- Better?
(Natalia sighs affectionately)
Hi, I'm Natalia Dyer
and I'm doing the "Breakdown Breakdown" with Cosmo.
I'll be reliving some of the more dramatic moments
from my career and I'll be giving you the inside scoop.
- Daddy! Daddy! - Daddy! Daddy!
- Phoebe, Clarissa, what are you doing here?!
- Oh, this nice lady sorted it all out!
- (whispers) Oh my God.
- Two free tickets! Upper class. It was brilliant!
- I thought the girls would appreciate
a couple of free tickets.
- Are we too late? Is she going to sing again?
- I just can't believe that I'm only-
- [Crowd] (chanting) Hannah! Hannah! Hannah!
(Natalia laughs)
(girls screaming)
- Oh my gosh! It's Hannah Montana! I can't believe it!
(girls clamoring)
- I haven't seen this in so long.
Wow. I think I was like, 13 maybe?
(giggles) So that is "Hannah Montana: The Movie".
I was living in Nashville at the time
and there wasn't a lot of big film going on there
so when this came through it was the talk of the town,
it was a big deal.
And then there was this role for these two British girls
and I think they just decided...
They were like, "Hey, let's just cast them from Nashville."
My accent's not great. I know that.
But, you know, it was a couple days of just that,
of just screaming about Hannah Montana.
It was so hot too. That day in particular it was so...
We were just out in this giant field
and it was so miserably hot and there were so many extras.
That's the jump off point. Isn't it? It's...
Yeah. Very special little moment. (laughs)
(Natalia laughs)
This scene! Yeah.
(phone buzzing)
I was playing "Snake" to get it to make the buzzing noises.
And I was getting actually pretty high scores
to the point where they had be like, "Okay, now crash it."
And I was pretty competitive with myself.
Oh yeah. (laughs)
Clever. Clever, Alice.
(laughs) That's from "Yes, God, Yes."
With Karen Maine, another female writer/director.
She's really cool. Really funny.
Yeah, and it's a story about this girl in the Midwest
who is in a Catholic school and discovers herself
and pleasure.
And it's funny, it's heartfelt.
It's a lot of that from me. (laughs)
Yeah. Some of those fun, fun scenes.
But it was a good time. It was fun.
Another fun, low budget, indie film
with a good story that everyone was excited to tell.
I think it was very personal to Karen Maine but I think...
I mean, I found it relatable.
I think a lot of people found it relatable.
It's just female pleasure, you know?
And a female masturbation. And you know, it's just not...
It's sort of a taboo, you know?
And maybe we're getting somewhere with that, generally,
but it hasn't really been given the love and attention
it deserves.
As soon as I read the script...
Well, for the short film. It started as a short film.
I was so excited.
I was like, "Yes! Yes! Let's get this going.
Let's get more of these stories."
I'm nervous. I don't know. (laughs) Okay.
(water rushing)
(Demogorgon roaring)
(Nancy screaming)
(Natalia pretends to yell then laughs)
(dramatic music rises)
(Demogorgon roaring)
Oh, man. Oo! Nice!
- Better?
- Yeah.
(Natalia sighs affectionately)
Yeah, that was fun. That was a fun...
All of those scenes were pretty fun to shoot that.
Especially the Upside Down,
the night stuff in the woods was a really memorable time.
But yeah, again, babies. So little!
Been on such a journey with it, you know?
But it's one of those things
that feels like it's been forever ago
but also just yesterday, kind of?
I think, because it was so new to all of us,
I have very vivid memories of everything.
But it is fun.
I think I'm gonna wait until...
I haven't gone back and re-watched seasons.
I think I'm gonna wait until, you know,
the very, very, very end.
I don't think I could have imagined how big. It didn't...
I don't think my brain really could have anticipated that.
But nobody did.
Honestly, it was one of those things
where we left after filming
and we were like, "Well, maybe bye forever? I don't know!
Like I don't know if you're gonna come back for season two.
If there is gonna be season two."
So yeah, no, it was quite a surprise.
Caught us all off guard a little bit, I think.
- Come on, lemme just take you home. Okay? Come here.
Let me take you home. - Oh yeah.
