MANDY MOORE | Not Skinny But Not Fat

oh my God I can't believe it I truly can't believe Mandy Moore is here a Mandy Moore you made this happen I know people aren't going to believe it honestly that's cuz cuz you know okay we're going to have to talk about the issue there was an issue and I don't even know what the issue is are you sure do you swear 100% I'm like too much of a lite too to like understand technology and somehow I had blocked you you had blocked me it was 2018 God I wonder what it what like how that happened I I swear to you're not a blocker do you block people like today no no no one's on your block list I mean I'm sure I do have people I think from um there was a time in my life where you know there that was necessary yeah yeah that like God not to be so like Ki but I think when um I spoke out about my ex-husband there was just a lot of um stuff that sort of came out of the woodwork and I was like ah and then you didn't want to deal with it yeah so I believe you about me I do I but it is like first of all I'm happy that it's like part of our story you know because it connected us in a way but I was watching this is us obviously obsessively and I was like Mandy Moore Mandy Moore and then I was like let me just quickly like go to her profile for a sec and then I couldn't find you and then I posted to everybody like so weird Mandy Moore is off Instagram and everyone's like um nope she's definitely not and I literally you know what I found cuz I wanted to find um where it was when it was so I have like my personal account back then I I used it more and I I messaged you from there and I wrote Mandy Moore I have another account not skinny but not fat and it seems as though I've been blocked by you or something because I can't find you on there and now I'm spinning because why would that happen ever oh man so I didn't know either it's not like I was like oh I talked [ __ ] you know great mystery I know that's so strange and my sister's here today and she knows like it was like I was sitting at home and spinning like what would I ever say about Mandy and also she doesn't seem like the type of person no to and I was like maybe it's like a trigger word maybe my handle like like she was like what is this have no trigger I know I know so anyway what ended up happening in 2021 maybe yeah is a friend of yours at a call with her cuz she works at in a management company yeah and she was like first order of business Mandy Moore is my good friend and I'm going to take care of this issue cuz anybody that followed me knew that this was like an ordeal for me Anda I'm so no it's okay but I'm happy I think that it's like it makes it gives us a history you know it gives us like a certain underlying tension like like it gives something where it's like people know how like important this is but then I discovered you and I was like how was I not following Amanda all along I know people don't know that Mandy secretly like likes pop culture I feel like you don't give it though well sure I mean you don't it I I I will let those who have a real Authority on it like yourself sort of do your job yeah but yeah I'm absolutely but you're into yeah you're you're not above it oh God no no no no she likes it she gets into it you guys don't you get it twisted yeah don't get it twisted um even though you're a multi hyet lady over here I told her before we started she's glowing off the like just glowing right now in her prime you're sweet so are you 40 soon 40 soon next year are you excited I am yeah mhm I hear that it's a good good good decade I mean honestly I just feel like this chapter of my life like I I would you couldn't pay me to go back to my 20s I'm so I just assume that it just continues to get better from here I mean not that you were like wild no no but I mean life was weird yeah I had I definitely had a weird chap there from like my early mid 20s through like turning 30 yeah so I feel like that chapter just gave me a new lease on life yeah and and now being a parent and everything that comes along with that I'm like this just it's I can't imagine it being it feels like the most you yeah you've ever been yeah so first of all I know some people are going to be like duh but your real name is Amanda yes do do people still call you that my parents oh really is that weird or no no I mean they don't call me Amanda all the time but like when I was growing up if I were in trouble it was always Amanda or the first day of school before I would correct a teacher like no it's Mandy I've always been Mandy oh you've so it's not like a stage name or anything no I've always been Mandy huh I tried to make it happen for myself it didn't it didn't take you're not a Mandy I guess I'm not a Mandy you're an Amanda and I feel like maybe later in life I'll become an Amanda I don't know I'm Mandy feels so like silly and lighthearted or something yeah maybe as they get older and want to have like some story9 you're going to be like I'm Amanda I'm an Amanda an Amanda now so you started at 15 though I did with candy yes I were you that blonde or did you dye your hair then oh I dyed my hair damn yeah your parents let you Dy it that early my mom was so annoying about that oh no they let me diet that early oh my god did you want to do it or was it part of the like no no I wanted to do it I had like I had been highlighting my hair well before I got the opportunity to you know sign a record deal and start making music and stuff but I think it it shifted into a little more like intentional once once like I had a career yeah but yeah it's so weird to look back on that chapter I don't do you cringe at the music video or do you do you like have fondness I have fondness for it now I think not too like too far removed from it I was pretty embarrassed but now it's you know 20 some odd years later I'm like oh man Sweet Mandy I just want to give her a hug she didn't know what she was doing she couldn't dance I still can't dance but yeah and you tried to in the video like you had a full choreography oh yeah that was a prerequisite I mean that was if you were going to have some semblance of a pop pop career at that point you had to try to dance did you know you wanted a pop career like at that because I read that you started like doing your own music at 13 yeah I started what does that mean well I mean I started making music at 134 like it's a whole ridiculous story that I found myself in a studio after singing the National Anthem and these guys were like we've written songs we'd