Host Kirk Nordenstrom reconnects with actor, filmmaker, and producer Rachelle Henry, who began her 48HFP journey at just 11 years old. Rachelle shares stories of her early days in Seattle, her transition to Los Angeles, and her work on major projects including Gaslit (with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn) and an upcoming Netflix series. Together they reflect on community, career growth, and the enduring connections built through the 48 Hour Film Project.
In this heartfelt conversation, Kirk and Rachelle look back on more than a decade of friendship and filmmaking. From their first meeting at the Seattle Film Summit to Rachelle’s first 48HFP team, the stories highlight how the 48 has shaped her journey and career.
They cover everything from the excitement of competing in multiple cities (Seattle, LA, San Diego, Portland) to the supportive creative communities that emerge from the 48. Rachelle also opens up about pursuing her marketing degree, her experiences on high-profile sets, and how she balances her artistic and business ambitions.
Highlights include:
Rachelle’s first 48HFP at age 11 and the Rosie the Riveter time-travel film
Memories from Seattle Horror 48 and her first LA 48 as a team lead
Building lasting friendships and networks through the 48HFP
Transitioning to LA and studying marketing with an eye toward an MBA
Behind-the-scenes stories from Gaslit (Starz) and an upcoming Netflix series
The importance of learning both the creative and business sides of filmmaking
Fond memories of community icons like Jean Torkelson
[00:00:00] Speaker: Welcome to episode 13 of 48 Hour Heroes Origin Stories. I have a very special guest here with me today. She is one of my favorite people on the planet, A young woman by the name of Rachelle Henry, who I met when she was just 11 or 12 years old, and it's a funny story that we get into later in the episode about how we met.
[00:00:28] Speaker: She showed up at the Seattle Film Summit and by the end of the day, every single person that attended knew who Rachelle Henry was. She's been a very pleasant presence in my life for 10, 11 years now, and even though we don't see each other much these days, it's always good to catch up and see what incredible things she's up to.
[00:00:54] Speaker: So, without further ado, let's talk with [00:01:00] Rachelle.
[00:01:08] Speaker: I have a very special guest with me here today. Rachelle Henry. Welcome Rachelle.
[00:01:14] Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.
[00:01:16] Speaker: Yeah, I mean, I haven't seen you in far too long because you know, the world went to crap a couple of years ago.
[00:01:23] Speaker 3: When was the last time I saw you was that 2018? 2019 maybe.
[00:01:29] Speaker: Probably 2019,
[00:01:31] Speaker 3: right? I can't, I think the last time I was in Seattle was September of 2019.
[00:01:38] Speaker 3: Um, I was filming on Martin Gale. Um, and then I remember I came back to la. I fully intended on coming back up to Seattle, actually right at around the time the pandemic started, we were about to come back up and then pandemic happened, uh, stayed there. Haven't been back up since, uh, which has been a bummer, but, you [00:02:00] know, I'll come back up soon.
[00:02:01] Speaker: So how did you and I meet?
[00:02:04] Speaker 3: I remember for sure meeting you. I mean, we might've met prior to that, but I know for sure we met for the 48 in 2012. I was 11 years old and I was working on, I don't remember what their team's name was called, but it was Colin and Aaron Neil, and we ended up making a, um, a strong, empowered women's film.
[00:02:28] Speaker 3: Um, that was a sci-fi, it was kind of about these time traveling Rosy, the Riveter esque women. Um, and they traveled too far into the future. They met this, um, space themed, um, barista, um, who, who wanted to be a part of our crew. She didn't realize that we were actually time travelers and she wanted to be a part of our crew and my character was the captain's daughter, [00:03:00] and she was really tired of her whole life jumping around between different time, um, time warps.
[00:03:07] Speaker 3: Um, and she really just wanted to like, go back to the 1940s and just live her life normally. Um, yeah, that's, that's the premise that I can remember. I think that there was some other subplots in there too, but that was the main,
[00:03:22] Speaker: but yeah, every, everyone was dressed up like Rosie the Riveter. It was great.
[00:03:25] Speaker: It was, you know
[00:03:25] Speaker 3: what's crazy? Those outfits that we wore, at least the ones that Erin and I wore, those were real, um, uniforms that was found inside the ship. So they got, I don't know how the whole process worked out, but. You know, they, they secured the ship and, um, to film on it. And I think they gave us clearance to, you know, use the props inside.
[00:03:52] Speaker 3: Um, we had to go down this ladder, down this dark, like passageway, like down this dark hole. [00:04:00] We'd have to go down this ladder into kind of this pit area. And there were the uniforms. So going down there was, I don't think, I was scared going down there because a few of the adults went down before I did, and they were like, it's safe and cool.
[00:04:17] Speaker 3: I think if I was the first person to go down, I'd feel a little bit scared. Um, just because it's like the deep, dark, unknown. It's like a, you know, dark abyss having to go down in there. But those uniforms were so cool. I remember really loving my uniform and I was so excited to wear it the whole time.
[00:04:35] Speaker 3: Mine was like a, a little like skipper uniform. It was, it was so cute. And I really liked wearing it for my character.
[00:04:44] Speaker: Well, my memory of meeting you for the first time was at the Seattle Film Summit.
[00:04:49] Speaker 3: Oh, really?
[00:04:50] Speaker: Yeah. And there was a seminar on networking and the, the hosts were a little bit late, so there's this room.[00:05:00]
[00:05:00] Speaker: I remember we were in a room upstairs and all of us just sitting in a circle,
[00:05:09] Speaker: perfect opportunity to network, but we're all just sitting there ignoring each other. And you were, yeah. Like 11 or 12 and you just stood up and said, hi, I'm Rachelle, and started handing out business cards to everyone like Wow. And the children will lead the way. It was so funny, you just stepped up. I'm starting
[00:05:30] Speaker 3: to remember that one now.
[00:05:31] Speaker 3: Like yeah, you even kind of building that we ran you,
[00:05:33] Speaker: yourself, everyone, we all felt like a bunch of idiots. Like this is, you know, about networking and we're all sitting, staring at our phones. And
[00:05:45] Speaker: I remember, uh, Megan Griffiths was one of the, the panelists who were just, oh, waiting, waiting for Megan to show up and not interacting.
[00:05:54] Speaker 3: Oh man. Now I'm starting to remember it more clearly. That's really funny. And so I'm guessing [00:06:00] that after, like a few months later was then the 48,
[00:06:04] Speaker: the 48 was after that, yeah.
[00:06:05] Speaker 3: Okay.
[00:06:06] Speaker: Piecing together the
[00:06:07] Speaker 3: timeline.
[00:06:08] Speaker: Yeah. The, the Seattle Film Summit used to be like in the spring. Okay. Now they've moved it to, to the falls and, but yeah. After that you started getting into the 48 and, um. You did, you did a handful of them here in Seattle.
[00:06:28] Speaker 3: Yeah, I um, there was a few years where I was on two teams at once.
[00:06:33] Speaker 3: I did the special genre, um, yeah, I can't remember how many I did in Seattle. I also did
[00:06:44] Speaker: You've done Portland, right?