- (slurring) You wanted this!
- [Steve] No, I didn't want this.
I told you to stop drinking.
- (laughs) Sloppy mess!
- Bullshit! - It's not bullshit, okay?
- Bullshit! - It's not bullshit-
- No, you!
You're bullshit.
- (solemnly) What?
- You're pretending like everything's okay.
(slurring) You know, like we didn't kill Barb?
(slurring) Like it's great. Like we're in love-
- She is wasted!
- And we're partying.
Yeah, let's party. - (laughs) "Party."
- (slurring) We're partying. It's bullshit!
- (solemnly) "Like we're in love?"
- Bullshit.
- You don't love me?
- It's bullshit.
- God, that is not the way to do it. Is it?
(Natalia sighs deeply)
(distant party music)
(door slamming)
I mean, she's dealing with some things, man!
(laughs) I don't know.
Yeah, playing drunk is always kind of a bit daunting
cause you're just like, you know?
How are drunk people? How do they? How do you...
But it was fun.
Joe's obviously such a great actor to work with.
Very, you know, very generous with me figuring out
how to play drunk. (laughs)
The party was a long night shoot
and I had to get punch thrown on me.
Like, I don't know.
Cause they only have so many multiples
of this outfit they created
and they have to get it just right
and everything has to spill the right way.
So it was a lot of me just, you know,
dancing and then getting punch and then changing
and then doing it again.
It's just the job.
You're just getting punch thrown on you sometimes. (laughs)
Yeah, again, I didn't think that the show would get this big
and yeah, I think Barb...
I don't know. It was really like...
"Oh yeah!" Well not oh yeah, but kind of interesting.
Such passion. Such committed passion.
Stickers and key chains and t-shirts. (laughs)
I definitely was like, "Oh is Nancy a terrible friend?"
I don't know if they realized that as much.
But then I think the Brothers
as well were kind of shocked by it.
So I think when season two came around,
everyone's like, "We gotta confront this head on.
We gotta do something about this."
Props to Shannon. I mean, people love Barb.
(mysterious suspenseful music)
(door slamming)
- God damn it!
(The Mind Flayer bubbling)
(The Mind Flayer roaring)
- Oof!
(mysterious suspenseful music)
That's a hit!
Oh, those lights. Those lights.
Days and days of those flickering lights.
It's a quick way to get a migraine.
(The Mind Flayer growling)
(The Mind Flayer roaring)
- Jesus! - What the-
- Yeah.
When you're filming these these kind of scenes,
obviously you don't have a monster there.
So they're like,
"Here's a drawing of what we're pretty sure
the monster's gonna look like."
Or sometimes they might have some remedial animated thing
with it.
So you never really know how terrifying it's going to be.
Then you watch it and you're like, "Oh yeah. Whoa.
Wow. That's what it was? Oh man.
Should I have been more scared?"
That was fun. A lot of breathing.
And I did have a person in a suit
who was doing all the movements and stuff.
So that was really helpful. And the throw wasn't me.
I tried to get them to let me do it but they said no way.
Which looking at it, yeah it's pretty intense.
But she was great.
She did a really good job
of being repeatedly thrown into the wall.
We have a lot of fun when we're filming
and sometimes it's actually really funny
when there's a guy dressed up in a suit
pretending to be a monster.
But then you see it and you're like, "Oh, that's so scary!
Good. Great. I'm glad we did it."
I keep threatening to go to stunt school. I think.
Yeah, it's just fun to be able to physically be able to do
what your character's doing.
I know that there's liabilities and they don't want you to,
you know, break anything and all that stuff.
But yeah, I think it's really fun to do your own stunts.
I usually try to ask for it.
They do. Yeah, they do let me do some. They do.
Like wire stuff, not really.
Like getting thrown into things they're kind of...
For some reason, they're really scared about that.
But I've been able to do some cool things.
Some this new season, got to do some fun things.
So looking forward to seeing how that turns out.
Well, that was a fun walk down memory lane.
I mean, maybe. I don't know, was that fun for me?
It was, yeah! It's nice to revisit those moments.
Thanks for watching! Bye!
(calming funk music)