April 9, 2025 • 24 mins
Jana, Kathryn and Kristen fangirl when Tara Reid joins Whine Down! Tara opens up about the realities of starting an acting career at just 6 years old, and she takes us through her journey of handling the negativity from blogs and tabloids.
Tara and Jana go deep into the pros and cons of social media, and we hear about the new project that allows Tara to take a role unlike anything she’s done before.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'veheart Radio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Did you guys watch American Pie? Yeah? Are you even American?
If you haven't watched American Pie? Have you watched the remakes?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I have either. I feel like you really can't remake
that one.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
There's a remakes.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I didn't even know they had. I think so hopefully.
I'm pretty sure consult Google. I just would they remake
a classic? I'm pretty sure old we were when we watched.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
He's not old enough because, like, I think about that now,
when did it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Come out in nineteen ninety nine it came out? Oh yeah,
we were old up, were in high school?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, I know, But I think about that now and
I'm like, I don't know, I'm uncomfortable thinking about my
kids watching it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was so inappropriate, But that's why it was awesome.
I know, it like made a history in that way.
It pushed the envelope. The funny thing was as I
googled it, do you know the number one image that
comes up when I google it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Is that rhyme with ripple? No? What the ripple one? Nothing? Okay,
that's that's the Varsity Blues nipple and when she sprayed
them and I'm like, does it rhyme with ripple? And
You're like, nipple rhyme with it? That's it, okay? And
I just you say it and I don't. I just
think that's funny. No the pie remember, Oh yes, that
(01:28):
that was strange in my brain. Well that's like the
main thing strange, Like is it strange? Like do the
whole thing? Like boys don't don't know you have teenage.
But we have a little for our special guest of
the week. We have Tara Reid coming on. She's got
(01:49):
a new movie out called Doctor Quarantine, and we're gonna
chat all things American pie, what's new and what's the
back in the day, what she wants us to know.
So let's take a break and get her on. Hi girl, Hi,
(02:18):
I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm good good.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm Jana Catherine Kristen. So you got the girls today? Girl, Hi,
So we are very excited to chat with you. You
were definitely our era of movies and actress because we
were all I believe the same ish age.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So yes, I'm like, I don't know you were just
you were Tara Reid, and like you were you're the
hot one I wanted to be with you. I was
like in a back brace and going like, how do
I be like Tara Reid? You were like, well, you
were pretty and sexy and confident, and I just wanted
to do that and I was not those things.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Just so we're clear, No, that's really the street of you. Guys.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You started at six years old, So looking back, is
that do you think you were too young to start
or did you like growing up being I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was the kind of thing that I didn't plan
on starting that young. I actually planned on acting at all.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I was actually I lived in New Jersey and one
day I was in the food court with my brother
and my mom and she was getting his pizza, and
this talent agent for children just happen to be sitting
next to us, and she was visiting her daughter in
New Jersey, but she lived in New York City, and
she saw me and my brother kind of goofing around,
and she went up to my mom. She goes, your
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daughter is perfect for this movie. It's this new Stephen
King movie that's coming out, and they can't find the girl.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
My mom's like, well, she doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Know how to act like, you know, I'm just like, tey,
do you want to ask?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And I said, I don't know what I'm doing, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So they gave us the lines and we went in
the next day and I auditioned for it and I
got it. So I kind of just never got forced
into doing it. It kind of just kind of fell
in my lap. From there, we just kept getting commercials
and different stuff and TV shows, and then all of
a sudden got into movies and so now I'm sitting
here with you guys, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm always curious because my daughter, she was in a
movie that I did last year, and so that kind
of gave her the acting bug. And she's nine, and
so we had this thing over the weekend where she
had an audition for a really big show that's about
to be you know, remade. And it was one of
the things where I never want to force. I'm like,
do you want to read this one? Do you want
to pass? Do not want to? Because I never want
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to be the mom that's like, all right, you need
to do you know, all these auditions or whatever, and
so she said no, But I'm like, but so funny,
like it was so hard to be like, Okay, we
need to collide the audition, but I really did go
You're one hundred percent positive you don't want to be
Laura the bonnet from your Amazon car, you know. But
(05:04):
I think it's you know, that's sweet that your mom
wasn't like, you know, forcing you into things, which is good.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I think that makes a big difference of you know,
kind of child actors if their mom is like the
stage mom and forcing them to do stuff and then
they don't get the part and they start to cry
and they kind of message with their you know, they're
being insecure and stuff like that. So I think you
actually did really.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The right thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So did it just like come naturally to you, Like
you just went in and did lines and it was like,
oh wait, I can actually do this, I can actually
act and I'm good at this or did you have
to kind of work at it still to get there?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, it was it kind of just came naturally to me,
because I mean, I think kids are actually better actors
than adults are because they don't have they don't put
up all these like.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Borders or walls.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You know, it does come naturally to them because they
kind of just play make believe in their head. And
all kids, as we know, are great at make believe,
so I think they could do it. So when you
tell kids a crow or acted this, or be mad
or be said, they're the best. You know, they're very
dramatic kids. So it kind of came Natsha. I didn't
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learn any bad habits.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yet growing up without social media, Like through your stardom
and your fame. I feel like though you didn't have
social media being bullying and aggressive, you had the media.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Absolutely, And so I feel like, do you kind of
think back like, Yay, you didn't have social media being
jerks and bullying and stuff, but you but I feel
like you definitely got the a lot of bullying from paparazzis,
proparazzi and just the magazines and all of that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Oh, I definitely agree with that. I'm glad social media
did not exist back then. I think it's really hard.