love to present to you and then maybe all collectively we could work towards getting a record deal and I just thought that's seems like so implausible but I I'm absolutely going to take this opportunity because I want to be in a recording studio and I want to be B Midler one day and make my own music and be onler was your was your she was on an absolute St so you were like a musical Vibes musical but also I was like wow I I loved beaches I don't know why I had seen beaches at that age but I no this is tracking it's tracking I loved I was like wow she's done music she does movies and TV and she's a household name but she's kind of done it on her own terms like she's such an individual I can't believe that at 13 B Midler was your idol yeah did she know that I've met her subsequently yes and told her and she's was very kind and this is all happening in Orlando in Orlando where I grew up yeah with the back Tre boys also happening around there yeah unbeknown to me they hadn't really like taken off come like household names or anything right they did start in Europe I think like their success yes started in Europe but like all of those whether it was in sync Backstreet Boys Britney like the the Transcontinental records that guy Lou Pearlman like that was all based in Orlando so there was just like a factory of how didn't Luke Perlman find you he didn't he didn't no I was like totally separate just happened to be from Orlando all those other folks went to Orlando for that opportunity and I just happened to randomly be there and grow up do you feel like a Florida girl no yeah you don't give that either no I have no connection to Florida they never claimed me as their own anyway so I'm like I'll just go be but you grew up there for a while yeah until I was 15 and then I moved out to Los Angeles do you associate because you were born in New Hampshire I was born in New Hampshire do you feel like a New Hampshire Ian I I I would love to claim that state Hood over being a Floridian absolutely so like you're a California girl I am a California girl I've lived there for more than half my life so so wait the story about the FedEx guy yeah that all ties into the studio making okay yeah so the story is one day while working in Orlando Studio you were overheard by Victor Cade shout out is he alive he is yeah okay FedEx delivery man who had a friend in aard to Epic Records she he sent this friend a copy of your demo demo he did with you no no no he just did me a big favor I was like I have a friend of a friend of a friend who works there you signed and then I ended up signing a record deal from that yeah isn't that a wild story like how else would it have happened to I feel like you would see that on screen and think that's that can't happen right that's too ridiculous so far-fetched but yeah I mean again it it feels like a chapter of my life it's hard to think back to it just feels like it happened to somebody else altogether were you manifesting it at that young of an age I didn't even know to manifest it like I didn't even know that that was a possibility again like my biggest dream was coming here to New York and maybe fingers crossed one day like finding myself on Broadway somehow like I went to Stage Door Manor I was just a musical theater kid the camp in Upstate New York yeah the cat skulls and I so that was my dream of all dream so it was a so it was a dream yes being in the industry performing all that somehow and I thought well if I could get my leg in the door like in one way maybe that that would allow me to try my hand at acting to try my hand at you know being on Broadway or whatever way I could sort of maneuver into the industry and it happened and it happened and like what a longstanding career too yeah the fact that 25 years or something yeah it's it's wild and at that time did you were you a fan of like the Britney the Jessica the N like they were all kind of coming of like coming up into the public Consciousness at kind of at the same time I was sort of like on their heels they certainly were before me and I'm certain that I was obviously my record company's answer to them like their version of that oh um but I wasn't really aware I I think like Britney her first song had just come out as I was like signing my deal and yeah were you aware them that you were being like that all these women were being compared and stuff like that once I had my first single out and I was visiting radio stations and shaking hands and kind of like finding my way into the the music industry and the and doing interviews and whatnot and those comparisons started rolling out I was like oh I mean I I got it yeah but also I was like but they're so they're becoming so wildly successful and I'm just a 15-year-old who like doesn't know what she's doing I don't know who I am it felt um it felt silly to me like how could you even put us in the same sentence and even as time went on I felt that way as well like what I like you never felt like you were there no and I never was like not trying to be humble like I just never found that same degree of success and so when people talk about them as contemporaries and like you know somehow I managed to escape the you know wild world that maybe they found themselves caught up in I was like yeah but I was also two years younger and I just had a completely different life and they were so successful and in such a different Stratosphere that I I don't know I yeah I never I found the comparisons like I understandable but also but did you want that like did you want to be Mandy Moore pop star or did you find yourself wanting to do the other stuff like acting I really wanted to be an actor like I wanted I wanted to be able to get to do a little bit of everything like B Midler yeah and I watched like mler I watched those other women have such tremendous success and it seemed to like disallow them from doing other things they weren't given the opportunity and the same way that I was like later you know not too much later where I was able to do a film like a walk member because I didn't have that degree of success so I think people could look at me on screen and believably go oh yeah I could buy into that being Jamie Sullivan [Music] remember but I feel luy what that movie did to us I mean what a movie you're very sweet and cry you're very your voice is so good thank you incredible voice thank you so keep singing I'll try so Dr Death is the new show you're on just jump right ahead how' you like that transition um I'm a pro