Tell us about your first writing project with "Wine & Crime."
Yeah, so, this has been a project that's been in the works for years. I met Cassie [Daniels] and Mark [Bartosic], my writing partners, actually through an audition I had and Cassie was like, "Have you ever tried to write?" Because I had improv'd a bunch of jokes at the audition and she was like, "We should write together." And it was just born from there and we thought it'd be really funny to watch a group of women that have a true crime and wine. Woodbridge Wine would go well with "Wine & Crime," this movie that we wrote, because it's about a true crime and [a] wine club, but then there actually is a murder in the town ... So hopefully you'll see that in the near future. It's sold to Lionsgate and we're really excited. It's my first time selling a screenplay so it was a really big deal and I'm very proud of that.
And I also saw that you started a podcast [Harmonics] during the quarantine. So who have been some of your favorite guests on there?
Well, the best ever, Carol Burnett. That was a bucket-list moment for me. She's my comedy hero, always has been. So I got to have Carol Burnett to myself for a full hour and a half and talk to her and ask her all the questions I wanted to know. Brandi Carlile, Jewel, Abby Wambach, Glennon Doyle. I've gotten to talk to, mostly, creatives about their mental health and how creativity informs their healing. It was really important for me to do a show that wasn't just a normal interview format like we've seen, but that really got people to be vulnerable. And I realized in doing the podcast, that in order to get your guests to be vulnerable, I have to be vulnerable myself.
And so it's been a really cool, also, process for me exploring how creativity and healing have come together, even with the podcast, for me, and how I've been more open than I ever have been about my personal life on the show, in order to make my guests feel safe as well. And it's honestly been a passion project. It's selfish. I get to ask all my heroes like Abby Wambach ... I grew up as a soccer player. So to be able to talk to Abby Wambach was just so cool, you know? I haven't had any baseball players yet, because it's all been women. But maybe Trey Mancini, because he's so incredible on the Orioles and everything he's been through with colon cancer and coming back, I would love to ... Maybe he'd want to have a glass of Woodbridge Wine and come on the podcast.
Great idea!
Right? I know.
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