- Hi, I'm Marisol Nichols. Nice to meet you guys.
I play Hermione Lodge, mother of Veronica Lodge
on People's Choice Awards winner for Best Drama 2018, Riverdale.
- (Hermione) Get back in line with this family,
because you are a Lodge before anything else.
- (FBE) Since you play a mom on Riverdale,
we're gonna show you clips from your costars
from both Riverdale and their careers playing young people
to see how you would parent them both as your character
and as yourself. - Okay. Like I'm their parents.
- (Nick) Aren't you supposed to be showing me a good time
per daddy's orders?
- (Betty) No thanks. - (Veronica) Come on. It'll be fun.
- (Betty) I said no, Vee. - (Veronica) Okay. Relax, Betty.
This is strictly voluntary. - Okay, so first of all,
she's grounded. Hermione's parenting advice to Betty
would depend on what Hermione can get out of it. (chuckles)
She's horrible right now. Right now, she would tell Veronica,
"Be careful about isolating Betty. You may need her in the future."
I'm more like first season Hermione, so I would tell Betty, "Well done.
I'm gonna take you shopping and let you pick out
whatever you want for not taking the drugs
and all that. And then, let's talk
and let's figure out how you can handle it
even more next time, 'cause maybe you can help
some of your other friends not take them as well."
- (Dylan) Bren, what's wrong? - (Brenda) Everything.
- (chuckles) - (Dylan) I shouldn't have
made you feel guilty, Bren. That's not fair.
- (Brenda) I just feel like we've crossed this imaginary line.
Birth control pills and seeing a gynecologist...
- I'd be like-- oh, wait. I was trying to figure out--
wait, did they have sex? Is that what we're talking about?
- (Brenda) I think we need to stop seeing each other
at least for a while. - (Dylan) Bren, you're overreacting.
Stop worrying about what your parents think
and figure out what you feel. - (Brenda) I do know what I'm feeling,
and I need to break up with you. - Ohh!
I forgot how good 90210 was. Hermione would tell Brenda,
"What are you getting out of your relationship?
You need to plan ahead of where you want to go."
Good or bad, that's what Hermione believes in. (chuckles)
I would tell Brenda, "Don't listen to your boyfriend
telling you that the only thing you feel is afraid
and therefore it's not real.
If you're afraid, you're afraid for a reason."
- (Zack) Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! (claps)
- (Cody) You know, I used to like... - (laughs)
- (Cody) ...this when I did it for love.
Now I'm doing it for money, and... I feel dirty!
Just keep out of my way and stay over there.
- Oh my god. They're so cute.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh. This is so cute!
This is so cute. I get why now we have screaming,
screaming teenage fans. I'm like, "Okay, I get it."
If I was eight, I'd be like, "Oh my god!"
Hermione would've said, "Cody, you go for the egg first,
because then the flour will stick to it,
and it'll create a better effect overall."
I'd be like, "Boys! Boys! Stop. Stop right there.
We're gonna take a timeout." I would've said, like, "Zack,
go to your room. Cody, go take a walk. Chill."
And then I would've said, "You're gonna clean up this kitchen
within an inch of your life."
- (Sidney) Sorry. Please understand. - I love this movie.
- (Billy) I have a girlfriend who would rather accuse me
of being a psychopathic killer than touch me.
Between us. I mean, you haven't been the same since...
Since your mother died. Sid--
- (Sidney) Billy, I am sorry if my traumatized life
is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.
- No, I love this! It makes me wanna watch Scream again.
Look at Skeet! He's such a baby!
Hermione would advise Sidney, "You need to put
that boy in his place. He's not respecting your feelings.
He's not thinking about you and what you're going through.
So, you either need to toss him to the curb
or put him in his place. My advice to Sidney would be,
"I think your boyfriend is not understanding
what you're going through. And you need to ask him
to give you some space. Have him give you a week
just to let you chill out. And if not,
then maybe he's not the right guy for you."
- (Cole) Marissa, what do you want?
- (Marissa) You, me, prom.
- (Cole) I'm already going with Maddy. - (laughs)
- (Marissa) Ditch that pidge and come with me.
- (Cole) Are you high? - (Marissa) A little,
but that doesn't mean I don't mean what I say.
Let me take off those tighty whities.
- (Cole) Mm, yeah, no. - Madelaine!
Hermione would tell Madelaine, "Be careful, honey.
Don't give it all away just yet. Give a little tease.
You don't wanna tell him that you're gonna take off
his tighty whities, but you wanna give him
the impression, so he starts fantasizing."
