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Trigger Warning: Talk of Suicide in one of the recaps
I’m back!! You know it makes my day to know that Alex & Zibby are really enjoying my rreview and racaps! I got to credit them for the inspiration for it! As I said before it was them talking about how no one writes real articels anymore and just uses AI that really inspired me to do this for them. I LOVE to write. Its so theraputic. Especailly being a caregiver to my mom it really gives me something to do during the day. I live with her and take care of her. I’m only 40 and my mom is 64. As I mentioned before she has early onset Alzheimer’s and I caregive for her so living with her gives me a lot of time! Listening to the podcast and writing these articles has really given me someting to do! Now onto the recap/review!!
Episode 21 was another AMA, with Zibby and Alex! As I said before even the episode is just them and no interivew its still so enteraining becuase they both make me laugh sometimes. They talked about what they do for skincare, they were asking about running and both said they hated it. Someone asked them about aging gracefully and Alex cracked me up because she said to ask her again when she’s 60, Alex mentioned how she hated cleaning, and I had to laugh again because it made me think of my sister. The funny thing is as I listen to these episodes I’ve actually been sending my sister little clips here and there becuase she and Alex are so much alike. Alex will say something and I’ll get the clip and send to my sister and be like “I’m dead this is so you”. My sister and I were huge fans of This Is Us which Alex was on so she knows who Alex is too. They also got on the serous subject how to not care what others think as someone put in a great question on that. Overall the episode was great!
The next episode was a random episde again and it started off really sad becuase Alex talked about how she had recently lost her friend to suicide. Zibby was also having a rough day. I’m glad that they had each other to help each other get through. Alex I’m so sorry for your loss! It is crazy how both of you have had that same type of loss now at least you had Zibby there for you to help you through as she knows what it is like to lose someone to that. I thought it was interesting about them mentioning their losses being in the month of April. April is a tough month for me too girls. When Zibby mentioned her brothers death date being April 24th I was like omg… becuase I already think her and I are so much alike but then she mentioned that and I was like wow because my dad passed away on April 29th. THEN Alex mentioned her friends passing being on April 11 and I was like omg again because my Mom’s mother who was like a second mom to me passed away on April 13th. I also lost my Dads dad on April 6th so April is def a tough one!! Take me on that trip wtih you girls!! LOL jk.. but you guys shoul def do that trip! They also talked about watching themselves and Zibby mentioned how she doesnT like to think of others watching her, and Alex immediatly wanted to help her fix it but Zibby said it can’t be.
Episode 23 was their interview with Sarah Dugdale who plays Lizzie on Virign River! I loved this interview. I was so suprised to learn that she is in her late 20s! I thought she was at least early/mid 20s in real life. Sarah talked about how she already lived in Vancouver and how its so nice that her job for Virgin River is right there. She said she loves being by all of her family and friends. She talked about how she likes to take days to herself to relax and that she’s introverted. They asked her what other acting jobs she has done. She talked about the Christmas movie she did and the horror movie she did. Sarah said she would love to do more horror movies. The girls asked her about her skincare she said she goes to a place about an hour away from her that does facials. They talked about her love for theater and I was suprised to learn that Sarah sings and plays instruments! She was such a joy to listen to it was such a great fun interview. The girls were so excited and enthused to have her there.
The next episoe was with Kai Bradbury who plays Denny on Virgin River! This was such a great interview. The girls had such great questions for him. They talked abouit what it is like acting for him since his of different race (he is half japanese) they were curious what it was like for him like getting different roles and stuff. I thought it was a great question and they were respectful to him as well it was no way racist what so ever. Just wanted to explain that because I’m horrible at explaining things sometimes. He talked about how speaks fench and his native language. He loves to dance, loves theater. Kai said he got started doing improv when he was younger. I LOVE the conversation he had about playing a character with Huntingtons disease. He talked about the response he got from that community of playing that character. He has reasearched the disease it and wants to work with HD orginazations. Zibby spoke about how she related as she had a big response with Brie’s SA story on the show. I think Virgin River has handled these things so beautifuly. When it comes to Brie’s SA and actually a fan of Briady, I sincerely hope they make it that Brie declines MIke’s proposal and decides to work on herself and her trauma from the SA. I think this would be so amazingly done and Zib is such a great actress it would be so great for her to present this to the audience as it might help others who have that trauama like Brie. Alex talked about how she bought a little airstream for her to chill in while on set and that they take it for her every location that she films for Virigin River. Its named The Mother Ship. Lol! I thought that was so cute. They talked about actors being percieved as crazy which I thought was an interesting conversation. Kai talked about how he brought his famiily to the set and showed them around and how they got to see people filming. He and Zibby played a cute little musical game and then Alex joined in too! Kai also talked about he likes how he can cry so easily and is overly emotional at times. He said he used to hate it but now he embracees it. I’m over emotional too!
Fun fact I’ve actually been to a set of TV show before and got to watch it being filmed! Once when they had a tapiong and then another time when it was a closed set.. Danielle Fishel who played Topanga on Boy Meets World actually brought me to the set of Girl Meets World TWICE when it was on Disney Channel. I got to have lunch with the cast the first time and then the second time was no lunch but I got to see everyone again! It was so much fun. Alex I know that you are a Sabrina Carpenter fan. I got to meet her on set actually as thats the show that got her started. She would get sooo excited to see me each time I came to set. I haven’t talked to Danielle in a bit as she’s been busy but she’s such a great person! There is whole story behind my set visit! haha.I have enclosed some of my fave photos of those visits at the bottom!! I’ve also included an instagram post from Ben Savage that he shared of us from the first time I visited.Just a side note but the very first picture of me with the two of them is from the seocnd visit!
Anwyways that is all for the recaps/reviews for now! Will get to binge watching the rest soon! so stay tuned!!
You can read about my onset experience of Girl Meets World and see other pictures at the link below which is my other website:
https://bmwsequel.com/2015/05/24/my-on-set-girl-meets-world-experience/