But kids have to go through social media. And also
there's addicted to their phone where we were addicted to
our phones. You know, we actually went out and called
people up on the phone and said, hey, do you
want to come over and play? You know, like the
old ways. You just don't see that anymore. I think
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kids are missing that too, you know, I definitely do believe,
Like later on in my life when the TMZ started
coming out and the Perez Hilton's and like the bullying
that was pretty awful. Now it's just like people get bad,
you know, if you find out one person said something
bad about you, like I heard your feelings, Like why
did you they say that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Why did they think about me like that? Like that's
not nice.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But when it's like millions of people, you're like, this
is so messed up. And when they don't get stories right,
and they just bully for everything, for you're wearing, for
how you look, or you know, your weight, or your
clothes or just anything you do, or the guys you
date or just anything.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They find something mean or wrong about it all the time.
You know, not so much anymore. It's really came down
as I got older, But when I was on my
younger days, it was just pretty brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, I feel like they kind of targeted you as
this party girl. But it's like you were going out
to the clubs just like everyone else was going out
to the clubs, you know, and they just then do
you feel like they just put that label on you,
and that was just okay, that's who Tera Reid is,
even though that's not who Tara Reid was.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I mean I think you now is it right
on the head. I mean that was the age that
everyone was going on anyway. So I wasn't doing anything
wrong that everyone else was doing. I was having fun,
But I never got it confused with my acting, like
I never was late to a set or do no
you know lines, or I've never done anything wrong, like
but I never been arrested. I never got it, you know,
(08:33):
in trouble. I've never got a speeding ticket in my life.
So I think I was really targeted, like I was
this wild child and and you know, completely crazy. And
I did go out, I did dance on tables. I
did have fun, but like who didn't at that age?
It mean me, like they so typecast me. It was
really hard to get rolls again, you know, and it
(08:53):
wasn't fair because you see, you know, guys doing all
this stuff and it's fine, and now you see all
these girls that were doing all stuff and like they're
blowing off and you're just like, what side do you
feel that you know that they still the target me
in a certain way, and it's still hard to to
get that titlement over with.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What do you think they what do you wish they
would have taken, you know, or got from from you
instead of what they gave? You know, everybody what?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
What the what? The what they showed the media as
opposed to like, you know who Tara is and was
back then, where it's like, I feel like in a
way they robbed you of things that you shouldn't have
been robbed of because of their narrative.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I really agree with what you said, and I'm glad
that you see that, because I don't think that that
many all the people like that see how you see
it so fairly. You know, for me, it was just
it was tough because once I kind of got that
label on me, then to get parts I was kind
of getting denied them. And I'm like, for what, just
(10:00):
because I went out, you know, that didn't take anything
away from me from acting or the opportunities I wanted
to get or continue to get. And I think that
really slowed me down in a lot, like a lot
of ways, and I felt like I was getting punished
for a crime that I didn't do. So that was,
you know, a problem, you know. But then I think
then I started not to go out anymore, not to
do this and not to do that, and you know,
(10:21):
just try to be really careful. And so I think
that really helped a lot, you know, but there's still
there's still a lot of judgment there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm just I'm just kind of used to it and
now like creating my own projects and creating my own
narrative and not waiting for me to get a job
or for these people to say yes or no to me.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Like so I'm creating like my own scripts and producing
my own stuff. So I'm giving myself the parts that
I've been kind of not being allowed to play. So
now people are like noticing and they're like, oh wait, wow,
she can't act, or well she's doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh what, she's smarter than I thought.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You know, Like like I think a lot of people
decided it was just like kind of dumb blonde you know,
that didn't you know, the party girl that didn't don't
know anything or care, and that was like, you know,
you look at girls like even like Jennifer Lawrence, She's
always drinking and they find fun and funny. You know,
she drinks some shows and stuff like that, like you know,
falling down like all the time, and they don't care.