so Dr Death I I told you when you came in I binged yeah you guys I got screen hours CR I watch before you I watched five episodes first of all as everyone already knows I'm pregnant yeah and I don't know if that was a good idea for me to to do right before you went to sleep it was it was anxiety and do saying was it was like crazy and more importantly than me you were 6 weeks postpartum yeah yeah no that's insane looking back on that now I'm like that was wild but I don't know I must have been high on oxytocin or something I was like sure let's move to New York wait so so you get this offer to do it like when you were still pregnant no so there was another actress attached she dropped out at the very last minute and I got this call like well there's the show it's shooting imminently in New York York everything's ready to go is it something you'd be interested in and I remember thinking wow like in a different chapter of my life sure if I had just not I had a month-old baby I was like this feels wild like the prospect of moving a toddler and a newborn and my husband like just to a city we don't live in and but I'll read the first couple scripts and kind of you know give you a definitive answer and then I read the first scripts and I was like dang I think I really want to do this this feels just like a step in a different direction and also it because I didn't have a ton of time to contemplate that kind of decision I just jumped in I think I'm better for it yeah because you know I came off of six seasons of a show like this is us and right maybe I would have been a little bit more precious about it had I not had this opportunity just sort of like fall into my lap in a way um and I'm so glad I did it it was crazy I was like nursing a baby and then doing a take and then nursing a baby and doing a take but so how did it work like Azie came came with me to work every day and I feel very lucky cuz I know that is not the case for most new parents they have to jump back into work and they don't have that luxury so I'm granted so well you had somebody come with you and then was with me all day and he just like learned to sleep in on set and you were nursing and pumping and [ __ ] like that your boobs didn't even look like really well really man I've like completely lost all semblance of boobage I was like what why that is so not fair I never had with but like yeah after I was done nursing it was just like they just floated away Into The Ether I watched that show and I'm like oh my God I missed oh cuz you had a little bit of okay had some boobage because I was nursing yeah wild six weeks I mean good for you that's amazing and your husband like supported this and was like I could not have done it without him he's like it's going to be hard but let's do it and I'm so glad that he was game how long was it for you're were here for five months it was five months yeah yeah we came right after Thanksgiving and then left like the end of April you filmed for five months yeah off and on off and on yeah they luckily like there's a good chunk in the second half of this season that um they truncated all of my things I was able to go home for a couple weeks but yeah I remember that I told you I like literally remember when you were here yeah cuz we were going to try to meet up we were going to try to do this back then and it was 2021 no 20122 it was last this time last year first of all love how quickly they turned this around I love when shows are turned around we finished in April and then it's like it's out that's amazing I also can't believe your son is one I I feel like you just gave birth I same same same so you do the six weeks after giving birth I just told you like I'm pregnant watching it made me anxious did you like you must have been I remember what oh my God I was I was more hormonal postbirth yeah than like during did how were you not like raging oh my gosh I felt like I was so hormonal I was like shooting the end of this usus while I was pregnant and nobody knew and I'm just balling it how sad it yeah so this felt like way easier in that in that sense I was like oh I can just take this hat off at the end of the day and go home and be mom oddly I think it made it easier my my character is this investigative journalist and she is uh finds this like incredible Charming Doctor Who's like pioneering this field of regenerative medicine where they grow tracheas like never tracheas will hunt coughing it's I'm like but he's like he he's this like world renowned surgeon she does this story on him she's a a a news journalist who's like sort of at the top of her game and used to being around impressive people and somehow this guy charms her to the degree that she abandons all journalistic ethics and embarks on this relationship with him and of course he's a total con artist and like her life unravels from there and she you know ends up quitting her job and is about to like marry him and she thinks the Pop's offici literally everything well I mean no this is you're giving everything away well it's it's all out there like Bonita this is based on a wondery podcast and it's um is it real it is it's based on a true story it's based on a true story so her story is very much out there and you could Google all of this did you meet with her I did not I because the podcast she tells it in her own words she tells it okay it's her story um it was very easy to just glean everything from that and from the scripts and you had like cuz as I was watching it I was thinking about you and the postpartum thing and the hormonal thing and the anxious thing and whatever and then I was like okay but I was like okay but she she's like making out with Edgar Ramirez yeah but she's not like having a and then you had like a steamy scene and I was like I can't believe it like how did you do did that feel like weird no I mean sure it always feels weird but like you walk through things so like gingerly and respectfully like yeah it never you get to that point where you're like Anyway let's just do what we have to do that's amazing good for you I'll when I'm six weeks post birth I'm going to send you a picture of me in the diaper that I stole from the hospital cuz I you seal like 30 of them yeah oh yeah you have to steal the I'll like this is where I am Andy oh my gosh everybody's different and you may surprise yourself yeah second go around I know you may just and like for an opportunity like you you you pulled it together had I not felt good and back in my right mind I absolutely