The cast of Good Sam, Sophia's new show, answers rapid fire questions so we can get to know them better!
Hey everyone, As Sophia, welcome to this bonus episode of Work in Progress, exclusively for our one dry plus listeners. If you've been listening to Work in Progress for the last few weeks, you know that I wanted my whip smarties to get to know the other community I have been spending all my time with, and that is my Good Sam family. I've had the pleasure of working with the amazing casting crew from my new CBS show Good Sam for almost two years now. They really have become some of my favorite people that I have ever worked with, and it has been a gift to get to know them. I'm so happy that you have been getting to know them through our deeper conversations on the podcast too. But today I thought it would be fun to do a rapid fire round of questions with some of the cast and crew so you can see their individual personalities and preferences, from what their coffee order is to somewhere they want to travel. Today's bonus episode. It's fast and fun. Thank you for tuning in, and I won't keep you any longer. Let's get to it. This is Miriam Carvel. I play Nurse Donna Williams. My name is Davie Santos and I played Dr Joey Costa. What's Up? This is Edwin Hodge and I play Malcolm High. It's Omarm Scottie and I play Dr San Shaw. I'm Wendy Krussen, I play Dr Vivian Katz, I am Sky Marshall and I play Doctor Lex Truly on the sand, Here we go on the rapid fire questions. What is your favorite TV show that you watched last? I May Destroy You and Hacks? I also love that those two shows I just I loved has I think Hack two and Queen's Gambit before that bit of a shameless plug, but as we see it on Amazon is so good. The Queen's Gambit this is us definitely succession Succession. I love Mayor of Easton. I love Kate Winslet. Oh, she was so good in that. And The Great is fantastic and lots of fun. Huzzah. When would you say your most productive for me? It's like eight am till um two is when I wish to be heavy duty writing, but it often is later. Yeah, I think I stopped asking myself that question. When does it do? Yeah? When am I most productive in the morning after? Like eleven PM, late at night, top of the morning, right when I'm fresh out of bed. I am a night owl. I love doing work at night. I don't I don't know, call me a vampire. I am most productive after breakfast, before lunch, and after dinner into the wee hours of the night. Oh it's a tiny window in the morning between about ten and eleven. I'm on fire. The rest of the day not so much. What's your comfort meal? Tomato soup and chicken pop pie, like grony and cheese. You know, a good, warm, cheesy dish is just that that just soothes the sole pasta I think chicken noodle, soup, Japanese food. I love sushi, and I'm addicted to ramen a, sevich a, or basically anything see food related. Lemon pasta so good like dessert with pasta. It's so amazing. Where is the place on earth that you feel most at peace? A basketball court in my bedroom upstairs, in an airplane once in the air and there's no WiFi. I feel most at peace in the kitchen, the little cabin on Georgian Bay, that rocky shore, that blue lake that was my um grandfather's, And it's for sure the winner there and any like kind of beach waves. Situation for me is like I can really and and if I'm on the water on some sort of bow is something I discovered about myself recently because I don't go on many boats, and I was like, what is this silence in my mind? Just really lovely? Yeah. I like hiking. I like being in the trees and kind of lost on the path. Yeah. Yeah, I love to be in the mountains too. But it's funny. When you mentioned a boat, the first thing that came into my mind. I was like, Katy, we gotta we gotta take Jenny to the up Oh yeah, you just get around a boat o the boat face the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We gotta go will be our celebratory end of season something I can't wait. I'm trying to get my husband to like trance, like to become sort of sort of sailor, because I've realized how relaxed I am. And he's like, I don't know anything about boats and I don't have any skills or like, but could have become something you're passionate about, because then he could drive me, would love it? Maybe he would? Yeah, do you never try to be like, hey, sailor like just sort of lay it in. I'll let you know how it goes. If each of you could pick a book that would be mandatory for high school students to read, what book would you chuse? High School? I don't know. Beloved Tony Morrison, but I don't know if that's high school anything by Maya Angelo, Emotional Awareness by Paul Ekman, the leading facial expression scientist, and the Dalai Lama Very good East West book. Tony Morrison's Beloved definitely cast. I mean, come on, you know, I recently read Bell Canto again. For me, it is like all about point of view. It depends on how you look at things, and like that. That book for me was a really start to sort of interesting conversation in my mind. What was the first concert you ever went to? Either Backstreet Boys Are in Sync Shaun Cassidy. The first concert I ever went to was for the Used metha Man and Red Man at the House of Blues in Chicago, The Police, Jay z Fade, Black Staples Dinner. We'll never forget that. I think it was The Moody Blues or Billy Joel. It was with my dad for sure, so that's not very cool. Mine was with my friend's dad and it was Billy Joel. Oh my god, this is perfect. Me and my friends did our first concert without our parents, I think in the eighth grade, and it was when Lauren Hill's record