April 4, 2022

Allegra Edwards | Downloading the Upload

Allegra Edwards | Downloading the Upload
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Allegra Edwards | Downloading the Upload

This week on Story & Craft, we sit down with the exceptionally talented actor, Allegra Edwards.  If you’re not already familiar with Allegra, I assure you that you will be very soon.  She’s one of the stars of Amazon Prime’s “Upload” and has knocked it out of the park by creating one of the most  memorable characters on TV right now.  We chat about her background, the Zen of setting creative goals, her work on Modern Family, acting alongside Adam Sandler and more.  Allegra was a pleasure to sit down with, and I’m jazzed to bring you her story on this episode of Story & Craft! SHOW HIGHLIGHTS0:04:48 - Greg Daniels' Vision for Character Ingrid0:10:28 - Distinguishing Drama From Theatricality0:16:02 - First on-Camera Experience and Nervousness0:20:26 - Working With Adam Sandler on Show0:24:43 - Responsibility, Confidence, and Inspirations in Acting0:28:32 - Inspirations, Bucket Lists, and on-Set Relationships0:30:28 - Discussion of Filmmakers and Their Work0:41:19 - Seven QuestionsListen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at www.storyandcraftpod.com. ...#podcast #interview #AllegraEdwards #UploadTV #AmazonPrime #PrimeVideo #actor #acting #actorslife #storyandcraft #voiceover #voiceactor

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

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Marc Preston: Bezos' rockets.

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

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Allegra Edwards: fyi.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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

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

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Marc Preston: to Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you back.

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Marc Preston: How have you been Doing?

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

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

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Marc Preston: your day, sit down.

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Marc Preston: going for a walk, taking your dog for a

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Marc Preston: That's kind of like when I listen to

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: Allegra Edwards.

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Marc Preston: What a cool conversation this was.

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Marc Preston: Allegra plays Ingrid on the Amazon Prime

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: here on Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today?

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Allegra Edwards: I'm great.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm really great.

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

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Allegra Edwards: luxurious morning.

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Allegra Edwards: It's been a good day.

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

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Allegra Edwards: North Hollywood, so thankfully, every day

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Allegra Edwards: is basically the same weather-wise.

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

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Allegra Edwards: midnight.

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

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Marc Preston: Southern California, people like how could

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Marc Preston: It's like an incubator.

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

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Marc Preston: California brought.

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: episodes later, like every week?

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: other seasons I know with Maisel, for

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: at once.

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

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Allegra Edwards: that we did our best shooting during COVID

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Allegra Edwards: and getting seven episodes in was as much

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

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Allegra Edwards: amount of time that it would normally take

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Marc Preston: That was literally going to be my next

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Marc Preston: question.

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Marc Preston: How was that COVID shooting thing?

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: what we had to do.

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Marc Preston: It is.

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Allegra Edwards: It was.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: So probably fortunately now, after the

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

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Allegra Edwards: greatly improved.

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

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Allegra Edwards: that made a difference too.

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Allegra Edwards: Everybody had to get tested five days.

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: say you are the most intriguing character

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

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Marc Preston: interesting, I think, story arc.

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

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

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Marc Preston: You know that that.

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

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Marc Preston: having personal introspection time.

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Marc Preston: When Greg Daniels approached you with this

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: directly how much he had in mind for

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Allegra Edwards: Ingrid's trajectory at the start.

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

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Allegra Edwards: as being more than meets the eye.

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

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Allegra Edwards: there would be a little misdirection about

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

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Allegra Edwards: being quite menacing or villainous, versus

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: think that was always percolating for him.

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

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

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: What if she is?

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: with anybody like that?

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Marc Preston: That?

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

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

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Marc Preston: Was there somebody in your orbit or your

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Marc Preston: ecosystem growing up?

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

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

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Marc Preston: as my spirit animal.

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Marc Preston: Did you have anybody like that?

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

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Allegra Edwards: I think I probably would mostly avoid

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Allegra Edwards: people that she's.

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Allegra Edwards: She's quite extreme.

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Allegra Edwards: So I actually only found examples of the

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Allegra Edwards: ingrid for me in reality television.

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: maybe some Netflix reality shows that that

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Allegra Edwards: are unapologetically extreme and that I

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Allegra Edwards: But they also still have some vulnerable

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Allegra Edwards: elements to them, I you know.

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

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Allegra Edwards: personal life.

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Marc Preston: Well, that's good.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: pleasure, kind of like something you dive

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: research.

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

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Allegra Edwards: moderation.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm not like diehard.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm not watching every single Real

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Allegra Edwards: Housewives, but I'll occasionally watch

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Allegra Edwards: recap episodes.

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Allegra Edwards: You know, I do.

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

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Allegra Edwards: reality television.

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Allegra Edwards: So I feel better about not spending two

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Allegra Edwards: hours of time.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: of look at the OG.

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

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: But?

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

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Marc Preston: Lifetime it was.

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Marc Preston: It was a scripted series about making a

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

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Marc Preston: me, remember the name of it.

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Allegra Edwards: Unreal Unreal.

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Marc Preston: I actually really enjoyed that show.

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Allegra Edwards: So excellent performances in that show.

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

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Marc Preston: Where did you?

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Marc Preston: Where did you grow up?

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

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yeah, work the system.

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Marc Preston: Indeed, and she loves her.

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Allegra Edwards: I auditioned for every play.

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Allegra Edwards: Um, yeah, that was my world, Absolutely.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's so funny.

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Allegra Edwards: Necessarily there is theatricality, there's

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Allegra Edwards: but uh, but yeah, I think those words get

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

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Marc Preston: But I was acting, you see.

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: You know, my dad, um, went to Stanford and

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Allegra Edwards: he'd soar and excel in all of his theater

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Allegra Edwards: I want her to pursue what she wants to

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Allegra Edwards: So, uh, no, I never explored anything else.

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Allegra Edwards: So for undergrad I went to Pepperdine in

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Allegra Edwards: so that was a combined major.

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

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Allegra Edwards: Um, and that was a three year program,

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Allegra Edwards: we can do hearts and we can do intensity,

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

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

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Marc Preston: To kind of go back.

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

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Allegra Edwards: paul and it was kind of a gift that the

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Allegra Edwards: role was so small, because it meant that I

459

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Allegra Edwards: could get a taste of what it could be like

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Allegra Edwards: to maybe one day be a series regular, but

461

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Allegra Edwards: know that I needed a lot of time in between

462

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Allegra Edwards: to prep and feel like, okay, now I'm in a

463

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Allegra Edwards: position where I feel confident enough or

464

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Allegra Edwards: skilled enough or experienced enough to

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Allegra Edwards: carry a show as an ensemble member and not

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Allegra Edwards: just as a little guest character.