(11:17):
It's like, why do you guys care so much when
I did something like that? You know, I think I
had like I think it was just really hardly like
really hard judgment on me.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And yeah it was hard. You know, it did hurt
my feelings.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know, people forget your cuman like you know, you
cut me, I bleed, so, I mean, you know, and
that way it was you just had to stay strong
and just keep believing in yourself. And it wasn't always
the easiest thing to do, but you know, you just
get on and you keep doing it and eventually when
you want something, it will come.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It will come back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
What what did you do to get to that place
with your I would I'm gonna call it mental health
because I feel like when you go through all that,
it's the anxiety, the depression of all those things that
could potentially and I'm not I don't want to label
that you, but that is what just how I would
feel like the projection of all that would be and
what I've gone through personally on the smaller scale, but
what have where? How do you did you go? Did
(12:12):
you have a great therapist? Did you go to a
treatment center?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Like where?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What did you do to kind of not let that
run your world and feel that?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I think it did kind of run my road for
a while, you know. And I think how I dealt
with it is just I kind of became, you know,
more insecure a little bit, you know, and didn't have
as much confidence anymore, you know. And but I had
some really good friends around me and good family, so
(12:45):
I was able to talk it through with my friends
and be able to speak about it. And I also
write a lot, so I kind of keep in journal
and write and that and that that really helps a
lot too. So I think just getting through it and
you know, taking it day by day and you know,
getting opportunities again and just you know, doing the best
you can and you know, eventually, like what comes around
(13:06):
goes around.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There's kind of a truth to that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Is Doctor Quarantine a show or a movie that you
put together? Did you were you have your did you
have your hands in that of putting that one together?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, completely so me and my partner Wait Across did it.
And it was during COVID and then well, the story
is really about it's about mental health, and it's about
what the aftermath of what COVID did to so many people,
Like people were alone, you know, and people got depressed
and sad, and you know, it really affected so many
(13:51):
people in so many different ways. And it was a
global experience. It wasn't just here in America. It was
like all around the world that people were going through this.
And my character has mental health in this movie. And
I think the really important part of this, if Doctor Quarantine,
is that the aftermath of what people don't realize, like
how many people like don't go out even to this day,
(14:13):
don't go out as much anymore. Everyone kind of stays home,
does their jobs home. I mean, the socialism of it
and the loneliness of it, it really comes through. And
there's a paranoia of just touching things, even doors and this.
And now when you hear someone coughe, you think it's
something different. You know, it never used to.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Be like that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So there's just you know, a lot of stuff in
this movie that's really important to me, and I think
it has a real message to so many people that
it's important to talk about.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And mental health is such a big.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Issue right now, you know, And I think it's really
great that people are finally able to talk about it
because so much stuff has been bottled inside of people
and it was like uncool to talk about if you
were sad or it didn't feel good. You know, the
press would overtake it and be like, oh, she's in
deep depression or she's in this as to that, and
like that's not true, you know what I mean. So
(15:03):
when people were making your narrative on on stuff that
you weren't even doing, or maybe what you could be
going through but you weren't, it wasn't cool to talk
about it. And now I think that the doorway is
open that you could talk about all these things. And
you'll see that in the movie the Struggle and the
stuff she goes through, and you know, she starts hallucinating
and she starts seeing things that aren't there, and there's
(15:26):
just so much there's so much depth into this character.
And it's a really proud project. I'm so proud about.
And you know, my director and there's White Cross and
she's also my partner, and she's a wonderful director and
she really got things out of me, like really dark,
dark things and I think I took I take a
(15:47):
lot of my energy that I have and I tapped
in there, you know. So it's like I went to places.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That I didn't even really know I could go, and
there'd be.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Some scenes I was doing and I was just take
shaking afterwards, like just shaking, like it could stop shaking,
and like those scenes are just incredible, you know. I mean,
I got my first award. I got my first Best
Actress award.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I don't see.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, so that's fun, it's cool, and it's cool that
and I got another Best Actress words yeah, yeah, yeah,
so it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Was my first.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I got three awards actually on this one, and that
felt really good because the first movie that like I
really produced and it was really evolved in and then
it got noticed. So to me, that was like one
of the greatest gifts of my career, of my life.
That that feeling when I was on the stage and thinking, people,
I can't tell you what that's like. I mean, I
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know it's not an Academy award, but it had that
feeling of you know, like wow, you know, like it's
like that speech that you know every girl does in
the mirror, like I want to think you know, like
it seem true and it was just like it was
really awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I love that. Does that feel like with doctor Quarantine
and all these words? Because you've always been a dynamite actress,
like you just always have been so they can party girl,
label you whatever. You've always shown up and played every
role to its fullest and everything that I've witnessed, does
this role feel like it's most redemptive? And where do
you go from here?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Are you going to do more of these projects? Do
you want to create more of these? Is this is
this the tear read like arrival for you in your brain?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah? I think it is.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I think it's the kind of the second chance and
now seeing me as a woman, not this little girl.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They'll be seeing a lot more of that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And I'm producing a bunch of more films with my partner,
And it's been such a different experience being on the
other side of the camera as well as producings. Before
you used to just show up for work to my lines,
you know, go home, memorize my linds again, go to work,
you know, the same kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This time, there's so much more thought that.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Goes into Okay, it's like we've got to find a financing,
we have to figure out the marketing. You know, the cast,
you have problems on the set, you know, there's so
many to play. Both sides was so interesting. I learned
so much more about movie making and the process of it,
and it's it's a whole different world. And I really
really respect both sides.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
A lot of times. When you know, especially in these
kind of roles, they're they're darker, they're you're drawing from
past experiences and is there something from your past that
has been kind of that hard moment that you draw
from a lot within your work.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I mean this on this movie especially, it was the
hardest one, but it was the easiest one to tap
into because I lost both my parents, so I could
go into that really loneliness of missing them and the sadness.