wouldn't have said yes to this I was like sure yeah I I feel ready to go why not and how was New York for you at that time God I love it here it was cold though I remember you were here like winter it was cold we were here for the winter it was a mild winter there wasn't like snow or anything thanks global warming hats off yeah thanks global warming hats off to anyone who parents in New York it is so effing hard were you doing Brooklyn we were in Brooklyn yeah but just having kids in the city like the I'm we're so spoiled living in Los Angeles or any sort of area where we have cars and we can keep strollers and diaper bags and like all of the acutron like hidden away yeah this is your when you leave the house you have to have your diaper bag the water the and in Winter was like all of the accessories and trying to keep my toddler like a jacket on and a hat and gloves and and entertained when it's cold we're wimpy Californians like we can't stomach any sort of cold so he would just be like I'm cold all done I'm like I know buddy I'm cool too so yeah keeping him entertained was yeah that's hard cuz in La you can just go play outside here it's like what do we do yeah yeah lots of indoor like playground situations and classes and trying to find it's nice you like it I I love it I love the city and I love like I think that's why it was so easy to say yes to the opportunity like when else am I going to have this limited series it exists in Eight Episodes to have the chance to come to New York like I was on I was grateful but I was on a show that where I was in LA I was home for like seven years so the first chance I got to like try something new and a new environment was very enticing and you reunited with Jennifer Morrison I was still she directed she directed first half the first half of the show which is amazing because that's a part I watched so far yeah and she's great and she was in this as us she was yeah she's become a very very dear friend I'm so glad I got to work with her on that I know I remember you guys posting a lot together back then I was like is she acting with her like I I didn't know then and she directed just had her director that's amazing and she was in house for like season so she has that like doctor yeah she really does and actually she was a great like resource on set because she'd be like no that doesn't work or yes we this is how we need to like spell does not look believable correct yeah she had like real opinions and like was a real Authority on it um no it's amazing you guys need to watch Dr Death it's so good I love it and exists on its own like I didn't watch season one Anthology yeah season one's great I'm watch Jos Jackson's amazing yeah like Hello to watch another evil sexy doctor yeah um before you go give birth in the hospital you're like oh medical establishments I'll just trust no but Dr G know Luke Kirby's character gmal he like makes you believe in again grelli I love him nightmare is about tracheas forever um you also worked with Judy Reyes this time yeah and did you meet her when you were on Scrubs then so you filmed with her in Stu well I never filmed with her on Scrubs but I spent so much time there when I dated Zack and when I did those couple episodes of Scrubs that it was nice to reunite with her she's so great she's so great I was so happy to see her she's one of those people that you're like oh I'm so glad you're here so unbelievably talented like we need a Judy Reyes vehicle we need to see her like in a leading role yeah 100% yes I agree with you um so we were talking about your kids before and that you're a mom now in your element and you're such a mommy you also pop them out quick yeah unexpectedly oh really they're 20 months apart yeah 20 months how is that do you recommend doing like a backtack situation I mean I think it's challenging no matter how you slice it yeah I'm happy yeah I feel like I'm pretty sure our family is complete I still kind of like keep the door open I know okay door open that's all I wanted to door open but not like yeah I my husband's like what and and most days I'm like I don't know that sounds he's saying what like he's upset about no no what like you're contemplating a third one we're so tired know we've just turned the corner and having you know a an almost three-year-old and then a little dude who's like on the precipice of walking and like out of baby bab you know what's GNA happen oie's going to turn three and then you're going to start thinking about it I'm going to be 40 so like I got to get on that train I'm going to do it but then like Hillary Duff is one of my dear friends and she's pregnant with baby four and I'm like OMG if Hillary I mean Hillary Matt can do anything but I'm just I'm like wow PS off I know people with but she's like come on come on you can do it you can do a third I was like well maybe well like technically you would want like would you want a big family it's more just like I'm one of three are you one of I'm one of wait you're one of three yeah I have an older and a younger brother right yeah so me too yeah that's what I I was like I'm one of four know you guys math right now I get so I'm the same wait so so we want to emulate that technically in a way I think my husband it's just him and his brother so he's like I've only ever known two and I'm like I guess I I always thought maybe two if I were so lucky but now that I'm I have two and I had such I had very easy pregnancies knock on wood and and a really challenging first birth but a very easy second birth and I remember him like I knew when Gus my oldest was born I was like I want to do this again even though it was a lot um when Azie was born I remember feeling so instantly back in my body again that I was and it was so euphoric that I was like I have to do this again this is this is the greatest you did both without epidural right yeah because of your I have blow platelets yeah yeah what does that mean it means that my blood doesn't clot like I have a clot issue which doesn't affect me in any aspect clot as good yes doesn't clot as well so they worry about that in pregnancy that um you know God forbid you start like bleeding out that's why I guess like the epidural it's it's the idea of like them putting it in your back can you take anything yeah I think you could I didn't you literally just pushed it right out yeah wow well you know what I really want to have a home birth at first go round but because of my low platelets I couldn't and then um because I knew