00:00Judy, as the reigning queen of ABC,
00:03what's it been like to bounce back and forth
00:05between High Potential and the Scrubs revival?
00:08Busy.
00:09A lot of traffic.
00:11A lot of sitting in traffic.
00:12But it's been an honor, you know,
00:18representing my work on both shows.
00:20The fact that I'm on two shows,
00:22it feels like, you know, a responsibility
00:25to, like, use the platform that I have
00:28to do other stuff that I'm doing.
00:31And I'm living in this moment
00:33for as long as it lasts.
00:35And High Potential just got renewed for season three.
00:38How did the cast and crew celebrate?
00:42On our thread.
00:44A lot of emojis, a lot of exclamation points, you know.
00:48Yeah, we haven't seen each other,
00:50but we're excited to see each other.
00:51I know Javisi is going to be getting married.
00:53She plays Daphne next month,
00:54and that's how she'll be celebrating.
00:56We'll all go to her wedding.
00:57Yeah, just getting ready for whatever the new season holds.
01:01And I'm loving Soto's journey this season.
01:04You know, she's mentoring Daphne.
01:06She's helping Oz's family.
01:07She's meddling in Karadik's love life.
01:10And she's helping Morgan find out
01:12what really happened to Roman.
01:14You know, did getting passed over for that promotion
01:16really sort of spur her mentorship
01:19or make her take a larger role in the team?
01:21I think it probably exposed everybody
01:24to the mentorship role that she has in that team.
01:27So she does have a...
01:28It exposed the intimate relationship
01:30that she has with Karadik
01:32and what she means to Daphne
01:35and what Daphne means to her.
01:38Yeah, I think it gave her an opportunity
01:40to just, like, embrace that role
01:41that she's probably meant to be in
01:45instead of moving forward, you know,
01:46not leaving her team behind.
01:47We've now heard mention of Soto's ex-husband, Hector,
01:51and their two children.
01:53Do you wonder what home looks like for Soto?
01:56In my character preparation,
02:00job is Soto's life.
02:02I think her kids are in college.
02:03I think he's an ex-husband.
02:05And I think that she spends as little time at home
02:09and that most of her time making a difference at work.
02:13And do you think she's sort of taken
02:16from her own experience with Karadik
02:18that maybe she doesn't want him to repeat
02:20some of the, you know, steps she's taken
02:23in her personal life?
02:24I have to agree with that.
02:25I have to agree that, you know,
02:27she encourages all of them not to do what she's done,
02:30which is prioritize work over everything, you know.
02:35And even though it's become her baby and her family,
02:38it gets really lonely and consuming, you know.
02:42It's not good for anybody to do work most of your life.
02:45Soto flies to New York solo to meet Willa Quinn,
02:49the woman who orchestrated Roman's abduction 16 years ago.
02:52Why was that something Soto felt she had to do on her own?
02:55I think Soto took it on because she started this mess.
03:00She got in by bringing, affecting her entire position
03:04and her place at work by offering to help Morgan,
03:10Caitlin's character, with the pursuit of this guy
03:14based on an ambition to use the gift that she has to help her.
03:18So having developed affection and respect and need for her,
03:24I think she feels it's really important
03:26before anything happens to them
03:27that she confront this thing that she started.
03:30Willa Quinn obviously is played
03:32by the incomparable Jennifer Jason Leigh.
03:34What makes her so perfect to play this mysterious fixer?
03:38Well, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
03:40besides being an icon and a veteran of people like me,
03:44a veteran and an icon for people like me,
03:47is as mysterious as the character.
03:50So she kind of breezes in,
03:52and you're not necessarily sure what you expect,
03:54and you're face-to-face with this person
03:56that you grew up loving and all the stuff,
03:59and the things that she brings into it.
04:01It's like, oh, I remember when she did that in this movie,
04:03in that movie,
04:04and just a giving, generous, open, and present actor,
04:07and I learned from her every second that I worked with her.
04:11From the minute they meet,
04:12Willa Quinn knows all about Soto.
04:15I'm good, thank you.
04:16Larry, tell her it's a clean spoon.
04:18It's a clean spoon.
04:18I've already eaten.
04:19I suppose you could have grabbed something quick
04:22like when you changed planes in Dallas.
04:27What makes her the biggest threat
04:29this team has faced so far?