[00:06:45] Speaker 3: Right. I competed one the out, that was once I was a team lead. Um, and then I've also competed in San Diego. Um, but Seattle and LA are the main two that I've competed in. Um, yeah, I remember when you hosted the first [00:07:00] Seattle Horror.
[00:07:01] Speaker 3: I remember. Yeah. That was thousand 15.
[00:07:03] Speaker: Yeah. That was surprisingly successful.
[00:07:10] Speaker 3: Everyone loves that one.
[00:07:11] Speaker: Yeah, I think, I mean, I'll get. Shot If I, if I don't run a horror one. I mean, the Pacific Northwest loves horror movies. It's true. Kind of in our blood. And, you know, I love him. You know, my, my first pet as an adult was my Cat Ash, who I named after Bruce Campbell's character in the evil dead movies.
[00:07:35] Speaker 3: You're like, it's meant to be.
[00:07:36] Speaker: Yes. Yes. Uh, it's been an insanely successful event every year, but So when did you move to LA Officially moved. I know you were like flying down a lot. At a certain point actually, we were
[00:07:52] Speaker 3: driving down a lot. It wasn't, were flying. Yeah. Um, I started going back and forth, I [00:08:00]think October of 2015.
[00:08:03] Speaker 3: Um, but I kind of officially became LA in 2020. Just because of the fact that I haven't been back up since. So I mean, I was starting to be more in LA over time, but I was still spending, you know, chunks of time up in Seattle. But I think that, I mean, I didn't really ever have like an official day. Um, but I think it kind of happened because of the pandemic.
[00:08:32] Speaker 3: I kind of just stayed here and I think that that's kind of officially when I more became living in LA than Seattle. Yeah. So, but for years it was back and forth spending lots of time in both, working in both. It, it was a really an organic thing because I wasn't ever expecting, well, I mean, I guess eventually I thought maybe I would move to LA but I wasn't, I didn't have like a set [00:09:00] plan of like, when exactly I would do it.
[00:09:02] Speaker 3: Um, and I still consider myself like a p and w girl at heart. Like I'm still, you know, like I'm still that girl from Seattle. Um. No, I mean, your formative
[00:09:12] Speaker: years were here really,
[00:09:14] Speaker 3: I consider myself West Coastal. 'cause I consider myself, you know, west Coast, born and raised. 'cause I still am on the West Coast, you know, that still is who I am.
[00:09:24] Speaker 3: And yeah, so it's interesting. Um, that's an interesting question because I didn't ever make the official, I didn't really think official plan of like, I'm moving to LA this month, this year. It, it just, it happened. So, yeah.
[00:09:42] Speaker: You, you finished high school and college in la right?
[00:09:46] Speaker 3: Um, I'm still, uh, I graduate in, um, I graduate with my bachelor's in June.
[00:09:51] Speaker 3: Oh, wow. So, yeah. And then I'm hoping to, uh, get my MBA, so I'm currently getting ready for that. [00:10:00]
[00:10:00] Speaker: Wow. So what, so what was your, your, uh, major?
[00:10:06] Speaker 3: Um, marketing.
[00:10:07] Speaker: Marketing, okay. Digital marketing.
[00:10:09] Speaker 3: And I'm hoping with my MBA that I can get a focus in marketing. 'cause it's interesting. I originally was gonna go for just a business degree.
[00:10:17] Speaker 3: Um, but when I was taking the classes, they had a lot of marketing classes involved with it. And when I'm taking 'em, I'm like, okay, this is really interesting. I really like this subject. And I made the switch. I was close to having my associates in business. Like I was, I don't know, five, six classes away. Um, but I decided I wanted to pursue marketing as opposed to just business.
[00:10:43] Speaker 3: Um, and it still is a business degree. I just, I, I found that I was more passionate about it. It was more creative. Um, and it fulfilled both my like, you know, techie and, um, business brain, but also like the creative art side as well. And [00:11:00] so I decided to go ahead and, you know, take the classes required for marketing and pursue that full on.
[00:11:08] Speaker 3: And I really like the choice I made. I really like everything I've been learning with it, especially because it really also can tie in amazingly with the film industry. Oh yeah. 'cause a large part of the entertainment industry is marketing, you know, whether it's distributing your film or it's, you know, Netflix and Hulu promoting their platforms and their movies, or,
[00:11:30] Speaker: oh, that's, that was Amy Lillard's job before she became the Washington State, um, you know, film commissioner.
[00:11:39] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[00:11:40] Speaker: She worked on marketing for the, the Blair Witch Project.
[00:11:42] Speaker 3: Really? I didn't know that.
[00:11:44] Speaker: Yeah.
[00:11:45] Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, it's, and also like things like social media for like, promoting public figures and also your films and things like that. So I already had like a passion for it, I guess. I just didn't, you know, [00:12:00] think about it in terms of, okay, what am I gonna get a degree in?
[00:12:02] Speaker 3: I can take what I already really like. And what I've already been really passionate about and have kind of been doing for years, but actually like learn more and channel it, um, in a more official way. And when I made that choice to switch from just business to marketing, I was really excited about. And I'm still like, I'm constantly finding new things that I'm learning that I get really excited to learn.
[00:12:28] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
[00:12:28] Speaker 3: Um, so I, I'm happy with the choice I made, especially 'cause it works so well with the entertainment industry.
[00:12:34] Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
[00:12:35] Speaker 3: Yeah. I think it was, I think personally it was the best choice for me to make with that.
[00:12:40] Speaker: Well, just that you decided to into, to pursue a degree, I think is a, a very, very smart choice.
[00:12:47] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[00:12:48] Speaker: Is there, I mean, there's a lot of young actors like, okay, I'm just gonna go wait tables, you know, straight outta high school and wait, you know, work my butt off [00:13:00] to, you know, get my break right. Very, very, very seriously. Work
[00:13:06] Speaker 3: Exactly.
[00:13:06] Speaker: And, you know, build a career. But I think not having, you know, a base of knowledge or you know, a, a focus, a, a focus of knowledge to supplement what it's,
[00:13:29] Speaker 3: I know what you mean.
[00:13:30] Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you mean. And like you were saying, for some people that works and for other people, you know, you need more of that, um, foundation and um, like a base to, to go off of. And, um, and I'm really glad that I've had, I'm really glad, um, like, 'cause I've had people ask me, why aren't you getting a drama degree?
[00:13:50] Speaker 3: Why aren't you getting a film a degree from film school? Um, and for me personally, since I have the years of hands-on experience in the film industry and I intend on, [00:14:00] you know, continuing to learn hands-on with it, um. But I like the idea of having, you know, an official degree in something that ties in with it, but isn't only that.
[00:14:11] Speaker 3: Yeah. And can work for other things too. And the pandemic especially, I mean, 'cause I was already in college when the pandemic happened, but the pandemic really showed, you know, that you need to be prepared in that everything can shut down, especially the film industry. Oh yeah. Um, everything can shut down and what are you gonna do?