came out and we saw Lauren Hill outcast. It was the best, still one of the best concerts i've It was so cool. And we saw them at Universal City Walk and our parents drove us and then sat in the parking lot until we got out because they were so nervous to let us go in like an amphitheater by ourselves. And we were like, we are, we are fourteen years old, and we do not need you to chaperone us. We're fine, And wow, what a what a night? What a concert? Yeah, what a concert. I'm curious about this for you guys, when you know that something is the right thing for you, is there is there like a feeling that arises in you. Is there a name you can ascribe to that. I think for me it's obsession, just like I can't stop thinking about it, yeah yeah, or like wanting to pitch it or like pitch on it, like like I think that's right. Keep simmering up like you can't let it go. A feeling of tempered confidence, euphoria. That would be the feeling of certainty or providence. Providence as well fizzing. I start to fizz. I can feel it just tingling and anticipation. Do you know something good is going to happen? I guess contentment, you know, like I can just be content and feeling good about what is going on? Okay, last question, what so far is a memory that each of you cherishes from at current? The first seven episodes we've done of our show. Well, I would like for me, I live for the moments when people tell me that they like working working on the show like that that makes it all worthwhile for me that day, like no matter it's just like if I'm having a hard day and then I find out that somebody else is having a good time, that's like completely reframes stuff and I I'm grateful for every single reminder every single day that it's not about me. And then I like, the more I can position myself visa be like how can I be useful and helpful to this overall whole endeavor. I'm always better headspace, So I'm really grateful every single time I know that somebody else is happy. That keeps me going. I really loved for me, like sitting on the stage with um, you and Gina was a really special full circle moment where we got to just talk and talk about it. Just it felt very like, oh my gosh, I was so excited for your guys, this connection and because you guys are both such singular um extraordinary people and leaders and community members, and just thinking about like that those relationships and how they grow and create more change and opportunity was a really like just awesome feeling. There was one night where we were shooting. We were outside, it was super cold, super late, which is not great, but we're also all a little loopy, and there was a take where Davy took a bite of a prop and I don't know if we were supposed to eat the prop, and it just it just cracked us up and it was so fun. And yeah, anytime we laugh on set really or dance on set, you know, I just I have to say it was sitting around we were on the pilot, sitting in the hallway of some set, you know, late late at night, in clothes that you know, our characters not yours, you're uncomfortable and figuring out what we want to order to eat, and Sophia is always the best, takes lead, always has that menu up and good foods on its way. One of my fondest was sitting around a country house table um listening to Gina tell us about love and toasting to all of us coming together to have a weekend together outside of work. The memory that I have is when the cast and our our lovely director, Gina Rodriguez, we all run in a farmhouse and we just we just spent a couple of days out there and it was just nice to kind of connect with everybody and dance, laugh, eat um, share stories, do yoga. It was a great time. A memory that I cherished while filming Season one of Good Sam is definitely when everybody surprised me on my birthday. I was kind of bummed because I was working the day of and I was tricked into believing that I was setting up for a shot, and outcomes Sophia and Jason with donuts and everybody saying and it just made me feel really nice and lone and appreciated. A memory I cherish that comes to mind during the filming of Good Sam so far being accepted wholeheartedly by the rest of the cast. M I love that, I gotta say. And I was so surprised because we've now seen it so many times, all of us. But when when we watched the pilot on TV, I just had I had chills for an hour. I couldn't believe it. With the final music and the final picture lock and seeing other people see it, watching people lean toward the TV because they were really invested, I was like, oh, man, we did it. It's not just us who thinks it's special. All these other people. I think it's special, and that feels really cool. So I know it's so nice that it's out in the world. It feels like, oh, here, we're at this moment. There were times when we probably didn't believe it was gonna come. I love it. We did it. Ah, that was so much fun. I loved hearing everyone's answers, and I hope you enjoyed getting to know these wonderful people a little bit better. Before we go. I want to thank all of you for not only listening to and supporting work in progress, but for supporting Good Sam. It is something that brings me the utmost joy and a tremendous amount of fulfillment, and I'm just so incredibly grateful to be able to do both this podcast and the show, And i am so grateful for each of you who follows and supports my work. If you're a Wondering Plus subscriber, thank you for being some of my favorite whip Smarties. Feel free to check out our whole new catalog of bonus content and check back next month for exclusive episodes. Until next time, two