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AUDIO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW ON BACK AND FORTH WITH SHAWN and LARRY ON 12th FEBRUARY 2015 Larry: What a special guest star we have Sasha Alexander, she's fantastic. Currently on TNT drama Rizzoli and Isles, plays DR Maura Isles, starring along Angie Harmon, Series 5 returns February 17th, one of the most successful shows in TNT history! Also appeared on NCIS, series regular in Dawson's Creek, guest on Friends and House. In all star cast He's Just Not That Into You! And with Jim Carrey in the funniest movie ever! Yes Man! (Sasha laughs) Larry: Did you crack up making that movie? Sasha: I did, he's hilarious! Larry: You were his wife right? Sasha: I was not his wife, I was Bradley Cooper's wife. Yes! That was terrible really! (Laughs) we were friends of Jim's family, Bradley was helping Jim as he was getting into more and more trouble for saying Yes! Sasha: It's so good to see you guys thank you for having me!! Shawn: Oh I'm so excited to see you since I found out you were coming!! Sasha: Oh you're sweet, thanks. Shawn: We have a little history, we've met a few months back, Sasha and I met before you and Sasha met on that plane and we totally bonded! Sasha: Yes we did! On that plane! Larry: Let me give them a little history, they don't know what we're talking about! Sophia Loren is your Mother in Law, you're married to a Ponti? Sasha: Yes... A Ponti (Laughs) Larry: Sophia had her 80th Birthday hosted by Carlos Slim our partner in TV production Shawn flew down a day ahead of me in a private plane with you! I hear it was a hysterical flight! Sasha: Shawn had us in stitches, me and my mom you're lucky my mom's not here now with some kind of, you know cooking and I don't know she was like What do you mean we're seeing Larry and Shawn? Why are we all going? Larry: Was she telling jokes? What was she doing? Sasha: You know Shawn you're just a special lady, first of all you have this glamazon gorgeous wife, so she naturally shows you and you're drawn to her beauty but that's not everything that's happening with you, your humour and intelligence and everything and everyone was just on the floor, hilarious! Larry: The next day everyone was saying, your wife is Albert and Costello, your wife is hysterical, your wife is Jerry Lewis! 1 AUDIO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT Sasha: Jerry Lewis in a model bod, yeah! Shawn: At one point we were searching we'd had a wonderful meal but we were dying for something kind of sweet! Sasha: Yes! We got hungry, we needed snacks! Shawn: so I started scavenging around so in honour of that today Sasha I have a little surprise for you a little gift. Sasha: Oh yay!! Look at this, oh look at that! You know what this is great because you can keep this in your purse, blueberry flavour, I love this, this is amazing... Larry: when did you do this Shawn? A basket full of snacks! Shawn: I did it yesterday! They're healthy treats! Sasha: ...that's what it was brookside because we ate all of them we took them from you and ate all of them that's so thoughtful thank you! That's so funny! Also she was brave enough to go hunting for food the rest of us were a little shy about it. Thank you this is so sweet I love it!! Larry: What's it like being married to a Ponti? Sasha: Well I have, well I'll tell you a little history, I don't know if I told you guys this story, so my father was in Naples, when he was a kid growing up in Naples, then he, his first job was working for a tailor who made dresses for Sophia Who was at the time, you know 19 maybe, early 20's so she was known but just starting her career and that tailor brought him to America and he ended up settling here and so forth so I knew who she was because she was part of my father's history and that's how I was familiar with her. Cut to USC film school and I meet a very sweet gentleman named Edoardo Ponti and we're both editing our movies together in editing bays all night long and you know he's fresh out of Swiss boarding school and I'm an LA gal, European as well but I was born and raised here and um so we were friends and years later we reconnected! Larry: Nothing happened then at USC? Sasha: Nothing happened, we didn't date then, you know I'm so glad we didn't, I would not have appreciated the man that he is you know when you're young it's kind of discovering who you are and so we reconnected and then you know it started and I went to go meet Momma! I don't get star struck I get more interested in who the person is, it's like yeah you might be excited but then it's kind of who are they? But then all of a sudden it hit me as I was driving out to their ranch, um I called my mom and went Oh My Gosh! I just got really nervous I'm hot!!! I'm hot!! My ears are hot!! And everything's hot! What do I do? What do I say? What if I have nothing to say to her!!!! And I walked in and she just gave me a big hug and she was so warm as you guys know and so funny and she loves food like I do and she is just, you know, she is just, I have another great mother in my life, she's amazing! she is a great lady!! Larry: She was at that party. Sasha: Yeah! And that was a tough party, and it's interesting to me as I think the selfie has become the autograph as I'm sure you guys are used to but who wants a phone in your face and I thought you're kidding, she was so patient with everyone and so gracious. 2 AUDIO INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT Shawn: Absolutely and she had a million people stepping in without any regard and she had a spoon in her mouth and people step up for a selfie!! Sasha: I know it's so not part of her you know she never lived here full time, she lives in Switzerland and it's very calm and people leave you alone, they're not that interested but here and even in Mexico and so forth it just comes on and I feel so bad I turn into a Doberman every time, elbowing people out of her way! Just let her sit down and eat something!!!! Larry: What's life like? You're a working actress and have 2 children, how old are they? Sasha: Leonardo is 4 and Lucia is 8. Larry: Leonardo and Lucia. Sasha: (LauGhs) Not Italian at all!!! When I tried to name Leonardo, Henry for instance or William, Edoardo was like what do you mean an Anglo Saxon name! It makes no sense whatsoever with a Ponti he will feel totally left out of the family! Then we had to go Italian. Larry: What does Edoardo do? Sasha: Edoardo is a film maker and I am an actress so that works very well you know, RandI has been long, you step into shows you don't know how long they'll last it's the train that keeps on going, I'm lucky it shoots in LA and it's half the year and so we switch off a lot of writing he does can be done from home and he edits he makes sure it's in LA, so my mom is around, I have family here and that helps. Larry/Shawn: Your mom is great! She's not subtle. Sasha: I know, you know she is, the tequila got to her on that Mexican trip I'm like mom what's happening! Normally she's rather a reserved woman but she felt very comfortable with you and the company then so she just kind of let herself go. Larry: So you've always wanted to be an actor? Sasha: So I went to film school, growing up I was an ice skater, a dancer, got into theatre and I just didn't think I wanted to be an actor for life! I thought rejection and lifestyle was too unpredictable for me, it still is and yet you know but you get into it and you do your thing. I think if it's in you its not something I would let go even if I didn't do it as a business I don't know, I'd teach drama class or something, I would really love it so much I've been lucky to work on great things and people and as long as I enjoy it that's the most important thing! Larry: Are you surprised by Bradley Cooper's success? Sasha: No!! Not at all. As a matter of fact I had a film that I was trying to convince a director to cast him in that I was doing and they were like..