but just the way

Speaker:1042

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you describe like Molly Ringwald, like

you're hanging out at the Zappa house.

Speaker:1043

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You said the way you described her

floating on the raft looking like a 1940s.

Speaker:1044

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It's just the way you explain people.

Speaker:1045

46:14 ,660 --> 00:46:17,140

You're like my mind's eye

kind of picked up on that.

Speaker:1046

46:17 ,160 --> 00:46:17,590

I could imagine.

Speaker:1047

46:18 ,750 --> 00:46:20,970

So you're such a great

storyteller by the way.

Speaker:1048

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I really enjoy.

Speaker:1049

46:21 ,840 --> 00:46:22,680

I can't wait to get into the rest of this.

Speaker:1050

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Um, now, now going back, uh,

when you're, when you're a young,

Speaker:1051

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uh, Uh, latine or maybe younger.

Speaker:1052

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Who was your first celebrity crush?

Speaker:1053

46:34 ,685 --> 00:46:38,445

Ione Skye: I loved Scott

Baio from Bugsy Malone.

Speaker:1054

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He was in Bugsy Malone and

also, you know, he was Chachi,

Speaker:1055

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but I liked him before that.

Speaker:1056

46:43 ,805 --> 00:46:45,525

I liked him from Bugsy Malone.

Speaker:1057

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And I think who else did I really

love from when I was little?

Speaker:1058

46:52 ,355 --> 00:46:54,695

Yeah, I think I'd have just

to say like Scott Baio.

Speaker:1059

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I really liked when I was a kid.

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Marc Preston: Very good.

Speaker:1061

46:57 ,515 --> 00:46:57,925

I mean, I'm going

Speaker:1062

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Ione Skye: to say he's now we're

politically on different sides of

Speaker:1063

47:00 ,465 --> 00:47:02,655

this, but anyway, it's another story.

Speaker:1064

47:02 ,655 --> 00:47:06,445

But when you're a kid, you know, I'm

talking about when you're a kid, when

Speaker:1065

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you see a little kid on a skateboard.

Speaker:1066

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Um, but yeah, that's just.

Speaker:1067

47:11 ,305 --> 00:47:11,815

Not now.

Speaker:1068

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

Speaker:1069

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I would, I put it this way.

Speaker:1070

47:13 ,745 --> 00:47:16,895

I would like to be hanging out with you

in Australia for the next few years.

Speaker:1071

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That'd be great.

Speaker:1072

47:17 ,815 --> 00:47:18,695

Ione Skye: Oh yeah.

Speaker:1073

47:19 ,795 --> 00:47:19,965

I hope.

Speaker:1074

47:20 ,225 --> 00:47:20,775

Yes.

Speaker:1075

47:20 ,985 --> 00:47:22,815

Marc Preston: You, you must be,

you must be down there going,

Speaker:1076

47:22 ,885 --> 00:47:24,125

I'm glad I'm here right now.

Speaker:1077

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Um,

Speaker:1078

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Ione Skye: Oh yeah.

Speaker:1079

47:25 ,455 --> 00:47:29,055

It's really, yeah, it's

pretty, pretty, pretty amazing.

Speaker:1080

47:29 ,165 --> 00:47:32,735

I'm like, a lot of people are like, how,

how do we get there in, it's very nice.

Speaker:1081

47:33 ,295 --> 00:47:35,045

Marc Preston: Let's say you're

going to be forced a next question.

Speaker:1082

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You're going to be forced

to live in on that.

Speaker:1083

47:36 ,235 --> 00:47:38,525

Forest, but you're going to be

living on an exotic island for a

Speaker:1084

47:38 ,525 --> 00:47:40,125

year, uh, somewhere you want to be.

Speaker:1085

47:40 ,125 --> 00:47:40,925

It's actually nice.

Speaker:1086

47:40 ,955 --> 00:47:43,385

You like it, but it doesn't

have any streaming at all.

Speaker:1087

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So if you want to listen to

music, you got to bring one CD.

Speaker:1088

47:47 ,205 --> 00:47:49,545

And if you want to watch a movie,

you got to bring one DVD, something

Speaker:1089

47:49 ,545 --> 00:47:52,535

you can listen to and you can

watch over and over and over again.

Speaker:1090

47:52 ,615 --> 00:47:54,365

Uh, the entire year you're there.

Speaker:1091

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What would that CD and DVD be?

Speaker:1092

47:57 ,135 --> 00:47:57,885

Ione Skye: Oh man.

