#320 The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four with Rebecca Staab

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All right, Lisa, thank you so much for that amazing introduction. You get this show going each and every week, and this week was no exception. Welcome, everybody to Episode 320 of classic conversations. As always, I am your host, Jeff Dwoskin. Welcome to what's sure to be a super fantastic episode. Who do I have with me today? Rebecca Staab. That's right. None other than the original Sue Storm from Roger Corman's, the Fantastic Four. She is here to share a million stories from the making of the Fantastic Four. You know, I love Roger Corman's, a Fantastic Four I had Alex side white, Mr. Fantastic the original Mr. Fantastic himself on episode 260. Rip Roger Corman. He made such a huge impact to the world of movies so many great people owe their start to him. Jalen Hurd was here episode 244 She got her start with Roger Corman. We talk all about Roger Corman in that episode Jaggi in that episode, did you know Roger Corman made a Fantastic Four movie I was like Horace I do Gail I love it. It's on my shelf anyway. All this greatness with Rebecca Staab is coming up in just a few seconds and in these few seconds episode 319 Bob Eckstein returns he has written an amazing book on museums you need to check it out, check out the episode support your local bookstore buy Bob's book, but right now get ready for Rebecca Staab you may love her from the Hallmark Christmas movies. You may love her from her time on Superman and Lois or her episode of The Night agent or The Wonder Years or cheers or The Drew Carey Show so much greatness coming up right now. All right, everyone. I'm excited to introduce my next guest love John Seinfeld, Guiding Light or Charles a million other credits and of course the originals. It was storm and Roger Corman is Fantastic Four. Welcome to the show. Rebecca Staab.

Rebecca Staab 2:27

Oh, hello, thank you for having me.

Jeff Dwoskin 2:29

I'm excited to have you on the show. You're on my wall. I have a wall of autographs. When I talked to Alex. I specifically said Alex, I'd white I said I need Mr. Fantastic. And he sent me one and it's you and him. And so they have his autograph on it. The one day if we meet in person, I'll have you so sign that But alas, you're still on the wall. Wow.

Rebecca Staab 2:53

Gosh. Oh, yeah. It's nice to know. I didn't even know that. Oh, well.

Jeff Dwoskin 2:57

You know, I'm a big fan of of the Fantastic Four. I want to get to it. Because there's more to this story than just that. I do want to also just brag that I have the VHS copy of the Fantastic Four that sits on my shelf. I've had it forever. I don't remember what ComiCon I got it at but there you are. So you're not in a creepy way. You're all over my office. Can you even watch the VHS probably watched it way back when I don't even think I could watch DVDs anymore. Maybe I have a Blu ray player I could pop something into but it's funny how suddenly all the old medium can't even use it anymore. Yeah,

Rebecca Staab 3:33

yeah. You know, it's funny because I've seen it same thing on VHS like way back when when there was a DVD. I think I only watched it on my computer. Gosh, what year was it? 2000 do you're gonna try to guess 561 Was it there was a big comic convention in St. Louis called contamination they actually screened they were going to screen the movie at theater and then kind of at the last minute we're like, yeah, you know, we didn't want any legal ramifications and so they just screened it in one of the ballroom at the hotel but you know on a huge screen within ratable sound of the most important feature that I never thought of until we had it was an audience because I'd only ever watched it by you know myself or with my husband or I think I my brother's kids were here one time but I don't think I even watched it with them I think they watched it so I mean I pretty much always seen it by myself so to see it on a big screen and with really great sound wow but most importantly to watch that movie with people was 1,000% different experience you know because I mean everybody just got dough into it. And it was funnier than I remember it being you know because some of the stuff that is either like super serious in it is kind of funny or stepdads just you know with this is cheesy don't look at that. Oh my god, how his arm stretches is so crazy, but with a group full of people Well, it was funny. So it was really, you know, exhilarating. And people are cheering and laughing. And yeah, that audience experience made it a completely different film. If you ever get to see it live with a group of people, that's really the best way to watch it.

Jeff Dwoskin 5:15

I think it has that called status now. So it's, you know, like maybe like watching like the Rocky Horror Picture Show and stuff like that, like people have such a strong affinity for the fact that they aren't supposed to be watching it because it's not supposed to, quote unquote, exist in the public domain. And fact that it's not a bad movie. It's an enjoyable movie. It's a fun, Fantastic Four movie, if you watch it, you're like, Oh, that was fun. That's a good thing. There's, I can imagine in the group setting, it would be super fun and must have been great for you. Oh, good.

