Brianne Howey
Appearances
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Hi.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I'm wonderful. Thank you so much for having me. We're so excited to have you. Oh, my gosh.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Oh, my God. Thank you.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yeah, no, especially because I was playing mom roles before I was a mom. So it was more just relating to it in the sense of I have four younger siblings. They're my whole world. I would do anything for them. So that was the closest I could get. But then, yeah, now I am actually a mom.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
You know what happened? And I think, okay, so look, my daughter, she'll be two in a month. So we're still like, I mean, not totally beginning phases, but like she's still very little. I just felt like I was such a sap. Like I just felt like I was so weepy all season. And like that, I was like, God damn it, Breanne. Like, no, no, no, that wasn't the move. Like, so hopefully that will change.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I think it was just like the first year going back at it, like just back to work and everything. But I felt like it made me too soft almost. Yeah. Interesting. Which isn't great for Georgia. Like, everything is too relatable. Almost. Like, some of the stuff for this upcoming season, it gets so dark, in my opinion. Again, I was maybe too sensitive this past season.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, it... It, like, broke my heart. She murders people. Yes. Yes. And, like, yeah. Wait till you see... Yeah. Like, halfway through this season, everything that goes on... I mean, Georgia, like, all of the consequences come to the surface this season. Like... she gets in a lot of trouble.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Oh, 100 percent. I mean, I like first and foremost, of course, Georgia is very polarizing. But like as someone playing Georgia, I would never judge her like in no way, shape or form. Yeah, I have to. I love her and respect her. All of her shortcomings are only because she has a very limited toolbox. But I admire the amount of space she takes up.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Like I feel like who knows what I could have accomplished if I took up that much space all the time for my whole life. So I love that about her. And I love like the first when I read the pilot for the first time, it was the scene where she like punches the kid in the face.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Well, she doesn't really punch him, but like she twists his nose a little bit and like the, you know, her son punches him, but like I've had a little far for sure. But like I've had with my siblings told me someone was mean to them at school or something, the rage I feel inside. And I can only imagine once my daughter's old enough.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
You know, I mean, probably only bad things, unfortunately. Like I, before I was a mom, I thought like the most annoying thing about Georgia was how all over Ginny she was and she's always in her space and like the entitlement that she expects to know everything about Ginny. I was like, I mean, that's it's crossing a line. This is toxic, blah, blah, blah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
But now that I have an almost two year old, I'm like, nope, she's going to go to UCLA. We're going to have lunch every day. She's going to tell me everything I need to know. I need to know everything. No, I'm going to go to bed reading her text messages. She's not allowed to go do.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I'm like, of course she's going to watch Elmo right now. What are you talking about? Of course we're doing screen time. And before, I'm like, no, we will never have a phone out at a dinner. Ever. And now I'm like, queue up, Miss Rachel. It's time. Get the iPad. And now she goes iPad. And I'm like, oh, no.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yeah. It's an interesting point because it's also like this will be my first time going into a fourth season, like doing our third season. That was my first time doing a third season of anything. Yeah, so you can't anticipate where these things are going or where the story's going, especially. I tend to stay in my lane. I appreciate, I think it's every now and then they will ask, of course.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And maybe on other shows, it is a little bit more of a collaboration at times. But I think for us with Ginny and Georgia, it's so specific, especially like with Georgia and her cadence. I love the way that they write for Georgia. It's so beautiful. So for the most part, I pretty much, they've gotten us this far. I really just trust them and-
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I am impressed and I don't know how they come up with this stuff. Our creator and writer's room is amazing. Are you the type of actor who, like, do you want to watch it back? No, you don't. No, I do because I think it's so important and like we have to, you know, come talk about the show and like it's nice to know. You do so many different versions, so many different takes.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It's fun to see, of course, how it all shakes out. But I for sure, I still struggle with being objective. I don't know how people do that. It's so hard. I'll still be like, oh, I wish I did it this way or why'd they choose that take or I'm holding that thing weird or like whatever. I don't know. For sure.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So, I mean, this is where I feel lucky that like There is. So like I grew up with a young single mom. It's just was kind of kismet. There's so much of my mom and her energy in this character. Like I feel like I kind of grew up as Ginny a little bit. Like my mom had me at 21. We didn't have any boundaries. So so much of what was on the page I could relate to.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It just wasn't I think a lot of what was jarring in Ginny and Georgia just wasn't that jarring for me. I think because like I have had some of those conversations. Yeah. And I have so many younger siblings. With my parents, we married and had more, so I have half siblings. But we have larger age gaps. So then I've always sort of felt like an aunt to them also in a way.