Speaker:1093

47:57 ,885 --> 00:47:59,515

One is so hard.

Speaker:1094

47:59 ,525 --> 00:48:00,235

I, well

Speaker:1095

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Marc Preston: I will say box set.

Speaker:1096

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I'll give you the box.

Speaker:1097

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Okay.

Speaker:1098

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Ione Skye: Box set.

Speaker:1099

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Hmm.

Speaker:1100

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Oh, box set.

Speaker:1101

48:06 ,915 --> 00:48:11,115

I mean, it might have to be

something I would say, like

Speaker:1102

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maybe even classical music.

Speaker:1103

48:12 ,715 --> 00:48:16,165

I mean, not that I listened to a

lot at this point, but if I only

Speaker:1104

48:16 ,165 --> 00:48:22,265

had one, it might be something

classical, uh, um, a box set.

Speaker:1105

48:22 ,285 --> 00:48:23,345

Oh my gosh.

Speaker:1106

48:23 ,345 --> 00:48:27,955

Um, I'm, this is not, sorry,

I'm not very good at these one,

Speaker:1107

48:27 ,965 --> 00:48:29,715

these like fast answer ones.

Speaker:1108

48:29 ,875 --> 00:48:30,185

Oh no,

Speaker:1109

48:30 ,185 --> 00:48:30,514

Marc Preston: no, no.

Speaker:1110

48:30 ,515 --> 00:48:31,724

Take your time.

Speaker:1111

48:31 ,725 --> 00:48:34,305

Ione Skye: Maybe I would say right now,

I guess maybe it would be Bob Dylan.

Speaker:1112

48:34 ,385 --> 00:48:39,015

I'd just say that just cause I feel very

relaxed listening to Bob Dylan and it's

Speaker:1113

48:39 ,025 --> 00:48:40,665

so, it's so, yeah, I'll say Bob Dylan.

Speaker:1114

48:41 ,080 --> 00:48:41,320

Marc Preston: Okay.

Speaker:1115

48:41 ,320 --> 00:48:45,240

What movie would be the one you would want

to watch something that, you know, back

Speaker:1116

48:45 ,240 --> 00:48:49,190

when, back when we would have more, not

reruns, but back before streaming, you

Speaker:1117

48:49 ,190 --> 00:48:51,850

know, something would come on TV, like,

Ooh, I'm just going to keep watching this.

Speaker:1118

48:51 ,850 --> 00:48:52,770

You know, is that one movie you can watch?

Speaker:1119

48:52 ,770 --> 00:48:54,010

I always, I always

Speaker:1120

48:54 ,070 --> 00:48:56,300

Ione Skye: watch, um, a room with a view.

Speaker:1121

48:57 ,070 --> 00:48:58,170

I've watched that a lot.

Speaker:1122

48:58 ,170 --> 00:49:00,110

I love a room with a view that movie.

Speaker:1123

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It's like an, uh, merchant ivory film.

Speaker:1124

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Marc Preston: Given the era that

we grew up in and that you were

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working and knew these people,

what music were you listening to?

Speaker:1126

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What was your jam circuit

late 80 mid late eighties?

Speaker:1127

49:11 ,650 --> 00:49:13,690

What were you, who and

what were you listening to?

Speaker:1128

49:14 ,230 --> 00:49:16,690

Ione Skye: Yeah, because it was

like before grunge and Brit pop.

Speaker:1129

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So I was listening to a lot

of, you know, 60s music.

Speaker:1130

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I loved like Crosby, Stills and

Nash and I like Neil Young and

Speaker:1131

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Bob Dylan and I like my dad and a

lot of 60s, Joni Mitchell, um, and

Speaker:1132

49:29 ,990 --> 00:49:33,134

then we were, uh, I guess a lot of.

Speaker:1133

49:33 ,135 --> 00:49:34,725

Funk was happening.

Speaker:1134

49:34 ,755 --> 00:49:38,415

'cause people are, especially the beast

boys, were sampling a lot of funk so deep.

Speaker:1135

49:38 ,420 --> 00:49:38,740

Oh, that's right.

Speaker:1136

49:38 ,800 --> 00:49:39,300

That's right.

Speaker:1137

49:39 ,300 --> 00:49:39,501

Deep cuts.

Speaker:1138

49:40 ,035 --> 00:49:42,585

A lot of deep cuts of funk songs and rap.

Speaker:1139

49:42 ,585 --> 00:49:43,515

A lot of rap.

