Well, she is down for
being one of the nicest,
most energetic people in Hollywood.
Actress Marilu Henner shot to fame
when she landed a role on the show.
Taxi from evening shade to Broadway
shows to more than 18 Hallmark movies,
nine books, two kids, three husbands,
even her own superpower, Mary Lou,
has quite the life story to tell.
She's bringing that story to the North
Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach
this weekend in her one woman show
and she's giving us a sneak preview
right here on the floor, and Mary Lou.
Welcome to the forum.
Glad you're here.
Thank you so much. Oh my gosh yeah,
I bet you you gave the whole rundown.
Although it is 25 Hallmark Movie 25
Hallmark movies here or Tea Garden series,
we're just about to do our 18th.
Can you believe it's crazy?
But I have a Christmas movie
coming up with Jamie Denton,
James Denton and Teri Hatcher.
Their first, you know,
reunion since Desperate Housewives and
it's called a kiss before Christmas and
it's so it's a Hallmark Christmas movie.
And it's on November 21st,
so I hope you see that,
and I hope you all come out.
To see my show in Solana Beach.
It's such a beautiful theater.
North Coast Rep and I am going
to be there Monday and Tuesday
singing my little heart out,
dancing my dance and and showing
little songs that songs that I do
sometimes have a video attached
to it so I do a whole thing.
I'm about taxi.
I do a thing about my family and I also
gloving about dancing with the stars
so I have to come and see where do
you get your energy from?
I mean come on you are just non
stop where does this come from?
Well, they call it energy.
You know it's sort of something I
was born with and I don't know.
I mean my mother.
When I was little, my mother used to go oh,
she's got so much energy run around
the block a couple of times, you know,
and I'd be running even more energy.
But I I don't know, I just I.
I love being awake.
I love being a student.
I love learning new things and
I love the people that I I have
in my life and I don't know.
I feel like and also I think
I because I very well.
I've been plant based for
a very very long time.
Over 40 years,
and I think that that's made a
tremendous difference in my energy.
One of the things that I know
people who know about you,
but maybe don't know a lot about the
sight of you is your superpower.
Tell everybody what your superpower
is that really only a handful
of people in the world have.
Yeah, it's so funny.
I was on doctor Oz.
Well, we shot Doctor Oz yesterday.
We did three segments about memory
and so I think it's on next week.
I don't have the date yet,
but basically it's called highly superior
autobiographical memory or H Sam.
And it basically means that the people who
have it remember every day of their lives,
and it's that we have,
you know everything you've been through
is on your emotional hard drive,
and it makes you behave in certain ways.
We just happen to have an
extraordinary retrieval system
so they wired they first of all.
They tested me over 500 questions,
but they also wired me put me through an MRI,
saw how the neural pathways spired
up and they asked me questions.
And then they took 300 measurements of my
brain and they found nine areas 10 times.
Larger than the normal brain.
So what do you had?
Who have 8 Sam have that you know that
that that kind of brain structure?
I realized we could do back to
my show 'cause I thought I better
explain this to people so I'm
going to do it in a song.
We could do a whole 30 minute segment.
It sounds like doctor Oz already
did about this, but really quick.
What is your earliest memory?
Well, I tell people this
and they don't believe me,
but I do remember being baptized.
I remember the light.
I remember the feeling,
I remember I didn't say what day of
the week it was or what the date was,
but I was very little and but I have
so many childhood memories being under
a year old and being between a year
and three years old and it really
really sinks in mainly at like 5 and
six and then after 10 forgot about it.
It's always there, it's just always there.
So one of the guys that was
doing the pre interview.
With me a couple days ago I said, well,
just give me a date and he said OK.
August 29th 1979.
I said Oh my gosh,
that was a Wednesday and I was on David.
I was on The Tonight Show week before.
It's the first time I did with
David Letterman and I was in Chicago
because we had a week off from taxi.
Yeah I just started rattling off all these
things about that day and it's really fun.
You know,
I I could for quarantines over the
pandemic because I was shooting all
these hallmark movies in Vancouver.
And so I thought I'm gonna walk
around my apartment in my Airbnb.
Or might you know whatever?
Wherever they put me a hotel
and I'm gonna make a list,
a song list of all the special
people in my life and I'm going
to give them each one a song.
Oh my God, big memories of my life.
So then I'd like walk and I
think about how that person ever,
but I can literally go through
an entire year and just think,
wow,
every day?
Well, that's just part of the
life story that you're gonna
be sharing in your one woman.
Show Mary lunar.
I wish we had a whole lot more time.
I find you one of the most fascinating
people that I have ever interviewed.
So thank you again for your
time here on the forum.
Will see you Monday and Tuesday at the Rep.
Yes you will come backstage and say hi.
I absolutely would love to Marilu
Henner ladies and gentlemen,
but I do want to share the information
for her show. You can see her.
It's called music and memories
on November 15th and 16th at the
North Coast Rep in Salona Beach.
For more information,
go to northcoastrep.org.