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ALISON BRIE and BRYAN DATTILO!

Alison Brie stops by BuzzWorthy Radio, aka BALLSworthy Radio, for another visit,

Alison Brie stars as Annie, a high-strung perfectionist, in the new NBC comedy series "Community."

Brie can currently be seen as Trudy Campbell on the award-winning drama series "Mad Men," which returns in August 2009. She will also appear in a film titled "Montana Amazon" with Olympia Dukakis and Haley Joel Osment, slated for release later this year.

Brie was born in Hollywood, California, and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena. Interested in acting at an early age, she began her career performing in community theatre shows at the Jewish Community Center in Los Feliz. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Brie attended California Institute of the Arts where she received her B.F.A. in acting. While there, she was one of the original cast members in the world premiere of "The Peach Blossom Fan," performed as the inaugural theatre production at Disney's REDCAT Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Brie also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.

Since graduating, Brie has continued to work in all forms of media, including film, television and theatre. She has performed in the Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwright's festival and in shows at the Odyssey, Write-Act, and Rubicon Theatres, receiving an Indy Award for her haunting performance as Ophelia in the Rubicon's production of "Hamlet." Brie guest-starred on Comedy Central and Disney's "Hannah Montana" and landed leading roles in some independent films before her current role in "Community."

Brie currently lives in South Pasadena, California.

In a taped segment, Bryan Dattilo, Lucas Roberts from NBC Daytime's Days of our Lives, stopped by and discussed the talent search event in Detroit. Also, Dattilo spoke of his brief hiatus with the show, and what he would like to see for Lucas.