Speaker:1140

49:44 ,135 --> 00:49:50,625

Um, and new wave, like, just so much

new wave, like, you know, Duran Duran,

Speaker:1141

49:50 ,625 --> 00:49:54,375

the police, like just, I was pretty, I

always thought I had, apart from the.

Speaker:1142

49:55 ,165 --> 00:49:57,365

Dives into the funk.

Speaker:1143

49:57 ,405 --> 00:50:00,655

I always thought looking

back, I had a very interesting

Speaker:1144

50:00 ,655 --> 00:50:02,545

and obscure taste in music.

Speaker:1145

50:02 ,545 --> 00:50:06,035

But then when I think about it, I'm like,

it was everything that was on the radio.

Speaker:1146

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

Speaker:1147

50:08 ,215 --> 00:50:09,895

I started radio in 1990.

Speaker:1148

50:09 ,945 --> 00:50:13,545

I think it was 17 when I first

got on the radio in Dallas.

Speaker:1149

50:13 ,545 --> 00:50:17,835

And I remember my first hour, I still

have the page, my, my music log.

Speaker:1150

50:17 ,945 --> 00:50:18,725

I still have that.

Speaker:1151

50:18 ,755 --> 00:50:24,445

Um, it was like, Uh, Aerosmith, New

Kids on the Block, Keith Sweat, Bell

Speaker:1152

50:24 ,455 --> 00:50:28,275

B, it was just this melange of just

all these different, like hip hop.

Speaker:1153

50:28 ,275 --> 00:50:32,405

And it was, it was like, you could get all

that on a pop station where it wasn't, I

Speaker:1154

50:32 ,405 --> 00:50:32,985

Ione Skye: know.

Speaker:1155

50:33 ,195 --> 00:50:36,315

And I thought I was like,

so, Oh, out of the box.

Speaker:1156

50:36 ,555 --> 00:50:39,685

But I was like, just listening to

just like stuff that was on K rock

Speaker:1157

50:39 ,685 --> 00:50:43,765

or stuff that was on whatever one, I

don't know if it was K earth one on

Speaker:1158

50:43 ,765 --> 00:50:45,795

one back then, but it was pretty just.

Speaker:1159

50:46 ,560 --> 00:50:49,830

You know, what everyone else was

listening to, but I loved it.

Speaker:1160

50:49 ,840 --> 00:50:50,810

Like a lot of people.

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50:50 ,980 --> 00:50:55,200

Marc Preston: One of the things I really

love about, uh, once upon a time was once

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50:55 ,200 --> 00:51:00,480

upon a time in Hollywood or when Tarantino

movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, I feel

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like that movie was a micro bit of a love

letter to radio circa 19 late sixties,

Speaker:1164

51:05 ,910 --> 00:51:08,704

you know, because whenever they got in

the car, they turn on and you would hear.

Speaker:1165

51:09 ,555 --> 00:51:09,725

That's

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51:10 ,035 --> 00:51:10,805

Ione Skye (2): right.

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51:11 ,225 --> 00:51:13,295

Marc Preston: When I was on the radio

in Dallas, he had the guys that loved

Speaker:1168

51:13 ,325 --> 00:51:15,025

East Coast and Stern and all that.

Speaker:1169

51:15 ,375 --> 00:51:19,495

I was very much a West Coast Rick Dees,

you know, shadow Stevens kind of a guy.

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51:19 ,495 --> 00:51:20,338

So

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51:20 ,338 --> 00:51:22,024

Ione Skye (2): I had

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51:22 ,025 --> 00:51:24,765

Marc Preston: to bring my radio nerd

thing into this at some level, I suppose.

Speaker:1173

51:25 ,145 --> 00:51:28,925

Now if your next question, if you were

to go from a stem to Stern, from the time

Speaker:1174

51:28 ,925 --> 00:51:32,035

you get up to the time you go to bed, if

you were to define the component parts

Speaker:1175

51:32 ,045 --> 00:51:36,465

for you of a perfect day, what would

all, what would those component parts be?

Speaker:1176

51:36 ,465 --> 00:51:36,479

Okay.

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51:36 ,850 --> 00:51:40,990

Ione Skye: A little bit of alone

time, like either I love sitting

Speaker:1178

51:41 ,000 --> 00:51:42,610

outside and a little bit of sun.

Speaker:1179

51:42 ,630 --> 00:51:46,180

I'm sort of like an older person

now, I suppose, where I just like a

Speaker:1180

51:46 ,180 --> 00:51:48,370

little bit of sun feels really good.

Speaker:1181

51:48 ,980 --> 00:51:52,810

Um, yeah, coffee, good food, uh.