that I couldn't this second go around you wanted like the pool the whole thing yeah at home I was just like it was pandemic times I was like this feels cool yeah but then the second go around knowing that I had to have a hospital birth I found a whole new team and I just love my doctor so much that I was like H just to spend time with you again I might have another child just to like maybe poop in your I mean no one knows oh my God that for sure happened I don't know my husband didn't look so what I know I remember it happening oh you do oh yeah for sure and just somebody like like like PL so if I don't remember maybe I didn't maybe just like so know feminine I just you know don't poop ever so yeah that happens but I really wish I knew if that happened to me so wild that you did it the way you did it yeah I didn't have a choice I to like the first time went to the hospital I was like I want an epidural and then we got there they're like sorry I went there with one opening and the nurse where they like do the intake was like do you know if you want to take something for pain and I was like I'm not sure yet but I'm like dying I'm probably opening like 10 and she's like you're opening as one and if you're dying then you're the girl that's going to she literally told me she was dilated one yeah and she's like if you are came here with your bag you know ready to go you're probably going to take the med candidate for pain med yeah you're not you're doing it in the pool like Hillary Dove yeah not happening you would do it if you didn't have the low platelet thing you would I was going to try for that who knows if I would have made it through um would you want a girl though like when when Azie was when he found out he was a boy were you were little like oh I wish I I love having a boy so much that I was not no I was not disappointed at all and you have two brothers too I do have two brothers and my husband him and his brother brother are so close they're in a band together and I was like what this is so sweet like we're not that I'm forcing you guys but being a band together you guys are going to try to make that happen but I I would never have another child just to be like oh we'll go for the girl like I mean I would be so happy either way yeah yeah so what does the future look like for you what do you still want to do because you're doing so much you're producing now too right um yeah I hope that like some of the things that are in development are able to sort of come to fruition cuz they've been in development for a while on the produc yeah it takes a long time and then the strike so um that and maybe one day doing Broadway maybe wait did you do Broadway I've never done Broadway no so that's the dream wen't you asked to like do Chicago or something I have been asked to do that could be told but I'm I'm you know very it because it's such this like leld needs to be need to be the right show would do you want to do Broadway with singing like a musical yeah yeah yeah yeah cuz I saw for the first time cuz I've only seen musicals I saw for the first time um like a play like a dramatic play off Broadway it was with Aubrey Plaza and um I heard that's unbelievable no it's I was like I've never watched like straight up acting just on stage like without the whole impress um and it was crazy I was like this is cuz I was also sitting right there and they were like spitting on each other so it's intense it is um one one of the things I love about you is how outspoken you are about things that matter to you yeah and you like as much as you can look like Mandy mois she's so sweet she like you'll you'll give it thanks you'll give it yeah on social media too with the SAG strike and everything like you posted about that um you posted when you were pissed about um the Halloween thing which was funny yes I know they ridiculous mandate I mean how are they ever going to enforce it that was my thing like that's so silly you guys like how would you just get back to the negotiating table and like figure out getting people back to work instead of telling them what they can wear for Halloween I know it was crazy and you also I mean you said that you yourself got a check for like a penny I have in the past yeah not for this is us not for this is us but but those those checks as well I mean I was only trying to speak to my privilege that I have as an actor and I know that I am in a rarified position and I made a very good living as an actor for the last 25 years so if I'm getting checks that little what does a working actor who literally has to live off of those residual checks that aren't even making enough to qualify for the $26,000 a year you need to get Healthcare in the union that's what I was trying to speak to like I'm lucky I'm not complaining even like even even I've seen this side of it yeah yeah exactly and if if this is how little I'm getting as someone who is the lead on a television show for six seasons that normally would you know and back in the friend's days like as an actor if you ever got like a hit television show or movie or something like that that those residual checks were things that you could feasibly live off of for the foreseeable future oh so that just changed it changed with the streaming model so that was one of the things that people were fighting for like if if someone was the lead on a huge Netflix show they weren't seeing residuals in the way that someone in my position like being on a show on a network did see once and then it goes through streaming platform and you never see residuals again are you happy with the new agreement I'm did you read it all I did not read it all no I'm happy that a deal was made and that it was fair and that most importantly it got people back to work yeah cuz it just imagine you maybe couldn't even be promoting Dr Death oh that I don't care about I mean sure it's nice to talk about but like my friends who are in hair and makeup Guild who are oh my God that was crazy just our crews who like who who live paycheck to paycheck who needed to be at work such um probably such mixed feelings like on one hand you're like believe in the cause on the other hand people who need work are out of it for so long for so long because the writer strike started in May and so feasibly like for the most part lots of people were not working since then and it's just like we need to figure out how to get people back at it so crazy yeah well thank God that's over thank god um no AI Mandy moris for now um for now we'll see