00:00Congratulations! So when Mike asked you to come back was that a surprise or had
00:04you kind of always known that was on the table? No I mean when we did season one
00:08it was pitched to us as a limited series one and done and so after season two I
00:13was just cheering for everyone else like you know when you know watching from
00:17home so I didn't I didn't think there was a another chapter for Belinda so I
00:22was so excited to find out there would be. What did you think when you kind of
00:26read Thailand and read the the journey for Belinda this time? Yeah I mean truly I
00:30said yes to Mike before I knew where we were going or any of the scripts but
00:34after I binged what I mean binge read all of the script I scripts I was so over
00:40the moon and just excited yeah for this story. And it's kind of the one return or
00:46were you like giving advice to these cast members or how did that work? I mean I
00:50used to be a teacher back in the day so I tried to impart my wisdom to them and
00:54tell them to expect anything and you know shooting on location is not an easy
00:58thing and so a lot of it was just like tips and tricks you know sneak a granola
01:02bar in your bag because we're going you know we're going far or something. Yeah it
01:07was really nice to be received in that way and you know support them. And Mike has said
01:12these two are this one is darker than the past two do you how do you kind of feel
01:15about that? I agree but I also think that light and dark necessitate each other and
01:19so even though there is a lot of dark there's a lot of light yeah. And the
01:24themes this season what can you kind of say about the themes? Yeah I think this
01:27is the story of how we close the gap between who we are who we were and who we
01:33want to be right and I think that's a hard thing and wherever you go there you
01:38are so you have a bunch of people that are going on vacation hoping to leave you
01:41know that version of themselves back home and they have to meet you know
01:45themselves and you know you can only change your mirror so many times and
01:51then you realize no that's you. So it's really cool to see these characters
01:54wrestle with those demons and it makes sense especially being in Thailand. Yeah.
02:00I know Jennifer Coolidge this season you obviously experienced the first one with
02:04her. What was that like not having that kind of energy as part of it? Yeah I mean
02:08it's a little bit of a phantom limb you know it was that we spent so much time
02:12together the first season especially because we weren't permitted to leave you
02:15know the resort and but she was so supportive and sent me some
02:18encouraging text when it was announced that I would do it so super sweet. Yeah.
02:23Thank you so much. Thank you.
02:24Good to see you. You too.
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