04:31Well, the fact that she does know everything about Soto,
04:35and she knows everything about what happened
04:37with this person that I'm there to find,
04:39that she had something to do with it,
04:40but I have no proof,
04:41and then as an officer, as a person of the law,
04:44you can go on hunches,
04:46but until you have proof, you don't have anything.
04:48You and Jennifer Jason Leigh
04:50have this great combative chemistry.
04:52Before we extract the data,
04:54of course we'll see it as cooperation.
04:57It might treat you differently.
04:59Anything that would matter to me, it should.
05:06You know, what was it like crafting that with her?
05:09It was really wonderful,
05:11and interesting, you know, television works really fast.
05:14So we didn't, we got to run lines,
05:16but we didn't get to craft anything
05:17until we were on camera.
05:18And she's always giving something.
05:21So when she gives you something,
05:22you got to give it back.
05:24And it just felt like a balance of power
05:27that we were constantly pursuing,
05:29and it was always rewarding to see
05:31what she gave and what I gave
05:33and what we came up with.
05:35Sacred Heart has broadly,
05:37has always broadly been located
05:39in California somewhere.
05:41ABC loves a crossover.
05:43You know, is there a world
05:44where high potential and scrubs could collide?
05:46Why did everybody ask that question?
05:48I think the first thing that I see
05:52is Detective Karadek
05:56going into Sacred Heart
05:58with a broken arm or something
06:00and being the hypochondriac,
06:04paranoid person that he is
06:06having to deal with someone like Elliot
06:08or any of the interns.
06:09That would be really funny.
06:10I want to talk more about the show
06:12you're producing, Freestyle, A Love Story,
06:14with the queen of freestyle, Judy Torres.
06:17I know it's a love letter
06:18to the music and club scene of the 90s.
06:21Was it nice to sort of get back
06:23to your theatrical roots
06:24and work on this project?
06:26It's amazing.
06:27It's amazing only because, you know,
06:28such a huge fan of freestyle.
06:30The show is about two 19-year-old kids
06:33who met and fell in love
06:34during a freestyle show.
06:36Like, it was the soundtrack of our youth.
06:37And we get to celebrate the music
06:39and how it had an impact on their lives
06:41with the dancing, the singing,
06:43the DJ, the party afterwards.
06:46And people get to kind of relive that moment
06:48and embrace the fact
06:50that it was born in the Bronx,
06:51it was pioneered by Latino people from there,
06:53and it became huge up and down the East Coast
06:55before it kind of gentrified into pop music.
06:58It looks like each show you have special guests.
07:01Yes.
07:01Luna Velez, John Seda,
07:03Justino Machado, Felix Solis.
07:05Are they as passionate about this project as you are?
07:07They really are,
07:08and I appreciate that question.
07:10They are passionate about it
07:11because it was also their era.
07:13We were about the same age,
07:14and we grew up with the same music.
07:16And the reason that it means a lot to us,
07:18it's because we saw each other.
07:19It was people like us singing love songs
07:21during our most emotional
07:23and horny and sentimental time.
07:26As a fan of I Like It Like That,
07:28I was so thrilled to see
07:30Luna Velez and John Seda reuniting.
07:32Did you two plan that as a reunion of sorts?
07:35Yes.
07:36That was the point of it,
07:38and the response has been explosive
07:40from people, again, from our era.
07:42And they're very excited to see this reunion
07:44of Lauren Luna Velez and John Seda perform,
07:48as well as Justino Machado,
07:50who's just nominated for a Tony for Real Women
07:53and from, what is it, One Day at a Time?
07:57And Felix Solis, who's wonderful, from Ozark,
08:00and a member of the Labyrinth Theatre Company, as well.
08:02These are people you've worked with in the past.
08:04You were on One Day at a Time.
08:05Yeah.
08:06Is it nice to have them participate
08:09in a project that you have so much care for?
08:12Yes.
08:13It's wonderful,
08:13and it's one of the reasons that they do it.
08:15We love it.
08:16We're passionate about it.
08:17We have really strong creative relationships,
08:21and it's part of the vision
08:22to be able to tell our story,
08:25you know, with joy, with laughter,
08:27with fun, and all that stuff.
08:28But to be able to tell our story and be a part of it,
08:31their support means everything to us.
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