Rebecca Staab 5:46

That was, you know, there's a guy on Twitter, Xavier Mendoza. And he did kind of I would say, like a mini documentary, for lack of a better word, because it wasn't just like a video, I thought it was going to be kind of short, and kept watching and watching and watching. Oh, my God, he probably did the most, or one of the most in depth analysis of the movie. But there were so many clips of the movie in his little documentary. And you know, again, like I hadn't seen the movie for so long that I was watching the shocking. I was like, Oh, I remember that. And oh, that's just you know, what I was like, watching all the scenes again, in this little documentary that he did. Yeah, I urge everybody, if they want to see it, it's really good. Because he, he talks about, you know, it's funny, like this guy on his own, maybe you just read interviews and stuff, too. But he talked about so much of the things that we all talk about, and that we all feel you know how it was really a buddy movie, that it was really the only Fantastic Four, because it starts when you know, we're regular people becoming the superheroes that were only superheroes at the end. And so even though you know, you get to play a superhero, the majority of it is kind of coming to terms with being a superhero. And that was one of the reasons that we had really hoped that there would be a sequel to ours that we could be in, because it's like, hey, now we can really go out and really play the superheroes. But I think that's what made our so nice was the real camaraderie and the collaboration that you see between the four of us. And you know, I mean, we were close as friends anyway, like, we got really close really quickly. And I don't know if Alex talked about this, but what I always talk about the casting really was so spot on, it wasn't even funny how we all were so much like our characters in real life. You know, I was always kind of the, you know, cheerleader, let's be positive, keep everybody together a little bit of a mother hand, just loved everybody and wanted everything to always be happy and good. And Alex from day one was like, Okay, chain, you know, like, he was really like the leader, no, this is this, and this is that, and let's all go do that. And, you know, just as people and as we were shooting and stuff. I mean, Alex just really was the leader of our gang. Jay, who was Johnny Storm, it was actually my neighbor. I mean, what are the odds of that in Los Angeles, that he literally lived two blocks away from me, you know, I would just pick them up, you know, early every morning, and, and we drive down to Venice. So you know, we'd be in the car together a good 40 minutes every day and come in and go into work. And it really honest to god just felt like brother and sister, you know, picking up my little brother. And so and he and I got really close, because, you know, we had 40 minutes each way every day that we shot that we just talked about absolutely everything. And he at the time looks so much like my real life, little brother, that to me, it's like why don't we have to act? I mean, to me, he was like, instantly my little brother, and he was just a hoot. Like, he was always like, so funny and full of energy and laughing and joking around like it was just so vibrant, you know, as Gianni and then Michael Bailey Smith is the sweetest, I mean, the epitome of a gentle giant, you know, he's tall and big and strong, but he's had like the softest, most loving voice and these eyes that just look right into your soul. He had the least experience as an actor of all of us. And so he was so kind of like, modest and generous. He just he's just like this big ol bear that you just want to you know, wrap up in his arms and like he was the sweetest man like he was so Ben Grimm than Joseph Cole. As you know, Doom he's so in real life like he's very Shakespearean to begin with. His speech is so theatrical, just in real life and things that he would do like in between scenes because we didn't have dressing rooms or anything. That was basically one pattern. No room I can't call it a green room. I can't call it a lounge. It was like a room with four folding chairs in it by folding chair six folding chairs, whoever many of us were working that day. Literally. That's saw that was in there. But he was he was so mysterious and kind of sensual. And so it was like so it was neat like to know Joseph in real life, because then once he was in the Doom suit and had the mask on, it was kind of easier for us since we knew him and what he looked like, out of the costume to really know and believe who Doom was, because it's almost like, as if we can see through the mask, you know, it's almost too bad that his performance is behind a mask, because he was so brilliant, you know, the five of us, and it really was kind of fantastic five, because, you know, Joseph was always there, too. We just have stayed friends. For everything that I've worked on in 40 years of being in the business, there's no one project that I'm still friends with everybody. I mean, but it was a real blessing in disguise when the movie got sidelined, because it actually became bigger than I mean, I think if it, you know, had been released, I mean, it would have been big and definitely have the fan base and stuff, but I think it just would have kind of come and gone, you know, just like everything does, it's a big deal. And then you're on to the next big deal. But the fact that it was it was always percolating, you know, there was always buzz about it, there was always intrigued about it, there was always Oh, I bought a copy, or oh, it just stayed alive. It just kind of rumbled under the surface all the time. So anytime there was, you know, a comic convention, or, you know, like, you know, just kind of like autograph shows that we would go to together, it was so great for us to be together as a group, when the fans would even see us together in real life. They're just like, it's just like the moon, like you guys are like, just like we thought you would be. It's like, yeah, we are. And only the director is just, I just love that man. I mean, you talk about the captain of a ship that just kept just, you know, sailing in a straight line through stormy waters, you know, as we were trying to shoot that thing with no time and no money right over, you know, Christmas and New Year's, and he to like, so anytime any of us are all together, it really is like family. And if somebody can't be there, then you really miss them. You know, like at some of the events like Michael was living in Texas, and so sometimes there would be something and so geographically, it was just impossible for him to be there. And to be like, like, you really miss him. It's not just like, well, it's whoever's here, it was, like, there really was, like a little spirit that was, you know, oh, we're missing a piece of our of our team piece of our puzzle. And so I think all of that really goes into how the film just worked. And we were so you know, the comic book fans knew the fantastic for better than we did, right. And so we really knew it was our job to give them what they were expecting constantly kind of checking on things and the accuracy, because, you know, you don't want to be, you know, like, disingenuous to the people that we knew it would really matter to. And so it really was like the comic book fans, like the audience that was going to be seeing the film was part of the film, because they were always there, like, in our minds, you know, how this would be, should be portrayed or how this would be received. And again, I think that's rare for a production, you know, you usually put together a production like to show and you know, we'll do it and you'll look at it, and it really felt collaborative with the fans, because we were we had to really be loyal to them that really showed and show in this one little documentary that Xavier Mendoza has on Twitter, like he brings all of that out. And he really got it just from watching the movie, he'd never talked to any of us, like none of us knew who he was, until, you know, a guy on Facebook actually sent me the link and and I was like, this is the best little documentary because he was spot on about so many things, you know, and sometimes that happens in a production when there's no time and no money. All you have is each other. And you know, you really work as a team. And if you only sad thing for me is like I wish it hadn't been so long ago because already so many memories have faded, like little tiny details, you know, the behind the scenes, what about this? What about that? It's like, I wish I had remembered more. Because at the time, I wasn't paying attention to remember, I was paying attention because you know, I was working and we were doing this thing. So I was in the moment. But in retrospect, I wish I would have been more of a of a third person at times watching and taking note to remember things because I never knew what was going to be so important to remember so much about this. And you know, the funny thing is what I have we shot it we started in December of 1992. And that was right when kind of home video your machines were, you know, like a manageable size. We'll just had them and so I got myself one, you know, as an early Christmas present, you know, so it's like, Oh, I'll take it on set. So I shot so much behind the seemed stuff normally I would have my camera take like a few pictures I never really took like a lot because it's not like these days where you take 1000 pictures, but I would have normally had a bunch of snapshots. But since I had the video camera, I didn't take any snapshots and I wish I would have because here's the thing, that video is still stored away. Like in Indiana Jones storage, I moved from this one house of mine in 2006. And they were you know, like the little teeny tiny little video like cassettes that fit inside a camera. And then you have to put that little video cassette like into a bigger cassette kind of asleep thing in order to watch it, but they're packed away because I didn't need them then. And when we moved it was you know, it had been a big corporate move that my boyfriend is company moved us. And so they went like into this long term storage where it's packed in boxes packed inside of a crate way in the back of some storage thing where you got to pay them to get a forklift to go back and get your crate to bring it out to open up. And I don't even know what the videos are in like some box somewhere. But I don't know what and I haven't had time, or the resources like to really go and get all this stuff out of storage to find those videotapes because when they were doing that documentary doomed Marty The producer was like, I'll pay like all pay what it takes like to get into your storage and get those tapes out. And I couldn't find him but I I know they're there. And so it's like, if they ever do a release of this you go I am going to have to like buckle down because I've got like five of these huge like room size crate things like to go through but that is going to be quite a treasure. Because it's video as long as you know there's an editor similar recap we you know, we'd have to digitize it, I guess because yeah, like before, we were talking about CDs, and just like well, you can't even really watch the CD anymore. A DVD secret magical wonderful time capsule video exists

Jeff Dwoskin 17:06

sounds like we need to get ratha Rivera, and we do an entire documentary like the mystery of Al Capone's vault, except this finding the secrets behind Roger Corman's fantastic for not