So there's a lot of that, and I think it
really comes through in this role of like of a
(18:59):
true loss and that's really what she has and the
pain of that. So losing both parents, you know, it's hard,
So I definitely tapped into that for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I really think it's. Yeah, I think it's a really
brilliant concept because you know, like even in our own family,
like my mother in law like does not come out
of hibernation still. I mean, post twenty twenty, she is
like missing, she's missing our kids' lives. She's missing our
lives because the fear and it's just so ingrained in us.
(19:29):
And I really commend you for like seeing that and
also talking about it, because there is so much to
be said about how much life is being missed still,
and I think it's really cool that you're the one
that's doing it because there's a lot of life that
got taken from you and like, you know, just by
way of what social what media did and how they
labeled you and all the things. I mean, listen, sister,
(19:51):
in two thousand, I don't want any of my pictures
from two thousand posted. And you were like, you know, like,
I'm thankful none of us had social media too. I
can't imagine. I really am just like really proud that
you're just taking that on and really making this like
redemptive in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thank you. I appreciate you. Guys so nice.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Are you happy when people come up to you and
chat about American Pie or is it something where you're like,
I don't I didn't love that memory and that wasn't
actually fun or do you or was that a great
experience and something that you love to have been a
part of.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, I mean I always like it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I love when people like you and they got inspired
by that movie and it's sort of like favorite movie
or say joking the pussy Cast and they wound up
being a band, you know, girls all just how many
different stories that they related to. And it's it's cool
to hear that you had an impact in so many
lives that are good, you know. Not the fans are awesome.
It's just a it's a haters. That's stuff. But you know,
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you can't really control that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And what do you say to the haters? What would be?
Is it silence? Is it like what do you? What
do you do with that piece of it? For you?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I don't really say that much because it's not really
worth getting in a fight with people. But I mean
there's times that you know, there's only so much you
could take and you have to stick up for yourself.
You're like, we just stop, you know, and everyone's just
bothering me about the same things, the same things, and
they're just like leave me alone, Like you don't even
know me at all.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like I think it's just so.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can never imagine me just peaking on someone so
hard and hating someone that I haven't even met and
hasn't even done anything wrong to me, you know, Like,
I just I'm not that kind of person. I'm not
built out of jealousy and out of hurting people. Because
people don't realize how damaging it is, like especially these kids,
how bullied they get today and social media. I mean,
(21:41):
how much suicide there is, you know, and how much
mental health is. It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And then and then to have grown adults also going
on people's I mean when you go to some of
those sites like us Weekly to see some of these
people's comments on I mean, just they're just so I'm like,
you guys are grown adults commenting the nastiest things. Yeah,
I agree about people that you have really don't.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
In your life. Are you that you just have to
go and bash? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Or to just be constantly watching stories, to be talking
like that is that is what you do with your
day like that?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That is?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That is very sad that you want to spend your
day watching someone's stories all the time. To just go
to a different site to talk a boat about them,
and I'm like, you take a walk, do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, it's hard to explain to kids that that's reflective
of them, it's not reflective of you. And so it's
like you think about how you dealt with the media
then and the repercussions of going out and having fun.
Those are conversations that I have with my teenage kids
now about social media. It's like, I want you to
be able to have fun, but what you put on
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that phone is for everyone to see. I mean, you can.
We have situations where people are putting stuff on their
personal phones. Kids are getting those phones and putting that
stuff out like it's there's so much there's so many
repercus for that, and you lived that with the media,
not social media. But it's interesting to hear how it
affected you so much through media and we think it's
(23:09):
so much now social media, but it's really kind of
always been there in some form.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I almost wanted you to have social media so that
you could come out. I mean it's like once you
were labeled that way, you had no way to really
defend yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, you know, like it was just like they know, yeah,
there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You have like and you also have beds, Like there's
some really great fans are too, and like where are you?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Where have you been? We missed you? You're like, why
can't you show the studios that? Like they don't.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
It's like you the studios don't realize, you know, and
you just kind of wish they could see that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Side, which you kind of can use now social media.
I mean you definitely could now use that as uh,
you know, I would think to kind of help in
that situation more than you could in the past. Like
how did you how would you have shown them? Like no,
I have people that loved me, I promise.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And listen, Spider Club was like a jam back in
the day, you know, so like those all those clubs,
Joseph Spider Clubs, like I was too, Like they were great,
just like Tara reads the party Girl for dancing on
a bar. What would they have said about me and
my backlass shirt? And you are back and you are
in Doctor Quarantine, your winning awards. Tara, thank you so
(24:17):
much for coming on the show and really excited to
see what's next. But everyone watched Doctor Quarantine now.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Thanks guys, You guys are so so sweet you left
with it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Thanks, appreciate it, Take care, Bye bye
Wind Down with Janet Kramer and I'veheart Radio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Did you guys watch American Pie? Yeah? Are you even American?
