00:00Oh dear, I remember we got the giggles this day.
00:03People did not think it was funny, and I felt bad.
00:06Hi, I'm Rachel Leigh Cook,
00:08and we are going behind the looks with Who, What, Where.
00:19Oh boy, we are beginning at the very beginning.
00:23Here it is, 1995 Columbia Pictures,
00:28the Babysitter's Club.
00:30I played a character named Marianne Spear,
00:33which is, even if you only read the books,
00:36you definitely remember Marianne.
00:38She is fiercely loyal, very studious,
00:41and these things are, well, especially the studious part
00:44where they made sure to convey in the wardrobe.
00:47What I remember about this outfit is that,
00:49kind of in the classic trope of sort of prep school clothing,
00:54I remember I would roll the waistband a little bit too high
00:57to try to make it cuter and shorter.
00:59And I remember the costume designer always going like,
01:03Rachel, come on, help me out.
01:04It's a kid's movie.
01:05Like, let's be cool.
01:06I definitely thought I was way more of a Claudia.
01:09She had the cool clothes.
01:10When the movie was over and we had the option to buy stuff,
01:13I took home none of the Marianne outfits.
01:17Marianne, all heart, not a lot of fashion.
01:21Oh, here we go.
01:22Guess this was my thing for a while.
01:23This movie is called Strike.
01:26I think it has a couple different titles internationally,
01:28but this was a great, great time filming this movie.
01:32I play a character named Abigail Sawyer,
01:36and she is the goody-goody of the group,
01:39who is everyone's sort of shared nemesis in that photo.
01:45These outfits are so adorable.
01:47It was a period piece.
01:48I can't remember exactly what year it's set in,
01:50but I remember it was so hot in Toronto where we shot this.
01:54And I want to say it was maybe even that day.
01:57We had a lot of people faint, just drop,
02:00completely hit the deck,
02:01because those uniforms are made of wool.
02:03So, yeah, that happened.
02:06Here we go.
02:071999-tastic.
02:10She's all that.
02:11My character's name is Lainey Boggs,
02:13probably most known for wearing the glasses until she doesn't.
02:16I think the joke is now that if you were to remake it,
02:21which obviously they did, but this version,
02:23if you were to do that,
02:24that it would sort of go in reverse
02:25and that she would get glasses.
02:27I don't know.
02:28This is why they shouldn't ask me.
02:29What can I tell you about the red dress?
02:31I remember that it was custom-made
02:33because they wanted it to be a very specific thing,
02:35and we absolutely needed doubles.
02:38Our costume designer, Denise Wingate, who,
02:41fun bit of trivia, also designed He's All That,
02:44which is perfect and wonderful
02:46that she was able to do that again for us.
02:49She had it made, I remember it was made by a designer
02:52down on, I think, Beverly or Melrose.
02:55We went to their storefront,
02:58and they sort of collaborated on it together.
03:02And I remember that one of the red dresses
03:04was slightly smaller than the other.
03:06And I came down the stairs,
03:07and the smaller one, and I am not breathing,
03:10and you can kind of tell.
03:12I don't know if you could call, like,
03:14a single moment my favorite,
03:16but one of the things that I'm grateful to the movie for
03:19is that I started working when I was really young.
03:21As you now have a very direct visual reference to
03:24from that Babysitter's Club slide,
03:26but I did not go to my own prom.
03:28And I was the age that I was playing in She's All That.
03:32So I had this epic, fake movie prom.
03:36And sure, no one was, like, anyone's actual date,
03:39but I got to watch Incredible Dancing.
03:41I had, you know, hair, makeup there the whole time.
03:44Like, I have a sort of placebo prom memory
03:47that I otherwise wouldn't have had.
03:48And I think that that's, look, I understand the difference
03:51between making a movie and reality, okay?
03:53I'm not a loon, but that was really cool to me.
03:57Okay, here we go, 2001, Josie and the Pussycats,
04:01where I was lucky enough to be able to play Josie McCoy.
04:05Holy crap, how Lisa Evans was not, I don't know.
04:09I hope she won every award imaginable
04:12for her design on this movie.
04:13She came to me with the sketches of the outfits for the film
04:18that look exactly like what she produced.
04:20Usually those seem like wishful thinking.
04:22I loved her vision.
04:24I love the fashion.
04:25You could never wear it in real life,
04:27but that's the point of being a rock star, right?
04:29So, yeah, Lisa crushed it for us.
04:32Lisa had to have all of the pants custom made
04:35because they didn't make low rise enough pants
04:39for her vision.
04:40I mean, I think that the zippers were maybe two inches.
04:44I did keep some of the ears.
04:45I've got them somewhere.
04:48I think I got my photo doubles version of them
04:50because they say Josie double.
04:51They're not even vibe.
04:53But I definitely have some somewhere.
04:56People were so quick to call our movie hypocritical
04:59because it was covered in branding.