for now we'll see so how did you meet your husband Taylor we met because of Instagram so on Instagram yeah because I blocked him no full circle block no I I'm a lite and I don't know how anything works and I was a really like late adopter to Instagram but I heard a song on the radio because who listens to the radio anymore like this cool indie rock like radio station in La and I waited for them to back announce who it was and they never did and so I went on their website and deduced like who it was what the band name was and I went online and looked them up on iTunes and I saw that they had new music coming out and I like posted about it essentially I didn't tag them because I don't even I didn't know how to do that then what do you mean you you posted like love this band yeah I was like I can't wait for this record something innocuous like this is going to be the soundtrack of my summer and and then um a mutual friend of ours saw that I had posted and like alerted Taylor to that like that's pretty cool Mandy knows who your band is and and then he found a way to like send a really kind email through like his manager trying to find my manager and I I I got this email and we then sort of started corresponding back and forth and yeah and fell in love like we went on a date shortly therea and had this like epic three-hour long date that you you know you didn't want to end didn't hold hands or kiss or anything and then he went on tour for four months and I went to London to film that weird movie with Claire Holt our mutual friend where I was just like boted with this person and completely falling in love with him just via text and like FaceTiming and just like with Claire every day like oh my God I'm so in love with this guy and we've never even kissed before Oh my God and then we met halfway through like there was a little break in filming and um instead of going home like everybody else went home I went um to meet him in like Canada and we just like it was we I it was like a rcom moment where I rode down the escalator and he met me at the airport and was like waiting at the bottom of baggage claim and we had our first kiss waiting for the bag to come out it was very sweet and then that was it we've been together ever since and you're both like same Vibes right like with music and stuff too yeah I mean he is he's an an incredible band and like just a really prolific songwriter and and writer and there's constantly music happening at our house but he never looked at me like begrudgingly when I was like I want to do music again like he was such a champion and such a supporter immediately like yeah let's do it together let's figure out how to like it would be so much fun to write together to sing together and I'd never been in that situation before so I was I was so enamored with him and what he have like competition with you for sure he was secure enough in his own skin and his own talent to be like we can totally do this together and it's been so much fun and you did it together yeah we've made we've made made two records together like written two two whole albums together we toured together he like plays in my band whenever we play out and about and it's so fun to share that the real the in real life was the last record and then before that was silver Landings that came out like literally as the world in real life the music video is so cute did you guys do it yourself yeah it was so sweet and you had like your friends in it we just like sent out like a the bat signal to people like send us in just like your day-to-day like mundane things that you're doing your everyday real life did you write that with your husband that song was it about like it was about Gus my my son like coming into my world and like that just cracked me wide open in a way I never kind to get emotional think about it it just cracked me open in a way I never could fully wrap my head around and that just felt like real life not everything that came before it oh I got you didn't matter didn't factor in yeah I love that and that's another time you were you know crazy pregnant birthing was on the road like trying to tour with aie I know wait Azie was how old well Gus was like 15 months and I was pregnant with aie and I thought okay well I shot most of um fifth season of This Is Us pregnant and so I was like oh I could tour I could go on tour for six weeks but you announced like people knew totally I I announced like right before I mean it was again I I it was UN planned and so it was like oh well I guess I'll just like go on the road pregnant and I thought and with a baby and and with a toddler and I was like oh this is so easy like I did this before I worked till like two weeks before I gave birth to Gus so I was like I can handle being on the road for six weeks and I'll only be like seven months pregnant when we get done and I could not deal with it I I just wasn't sleeping I wasn't sleeping on the bus and like you know when you're not sleeping like the world feels like it's crashing in on you and I was like sleep when you're were pregnant I was like I don't want to do harm to my unborn child you stopped the tour so we finished like at the halfway mark and then I was like I need to go home and actually I just was not I couldn't sleep on the bus and Gus wasn't sleeping well that was ambitious of you to think it it was way too amb like Rockstar through like seven months pregnanc I guess that's why I thought oh six weeks postpartum I can do a TV show yeah like that's nothing on you yeah um so TV obviously you've done amazing things but you've been in iconic films like iconic because I said so one of my faves thank you princess diaries oh my God saved which is like you're crazy there yeah like your character is so good yeah she's crazy chasing Liberty I walked to her a member that we talked about like you have like some like like these are like classic like pop culture thank you like in our lives you know I appreciate that what was your favorite do you have like a favorite from the movies that you worked on probably a walk to member yeah like yeah just like is imprinted on me it was such an in like an indelible experience of I didn't know what I was doing thank God Shane West was like so kind to literally like guide me like this is how you hit your mark Make sure you have your lines memorized like I was such a newbie um and he was so wonderful like that we we shoted in Wilmington North Carolina I loved the book I was such a Nicholas Sparks fan like all of it it