If you haven't watched American Pie? Have you watched the remakes?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I have either. I feel like you really can't remake
that one.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
There's a remakes.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I didn't even know they had. I think so hopefully.
I'm pretty sure consult Google. I just would they remake
a classic? I'm pretty sure old we were when we watched.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
He's not old enough because, like, I think about that now,
when did it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Come out in nineteen ninety nine it came out? Oh yeah,
we were old up, were in high school?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, I know, But I think about that now and
I'm like, I don't know, I'm uncomfortable thinking about my
kids watching it a little bit.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It was so inappropriate, But that's why it was awesome.
I know, it like made a history in that way.
It pushed the envelope. The funny thing was as I
googled it, do you know the number one image that
comes up when I google it?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Is that rhyme with ripple? No? What the ripple one? Nothing? Okay,
that's that's the Varsity Blues nipple and when she sprayed
them and I'm like, does it rhyme with ripple? And
You're like, nipple rhyme with it? That's it, okay? And
I just you say it and I don't. I just
think that's funny. No the pie remember, Oh yes, that
(01:28):
that was strange in my brain. Well that's like the
main thing strange, Like is it strange? Like do the
whole thing? Like boys don't don't know you have teenage.
But we have a little for our special guest of
the week. We have Tara Reid coming on. She's got
(01:49):
a new movie out called Doctor Quarantine, and we're gonna
chat all things American pie, what's new and what's the
back in the day, what she wants us to know.
So let's take a break and get her on. Hi girl, Hi,
(02:18):
I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm good good.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm Jana Catherine Kristen. So you got the girls today? Girl, Hi,
So we are very excited to chat with you. You
were definitely our era of movies and actress because we
were all I believe the same ish age.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So yes, I'm like, I don't know you were just
you were Tara Reid, and like you were you're the
hot one I wanted to be with you. I was
like in a back brace and going like, how do
I be like Tara Reid? You were like, well, you
were pretty and sexy and confident, and I just wanted
to do that and I was not those things.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Just so we're clear, No, that's really the street of you. Guys.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You started at six years old, So looking back, is
that do you think you were too young to start
or did you like growing up being I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
It was the kind of thing that I didn't plan
on starting that young. I actually planned on acting at all.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I was actually I lived in New Jersey and one
day I was in the food court with my brother
and my mom and she was getting his pizza, and
this talent agent for children just happen to be sitting
next to us, and she was visiting her daughter in
New Jersey, but she lived in New York City, and
she saw me and my brother kind of goofing around,
and she went up to my mom. She goes, your
(03:47):
daughter is perfect for this movie. It's this new Stephen
King movie that's coming out, and they can't find the girl.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
My mom's like, well, she doesn't even.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Know how to act like, you know, I'm just like, tey,
do you want to ask?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And I said, I don't know what I'm doing, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So they gave us the lines and we went in
the next day and I auditioned for it and I
got it. So I kind of just never got forced
into doing it. It kind of just kind of fell
in my lap. From there, we just kept getting commercials
and different stuff and TV shows, and then all of
a sudden got into movies and so now I'm sitting
here with you guys, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I'm always curious because my daughter, she was in a
movie that I did last year, and so that kind
of gave her the acting bug. And she's nine, and
so we had this thing over the weekend where she
had an audition for a really big show that's about
to be you know, remade. And it was one of
the things where I never want to force. I'm like,
do you want to read this one? Do you want
to pass? Do not want to? Because I never want
(04:40):
to be the mom that's like, all right, you need
to do you know, all these auditions or whatever, and
so she said no, But I'm like, but so funny,
like it was so hard to be like, Okay, we
need to collide the audition, but I really did go
You're one hundred percent positive you don't want to be
Laura the bonnet from your Amazon car, you know. But
(05:04):
I think it's you know, that's sweet that your mom
wasn't like, you know, forcing you into things, which is good.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I think that makes a big difference of you know,
kind of child actors if their mom is like the
stage mom and forcing them to do stuff and then
they don't get the part and they start to cry
and they kind of message with their you know, they're
being insecure and stuff like that. So I think you
actually did really.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The right thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
So did it just like come naturally to you, Like
you just went in and did lines and it was like,
oh wait, I can actually do this, I can actually
act and I'm good at this or did you have
to kind of work at it still to get there?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, it was it kind of just came naturally to me,
because I mean, I think kids are actually better actors
than adults are because they don't have they don't put
up all these like.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Borders or walls.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
You know, it does come naturally to them because they
kind of just play make believe in their head. And
all kids, as we know, are great at make believe,
so I think they could do it. So when you
tell kids a crow or acted this, or be mad
or be said, they're the best. You know, they're very
dramatic kids. So it kind of came Natsha. I didn't
(06:08):
learn any bad habits.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yet growing up without social media, Like through your stardom
and your fame. I feel like though you didn't have
social media being bullying and aggressive, you had the media.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Absolutely, And so I feel like, do you kind of
think back like, Yay, you didn't have social media being
jerks and bullying and stuff, but you but I feel
like you definitely got the a lot of bullying from paparazzis,
proparazzi and just the magazines and all of that.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Oh, I definitely agree with that. I'm glad social media
did not exist back then. I think it's really hard.