[00:14:33] Speaker 3: And it was a blessing for me because I was then able to, 'cause I was already in college, but it, you know, the whole time during the pandemic I was, um, other than the projects I was working on, 'cause I did work on a few projects, but I was really like hunkered down, pursuing my degree, getting, I got my associates and then now I graduated in a few months and I'm, for me it was a blessing that I had that time [00:15:00] to work on it.
[00:15:01] Speaker: Yeah. I think it's a smart move because I, I'm listening to a lot of podcasts now and I don't know if you've heard the Smartlist podcast.
[00:15:12] Speaker 5: I don't think I have.
[00:15:13] Speaker: So it's Will Anette, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, and it's super, super funny. But you get to hear, and they talk to people like Tom Hanks and
[00:15:23] Speaker 5: Oh wow.
[00:15:24] Speaker: Stephen Colbert. They get big names on it. Ron Howard and like you hear Jason Bateman who came out as a child actor and now, you know, 20 plus years an adult. So we learned the filmmaking end and then had to learn the business end. And that's ultimately where I, I think a kind of the, the stumbling point for a lot of Seattle, Washington filmmakers is not [00:16:00] taking it seriously as a business.
[00:16:03] Speaker: And learn that the hard way, that creativity alone isn't gonna, isn't gonna get you where you need to be.
[00:16:13] Speaker 4: Right. You know,
[00:16:13] Speaker: unless you're like a, a Wes Anderson or a PT Anderson,
[00:16:16] Speaker 3: or, right, exactly. And even then, I think, you know, like with Wes Anderson for example, I think that him having his own little niche, his own little genre mm-hmm.
[00:16:29] Speaker 3: Because I, I don't even think it's like any other genre. It's like he has his own kind of like, style and genre.
[00:16:34] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:16:35] Speaker 3: It really, that's kind of a smart business move. He's the only Wes Anderson, you know, nobody else can do what Wes Anderson does the way Wes Anderson does it. And he markets it that way. And I think that even that he like really sets himself apart.
[00:16:53] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:16:53] Speaker 3: It's. Yeah. But also like he has the creativity to, to balance that, you know? Exactly. [00:17:00]It's, it's interesting.
[00:17:01] Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. 'cause you know, if you, if you take the root of learning, the filmmaking side, achieving a, a certain level of success, you're gonna have to learn the business side. And, you know, I know even for, for me, learning the business side of things is, ugh, I hate that.
[00:17:26] Speaker: I just wanted to be editing or goofing around in Photoshop or recording a podcast, but, you know, I gotta get the name out there, stick to some sort of a brand identity and all this stuff I just don't want to do. But it's imperative that you do it.
[00:17:47] Speaker 3: Exactly.
[00:17:47] Speaker: So I, at, from my perspective, I think it's easier to.
[00:17:52] Speaker: Learn the filmmaking side of things in a non-academic environment.
[00:17:57] Speaker 3: Agreed.
[00:17:58] Speaker: And learn the business side of things [00:18:00] in an academic environment. I, uh, 'cause filmmaking is so much, it's so collaborative and so much knowledge is just being shared almost outta necessity.
[00:18:14] Speaker 3: Right. And you're on
[00:18:15] Speaker: set.
[00:18:16] Speaker 3: Yeah. And with filmmaking, it's not always, you know, like when you're learning something new, it's not, you know, it's not handed to you as though, like, this is a lesson you have to learn.
[00:18:25] Speaker 3: It's, it's one of those things that you're in the middle of, you know, making a movie and you're learning these lessons, you're working with these professionals, you're taking bits and pieces of their knowledge. Um, you're learning lessons even on your own work and how you were on set. Um, yeah, it's, I do like, I've always loved the collaborative nature of filmmaking.
[00:18:46] Speaker 3: That's what I really love about it.
[00:18:48] Speaker: Yeah. That's what. Drew me to it as well. I've always been a, a visual arts kind of person, so, you know, my, my first failed attempt through college, I was a [00:19:00] political theory and photography major.
[00:19:02] Speaker 3: Oh, really?
[00:19:02] Speaker: Yeah. At uc, Santa Cruz.
[00:19:05] Speaker 3: That's awesome.
[00:19:06] Speaker: But back in the early nineties, the, the photography department at uc, Santa Cruz wasn't very good.
[00:19:14] Speaker: So we spent a lot of time talking about, in a very Santa Cruz sort of way, talking about our feelings and what things meant. And I remember the, the transfer students from Cabrillo Community College came in into third year photography and their prints are immaculate. So first day of class we put our stuff up and all of us that had come through the UCSC photography program, our stuff is all dusty and spotty and we're talking about how it makes us feel and the theme.
[00:19:49] Speaker: These pe, these transfer students come in and their stuff is immaculately framed, spotted, perfect exposure. Wow. Oh man. [00:20:00] I wish we kind of focused on technique a little more rather than just the ideas.
[00:20:07] Speaker 3: Right. And that's something that I think is, is really important even with academics. And that's something that I'm glad with, like the program I'm in, is that our teachers, and especially with our head of department, they're really focused on making sure that we understand like the inside of the marketing agency and like how it works, the, the real world kind of feeling.
[00:20:31] Speaker 3: Um, and not just like textbook, um, like they want us to do group projects all the time and they want us to handle ourselves as though we're in an office space working with coworkers. That we're doing these pitches to clients. Um, now there's been stuff I've had to learn. So I'm currently, um, part-time working, uh, with a marketing firm right now actually.
[00:20:52] Speaker 3: Um, and I'm learning a lot of stuff that they can't really teach in the college environment because running ads, [00:21:00] like, 'cause I'm offering to run ads for clients, you can't really teach that. Um, because in the practical application of it, um, is they, they can teach it, they can teach certain things, but they can't teach the practical application side of it.
[00:21:14] Speaker 3: Like running ads on Google. You can't really do that in the college environment.
[00:21:20] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:21:20] Speaker 3: Um, we can learn about how to set it up, but not the actual, the practical, uh, application of it going on. So it's even that, it's been interesting and I'm glad I'm doing both at the same time. So I'm getting both the, the, the way the school's teaching it and then also real world.
[00:21:39] Speaker 3: And taking bits and pieces from them, um, I feel like it'll make me really strong in it in end.
[00:21:46] Speaker: And that's, yeah, that's exactly the thing that there are, especially in something that's so technology driven,
[00:21:54] Speaker 3: right?
[00:21:55] Speaker: Academia can't really keep up with what's going on, you know, [00:22:00] in the real world of, uh, of commerce essentially.
[00:22:06] Speaker 3: Right.
[00:22:06] Speaker: And even in, you know, in filmmaking you can learn, you know, the basics of exposure and lighting and whatnot. But just as an editor, I mean, I have to keep up with so many different file formats and resolutions and codex and all this stuff. It's, there's no way that could be taught to you right In. In an academic environment because technology changes so, so, so quickly.
[00:22:41] Speaker: You can be taught film shooting actually on film because that fundamentally hasn't changed in 120 years. But the moment you get into the digital world of filmmaking, it's a different [00:23:00] beast from when I got into the industry in 2001. Completely different.
[00:23:05] Speaker 3: Right. And even like, even if I look back at like old projects I've done, the cameras have developed so much in the last few years.