Rebecca Staab 17:19

so much because like, behind the scenes stuff is always so interesting to me. And the behind the scenes of that film, you know, because people have like the film, but to have like the actual documentarian footage that to work of the conditions and the situation, you know, at the time, and I've got to get in there and find that, because that's worrisome. It's just valuable to people that are interested in that, because I think it'll be just as interesting as the film

Jeff Dwoskin 17:48

started, and we're about to have to take a quick break, give Rebecca a second to go through all her stuff and try and find that footage. I do want to take a second to thank you for all your support of the sponsors. When you support the sponsors. You're supporting us here at Classic conversations. And that's how we keep the lights on. And now back to my conversation with Rebecca Staab I watched some of the documentary that you're talking about. I also way back watch doomed, I think doomed came up on my fire stick recommended. And so I watched that I think I knew that the Roger Corman movie hadn't been released and that it existed. But watching dooms kind of filled in a lot of those blanks in terms of a you guys have felt and were part of that. It's interesting, what you're talking about earlier with the movie inadvertently made you a real team moving forward. And it created a bond that most movies probably don't create with the full actors. Because is it fair to say it was a mini trauma as well going through the ups and downs of it? Yeah, I mean, it's really a whole story is so fascinating. So interesting now, because the Fantastic Four in the MCU is becoming finally important in the MCU. So I think people are talking about this even more now. Yeah,

Rebecca Staab 19:01

because it comes up, you know, every, every time there's one, you know, this kind of percolates to the surface. And, you know, for the right reasons, people still really like our original one, because nobody's been able to duplicate the real spirit of it, even though they have what we never had, you know, they have all the special effects. They had all the money, they had all the cool suits, you know, they but nobody's ever been able to do what we did. You know, it's a good family movie. I think it's good for even people that aren't into all the superhero universe and that all kind of stuff because most of those movies I really only go to if you know, my brother's kids are in town or something that I'm not really big on those kinds of movies. Or if I'm on a plane and go, Oh, I'll watch Spider Man. This movie's kind of in a different genre. It's more like just more of a throwback and what I saw order her reading between the lines with this new one, what they're going to do is I think it says it like in the 60s is one of the rumors that and our film looks like that because being true to the comic book and then that's, you know, when the original issues were there is a timeless feel to it. Like it feels retro without really being intentional, that you're just kind of it's more like a time period immersive because, you know, there's no reference to any time period at all me, I don't even know if there's like a car or two in it, maybe somewhere, I guess there's cars in it. Now that I think back, you know, like, so they're not like 60s cars, they were cars from 1992. But there is definitely a retro feel that was organic, you know that it wasn't dressed up to look like the 60s, I'll be curious to see this new one. And see, like if it said in the 60s, I think that that would be

Jeff Dwoskin 20:48

cool for a son does your version is it is the one that probably the most fun. None of the other ones really hit it out of the ballpark. And like you said they had the bazillions of dollars to do what they needed to do. But that just shows you that the bazillions of dollars wasn't what was missing from those movies. Yeah,

Rebecca Staab 21:07

it's, it's just so funny, because at the time, and we knew it was low budget, like it wasn't like, we didn't have any false impressions that, you know, it's gonna look fabulous. Like we knew some stuff they were gonna have to fix in post, but even the SATs, like they were left over from whatever movie they just wrapped, and kind of rearranged a few things to make it look like what it was supposed to be in our movie that they didn't even build sets, you know, we shot a couple of things on location. Well, that was the thing too. There's this scene, like after we crash, and we're all like in our spacesuits, and sitting around the campfire. And we went out I don't even remember where you know, to shoot that one whole day and night, because some of its day, and then some of its night when it got dark. And we're literally just sitting around the campfire, you know, between takes and stuff. I mean, Alex is just like, This is what we played as kids, you know, it's like how incredible that like, this is our life. This is our job. We're out here in the middle of the desert, and whatever, like the crew was off somewhere. Like it was literally just the four of us in spitty suit, you know, with little smug new stuff on our face sitting around a fire. And it was such a real moment. Well, ours. I mean, I think it really plays, I mean, so much of the like, the moments between the characters are just too real for us anyway, you know, and then when we finally whoever shows up the government or whatever, like these big trucks, you know, the excitement and the jubilation, it is just palpable, because, you know, we just get a play, we get aware of speeding shoots, and shoot outside night around the campfire and be superheroes. You just go every day was just playing. Yeah, when you talk about the emotion, because there were so many moments that still like that's one that really chokes me up, or there's like a scene in the movie, when we watch changed back like, Okay, now we know we have these powers, and the three of us, you know, we don't change, like Ben turns into the thing. And then he's kind of out on his own trying to make sense of his life. And in this, you know, being a body of rock. And then there's a scene where he comes back to our, whatever it is our science space room that we all live in working. And he comes back. And it's that scene where he run, he just comes in the door and just being Sue like I just ran, like ran to him and like jumped up and like hugged him. And you know, it's like, I still get goosebumps even talking about that scene or get like a little choked up because it really was we've got the band back, you know, we got the team back, you know, Ben's back. And now we really are the Fantastic Four. And it was just Yeah, so much of it. It was I think, because we got to play and we got to play these people being superheroes

Jeff Dwoskin 23:54

when you were making the Fantastic Four, there was a natural bond even before you knew ultimately, what was going to happen. Yeah, at what point did you find out this shenanigans going on? Where this movie isn't going to be released? The promotions kind of stopping because they did stuff? I mean, there were magazines that covered it during production. So it's not like it was done in secret and then shelved. Actually,