But kids have to go through social media. And also
there's addicted to their phone where we were addicted to
our phones. You know, we actually went out and called
people up on the phone and said, hey, do you
want to come over and play? You know, like the
old ways. You just don't see that anymore. I think
(07:10):
kids are missing that too, you know, I definitely do believe,
Like later on in my life when the TMZ started
coming out and the Perez Hilton's and like the bullying
that was pretty awful. Now it's just like people get bad,
you know, if you find out one person said something
bad about you, like I heard your feelings, Like why
did you they say that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Why did they think about me like that? Like that's
not nice.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But when it's like millions of people, you're like, this
is so messed up. And when they don't get stories right,
and they just bully for everything, for you're wearing, for
how you look, or you know, your weight, or your
clothes or just anything you do, or the guys you
date or just anything.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's just like.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They find something mean or wrong about it all the time.
You know, not so much anymore. It's really came down
as I got older, But when I was on my
younger days, it was just pretty brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Well, I feel like they kind of targeted you as
this party girl. But it's like you were going out
to the clubs just like everyone else was going out
to the clubs, you know, and they just then do
you feel like they just put that label on you,
and that was just okay, that's who Tera Reid is,
even though that's not who Tara Reid was.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, I mean I think you now is it right
on the head. I mean that was the age that
everyone was going on anyway. So I wasn't doing anything
wrong that everyone else was doing. I was having fun,
But I never got it confused with my acting, like
I never was late to a set or do no
you know lines, or I've never done anything wrong, like
but I never been arrested. I never got it, you know,
(08:33):
in trouble. I've never got a speeding ticket in my life.
So I think I was really targeted, like I was
this wild child and and you know, completely crazy. And
I did go out, I did dance on tables. I
did have fun, but like who didn't at that age?
It mean me, like they so typecast me. It was
really hard to get rolls again, you know, and it
(08:53):
wasn't fair because you see, you know, guys doing all
this stuff and it's fine, and now you see all
these girls that were doing all stuff and like they're
blowing off and you're just like, what side do you
feel that you know that they still the target me
in a certain way, and it's still hard to to
get that titlement over with.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What do you think they what do you wish they
would have taken, you know, or got from from you
instead of what they gave? You know, everybody what?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
What the what? The what they showed the media as
opposed to like, you know who Tara is and was
back then, where it's like, I feel like in a
way they robbed you of things that you shouldn't have
been robbed of because of their narrative.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I really agree with what you said, and I'm glad
that you see that, because I don't think that that
many all the people like that see how you see
it so fairly. You know, for me, it was just
it was tough because once I kind of got that
label on me, then to get parts I was kind
of getting denied them. And I'm like, for what, just
(10:00):
because I went out, you know, that didn't take anything
away from me from acting or the opportunities I wanted
to get or continue to get. And I think that
really slowed me down in a lot, like a lot
of ways, and I felt like I was getting punished
for a crime that I didn't do. So that was,
you know, a problem, you know. But then I think
then I started not to go out anymore, not to
do this and not to do that, and you know,
(10:21):
just try to be really careful. And so I think
that really helped a lot, you know, but there's still
there's still a lot of judgment there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I'm just I'm just kind of used to it and
now like creating my own projects and creating my own
narrative and not waiting for me to get a job
or for these people to say yes or no to me.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Like so I'm creating like my own scripts and producing
my own stuff. So I'm giving myself the parts that
I've been kind of not being allowed to play. So
now people are like noticing and they're like, oh wait, wow,
she can't act, or well she's doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Oh what, she's smarter than I thought.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You know, Like like I think a lot of people
decided it was just like kind of dumb blonde you know,
that didn't you know, the party girl that didn't don't
know anything or care, and that was like, you know,
you look at girls like even like Jennifer Lawrence, She's
always drinking and they find fun and funny. You know,
she drinks some shows and stuff like that, like you know,
falling down like all the time, and they don't care.