[00:23:15] Speaker 3: You know, you're constantly hearing about Red has a new, uh, this, that and the other. And so does Ari. They have all these new forms and they do new things and keeping up with them all the time. Then you have the smaller camera companies who are developing new technology, who are starting to get to the higher level of like these other cinema cameras.
[00:23:37] Speaker 3: And it's starting to become a real conflict for, you know, uh, like young cinematographers starting out of like, what camera do I get? Do I wait to buy an expensive one? And by then, are they gonna have a new thing that's gonna be better? What do I do?
[00:23:52] Speaker: Well, I got some great advice when I was working at Modern Digital, an old post-production [00:24:00] house in Seattle, and I was giving a lecture on HD Final Cut Pro Workflow coming into Modern Digital and Rich Fasio, one of the co-owners of the company, he gave me the greatest bit of advice to include.
[00:24:26] Speaker: Regarding choosing your camera, and even though the terminology has changed a little bit since then, this is probably 2006, 2007, so things are radically different since then. There's no good time to buy a piece of technology that's going to be, not necessarily obsolete, but it's gonna be upped
[00:24:52] Speaker 4: right
[00:24:52] Speaker: by something else in a couple of months.
[00:24:54] Speaker: And he just said, find, pick the format you wanna shoot in. [00:25:00] Yep. HD 2K back then, and find the camera that has the highest bit rate of recording at your price point. So it's Matt, you know, get getting the most within your budget. Possible. So basically, and that's why I wound up with, or you know, around 2010 when the DSLRs were exploding all over the place.
[00:25:30] Speaker: I didn't go with the Canon five d. I went with the Canon 70, which was significantly less expensive and it wasn't full frame, but I just needed something that could shoot HD and function as a still camera and right. I took that advice from Rich right into my purchasing.
[00:25:51] Speaker 5: Wow.
[00:25:52] Speaker: That, and I still have that camera.
[00:25:53] Speaker: It's not terribly useful. Anyway, it's more useful to still camera now, but [00:26:00] yeah, there's no good time.
[00:26:02] Speaker 3: No, I remember when I was able to remember all the names of the current red cameras that were out. I can remember the numbers now. They have so many out there. They're on so many new additions of them. New styles.
[00:26:19] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:26:20] Speaker 3: I haven't even tried to keep up at this point because they've just been developing so much new technology and it's really hard to keep up.
[00:26:29] Speaker: Yeah. I've been doing media manager digital loader stuff for, yeah, four and a half years at this point. Just learned that I really kinda like that role on a, on a project, show up, transfer the data, make sure it's backed up and secure, and then go home and all of my emotional energy is mine.
[00:26:50] Speaker: I can put my creative energy towards my stuff rather than sweat what I'm working on, on set and [00:27:00] the number of card readers I need to, to own. I was doing, doing a job a couple of weeks ago. And luckily Dominic, Barbara always kind enough to give me a, a crash course on some wireless monitor gadgets that I might come into contact with on this job.
[00:27:25] Speaker: So I gathered up all of my card readers and
[00:27:32] Speaker: very end of the day sound guy comes in and goes, all right, hands me a CF card. I have not seen a CF card in easily three and a half years. And so of course I didn't bring a CF card reader.
[00:27:47] Speaker 3: Oh.
[00:27:50] Speaker: And then they also brought in a second, I can't remember what format it was. It was like, oh, I didn't even know this one existed. But luckily they had a card reader [00:28:00] for me. So, you know, just keeping up with technology is very difficult.
[00:28:06] Speaker 5: It is.
[00:28:07] Speaker: It's.
[00:28:08] Speaker 5: It's crazy,
[00:28:10] Speaker: especially when you have companies like Sony that are making all their own proprietary formats.
[00:28:17] Speaker: Right. They can work with anyone else's stuff. Uh, it's very expensive.
[00:28:24] Speaker 3: Yeah. And that's, that's the thing too, is you're, you know, when you're trying to keep up with it, you know, and with companies like Sony doing that, you don't have all the tools if you're trying to work with other products, you know, you have to get Sony's and that, and it's hard to keep up.
[00:28:42] Speaker: Yeah. Well, keeping up, I mean, that's, I wanna bring this back to, to the 48. Yes. And I know I get a thank you text message every so often from Leanne and Michael Westfall in LA [00:29:00] They say, oh, thank you. Thank you so much for getting Rachelle into the 48 and Seattle and, and loaning her out to us. I love you guys.
[00:29:09] Speaker: They just, they adore you.
[00:29:12] Speaker 3: I love Lan and Michael, and I love you. I, you guys are, you know, you guys are the consistent city producers that I work with, and I adore both groups so much.
[00:29:25] Speaker: Well, it's interesting seeing the difference, the differences in the commonalities right between Los Angeles and la. I remember in 2016, I surprised the crap outta you.
[00:29:36] Speaker 3: I was so excited when you showed up. What's funny is I had seen, we had seen, so when we were driving over there, my, my grandparents were looking out the window and they're like, that looks like Kirk. They're like, it probably isn't, but that looks like Kirk. And I was like, oh, okay. And like we, you get walking down the street.
[00:29:54] Speaker 3: And then when we finally did see you, it was like, what? How are you [00:30:00] here? And it was so exciting. I, I still, whenever I look at that photo, you can see the pure joy and I'm like bright red with excitement. It was such, that was such a great day. Um, well let's, thank you so much for coming. Yeah.
[00:30:16] Speaker: Let me put this into some context.
[00:30:18] Speaker: So you, this is early on in your time, in your, your stint of spending time in, in Los Angeles back and forth. And that was one of your first LA 40 eights, wasn't it? That was
[00:30:33] Speaker 3: my first, uh, or, well that was my first as, um, a team lead team
[00:30:37] Speaker: leader.
[00:30:37] Speaker 3: Um, it was I think my second in LA but it was my first as a team lead.
[00:30:44] Speaker: Yeah. So, and that was, I think it was in April or something.
[00:30:49] Speaker 3: It was really early that year because Lan was pregnant. Yeah. And because it would've fallen on her due date originally. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:30:56] Speaker: So. Around April, [00:31:00] March, April, I start going absolutely nuts in Seattle because, you know, I spent age seven to 23 in San, you know, the Bay Area.
[00:31:13] Speaker: So I'm a Californian at heart. So I start going a little nuts without seeing the sun. And I remember Regan MCT came over Yes. For barbecue or something, and we were talking, it was like, oh yeah, the Rachelle's gonna be screening in the, in the 48 down there on this day. And so I texted Michael and Leanne and said, okay, when, when, which screening group is, is she in?
[00:31:45] Speaker: And yeah, then Regan and I said, yeah, let's go, let's go. Surprise her. And he was gonna be, he was gonna be down in LA anyway on a job. And I just needed to get the hell out of [00:32:00] Dodge for a little bit and decided to drive down and shoot some stock photography as I was going. And yeah, then we decided, yeah, let's, let's show up at the screening.
[00:32:12] Speaker: Surprise her.