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51:53 ,015 --> 00:51:55,745

Uh, yeah, a little bit of work.

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51:55 ,805 --> 00:51:59,465

I like, yeah, I like the combination

of seeing people and then having some

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51:59 ,465 --> 00:52:04,745

decompressing and I try to do like a

hike or a little workout, you know,

Speaker:1185

52:04 ,755 --> 00:52:09,745

go over my, you know, these days I'm

like better at going over my emails and

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52:09 ,755 --> 00:52:11,655

making sure that I'm on top of things.

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52:11 ,915 --> 00:52:15,985

When I was younger, I was just

very, very real space cadet.

Speaker:1188

52:16 ,525 --> 00:52:19,395

So I wasn't like taking care

of, taking care of business.

Speaker:1189

52:19 ,395 --> 00:52:21,665

I was always like having

my agent, you were

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52:21 ,695 --> 00:52:22,605

Marc Preston: just, you

were just kind of there.

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52:23 ,355 --> 00:52:23,695

Yeah.

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52:23 ,745 --> 00:52:24,275

Ione Skye: Yeah.

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52:24 ,305 --> 00:52:24,955

It's so true.

Speaker:1194

52:24 ,955 --> 00:52:28,195

I was so hard on myself cause I

was a working person, but really

Speaker:1195

52:28 ,195 --> 00:52:31,465

I was a teenager and they're

like, did you, uh, get my email?

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52:31 ,465 --> 00:52:32,535

I'm like, Oh, right.

Speaker:1197

52:33 ,335 --> 00:52:35,655

Marc Preston: It's so funny when I talk

to young actress, I spoke with one,

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you're like, okay, I got to make sure my

social media things scheduled my post.

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And I was like, it's almost like

they're, they're running their business.

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I was like, but you're only

like, I spoke to somebody there

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somewhere between 19 to 21.

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I'm like, I wish I was that

responsible at that age.

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You know?

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Ione Skye: I know.

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And, and come to think of it, I think we

didn't even at first have computers yet.

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So it was like phone calls.

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You had to just like call people.

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Yeah.

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Write your appointment down.

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Marc Preston: Day runner.

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Yeah.

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Remember those?

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Yeah.

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Ione Skye: Day runner.

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Yeah.

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Marc Preston: How would you like

to like wrap up your day usually?

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Ione Skye: Well, it, oh, wrap up the day.

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I am, I, I love baths.

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I like, I like tell, you

can tell I love unwinding.

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Um, I, I, I love dinners with

people I like, you know, I don't

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really cook every single day.

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I mean, it's funny 'cause I'm on this.

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Publicity tour.

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So it's a little different, like

what I do to wrap up my day when I'm

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working versus when I'm just at home.

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But yeah, I like to, I do.

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Yeah.

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I like to unwind by watching something

or listening to a podcast, but in

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the end of the night, I don't want to

listen or watch anything stressful.

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And in the, in the beginning, it's

like what I'm in the mood for in the

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beginning of the day, middle of the

day and the night are quite different.

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Like it's very interesting what I'm,

what I want to do on the computer,

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for example, in the mornings,

middle of the day and the night.

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But at night I want something

cozy or, you know, nice.

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Cause I, I feel like it'll affect

my sleep if I'm too stressed out.

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Oh, I'm

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Marc Preston: a hundred

percent there with you.

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I've got to, I've been training

myself to just not look at

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the phone before I go to bed.

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I just, I just can't.

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Ione Skye (2): And

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Marc Preston: when I get up now,

especially now, I used to start off,

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I'd pop on CNN, just get a quick skim.

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What's happening today.

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I can't do that now.

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It's like, it just sets me up

in a negative vibe, you know?

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And

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Ione Skye: I know me too.

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I know.

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I need, I need to kind of make sure

I'm up to date with things cause I've

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been so avoidant of listening, but

my husband will always fill me in.

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So I don't have to worry

about lip missing out.

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Marc Preston: Does he tour that much or?

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Ione Skye: Yeah.

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Well the tours in Australia are

really, it's such a civilized life

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over there, but they're beautiful.

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And his tour is mostly

like now on the weekends.

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So I can just kind of go with him or not.

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Um, but I used to tour a lot with,

um, my first husband and then with

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Ben a little bit like tour bus

touring, which was really cool.

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Now it would be harder, but back then,

excuse me, I could do that kind of

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more tour buses are kind of rough in

a way, but, um, I was listening to

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Marc Preston: some of the other

day who was talking about that.