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

468

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Marc Preston: you don't know kind of a thing, and so much

469

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Marc Preston: of acting is on the job training, no matter

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Marc Preston: how much training you've gotten Correct.

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Marc Preston: Just you know, I found that the handful of

472

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

473

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Marc Preston: friends or students, the biggest

474

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

475

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

476

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Marc Preston: Between that hammock of time between that

477

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

478

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Marc Preston: my nerves are just like I was like

479

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Marc Preston: reminding myself, you know your lines.

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Marc Preston: You're fine.

481

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

482

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Marc Preston: People are buzzing about touch.

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

484

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Marc Preston: mentioned hearing makeup sound.

485

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

486

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

487

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Marc Preston: hand on your shirt, get your microphone

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Marc Preston: right.

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

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Marc Preston: normally.

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

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Marc Preston: fun.

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

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

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

496

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

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Marc Preston: episode?

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Marc Preston: Rather during.

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Marc Preston: COVID, of course.

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Allegra Edwards: Right, we do.

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

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Allegra Edwards: occasionally we'll have one director take

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

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Allegra Edwards: be some overlap.

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

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: bleed over.

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

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

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: quick.

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Marc Preston: Now do you have a preference?

515

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Marc Preston: Do you like the shooting schedule staying

516

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

517

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Marc Preston: totally done with traveling and you know,

518

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

519

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Marc Preston: months and some of the location.

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, I love the traveling aspect.

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Allegra Edwards: I think it.

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Allegra Edwards: I actually think it probably helps me focus

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Allegra Edwards: more honestly.

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

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Allegra Edwards: the soundstage and driving myself to work

526

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

527

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Allegra Edwards: might take it for granted more.

528

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

529

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

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Allegra Edwards: completely outside of my regular

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Allegra Edwards: environment, how can you not let that

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Allegra Edwards: inform your character?

533

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Allegra Edwards: And and you're there.

534

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

535

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Allegra Edwards: work.

536

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

537

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Allegra Edwards: Mexican restaurant in Albuquerque.

538

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Allegra Edwards: You're there.

539

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

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Allegra Edwards: Or?

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Allegra Edwards: Or in Vancouver, especially during COVID,

542

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

543

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

544

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

545

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

546

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

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Marc Preston: well.

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Allegra Edwards: He was for several years.

549

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

550

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

551

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Allegra Edwards: lot of people still recognize him to this

552

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

553

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

554

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Allegra Edwards: bearded, muscle bound man and and.

555

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

556

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

557

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Allegra Edwards: see his little.

558

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

559

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Marc Preston: and every single theme song from every.

560

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

561

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Marc Preston: Shake it Up and all I mean.

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Marc Preston: I can literally the moment somebody says to

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

564

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Marc Preston: my head.

565

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

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

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Allegra Edwards: Completely yeah.

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Marc Preston: So he's very.

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Marc Preston: You know he understands the flow, he

570

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

571

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

572

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Marc Preston: kind of a little me time.

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

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Marc Preston: floated in the same ecosystem and you know

575

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Marc Preston: he understands what's going on.

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

577

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

578

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Allegra Edwards: appreciative.

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

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Allegra Edwards: directorially and you know we I auditioned

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Allegra Edwards: almost exclusively from self tape.

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

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Allegra Edwards: Everybody, I mean.

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

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

586

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Allegra Edwards: That is literal.

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

588

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

589

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

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Marc Preston: audition.

591

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

592

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

593

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

594

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

595

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Marc Preston: self-tape.

596

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

597

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Marc Preston: He said I got a teleprompter too.

598

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Marc Preston: He said it makes life so much easier

599

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

600

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Marc Preston: I'm bad at memorizing.

601

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Marc Preston: So I was like really a teleprompter.

602

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

603

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Marc Preston: I'm like so.

604

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Marc Preston: But yeah, is it?

605

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

606

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Marc Preston: submit all over and every opportunity is.

607

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

608

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Marc Preston: But now I did see you.

609

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Marc Preston: You worked with Adam Sandler on Sandy

610

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

611

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Marc Preston: yet to see.

612

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

613

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Marc Preston: You know it's like anything.

614

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

615

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Marc Preston: showing up on TV at our house.

616

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Marc Preston: But what was?

617

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Marc Preston: it like working with Adam Sandler?

618

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Marc Preston: Is it because he has?

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Marc Preston: He has one of the very?

620

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

621

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Marc Preston: of his own ecosystem of people that float

622

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Marc Preston: with him.

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

624

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Marc Preston: people on screen.

625

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Marc Preston: What was that experience like?

626

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, it was.

627

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Allegra Edwards: So that was my first film Actually might

628

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

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Allegra Edwards: that I've done.

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

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Allegra Edwards: many projects.

634

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Allegra Edwards: So there is this comfort and familiarity

635

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

636

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Allegra Edwards: And he was.

637

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

638

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Allegra Edwards: comfortable and just.

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

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Allegra Edwards: process.

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

642

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

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

644

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Allegra Edwards: Ventiniglia for my dear life because he was

645

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Allegra Edwards: my scene partner.

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Announcer: Oh, really Okay.

647

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

648

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Allegra Edwards: was really nervous and and you know,

649

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

650

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Allegra Edwards: was like why are we nervous?

651

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Allegra Edwards: This is, this is playtime.

652

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

653

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

654

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

655

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Allegra Edwards: It's okay.

656

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Allegra Edwards: It's just a grocery store.

657

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Marc Preston: Kind of getting back to upload.

658

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

659

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Marc Preston: is it something where you does that create

660

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Marc Preston: any kind of like, not nerves?

661

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

662

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

663

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Marc Preston: certainly compared.

664

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Marc Preston: You know you certainly are.

665

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

666

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Marc Preston: doubt.

667

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

668

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Marc Preston: because you are now straight up a regular

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Marc Preston: showing up in every episode?

670

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

671

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

672

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

673

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

674

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

675

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

676

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Allegra Edwards: something happens.

677

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

678

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

679

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Allegra Edwards: pressure, but also, simultaneously, it

680

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

681

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Allegra Edwards: picking up with something else has created

682

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Allegra Edwards: and trying to carry it.

683

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

684

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

685

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Allegra Edwards: happening right now where I feel like I

686

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

687

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

688

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

689

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

690

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

691

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

692

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

693

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Allegra Edwards: we could really gallop.