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Somehow it was just kind of... Natural. Okay.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Definitely. With each season, of course, there's more confidence. For season one, we definitely had so many conversations with our creator that we wanted Georgia to feel like... you know, she was kind of, she's the anti-hero a little bit. Like there's a little Tony Soprano in there. There's a little bit of Walt from Breaking Bad. There's a little bit of Mary Louise Parker from Weeds.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And we wanted that she was, she's kind of a collaboration of all these things. And that when George is big mad, she's the Hulk. And that's when we get scary Georgia. So we do, like, I guess we did kind of color in all the different versions of Georgia because she also takes so many, like, hard right turns. So it's like we're jumping from, like, scary Georgia to, like, oh, goofy Georgia. Yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
To, like, flirty Georgia. And then also depending on who Georgia's talking to, she's a very different person, depending on all the men in her life. Like, she responds and acts very differently with all of them and has a different mask on. So... Season one, yeah, we actually got more specific in that way, talking about the character.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And then, yeah, with each season, getting, like, the luxury of getting to go back, it stays in you a lot longer, I think, than I anticipated.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Um... The, I'm going to forget the name now, but while we were shooting, I mean, are you guys big true crime people? Do you remember the case?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Okay. The woman, it's like the Boston police. Okay. Ken Reed. Yes. Okay. It's on right now. Her second trial. Is it right now? Yes. Right now. You guys, I'm so behind. Okay.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Really?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
See, that was my first instinct, and that's what got me, okay, which is the perfect segue into Georgia, that the Karen Reid trial was happening. And in my mind, I was like, Georgia would act like she was being framed, too, for all of this, 100%. Like, that's exactly what Georgia would do.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Well, and she knows what she's doing with her storytelling and, like, the way she... I don't know. All of the moves she was making were intentional and the way you dress and the way you act and the way you lean into the jury and... Did you learn a lot about, like, the court system for... I mean, I'm sure... Yeah, a little bit.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, we did that... Yeah, you know, you do the scene so many times, you start to... Figure it out. But it is crazy.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Do you still feel like, were you able to shake it?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Those were the days, right? Yeah. When that's the only time you would hear your voice back. And you're like, that's what I sound like. I remember that.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It's so weird. I hate him too. Has your husband watched any? Oh, of course. Yeah, he does. That was my first hint that maybe the show was going to go somewhere because Netflix put it in our account before it gets released and it was season one. And I told him, I was like, all right, it's in our account. I was like, I'm going to go watch. I'm going to go watch some.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And he was like, okay, I'll watch with you. And in my head, I'm like, all right, I'll stick around for one. He watched four in a row with me. And I was like, you don't have to watch this. He's like, no, like, let's watch the next one. Like, what happens next? And I was like, oh, my God, we might be on to something.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Do a little bad for good.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Right. I think, too, it's like people who can be victims of circumstance or feel like they fell through the cracks. You root for them in a different way because you really feel like it's not their fault. And like the limitations that Georgia has and that all of us have to an extent isn't our fault. Granted, it's important to work on them. And I think that's what this season does really well.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It's like, okay, we're very aware now of every character's shortcomings and like, what are we going to do about it? So we finally start to see that this season, which is really cool. But I think because I think she's relatable in a lot to a lot of people in that way, because she is so far from perfect.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So Matt and I met. How does this story go? It was a while ago now. It was like nine years ago. Okay, I went to NYU. Matt went to New School. We're both from Southern California. I grew up in Pasadena. He grew up in Santa Monica. We both are in New York at the same time. Never meet. Both finish school, come back to LA. I start hanging out with his New York friends just through mutual friends.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And like just having a fun kind of like party summer. It's the end of the summer. Matt appears out of nowhere to hang out with his friends. And I'm like, who are you and where have you been? He was studying to take the bar. So he just went MIA for that summer. But he finally took it, then started like going back out again, had a social life. I was with all of his friends.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
We ran into each other four nights in a row and have been together ever since then, basically. But when we got married, it wasn't until we were each saying our vows that he said in his vows,
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