Rebecca Staab 24:19

that was you know, they did all the post production. Like It'd be different if all he had to do was get it shot and get it in the can and then if they would have shot but like thank God in retrospect, nobody stopped only like nobody stopped the director. And so he went on, you know, with getting it scored. You know, when the guys that did the music ended up putting in, I forget like how many 1000s of their own their own money to hire an orchestra and they paid somebody like to do some like special effects with Johnny some kind of animation. It was a wild if that was the point was just to be in production so that he could hold on to the right so that It can be shelved. Why finish it, like while it everybody else, it really was quite a blessing that they were sort of hands off until it really wasn't done done. And then we had the final product, which is what is still around, you know, because we went and we did Comic Con in San Diego. Well, it was nowhere, what it is now, like it was just a regular kind of, you know, sit at a table and sign autographs. And I mean, we just gave pictures away, like we didn't make any money. I mean, we printed up a ton of pictures, and we're just signing them and giving away the pictures and taking pictures with people because Comic Cons weren't then what they are now, just gave everything away. But again, it was for the fans, and they were so excited. And then we went to Florida and we did another one that I think Alex and Michael had, you know, set up and ranged and they flew was there and so there was like, Okay, now it's coming out and they had it set to come out at the What's that big moments in Minneapolis, the biggest American? Well, America. Yeah, I'm like mom the world? Because that's where that was supposed to be the premiere. And so you know, we were making plans to go to be there. And so it was shortly before that, which something in my head is feeling like that was August of 94. I can't remember exactly. But I don't know, there's something in my head. That's telling me it was kind of August. I could be wrong. It could have been April, I don't know, you know, it was relatively short. Lee before it was supposed to be actually released, because they even had a trailer, like trailers were showing in the movie theaters, you know, along with other films. It was as real as real could have been. And then when we found out I don't think, see, again, this is where my memory is sketchy. I don't remember how much they told us at the time. You know, I guess they told us then that he bought it back for a million dollars and basically shelved it because he had to be in production with our film. His rights were expiring. It was new constituting this production company. They had the rights that Fantastic Four, but they were expiring. I think it like the end of 92. And the only way to renew the riots is a film How to be in production when he had wanted to make a big $50 million production and he wanted Chris Columbus to direct it. By the time it was the end of the year. He didn't have any of that in place and he was going to lose the rights. He went to Roger Corman was like hey, I'll give you a million dollars. If you can bring this movie out. Carmen's like yeah, sure, great. Let's do it. Until everybody was well on in I don't think that Roger even knew at the time was just hey, I need to make this movie really fast. Until it was supposed to be released. He didn't want it to be released. Because then it would, you know, whatever muddy the water for the new $50 million, one that was going to come out whenever he had money. And I'll never forget the day that I found, you know, because it was like, Is that ever really going to happen? And I'll never forget, I was living down like in I was down in San Diego. And I was like literally, like pulling into the gas station, like to get gas and was just had the radio on. And they're like, oh, you know, hey, after this commercial, you know, we've got a big announcement to make about barbells fantastic for and I'm like, what his this was, I mean, I forget when that one went into production, but it was, I don't know, 2003 Maybe. And so I literally pulled over wait for like the radio commercial to be done. And that's when they announced that, you know, they're gonna finally make the fantastic war and you know, Michael Chiklis and you know, Jessica Alba, and I just like sat there on the side of the road in my car. It's like, Oh, my God, like, it was true. It was real. That's really what he did. He got the money together. And that was the next one. That was the reason that we had been shelved. And here's just a small tidbit. It's funny for a while I lived on the beach in Malibu for a while. And Michael Chiklis was actually my neighbor, his family and rented a house for I don't know, there were there, like six months or something and got to be friends with his wife. And then he comes out and I'm like, Oh, hi. Because I didn't know him that was living there. And I'm like, You don't know me. I'm like, I was the first to storm and he was hilarious. Like, he was so excited about it. He was so nice. So every time he ever saw me, you would just call me Sue. And we're still friends on Facebook. And sometimes if you ever, like would say I would write something, you know, comment on something with his daughters or something. And he'd be like, Thanks, Sue. And the other small world thing is I was shooting Nip Tuck, and I was doing scenes with Julian kind of getting like later in the day. And it's like, well, let's get all his coverage because he's got to catch a flight. He's got to go up to Vancouver. And I'm like, Oh, what are you doing? He's like, Oh, I'm shooting a movie. I'm like, Oh, wow. I'm like, What are you shooting? And he's like, fantastic for I was like, yeah, he

Jeff Dwoskin 29:39

was Dr. Doom. Like, who

Rebecca Staab 29:41

are who are you? Like, I'm Dr. Doom. I'm like, again, I'm like, okay, you don't know this. I was the original storm. And so it's funny, our episode of Nick talk, you know, I'm like, having sex on his desk and I'm like, Oh, my God. Like, if anybody really knows, you know, the fans that know. It's like, Oh my God. It's like she was doram is having sex with Dr. Doom. Probably an episode somewhere somewhere. That's great. That was pretty funny. Do that. It's like, I've actually Well, Michael, I didn't work with that I knew. And then it was funny that actually worked with Julian. We'll see who's next we'll see who I like, I would love I mean, every time we do a new one, or like, Oh, come on, put us in a somewhere. So how like, even without mention, again, just for the fans that know, you go, just give me a roll. And it doesn't have to be you know, I don't have to play Sue storms mom now or something, just any role, because then the people that know that see the movie, they're like, Oh, my God, that's Rebecca, she was the first I don't know, my manager knows the casting director for this new Fantastic Four. But, you know, it's kind of not up to them, its producers in its, you know, they really still want to sort of keep it buried rather than acknowledged. But I'm, I'm really the only one out of all of us that is still working full time. It would be nice, something came up, if there'd be a part in this new one, that would be really cool. I would

Jeff Dwoskin 31:00

love the multiverse stuff. Now they would, they would love that they're pulling in from all the different movies. Now,

Rebecca Staab 31:08

it would be easy. And you know, what's not like? Because since ours was never released, it's not like, Oh, they're gonna put Jessica Alba in, you know, one of the new ones like, that doesn't work just because she was in? Well, unless there's, you know, I don't know, some convention of shoes. Who knows. But since ours never really came out. I think it'd be really easy to plug us in that we're just various characters. So that's my wish list for today.

Jeff Dwoskin 31:34

Well, I think that would be amazing. When you do work, like and you're doing all that stuff? Are people aware of the movie? Because it's it's infamous level now, right? I mean,

Rebecca Staab 31:45

I don't know if people really do because they don't, you know, wearing was always fun is when I would go on auditions. Like back in the olden days, when like the director, you, you know, would actually be in the room. And you know, they would have your picture and resume right in front of them. And so as they're reading down my resume, probably eight out of 10 times any director would go Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, you know, I saw you that there is a director up in Vancouver. That was one of the last posts that I did. He's like, he was doing some corpsman movie at the time, like back in 92, or 93. And he wrote to me, and he said, I was working at corpsman. And at the time, and I can't tell you how many times like I watched that. I don't know, he was around when they were, I don't know, editing, or posting or something like that. And I was like, Oh, I didn't know that. You knew that. That was me. And he's like, Yeah, I always knew that was you? And like, Why didn't you tell me? So I think, yep, and have an everyday life when I'm working. Unless it's in front of somebody, I don't think that they really know. Which is funny, because I've been working on Superman and Lois. And so you know, then I'm jumped from Marvel to DC. So it's kind of funny that juxtaposition because in Superman and Lois, I actually I'm the antithesis of Sue Storm, that I'm very, very, very evil that I play Lex Luthor right hand woman, so I kind of, you know, assist him with all of

Jeff Dwoskin 33:06

his dirty work. Right? That's probably more fun, right? To be bad. Yeah,

Rebecca Staab 33:11

because it's always fun to be evil, but it was very fun to be to was the thing to like, at the time, I really did look like to look in the comic books, just you know, the length of my hair, and how I had, you know, the makeup girl do my makeup. So it was, you know, kind of more retro, you know, and just like they have the eyeliner, you know, so it was just kind of 60s and like the red lipstick and stuff. So I think as Sue like if we would have had like real team and you know, real costumes and you know, hair and makeup, all that kind of stuff. I think just by luck of the draw, I looked so much like to as opposed to a couple of the later gals who are fine actresses and you know, enjoy them very much and their work, but just kind of genetically I just kind of I think the most liked to have anybody so far. At the time.