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They said it's not glamorous at all.

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They were talking about how they, she

and her husband were having to have.

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Essentially a bunk together.

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It's, it's almost, it's not

a lot of room, you know?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I know.

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I can't believe I did that.

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I was thinking about that now.

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I, we would probably have separate bunks.

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I think the last time I did it, we

did sleep in separate ones cause they

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are teeny, tiny, skinny, comfortable.

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Marc Preston: You gotta be comfortable.

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Um, now next question, if, if you weren't

doing this for a living, if this was not

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an option, what could you find yourself

being a plan B something that would be

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right for you that would fit that would

be your option, uh, for another vocation?

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Ione Skye: Yeah.

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I mean, I love kids.

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So possibly like a, you

know, a kindergarten teacher

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or something like that.

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Um, I mean, definitely if it

wasn't painting or directing, cause

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that seems pretty, but I do that.

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So that's something I already do.

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Maybe, you know, uh, I was going to

say interior designer, but I don't know

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if I'd actually be that good at it.

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So I think something with kids,

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Marc Preston: what does

your 24 year old do?

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Ione Skye: She's still at Sydney

university, but she at one point was

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like a booking agent and a music teacher.

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Label and, or music company in,

in Australia, she's sort of,

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she was, she's very, she's like,

she's good at creative things.

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Like she's good at singing and

she's good at drawing, but she,

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and acting, but I don't know if

she wants to do those for a living.

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She's still figuring it out, but she's

kind of good at like, funnily, like

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corporate type, not corporate type

things, but she's sort of org, she's sort

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of organized and reliable in that way.

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So maybe she'll work.

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in the creative business side

of things, like producing.

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She might become a producer or,

you know, that kind of thing.

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She might write scripts.

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She actually loves writing scripts.

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56:51 ,150 --> 00:56:53,230

Something a little more behind the scenes.

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Marc Preston: So did your other

daughter take after you as well

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as like the creative side or

is that, is she into something?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I, for some reason,

my older one's creative and I thought,

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oh, the younger one, she seems very

sensible and sort of she'll be the doctor.

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I don't know, but she's

also very creative.

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Marc Preston: Very cool.

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So

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Ione Skye: they're both creative.

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It's got to be fun

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Marc Preston: for you to watch them

kind of, you know, take the baton

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and kind of do their thing as well.

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You know?

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Ione Skye: Yeah.

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It's really nice.

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Marc Preston: Now, the last question I

got for you, if you were to jump in that

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DeLorean, uh, travel back to when you were

16 and you got a piece of advice to offer

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yourself, uh, to either make that moment.

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Somehow better, uh, or maybe put yourself

on a little different trajectory.

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What would that piece of

advice be to 16 year old Ioni?

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Ione Skye: Yeah, I would say just

cause you're acting and you're

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working as an adult, just don't put

the pressure on yourself that you

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have to know how to do everything.

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And that's what.

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you know, agents and managers are

for to help you kind of organize

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your life and don't stress out

about being a little adult.

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Just try to still be young and a teen and

just not, yeah, not, uh, you know, get

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too deep into these love relationships in

such a grown up kind of mentality where

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you're like heading toward marriage.

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It's such a young, you know, I was just

looking to kind of be a little adult.

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Um, you know, in the

world a little too early.

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Marc Preston: Do you think that

that was kind of view at some

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level not protecting yourself,

taking a little bit more control,

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kind of have that adult mentality.

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Do you think that as part of it?

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Cause that, that to me

is a little familiar.

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58:35 ,135 --> 00:58:37,205

Ione Skye: Yeah, I think I, I didn't.

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Yeah.

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I think I just thought that

cause I was doing adult things

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and, and yeah, taking control.

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Yeah.

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Probably it felt like protect

a protective way to be out in

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the world so you wouldn't get.

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Yeah.

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Wouldn't have anybody, you

know, messier around, I guess.

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Ione Skye (2): Yeah.

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58:56 ,100 --> 00:58:58,930

Marc Preston: I can't even imagine,

you know, I'm sure it was a blast,

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but it was also kind of stressful

new and you know, to be working

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with, you know, it was an interesting

time you're with contemporaries age

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59:06 ,060 --> 00:59:08,010

wise, but the show is being run by.

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59:08 ,325 --> 00:59:11,625

Much older, you know, it's,

it's a whole different world.

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Um, I always wanted to be

in it when I was younger.

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I was like, Oh, I want to be doing that.

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I want to be doing that thing.