Duration:: 31m
Broadcast on:: 12 Nov 2009
Audio Format:: other

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No one can forget, no one can forget that wonderful, wonderful show promo that you gave us of Ball's Worthy Radio. You know, I love all you guys over at Ball's Worthy. That's what I said in the other day, I was like, "It's showing me some more balls." Like, how can we get even balls in the ball? Oh, wait, it's already Ball's Worthy Radio, we don't need any more. Exactly. Oh my gosh. That's all Allison Brie right there, that's all her. I think it's trademark, we're going to say, compliments of Allison Brie from Community. Yeah, that's good. I coined the phrase, when I die, they'll be like, "And she coined the phrase, ballsworthy.com." Would you have put that on your tombstone? Yeah, I think I would. I think I would. It's nice for dead people to have a sense of humor, I think. That's true. That is true. I would love to see that on your tombstone, but I'll probably be too old to actually comprehend or remember exactly what that means. But you'll laugh, but you'll still probably laugh, because any time you see that ball, I'll probably laugh, and then I'll probably go like, "Why am I laughing?" What's why I'm laughing? I can't control it. So, how have you been since you last been here? Oh! I'm great! I'm great. Community was extended for the back nine episodes, so we're all celebrating that, and Mad Men has wrapped up. The season finale just aired, so we're buzzing about that, and there's lots of good stuff. Great episode of Community coming up this week, tonight, for this week, I mean, tonight, where Annie's on the debate team, and I rally for Jess, for Joel McHale, to join with me. It's just a crazy episode. People have to watch it. It's wild. Hmm. Let's see. Annie, on the debate team, and how Annie really is, and how she's strong on the debate team. Well, yeah. Let's just imagine this, folks, let's just imagine this, Annie doing a debate team right now. Just picture this in your mind of exactly how tremendously awful that's going to be for her and everybody else around her. But, can I just say, in her defense, you see a little different side of Annie tonight. She gets, if I may say so, a little sexy. So she actually won't be crying? She may cry, but I don't think she does lie next to me. This is the fierce side of her tonight. No, I swear she gets a little sexy, and there may even be a snooch with somebody. A snooch? Yeah. Yeah. Any luck and look tonight, Annie's luck and look tonight. You heard it here first. Spoiler alert. Oh, this could be the moment where you finally get on the soup. I hope so. I keep trying to get Joel to let me on, but the truth is, we're always shooting. We're a shooting community when he goes there. I was trying to hide myself in his bag, but I'm heavier than what he usually carries in his bag, so then it gets like he knows him, isn't it? You might inadvertently injure him if you hid in his bag and he tried to carry it. Well, Joel's pretty strong, you know. Okay. I was going to say he could have bought a pork lift or something. Whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, I don't want to die it. I'm starting today. Thanks a lot. No way. No way. He doesn't need a forklift. No way. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. He doesn't need a forklift. 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I'm like, "No." There's no wrong thing. I know. I know. People are like, "What are you doing on the day off?" And I'm like, "Sleeping." And they'll be like, "Oh, you know, I'm flying into your heart." And then I'm probably going to go to Australia to do a quick comedy tour. And then I'll be back. Like, "What? How?" [laughter] I'm with you right there. I'm sleeping. My day off, I'm sleeping. Yeah. The body needs that. It's that. Yes. Yes. We do. We do need a record. It needs to be beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] You liked that, didn't you? Yeah. I liked it. It was a two-parter response for me. I liked it. And then I liked it again a moment later. Yeah, so that works. And this episode has a couple of guest stars. On the ninth job, Michael Higgins and Jim Rache are going to be in it. Yes, yes. Those guys are back. And they're hilarious. I can't tell you how when we were shooting this episode, and it was so zany. And we had so much going on. We're on location at this high school. And there was a shooting, a block away. So then we were all, I mean, we were all going to be there shooting anyway. But we were on lockdown at the high school. They wouldn't let anyone leave. Which was weird. [laughter] But it's like that. You were like being held hostage. We weren't. We weren't. Luckily, we were shooting for hours. But it was a little, I wasn't so scary as much as exciting in random. No, it was scary, I guess, because somebody got shot. But, you know. But in the meantime, while we were there, hanging out with Jim Rache and John Michael Higgins is the most hysterical thing. They both just have a great background and improv. And when you get the two of them together, it's just hysterical. They just have me laughing the whole time. Oh, right. When we're not shooting. And when we're shooting. It's a huge Jim Rache. And that's going to be great. Oh, my God. I haven't had this last time. That you're going to be in a film called, "Mantana Amazon." It's a really dark comedy, I guess. It's sort of a road trip movie about this oddball family that Olivia plays our grandmother and Haley and I are brother and sister who have sort of been raised in captivity. They have the mental capacity of maybe 11 or 12-year-olds, but they're obviously more like 17, 18 years old. And as they drive cross country and it's just seeing the world through their eyes. It's sort of like seeing the world through the eyes of these children. But these really creepy, weird children. No, it'll be interesting. We'll see what happens with that. We'll go with that one. Dark comedy, all the captivity. Perfect for you. Right. You can only imagine. Well, it was a really fun character. The character I play, Ella, is sort of coming