that out of the four times we met the the final two he found out where i was they were not on accident and this whole time i thought it was like very serendipitous and like i can't believe we ran into each other four nights in a row out and about in la i mean your your wedding's a good time it's a safe place to admit you stopped you know it's like you know i don't know when a good time is gonna be but like what was your reaction at the altar i was like just crying and laughing
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I felt silly, actually. I more just felt silly. I was like, of course he did. Why did I think it was completely random four nights in a row? I have to go apologize to the cash register at Gelson's that I was telling. I have told that story maybe 17 times very publicly. Of course. But now we have the correct version.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, this girl is like running, monologuing. She's new sentences every day. She is just a sponge. She's very independent. She was like, like if I, if she's doing something and doesn't want to be interrupted, she'll be like, no, no, no, mama dare. Like she doesn't want you coming close to her to like... I don't know. Bother her? Touch her or even like let her do it.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
She wants to like go up and down the stairs by herself, picking out her clothes. Oh, really? Uh-huh. I mean, and I'll just give her like two options, right? Like this shirt or this shirt. Yeah. She loves counting. She can count up to 15, but she will always skip four through seven. Don't know, like we, I don't know. She loves going to the, her little baby gym.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Like she like loves doing like somersaults and stuff. She still needs help. But like we went to the Getty on Sunday and there were kids like doing like like 10 year old girls like doing cartwheels and stuff. And then she goes and like tries to legit do the somersaults and she just goes into like a yoga pose kind of like downward dog and then falls to the right or left.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
But it's very sweet and cute.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
We're entering our tantrum phase. I would just start saying no sooner. We didn't really. We didn't use a lot of no's at first because, I don't know, you want them to explore and it's so exciting and they learn something new. Yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
you want to try something different to be fun like one time we ate dinner outside and then now it's like outside dinner and like every night i'm like well we can't eat dinner outside every night i don't want to cave all the time but then you kind of just cave it's i read some quote that was like only say no if it's dangerous to like them or someone else i've been thinking about that but then like it's not that bad but then i'm like now she's kind of running the house
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Well, you know what? I think the one thing that's working instead of like just saying the same thing 19 times, like it's bath time, it's bath time, it's bath time. She's like, no, no, no. It's like, do you want to be a shark? Let's go be sharks.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I did see this on Instagram, which is embarrassing, but it was like some woman said to get her toddler to eat fish, she called it beach chicken. What? And then the kid was like, I want beach chicken. And I was like, that's genius. It's all rebranding. Closer to the toddler age, but it's just rebranding. Beach candy. Yeah. And like brushing her teeth. I'm like, let's get the like.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
My sister used to call them sugar bugs. Yeah, exactly. Let's get the bugs out. Or like she has a really fun toothbrush or like. And like people have told me like when it comes time to potty train, like just cave and get the like Barbie underwear or whatever they want. That's exciting. Yeah. Like whatever. Fine.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, she loves Little Mermaid. The thing about her is like, I mean, she's obsessed with Moana. I've only seen, though, the first like 12 minutes, but like 19 times. She only likes it when she's a baby. Like she only wants to watch baby Moana. And we went, we were, we took a flight most recently. So actually, and Moana was on the plane and it was the first time we made it a little bit deeper in.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
But I was like, it's kind of scary halfway through.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I haven't even watched it yet.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I saw that in the people who fall asleep watching True Crime as well. Yeah, and people who smoke a lot of weed also are probably very smart.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, look, she's a little bit closer with me. But I also like I work a lot and like Matt's amazing and like he can work from home ever since COVID. So I would not be able to work at the capacity that I do without him like being as hands on as he is. But, you know, of course, there's like for now, yeah, we want mama.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yeah. For me, it just makes, I don't know, it just, yeah, I like the separation of church and state. I think like the industry can be so weird and it's such a bubble and like you can, or I could get really in my head about things.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So much. Like, it's very nice.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