[00:32:12] Speaker 3: That was the best surprise. Thank you guys for coming. It was really, that was a great surprise and I was so excited. Um, I had a lot of people show up, um, for that screening, but it was so, it was so kind of you guys to show up and it was really great to have other, you know, like my Seattle family, you know, the 48 group I was down
[00:32:38] Speaker: there,
[00:32:38] Speaker 3: right?
[00:32:39] Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. It was, there was multiple people that I invited that showed up and, and it was, I love that group photo that we all took. That was a fun. Um, and what was cool about the team I had it was that we had. People that were in LA we had people that were from Seattle, we had people that were, that had moved down, like our editor, [00:33:00] um, he had actually, um, trained with Lynn Shelton.
[00:33:06] Speaker 3: Oh, nice. Um, yeah. And so he, yeah, so he was p and w then now in la and it was, or I think, yeah, and we also had Portland people involved too. It was, it was a mix of, it was a mix of Seattle, LA, and Portland all in one team. And it honestly couldn't have been a better group. And yeah, it was, it was wonderful.
[00:33:30] Speaker 3: And I didn't, I had no idea how the film would do. Um, I mean, I thought it was gonna turn out good, but I didn't expect the reaction. I still have people in LA who, when they come to the 48 and la they're like. You look familiar. They're like, have I seen one of your films? And I'm like, did you see the, the pickpocket one?
[00:33:52] Speaker 3: And they're like, that one. And so they remember it based on that. And, and you know, not just at the [00:34:00] 48, I've had other people who, who weren't even competing or who, when they've, you know, shown it to people or they have friends that were also involved in it, then they meet me and they, you know, they're like, you look really familiar.
[00:34:11] Speaker 3: How did we, I actually, on the set of the Netflix project, I can't say what the name is, one of the people that was on their COVID unit was talking to me and she goes, you look really familiar. How do I know you? And so she and I were talking, we were trying to figure it out. And she goes, wait, were you at the 48 in 2016?
[00:34:34] Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, in la. And she's like, yeah. And I was like, yeah, I was, I, I had a team that year. And she was like. Which phone was yours? She's like, I was just there watching some friends and I was like, do you remember the one of the, of the pickpockets? And she's like, that one? I was like, yeah. It was like so random.
[00:34:52] Speaker 3: Um, like I didn't expect on this random, yeah, I mean we were just, it was in between takes. [00:35:00] Um, and they of course had, you know, their, their COVID unit, checking on everything. And so she was just talking to me between takes. Um, because my character, I can't say anything, but my character was in close contact with a few people, so they needed to make sure that everything was a okay.
[00:35:17] Speaker 3: And so she was, it was cool 'cause we were talking while they were setting up and I did not expect the 48 to be to how we had met. And I think we also had like another project in common too. We had a random film in San Diego that we both worked on as well. It was, you never know who you're gonna meet and who you're gonna run into again.
[00:35:39] Speaker 3: Um. I love those little connections. That's, it's really a small world.
[00:35:45] Speaker: Yeah. And when you get into the 48 and you do it a couple of years, especially if you do it in a couple of cities, you really are building a pretty robust social and professional [00:36:00] network.
[00:36:00] Speaker 3: It's true.
[00:36:02] Speaker: And you know, a lot of my favorite people in this whole world are, you know, attached either as participants in the 48 or as city producers or as headquarters staff.
[00:36:18] Speaker: And it's, it's pretty amazing how far flung that network can reach literally all over the world.
[00:36:28] Speaker 3: It's incredible. And I'm really glad, um, I'm really grateful for the, for the, for the, um, like the LA 48 community. Like, we even have one of the team leaders, he would even hold his own like 48 team leader events, like outside of the 48.
[00:36:47] Speaker 3: Nice. Um, and that was prior to the pandemic. There hasn't been one since. Um, but they were really fun and I love that the community, you know, they really welcomed me into the group. [00:37:00] Um, and that if, like, let's say when we're in the middle of doing the 48 and one team writes, uh, reaches out to another and says, Hey, I just lost my editor.
[00:37:10] Speaker 3: Do you have an idea of one, Hey, I need a location. Everyone is willing to help everyone, everyone. Um, you know, it's, you have each other's backs and it's like really friendly competition, you know? Yeah. It, you know, you obviously hope, fears,
[00:37:24] Speaker: I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win. Right. It's,
[00:37:27] Speaker 3: um, yeah. I actually, there was like a one of one time where a, I think it was this last one.
[00:37:36] Speaker 3: It's hard to keep track of all them, but yeah, like the last one that the LA one did, I wasn't able to be a part of it because I was in the middle of filming. Mm-hmm. Um, and I had to keep my dates open and, and all of that. Um, but, uh, one of the teams that I knew, they asked me if I knew of some actors, and so I recommended two actors and, um, they ended up, you know, giving me [00:38:00] casting direct credit on it.
[00:38:02] Speaker 3: Um, but it was, it was great to get, you know, to still be a part of the team and to still have a, a team to root for. And of course, like when I go to the screenings, I get so excited when my friends, you know, films pop up. Yeah, yeah. Um, I get excited to reunite with them and, you know, I really like that the whole, you know, like when they do the awards show, everyone is cheering for each other.
[00:38:25] Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's seems genuine. You're wanting other people to. And actually I did, I was able to present a few of the awards at the award ceremony this last time.
[00:38:36] Speaker: Oh, nice. Um,
[00:38:37] Speaker 3: which was, it was fun. I really, I really was grateful that Lana, Michael, um, let me be a part of it, even if I couldn't, 'cause I wanted to, I was getting ready to sign up and the times that I don't sign up, it's like, well, okay, sometimes I do sign up and then I have to back out.
[00:38:55] Speaker 3: Um, but the times that I'm not able to do it, [00:39:00] it, there's always like this big, like tug, like I wanna do it. I really, really wanna do it when I have X, Y, z reasons why I am not able to this time. Um, and I fully intend on doing them Again, it just depends on the schedule, but I'm really glad that I was still able to participate because the 48 is a big family and community for me.
[00:39:22] Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Um, so to still be a part of it was, was really.
[00:39:28] Speaker: We're hoping. So Film of Palooza is starting next week.
[00:39:34] Speaker 4: Ooh.
[00:39:34] Speaker: So this time today is March 1st. This time next week I will be in DC getting ready to help with the screenings and run it. Uh, you know, our last film of palooza happened in Rotterdam days before the world shut Down.
[00:39:55] Speaker 3: Oh, right. It was in, because I was trying to, because I was trying to remember, I was actually thinking [00:40:00] about this today. I was trying to remember if the, the Film of Palooza that I was a speaker on was in 2020 or 2021, and I think it was 2021. Because
[00:40:10] Speaker 4: Yes,
[00:40:10] Speaker 3: I remembered that there was a film of palooza that like days later, a
[00:40:14] Speaker: virtual Yeah,
[00:40:15] Speaker 3: pandemic happened.
[00:40:16] Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. It was, yeah. Rotterdam. First week of March, 2020, there's 500 of us and. Just running around Rotterdam
[00:40:29] Speaker 3: Freedom before the world shut down.