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

695

00:25:55,516 --> 00:25:57,522

Allegra Edwards: innate sense of confidence that comes with

696

00:25:57,923 --> 00:25:59,849

Allegra Edwards: that sort of responsibility To which I

697

00:25:59,889 --> 00:26:02,156

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

698

00:26:02,517 --> 00:26:03,621

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

699

00:26:03,641 --> 00:26:04,885

Marc Preston: memory for who that character is.

700

00:26:05,226 --> 00:26:05,527

Marc Preston: You know.

701

00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:09,711

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

702

00:26:09,771 --> 00:26:13,035

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

703

00:26:13,075 --> 00:26:13,396

Marc Preston: service.

704

00:26:13,417 --> 00:26:15,165

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

705

00:26:15,466 --> 00:26:17,513

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

706

00:26:17,533 --> 00:26:19,559

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

707

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

Marc Preston: now more of a human is there.

708

00:26:21,385 --> 00:26:23,493

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

709

00:26:23,685 --> 00:26:25,953

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

710

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

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

711

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

Marc Preston: is that was inspiring you?

712

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

Marc Preston: What were you watching that?

713

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

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

714

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

Marc Preston: that is turning me on.

715

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

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

716

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

Marc Preston: game.

717

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

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

718

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

Marc Preston: even right now?

719

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

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

720

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

Allegra Edwards: come to mind.

721

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

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

722

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

Allegra Edwards: think of who is completely inspiring me is

723

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

Allegra Edwards: Olivia Coleman, because I think she Was

724

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

Allegra Edwards: known for so long for being incredibly

725

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

Allegra Edwards: gifted in comedy but also just just

726

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

Allegra Edwards: supporting so effortlessly.

727

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

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

728

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

Allegra Edwards: this amazing trajectory and longevity in

729

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

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

730

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

Allegra Edwards: and can absolutely carry it and is just

731

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

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

732

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

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

733

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

Allegra Edwards: work in the father with Anthony Hopkins.

734

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

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

735

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

Allegra Edwards: somehow be totally subtle and also huge at

736

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

Allegra Edwards: the same time.

737

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

Allegra Edwards: So I love her.

738

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

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

739

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

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

740

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

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

741

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

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

742

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

Allegra Edwards: together.

743

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

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

744

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

Allegra Edwards: Portraying 13 year old versions of

745

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

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

746

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

Allegra Edwards: years old.

747

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

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

748

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

Allegra Edwards: hysterical and heartbreaking and compelling

749

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

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

750

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

Allegra Edwards: anything like it, and knowing that they

751

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

Allegra Edwards: perform it and wrote it is Just thrilling

752

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

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

753

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

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

754

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

Marc Preston: I definitely need to check that out,

755

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

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

756

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

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

757

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

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

758

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

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

759

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

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

760

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

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

761

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

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

762

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

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

763

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

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

764

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

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

765

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

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

766

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

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

767

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

Allegra Edwards: very first one.

768

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

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

769

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

Allegra Edwards: cure nightly, all that.

770

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

Allegra Edwards: I Remember watching that and realizing, as

771

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

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

772

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

Allegra Edwards: much fun.

773

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

Allegra Edwards: They're running around a tropical island

774

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

Allegra Edwards: jumping into water with missing teeth, and

775

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

Allegra Edwards: corsets and trampolines and skeletons.

776

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

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

777

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

Allegra Edwards: had that experience before, you know,

778

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

Allegra Edwards: watching something that made me go.

779

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

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

780

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

Allegra Edwards: impact on me, for sure.

781

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

Marc Preston: I was listening to an interview.

782

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

Marc Preston: Funny, you say.

783

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

Marc Preston: I was listening to an interview not long

784

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

Marc Preston: ago and an actor was.

785

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

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

786

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

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

787

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

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

788

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

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

789

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

Marc Preston: was it like making it.

790

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

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

791

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

Marc Preston: and I could see that would definitely.

792

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

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

793

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

Marc Preston: family.

794

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

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

795

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

Marc Preston: experience I want to have?

796

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

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

797

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

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

798

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

Marc Preston: there any like?

799

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

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

800

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

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

801

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

Marc Preston: or something that you have on your bucket

802

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

Marc Preston: list you talk about.

803

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

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

804

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

Marc Preston: you want to be on.

805

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

Marc Preston: You know, modern family.

806

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

Marc Preston: Is there something on that list?

807

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

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

808

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

Allegra Edwards: Definitely so.

809

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

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

810

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

Allegra Edwards: long time.

811

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

Allegra Edwards: He has now transitioned from these amazing

812

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

Allegra Edwards: indie films into doing this.

813

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

Marc Preston: Incredible version of Ghostbusters Came out,

814

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

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

815

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

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

816

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

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

817

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

Allegra Edwards: Love that movie.

818

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

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

819

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

Marc Preston: the descendants, I think are my probably

820

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

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

821

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

Marc Preston: outside of the Danny.

822

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

Allegra Edwards: Sure, sure, well, iconic.

823

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

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

824

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

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

825

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

Allegra Edwards: Knives Out kind of Thread.

826

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

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

827

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

Allegra Edwards: Waller Bridge.

828

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

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

829

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

Allegra Edwards: really keen and rides that line of keeping

830

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

Allegra Edwards: everybody laughing and then ripping the rug

831

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

Allegra Edwards: out from underneath them in a very

832

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

Allegra Edwards: satisfying and theatrical way.

833

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

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

834

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

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

835

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

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

836

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

Allegra Edwards: pretty sure they're like Filming season

837

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

Allegra Edwards: five as we speak.

838

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

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

839

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

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

840

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

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

841

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

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

842

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

Allegra Edwards: come get me.

843

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

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

844

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

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

845

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

Marc Preston: on TV.

846

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

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

847

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

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

848

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

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

849

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

Marc Preston: streamers, all the you know.

850

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

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

851

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

Marc Preston: want to work their opportunities out there.

852

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

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

853

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

Marc Preston: this show.

854

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

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

855

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

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

856

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

Marc Preston: wonderful and everything, and Andy Allo.

857

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

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

858

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

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

859

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

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

860

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

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

861

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

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

862

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

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

863

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

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

864

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

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

865

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

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

866

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

Marc Preston: need to take a nap.

867

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

Marc Preston: Oh, call times five minutes.

868

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

Allegra Edwards: So, so, who are you?

869

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

Marc Preston: Who are you spending time with?

870

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

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

871

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

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

872

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

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

873

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

Marc Preston: Did you see this?

