Kelen Coleman

0:06So I saw a little trailer for your show. Oh cool. I guess we can give away that you're pregnant. Yes, yes. I thought it was a secret, but then it was in the trailer. So I'm pretty sure that's it. Yeah, it's kind of like, yeah. It's the reveal at the end of the episode that I'm pregnant with somewhat. I think who's baby it is is a secret. Right. That I don't know. But you do find out in the first episode. And, yeah, so I'm going to be a single mom. A young, young, single mother. Is that fun? Hard times. You know, we haven't done it yet. You don't miss out the pilot. We only shot the pilot. We started in August because our mother, Lori Metcalf, is shooting another show, get it on, on HBO. And so she has to finish that before we can start. But she, but yeah, I mean, when we shot it, I knew I was going to be a character that's

0:51pregnant, but you know, never know what's going to be picked up. So I didn't actually think of it an actuality if it was to go. And now it got picked up and then I had a moment where, oh, okay, I'm going to have to be pregnant. And then I'm going to have to have a baby on a television show. So that's, I guess I'll have a little like growing. Yeah, it's a thing to add too. Like that's a, as an actor, I feel like that's something you got to cross off the list. And you know, it's, I'm not totally out of it. I mean, I think it's gender neutral act. Well, Junior, that was the Schwarzenegger movie, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. But I think that it's, you know, pregnancy is not far away. I mean, I'm not at any way close to it. But I think like it's feasible that someone that I could be pregnant right now, you know, I'm not, okay, totally not. It just happened. But it's right now with his eyes.

1:37It's crazy. But it's the type of thing that like, you know, it's going to be interesting to explore because that is a part of like, you know, your life at this age soon to be, you know, at some point, hopefully, if you want kids, you can have them. And so that'd be interesting to like tap into. You can get toward the suit and all that stuff. That'd be fun. But so it was not a full suit. Let's hope it's just like a nice little. It's going to be hot. This is set lights. Ooh. We'll see. What's it like? Laurie McAvitt's your mom. That's kind of cool. So cool. I grew up watching her on Rosanne. I feel like everybody did. I mean, did you have that in Canada? We did. We have television up here. Oh, you do? We're not in English. Oh, we can see that special CN building. Is that what it is? CN Tower. Well, you know what? I'm going to take you out there and you can walk on it and do the edge walk. We should be at the south now. Oh, God.

2:22First, first trip to Canada. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. And I got here yesterday and I have to leave tomorrow. So it's, you know, in and out. I know. There's so much I want to do. Go to Blue Jays. Give anyway. But Laurie McAvitt, wonderful group watching Rosanne. There's like significant moments I remember from that show of her performance. Like with this one scene with the phone call and their dad dies. I don't know if you remember that. Do you remember that? And she has to call someone and tell them that her father's dead. And she, I mean, they must have let her improv, which they never do on a sitcom because she literally has like a one minute conversation with her. You have to think as an actor. There's no one on the other line. So it really seems like there's, and she has this conversation with what's, I guess, an old lady who can't hear what Jackie's saying. So she goes, yeah, no.

3:08Unfortunately, dad has passed away. And she starts really much. And then she goes, yeah, yeah, dad, dad has passed. Yeah, dad is, he's no longer with him. Yeah, dad is dead. No, he's dead. He's dead. He doesn't breathe. Like she goes on for a minute over and over and over. And it's brilliant. Like I can't. Well, you just did. I'm sure. Oh, no, no, no, it's nowhere near her. I hope, I think she won an Emmy that year. I'm not sure. But I mean, if you, if anyone goes back, it is like, if you have to remember these people, like people watching at home, she's not speaking to anyone. And it's so just having someone like that to work with that you have looked up to for so

3:54long is remarkable. Helen, did you ever, how long did you teach the pilot a week to it? Look a week and a half. But you know, hopefully now, you know, we're picked up for 13, which is 12 plus the pilot. And then, you know, hopefully after that, and you know, hopefully become people's new favorite TV family. How's the accent? That was not a Boston accent. I don't know what that was. Boston, you said about Toronto. Boston. Yeah, no, Boston. Shout out. Shout out. That's it. I don't remember hearing that. I don't remember hearing that. I don't do that much of one because in actuality, a lot of people in Boston don't have accents. Some do. It depends where you live. Then you grew up with, depends, you know, on a lot of things. Exactly. Because you made or you were told. You know, I was told, I asked that in the audition process, I said, you know, how are

4:41you feeling with accent? How much of that do you want? And they said, you know, don't even worry about it. But I kind of came in having like watched the Goodwill hunting over and over and over and kind of like honing in, right? And I chose to kind of, I was doing it a little, a lot at first. Sometimes it would go into a little New York because I was just working on it. And then they said, it sounds great. And I was like, okay, well, I'm a little perfectionist with it. I'm going to decided six years of that could be a lot. And maybe to, you know, just go a little bit less, like on certain words. So on certain words, I put it in. Joey has a line where he's like, you're ridiculous. And I go, you are. Like, you know, just a kind of like heightened anger where my, one of my relaxants will come out on like, if you've maybe had a few beverages or you're angry.

5:29I have a little southern will come out, but or if I'm talking, some of the southern areas. I was born in Tennessee, but I grew up outside DC in Maryland, but spent every summer in my granny in Paul, North Carolina and went to UNC Chapel Hill. So I get a little bit of one when I speak to people. But yeah. So, I mean, we work on it, but the cast is so phenomenal. I mean, Joey McIntyre, I was in love with when I was little. He was your favorite new kid? Him and Jordan. Him and Jordan. Joey signed my Barbie doll. My new kids Barbie doll, my six foot five father brought it because I flew him in for the tape because he'd never seen me work. He flew in. Six foot five mustache, long hair musician with a Joey McIntyre Barbie doll in his bag. That's commitment. And Joey signed it. He's amazing. He performs for the audience.

6:15He did right stuff. And the audience is like no other thing I've ever witnessed because we have fans and we people love the show, but then we have new kids fans too. It's like people are so stoked. I'm really excited. I have to let you go. There's so many questions. The one song where your dad is a musician. Oh my God. Oh my dad's a great musician. Five questions. Yes, he is. Bluegrass musician. Check it out. Yes. Yes. I was playing with my dad's T. Michael Coleman. He played with Doc Watson for 15 years and on, but plays with other new bands. I don't know. He's a good musician. Bluegrass. Five quick questions. One word answers. Script or Improv. Screen right now. Landon or McCartney. McCartney. Film, movie or picture. Oh God. What term do you like? Oh, what term do I like? I use movie.

7:00I like film. Okay. In one word, the McCarthy's. Awesome. Thank you. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. That's in the answer. Yeah, I heard. I like that. Thank you. You're awesome. My pleasure.