Ryder Strong

We think you should look into it.

Like you should start studying acting or doing it in school or something.

So I started taking acting lessons and mailing him the VHS tapes that we would record.

Oh, my gosh.

He would get them and then he would watch them and then he would send back his notes.

So it was a lot of process of that until he thought, well, I think, you know, why don't you come out for this pilot season?

Give it a try.

So my mom and I drove out from Arizona to L.A.

and got a little apartment and got our Thomas guide out and found our audition points every day.

That was that, you know, I just kind of really interestingly rolled right into it.

No, no, I never stayed at Oakwood.

My kids went to Oakwood school, which is a whole nother situation, but Oakwood apartments.

No, I had like, I think it was on cold, cold water Canyon right by the AM PM there.

Yes.

Gosh, I want to say not that long after.

I think I got my first job was on a Disney movie called Teen Angel, which also starred Jason Priestley.

That's where we first met.

And then I did an episode of Growing Pains where I had one line, three words, one line.

And then I got to star as Barbara Eden's daughter in a short-lived show that she did with Don Murray.

I mean, yeah.