Jeff Dwoskin 33:58

You were comic book, Sue, for sure. Well,

Rebecca Staab 34:00

I remember even when I when I got the audition, I wasn't that familiar with the comic book. So and again, it was like 92 It was there was no internet or anything. It just couldn't look it up, went down to Hollywood, went to a comic bookstore, grabbed a couple of the comics and opened and it was like oh my god. Oh, I look like her. You know, I'm like, Oh, this is gonna be good. I went on on my audition. I just wore like black leggings like really tight black leggings and just a tight black turtleneck. You know, just kind of a cap suit so that you go well, this character is going to have to be in her little fantastic for latex lycra suit. No latex lycra. So I remember to them when I when I walked out of the audition only the director, he said thanks for dressing. Thanks for dressing the part. You know, I always wonder from them, like when did they know like was it during our audition that they're like, that's the one or was it literally you know, you have the two or three or four or five, you know, pictures in front of you and you've got to kind of decide between the group I shouldn't huskily that next time I guess I yeah, I've never asked him that.

Jeff Dwoskin 35:02

Don't you feel that way with every everything you do? Yeah. You

Rebecca Staab 35:05

always wonder, like when they watch your audition, they're just like, that's it. That's the girl hire her we're done. Or it's like, how many times do they have to whittle it down until you're the one that ends up on top of the pile? Strange process? I don't know. But this one, this new one, I have a feeling it'll be good. I think then because of Vanessa Kirby again, what I read. Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but that they're making this one. That's two is really, it's really smooth. Lori, that she is the featured character in this new one. And Vanessa Kirby is just brilliant. I mean, she's such an unbelievably talented actress, you know, unless they go off on some wild thing that has nothing to do with the comic book. I don't see how this one can't be good. Because I think maybe they've learned from the other ones that didn't work.

Jeff Dwoskin 35:54

Fourth time's the charm. I

Rebecca Staab 35:57

know. But yeah, the fourth, the fourth Fantastic Four.

Jeff Dwoskin 36:01

Do you guys ever get together for Comic Cons nowadays? Like still like the group? No,

Rebecca Staab 36:05

not you know what? So? Gotta try to think when I was in San Diego? No, not as a group. We should know. Maybe we should now this year. Good questions like,

Jeff Dwoskin 36:16

isn't it? Yeah, so

Rebecca Staab 36:18

actually, we we should we the last time we were all together was when they screened Doom because they actually screened it in the theater here in LA. And so all of us were there for that. And and Roger Corman came, he was there to for the gym. That was the last time I think that all of us were together. But yeah, you know, because we we've kind of done them either separately, you know, sound like it'll be me and Joseph and Alex, or then it would be we were all together and St. Louis for for that one. It's more fun when we're all together, you know, because there's been times where I've just done like the Burbank show here. And no, maybe it was just me and Alex, or there was somewhere that I've done with just Joseph and I. Yeah, but I think yeah, maybe we should talk about that. Maybe we should all do that. Since it's the 30th. I don't know what the deadline is for for getting in. But for as big as you know, Comic Con has become everybody's all spread out. Now. Joseph lives in France. Alex is now down in Florida. Michael, I think is in I don't know if he's still in Texas, or he might be in Arkansas. I'm still in LA Jay is actually a pastor of a church. And he was up in Northern California. But I think they moved back that they're just kind of just north of La somewhere like he's in the vicinity. And Ollie is in New Orleans. You know, really, Jay and I are the only two that are here. And then you know, I'm in Vancouver half the time. So we're literally we're all like at all four corners. And France. But it Yeah, that'd be really fun.

Jeff Dwoskin 37:44

When you were on said Stanley's swing by did you get to meet him Roger Corman was he actually there at a time? They

Rebecca Staab 37:51

were I'm just you know, I don't remember because that was like those guys talked about it and doom that those guys remember. So I know that he was there. And I know that we met him. But I it's gone from my brain. Unfortunately. It's

Jeff Dwoskin 38:06

funny because we were talking earlier about how you didn't remember that you didn't know you were like living something that would live in infamy. So it wasn't like, you're like, This is the first of three sequels or whatever, right? It was like you weren't thinking this is getting shelved, and I'm gonna be talking about this story of it for decades. time

Rebecca Staab 38:25

you go and you couldn't even picture yourself. 30 years from now, shoes are 30 years. Oh my god, I'm gonna be old by that. You know, this is you know, our schedule was really grueling because we shot it so fast. That just seemed we were always wrapped up in work. Like there wasn't a lot of like downtime or hanging around time or chit chatting that Yeah, and so even when he was there, I'm sure no, my head was half paying attention. But I was obviously paying attention to whatever scene I had coming up or something. Yeah, I wish I wish I remembered more. That's why I've got to go back and find that guy to get the footage or to get the footage because I found like, I found a folder that you know, I gave to Marty when they were doing June, I had the call sheet and I had I don't know like something I think I'm good. I'm gonna have like the original sites from the audition. I still had some stuff, but I wonder if there are more stuff as well packed away with the video footage that is your

Jeff Dwoskin 39:20

To Do lists after this. I saw your rocket Superman and lo it's a bummer that they're canceling that show.

