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.
01:11When 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 of 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 were 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 you would get glasses.
02:27I don't know.
02:28This is why they shouldn't ask me.
02:30What 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,
02:40who, fun bit of trivia,
02:42also 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,
02:50I remember it was made by a designer down on,
02:53I think, Beverly or Melrose.
02:55We went to their storefront,
02:58and they sort of collaborated on it together.
03:02I remember that one of the red dresses
03:04was slightly smaller than the other,
03:06and I came down the stairs in the smaller one,
03:08and I am not breathing,
03:10and you can kind of tell.
03:12I don't know if you could call a 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 anyone's actual date,
03:39but I got to watch Incredible Dancing,
03:42and I 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.
03:58I had a 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.
04:47I think I got my photo doubles version of them
04:50because they say Josie Double, I don't 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 and you know what?
05:06Never mind, if you get it, you get it.
05:08If you don't, whatever, watch it again.
05:10When people show me photos of themselves
05:13and their friends dressed up as these characters
05:15for Halloween, it 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,
05:25but hopefully not the last.
05:27I play a character named Caroline Dukes.
05:30That is Ashton Kutcher.
05:32And it also features James Van Der Beek
05:34and Dylan McDermott.
05:37That was pretty good.
05:39I gotta say, I'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've had a serious budget on that movie.
05:49I love that you've been in a movie
05:51with 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.
06:15As 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.
06:36What'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.
06:54Penny, I love you.
06:54I miss you.
06:56I hope this is not the last work that we do together.
07:00We shot these movies in a region called the Okanagan in BC.
07:04And the Okanagan, the Okanagan needs a new publicist
07:07because it is incredible.
07:09It is just as beautiful as Napa.
07:11There's so many amazing boutique wineries up there.
07:13Highly recommend a visit.
07:15What can I tell you about this wedding day?
07:19Oh dear, I remember we got the giggles this day.
07:22We did and it was very cold.
07:24People did not think it was funny and I felt bad.
07:28It wasn't great.
07:29It doesn't happen to me very often so I remember that.
07:32No, this would not be my preferred style of wedding dress
07:35but again, it was freezing.
07:38So all of a sudden, this shrug kind of moment
07:41had to come together.
07:43Very Mother of the Bride vibes.
07:45Not really feeling it.
07:47But again, very fun day.
07:49Too fun, apparently.
07:51Here we go.
07:52Aw, hi Addison, you 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,
08:06a mom of Padgett Sawyer played by none other
08:09than the internet's Addison Rae,
08:12who is such a lovely young human.
08:15Nothing but respect for her kindness and professionalism.
08:19And directed by Mark Waters who I was reunited with
08:21after 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
08:32of a massive ego or something.
08:34But I remember going for my wardrobe fitting on this,
08:37again, with Denise Wingate.
08:39And that kind of did my head in a little bit.
08:42But I went and they were already into production.
08:46And I remember thinking, all these trucks are here
08:48because we made a movie that people liked 20 years ago,
08:52more than 20 years ago.
08:54How crazy is that?
08:56I don't know.
08:58It seemed like I choose to take it
09:00as a gigantic compliment.
09:04That's what I'm going with.
09:06Ah, here we go.
09:07We 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
09:22of what people would wear when traveling.
09:24I was like, we are Carrie Bradshaw traveling over here.
09:27We are aspirational traveling.
09:30And yeah, I think that the fashion of this movie
09:33is 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'll have me.
09:47Oh 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
09:55for A Tourist's Guide to Love only on Netflix.
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