of age too and discovering her sexuality, even though she's got the body of an 18-year-old. So it's different when she's meeting gas station attendants and stuff like that. She's like, but she's got the mentality of a little girl. So it's a little bit creepy. Oh, my goodness. That's the perfect way to end this. I was just going to breathe. I was just going to breathe. I was just going to breathe. Thank you. On NBC's community tonight at 8 p.m. on NBC, catch the episode on NBC.com and voodoo.com. I have to stop him back again. Always a pleasure having you back here. You're going to do it again. I'm going to do it again. Yeah, we do. Anytime. Absolutely. You take care, all right? And also, right now, we're going to re-air. Can I see re-air? Actually, I can't take re-air because this is never aired on here yet. We're actually going to air this tape segment that I did with Brian de Tillo. Yesterday, Brian de Tillo is probably one of the NBC's days of our lives. And that's all I'm going to give you. You're going to have to listen to us, find out exactly what was said in it. So here it is. You're going to hear the theme song again. But you're going to hear me introduce the show. I'm going to close it out. So here it is, Brian de Tillo's interview from yesterday. Oops. I viewed it myself before I was supposed to. So I cut out. So here it is, Brian de Tillo's interview from yesterday, right now. I'm going to get you live. It is Buzzworthy Radio, where you can get the latest buzz. I'm all your favorite children. Buzzworthy. Buzzworthy. Buzz. Now. Hey, everybody. Welcome to buzzworthyradio.net. I'm the Val Jay Lee, your host of this podcast. Today is Wednesday, November 11th. 2009. On this special presentation of our show, we're going to be presenting to you a tape segment that I did with Brian de Tillo, who plays the role of Lucas Roberts on NBC Daytimes, Days of Our Lives. He was calling us from the Detroit area, where they were doing a talent search, as well as some other things. So we got to sit down with him for about 15 minutes. And here is our interview with him. Enjoy. Hello. Hello yourself, sir. Hello. How are you? How are you? How do you pronounce your name? No, wrong? No, wrong? Oh, God. All right. All right. All right. Here's the lesson for you. How to say my name. Okay. So those of you who are listening to this right now, if you don't know how to say this, this is for you, too. It's pronounced novel. Novel. Yes. Like Duvall, but a little different. A little different. Mm-hmm. I guess more of a French about it. From what I'm old. Ah, so we see you have French, eh? No. Oh, okay. There is no way they perform. I am a French man. But you have French kiss before? Yes, I have. Good. Good. Well, then you're pretty much French. Oh, okay. I didn't know that that applied. That and French fries, you're good. There we go. So I like that comparison. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much for stopping back here with us. How are you? Oh, no problem. Has I been here since August, I think? Yeah. We did. Yeah. We did just do this, didn't we? Yeah. Yeah. You said you had respect to me for audition? There you go. Right? I like that. Mm-hmm. I like the fact that I get respect just because I do a show. I like it. Yeah. So how are things going on in Detroit right now with the access that's going on over there? We're doing a lot of running around, but it's awesome and I'm learning a lot, actually. We went to the VA hospital today and saw some vets. That was really eye opening to how petty my problems are. And yeah, now we went to the Henry Ford Museum and we saw a lot of really, really amazing cars and planes and artifacts and old stuff and a lot of American history stuff. So it's a phenomenal museum. That's definitely worth stopping if you're in the area. And we just went to Motown. We went to Hitt City, USA. Hitt's Bill. Sorry. Hitt's Bill. USA. City. Bill. This is where it all started. That's all you need to know. Very Gordy style. Very good. I got it. Junior. Yeah. So that was amazing. We walked through the house that all the first Motown records were done at Studio in the Basement. It's like a house museum, which is really cool. And now we're getting ready to go to the piston game, which is going to be fun. Now for those of you who don't know, explain why you are in the Detroit area again. We are in the Detroit area because they actually had our show from the very beginning. They're a huge supporter of days. We love the area. Yeah, we're here to kind of get a little more interest. Maybe boost some ratings in the area, do some promotion. But mostly it's just somewhat of a homecoming for me. My mother was born in Detroit. My grandfather. I had a grandfather who worked at the Ford plant here in Detroit. So that was kind of cool. Yeah. So I'm happy to be here. It's like coming home. Yeah. That's great too. That's wonderful. Come back. You can think that you have seen before those things that you haven't seen before. Yeah. Well, usually when I travel, we don't get to see things like that. It's just, I'm in a mall or Sears or something sounding autograph. So to be able to kind of see what's in the town and what it has to offer, it's a nice change. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Now there is actually, I actually got a question on my Twitter website about you. They pretty much, it's all about the Twitter. They want to know, do you have a Twitter or if not, are you planning on getting one? I don't have a Twitter. I probably should get one because everybody on the planet has one. And I think I'm going to get left in the dust by Al Sweeney. Al Sweeney is a Twitter extraordinaire professional. She is in the history of Twitterville. She is the mayor. She is the community chest operator. And now Sean Christian has, he's Twittering when we got out of the Motown. So I feel very left out. But I'm always, I'm kind of skeptical of the whole Twittering thing because, you know, I have an ego problem. There's no reason for me to have a Twitter and you don't. If I have one, you should have one. You're right. Well, hook me up. Try to, you know, get going for