Rebecca Staab 39:27

I know like why such a popular show. You know, it's popular around the world. They needed to do more episodes go into syndication because you need like, I think it's 100 episodes in order to syndicate a series. I don't know maybe that's all changed. Maybe that was just the olden days and they can syndicate but you know, there's only three seasons. It is such a good show when it first aired three years ago, I started watching because one of my friends was playing Superman's mom. And so I was like, oh well watch, you know, so I was just watching this port, my friend and that first episode I'm like, This is what Really good. You know, I was expecting it to be, you know, superhero kind of corny, you know, because I was like, the scripts are so good. The actors were so good, the storylines was so good. And so I did, then I just, I sort of watched. So I've been watching that, like for the first two seasons, and then it was funny that oh, you know, now you get to be on it. We were so excited. So I was on the season finale of season three, then when we found out that it was going to get picked up for season four, I knew my character was coming back. But that's when because Discovery Channel bought the CW. And so that's why they kind of canceled then we're changing everything in there like mind, you've got to leave this one go, because it was really popular. But it was also the most expensive show on the CW, because you know, they had incredible special effects, I think do I mean, a lot of this special effects are film quality, like it's not stuff that you see on TV. Yeah, so then they only picked it up for 10 episodes and cut the budget in half. Again, like how do you do a special effects heavy show in scope? Well make keep maintain the quality, but now we cut the budget in half. And so unfortunately, when they cut the budget in half done then of the contracted cast members were taken off contract. So they had had I think they'd had 12 actors on contract, and they cut seven of them. So it was like, Oh, my God. So now with the 10 episodes that are left, you know, they want to kind of honor all of the storylines that have been going on in the characters that had been going on but you know, wrap it up to and it's hard. You can't wrap up everything in 10 episodes. The good thing about it is the episodes are really dense. I mean, there's his bootloader you know, there's like so much stuff going on. It's really good. And it's a really incredible team working on that show. Every department every department is just absolutely top notch. Yeah, it's a real shame because I could stay on that show forever. I

Jeff Dwoskin 41:52

love working to like, oh, a cut budget on a superhero show. I'm your girl. I know the story I got Yeah, we made an entire Fantastic Four for 1 million they got you got more than that. We can do wonders. Hang on. Exactly. Sorry to take a quick break. While we're back with Rebecca Staab. So that's

Rebecca Staab 42:15

been fun. And I was working on I did I don't know if you've seen the night agent but the first season is on Netflix. And it was the most watched Netflix series I think to date of all of the Netflix series are in the top five huge it was number one like for the longest time that series is so stinking good. I'm so I'm an episode five I play robber Patrick's wife. And then it was funny. I ran into him. Because while I don't want to give anything away, let me see how do I tell the story without giving something away? If somebody hasn't seen night agent, because if you haven't seen it, it's a brilliant series. And I'm not just saying that because I was on it. We started watching it. And my husband's not a big ninja like I don't know, it's too late. I gotta go to bed, then react to what episodes like we have to watch the next one. We have to watch the next one. I mean, it is so suspenseful. And it's and you really care. It's a really great series. I play robber Patrick's why, but in the episode that I'm in, I don't interact with them during the sag strike. You know, I just live right up the street from like universal and Warner Brothers, so a friend of mine, and he was like, Oh, we're gonna go down and you know, do the, you know, walk the sidewalks with the strike. So I go and I'm under the tent like design in and I turn and I look. And it's Robert Patrick. And I'm like, by, like, you don't know me. But I'm your wife. He's like, Oh my God, he's like, You are so good. He goes, I have to tell you, I watched that episode over and over and over, because I was so proud that you were my wife. And he said, You just use like, oh my god, like that was such a compliment, you know, coming from him. And then he was the sweetest guy. And so the whole we walked together, you know, we were probably there like for an hour, hour and a half. And he walked in with his arm around me. And anybody you know, everybody knew who he was and everybody that you know, stopped to talk to him. He's like, Oh, have you met Rebecca she's my wife that on the night agent and really brilliant actress, and he was just so kind. He literally like introduced me to absolutely everyone we you know, walk together until like the very end hug me goodbye. That

Jeff Dwoskin 44:12

is really cool, though. It's also cool when you say someone like Robert Patrick is so nice, because you know you have it in your head. Ah, he's a murderous robot. He was, you know, I mean, it's like he was a jerk on reacher. Yeah, like all that kind of stuff. So it's like sometimes that's what you have in your head when

Rebecca Staab 44:30

we like meet each other. And and I'm not going to tell any bad tales. But it is funny when you meet the people who you think are going to be wonderful and nice and and then they're not. It goes both ways. You know, with the people that you're like that you're just used to being bad guys, and then there's people who you just thought it would be like the super nicest person and then they're really not. And that's like disappointing. That was the fun thing with a strike. I have to say, like walking a picket line was actually it was so much fun because You're just constantly running into either people that you know, personally, or just actors that you don't run into on set. I saw Rufus who will, and oh my god, like if there's like a crush I've ever had. It's Rufus Sewell. Like I saw him in a movie at the Cannes Film Festival in what late 1997. And I remember watching this film going, Oh my God, who is that? Oh my god, I've just been in love with him ever since then, you know, so I'm on the picket line. And you're just like, hi, you don't know. And so we walked with Him like the whole time and same thing give me cryptic hug. And God so many people like know, a wily, Bryan Cranston. I mean, it's just like every time you turned around, you know Dietrich Bader and Martha Plimpton and you're saying hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Yeah, we'd like to I kind of made like some new new friends on the picket line. That'll be fun if you ever get to work together with them. Because you're like, hey, remember when we did that, it's awesome. You know, working, it makes being an actor, just the greatest job on the planet, I think. And that's why you know, working is great. But what goes hand in hand with working is the not working because you spend more time not working than you do working. When you are working. It really makes up for it. Have so much fun working is really the reward the work or the auditions. And then once you get the job, it's just like, I

Jeff Dwoskin 46:17

scan your IMDB. You've been in like everything. All my favorite shows. Dexter. Cheers. Seinfeld. I actually rewatched your Seinfeld yesterday.