was just I was 16 like I was such a kid yeah I was like I love this I want to do this for the rest of my life and it was a great experience and didn't you come together like sometime in the last few like you did a star on the Walk of Fame and Shane came out and like helped celebrate and spoken that's so cute yeah was very sweet of him so we have to talk about this as us a little bit because obviously like a six-year freaking show yeah that you were on um I got you she's like let me just think is like see we you guys we have so much more it's not it's not enough time so obsessed with this is us I mean not obsessed with crying every week and getting migraines from crying sorry yeah that's a lot but such a good show thank you did you ever think it would become this like no no idea I remember I had I had done um you know like pilot season in La like before the the rise of like streaming shows pilot season was like January to April where all of the networks would sort of cast their new shows and they would film like a bunch of them and then pick just a few that would end up like airing and going on to Air and so I had done four four like pilot Seasons where I had gotten cast on a show and the show got filmed and then ultimately like not picked up so I felt really defeated at this point like maybe the universe is trying to tell me that I need to hang up my acting shoes and like move back to Florida or study journalism or go back to school like I I just I felt like I was hitting roadblock after roadblock and then um I I sort of tried to shake things up I switched agencies and I remember having a meeting and they were like we're not going to go after traditional pilot season we'll concentrate on more you know on like these streaming shows that are casting all year round I was like yes fantastic maybe I'll have more luck there and then the first thing they sent me was the pilot this NBC pilot called the Untitled Dan fogelman project and I was like what this is exactly everything we just said we didn't want to do and and then I read it and I was like oh dang and that first episode is [ __ ] it's crazy that was the pilot that you sh pilot yes so that's a crazy pilot it's a crazy pilot pulls you in like you have pulls you in and then it like just this twist at the end of like actually they're the parents I know I know I know it's in the past and and and I remember Dan coming to set our creator and he he was like trying to tell Milo and I like if the show gets picked up we're not going to tell the story linearly it's going to jump around in time and I was like I don't want to know anything because if this doesn't happen I'm going to be crushed even more so it wasn't until the show did get picked up and like a couple weeks before I got this script for the second episode and I was like wow it jumps in time eight years like the kids are eight now and do you want me to play this version of the character in her mid 60s how is that gonna work yeah it how was that makeup though I got you probably don't miss that though I mean there's part of me that's like I I miss all of it yeah even that I'm like it was such a like how many hours that take in the chair at the end we got it down to not the old like the oldest version took five hours the the sort of Middle Ground that most of the show existed in was about three and a half and then about an hour to take it off but I got so used to it that I like almost could fall asleep a patient person yeah I'm a pretty patient person so I was like me you got to lean into it you have to just sort of submit it's not going to go any faster and you more than anyone though right I did because Jack hundreds of times yeah Milo didn't ever have to do it I think for one or two episodes like a Flash Forward what if he didn't die yeah but yeah me and John wz who played my my husband present day we we did a lot but I definitely did it more than anybody you know what I was thinking about Rebecca when I was thinking about our interview that like I feel like it was unfair to her that like I was obsessed with Jack right I was like I wish it was my dad best dad ever yeah why didn't Rebecca get the same kind of love I think she did at the end I mean the show was like a love I know but she had to like be sick and die and like is it our like I don't know be the unsung hero as a mom yeah yeah like you were an amazing mom yeah she tried her best she definitely was fallible made mistakes said bug to time and what and we're like H Jack I think it's easy to deify people when they're no longer with us you know he sort of got frozen in time this this heroic figure and she had to keep picking up the pieces and moving forward but I think at the end like Dan lost his own mother in a really like sudden way and so I think this whole show was like a love letter to her so I I feel like Rebecca did get her her due I remember when you spoiled the show's ending for me um like you posted about even though like obviously Rebeca was going to die cuz we all knew from like the beginning sure but like I was like no um like Amanda yeah there's only one way to send yeah God anyway that's over now such a wild ride from 2016 like that was your isn't that crazy like I I know this is such a weird marker but I love to think that like we were shooting our show before Trump got elected I like what a weird sliding doors Moment Like had that not been the case like I was like waa so stange that's how long that's how long ago it's been yeah um some random things about you that people might not know which now adds up with like the other crazy things that you do you climbed Mount Everest I didn't climb Mount Everest I went to an Everest Base Camp I mean Mount Everest is like that's month and people do pass away trying to do that but I did ever though is like almost 18,000 feet yeah and it's about an eight day Journey trekking from yeah where they sort of drop you off do oh 100% I want to do it cuz I didn't get to do it with Taylor I want to do it with him and he's into it too yeah I made him we climbed Mount kilamanjaro together that was a bucketless thing that I had wanted to do like ever since I was a teenager and then we did ever space camp and I've subsequently did a few other mountains in between but yeah I love I love hiking and climbing my poor husband I like made him climb our entire honeymoon we went to Chile oh my God and did like Patagonia and like the AMA desert W like sipping pinina coladas by no we were hiking almost day oh my God I know I got a real