[00:40:31] Speaker: Exactly. Yeah. I got a tattoo with two of my friends. You probably haven't seen the tattoo, have you? I,
[00:40:36] Speaker 3: well I saw it in the, um, in the official like 48 trailer.
[00:40:41] Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Like, I, like I would watch it and I would pause it and I'd be like, there's, and like at the screening, um, one of the actors I brought on is my good friend Rico e Anderson. And this guy, uh, he ended up winning best supporting actor 'cause or it was, it runner up? It was either Best supporting or Runner, I can't remember.
[00:40:59] Speaker 3: Um, [00:41:00] the guy's been on swat, he's been on Star Trek. He's on, oh
[00:41:03] Speaker 5: wow.
[00:41:04] Speaker 3: This guy is, you know, he's the real deal. And I got him on, uh, for the 48. I was helping cast and so he was sitting next to me and. I was like, okay, when the trailer comes up, I'll tell you which one is my friend Kurt. And, and I was like, yeah, Kurt, you know, and the, the trailer went by.
[00:41:25] Speaker 3: He's like, that was him. And I'm like, yep, that's my friend Kirk. I pointed out which one I was like, I was like, he has a sick 48 tattoo. You know, he's like a great city producer. I'll let you know Howton he is when
[00:41:38] Speaker: it comes
[00:41:38] Speaker 3: to fun
[00:41:39] Speaker: screen. Oh, that was so much fun. 'cause there were three of us that got the tattoos.
[00:41:44] Speaker 3: Oh wow.
[00:41:45] Speaker: Chris Cherry, uh, co-producer of Toronto and, uh, our friend Indra, who now uh, helps produce Eindhoven and AUM in the the Netherlands. [00:42:00] So we all decided to get the, the 48 tattoo. We went to this famous place in Rotterdam called Tattoo Bob. And the local media was there. It was, it was crazy. And since I've been producing.
[00:42:12] Speaker: The longest of the bunch of us. I'm like, no, I have to get the first one. I'm, I'm pulling seniority on you here.
[00:42:19] Speaker 3: Did you guys' tattoos end up on the news?
[00:42:21] Speaker: Yes.
[00:42:22] Speaker 3: That is, that's hilarious.
[00:42:24] Speaker: The rot damn news. Yeah, it was, it was hilarious. And luckily, you know, Indra's a native speaker so she could translate for us.
[00:42:33] Speaker: But yeah, it was, it was just insanity because when I left through ctac, so I flew CTAC to re eVic, uh, Amsterdam flight out there. February 28th or 29th. CTAC is packed. Re eVic is packed, Amsterdam is packed. Flight home, Amsterdam packed, Reykjavik packed. Seattle was a ghost town. I [00:43:00] got through customs in under 10 minutes.
[00:43:03] Speaker 5: Wow.
[00:43:04] Speaker: I waited longer for my luggage to show up. That and it took to get through, through customs. It was crazy.
[00:43:13] Speaker 5: Wow. I can't even imagine. I brought so much
[00:43:17] Speaker: cheese, so much goda I brought back from that trip.
[00:43:23] Speaker 5: You were Cheez?
[00:43:24] Speaker: Oh yeah. The Dutch know they're cheese. So what's, what's your plan going forward?
[00:43:34] Speaker 3: I'm still auditioning for a lot of amazing projects.
[00:43:38] Speaker 3: I have a really great, uh, team and they're very excited about this year and the possibilities. Um, I can't really say anything about those, but it's, it's looking pretty. I'm pretty optimistic. Um, and then I have two TV series that I shot in 2021 that should be coming out. One of them, I can actually say the title and can [00:44:00] actually give you the release date now.
[00:44:02] Speaker 3: Uh. So I'm in this series, um, I'm on two episodes of this Stars series called Gaslit and it stars Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Dan Stevens. Whoa. Betty Gilpen, um, Shea Wickham. Uh, wow. There's a lot of amazing actors in this one. Um, it's actually about the Watergate scandal, and it's done from a different perspective.
[00:44:26] Speaker 3: It's, uh, yeah, it's done from Julie Roberts perspective because she plays Martha Mitchell, who is the wife of, um, his name was John Mitchell and he was involved in Watergate. Um, if you go see the trailer, it's, it's a great trailer. It looks exciting. Um, and I think that it comes out April 24th. And so I'm in episode two and three, so it'll be the following two weeks.
[00:44:52] Speaker 3: Actually, a friend of mine from the 48, funny enough, is in the trailer. If you watch the trailer, my friend, uh, he's an actor [00:45:00] in la, his name's Michael King, and he's the second voice you hear in the trailer. And when they cut to finally showing him, he is the guy interviewing Julia Roberts character.
[00:45:12] Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
[00:45:12] Speaker 4: So he
[00:45:13] Speaker 3: made it into the trailer when I watched it. 'cause I, what's funny is I was at something and I came home and my, my grandparents were like, oh, did you see that? Like, Hollywood Reporter just put out like the release date for gasoline? I was like, no. And um, so then I Google and I look and it says that the trailer's now out.
[00:45:35] Speaker 3: And I'm so excited. I pull it up on, on the tv, you know, I, uh, I put it up there and I'm watching it. And when my friend's all in there, I immediately grabbed the phone. I text him like, you made it into the trailer. And it was so. It was so exciting. So, um,
[00:45:52] Speaker: can I just break in here for a second? Yeah. And say, I love your grandparents.
[00:45:55] Speaker 3: I do too. They love me too. Your
[00:45:57] Speaker: grandparents are the greatest. [00:46:00]
[00:46:00] Speaker 3: They love and miss you. Yeah, but that's funny because how I met that actor was on the 48. Um, not one that I was, uh, not one that I was team leader, though. I met the team leader on that one when I was a team leader. Uh, we were, um, you know, our films were competing and, uh, like I said, the different team leaders, we all have a really strong bond.
[00:46:23] Speaker 3: And when I wasn't able to produce one, one of my friends was like, Hey, will you in mine? And so I, I acted in theirs and that's how I met that actor that's in the gaslit trailer. Cool. So it's, it's so cool how the whole, how you meet so many people that you know, you never expected would be such a big part of your life.
[00:46:42] Speaker 3: Um, you know, really close friends. It's, it's amazing. Um, I'm really grateful for the 48 for that, for building such a strong community. Um, but anyway, and, uh, you were asking me about other projects.
[00:46:56] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:46:56] Speaker 3: Um, there's a Netflix one that I cannot say [00:47:00] the name of. Um, I will say that it is one that, well, gas, that is a new series.
[00:47:05] Speaker 3: This one's an already established Netflix series that you've probably seen. Um, I can't say which one. Um, it's a popular series though. Um, and it was an honor to, to be a part of it. Um, I worked with one of the leads, um, and that person was the kindest person ever. Um, and just the whole experience was amazing.
[00:47:30] Speaker 3: That's all I can say about it. Um, but I will, okay. I can give a cool story about the trailer though. Okay. Um, I can't give details on the story, anything like that, but I show up. Um, and I was expecting, you know, 'cause they in the contract put, you know, that you have a trailer that you're gonna sit in for a few hours.