Rebecca Staab 46:27

Yeah. So just run into Jason Alexander last night. Like it's so funny. Yeah, you know, yeah. Beverly Hills 902. Window. Allen, when she had her series, I actually on the show, and Mary Ellen's brother on the show. So our whole episode was, you know, kind of the wedding. Oh my God, it was so much fun. Because everybody was there kind of every day, the whole cast was there. And it was you know, festive. It was wedding. And you know, Ellen's doing the speech at the wedding and completely improving and just had us in years. So we just kind of felt like we spent all week at a wedding. What's better than that? You know, like, what the funniest people on TV and Oh, Colombo. I mean, like God, that's just an institution to work with Peter Falk. So yeah, that was a great wonder years hears it, you want to like kind of behind the scenes stories. Wonder Years, when I did wonder years, I played Miss farmer. I was the social studies teacher who always wore, you know, short shorts and pod pants and really short skirts and really high platform shoes, but just the innocence as can be. And I hire Kevin to paint my house. And so of course, you know, he's got this huge crush on teacher and it comes over to the house and you know, I'm sunbathing in the backyard. And he's just like, it's the greatest episode about while we were shooting was actually Fred savages birthday. And within the episode, Heaven has this fantasy scene where he comes to miss farmer's house and knocks on the door. And I opened the door like in his dream state, and I have on like this red gown, and he picks me up and carries me over to the table and with his arm, you know, wipes all the paint cans and paint paraphernalia off the table and lays me down on the table and starts kissing me. And so you know, it's this fantasy that Kevin's having, you know, you shoot it 1000 times. And so on one of the tapes, you know, the director says he goes, I don't know if you know it, but it's Fred's birthday today. So he said, I'm not going to call cut. So he said, Is that okay with you? Like, if you just make out with him for a while, do you mind? Like, that's our birthday gift of bread. And I'm like, Oh, my God, that would be hilarious. And so we go and we do a take the simulation down. And you know, we just got kind of start making out and just like, keep going and going. He's like nobody ever calls cotton. And finally, Fred stops and looks around. And he's like, is anybody and then everybody just starts like clapping and go and happy birthday and they sing happy birthday to him. was so neat when we did that. And then a couple of years later, when Jay Leno was hosting the Tonight Show, they were doing a segment about how you know, he's like, I've been doing the show since I was a kid. And so they had Fred Savage there. So there's Jay Leno was doing a flashback of how he done the tonight show since he was a kid. And so they have Fred Savage playing Jay Leno, as a kid doing the Tonight Show, and I happened to be there that night, because I think, oh, Duran Duran was on as a guest. And one of my really close friends is really cool close friends with them. And so she's like, Oh, do you want to go to the taping for the Tonight Show? Because you know, I'm you know, we can go backstage with Duran Duran, I'm like, Yeah, sure, that'd be cool. So we were sitting like in the front row. And so during the taping of that when Fred is onstage at the Tonight Show, playing Jay Leno he sees me in the front row and he's like, Miss farmer, Miss farmer.

Jeff Dwoskin 49:50

Amazing. Yeah, hog.

Rebecca Staab 49:52

Like that was like the high point and it was a years later than you'd like saw me and like recognize me and came down off stage and hugged me And, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I would love to run into him again sometime. He was just I loved him. He was such a blast. What else? What else did I do that are kind of those iconic

Jeff Dwoskin 50:10

Lee home improvements. You said Beverly Hills, you talked about Nip Tuck the dark shadows did Drew

Rebecca Staab 50:16

Carey when I'd actually when I'd gone into audition, I'd auditioned for there was an episode of Drew Carey. I can't remember what it was I go into audition for a character. And afterwards casting goes, could you just wait outside a minute, and she came in to talk to me and she said the next episode, we'd actually like to hook you not for this, but for the next episode, because it was the big Mother's Day episode. And so every character had, you know, their quote unquote, mother, their character's mother on the show. And they were doing this kind of joke within a joke that Krista I can't remember what her character's name was. Her character's father has a new wife. And so the new wife looked exactly like Christmas character. And so they have the scenes that they put me like, because she's like the short, dark hair, but we're kind of built the same and have like, the same features. And so as soon as they put me in the short, dark wig, I'm like, Oh, my God, like I do look like her. And they have my character, like, show up to come into your, and we're always like, dressing like so I'm like her new stepmom. But it's really creepy, because I look like her and kind of have like, the same mannerisms. And it's hilarious, because, you know, the guys are always commenting on it. And they're just like, stepmom or, you know, she does something and then I kind of come in and do almost the exact same thing. And they're just like, This is so creepy. But it was the greatest episode because the other mothers were Marian Ross, Phyllis Diller, Adrienne Barbeau. And the funny thing is Richard Chamberlain dressed up in drag to play, oh, what's his name? The British guy who was on the show? No, the Scottish? Yeah, Craig Ferguson. He was like in drag as Craig Ferguson's, it was hilarious. And then another like small world, then I grew up in Nebraska. And in my French class, like when I was in high school, so what am I, you know, 1516 years old, we'd watched the math Count of Monte Cristo, because we're watching kind of, you know, these movies that take place in France. And so we're watching The Count of Monte Cristo. And Richard Chamberlain is the Count of Monte Cristo, just this young, handsome, dashing, and you know, my 15 year old self was like, Oh, my God, you know, you cut to 30 years later, I'm like, working with my mom's dad. And I'm like, You're not gonna believe this. But in Omaha, Nebraska, when I was 15 years old, we were watching the Count of Monte Cristo, and I just fell in love with you. Then I took a bunch of pictures with him like he was just a riot, I kind of, I don't know, there's kind of somebody that usually on the show that you've kind of, I can't say fond with, but I don't know, I just got such a kick out of him. And he was so great in the role trussed up, you know, he played a woman, he didn't play a man of drag. Like that's what Craig Ferdig, Ferguson's mom looked like. And I was trying to think what else it was, but it was just the greatest episode to be on because like, not only were you on Drew Carey, and working with those guys who are like comedy genius, but then I was part of like, the moms of TV history. And Richard Chamberlain. So that was like one of the coolest things about The Drew Carey Show. So that was neat. Um, what else? Cheers Cheers was, here's a funny story about cheers. But it wasn't really about when we were shooting when I was auditioning for cheers. Because I have like, you know, these scenes with Sam and my boyfriend at the time. I'm like, Hey, we reread the scenes with me. And he's reading it. And he's like, Is this supposed to be funny? I'm like, yeah, it's cheers. He's like, Yeah, I'm really surprised. Oh, no, he didn't know it was cheers. He's like, Yeah, I'm really surprised because he's like, this isn't really funny. And I go, it's cheers. And he goes, oh, oh, this is Sam. He's like, Wait, oh, my God. Okay. And then we read it again. And now that he knew who he was playing. He's like, Oh, my God. This is hilarious. So it was one of those kinds of familiarity things that you know, on paper, it's just like a scene, but as soon as you go, Oh, this is Sam. This is Ted Danson. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes, this is totally Sam Malone. I get it now. Yeah, it's one of those things. It's like on paper or in real life. So that was really fun to work on. I mean, God, how could that not be fun? It was so easy. Because it for sake calm. You're there Monday through Friday, like Monday, you just do like to read through, and then you go home. And then Tuesday you go and you kind of, you know, walk through step Onstad. And kind of work through the dialogue and everything, because they're constantly rewriting. So then you show up on Wednesday, and now it's been rewritten a lot. And then you know, this is kind of the blocking and then Thursday, it's like, alright, this is really blocking, blocking, and then Friday, you do a dress rehearsal. And then Friday night, you shoot it live. It's very much like being in a play. You know, it's like you're doing a play for a week because you're they're doing it over and over and over with the writers and the actors and stuff. So the first day on cheers like you read it, you go home, it's like, yeah, 1030 in the morning, I'm done for the day, you know, then show up on Tuesday. We ran through once, and then it was like, Alright, we're done for the day. Hello. Uh, well, I was really quick. They just knew it in their bones. So then Wednesday couple of changes here or there, ran through it, maybe twice. All right, you can go home. And just like, this is when I was like, God, we're not really like, we're not really working on it kind of quote, unquote, and like, we're just kind of like doing it and they're letting asleep and then it was, I mean, there's so professionals and those guys have done it so many times that even in the dress rehearsal, it was just, you know, kind of like a walkthrough, but Oh, my God, cameras are rolling audiences there now is the taping. It's like, it's like this explosion, and like a show just comes to life and you're like, Oh, my God, okay. Yeah. Okay, this is cheers, you know, but it was like, they don't need to do it. 110% five days in a row. Like they really just saved it for when you're taping it, and it was like, oh, okay, yeah, okay, okay. Yeah, this is the show because it just seemed like, this is way too easy. Like, they just keep letting us go home. You know, shouldn't we be working harder, but just like, you didn't need to amazing. Yeah, so that was what else I'm trying to think what else was fun that people? Oh, CSI. Yeah, then went through all the Yeah, that all the letters show, CSI, CSI New York. NCIS. If it hadn't had letters in it, I was doing it. Criminal Minds glee. And then once I was up in Vancouver, then I started doing a slew of Hallmark. They shoot Hallmark up there, I get recognized a lot. Like we're just like at a Dodger game. My husband's an actor, and he was on a soap opera. So a lot of people know who he is. So I'm used to people knowing him all the time. And he was like, hey, those lady because I can tell by the way somebody looks at him. I'm like, Oh, those ladies know who you are. And he'll always go and say hi, or take a picture, whatever. And so you're in a Dodger game. And you know, these ladies behind this clip Yellin down. So, like, we turn around and wave, and I just think they're like, you know, waving at him. And so he's like, hi, and but Nick kept pointing at me. And he's like, he's like, no, they're pointing at you. I'm like, they're not pointing at me. They're pointing at you, because they're pointing at you. So turn around again. And my husband goes to the lady needs to go. You're pointing at her right there like, yes, she's on all the Hallmark movies. Oh my God, we love her. We can't believe that we're right behind you with it at the Dodger game. So I was like, oh, so yeah, a lot of people watch Hallmark or it's like, I'll just be similar. And I start talking people like, I know your voice like what what do I know you from? You know, it's usually in the most recent, you know, kind of chunk of time. It's always on Hallmark thing because, you know, I've done what, like 12 of them. They're rerunning at some point every month are on Christmas

