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On with Mario Lopez.

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A Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom

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the very talented actress Judy Rayes.

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Welcome to the show, Judy. How you been?

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Oh, thank you for having Mario. I've been busy.

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I know you have always enjoyed seeing you.

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I've been well. Thank you very much. You

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got a locko and a soo. Let's start with a new movie,

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Turtles All the Way Down, based

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on the hit novel What's

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it about? For those not familiar, that's.

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A wonderful story about a young young

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high school teenage girl who

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struggles with OCD and how

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she manages it. After she develops

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feelings for this boy, this

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boy whose father disappeared, and her

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and her best friend try to go find

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him based on their relationship

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so that they can get a reward for finding

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the dad, the reward money,

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but they fall. They develop

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a really close relationship that's complicated

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by her OCD.

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Oh I don't know you could manifest something like an

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OCD. I thought you might be born with that's where

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they are born with it.

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Forgive me?

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Yeah, okay, so you are okay. What's

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your character's role in all this? Is? She supported?

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So mom? I play her mom, who's kind

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of like, you know, the overprotective, worried

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mom who's struggling between letting

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them be a teenager and telling them

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what to do to so that they don't

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fall into these they don't spiral.

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Right, is uh? Is there a release date

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yet? I know it's streaming on Max.

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Yes, but not until May. I believe they

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haven't given me an official date, but I think it's

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going to be end of April early May.

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Nice. Well, congratulations on that.

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I'm very proud of it, and I think that it's going to resonate

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with a lot of kids.

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Yeah, and I bet it does. I

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have three my own that I think I

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should pay attention. This

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fall on ABC a drama called High

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Potential. What can you tell us about that?

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High Potential is a great story, it's a great

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show. It's a quirky procedural

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starring the

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the fabulous Caitlin Olsen, who's hilarious,

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beautiful, and really wonderful in this

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role. She's a She's one

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of those incredibly intelligent

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people who there's they're

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almost too fast and too smart for the world, and

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they're they're the the housekeeper,

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the janitor for the precinct, and

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she ends up solving a crime by

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moving things on their board, and when they find

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out that she's the one who solved

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the crime, my character selling

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assault of the chief

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up in those parts hires her

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to be a consultant.

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Ah, everybody's sugrin.

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So you got this quirky housewife god

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is a janitor who's solving

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crimes with the with the cops.

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Oh that's cool. I like all these hiring

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her.

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So it's a it's a bit of a female power

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in the show as well.

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Yeah, it is very diverse projects

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you got going on, and your your

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co star Kaitlin Olsen very funny on Always

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Sunny. Does she bring a lot of humor to this project

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or is it a little more serious?

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She does. I think it's a great combination

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of it, you know, where she does bring

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her her

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awesome and very familiar humor to

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it, but she explores the drama in it,

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you know, to communicate

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the seriousness of the crimes that you

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are witnessing at the moment.

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But funny, got it, got it And

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currently streaming on Shutter of the horror

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movie Birth Rebirth, which earns

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you an Independent Spirit nomination. Tell

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me about that for those of them seen a.

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Great independent film that was

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at the disadvantage of being released just as

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the strike started. But I'm so proud

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of it, and I'm so proud of the work and

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the attention the work. God. Laura Moss wrote it,

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co wrote it, and directed it. And it's basically

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a Frankenstein story. I

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lose my child. I play a nurse who

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loses her child, only to have

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her brought back to life by this insane,

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weird doctor. Oh wow, I've

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been experimenting with bringing things back to life,

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and when she does, we work together to

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do everything we can to keep her alive.

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Oh that's a wild premise.

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It's a wild premise. It sticks a big tailor,

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it's dark.

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It sounds it Ooh. And one

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of your earlier gigs, Judy,

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was the Scorsese film Bringing Out the Dead. It

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turns twenty five years old this

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year. Will What do you remember about that time? Almost

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nothing, really.

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I'm at that age, dude. I remember doing

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it, but I had the tiniest

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thing to do and I can't even remember what I did except

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that, Yo, I'm Scorsese.

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Right right right?

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Can I curse?

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Yeah?

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Sure? Do you believe that?

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That's all? You need to remember now. I'm at that age right

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with you too. People come up to me and said, hey,

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what's going on. I'm like, oh, what's good

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with you? And I totally don't remember that on

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a face or.

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Well, I know for me it's the age, But is

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it the technology as well? We are so used

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to getting the answers immediately

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that I'm like, or you're.

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Being able to look it up if you don't remember, right, Yeah,

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exactly.

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The mental exercise isn't done anymore,

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Mario.

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I know you don't have to memorize your right

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you can just kind of google everything. Yeah,

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I don't know. That's a good thing.

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My kid, Yes, sir, I don't know

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my kid's number. I

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don't know.

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Can I tell you the only numbers I remember? It's funny that

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you say that is the phone number I had growing up.

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I know my wife's cell and

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I think and like a couple of friends that have had the

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same cell since like the nineties.

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People had cell phones.

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Correct, But that's it. I

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don't remember anybody's know your number. I

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know my number. I know my number, thank goodness.

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But like if my phone died and I

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needed to make a call and remember

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the number by hard. Forget about it. I'm done.

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The person will tell you should have backed it up, bro.

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That's why you got to have a backup charger. You're

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you mentioned your your daughter? How old is she

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now?

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My kid is fourteen?

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Fourteen age?

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The fourteen year old like the amazing, awesome

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and and try my

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patience every single day.

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Oh my gosh,

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I got three. I have

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three. I have a thirteen year old too, And

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so yeah, she's no, she's well, she's put

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my wife through it more than me. But I

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still get a little bit of that attitude. What's

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she interested in? Right now?

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They're they're they them,

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and they are interested in musical

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theater. There are all things musical

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theater. That's what them

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and I have in common. I

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introduced them to musical theater. I remember the first musical

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we saw Lion King and they lost their

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mind because it was you know, it's their favorite

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movie. And every summer,

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every time we every chance we get, we go to New York,

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we catch a musical or two. And now it's

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their passion. They have an incredible voice.

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They're really gonna and

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and that's they want to go to New York to

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study theater.

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Just like mom. All right, all right, you keep you all

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bonded that way. Good for you, Good for you.

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Well, that's great. I love catching up with you. Congratulations

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on everything. Judy Turtles

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all the way down comes to Max

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this spring. Thanks so much for hanging out,

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Thank you, thanks for having me. Okay, we'll talk

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soon. Take care of with

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Mario Lopez