[00:47:48] Speaker 3: Um, and especially with COVID, well, in the past you used to be able to kind of, you know, meander and mm-hmm. Craft services and talk to people. Now that's no longer the case. Um, so, [00:48:00] you know, you have your trailer that you're gonna go to, um, which still feels very weird for me to say. Um, I'm very, um, this is the second time, that was the second time I've ever had a trailer.
[00:48:09] Speaker 3: Um, but they were walking me over. I had to do my COVID test. They walked me over and when they're checking me and they're like, oh, so we don't have the regular trailer, we would be giving you, um, this one's gonna be an upgraded one. I hope you don't mind. And I'm like, I don't mind. And it was attached to one of the main characters trailers.
[00:48:30] Speaker 3: They weren't working that day, but the trailer attached to mine was theirs. They bring me in. It's massive. It has a kitchen, it has a bathroom with a shower. It has a, a sectional couch, it has a desk, it has a mini fridge. It had a safe, um, it had like a little like vanity table, big tv. I didn't have time to like touch or do anything with any of these things 'cause I was only on set [00:49:00] for a few hours, but, oh, and it even had a fireplace too.
[00:49:03] Speaker 3: And
[00:49:04] Speaker 4: oh my God,
[00:49:05] Speaker 3: it was sparkling white, gorgeous. And I was like, wow, this is so cool. So I was soaking up every moment I had in there. Um, 'cause I was only in there, I think I was only in the trailer for maybe an hour and a half split time. 'cause they would have to like, take me over to other trailers for hair and makeup and wardrobe.
[00:49:29] Speaker 3: So I think I maybe spent like a total of an hour and a half in there. Um. But that was so exciting. I was fangirling over that. Um, and of course, like, you know, keeping the calm, like, you know, I didn't show the inner fangirling. Yeah. I'm really good about that. Not showing the inner fangirling, but on the inside I was elated.
[00:49:50] Speaker 3: Um, yeah. But I could, yeah, that's, that's all I can tell you about that one. Um, though now when
[00:49:55] Speaker: you're, when you're meeting the famous people, it really is hard to [00:50:00] maintain your cool.
[00:50:01] Speaker 3: I've, you know what? I've, I think that one of the reasons why I don't really, there, I mean, there's been times where I'm eternally fingering, but for the most part, you know, I just think of them as people.
[00:50:13] Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Um, you know, and, uh, it's, it's cool. I, I really appreciate, especially, you know, a lot of them. I would say, I think pretty much every celebrity I've ever met is really nice. And so it's, it, you know, the conversation I've had with them have been really nice too, and. Um, so I've, I've really enjoyed that.
[00:50:35] Speaker 3: And like with this set, it was just a wonderful experience. I can't even put into words how amazing it was. Um, but the other things I have coming up, I have, um, Martin Gale should release, uh, I think this year we did pick shots in 2021, so that one should release. Uh, and then the other thing I shot [00:51:00] in 2021 is called Bermuda Island.
[00:51:02] Speaker 3: Um, and that one was fun to do 'cause I play a, a flight attendant. Um, so that one was, I'm excited for that one. It was, it was cool getting to play that sort of a role.
[00:51:14] Speaker: Uh, man, I just, uh, I'm, I'm so looking forward to traveling and I think Chris and I wanna do a corporate retreat kind plan out our year for the 48 in Seattle in.
[00:51:31] Speaker: We're starting it up in Montana again.
[00:51:34] Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
[00:51:35] Speaker: Yeah, we're gonna do it statewide, not by a single city. So hopefully we would be doing screenings in Billings, Bozeman, and Missoula.
[00:51:43] Speaker 5: Oh wow. That'll be cool.
[00:51:44] Speaker: Yeah. And, but yeah, I haven't been to LA since I think 2018. Wow. Thousand 19. I can't remember
[00:51:55] Speaker 3: because I remember were you there another time that I was competing?
[00:51:59] Speaker 3: [00:52:00] Um, but that time I knew that you were gonna be there. I feel like there was a time where you were helping out
[00:52:04] Speaker: and I knew that you were award ceremony, right? Yeah.
[00:52:08] Speaker 3: That was like 2018. That time I knew you were gonna be there. I was still very excited. But that one, that one I, that one you had told me, um, that you were gonna be there.
[00:52:18] Speaker: Um, yeah. And I usually come down for Holly Shorts as well.
[00:52:21] Speaker 3: Yeah. I haven't been to Holly Shorts in a while.
[00:52:24] Speaker: Yeah, that's a good festival. I really like Holly Shorts.
[00:52:27] Speaker 3: It is. That one was really well done.
[00:52:29] Speaker: But yeah, I think, you know, maybe, maybe I'll talk to Chris and see if we can plan our corporate retreat, uh, in la
[00:52:36] Speaker 3: That would be fun.
[00:52:37] Speaker 3: Oh, I would really love to see you at you and Chris. I can't remember the last time I saw her. I think maybe 2017.
[00:52:48] Speaker: That's been a while.
[00:52:49] Speaker 3: I think it was then, because she, she actually directed one of them that I was a team leader on that was actually in la um
[00:52:59] Speaker: [00:53:00] Oh, I remember that. Yeah. It was an LA
[00:53:01] Speaker 3: one. Yeah.
[00:53:01] Speaker 3: Um, but we shot it up in, in Seattle because I was filming my summers of goth in Portland and I couldn't be back down in time. So I had people who were, you know, going there for the drop off and kickoff, you know, getting, um, they were handling it on the ground there. Yeah. But I wasn't gonna be able to be back in LA in time especially 'cause I was in between shoot dates.
[00:53:23] Speaker 3: Um, but that worked. Great. And it was really fun to work with Chris on that, in that capacity. Yeah, she's
[00:53:29] Speaker: fantastic.
[00:53:30] Speaker 3: I love her.
[00:53:31] Speaker: Yeah. Uh, asking her to be my co-producer is the single smartest decision I've made at running the 48 in Seattle. So
[00:53:41] Speaker 3: I Okay. I remember, um, for that Freehold directors class.
[00:53:45] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[00:53:45] Speaker 3: Because you were also a part of it too.
[00:53:47] Speaker 4: Yeah. That's how, that's where we met. That's
[00:53:49] Speaker 3: right. Because I was working with Chris on her, um, her project on that one.
[00:53:54] Speaker: I remember.
[00:53:55] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[00:53:56] Speaker: Think back to that because yeah, you were [00:54:00] 13 or 14 right at that point.
[00:54:03] Speaker 3: And Jean Torkelson was, um, oh, gene. I miss him so much.
[00:54:07] Speaker: I miss him so much.
[00:54:08] Speaker: Yeah. He was so
[00:54:09] Speaker 3: wonderful when I watched that scene. Um, you know, you probably know which one I'm talking about. Yeah. That really dramatic, intense scene. Yeah. I watch it and I, I honestly try to think of any. Celebrity actors that I think would've done a better job. And I can't think of anyone, no. Jean was made for that role and he, he was just so incredible.
[00:54:32] Speaker 3: And he was the nicest person alive too. Oh yeah. Yeah. He was just wonderful.