Jeff Dwoskin 57:27

somewhere.

Rebecca Staab 57:29

Which is really cool that and it's still on on Netflix, fabulous movie that I did called Love hard. It's a Christmas movie, but it's not about Christmas. It's really like a like a love story. It's just set at Christmas. But the name love hard comes from because the two leads in the movie have this conversation about his favorite Christmas movie is love, actually. And her favorite Christmas movie is diehard. And he's always like diehard is not a Christmas movie. And she's like love actually isn't a Christmas movie. It's because their characters always talk about and not being a Christmas movie. Ours is kind of the same. It's like their love story. But it's not really a Christmas movie, but it all takes place at Christmas. So it's called Love hard.

Jeff Dwoskin 58:08

I love that is awesome and diehard is a Christmas movie continue. It's so

Rebecca Staab 58:13

funny because it kind of starts out like you go oh, just gonna be like a rom com. It's needed to Brev and Jimmy o Yang. They're both so good. And Jimmy just I don't know if you've ever watched any of his comedy. He's a stand up to Silicon Valley. Yeah. And he's I'm Tanisha I played his stepmom, he and Harry Shum, Jr. Our brothers and I'm the stepmom, she ends up coming to New York for our house at Christmas. And it's just that kind of the movie kind of starts one way where you're like, Oh, this is just gonna be another rom com. But then it just twists and turns. It is so funny. I mean, everybody who sees it is like that is so different than what I thought it was going to be. And much like the fantastic for like, it's really sweet. I still get choked up. Every time I watch it. I'm like, is it just me? Because like, I'm the mom, and they're my kids. Like, why does this movie always make me cry? But I think like Jimmy is so good. He's such an empathetic character. You just really fall in love with him. And it's love hard. I really, you know, I'm not one like to toot my own horn. And so you've got to watch this. It's really good, but it's really good. If you haven't seen it, and you don't have to wait until Christmas because I think you can still get it. I think it's done that. I mean, I know it's on Netflix. And I think it's just on all the time. It's not never

Jeff Dwoskin 59:30

hurts to have a little Christmas spirit anytime of the year. You know, there's not that many

Rebecca Staab 59:34

St. Patrick's Day movies and so just watch a Christmas movie and stick around.

Jeff Dwoskin 59:37

Well, Leprecaun okay. Yeah. Becca, thank you so much for hanging out with me and sharing all these stories. You're amazing.

Rebecca Staab 59:48

It's fun. Well, thank you for contacting me and God, you know, I could sit and tell stories all day. I'm a bit of a chatterbox. Yeah, it's nice that Fantastic Four is still bringing people in Gather. I'm glad that you brought us together and I'm glad that you call and we'll follow up. There'll be more things to talk about by the end of the year, I hope

Jeff Dwoskin 1:00:07

Absolutely. We'll have you back. Do you hang out online Instagram or where do you where do your fans keep up with you on the socials?

Rebecca Staab 1:00:14

Well, Facebook, I'm Rebecca Staab Twitter. I'm RebeccaStaab one and on Instagram, RebeccaStaab, go.

Jeff Dwoskin 1:00:21

Thank you so much. This was awesome.

Rebecca Staab 1:00:24

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. How

Jeff Dwoskin 1:00:27

amazing was Rebecca Staab? Don't you think it's time for the Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie to be released. I'm gonna put a link to the change that or petition to release a fantastic 490 94 movie use the hashtag hashtag released fantastic 494 The number 94 everything else is spelled out. Anyway. How amazing was Rebecca Staab so many great stories on Fantastic Four and cheers and Drew Carey Yeah, so many great stories. Loved it. We got another Roger Corman's Fantastic Four guests coming next week. I'm going to keep it a surprise for now. But definitely check it out. I'm gonna put a link to a release the Fantastic Four hashtag release fantastic. 494 t shirt. I made it my T public store. Check that out. So much goodness. Thanks again, Rebecca Staab for sharing all those amazing stories. And thank you to all of you for coming back week after week. It means the world to me, and I'll see you next time.

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