(11:17):
It's like, why do you guys care so much when
I did something like that? You know, I think I
had like I think it was just really hardly like
really hard judgment on me.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
And yeah it was hard. You know, it did hurt
my feelings.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know, people forget your cuman like you know, you
cut me, I bleed, so, I mean, you know, and
that way it was you just had to stay strong
and just keep believing in yourself. And it wasn't always
the easiest thing to do, but you know, you just
get on and you keep doing it and eventually when
you want something, it will come.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It will come back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
What what did you do to get to that place
with your I would I'm gonna call it mental health
because I feel like when you go through all that,
it's the anxiety, the depression of all those things that
could potentially and I'm not I don't want to label
that you, but that is what just how I would
feel like the projection of all that would be and
what I've gone through personally on the smaller scale, but
what have where? How do you did you go? Did
(12:12):
you have a great therapist? Did you go to a
treatment center?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Like where?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What did you do to kind of not let that
run your world and feel that?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I think it did kind of run my road for
a while, you know. And I think how I dealt
with it is just I kind of became, you know,
more insecure a little bit, you know, and didn't have
as much confidence anymore, you know. And but I had
some really good friends around me and good family, so
(12:45):
I was able to talk it through with my friends
and be able to speak about it. And I also
write a lot, so I kind of keep in journal
and write and that and that that really helps a
lot too. So I think just getting through it and
you know, taking it day by day and you know,
getting opportunities again and just you know, doing the best
you can and you know, eventually, like what comes around
(13:06):
goes around.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
There's kind of a truth to that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Is Doctor Quarantine a show or a movie that you
put together? Did you were you have your did you
have your hands in that of putting that one together?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, completely so me and my partner Wait Across did it.
And it was during COVID and then well, the story
is really about it's about mental health, and it's about
what the aftermath of what COVID did to so many people,
Like people were alone, you know, and people got depressed
and sad, and you know, it really affected so many
(13:51):
people in so many different ways. And it was a
global experience. It wasn't just here in America. It was
like all around the world that people were going through this.
And my character has mental health in this movie. And
I think the really important part of this, if Doctor Quarantine,
is that the aftermath of what people don't realize, like
how many people like don't go out even to this day,
(14:13):
don't go out as much anymore. Everyone kind of stays home,
does their jobs home. I mean, the socialism of it
and the loneliness of it, it really comes through. And
there's a paranoia of just touching things, even doors and this.
And now when you hear someone coughe, you think it's
something different. You know, it never used to.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Be like that.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
So there's just you know, a lot of stuff in
this movie that's really important to me, and I think
it has a real message to so many people that
it's important to talk about.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And mental health is such a big.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Issue right now, you know, And I think it's really
great that people are finally able to talk about it
because so much stuff has been bottled inside of people
and it was like uncool to talk about if you
were sad or it didn't feel good. You know, the
press would overtake it and be like, oh, she's in
deep depression or she's in this as to that, and
like that's not true, you know what I mean. So
(15:03):
when people were making your narrative on on stuff that
you weren't even doing, or maybe what you could be
going through but you weren't, it wasn't cool to talk
about it. And now I think that the doorway is
open that you could talk about all these things. And
you'll see that in the movie the Struggle and the
stuff she goes through, and you know, she starts hallucinating
and she starts seeing things that aren't there, and there's
(15:26):
just so much there's so much depth into this character.
And it's a really proud project. I'm so proud about.
And you know, my director and there's White Cross and
she's also my partner, and she's a wonderful director and
she really got things out of me, like really dark,
dark things and I think I took I take a
(15:47):
lot of my energy that I have and I tapped
in there, you know. So it's like I went to places.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That I didn't even really know I could go, and
there'd be.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Some scenes I was doing and I was just take
shaking afterwards, like just shaking, like it could stop shaking,
and like those scenes are just incredible, you know. I mean,
I got my first award. I got my first Best
Actress award.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I don't see.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, so that's fun, it's cool, and it's cool that
and I got another Best Actress words yeah, yeah, yeah,
so it.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Was my first.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I got three awards actually on this one, and that
felt really good because the first movie that like I
really produced and it was really evolved in and then
it got noticed. So to me, that was like one
of the greatest gifts of my career, of my life.
That that feeling when I was on the stage and thinking, people,
I can't tell you what that's like. I mean, I
(16:42):
know it's not an Academy award, but it had that
feeling of you know, like wow, you know, like it's
like that speech that you know every girl does in
the mirror, like I want to think you know, like
it seem true and it was just like it was
really awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I love that. Does that feel like with doctor Quarantine
and all these words? Because you've always been a dynamite actress,
like you just always have been so they can party girl,
label you whatever. You've always shown up and played every
role to its fullest and everything that I've witnessed, does
this role feel like it's most redemptive? And where do
you go from here?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Are you going to do more of these projects? Do
you want to create more of these? Is this is
this the tear read like arrival for you in your brain?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah? I think it is.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I think it's the kind of the second chance and
now seeing me as a woman, not this little girl.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
They'll be seeing a lot more of that.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
And I'm producing a bunch of more films with my partner,
And it's been such a different experience being on the
other side of the camera as well as producings. Before
you used to just show up for work to my lines,
you know, go home, memorize my linds again, go to work,
you know, the same kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
This time, there's so much more thought that.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Goes into Okay, it's like we've got to find a financing,
we have to figure out the marketing. You know, the cast,
you have problems on the set, you know, there's so
many to play. Both sides was so interesting. I learned
so much more about movie making and the process of it,
and it's it's a whole different world. And I really
really respect both sides.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
A lot of times. When you know, especially in these
kind of roles, they're they're darker, they're you're drawing from
past experiences and is there something from your past that
has been kind of that hard moment that you draw
from a lot within your work.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I mean this on this movie especially, it was the
hardest one, but it was the easiest one to tap
into because I lost both my parents, so I could
go into that really loneliness of missing them and the sadness.