05:01And it was like, yeah, that's the point.
05:03It's self-referential.
05:05And you know what?
05:06Never mind.
05:06If you get it, you get it.
05:08If you don't, whatever, watch it again.
05:10When people show me photos of themselves and their friends
05:13dressed up as these characters for Halloween,
05:15it puts such a smile on my face.
05:17This is a lesser known movie called Texas Rangers.
05:21It is from 2001.
05:23It is my second film with Usher, but hopefully not the last.
05:27I play a character named Caroline Dukes.
05:29That is Ashton Kutcher.
05:31And it also features James Van Der Beek and Dylan McDermott.
05:37That was pretty good.
05:39I got to say.
05:40I'm impressed I remember that much.
05:41This, we had beautiful weather.
05:43I remember we were in Calgary.
05:45And yeah, gosh, they did a great job.
05:47They must have had a serious budget on that movie.
05:49I love that you've been in a movie with Usher two times.
05:53I love it, too.
05:55I can't wait for our next collaboration.
05:58Not a lot of people walk up to me on the street
06:00and reference this movie.
06:01Actually, that's never happened.
06:02This movie is called Blonde Ambition.
06:05It is from 2007.
06:07I play an artsy type.
06:09I think this is me trying to channel my inner Claudia
06:11from Babysitter's Club with Jessica Simpson.
06:14As the lead in this, I played her cousin.
06:18What do I remember about it?
06:20I remember that Jessica was wonderful.
06:22She is so warm, and she's kind of shy,
06:25and her family was there.
06:27And she's just a really lovely human being.
06:30No idea what that movie's about.
06:32I don't know what these Yeti booths are about
06:35on what's clearly a beautiful day outside.
06:39That was ill-advised.
06:41That I would reconsider.
06:43This is from Valentine in the Vineyard,
06:46from the Vineyard series that was on the Hallmark Channel,
06:50starring myself and Canada's own Brendan Penny.
06:53Penny, I love you.
06:54I miss you.
06:55I hope this is not the last work that we do together.
06:59We shot these movies in a region called the Okanagan in BC,
07:04and the Okanagan needs a new publicist because it is incredible.
07:09It is just as beautiful as Napa.
07:11There are so many amazing boutique wineries up there.
07:13I highly recommend a visit.
07:15What can I tell you about this wedding day?
07:18Oh dear, I remember we got the giggles this day.
07:21We did, and it was very cold.
07:23People did not think it was funny, and I felt bad.
07:27It wasn't great.
07:29It doesn't happen to me very often, so I remember that.
07:31No, this would not be my preferred style of wedding dress,
07:35but again, it was freezing, so all of a sudden,
07:39this shrug kind of moment had to come together.
07:43Very Mother of the Bride vibes.
07:45Not really feeling it, but again, very fun day.
07:48Too fun, apparently.
07:50Here we go!
07:52Aww!
07:53Hi, Addison.
07:54You little sweetheart.
07:55This is 2021, my first foray into the mom roles in earnest.
08:01This is He's All That, remake of She's All That,
08:04where I play Anna Sawyer,
08:06mom of Padgett Sawyer, played by none other than the Internet's Addison Rae,
08:12who is such a lovely young human.
08:14Nothing but respect for her kindness and professionalism,
08:18and directed by Mark Waters,
08:20who I was reunited with after working with him on a movie called House of Yes,
08:25which is where I first met Freddie Prinze Jr.
08:27Full circle moment.
08:29There it goes.
08:30I hope this doesn't seem like a reflection of a massive ego or something,
08:34but I remember going for my wardrobe fitting on this, again,
08:37with Denise Wingate,
08:39and that kind of did my head in a little bit.
08:42But I went, and they were already into production,
08:45and I remember thinking,
08:47all these trucks are here because we made a movie that people liked 20 years ago,
08:52more than 20 years ago.
08:54How crazy is that?
08:55I don't know.
08:56It seemed like I choose to take it as a gigantic compliment.
09:02That's what I'm going with.
09:05Ah, here we go.
09:06We are right up to date.
09:092023, A Tourist's Guide to Love.
09:12My character is Amanda Riley.
09:14And I straight up told our costume designer,
09:18I do not want to hear it with your reality of what people would wear when traveling.
09:24I was like, we are Carrie Bradshaw traveling over here.
09:27We are aspirational traveling.
09:29And, yeah, I think that the fashion of this movie is absolutely beautiful.
09:34I'm incredibly happy with the way it came out.
09:36Val Halverson absolutely knocked this out of the park.
09:40She also did my first Netflix movie, Love Guaranteed,
09:43and I will work with her every time she will have me.
09:46Oh, my goodness.
09:48Thank you Who What Wear for that trip down memory lane.
09:51Please tell me your favorite looks below.
09:53And, yeah, I hope you will join us for A Tourist's Guide to Love only on Netflix.
09:59Bye.
10:00Bye.
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