I would say, "You really wanna go to prom with this boy?
Like, seriously? You can probably get anyone.
Don't be so desperate."
- (Dayna) So, what was the fight about with you and Jack?
- (Kane sighs) It's none of your business.
- (Dayna) No, it is my business. It's big sister business.
Look, Jake's your best bud, and he's backed you
through a lot, Kane. - (Kane) The [bleep] tried to kiss me.
- (Dayna) Jack? - (Kane) Yes, Jack.
- (Dayna) Okay. I didn't see that coming.
- (Kane) Yeah, nor did I. - (Dayna) What if Jack
came up to you, set you down, and was like, "Hey, bro, I'm gay"?
What would you have done then? - (Kane) I don't know.
- (Dayna) Jack got it wrong, but he's still a friend.
- It's interesting how... just the whole subject matter,
how New Zealand deals with sort of the gay storyline
as opposed to America. Even if the guy's a bad guy,
you could NEVER say that now. Hermione would probably say,
"Well, what did you do to lead your friend on?
Why would he think that he could kiss you then?
And you didn't pick up on any of the signs? Really?"
Marisol would react very similar to the sister and just say,
"Okay. Well, look, can't you just talk to him?
Talk to your friend, who has probably years
of friendship there, and just talk to him.
You owe him that."
- (Vicki) Audrey, honey, let me tell you something I learned.
- (laughs) - (Vicki) In this world,
you're either up on a stage in the spotlight,
you're down in the pit serving drinks. - What was this dance that--
- (Vicki) Go have some fun. - So funny.
- That was a stunt double climbing, 'cause I'm terrified of heights.
And I was like, "Yeah, I'm not climbing up there."
- (Audrey) I'm starting my vacation!
- (laughs)
- (Aki) She's gonna break a lot of hearts.
- ♪ Baby I'm ready to go ♪
- I was so scared. I was SO scared!
I was terrified, 'cause I don't like heights,
and it's really high. That's a tiny little platform.
And so, they strapped a thing around my-- up here,
and they had a string just in case I fell.
That was the first movie I ever did in my life.
I had never been on a set ever of a film,
not even as an extra, nothing. Hermione's advice would be like,
"Darling, unbutton some of the buttons. Relax.
Maybe tape, you know, tape it open. Give yourself some,
you know, cleavage a little bit." I would say, "Good for you
for trying something that's new and scary,
and you're dancing, and you're having fun."
- (Clark) Vicki, where's Audrey? - (chuckles) Oh, yeah.
♪ (upbeat dance music) ♪
- (Clark) Hang on, honey! Daddy's coming to get ya!
- I was really at home in that cage. I'm just sayin'.
- (Clark) Let's go, young lady. Excuse me. Excuse me!
- I hated that dress so much. You breathed,
and it looked like you had a tummy. I remember, like, "Okay,
well, can't go to lunch. Can't have dinner.
Can't drink any water." But it was fun!
I remember I used-- you know, keep in mind,
I'm 23 in real life at that time. I came from Chicago.
I used to go to gay bars, 'cause they would play
the best music in Chicago, and they were open
till like 4 in the morning. And in the cage,
it was just like no one bothered you, so that was kind of
a little real there. (chuckles) Hermione would say,
"If you're gonna argue with the man, you back up, and you make him come
into the cage and get you." I would say, "That's not what I meant
by a summer job. Are you serious?"
- (FBE) So clearly, the character you play on television
is very different from the person you are in real life.
- (chuckles) I would hope so. - (FBE) All of our viewers
are big Riverdale fans. What attracted you to the role
of Hermione Lodge? - I was attracted to the role
of Hermione, because this was a woman starting over.
This was sort of a fallen woman who was trying to redeem herself.
It was a bit of a struggle to play someone who...
has questionable morals, mainly because she didn't
in the beginning. And so, it was so clear
everything was for her daughter. And then all of a sudden, it was not.
And I sort of went, you know what? Somehow or another,
this still has to be protecting Veronica.
- (FBE) Finally, what advice as Hermione and as yourself--
- Yeah. - (FBE) What advice would you give
to our viewers out there who are currently
watching this episode? Just general advice.
- I would say Riverdale's not real. (laughs) Please do not imitate
the things that you see on our show.
At the same time, you know, I think we try to give our characters
real life examples of right and wrong...
(sheepishly) for the most part. So, I would say,
just pay attention to life lessons
without taking any of it too seriously.
Remember, this is larger than life.
Thanks FBE for having me today. And if you have more questions
or anything like that, I do read almost all my comments
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