[00:54:37] Speaker: Well, when Chris and Becky and I got to go to Norway with him, right, that was such, I'm, you know, I'm not a crier by nature, but on that, when we knew that Gene was basically saying goodbye to his family, with each stop that we made, uh, Chris, Becky and I were just bawling half the time we [00:55:00] were there.
[00:55:00] Speaker: And I remember I got to, there was like some drama involving his stepsister being there, and it got really, really weird at one point. And we were in downtown Oslo and Gene wanted to find his sister and. Becky and Chris went to go find someplace to park, and Jean and I are just walking down the main strip in Old Town Oslo, and he's telling me stories about, oh yeah, I had an apartment over there and I worked in that building and just pointing out all this stuff and like, I'm so glad I got to see Jean Oslo.
[00:55:43] Speaker: I got to see Jeans every day. Right. Because I'd been there once before, you know, when, when Kasha and I went. But yeah, just getting a little slice of, you know, younger jean's. Life was so much, so much fun.
[00:55:58] Speaker 3: Yeah. He just so
[00:55:59] Speaker: much fun.
[00:55:59] Speaker 3: [00:56:00] He was always so positive and he just radiated joy. Yeah. Like there was a, there's a photo of um, and actually Becky and Chris are in this photo too, and another one of Jean's friends and we were at a, a SIF screening for a movie called The Last King.
[00:56:15] Speaker 3: And. It was, I think a film that was filmed in Norway and the photo that we were doing, it was a complete candid, we are dying of laughter in the picture.
[00:56:25] Speaker 4: And
[00:56:26] Speaker 3: I, every once in a while, still put it back up as my cover photo, even though it's gotta be like six, seven years old, because it's just such like, you can't get candid moments like that.
[00:56:36] Speaker 3: You can't plan that.
[00:56:38] Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
[00:56:38] Speaker 3: And that was like a genuine jean smile
[00:56:43] Speaker: and
[00:56:44] Speaker 3: yeah. So I'm, I'm really grateful that you and I both got to spend a lot of time with Jean. Yeah. One of my, everyone needed some gene in their life, you know? Yeah.
[00:56:51] Speaker: One of my favorite moments. So we flew Seattle to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Oslo, [00:57:00]picked up our car, and I, we were based out of, it's like ski resort town, just outside of Lilyhammer, up in the hills in a cabin.
[00:57:09] Speaker: It was super, super cozy and nice and very, very, very Norwegian. And. Excuse me. We bought a bunch of food because there was a kitchen. We were gonna try and save money by cooking a lot. But first morning Jean and I wake up, we're like, we are going to the cafeteria and we are getting European hotel breakfast.
[00:57:35] Speaker: Chris and Becky had no idea why we were so excited about this. But you know, they had soft boiled eggs and you know, homemade bread and oh man, fresh yogurt and fruit and there's just something different about European hotel breakfast. You know, I were just like,
[00:57:58] Speaker 3: I can imagine you [00:58:00] guys like dashing in there.
[00:58:02] Speaker 3: Just like super excited. We were both super. I can picture it super.
[00:58:05] Speaker: We were both super excited about the soft boiled eggs.
[00:58:09] Speaker 3: So what was the highlight of your trip? The soft boiled eggs?
[00:58:14] Speaker: No, really the highlight is we stopped, we were driving back from Oslo to, to Lilyhammer and we had to stop at a gas station.
[00:58:25] Speaker: And it was a really long day, a bunch of interviews, and we were all super tired and we stopped at the gas station to fill up and we all wanted hot dogs. So in Norway you can get, uh, bacon wrapped hot dog. Oh,
[00:58:47] Speaker 5: wow.
[00:58:47] Speaker: Yeah. Uh, called a bacon and you know, get it on a bun or something like that. But I, do you know what LSA is?
[00:58:57] Speaker 5: No.
[00:58:58] Speaker: So it's the [00:59:00] Norwegian potato tortilla. Basically it's, it's the Norwegian version of the tortilla, but it's potato based. And so I take up the, you know, I said, oh, I'd like a bacon SSA, please. And he said, oh, do you want that with lsa? And I'm like, hell yeah, I want that with lsa, lsa and onions. He's like, most of Americans don't want the lsa.
[00:59:24] Speaker: And I'm like, they're all wrong. They are wrong.
[00:59:31] Speaker 3: Oh, that makes me wanna go travel there.
[00:59:34] Speaker: You have to. You have to. Sounds like
[00:59:35] Speaker 3: fun.
[00:59:36] Speaker: Yeah. I mean, you're young, you gotta go see the world.
[00:59:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd love to go see there. There's so many places I'd love to travel to,
[00:59:44] Speaker: but yeah, you gotta go see Europe and
[00:59:46] Speaker 3: I would love to.
[00:59:48] Speaker 3: Yeah. That'd be amazing.
[00:59:49] Speaker: Yeah. Well, Rachelle, I got call it here because the dog is, uh, informing me that. I'm not paying enough attention to her.
[00:59:59] Speaker 3: Oh, and [01:00:00]
[01:00:00] Speaker: yeah, next time you're in sale you gotta come and meet, uh, Darby and Tony.
[01:00:03] Speaker 3: Yes, I'd love to. Yeah. Hopefully I'll be back up in a few months. Um, I'm hoping I'll be back up, uh, in June for my graduation.
[01:00:13] Speaker: Oh, excellent. You'll have to come over and have pizza in our pizza oven.
[01:00:16] Speaker 3: That'd be awesome. Oh yeah, I remember that. You got that done.
[01:00:19] Speaker: Well, Kasha built it. That's all her. I helped move some stuff. That's it. The rest was all her.
[01:00:25] Speaker 3: She's amazing. Yep. I love her. She
[01:00:27] Speaker: is. Yeah. You gotta see all the changes that have taken place at Fox Club Hollow here.
[01:00:33] Speaker: Well, Rachelle, I miss you terribly.
[01:00:36] Speaker 3: Me too. I miss you. Can't
[01:00:38] Speaker: wait to see you again in person.
[01:00:40] Speaker 3: Yes.
[01:00:41] Speaker: And please keep me updated on everything.
[01:00:44] Speaker 3: I will. Thank you so much for having me on this. I mean, it was just so great to, to catch up. It's, it's been way too long.
[01:00:51] Speaker: Well, it's, it's fun because, you know, we're good enough friends that it feel, feels like no time has passed.
[01:00:56] Speaker 3: Right. I'm looking at the clock and I didn't even, you [01:01:00] know. Yeah. That felt like no time at all.
[01:01:03] Speaker: It was, uh, 90 minutes of recording.
[01:01:08] Speaker 3: It felt like, it felt like 10 minutes.
[01:01:10] Speaker: Yeah. Minus four minutes for me to go let the, the guy drop off the air conditioner. Alright, Rachelle, well, I'm gonna type the crap out of you in the, in the show notes and I can't wait to see you again.
[01:01:26] Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. It was so great to see you. Well,
[01:01:29] Speaker: good to see you.
[01:01:40] Speaker: 48 Hour Heroes. Origin Stories is a production of Media Without Borders and the Seattle 48 hour film project.