874

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

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

875

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

Marc Preston: This is just ridiculous and it looks like

876

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

Marc Preston: fun, you know.

877

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

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

878

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

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

879

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

Allegra Edwards: them and I mean that sincerely.

880

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

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

881

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

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

882

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

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

883

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

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

884

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

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

885

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

Allegra Edwards: you know.

886

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

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

887

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

Allegra Edwards: everybody.

888

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

Allegra Edwards: I think I probably connected the most with

889

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

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

890

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

Allegra Edwards: have a ton of scenes together, particularly

891

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

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

892

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

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

893

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

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

894

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

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

895

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

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

896

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

Allegra Edwards: ever done ever.

897

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

Announcer: She toured with Prince.

898

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

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

899

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

Marc Preston: Now I know I'm definitely.

900

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

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

901

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

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

902

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

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

903

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

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

904

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

Allegra Edwards: like wow, this show is changing something

905

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

Allegra Edwards: for our trajectory as performers and also

906

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

Allegra Edwards: like, oh.

907

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

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

908

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

Allegra Edwards: rival moment that we both would feel like

909

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

Allegra Edwards: we could confide in each other about.

910

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

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

911

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

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

912

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

Allegra Edwards: Isn't this great?

913

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

Allegra Edwards: This is great.

914

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

Allegra Edwards: This is yeah.

915

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

Allegra Edwards: How are you feeling?

916

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

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

917

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

Allegra Edwards: do get along with all of them.

918

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

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

919

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

Marc Preston: camp.

920

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

Allegra Edwards: Yes.

921

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

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

922

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

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

923

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

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

924

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

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

925

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

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

926

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

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

927

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

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

928

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

Marc Preston: thing.

929

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

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

930

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

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

931

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

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

932

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

Marc Preston: interesting shows on on TV.

933

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

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

934

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

Marc Preston: It's kind of a reverse.

935

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

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

936

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

Marc Preston: Virtual reality?

937

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

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

938

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

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

939

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

Marc Preston: actually put somebody in a simulation.

940

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

Marc Preston: You know, so it's.

941

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

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

942

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

Marc Preston: moral questions, even brings up even mildly

943

00:35:23,216 --> 00:35:25,388

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

944

00:35:25,428 --> 00:35:26,871

Marc Preston: funny as hell for 30 minutes.

945

00:35:26,931 --> 00:35:28,534

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

946

00:35:37,192 --> 00:35:38,916

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

947

00:35:39,605 --> 00:35:41,410

Marc Preston: anything that coming up that we can look

948

00:35:41,470 --> 00:35:43,175

Marc Preston: forward to seeing you at?

949

00:35:43,525 --> 00:35:45,212

Allegra Edwards: Currently I am not.

950

00:35:45,666 --> 00:35:49,034

Allegra Edwards: I am prepping to become a mom.

951

00:35:50,205 --> 00:35:51,951

Allegra Edwards: I'm in real life.

952

00:35:53,925 --> 00:35:56,593

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

953

00:35:56,633 --> 00:35:58,157

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

954

00:35:58,406 --> 00:35:59,856

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

955

00:36:00,265 --> 00:36:03,075

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

956

00:36:03,346 --> 00:36:05,172

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

957

00:36:05,605 --> 00:36:07,273

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

958

00:36:07,515 --> 00:36:11,030

Marc Preston: Oh yes, Diaper genie I remember diaper

959

00:36:11,050 --> 00:36:11,512

Marc Preston: genie.

960

00:36:12,145 --> 00:36:12,827

Marc Preston: That is.

961

00:36:12,847 --> 00:36:14,852

Marc Preston: Let me tell you something that is a

962

00:36:14,992 --> 00:36:16,677

Marc Preston: necessity above all else.

963

00:36:16,745 --> 00:36:18,330

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

964

00:36:18,631 --> 00:36:19,373

Marc Preston: I'm just telling you.

965

00:36:19,433 --> 00:36:21,130

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

966

00:36:21,150 --> 00:36:22,881

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

967

00:36:22,921 --> 00:36:24,448

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

968

00:36:25,665 --> 00:36:26,688

Marc Preston: So now, when are you expecting?

969

00:36:29,266 --> 00:36:30,651

Allegra Edwards: July, some mid-July.

970

00:36:31,705 --> 00:36:34,736

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

971

00:36:34,776 --> 00:36:37,385

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

972

00:36:37,525 --> 00:36:39,733

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

973

00:36:39,773 --> 00:36:40,475

Allegra Edwards: for the time ahead.

974

00:36:41,087 --> 00:36:42,916

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

975

00:36:42,936 --> 00:36:44,825

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

976

00:36:44,845 --> 00:36:48,073

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

977

00:36:48,093 --> 00:36:48,935

Allegra Edwards: That would be really nice.

978

00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:49,817

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

979

00:36:50,145 --> 00:36:51,769

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

980

00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:52,370

Allegra Edwards: I'll demand it.

981

00:36:52,390 --> 00:36:52,871

Marc Preston: Thank, you.

982

00:36:54,235 --> 00:36:55,257

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

983

00:36:55,645 --> 00:36:56,911

Marc Preston: I need to speak to the manager of Amazon

984

00:36:56,931 --> 00:36:57,071

Marc Preston: for you.

985

00:36:57,325 --> 00:36:59,914

Allegra Edwards: I believe it's Mr Bezos at Amazoncom.

986

00:37:02,128 --> 00:37:02,389

Marc Preston: Again.

987

00:37:02,429 --> 00:37:05,315

Marc Preston: The show, I think, is so unique and I think

988

00:37:05,395 --> 00:37:08,430

Marc Preston: your character this is, I know for a fact a

989

00:37:08,772 --> 00:37:09,516

Marc Preston: couple, three years from now.

990

00:37:09,536 --> 00:37:10,823

Marc Preston: I'm going to go like, hey, I talked to her

991

00:37:10,843 --> 00:37:12,430

Marc Preston: when she was doing the show on Amazon.

992

00:37:12,945 --> 00:37:14,413

Marc Preston: But one of the things I love doing with

993

00:37:14,474 --> 00:37:16,203

Marc Preston: everybody I call it Preston's Lucky Seven,

994

00:37:16,224 --> 00:37:17,670

Marc Preston: kind of like wrap up our time together.

995

00:37:17,730 --> 00:37:20,321

Marc Preston: Just seven questions give a little extra

996

00:37:20,401 --> 00:37:22,409

Marc Preston: insight that I think I'm kind of a weirdo.