me. May I help a brother out? How does one, how does one start a Twitter? I don't know. Go to twitter.com and register an account. It takes time on my laptop away from my porn sites. I don't know if I can do that. Oh, see, you got to go away from the X2 and just register at twitter.com and it will be all set. But the thing is, you got to follow me so everybody will know that it's actually you. Because there'll probably be a lot of thinkers out there trying to pose as you. Right. I've had that problem with other places, MySpace, Facebook. Oh, okay. There you go. Yeah. But yeah, I think there is a thing on there where it has a verified account feature. So you'll be able to do that so that way it'll be able to. No, no, it's amazing to me. Yeah, I should do that. I could be the Chad Ocho Cinco of Daytime, Twittering. You could Twitter all your fans and everything, all that stuff. You know? That's great. I think. Well, then Friday, this Friday. This is why they use this as like every day. You're addicted. Yeah, I'm afraid I would be addicted to it and they would have to consume my day. That's the only thing I fear. Oh, hey, Alex, we need addicted. Look at her. She said she's just a pioneer. She is a pioneer. She's a pioneer. Yeah, and Friday we have a talent show I must tell you about. They're searching for talent in this area and they get a guest spot on days, which is wondrous. And they get to kiss me in rehearsal Friday. So I think that we're going to have a lot of turnout there. That'll be fun. I think they'll probably turn away, though, and then if they get to kiss you. Especially if I have a little cold, spreading virus. Don't turn away. If you have their kids blind until that means you need to go. That's pretty much how that's well. You need to go. That's it. That's it. Now, there is something I did want to pose at you as well. There is something I wanted to ask you. From what we had heard you and your character from the show. From what was said until that is just taking a brief hiatus. What's going on with that? Are you coming back? What's happening there? I don't know. I mean, you know, these things go in waves. Sometimes you're in the storyline. Sometimes you're not. So you can't be all the time. They just decided to give my character a little break and hopefully it won't last that long. It was storyline dictated then. Yeah. Yeah. They just called me and said, you know, we're going to give you a couple months off. You won't be working that much. We're going to put you in rehab. And then when you come out, we got this really great storyline for you. I said, okay, great. But I haven't heard anything about it yet or had any hints. So hopefully they won't forget. Because once you're out of that place, kind of you're out of the loop. You are really out of the loop for being gone for that long and not having any inkling as to what the story is going to be. When you're going to come back, it's kind of like you're sitting on pins and heels waiting to find out. Yeah. My character is essentially based around Sammy, so I always have to assume that stories going through her and maybe I can use my path as an advantage to understand her latest ads. Consistent Shannon again. Yeah. Wow. That's junior college talking right there too. You're in a half. You're in a half. You're in a half. I didn't even finish. You didn't. None of that. I'm still actually in college, so. Are you really? I am really. Nice. Nice. He's good. I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. I think they're like me. Okay. Okay. I think they don't like me, not just for the fact that I hosted radio podcasting. Right? Absolutely. They probably just want you for your looks. Yeah. You see what I look like. I don't think so. Yeah. Come on. They're Romeo. Come on. They're Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt. You. I don't think so. I think they will be afraid of me. Not even Steven. Not even. All right. I'll give you the 20 bucks for that compliment later on. Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah. Your character does revolve around Sammy a lot. This is coming from the guy that's been watching this and stuff. I was too young to speak. And we did see this quote unquote relationship between Lucas and Chloe, which if I can be a fan of. Well, no. Well, near was I because the way the writers threw us together, it was very prompted. I don't know. Not a lot of history occurred prior to them marrying. You know, there was no development between the two as a relationship. So when it finally went through, of course, people weren't really accepting of it. And it was hard to play too, because all of a sudden you have to be like, I love you. And we didn't really have that history to kind of develop it between the characters. So I think ultimately anybody Lucas is with is it's going to end because Lucas is kind of the have not dude in the equation. He's the guy in the triangle who usually gets left out of the love affair actually landing the woman because I'm so good at heartbreak and drama. But yeah, I mean, you know, if you think about it too, when Austin Peck left the show the first time and you were brought back when Denny and Austin were going to get married and what happened as far as that storyline goes, I pretty much thought that that was, that was some of your best work, dude. Okay. I really did because it because then you really saw Lucas with a backbone and was broken out of his mother's shell because it just seemed like Lucas was always up caked behind. I don't know why they haven't really matured the character out, you know, past the relationship with his mother and past the relationship with women that are in his life. Or just the development of the character seems to be a little one sided toward who I play to love, you know. I mean, I'm usually the guy who kind of asked the questions to get the other character to recite storylines in the audience, but you're not really developing me as an individual. So a lot of times I just have, I'm very inconsistent. I say one thing, one episode and then the next thing I say is something totally the opposite and like have