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They seem to be having a lot of fun.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, Well,

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Ione Skye: for most of it was really good.

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And I feel so happy.

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Like I wasn't in a hellish like Disney

show where you now you're hearing,

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Oh, it was terrible for the kids.

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Like thankfully most of these movies,

the directors and the people felt

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very like, like really appreciative

of our talents and like into us is.

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59:38 ,235 --> 00:59:42,005

Like, wow, this kid

River, he's so amazing.

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And like, they sort of did

treat you in a respectful way.

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Like at least most of the things

I did, thankfully were more of

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like those kind of adults that

valued teenagers as human beings.

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So that was lucky.

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59:56 ,715 --> 00:59:58,235

Marc Preston: Where can we

see some of your paintings?

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Do you have your paintings

online where we can see them?

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1:00:00 ,365 --> 01:00:03,125

Ione Skye: Yeah, I think it's

under Ioni Sky paintings.

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1:00:03 ,605 --> 01:00:04,295

You can find it.

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1:00:04 ,295 --> 01:00:04,475

Yeah.

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1:00:04 ,475 --> 01:00:09,205

I only sky paintings and it's a needs

to be updated, but you can get a vibe.

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1:00:09 ,485 --> 01:00:09,955

Marc Preston: Awesome.

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1:00:10 ,105 --> 01:00:10,495

Well, I do.

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1:00:10 ,535 --> 01:00:11,735

Thank you so much.

Speaker:1380

1:00:11 ,745 --> 01:00:15,325

It has been literally more than a

pleasure to spend some time with you.

Speaker:1381

1:00:15 ,325 --> 01:00:19,035

And, and I encourage everyone to grab

say everything not only is the best

Speaker:1382

1:00:19 ,045 --> 01:00:22,375

title of a book, perfect title, but

I can't wait to, you know, tonight

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1:00:22 ,385 --> 01:00:26,885

to move through it and read some more

stories, but I appreciate it greatly

Speaker:1384

1:00:26 ,885 --> 01:00:28,655

and I wish you nothing but the best.

Speaker:1385

1:00:28 ,655 --> 01:00:31,195

And hopefully we can touch base

and catch up down the line.

Speaker:1386

1:00:31 ,510 --> 01:00:31,890

Ione Skye: Okay.

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1:00:31 ,900 --> 01:00:32,930

Thank you so much.

Speaker:1388

1:00:34 ,820 --> 01:00:35,150

Marc Preston: All right.

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1:00:35 ,150 --> 01:00:35,770

There you go.

Speaker:1390

1:00:35 ,880 --> 01:00:37,250

Ioni Sky.

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1:00:37 ,290 --> 01:00:39,780

What a pleasure it was

to sit down with her.

Speaker:1392

1:00:40 ,110 --> 01:00:43,760

I mean, I'm a Gen X kid, kid of

the eighties, and she's right in

Speaker:1393

1:00:43 ,770 --> 01:00:47,010

that sweet spot of, uh, people

who just kind of really helped

Speaker:1394

1:00:47 ,040 --> 01:00:49,790

define that movie era, if you will.

Speaker:1395

1:00:50 ,210 --> 01:00:52,010

Uh, really enjoyed the conversation.

Speaker:1396

1:00:52 ,030 --> 01:00:55,490

And, uh, again, the book

is called Say Everything.

Speaker:1397

1:00:55 ,510 --> 01:00:57,320

Came out, uh, yesterday.

Speaker:1398

1:00:57 ,370 --> 01:00:59,570

So it is available to you right now.

Speaker:1399

1:00:59 ,785 --> 01:01:00,585

Go out there, get it.

Speaker:1400

1:01:00 ,825 --> 01:01:02,025

You won't be disappointed.

Speaker:1401

1:01:02 ,145 --> 01:01:07,275

So just do me a favor if you would and

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All right.

Speaker:1408

1:01:24 ,390 --> 01:01:26,620

So that's going to do it for me for today.

Speaker:1409

1:01:26 ,620 --> 01:01:31,040

As I always say, thank you so much for

making what I've got going on here,

Speaker:1410

1:01:31 ,080 --> 01:01:33,670

part of whatever you've got going on.

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1:01:33 ,680 --> 01:01:37,210

It means a lot to me and we'll

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1:01:37 ,210 --> 01:01:39,980

another episode of Story and Craft.

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1:01:40 ,250 --> 01:01:42,860

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1:01:43 ,090 --> 01:01:47,470

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1:01:47 ,920 --> 01:01:52,140

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1:01:52 ,730 --> 01:01:55,120

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