No, we worked on it. We had a dialect coach season one, especially to like, of course, for me. And then also two of the main actors are Australian, Felix and Diesel. So Felix plays the cute boyfriend and then Diesel's Georgia son, Austin. And then also the Canadians just for a couple of mums here and there. But no, we had a dialect coach and that was super helpful.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, you're already acting, which is already, like, a... I would say the one thing, like, I would normally be able to improvise a lot more, but, like, improvising with the accent is a little bit trickier. But... Kind of going back to what I was saying before, too, like, the way they write Georgia, the accent is almost built in.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Like, the cadence, they're so good at it that, like, I hear the Georgia accent when I'm reading it because I think they write it in.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Like, season one, for sure, was, like, I was going through, like, with iambic pentameter and, like, crossing out all the Gs and, like, doing the diphthongs and, like, stuff that I learned in college that I thought would never come in handy. Right, right. Oh, my God. I like had an old CD from college about like tips and tricks. And I was like, I don't even think laptops have.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I can't insert a CD anywhere anymore. But so, yeah, seasons one and two, like one definitely required the most work. But it's cool. It does stick with you. But, yeah, like I'll also go back and like watch or like even listen to some country songs. Little Reba. There you go.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Are you guys watching it? Oh, yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Okay. The one take where like the when he goes to set. Oh, my God. The hardest episode to watch. I was dying. I have never seen anything so good.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
relatable and hysterical and they nailed it they did it just the stakes are so high like trying to get the light like making sure you get that magic hour light and in one take and like i mean the stakes are you have the weight of the world on your shoulders and they nailed it i thought it was amazing
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
That was so good. I'm not going to win. Of course I'm going to win. The validation his character needed, I just thought was just so great.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
But maybe I will. But no, no, I won't.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Honestly, I actually was like, maybe that's the move. Like, maybe that is the move. It's just like, no, no, no, no, no. Of course not. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, it's not about that. Because I kind of bought it in the beginning. And I was like, good for her.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Oh, um, I mean, actually quite, I've had, this has been a really fun one. I got to go to Beyonce. How was Blue Ivy? I mean, so I have been saying ever since I got pregnant, like my daughter will never be in the entertainment industry ever, ever. And then watching Blue Ivy on stage with Beyonce, I was crying and I was like, she could do it. She could be an actress if she wants.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I've been working every day. I mean, I don't know how old she is. She owned the stage. It was an incredible two and a half hours. Wow. I'm so proud of her. Don't know her, but I'm so proud of her. I'm so proud of her, too.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
For an industry that doesn't have, like, there's nothing linear about this. Like, you could, everyone's path is so different and looks so different. I've had a shockingly linear path. Like, I started out with one line. And then that turned into a couple of lines. Like, I didn't really skip any steps. And, like, I went to college.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And, like, I felt like I was a little behind when I graduated because everyone I was auditioning against didn't. And, like, had four more years on their resume and, like, of, like, you know, hitting the pavement. So I think because... Yeah, I've like kind of had a steady pace. Nothing happened too soon, too fast, to be honest. Yeah, I think that has kind of helped.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And then I've always, yeah, I've worked like pretty steadily this whole time. But Ginny and George is the first thing that like took off into the stratosphere in this way. Like none of the other stuff did. And it's still, I'm so proud of it. And it's amazing. But this is one of the first things that like really launched.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
That's very sweet. Look, I'm still comparing myself to people, of course, but that's a really nice way of framing it. Yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It's been a great year. Like, it was really cool to get to go do, like, right before we shot season three, I got to do... A movie with Netflix called Kind of Pregnant with Amy Schumer and an incredible cast. It was with Happy Madison. And it was a dream. Didn't I hear that you used like your actual birth story? Yeah. Yeah. And that was all like in none of that was in the script.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And Amy called me the night before and was like, let's just up the ante. Let's take this to the next level. Like, would you be willing to talk about your birth story? And I was like, for sure. Let's I mean, I'm very nervous to do this.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Were you like nervous? Of course. Because also like, I don't even know how much I've really processed all that still probably. Like, I guess that's kind of what the movie is about is that like this happens and then you don't process any of it. And like, it's just welcome. You're just thrown into that. Yeah. But no, especially because like, I don't know.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I remember when I was pregnant, I heard so many scary, scary stories and it freaked me out. And like, I didn't want, I don't want to like perpetuate that for everybody. Because like up until that happened, everything was very smooth. How was your experience?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