winner who just like allowed me to do my thing but he's into it like he's he's he he wouldn't do it on his own but he yeah he's like he'll he'll support me he'll be by my side how do you navigate social media because like like what you post what you don't post like sometimes like you do post your family and your babies and like do you have any like I don't know I'm curious how you navigate it oh I'm just like that's I kind of feel the same way like I just whenever the mood strikes me like I I don't think I could ever have someone doing it for me so I was going to ask you because I I am seeing a lot of actresses like and even actors sure like you could tell they took like a social media person because it's like reals and uh you know planned out things and which sure there's like space for all about would you ever like do anything like that you think no I would I would feel so strange and not no judgment like I get it I just I think because it's just become part of my life to share when the mood strikes me that and people get in I think it's like people get invested when you share and then you feel like oh I have to update them that you know a cough is gone now you know God I hope so I hope I get home and no one's sick again G no the cough is like forever it's like just part of everyone's personality it makes me want to cry by the way my doctor told me to try zertek really it like dries it out I want to tell you yeah huh yeah I'll have to try that um what's one thing people would be surprised to know about you that I'm unsurprising that I'm so boring there's nothing about me that I feel like is worthy of being surprised about you need to stop saying that I also read that you said something similar you said like um you said something like when you were being compared to the other uh pop the Stars like you were like what's there to like like why maybe somebody asked you why you weren't like in the tabloids like crazy and how you escaped that life like give yourself more credit you escaped that life I because you like made I made a choice you made a choice yeah but I also like have an incredible family yeah that's you you that's that's yeah that's not everyone's lot in life and I recognize that like I very much love about having parents who were invested in being Mom and Dad but never wanted to be my managers never were like they're like we don't know anything about the business like we'll just accompan are they still in Florida my parents are divorced now but uh my dad is still in Florida my mom's in Arizona but I I even as a kid I recognize like that's nice like Mom and Dad are just mom and dad like they're not invested in my career and right and that way cuz that's when I think relationships can get tricky so I had a leg up in that sense I like just you know had had a like very normal family life at the core what's your Roman Empire what does this mean why do I not understand I'm to expl I'll explain it to you it's like okay first of all it started from this Tik Tock Trend or something that a girl would ask a dude like how often do you think of the Roman Empire and it was wild that so many dudes were like once a week like that they think about it a lot so I don't know it sounded fake by the end cuz you're like oh my God all these men just think about the Roman Empire sure but then it became a thing like what's your Roman Empire so let's say my Roman Empire is the 2003 VMAs performance with Britney Spears and the snake no that was probably like 200 something too the Madonna one the Madonna let's say like that's my Roman Empire like that moment is the a moment that I'll think about forever like forever at least do you have one oh my God I'm sorry I know I hate questions that are like think about an answer I should have some sort of something Joanie Mitchell just like yeah I everything Joanie Mitchell oh my God wait did they make Rebecca like Joanie Mitchell because of you or other way I think Dan knew that I loved Joanie Mitchell and can I tell you that I have been in I've shared space with Joanie Mitchell and she knows she knows about the show she was like that wasn't my actual house that you guys filmed that for that episode I'm like I know Joanie but we couldn't film helmet cuz she still owns the house that there was an episode back a couple seasons ago that Rebecca takes a road trip with Kevin to find Mitchell's house that she lived in with Graham Nash when they wrote our house and um her actual house she still owns it and she rents it out to other artists but um we couldn't film in that exact location in Laurel Canyon because it was like too close to the street and so they picked a house that like kind of sort of resembled it but she she had her wits about her to recognize like that's not my house I'm like I know well you paid such an her the whole freaking show obessed yeah okay no Roman Empire for favorite I'm gonna come I'll like DM you my answer I'm gonna be at home literally on the plane if you let me prepare I'll have my answers okay I'm just not one of those witty people that can think I'm I hate no but by the way I'm with you in that when people ask me like example questions it's hard for me to think on the spot too I will DM you my I'm going to wait for on the plane today um what are you watching right now nothing nothing I just actually finished the uh bad surgeon documentary on Paulo and Bonita what is that on it's on Netflix there's like a a a a documentary series about this actual subject oh wow so people can watch both you're still in it yeah you're still in it Bonita well I just was so curious because I feel like I've done so much research otherwise that again like hearing her in her own tell her own story is always fascinating to me you were amazing in it as you are in everything you guys watch Dr Death it's out now on peacock peacock we love all my favorite shows yeah Mandy Mandy Amanda Amanda we made this happen I know I'm so happy I'm so happy too I'm sorry I I wish I could figure out why the blockage ever occurred I know imagine it comes to you imagine you know those memes that are like you're trying as sleep and then you remember something that happened like imagine all a sudden you're like she said my dress to the gramys was ugly no I'm just kidding I wish I were that py um I can't believe it just kept us apart for so long no Mandy it's part of our story okay and it makes this special okay it's part of our history yeah I love it thank you thank you

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