Becca Anderson
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136 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Becca Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So Gia knew that I hadn't received the script because it was turned down within the hour. So she knew that I hadn't read it. And so she thought, I'm not taking no for an answer. I'll find Brandon. And that really is the way to get to me. Go through Brandon.
Well, in my case, I wouldn't miss a baseball game. I had them written into my contracts actually when I was doing TV. I have always been there for them. I didn't even have a nanny. So this is kind of unheard of in this business. Not that it's unheard of elsewhere, but I mean, just to say that might sound silly, but it's, I wanted to be a hands-on mom.
If I was going to have kids, I wanted to raise them. So that's another big difference between Shelly and I is that I put everything aside But I also put everything aside because I wasn't getting the roles I thought that I wanted. I was struggling a lot in my personal life too. And my kids were everything to me. And that was really important for me to be with them and put them first.
I know I was talking to Jamie Lee Curtis and she said she's worked every single day of her children's lives. And we all have our way of doing it.
Well, it was difficult. But, you know, my kids were with me and I was, you know, cooking for the neighborhood and everyone would come over for spaghetti. And I was still, you know, I was volunteering at school.
Even if I just got home, you know, and I was covered in glitter, I was still the one opening the car doors and getting them into their classrooms and then catching my reflection in the mirror going, oh, my goodness, you know, mascara down to my chin. Oh, dear. You know, and I... I was just always there. I was always a fixture. I was always at every game.
So all their family and all their friends and their nucleus of people knew that I was a very hands-on mom and that all of this circus around me was the non-real part. And I tried to keep them away from it, but... Brandon would be pitching a baseball game and he would throw his glove down and look at the paparazzi and say, I'm trying to pitch a game here, boys. Can you leave me alone?
The kids would get really upset. So we got through it. I wouldn't say unscathed. It took its toll, but they really understood our life and they understood their father, understood me and understood what was going on. I always thought age appropriate. I should sit them down and talk to them, but of course they hear things through friends and through school, and that was hard.
But definitely something to draw from for the film, too. My kind of very unique, close relationship to my boys who know their mom's full of, you know, flaws. I actually ad-libbed that conversation on the phone in the movie where I say, "'Mothers aren't saints, that we are just doing the best we can with the tools we've been dealt.'"
And I think about that when I think about my own mother and the things that she went through. And sometimes we expect a lot of our parents. But we're human beings and we get through it the best way we can. And if there's love there, that's the most important part.
At the table read. The first day I met her, she had just gotten a spray tan and she was actually changing colors before my eyes. Her tan was intensifying and her lips were getting quieter.
A multiple spray tan over spray tan over spray tan. And I told her, I said, I'm so sorry, I'm nervous. And she goes, oh, come on, you can't be nervous with me. And then she grabbed me by the shoulders and she looked me in the eye and she said, I did this for you. We're in this together. And I just got chills from head to toe.
Any fear went out the window and I felt like I've known her my whole life and I still do. And she's just really an incredible champion for women. And I... She hadn't seen the documentary. She said she was happy she didn't. She saw it after. But she didn't know much about me. She'd seen me and she knew. She said that I was capable of much more than I'd been doing. And she's been there.
She's been in different parts of her career and just kind of aching to do more. And so I didn't realize that I'd ever get the chance. So that's why this is so sweet and so precious because it almost didn't make it to me. And then I almost didn't get to do it. And I was happy with... I thought, okay, from Baywatch to Broadway, that has a good ring to it.
At least I got to be on stage, which was wonderful and scary. And I pulled it off somehow. And then this, I realized that Broadway was just the warm-up for this film. I had so much experience. Even the backstage banter is very similar. And so it really was... I didn't know this script was coming, but I was prepared to receive it.
Well, I'm grateful. I'm grateful. I feel the love. I feel rooted for it. But this is a new feeling. That's part of the reason I came home. I just thought, I need to peel it all back and find out who I am. What are my original thoughts? I felt like I was dressing for other people. I was... you know, playing characters in my personal life.
So I thought, I'm just going to go home and make a beautiful garden and make pickles and jams and write a cookbook. You know, I felt like I have so much to give and I have, you know, I just don't know where to put it.
Well, since I was little, I mean, since I was, I think it was five or six years old, I realized, I said, I'm not going to recognize myself until I'm older. And I knew it would take about 50 years to get there. And here I am. But I felt like if I was going to be a rock star wife, I wanted to be the best rock star wife. Or if I was going to be a lifeguard, I wanted to put my own spin on it.
I was going to my makeup artist house at three in the morning and you know, with a head full of rollers and false eyelashes showing up on the set and they couldn't do anything about it. I just kind of wanted to do things a certain way and kind of directed my own life experience from fantasy to fantasy to fantasy.
I had some trauma when I was younger and I learned how to escape myself. And that is where I learned to transform into other people. I think, you know, looking back, but I forgot who I was and my only real moments were raising my children. And when I was writing my memoirs, I realized these chapters were so colorful because I'd really transformed into these characters.
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