So there's a lot of that, and I think it
really comes through in this role of like of a
(18:59):
true loss and that's really what she has and the
pain of that. So losing both parents, you know, it's hard,
So I definitely tapped into that for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I really think it's. Yeah, I think it's a really
brilliant concept because you know, like even in our own family,
like my mother in law like does not come out
of hibernation still. I mean, post twenty twenty, she is
like missing, she's missing our kids' lives. She's missing our
lives because the fear and it's just so ingrained in us.
(19:29):
And I really commend you for like seeing that and
also talking about it, because there is so much to
be said about how much life is being missed still,
and I think it's really cool that you're the one
that's doing it because there's a lot of life that
got taken from you and like, you know, just by
way of what social what media did and how they
labeled you and all the things. I mean, listen, sister,
(19:51):
in two thousand, I don't want any of my pictures
from two thousand posted. And you were like, you know, like,
I'm thankful none of us had social media too. I
can't imagine. I really am just like really proud that
you're just taking that on and really making this like
redemptive in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thank you. I appreciate you. Guys so nice.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Are you happy when people come up to you and
chat about American Pie or is it something where you're like,
I don't I didn't love that memory and that wasn't
actually fun or do you or was that a great
experience and something that you love to have been a
part of.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, I mean I always like it.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I love when people like you and they got inspired
by that movie and it's sort of like favorite movie
or say joking the pussy Cast and they wound up
being a band, you know, girls all just how many
different stories that they related to. And it's it's cool
to hear that you had an impact in so many
lives that are good, you know. Not the fans are awesome.
It's just a it's a haters. That's stuff. But you know,
(20:49):
you can't really control that.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And what do you say to the haters? What would be?
Is it silence? Is it like what do you? What
do you do with that piece of it? For you?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
I don't really say that much because it's not really
worth getting in a fight with people. But I mean
there's times that you know, there's only so much you
could take and you have to stick up for yourself.
You're like, we just stop, you know, and everyone's just
bothering me about the same things, the same things, and
they're just like leave me alone, Like you don't even
know me at all.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like I think it's just so.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I can never imagine me just peaking on someone so
hard and hating someone that I haven't even met and
hasn't even done anything wrong to me, you know, Like,
I just I'm not that kind of person. I'm not
built out of jealousy and out of hurting people. Because
people don't realize how damaging it is, like especially these kids,
how bullied they get today and social media. I mean,
(21:41):
how much suicide there is, you know, and how much
mental health is. It's really bad.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And then and then to have grown adults also going
on people's I mean when you go to some of
those sites like us Weekly to see some of these
people's comments on I mean, just they're just so I'm like,
you guys are grown adults commenting the nastiest things. Yeah,
I agree about people that you have really don't.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
In your life. Are you that you just have to
go and bash? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Or to just be constantly watching stories, to be talking
like that is that is what you do with your
day like that?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
That is?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That is very sad that you want to spend your
day watching someone's stories all the time. To just go
to a different site to talk a boat about them,
and I'm like, you take a walk, do anything.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Well, it's hard to explain to kids that that's reflective
of them, it's not reflective of you. And so it's
like you think about how you dealt with the media
then and the repercussions of going out and having fun.
Those are conversations that I have with my teenage kids
now about social media. It's like, I want you to
be able to have fun, but what you put on
(22:47):
that phone is for everyone to see. I mean, you can.
We have situations where people are putting stuff on their
personal phones. Kids are getting those phones and putting that
stuff out like it's there's so much there's so many
repercus for that, and you lived that with the media,
not social media. But it's interesting to hear how it
affected you so much through media and we think it's
(23:09):
so much now social media, but it's really kind of
always been there in some form.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I almost wanted you to have social media so that
you could come out. I mean it's like once you
were labeled that way, you had no way to really
defend yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, you know, like it was just like they know, yeah,
there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You have like and you also have beds, Like there's
some really great fans are too, and like where are you?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Where have you been? We missed you? You're like, why
can't you show the studios that? Like they don't.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
It's like you the studios don't realize, you know, and
you just kind of wish they could see that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Side, which you kind of can use now social media.
I mean you definitely could now use that as uh,
you know, I would think to kind of help in
that situation more than you could in the past. Like
how did you how would you have shown them? Like no,
I have people that loved me, I promise.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
And listen, Spider Club was like a jam back in
the day, you know, so like those all those clubs,
Joseph Spider Clubs, like I was too, Like they were great,
just like Tara reads the party Girl for dancing on
a bar. What would they have said about me and
my backlass shirt? And you are back and you are
in Doctor Quarantine, your winning awards. Tara, thank you so
(24:17):
much for coming on the show and really excited to
see what's next. But everyone watched Doctor Quarantine now.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Thanks guys, You guys are so so sweet you left
with it.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Thanks, appreciate it, Take care, Bye bye
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