to meet it just as much. There's a lot of inconsistencies. It's kind of hard to have a good following when your character doesn't get that development that other characters get. It's very convoluted. Yeah. Yeah. And it's gotten harder to play. Yeah. Because you don't know what you're playing and you don't know where you're going. You don't know the long term effect of your storyline. You just know that it's kind of day to day. Exactly. One of the things I've always thought Lucas could do is run Titan. You know, run Titan enterprises on the shelf. I could do this because he's doing that. But the problem is that what we just talked about, it just seems like by how they are putting this character, they're not putting him up to that point where you would actually believe Lucas could do something like that. Like I said, that one instance you saw that he was not Kate's son. You basically saw him as Lucas, not Kate's boy or Sammy's boy. It just seems like Lucas could do something himself without having to rely on anybody out. It just seems like by how they're putting it, he has to rely on Sammy, or he has to rely on Kate. It just seems like he has to rely on somebody else to get ahead. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. It's a little frustrating because it had been there for, you know, 16 years and it's kind of been like treading water with the character. So it's gotten harder to play. What would you like to see Lucas do in your own opinion? I think the best thing for him is to kind of admire Stefano and have Stefano take him under his wing and then have his own strength and power because of that. And then he can go back to all the people who've wronged him or stepped all over him or stabbed him in the back and he can have an edge instead of playing the victim. Yeah. I think that would be great. And Joe has actually expressed interest and I've expressed interest in having a storyline together because I think he's an amazing actor and I think that he could probably bring things out in my character that people have never seen. But I don't know if that will happen. Have you initially worked with Jonas Gold before when he was on the show before? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I used to have a lot of storyline through that. But then again, the only person they really can throw at Joe is in Nemesis or his arrival is Sammy. And I always thought that was a little odd. You know, a huge mafia boss kind of hit against this girl who gets herself in all these troubles. It's kind of, as a man and as an actor, you kind of like, how is that, you know, that doesn't seem like, I mean, she's a very tough woman and a tough character and strong. But I don't think that the men have those qualities that the women do. Yeah. I remember a quote actually, I believe Peter Wreckle said it. I am not sure if it was him, but I do remember the quote that the men on the horizon were deballed on the show. Yes. Yeah. Casterized. And it hasn't bounced back from that point ever since that, it seems. Yeah. And other shows don't do that. When you watch other shows, they actually let the men be men and have authority or power or, you know, mystique, anything that would keep you watching, you know, as far as like qualities of the men. But on days, we don't get a lot of chances to show that. Yeah. And we're not saying that the women shouldn't be like victims either. You know, they should have some sort of like background benefit themselves too, but they should not be the only ones that should be. Yeah. I would never, I would never want to put anybody in that position, like the victim state. It's like as an actor, it's like the danger zone. You'd never want to play that because it's usually only one way to go with it. But yeah, I guess, you know, you never know what's going to happen. Who knows? Exactly. You know, you don't know exactly the point. Now you, did you also attend this past Saturday, the day to his event and Universal City Walk? I did. Yes. We had a huge crowd. Huge crowd. And I made the mistake of saying that I would take my shirt off later in the show. And I had to, and I had to like make out with people in the audience. And it was just debauchery. Oh, that's terrible. Oh, awful. But it rocked the house. So that's all that really matters. I think the women were enjoying it, dude. I think they were. I think they were enjoying it. Thanks. Good looking out. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm myself. I'm sorry. I could not make it out of prior commitments here. Got in the way. And I could not fly out. But I, I assume from what I saw that there was a clip that was played. What is possibly coming up on the show? Right? Did you get this? Yeah. What clip did you see? Well, all I saw was a still shot. I'm still waiting for the video footage to come out. And that's all I got. I didn't get anything more, anything less. That's all I got. I didn't get any more. Which upset me because now I'm like, hmm, what happened and now I can't ask you? You probably won't be able to give me anything. No, probably not. No, I'm being told we have to go to the game. I'm being told we're late for the Piston game. Well, then I think you better go to the Piston game. I'm going to the Piston game. All right. Okay. Well, nice talking to you again. I'm you like, dude. That was Brian de Tello, Lucas Roberts, from NBC Daytime's Days of Our Lives. Thanks, everybody, for listening and tuning in to our podcast for more information on upcoming guests as well as past shows. You can visit our website at www.buzzworthyradio.net, as well as blog.radio.com/buzzworthyradio. We're going to be back on Thursday with Allison Reed from NBC's Community, as well as Jonathan Kake, who's going to be making a guest appearance on Law & Order this Friday. From all of us here at BWR, I'm the Val Jaylee, making sure you guys get the latest buzz with Buzzworthy Radio. Take care. Can't get enough of Buzzworthy Radio. I've gone down to www.buzzworthyradio.net. To get the latest news, I'm upcoming guests, past shows and videos of all your favorite stars. Keep getting the latest buzz with Buzzworthy.