997

00:37:23,245 --> 00:37:24,510

Marc Preston: My kids tell me I am so I must be.

998

00:37:26,047 --> 00:37:28,514

Marc Preston: First question is what is your favorite

999

00:37:28,634 --> 00:37:29,456

Marc Preston: comfort food?

Speaker:

00:37:29,625 --> 00:37:32,074

Marc Preston: The thing like you see it show up on the

Speaker:

00:37:32,094 --> 00:37:34,323

Marc Preston: craft service table and you're like, oh,

Speaker:

00:37:34,785 --> 00:37:35,930

Marc Preston: I'm going to take all of it.

Speaker:

00:37:36,465 --> 00:37:37,128

Marc Preston: What's that thing for you?

Speaker:

00:37:39,025 --> 00:37:40,630

Allegra Edwards: Smart food white cheddar popcorn.

Speaker:

00:37:42,365 --> 00:37:44,811

Allegra Edwards: That's the easiest answer because I got it

Speaker:

00:37:44,851 --> 00:37:45,934

Allegra Edwards: yesterday at CVS.

Speaker:

00:37:47,165 --> 00:37:49,934

Marc Preston: I used to love it and then I hated the crap

Speaker:

00:37:50,034 --> 00:37:50,275

Marc Preston: out of it.

Speaker:

00:37:50,465 --> 00:37:52,430

Marc Preston: I was working at a radio station in Dallas.

Speaker:

00:37:52,471 --> 00:37:54,416

Marc Preston: I was 19 or 20.

Speaker:

00:37:55,267 --> 00:37:57,374

Marc Preston: At the end of the summer promotional season

Speaker:

00:37:57,594 --> 00:37:59,621

Marc Preston: they had boxes because they would give

Speaker:

00:37:59,661 --> 00:38:00,745

Marc Preston: those things out at live broadcast.

Speaker:

00:38:01,387 --> 00:38:02,571

Marc Preston: They had a bunch of little bags and they

Speaker:

00:38:02,591 --> 00:38:03,675

Marc Preston: said here, take all you want.

Speaker:

00:38:03,725 --> 00:38:05,531

Marc Preston: I got three enormous boxes of it.

Speaker:

00:38:06,505 --> 00:38:08,091

Marc Preston: After a while I'm like I can't stand this

Speaker:

00:38:08,151 --> 00:38:08,433

Marc Preston: anymore.

Speaker:

00:38:08,645 --> 00:38:09,649

Marc Preston: It's like I'm just eating smart food

Speaker:

00:38:09,669 --> 00:38:10,051

Marc Preston: popcorn.

Speaker:

00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:12,110

Marc Preston: I had to take a high-end for a year or two,

Speaker:

00:38:12,532 --> 00:38:14,369

Marc Preston: but I agree it is tasty, without a doubt.

Speaker:

00:38:17,009 --> 00:38:17,992

Marc Preston: Now, if you're going to sit down, you're

Speaker:

00:38:18,012 --> 00:38:18,433

Marc Preston: going to be cruising.

Speaker:

00:38:18,453 --> 00:38:19,527

Marc Preston: We'll see you at the Coffee Bean and Tea

Speaker:

00:38:19,567 --> 00:38:20,511

Marc Preston: Leaf on Sunset.

Speaker:

00:38:21,488 --> 00:38:22,953

Marc Preston: It was right across the director's gala.

Speaker:

00:38:23,085 --> 00:38:24,429

Marc Preston: I always used to kind of post up there with

Speaker:

00:38:24,449 --> 00:38:26,506

Marc Preston: my computer once upon a time, If you're

Speaker:

00:38:26,526 --> 00:38:28,417

Marc Preston: sitting down having a cup of coffee, who

Speaker:

00:38:28,437 --> 00:38:29,825

Marc Preston: were the three people you would love to

Speaker:

00:38:29,885 --> 00:38:32,969

Marc Preston: have sit down with you, Kind of your dream

Speaker:

00:38:32,989 --> 00:38:34,792

Marc Preston: dinner, your dream coffee guests, as it

Speaker:

00:38:34,832 --> 00:38:34,952

Marc Preston: were.

Speaker:

00:38:40,243 --> 00:38:40,425

Allegra Edwards: Ooh, ooh.

Speaker:

00:38:40,425 --> 00:38:42,669

Allegra Edwards: Okay, this is weird.

Speaker:

00:38:43,105 --> 00:38:44,829

Allegra Edwards: I don't know if you'll have heard of this

Speaker:

00:38:44,889 --> 00:38:51,229

Allegra Edwards: person, but I would love to sit down with

Speaker:

00:38:51,329 --> 00:38:55,217

Allegra Edwards: Jad Abumrad, who is one of the co-hosts and

Speaker:

00:38:55,237 --> 00:38:56,479

Allegra Edwards: creator of Radio Lab.

Speaker:

00:38:56,845 --> 00:38:57,989

Allegra Edwards: It's a podcast that I love.

Speaker:

00:38:59,967 --> 00:39:03,175

Allegra Edwards: I have just consumed so much Radio Lab over

Speaker:

00:39:03,195 --> 00:39:03,636

Allegra Edwards: the years.

Speaker:

00:39:04,606 --> 00:39:08,217

Allegra Edwards: I am captivated by the way that he somehow

Speaker:

00:39:08,297 --> 00:39:10,584

Allegra Edwards: makes science, which is not normally my

Speaker:

00:39:10,624 --> 00:39:14,715

Allegra Edwards: favorite subject, so compelling and human.

Speaker:

00:39:15,545 --> 00:39:17,957

Allegra Edwards: I feel like he must have hundreds of

Speaker:

00:39:17,997 --> 00:39:19,384

Allegra Edwards: stories, so that's the first person I've

Speaker:

00:39:19,404 --> 00:39:19,625

Allegra Edwards: ever heard.

Speaker:

00:39:19,645 --> 00:39:21,009

Marc Preston: So he's kind of in the realm of like Neil

Speaker:

00:39:21,029 --> 00:39:22,474

Marc Preston: deGrasse Tyson sort of in a way.

Speaker:

00:39:23,567 --> 00:39:23,908

Allegra Edwards: Kind of.

Speaker:

00:39:23,949 --> 00:39:25,968

Allegra Edwards: But he's a storyteller and he is an audio

Speaker:

00:39:26,028 --> 00:39:29,389

Allegra Edwards: engineer and a sound designer, so there's

Speaker:

00:39:29,429 --> 00:39:31,917

Allegra Edwards: an element to him that is about good

Speaker:

00:39:31,978 --> 00:39:34,507

Allegra Edwards: storytelling first and then science second.