They really do know the voice. They know.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I mean, honestly, so many. Like, I, like, yeah, I'll never forget her laying on my chest for the first time. I'll never, I mean, I, God, no, I'm going to cry, you guys. No, it's so sweet. I remember when they did, like, they went to go weigh her for the first time. And then my mat walked over and looked at her and he, like, put his hand towards her and she gripped it. And he just started bawling.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yes. I've never seen him cry so hard. But also, she started coming out so fast. He almost missed the whole thing. He went to go get food. He went to go, he went to X-Flat across the street. We were at Cedars. He almost missed the whole thing because it was 25 minutes. Like it happened very fast.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yeah. They were like, oh, hold on. She's not here yet. And they're like, and where's dad? Yeah. I was like, he's getting food. They're like in the cafeteria, right? And I was like, nope, he has left the vicinity. He is long gone. Yeah, he's like, I'm not eating this. He walked in holding tater tots and they go, dad, grab a leg. And then he was like, what, what, what, what?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And I was like, it's happening now. And he's like, they said it was going to happen in the afternoon. And I was like, it's happening now. And then he's like, do you want a tater tot? And I was like, no, it's happening now. We got to go. We got to go. But like that, when I think about that, it makes me laugh. That's a sweet moment. And the nurses were so sweet.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And one of my nurses had on Real Housewives of Orange County scrubs. But it was the meme of Taylor with the cat. Yes. Have you seen that? Yes. It was all over her scrubs. And I just felt like it was a sign from the universe. And I was like, you're my girl. And like, we're meant to do this together.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Oh. probably it's too, each season is so different, but like, I thought Beverly Hills was amazing this season. OC like lost its, its way, but it's been bad. Like the last two seasons of OC, I thought were amazing. And then Salt Lake has always delivered New York. I've always loved, but I wasn't as enthralled with like the most recent installment. So it just depends.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
No, I'm just, but only cause I'm behind. Okay. I'm going to. That one's crazy. It's dark. Yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Yeah. Well, dark makes for great reality TV. Yeah.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Are there a lot of divorces this season? Or it's just the one?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Oh, we owe them everything. I could never do it.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Look, I love a below deck. Really? I know, it's kind of random. I love a blow deck. I just love it. Because it doesn't, housewives can also get dark and toxic. Yep. And we want them, like, a little dark and toxic, but not so much. Like, I hate it, like, when, like, we have to put people on pause. Like, I miss Dorinda. Yes. Like, I don't, and I want everyone to be okay, you know?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So, blow deck is, like, a nice, safe...
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
And, like, the hookups are so fun. And you've got the upstairs and the downstairs. And there's new guests every week. And you're going to a beautiful place. And then those tiny little bunks. There's always good drama. But it's, like, nefarious drama. Like, well, for the most part.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Exactly. Yeah. Which actually does happen, like, every third episode.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Below Deck is probably your favorite, too, right, Sierra? Yeah. No, Summer House. I'm behind on that too, but I love Summer House. That's good fun.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So he's just still thriving. He is. He is still thriving. Did you ever watch Southern Hospitality? A little bit. Yeah. I didn't sink my teeth in in the same way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I did either.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
It was probably like a Cupcake Wars. And but I also remember watching Real Housewives of Orange County with my mom the first season and her saying that like someone she worked with always wanted to live in Cotto da Casa. And she was like, I've heard about this place. Like, let's go. Like, let's check it out. So, yeah, there's like early, early days. What else was on in the day? Laguna Beach?
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
The Hills? I did a little Survivor. Not as much.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
I don't currently watch, but people are.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
So it's still fun for you to watch reality TV, even though it was such a big part of your life.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
No, I think breaking the fourth wall, you're right. But I also, you kind of bring up a good point that reality TV has changed so much because one of the other shows that I got so into was 90 Day Fiancé. Yes. Did you guys ever do that? I do that still. I'm still in Last Resort. But like, it's not, what season is it in? I don't know. I don't know. I'm doing Last Resort.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
But like season one truly felt like a documentary. But now it's such a big show. It feels like people are trying to go on it. Everyone's too self-aware now. It changes the feeling for sure.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Everyone knows why they're going on. They know what they're going to get out of it.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
You know what I loved about your wedding? It wasn't this cookie cutter, copy and paste affair. It was very memorable.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Why is it beeping? I'm not running away. I'm in my damn house.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Everyone thinks I'm a violent, unhinged monster. You can't give up. At least it can't get any worse, right? Except if I go to prison, that would be worse. I'm not a bad person. But if you come face to face with bad, you become a little bad yourself.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
That means a lot coming from you. Thank you.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
After, like when it first came out and I would send in self-tapes, they would think, they would be like, oh no, she could do her regular accent. It's okay. Thinking it was Southern. Like they'd be like, she doesn't have to put on a neutral American. And they were like, no, this, she's not from the South. This is her accent.
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E944 - Brianne Howey Talks Ginny & Georgia, Love Island USA w/ Disrespectfully, Summer House & Karen Read
Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you.