Speaker:

00:39:36,486 --> 00:39:39,213

Allegra Edwards: And I, yeah, I have just so about that.

Speaker:

00:39:41,025 --> 00:39:44,611

Allegra Edwards: Then who would I pick?

Speaker:

00:39:49,605 --> 00:39:51,674

Allegra Edwards: I mean I said her before, I'd pick Olivia

Speaker:

00:39:51,714 --> 00:39:54,024

Allegra Edwards: Coleman, just to pick her brain and see

Speaker:

00:39:54,045 --> 00:39:56,031

Allegra Edwards: what it's like to be in her shoes right now

Speaker:

00:39:56,111 --> 00:39:58,708

Allegra Edwards: and how she got to where she is, and I also

Speaker:

00:39:58,728 --> 00:40:01,347

Allegra Edwards: think she's delightfully funny and I could

Speaker:

00:40:01,367 --> 00:40:02,170

Allegra Edwards: just watch her.

Speaker:

00:40:02,705 --> 00:40:06,035

Allegra Edwards: I think her behavior is just fun to watch.

Speaker:

00:40:06,545 --> 00:40:07,890

Marc Preston: I think people especially my favorite-

Speaker:

00:40:07,950 --> 00:40:09,154

Marc Preston: actors and honestly I was going to give you

Speaker:

00:40:09,194 --> 00:40:09,987

Marc Preston: that compliment.

Speaker:

00:40:10,127 --> 00:40:11,591

Marc Preston: You strike me as being one of these people.

Speaker:

00:40:11,631 --> 00:40:12,995

Marc Preston: Without dialogue, you're just interesting

Speaker:

00:40:13,015 --> 00:40:13,585

Marc Preston: to watch, like.

Speaker:

00:40:13,666 --> 00:40:15,873

Marc Preston: Sam Rockwell, for me, is one of those guys

Speaker:

00:40:15,893 --> 00:40:16,275

Marc Preston: you just watch.

Speaker:

00:40:16,385 --> 00:40:17,229

Marc Preston: He's like, he's just interesting.

Speaker:

00:40:17,485 --> 00:40:18,870

Marc Preston: You can almost read his mind, you know.

Speaker:

00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:22,672

Marc Preston: And even with that dialogue, I always find

Speaker:

00:40:22,712 --> 00:40:24,096

Marc Preston: that those are the most captivating people

Speaker:

00:40:24,136 --> 00:40:24,336

Marc Preston: for me.

Speaker:

00:40:25,085 --> 00:40:26,249

Marc Preston: Even without the dialogue, they still grab

Speaker:

00:40:26,269 --> 00:40:26,771

Marc Preston: my attention.

Speaker:

00:40:26,931 --> 00:40:27,112

Announcer: Yeah.

Speaker:

00:40:28,065 --> 00:40:29,070

Marc Preston: So who would be the third person in your

Speaker:

00:40:29,130 --> 00:40:29,653

Marc Preston: coffee party?

Speaker:

00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:30,819

Allegra Edwards: The third.

Speaker:

00:40:30,839 --> 00:40:35,635

Allegra Edwards: Oh boy, this is hard man.

Speaker:

00:40:36,465 --> 00:40:37,710

Allegra Edwards: Three people is hard.

Speaker:

00:40:37,730 --> 00:40:43,094

Allegra Edwards: Oh gosh, who would it be?

Speaker:

00:40:48,055 --> 00:40:49,306

Marc Preston: You can go for the crowd favorite, say your

Speaker:

00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:50,490

Marc Preston: husband, because you love him so much.

Speaker:

00:40:50,550 --> 00:40:50,751

Marc Preston: I know.

Speaker:

00:40:52,928 --> 00:40:54,772

Allegra Edwards: He was actually who I thought of, but I was

Speaker:

00:40:54,793 --> 00:40:56,176

Allegra Edwards: like people are going to roll their eyes if

Speaker:

00:40:56,236 --> 00:40:58,690

Allegra Edwards: I say my husband, but I actually think that

Speaker:

00:40:58,710 --> 00:40:59,673

Allegra Edwards: we'd have a great time.

Speaker:

00:41:00,225 --> 00:41:02,038

Allegra Edwards: He'd help me ask better questions.

Speaker:

00:41:02,058 --> 00:41:03,025

Marc Preston: You'd have a shared experience.

Speaker:

00:41:03,266 --> 00:41:04,790

Marc Preston: Isn't it more fun sharing those cool

Speaker:

00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:06,013

Marc Preston: experiences in your life with someone?

Speaker:

00:41:06,374 --> 00:41:06,554

Allegra Edwards: Yes.

Speaker:

00:41:07,565 --> 00:41:09,706

Allegra Edwards: Yeah thank you for giving me that, and

Speaker:

00:41:09,827 --> 00:41:11,091

Allegra Edwards: he'll be happy that you said it.

Speaker:

00:41:11,685 --> 00:41:12,991

Allegra Edwards: I promise I thought of it too.

Speaker:

00:41:13,586 --> 00:41:15,250

Marc Preston: Well, I got a check sitting right here that

Speaker:

00:41:15,271 --> 00:41:17,827

Marc Preston: I was told this and I'm just kidding, oh

Speaker:

00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:18,996

Marc Preston: gosh.

Speaker:

00:41:19,025 --> 00:41:20,529

Marc Preston: So when you were a kid, who was your

Speaker:

00:41:20,589 --> 00:41:22,855

Marc Preston: celebrity crush when you were young,

Speaker:

00:41:22,896 --> 00:41:23,947

Marc Preston: allegra, who were you going?

Speaker:

00:41:24,047 --> 00:41:25,372

Marc Preston: I cannot wait to watch him on TV.

Speaker:

00:41:26,747 --> 00:41:31,357

Allegra Edwards: Yeah, I was obsessed with the actor that

Speaker:

00:41:31,397 --> 00:41:33,784

Allegra Edwards: played the famous Jackson, who is a Disney

Speaker:

00:41:33,804 --> 00:41:34,728

Allegra Edwards: Channel star.

Speaker:

00:41:35,945 --> 00:41:37,890

Allegra Edwards: He actually passed away a few years ago,

Speaker:

00:41:37,970 --> 00:41:39,894

Allegra Edwards: which made me really sad, but I thought he

Speaker:

00:41:39,935 --> 00:41:43,031

Allegra Edwards: was so attractive and so funny.

Speaker:

00:41:45,248 --> 00:41:48,547

Allegra Edwards: Similarly, I really loved Will Smith Still

Speaker:

00:41:49,576 --> 00:41:53,535

Allegra Edwards: do, but Will Smith in Men in Black, yeah.

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00:41:56,331 --> 00:41:58,960

Marc Preston: I quote some of the you know there's this

Speaker:

00:41:59,060 --> 00:41:59,862

Marc Preston: one quote in that movie.

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00:41:59,903 --> 00:42:02,430

Marc Preston: I give my students all the time, like you

Speaker:

00:42:02,470 --> 00:42:04,234

Marc Preston: know, whenever somebody hires you, don't

Speaker:

00:42:04,254 --> 00:42:05,846

Marc Preston: you know command your rate Say you know,

Speaker:

00:42:06,227 --> 00:42:08,625

Marc Preston: don't call me son sport, whatever, I'm here

Speaker:

00:42:08,645 --> 00:42:09,867

Marc Preston: because you recognize the skills.

Speaker:

00:42:09,907 --> 00:42:10,929

Allegra Edwards: Yeah, yes, yes.

Speaker:

00:42:10,989 --> 00:42:13,953

Allegra Edwards: Yes, I'm not your boy, I'm not your son.

Speaker:

00:42:14,153 --> 00:42:15,836

Allegra Edwards: Yes, I love that movie.

Speaker:

00:42:16,196 --> 00:42:17,899

Marc Preston: And then Tommy Lee Jones.

Speaker:

00:42:19,506 --> 00:42:20,694

Marc Preston: All right sport you know Tommy Lee Jones

Speaker:

00:42:20,714 --> 00:42:23,108

Marc Preston: doing this, yeah, now if you're going to be

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00:42:23,148 --> 00:42:25,296

Marc Preston: living next question on an exotic island

Speaker:

00:42:25,838 --> 00:42:27,825

Marc Preston: one year, anywhere, somewhere, it's

Speaker:

00:42:27,865 --> 00:42:29,129

Marc Preston: actually you enjoy being there, but you can

Speaker:

00:42:29,149 --> 00:42:31,555

Marc Preston: only bring one DVD and one album with you,

Speaker:

00:42:32,951 --> 00:42:33,233

Marc Preston: what?

Speaker:

00:42:33,698 --> 00:42:34,324

Allegra Edwards: are you going to bring with you?

Speaker:

00:42:34,465 --> 00:42:39,894

Allegra Edwards: Okay, um, probably good grief by Lucius

Speaker:

00:42:40,054 --> 00:42:44,965

Allegra Edwards: would be the album Um, I love Lucius, it's

Speaker:

00:42:44,985 --> 00:42:49,235

Allegra Edwards: my favorite band and one DVD.

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00:42:50,825 --> 00:42:51,833

Marc Preston: Because I figure you know streaming.

Speaker:

00:42:51,853 --> 00:42:53,003

Marc Preston: I don't know if they're doing streaming on

Speaker:

00:42:53,023 --> 00:42:53,305

Marc Preston: the island.

Speaker:

00:42:53,345 --> 00:42:54,488

Marc Preston: So I'm going to go old school and you know,

Speaker:

00:42:54,508 --> 00:42:55,992

Marc Preston: because I'm older, like kids, make fun of

Speaker:

00:42:56,012 --> 00:42:56,072

Marc Preston: me.

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00:42:56,092 --> 00:42:56,734

Marc Preston: Yeah, dvd, yeah.

Speaker:

00:42:58,466 --> 00:43:00,194

Allegra Edwards: No, I'm going to pick, you know, I'm going

Speaker:

00:43:00,214 --> 00:43:00,475

Allegra Edwards: to pick.

Speaker:

00:43:00,495 --> 00:43:02,966

Allegra Edwards: I'm going to pick, um, maybe season five of

Speaker:

00:43:03,006 --> 00:43:04,710

Allegra Edwards: the Simpsons on DVD.

Speaker:

00:43:05,792 --> 00:43:09,942

Allegra Edwards: Uh, because I think there's enough visually

Speaker:

00:43:10,864 --> 00:43:13,855

Allegra Edwards: to find new things every time I watch it

Speaker:

00:43:14,819 --> 00:43:16,225

Allegra Edwards: and learn something.

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00:43:16,787 --> 00:43:18,010

Marc Preston: Oh, there are Easter eggs everywhere in

Speaker:

00:43:18,030 --> 00:43:18,892

Marc Preston: that show yeah.

Speaker:

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Allegra Edwards: Everywhere, everywhere.

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Allegra Edwards: Um, yeah, I think it's light enough that I

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Allegra Edwards: would feel optimistic and like I can still

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Allegra Edwards: have the will to survive.

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Marc Preston: Now the next question uh, what is your

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Marc Preston: definition?

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Marc Preston: Stem to stern.

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Marc Preston: What's your definition of a perfect day?

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Marc Preston: From time you get up to time you kind of

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Marc Preston: crash what.

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Marc Preston: What's the arc of that day for you?

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Allegra Edwards: A long walk in a very flat neighborhood.

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Allegra Edwards: Um with or maybe like a?

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Allegra Edwards: Um a place like the Huntington.

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Allegra Edwards: Um a long walk there in through the gardens

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Allegra Edwards: that smells great, a gentle breeze.

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Allegra Edwards: Um an oat milk cappuccino.

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Allegra Edwards: Maybe a lunch with one of my very close

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Allegra Edwards: girlfriends or a phone call with my sister.

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Allegra Edwards: Dinner with my whole family.

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Allegra Edwards: Um now?

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Marc Preston: where's your family living now?

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Marc Preston: Were they, uh, are they all kind of in the

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Marc Preston: same spot?

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Allegra Edwards: They're a little spread out.

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Allegra Edwards: Um, my, my brother and his wife are in

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Allegra Edwards: Pittsburgh, and then, um, I, my sister's

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Allegra Edwards: actually in school at ACT right now, so

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Allegra Edwards: she's getting her MFA from the same

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Allegra Edwards: conservatory where I attended in acting.

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Allegra Edwards: Um, and then my parents are in Northern

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Allegra Edwards: California, outside of Sacramento, so

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Allegra Edwards: mostly California, yeah, um, but it

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Allegra Edwards: basically some nature, some, some great

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Allegra Edwards: conversation and a lot of time with family.

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Allegra Edwards: It's very easy to please.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm very much the same way, it's just

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Marc Preston: I'm a man of simple needs Is the late great

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Marc Preston: uh Anthony Bourdain used to say.

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Marc Preston: Now, last couple of questions.

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Marc Preston: Let's pretend like you had the option of

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Marc Preston: doing anything else in the world and taking

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Marc Preston: a break from acting.

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Marc Preston: What would that be?

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Marc Preston: Or what would you be doing if you were not,

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Marc Preston: uh, an actor?

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Announcer: Um.

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Allegra Edwards: G stopped, sorry.

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Allegra Edwards: I think it would probably be either

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Allegra Edwards: journalism or it would still incorporate

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Allegra Edwards: story for sure, maybe editing magazine or

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Allegra Edwards: honestly podcasting.

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Allegra Edwards: But yeah, it would still have to involve

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Allegra Edwards: some form of finding good stories and

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Allegra Edwards: telling them, which maybe is not too

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Allegra Edwards: different from what I'm wanting to do right

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Allegra Edwards: now, but it's a close cousin.

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Marc Preston: Now the last question.

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Marc Preston: If you could jump in your DeLorean and go

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Marc Preston: back in time when you're 16 years old, what

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Marc Preston: advice are you going to give yourself from

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Marc Preston: when you're 16 to your 16-year-old self?

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Marc Preston: That would alter the course in an even

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Marc Preston: better way for you, or maybe give you more

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Marc Preston: peace or harmony or whatever.

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Allegra Edwards: Yeah, I think what I would tell her is what

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Allegra Edwards: you have in your head of what you want is

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Allegra Edwards: not nearly as great as what's coming, and

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Allegra Edwards: if you can continue to believe that that

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Allegra Edwards: it's going to be even better than you can

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Allegra Edwards: imagine, you don't have to strive so hard.

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Allegra Edwards: You can expect to be surprised, and

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Allegra Edwards: maintaining hopeful optimism will mean that

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Allegra Edwards: you're going to be ready for anything,

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Allegra Edwards: including the really really really good

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Allegra Edwards: stuff that's coming your way.

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Marc Preston: They dreaming is kind of its own superpower

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Marc Preston: in that way.

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Marc Preston: Dream it comes, conceive of it, yeah.

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Allegra Edwards: But also don't let that.

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Allegra Edwards: I guess what I mean by that is sometimes

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Allegra Edwards: that can become a trap, where you push for

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Allegra Edwards: something or you get so dead set on a

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Allegra Edwards: certain dream and what you imagine that

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Allegra Edwards: you're disappointed because it doesn't go

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Allegra Edwards: exactly like how you planned but actually

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Allegra Edwards: it could be better than what you pictured.

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Allegra Edwards: So I guess it's kind of an open palm

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Allegra Edwards: attitude Allow it to come in and allow it

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Allegra Edwards: to go out.

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: Well, in this line of work you've got to be

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Marc Preston: okay with the only constant in life which

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Marc Preston: has changed.

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Marc Preston: You know, if you're cool about it at a

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Marc Preston: young age, it's so much harder to be like

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Marc Preston: that, you know, yeah, and I wish I was more

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Marc Preston: patient when I was younger, but I really

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Marc Preston: enjoyed the opportunity to chat with you

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Marc Preston: about the show.

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Marc Preston: I mean, I think that is again.

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Marc Preston: I know for a fact.

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Marc Preston: I'm going to be sitting down with a friend.

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Marc Preston: Something's going to come on TV and I talk

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Marc Preston: to her a few years ago, man, now that you

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Marc Preston: are such a pleasure to watch and I enjoy

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Marc Preston: your work immensely, Thank you, it would be

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Marc Preston: great if that, if there was.

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Allegra Edwards: I mean I'm excited for again.

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Allegra Edwards: I'm trying to take my own advice that I

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Allegra Edwards: would give to my 16-year-old self no idea

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Allegra Edwards: what the next thing is.

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Allegra Edwards: And if this was all I did, I would be so

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Allegra Edwards: satisfied.

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Allegra Edwards: I already am satisfied.

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

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

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Marc Preston: Jeff Bezos is Rockets.

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Marc Preston: I'm going to paint Allegra.

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Allegra Edwards: Edwards FYI, FYI.

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Marc Preston: Just just do the right thing.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, but thank you again.

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Marc Preston: It was such a pleasure, Allegra, and

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Marc Preston: hopefully we'll have a chance to catch up

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Marc Preston: down the line.

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Allegra Edwards: I would love that and it was just a

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Allegra Edwards: pleasure for me as well.

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Allegra Edwards: So thank you and great questions.

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Allegra Edwards: It was a fun, fun time.

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Marc Preston: Well, thank you, you have yourself a great

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Marc Preston: one.

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Marc Preston: And again, jeff Bezos, I'm going to go hunt

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Marc Preston: down his rocket right now FYI.

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Allegra Edwards: Thank you.

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Marc Preston: Well, there you go.

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Marc Preston: Allegra Edwards Isn't she cool?

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Marc Preston: I mean, I really enjoyed chatting with her.

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Marc Preston: You're going to hear more from Allegra,

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Marc Preston: without a doubt.

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Marc Preston: She is a real pleasure, very talented and

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Marc Preston: looking forward to, hopefully, another

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Marc Preston: season of upload.

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Marc Preston: All right, so don't forget

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Marc Preston: going on right here, some really cool

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Marc Preston: episodes on the way, thank you.

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Marc Preston: Thank you again for being here for this

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Marc Preston: episode.

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Marc Preston: I really appreciate it.

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Allegra Edwards

Actor

Allegra Edwards knew from a very young age that she wanted to be an actor when she grew up. Her love for the arts began in dance class where she was able to perform skits in between the dance numbers during recitals, and was solidified once she attended a theater performance of Les Miserables. She booked her first paid gig, which was a commercial, at the age of 10.

Allegra received her training at the American Conservatory Theater, and graduated in May 2013 with an MFA in acting. She attended Pepperdine University in Malibu, California and received her bachelor's degree in theatre and television.

Allegra is the star of the highly reviewed Amazon series Upload where she plays uber-controlling ice queen Ingrid Kannerman. The series just premiered its second season.

Allegra also held a recurring role in the drama Briarpatch on USA Network where she played a lovable girl-next-door Cindy McCabe. She stars in the feature film The Social Ones, available to rent or purchase on various platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, Comcast and others.

Additional credits include Modern Family, Orange is the New Black, New Girl, and Friends from College.

Allegra Edwards was born in Palo Alto, California but has also called Virginia, Colorado, Hawaii, and New York home. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

In her free time she enjoys going to the theater, volunteering, attending church and bible study, cuddling with her cat Groucho, and spending time with friends, family, and her husband Clayton Snyder.